Paladin of the Dead God - Chapter 16



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Episode 16. Heretic Questioner (2)

Isaac had an impious thought without realizing it, and then he looked back at Geber. Gebel shook her head, but didn’t look like he was going to attack her, saying, ‘Let’s split this guy’s head to see if there are tentacles in her head.’

“Well, since the Code of Light gave you outstanding talent, you may have thought that miracles were too much.”

Isaac’s talent with the sword was clearly beyond the normal level. If Gebel didn’t use advanced swordsmanship, he could compete on equal footing to some extent.

Gebel stared at the snow-covered yard for a moment and then opened his mouth.

“I think that’s enough.”

“yes?”

“It means there is nothing more to teach.”

Isaac nodded with a hesitant expression. In fact, it has been a long time since I ran out of things I could learn from Gebel. Unless he taught him advanced swordsmanship, all Isaac could do was continue to refine what he had already learned.

“I guess so. You said that Avalanche swordsmanship cannot be leaked without permission.”

Hearing Isaac’s regretful words, Gebel stared at him. Then he said something unexpected.

“What I taught you is the basics of swordsmanship of the Holy Knights of Avalanche, which I belonged to.”

“yes?”

“Avalanche swordsmanship is basically a passing swordsmanship assuming the battlefield. It is a swordsmanship that becomes stronger when formed in a group. So, in order to put everything together, I first build a solid foundation.”

Gebel paused there for a moment and then spit out each word as if he were dragging them out.

“But now Avalanche advanced swordsmanship is not worth inheriting.”

“What did you say?”

“The essence of Avalanche’s advanced swordsmanship is that it achieves extreme efficiency when formed as a group. But since the Holy Knights have already fallen… … “I don’t have any colleagues to work with.”

Isaac opened his mouth and said nothing. This means that even if he learned advanced swordsmanship from Gebel, he would have no way to use it with proper efficiency. Although he was a paladin with a swordsmanship based on team fighting, Isaac had no worthy companions.

‘There were no such restrictions in the game.’

“So, I want you to create a new arcane sword technique based on the basics you learned. “The color of your swordsmanship will vary depending on what you experience and feel every time you swing the sword.”

Although he said it casually, Gebel was telling the child, who was not even an adult, to become a swordsman. Isaac didn’t know how difficult advanced swordsmanship was, but she couldn’t help but feel that she was talking nonsense.

“That makes sense… … .”

“can do.”

Gebel spoke calmly as if discussing reality.

“I have already seen potential in you several times. But you restrained yourself. “I probably unconsciously refrained from using what I didn’t learn.”

In reality, the body stopped on its own due to the Nephilim’s low HP limit, but Gebel seemed to think so anyway.

However, in the eyes of Gebel, who was convinced that Isaac was an adult, Isaac seemed like a blank canvas on which he could draw anything. He said that if he had taught him the essence of Avalanche swordsmanship, Isaac would have absorbed it at once and made it his own.

But he didn’t do that.

“I don’t want to spill my dirt on the blank paper on which my masterpiece will be drawn.”

Isaac looked at the traces in the yard he had swung with his sword as if he realized something. Gebel, looking at her back, remembered her own greed that she had hidden for a long time.

If we let Isaac go like this, he will definitely become a sword master that surpasses himself.

But then we couldn’t achieve the reason we brought Isaac.

“of course… … “You can’t just let them go through all that trouble.”

Gebel muttered as he picked up a small twig.

“I’ll show you just one of Avalanche’s advanced sword techniques.”

“You said it shouldn’t be leaked?”

“I just show it. And since you seem to be able to control yourself well… … .”

Isaac closed his mouth at the hidden words, “So, you are free to watch and learn as you please.” His five senses focused on Geber. He put all his effort into not missing a single move.

Okay.

Gebel slowly shook the branch and at some point shook it. The tree branches just brushed across the snow, but at that moment, a blizzard erupted like a wave.

Gebel’s silhouette moved among the fluttering snowflakes.

“Swordsmanship is just the application of the three movements you learned.”

The tree branch started moving slowly but slowly increasing its speed.

It was a series of extremely monotonous movements: cutting, stabbing, and striking. Gebel was demonstrating his sword skills repeatedly, as if he was giving Isaac his first and last demonstration.

Isaac recognized that Gebel’s movements were not fighting a single enemy, but were movements in a battlefield where countless enemies were flocking.

He was dealing with not one, but many, or at least a dozen, enemies rushing towards him. The enemies narrowly avoided the sword, fell down bleeding, and tried to surround them while shouting.

However, at the moment when Gebel seemed to be surrounded by an unmanageable number of soldiers, a snow storm came rushing in from all directions, accompanied by a loud bang and a sound as if the air was being torn apart.

Isaac, who was standing still, suddenly covered his eyes.

The snow had disappeared in a neat circle around the steaming Gebel.

Heavy drinking as if a cannon had been fired.

Isaac realized that it was a shock wave generated by briefly breaking the speed of sound. But is it possible for the human body to achieve this speed?

Can your body endure it in the first place?

‘… … What makes that possible is advanced swordsmanship, or skill.’

Isaac found traces of three explosions centered on Gebel. If anyone had been there, it would have been torn to pieces.

“This is the ‘omen’ move, one of the advanced sword techniques of the Holy Knights of Avalanche. If you look closely, you will see that this is what you have learned so far.”

Gebel said, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

“As I said before, when your swordsmanship reaches a certain level, you can imitate a certain shape and embody its properties. Like magic. The swordsmanship of the Holy Knights of Avalanche took on the image of a wild landslide. “Do you understand what I mean?”

“… … yes.”

Isaac nodded, recalling in his mind the movements Gebel had made.

Gebel’s movements.

‘can do.’

I was confident that Isaac would be able to perform the same movement that Gebel had just shown. I understood the flow of the movement and the movement of the sword as if it were engraved in my mind.

This was because the ‘omen’ movements that Gebel had just performed were merely a combination of the movements that Isaac had been practicing throughout his time at the monastery.

The movements of constantly slashing and slashing were movements that Isaac had been practicing. It was only when it was connected organically that swordsmanship emerged.

‘It is said that the swordsmanship of the Holy Knights of Avalanche is a swordsmanship created by taking the shape of a landslide.’

Isaac suddenly thought back to what Gebel had said.

‘Then the swordsmanship I showed earlier… … ‘What on earth was I modeling my sword skills on?’

Gebel put the branch on the ground and said.

“It’s not like you can imitate advanced swordsmanship once you’ve seen it, and with your unfinished body in the first place, you’re just putting yourself in danger. But you have already learned as much as you can from me. It’s just that I didn’t teach you advanced swordsmanship, but the essence of the Holy Knights of Avalanche is in your breathing and your footsteps… … .”

Gebel debated whether or not to teach in more detail, but then gave up.

From here it was greed. A desire to leave one’s mark on the paladin who would become a master in the future.

And the desire to pass on his karma to him.

“But from now on, it would be better to follow your own path.”

The idea was that Isaac’s advanced swordsmanship should be developed through his own research. Isaac wondered if there was such an irresponsible teacher, but he also understood what he meant.

Avalanche swordsmanship is too heavy and powerful for him to use.

There will be a sword technique suitable for Isaac. Isaac even discovered the clue just before Gebel came.

Isaac could already feel his fingers itching.

“Isaac.”

Facing the pouring snow, Gebel opened his mouth to Isaac.

“You were supposed to go to Lancel Monastery early next year, right?”

“yes.”

Orphans who enter the monastery naturally leave when they become adults. Some children become monks, others are recommended to religious orders and receive education, but most become apprentices and learn skills.

But another path was open to Isaac. He was supposed to go to the city’s monastery and receive proper paladin training.

Lancel Monastery was a monastery located in the largest city nearby. It was a place that directly trained priests and paladins, and had over 1,600 permanent residents. Isaac was to receive a higher level of education there.

If it is true that I learned all sword techniques from Gebel, there was nothing more to learn here.

In order to go to a higher place, I had to leave this place.

Unless the church suddenly suspected him of being a tentacled monster, Isaac’s success was guaranteed.

“If you become a paladin, there is something you need to know.”

“What is it?”

“About why I left the Holy Knights of Avalanche and other minor things.”

Gebel did not say what he wanted to say. However, the moment he said that, Isaac could sense that Gebel was also thinking of leaving this monastery.

Isaac’s presence and the process of teaching him had a great impact on him.

“I only taught you the basics, but I’m sure some people will recognize the basics of Avalanche swordsmanship. “He must be someone who uses the same sword skills as me.”

Anyone who uses swords from the Holy Knights of Avalanche is probably a member of the same Holy Knights. Are you telling me to hide my swordsmanship? If you think about it, Gebel may have committed a crime because he leaked the Knights’ swordsmanship to the outside world.

“If you meet them, kill them on the spot.”

Isaac was shocked.

“No, but killing someone just because they caught you secretly learning swordsmanship… … .”

“What are you talking about? The Avalanche Holy Knights have already collapsed and disappeared. “There is no one to argue with.”

It was only after hearing Gebel’s point that Isaac belatedly recalled the story he had told earlier.

‘Then why are you asking me to kill you?’

It was not that I was unwilling to kill because of the unpleasantness of it. Although he calls himself a paladin, he is ultimately a soldier. And killing is a soldier’s business.

Above all, Isaac has already killed someone, even if not with his own hands. He even went so far as to eat it.

“Even if you don’t want to kill him, he will definitely try to kill you. So, I have to kill him for your sake.”

“… … “Do you have any other characteristics other than using the Avalanche Holy Knights swordsmanship?”

“It would be meaningless to tell you because even your appearance would have changed. And there is no need to worry about confusion. “Now, the only people in the world who can use the swordsmanship of the Holy Knights of Avalanche are you, me, and him.”

Isaac tried to ask what the story was and why they were telling him to kill him. If it was nothing else but a murder, there was a reason to know. It is clearly related to Gebel giving up his job as a Holy Knight and entrusting himself to a monastery.

Above all, it must have something to do with the fact that Isaac’s identity was deliberately hidden.

‘I need to find out.’

Caw.

Then the crow cried loudly.

When Isaac looked up at the sky, his eyes met a crow sitting on the window sill of the abbot’s office. The crow cried once more when she saw Isaac, and then she flapped her wings loudly and flew away. A red string was tied around her ankles.

It was a crow used as a liaison.

Gebel also frowned when he saw that.

“It’s a jackdaw.”

“Is this a bad sign?”

“The problem is not the jackdaws, but the people who command the jackdaws.”

Gebel said with a strange lingering tone. At that time, the door to the monastery opened with a clattering sound.

Abbot Yevhar was walking out with a pale complexion.

Isaac felt something ominous. Gebel seemed to do the same, her complexion hardening.

“What’s going on, abbot?”

“Mr. Gebel.”

Yevhar muttered, touching his face with a pale complexion.

“It is said that the Inquisitor is planning to visit our monastery.”