◈ Chapter 94
No, I’m Not – 2
“What is it? Who are you people?”
There was no reply.
Only reckless attacks came back.
Wildy fended off a man who was rushing in with glazed eyes and raised his staff.
“Wind Breath!”
A strong wind blew, pushing back those who were attacking.
Seeing this, Blenche was about to thrust his spear at a woman whose posture had faltered, but Ian said,
“They’re just being controlled. Are you sure about this?”
“Ah. Really? That would have been a disaster.”
Blenche, who had been brandishing his spear, changed direction and swung it lightly.
He struck her down with the shaft of the spear and shouted to Wildy.
“Wildy! Hit them with something big!”
“Protect me first!”
They had lost their minds and were attacking blindly.
Among them were large adult men, but there were also old women and even children who seemed to know nothing.
If they were being controlled by drugs or magic, magic would be better than Aura to deal with them.
Remembering what he had learned at the Academy, Blenche shouted to Osnen, who had drawn his sword.
“Don’t kill them either!”
“Understood.”
Osnen returned the drawn sword to its sheath and swung it as it was.
Perhaps because he was a Master, those who approached were knocked away by just a couple of hits.
But as if they didn’t feel any pain, they slowly got up.
“Ian! We’ll take care of this area!”
“Okay. Good luck. Myane, help too.”
“Myaa~.”
Myane, who had been sitting on Ian’s shoulder, headed towards Wildy’s feet.
Even if an emergency occurred, Myane would be of great help.
Seeing them guarding the entrance, Ian opened the door.
As Kirke had said, the building was filled with terrible poison and malice.
“Oh ho.”
Only one person was sitting at the store’s table.
A pot-bellied middle-aged man with a glass of beer in front of him greeted Ian as he sipped from the glass.
“I didn’t expect you to find me so soon. I manipulated all the suspicious guys.”
The middle-aged man chuckled and clapped his hands lightly.
At the same time, people walked out from inside.
They seemed to be controlled like those outside.
But there was one thing different about them.
They were properly armed.
“Capture him.”
“Uoooo!!”
Four men rushed in.
As the sturdy warriors charged in roughly, Ian’s eyes flashed.
Unlike with Treebe, they were completely frozen and couldn’t even move.
The middle-aged man, who had been watching while sipping his beer, showed interest in his eyes.
“What did you just do? It looks like an Evil Eye… How can a mere human use an Evil Eye?”
“Your eyes are also Evil Eyes, and very low-grade ones at that.”
As Ian grabbed his sword, he grinned.
“I don’t really want to reveal my true power. It’s hard to use my strength because I’m under contract.”
“You’re a demon, aren’t you? What’s your name?”
“There’s no reason to reveal my name to insignificant humans who should disappear.”
“Beriswell, huh? There were many others who liked to control people. Whether they’re demons or humans, there’s really nothing special about them.”
Beriswell’s expression hardened at Ian’s nonchalant remark.
“…What? How did you know?”
He didn’t answer.
He just stared silently.
Beriswell gritted his teeth and shouted.
“Kill that guy!”
He glared with a sense of unknown anxiety and activated his Evil Eye.
But he couldn’t undo Medusa’s Evil Eye.
He was flustered and glared again, but the captured men still didn’t move.
“What… This, a human’s Evil Eye…”
While he was bewildered, Ian drew his sword.
Cheonma Shin’gong [Heavenly Demon Divine Art], Chapter of Destruction.
Oyeonseom [Five-Flash Severance].
A strike as fast as light instantly severed his limbs and neck.
The commotion that had been going on outside disappeared.
But it wasn’t all over.
“Are the guys downstairs still poisoned?”
In the case of Evil Eyes, most of them are released when the caster dies.
But poison was different.
They act independently regardless of the user.
“It’s not a good time to go and release them now, is it?”
As Ian said, it was true.
Black energy was swirling from the corpse with severed limbs and head.
“Does that matter?”
Ian stepped on Beriswell’s head as it rolled over.
-Crack!!
The moment the middle-aged man’s head was crushed, the black undulation grew larger and swelled.
The malice that had been felt inside the store was getting stronger and stronger.
It had fully taken shape.
A mass of black energy with hundreds of eyes, openly emitting malice, appeared, and the door burst open.
-Bang!!
“Hey! Ian! The situation outside is over… What is that…”
He must have felt it from outside.
Blenche, who opened the door and came in, was horrified and stepped back.
It was an ominous and terrible energy just to look at.
The mass of energy shimmering in dark blue changed the energy in his body.
“Shield!”
At the same time, a stream of energy was emitted from the dark blue mass.
As it was blocked by the shield, Osnen said, infusing Aura into his sword.
“It’s a demon.”
“Wow. I didn’t know that!”
If you feel this much malice, anyone would know that it’s a demon.
Blenche gave a short answer to Osnen and shouted.
“Ian! I came to find the kids, but why are we meeting a demon?!”
“He took the kids. You guys go and get the priests.”
“Okay!”
The moment they tried to step back.
Beriswell burst into laughter.
“Hehehe! You can’t go!”
It was the same energy as the spear from before.
But this time, there were dozens of them.
Seeing that, Wildy bit his lower lip and tried to block it with all his might, but Ian moved first.
Cheonma Shin’gong [Heavenly Demon Divine Art], Chapter of the Moon.
Moonlight Veil.
A subtle light barrier blocked the attack.
As the three of them escaped, Beriswell wriggled.
“He. Hehe… Hehehe!”
“Why are you laughing?”
“Do you think you can escape?! Now that I, Lord Beriswell, have manifested! Everything here will be dominated by my poison!”
At the same time, the undulation intensified and a dark blue energy spread around.
It turned into a poisonous fog as it was.
The poisonous fog, which was quite strong, corroded the walls and roof and began to spread outside.
“Is it some kind of drug?”
“Then it can be detoxified. It won’t be difficult to deal with either.”
The powerful poisonous fog was already thickly filling the building.
If left unchecked, not only the village but also the Academy would be covered in the demon’s poison.
Beriswell burst into wild laughter as if everything was over.
“Uahaha! It’s over! It’s over!”
Ian, who had been watching it with indifferent eyes, raised his hand.
Dozens, no, hundreds of magic circles began to gather.
“Wind.”
The incantation for a 1st circle magic was activated.
But its power was by no means at the 1st circle level.
-Crack! Crackle!!
A storm.
The wind created from Ian’s hand was literally a storm.
The massive wind overturned the interior and began to gather the poisonous fog.
The small house could not withstand the power of the wind. Even the walls and roof of the building were shattered, and Beriswell was taken aback.
“W-What kind of magic is this…?”
-Crash!!
In the end, the entire building was swept away by the wind.
As the huge wind soaring into the sky completely enveloped the poisonous fog and the debris of the building, Ian lightly raised his hand.
The poison moved.
The poison, which had been clumped together by the wind, was gathering in one place.
Beriswell couldn’t even speak at the sight that even a demon couldn’t easily see.
Ian, who had been watching it, raised his other hand.
There was a world where everything was burned and only death awaited.
The last giant’s fire that he had obtained while saving that place.
Mountains, rivers, seas, land. Sky too.
Even the gods were burned by the absolute fire that was formed on his finger.
“T-This is… What is this…”
It was a small flame like a spark.
But Beriswell couldn’t help but be terrified when he saw it.
Because he realized that the power felt from that fire would burn him to ashes in an instant.
How could a human use such power?
While he was at a loss, Ian flicked his finger.
The small flame fluttered away.
And the moment it touched the storm.
“No way…”
The poison and the debris of the building caught in the wind were completely burned without leaving any ashes.
Beriswell, who was staring blankly at it, turned his eyes to Ian.
“What are you… What, what are you!! What are you!!”
He didn’t know anything like this.
He had never seen such power.
He shouted, frightened by the unknown power, but Ian did not answer.
“What is it! What is it!!”
There was still no answer.
Ian just raised his sword high.
Seeing that, Beriswell felt a chill.
Was this how he felt when he was in front of the Seven Deadly Sins?
No.
It was even more frightening than that time.
It was like being in front of the god who had led them.
Was it because of the fear that he might be annihilated with just one touch?
Beriswell pleaded without even resisting.
“N-No… Don’t do it… Don’t do it…”
But Ian’s sword did not stop.
Just slowly.
It was plunging down on him.
It was then.
“May the Sun be present here! May evil reveal itself before it!”
A strong light struck Beriswell’s body along with the prayer.
At the same time, Ian turned his head as the frozen Beriswell bounced off.
“Saint! Are you alright?!”
The Holy Knights belonging to the Sun Temple of the Academy approached Ian.
Behind them, a clear prayer could be heard.
“As the Great Sun speaks, the evil that has taken root here will not be able to resist the light…”
The divine power contained in the voice contained the energy of a powerful sun.
Despite being covered in sweat as if he had rushed over, Willis was desperately chanting the prayer.
As he finished his prayer and used his divine power, Ian immediately accepted the energy of the sun contained within it.
The energy of the sun contained in the divine power began to be sucked into Ian.
“Light! Come upon this place!”
An even more intense light than before struck Beriswell.
“Kuaaaaaak!!”
The dark blue mass began to burn in the light.
Then the mass scattered and the person inside fell out.
It was a monster resembling a goblin.
It had two horns symbolizing a demon on its head and a long tail hanging down.
The monster, with its long nose and sharp teeth, bared its teeth, spewing smoke from all over its body.
“Insignificant… Sun’s lackeys…”
The demon Beriswell had fully revealed himself.
As the Holy Knights attacked, Willis approached Ian.
“Are you alright? Saint Ian?! Are you hurt anywhere?!”
“Yes. I’m fine.”
“That’s a relief.”
Willis breathed a sigh of relief.
He felt the demon’s energy when he was shopping outside with the Holy Knights.
So he put everything aside and ran over, but he never expected Ian to be fighting.
“You seem to get involved with demons a lot, Saint.”
“Haha. You’re telling me.”
“And you defeat the demons every time…”
In the Bobild Dungeon.
At the Academy.
And in the village outside the Academy.
“And I heard that you fought a demon in Mount Kiledi as well…”
“Yes.”
As Ian nodded calmly, Willis gave a gentle smile.
To fight so many demons in less than a year.
Even the demon hunters of the Order are not this active.
“I really think you should become a Holy Knight. Hahahaha!”
As he said with sincerity, Ian smiled and replied.
“Hahaha. That’s not going to happen.”