episode_0145

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The main culprit that caused the dust.

The thing that fell inside the building along with the door was cracking and making a gasping sound.

All of his teeth have fallen out, and his face is crumpled, making his already grim appearance look hideous.

I entered the building through an entrance with a torn off door.

– Sigh!

At the same time, he stomped on the blade flying towards his ankle with a fierce force.

It is surrounded by a river of its own. It seems to contain quite a bit of magical power and is quite strong.

But the level is low.

The blade, unable to withstand the force, broke sharply and stuck on the floor.

“Huh?”

The guy who was hiding by the door, aiming for my ankle, looked blankly at the broken sword.

I suddenly kicked the face that was in a perfect position.

The blurry trajectory hit my head.

Sigh! His face was drenched in blood and he was thrown backwards.

The two eyes that had been opened foolishly opened weakly.

His body, unable to overcome the force, flew into the sky and fell headfirst into the ceiling.

At that moment, three attacks came quickly.

A sword flying at your neck from in front of your nose, a sword stabbing you in the abdomen from the side, and a dagger gently stabbing your side from a blind spot.

This is a level that cannot be considered passing.

It wasn’t difficult to respond as there were plenty of gaps.

As soon as he attacked, he swung his recovered leg and hit the sword on the floor like a soccer ball.

The blade of the sword raised by the instep spun.

– Sigh!

“Evil!”

The sword aimed at his neck was twisted. Shinhyeong collapses, screaming at the broken blade stuck in his wrist.

The already large gap widened.

I slowly turned around. The sword that flew to the side could not even pass by the robe and cut the air meaninglessly.

To instill meaning, I gently pushed the sword with my knee.

The sword was not properly balanced. That makes it easy for outside interference. The sword’s trajectory was twisted.

Sigh! The tip of the sword was stuck in the shoulder of the man holding the dagger.

While my movements were frozen due to the pain, I turned my body and delivered a roundhouse kick to the guy’s side.

The guy gritted his teeth and wrapped his arms around his side. A purple, cloudy river was wrapped around his side like armor.

He’s a guy who makes quick decisions.

– Let’s go!

“Knock…!”

Unfortunately, the quality of the river was poor. The magic power is dirty, and the skills are poor.

Fragments of the shattered steel were flying. Crump! The man’s back was bent 90 degrees.

Instead of stopping there, he used his legs to push the man away. I even kicked the guy next to me who was making a dumbfounded expression.

– Quadang!

“Big…!”

The two guys tangled together and rolled around on the floor.

The inside of the building, where there had been a brief commotion, became quiet.

When I slowly lowered my legs, the dust that had been created when the door was torn off settled.

Even so, due to all the rolling around, a cloud of dust rose again.

“Why, why did they suddenly invade and cause such misfortune…”

The guy who fell to the floor… To be exact, the guy who tried to aim for my neck and rolled over with his colleague, said through clenched teeth.

“Fuck you… are you from the Geumryong side? Or the association bitch─”

puck! The mouth that had been kicked had closed again.

From my observation, I saw four scattered on the floor… one was stuck in the ceiling.

I took a quick look at the conditions.

The breath is stuck. The injury is not that serious. I’m just fainting now.

That’s not to say I couldn’t kill him, because there was still something left to interrogate.

If they wanted to kill it, they could have broken it into pieces instead of just shaking its head and causing it to lose consciousness.

‘The standard is low.’

Is it because it is small? At best, they are the equivalent of low-level hero pull-ups.

It is a level that even cadets entering poetry cradle can easily solve.

That wasn’t strange. The method was the same in the original work.

They spread branches all over China, capture monsters and humans as needed, offer them up as sacrifices, and send them to their base.

Monsters are also used as sacrifices, but the main sacrifices are humans.

He walked to one side of the building and kicked the wall.

The worn wooden wall collapsed, revealing a path leading underground.

As I followed him down, a thick iron door appeared. It didn’t look good because it was rusty and had many minor scratches here and there.

That’s not all.

Through observation, the inscriptions engraved on the iron gate were clearly recognizable. As soon as it was recognized, the security was breached and interpretation was made.

‘Durability increase, presence blocking, magic circulation interruption… It’s quite complicated.’

The spell engraved on the iron door appears to be wrapping the entire basement like a spider web.

It is a magic composition aimed at achieving both stealth and durability.

I suddenly kicked the iron door.

– Wow!!

“…!”

The solid iron door was torn off roughly. The iron door, leaving a clear mark in the center, rolled on the floor.

The guy who was conducting the sacrificial ritual turned around in surprise.

Looking at his face full of surprise, it seems he didn’t realize the situation above.

This is because of the focus on the sacrificial ritual. This is partly because the basement itself blocks all traces from inside and outside in the first place.

The guy is dressed in what appears to be a black priest’s uniform. On the chest, there is a pattern of a snake coiled around a vicious scythe.

‘It was the Four Gods Church…’

Literally a cult of the god of death. If it is intuitive, it is a sign of an intuitive group.

Behind that guy, there is a stone altar.

There was a corpse lying on the altar as we had seen earlier.

The body’s skin was extremely pale, as if all the blood had been drained in a short period of time.

The basement was quite spacious, and there were several people imprisoned in iron cages in the corners who were about to be sacrificed.

I feel dirty.

The guy opened his mouth. The momentum of the magical power slowly changed.

It seems like they are trying to waste time through conversation.

“What are you doing─”

As soon as I could open my mouth, I kicked the ground.

A sure win for the player.

There is no reason to wait.

The basement was quite large, so there was a bit of a distance, but it wasn’t a distance that couldn’t be narrowed down at once.

The guy with the distorted face radiated magical power.

Release of magical power for defensive purposes. A black protective shield unfolded ahead.

It appears quickly, as if it had been chanted in advance.

Then, the mana in his body changed. It is a unique operation of magical power. At the same time, the corpse standing behind wriggled.

Necromancy.

The ability to manipulate the corpses and souls of dead entities.

It was covered quite a bit in the original.

That’s why I knew why they bothered manipulating a corpse that didn’t have much power.

Those low-level commands are used as meat shields or corpse bombs.

Manipulation classes such as necromancy usually end once the main body is captured.

Therefore, in order to prevent enemies from approaching the main body, the command is attached to the front, and if it seems that it cannot be used, it is quickly used as a corpse bomb after a simple offering.

‘You damn bastard.’

My face naturally distorted. Magical power burst out from the leg where the rigid body was manifesting.

Beyond the rigid body inside the body, the magical energy released outside the body became strong energy.

A terrifying blood-red river boiled up and wrapped around my legs.

– Ugh!

I swung my leg towards the magic power that blocked the front.

A bloody river pierced the front lines.

The barrier could not hold the bridge even for a moment. The leg, which was fired in a straight line, penetrated the defense shield and hit the guy’s solar plexus.

Crack! I could clearly feel the feeling of my bones being shattered. I pushed my legs up to the wall and threw the guy down.

“Gagging…!”

The new model of the guy who let out a short scream was stuck on the wall.

bang! For a moment, the basement trembled. Dust fell from the ceiling.

The new figure, which had been trembling as it was stuck against the wall, became limp and fell to the floor.

A battle that ended in one blow.

I glanced at the body writhing on the altar.

The squirming stopped for now.

If I had left it alone, it would have rushed at me and exploded.

I clicked my tongue and looked at the metal cage. About a dozen people were trapped in the basement, but few of them were conscious.

Even those who are conscious are trembling from the battle that just occurred and are looking at us in fear.

“Kkeuk, keuk…! Ahhh…!”

While examining him, he fell to the floor and wriggled like a bug.

The pain from being hit in the solar plexus must be so bad that he keeps coughing up blood and writhing.

Chin – When I stopped in front of my nose, the twitching stopped. The guy turned his head. The face, covered in all kinds of dirt and dust, was distorted.

“This, you fucking bastard…!”

I wonder who looks at whom and feels like shit.

I was so annoyed that I shook my head, and my already ugly face distorted even more.

“How dare you─ Ugh!”

That’s not what I want to hear.

I don’t even want to waste time.

When I roughly kicked his head, the mouth that was about to talk randomly closed again.

‘then…’

I had a rough plan in mind when I came here.

The most important goal is the Lake of Magic, but along the way, he visits the branches of the Four Gods Church and causes trouble.

In the process, he scolds the son of a bitch.

It would be nice if it ended like that, but unfortunately, the story didn’t go that easily.

In the process of punishing the bastard, he has no choice but to rescue civilians.

In a white area like Sifnaha, you can just hand over the rescued civilians to the Association or a nearby force, but in a gray area like this, there is no force that can hand over the rescued civilians.

‘Rather, I would say these are the nearby forces.’

Monsters roam around in the gray area, and a significant amount of land is encroached upon by dungeons.

Those guys who just made a rough move.

He betrayed humanity and justice, and his skills were poor, but he had the skills to become a low-level hero anyway.

I should be able to subdue the miscellaneous level 8-7 monsters that appear around here.

In other words, it is a power that can be quite helpful in this gray area.

I crouched down next to the guy who was writhing on the floor, twisting his body, and pulled up his hair.

Ugh… His head rose up with a groaning sound. My eyes fluttered and opened weakly.

My image was reflected in those eyes.

A robe covering the entire body and a strange mask with no eye holes.

‘It’s new to me, but it looks really suspicious.’

He used his magic power with no nonsense thoughts.

“Now, wait…what are you doing…!”

He struggles as if he senses something strange. Even so, there is no way to avoid it.

Magic affinity expansion ability

Homogenization.

‘Dream of illusion.’

In an instant, the magic power fluctuated.

The color of the magic power expressed externally was dark purple. An eerie yet hazy magical power entered my mind through its eyes.

“Crack, crack…”

The pupil of the writhing fellow narrowed, and his eyes suddenly rolled over.

His mouth opened wide and he looked like an idiot, drooling.

Maxwell’s unique ability.

The series is spirit and fantasy.

I observed it during our last meeting. Because they do not have enough information and are not particularly skilled, they can only perform basic operations.

However, it is an ability that is perfect for use on a bastard who has no mental ability whatsoever.

There is no need for a sane person.

The stupid bastard will give you a more accurate and definite answer.

* * *

[No contact with Branch 12 near Aohan]

“Tsk.”

Gyeong-won, the head of the Four Gods Church, confirmed the contact and his expression wrinkled.

This is bad communication. It is also news that makes you feel bad.

The land of China is large. There are that many people.

Even now that the country has been destroyed by the two-headed poisonous dragon and has become a gray area, there are many people who have not left this place, and many people are multiplying as they fight.

With such a topic and quality of life being thrown into the trash can, it is a perfect place to expand the denomination.

When people cannot find a place to lean on in reality, the most common thing they turn to is religion.

There are many branches of the Four Gods Religion spread throughout China. Thanks to this, the amount of offerings gathered from each branch is significant.

Even if they collapse one by one, it is not something to worry about.

Bribes were also paid to local powers where each branch was already established. Rather than restraining them, they are collecting sacrifices appropriately through collaboration.

Association doesn’t matter either.

The recent situation in Magyeong is already unstable.

Even the association presidents are silent, so there is no time to form a punitive force in a gray area rather than a black area.

But these days, branches are collapsing one by one.

‘Taesan family… what on earth did I do wrong that you’re bothering here?’

Taishan family.

Recently, manifestations of Taishan have crawled into China and are wreaking havoc.

The intention was clear. They are making a fuss by specifically targeting the Four Gods Church.

Even his successor was among those people.

It’s a difficult thing to do as a member.

Rush in and kill them all? There is nothing you can’t do.

However, I am not confident that I can handle the aftermath.

Taishan’s successor dies suddenly in China?

The head of the Taishan family will immediately lead the family’s elites into China.

At that time, it will not end with a few branches being destroyed like it is now.

I couldn’t take that risk at such a critical time.

‘I have no choice but to hand over some.’

There are hundreds of branches established across the vast land of China.

The level of concealment in each branch is also quite high.

Resources are used to mobilize magic, and the place where the branch is set up is a convenient place to procure offerings and is also an easy place to hide.

Also, how many dungeons are still running rampant in China?

Because the magic wave is so damn strong, even if you mobilize people with even the most sensitive abilities, it will be difficult to raid the branches one after another.

Although branches are collapsing at the rate of one a day, there is time to spare until the plan is completed.

I was confident that I would not be able to find the home base where the vacancy was located.

Abandoning cattle for the sake of

This is a basic strategy that anyone can think of if they have the brain.

I nodded and focused again.

The basement where Gyeongwon is located.

The white bones of a huge earth dragon were placed on a magic circle spread out on the floor.

The white bones were not intact.

It had two necks, but one skull was missing and was in poor condition.

Gyeongwon concentrated his mind and poured offerings onto the white bones to attract the remaining subtle spirits.

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[No contact with Branch 13 near Aohan]

[No contact with Branch 14 near Aohan]

[No contact with Branch 15 near Aohan]

…

“…What?“

That day.

Nine branches collapsed one after another.

[No contact with Branch 3 near Naiman]

[No contact with Branch 4 near Naiman]

[No contact with Branch 5 near Naiman]

…

[No contact with Branch 2 near Wing New Ter]

[No contact with Branch 3 near Wing New Ter]

[No contact with branch 5 near Wing New Ter]

[Loss of contact with Branch 6 near Wing New Ter]

And the next day, branch thirteen lost contact.

Let alone one in a day, more than twenty collapsed in two days.

“……”

The damage far exceeded expectations.

In other words, the damage would cause disruption in the supply of offerings.