Paladin of the Dead God - Chapter 138



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Blood scattered like rain.

The messy, chewed pieces of the hunting leader fell all over the backyard, but the tentacles devoured every last bit of it.

The human hunters who survived the horrific scene were seized with a fit of fear.

“Ah ah ah ah ah!”

Bang, bang. Hezabel’s crossbow pierced the heads of the remaining men to the floor, causing them to fall face down. The tentacle that soon finished feasting disappeared again beneath the colors beyond.

‘this.’

Due to the dark effect of the Eucharist, all nearby headhunters were paralyzed with fear. But Isaac noticed that the finish was not neat. The last miracle the hunting leader performed was a red petition that transformed his body into blood mist.

Even in the blood mist state, it must have been influenced by the dark Eucharist, and in a panic, it stirred the skies over Ruzberg before disappearing.

Isaac clicked his tongue and quickly pulled out the headhunter whose head was stuck on the ground. He had an arrow pierced through one of his eyes, but it didn’t matter because the other one remained.

“Where did your leader go?”

There was no need to wait for an answer.

Isaac’s eyes turned dark purple. The thin tentacles that protruded from his eyelids quickly burrowed into the headhunter’s eyes.

Soon, Isaac learned everything about their strategy, their course of action in case of emergency, and even what their original plan was.

And then he clicked his tongue.

“Going to the tower?”

They already knew where Isolde was hiding.

***

Boom, boom, boom.

The hunting leader, who was wandering like crazy in the form of a blood mist, soon lost his miraculous power and returned to his original form.

The hunting leader fell on the roof, rolled, and soon crashed into the dirt floor of the yard. He didn’t stop there, but tried to run away again, hitting the ground with his free wrist and hitting his head on the ground.

Only then did he seem to come back to his senses a little.

The moment he was swallowed up by the abyss, he felt an unprecedented fear.

It was because of the dark effects of the Eucharist, but he never wanted to go through that experience again. Before he knew it, he was shedding tears.

It was a tear I hadn’t shed since I became a human hunter.

‘I can’t do this. I can’t face that monster again.’

He was out of breath and walked blindly forward without knowing where he was going.

‘Where did it go wrong?’

The wrist cut off to activate the red petition did not regenerate. It was natural since it was an offering to the Red Holy Grail. The form was able to be restored, but it could not be said to be complete as even a large amount of its blood was stolen by the giant tentacles.

He lost his wrist and his men.

And even the red-fleshed prophet, the angel he must serve.

‘If only I had followed the original plan… … .’

The original plan was to surprise and kidnap Isolde, who was hiding in the tower. However, when a banquet was held just in time, she changed her plan, thinking that she could be taken to a place that was much easier to kidnap than the tower. But who would have thought that the other person was a decoy… … She never even imagined that it would be such a monster.

‘First of all, run away and then regroup… … .’

The hunting leader, who was looking again for an escape route, suddenly noticed something huge in front of him.

According to the original plan, this was the very tower they were supposed to attack.

The hunting leader staggered to the front of the tower, feeling possessed.

At that moment, realization came like a thunderbolt. In the first place, that banquet was a bait to draw them out! Like a fool, I had fallen for that bait.

‘So Isolde Brandt, or rather the Prophet of Red Flesh, is still here?’

He staggered towards the tower and smelled a familiar scent.

Sweet smell.

It was the smell of the doctrine of craving that still remained, but it was also the smell coming from the red flesh.

The hunting leader felt like he was holding a lifeline from a cliff.

Although the hunting party was annihilated and he himself was horribly injured, if he could rescue the Red Flesh Prophet and obtain even a piece of her flesh, he could immediately recover. This was the only way for him to live.

The hunting leader tried to open the tower door. But of course it was locked.

He was so nervous that he pounded on the door like crazy before regaining his senses.

I had to hurry. He gritted his teeth and inserted the cut part of his wrist into the keyhole.

As the blood that flowed hardened inside the keyhole, I unlocked it. Although I already had to consume more blood, I was relieved to see the door open. Now all you have to do is go inside and take Isolde hostage… … .

Then he noticed someone standing at the door.

It was a man wearing scarred white armor and carrying a softly burning sword.

It was impossible to recognize him as he was recorded at the top of the hunting group’s assassination list.

The training leader muttered absentmindedly.

“Holy Grail Knight?”

bang. The Grail Knight kicked him in the chest.

The hunting leader, who was already exhausted, fell down the stairs. The hunting leader, struggling to stand upright, looked up the stairs with trembling eyes.

Why on earth is the Holy Grail Knight, who is said to have been buried in the North Sea, over there?

He is the Holy Grail Knight who annihilated the human hunters in Ariet Valley, expelled the Prophet of Red Flesh, and defeated the Drowned King.

There is an opponent right in front of you that you doubt whether you can fight even with your limbs intact.

Jeez. At that time, the Holy Grail Knight started coming down the stairs.

“ha ha ha.”

The hunting leader couldn’t tell where the truth came from and where it was a lie, or when he fell into this pit-like trap. He felt fear of an incomprehensible world in front of the approaching Holy Grail Knight.

“Heh, heh, heh… … .”

Then, suddenly, he smelled a strange smell.

The smell I smelled before I even entered the tower.

The smell of red flesh.

The power of the angel he followed and served was radiating from the Holy Grail Knight. The hunting leader saw only that ray of scent as salvation in his mind that seemed to be completely lost.

A strong, irresistible temptation captivated him.

“My angel!”

He muttered frantically, banging his head on the ground.

“I recognize my angel!”

***

When Isaac arrived at the tower, he was speechless at what he saw.

The hunting leader was unconscious, with a pool of blood, as if he had passed out after hitting his head on the ground, and Isolde, wearing Isaac’s armor, was looking down at him with an embarrassed expression.

“What did you come outside for?”

“The door was open anyway, and if there was a fight, I thought it would be more comfortable outside than inside the tower… … .”

Isolde muttered, moving her arms as if the heavy armor was cumbersome.

Although it was an armor with all kinds of convenience miracles, including lightness and increased strength, it still seemed burdensome to Isolde, who only wore comfortable leather clothes.

The armor she was wearing was one she had lent to Isaac just in case, when he decided to leave Isolde in the tower and participate in the banquet. She thought that if anyone recognized the armor, they would think twice before attacking.

Basically, the paladin armor had the miracle of adapting to the wearer’s body, so Isolde had no inconvenience wearing it.

However, Isolde’s appearance was burdensome to Isaac for another reason, because the armor was practically a shell of Isaac. Tentacles were intertwined inside her, increasing her strength and durability, and thanks to her shared senses, the outlines of Isolde’s body were clearly felt.

But thanks to that, I wasn’t too worried when I thought the hunting leader might have gone looking for Isolde. He believed in the armor’s sturdiness and could see in real time what was happening near the armor.

Above all, Isolde is not an easy person to kidnap in the first place.

My own skills weren’t that poor, and if it was really difficult, I could buy enough time just by summoning a furnace beast. She could have immediately called upon her skilled knights if she had wanted to.

But it seems things didn’t need to go that far. I don’t know if I was careless or confused and made a mistake, but I think the result would have been the same even if my condition had been fine.

“This person said things to me like, ‘I know an angel.’ “Is it because of the red flesh?”

“Hmm, I guess so. “I’ll have to find out more details.”

Isaac had a 100% reliable interrogation tool that he was willing to use if he didn’t care if the other person died.

If you are a hunting leader, you probably know a lot of information.

“Well, then I’ll leave the interrogation to you. however… … .”

Isolde said, looking Isaac up and down with a strange expression.

“… … “You suit me much better than I thought.”

Isaac’s clothes were disheveled and covered in blood from the intense battle, but it wasn’t to the point where his clothes were damaged. Basically, it was because of his pretty good looks.

Isaac pondered whether to take this as a compliment or an expression of disapproval, but decided to return it as is.

“Same goes for you.”

“… … thank you.”

The man and woman, who had swapped each other’s clothes, gazed in the air for a long time, unable to find anything to say.

***

When Illya opened her eyes, she realized that her hands were tied behind her back.

At the sight of him waking up, Isaac, who was standing in the backyard, turned his head. Although she looked amazing in the same dress, her impression was completely different from when I first saw her.

It was a cold face with no trace of emotion.

“Wait a minute, what is this…” … .”

Ilya was about to argue, but froze when he saw that not only Isaac but also Dietrich was in the backyard. He took a deep breath and then greeted Dietrich again.

“Your Highness the Duke, if there is a misunderstanding… … .”

“misunderstanding? Walaika headhunters were hiding where you summoned my daughter alone. I wonder if there was any misunderstanding. “I don’t know what would have happened to her if it weren’t for this friend.”

Ilya gritted his teeth.

Everything about the situation could not help but make him suspicious.

“I was trying to protect him! As for the headhunters, I… … Wait, what happened to those headhunters? Interrogate them. “I don’t know!”

“They all ran away.”

It was Isaac who answered.

“I am not a princess and it seemed difficult to control her, so she just ran away. “We sent a tracking team, but it will be difficult to catch the human hunters running away in the middle of the night.”

Of course it will be difficult to find.

Except for the hunting leader, all of them have already become food for the backyard or have been devoured by the tentacles.

Illya looked dejected.

But he noticed that Isaac’s voice was familiar.

“Holy Grail Knight? “Are you really Sir Isaac Isacre?”

It was Dietrich, not Isaac, who answered that question.

He strode forward and kicked Ilya in the face. The teeth of the head of the Eastern Branch of the Heresy Inquisition, which was said to chew up even quite aristocratic people, rained down in the backyard.

“Do you think you are in a position to ask questions?”

Isaac felt a little sorry as he watched Ilya bleeding.

It is true that Illya tried to protect Isaac. And through looking into the head of the hunting leader, I also knew that Illya really had nothing to do with the human hunters.

But now it was necessary to get Ilya down on the floor.

Illya closed her eyes tightly and placed her forehead on the floor.

“unfair… … No, sorry. I never intended to drag the princess into danger. “She just wanted to call me because she had a message to quietly convey.”

“A message to convey quietly?”

“It is about the doctrine of craving.”

“Isolde ate red flesh? “That has already been resolved.”