Chapter 166 - It Has to Be Fair (3)
“Go! My slaves!”
At Isaac’s shout, the Blue priests rushed out. But even while doing so, they couldn’t help but flinch.
‘I think I heard a form of address that’s questionable to the ears just now.’
‘Sl-Slaves?’
‘I must have heard wrong.’
They didn’t mind it.
What’s important is dealing with the demons! And making up for the mistakes of the past 5 years!
‘We have to do our best as much as the family head and the junior family head trust us!’
First, the Blue knight imbued holy power into his sword. The glamorous blade emitting a blue light cut off the vines.
Following the splendid appearance reminiscent of a sword of light, the Blue priest also used an exorcism divine technique.
Flash!
A beam of light reminiscent of a vein of light rising from the ground accurately burst on the demon.
But they knew.
This much isn’t enough to handle that thing. It was a fact taught by the galling experience of the past 5 years.
‘It will pounce again!’
‘Yes! Prepare for the next one…!’
[Kyuu, kyuuuk…]
…It died?!
The Blue priests who were about to attack next were surprised.
What is this? Why isn’t it pouncing?!
Why is it dying in one hit!
They looked at each other with wide eyes.
Isaac grabbed his forehead as if proud to see that sight.
Kyaa, that’s it!
My monkeys! Well done!
More! Quickly more!
Isaac inwardly found them admirable.
Simply because they handled a high-ranking demon?
No.
In fact, for them, it would have been more comfortable to resent the direct descendants who couldn’t protect the vision.
They could have just shifted the responsibility, saying that the reason they’re becoming a laughingstock like this is all because of the direct descendants. That if only they could use the vision, they wouldn’t have suffered this humiliation.
But they just thought it was their own lack of ability. So they thought they caused trouble for the seniors and the head who trusted and entrusted them.
How could that heart not be admirable?
‘So show your tricks to your heart’s content, my monkeys!’
Perhaps because the shout of the quack junior family head got through, the Blue priests handled the next demon without difficulty.
No, it’s not just without difficulty.
Bang!!
The demon was annihilated with a single blow.
They had an earthquake in their pupils.
‘Uh…? Why? Why is it easy?!’
‘We didn’t even use the vision, but why…?!’
A huge exclamation had to burst out in the Colosseum.
“Ooh, Blue! Amazing!”
“They already handled it!”
“That’s right! This is how it should be!”
“As expected of the Holy Empire’s best exorcism faith!”
At the cheers heard here and there, the Blue priests choked up.
They had always been booed and called last place, saying to throw it away if they were going to do that, but at the cheers they heard for the first time, they felt like it was a dream.
The White priests who barely handled the demons also looked at the Blue as if surprised inwardly.
‘Overwhelming.’
‘Isn’t it too different from previous years?’
In comparison, what about the other faiths?
“Kuk!”
“Sa-Save me!”
They were caught by the vines of the plant, ran away, and couldn’t even use their hands.
Of course, thinking this can’t be, they used visions and various divine techniques to attack, but it only ended up stimulating them.
No, if it only stimulated them and ended, it would rather be fortunate.
“Uaah!”
“Kyaah!”
The damage even flew to the nearby White priests.
At that point, the Cardinals who were watching stood up from their seats as if surprised. The White Cardinal looked at the other Cardinals as if feeling a sense of deja vu.
“It’s strange. That appearance… Doesn’t it seem similar to what the Blue was having a hard time with before?”
“What?”
“Of course, the Blue wasn’t caught like that, but the way the demons regenerate, their behavior…”
“…!”
At the same time, the other Cardinals who seemed to have noticed something glared at Isaac.
“Could it be…!”
“That guy!”
“…!”
At the reaction of the other three Cardinals, the White Cardinal looked at them very strangely.
“Why are you doing that?”
The Black Cardinal clicked his tongue as if it became troublesome.
“It seems the Blue noticed.”
“Noticed what?!”
No matter how you listen to it, don’t these words suggest that they did something to the Blue, and the Blue reacted to it?
“Could it be that you did something to the Blue?”
At the White Cardinal’s sharp gaze, the Red Cardinal said a word as if it was unfair.
“No. Strictly speaking, it’s not something we did.”
“Pardon?”
At that moment, screams rang out with the light of the vision.
“Kyaah!”
“Aah!”
The demon, stimulated by the power of the three faiths trying to handle it, started a riot.
Moreover, the White priests caught up in the randomly fired power of the vision were dragged away by the demon.
Angered by that sight, the White Cardinal glared at the other Cardinals.
“Hey! What did you do to the Blue? We are also being harmed, tell me right now.”
The Red Cardinal said as if soothing him.
“No. It’s a misunderstanding. Isaac Eshua is determined to make us eat dirt…”
“No, can’t you see?! White is being harmed not because of the Blue, but because of you guys!”
As the White Cardinal raised her voice, the other Cardinals were troubled. They also knew well that there was nothing good about turning White, who is in charge of healing, into an enemy.
The Red Cardinal said:
“Calm down. We really didn’t do anything.”
The Black Cardinal also cynically added a word.
“Yes. We just noticed that there was some device in the Blue’s totem.”
But the White Cardinal sent an even more dumbfounded gaze.
“A device, you say? Could it be related to what the Blue was struggling with? Moreover, what? You knew about it?”
At the White Cardinal’s gaze, the Cardinals closed their mouths.
The one who cut off those words was the Gold Cardinal.
“Now’s not the time for that. The demons are going berserk.”
“!”
They hurriedly jumped over the fence and entered the inside of the demonstration area. When they appeared on the demonstration stage, people buzzed.
“What, aren’t those the Cardinals?”
“Don’t the Cardinals usually only observe?”
At that shout, the priests caught by the demons looked at the Cardinals with frozen gazes.
There was a feeling of being saved, but on the other hand, it was a face that realized they showed an unsightly appearance in front of everyone.
Moreover, to make the Cardinals directly step in! They shouted with a terrified face, thinking of the reprimand they would receive.
“Yo-Your Eminence! We apologize! We will handle it quickly!”
The Gold Cardinal said as if telling them to get lost.
“Move aside. You can’t handle that.”
“What…?!”
The Gold Cardinal shouted at Isaac as if pissed off.
“Isaac Eshua! What the hell did you do!”
Then Isaac, who was leisurely enjoying it from the top seat, chuckled, hehe.
“Whyy? I just returned exactly what the Blue experienced?”
“!”
Isaac laughed, hehehe.
In fact, after pulling out the bug from the Blue’s totem, he split the bug.
That parasite has the property of division, so if you cut off the body, all the cut parts become living things. For example, if you divide it into two, it becomes two, and if you divide it into three, it becomes three.
So he cheerfully multiplied them and just put them in each totem. Ah, of course, he didn’t put them in the White’s totem.
There was a reason for that.
“You put ‘Infinite Maggots’ in someone else’s totem and tried to just let it slide?”
At Isaac’s words, the faces of the priests of other faiths who were caught hardened.
They had no choice but to do so.
‘Infinite Maggots!’
“Co-Could it be that infinitely regenerating thing…?”
“The parasite that doesn’t die even if you kill it…?”
Although not a demon, it was a quite rare bug that existed between demons and beasts.
It parasitizes the host and makes it infinitely regenerate, and gives it an immortal property that doesn’t die even if you kill it, so in some countries, it was even used on soldiers in wars. They put it in corpses and used them as troops.
However, while saying that courtesy should be paid to the dead, it is implicitly taboo in the human faction.
“I just gave you exactly the same thing we’ve been catching all this time, you bastards. I don’t know what the problem is.”
The demonstration priests who heard those words couldn’t help but be shocked. Exactly the same as what the Blue had been catching all this time…!
‘Those crazy bastards, that’s what they’ve been dealing with for 5 years…?’
‘Moreover, they even killed it…?’
It wasn’t something to be ridiculed, saying it takes a long time to catch and they fight covered in blood!
Rather, it’s surprising that they even managed to kill it.
‘Is it… possible to catch it?’
At that time, the Cardinals frowned and checked the demons.
They flicked their fingers and fired divine techniques. The glamorous attack techniques tried to completely annihilate the plants by burning them, but they didn’t die easily.
It wasn’t a lack of firepower.
The Cardinals who realized the reason had pissed off faces.
“This bastard…”
“How many bugs did you put in??”
The regeneration speed is too fast. No, it’s not regenerating, but the number of plant objects is increasing. The parasite is pulling up the life force and making the plants divide.
At this level, it’s not just one or two bugs, but hundreds, no, thousands of them are swarming.
Each object is not that threatening, but if there are thousands of them like that, the story is different.
To handle that many at once, you have to use a 9th level attack technique, but then the caught guys are also a problem, and the firepower is too strong to use in front of this many people, so everyone will get caught up together.
Honestly, he probably cut the bugs and multiplied them, but to this extent, the dedication to multiplying the bugs is terrifying.
‘What the hell was he thinking to do this kind of thing!’
But it was then.
Crack! Crack!
“!!”
The Blue knight and priest stepped out as if telling them to move.
The sword filled with blue holy power cut off the plants at once and rescued the priests caught by the vines.
There were even plants melting in response to the holy power fired by the Blue priest.
“Woooh!!”
“Blue is strong!”
“They handled that!”
The Blue priests gritted their teeth. It wasn’t for nothing that they were the faith of the exorcism god who grasped all demons.
If they knew that the opponent was not a demon but a bug, it was rather easy to handle. Until now, they fought until the parasite gave up to handle it, but bugs have their own weak points.
Infinite Maggots have a habit of hiding in dark places, so they are weak to light in the first place. If you blind their eyes, there is a slight gap, and if you aim for the vital point using that, it’s over.
The host? Once the parasite is dealt with, those measly demons are nothing.
Bang!
“Oooh! The Blue handled it!”
“Amazing! Blue!”
“Even the Cardinals couldn’t handle what they did!”
“As expected of the exorcism faith!”
“In the end, what’s helpful in important times is the Blue!”
At that sight, the Cardinals glared at Isaac. They grasped Isaac’s scheme.
‘It’s that guy’s trick.’
He deliberately led to this situation.
‘To raise the Blue’s reputation with this!’
To make them compare faiths and imprint who is superior!
As if saying it shouldn’t be like that, the Cardinals tried to step up, but-
Bang!!
An attack bullet fell in front of the Cardinals.
The Cardinals looked at Isaac in surprise.
As if it was finally his turn, Isaac, who stepped up on the podium, grinned.
“Oh my, this humble one’s aim is still clumsy, so it missed. Your Eminences. I apologize.”
That guy??
Is he crazy?
But Isaac, who stood in the highest place, laughed, hahaha.
Kya, the situation is good, and the stage is well-made as planned! Everyone’s eyes are on this side!
“Do you think I’ll miss this awesome promotion opportunity!”
…What?
What did he just say? Promotion??
Soon, Isaac shouted, looking at the demons that weren’t handled yet.
“Uhahaha! Even Your Eminences are racking your brains! If it’s like this, there’s no choice! If other faiths can’t catch them, the Blue has to handle the rest!”
As Isaac drew a familiar shape with his hand, the Cardinals were shocked.
That’s because the shape of the hand gesture was the ritual of the vision!
…That guy. Could it be!
Finally, a dazzling blue light centered on Isaac burst out, covering the Colosseum.
‘The Blue’s vision!’
“Now, watch to your heart’s content! The Blue’s vision!”
The intense blue light soared in a semicircle shape.
It was the moment when the Blue’s vision, forgotten by everyone, was resurrected before everyone’s eyes for the first time in about a hundred years.