"What the hell are you?"
"Human." Han Dong with no hesitation said the word.
Celeste finally gave in and entered into a temporary cooperative battle agreement with Han Dong, "Fine, if I'm not injured during the battle, you don't have to come out.
Even if you're not afraid of contamination, with your physical fitness in front of a Fallen like that, you'll be dismembered if you're not careful."
Suddenly, Celeste, who was always looking stern, averted her eyes and lightly spoke with a bit of a swallow, "That, Anyway, the matter of treating the wound is still, Thank you.
If you can kill this Fallen, there's something about your abilities that we'll discuss in private."
Han Dong once wasn't worried either.
After all, Mr. Black and White had left him a way out on this matter.
Once the matter here was resolved, Han Dong would unfold the scroll at once, and even if a small amount of information was leaked, Mr. Black and White would resolve it privately.
Just like that, the two would begin their battle plan.
This would be Han Dong's first indirect contact with the 'life outside the city', and the first time Han Dong had cooperated in battle with a real knight.
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Flames have been ignited inside the giant deformed sycamore tree.
Before the tree burned out and collapsed, the group of three managed to escape through the hole in the tree.
The trio's strength and skillful coordination allowed them to penetrate deeper and kill the ghostly subject, "a female head entwined in the roots of a thousand trees".
During the battle, Cass, who was in the lead, suffered deep cuts and contamination on his shoulders, armpits, waist, and inner thighs.
Currently Sophia was applying healing holy light magic with holy water to cleanse the contaminants from the wounds.
"Where is Brother Andeva?"
Cass, who was being treated, was the first to think of Han Dong and called out his name while looking around.
But there was no sound coming from within the gloomy mansion.
"No way, Friend Andeva, along with his powerful summon, might be a little more powerful than me when it comes to combined strength. His summons can kill ghosts directly, and it can't be a problem for one to stay out here and break back."
Cass found that the communication device was not working either.
After receiving good treatment, Cass immediately launched a search of the mansion, with a look of concern in his eyes.
"Captain Cass, there's something here!"
Coslin's powers of detection were still strong.
In the first-floor bedroom of the original homeowner, a hidden passage extending downward was found.
Apparently, this passage should lead to the same place as the one at the bottom of the pool outside.
"Brother Andeva, is it hard to choose to go down first by yourself?"
Sophia, on the other hand, followed up with.
"Sister said that she will only inform us to go down there if she needs our help again, we better not go down there, or disturbing her might make her angry. If it's really dangerous, we'll only be dragging our feet if we go down there."
Cass, however, held the opposite opinion.
"Friend Andeva knows this as well, but he has chosen to go down, for reasons that may have to do with time.
Our search of the mansion, with the subsequent killing of the spectral subject, took more than a full hour. The Celeste Knight who went to the underground area, however, had no information coming in.
If everything went well for her, she should have come up long ago."
Saying that, Fia also started to get worried, "Yes, Sister she has always been very strong and wouldn't ask for help even if she was in danger, not to mention that we are only trainee knights."
"Go down! Raise your spirits to 100% and go down to support them."
Cass would never allow, a companion who had a life-and-death relationship with him to die in this bounty mission, and must leave the mansion with Han Dong safe and sound.
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In the center of the ritual formation that burned with green flame torches, Han Dong finally saw the house master [Marcellus Baker]'s true form. To be precise, it should be.
"What's this, something?"
Baker's current 'form' had surpassed Han Dong's imagination.
It also immediately understood what was life outside the city, and why the humans who had already mastered thermal weapons would all be routed in a short period of time.
Since his rebirth, Han Dong had already seen some contaminated bodies.
"The old lady who pans.
Even though these things have lost their self-awareness, their form remains largely human, at least 80% of them still resemble individuals.
In size and every characteristic, they belonged to the human category.
This Marcellus Baker is beyond that limit.
Let's start with size and physical features.
Three meters, I'm afraid it was close to four meters in height.
Aside from the swollen head, which barely resembled a human, the rest of his body had been dehumanized, most of it consisting of a kind of fishy red tentacle that twisted around.
The tentacles that made up his torso were writhing in such a way that a hideous human head was hidden within.
It is the same poor policeman and his family that is used for ritual sacrifice.
These tentacles appear to be freely controllable by Baker.
To be soft they could be soft, quickly twisting and invading the flesh of their target.
To be hard is to be harder than steel, capable of turning into a drill and tearing into the flesh of the target.
To fight something , with Han Dong's current abilities, he would probably die if he was played with.
Furthermore, the Fallen Baker possessed a terrifying trait.
On his back, a giant eye with a radius of about a meter grew, this made it impossible to sneak up on him from behind.
Ordinary trainee knights who met this giant eye head-on would probably turn directly into pus.
The body of a few might be able to resist this intense contamination, but would themselves degenerate into deformities and turn into servants of the Baker.
Celeste briefly analyzed the current situation.
"This guy seems to be planning to operate the Evil Formation again, suppressing the sacrifices in his body whose consciousness hasn't completely dissipated, once all the sacrifices' consciousness dies, he'll become a completely independent individual and even harder to deal with.
Remember that, Andeva boy!
Once you see that I've been 'traumatically contaminated', come out immediately and help me heal, and when you're done healing, be a good boy and hide, I'll draw its attention away from you, don't worry."
Celeste began her pre-battle preparations.
Drinking a bottle of magical holy water that shone with blue starlight, this holy water could continuously replenish magical power in addition to boosting an individual's pollution resistance.
At the same time, it continuously applies a buff to itself.
"Blessings of Discipline.
The casting was complete.
Just as [Fallen Baker] was about to invoke the formation again.
Celeste flew out and swung her chain shackle with all her might.
A holy hammer with a length of one meter formed in midair, hitting Baker's chest head on, and several tentacles were shattered and broken.
However, as soon as the broken tentacles fell to the ground, they seemed to have independent consciousness and immediately crawled back to the main body.
Han Dong, who was hiding in the shadows, noticed a key detail.
Just made the move to have a less conspicuous put away.
When attacked, the important book-like item is quickly moved to the back area.