Episode 29. Autumn rain is blood. (2)
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No one opened their mouths.
With everyone silent, only voices that were not ours rang out.
[The guardian goddess laments the foolishness of the warriors.]
[The Demon King of Autumn Rain bursts into laughter cheerfully.]
I’m sure it’s not just my voice that can be heard. Everyone’s faces darkened.
Among them, the Holy Knight spoke with difficulty, really difficulty.
“…Calm down.”
Even after telling her to calm down, she remained silent for a while. How should I continue my conversation? The expression on his face was that he was considering it carefully.
“Don’t panic. okay. Maybe the traitor has the skill to hide lies. It’s a funny story, but there’s a possibility that someone with a double personality is hiding there. Everyone has their own secrets, don’t they? “It is by no means impossible…”
“or not.”
Tuk.
Geomseong opened his mouth.
He was looking at the paladin with cold eyes.
“Or maybe you’re just a dirty traitor.”
“······.”
The throne room became cold.
Looks sharper than a knife were exchanged. Until just a moment ago, the swordsmen and guild leaders were engaged in a battle. The heat and sweat hadn’t cooled down yet, but I was already starting to feel conflicted again.
The witch frowned.
“Are you doubting us now?”
“That’s right.”
Geomsung readily admitted.
“Even if the Paladin girl isn’t a traitor, there’s a good chance she lied to us. You-all. The leaders of the so-called five major guilds have been close since ancient times. How a crow hides inside a crow. “Aren’t you guys going around protecting each other?”
“Ha, really you…”
“of course!”
The paladin shouted. An urgent voice. Both the sword saint and the witch stopped arguing and looked at the paladin. The paladin continued his words, trying to remain calm.
“Of course, logically speaking, it could be so. okay. “I could be a traitor.”
“······.”
“But the important thing is that neither of us lose our cool and composure. Okay. We have overcome numerous crises and difficulties so far. Isn’t it! If we trust each other this time too, we can get through it well…”
“Ahaha.”
There was laughter.
“Vice-captain is naive. No, it’s pure.”
He was a Heresy Questioner.
“Trust. hmm. trust. Beautiful words! However, it takes a lot of time to build trust with each other. It took us over 10 years to cooperate with each other, known as the five major guilds. To put it conversely…”
The Heretic Questioner adjusted his priest hat.
And then he shook off his clothes.
“I find it difficult to trust anyone except the top five guilds.”
“······.”
“But it is too inefficient to spend another 10 years now to build trust with other hunters. Yes, it’s a waste of time!”
“···wait.”
Now not only the voice of the paladin but also his expression has become urgent. When a festival took place on the first floor. I didn’t feel at all relaxed when asking myself if I was attracted to a girl who graduated from music school.
“Now is not the time to pursue efficiency. Heresy Questioner. please···.”
“Sacred technique.”
The Heretic Questioner quietly put his palms together.
“Flesh.”
White light enveloped his hand.
“venomous snake. You handle number 10.”
The light spread.
“I will kill number 8 and number 9.”
“Heresy Questioner! Can not be done!”
“Sacred technique, transmission.”
The Inquisitor and the Viper disappeared. When I blinked once, the Heretic Questioner was holding the back of a hunter. Hunter who finished the last stage in 8th place. The hunter instinctively looked back.
“-uh?”
Extras who have been quiet until now, overshadowed by the presence of large guild leaders. No, I felt sorry for ignoring it as an extra. Still, I was able to stand here now because I performed well on the last stage. Compared to my past self, I was a hunter with a much more promising future.
But that future never came.
“sorry!”
The Heretic Questioner laughed lightly. Bare hands without any weapons. However, his long fingers were filled with pure white aura.
Sigh!
“uh, ah···?”
Blood poured out.
Hunter’s body tilted.
A hunter who did not hold power by belonging to a large guild, did not have the power of fighting alone like a sword saint, and did not cooperate by forming an alliance with other guild leaders like me, but just graduated from the 11th floor stage with slightly higher grades. That’s how he died.
Simply dead.
[One warrior dies.]
[He is not the devil’s servant.]
A voice rang in my head.
[The guardian goddess is sad.]
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[The Demon King of Autumn Rain sneers softly.]
It was a murder that happened in the blink of an eye.
“Hee, hee!?”
A hunter who finished the last stage in 10th place screamed. Fortunately or unfortunately, he didn’t have to scream for long.
Suddenly!
The poisonous snake sent by the Heretic Questioner swung its sword. blow. Hunter’s neck was split at once, and his head fell to the floor with a heavy sound.
[One warrior dies.]
[He is not the devil’s servant.]
Blood spilled on the marble.
[The Guardian Goddess closes her mouth.]
[The Demon King of Autumn Rain bursts into laughter.]
Slurp!
The sound of a sword being drawn rang out from somewhere. It was a swordsman.
“You guys are finally showing your true colors!”
The old man’s face was distorted with anger.
“You disgusting kids! Nothing has changed from before! Stop right now. “If you don’t stop, I will personally destroy you.”
“Sacred technique, transmission.”
With a flash of light, the Heretic Questioner disappeared.
Hunter, who took 9th place in the last stage. The hunter ran away as soon as he saw the 8th and 10th dead. The hunter’s caution was evident in that he ran away without screaming. However, the moment he was about to pass through the gate, the Heretic Questioner was transferred right in front of him.
“ah,”
Hunter stretched out his hand.
“Now, wait a minute-.”
“yes!”
The Heretic Questioner smiled broadly.
“sorry!”
Hunter’s head exploded.
He said, “Wait a minute,” and fell down with his hand outstretched. dump. His torso, losing his head, fell lightly. His head exploded, and the blood and pieces of flesh scattered.
[One warrior dies.]
[He is not the devil’s servant.]
The voice flowed quietly.
[The guardian goddess is silent.]
[The Demon King of Autumn Rain is clapping his hands.]
“hmm.”
The Heretic Questioner took out a handkerchief from his pocket.
A face stained red with the blood of the dead. The Heretic Questioner wiped that face with a gentle hand. He waved his face two or three times, and his handkerchief quickly became covered in blood.
“It wasn’t all three of them!”
It was quiet everywhere.
“This situation has become difficult. Because I was sure one of the three would be a traitor! Ah haha. If there aren’t three of us, there really is a culprit among us. “The trust relationship between the five major guilds, built over nearly 10 years, has collapsed in an instant!”
The Heretic Questioner threw the red handkerchief on the floor.
The handkerchief fell into a pool of blood and floated like a paper boat.
“Wait…”
The paladin’s shoulders were shaking.
“I told him to wait. She clearly said… Didn’t you ask for it! “I asked you to please calm down, but Heretic Questioner, you are just like before…!”
“That’s a strange thing to say. Vice leader! “I am calm now.”
The Heretic Questioner smiled.
As if that wasn’t enough, he took out a handkerchief with his right hand and held it.
“I thought calmly and decided that three people were most likely the culprits. As a result, it was a wrong decision! It is significant that the most suspicious people were first eliminated. ah. “It would be a big problem if the media were watching, but luckily no one took the video…”
It was that moment.
The handkerchief flew in the air.
The pure white handkerchief fluttered because the blood had not yet been wiped away. Before it hit the floor, something slightly heavier crashed first.
Right arm.
It was the Heretic Questioner’s arm.
“ah.”
Maybe it was a good thing it ended with just one arm.
If the poisonous snake had not blocked the blow that Geomsung had thrown, it would have been his head that fell to the floor, not his arm.
“f*ck…!”
The poisonous snake cursed and engaged in attack and defense with the swordsman.
“Hey, religious person! “If you want to kill someone, give them a signal in advance and then kill them!”
“iced coffee.”
The Heretic Questioner narrowed his eyes and looked down. A little later, a handkerchief landed on my right arm, which had fallen to the floor. The white handkerchief soaked in blood and quickly turned red.
“This has become more serious than just embarrassing. Ahhh. If you don’t have both hands, you can’t create the seal of a sacred technique. Sorry, everyone! “I can no longer serve as a force on my own!”
“Now, is that a problem…!”
The poisonous snake was difficult to see even from a distance. The Sword Saint’s attacks came not only from swords but also from all directions and through aurors. The poisonous snake barely managed to block the shower of attacks.
“Someone, f*cking help me!” I’m dying! “It’s really cool!”
“Gongja Kim!”
The paladin shouted.
“I will leave full authority to you! “You can have the right to escape my life!”
It was a sound close to a scream.
“Only you have not received compensation! There is even a 1% chance that any of us is guilty, but you are the exception! “There is a 100% probability that you are not a traitor!”
“······.”
“So, please, please! “Stop the Sword Saint!”
The sound of the sword echoed loudly in the throne room. Before I knew it, the witch and the count had joined in and were fighting against the Sword Saint. Only the paladin was looking at me with his shoulders down helplessly.
I watched the fight unfolding before my eyes for a moment.
‘Geomje nobleman.’
-huh? why?
‘···Am I born with the fate of being loved by psychopaths?’
I thought there would probably be a mess.
These were hunters who already seemed to have a bad relationship. I expected that if a traitor came out here, he would raise his sword against the other person without hesitation. So they gave up compensation altogether.
but.
‘I never thought it would be this crazy…’
I sighed.
“Oh, that’s good. “Not a bad idea!”
The Inquisitor intervened between the Paladin and me. He took out a potion on his own and stopped the bleeding in his arm. Surprisingly, without showing any pain or pain at all.
“In this situation, majority voting is only a hindrance. The five major guild systems will be abolished for the time being. It’s inefficient! “It is better to concentrate power in someone who is never a traitor.”
“That story…”
“yes!”
The Heretic Questioner smiled brightly while holding up his severed arm.
“I will also delegate all judgment to Hunter Kim Gongja!”
“······.”
“hmm. I was sure that one of the three was the culprit, but I had no shame. But we can’t help but let bygones be bygones! I will not trust my own judgment until I catch the traitor. Gongja Kim Hunter. “I do whatever you tell me to do!”
Bae Hu-ryeong muttered.
-huh. okay. I guess you are destined to be loved by a psychopath. This kind of idiot is rare. When I climbed the tower, there was only one person there.
It was a truly unpleasant fate.
‘Suddenly, I was handed over full power to the vice guild leader of the vigilante group and the guild leader of the Pantheon…’
-I succeeded. Congratulations. Didn’t you originally give up on compensation because you knew it would end up like this? I thought so and was secretly admiring you.
‘I knew it would be a mess, but did I really think it would be this bad? What do I feel sorry for the three people who unexpectedly died over there? Anyway, I guess I’ll have to go back later…’
I glanced back at the paladin.
The paladin stood still with his face down.
“excuse me. I have a question.”
“···right.”
Do you already know what I’m going to ask? The paladin’s sigh flowed between her fingers.
“He was like that from the beginning.”
That kind of person naturally meant the Heretic Questioner.
“When we first entered the tower, there was a lot of confusion. The religious issue was especially serious. Between people who believe in different religions, no. Even if they believed in the same religion, people of different denominations were divided and divided, and quarrels were repeated. At that time, the Heretic Questioner appeared…”
“Because you showed up?”
“…I killed them all.”
The paladin sighed again.
“Anyone who started a fight because of religion was killed, regardless of nationality or origin. I assassinated him as if it was natural. “I am a human being who inherently knows only that method…”
“Wow.”
I simply thought that religious groups that had repeated conflicts had come together to create the Pantheon Guild. Because that’s what it said in the media. However, a complete massacre took place behind the scenes…
“Me, please! Save me! Give it to me!”
A viper screamed from afar.
It felt like it went up one octave with each passing minute.
“It’s crazy!” Seed, bee! This is really cool! “Cheonmumunju will be killed today, you bastards!”
“Ahaha.”
The Heretic Questioner adjusted his one-armed hat.
“I am aware that I made a wrong decision and caused a storm. I have no shame, but Kim Gongja Hunter! “Can’t you stop the Sword Saint on the condition that you receive full authority from me?”
“ha. “You… No, it’s okay.”
I shook my head.
“For now, let’s talk about you later. Thick. “It looks like the poisonous snake is really going to die now, so let’s resolve this first.”
“yes! please!”
I walked forward, leaving the Paladin and Inquisitor behind.
‘what. If you can control the vigilante group and the pantheon, even just for a little while, it’s a gain. Both are huge guilds…’
That’s how I convinced myself.
A fight was going on in one corner of the throne room. It was fierce and dazzling. Honestly, at my current level, it’s hard to even follow it with my eyes. Jumping into this fight is tantamount to suicide.
But I knew one magic word that would stop the Sword Saint.
“Sword Saint!”
There was no reaction.
“Sword Saint! You bowed your head to me today! Now that I am bowing down, please listen to what I have to say! “Stop fighting and let’s talk among ourselves!”
There was no reaction either.
ah. I can’t help it.
I took a deep breath. He raised his voice to become an auror and shouted.
“I will ask my granddaughter for companionship!”
Stop.
“If your granddaughter enters the tower, yes. Let’s have a meeting for some reason. I don’t know if we’ll date or not, but I’m sure he’s attractive because he’s Geomseong’s family. So, speaking as someone who might become your son-in-law, please stop fighting!”
Geomseong turned to me without saying a word.
There was quiet silence for a while.
“…I will never forgive these guys.”
“yes.”
“You never stop fighting by listening to the young man. However, the thought that occurred to me while sharing swords was that I could kill these guys at any time. In that case, it would be okay to find the traitor first and then kill them all. “Isn’t that right?”
Why are you asking me that?
Instead of asking back, I nodded obediently.
“Oh, that’s really true. Even if you kill him, kill him later.”
“hmm.”
The swordsman slowly lifted his sword.
On the other side, a poisonous snake was panting.
“uh···? what? Hey, are you alive? Is it over…?”
Nothing is over.
It only ended the immediate fight.
“everyone. “For now, please remain calm.”
I said while looking at the hunters.
“I don’t know who the traitor here is. Maybe we won’t be able to find the traitor. But that’s the second problem. “We can overcome this crisis without having to find the traitor.”
“···How?”
The paladin said.
“The fact that the traitor chose the devil’s reward means that he is already targeting our lives. “You never know when you might get stabbed in the back.”
“Look at this.”
I pointed to the marble floor.
There were three corpses scattered there, and there was a lot of blood and flesh, but above all, there were letters engraved by the Heretic Inquisitor.
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[Guardian Goddess]
Description: The goddess who protects the Aegim Empire is moved by your devotion! The goddess has decided to entrust you with an important position in the empire.
You can be the chancellor of the empire, a general, or a knight commander. When you choose a position, the abilities and reputation of that position will also be inherited!
Hero of the goddess! Join forces with your fellow warriors.
And destroy the Demon King’s core located on the 20th floor!
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“They say the Demon King’s core is located on the 20th floor.”
I looked at the faces of each hunter.
“Don’t focus on how you are going to find and kill the traitor. It’s a trap. Don’t be fooled. The traitor may be scared and trembling in his heart right now. Maybe the system forcibly selected a traitor. “Who knows?”
“·····.”
“Let’s all tackle the devil first.”
The audience became quiet.
“If you eliminate the Demon King, the Demon King’s reward will also disappear. It’s a simple problem. No matter how damning the tests are from the tower, no matter how much we try to cause infighting among ourselves, there will always be a simple solution.”
A voice came into my head.
[The guardian goddess’s eyes shine.]
[The Demon King of Autumn Rain clicks his tongue.]
I said emphatically.
“Let’s climb the tower.”
This was my answer.
“And let’s destroy the Demon King’s core on the 20th floor.”
Not only is it an answer to the hunters, but it is also an answer to the tower.
There was a voice responding to my answer.
[The 12th floor quest is given.]
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