Chapter 324: Apostle's Blade
"What the hell is wrong with you?"
Alice, who hopes you can help her, was completely confused when she heard you mention her superior.
With your body on the verge of collapse, you choose to tell everyone what you know about the plot of the game.
But when you said that Alice was a puppet, Alice's temperament changed and a black aura emanated from her.
Although her voice is still as sweet and pleasant as ever, you already know that Alice is no longer Alice, but the person who has been manipulating her behind the scenes.
Herder.
"You really have caused me a lot of trouble. How should I deal with you? Or, is there anything about you that is worth me not killing you?"
'Alice', who was emitting a dark aura, looked at you who was still stroking her thigh with a puzzled expression.
"Because I can do a lot of things for survival and strength, even if it means going against the world."
“There are a lot of people like that.”
"But they're not better than me!"
"Yeah?"
Alice smiled.
"Then I'll take a look . Let's go to the Sky Curtain Beast. If you want to survive knowing everything, this is your only chance."
After saying that, 'Alice' raised her hand, and a golden light merged into your body. Your body, which was about to collapse, suddenly stopped collapsing, but you knew that this was only temporary.
Because the pain of my body constantly disintegrating is still there.
You traveled to the Skyshroud Behemoth.
In the fourteenth year, you met a girl named Ophelia among the Skyshroud Beasts. She was very curious about you, but when she took you to visit the Goblin Church (GBL), Lotus came.
Looking at Rotus who still maintained a certain combat effectiveness and had not lost most of his strength due to lack of water, as well as those GBL followers who were controlled, you slaughtered most of the GBL followers amid Ophelia's desperate roar and absorbed all of their blood and essence.
You broke through your self-restrictions, and external blood began to conflict and boil in your body. Your body may explode at any time, especially when you began to plunder the blood of the prosperous Lotus. You felt that the apostle's powerful vitality was trying to assimilate you and turn you into a strange creature.
But the power left by 'Alice' helped you maintain your life.
With the help of the blood of tens of thousands of GBL believers, as well as Rotus's own blood and vitality, you barely fought Rotus to a draw.
But you can't see any hope of victory, because you know that when the blood of the GBL cultists is exhausted, that's when you will die.
In despair, you sense a huge source of life.
The sky-curtain beast.
The Skyshroud behemoth, feeling pain as its vitality was constantly drained by you , kept rampaging across the continent of Arad, knocking down the Sky Tower, destroying the west coast dock, and even entering the ocean of Arad, allowing Rotus to gain the power of water. Then, during the battle between you and Rotus, it rushed into the empty sea and even flew to the heaven.
But, you win.
Even though half of the GBL cultists died, and even though the dragonmen and monsters living in the Sky Tower were killed in your battle with Rotus, you eventually stabbed your sword into Rotus's brain.
Before he died, Lotus looked at you, your body covered in blood, mixed with the blood of tens of thousands of creatures, even your own blood and life, and asked a question.
"You killed me... but are you still human? Will those humans still treat you as one of their own?"
You didn't answer him, but burned him dry with your violent blood, then escaped from the ruins of the GBL cult, swam away from the dead Sky Curtain Beast, and came to an unknown beach.
Then fell into coma.
Before you passed out, you saw a figure in a fur coat.
"Held..."
When you woke up again, it was already a month later. While you were in a coma, you could feel that there was a sad person who was constantly using his power to sustain your life, using his own power to fight against the power of Lotus that you forcibly absorbed.
It is also because of this power that you are able to survive when .
But at the same time, your body, which is on the verge of collapse, is completely stabilized under the influence of this force.
When you opened your eyes , you saw Held, who looked exhausted. It seemed that saving your life was not an easy task for her.
But when you look into her eyes, you can only feel sadness and loneliness.
So you spoke subconsciously.
"You look lonely and sad, and I am pretty much the same, would you like to have a drink together?"
Held looked at you in surprise. Through the power remaining in your body, she could know that your thoughts came from the heart. You really felt that she was lonely and isolated, so you wanted to accompany her.
"No, instead of doing these boring things, you might as well think about how to serve me. You know it's not easy to maintain your existence. Even I can only barely maintain your body. The power and resentment of Rotus are rampant in your body. If you want to survive, you must have other powers to neutralize this power. I think you know what I mean."
"So, I am a growing blade?"
“It’s your choice.”
"Yeah, I know, but are you sure you don't want to have a drink together?"
"It's boring. Instead of spending this kind of time, you might as well think about how to maintain your life. Take this. Every time you find the power of an apostle, you can use this to call me."
Held left, you breathed a sigh of relief, and then found yourself back in Arad, but things were not good, your bounty was so high that even you were jealous.
Penniless, you went to find Kelly. After explaining the matter of the apostles to her, the two of you hit it off. She pretended to capture you and sent you to the Principality to collect the bounty.
After you were sure that she had cut off ties with you, you immediately escaped from prison, reunited with her and divided your bounty.
Kelly began to hunt you down, and in front of everyone, she chased you to the Empire and repeated her old tricks.
You and Kelly both have a bright future.
As a thank you, Kelly gave you a strengthening machine, but after researching it, you found that the strengthening probability of this machine is indeed very low.
but……
This thing has a remote control.
Looking at the buttons of 'Break', 'Fail', 'Reset', 'Success', and 'Replace' on the remote control, you pondered for a long time and looked at Kelly who was drinking to celebrate her wealth.
That night, Kelly cried.
