Paladin of the Dead God - Chapter 343



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Episode 343. The Sea of ​​Nightmares (5)

The sailors on Aidan’s ship, as well as those on the ghost ship, all watched in rapt attention.

The tentacles extending from the ghost ship were obviously larger than the ship. They burst outward, crushing and crushing the hull as if it were too cramped. It reminded me of clam meat breaking through a clam shell, or, no, of internal organs breaking through a skull and spilling out.

A series of images that are presumptuous and unclean just by looking at them.

A chain of unfathomable chaos overflowed and invaded Horace’s ship in an instant.

The nightmare of sailors, in which tentacles crawling out of the abyss wrap around the ship in an instant and drag it under the sea, came to everyone’s mind.

[retreat!]

Then a shout broke out that made everyone’s heads pound.

Horace’s shout belatedly woke up the undead sailors and even the Salt Council sailors from their fear. The undead sailors hurriedly tried to tear the tentacles off the hull with axes.

Fear stimulates the survival instinct of intelligent beings. The survival instinct produces two responses: one is avoidance, the other is awe.

Horace instinctively chose the former, but the Salt Council sailors who saw the tentacles gnawing at the ghost ship felt the latter.

“The wrath of the sea has reached out!”

“The Drowned King has sent his beast, the Kraken!”

The Kraken is usually classified as an octopus, and its tentacles clearly had more than eight legs, but the sailors didn’t care. They couldn’t see it properly anyway, because of the fog and the colors beyond.

Above all, the sailors, already gripped by awe, did not want to think that ‘that thing’ was not an ally.

[What kind of unclean beast is this… …!]

On the other hand, Horace, who was relatively sane, turned his gaze to Isaac with his blue eyes flashing. Isaac was still twisting his hand in a strange way, aiming at Horace’s stomach. It was clear that he was controlling this grotesque swarm of tentacles.

After all, he was no ordinary being. No, was he really a Knight of the Code of Light? However, now was not the time to speculate about Isaac’s true identity.

Horace’s eyes flashed and he grabbed the wheel himself.

He has also encountered a real Kraken in the sea near the outer world. He survived that time. Of course, the Kraken attaches to ships with suction cups, but this one attaches with teeth and claws.

[Raise the sails to their full height! First mate, release all the outer armor rings! We’re getting out of here!]

The sailors were puzzled by Horace’s orders, but now was not the time to question their captain’s orders. They mechanically carried out Horace’s orders.

At this time, the miracle of the Salt Parliament he had once been a part of began to shine.

Quadduk, dunk! Horace’s ghost ship began to twist and turn away from the tentacles at a furious pace. The right wind, the right angle of the wheel, the right movement of the oars, the timing of the sails. Everything came together, and Horace’s ghost ship gained incredible speed.

At the same time, the barnacles and outer armor covering the surface of Horace’s Ghost Ship were removed. Horace’s Ghost Ship, which escaped from the tentacles as if shedding a new skin, gained distance at a fierce speed.

***

‘Ah, it happened.’

Isaac, who was watching the scene, let out a sigh of regret. He had thought it was a fatal trap, but it was difficult to capture the Salt Council’s ship at sea. Even the Abyss’s Grasp could not extend far, so he had to send it back to Urbansus soon.

“Isaac, over there!”

As the colors beyond began to disperse and the abyss’ grasp disappeared, a ship hurtled through the fog at a furious speed.

The mast was engraved with a white eagle flying against the sun.

It was the emblem of the White Eagle Knights, who participated as the main force of the 7th Dawn Army.

The ship approached at a tremendous speed, as if it were going to split Aidan’s ship in two at once. The sailors shouted and tried to turn the ship, but it was difficult to move because of the hooks already in place.

A figure in the shape of a white eagle flew towards Aidan’s ship as if to snatch it away.

At that moment, the miracle of the salt meeting also shone on Aidan.

The waves that surged up and down lifted the boat in an instant. The width of the hooks suddenly loosened, and the height of the railing rose to a level similar to that of a ghost ship.

Aidan was quick to spot the miraculous moment.

“Pull the sails!!”

Kkwaddddddddd! The moment of miracle was captured not only by Aidan but also by all the sailors. At the same time as the command, the sail line was pulled and screamed, and the ship was thrown forward as if riding the wind. The hooks that could not withstand the tension broke and fell back to strike the undead sailors.

As Aidan’s ship made a precarious turn, the White Eagle battleship narrowly missed the side of the ship.

Kwakwakwang! A terrible crashing sound echoed as the ghost ship that had been restraining Aidan’s ship hit it again. Aidan felt a chill down his spine as he looked at the ship with its keel shattered and thought about how he had almost been caught in the middle of it.

“Good job, Aidan! Just do it!”

Isaac, who had no idea how miraculous what had just happened was, cried out calmly. The sailors, including Aidan, looked at him with bewildered eyes, but Isaac was now faced with a similar difficulty.

On the side of the White Eagle battleship, skeletons hung by their necks, hanging like dolls. What made them different from the other skeletons was that they were all wearing knightly armor with the symbol of the Code of Light engraved on them.

Kara-rar-rar-rak, bang! With the sound of the rope being released, the hanged knights of the White Eagle Order, no, the Death Knights, landed on Aidan’s ship one by one. The corpses, which looked as if they had been hanged, approached as if they were wearing slings.

[… … !]

They couldn’t even make out their voices properly and rushed at the sailors, letting out something like screams.

In the meantime, Isaac quickly ran in.

Kagagagag, thudding! Isaac quickly kicked away the Death Knight’s sword and stabbed him between the eyes. The Death Knight flinched at the stabbing between the eyes, but the moment he twisted the blade away, it exploded and fell. Isaac immediately attacked the other Death Knight.

“Oh my god… … .”

Aidan was astonished as he watched Isaac slay three Death Knights in an instant. The fact that the Knights of the White Eagle Order became Death Knights, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, means that their skills and strength from their life have remained intact.

But Isaac was cutting them down in an instant, not much different from when he had fought the skeleton crew. He looked like he wouldn’t be pushed back even if he fought the Knights alone, and he actually was.

In fact, it was natural that Isaac would not be pushed.

Isaac had the Divinity of Cachulin, the ‘Spiritual Strike’ he got from killing the Harvester, and the Soul Devouring effect. Now, dealing with the undead wasn’t as difficult as before. Unlike the poor undead crew, the Death Knight’s soul had some faith to absorb.

[Preyed on the ‘Rusty Death Knight (C-)’.]

[Consumption efficiency increases with the ‘Dead God’s Guts’ perk.]

[You do not have enough faith to obtain the privilege.]

[Need more satiety.]

Unfortunately, there wasn’t much nutrition to eat. Isaac seemed to know why.

‘As expected, he’s much weaker than other Death Knights.’

Death Knights are strong because they retain the power and ego of their previous lives, but they can also devote vast amounts of time to self-training and development. Or they can find equipment that suits their tastes or find blessings.

But the White Eagle Knights were not like that at all.

The armor was covered in barnacles and seaweed, and had turned a black-yellow rust, indicating that it had spent countless hours wandering around the ocean. It was a shame to even call this defeated creature a Death Knight.

There was a certain contempt and even malice in that appearance.

Isaac thought of Horace, who had escaped the clutches of the Abyss and disappeared into the mist for a moment. To be exact, he had become an undead member of the Undead Cult, but he proudly declared that he had not given up on the Dawn Army.

‘Soul devouring is extremely inefficient. To see any benefit, you need to kill someone with a soul like Villain Georg.’

Card! As Isaac cut down the eighth Death Knight, there was a sense of commotion among the crew aboard the White Eagle battleship. It was clear that there were those from above who were releasing the ropes and dropping the Death Knights.

Isaac straightened his stance and lunged toward the side of the White Eagle battleship. The moment the tip of his sword began to move again, eight black energies fiercely attacked at once.

A vision of a number of ferocious snakes simultaneously biting and killing a large beast appeared in everyone’s mind.

Kwakwakwang! With a fierce crashing sound, the hull of the White Eagle battleship tilted to the side for a moment. There was a mark left by a reef that had jutted out and crushed the ship. The sailors were astonished at the power that even a whaling harpoon would have difficulty dealing with, but Isaac was not satisfied.

When he tried to swing his sword again, the White Eagle battleship also reacted with fright.

Kara-ra-rak, bang! In an instant, Aidan’s ship shook violently. Something of enormous weight had boarded the ship. Isaac felt an ominous aura.

The fog was turning blue.

A large Death Knight with a sharper glare than other Death Knights appeared through the fog. Isaac could tell from the extraordinary aura that he was the leader of the Knights Templar.

Isaac smiled at the sight.

‘Is that worth preying on?’

***

Horace kept his distance and continued to ponder Isaac’s identity.

‘Immortal Emperor, is that what I think it is?’

Horace had the insight, experience, and skill of a Salt Council captain in his lifetime, and even after becoming undead, that sense was still vivid. His knowledge had stopped 180 years ago and had not been updated at all, but now it helped him deduce Isaac’s identity.

‘Is that really a survivor of the nameless Chaos Cult?’

The time he was still alive was a time when the chaos and terror caused by the suicide of the nameless chaos and the revival of the Undead Cult had not yet fallen asleep. The Light Code Cult obsessively destroyed and eliminated the remnants of the nameless chaos, and now most of them were forgotten, but Horace, who had seen and experienced countless worlds, remembered at least a fragment of them.

But he could not understand why the nameless Apostle of Chaos was pretending to be a Knight of the Code of Light and why he was being protected by the junior members of the Salt Council. This strangeness was holding him back.

Then something caught Horace’s eye.

The White Eagle Knights were fighting Isaac. The moment Horace saw this, his eyes widened and he screamed.

[These sons of bitches! I told you not to let him go!]

Horace’s shout did not end with a shout, but he immediately grabbed the wheel and turned the ship’s direction.

At first glance, the leader of the Knights Templar, who was several times larger and heavier than Isaac, seemed ready to crush him, but to Horace’s eyes, he looked like a small frog in front of a snake.

A simple prey-predator relationship.

[No one can escape this sea! No one!]

Horace’s warships charged furiously, carrying the wind.

The area around Aidan’s ship was already a mess with several ships tangled and breaking apart. In the midst of all this, as Horace’s ship approached as if flying, the sailors on the deck ran around in confusion.

Aidan cried out for the only hope of resolving this mess.

“Isaac!”

Isaac didn’t even look at Horace’s approaching ship. Instead, he slashed the Cachulin he had placed in the Knight Commander’s groin from below, cutting it in half in one stroke.

With Horace’s scream, Isaac felt the soul of the Knight Commander seep into his sword.

[‘Fallen Delrod Ciel (A+)’ has been devoured.]

[Consumption efficiency increases with the ‘Dead God’s Guts’ perk.]

[You have acquired the ‘Indomitable (Temporary)’ privilege.]

[Temporary privileges remain as blessings until they are digested.]

Then he spread his palm towards Horace’s ship which was approaching him immediately.

Hidden ritual.

The world’s most secret curtain was drawn silently, slowly, but as if it had always been there.

Now it was time for a cruel and blasphemous mass to unfold within it.