Paladin of the Dead God - Chapter 116



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Episode 116 Drowned King (3)

The feeling of being overwhelmed by the Drowned King’s body disappeared in an instant.

The Drowned King felt puzzled when Isaac, who had expected him to be frightened by his roar, stared at him with eyes different from before.

The deep sea is not kind to humans.

To the Drowned King who has forgotten his past as a fisherman, most human eyes are painful eyes filled with water in the windpipe, the blurry eyes of those who are already rotting and floating, drifting in the open sea, looking at themselves and just longing for mercy. All I could see were eyes filled with awe.

But Isaac wasn’t looking at him with any of those eyes.

The person who drowned in unfamiliar eyes felt embarrassed because he could not read his emotions. And he felt angry that he had been embarrassed.

After receiving instructions from the Drowned King, the vengeful fishmen quickly approached.

Unlike the time when they were slaughtering them one-sidedly on the water, Isaac was now trapped in the water.

No matter what he did in the water, Isaac couldn’t be faster than them.

Dozens of white hands rushed in to tear Isaac to pieces.

Isaac immediately took out the Ruad Din key.

The fishmen who saw that reflexively pulled their bodies back. There were more than one fisherman who suffered burns from the boiling heat.

[continue. That guy can’t turn up the heat.]

If the heat of the Ruad Din key was raised, Isaac’s body would also be cooked in the boiling sea water. Although it was possible to block heat similar to steam, being submerged in boiling water was a different problem.

When the fishmen heard those words, they rushed towards Isaac again.

Isaac did as he was told and pulled out the key to Ruad Din, but did not turn up the heat.

Instead, he grinned and bounced around.

Isaac’s body suddenly came in front of the fishmen. It was to the point where bubbles appeared momentarily. It was due to the predation effect, but the fishmen missed his movements because he moved much faster than expected.

Crack. The blade broke bone and split skin.

The fishman who had been stabbed in the chest screamed silently and struggled, but even that stopped as the spear blades penetrated the fishman’s body. It was a spear fired by other fishmen.

The fishmen attacked, not caring that their side was stabbed, but Isaac avoided the attack by cleverly using the fishman he first stabbed as a shield.

‘That’s strange.’

The Drowned King frowned as he watched Isaac’s movements. At first he thought it was a struggle, but no matter how he looked at it, it did not appear to be the movement of a person drowning.

No matter how disciplined you are, if you fall into the water, you are bound to panic. This was especially true for a knight as disciplined as Isaac. This is because swordsmanship cannot be used.

Swordsmanship was not only possible by swinging the arms, but also required movement of the feet and solid ground to stand on. As expected, Isaac was unable to use the sword, but he was holding on surprisingly well.

Even if you have great composure and can control yourself well, if you are caught in such an intense movement and situation, you are bound to show at least a little bit of nervousness.

But Isaac wasn’t like that.

I shouldn’t even be able to breathe by now, so what does that leisurely movement mean?

‘It’s just holding on while waiting for the moment to drown!’

Tung. At that time, the Drowned King did not miss the sight of the spear that the fishman had managed to pierce properly, slipping on his armor and missing.

‘Is that armor the problem?’

A considerable miraculous energy was felt in the armor Isaac was wearing.

It was a strange, oppressed and twisted energy, but it was a force that was difficult to ignore.

Isaac also couldn’t avoid all the spear blades coming from all directions. However, he cleverly evaded the spear blade from hitting the gap and skipped it.

‘That won’t work.’

The Drowned King stretched out his tentacles without making any sign.

The Drowned King’s tentacles didn’t look very fast, but that was an illusion due to his size. Isaac, who was nearby, felt the destructive power that swept away everything around him just by the tentacle coming close.

Tentacles suddenly attacked Isaac from all directions. When the huge tentacles, which could not be expected or avoided even if known, attacked, even several fishmen were caught up and torn to pieces.

There was no room to escape.

At that moment, Isaac’s body turned into a blurry blood-red shape.

‘what?’

The Drowned King’s tentacles cut through the water in vain.

The bloody figure quickly dispersed in the whirlpool, then reappeared not far away in the form of Isaac. The Drowned King noticed that Isaac had performed a miracle for the first time.

‘miracle? No, is there such a miracle in the law of light?

The Code of Light is a faith older than the Salt Council. The Drowned King knew well that there was no such miracle in the Code of Light.

The Drowned King’s huge tentacles cut through the seawater several more times. But each time, Isaac changed his appearance into a blood-red shape and avoided the tentacles. However, the Drowned King also noticed that no matter how many times Isaac dodged, he never made it out of the water.

Even though it changes its body shape, it is swept away by the whirlpool and thrown back into the deep sea.

‘Bloody smell? This is definitely not a miracle from the Code of Light.’

The Drowned King’s sense of smell was as sensitive as that of a shark. He felt the scent of Isaac’s blood growing stronger each time he changed form.

The Drowned King now surmised that Isaac might not be a paladin of the Code of Light. If you think about it, even when Isaac was dealing with the fishmen, he did not use the miracles of the Code of Light.

I borrowed the doctrine of the waves and only wielded the Ruad Din key.

[Hey guy, what are you doing!]

Of course, Isaac had no answer.

However, the Drowned King realized that Isaac was not a person worthy of being sacrificed.

***

‘I don’t recognize you either.’

As Isaac watched the Drowned King’s embarrassment, he felt it was as expected.

Heshabel knew little about the Salt Council.

This is because the Principality of Walaika is a landlocked country and there is no significant intersection between the two faiths.

The Drowned King was no different. Moreover, the Drowned King is insensitive to changes in the outside world.

In fact, it was natural that people did not know much about the Red Grail since it was a faith that appeared after the Drowned King fell asleep.

It’s difficult to respond properly to something you don’t know much about.

On the other hand, Isaac knew the Drowned King very well.

‘Make him a sacrifice? You, me?’

Isaac laughed.

The moment Isaac heard that the Drowned King was going to sacrifice him, the emotion he felt was neither anger nor fear.

If I were to express that feeling accurately, it would be ‘the same.’

When Isaac first saw the Drowned King, he was in pure awe. There was a world of difference between what I saw in the game and what I saw in real life.

I even felt it was funny when Hyannis said she would deal with such a being.

It was also because he thought there was no need to fight the Drowned King anyway.

In other words, Isaac did not come up with a strategy to fight the Drowned King.

To be exact, there was no need to come up with a strategy from the beginning.

The moment he decided to fight, dozens of ways to attack the Drowned King appeared in Isaac’s mind, taking into account his abilities, capabilities, tools, equipment, and support.

No matter what method you used, it couldn’t be said to be easier than fighting the Red Flesh Prophet. But Isaac didn’t even think about the possibility of him being defeated.

He had already defeated the Drowned King dozens of times in the game.

It was a condition that Isaac could not afford to lose with his current capabilities.

Kurrrrrr.

The Drowned King realized that catching Isaac was like trying to catch water with his bare hands, so he changed his strategy. I don’t know what kind of miracle he performs, but it is likely that it changes his body into a liquid or gas form. In that case, all you had to do was control the flow of water.

A round water current formed in the water and began to trap Isaac, who was formed in red. The Drowned King opened his huge mouth and sucked in water. He intended to eat it whole.

The fishmen seemed to realize this as well and began to struggle to escape from the current, trying not to get caught up in it.

The round stream of water soon began to be sucked into the Drowned King’s huge mouth. Thousands of sharp teeth waited for Isaac. However, instead of struggling to escape the flow, Isaac rushed against the current towards the Drowned King.

From the Drowned King’s point of view, it was as absurd an action as a fly attacking him.

What are you going to do when you rush in? Are you going to swing a sword? Even if he raised the heat of the Ruad Din Key within his body, it was of no use to him.

Even the miracles contained in holy relics could not be compared to the miracle itself, the angel.

[…] … Fool!]

As soon as the Drowned King put Isaac in his mouth, he immediately closed it to prevent him from leaving.

I felt the urge to chew and swallow Isaac with my thousands of teeth, but I had no choice but to suppress it. If you chew it and swallow it, it won’t even be a meal. She had to be sacrificed to herself through a proper ritual.

But since it was already in his mouth, Isaac had no way to resist. The plan was to sacrifice it when it could no longer move.

Wiggle.

The Drowned King felt an unpleasant foreign body sensation. It was a terrible feeling, incomparable to whether he was swinging a knife in his mouth. Soon, blood started pouring out of his mouth.

‘What is this… … ?’

The Drowned King cannot perform delicate miracles, but his mighty body itself is a miracle. His tentacles grow infinitely, and his regenerative power knows no bounds.

My body wasn’t one to feel pain even if I swung a knife a few times.

Now that things were like this, the Drowned King decided to cut off Isaac’s limbs even if his body was somewhat damaged.

However, the moment he tried to chew Isaac by rolling it in his mouth, the Drowned King couldn’t bear it any longer and ended up spitting Isaac out.

I saw Isaac’s strange silhouette writhing in the black blood.

The silhouette was much larger than Isaac.

Only then did the Drowned King realize that the entire inside of his mouth had been ripped out.

Isaac’s strange silhouette was derived from the flesh of the Drowned King himself.

***

[Some of ‘The Drowned King’ was predated.]

[The ‘Innards of the Dead God’ perk increases intake efficiency.]

‘Eating just this much gives you the predation privilege.’

Isaac smiled at the pleasant sound. Originally, privileges were not given for some level of predation. To receive the predation privilege, you had to eat the heart, vital parts, or a very large amount of flesh, but perhaps because it was an angel, only part of it was given the privilege.

[The length of the tentacles increases significantly.]

[The regenerative power of tentacles increases significantly.]

[The blessing will remain until it is digested.]

‘If you eat it all, you can guess what kind of perks it will give you.’

It was only temporary now, but it was clear that if you ate a lot, the tentacle’s abilities would be greatly enhanced permanently. Isaac felt the fishmen coming towards him again amid the blood spreading everywhere.

Isaac no longer hid his identity.

He waved the tentacle extending from his left hand without hesitation.

The long, stretched out tentacles instantly bit and tore the fishmen 10 meters in all directions with their teeth. The fishmen retreated, shocked by the one-sided mass slaughter that was incomparable to what they had seen before.

Isaac ate ​​the torn fishmen with his tentacles and filled his stomach.

The unfavorable environment in which swordsmanship could not be performed because it was underwater turned into a one-sided slaughterhouse again the moment the tentacles came out.

[you… … .]

The Drowned King was astonished at the sight. Isaac laughed at him and ran quickly again.

The Drowned King felt displeased at the sight of the beast rushing towards him after tasting blood. But as Isaac approached, the moment he saw his tentacles begin to split into two and three strands, he no longer felt uncomfortable.

A heart-piercing eerie feeling took over his instincts.

Isaac’s eight-pronged tentacles lunged at him like a vicious snake, ready to bite his flesh.