Paladin of the Dead God - Chapter 161



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Episode 161 witch hunt (2)

The witches froze in silence.

“I’m sorry for ruining the dinner party atmosphere with my rude manners, but I have to end it now.”

The final main dish is a goat head.

Isaac decided that the goat man had no more options and suddenly charged at him.

The goat man swung his scythe in a fit of convulsions.

Wow. The key to Ruad Din struck the scythe. The resentment contained in the scythe screamed and clung to the key of Ruad Din as if it would extinguish it.

However, at that moment, Isaac breathed sword energy into the Ruad Din key.

The flames of the Ruad-Din Key fluttered like tentacles, and began to tear and tear everything around like a spinning saw blade. Even resentment could not escape its object.

Quad deud deuk, ka deuk,

The eerie sound of an animal breaking and eating bones alive echoed, and my resentment was shattered. At the same time, the scythe began to crumble and shatter. The witches also knew what Isaac was capable of because they had fought countless times with the Elil knights.

“Sword! “Didn’t you say you were a paladin of the Code of Light?”

It was a meaningless struggle, a scream that no one heard. The child swung his blade, shattering his scythe in one go. The goat man’s wrist flew off in an instant.

The goat man’s body swayed as he lost his balance. Isaac thrust his sword straight into the chest.

Quad deud deuk! The goat’s chest was cruelly pierced. Around the wound, the flesh and bones were twisted and crushed as if they were being sucked in. In an instant, the goat-man’s form tilted into an asymmetrical shape.

“Ahhh! ah! Ahahaha, kahahahaha!”

However, the Hecatli witches burst out laughing and moved the goat man to grab Isaac’s arm. Even though the razor-sharp Ruaddin key penetrated even deeper, the guy didn’t care.

“Cluck cluck! You idiot! “This is just leather that we only use for a short time anyway!”

“Now I’ll put you in my stomach and move you! “It will be half-melted by the time we get there, but it will still be alive!”

With the witch’s sneer, the goat-man’s stomach was torn lengthwise. Inside, hundreds of teeth and tongues were waiting to swallow Isaac.

And then, the laughter stopped.

Soon, a witch screamed sharply.

The goat man bit off his own arm and cut it off. And then, like crazy, he ran away from Isaac. The goat man didn’t stop there and started rolling around on his fallen leaves, scratching frantically all over his severed arm and body.

The scratching was so intense that pieces of flesh were about to fall off.

“Hi, hi, what, what?! What was that?!”

“what! “What is that?”

“Holy Grail Knight! “I have to eat the Holy Grail Knight!”

The perplexed voices of the witches continued. Isaac smiled at the sight.

The goat man, or rather the witch hidden within him, Hecatli, looked at Isaac out of breath. She doesn’t know what it was, but just as she was about to eat him, something instead burrowed into her body.

It was a poison that Isaac had passed back through his own blood.

[Corrupt Angel’s Poison (S) / A rare angel’s poison. It is a powerful poison that combines powerful regenerative power, sanctity, death energy, and curse. It has a particularly powerful effect on divine beings.]

The poison obtained from feasting on the rotting corpse of the Drowned King is fatal to divine beings. Because Hecatli is an ancient god, she possesses a vague sense of divinity, and the divinity she gathered through human sacrifice, fear, and worship became her power.

But now that divinity has become the catalyst for the poison spread by Isaac.

Hecatli felt the divinity decaying at the end of his severed arm. Even though there was only a trace amount of blood, he felt a terrible venom. He had no idea what would happen if he ate the whole Isaac.

But that wasn’t the only problem.

The poison is rather familiar. But her problem was that ‘something’ was trying to invade her body with poison. It was something of the same kind as itself, but at the same time completely foreign.

“ah… … “It seems that only one witch came ‘for real’ and was helping the rest with a curse?”

Hecatli came to his senses at Isaac’s cold voice.

Isaac, whom he had been trying to ignore due to his facade as a Holy Grail Knight and his greed for division ceremonies, began to be seen for real. He only glanced for a moment, but there was something sinister and indescribable dancing across his body.

The sin of heaven and earth collaborating came to me with an appetite.

“Oh, don’t come! I’ll kill you… … .”

Isaac grabbed her by the back of her neck like a snake. However, what she caught immediately was a large piece of goat skin. And beyond, I saw a naked old woman tearing up fallen leaves and running like crazy.

‘I see how you survived for so long.’

***

Hecatli, whose true form was revealed, had a head shaped like a wreath with a large vine growing over its neck. The only human-shaped thing in the vines was the young woman’s lips. Beneath it was the wrinkly body of an old woman who seemed to have lived for hundreds of years.

“Huh, ah! iced coffee!”

However, Hecatli ran through the forest so fast that it was difficult to think of her as a centuries-old old woman. But no matter how fast she ran, it only felt very slow to her. Because behind her, she could feel Isaac following steadily.

‘what? How do I follow along? There’s no way I know that much about this forest!’

Hecatli was locating wild animals in advance to determine the direction of the escape route. But what she didn’t realize was that Isaac’s parasites were hiding among the wild animals.

In addition, Hesabel, who was running on the tree, was also constantly tracking Hecatli’s movements and reporting them.

Hecatli gritted his teeth and moved through the forest.

The trees changed their arrangement and fog seeped in. It was a hallucination that made even hunters who had lived in the mountains for decades become lost. However, when Isaac lightly gestured, the colors beyond bloomed.

The colors beyond instantly pushed away the fog and cut down the twigs and vines that obstructed the movement. The witch screamed again as Isaac followed her without slowing down at all.

“Aaaah! What the hell! “What!”

The sisters, unable to understand the situation despite her terrible screams, became angry at her and urged her to eat the Holy Grail Knight.

But I couldn’t. ‘That’ was not something that could do that.

At that time, the view suddenly opened up in front of her.

The forest is over.

Between the blades of grass in the yellow fields that had survived the harsh winter of the Elil Kingdom, dozens of Elil knights were seen surrounding the forest. They had just chased away an attack by a wild animal and were taken aback when they saw Hecatli suddenly pop out, but they immediately recognized who she was.

“She’s a witch!”

The Elil knights began to form a formation to fight the witch, memorizing swear words and prayers somewhere in the hymns. Hecatli burst into wild laughter at that sight.

Soon she muttered with a wild smile.

[okay… … I should at least eat you guys!]

Crunch, crunch.

Roots began to grow underneath Hecatli’s vine head. In an instant, the tree roots that covered the entire body made a roar and raised the huge body. The unlucky knight who was closest was engulfed in the vines and absorbed into Hecatli’s body.

***

“A witch has appeared!”

“what?!”

Morse, who was leading the left wing, quickly concentrated his troops upon hearing the news that the witch had appeared. I heard from Reina that the Holy Grail Knight was luring her witch inside the forest, but the witch suddenly appeared in the west.

‘Has the Holy Grail Knight already been defeated?’

Morse felt complicated, but hurriedly led the knights to the place where the witch was said to have appeared. But when he reached the place he couldn’t help but be shocked.

“Root giant? “The root giant was Hecatli?”

Root giants were like disasters that appeared in the borderlands. One day, it suddenly appeared in a border village, eating all the people and destroying the houses to the point that it left no trace. A swamp and a huge forest were created in the place, making it difficult to believe that a village even existed.

The problem was the strength of the root giant. It was a root giant that two knights couldn’t kill even if they rushed at it. If the root giant was one of the Hekatli, it meant that these witches had actually been hiding their powers all this time.

As expected, many of the soldiers and knights forming the siege were losing unilaterally against the root giant. The knights who were already entangled in the root giant’s vines were dangling and absorbing bodily fluids.

Moreover, the root giant seemed to be hurling curses as well, and knights were seen spewing rats out of their mouths all over the field.

Ethelred arrived at the same time and watched the battlefield situation with a pale expression.

“Keep your distance! “Don’t get caught and shoot fiery arrows!”

One of the commanders gave instructions in a panic. Morse shouted, hurriedly hitting the commander on the back of the head.

“That’s crazy! Let’s start a fire in a dry field? Are you planning to burn us all to death to catch a witch in Your Majesty’s presence?”

“B-but General… … How do you catch that?”

The two words ‘retreat’ did not appear in the two people’s minds. Just as Ethelred was about to casually suggest ‘strategic reorganization’, Morse’s eyes burned with anger.

“You can only think about strategy until the enemy appears in front of you! “If an enemy appears in front of you right now, there’s only one thing to do!”

Morse gritted his teeth and took out his favorite axe. Soon he was charging on his horse, shouting at the top of his lungs.

“Elil! “I’m going to the battlefield you lead!”

In the end, Elil will decide the outcome of the battlefield. Soon the knights who came with Morse also started running together.

Doo doo doo doo! The strong sound of horses’ hooves rang out like drums on the battlefield. The pounding heart awakened the minds of the panicked knights. The knights instinctively began to follow Mors, who was the leader in the group.

“Ugh, ah, ah! Elil! “I’m coming to your side!”

“Aaaah! Elil! Elil! Elil!”

The knight, who was shaking with a broken arm, opened his mouth wide and rushed towards the root giant. The knight who had been spitting out rats instead chewed the rats and grabbed his sword. Even the knights who were hanging and sucking bodily fluids began struggling, chewing the roots with their teeth.

Quack, boom! Every time the root giant swung its arms and legs, three or four knights had their limbs broken and fell. However, as long as they didn’t break their necks, no one would jump up and hit them again without hesitation. If you don’t have a knife, hit it with your teeth, or if your teeth are broken, hit it with your head.

“Where is your weakness, General Morse?”

“This guy has brains! Just cut your hair!”

“He’s too tall, general!”

“Cut off step by step, starting from the ankles! Until our heads touch!”

[These crazy kids… … !]

Hecatli was taken aback by the sight of Elil’s knights, who had been overwhelming him just moments ago, suddenly regaining their momentum and attacking him. The fight with the Elil knights was always like this. The madmen who went crazy in this fight thought they were going to be defeated, but when the moment came when they were all dying, they suddenly turned into berserkers and rushed at them.

The annoying thing is that when they reach this state, miracles happen to them.

The miracle of the battlefield enveloped the Elil knights.

It was a hymn sung only about blood and struggle, without any prayers. As long as the miracle protected them, they felt neither fear nor pain. There is only the will to kill the enemy and a force that surpasses physical capabilities.

‘That won’t work.’

Hecatli initially tried to kill a few people and run away to the west. However, there was no way for the Elil Knights to overcome this condition. Moreover, he couldn’t keep fighting the knights in a situation where he didn’t know when the Holy Grail Knight would come after him.

[Let go!]

As the knights went berserk, a gap appeared in the siege. Hecatli strongly shook off the knights clinging to him and ran toward the gap. There was a good possibility that he could turn into a deer or moose and run away from a little distance.

“Where are you running away to?”

At that time, Morse roared with anger and swung his axe. He was the one who appeared right in front of him, so he couldn’t avoid it. Morth’s ax, demonstrating advanced swordsmanship, cut off Hecatli’s hand and became lodged in his side. Hecatli let out a nervous scream and grabbed Mors’ head.

Even if I had to go, I felt like I would have to crush this guy’s head to relieve my anger.

At that moment, a being who should not be in front of Hecatli appeared.

[Holy Grail Knight!!]

Hecatli swung Morth’s body and tried to crush the Grail Knight’s body together. However, Isaac exhaled lightly and thought of the necessary actions for this situation.

It reminded me of the stunt that Bachel showed on the beach.

In one breath, he took out a knife, lunged at him, and even stabbed him.

Distance and time don’t matter.

The crystal battlefield monument radiated brilliant light, making Isaac’s movements more precise.

Isaac landed, grabbing Hecatli by the neck.

Silence reigned over the field.

Kwa-doo-doo-doo-doo! And a late gust of wind broke the root giant’s branches and knocked down the knights. The dry blades of grass in the fields all at once lay sideways due to the violent wind.

For a while, the dust rose to the point where the knights could not even open their eyes.

thud.

And only later did I hear the sound of the root giant, who had lost his head, falling.

It was the sound of a giant tree hundreds of years old collapsing.

[Nameless Chaos is watching you.]

[Goal: Defeat ‘Witch Sister Hecatli (1/3)’.]