episode_0077

“Are you uncomfortable?”

“No.”

In fact, it is most effective to touch the wound directly.

But I didn’t think he would just tell me where he was hurt, so I spread the divine power throughout my body starting from my wrist.

‘I used to use it much more crudely, but now that my skills have improved, I have much better control.’

I feel like my skills are improving every time I enter the labyrinth and fight a battle.

It is true that training efficiency is high in a labyrinth.

‘If all priests were to improve their skills in this way, it would be too much.

In the past, it would have taken a tremendous amount of divine power to do just this.

But since these cases happen so often, I tried to develop a way to examine the body more efficiently.

I recalled the time when I tried to create a cure for Princess Cannabi’s curse on my own, so I tried it.

‘It’s because my skills have improved. I would never have been able to do it with my old skills.’

And the attempt produced very satisfactory results.

It involves scanning the entire body with minimal divine power, identifying injured areas, and concentrating divine power on those areas.

I think I’m probably the best at physical examinations among all the healers.

“Treatment is finished. How are you?”

“It’s considerably lighter.”

“After the battle, please show me even the smallest wounds.”

“Other people just leave small wounds alone.”

“Sister, you are my bodyguard. This level of favoritism is natural.”

“… Favoritism?”

It seems like he didn’t realize that he was being favored by me.

“Of course I deserve to be favored. You’ve come all this way and worked hard for me. Everyone understands that much.”

So, I told her not to worry about what others thought and to enjoy my favoritism to her heart’s content, and then I put a piece of well-cooked ham in my mouth.

“Wow! This is so delicious.”

When I gave her a thumbs up and urged her to eat, she also picked up the eggplant with the ham on it.

It seems that food tastes best when you steal it from someone else.

* * *

It seems that Sister Melody, who had been somewhat of an outcast among the team members, gained recognition for her performance that day.

I thought it would be difficult to become close to her because she is a quiet person and is very wary of those around her, but the situation completely changed in one battle.

“This is a place where skill is king. Even if someone’s character is a total mess, if they’re good at it, we’ll follow them. Why? Because if they’re good at it, our lives are safe.”

“Ah… .”

“In that sense, he’s okay to be with us. In this world, there aren’t any people with average personalities, so he’s considered quite gentle.”

“It’s all about skill. But our Melody sister doesn’t have a strange personality; she just takes longer to get close to others than others.”

“Haha.”

The team member who had been listening to me responded with a rotten smile.

Looking at that rotten expression, I couldn’t help but wonder, ‘Could it be that he was looking at Sister Melody like a baby hedgehog?’

“There you are. Well, I’m off!”

She had left for a while to take care of some business, and was returning from afar.

As soon as he saw that, the man quickly ran away to another place.

She is also human, so she has no choice but to leave the place for a little while, and even then, she asked someone else to escort me, perhaps because she didn’t want to leave me alone.

He had just been standing in for me as my escort for a moment and then we had a conversation.

“I’m back.”

“Yes.”

“But why is that person running away like that? Did he do something to the priest?”

“No.”

“Hmm. I won’t ask that guy for anything from now on.”

“You’re really just leaving for a moment, so there’s no need to ask someone else. Nothing’s happened yet.”

“No, please follow my advice regarding escorts.”

It wasn’t a fighting situation, it was just after I woke up in the morning, put up the tent, washed up, and had breakfast.

“You didn’t really stay up all night to escort me, did you?”

“No. You need to get enough sleep to effectively escort them.”

“That’s fortunate.”

I was worried because it seemed like he was very tired, but fortunately he said he takes care of himself at night.

Maybe it’s because of the fierce battle yesterday, but everyone is getting up and moving slowly.

It’s even stranger to recover immediately after going through all that hardship.

I finished my morning’s work by using some divine power to loosen up my teammates who were suffering from muscle pain.

‘After all, healers are the best.’

If I hadn’t decided to become a priest when I was young, wouldn’t I have ended up as one of those people who do bad things?

I don’t mean to disparage their profession.

‘I’ve had a hard time since I was young because I wanted to become a priest.’

Moreover, priests must live their entire lives serving faithfully.

You must study the scriptures all your life, and you must never miss prayer.

Because there were many rules that had to be followed, it was not easy for someone who was not suited to this lifestyle to become a priest.

“You’re moving soon. Have you packed your bags?”

“Yes, sir.”

Sister Melody and I took our seats in the middle of the group.

* * *

After meeting the group of mole monsters, I continued to encounter monsters.

“I found a hole here!”

In addition, the newly hired guide was good at finding hidden paths, so the group’s luggage quickly became heavier.

What you find in a mole hole is a jackpot, but since you are good at finding hidden spaces, your luggage is bound to get heavier.

“Here… .”

“Priest!! I think you should come and see?”

“Me?”

People who discovered the suspicious hole and went inside are looking for me urgently.

It was a suspicious situation to anyone who saw it, so I ran over quickly.

And, as expected,

“It’s an altar.”

“Yes.”

What was before my eyes was an altar to the evil spirit.

Thanks to our previous experience, the group seemed to have sent word to me as soon as they discovered the altar.

“No one touched it?”

“Yes. There is none. Everyone was on high alert because you explained it in detail last time.”

“Thank goodness.”

“But this altar seems a little different from the one I saw last time.”

I nodded to the leader’s words.

“Yes. It’s on a whole different level from the altar I saw back then. If it was a small altar back then, this altar now is probably an altar that dozens of people managed and created.”

The treasure and Melody sisters who entered the altar discovered that it was already an evil spirit altar and immediately approached it to examine it.

“Would you please keep other people from coming near?”

“Of course. But how long do you think it will take to get it sorted out?”

Now that you’ve discovered the evil altar, you know you have to deal with it.

However, if you spend too much time on the altar, it will be a burden to everyone on your team.

“I think we need to discuss that. But there are people who are much better at this than I am. I think it will be over sooner than that.”

“Okay.”

The reason Sister Melody stays by my side as my escort is because of the evil spirit altar.

I’m a amateur, but my sister is an expert in this field.

I thought it could be organized much faster than I did.

“What do you think?”

After telling the group and going to the altar, I saw Sister Melody with a serious expression on her face.

“Hmm… I think it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a proper evil spirit altar like this.”

“Will it take a long time to process?”

“Well, I guess we’ll have to look into it a bit more to find out. There must be a lot more hidden than what’s visible on the surface. That would require digging into the ground… .”

“You’ll need tools.”

“Yes, I think so.”

Sister Melody went outside and asked me to watch the altar while she borrowed some tools.

I circled the altar as Sister Melody had done, examining the altar in the middle of the hidden room.

“That’s terrible.”

It was an altar piled high with gold coins that glittered splendidly, as if the stones had been gilded.

There were what appeared to be jewels embedded here and there in the middle of the altar. If you tried to take them out, you would have suffered great misfortune.

“How can a person do such a thing?”

I took out holy water and poured it on the area where the jewel was.

Cheeek~!

Black smoke rose from the jewel that touched the holy water.

A terrible rotten smell begins to vibrate around me.

And as the black smoke cleared, the true form of the jewel was revealed in its place.

“People’s eyes.”

I sprinkled the holy water over a wider area.

The jewels embedded in every corner reveal their true form one by one.

Sometimes it was a finger, sometimes it was a toe.

The sight of the altar, now fully exposed, was terrifying.

“Disgusting guys did disgusting things.”

Sister Melody appeared before I knew it and pushed me down from the altar.

“It’s ugly. I’ll take care of it, so don’t look, priest.”

“I am also a priest, so I can’t leave everything up to you. There are things I can do too.”

“There will be something more terrible inside the altar. Because it is an altar built with human lives.”

Once again.

I’ve seen enough horrible things when I’ve disposed of the corpses of heretics.

If it was at a similar level to that time, I could have easily endured it.

“I would like to pray that those who were sacrificed on the altar may return to His embrace and rest in peace.”

“There may be those who have been possessed by evil spirits, other than the victims. The priest’s prayers may be a great grace to those people.”

“If there is even one innocent victim, I think my prayers are meaningful.”

The sister who had been hesitating at my request nodded and gave her consent.

“… Okay.”

“Thank you!”

I quickly made a makeshift prayer room in my luggage.

“Do it a little further away.”

“Is this place okay?”

“Yes, that’s fine.”

After completing the simple prayer room, I knelt down.

“Let’s get started.”

As soon as my sister spoke, I began to offer up a prayer to comfort her soul.

And Sister Melody.

‘ok?’

He raised a huge axe of unknown date and struck it with both hands towards the altar!