Raising Paladins

Episode 46. Golden Apple (3)

Poof!

A dining knife that was swung without the knife getting up from its seat.

As the knife passed, the two men in front hesitated.

Soon! Their pants danced down with a sound.

“Oh!”

They were instructed to kill Carl, but they looked embarrassed.

But no one in the room showed a smile.

It was because of the mysterious skill of the sword.

‘How to use a short knife that is used for cutting meat… … ?’

What if I threw that thing at the guy who ran into it?

Then you can understand.

It’s an action that can come out enough in an urgent situation.

But with just one gentle stroke of the air, the knife cut the belts of the two men.

That means, if Carl had made up his mind, he could have taken his throat instead of the belt.

That’s why Hanson’s gang felt their mogol become soft.

“… … He’s a pretty talented guy. The rumors weren’t all lies.”

Hanson nodded his head approvingly.

However, the anger towards the knife still burned in his eyes.

“This house treats guests very poorly. Calling them out for dinner and then attacking them with a gang of irons.”

“Shut up! You didn’t come here with good intentions either!”

“I came to see you once.”

“… … ?”

The sword swung in the air and retrieved it with a graceful motion.

Then, after slicing the pigeon meat that had been put on the plate and taking a bite with a fork, he put it in his mouth and mumbled.

A knife that rolls the meat around in your mouth and savors the taste!

It was not a bloody fight, but the action of the knife, reminiscent of an elegant meal time for nobles.

“I heard from the servants. Even though you’re the head of a gang, you didn’t hit women, children, or old people. Besides, I heard they didn’t pay a protection fee for the temple.”

“… … I’m not interested in guys weaker than me. That’s all.”

“Anyway, I highly valued your appearance. Of course, it is wrong to extort money from the market in the name of protection costs. He must be punished for that.”

“What nonsense!”

bang!

Hanson slammed the table hard with his big fist.

The force was so good that the thick dishes filled with food instantly bounced into the air.

“It is the world that made us that way. The Cron Empire didn’t look down on orphans like me. We just created an organization to protect ourselves and collected money to live. Merchants in the market were always escorted by us when they sent their hawkers to other cities. So it’s only natural to pay the protection fee!”

“It is not so.”

Carl, who was enjoying cooking, shot a sharp eye.

“You and your gang were feared by the citizens of Meirium. If you want to get a peddler’s escort fee, you only have to get it when you’re escorting them. What’s the point of stealing the protection fee from idle merchants? You’re just bullying others to fill your stomach. Hanson, if you really had the qualities of a boss, you wouldn’t have acted like that. Am I wrong?”

“… … .”

Hanson’s face contorted.

However, there was no response to Carl’s words.

Because there was nothing wrong with what he said.

It was true that I did not earn money by working honestly.

“You will hear no more! Brother Hanson!”

At that time, Josephson, who returned from outside, shouted.

“That guy has a very flamboyant tongue! Don’t be fooled, kill them now! If you kill that one guy, everything will be back to normal!”

Sureureung!

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Josephson also pulled out the dagger that was worn around his waist.

Then Hanson also got up from his seat.

He didn’t carry a weapon, but fighting spirit rippled through his whole body.

“Kill!”

Doo doo!

The gangs attacking with loud footsteps.

I ducked and dodged the first dagger that came flying at me.

At the same time, he hit the table with both hands and kicked the man on the other side of the chest with both feet.

Courage!

Soon after, the knife reversed itself in the air using the recoil.

This time, he grabbed the table with one hand and put the rotational power on the tip of his right foot to slash the shoulder of the other gang member.

“evil!”

Two people were knocked out in an instant by an opponent without a weapon.

A look of bewilderment appeared on Joseph’s face.

“Hey, it can’t be like this! All at once! He’s not wearing armor, so stab him at random!”

If you attack that ignorant priest one after another, you won’t be able to find a bone.

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Josephson, who knew the skill of a knife better than anyone else, thought so.

Even in the last battle with the scavenger, Carl won by cooking countless enemies one by one.

So you have to jump in all at once.

The gang seemed to have understood Josephson’s words and arranged their ranks around the swords.

Guys who sneak in their toes.

However, it was not a knife that could be defeated by their shallow tricks.

“Are you going to use the numbers?”

Carl tore off one arm of his priestly uniform.

Then, he put one of the biggest apples on the table into the hole and grabbed both ends.

After winding the end a few times, a plausible weapon was born.

If the part held in the hand or the long connecting part was cloth and the end was just an apple, if it were a chain and a lump of iron, it would have been comparable to being called a mace.

said Carl, spinning his newly prepared weapon.

“Come in.”

“Dead!”

Whiririk! puck!

Apparently, they decided to attack the knife at the same time.

However, the moment they all stabbed each other towards the knife, an apple flew in and hit them in the jaw.

The strange weapon, which had a much longer range than the daggers held by the gang, roamed the air without stopping.

“Ahh!”

An apple that crushes the jaws of nearby gangs one by one with each swing!

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Josephson was also knocked down on the floor with an apple hit on his chin.

In an instant, half of the staff fainted.

It was then.

“stop! Back off everyone!”

At Hanson’s voice, the gang slipped away.

“It’s just like I heard. amazing.”

That priest said that he wielded a single wooden sword artistically.

But today I didn’t even bring a wooden sword.

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Just a dining knife that was here and an apple mace made by ripping the priest’s uniform.

Even so, he knocked down half of his men with daggers in an instant.

If things go on like this, it’s obvious that the rest of them will suffer as well.

Hanson decided that it was time for him to step out.

“It’s been a while since I fought directly. But for a guy like you, I think it could be a little bit of entertainment.”

Excitement began to appear on his face, as if he thought he had met an opponent worthy of a fight after a long time.

However, Carl’s expression when he saw Hanson was plain.

“Let’s start quickly.”

“Don’t be too hasty. Because I prepared a present for you.”

“… … ?”

Clap!

I picked up the box Hanson had left nearby.

And opened the lid.

Inside was an apple, glowing yellow.

A frown crossed Carl’s face when he saw that.

“… … Where did you get that?”

Other people won’t see it.

It was clearly visible in Carl’s eyes.

Divine power radiating white from the apple!

‘… … It’s definitely Meirium’s golden apple.’

Golden apples that only grow on apple trees blessed by the sun god.

There was only one such tree in the Cron Empire.

Right here in Mayrium.

However, he said that the ecstatic apple he tasted 200 years ago had now disappeared.

I haven’t seen it even once since I was reincarnated.

But Hanson had it.

It was a fresh golden apple that looked very good.

“You talk like you know what this is.”

“You know very well.”

“Don’t lie. This is something that a rogue priest like you can’t understand. It’s something that’s hard to even see even if you go all your life.”

“Is that so? I ate a lot. If you make jam with it and spread it on rye bread, it tastes really good.”

“… … madman.”

Hanson was dumbfounded.

This golden apple is a mystical thing that temporarily grants great power to those who eat it, and it only opened on a tree in the backyard of Meirium City Hall.

And without the permission of the mayor, Baron Astell, they could never approach it.

However, judging from the way he was talking about jam and rye bread, it seemed that the priest was a delusional man, as rumors had said.

“It sucks.”

Carl licked his lips at the golden apple.

‘Even if I eat just one of those pills, it will be of great help in completing my heart.’

after getting a new life.

The most delicious divine power Carl tasted was High Priestess Clement’s amber pendant.

Unexpectedly, because of the abundant divine power, the sword healed the wounds on the body and created a weak silver heart.

But it’s still not enough.

I had to make a proper silver heart, I had to make a body, and most of all, I had to share divine power with the priests of the Temple of Dawn.

To do so, the more sources of divine power, the better.

“Hey, Hanson.”

“… … ?”

“Hand it over to me, and tell me where you got it. Then I’ll just hit you moderately and I won’t kill you.”

“Ha ha ha! madman!”

Wow!

Hanson bit off the apple without hesitation.

Then, pure white divine power began to sway throughout Hanson’s body.

oh oh oh-

Of course, it is a divine power that can only be seen by Carl and not seen by others.

However, Hanson’s change was not only that.

Tuk, Tuduk!

Surprisingly, Hanson’s muscles began to swell little by little.

Veins stood out on his forearms, and he screamed as his shirt burst.

As Hanson, who was originally much bigger than everyone else, grew bigger, he even had the illusion that he was filling the large drawing room.

however.

‘… … hmm?’

Looking at Hanson like that, Carl felt more wonder than fear.

The divine power of the golden apple.

It wasn’t something you could get by just eating it all at once.

It was dangerous for a person who was not allowed to have power by the sun god to eat food imbued with divine power.

And I can’t believe that Hanson was allowed by the sun god.

In the first place, the priests of the temple also lost the ability to control the divine power.

However, there was no way that the head of a gangster in an eastern border city was allowed such power.

And Carl’s concerns were immediately apparent.

“Hey… … Haaagh!”

In the end, Hanson ate all the golden apples and roared like a beast.

The blood vessels in his white eyes were all burst, and his red eyes looked like a beast thirsting for blood.

In addition, the muscles and skeleton were overextended, so the body was bizarrely distorted.

Carl had seen too many such phenomena in his previous life.

“Sacred power poisoning.”

When those who were not allowed the divine power took the divine power in the wrong way or forcibly.

If it is repeated, it gradually starts to accumulate in the body, and at some point the body changes bizarrely.

If I went further from there, I would finally lose my mind and become a real monster.

“Quaaa!”

A roar that made the entire mansion reverberate!

But Carl stared at Hanson with a calmer face.

“I will fix it.”