Dungeon Monsters Keep Offering Sacrifices

42 – Bad relations will inevitably reappear

The White Church of the El Dorad Continent.

Aurel, the highest priest of the church, was going down to the basement accompanied by high-ranking priests.

As I went down the stairs one by one, darkness engulfed all my senses.

A cold feeling felt from somewhere enveloped the air, making it cold and the deathly silence settling down like a weight.

That feeling continued for a while.

It was a long time before everyone was silent and went down the stairs in silence.

At the end of the basement we arrived at, there was a huge iron door.

In front of the iron door, there were layers of iron locks blocking it.

Anyone could see that it was an unusual space.

Heresy inquisitors were stationed in front of the iron gate.

“Are you here, High Priest?”

As they bowed their heads, Aurel gently lifted his hand.

“You always have a hard time.”

After each person’s greetings, the Heresy Questioners began to move in earnest.

“Highest Minister, I will open the iron gate now.”

A high-ranking priest behind Aurel shouted at the Heresy Inquisitor’s words.

“Let everyone surround their bodies with divine power! Weakness will lead to death, so let the only Goddess protect us, and only then will we move forward without fear!”

A faint light burst into the dark space.

It felt like a cozy feeling.

But that warmth was short-lived.

The Heresy Questioners were unsealing the iron gates one by one.

The first lock was released.

An unknown sound began to break the frightening silence.

The second lock was unlocked.

A rotten smell along with a bit of humidity stung my nose.

The third lock was unlocked.

It felt as if time had stopped here, reminding me of the absence of space.

The fourth lock was unlocked.

The scent of death is in the air. I didn’t know why, but I felt lonely and helpless, and I felt like I was being robbed of hope in the darkness.

Finally, the last lock was released and the huge iron door slowly opened.

Only darkness exists.

At the same time, this will be death.

The scent of life had completely disappeared and only the feeling of being in the arms of death awakened my entire body.

“Everyone, brace yourselves.”

After a brief request from Aurel, the highest priest, everyone began to pass through the iron gate.

The interior was monotonous.

The appearance of various stone-like objects arranged continued.

The priests who were familiar with this place swallowed their saliva and walked out nervously, while those who were new to this place looked around in fascination and walked forward.

This is where the religious order has the strictest security.

It was a place where entities that once threatened the continent were sealed and monitored.

All items that simply looked like stones were sealing stones.

Even if just one thing breaks, the impact will be significant.

To that extent, the church was managed with great effort.

After passing the seal stone, another iron gate appeared.

The iron gate was not as big as before.

The priests following Aurel came forward and began to open the iron door.

An iron door that opens with a loud noise.

And there were unexpected beings inside.

“Gasp!”

The priest who saw this for the first time stopped in place as if he was surprised.

The things inside another iron door were skeletons.

It wasn’t just a skeleton.

There was a Death Knight in the corner.

Luckily, there was a huge amount of chains tied around the Death Knight.

“The knight who brings death… !”

Why is the Death Knight here?

Without such doubts for a moment, Aurel opened his mouth.

“It was recorded that this person appeared even before the appearance of Salestra, the Empress of Darkness, who was a 7-star being.”

As everyone knows, the name is Death Knight.

An ancient creature suddenly appeared in the distant past and trampled the continent.

At that time, denominations and countries did not have as much power as they do now.

Because we were unable to respond in any way, we faced the terrible result of a kingdom being destroyed by a single Death Knight.

Of course, everyone worked together and sealed him.

It was clearly written that way in the records.

But look at what it looks like now.

It was never sealed.

Aurel continued to open his mouth.

“This is so because it is a means of reaching our denomination’s goals.”

He claimed that this was a necessary experiment for the church to gain more power in the future.

That is why the Death Knight was released from the seal.

It’s not enough to break the seal, so the religious order manages it.

From anyone’s perspective, Aurel’s words were an idea close to paganism.

But none of the Heretic Questioners around moved.

Even the priest who knew this place just nodded his head and didn’t think anything of it.

Only the priests who came here for the first time today were momentarily confused.

It was as if he had seen something he couldn’t see.

But Aurel continued to do his job with an expression that said it didn’t matter.

Anyway, all the priests gathered here today are not ordinary priests.

The so-called high priest.

These are the people who will soon become high priests.

Aurel did not mind because they were people who would go beyond bishops to priests in the future.

“The Goddess will guide you lowly people to the right path. Admire his mercy, see his kind smile, and be thankful for his generosity.”

A tremendous amount of light emanated from Aurel’s hand.

At the same time, the first and second adult skeletons moved.

“The skeleton knight… !”

Even the 3-star Skeleton Knight began to follow Aurel’s words.

But that was all.

The 4-star Skeleton Black Knight and the 5-star target Death Knight did not budge.

Rather, the Death Knight was struggling to break free from his chains.

“Tsk, is it still?”

Aurel clicked his tongue briefly and sighed.

Even if you can’t do it, if you can make at least the Black Knight a puppet for the church, the church will gain tremendous power.

It was an essential power for a church that had the goal of conquering the demon world using the Kingdom of Seil as a bridgehead in the future.

‘If only Death Knight could be brainwashed…’ .’

The control power was not yet perfect.

At least it was easily possible because the intelligence of lower-level undead was lower than that of other monsters, but for a strong person like a Death Knight, it was close to impossible at the moment.

If only Death Knight succeeds.

Starting from that, we planned to gradually expand to monsters of other races.

If that were the case, all countries would come under the denomination.

But it was still a long way off.

Right now, it was impossible for him to even be a 4 star, let alone a Death Knight.

As the number of people trying to brainwash increased, the control of the skeleton knights also felt unstable.

“Bring it to me.”

As Aurel instructed, the two priests behind him brought a man forward.

The man was bound.

“Eup! Ugh… !”

I couldn’t speak because my mouth was covered.

“I caught him because he was a hunter who entered the church’s territory.”

A hunter, not an adventurer.

In short, the story was that he was from Earth, a different dimension than the continent of Eldorad.

“Begin.”

Under Aurel’s instructions, the priests dragged the hunter man near the Death Knight.

No matter how chained he was, he was a Death Knight whose head could move.

That’s why he bit the man who came near him.

“Ugh… town!”

The man could not even complain of pain.

Black blood began to overflow from the area where the Death Knight had bitten.

The man struggled for a moment.

It soon became quiet.

He is dead.

But the death given by Death Knight is another life.

The dead man stood up from his seat, making a strange noise.

“He’s an ordinary ghoul.”

When Aurel saw this, he clicked her tongue, just like before.

Sometimes a Death Knight dies and a powerful Ghoul is born.

Her best guess was that the more pain and hatred she experienced, the more powerful a ghoul she became.

“Even if that wasn’t the case, we have continued to torture them until now.”

But was her hatred not enough?

The man became an ordinary ghoul.

Even brainwashing ordinary ghouls was useless.

The Heretic Questioner next to him drew his sword.

And she swung her sword at the ghoul who was once her hunter.

“We will continue to search for hunters from Earth!”

Their numbers were very small.

But they had different powers than the adventurers on the continent.

So, I expected that a completely different ghoul would be born, but I kept failing.

‘I shouldn’t have sent that guy back then….’

I forgot the name.

However, the story of a saint sending a hunter back to Earth at the request of the church was famous.

A person who was from Earth, but had no power.

At best, the church did not pay much attention to it because it was evaluated as being equivalent to the lowest iron grade among adventurers.

Because he had been in the cult for a long time, there were many people who knew about him, so it was difficult to kick him out, and since he had no power, it was difficult to use him as a test subject, so he was sent back to Earth.

‘At least Kim Su-ho should have been used as a test subject.’

Aurel sighed as if he was disappointed.

Kim Su-ho is from Earth and is the only Holy Knight of the church.

Aurel, the highest priest, also remembered his name.

However, the church refused to use him as an experiment, saying he had a different purpose.

And it was also sent back to Earth.

I didn’t even know what its purpose was.

Probably only the cardinals or the Pope who are higher than you know.

“Well, there’s nothing to regret now.”

It was already in the past.

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That’s why he tried his best to solve the problem in front of him.

He once again raised his hand towards the Death Knight.

* · * *

“Maru, now try making some ramen.”

Maru, the skeleton black knight shining in black, nodded her head.

The guy who was a 1 star suddenly became a 4 star.

In reality, it was like using a B-class hunter as my own hand and foot.

“I feel reassured.”

After ordering Maru to boil her ramen, I looked at her smartphone.

Yes, it was thanks to this game.

Thanks to you, I was able to exist where I am today.

In fact, it was absurd to call it a game, but it was convenient to just call it a game.

“Anyway, I have to go through dungeons and earn money.”

Originally I was going to buy a skill book, but I currently had Maru.

At the same time, although it was F-level, there was also a skill called Goddess Healing.

‘It will be easy to conquer the dungeon even if there is a floor right now.’

If I were this much of a skeleton, it would be easy to join the party.

“… ….”

I quietly looked at my smartphone.

I thought I might come up with a better way.

Currently, my dungeon in the game is located on the El Dorad continent.

And it was a structure where Celia gained characteristics and skills by offering sacrifices to me. In addition, she even got a magic sword this time.

“What if I could get other items?”

Acquiring a magic sword was like saying that other items were also possible.

Right now, the continent of Eldorad had more mana than Earth.

Therefore, there were certain herbs, elixirs, and artifacts that could only be found there.

For that reason, each guild trained guild members who did not know when they would go to El Dorad and provided various education.

It was the same for Kim Su-ho.

Didn’t he easily become an A-level hunter with just the standard holy sword he received from the church?

“What if we bring continental goods in earnest and distribute them to Earth?”

Of course, I don’t want a picture where everyone becomes strong.

If you at least buy luxury goods, you will make quite a lot of money.

Not only money but also invisible power will follow.

If you do that, no one can ignore you. Even those who once tormented him will bow their heads.

Thinking like that, I remembered the expression on Jinsu Kang’s face at the Awakened Center.

My activities will increase in the future.

Then naturally, my stories will spread around me.

Graduating from the academy doesn’t mean the bad relationship ends.

If my current self becomes known, the bad memories from back then will come back to hold me back.

No, it’s definitely true.

Because I know they are not the kind of guys who will go quietly.

“I need to use this more in the future.”

I held my smartphone tightly.

Of course, I had no intention of implementing my goal right away.

This is also possible only with strength.

If I had no strength, I would just be swept away by a pack of dogs running towards me.

“But let’s prepare little by little.”

* · * *

Jinsu Kang.

In the past, he graduated from Hunter Academy in the fourth class and is currently working at the Awakened Center.

No matter how much you graduated from the academy, your grades are in the lower to middle range.

And the only guilds that Kang Jin-soo wanted were well-known, high-ranking ones.

If you go there, you will be able to show off your abilities and even abuse power.

But his skills were too low to join such a guild and work as a hunter.

It is even more impossible to become a hunter belonging to a powerful government.

However, there were no small or medium-sized guilds in his options from the beginning.

My pride did not allow it.

In the end, the one I chose was a civil servant hunter.

Like the current Awakened Center, the workload may have been heavy, but it was safe, and above all, it was possible to abuse power.

Of course.

“Oh my, you’re a hunter from the Holy Guild. “Come this way!”

He was only able to abuse power with those who were lower in rank than him.

But even that alone is something.

If he had become a member of a small or medium-sized guild, he would have been the one to bow his head.

Kang Jin-su was satisfied with his current position.

‘Anyway, is there anything fun happening?’

Last time, Lee Kang-hyeon, a fellow academy classmate, did a magic test here.

Lee Kang-hyun couldn’t get out of last place at the Academy because there was no status window. Looking at him, Kang Jin-su himself felt relatively superior.

But Lee Kang-hyun suddenly had a status window.

He actually knew that he worked as a porter.

He was working as a porter, and he knew he would die instantly somewhere. Never would he have thought that a status window would have appeared….

Still, he didn’t pay much attention.

Even though the status window was created, not everyone became stronger.

‘You idiot. ‘It’s not the end just because the status window appears.’

If that were the case, everyone would be working as a high-level hunter, such as B or A class.

Jinsu Kang laughed.

Lee Kang-hyun, who had a status window, received an F grade in the mana test.

Cadets who graduate from the academy are automatically promoted to at least D grade.

It was a recognition of four years of hard work and at the same time, a high-quality human resource.

But what about Lee Kang-hyun?

Even after graduating from the academy, he was classified as F because there was no status window.

Even when the status window appeared and the magic power test was performed, he was ranked F.

“That shows how much of an idiot he is.”

“Yes?”

Kang Jin-soo’s successor next to him responded to Kang Jin-soo’s self-talk without realizing it.

“No, I was just talking to myself.”

I gave a vague answer and looked around.

“Huh?”

Kang Jin-su looked surprised.

A familiar face came to the center.

‘You’re Lee Kang-hyeon, right?’

Why did you come here again?

It hasn’t been long since I had a mana test.

But why?

Kang Jin-su stared at Lee Kang-hyeon.

And I was able to discover one difference.

‘Skeleton?’

It’s a white skeleton!

And that skeleton was following Lee Kang-hyeon.

Lee Kang-hyeon was talking with another employee at the center.

After a while, Lee Kang-hyeon went out of the center again.

Kang Jin-su was curious.

What on earth happened?

Luckily, Jinsoo Kang himself is working at the Awakened Center.

I immediately looked through Lee Kang-hyeon’s materials.

Shocking words were written there.

‘Lee Kang-hyeon is a necromancer?’

Lee Kang-hyeon was a necromancer.

Although it was written that only one skeleton could be summoned.

It was clearly an unremarkable ability, but Kang Jin-su was shocked.

This is Lee Kang-hyeon, who got the status window not long ago.

But how much time has passed for him to acquire new skills?

‘No way… ‘You’re not going to catch up like this, are you?’

The idiot who I thought would always be behind me was now following me closely.

I was nervous.

I absolutely cannot tolerate falling behind that guy.

That’s why Kang Jin-su chose.

I found Kim Su-ho’s name saved in my smartphone contacts.

Then he sent a text message.

The person who bullied Lee Kang-hyun the most during the academy was Kim Su-ho.

That’s why Kang Jin-su had expectations.

‘There will definitely be some kind of reaction.’

Sure enough.

After a while, I received a call from Kim Su-ho.

“As expected!”

Kang Jin-su laughed evilly.

Kim Soo-ho, are you telling me that this guy can’t be a nobleman either?

The time has come to harass Lee Kang-hyeon again.