Episode 140
-No matter how hard you struggle… it’s all in vain…
His voice trembled slightly.
Most of the bones that made up the body were already broken, and the once brilliant red eyes wavered like candles in the wind.
The one who lost most of his magic in exchange for activating the magic circle was no match for Choi Hyun-seok.
-Despair… Witness death… That suits you… .
“shut up!”
Choi Hyun-seok punched the bastard in the skull.
Breaking news-!
The pure white skull shatters into pieces.
At the same time, a system alarm sounded.
[Objective 1. The instigator, the demon tribe
[Processing completed]
[Objective 2. Failed to stop the command spell]
[Intermediate rewards are tallied]
[You earn 500 warrior points]
[Gain experience points]
[Level up!]
[Level up!]
[Level up!]
[The warrior quest is updated]
Then a new warrior quest emerged.
★☆★☆ Warrior Quest! ★☆★☆
You tried your best, but you couldn’t stop the enemy’s spell.
If we leave it like this, this land will be covered in death.
Defeat those who returned from the dead and save this land!
· Goal: Clean up the area
· Reward: A large amount of experience points and 1,000 warrior points
Choi Hyun-seok, who confirmed the quest, ran straight over.
Before he knew it, the area around him was filled with pure white skeletons.
“Get out of the way!”
As soon as I swing my fist, the sternum is shattered.
One, even with half of his chest blown away, the bastard continued to move.
“Hero! Aim for the head!”
At Rachel’s words, Choi Hyun-seok’s skull was broken.
Then the skeleton lost its strength and fell to the ground.
‘I don’t have time for this…!’
Choi Hyun-seok’s movements gradually became rougher.
Every time his hands and feet were swung, bone fragments flew.
But the enemy did not stop.
The undead that return from the dead have no fear.
Only hatred towards the living dominates them.
“Hero! We must hurry!”
“I know that too!”
Abelson is waiting in the village.
I don’t think she’d be up to much of a skeleton, but there are bound to be physical limitations.
I didn’t know what would happen if time passed.
‘Mr. Abelson, you must hold on!’
Choi Hyun-seok clenched his molars and increased his speed.
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“Gyaaaaah-!”
“S-save me! Please!!!”
People flocked to Abelson to live.
It was a brief miracle, but I saw hope in her divine power.
But there was nothing Abelson could do.
‘You can only release divine power once or twice at most.’
If you are not careful, you may have to force it to the point where the divine power may flow backwards.
As a result, Abelson’s body was shaking slightly.
Even if I push it to its limit, I wonder if I can use it three more times.
‘That doesn’t change the situation.’
The waves of the undead were endless.
Even if you eliminate hundreds of them with divine power, nothing will change.
Rather, releasing divine power was an extremely inefficient act.
It would have been better to conserve stamina and divine power and deal with them one by one.
Even if we do that, we won’t be able to stop them, but at least we’ll be able to escape.
“Cough, ugh…!”
“Oh my god… please, argh!”
“Leo! No!”
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“Gyaaaaah! Save me!”
The problem is the townspeople.
They are now on the edge of life and death.
It is impossible to leave the village while protecting these people in a situation where it is difficult to even save my own life.
No, it was impossible.
“Ahhhhhhh-!”
death.
The deaths of those already dead continued without end.
It is often said that the undead hold a hatred for the living.
They brutally murdered people as if they wanted to prove that the rumor was true.
In the midst of this tragedy, all Abelson could do was swing his mace.
Break-!
The skull of the skeleton that was reaching out to the boy was instantly shattered.
“Go, thank you!”
The boy’s face was covered in tears and snot.
Abelson said, biting his lip.
“Run away… anywhere…”
The boy nodded his head weakly and ran.
But before he could even take ten steps, he was captured by another group of skeletons.
“Kkaaaah!”
The limbs are torn off while still alive.
All Abelson could do was watch death.
‘Why… why…!’
The arm swinging the mace gained more strength.
Break! Break!
There were already bone fragments piled up all around her.
But, the enemy is endless.
Not only the village, but also the surrounding areas were already covered with undead.
“Please save me! Please save me!”
“Oh, Mom…!”
For a moment, a mother and daughter were seen being chased by a skeleton.
Finally, Abelson once again invoked divine power.
Hwaaaaah-!
In an instant, a path of light opens, and hundreds of skeletons disappear.
A brief glimmer of hope appeared on people’s faces.
“Go, thank you!”
“Run! You have to run now!”
They ran hard, but they didn’t get very far.
The path Abelson had created was now covered by other skeletons.
“Eww! Mom! It’s scary!” “Ke, keuk…! It’s okay…! It’s okay…”
The mother desperately hugged her daughter.
Even as his body was torn apart by tens and hundreds of skeletons, he smiled to reassure his daughter until the very end.
And then, the mother and daughter died.
‘If only I, if only I were stronger…’
Tears flowed from Abelson’s eyes.
It was driving me crazy to think that I would have to just watch death in vain.
He gripped the mace tightly with trembling hands.
‘If only I could have fought better…’
Regret came flooding in.
Why did I neglect to become stronger?
Originally, the power of divine power was not inferior to that of combat.
Just looking at the Paladins, they would show off incredible prowess with their divine power.
Rather, when fighting against enemies who use magic, divine power is a power that is much stronger than magic power.
However, Abelson had no such fighting ability.
This is because when she was a young saint, she only learned healing magic.
Even the few auxiliary magics I learned were far from being used in direct combat.
Crunch! Crunch!
I was resentful of myself for being able to do nothing more than swing my mace like this.
If you have been interested in combat from the beginning.
If he had honed his fighting skills like Choi Hyun-seok earlier, wouldn’t things have been different?
Couldn’t we have saved just a little more people?
“Mr. Abelson!”
Then a familiar voice was heard.
When I looked back, I saw Choi Hyun-seok running towards me, pushing through the undead.
“Are you okay?”
Choi Hyun-seok asked while looking at Abelson who was shedding tears.
Abelson nodded.
“I’m fine. But people…” “It’s too late to save people.”
Choi Hyun-seok said in a firm voice.
Abelson looked at Choi Hyun-seok in surprise.
“Oh, no! If it’s Choi Hyun-seok! If it’s Choi Hyun-seok, not me who’s incompetent, then he can do it! Ha, please save at least one person!” “They’re all already dead!”
Abelson’s eyes opened wide.
She quickly looks around.
“Geowaaaaaa…!”
Clink, clink…!
It’s exactly as Choi Hyun-seok said.
There was no living person visible around.
Some of the people she had thought were villagers had already lost their lives and turned into undead.
“Listen carefully.”
Choi Hyun-seok spoke in a clear voice.
“What we need to do now is to stop them from spreading further. To do that, we need to cleanse this area!”
“…”
“Mr. Abelson! Are you going to just sit there blankly!?”
Choi Hyun-seok shouted.
Only then did life return to Abelson’s eyes.
‘That’s right. I can’t stay miserable forever…’
You can’t bring back to life someone who is already dead.
As Choi Hyun-seok said, we had to prevent any more victims.
“Just a moment! I’ll find a way!” “I’ll buy you time!”
Choi Hyun-seok blocked the way.
Abelson quickly recalled his memories.
‘You must remember. Necromancy… How to purify an area…’
She has read quite a few books on necromancy in the past.
To be exact, it was closer to a record of being struck by the demons’ sorcery, but the method of destruction was also written down here and there.
“The sorcerer… is the sorcerer dead?” “Yes! I already killed the one who activated the magic circle!”
Choi Hyun-seok answered while breaking the skeleton’s skull.
‘The undead move even though the sorcerer is dead… That’s why the area needs to be purified.’
Ordinary undead are moved by the magic of the caster.
Because of this, they are absolutely loyal to the caster, and the moment the caster dies, the undead also disappears.
But this time, things are different.
They have been preparing their magic for a long time and have turned this area into a land of death.
In this case, the level of the undead itself drops, but it can be maintained to some extent even without a caster.
‘Usually it will disappear naturally over time, but if not…’
If the undead do not die out naturally, the most terrifying thing happens.
‘I will continue to become stronger.’
Undead emit massive amounts of magical energy.
The magic in the air is getting thicker.
This way, stronger undead are created.
Then again, the magic becomes even darker.
It is a vicious cycle.
Those who are driven solely by hatred destroy everything.
Until only the undead remain in this world.
‘There are three ways to overcome the current situation.’
Abelson quickly came up with a solution.
‘One is to blow away an area with overwhelming divine power.’
Covers the area with divine power, annihilating all magic.
Then, naturally, the necromancy will also end.
However, this was not something that could be done by a single individual.
Even if Morial, the contemporary saint of the Deusis doctrine, were to come, it would be difficult without preparation.
‘Another way is to weaken the undead to the point where they naturally disappear.’
Destroys undead to reduce their population below a certain threshold.
Then they won’t be able to get stronger and will naturally disappear.
But this method is not usable.
‘This land is strangely filled with magic energy. As long as there is enough magic energy, those who do will never be weakened.’
This area is overly filled with magical energy due to the work of the demon tribe.
No matter how much you destroy the undead, they will not become weaker.
Rather, the speed at which the bastards grew stronger might have been faster than the speed at which Choi Hyun-seok and Abelson could deal with them.
‘Then there is only one way left…’
Abelson bit his lip.
‘Waiting for a dominant entity to emerge.’
As the undead horde continues to grow stronger, dominant entities will emerge among them.
Wait for the dominant entity to link up with all other undead, then kill it, and all undead will instantly lose their power and fall.
It’s like an undead being rendered powerless after losing its sorcerer.
However, this method also had problems.
‘It’s too dangerous.’
There is no way to know how strong the dominant entity will be.
Even he will become stronger as time goes by.
If you try to solve a case, you might end up making it worse.
“Mr. Abelson! Are you far away?”
Choi Hyun-seok asked urgently.
Abelson briefly described the current situation.
After hearing the story, Choi Hyun-seok immediately nodded.
“Let’s do it!”
“But, if I do something wrong, I’ll be in a situation where I can’t handle it…” “Isn’t that the only way anyway!?”
If Abelson’s words are true, it will happen someday.
Now, Choi Hyun-seok and Abelson have no way to stop the phenomenon.
“There is no choice. It would be better to know in advance and prepare for it.”
“That’s right.”
Abelson nodded.
Choi Hyun-seok is right.
It was a problem that didn’t need to be worried about in the first place.
If you are not going to run away, you must wait for the dominant entity and then kill it.
“When do you think that ruler will come out?”
Abelson looked around at Choi Hyun-seok’s question.
‘Progress is faster than expected.’
Between the skeletons, ghouls and specters were visible.
The middle-ranking individual appeared only an hour or two after the ritual began.
If things continue like this, it will only be a matter of time before a higher entity appears.
“At this rate, I think the dominant entity will emerge within half a day at the longest.” “So you’re saying we have to hold them off until then?”
“yes…”
It’s not an easy task.
The enemies are constantly advancing, and are even growing stronger.
Will I be able to stand up to those who come at me with only murderous intent, without even fear?
Perhaps it will be suffered before the dominant entity appears.
“Don’t worry.”
At that moment, Choi Hyun-seok placed his hand on Abelson’s shoulder.
“You can do it.”
The voice was firm.
Both eyes are clear and unwavering.
As if I had armed myself with the will to do anything.
Choi Hyun-seok was confident.
Abelson also began to calm down.
“Okay. Let’s give it a try.”
