Chapter 6 - Troll

When he returned to the mansion, Baron Beryl approached with knight Tomio as he took the arrow prepared by the staff and hopped on top of the horse fully armed.

Baron Beryl asked when she saw him all prepared.

“Where are you going in such a hurry?”

Ed didn’t bother to hide it. Perhaps it was Baron Beryl who told Aaron about Ed himself.

This could have been all planned after hearing that he had caught Kelpy. Even if she spoke frankly and asked, he wouldn’t have refused it because it was about catching the devil.

In that respect, nobles were nobles.

He answered her obediently as she was looking at him like a snake with a look of not knowing anything.

“I’ve heard from priest Aaron about the devil in the mine. I’m thinking of going after the devil.”

“Huh! I was thinking of sending Tomio here with the soldiers…”

That may have been the original plan. But she must have thought of a new way while she was on her way here.

He didn’t have any thoughts of blaming her. As nobles have always been this way, he was able to pass this as charms.

As he slightly bowed his head and tried to leave, knight Tomio interrupted.

“If the demon hunter goes with me, the soldiers won’t need to go at all, so please grant me permission to let me be the only one to go.”

Baron Beryl nodded at the word.

“Yes, I think my mind would at least be at ease if doing so. Can I ask you a favor?”

“Thank you for your permission.”

The shallow number of knights who accompanied Tomio and tried to take the results of this demon hunt was visible, but it didn’t matter. All you have to do is get drunk.

After Tomio had prepared the horse, he went together searching for priest Aaron. Aaron, who had already been waiting on a horse in front of the church, smiled brightly at Tomio.

“Lord Tomio, are you coming with us?”

“It was something I had to go take care of anyway.”

Aaron nodded and said.

“As expected, you are a man of honor. “

Of course, he knows what honor is. He knows it too well that It’s the reason why he is after it.

Tomio took the lead while Ed and Aaron followed behind.

After going out of the northern gate, a small stone mountain appeared after riding the horse for half an hour, and the village below it caught his eyes. The soldier guarding the wooden fence surrounding the village quickly opened the door when he saw Tomio.

Ed didn’t know how he’d be in combat, but he was glad that Tomio was a big help when it came to stuff like this.

When Tomio drove his horse to the town’s plaza, people gathered. Tomio looked back at the people and started opening his mouth.

“I was told that the devil appeared in the mine. I need someone to guide me there. Is there anyone?”

The words drew people’s attention to one place in unison. There stood a man with short brown hair. After getting everyone’s attention, he spoke while scratching his head as if he was bothered.

“I’ll be the one to guide you around.”

Aaron got off the horse and took his hand.

“Toll, I heard about what happened. Do you mind if you could guide us directly there?”

Toll blushed at Aaron holding his hand while speaking.

Hey, the priest is a guy!

“Two of my colleagues were killed by that thing. I’d do anything to see it die.”

You didn’t want to be bothered at first!

Still, it was fortunate that there was going to be no trouble finding him at all since there was someone to guide us in the mine.

Ed, who entered the mine under the guidance of Toll, looked back at the mine and nodded. The mine was roughly wide enough for two long-necked men to face each other.

At this width, there was freedom of movement. He believed that the journey was going to be easy as he didn’t have to go face to face with the devil in a place where there wasn’t any space to move.

Ed looked at Aaron walking with a torch beside him.

“Is it possible to bless it here?”

What Ed put out was an arrow. While Aaron looked at the arrow, he silently closed his eyes and mumbled Astron’s name. Then a blue light came out of the arrow softly.

It was his first time moving with a priest who dealt with sacred power in this world. So, it was also his first time seeing blessings. It was a sacred power with extreme symbolism to the devils.

This can easily subdue the devil.

Aaron spoke with a sigh.

“It’s temporary. Since it’s regular steel, 3 minutes is the time limit.”

“What is the possibility of having the blessing lasted long?”

“It would be possible to maintain the blessing for a long time if a true silver was used, but it is impossible for any priest to do a permanent blessing since It’s only possible for a relic.”

It is impossible for any priest to do permanent blessings unless it’s a holy artifact given by God. Does that mean he should always bring the priest with him?

Nothing is easy at all.

“Please let me know when you see the devil.”

“Of course. That’s what I followed you for.”

Ed asked Aaron, who was smiling.

“Do you have any experience of demon hunting?”

“No. It’s the Knights who do the demon hunting.”

Tomio was elated by the chatter from behind. There was no tension at all that could be found.

He knew Ed was called a demon hunter. Even if it’s exaggerated that he had been catching demons so far, it was true that Kelpy was caught this time.

But to that extent, he thought that he could also do the same.

A man inflated by falsehood. Ed didn’t have thought’s on letting Tomio deal with the devil of the mine. Tomio was confident that he could deal with the devil if he was given the priest’s blessing.

As Toll was leading the way, he stopped walking and spoke.

“It appeared Infront of there.”

Tomio stepped forward with his sword drawn at those words.

“I’ll take the lead from here. Get behind me.”

“Yes.”

When Toll stepped back and lit the torch, Tomio stepped forward. Aaron, who was holding the torch, took another step and prayed.

“To Astron who looks down from the sky, please grant us your grace, and we’ll be brave. “

A blue light came down and wrapped Tomio’s whole body. Tomio slightly bowed his head and stepped forward.

“What’s that?”

“Giving courage lasts longer than blessing the equipment’s, and since you are an Astron believer, the effect will last longer.”

Ed smacked his lips with regret since he had no intention of having any religion yet as he was brought into this world.

As Ed was following from behind, he hung an arrow on the protest so that he could respond at any time. He then awakened his senses.

Besides the sound of burning torches, there were sounds of knocking on the ceiling.

Ed asked Toll.

“Have you seen what the devil looks like?”

“No, I just heard my colleague screamed and heard terrible sounds.”

“Did he got dragged to the top of the ceiling?”

Toll looked back at Ed in surprise.

“How did you know?”

Ed looked back at Aaron and spoke.

“Please bless the arrow.”

Aaron put a blessing on the arrow obediently. Ed pulled the protest with all his force and fired the arrow in the direction where the catch was.

Blue light is cutting through the darkness.

At Ed’s sudden attack, Tomio’s eyes followed the light, and he was able to see the monster hit by it.

The presence approaching from the ceiling hanging upside down reminded him of a bat. There was an arrow stuck on its chest. The light disappeared as the arrow got stuck. But in exchange, the devil’s scream could be heard.

Arghhh!

It was Turakan, a bat-like devil. He is one of the lower demons often seen in caves.

However, no one was as picky as this one when it got faced to face in a cave. There were roughly four kinds of demons seen in the cave, and the trickiest one was caught.

Tomio ran forward towards Turakan, who was screaming.

“Damn! Stop!”

He urgently called Tomio’s name, but it was after when Tomio had already jumped ahead. Ed looked back at Aaron.

“Do you have any protection magic?”

“Wait a minute!”

Before Aaron reached out to Tomio and even memorized the sacred spell, Turakan already had his mouth opened.

Ed grabbed Toll by the shoulder and pulled him back while a sonar attack from Turakan flew in.

“Cough!”

Tomio, who was rushing in with no preparation at all, got hit by the sound wave and flew back badly. There was no time to pay attention to Tomio, who was rolling on the floor.

Although the sonic attack was weakened thanks to Tomio getting hit by the front, he still had to take the attack that flew while bouncing against the wall with his body.

For Ed, who can see gaps, Turakan was quite a tricky creature. It’s because if the sonic attack was met in a cave, it would have bounced against the wall and came in a difficult direction.

However, he had invested in physical strength for quite some time, so he was able to endure it with his body.

There was no time to save Tomio nor time to receive any blessings again.

With the torch extinguished due to the sound waves, the blue light wrapped around Tomio’s body was all. But Ed could clearly read the opponent’s position.

When the ability to see gaps came into this world, he was able to read the murderous intentions of his opponent. The murderous intent made it possible to clearly read his opponent’s position.

Ed shot five arrows in a row in one breath. Turakan got hit by all the arrows that flew to him without losing even one of them.

Arghhh!

Tomio rolled over the floor and got himself up as Turakan screamed. If he hadn’t been blessed and didn’t wear a full-plate mail, he might have been killed in a single sonar attack.

He was lucky to be alive. However, Tomio, who got himself up, gritted his teeth and ran towards Turakan again.

Oh, that troll.

“Blessing!”

Ed shouted because he didn’t have time to talk long and Aaron, who understood what he meant, blessed the arrowhead.

Tomio, who rushed in, was lifted with both shoulders pierced by the Turakan’s claws on the end of both wings. Turakan’s strongest attack is only the sonar attack.

Turakan is also strong when it comes to close combats, and now that he just went inside it, there are no words to say even if he dies.

But Ed couldn’t just let him die in front of him.

The only thing that Tomio did well was when the blessing Aaron hung replaced the torch. Ed twisted his protest when he saw Turakan trying to bite Tomio’s neck off with his mouth open.

“What an eyesore.”

The arrow flew with a blue light when Ed let go of the protest. The trajectory of an arrow flying like a blue meteor grazed through Tomio’s temple and got stuck in the middle of Turakan’s forehead.

The blessed arrow got stuck deep in the middle of Turakan’s forehead.

Turakan collapsed without screaming. A blessed arrow is certainly good.

Usually, demons used to pretend to be dead just before they died like some passive, but when the blessed arrow hit the forehead, they died immediately, and experience came in.

“Arghhh!”

While Turakan collapsed, Tomio screamed as he fell to the ground. As expected, there are trolls wherever you go.