Paladin of the Dead God - Chapter 302



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Episode 302. The Eyes That Chase Gold (3)

“Isolde? That girl?”

Hesabel asked back in surprise at the unexpected remark, but Isaac answered in a bewildered manner.

I don’t know why I suddenly thought of Isolde. Maybe it’s because I’m being terribly bullied by another woman.

“The orcs?”

“They must be scared. They seem to be gathering again and preparing to run away. They must have come to their senses after the shaman died.”

Isaac stood up from his seat.

Although it was a short sleep, I felt like my physical condition had improved a little after resting a little.

“Then from now on, I should really chase after him and kill him. He’s been harassing me for days.”

Hesabel chuckled at Isaac’s words.

“Oh, are you finally starting to find a clue?”

Isaac nodded silently.

A few days after starting his expedition, Isaac began to be attacked in random places and at his lodgings. At first, it was bandits or mercenary bandits, but as time went on, private soldiers of local nobles, Siero Dawn Guards, and even orcs began to appear.

It was immediately apparent that this groundless attack was the work of Leonora, as the attackers were forces that could be controlled with money.

At first, Isaac fought back without mercy and took them down, but as their numbers increased, he could not help but become embarrassed. This was because rumors could spread that a knight who left the Dawn Army was swinging his sword against the people of the Empire.

‘So when I tried to ride Nel, it started targeting the Isacrea Knights… … .’

When Isaac showed up, she only instigated another attack on Isaac.

Leonora’s intentions were clear. Her only target was Isaac. She seemed to have realized that it didn’t matter where Angela was anymore.

Even if we somehow manage to take Angela away, Isaac will definitely come and take revenge.

Isaac accepted the rules and decided to fight according to them. As long as he was present, the Golden Idol Group would not cross the line and touch the Isacre territory.

‘The mysterious thing was that he seemed to know exactly where I was.’

This was especially true with the persistent raids by orcs that had occurred recently.

The eastern part of the empire was now in chaos as countless orcs crossed the Galliford Mountains. Several of them, the White Tigers, who appeared to have been bribed by the Golden Idol’s upper echelons, began to pursue Isaac.

Isaac spent days without sleep, dragging them around the mountains, waging guerrilla warfare. It would have been nice to be able to suck out information from their brains with his eyes of chaos, but the enemy was thorough. The only information he could find out was how much money they had received.

And only today did Isaac realize what he had been up to.

“let’s go.”

Isaac’s eyes, bloodshot from lack of sleep, were turning purple.

***

“Only half of us are here!!”

Uchiura Hakuho, one of the vanguards of the Olkan Discipline, screamed at this devastating loss.

While Sahul Khan waged an overwhelming campaign of conquest, he also sent several mobile vanguards to infiltrate the empire with the aim of creating chaos within it.

While the Khan’s army was hesitating after encountering an unexpected obstacle somewhere in the north, most of the vanguard, including Uchiura Hakuhojang, were reaping some savory results. Even when they were offered a considerable sum of money and asked to capture someone, they thought of it as nothing more than an easy way to make some pocket money.

I heard that the Paladins are strong. So what? There are three groups of over a hundred people here. They already had experience dealing with the Paladins. They concluded that it would be no use to ride horses and shoot arrows in groups. If they wanted to, they could drag them to a place where bombs were buried and blow them up with their armor.

That’s what I thought until I met Isaac.

“Is that guy a monster? How could fifty people be killed in one night without even screaming?”

Among the 50 people killed, there was even a shaman who had accompanied them. The moment Uchiura realized that the shaman had been killed, he decided to retreat. However, the loss of half was painful.

The orcs lowered their heads as if they had nothing to say, but their silence was also filled with accusations that you had brought us to this point.

“Sorry, sorry, Uchiura Hakuho. He is indeed a monster. Among my subordinates, there were even rumors that he… … changed his form into a strange, indescribable form.”

“And there was a witch with blood-red wings. I clearly saw that witch biting the corpse’s neck.”

There was a clear hint of fear in the subordinate’s rebuttal.

Uchiura shouted urgently before the fear infected him.

“stop!”

The orcs were silent. But even before he could gather here, rumors about Isaac and Hesabel had already spread far and wide.

Some said that the paladin’s fingers stretched out and crushed their entire bodies, and that the mouths on their palms would eat them. Some said that darkness would rush in and chant unholy spells, tearing their entire bodies apart. Some said that orcs controlled by the paladin would spurt tentacles from their eyes, nose, and mouths and swing their swords at their comrades.

I couldn’t tell what was true and what was false.

If those rumors are true, then that paladin is a monster that shoots tentacles out of its hands, eats orcs whole, spits out darkness, and puts tentacle worms in its brain. Where in the world can such a monster exist? If it did exist, it should have been subdued in the Code of Light long ago. Why did it appear before their eyes?

“Could that paladin be… the soul devourer that blocked Khan’s path?”

Fear spread among the orcs once again.

Rumors of the soul devourer that had stopped Sahul Khan had spread even deep into the empire. Rumors of the shaman being hunted relentlessly, and the souls being torn to pieces or captured and enslaved.

For the Orcs who went into war believing only in reincarnation, there was no greater disaster than this. There are even rumors that Atlan, the son of Sahul Khan, had his soul stolen and became a slave.

One thing was certain: whether the rumors were true or not, they were not worthy of being pitted against him.

“… … That’s enough. Let’s assume there are no more returnees and retreat.”

It is possible that not all 50 of them died. They may have fallen behind, frozen to death, or simply returned late. However, Uchiura was not confident that he could endure any longer. He had no choice but to return, prepared to face the ridicule of his comrades.

It’s a shame that I can’t collect the balance that the client is paying, but I can just plunder that much.

As Uchiura and his half-sister, the White Tiger, were about to go down the mountain in a gloomy manner, someone suddenly walked up from the bottom of the mountain. The moment he saw that face, Uchiura’s face froze.

“What, why are you guys so late?”

“What, what, what, why, there?!”

The knight they had been desperately chasing for days was right before their eyes, covered in blood.

Isaac spun the knife around, wiping the blood off, and said.

“I thought they were all gathered down there, so I went to kill them. Isn’t it normal to kill them when they run away?”

Below, in addition to Uchiura’s White Tiger Unit, Ketelli and Zarha’s White Tiger Unit were waiting, holding hands. They were also the units that had suffered fatal damage from Isaac and had descended first, one by one. As soon as their morale was low, they were exhausted, and wounded, Isaac rushed at them and bit their necks.

In fact, Uchiura had finally found the target he had been searching for, but he could not possibly give the order to attack. His subordinates would not listen.

Meanwhile, orcs began to appear one by one behind Isaac, their joints twisting in strange movements. As rumored, they had strange tentacles waving and shaking from the orifices all over their bodies.

Uchiura, who saw that, shouted without hesitation.

“Run away!”

There were already some orcs running away before the order was given. Unlike the orcs who were scattering, Uchiura ran towards Isaac while shouting.

Isaac smiled, seemingly satisfied with the sight.

“He’s a useful guy. He must know a lot, right?”

Isaac muttered and snapped his fingers.

“Zihillet, Hecatli. Come this way.”

Quadduk! The tentacles swelled up as if exploding from within, tearing the orcs’ hides and revealing strange monsters. Jihillet learned the orcs’ body structure and started running on two feet, while Hecatli immediately began moving through the forest, waving her tentacles toward the sky.

If it had been a head-on confrontation, some degree of resistance might have been possible. However, since it had become a ‘hunt’, a fight could not take place.

First of all, the scene of slaughter that had happened to Uchiura and the White Tigers of Ketili and Zarha began to repeat itself, starting with Uchiura falling to Isaac’s hands.

***

There is a village called simply ‘Blata’ because of its long and complicated name, Lihnonahce Blatavou.

Although the area had already been occupied by the Orcs of the Olkan Discipline, this village was able to remain intact thanks to its quick surrender without any resistance.

It was a week ago that a group of mercenaries came to this village, which seemed to have been without much fun for a while. The mercenaries were good spenders and somehow had no problems with the orcs, so the villagers liked them too.

But one morning, the mercenaries and orcs left the village in a hurry, without even telling them why.

It was an hour later that Isaac arrived in this small town.

“… … You ran away? Leaving your luggage behind?”

“Yes. That was the only way I could see it.”

The village chief, who had escaped the humiliation of being taken away as a slave because he was too old, was at a loss as to how to treat Isaac.

I knew the moment I saw Isaac’s face that he was the great Grail Knight of all time.

If he had fought a glorious battle or led an army, they would have gladly welcomed him as a liberator. But the village chief saw Isaac as nothing more than a tired wanderer.

So he never expected that the reason the orcs fled was because of Isaac.

“Hmm, I see. I see.”

Isaac nodded calmly and gestured toward the back.

The village chief was startled when he saw a minced meat hamburger patty walking behind him. However, upon closer inspection, he saw that it was Uchiura White Tiger Chief, one of the orc gangs that had taken over the village. Isaac had taken measures to prevent Uchiura from committing suicide, and had beaten him to the point of death before dragging him here.

Uchiura, who had already tasted Isaac’s fear, could not even think of a way to escape other than dying.

The expression ‘prison of the body’ could not be more accurate.

“Chief, could you please give me some food and a place to sleep? I’ll pay for it.”

“Yes? Yes, yes! I understand! Oh, you don’t have to give me the money!”

Only then did the village chief realize that Isaac was the liberator who had saved their village and he ran over in a hurry. Isaac went to the inn that the village chief had guided him to and had Uchiura sit on a chair. The inn was warm with the heat from the fireplace because the mercenaries had left in a hurry, and food was prepared.

Isaac ate ​​the food that the mercenaries had left behind. Even though it was a little cold, it was still nice to eat cooked food after a long time.

“You said your name was Uchiura? You met him here?”

Uchiura mumbled something. His teeth and tongue were crushed into one, making it impossible for him to speak properly.

“It’s okay. You don’t have to say anything. Actually, there’s no other place he could be.”

Isaac didn’t just wander the mountains for days trying to catch orcs.

He focused on the fact that his opponents couldn’t track him when he rode Nell.

What this means is that Isaac may only be found when he is within a ‘certain range’.

Isaac had been moving precariously across the border, observing the orcs’ reactions and finding the coordinates of the ‘Observer’ tracking him.

As a result, the place I found was this village. It was definitely one of the mercenaries staying in this village.

“Don’t worry. If you know my location, then you have to move in the opposite direction, right? That’s why I already sent my men to the intersection. You remember my men? They’ll catch that mercenary and drag him out.”

Then Uchiura made a strange noise again.

Isaac wasn’t sure, but he figured it was probably laughter.

The mercenaries who had sent Uchiura and his men to their deaths would soon be captured. Uchiura could not help but be delighted, for he already knew what would happen to them.

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