Paladin of the Dead God - Chapter 160



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Episode 160 witch hunt (1)

Only then did Reina seem to realize her mistake and covered her mouth.

She hastily added her answer.

“Ah, yes, you mean witch hunt. It happened a few times! Of course, rather than catching the witch directly, I went to punish the beast summoned by the witch or retrieve a kidnapped child.”

“How did the witch react then?”

“Usually it starts with the animals observing us from afar. Then the number gradually increases, and a fog begins to form. When people start getting lost, it means the witch’s attack has begun. “The scary thing is that all of this happens so secretly that it’s hard to notice until it happens!”

“Be secret. Have you ever experienced this?”

“yes. But I’m afraid I won’t fall for the same trick again… … .”

Reyna was about to rant when she saw Isaac’s gaze resting somewhere else and looked around.

Caw.

The crow I saw outside the village was sitting on a tree branch. The crow tilted his head back and forth and looked down at Isaac and the others. Food deuk. At that time, a thrush sat next to the crow. Soon, birds began to fly in and fill the branches of the trees one by one.

“W-a witch?!”

“I am receiving a welcome here that I have never received even in Port Aldeon.”

Although it is not a person.

Isaac did not refuse the invitation and walked forward with great strides. Raina hesitated, but followed behind Isaac. She already had her sword out, but she couldn’t fight the bird in the tree. Before I knew it, Julich was nowhere to be seen.

Fog was seeping into the forest without me knowing where it was. And as the fog became thicker, more and more beasts appeared beyond the bushes. Now, not only birds but also mice, foxes, squirrels, wild boars, and wolves were swarming among the grass, watching Isaac and his group.

At this level, it was not surveillance, but an outright threat.

But for some reason, Isaac felt a sense of abundance.

‘It reminds me of when I was at the monastery.’

A time when we ran through gloomy, deserted forests and feasted on wild animals to our heart’s content… … It is truly a landscape that enriches the heart. I felt warm, as if I had come home.

At that time, a particularly large goat appeared among the wild animals. The goat rolled its rectangular eyes and stared at Isaac. The little boy looked at the big goat and whetted her appetite.

“After all, the forest should be like this.”

Meeee.

A goat let out a long cry as if responding to Isaac’s mutterings.

The goat gnawed on a leaf and opened its mouth.

“Bring me the heart of the Holy Grail Knight.”

[Nameless Chaos is watching you.]

[Nameless Chaos wants you to kill ‘Sister Hecatli the Witch’.]

[A reward of chaos awaits you.]

Wild animals began to cry all at once.

Although he looked creepy, Isaac walked closer without the slightest sign of nervousness. Raina wasn’t the only one who was embarrassed. The fox right in front tried to retreat but missed the timing.

Isaac quickly grabbed the fox by the scruff of the neck. Even for professional hunters, it is not easy to catch wild animals with bare hands. But for Isaac, it was as simple as picking up an object.

“Seo, Holy Grail Knight?!”

‘Well, you shouldn’t eat it here.’

Isaac threw the fox among the flock of birds. A screeching sound rang out and a flock of birds took off. The wild animals, stimulated by the absurd provocation, began to move in unison. At the same time, Raina began to recite her prayers.

“Elil, who leads us to the very front!”

“Today, we go to the battlefield where you fight!”

Parrrrr! Reina’s sword began to vibrate as if responding to a prayer. The swords of two other knights who had memorized similar prayers also rang out in resonance. They quickly formed a formation and began slaughtering the wild animals that rushed at them.

In the Kingdom of Elil, knights are priests and paladins.

The types of miracles were limited, but they were all practical and helpful in the struggle.

‘Even if I leave it alone, it won’t die.’

Isaac saw the knights fighting and walked forward at a stride. This was the direction the goat disappeared.

Raina’s panicked voice was heard.

“Holy Grail Knight?! Where are you going!”

“The witch came to get me. “She must be willing to go into that maw and rip off her head.”

Isaac glanced back and said.

“Go and tell them that the Holy Grail Knight jumped in alone. “It is time for Elil’s army to move.”

That is, if you can afford it.

Isaac stopped talking as he thought about what was happening to the Knights of Ethelred.

***

Isaac didn’t spend last night just playing.

He captured wild animals wandering around the village and infected them with parasites from beyond. Not to the point where it takes over and devours the inside, just enough to share eyes and ears.

The witches sent wild animals to watch over Isaac, but it was as if Isaac knew where they were looking and what they were hearing.

And among those infected animals, there were those who were meant to monitor Ethelred’s army.

‘As expected, they are preventing a siege from being created.’

Beasts that responded to the witch’s summons, disturbances in the forest, and curses in the swamp were holding the army back. There were quite dangerous summons among them, but at the level of the Aldeon Knights, they were manageable without much damage.

‘As expected, they arrived in a hurry so they weren’t fully prepared.’

If you go to the swamp where the witches’ stronghold is located, there will be much more dangerous monsters lurking around. However, in a place this far away, even witches had no choice but to rely on local trees and animals.

But what was truly dangerous was the curse.

Even now, the knights were unable to use their full power because of the curse. Still, the current situation was not unfavorable to Ethelred. If the witch doesn’t show up in person, eventually this obstruction will be quickly destroyed.

‘He’s probably thinking of ending me before then.’

The division ceremony is a holy object that witches would covet.

“Cluck cluck!”

The sound of laughter rang out along with the sudden gust of wind. The leaves and blades of grass in the forest trembled convulsively. The fallen leaves rose up all at once and came towards Isaac like a wave.

Isaac quietly ignited the flames of the Ruad-Din Key.

Crispy. The key to Ruad Din burned even more fiercely with its evil energy. The wind split around the burning blade.

From among the scattered fallen leaves, a large goat appeared again. He stood on his feet as if of course, holding a large harvesting scythe between his hooves.

“You walked into my mouth with your own feet, Holy Grail Knight!”

“How soft is the Holy Grail Knight’s flesh?”

“I’ll take the head off and show you how to play with your body!”

The goat was shaking its head and talking in three voices. It was the voice of the witch Hecatli.

There was no need to distinguish who was who. Although they were called sisters, the three were separate beings from one.

Isaac tilted his chin toward the goat with a happy expression.

“Chew it once.”

***

Meeeee!

The goat cried out as if it were bursting with laughter and rushed towards Isaac. With every step it took, it grew bigger and bigger, until it was almost 4 meters tall right in front of Isaac. The guy used his size and weight to slash his scythe down.

bang! The movement was large, so dodging was not difficult. However, the great weight of the scythe split the ground like tofu. The guy didn’t hesitate at all and immediately swung his scythe again, scraping the ground. It had tremendous cutting power, as if it were cutting through thin air.

‘The witch’s scythe… … .’

I could feel the resentment of countless people from the scythe that the Goat Man was holding. The resentment tried to hold on to Isaac, while at the same time cutting things down mercilessly.

‘I knew it, but it was bloodier than I expected.’

It was a kind of cursed relic created by witches through human sacrifice.

The scythe, imbued with enormous weight, power, and resentment, rushed towards Isaac like a storm that literally cut down everything around it. All that was needed was the skills of a harvester, and there was no need for swordsmanship or anything like that.

Even with the Ruaddin Key, it seemed difficult to collide with that scythe, so Isaac widened the distance for now. But the goat man wasn’t the only weapon the Hecatli witches had.

As Isaac continued to dodge, the witches became impatient. The witches had to hurry and take the Ritual of Fission and the Knights of the Holy Grail before the knights intervened.

Meeeeeee!

The goat man’s body suddenly began to swell.

Another goat man emerged, tearing a wound from the swollen area. And next to him, the tumor growing again the goat man swelled.

The body of the goat man grew into the goat man, and the goat man grew again on top of it, forming a fractal-like shape.

Meeeeeeeee!!

The goat man, swollen to the size of hundreds of goats, was now no different from a moving mountain. A cry loud enough to make my head hurt shook the forest. The goat man swept through the forest with the force and weight of hundreds of goats. Trees that were hundreds of years old were broken like sorghum cans.

The resentment spewing out from the hundreds of scythes they carried pulled Isaac into the black swamp in an instant. Inside the swamp, the white witch’s hands opened their arms and welcomed.

Kwa-doo-doo-doo-doo! The giant goat man’s attack swept over the place where Isaac was in an instant.

It was an attack that could not be avoided or blocked.

“It’s a strange hallucination.”

However, Isaac immediately broke through the illusion of hundreds of goat people and rushed at the ‘real’ one. No, it doesn’t matter if it’s not a hallucination. Compared to the Drowned King’s tentacle attack, it was laughably simple and slow.

Isaac Swordsmanship: As the eight prongs were activated, the false illusions of the goat man were torn apart. Because the hallucination curse was broken, the goat man became full of weaknesses.

The goat man, seeing the black energy rushing to slaughter him, let out a harsh roar.

Isaac, who felt an ominous energy rushing towards him, flinched and stopped. I don’t know what it was, but I felt a strong curse. An eerie feeling crept up his spine.

The witch burst out laughing.

“Cluck cluck! “Holy Grail Knight, let’s see if you can show some pranks!”

“I’m going to see a mouth like that young man spitting out a mouth like a leech… … .”

However, the witches were puzzled and stopped talking when Isaac did not show any signs even after a while. It seemed like the curse might not have worked, but they clearly hit the curse squarely, not sparing any sacrifices.

“Ouch.”

Soon a cool burp flowed from Isaac’s mouth.

[It preyed on the ‘Berros Vole.’]

[Preyed on ‘swamp leeches’.]

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

Although he was embarrassed when he discovered the identity of the curse, the leeches and rats summoned in his stomach were digested before they even reached his throat. The ‘innards of a dead god’ may really be in Isaac’s intestines.

Isaac muttered as he unexpectedly ended up eating a lot of animals with a lot of faith.

“I am receiving a welcome dinner here that I did not receive even in Aldeon. “I think you welcome me more than the Kingdom of Elil.”

“… … .”