Return of the Calamity-Class Death Knight

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Chapter 273: The Demonic Followers (2)

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Half of the demonic followers crumbled.

However, something was strange. The bleeding, ruptured muscles, and shattered bones that one would expect to see in humans were not visible.

It was as if he was looking at a viscous liquid. Radiant Light spoke as if she was surprised by the sight.

“Oh, I thought I was going to kill you all at once. You must have sacrificed a lot to the demon, haven’t you?”

“Ugh! You damn bitch!”

“Wh-what did you do to us!”

The upper bodies of the demonic followers were glued to the floor. Their bodies were crushed little by little as if being crushed by an invisible lump.

“Th-this monstrous bitch!”

The leader of the demonic followers stretched out his arm that had turned into a hyena.

The hyena chattered its jaws and reached out to Radiant Light. However, it couldn’t go far and was stuck to the ground.

“You’re tougher than I thought. Are you getting bored? Do you want to die quickly?”

Radiant Light pointed to the ground with her index finger again. Then, the gravity became even stronger, and the bodies of the demonic followers were completely crushed.

Only black liquid spread out wide where the demonic followers had been.

“It was nothing.”

It was then that Radiant Light said that.

The black liquid flowed along the ground and began to gather in one place.

And then the black liquid turned into a giant and raised its body.

-Ugh, ugh, ahhh.

The giant let out a strange cry. It seemed that its intelligence had been drastically reduced.

“I completely smashed it, but it’s fusion… It doesn’t seem like they are serving an ordinary demon…”

At that moment, the giant swung its arm. The arm stretched out like a whip and covered Radiant Light and her party.

Radiant Light and Green Wind immediately kicked the ground. Damien also hugged Agnes and moved away.

The giant’s arm hit the ground where the four had been. The surrounding ground turned to dust and scattered.

Radiant Light lowered her index finger again. Gravity became even stronger.

However, the giant was neither crushed nor crushed. It stood there unscathed.

Radiant Light’s eyes widened at the sight.

“What do you think, Green Wind?”

“They say they fused, but it’s absurd for demonic followers to resist my sister’s power.”

The demonic followers were like disposable pieces that the demon used for a while.

The fact that just a few of them combined were resisting the power of the Five Great Elders was absurd, even if Radiant Light hadn’t shown her true power.

“It seems that the demon summoned here is not an ordinary one. As we guessed at headquarters, it must be a Marquis class demon, and one of the top ranks…”

“Green Wind, that’s not what I’m asking.”

Maybe it was because of her mood.

Radiant Light’s voice turned sharp. It seemed like the temperature around them had dropped considerably.

“How dare you, bastards who have clung to the demon, resist the power that God have bestowed upon me! Until now, such blasphemous sight….”

Radiant Light took out a model axe from her bosom. As she infused it with divine power, it grew in size.

The model became a real weapon. Radiant Light lifted the halberd lightly and said.

“Oh, God. Oh, great father. I will send one of them up right now.”

Radiant Light immediately charged at the giant. Soon, a roar erupted.

As Radiant Light swung her halberd, the giant’s arm and shoulder were torn off in one piece.

The giant screeched and swung its other arm. Radiant Light grabbed it with her bare hands and swung it around. The giant’s arm was torn off.

“Ugh… She is really pissed off. No one can stop her.”

Green Wind put her fingers to her forehead as if she had a headache.

“Damien, can you keep an eye on the surroundings? I’m going to go calm my sister down.”

Green Wind turned her body into wind and flew towards Radiant Light.

Damien felt sorry for the giant who had to face two of the Five Great Elders all of a sudden.

“They are both quite hot-tempered.”

“This is the proper attitude to take towards these scums.”

Agnes, who was standing next to him, said in a pious tone. Damien looked at Agnes with a bored expression.

Sometimes he forgot, but Agnes was also a paladin.

It was then.

Something was detected by Damien’s senses.

He turned his head in the direction of the detection. But all he could see were trees.

“Sir Damien?”

The moment Agnes asked, Damien swung the Dawn.

The aurablade sliced through the ground. The forest was split in half.

A shadow emerged from the split ground. The shadow transformed into a person in mid-air.

“Oh ho, so you can see through my hiding.”

The monster looked at Damien and asked.

Leisureliness was evident in his expression and demeanor. This meant that he was confident in his abilities.

“I came here after the lower ones sent me a distress signal… I never thought I’d find paladins hiding here. Tell me your names. Then I’ll kill you gently.”

“No thanks.”

Damien said as if he was annoyed. The monster’s eyes twitched.

“No? No? You stupid and foolish bastard. You can’t even recognize what’s in front of you and you’re being cheeky.”

Agnes whispered softly in Damien’s ear.

“It seems that he doesn’t know you, Sir Damien.”

“Or maybe he’s just an idiot.”

“What are you two whispering about!”

The monster shouted and unleashed his dark mana.

Damien looked at the man with an intrigued expression. This was because the amount of dark mana was enormous, but its purity was also extremely high.

“You fool! I’ll only tell you this once, so listen carefully. And be afraid. I am the nameless one! I am the apostle chosen by the demon!”

“Apostle?”

As Damien asked back, the apostle’s face became arrogant.

“You’re stupid, but you seem to know about apostles!”

“Of course I do. They’re just a bunch of dogs who are more closely attached to the demon.”

The apostle blinked twice. His face then turned bright red.

“How dare you… this body… my master… insult them in such a way!”

The amount of dark mana emanating from the apostle increased even more. In terms of the amount of dark mana alone, it was comparable to a Giant Evils.

“I’ll pull out your tongue right now and offer it to my master!”

The apostle rushed at Damien. He gathered his dark mana and transformed his hands into monster hands.

The apostle swung his monster hands around, trying to tear Damien apart. Damien and Agnes stepped back together.

The monster hand slammed into the ground. Then, something strange happened.

Not only was the ground shattered, but it was also instantly dyed green.

It wasn’t the fresh green that could be seen in nature.

It was much darker and more slimy. The whole ground was rotting.

“Heh, do you see? This is the power I have gained as an apostle. Anything that touches this hand rots. Living things decay, and inanimate objects corrode!”

Apostles were those who were granted not only power but also authority by the demon.

They could not freely wield power like the demon, but they were certainly a formidable presence.

“You’d better be careful. Just a graze will cause your whole body to rot and fall apart.”

The apostle transformed his monster hand once more. Sharp blades protruded from all over the hand.

However, Damien was not the least bit interested in the power the apostle had shown.

“I needed information, so this is perfect. An apostle like you must know a lot, right?”

“Arrogant bastard!”

The apostle reached out towards Damien. Monster hands poured out like arrows.

Damien swung the Dawn to cut down the apostle. At the sight, the apostle laughed at Damien.

“You’re much more ignorant than I thought! That sword is useless in front of the power bestowed upon me by my master…”

The Dawn and the monster hand collided. But contrary to the apostle’s expectations, the Dawn did not corrode.

Instead, it cut off the monster hand. It was like melting a large piece of cheese with a hot knife.

“Kuaaaak!”

The apostle grabbed his half-cut hand and stepped back.

The wound inflicted by the Dawn continued to burn incessantly. The divine power contained in the Dawn was annihilating the demon’s power.

“I wondered why the church sent out such a young kid… but he’s been given an absurdly powerful Holy sword!”

The apostle began to wrap his body in his power. His entire body except for his face was stained with demonic power.

“Stupid fool! You should have cut my throat just now!”

The apostle flew towards Damien. It seemed as if he was trying to ram him with his demonic power-clad body.

At that moment, Damien swung the Dawn.

The apostle’s form disappeared as he moved his hand. Then, flashes of light cut through the air several times.

The apostle’s arms and legs were cut off. The severed limbs were instantly corrupted and disappeared. Losing his center of gravity, the demonic power also dissipated.

The apostle fell to the ground with his limbs missing. His eyes shook wildly as if in disbelief.

“Wh-what just happened… Ugh!”

Damien raised his foot and stepped on the apostle’s chest.

“Don’t even think about regenerating your limbs. If you don’t want to be left with just your head.”

Even with the apostle’s level of vitality, he would survive for a few hours if only his head was left.

That would be enough time to extract information.

“I’m going to ask you a few questions from now on. It would be in your best interest to answer honestly.”

“You… don’t talk to me like that…! Do you think I’ll betray my master!”

Despite being outnumbered, the apostle was not at all discouraged. Instead, he became even more agitated.

“You fool! Do whatever you want! I will never give in!”

“Ah, I see I misunderstood. I’m not the one who’s going to interrogate you. There’s a much more skilled specialist than me.”

At the word “specialist,” a question mark briefly appeared on the apostle’s face.

“Sir Damien? What’s going on here?”

Then, Radiant Light and Green Wind approached from behind. Despite moving so violently, there was not a speck of dust on Radiant Light’s clothes.

“Who’s that man over there?”

“He’s an apostle of the demon. He attacked us two just now.”

“Oh, my.”

A smile appeared on Radiant Light’s lips.

The moment the apostle saw that smile, he felt a chill down his spine.

“Mam Radiant Light, you once worked as an interrogator, didn’t you?”

“Ah… so you know. It was a very meaningful time for me to be able to carry out the will of God.”

Radiant Light’s smile grew wider and wider. The more she did so, the more the apostle’s sense of fear grew.

“Would you mind showing off your skills for a while?”

“Of course.”

Damien took his foot off and stepped back. Then Radiant Light approached.

“I’ll answer honestly! So please…”

“Shhh.”

Radiant Light raised her index finger to her lips. Her face was incredibly beautiful, but the apostle had no time to appreciate Radiant Light’s beauty.

“In my experience, scums like you always lie at first. So I have them have a time of repentance first.”

Radiant Light stepped on the apostle’s head. And she gathered divine power in her soles.

“Kuaaaaak!”

Divine power began to burn the apostle’s flesh. The apostle screamed and shouted.

“Now let’s have a time to repent to God.”

Radiant Light’s face looked incredibly pious as she spoke.

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