Raising Paladins

Episode 67. Securing Evidence (1)

“These are the servants of the temple. Wipe it away!”

“Waaa!”

“Don’t forget the combat skills you learned from the priests! Don’t panic, stay calm!”

“Waaa!”

Temple servants led by Hanson.

The assassins of the mercenary group led by Marlon.

About 40 troops came together in an open area in the forest.

visor! Chae Chaeng!

Soon after, the metal pieces aimed at each other’s throats and flew and sparked.

What was surprising was that the servants, who were only holding farm tools, were quite good at receiving the sharp-forged curved swords of the mercenaries.

‘The training was successful.’

Carl, who was chewing on beef jerky on a nearby rock.

He thought as he took a more comfortable position.

‘I’m glad I entrusted the map to Meisa.’

Longswords, curved swords, spears, and even polearms.

Meisa is interested in all weapons and does not neglect training.

She often experimented(?) with her newly learned weapons against the servants, and thanks to that, the servants of the temple had the experience of being beaten by various weapons.

Perhaps that’s why the servants were skillfully coping with the bizarre curves of the northern mercenaries of the Empire, which they had never seen before.

‘As expected, learning while getting hit is the best. There is nothing that increases the survival rate as much as learning through the body.’

Carl watched the fight with a hearty smile.

At that moment, a sharp sound was heard from one side.

kang!

“oh!”

The neck of the pitchfork held by one servant broke off and flew away.

The tip was metal, but the rest was made of wood, so it couldn’t stand the sharpness of the curved sword.

Soon after, the farming tools held by other servants were also damaged or broken.

No matter how good your skills are, there is a big difference between holding a wooden stick and holding a sharp steel weapon.

“Whoops, kill them all!”

At the same time as Marlon’s triumphant cry, a curved sword flew toward the servants.

at that time.

“Wonjin! Spread the circle you learned in group battle time!”

He shouted, raising the wooden club Hanson was holding high.

Then, the seeds formed a circle around Hanson.

“Turn left!”

Tadada dat!

The seeds started to rotate while maintaining a circle according to Hanson’s cry.

As more than 20 men circled around, wielding their own weapons, the mercenaries who stood still had to take many attacks in a short period of time.

puck!

“Cheak!”

One of the mercenaries finally collapsed with his head exploding in a series of spinning attacks.

Although he was holding a steel weapon, he couldn’t stand it because the attacks were pouring in in a short time of a few seconds.

“Ah!”

“Kuk!”

In an instant, several mercenaries fell.

Then, gaining confidence, Hanson shouted loudly again.

“Turn right!”

Spin around!

This time, the circle of the seeds that changed the direction of rotation in the opposite direction.

Then, the mercenaries, who had become accustomed to attacking little by little, panicked again.

But at that moment.

“oh!”

One of the seeds forming a circle sprained and fell into the circle.

A mercenary member who was looking for an opportunity around him saw it and shouted.

“It’s an opportunity!”

Full up!

The plan to scatter the circle by attacking the seeds on both sides of the circle that was cut off.

He swung his curved sword wide and hit the part where the circle was broken.

But something amazing happened.

“It’s caught, you bastard!”

Poof!

“What?!”

The servant, who had obviously sprained his leg and fell, suddenly appeared with an iron hook in his hand.

Then, he grabbed the jumping mercenary with a hook and dragged him into the circle.

soon

Do-do-do-do-do-do!

Farming tools waiting inside the circle beat the dragged mercenary like a rice cake.

It was only natural that the mercenary was knocked unconscious by the club that was thrown at him in an instant.

“ha ha ha! The plan that Priest Carl informed me worked!”

The squire who brought in a mercenary while pretending to sprain his ankle exclaimed happily.

Then, the other servants also had a smile on their faces, even in the midst of tension, as if their morale was rising.

‘Children, I’ve learned it well.’

The circle that the servants are now unfolding is the fighting method that Carl taught them.

In particular, the method of attracting the enemy by acting as if the circle was breaking was a perfect tactic to reverse the momentum in an unfavorable situation.

It was an improvisation that Carl told him to use when faced with a disadvantageous situation in a group battle, and the servants used it after learning it well.

‘Certainly from a fistfight, everyone has a sense of fighting.’

A knife that happily watches the war situation.

Conversely, Marlon, who had lost nearly half of his mercenaries, was rotting.

“These assholes!”

Marlon, the commander, reprimands the mercenaries while forgetting about his faults.

Then he picked up two large songs from behind his back.

It looked like he was about to engage in battle in earnest.

“I’ll give everyone a slaughter!”

Koo Goo Goo!

Marlon, who is bigger than Hanson, who will not be pushed anywhere in the world in terms of size!

He swung his two swords at a gigantic song befitting his size and lunged forward.

At first glance, it seemed like an ignorant fighting method, but the effect was great.

“Ah!”

“Sampson has been hit!”

Three or four seeds that made up the circle were immediately hit by Marlon and bounced off.

I urgently tried to block it with a weapon, but the power of the huge curved sword was too great.

In particular, a seed named Sampson was kicked away by Marlon.

At that time, the knife I had been watching so far moved.

Poof!

A sword that slashed its body with a marked divine method.

He received Sampson in the air, who was almost seriously injured when he bumped into a tree stump.

“Are you okay?”

“Sir! thank you!”

Sampson, who wondered if he was being beaten by Marlon and turned into a half-asshole, let out a sigh of relief.

He is the same seed who attracted the mercenary by performing a sprained ankle a while ago.

“Let me rest for a while.”

“but… … .”

“The war situation is already in our favor.”

“ah… … !”

Marlon is wielding a curved sword and making a fuss.

However, Wonjin was still in shape, and thanks to that, most of the other mercenaries were down.

All that was left was Marlon and the mercenary.

“Such a dog… … .”

Soon after, even the last mercenaries fell.

Marlon was besieged by 20 or so servants before he knew it.

He pulled out a small bottle of medicine from his bosom with a look of helplessness.

And immediately drank it in.

“no way… … ?!”

Hanson’s face was stained with astonishment.

Marlon’s body began to twist and swell enormously at the same time.

The terrible phenomenon that appeared when he was poisoned by the golden apple when he fought with the sword in the past!

That was happening to Marlon’s body as well.

“stop! Marlon! I will make you die in the end!”

“Kuhhh… … .”

Hanson shouted urgently, but Marlon managed to drink the black potion all the way.

Then he tossed the nearly empty bottle onto the nearby sand.

“Quaaa!”

The roar of a beast with no human reason remaining.

If there is a difference from Hanson in the past, Hanson was a side effect of the divine power that was not permitted, and Marlon was a direct effect of the dark power that corrupted the divine power.

A potion developed just to pursue power!

Marlon, intoxicated with his own power, began to rampage.

thump thump!

The charge started with a loud, earth-shattering sound.

The seeds that formed a circle collided at once, and several flew away.

“Aagh!”

It was just an ignorant charge that lost reason, so he wasn’t seriously injured.

However, the seeds that have been injured enough to recuperate for at least a month.

In less than a minute, more than ten servants fell.

At that time, a knife’s cry was heard from the other side.

“Hanson! Now you are the leader of this combat team. Judge!”

Of course, Carl can also step out himself.

Then a drunken Marlon would lose his throat in an instant.

But that wasn’t what Carl wanted.

The goal was to foster Hanson’s unity with the seeds and Hanson’s leadership.

Opportunities like this don’t come along very often.

“Hanson, come on!”

“… … !”

thud!

“Aww!”

Even then, the seeds continued to fall.

Hanson finally made up his mind and threw the wooden club he was holding into the back of Marlon’s head.

puck!

“Big… … ?”

Marlon looks back with a terrifying cry.

Hanson slowly took off the top he was wearing.

Then, his amazing body, which was originally completed through rigorous training, was revealed with a large and hard skeleton.

A large, thick, muscular body with no superfluities to be found.

Hanson ran towards Marlon with a spirited spirit.

“Ahhh!”

bang!

Hanson and Marlon collided in the middle of an empty lot.

The strength of the two giants was so great that the trees around them trembled the moment they collided.

“Big… … .”

“Haaa!”

bulging muscles.

Hanson and Marlon grabbed each other’s hands and began to fight.

Then Carl spoke.

“Imagine how you feel when you arm wrestle with me, Hanson!”

“… … !”

In fact, Hanson felt it too.

That Carl was infusing himself with arm wrestling and other physical sparring.

In particular, Hanson had experienced divine power through the golden apple in the wrong way, so he knew what that energy was.

My advice is to remember that feeling.

Even in the immediate situation, Hanson calmly raised his memory.

Something tickling, but that energy that calms the mind.

Divine power!

Instantly, a white aura began to emanate from Hanson’s body.

“That’s it! continue!”

Hanson is convinced by Carl’s cry.

At the same time, the pure white divine power shook even more, and Hanson’s body began to expand little by little.

Then, the servants who had fallen around were startled.

“Ha, older brother Hanson’s body!”

“It’s getting bigger!”

There are three broadly divided directions for the application of divine power.

It is combat using divine power, healing with divine power, and divine magic.

Among them, if we divide the battle of divine power again, strengthen the divine weapon skill used by carrying the sword or other weapon by handling the divine power in detail like a sword and strengthening the body to subdue the opponent with a steel-like body and power that can push even a mountain. there is

What was happening to Hanson right now was physical strengthening through the divine power.

“Haaa!”

Hanson let out a roar and started pushing Marlon.

Woodeuk, Woodeuk!

Hanson has grown as big as Marlon who took drugs before he knew it!

There was a great contrast between Hanson, who was shimmering with pure white divine power, and Marlon, who amplified his body with dark power.

soon

“I cannot forgive you for pushing me and my younger siblings into the pit! Malone!”

Hanson shouted and exerted great effort.

Then Marlon’s wrist and wrist, which were holding each other, twisted and exploded.

“Kuaaa!”

Wood Deuk!

I’ve already become a beast drunk by the dark power, but even beasts feel pain.

Marlon cried out in pain from his broken arms and knelt down.

Then Hanson looked at Carl, and Carl nodded.

and.

Wood deok!

Marlon’s neck turned to the other side as he knelt.

thud!

Marlon, whose thread of life was cut off, collapsed in the clearing in the forest, and there was silence for a while.

At that time, a knife lightly landed around the collapsed Marlon.

He picked up a bottle of medicine lying on the floor.

“I didn’t even manage to break it.”

The vial containing the dark liquid Marlon drank a while ago.

Carl smiled as he looked at the vial, which had a tiny drop left inside.

“Once we have the evidence.”