Chapter 181 – 181. Saint
The spear of Valkyria, the great demon of struggle, came out precisely and cut through Darius.
I dodged it pretty well and thought it was a good opportunity to counterattack Valkyria, whose body was leaning forward.
“Don’t look at me funny.”
The moment her wings flapped, intense heat emanated from the window and attacked us.
“Kaaak!”
Darius fell backwards, holding his face with both arms. He was worried that he might have been burned, but now was the time to swing his fists rather than worry.
The right hand, rotating in a spiral, absorbs the pouring heat. He passes over the extended window and throws a punch at Valkyria.
But the moment she flapped her wings again, she had already disappeared from in front of me and was smiling slyly behind me.
‘The attack itself is not a threat to me, but the mobility using its wings is a problem.’
As I glanced at Darius, divine power descended upon him.
Thanks to this, the burns he suffered healed, and Darius forced himself to breathe again and got up.
When I look around, I see Tyrn struggling against Dune, the Great Demon of Pride, and Lucia assisting him.
Her divine power was powerful against the great devils.
‘Does not fit.’
We know that divine power is powerful, so of course the great devils are also very careful.
As a saint, Lucia’s lack of combat experience also played a role.
In the first place, a saint is not a being who fights demons, but a being who heals and cares for the living.
Although it was possible to protect against demons, tact and experience were needed to defeat them.
Anyway, thanks to Lucia, Tyrn was able to hold out against Dune.
“What about Faerun?”
The moment she uttered the name of the great devil of worship, the appearance of a small boy popped out from behind Lucia as if responding.
“peekaboo!”
Payron appeared with a grin on his face. He tried to stick his hand into Lucia’s back, but…
A purple flame burns in the empty air and envelops Faerun’s hand.
[How cunning!]
A dark spirit who was guarding Lucia near her while hiding on purpose.
Faerun, who seemed quite displeased that his attack was blocked, reached out to the dark spirit instead of Lucia.
“Goddess of justice!”
However, while there was a brief gap, Lucia’s divine power shot straight towards Faerun like a beam of light.
He arched his back like a bow and avoided a direct hit, but one of his ten tails, which resembled a cow’s tail, touched him as if by a brush.
“Kwaaaaaaak!”
The tail begins to burn with white flames and spread rapidly. If Faerun had not pulled out his own tail, perhaps due to his survival instinct, his entire body would have burned with the flames of divine power.
The badly burned guy runs on all fours and immediately escapes between Valkyria and Dune. As he trembled, curled up around her, Valkyria laughed at her.
“Do you mean not to look down on divine power?”
“Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!”
In response to Valkyria’s taunts, Faerun stomps the floor with the five horns on his forehead.
A power that only one person among the countless humans on the continent can use.
It has overwhelming healing power and the ability to purify and destroy evil.
This was the part where we could understand why Magan made his first surprise attack on Lucia.
[Ugh! I thought I was disappearing too.]
A dark spirit flying toward me with a tearful expression on its face. Since sacred power is a fatal force even for the soul, the dark spirit next to him was almost swept away.
“S-sorry.”
A saint who apologizes to the dark spirit. Lucia and I could see the dark spirit, so she didn’t find it too surprising, but Darius and Tyrion looked as if Lucia was apologizing to her in the air, so even though she was having a hard time, she was puzzled.
“But I’m sure I can survive just by having the saintess with me.”
“That’s right, it’s really great.”
Although I cannot enjoy that power as I am with Velika’s soul.
Tyrn and Darius were especially seeing the effects of divine power.
Of course, while Magan became exponentially stronger through the dinner party, the three demons in front of him were weak.
In any case, I was wasting my time resisting the great demons that I would not have been able to easily deal with in the first place.
“Go, thank you.”
But Lucia’s condition was not that good.
As I said before, because she was unfamiliar with the battle itself, she was breathing quite heavily, and her divine power had faded significantly compared to the beginning.
‘Deia must come.’
I needed to buy time until Deia, who immediately realized my intention and went to retrieve the Holy Grail, arrived.
“Save as much strength as possible.”
When I stepped in front of Lucia and warned her, she shook her head.
“No, I can.”
“You are my hope. So use it only when it really matters.”
“Hehe, hehe.”
She bursts out laughing out of nowhere. When I turn my head to look at her to see why, Lucia mutters self-deprecatingly.
“really?”
“… … .”
“liar.”
Pure white divine power once again poured into Darius and Tyrn.
The two men should have been exhausted from the repeated battles, but they were as energetic as warriors who had just drawn their swords, and they took their stance and formed a crude square.
The great devils are shining their eyes once again to break through us.
Even in a situation where they were unable to use their power properly due to their divine power, the fighting spirit and intimidation they were emitting seemed to engulf them even if they lost their concentration even a little.
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“Do you think they are proud because I made it easy for them?”
Boom!
As a wind blows that stings the eyes, feathers reminiscent of angel wings flutter in the air.
Valkyria, who was confident in her mobility, flew up and struck down with a spear.
Tyrn, who had the highest defense, urgently raised his staff to block, but one of his knees fell and the floor caved in.
“Keuuuuuuuu!”
He was letting out a muffled moan and biting his teeth so hard that blood was running down his jaw line.
In order to prevent Lucia from being swept away by the shock wave, Darius urgently wraps his arms around her and throws himself away.
The two remaining demons took advantage of the opportunity and attacked forward.
Faerun disappeared into the darkness again, and Dune, who was scratching the floor with her hooves, began running at full speed.
[From Dune! Payron has weak decision-making power!]
As Velika said, my body was already moving towards Dune. With the help of the spider legs on its back, it fights Dune’s charge head on.
He swung his right hand wide and struck Dune, but he also responded by extending his fist forward.
Even though Dune’s skin is torn when touched by his spirally rotating right hand, it is immediately repaired.
“They use the same archdemon to deal with us. Is that human pride?”
Dune asks profound questions.
His three eyes are looking at me as if testing.
Without bothering to answer, the confrontation with Dune continues. She quickly pushed him away and tried to stop Faerun, but his resistance was stronger than she expected.
Eventually, Faerun appeared in front of Darius and Lucia.
Darius, who had thrown his body around Lucia, swung his sword urgently.
“I’m serious now.”
Faerun, who lost one of his tails, attacks the swinging sword with a grotesquely distorted face.
The horns on his forehead smashed Darius’ sword mercilessly, but they did not stop there and went further to reach his chest.
Wood clatter!
Darius flew away at incredible speed with the sound of his ribs breaking. He hits the wall and falls to the floor, coughing up blood.
Lucia, who saw Darius flying away, instinctively tried to return to the patient, but forced her gaze to focus on Faerun.
Divine power unleashed once again.
However, Payron, who has already been attacked once, raises the corner of his mouth and avoids it with a graceful movement.
He stretched out his hand with the intention of breaking Lucia’s neck.
This time, a vast amount of divine power spread throughout the body.
I poured it out with the sole intention of putting an end to it and preventing it from being avoided.
Faerun, who had been burned once, was at a great distance from Lucia at the moment when her whole body gathered divine power.
“Sigh! Sigh! Haha!”
In the end, the divine power of the power fired without any meaning. Perhaps it was the last time, as Lucia’s legs lost strength and she sat down as if she was collapsing.
“It’s over.”
With Dune’s cool-headed declaration, his arms gradually lower. I immediately pulled my hand back and looked at Lucia.
sorry.
A miserable state in which one cannot even make a voice.
The shape of her mouth conveys an apology to me.
Now all that’s left is me.
Tyrn was pushed by Valkyria’s attack and fell through the floor to the lower level, and Darius was barely able to breathe.
Lucia has already used up all of her divine power and cannot lift a finger.
Before I knew it, great demons were surrounding me from three directions.
“I guess I can say that I have somewhat relaxed my body.”
“Sir, you lost a tail.”
“Is this the end?”
This is the impression of the great devils who dismiss the battle with all their might as trivial.
[How do I do this?]
[Deius… … .]
Velika and the dark spirit sigh next to me. In fact, it could be said that her victory was broken when her saint, Lucia, collapsed.
At that time, a voice came from the collapsed wall of the banquet hall.
“Owner bastard!”
Finden Eye must have heard that I came back, but despite being covered in blood and wounds, he was smiling cheerfully.
And Eleanor and Deia returned.
“I brought it!”
Deia holds up the box containing the Holy Grail.
Demons who sensed the divine energy leaking out of the box.
The three demons instantly realize that the object in the box is very threatening and rush towards it.
Faerun ran on all fours toward Deia and held out his horns, but Findenai’s ax struck him next to him and interrupted him.
Valkyria flapped her wings and flew in as if shooting, and her spear pierced quite sharply, but the magic spewed out by Eleanor changed the trajectory of the spear and pierced the box, not Deia.
Kwasik!
The box shatters, revealing the Holy Grail inside in all its glory.
A momentary gap.
The moment Deia lifted the Holy Grail and was about to throw it.
“That’s ridiculous.”
Dune was already standing in front of Lucia.
“We replenish our divine power through the Holy Grail. “If that were the case, it would definitely have been a threat to us.”
However, because their eyes were so focused on the Holy Grail, they were unable to protect the saint.
The moment when Dune’s huge fist extends upward to plunge straight into Lucia.
“You’re the one who’s stupid, goat-headed.”
The corners of Deia’s mouth turn up with a grin.
The Holy Grail leaves her hand and flies in a parabola.
The Holy Grail fell and rolled on the floor with a deep sound, and before I knew it, it was at my feet.
Touch it with your toe and make it stand upright.
The eyes of the three great devils are focused on me.
Beings who, like themselves, cannot accept divine power.
They looked at the Holy Grail in front of me, which I fought without receiving Lucia’s protection because I was using it with the help of the power of the great devil Velika, and they looked like they had a hard time understanding it.
“You are right, Lucia.”
I looked down at the chalice and answered honestly.
What Lucia said earlier was right.
I was a liar.
To deceive the enemy.
Because we had to deceive our allies first.
Although he deceived Darius and Tyrn.
Lucia was the only one who noticed my lie.
In this battle, hope was not hers. But she had to make it seem like Lucia was her hope.
The dark spirit noticed something and walked away from me.
The spider legs and spiral right hand that were sitting behind my back naturally disappear.
Velika’s eyes, which were hanging on her shoulder, return to normal human ones, and the pair of horns on her forehead disappear.
So slowly.
Velika disappears.
The saint descends.
[You must not touch the Holy Grail. Because I am also a spirit, it is dangerous.]
“Know.”
Stella smiles softly as if she is satisfied with my answer.
The moment her turquoise eyes capture the great evils in front of her, their bodies shrink and take a step back.
After losing her divine power, Stella suffered an unspeakably cruel treatment from the demons.
Both eyes were gouged out.
His left hand was cut off.
Both legs were rotted and bruised.
I was ridiculed by demons for days and days, and among them was the great demon Magan.
here.
We needed to change our perspective a bit.
Only after losing her divine power were the demons able to approach Stella.
Even the Great Devil, who was the president of the Clark Republic and saw humans as nothing more than mere dishes, waited for the moment when she lost her power.
[Benevolent Goddess Hertia.]
Why did the demons, who took humans so lightly, wait with bated breath for the moment when God abandoned the woman?
[A miserable woman is here once again seeking your grace.]
Now, the answer lay before me.
[Give me strength.]
A woman who made even the great devils look at her with fear.
[The power to destroy evil.]
As he concludes his prayer, he gazes at evil.
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