Dungeon Monsters Keep Offering Sacrifices

28 – They Pray and Regret (1)

Vice-captain Werter, who leads the Holy Knights.

The paladins, including him, were on guard and moving forward.

The place where they were now was a mountain range near the Kingdom of Seir, and one of them was a cave.

There were traces of the vampire they were targeting entering here, so they followed them in as well.

Under Werther’s orders, the paladins were searching for vampires inside the cave.

“Everyone, focus!”

I have already confirmed that this is not a dungeon. Although the energy of the dungeon was not measured, the paladins could not relax at all.

First of all, the opponent is a vampire.

No matter how much it is a rat in a poison, a monster is a monster.

Just in case, the two Holy Knights stood separately at the entrance of the cave.

A total of 18 people have come inside now, including Vice-Captain Werther.

No matter how rampant the vampires were, it was impossible to escape through this many paladins.

Another reason why Werther is especially nervous and on guard.

“It’s so clean. “Someone keeps managing it.”

Werther muttered softly.

The torches he had seen while walking down the aisle.

It was stuck to the wall and there was not a single dust.

The torches were all burning well without going out.

It was evidence that someone was continuously changing the fire.

“Vice-captain!”

Eric, the paladin who was ahead, shouted.

Werther went forward and checked at Eric’s shout.

An unexpected variable has appeared in front.

“There are three paths.”

The road I was traveling along suddenly split into three places.

Contrary to its appearance, the inside of the cave seemed to be a much larger place.

Werther thought for a moment.

‘What should I do with this?’

At present, the best option was to split the number of people and search.

What do you do if you are pushed to one side for no reason and the vampire runs away?

The current situation was also an opportunity that I managed to obtain after several days of chasing.

If you miss this point, all your hard work so far will have been in vain.

If that happens, the worst situation is that you will lose not only the vampire but also the magic sword you wanted.

‘I guess we’ll have to divide the number of people and search for them.’

The good news is that this is not a dungeon.

Therefore, there was less burden in dividing the number of people.

Of course, it bothered me that it was a place managed by someone, but I didn’t pay much attention to it.

‘Surely you would touch the church’s paladin?’

Who are we?

It is the only denomination on the El Dorad continent.

No big guy would dare touch the Holy Knights of the Holy Order.

However, there was one more problem for Werter.

Others may also notice the existence of the magic sword when they see the vampire.

Maybe even those who were not greedy would roll their eyes when they saw the magic sword.

‘Anyway, as long as you have the magic sword, it’s all over.’

As Werter pledged, he strengthened the hand holding his sword.

He promised that if there was anyone who stopped him, he would take his own life.

Even if that entity is a religious order.

Thinking like that, Werter began to divide the people.

Currently, there are 18 people including myself, and there are a total of three routes.

You can create 3 teams with 6 people each, and each team is in charge of one road.

At most, the only thing you can do is catch a young vampire.

6 Paladins are trying to catch just one?

It was an excessive number, not enough.

Werter began distributing the personnel one by one.

“First of all, Team 1 is Eric and Thomas… ….”

Based on the instructions, Team 1, which was created first, decided to take the road on the far left of the three paths.

“… “The people I just called, including Cable, are part 2 of Team 2!”

Team 2, created after Team 1, took the middle path.

“… “Of the people we just called, there are three teams including me!”

Three teams, including Vice-Captain Werther, were in charge of the rightmost path among the three paths.

“Everyone, don’t relax and do your best until the end! More!”

The three teams headed their respective paths.

* · * *

Celia, who was eating dessert with Aren, fell into thought for a moment.

It wasn’t a special concern.

It was just a matter of how to deal with the paladins who had entered the dungeon.

I already heard the story from Aren.

Those paladins probably came in while tracking Aren.

‘I’m worried.’

Her first was her own role.

If she goes out on her own, the dungeon will be easily protected.

But does the master really want that?

Recently, Celia was often absent from her position at the orders of her master.

She said that if she continues to step forward, it means that there will be less space for others to step forward.

This meant that problems would arise in dungeon defense.

What would happen if something like this happened while she was away?

To prevent such a situation, direct involvement had to be minimized.

‘I think it’s right for me not to take action on this issue.’

Celia decided to watch from behind rather than take action directly.

Probably the master wants this direction too.

And the second concern was the master’s order.

At first, her master told her to show mercy to all the paladins.

What is the mercy that the Master spoke of?

Celia thought and she thought again. She

And she concluded that the mercy is in the bosom of the Master.

That’s why she tried to turn the paladins into ghouls and place them in this dungeon in the master’s bosom.

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‘I was so foolish.’

But that wasn’t it.

Recently, the master again ordered us to offer everything as a sacrifice.

‘I guess you realized that I misunderstood.’

That’s probably why the master ordered again in simpler words.

‘… ….’

In Celia’s opinion, mercy was ultimately in the master’s arms.

But the results were different.

To summarize, it is like this.

The person offered as a sacrifice will become nourishment and a part of the master.

In the end, even if it was offered as a sacrifice, it was as if it was still in the arms of its master.

It did not mean that it had to be made into a ghoul, but that it should be embraced by the merciful master himself.

In short, the mercy and sacrifice that the Master spoke of had the same meaning.

‘As expected, benevolent master. Today too, Celia gets one step closer to her master’s thoughts.’

Aren asked as Celia quietly nodded her head.

“What is your pretty sister thinking?”

“I was just admiring the great master’s insight.”

Their tea time continued.

* · * *

The Paladins were divided into three teams.

Team 2 was the first to arrive.

As a team headed towards the middle of the three paths, the Paladins included could not help but be embarrassed.

“What! “Why are there goblins here?”

He clearly said that this was not a dungeon.

But goblins and monsters existed.

The Holy Knights raised their weapons forward and gathered vigilance.

“Luckily, they are only goblins.”

“That’s right! “There are only goblins anyway.”

All of the Paladins nodded and agreed to that statement.

Even though there are only 6 of us, aren’t we the proud knights of the church?

Even the equipment was all of the highest quality.

No matter how many goblins there were, they couldn’t interfere with the general trend.

Some of the goblins’ equipment was something I had never seen before, so it was annoying, but I didn’t pay much attention to it.

After all, they are just goblins.

But there was a separate problem.

Even though there were a lot of them, they were too many.

Even now, goblins are still coming out of the hut.

The number of goblins continued to increase.

Then you need to change your strategy.

“Damn it! “Hold on as long as you can until help comes!”

Hold on.

You must endure unconditionally.

It seemed like monsters only existed in the place he entered.

Otherwise, this number of goblins made no sense.

Even if we wait so long, other teams will come to help.

In that case, no matter how many opposing goblins there were, we still had a chance of victory.

So the Paladins took their time confronting the goblins.

At that time, Paladin Kable caught sight of a being at the very back.

“That….”

It looked different from other goblins. In particular, my attention was drawn to the golden crown resting on that head.

“… “It’s the Goblin Lord!”

The Goblin Lord is a 5-star monster.

Not only was he not alone, but there were also many goblins surrounding him.

It was not a situation where we could fight as only 6 people.

No matter how well-equipped the Paladin was, he was left behind in the most important aspects: quantity and momentum.

“Shouldn’t we retreat first?”

The priority was to let people know that there was a Goblin Lord.

They all nodded and walked back very slowly.

In a place like this, turning one’s back would mean death, so he acted like that.

They were still moving back, pointing their swords at the goblins.

Then the Goblin Lord began to move.

The Goblin Lord picked up a long staff and pointed it at the paladins.

“What is that?”

“Could it be a poisonous sting?”

The poison stinger baton is one of the weapons frequently used by goblins.

Perhaps that long stick held by the Goblin Lord is also a poison needle?

“Goblin poison can’t do any harm to us anyway! “Don’t worry, just keep retreating little by little!”

Luckily for them, there was also poison resistance training during the Paladin’s training.

If not all poisons, it was at least sufficiently resistant to the poisons used by goblins.

I was backing away like that.

Tang-

A loud sound struck the inside.

At the same time, one paladin fell. With a hole right in the middle of the face.

No one could move as it happened so quickly.

What on earth happened?

In the blink of an eye, a colleague died.

Tang-

Another loud noise was heard and one more colleague fell.

Tang-

No one could cope properly.

Tang-

As the sound continued, someone lost their temper and rushed at the goblin.

However, the paladin’s sword was blocked by the goblin’s armor he had never seen before.

“Uh… ?”

Tang-

He also could not avoid the sound of death.

Every time there was a loud noise, one person fell down.

Like the sound of death played by the devil.

Although this was secret, it brought tragedy and pain to those who heard it.

Or despair.

Paladin Kable, who was left alone until the end, threw away his equipment, closed his eyes, and folded his hands.

Then he prayed.

“Oh, goddess… Please protect this lost young soul. Please….”

Fortunately, the devil’s playing sound stopped.

But this was not because the goddess listened to their prayers.

The devil’s playing stopped, but the devils were reaching out directly towards Kabul.

Only regret and silence lingered.