Genius Warlock-Episode 598
598. twisted persuasion (1)
“how did this happen?”
A village arrived under the guidance of Gavino, a member of the Swan Church..
As soon as he saw the village, Captain Mero said:.
The reason was that there was not a single ant baby in sight, let alone a prince candidate who had applied for asylum in the village they had barely arrived at..
Mero immediately pulled Gabino by the shoulder and asked in a urging manner..
“Hey what happened? Where did the prince candidate go??”
“Me, I don’t know! The prince was here when I left!!”
Gavino was also embarrassed, so he spoke urgently..
Judging from my emotional state, it wasn't a lie..
“Here are the signs of an attack.”
At that moment, one of the guards who was looking around raised his hand and said, and Captain Mero let go of Gavino and walked towards it..
Oliver naturally followed too, and as the guard said, there were traces of an attack not that long ago..
“The attack by the prince candidate... I don't think so.”
A cabin with traces of human habitation.
Captain Mero judged by looking at the collapsed walls, windows, and broken doors of the cabin..
Oliver agreed. It looked more like an attack by an animal than a person..
‘Above all, if the prince candidate attacked, no trace like this would be left behind..’
Oliver thought about the prince candidate of the Swan Church whom he encountered while searching for the legacy of the human meat cook in the past..
He wears a thistle crown on his head and carries an awl-shaped sword that looks like it was made from a piece of flesh..
It would have been better if there were no traces. I wouldn't have left such a small trace..
Perhaps it was the same for other people as well, so they ruled out the possibility that a prince candidate had attacked them and brought up other possibilities. chamberlain-
“-Did monsters attack??”
Monsters that haunt the cursed land.
I had seen Oliver once too. A horse with a human face).
I heard that it is a monster that appears under the influence of the cursed land..
“There's one thing I don't understand.”
Oliver, who had been quiet, slightly raised his hand..
Naturally, the attention of the people around him was focused on Oliver..
“If it wasn't a prince candidate attacking you, but just a monster attacking you, I don't understand why you ran away. As far as I know, the prince candidate is quite strong..”
Everyone looked at Gavino in silence to see if they agreed with what Oliver said..
It was somewhat difficult to understand why he left the village to avoid a monster attack, rather than running away from a potential prince..
It was true that the monsters that haunted the cursed land were a threat, but that was limited to the general public..
Even a trained soldier could handle it to some extent, let alone a superhuman..
Even Oliver could be subdued simply by firing an ordinary Gatling machine gun attached to a car..
“Our prince doesn't know how to fight.”
Gabino answered, and he meant it..
“They don't know how to fight.?”
“Yes, unlike other princes, he does not kill people, but saves them..”
Gabino continued to explain.
It is said that each of the prince candidates of the Swan Cult receives a gift from the Swan Princess, the leader of the cult, and exercises power appropriate to that gift..
The awl knife used by the prince candidate whom Oliver first met is one of them..
“And the prince I served received a ring that healed people, and he cured the sick with it. He saves people, not harms them.”
Gavino said in an extremely serious voice..
One security guard sarcastically.
“Pretending to be pious is not about sacrificing people..”
“Watch your mouth! He is the one who saves ten people by sacrificing one person in this place where there are no proper doctors..”
These words were also sincere without embellishment..
It seems that they were not simply asking Vienna City for help due to a power struggle..
The voice rises briefly. Captain Mero, the person in charge of this incident, calmed the people down and brought the conversation back on track..
“Anyway, according to what you said, your prince doesn't have the ability to fight. Right?”
“That's right. But it's strange. One of the prince's believers knows how to use black magic to hide from the monsters here. Why did this happen?.”
Gavino muttered as if he really couldn't understand..
However, I don't know either..
Captain Mero, who had a lot to think about, scratched his head and asked Gabino if he had any idea where they had evacuated..
“doesn't exist. The situation is too urgent to decide that.”
“Damn it, I'm screwed.”
“what are you going to do?”
After hearing the answer, the security guard looked at Mero and asked, and Mero gathered his thoughts and then made a decision..
“Hey, Jorge. Take the kids and search around. Because he may have left traces while running away. The rest, with the minimum number of people, guard the surrounding area and search the village. Maybe there's something more?.”
The guards did not welcome the order, but they did not reject it either..
Knowing how important this incident is to the security of Vienna City.
Everyone followed the instructions and moved quickly, and Oliver naturally blended in among the people and searched the village..
There's a place I'd like to personally check out..
***
Squeak······.
While everyone was searching the village and surrounding area.
Oliver stops by a chapel on the corner of town and finds a secret door hidden in the floor..
It's as if he knew it in advance. It was somewhat similar.
Among the demonic books obtained from the flesh cook's secret vault, there was a book about this cursed land..
‘Was it an arrogant town?······.’
Of course, I wasn't sure until Captain Mero explained it to me..
Tongue-!
When I opened the thick iron door hidden in the floor and went down, I found another chapel as written in the book..
A twisted chapel built by villagers who fell into the arrogance of faith..
According to what is recorded in the book, the people who lived in the cursed land were so faithful that they fell into the arrogance that they were the only ones loved by God and committed many sins..
As if to prove it, evidence of twisted faith remained in the underground chapel..
A large altar, torture devices, hardened blood after a long time, torn paper, etc..
It is unknown whether it was voluntary or a ploy by the devil, but it is said that fanatical beliefs were distorted into devil worship, and ultimately crossed a line that should not be crossed, resulting in a cursed land..
Oliver had two questions here..
The first was why the story was distorted..
Captain Mero said that the cursed land was created because of a devil worshiper who cursed the faithful villagers, but in reality it was quite the opposite..
It was the original inhabitants who fell into the arrogance of their faith that created this cursed land..
I wondered if it had been distorted over time, but the story was changed so cleverly that I didn't think it was a simple distortion..
Rather, I had a stronger feeling that someone had cleverly changed it..
The second question was, what on earth is the devil?.
I've had this subtle feeling since ancient times, but it didn't seem like the devil was simply an evil being as taught in the Paterism..
Those who were burned, the contents written in the devil's book, or this cursed land. What role did it seem to play?.
‘like······.’
“Oh, were you here??”
As Oliver was gathering his thoughts and collecting torn paper and hardened blood around him, Captain Mero's voice rang out..
“Captain Mero.”
“Where are we??”
Captain Mero came down and asked.
“I don't know either. I found it by chance while looking around..”
Oliver spoke so naturally..
It didn't mean anything bad. I felt like the story would be too long if I just explained that I read it from the devil's book, so I just wrapped it around a bit..
By a similar logic, Oliver changed the flow of the story..
“But what's going on??”
“The people who went out to search have returned. They found traces of where the prince candidate went..”
it was true.
When I went outside the underground chapel and heard the detailed story, I was told that Jorge, a smuggler-turned-guard, had found traces leading to a nearby village..
“I know this well because it is a section where smugglers sometimes take a break. To begin with, there is no place for people to rest other than this direction, so whether you like it or not, this is the only place to go..”
Claims from experience. Captain Mero got straight to the point..
“In other words, doesn't that mean it's a place where it's easy to get caught? Another prince candidate is leading his men and searching the surrounding area.?”
“Most likely so. So you have to decide right now. If you want to go, you have to go as fast as possible or withdraw. If you behave carelessly, you will gain nothing and only end up in danger..”
Captain Mero thought about it, but it wasn't as long as before..
“Continue with the mission. You can't come this far and go back empty-handed. Mr. Dave. Could you please remove the miniaturization spell and return the car to its original size??”
“It's possible, but would you mind? You said that traveling by car can make you a target for monsters because of the noise.?”
“Yes, I did. But now I think speed is more important than caution..”
Oliver was convinced..
The original plan was to take the hiding prince in exile and escape as quietly as possible, but that plan has already gone awry. There was a need to revise the plan accordingly..
“I have one more favor to ask you..”
6Mero spoke to Oliver, who was returning the military vehicle to its original condition..
“I will give you a separate vehicle, so can you move it separately from us??”
“I don't quite understand what you're saying, though.?”
“It's a feeling, but if you drive by, it won't be long before a monster attacks or an encounter with the Swan Church..”
It was a very possible story. Jorge, who was explaining the geography, also said that there was a high possibility of meeting the Swan Church..
“If we meet, whether we like it or not, our ankles will be grabbed..”
Oliver nodded..
“If that happens, we will act as bait and attract their attention, so in the meantime, I would like Dave to go to the village on his own and check if there is a prince in exile. In this case, I think it would be more effective for Dave to move alone..”
“I don't mind, but would you mind??”
Oliver asked sincerely. Of course, the security of Vienna City is at stake in this case..
Although the situation was not favorable, I wondered if I could leave everything to Oliver like this..
“Because the situation is urgent. And the mayor told me to leave it here if I had to. I heard that Landa believes in Dave's reputation. So he said he would accept whatever the outcome was..”
“I know what you mean... If something goes wrong in the middle, I will go and check on my own. It would be better if it didn't happen that way.”
***
“It happens like this too.”
Not even a few minutes after the car ride, Oliver said:.
As if to prove that bad premonitions do not go astray, we drove and soon after, various monsters inhabiting the cursed land appeared and began to attack us as if they were determined to do so..
Monsters with terrible shapes, like Creatures and Landa's pollutants, came out sporadically and tried to overturn the car..
Vienna City's city guard mobilized various equipment to try to shake it off..
It did quite well at first. Soon, raiders presumed to be members of the Swan Church joined in and the flow was cut off..
Starting with firearms, sickles, saws, hoes, etc. The Swan Cult, armed with miscellaneous weapons, clung tenaciously and overturned one of the cars running in the lead, which resulted in everyone being caught by their ankles..
The only thing they couldn't catch was Oliver in the custom car that Philip gave him as a gift..
Oliver drove alone to the village as he had discussed with Mero in advance..
I think this is the best now that speed is the most important thing..
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo━━!!
When he reached the entrance to the village, Oliver quickly turned the car and fired a Gatling machine gun at the monsters of the cursed land chasing behind, wiping them all out, then got out of the car..
Then immediately activate the Warlock's Eye. I scanned the village and didn't find any people..
However, something unusual was detected..
Oliver reflexively headed there..
Clap.
A man's body was found inside a shabby abandoned house..
A corpse with a messy finger cut off.
The corpse was sitting on a chair, and Oliver could tell that it was a prince candidate by the thistle crown on its head..
This one is late.
However, Oliver was not disappointed. Because right now, there was someone I was more concerned about standing at the door..
A red man with mottled, discolored skin wearing a thistle crown on his head..
Oliver looked at him and greeted him..
“Long time no see. Mr. Unbending Knees.”
***
I couldn't understand the knee that wouldn't bend at first..
Why can't I fight with Dave?.
I saw with my own eyes that he was a strong person, and I heard that he even defeated a fan, but I still couldn't understand Puppet's words about having to persuade him instead of fighting him..
As Dave became stronger, his unbending knee also increased his strength by killing the Swan Church's prince candidates and stealing their objects..
I thought I could at least try it once..
To be exact, I wanted revenge, but.
Stop the Red Men from taking revenge and seek revenge on Dave for having a hand in the annihilation of the tribe..
However, even though Puppet knew that fact, he did not think about fighting, but instructed him to persuade him to do as he told him..
Don't let Dave interfere with them in the future. So that I can at least hesitate.
Even though I know the resentment, revenge, hatred, and anger of the unbending knee,.
But surprisingly, the moment I faced Dave, I realized the reason for my unbending knees..
The Swan Princess made a deal with the devil in exchange for the end of the world..
It was because the unbending knee, a prince candidate who fully received her blessings, was finally able to see Dave properly..
This guy - no, this being couldn't be defeated. I didn't even win.
Realizing that fact, Unbending Knee activates the Ring of Grace and Collection that it had just taken away. He controlled her body and made it speak for him..
“Make a deal. do. I would like to.”
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