The Ex-Hero Is Too Good at Exorcism

110.

“This is the neighborhood.”

Seohyun Cha said.

The place where the monster was marked was the gentle foot of the mountain.

An area that leads directly to the village by crossing two more small mountains.

But there was nothing immediately visible.

Because he was still underground.

“I guess it’s okay to be here… ”

I looked at the ground and frowned.

The ground, overgrown with weeds in spring, has unnatural curves.

The thing in the basement was moving, leaving traces of the ground sinking.

It means that the monster is still in the ground.

How do I lure this guy out?

“… … ”

As I was thinking about it, the ground started to shake.

The monster from the underground was getting closer at some point.

Thanks to that, I could barely see the level indicator of the guy in the ground.

Level 53.

It wasn’t that high level.

But at that moment.

“hmm?”

Suddenly, the monster’s movements stopped.

As if he noticed my gaze.

But just because I checked the monster’s level display, there’s no way the monster recognized me.

While I was thinking that, I only knew the reason when I looked at the log window.

＜The King of the Belly Crawlers has been activated.＞

＜The effect is halved because the target is not fully included in the activation condition.＞

One of the blue dragon’s unique skills was activating the monster that came into my sight.

In other words, the monster was affected by the skill the moment it came into my field of vision, and I recognized it.

On the other hand, King of Belly Crawlers is a skill that is effective against things related to dragons, such as snakes and serpents.

However, not all of the effects were received, but half of them were received.

What the hell are you doing?

“first… ”

I took out the blade and held it.

Whatever the identity of the creature, there was no answer when it was underground.

So I decided to bring him out.

Dismissed!

A bright spark formed on the sword.

“Let’s lure him out. In case you don’t know, please prepare.”

“All right.”

I warned Cha Seo-Hyun and then stuck the electrified sword into the ground.

Then, the electric shock from the sword flowed through the ground and hit the monster.

It wasn’t lightning, it was just a lightning bolt made with spiritual power, and even that passed through the ground and suffered losses.

So, the attack power of the lightning itself was insignificant.

coo goo goo-

As if he had succeeded in scratching his temper, the ground immediately shook violently with a dull noise.

I fixed my sword and watched the movement of the ground, and Cha Seo-hyun also took out her weapon, a mace, and lowered her stance.

OK,

“under! coming!”

He boldly aimed at Cha Seo-hyun and me in a straight line.

However, I have experienced countless attacks coming up from under the ground.

Moreover, since the level indicator was visible, it was not difficult to avoid the first attack of the monster.

Cha Seohyun and I each jumped to the opposite side.

Immediately after that, a huge shadow came out from the ground.

Kwagwagwa!

A huge amount of earth and sand poured out in all directions.

I frowned at the extremely familiar look.

“This… ”

A monster called sandworm that I saw in another world flashed through my mind.

A monster in the form of a bug with a sand-colored hard shell that lived underground in the desert.

However, the monster that appeared in front of him was similar to him, but different.

“… … ”

Cha Seo-hyun’s gaze at the monster was filled with a slight sense of disgust.

It was a super-giant worm that looked like a huge bloody organ.

Its body is shaped like a long snake, but its thickness reached 3 meters.

Also, the total length of the body exposed to the ground was several tens of meters.

It was literally a gigantic earthworm monster with numerous teeth embedded in its mouth.

“Earthworm… ”

Seeing that, I understood why only half of the skill was applied.

Strictly speaking, earthworms have nothing to do with the genealogy of snakes, serpents, and dragons.

However, since ancient times they have been called earth dragons or earth dragons and have related stories, so they only covered half of their skill range.

“Look!”

The guy who came to the ground like that crawled on the ground with a strange cry.

Is it because it’s an earthworm?

The eyesless, noseless guy managed to find out where I was and, to my surprise, fired a lightning bolt from his body.

“electricity?”

Of course, the lightning never touched me.

But a giant earthworm that uses electricity.

Was there such a monster?

“That… It looks like Orgoi Horhoi.”

Cha Seo-hyun, who came near me, said, as if my doubts were revealed in my expression.

“all… what?”

“Olgoi Horhoy. Also called the Mongolian Death Worm. It is a representative monster that inhabits the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.”

It’s a Mongolian Death Worm.

It looked like the origin of a sandworm, though its bloodsack-like appearance was far more grotesque.

“Beware of electricity and bodily fluids. Bodily fluids are highly acidic—”

As soon as Seohyun Cha said such a thing, this time he sprayed a yellowish acid solution over here.

In response, I ignited fire from the sword and burned it in the air.

However, some that could not be burned fell to the floor.

Soon, it made a cracking sound and melted the ground with a nasty smell.

It was truly threatening to melt away not only the soil but also the stones without leaving any traces.

“Chur-”

Neither the electricity nor the acid worked, so he finally moved his gigantic body.

Hundreds of teeth in a circle attack me.

Seeing that extremely familiar sight, I entwine the torch around my sword.

It was dangerous to cut directly.

The moment you stab that mushy flesh, acidic bodily fluids will spurt out.

So I condensed the holy fire and fired it into his mouth.

He swallowed the fireball without knowing anything, and at that moment.

Kwajik!

Cha Seo-hyun, who had approached the worm’s chin, hit it with a mace.

The power contained there was so strong that the big one stumbled at once.

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Just then, the torch exploded.

“Keee!”

The Mongolian Deathwyrm screamed in agony as it burned from within.

It was a flame that consumed quite a bit of spiritual power, but it didn’t seem to be able to defeat that colossal body at once.

So I’m preparing for the next attack.

coo coo coo-

The guy who wanted to fall to the floor burrowed into the ground.

Are you trying to run away?

“Where!”

Cha Seo-hyun, who noticed his intentions, immediately moved.

Strike the body of an earthworm that quickly disappears below the ground with a mace.

It was still a powerful blow, but it wasn’t enough to pull the man desperately trying to escape from the ground.

It just slows it down.

But now it was an unexpected help for me.

“then… !”

I called rain clouds.

Then dark clouds slowly gathered in the sky, and a menacing rumble of thunder broke out.

I was thinking of dropping a thunderbolt this time too.

But its purpose is not to burn those earthworms.

If it’s a Mongolian Death Worm that uses electricity, it must have resistance to electricity.

So the preparations were over, and the earthworm, which had been interrupted by Cha Seo-hyun, was just about to disappear into the hole with its tail.

“Inspector Kang! Death Worm… !”

Cha Seohyun’s voice was drowned out by the explosion of thunder.

The lightning that just struck the ground spread the electric shock across the ground.

And the soil of the land where the lightning passed through gradually turned to a deep black.

Vegetation that had been overturned here and there withered and withered in an instant.

The entire ground through which the lightning struck had become poisonous.

“Come over here. Being there is bad for your health.”

So I called Seohyun Cha. Perhaps she also sensed the unusual atmosphere, and immediately followed my words.

“What are you doing?”

“It poisoned the ground. I was afraid that it would come out like this.”

What I used was the snake god’s fangs skill.

It is a skill that imparts strong poison to all attacks, and I used this to poison the ground with lightning.

Therefore, earthworms that feed on soil will never be able to survive long in this polluted land.

and as expected.

“Ki-yi-”

The Mongolian Death Worm, with black spots all over its body, raised its head to the ground again.

After that, he came up to the ground as if he was running away, and twisted his large body around, suffering from the deadly poison.

It’s been a while to make the whole place a mess like that.

“Kie… ”

It seemed to move less and less, but soon it became limp and immobile.

It was burnt from the inside out and absorbed the deadly poison, so it couldn’t last long.

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Just before he dies.

I went over to him and carefully stabbed him in the head with a knife.

I was worried that it would be engraved on the human sword, but I didn’t expect much.

Compared to lycanthropes and naga, it was a monster that was too low in rank.

But unexpectedly, Ingeom reacted to this.

* Current Engraved Monsters – Lycanthrope, Naga, Orgoi Horhoi

– Digestive fluid: Consumes spiritual power to eject a strong acidic solution.

– All stats +23

“… Nothing special.”

All that changed was this.

There was only one new skill, and the original ability was 20, so there was only 3 added.

In addition, the performance of the added skill is also subtle.

but… I couldn’t complain.

After all, it was just such a freak.

Rather, the real reward was elsewhere.

＜Your level has risen!＞

As a reward for repeating quests, the level had risen.

Due to this, my level is now 45.

It was a level where you could get the warrior skill through the level achievement quest every 10 levels from 15th level.

However, he did not complete the quest right now.

Now, there was work to be done before that.

“Would you like to investigate the monster right away?”

After confirming that Goe-i was dead, Cha Seo-hyun asked.

As she said, this monster was a clue to find the monster who created the monster farm.

“It should be. By the way, didn’t anything come from the other monsters?”

“yes. There was nothing. I guess because I suppressed it roughly… There wasn’t much left.”

At Cha Seohyun’s words, I nodded.

Apparently, there are many cases where the law party uses physical force rather than witchcraft.

Although it is a natural flow that came about as I pursued the method of training.

Because of that, it must have been difficult to leave the ghost’s body intact.

On the other hand, although I didn’t mean to, thanks to the use of poison, the worm’s corpse was quite intact.

“Then let’s take a look.”

Seohyun Cha nodded and immediately started investigating.

As if she was trying to detect spiritual power, she carefully investigated, even touching her disgusting body.

I walked slowly along the body of Orgoi Horhoi, as if I was just taking a walk.

If there’s anything there, it’ll be highlighted anyway.

“… … ”

And after a while, as expected, I noticed the highlighting on my eyes.

The most end of the long body.

There was something inside the skin of the blood-red worm.

At first glance, it looked like a black spot, but upon closer inspection, it was something like a piece of metal.

“Tsk… ”

Reluctantly, I tore off the worm’s skin with a knife and pulled it out.

Even in the acidic bodily fluid, the one that did not dissolve at all was the metal seal.

And what was engraved on the seal was a certain number.

It was a very famous number in a religious sense, so I immediately understood its meaning.

Seeing that, I tilted my head.

“666?”

In Christianity, it was called the devil’s number.

The monster must be an apostate monk.

Is there something I don’t know

So I immediately called Seohyun Cha.

“666?”

However, Cha Seohyun also expressed doubts about that number.

“It is a number called the seal of the beast in the church, but… Not in court. Is this a meaningful clue?”

“Yes, probably.”

At Cha Seohyun’s words, I nodded and replied.

That was all that was highlighted on the corpse of this Orgoi Horhoi.

Not only that, but this seal was purposefully embedded in the tail of the earthworm shallowly.

If there was even a little rough fight, it’s like telling them to leave on purpose.

In other words, the person who put the seal intentionally wanted to hide it.

“that… okay. Thinking that way also explains what we didn’t find. No, maybe he did such a trick because he knew the temple’s exorcism method.”

After hearing my words, Cha Seohyun agreed.

But still doubts remained.

Seohyun Cha glared at the seal and said.

“But this means that Goeju used the Christian tradition.”

“Is that possible? I know it’s impossible.”

“Usually impossible. but… It may be different from the point of view of the demons.”

“Is it different?”

“The roots of the traditions used by exorcists are the gods of each religion. But not the demons. They may also follow the traditions of demons or ghosts. And if you borrow the legend of such a demon… You don’t have to deny your opponent’s religion. Demons are demons everywhere.”

Understanding Cha Seohyun’s words, I nodded.

In a world where one absolute God exists, another absolute God cannot exist.

Although that is why the traditions of each religion contradict each other.

Those who are defined as demons in the tradition are not like that.

Unless it is a special case, they just exist as demons or ghosts no matter how much they are placed in the worldview of other religions.

Its existence itself is not contradictory.

“The number 666 is the hint. This is the number that represents the beast and the devil in the Apocalypse. And even in Buddhism, there are many beings that correspond to demons and beasts.”

“Then you could have used this to control the monster?”

“that… ”

Cha Seohyun sighed briefly.

“If it is possible to downgrade the status of monsters to common beasts with the Christian 666 stigma… There are many traditions in Buddhism that control such animals. Of course, that’s not as easy as it sounds, but if you can weave the two traditions together like that, it’s not impossible.”

It’s hard, but can you do it?

If so, perhaps that guess is true.

Didn’t the manghyeon I met before skillfully mix and match the Hindu and Buddhist traditions of Asura?

The weaving of two or more religious traditions seemed to be the specialty of this cult.

“Then what do you plan to do now?”

Seohyun Cha asked.

According to her question, all we could do here was no different.

So I opened my mouth, waving the seal engraved with 666.

“I have to go back and ask the church.”