episode_0095

The ‘Holy Grail of Jinhyeol’ is an artifact that is not intended to summon the current Demon King’s true body, but to summon only a part of his soul and make him descend. However, for those who worship the previous Demon King, the current Demon King is unnecessary. In other words, what they want is the power itself contained in the soul.

“Fuck…!”

There was no time to leisurely look around.

If their plan is truly in line with my sinister intuition, then whatever it is, it must be stopped immediately. But, I don’t know what to do first. The intention behind scattering blood and flesh throughout the territory is unknown. My guess is that it’s an offering for Jinhyeol’s Holy Grail…or a pigment for a huge magic circle…are they planning to place a large-scale curse?

Hey, that’s probably not the case anyway. I have no idea how many warlocks would have to sacrifice to do that.

“Master!”

“Uh, huh?”

It was Vanessa who grabbed my shoulder and turned me around. I looked at her blankly, and she held out something to me with slightly sad eyes.

“…cake?”

It was about the size of a thumbnail, but it was definitely a cake. The layers of thinly sliced cream and bread were clearly distinguished. Six such cakes were in her hand, individually wrapped.

“Are you going to fight? Take this with you. It will definitely be helpful.”

“…Thank you. Are you excited to see how strong it will become?”

“I’m sorry, master. I want to fight together too, but… it will definitely just be a burden.”

“It’s okay. Vanessa. This is enough.”

“…Don’t die. Please.”

“Hahaha. Are you talking to me now? I am more persistent than cockroaches. don’t worry. Ah, but maybe if I kiss you, I’ll be stronger?”

“Really…”

After a quick glance, she pressed her lips together without hesitation.

The eyes of the duke’s family nearby turned round, but we paid it no mind and shared a deep kiss.

“Fuhu…”

“Ha, ha…”

“Hehe, the power is amazing? Maybe it works better than your cake?”

“Ahaha…”

Seeing Vanessa’s smile, I hugged her shoulders and then looked at Michelle.

“Michelle.”

“Yes, yes!”

She closes her eyes and sticks out her lips.

“…What are you doing?”

“Yes, yes?”

“No, I was going to ask you to strengthen me and Saraha…”

“Ah! Heh! urg! Ah, I understand!”

Very embarrassed, her powers turn to me, Saraha, and Marilyn.

“Phew…good. Then, be quiet with your little brother. Michelle.”

“Yes…”

He kissed her sullen cheek.

“Hiyat…!?”

After seeing her covering her cheek in surprise, he smiled wickedly and approached the duchess.

“Madam. Where is the Holy Grail of Jinhyeol?”

“Yes? Well, that…”

“Perhaps the enemies came in targeting that. You should check the status just in case.”

“…It is decorated in the lobby on the first floor of the main building.”

“You put it in a conspicuous place.”

“Yes. It’s sealed anyway…and it’s perfect for preventing theft. There are all kinds of magic.”

“Hehe…I understand. Then.”

“Wait! What are you trying to do?”

“Shouldn’t we do something first?”

I ran out of the room with Sarah and headed straight to the first floor of the main building.

“…Is that the Holy Grail?”

In the center of the lobby, a cup the size of my head was in a glass cabinet.

It had all kinds of strange letters engraved on it, but on the outside it looked like just an ordinary decoration.

I took a quick look inside the chalice, and fortunately, there was no blood forming.

“Sarah. Do you feel something?”

“No. I can’t even feel mana, let alone magic energy. It’s a very strict seal.”

“That’s right…Marilyn, what about you?”

“I understand that there is a lot of magic involved.”

“Well, definitely…”

When I focused my attention on the feeling, I was dizzy as to how much magic had been installed not only in the glass cabinet but also inside. At least dozens of magics were intricately intertwined.

” As the Duchess said, I don’t think there will be any worries about theft… huh?”

The lobby on the first floor is, of course, what you see immediately when you enter the large front door. In other words, as long as the door is open, you can fully observe the situation outside from the lobby.

“……”

Blood and flesh moving slowly gathered together, drawing long straight lines and curves on the floor.

…No, it’s not a straight line. Those are runes. Commonly used in magic circles…

“These bastards, they really created a huge magic circle throughout the territory…”

It was at that moment that the letters made of blood and flesh began to glow softly.

And, a faint scream echoed from all over the territory.

“…Sarah! Marilyn!”

“Yes.”

“I understand!”

After listening to their answers, I quickly went outside. I didn’t know what the purpose of the giant magic circle was, but I headed straight toward the center of the city. So the first sight I saw was.

“Cuhuhhh…!”

“Kaahak…!”

“Ahhhh!”

It was a scene of chaos.

It’s not because of monsters, undead, or warlocks. That tyranny was created by the people of the territory themselves.

“I offer myself…”

“Savor my bones and flesh…”

“Please come…”

On the magic circle, with lifeless eyes, the people muttering as if under hypnosis, cut their own throats and cut open their stomachs. Their blood and corpses slowly melted and soon turned mushy and became part of the magic circle. As time passed, the magic circle became darker and glowed more intensely.

“What is this…Ah! Could it be because of that?”

Suddenly, the strange energy that tried to interfere with my mind passed through my mind.

It’s something subtle enough to be called magic, something so weak that it can only be hinted at.

Could it be that it was a trick of the warlocks?

It’s not that simple. They probably hid in the Duke’s house in advance and prepared for a considerable amount of time to do this.

“Damn…!”

“Master. Look over there.”

“Huh?”

When I looked at the direction Sarah pointed to, I saw a cup sitting on top of the magic circle.

It wasn’t made by casting metal, but rather it was roughly shaped using just scattered bones and flesh, and it was small…

“…Holy Grail?”

It looked exactly like the Holy Grail of Jinhyeol that I had just seen at the Duke’s House. Although it was much smaller.

“This is…”

When I looked closely, I saw that blood was filling up and disappearing inside the small chalice over and over again. When I looked closely at the floor, I saw that the blood that the residents of the territory had spilled on the magic circle was running up the handle.

“Master. To me, it looks like a replica of ‘Holy Grail of Jinhyeol’.”

“…!”

Are you saying you weren’t even interested in genuine products in the first place?

I had doubts about whether I could summon the demon king’s soul with a clone, but no matter what, I swung the sword. I even surrounded it with aurors just in case, but the replica of the Holy Grail was torn apart very easily.

“……”

I watched it for a while, but there was no sign of it recovering.

“Sarah. marilyn. From now on, spread out and eliminate these clones.”

“…Okay.”

“Leave it to me!”

“Oh, wait a minute.”

They stopped the girls who were about to run out and purchased ‘holy water’ at the coin shop.

An item used only to fight against demonic energy. It has powerful purifying abilities.

“Drink. Seongsu. If you have this, even if you encounter a demon or a warlock, you will be able to easily eliminate them.”

“…You are truly mysterious. How can such strange objects be created in the empty air…”

Gulp.

The holy water tasted like cider. Although there was no carbonation, the refreshing sensation and uplifting feeling were incomparable.

“Phew…then, let’s go!”

“Yes! See you again safely!”

“Start search.”

After splitting up with the girls in an instant, he ran like crazy along the line that encompassed the entire territory.

As a result, replicas of the Holy Grail were found everywhere.

On the roof of the blacksmith shop, on the bridge, under the fountain, on the chimney…

“Gasp, gasp! shit! There is no end! If I had known it would be like this, would I have borrowed someone?”

I took a quick look and saw that most of the troops were fighting fiercely on the castle wall. The remaining troops will also be guarding the Duke’s house, so there will be very few people I can take with me.

however.

“Rom!?”

I turned around at the sound of a familiar voice and saw my brother running at blinding speed from afar.

“Camel hyung!”

“What are you doing here!”

“What are you doing! I followed this damn magic circle and destroyed the replica of the Holy Grail!”

“Replica of the Holy Grail? Are you talking about that little cup made of bone and flesh?”

“You went out to destroy it too! Good decision!”

“Once it was visible, it was destroyed. But what on earth is that?”

Since I didn’t have time, I explained it briefly. There is a relic called the ‘Holy Grail of Jinhyeol’ in the Duke’s house. If it exists, the devil’s soul may descend. However, since the Duke’s security is so strict, it seems that the warlocks are trying to replace it by using replicas.

“…Something is strange.”

My brother tilted his head after hearing what I said.

“Huh? What?”

“No, that’s it. If you don’t need the real thing, there’s no need to invade the Duke’s house, right?”

“…!!”

surely. It was like that. I didn’t even think about it because I was recklessly destroying the replica in front of me.

“Then what is it? What on earth is this magic circle for, and what is that replica…”

-Cooo…!

At that time, a terrible roar rang out from the center of the territory.

With a magical energy so strong that it makes the hair stand on end.

“Kk…!?”

“What…huh?”

Blood. The flesh gathered in the center of the territory.

The bodies of the dead people and the blood pooled in the replicas moved as if they were alive.

And then…

“Joot…that’s done…”

It started with horns. The huge demon horn drawn in the air like a 3D printer soon had vivid colors and textures and contained a frightening amount of demon energy.

Below that, it was a feast of indescribably horrible pieces of meat.

Dozens or hundreds of human faces and limbs are scattered to create a huge and ugly face, and the flesh created underneath forms the shoulders and arms.

“Demon King…Summon…!”

I don’t know how or why the body, but not the soul, is summoned. It’s completely unbelievable, but as far as I know, the only being who can be summoned through countless sacrifices made by consuming an entire magic circle and territory that is unnecessarily large is the Demon King.

Of course, he would not be the current Demon King. There is no way its true body could be summoned with just a replica and a territory. I’ve said this many times, but there’s no way Blood Spear that worships the previous Demon King would summon the current Demon King. So, most likely, that is Sentai Demon King.

Most likely, it descended into someone’s body long ago, but lost a significant amount of its power because the vessel did not fit. The magic circles and replicas of the artifacts spread throughout the territory are probably intended to regain that lost power.

It may have been a pretty far-fetched method that resulted in such a disgusting appearance, but… neither the Sentai Demon Lord nor the warlocks would have cared about such issues at all.

“Suddenly…!”

Anyone who was forced to become a vessel would have already lost their body and had their soul absorbed.

I sincerely hope that the target of Sentai Demon Lord’s descent is not a collectible character.

“What? That’s the devil?”

“Damn it! brother! Brother, keep destroying replicas! I’ll try to do something about that!”

“What? What are you going to do!? I’d rather be stronger…!”

“I have the ability! Can I summon my brother Seongsu!?”

“…No.”

“Then leave it to me!”

Without listening to the answer, I kicked the ground. He kicked the wall, jumped, climbed up to the roof, jumped over the roof, and ran like crazy towards the huge piece of meat.

“Wook…!”

The closer I got, the more my nose-warming stench wafted out.

With a frown on my face, I climbed onto the roof of the building near him and first looked at the situation.

“…Phew..”

Blood and flesh flying from all over the territory were quickly forming the body of the bastard.

“Master!”

“Human! What is this?”

Sarah and Marilyn, who noticed that things were going strangely, also came to my side.

“…It’s the devil. That one.”

“……”

“The devil? Ugh, it looks really ugly.”

“Phew… First, let’s try killing that thing. Saraha, Marilyn. Eat this.”

I handed out the small cakes I received from Vanessa one by one and opened the wrapping paper.

“…It’s delicious.”

“It’s delicious.”

“It’s really delicious!”

Even though it wasn’t the time to leisurely review, Vanessa’s cake was so delicious that I couldn’t help but admire it. Those of us who waited for Marilyn to eat all the cake with her little mouth felt the power growing steadily, and our momentum rose to the top.

“…Confirmed that physical abilities were strengthened by 317% and mana amount increased by 280%.”

“It’s enormous. That woman wasn’t just a woman who enjoyed cooking.”

“Of course. Whose collection is this…is everyone ready?”

“Yes.”

“Of course!”

“Seu-eup…huu…! Break it into small pieces!”

As soon as I shouted, I leapt towards him.

Of course, the first to reach it was Marilyn. Her lunge with a jousting spear pierced the guy’s head by more than two digits by the time I reached it.

“Eat it!”

I threw the holy water I bought at the coin shop on the guy’s head.

-Kuuu…!

In an instant, dozens of bottles of holy water soaked my head, and the surface began to boil and melt, and countless ash began to fly.

“It’s killing the effect!”

However, its body continued to be created without stopping. The melted hair also regenerated in an instant.

“Wow…!”

I gritted my teeth when I thought the expense would be significant, but now is not the time to regret it.

If you do something wrong, you will all die.

“Die! Please stop!”

Although he constantly purchased holy water and poured it in, and swung his sword at the same time, his body began to rapidly regenerate with increased regenerative power.

Even Saraha and Marilyn’s powerful Auror Blades had a resilience beyond common sense, and I felt a sense of futility, like cutting down a waterfall.

“Damn…!”

When you realize that no matter how much holy water you pour in and attack, you cannot stop it from regenerating, a sense of gloom arises.

-Kuuu…!

And finally, the guy with the completed arm began to attack.

“Pfft!”

It was a slow attack, so it was easily dodged, but the problem was that in the moment the attack stopped, its head was restored to its original state and its body was becoming complete.

“Wow, that’s really terrible.”

As Marilyn said, his body was ugly and disgusting.

The body of the thing, which was about twenty meters long, stretched to the point where there was no part of the body that was not folded, and the texture of human flesh and body parts tangled together was disgusting.

However, that did not mean the attack could be stopped.

He climbed up the wall of the building and continued to slash furiously at the nape of the neck, pouring holy water on it.

-Kaaa…!

However, despite such efforts, his body was eventually completed and he ended up with terrible limbs.

-Kooo…

However, as if it was difficult to get up, he groaned lowly and fell on the floor.

“Hook…!”

It must have been planning an attack, but it suddenly curled up into a ball and started rolling.

“Huh?”

“Hmm? What?”

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwak!

The place where the guy who immediately increased the rotation speed and went digging into the ground was none other than the Duke’s House.

“This is crazy!”

“We must stop it!”

We continued to chase and attack in a desperate attempt to stop it, but there was no way we could stop the rush of that huge piece of flesh that could easily weigh tens of tons.

In the end, his body collided with the Duke’s mansion.

A loud noise that felt like my eardrums would burst.

Fortunately, the magic barrier deployed separately in the Duke’s house slowed him down and broke down, but he stretched out his fleshy hand and threw it into the main gate of the mansion, as if the mansion itself was not its goal.

When I saw that, a fierce sense of crisis rang the alarm bell.

“That bastard! Aiming for the Holy Grail of Jinhyeol! Stop it! We have to stop it!”

The relic was sealed, but the thought that it had to be blocked at all costs filled my head.

I keep picturing the worst case scenario in my head. What if he breaks the seal and uses that artifact?

“Kaaap!”

“Die! Die!”

Sarah, I, and Marilyn jumped forward, swinging our weapons frantically at that disgusting arm and pouring holy water on it.

-Cooo…!

However, he pushed the constantly regenerating arm with all his might, and finally grabbed the glass cabinet containing the Holy Grail.

At that moment, a blinding flash of light erupted, coloring my entire vision with light.