Paladin of the Dead God - Chapter 19



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Episode 19. God of Plague (1)

‘You match the rhythm well.’

Isaac lifted up the Heretic Questioner and carried him on his back, listening to the nameless message of chaos. In order to quickly bring the Inquisitor to the monastery, Gebel had to end the fight quickly.

Isaac carefully took a detour and approached the area behind Gebel’s fight.

Boom, boom!

Even when I got close, there was a loud earth-shattering sound. The giant bear looked much bigger than it looked from afar. It was as big as a dump truck that would have been sent to another world just by brushing against it.

‘Fortunately, the movements are not fast.’

Perhaps because of his injury or because of his size, he was spinning around in one place, dealing with Gebel. Gebel was pushing quickly, increasing the giant bear’s wounds one by one. Isaac put down the Heretic Questioner and carefully approached the back of the giant bear.

“Isaac?!”

Gebel looked surprised as he saw Isaac approaching. But Isaac quickly raised his sword and rushed at him quickly. It was a stab he had repeated tens of thousands of times over the past two years.

Crumbling! The giant bear noticed Isaac late and tried to turn his body. But Gebel did not miss the small gap created by Isaac.

Gebel quickly rushed forward and aimed for the giant bear’s neck. The giant bear, who had already been fighting Gebel fiercely, knew in his head that Gebel was a bigger threat than Isaac.

But my instincts were screaming.

You can’t lose sight of Isaac.

However, Isaac was aiming for the less lethal lower body. The giant bear was conflicted between two instincts and ultimately failed to make the right choice.

The guy just shook his body roughly.

Sigh!

Sparks flew from the claws of the giant bear that blocked Gebel’s sword. However, the attack tore off the giant bear’s hand. Gebel did not stop there and slashed the giant bear’s head.

At the same time, Isaac’s sword also pierced the giant bear’s butt.

Even the wind seemed to stop due to the flash of light. The wind that came late made the giant bear’s fur stand on end.

Something was going wrong.

‘You idiot.’

Isaac plunged the sword into the wound and immediately pushed the tentacle into the wound. The tentacles that broke through the thick skin naturally ripped through the bear’s internal organs and immediately pushed up to the heart. Isaac felt the giant bear’s heart pulsing frantically through its tentacles.

Isaac grabbed the heart, which was as big as his head, with his tentacles, burst it, and sucked it in.

Shut up… … The giant bear was struggling, making strange groaning noises.

Gebel was puzzled when the giant bear reacted strangely, but he did not miss the opportunity. He immediately swung his sword and decapitated the giant bear in one fell swoop. He couldn’t completely cut off the thick neck, but it was enough to leave him in tatters.

The tentacles had already quickly devoured the heart of the giant bear. The giant bear’s blood poured out from its cut neck and then it made a loud noise and fell down.

[The ‘Plague Giant Bear’ was preyed on.]

[The ‘Innards of the Dead God’ perk increases intake efficiency.]

[The ‘super strength (temporary)’ perk has been acquired.]

[Resistance to disease increases significantly.]

[The blessing will remain until it is digested.]

‘Super strength?’

Isaac was curious about the unique privilege, but he didn’t have time to check. As the dust cloud settled, Gebel hurriedly approached.

“Isaac! Are you okay?”

“yes. “It looks like the poop needle was placed properly.”

Gebel looked down at the giant bear with a tired expression.

“I have never seen such a crazy monster while living in this monastery. He’s a guy you can only see in the outskirts… … “I don’t know where this came from.”

“Shall we disband?”

“No, it looks like it’s sick, so we can’t eat it and there’s no way to take it, so let’s leave it behind. I’ll have to ask the abbot to cleanse the land. Ha, there was no need to sweat this much because of that Heretic Questioner.”

“It’s not a guy, it’s a bitch.”

It was ironic that the two people who were most uncomfortable with the arrival of the Heretic Questioner, whether he was a bastard or a bitch, saved the Heretic Questioner.

Gebel seemed surprised to hear that the Heretic Questioner was a woman, but he didn’t seem to care much.

He looked down at the Heretic Questioner who was lying on the floor with an uneasy expression.

“Let’s save this piece of luggage first.”

***

The Heretic Questioner decided to have Isaac carry him. Perhaps because of the giant bear predation privilege, I could barely feel the weight. Thanks to this, I could barely breathe.

The HP that had been consumed while using the advanced swordsmanship ‘omen’ skill seemed to have recovered, and my body felt comfortable.

Gebel was dumbfounded to see Isaac, who was out of breath after swinging his sword a few times, climbing the mountain as if he were flying, even carrying an armored Inquisitor on his back, but he did not find it strange.

Gebel was already familiar with Isaac’s strange decline in physical strength.

He just muttered, ‘Young people are gangsters.’

Isaac still had time to check the prize of nameless chaos.

[The nameless chaos is satisfied with its newly acquired prey.]

[The reward of chaos has been given.]

[Choose one of the following three rewards.]

[Otherworld Scavenger / Can now summon tentacles from both hands.]

[The one who calls from the abyss / Makes the opponent hallucinate, restrains them, and slows them down.]

[Son of Chaos / Must have the ‘Parasite from Beyond’ ability. The parasite immediately eats the host and grows explosively, transforming into ‘descendants of chaos’.]

‘It’s been a while since I received a selection award.’

Isaac smiled in satisfaction.

The only tentacle abilities that Isaac has acquired so far are ‘Flesh Storage’, ‘Parasite from Beyond’, and ‘Rat in the Wall’. Nameless Chaos gave him quests several times, but he refused them because they were impossible to solve within the monastery or were absurd.

It’s not a game, it’s your only life. This was because it was thought that increasing Isaac’s own physical strength was more important than increasing the dangerous tentacle abilities.

‘Luckily this time, not all abilities are easily noticeable.’

I felt that ‘The Cleaner of Another World’ was no longer as bad as before. Because I’ve learned over the past four years that I can hide tentacles well enough. But the tentacles coming out of his left hand and chest were already enough. The need for additional tentacles was not felt.

‘He who calls from the abyss’ was a quite useful debuff curse skill. If you weaken the enemy with this skill and deal with them, you will be able to defeat most enemies without having to take out the tentacles. In that sense, it was good for camouflage.

‘Son of Chaos’ was one of the deadly monster skills. If you don’t release it immediately, your stamina will be consumed quickly and you will die instantly, causing a monster to pop out. It was infamous among players for its grotesqueness and ease of breaking the line. But it was definitely a skill that stood out.

‘It’s a powerful skill, but the problem is that it follows the host’s abilities and stands out… … .’

Moreover, the parasite must have been pre-planted, which means that the tentacles have already penetrated into the skin. It’s almost like winning.

Still, after much thought, Isaac decided to choose ‘Son of Chaos’.

‘Jackdaw, that was quite useful.’

Having the ability to look down like a jackdaw in a complex battlefield would be very useful. In any case, it was a time when a servant who could secretly act like a minion was needed rather than the help of a rampaging tentacle monster.

‘The Heretic Questioner must also be monitored.’

I hope that such a situation will never come up, but sometimes it can be used as a threat. Anyway, Isaac has no choice but to consider his own life as the most important thing.

In the end, Isaac chose the offspring of chaos.

I felt the tentacle inside my left hand wriggle and absorb new power. Isaac intuitively felt that the parasite currently inside the jackdaw’s body could tear its host apart at any time and take on a new form.

‘No, not yet.’

When the Heretic Questioner wakes up, he might find the jackdaw. I didn’t want to take unnecessary risks with a useless experiment. Anyway, there were great test subjects called rats spread out in the monastery.

***

When Isaac and Gebel arrived at the monastery, the monks hurriedly opened the door. The monastery was lighting up all the torches and lanterns, clearly showing that it was a place where the Code of Light was enshrined. It seemed like they made some preparations because the Heretic Questioner was coming.

Unfortunately, the Inquisitor passed out and did not see this spectacle.

“Come this way.”

Yevhar took the Heretic Questioner to the hospital room he had prepared in advance. The monks were glancing at that scene.

The monks seemed perplexed when they recognized that it was a woman. Although the monastery was not a forbidden area, people of the opposite sex were rarely allowed to enter to avoid unfortunate events.

Yevhar took off the Heretic Questioner’s armor to make him lie down comfortably, and then looked closely at his face.

And then I was surprised.

“Isolde Brandt?”

Geber, who heard his words, could not hide his surprise.

“You mean Duke Brandt’s daughter?”

“yes. “I remember because I participated in her coming-of-age ceremony.”

“Do you think he is a noble person?”

Isaac asked.

The Duke of Brandt is a family so famous that even Isaac has heard of it. There was even a saying that the emperors of the Baekje Empire and Gertonia Empire, where Isaac is now, were created with the support of the Brandt dukedom. If the abbot attends his daughter’s coming-of-age ceremony, he clearly enjoys great power.

“There may be highs and lows under the Code of Light, but the Brandt family is famous for being deeply religious. But she had no idea that her only daughter was working as an inquisitor.”

The Heretic Questioner has as many enemies as his absolute authority.

Just as Isaac secretly harbored feelings, many people would think that if they killed the Heretic Questioner, there would be no more suspicion.

In the end, only one conclusion remained in their minds.

This meant that if Isolde died now, it would not be just one or two people who would be in trouble.

‘It would have been better to make it into wolf food than to die here.’

Isaac regretted it in his heart, but did not show it.

“Let’s save him for now. “Whether this person is Brandt or Barbary, I don’t want to waste the effort of saving him and then killing him.”

Gebel tore Isolde’s clothes to check her wounds. The three people fell silent due to the foul smell emanating from the wound. In particular, Gebel and Isaac took a step back without realizing it due to the familiar smell. Yevhar examined Isolde’s injured area, which appeared to have been bitten by a wolf.

“Blisters, discoloration, signs of decay… … .”

“It’s a plague.”

Isaac muttered.

Hearing those words, Yebhar also took a step back.

If you think about it, the wolves, boars, and bears were all infected with the plague. At that level, some kind of plague has spread widely throughout this mountain. However, there has never been a case of human infection.

Isaac had an eerie premonition.

‘Could it be that they didn’t kill him on purpose?’

It bothered me that even though it took several hours, the giant bear and the pack of wolves did not kill the Inquisitor but only cornered him.

But what if that was someone’s intention?

Isaac recalled how the attitude of the wolf pack changed when the smell of plague came into the air.

Someone had devised a plan to place the heretic inquisitor infected with the plague into the monastery.

Yebhar remained silent for a moment and then opened his mouth.

“Let’s start with treatment first. Mr. Gebel, please sprinkle some garlic and salt around the room. Isaac, get the leech from the basement. “I will prepare for a prayer meeting with the monks.”

“Leech?”

Isaac looked at the strange instructions with a puzzled look on his face.

“We need to implement bloodletting treatment. “If you drain the bad blood, won’t the plague go out of your body?”

‘What kind of bullshit is this? ‘Draining blood from a patient?’

The words rose up in Isaac’s throat and he barely held them back.

This world is a medieval world where basic medical knowledge is lacking.

If you think about it, it was worth it.

In a world where most illnesses or injuries are cured by the miracles of monks, it is even more strange that medical science is developing.

‘But this is a plague targeting the monastery.’

This was an attack on a monastery, so there was no way they had not prepared for a miracle. Isaac decided that the monks would not be able to properly deal with the plague. Even Gebel agreed with Yebhar’s opinion.

‘This… … I guess I should do something.’

If the Heretic Questioner girl is so precious, keeping her alive will be beneficial for a long time.