Serial Murders in Stozanya City

Roshan smiled brightly and said,

“Haha! Then let’s go kill all the darkness~”

The Inquisitor group approached the workers along the street.

The armed workers shouted,

“Stop! Who are you!”

Roshan extended his right hand forward, and shimmering threads spread out like spiderwebs in all directions.

Pibing ping pibibing

The workers were trapped in the middle of the threads.

The workers, frightened, shouted,

“What is this! Let us out!”

Roshan said,

“Among those trapped, there are 4 of darkness and 13 of light. I have to kill them all.”

Numerous strands of thread emerged from under Roshan’s right sleeve, connected to the spiderweb.

Roshan grabbed the thread and pulled.

Pibing pibibibibing

The spiderweb instantly shrunk, passing through the workers’ bodies, causing them to panic.

“Huh! Huh?”

Countless thin red lines appeared on the workers’ bodies, and they fell apart piece by piece.

Tududuk

The other workers who saw this screamed and ran away.

“Uwaaa! We can’t fight them!”

“We have to tell the Hero-nim!”

Huge white walls surrounded the direction the workers were running, blocking their path.

The Inquisitors used Holy Barrier, originally used for defense, to prevent the workers from escaping.

The workers screamed, banging on the walls.

Kwang kwang kwang

“Save us!”

The workers who barely managed to escape before the white walls appeared shouted with sad faces.

“We’ll call the Hero-nim!”

As the other workers ran away, the workers blocked by the white walls banged on the walls and screamed mournfully.

Umakant shouted to the close-combat Inquisitors,

“Purification for the darkness and those who have fallen into darkness!”

“Purification!”

Umakant stretched out both hands, each with claws with three blade-like nails, and shot through the workers.

As Umakant passed, the bodies of the workers on either side of his path slid down where the blade-like nails had passed, and blood sprayed like a fountain.

Tududuk pusyusyusyut

Another Inquisitor struck a worker’s head with a giant cross, causing the worker’s head to sink into their torso.

A massacre of workers occurred everywhere.

Roshan extended his hand, and a thread flew from his sleeve, wrapped around a worker, sliced them with a shashak, and then returned.

As time passed, not a single worker remained alive in this place, and the white walls disappeared.

Roshan said to the Inquisitors,

“Now, let’s go. A-men!”

“A-men!”

The Inquisitors gathered around Roshan with a shashashak and walked into the factory area, following Roshan’s steps.

Jeobeok jeobeok jeobeok

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The Hero party and labor union executives were resting in the factory that had been converted into a command room when workers rushed in urgently to report.

“Emergency! 42 Inquisitors killed the workers guarding the perimeter and are coming inside! The expected number of deaths is in the hundreds!”

Everyone was surprised and stood up.

“What!”

Saintess Asha said,

“The Inquisitors are the strongest knight order in the Holy Kingdom.”

Norbert instructed the worker,

“Explain the enemies’ armaments.”

“The one who appears to be the leader uses threads. They spread out like spiderwebs in all directions and turn people into pieces. And there’s also someone with claws on both hands who tears apart workers every time they move.”

Saintess Asha said with a serious expression,

“That’s Commander Roshan-nim and Vice-Commander Umakant-nim. They’re both devout believers, so they wouldn’t kill people without a reason.”

Norbert got angry.

“What reason do you need when people are dying!”

“A-men.”

Norbert, as if frustrated, ignored Saintess Asha and said to us,

“Roshan is known to have similar strength to the Lion Knight Commander of the Hamel Empire. The workers can’t handle them. We have to go. If the Marquis’s knight order was on our side, we could fight a little more easily.”

Park Gyeong-cheol said,

“There’s nothing we can do about what we don’t have. Let’s go by ourselves.”

At that moment, the armed labor union executives shouted,

“We’ll go too!”

“We don’t want to just sit here!”

Norbert was moved as he looked at the executives.

“You guys….”

Park Gyeong-cheol gave instructions in a loud voice.

“First, the Hero party will stop the Inquisitors! Labor union executives, gather those among the workers who have lived as adventurers or have martial prowess and bring them here!”

“Understood!!!”

Park Gyeong-cheol, Gilluk, Asha, Serena, Aibos, Kyle, Nisa, and Norbert armed themselves and quickly ran to the street where the Inquisitors were coming.

The Hero party ran for a while and encountered the Inquisitors coming from afar.

Roshan saw Park Gyeong-cheol and greeted him.

“Hero-nim. Good day.”

Park Gyeong-cheol got angry.

“Killing innocent people, what is this!”

“I am doing the work of purifying darkness. Don’t you know that too, Hero-nim?”

“What kind of purification is killing people!”

Roshan believed that the Hero would think the same way he did, but he was bewildered when the Hero got angry.

At that moment, Roshan saw Serena and pointed at her, distorting his face fiercely.

“There’s a powerful darkness hidden there. It seems that darkness is deceiving the Hero party.”

Serena trembled with immense bloodlust and shouted,

“Ughhh. I’m a member of the Hero party, and I don’t do anything that would be harmful!”

Roshan ignored Serena and spoke to Saintess Asha.

“Saintess Asha-nim. I didn’t know you would walk with darkness. Do you remember Elia’s Epistle, chapter 6, verse 7?”

Saintess Asha recited the verse from the Epistle.

“The first important thing to always do is to be vigilant. Darkness is always lurking around, waiting for an opportunity to exploit our weaknesses.”

“That’s right. I’ll assume this happened because you couldn’t sense the aura of darkness in detail. Open your eyes immediately.”

“Aaaah! Now I understand everything. Darkness has already deeply infiltrated the Hamel Empire. This is also a trial from Goddess Elia.”

Saintess Asha glared at Serena, causing all the Hero party members to panic.

Serena called out to Saintess Asha in a small voice.

“Asha Onee-chan….”

Saintess Asha burst into anger.

“You demon! Roshan-nim is a sincere believer! There’s no way Roshan-nim’s words could be wrong!”

Serena shrank back, and Park Gyeong-cheol blocked Saintess Asha and got angry.

“Asha Noona! What are you doing!”

Saintess Asha started walking towards Roshan.

Ttokak ttokak ttokak

Saintess Asha’s blind faith in Goddess Elia was terrifying.

The Hero party could only watch with bewildered faces.

Gilluk and Aibos called out to Saintess Asha.

“Asha Nuna! Where are you going!”

“Asha! Are you going to abandon your friends?!”

Saintess Asha arrived at Roshan’s group and turned around.

Saintess Asha pointed at Serena with her finger and said,

“You are being deceived by darkness. We must eliminate all the darkness in this city with Roshan-nim. That woman must be eliminated as well.”

Serena’s eyes welled up with sadness and injustice.

Park Gyeong-cheol shouted to Serena.

“Don’t worry! I’ll protect you!”

Roshan asked Saintess Asha,

“It seems the Hero has already been influenced by darkness. Should we kill him?”

“If we have to create a new Hero again, Goddess Elia-nim will be strained. We must save the Hero.”

“That makes sense. I’ll just cut off a few of the Hero’s limbs, eliminate the woman made of darkness, and then brainwash the Hero and reattach them.”

Saintess Asha nodded.

Umakant whispered to Roshan,

“Commander-nim. The one with the bow over there is Norbert.”

“The Marquis said not to kill him, so let’s cut off his limbs, attach them when we give him to the Marquis.”

“Good plan.”

While people were talking, I was pondering in my head.

‘Damn it. Roshan seems stronger than I thought? Even Asha has sided with them, can the Hero win? I think I need to use the power of the Tentacles to win properly? Asha, you bitch! Even if you’re leaving, you should give me the divinity of charity! Come to think of it, it might be beneficial to me that Saintess Asha has left the Hero party.’

I contacted Hyde through the Tentacle communication network.

• [Hyde!]

• [Kyle-nim. What’s the matter?]

• [The Inquisitor group and my allies, the Hero party, are about to fight. Is there any way you can support us without being detected?]

• [I’ll send suicide Chimera insects.]

• [Oh! What are those?]

• [They’re things I made out of boredom, they sit on people’s skin and explode, spraying Chimera liquid that is absorbed through the skin.]

• [If you give them Chimera liquid, they’ll get stronger!]

• [But this is the undiluted solution, so even if they absorb a little bit, they’ll lose their reason and become monsters, attacking humans indiscriminately.]

• [Huh? Sounds good? Focus your attacks on the physically weak ones among the Inquisitors. Like the priests who are helping from the rear.]

• [Keuheuheuh. Understood.]

Just in time, the labor union executives arrived, leading hundreds of armed workers.

“Hero-nim! We’ve brought those with martial prowess who were nearby for now! Other executives will bring more!”

“Me and my party members will take on the strong ones.”

“Understood! Good luck!”

Roshan smirked.

“Hehet. The darkness is coming to die on its own~”

Saintess Asha cast buffs on the Inquisitors.

“That demon woman has the divinity of purity! I’ll cast a mental barrier! Mental Barrier!”

The power of charity, which increases the performance of Asha’s buffs, combined, making all the Inquisitors immune to mental attacks.

Now, Serena’s power of purity and mental curses, and Nisa’s illusion magic were nullified, so they had to fight with dark spears and light spears respectively.

Roshan asked Saintess Asha,

“Saintess-nim. I have to take on the Hero, but the Adamantium threads might be cut by the space sword. Please buff my weapon.”

“I’ll give you unbreakable weapon. Unbreakable Weapon!”

Similarly, the power of charity was added, and a mysterious power was imbued in Roshan’s Adamantium threads, allowing them to withstand the space sword.

All the Inquisitors raised auras of increased elemental resistance from their bodies to counter the electric hammer, fire hammer, and glacier.

When I summoned the four Great Spirit Kings, Ifrit, Elquines, Sylphid, and the giant Noas appeared.

Park Gyeong-cheol, as if he couldn’t wait any longer, shouted.

“Charge!”

Roshan also shouted.

“Kill them all for Elia-nim! Amen!”

The Inquisitors consisted of 30 melee units, including Roshan and Umakant, and 12 ranged units and priests.

The 30 melee Inquisitors and the Hero group, including hundreds of workers, charged towards each other.

“Uwaaaaa!”

“We’ll win!”

A free-for-all broke out.

Roshan and Park Gyeong-cheol, Umakant and Aibos, Gilluk and an Inquisitor mace warrior fought.

The remaining melee Inquisitors fought the workers, but even if the workers had martial prowess, they were no match for the Inquisitors.

Saintess Asha and the Inquisitor priests assisted the remaining Inquisitors with Holy Barriers and other means.

Serena, Nisa, Ifrit, Elquines, and Sylphid assisted the workers.

When Noas ran towards the Inquisitor priests, a translucent giant wall appeared in front of Noas.

It moved along with Noas, blocking him.

Noas, with an annoyed face, punched the wall with full power.

Kwang kwang kwang

When I, Kyle, charged towards a priest with the electric hammer, an Inquisitor holding a giant metal cross blocked me and said,

“I am Garon. Stop here.”

“I can’t stop!”

“To capture the Hero alive, we must kill everything that gets in the way. Unfortunate.”

“Don’t talk nonsense.”

As I shot forward and extended the electric hammer, Garon raised the cross to block.

Kwaaaang

Electricity traveled through the cross to Garon, but Garon didn’t budge.

“That tickles a bit. Your electricity is no longer effective! Whirlwind!”

Garon hugged the cross covered in aura like a log and rotated his body like a top, causing the cross to spin fiercely, creating a sound that tore through the air, and wind flew outwards.

Buung buung buung

When I jumped towards Garon’s head, Garon’s body spin tilted, forcing me to kick the air and return to avoid being hit by the cross.

As Garon approached me spinning like a top, I slowly backed away.

Buung buung buung

“All or nothing!”

I wrapped the electric hammer held in both hands in aura and swung it horizontally with all my might, colliding with the cross and creating a deafening sound.

Kuaaaaaang!

The electric hammer, made of God’s metal, was stronger, causing the cross to dent.

Whether my strength was greater, Garon lost his grip on the cross and was thrown back due to the impact transfer and reaction.

I charged straight ahead and tried to strike the fallen Garon with the electric hammer, but a Holy Barrier created by a priest blocked it.

Jjaenggeurang

The Holy Barrier was broken, but the speed of the hammer decreased, allowing Garon to dodge.

“This is really annoying.”

Garon desperately tried to crawl away, but when I extended my hand and pulled him with telekinesis, he was pulled over.

Jijijiji

“Uwaaaa! Priest! Priest!”

I climbed on top of Garon.

I grabbed the electric hammer with both hands and struck downwards with force.

The Holy Barrier blocked it, but the electric hammer, combined with gravity and the strength of both hands, broke through the Holy Barrier and crushed Garon’s hindbrain.

Jjaenggeurang Kwajik!

Garon, whose medulla oblongata was destroyed, died.

When I charged towards the Inquisitor priest group, an Inquisitor holding a spear shot towards me.

Just before colliding with me, Nisa only pushed the Inquisitor’s feet, causing the Inquisitor to tilt to the side.

“Uh! Uh!”