The Ex-Hero Is Too Good at Exorcism

Chapter 99

99.

“… … ”

I fixed my sword as I glared at the golden naga, Queen Soma.

He hadn’t withdrawn his hostility from me yet.

Now it was the turn of the Cambodian exorcists.

But if there comes a situation where persuasion doesn’t work, can I cut that off?

With that question in mind, I looked over Naga’s head.

It was to confirm the level of Naga who had lost his godhood and became more powerful.

However, the level was unusual.

95 levels.

“This is a bit… ”

high.

It was too high to think of a battle.

Isn’t that the line of the police commissioner or the director of the LB Academy?

“Is this a gift?”

That strength wasn’t all that surprising.

It was said that being the main deity of a country is, after all, stronger than any deity in this country.

So I withdrew my hostility and slipped back.

Seeing me like that, Naga raised his sword and spear as if he couldn’t let go.

“… !”

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Just before it crashed down, one of the seven heads suddenly looked somewhere other than me.

The place where the eyes are headed is the direction of the floating house where the exorcists of Cambodia are holding a ceremony.

Although the exorcists were out of sight, the Soma Queen was conscious of them.

I have heard that Queen Soma is connected to all the waters of Cambodia, so rituals can be performed from a distance.

Perhaps the ritual has just begun.

“… … ”

And, as if the ritual was working, the outgoing hand stopped.

Then, one by one, the seven heads shifted their gaze away from me, focusing on the exorcists who were performing a ritual in the distance.

One head in the middle is facing me all the way.

However, the rage that had been raging in his gaze had disappeared before he knew it.

in between.

I used ＜Technology Steal – Mind’s Eye＞ on the naga.

Rather than actually trying to steal the skill, I just wanted to know what kind of skill the main god-level naga possessed.

however,

＜Compared to the target’s divinity, the progress of interpreting the forbidden book is too low.＞

＜Current analysis progress: 33%＞

＜Please raise the level of your interpretation skill.＞

It didn’t seem right.

Tech extortion is a skill obtained through Mitra’s forbidden book.

However, the ＜Ancient Character Interpretation＞ skill that interprets forbidden books was just level 1 right now.

Looking at the analysis progress, it seems that there are up to 3 levels, but this seems to have limited skills.

“… I can’t help it.”

I muttered that and put an end to my lingering feelings.

Anyway, no matter how good the naga skills were, they couldn’t rob them.

Because I couldn’t make the level 95 god who had barely calmed down into an enemy again.

Rather, it was an unexpected harvest to learn that it does not work against too strong enemies.

with a splash!

Meanwhile, Naga dropped the weapon she was holding into the lake.

The huge sword, spear, and shield sank with splashes of water, and soon turned into foam and disappeared.

Then, the remaining staff is erected like a king’s scepter and touches the surface of the lake.

Did you reap hostility?

After I got a little further away and secured a safe distance, I also put my sword in.

Then Naga finally opened her mouth and said something.

“#$%$%##%#$%$”

But, of course, I couldn’t hear it.

I don’t think the accent or pronunciation is Cambodian.

Maybe an ancient language or something like that.

“#$#%#$”

Meanwhile, when I got no answer, Naga tapped the surface of the water with her wand and spoke to me again.

Are you asking for an answer?

“No, I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“… … ”

Could it be that he spit out the words of an obvious foreign country?

Perhaps Naga also realized that I didn’t know their language, so her expression strangely changed.

A look like an idiot.

His arrogance was so blatant that you could tell even though he had the face of a snake.

and after a while

“Cheer… ”

One of the naga’s heads stretched toward me, its neck extending infinitely.

The snake’s head approached slowly as if it had no intention of attacking.

I looked at the head, wary of the unexpected situation.

Soon the snake’s head, which had come right in front of me, circled around me and flicked its forked tongue.

Even so, those vertically slit pupils examine every part of my body as if observing them.

Not long after that, the place where that gaze landed was none other than my sword.

“Chi… ”

The snake’s tongue moved as if it were touching the sword.

Are you looking for a Legendary item?

While I was thinking that, the snake’s head quickly moved away and returned to my body.

And this time, a scale the size of a palm fell from the naga’s body and rode on the surface of the lake toward me.

A golden scale stopped at my feet.

let me pick it up

“#$%#%#$%%”

Naga let out a still incomprehensible word and then slowly sank below the surface.

And when the body completely disappeared under the water, there was no level indication that it was already level 95.

It meant that the naga had finally left for a place other than this lake.

“Is it over?”

I relaxed with a short sigh.

In the end, everything went according to plan.

In response, I checked the golden scales left by the naga.

＜Queen’s Golden Scale＞

Beautiful scales imbued with Naga power.

There was no explanation whatsoever.

But I already knew where to use these scales.

This scale is a kind of reward given to me by the Naga Queen after communicating with the exorcists and understanding the situation.

And it was right after checking my weapon that the naga handed over this scale.

then…

I took out the blade again.

Then he tossed the scale into the air and cut it lightly.

OK,

＜Repeat Quest – The Blade That Eats Mysteries has been completed.＞

＜The level rises.＞

＜The seal of the naga is engraved on the sword that carves the monster.＞

As expected, the quest was completed and the sword was strengthened.

Wasn’t it false that the golden naga was a god?

Naga figured out the characteristics of my human sword and gave me his own scales that could be used as strengthening materials for the sword.

I immediately opened the Ingeom’s description window.

* Current Engraved Monster – Lycanthrope, Naga

– Chosen species of the sea: Can lift restrictions on movement on and under water and can breathe underwater.

– Water Piercing Spear: Increases all stats by 50% in Lake and Sea fields.

– Snake God’s Fang: For 10 minutes, inflicts toxicity that ignores effect resistance on all attacks. Spiritual energy consumption 20.

– Naga Queen’s Blessing: Amplifies the effect of all Naga-related lore.

– All stats +20

The skills of Naga were added under the lycanthrope-related skills acquired before.

There was one skill that had already been robbed, and there was also a small field enhancement skill.

However, two of them stand out in particular.

First, it was the snake god’s molars.

This was similar to, but different from, the poison attached to the Star Cloud Sword.

At that time, unlike the simple poison attached to sword attacks, now it was changed to a buff-type skill that could give poison to all attacks.

In other words, poisoning effects are added to torches that burn enemies or lightning that falls from the sky.

Although it consumes spiritual power, it was a skill that could definitely exert its power during the duration.

And then, the Naga Queen’s blessing.

“Amplifying the effect of succession… ”

It’s probably a skill that amplifies the effect of witchcraft using Naga’s tradition.

I already had a tradition related to naga.

It is the tradition of the Mahuraga family handed down in the temple.

Mahuraga in Buddhism is the predecessor of Naga in Indian mythology.

So, it must have been affected by this skill and something has changed.

So, I checked Mahuraga’s succession.

[Mafuraga]

– Fully restores spiritual power once a week.

– Spiritual power is not consumed for 30 seconds when the succession is unlocked.

“oh… ”

The description itself only had one line added, but the power of that one line was considerable.

Spiritual power is not consumed.

Although the cooldown lasted only 30 seconds per week, it was devastatingly powerful.

In the meantime, there is no Thunder Storm, which was a high-ranking magic in another world, even if only a thunderbolt was dropped.

Most monsters and demons could be made with electric roasting.

Enough of this… It was like I had some kind of killer.

I was satisfied and closed the skill window.

“It’s getting longer.”

Now, the description window of Ingeom had to be scrolled if one more was absorbed.

But it means getting stronger, so it’s not a bad thing.

I put the sword in with that thought.

“… … ”

In the quiet lake, the golden scales I cut slowly melted into the water and disappeared.

Scales that have lost the power of the naga contained within them and are no longer subject to item judgment.

But that beautiful appearance didn’t change.

The appearance of gold dust scattered all the way to the bottom of a deep lake was quite something to see.

“… hmm?”

And since when?

All of the victims’ resentments and spirits that had been filling the bottom of the lake had disappeared before they knew it.

that’s probably… It must have been the work of the Soma Queen.

No matter how much he regained his original divinity.

There was no way she would have left this place, which was no different from the graves of her children.

I watched the lake where the golden powder was scattered like that, then went back to the boat where Han Seong-min and Kim Min-ah were waiting.

* * *

It was 5 days later that I returned to Korea.

Originally, this business trip was planned for a week.

However, the schedule was negotiated with the Cambodian side as well as the National Police Agency.

Even if the case was over quickly, there was no immediate return.

So, after solving a week-long case in one day, me, Han Seong-min, and Kim Min-ah were forced to end up in Cambodia.

In the end, for the rest of the time, we stayed like tourists solving small exorcism cases in Cambodia.

The next week I finished my Cambodia tour, which was not so unexpected.

I was on my way to work at the police box again.

“ha ha ha! Do you know that In Cambodia, drinks are-”

However, even before the door opened, the inside of the police box was noisy.

When I went inside, Han Seong-min, who usually only showed up right before rush hour, came before me.

“Is Inspector Kang here?”

“Hello everyone. You look very happy.”

At my words, Han Seong-min smiled and continued the story he was telling the other team members.

After listening to it, it seemed that he was talking about something he had seen in Cambodia.

I left the luggage I had brought with me and approached Seo In-na, who was looking at Han Seong-min with disapproval.

“… How have you been?”

“yes. Here is a gift.”

What I presented was a gift cookie set I bought at the Cambodian airport.

A decent item I bought after referring to Kim Min-ah’s words that she used something famous in Cambodia.

Then, Seo In-na’s expression widened a little.

“Oh, thank you. okay. If possible, I should give you something like this.”

“yes?”

“No, I didn’t mean to hear you. It was something I said to some sensible person.”

Seo In-na glared at Han Sung-min and said.

Now that she saw it, there was a strange wooden statue on her desk.

I’m sure Han Seong-min was watching something like that when I was buying cookies.

“Rather than that, you said you handled the job well this time too?”

“Yes, what. There were no issues.”

At my words, Seo In-na gave a deep smile.

“It’s not quite like that. They said that Cambodia sent a formal diplomatic letter expressing appreciation.”

“Correspondence?”

“okay. I hear Naga also made contact with the main deity, Queen Soma?”

I nodded.

“You didn’t know it, but that’s a really big deal. The main god who maintains his divine status also plays a role in controlling the demons of the land. So, if the runaway of the main god continued, monsters and demons would have started rampaging all over Cambodia. So, from that point of view, I would be grateful.”

After hearing that, I noticed the attitude of the people around me a little while I was staying in Cambodia.

I didn’t know it well because I couldn’t speak, but I have to say that I was very kind for some reason.

“That’s good.”

“Yeah, good luck. In fact, it wasn’t that the upper management wasn’t worried about this business trip. After all, this is the first business trip after the guidelines change.”

“Are you worried?”

“If you make a mistake, it becomes a diplomatic problem right away.”

Well, that was it.

Now that things are going well, I received a letter of thanks, but if it had been the other way around, I would have received a letter of protest.

“Anyway, that’s why business trips will continue in the future. It would be nice for Inspector Kang to go sightseeing a lot.”

At her words, I smiled bitterly.

“hahahaha, business trips will be shorter in the future.”

“huh? It won’t. Well, if you handle the case well like Inspector Kang, you might even be able to give it a tour. however… ”

Seo In-na’s eyes turned to Han Sung-min again.

“It’s kind of like that guy played for a week without doing anything.”

At Seo In-na’s words, I nodded.

Han Sung-min didn’t do anything.