Village Resistance

Winston opened his eyes.

It was so dark around him that he couldn’t see anything.

Winston tried to move his body, but his muscles wouldn’t move at all, as if he were paralyzed.

Winston recalled the terrible events that had just occurred.

‘Keueuk.’

But looking at the current situation, it seemed like he was just having a hellish nightmare and was paralyzed.

‘Hoo…. That’s a relief. That’s a real relief.’

As Winston was struggling to get out of the paralysis somehow, a magic lamp turned on with a tak, brightly illuminating the surroundings.

‘!!’

This was the basement of his house, and the entire basement was covered with tentacles and flesh.

Winston was sitting on a chair made of tentacles, with thick tentacles wrapped around Winston’s arms, legs, and torso, leaving only his face exposed.

And very thin tentacles were going into Winston’s ears and nose.

But what terrified Winston was something else.

His beloved two daughters and wife were in front of Winston in a gruesome state.

His two daughters, Jazlyn and Lirei, were hanging from the ceiling with their arms entangled in tentacles, limp.

Underneath the children, tentacles with grotesque dicks wriggled.

Seeing that the children were wearing clothes, it seemed they hadn’t been touched yet.

His wife was in an even more terrible situation.

Huge tentacles were wrapped around his naked wife’s body, arms, and legs.

“Daddy! Save me!”

“Daddy! Eong eong eong! It’s hard!”

“Honey! Heuk heuk. Honey! Honey!”

Winston shouted as if possessed by evil.

“Euaaak! Don’t look, kids! Daddy will save you! Keuaaaaaaa!”

Winston struggled, but he could only move his eyes and mouth, and the rest of his muscles wouldn’t move even 1mm.

“Keuak! You bastards! Let my family go! Euaak!”

The situation from before wasn’t a dream, it was real, and he had fallen into a trap.

“If I get free, I’ll kill you all! Kids, Daddy’s coming! Honey, I’m going! Euaak! Move!”

From below, a thick dick tentacle, about 6cm thick, approached his wife’s pussy.

The dick had bumpy protrusions and was glistening with slippery mucus.

Even an idiot could tell what was going to happen next.

Winston’s wife screamed and twisted her body at the sight of the dick.

“Honey! Save me! Don’t come closer! Kyaaaak!”

“Mom! No! Euaang!”

Winston twisted his body and screamed.

“Stop itttttt! Euaak! I said stop! Kids, don’t look!”

The huge dick tentacle arrived at the entrance of his wife’s pussy.

The veins of the dick tentacle bulged and contracted as if trying to penetrate the pussy at once.

Winston screamed.

“Keuak! Shit! Euaak!”

Then a voice echoed in Winston’s head.

“Accept me. If you accept me, you can tear those things apart and save your family.”

“Keuak. Shit! I’ll accept you! I accept!”

Ttiriring

[Acquired consent from Named Individual Winston. Do you want to mutate with 200pt?]

I shouted.

“Yes!”

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Winston opened his eyes 3 hours later.

Winston had completely transformed into a monster.

Winston was standing naked and was 2m tall.

Winston’s head was hairless like an alien’s head, and his brown skin glistened with mucus.

Winston’s eyes were stretched sideways, long and red like a reptile.

Winston’s mouth protruded forward and had a huge number of sharp teeth.

Winston’s tongue had also turned into a tentacle, and it could spew acidic venom from the flower bud-like thing at the end.

Winston’s upper body was also covered with mucus and smooth brown skin and was made of solid muscles.

Winston’s hands were more than 10 times the size of human hands, and hard nails grew very long and thick.

It seemed like he could cut through even steel walls with these nails, leaving marks.

Numerous tentacles grew from Winston’s back and swayed.

A long tail grew from Winston’s tailbone, with thorns glistening with venom at the end.

Winston’s legs were shaped like ᛋ like a werewolf’s legs.

Winston’s feet had become huge and had the shape of a werewolf’s foot, with 5 sharp beast claws at the end.

[Named Tentacle Hero Winston.

Description: A melee warrior-type tentacle specializing in slaughter, capable of powerful aura nail attacks. Can shapeshift into human form.]

In front of such Winston was me, a dog-sized purple tentacle monster.

I asked Winston.

“How do you feel?”

A heavy monster voice, as if mucus was boiling, came out of Winston’s mouth.

“Very good.”

“Swear allegiance to me.”

Winston put his right knee on the floor and knelt on his left knee, then bowed his head and swore allegiance to me.

“I offer my claws to my lord and swear allegiance for life.”

“Good job.”

When Winston was human, he swore to his former lord that he would not serve another lord.

But for the current Winston, the promise with a trivial human was something he could keep or not keep.

I asked.

“What do you think about your family?”

Tying up Winston’s family with tentacles was just a play to subdue Winston.

As soon as Winston submitted to me, I released Winston’s family.

Winston’s family was looking at Winston while wearing clothes.

Winston replied.

“I still think of them as family.”

“That’s a meaningful statement.”

“I know that my family has brain-parasitic tentacles in them. May I ask a favor of you, my lord?”

“Tell me.”

“I would be grateful if you would bestow baptism upon my wife and two daughters as well.”

“Hmm….”

I thought about it carefully.

If I give Winston a reward, he might work harder in the future.

“If you make a great contribution to putting Bradon Village under my feet, I will bestow baptism upon your wife and two daughters while preserving their egos. For now, I will exclude your wife and two daughters from combat.”

Winston lowered his head so much that it touched the floor.

“Thank you, my lord.”

“Bestowing baptism uses my life force, so I need to absorb the life force of other living beings to replenish it.”

“I will try my best to obtain humans alive.”

“Okay.”

I also instructed Winston’s family.

“You guys should assist Winston in Winston’s house. And when Winston makes a contribution, the tentacle soldiers must come out of your bodies.”

His wife and two daughters replied.

“I understand.”

“Yes! Captain!”

“Yep! Captain-nim!”

The kids are cute even when they become my subordinates.

I instructed Winston.

“Winston. Try to return to your human form once.”

When Winston returned to his human form, there was Winston standing naked in his human form.

I ordered.

“You will continue to work as the captain of the guard and reorganize the troops. And work with Edgar to make future plans.”

“Edgar-nim was also a hero.”

“Yes. You can feel where he is by using the tentacle mental network.”

“Ah. He’s at home right now. I’ll visit him later. I’m deeply moved to meet my father-in-law like this. Hahaha.”

Now I have the highest power and the strongest military force in the village, and 90% of the villagers are on our side.

The remaining people are Priestess Melissa, Paladin Zenos, the church priests, people from outside the village, and about 130 villagers who have little contact with the outside world.

I didn’t infect anyone other than the people of Bradon Village with brain-parasitic tentacles because of Edgar’s advice.

Edgar said that the Hamel Empire and the Gail Kingdom are not easy enemies, so we shouldn’t touch them yet.

In particular, the military strategist Jegal of the Gail Kingdom has a very sharp mind and will notice the tentacles.

If Jegal finds out about the tentacles early, the probability of us losing is very high, he said.

Since I have infected most of the outgoing people in Bradon Village, it is now time to go directly to the remaining people and infect them by force.

Tomorrow, I should target the church people, including Priestess Melia.

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The Church of Goddess Elia is located in the northwest, away from the plaza of Bradon Village.

In addition to the church building, this church has dormitories for the priests and fields where they can be self-sufficient, and it is surrounded by a stone wall.

It is said that when Bradon Village was first established, the priests built this church to separate themselves from the secular world and cultivate their minds.

The church is home to Priestess Melissa, Paladin Zenos, 5 paladins, and 23 priests.

Among them, Priestess Melissa is the pastor and administrator of the church.

Priestess Melissa is now 42 years old, but she maintains a young and healthy body in her early 20s by using divine power to prevent aging.

Melissa has wavy, short brown hair and black eyes.

Melissa is 168cm tall and has E-cup breasts.

Melissa has a slim figure, a plump butt, and white skin with a reddish tinge like a Westerner.

Melissa’s atmosphere is cheerful yet gentle.

Melissa’s closest friend is Paladin Zenos.

The two are definitely not lovers, but close friends who have been together since they were young.

Zenos is 45 years old and a black man with a muscular, heavy body of 182cm.

Zenos has a curly hairstyle and a playful face.

Melissa and Zenos are from the Elia Holy Kingdom.

The two first met as a priest and paladin at the Great Temple of the Holy Kingdom when they were 20 years old.

It wasn’t a sweet meeting like lovers at all, but they got along well and became friends.

Zenos enjoyed joking, and Melissa was good at accepting it.

The two did various things for the Holy Kingdom, and they were often teamed up together.

The team with the two of them went to investigate the undeadization of a village in the Hamel Empire, or to catch a witch who ate children in the forest.

As a paladin, Zenos blocked Melissa’s path well, and Melissa supported Zenos well with buffs and other things.

The Elia Holy Kingdom didn’t particularly oppose the marriage of priests or paladins, but strangely, the two said that they were not each other’s romantic interests.

When Melissa turned 30, she volunteered for the position of pastor of the Bradon Village Church, wanting to live comfortably in nature.

Zenos worked in the Holy Kingdom for a few more years and then came to the Bradon Village Church, where Melissa was, as a bodyguard.

The two were satisfied with the atmosphere of Bradon Village.

The two discussed with the priests while reading the scriptures and held services on Sundays.

It was the morning of the day after Winston was baptized by Kyle.

Priestess Melissa was reading the church visitor trend report in the church’s pastor’s office and was deep in thought.

‘Ha. What’s going on? The number of visitors keeps decreasing? Guard Mark used to come diligently, but why isn’t he coming all of a sudden?’

The church visitor trend report recorded the daily visitor list, donations, etc.

According to this report, the number of villagers coming to the church has been decreasing since 3 months ago.

Before that, 1 or 2 people started to drop out, but since 1 month ago, it has decreased exponentially.

In particular, looking at the Sunday worshiper number change graph, a downward convex decrease graph was drawn.

In fact, even Kyle didn’t expect this situation, but it was a situation that occurred because Kyle’s subordinates extremely hated worshiping beings other than Kyle.

If Kyle had issued an order to go to church by force, they would have gone, but since there was no such order, they didn’t go to church.

Melissa checked the names, occupations, and addresses of the visitors who didn’t come, but there was no particular rule, it was all over the place.

As the number of visitors decreased, donations also decreased.

Melissa checked the report again from the beginning with concentration.

‘Hmm! It seems like there’s a rule. Ah! Catherine’s family didn’t come to Sunday service first. The following week, Catherine’s friend Mila and her family didn’t come to service. The following week, the families of the kids who are close to them mainly didn’t come to service.’

Melissa slowly scanned through it afterwards as well.

‘Come to think of it, if someone doesn’t come, their friends or family don’t come the following week. This exponential spread method between acquaintances is an important characteristic of epidemic spread….’

But the phenomenon itself was not understood.

‘If an epidemic spreads, people should be dying or getting sick and pouring into the church right away. But no one is coming to the church. Even the priests who went outside the church don’t seem to feel anything strange.’

There was only one hypothesis to explain this phenomenon.

‘The disappearance of faith is spreading like an epidemic. I need to check why faith is disappearing. First, I need to ban the priests from going out. Hoo…. Isn’t it already too late?’

While she was thinking hard, the church bell rang to tell them to eat lunch.

Ttaengttaengttaeng ttaengttaengttaeng ttaengttaengttaeng

Melissa took the report and went to the cafeteria.

When she went to the cafeteria to eat lunch, all the priests were there, including Paladin Zenos.

Except for the cooking staff and the serving staff, the rest were sitting neatly at the table with the served food in front of them.

They were waiting for everyone to sit down and eat together.

Melissa received her serving, asked the priest in front of Zenos for permission, and sat in front of Zenos.

Zenos put in a beat unique to black people and jokingly said to Melissa.

“Yo~ What’s with that face? You got some worries, Yo~?”

“I’m not in the mood for jokes.”

“Alright.”

“You know that there have been almost no church visitors recently, right?”

“People aren’t coming. Did another god appear besides Goddess Elia?”

The priests around them heard that and chimed in.

“That’s right. Pastor Elia-nim.”

“No matter how much I shout in front of the church to come to service, the people passing by don’t even look at me.”

Melissa opened her mouth again.

“This is just a hypothesis, but. The disappearance of faith is spreading like an epidemic.”

Zenos frowned.

“What are you talking about out of the blue?”

“I’m being really serious right now.”

Melissa passed the report around to Zenos and the priests and told them what she had found out.

People listened to what Melissa had found out and nodded.

Zenos shouted with a flustered face.

“Heo. An epidemic where faith disappears! Is this the beginning of the end?”

“That’s what I’m saying. We need to gather the people who haven’t been infected with the epidemic and quickly inform the Holy Kingdom. I need to send a messenger to the Holy Kingdom tomorrow.”

“Come to think of it, the priests seem to be maintaining their faith?”

“Hmm…. Isn’t it because they don’t go out much?”

“Let’s eat first. I’m starving to death.”

“Hoo….”

When everyone, including the cooking staff and the serving staff, sat down, all the priests picked up their spoons.

As always, Zenos started eating the fastest.

Zenos’s eyes widened as if he was surprised.

Zenos shouted firmly.

“Wait! Everyone stop moving!”