When the Pope Becomes Competent - Chapter 109



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◈109. The Cursed Princess

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I wish the gold box was mine this time too… but unfortunately it wasn’t.

This time Petros got the golden box.

It seems that the ones who left the room quickly received the gold and silver boxes.

So, the second time I left the room, I opened the silver box, but there wasn’t really any good reward.

[Spirit Summon Ticket (1 time)]

-A summoning ticket that can summon spirits.

-The rank of the summoned spirit is determined by the user’s divine power or magical power.

I’ve never really been a fan of summoning spirits.

Even the small, low-level spirits summoned with the Nerebloka arrows absorbed a tremendous amount of divine power.

Even if you could use this ticket to summon intermediate or advanced spirits, it would probably cost you a huge amount of money.

So I quietly put my reward in my inventory and looked at the rewards of the other party members.

Once Bliss opened the box of the same color, it seemed like she had obtained five intermediate potions.

And Petros, who opened the golden box… … .

“Invisibility cloak?”

Petros muttered this absentmindedly as he looked at the information window of the item he had acquired.

Petros nodded after hearing my muttering.

“Is this a cloak that makes you transparent?”

“oh…….”

“If I had it earlier, it would have been much easier on the first floor… … .”

The guy licked his lips as if he was sorry.

Actually, if there had been a cloak that could make the body transparent, it would have been easy to approach the band skeletons on the first floor while avoiding the eyes of the worker skeletons.

But that’s already in the past, I told Petros.

“Let’s use it on the third floor. There will probably be some really difficult gatekeeper monsters and boss monsters there.”

After hearing me, Petros draped his cloak over his shoulders.

Bliss also took out the weapon she had obtained on the first floor and packed it away.

After that, we slowly walked towards the third floor entrance that appeared shortly thereafter.

Arriving at the 3rd floor, I felt a sense of excitement.

There was a large door there―

“It’s a gatekeeper monster.”

As I just said, there was also a gatekeeper monster.

They were monsters that looked like two knights wearing armor.

The two’s armors had the same design, but their colors were different: blue and red.

A message box that soon appeared made the identities of those red and blue knights a little clearer.

[The monsters “Cursed Twin Ghost Knights” have detected your presence!]

The cursed twin ghost knights.

That was the official name of those red and blue knights.

As soon as the message came up, they raised their heads and creaked.

A blue light flashed inside the helmet.

【This place, this is the princess’s―】

【This is the princess’s room, her room. Go back, go back.】

The two ghost knights spoke in turn and drew their swords.

Then, a woman’s crying began to be heard from across the door they were guarding.

It was probably the cry of a boss monster.

The source of the crying that had been heard in the dungeon was also that boss monster.

“Let’s not waste our energy here and just get this over with.”

As soon as I finished speaking, the monsters rushed towards us.

I was the first one to clash weapons.

While I was clashing swords with the blue knight guy, Bliss used her skill.

Damn it―

There was a freezing sound and the red knight’s legs froze.

It was the effect of Bliss’ skill, Eternal Snow Shackles.

Then Petros activated the thorn bush.

Spears of light shot out from the ground and pierced the red knight’s body.

In the meantime I―

Kagan―!

He struck the blue knight’s shoulder armor with the Baekhwamyeongwol sword he was holding.

The bastard’s arm fell off and he fell to the floor.

While I was cutting off the blue knight’s arm, Bliss swung her blade and cut off the red knight’s head.

Empty-

The red knight’s helmet fell to the ground.

Bliss muttered, looking at the inside of the armor that was revealed thanks to that.

“… … The inside of the armor is empty.”

“It’s a ghost knight, so it probably has no form. Anyway, if you cut off its balls, it won’t be able to move any further—”

While I was talking, a blue knight with only one arm left rushed in.

I tried to block his sword, then kick him.

After that, I was planning to use my skill to finish it off―

【Get up… my brother… … .】

Suddenly the blue knight said that.

A strange thing happened right after that.

The red knight’s armor, which had clearly been cut off and had ended, began to rattle and then began to reattach itself.

Clunk, clunk―

The head that had fallen moved on its own and returned to its original position.

Soon, the red guy was resurrected in the same appearance as before.

‘Tsk, was that a resurrection spell that the blue guy just said…?’

It seemed to be a monster that would come back to life if one of them died and the other one remaining said the resurrection keyword.

then…….

“Should I take care of both of them at once?”

I explained it to my companions and continued speaking.

“Even if only one of them survives, if he casts the resurrection spell, the other one will also come back to life. We have to kill them both at once so that they can’t cast the resurrection spell.”

The group nodded in agreement with what I said.

I then called Bliss.

“Bliss, can you tie those two guys up with chains?”

“Let’s give it a try.”

“Petros, you and I will attack while Bliss chains the two. I will take the red one, you take the blue one. Like I said, we have to take them down in one shot.”

“Yes. I will go with a ranged attack.”

A long-range attack? I suddenly felt curious and asked the guy.

“Do you have a ranged attack?”

“Thanks to the item I got on the first floor earlier, my weapon now has a special effect that allows me to launch ranged attacks.”

“iced coffee.”

While we were talking, Bliss, who had been holding back the red armored guy, opened her mouth.

“Now that we’re done chatting, shall we begin?”

“okay.”

As soon as I gave the order, Bliss activated her skill.

It was the help of the dead.

Soon, the summoned dead…the spirits seeped into Bliss’ blade.

The chains possessed by the spirit began to move freely in the air as if they were living things.

Charurk!

Bliss hurled her chain blades at the knights.

The knights tried to strike it down, of course, but each time they did, the spirits inhabiting the chain blades would move the chains around and dodge.

Before long, both knights were found bound in chains.

I immediately sent a signal to Petros.

“Now is the time!”

Then he spread out his sharp crescent moon and cut off the red knight’s neck with his sword.

Then Petros also waved his spear in the air.

Okay then.

Wheezing!

A sharp gust of wind blew from the tip of the spear the man swung.

The sliver of wind, sharp as a blade, finally subsided after neatly cutting off the blue knight’s neck.

A situation where two knights’ necks were cut off at the same time due to a joint attack.

We looked at the monsters with some nervousness.

The monsters didn’t move again even after waiting for a long time.

“Phew… … . It’s over.”

As I sighed and made that judgment, Bliss also put away her chain blade.

Petros approached the monster’s corpse, which had been reduced to a piece of ordinary armor.

Then he tapped it with the tip of his foot.

“It’s easier than I thought.”

“Because it’s just a gatekeeper monster. The real monster is beyond that gate.”

After saying that, I stared beyond the door where the knights were standing guard.

Beyond that, the sound of a woman’s sobbing was still flowing out.

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The three brothers, who had been riding on the workhorses from the Marquis Lazarus’ residence, arrived at the dungeon shortly thereafter.

Ivan, who was the first to get off the riding horse, looked back at his brothers who followed him and asked.

“Ready?”

The second son, Ruslan, and the third son, Victor, answered the question.

“Okay.”

“me too.”

After hearing his brothers’ answers, Ivan turned his head back and stared at the dungeon.

Then I walked slowly and stood in front of the dungeon door.

“Okay. I’m going in.”

As he said this, he grabbed the doorknob of the castle.

It was at that moment that something strange happened.

Phagectic!

As I tried to open the dungeon door, a powerful spark flew from the doorknob.

Ivan, surprised, took a step back.

“what……?”

He reached for the doorknob again, looking bewildered.

however.

Dismissed!

Another spark jumped out and interrupted him.

Eventually he gave up on grabbing the doorknob.

Instead, I slammed my body against the door with all my might, trying to force it open.

Thud!

There was a sound like a ball being kicked and his body was pushed away from the door.

The moment he hit the door, a strange repulsive force took effect and pushed him away.

Ivan muttered as he was pushed far away.

“I can’t enter the dungeon… … ?”

For Ivan, who still didn’t know that if someone was raiding a dungeon, no one else could access it, the situation was simply absurd.

Ivan stared at the door, not understanding why he couldn’t get in.

Ruslan, who was watching the situation at that time, said:

“Isn’t it that evil monsters are afraid of us and are preventing us from entering?”

“Damn it. Is that so? If we don’t go in and rescue the Pope and his entourage, things will get worse… … .”

The youngest, who heard the story of the two older brothers, came up with an idea at that moment.

“Let’s attack at once and break down the door.”

Ivan and Ruslan nodded after hearing the youngest’s words.

Then they each raised their weapons.

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We slowly entered the final boss room.

A message immediately popped up reminding us where we were.

[You have entered the boss room, 『Duke’s Young Lady’s Waiting Room』, of the L-rank dungeon 『Ashen Ballroom of Souls』.]

As the message said, the 3rd floor boss room was exactly like someone’s waiting room.

I saw a large wardrobe that looked like something a noble lady would have used in the distant past, and a fancy dressing table.

The wardrobe and dressing table that were once splendid, but have now turned ashen with the passage of time… … .

And in front of that dressing table, sitting was a woman with a thin back.

【Sigh, sob… … .】

She, the boss monster who had been the cause of all the crying we had heard so far, was still ignoring us.

I quickly opened the information window during that gap.

[Cursed Duke Youngae, Sophie (L)]

[Skills held]

―Sad sob (S)

-Arin’s Breath (S)

―Roar of Pain (S)

―Shadow Maid (L)

– Mutation (L)

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*Special note: He was invited to a ballroom where all the people of Yeongji were invited, but he did not invite the witch, so he received a terrible curse from her.

By doing so, he lost his reason and became a monster that eats people.

Since it was a monster, karma didn’t appear, but instead, you could look at its skills.

Her difficult circumstances are also listed in the special notes section.

It was a sad story that he had been cursed by a witch, but he had become a monster that ate people, so he couldn’t be left alive.

I told my companions.

“Let’s get started.”

Petros and Bliss activated their skills at the same time after receiving my signal.

Petros has a skill called “Digging Spear” that increases the spear’s penetration power.

And Bliss rushed towards the Duke’s daughter while activating “Blue Claws of the Frozen Corpse” which infused her weapons with cold air.

At that moment, the Duke’s wife turned her head and looked at us.

“… … !!”

For a moment, all three of us paused in surprise.