Paladin of the Dead God - Chapter 65



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Episode 65. Prophet of Red Flesh (1)

“Aaaah!”

A soldier came out of the hallway and rushed towards him, trying to bite Isaac. Isaac punched the soldier in the face and marched forward.

As Owen Renly absorbed the soldiers and transformed into a giant flesh monster, Isaac immediately fled inside the castle. He reasoned that even if he was big enough, he wouldn’t be able to enter the castle.

Until then, Isaac thought he had made a smart decision.

Until Owen chases after him, filling the hallways with giant bodies of flesh.

“Aaaah!”

The soldier that Isaac had defeated was newly absorbed and crushed by Owen’s flesh. It seemed like all the soldiers were lying in ambush in the castle. Fortunately, the Abomination’s speed was not that fast, so just walking quickly was enough to outrun it.

But Abomination was also finding its own way.

“We succeeded in assassinating Raella. however… … .”

“You came back to life, right?”

“Did you know?”

It was more predictable than something I knew.

The red-fleshed prophet was the angel who showed his face most often when attacking the game. Of course, he has a lot to fight and receive quests. And she never reveals her true self in any way.

“Raela is the shell worn by the red-fleshed prophet.”

Isaac said, looking for the Abomination somewhere beyond the hallway. The Abomination was no longer pursuing me, for some reason. But Isaac had a strong sense of his presence.

“That Abomination, I mean, it’s a little different from Owen. Rather than being a member of a household, it was as if a large amount of angel flesh had been crammed into it. “Enough to use it moderately and throw it away.”

It is unknown and meaningless whether it is the will of the Prophet of Red Flesh or Raella. In order to exercise this level of power, you would have to be almost like a limb.

Heshabel looked confused by Isaac’s words.

“If it’s just a shell… … “Isn’t it useless to assassinate him?”

“no. “It was meaningful enough.”

Isaac aimed for three things. Testing Hezabel’s loyalty and attracting the attention of the Prophet of Red Flesh. Even if these two things were successful, the attempt was meaningful enough.

The last thing is to weaken Raella’s vitality.

In order for the Red Flesh Prophet to continue to use Raella as a shell, her body must remain alive. As she suffers her injuries, the Red Flesh Prophet has no choice but to continue to use her own powers to keep Raella alive.

However, Hesabel inflicted fatal injuries on Raella to the extent that she was judged to have ‘killed’ her. In that case, the red-fleshed prophet was bound to leak quite a lot of power.

This meant that weapons that were originally wielded freely with both hands were now held and wielded only with the fingertips.

Of course, the latter case is much more difficult and painful even for weapons of the same weight.

“You did better than I instructed. Good job. Heshabel.”

Hesabel’s eyes widened at Isaac’s praise, but then she touched her face as if she was unfamiliar with it.

“Uh, well, then what do we do now? The flesh monster doesn’t seem to be chasing me anymore, but if I run into the red flesh prophet… … .”

Then Isaac and Heshabel stopped.

It was not that a new enemy had appeared to stop them. Rather, there was nothing.

Even the path they must take forward.

The hallway was unnaturally distorted, like the spout of a closed sack.

Isaac looked back. The black hallway in the early morning was shrouded in silence and darkness. It felt stuffy, as if the air had been sealed.

As if I was in the belly of an animal.

Isaac opened his mouth.

“I got caught in a hunt.”

***

Jihilet felt that the atmosphere in the castle had changed.

I could smell damp sweat and spit everywhere. Although he had lost his divinity, he was able to feel it keenly as if he was once a beast and a being that had secretly taken control of the underworld in the basement of the monastery.

It seemed like the strange being that had appeared on the ground had finally taken control of the castle.

But what that being was doing now was none of Jihillet’s business. There was a separate mission that Isaac entrusted to him. Jihillet continued to explore the basement of the castle as he had done so far.

In the basement of the castle, the castle’s employees, butlers, and sensitive people who should not be killed were imprisoned. Everyone was either unconscious or intoxicated, as if they had taken drugs, but they were alive. Since it was not in a state suitable for escape, there were no troops guarding it.

All soldiers worth protecting will be on the ground. But there was another being.

Paralalalak!

A swarm of bats with flashing red eyes clinging to the ceiling suddenly attacked Jihillet. They were not ordinary bats, but divine beasts summoned by the power of the Red Holy Grail. They were beings that could kill ordinary people in an instant just by sinking their teeth into their necks.

Bat teeth were embedded in various parts of Jihilet’s body. One of them crawled under G. Hillett’s helmet and bit his neck. However, it was not a blood vessel or flesh that clashed its teeth, but another tooth.

Quad deuk!

The mouth, which appeared in a position where a mouth could not possibly be, bit off the bat’s head in one go. The bat fluttered, but only managed to drop the helmet to the floor and was unable to escape.

The bats were scared and tried to retreat as their fellow bats were chewed and eaten alive. A warning sound wave spread out. However, none of those who clung to Jihillet’s body were able to escape.

Crunch, crack, crack.

Jihillet’s body twisted and bent strangely, snatching and capturing the bodies of the bats. The predatory nature of Jihillet did not prevent its prey from flying in on its own. The bats, realizing that they had suddenly changed from predators to prey, tried to fly, but the low ceilings and narrow hallways had now become a prison for them.

Whoosh, whoosh.

Even the bat that tried to escape through the hallway was caught in the tentacles, crushed, and eaten. In an instant, not a single piece of flesh or bone was left behind, leaving only traces of blood in the hallway.

Jihilet savored his appetite and picked up the helmet. Then he realized that someone was watching him from the cell next to him.

He looked at Zihillet blankly, then stared directly at Zihillet’s writhing face, whose shape had not yet been determined. Soon, the man mumbled something unintelligible, closed his eyes, and fainted.

Jihilet looked at him quietly and then entered the prison. The iron bars did nothing to stop his writhing body. Jihilet, who checked the man’s condition, sent a will to Isaac.

[Kyle Hendlock, found.]

***

Owen no longer moved his body directly to attack. Because it was impossible to attack Isaac, who was hiding inside the castle, like that.

Instead, he was knowledgeable about the structure of castles. Getting Isaac where he wanted to be was simple. Toward the long, narrow hallway that had been destroyed earlier and should have been left open.

And then he began his own siege.

It is a huge piece that is crumpled up and crawls like a snake.

Owen, who had become an Abomination, was crawling from across the hallway. He who wanted to become a paladin has now become a monster with no trace of his original appearance.

Moreover, in order to control numerous thoughts and bodies, his thinking was extremely simplified.

Kill Isaac!

“Grrrrgh!”

A loud noise rang out that shook the hallway. The sight of the flesh monster stomping its way through the narrow hallway was hideous. I looked around, but there was no door or window to escape.

The castle that Isaac entered to escape was now a trap.

“Isaac, I will stop it!”

Heshabel quickly stepped forward and took a stance. However, it seemed that not even her flimsy sword, short dagger, or crossbow that could knock down a running knight could possibly stop her Abomination.

She took a stance as if she was about to try this or that, and then looked at Isaac with the expression of a puppy that had dropped a snack in the water.

“What should I do?”

“I thought that at this point, people would say, ‘That’s enough, get the hell away’ and come forward… … .”

This means that I thought of it as an opportunity to score points and didn’t think much about it. She is also the heir to a family of conspirators and opportunists.

“Okay, get the hell away.”

Isaac stepped forward, dragging his sword. In fact, Isaac wasn’t without any thoughts.

That’s because it’s a card that’s hard to take out right away.

As Isaac approached, the Abomination roared again and stretched out its hands holding the spear blade. However, Isaac began to strike down the countless weapons that approached him one by one.

Zeng, quack, thud, thud!

The sound of bones and flesh being cut in succession was terrifying, but Isaac’s expression did not change at all.

“oh my god… … !”

Hesabel was surprised by Isaac’s sword skills and let out an exclamation.

However, Isaac also acted with great calculation.

‘As expected, durability is weak.’

In the game, Abomination is powerful, but it appears as a blood pig, that is, only its HP is abnormally high and its defense is extremely low.

Since the shape changes freely, the muscles have to be flexible, and the skeleton has no choice but to be flabby. Even having a solid carapace is impossible. Thanks to this, Isaac’s fancy cutting off limbs was as simple as cutting off tofu.

Moreover, although this narrow space was a trap that trapped Isaac, it was also terrain that made it impossible for the Abomination to suppress it using its large size. If the Abomination had attacked from all directions instead of attacking in a straight line like this, it would have been impossible for Isaac to counterattack like this.

All that remains is an angry novice swordsman with nearly infinite HP.

I couldn’t be Isaac’s opponent.

‘There’s only one thing I’m worried about… … .’

Isaac thought as he stepped on the blood and flesh dripping from his ankle.

Isaac’s only concern was that he would run out of health or the hallway would eventually fill up with the Abomination’s flesh and blood and he would drown. If that was the case, there was no way even Isaac could stop it. So we had to move on to the next step, but for that to happen, conditions had to be in place.

At that moment, will was transmitted from Zihilet to Isaac.

[Kyle Hendlock, found.]

A smile crept onto Isaac’s lips. The last condition is now complete.

The Abomination may not have liked Isaac’s smile, or perhaps it was angry that it could not hurt Isaac and was the only one being attacked, so it roared even more fiercely and rushed at him.

“Now there is no one in this castle who can be a witness.”

A clawed hand that looked like it was made from crumpled armor protruded from inside the Abomination’s body. Instead of swinging his sword at the clawed hand or dodging it, Isaac held out his fist as if to meet it.

bang! What was crushed with a loud noise was the Abomination’s fist wrapped around its clawed hand.

The tentacle that protruded from Isaac’s hand instantly wrapped around the Abomination’s fist and crushed it like crushing a clam. As his inner flesh burst out as if being squeezed out, Abomination roared in pain and fear, but pushed his body forward as if excited.

“Oooooh!”

At that time, Isaac’s stinging thoughts invaded him. The will and thoughts that were fluctuating within him as he came in contact with the Abomination were also connected to Isaac.

‘stupid! ‘You fool!’

‘Eat him! Absorb it!’

‘Make him just like us!’

Abomination had no intention of crushing Isaac. Rather, the intention was to contact him like he did now and absorb his body into the Abomination’s body.

Because that was Abomination’s most dangerous ability.

And as if his thoughts were correct, the tentacles disappeared as if they were quickly melting into a crushed fist. The skin covered the injured area and the bleeding stopped.

The Abomination began attacking Isaac with its entire body to absorb him.

However, Isaac was staring at the Abomination without any signs of agitation.

Because the message I was expecting had already appeared.

[I feasted on ‘Abomination’.]

[The ‘predation’ perk increases intake efficiency.]

[The ‘Body Fusion (Temporary)’ perk has been acquired.]

[The blessing will remain until it is digested.]