Chapter 81

Malcolm was moving towards a nearby village after meeting Falcon.

“Someone’s following us,” Alon frowned, but Malcolm stopped him.  

“It’s not a good thing to accompany us, but trying to help us is a good thing.”

Aron seemed to be dissatisfied with something, but he didn’t take it too seriously. Malcolm certainly felt strange looking at Aron with an unconcerned face.

Crossel’s fingers were aiming for him, he was a being of great ability. But now, doesn’t he look relaxed as if he had come on a picnic? His unconventional appearance is a sense of detachment that can be felt only in the elders, among the archbishops, who cut off their interest in politics and take care of trees and flowers.  

Malcolm shook his head and walked away. He had no reason to complain if the one who killed the sixth of Crossel, the sixth finger who was strong enough to kill the paladine John, was following him.  So far, as a paladine, he has had nothing to fear, but since he found out that John is dead, he had developed a bit of fear.

Blood smoke rose from the inside of Ragrox’s armor, which was sitting on a rock. Ragrox raised his head and looked up at the night sky.  

“Ha. That’s pretty good.” 

The cost of being hit head-on with Astron’s divine power while incarnated was great. He was feeling the pain as if he had been burned all over his body, but he knew something important. That there are people who can pour out Astron’s divine power like this. That person’s risk is quite high. He felt like he wanted to go and kill him himself, but he was too far away. And he must not be revealed yet.

“No. You shouldn’t kill him. Rather than killing him, catch him and try this and that. It would be fun to corrupt a guy who displayed divine power as much as that.” 

Ragrox rose from his seat, thickening the fur of the horned rabbit rubbing his cheek. 

Then he opened his mouth.  

“Catch him by any means you can.” 

Ragrox’s command was passed on to the members of Crossel with the Blood Stone.  

Ragrox left the command and remembered the face of a man. A man who proudly said he would put an arrow in his forehead.  

“Let’s see if you can stand in front of me and talk like that.” 

Somehow, the meeting was more anticipated. Looking at the demon who had fallen to the floor, Dex let out a rough breath.

“Ugghh!! Were you fighting these things? Exhilarating!” 

It was different from when he was fighting monsters. His thighs were wide open and there was a scar large enough to show the bones. It was such a sharp attack that his leg would have been cut off. 

If he hadn’t used the sword’s power of swiftness, he would have been cut off.  It was an exhilarating opponent to the point where his hair stood up.  

Arin placed her hand on Dex’s thigh and chanted her healing spell, and the wound was healing quickly.  

Dex smirked when he saw it.  

“Aren’t you supposed to look over there rather than me?”

As Dex said, Brant’s wounds seemed deeper. His side was torn long and the intestines were leaking out. But Brant was wiping the intestines with his side.  He said, 

“You cannot cast healing spells on Brant.”  

“Oh, was it?” 

Seeing Brant’s wounds on his side heal, it seemed that he didn’t need a healing spell.  

As Dex’s thigh wound healed, Arin stood in front of the dead demon’s corpse.  The devil was strong.  He was something of a bad guy to be called a high-level demon, but he was more than an intermediate-level demon. 

Arin cut the demon’s heart and extracted a blood stone from it.

And then he solidified his impression.  Her blood stone was different from before. It feels like the strength of the crystal itself has changed.  

It wasn’t that the demon itself became stronger, but was it because of the performance of the Blood Stone that the intermediate demon became this strong?  

As the three of them dealt with each other, he was okay, but the wounds of the other two were quite serious.  

Arin concentrated while holding her blood stone. She made it with a stronger blood stone, so she could better pinpoint its location.  

After reading the direction and distance, Arin suddenly thought that if she chases after the Blood Stone like this, will she be able to meet Ragrox?  

Dex’s murmur was heard in Arin’s ear while she was thinking like that.

“Would it have been easier to deal with if Ed was there?” 

Arin sighed briefly at Dex’s words. It’s been a while since he left to save Aron, but she hasn’t heard from him yet. She had no idea what was going to happen to Ed.  

However, he was concerned about Aron’s safety. And hoping that both of them will be able to see each other smiling. 

Arin burned the dead demon with a torch. She raised her head and looked into the night sky. As she looked at the twinkling stars in the black sky, she thought of Ed.

I don’t know if they made a request for replenishment, but a nearby city had a church instead of a temple. The church could not be reassured. So when they entered the temple, Ed took a nearby inn with Diego.  

However, since they had entered the city, there were no danger of monsters, so they’ll be able to sleep.  

Diego asked while Edgar was unpacking in the same room as Diego.  

“Brother. I went to church, so Arin will also hear this, right?”  

“She can hear that Aron is safe.” 

“It would be nice if we could also share our news.  “

Ed asked, stroking Diego’s head.  

“Is it because of Emma?”  

“What are you talking about?” 

Diego, blushing, Ed sure had fun teasing him. 

Ed pulled out his gear, cleaned it, and spoke up.

”They are not stupid enough to raid the city, but with a Ragrox vibe, who knows! They may overkill, so summon Jerry and rest.”

“okay.  “

As the Paladines took Aron, their movement speed decreased significantly.  

It must have been that, like Ed, he had no choice but to slow down as he moved on foot rather than running around on his side. So even Diego could walk without running. For this reason, the movement speed decreased, but he was not very tired.  

Diego, who summoned Tom and Jerry, laid down comfortably on the bed. Now Diego has grown enough to have Tom and Jerry summoned while he sleeps. Next to Diego, who was sleeping with the spirits summoned, Ed trimmed his weapon and climbed up the roof through the window. Ed, lying comfortably on the roof of the inn, looked up at the night sky quietly.

Looking at the stars in the sky, Ed imagined Arin’s eyes. And after a while, Aron’s eyes also came to mind. Those eyes were different from Arin as if they were not human eyes.  

If you looked at them with your own eyes, you could even believe it was God’s eye.  

Ed thought about Aron for a moment, then looked at an arrow in his hand. The only arrow that contains divine power.  There’s another arrow in Demon Hunt that’s as good as this one, but the way you use it is different.  

It is used when the opponent’s skin is difficult to penetrate. An arrow that can be used whenever there is a thick layer or something.  

For now, one arrow of this castle relic grade can definitely take them out of breath. But only when it can be seen, it is possible. It is something that should be seriously considered.

They should have arrived by now. It’s been a while, so the search for the Blood Stone must have ended. These people the party met without them. Arin has definitely gotten stronger. She’s incomparable to what she was before. He couldn’t help but worry. Then Jerry climbed up onto the roof, and Diego, who poked his head out the window, beckoned.

“Brother, they are coming.”

Ed looked at the city walls at those words. 

“Are you saying these big bastards are attacking now? How many?”

“There are three, but one is weird. Is this just a demon?”  

“Can’t you understand the level?”  

“Yes, no,” Ed said after thinking for a moment.  

“Let’s go to church,” said Diego hurriedly reaching out his hand as Ed came through the window and tried to hold him.  

“Wait!”

“Why?”  

“I’ve been practicing this for a while.” 

He looked at what Diego was practicing and saw him riding on Tom’s back. The spirit itself on a spirit body. It is difficult for people to touch it with their hands. But Diego calmly sat on his back.  

“Is that sitting down?”  

“It’s possible.”  

Ed was just as startled as when Diego had used Jerry to detect it.  It’s good to be with this guy and other talented people!

“Let’s go!”  

While Ed first flew out the window and ran over the roof to the church, Diego followed him, riding on the back of the commander, Tom.  

He was holding tight as it was the first time riding Tom, but he followed without a sound.  

Ed laughed at the sight and gently got down in front of the church. 

As Edgar approached the church, the monks blocked him.  

“Tell Sir Malcolm. The remnants of Crossel are coming here.”  

“Really?” 

These friars came out of the main house with the Paladines Malcolm and Alon.  Hearing the story, one of the investigators hurriedly ran inside.  

After a while, the church was getting louder, and Malcolm and Alon came out with Aron.

Aron smiled as he looked at Ed with blue eyes, still with a stray expression on his face.  

“You have followed. It’s nice to see you again like this.” 

Ed nodded to Aron and looked back at Malcolm and Alon.  

“The three are approaching, but one is a bit special. I came here because I thought it would be difficult to deal with alone.”  

“Perhaps you’re right!”

In fact, all you need is Aron’s eyes. If there were only three opponents, he was confident that he would kill them all in 2 seconds.  

He continued, but he couldn’t tell the Paladines that much, so he became quiet. 

Malcolm and Alon exchanged glances. Then Malcolm stepped forward and nodded his head.  

“Thank you. I requested to fill the corps, but I’ve decided to join at the Shrine of Meltsi. Please take care.” 

Ed said after looking around for a while at those words.  

“Diego and I will wait on the roof of the church.”  

“I see.”

Ed’s fame is well known, and since he cut three fingers of Crossel himself, there’s no way that he’d be defeated.  

He also believed in his support and thought it would be okay to fight.  

Ed came up to Aron and said,  

“Priest Aron takes refuge on the roof with me,” 

Malcolm heard and nodded.  He thought it would be better for Aron to stay away from his enemies.  

Ed asked the permission of the paladines and climbed up onto the roof of the church with Priest Aron on his side. And Diego, who rode Tom, also climbed onto the roof.

Ed leaned his back against Astron’s token standing on the roof and made Aron and Diego kneel down.  

And as he waited, the beings running on the roof came into his sight.  

Ed saw them and asked Aron.  

“Can you see them?” 

Aaron replied as he looked at those approaching, and his eyes lit up.  

“The one coming from the left over there is in the navel area.”

Ed heard those words and hung a holy arrow on the protest. His agility was increased by one more, so neither power nor speed could be compared to before.  

However, it was difficult to find the goal, but thanks to Aron, it was solved. 

When Edgar fired his arrow, it was so fast that it was hard to tell with the naked eye.  

Seeing the arrow fly like that, the incoming person pulled out a dagger and swung it. The arrow pierced the ship.  

“Wow” 

As the ship got pierced, the arrow of divine power coming from the roof broke the opponent’s blood stone.  Feeling the experience points coming in, Ed took the returned arrow and put it back on the string of the bow.

“Yeah. This is it.”

This is real honey sucking.