Chapter 193 – The Bright Cult or the Demon Cult (1)

Nanseol was spending a leisurely time for the first time in a while.

Since her internal energy was sealed and even the tendons in her hands and feet were all cut, there was absolutely nothing she could do.

While being moved to this place, she observed Gil and the group.

She looked around after being moved, but as time passed there was nothing more to check.

Though the pain from cut tendons continued to be felt, it wasn’t so different from the pain she felt in the process of learning martial arts and fighting enemies.

However, those picking fights with her leisurely appearance were annoying, but it was sufficiently acceptable from the position of being a prisoner.

“It, it looks really delicious. Can’t we just kill her? Even eating her alive seems like it would be chewy.”

A Blood Cult member wearing black clothes swallowed saliva while stroking her skin.

From him, meat addiction seemed more severe than the killing intent contaminated ones felt toward summoners.

“That sound again. Don’t talk so loud and lose your head, just endure. She’ll be used as a sacrifice and become our food anyway. Don’t make trouble for nothing.”

Another warrior next to him scolded him.

At his words the Blood Cult member twisted his face, but stepped back as if having no choice.

“Half-baked ones lack patience, it’s a big problem. It’s not easy to proceed with work.”

The warrior who was clearly a contaminated summoner spoke apologetically toward Nanseol.

Though he spoke as if considerate of Nanseol, he was actually the one who cut Nanseol’s hand and foot tendons.

He was someone who got excited seeing Nanseol suffering from cut tendons.

Even now he was merely mocking Nanseol.

However, Nanseol didn’t react to his mockery.

“Tsk, say something. I’m dying of boredom.”

It wasn’t only Nanseol spending leisurely time.

The Blood Cult members and contaminated summoners here were all spending idle time except for the mages and shamans.

Where they were was a large stone chamber on the highest level of the ruins, a place with a huge altar in the center.

“It’s really amazing, isn’t it? This ancient ruin being the home base of our Bright Cult and Blood Cult. It’s like a fateful encounter from street hero tales actually existing. I’m really disappointed in the cult elders who kept it secret all this time.”

It was content Nanseol had already heard many times.

While being dragged by them, Nanseol could keep hearing what kind of place this was.

They didn’t care at all whether Nanseol listened or not. To them, Nanseol seemed not a living person anymore.

According to their words, originally the Bright Cult was merely a local village’s indigenous faith.

The Bright Cult’s shaman and the shrine maiden serving him, and one warrior (a young man among villagers who could at least use something like martial arts) happened to enter here by chance.

Like prisoners, they wandered underground caves to survive inside here and discovered these ruins.

“Here the shrine maiden gained divine power to become a holy maiden, the second-rate warrior gained martial arts to become the first Heavenly Demon, and the shaman gained dark arts to become the Blood Cult’s founder… Really ridiculous. Even I would hide it away tightly.”

The three who escaped this place grew the Bright Cult into a huge religion and faction, and designated this place as forbidden so no one could approach.

“But thanks to designating it forbidden, it was used as a prison instead, truly a matter to make passing dogs laugh.”

Since even Nanseol inwardly smirked about it, it might be natural for the contaminated Demon Cult member to giggle.

After that there were many events like the holy maiden’s and Heavenly Demon’s factions competing for power and the Blood Cult splitting off in between, but they weren’t so important in the current situation.

However, the problem was that the revived Blood Cult knew about this place, Blood Brain Prison, the Demon Cult’s home base.

The Blood Cult that had been taking control of the Demon Cult from below could even take control of Blood Brain Prison here and prepared to utilize these ruins again.

“Bring that girl! Preparations are complete!”

While they chattered on the side, a thick middle-aged man’s voice came from the front.

Precisely the Demon Cult’s super-peak master who subdued Nanseol and one of the protectors who became a Blood Cult follower through drugs and brainwashing, Fist Demon.

Though not yet in contaminated state, having already eaten to the limit, red light flickered in his eyes.

However, he deliberately stopped just before contamination for activities within the Demon Cult.

He also no longer needed to wait once this work finished.

“One Demon Cult super-peak master and a peak highest-level warrior with clear energy, plus one shaman carrying demon energy.”

The Blood Cult shaman who finished work with the mages on the altar looked at Nanseol being dragged with a satisfied face.

“Even before going to the demon realm, the Demon God was truly an interesting god. Having both divine power and demon energy, giving abilities according to believers’ tendencies. Giving martial arts, divine power, demon energy too.”

The shaman happily spread his hands toward the altar.

“The first cult leader and holy maidens gained power by chance, but now we made it possible to properly extract power. We can create proper warriors and shamans the Demon God wants.”

Having finished work that took a long time, the shaman seemed excited too.

He forcibly seated Nanseol on one side of the altar, Fist Demon on the other side, and finally sat himself at the other point of the triangle.

And the mages surrounded the altar completely.

“I’m very grateful to you. I was worried since only mediocre Orthodox Faction guys got caught, but I can’t tell you how happy I was when you appeared right away. If there was another method, I’d even want to give you demon energy’s grace and make you a companion… I’m really sorry you must be used as a sacrifice.”

He sent an apologetic look even to Fist Demon without letting him know.

Though he didn’t tell him, even Fist Demon was merely a sacrifice for this sorcery.

The shaman wanted to receive the early Demon God’s ability completely.

Well, if he were the Blood Cult leader, it might be good to have all three gain abilities to increase overall power, but he was just the Blood Cult’s second-in-command anyway.

He was thinking to quickly suck it all up while the cult leader went to another dimension for work, then kill the cult leader and become cult leader himself.

Thanks to that, it took several days to modify the sorcery and spells, but now he could receive sufficient reward.

After signaling the surrounding mages, he began reciting spells.

Watching the altar beginning to emit light faintly, Nanseol let out a regretful sigh.

Having lived as a warrior, she always prepared for defeat and death.

Moreover, she had become more than a peak master which was her wish and sufficiently avenged her father.

She experienced various wondrous things and could feel fresh emotions she had given up.

Not being able to say final goodbyes to other people was very regrettable.

Still, she was rather grateful just for not being contaminated and coming to hate those she loved.

As the light gradually brightened, Nanseol felt something enter her body then exit.

It felt like something examining her, and she felt her life force being sucked out along with the exiting energy.

‘Is this the end?’

Nanseol thought of one person while feeling her disappearing life force.

Sun-woo.

Someone she wanted to see once on her last path.

And he was a man who appeared very unexpectedly.

…Like now.

Kwa-aang!

The round altar where three people sat in triangular form burst upward and shattered into pieces.

Nanseol who couldn’t move her body bounced backward with the bursting altar.

And she could soon feel herself caught in one man’s embrace.

Nanseol smiled faintly looking at Sun-woo holding her.

She seemed to finally understand why she had been calm all this time.

She had been holding hope that Sun-woo would rescue her until the last moment.

“Hmm, I don’t really understand what mood it is to smile while shedding tears. Well, I’ll think of it as crying from joy.”

Sun-woo made a slightly surprised expression looking at Nanseol’s face, but comforted her with a clumsy joke.

However, Sun-woo’s hands were very busy while smiling. Nanseol’s condition was very bad.

He urgently tapped various parts of Nanseol’s body to unblock blocked meridians and used healing magic to revive her body.

At the same time, for the first time in his life he used a reward window summoning stone to call the reward window.

Fortunately, though it was a deep place where he couldn’t contact Summoner, the reward window itself appeared before his eyes.

It was the moment Sun-woo tried to quickly purchase [Body Regeneration Potion].

“Die!”

There were those interfering with Sun-woo’s actions.

They were Blood Cult members who had been flustered by the altar bursting.

Though the shaman and protector seemed not to have properly composed themselves yet, the mages and Blood Cult members immediately attacked Sun-woo and Nanseol.

Fireballs shot toward Sun-woo, and Blood Cult members rushed in with swords behind them.

“Don’t bother me!”

The fireballs that arrived before Sun-woo first were blocked by shield magic Sun-woo had spread beforehand and disappeared.

The Blood Cult members following behind stopped their movement cold the moment angry Sun-woo shouted.

And they collapsed on the spot.

Their expressions with stopped hearts were exactly as when rushing toward Sun-woo.

They could only feel a cold sensation passing through their chests.

They had no way to know they lost their lives to heart sword used by a transcendent realm master.

“You die too!”

Angry Sun-woo didn’t end there. He shot earth sorcery toward the mages trying to cast magic again from behind.

Thud, thud, thud.

The floor where the mages stood surged up and smashed into the ceiling as is.

Naturally the mages between weren’t visible at all and only blood flowed beside the surged floor.

Sun-woo who removed interfering ones in an instant purchased [Body Regeneration Potion] and poured it into Nanseol’s mouth.

A 500-point summoning stone and 1000 points to purchase [Body Regeneration Potion] disappeared in an instant. Sun-woo didn’t even think it was wasteful.

Certainly [Body Regeneration Potion] was worth its expensive price.

Even severed tendons reconnected and her appearance that had been haggard from injured vitality was returning to normal to some degree.

However, she who smiled looking at Sun-woo lost consciousness and couldn’t wake up.

It was because of stolen life force.

“Keurk, who is it! Who dared ruin the work!”

Meanwhile, the shaman and Demon Cult’s protector who bounced out from the shock of the broken altar came to their senses.

The angry side was the shaman.

The Demon Cult’s protector was in quite pale condition. It seemed he had a portion of life force stolen like Nanseol.

At the voice heard, Sun-woo laid Nanseol on the floor and stood up.

“It’s me, your enemy, the summoner you guys call multi-skiller or skill collector or something like that.”

Sun-woo who was properly angry for the first time in a while smiled cruelly at the two.

“I’m really angry for the first time in a long while. I’ll make you guys really taste hell.”

Sun-woo released the divinity he had blocked.

Ku-gu-gu-gu-gung.

The earth rumbled and stone chunks floated up.

Sun-woo’s hair stretched straight up to the sky and the entire stone chamber with the altar was filled with Sun-woo’s presence.

“I released the seal. It’s phase two.”