Academy Ankle Reaper

31. Church of the Devil

That evening, there was a drinking party at the senior’s lodging.

It wasn’t that there was a great reason for the drinking, but coincidentally, it was a good opportunity to inform Andy-senpai today.

“Senior, next week is dungeon exploration training, right?”

“Dungeon Exploration~? It should be called a dungeon picnic. Yesterday, I went to a preliminary field trip, but why are you asking about that all of a sudden?”

Senior Andy, who was sipping wine from a glass, asked in a puzzled way.

This is because the dungeon exploration, which is held like an annual event when freshmen enter the school, is really nothing.

“Preliminary survey..? Did you find anything strange?”

“I go there once a year, so what’s strange about it?”

Originally, a dungeon is an ant hell with unpredictable traps and monsters that may appear from nowhere. And because of the narrow space, it is difficult to wield a weapon properly if you are not used to it.

Dungeon exploration practice is to enter a dungeon that has almost all risk factors removed like a theme park in order to experience the atmosphere of such a dungeon and leave it in an idiotic state.

Because the dungeon collapses when the dungeon boss is cleared, the boss room is sealed and a magic that lowers the difficulty level is cast throughout the dungeon.

As for how easy it is… They said that even farmers who had never sharpened a knife in their life could easily navigate around that dungeon.

There is no problem unless you fall and break your nose.

There really is no such thing as a picnic.

“Did you know that the devil church fanatics are hiding in the senior academy?”

If it weren’t for the cultists.

“Poop!! What… what??? How did you get in???”

When Andy listened to my advice, he spewed out the wine he was drinking.

“One or two people must have sneaked in as if they were employees. You may be preparing for the Advent ceremony by now.”

“It’s a big deal..!! How do you do this…. There have been no accidents in nearly 5 years, so why this year… Why did you say it now..!!”

If students die in your class due to the tricks of heretics such as the Devil Church, your future will be bleak.

Senior Andy knew everything, but she asked why he left her alone, but she couldn’t deal with it unless they gathered like this anyway.

“The important thing is from now on. If you catch one or two of them, there’s no end to it. Catch the Devil Church once or twice?”

“I’m once or twice… !!”

The Demon Church, a disquieting group that seeks to overthrow the state, consistently subjugates the Devil Church in the Empire and the Imperial Knights, so during the Knights Templar days, I had countless infidels.

Of course, I thought Andy-senpai did the same, but it’s shocking to hear that only her top-ranked kids rolled and ate.

“If you don’t know, just listen. After investigating, the scattered ones will now gather and begin the ritual in earnest. Now is your chance.”

“Shouldn’t we inform the academy?”

“No. “

The Devil’s Church is like cockroaches.

There is no harm in catching one or two.

When they realize that they are being caught, they hide like rats, and when they think they have passed, they gather again.

You can think of it the same way you catch cockroaches.

There’s no point in grabbing them one by one… You have to knock out the buzzing in the nest.

“It’s easier to catch if you make me think that I haven’t been caught by anyone. That is today.”

Assuming that they are holding the dungeon exploration practice day as the day of execution, there is no better day for them to gather than today.

“I’m going to kill those bastards today.”

Since the scattered cockroaches have gathered in one place, it is time to exterminate them all.

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The Devil’s Church is an unauthorized, unauthorized religious organization that worships the great demons of Hell.

A paradise where God is worshiped and all believers are happy. Unlike churches that promise an afterlife called heaven,

Worship the great devil, unbelievers burn in boiling oil, believers happy… It is the Devil’s Church that promises to make hell manifest in this world.

The zealots who deny all the doctrines of the church, deny God, and insist that the hell of the great demons is the paradise that will descend on the earth will not hesitate to do anything to prove their ‘belief’.

The certain power that brings all sorts of miracles… Just insulting a god who proves its existence with divine power is heresy, but the Devil Church, which dares to manifest hell in this world, was proudly designated as a national subversive force in the empire.

The heretic inquisitors of the church and various knights of the empire run and hunt them, but like cockroaches, they continue to grow in power out of sight of others.

‘Just… They’re multi-level scammers.’

I believe in the church rather than the devil’s church.

The divine power given in exchange for piety is a miracle that produces certain effects, although it is not omnipotent.

In the Devil’s Church, it is said that believers can make a contract with the devil and make their wishes come true by paying a price… If the devil had kept his promise in the first place, would they have been called devils?

Even in the original work, all the demons who contracted with the devil had a bad end.

When I was in the midst of the Imperial Knights, I also punished countless cultists.

The Devil Church is a very troublesome group.

They disguised themselves as normal people and covered their entire bodies with black robes, so they couldn’t kick out just because they caught one since they didn’t know who each other was.

It is not a group with weak armed forces.

There are demons who actually summon demons or make contracts with demons to imbue their bodies with demonic powers, so it’s difficult to deal with if you don’t deal with them.

Because demons, beings from another world, cannot even be harmed by ordinary means.

There are three ways to deal with the devil.

The first is the miraculous divine power of God.

The second is pure matter.

It is not just pure, but only a few special ones are possible among pure substances.

It’s not like a pure piece of wood, but pure silver and salt are easy to find around..

Rare metals such as atamantite and mithril can inflict great damage to demons when they are of high purity.

And the third….

“Keep it off..!!”

“Awesome.”

Blood spurts out with the fanatic’s death.

The blood of the zealots splattered all over the body is unpleasant.

Because of the night raid, it was hard to see if the long sword was stained with blood, but there was a lot of blood all over the body.

I could tell where all these bloods came from by just looking around.

Inside the dark cave, countless people have lost their heads and are lying down.

The reason why they persistently cut their hair is because of their characteristics…

Sometimes, the fanatics who have received demonic power into their bodies regenerate quickly even if they cut off their limbs, so they cut their heads off because they couldn’t regenerate.

Cutting off the neck is easy to say, but in reality it is very difficult.

But I can do it casually.

A corpse with only its head blown off without any major injuries would be frightening to an unfamiliar person, but if someone who walks the path of a sword sees it, they will applaud my achievement.

‘Isn’t it, it was just such a crazy idea… I need to correct it.’

This is a hidden cave near the deep forest.

This isn’t the dungeon where the incident takes place… All the guys who would play tricks in the dungeon were gathered here.

Not anymore.

“Still, I’m glad it ended sooner than expected.”

Most of them were like flies.

There were no magicians, and it wasn’t like there were just great combat agents.

Because preparing for the ritual did not require strength.

With this, the most annoying people died on the dungeon exploration practice day, so you can relax.

“Hmm? This feeling… Where is the magic leaking out… ?”

I suddenly feel bad.

Magi began pouring out of the Pentacle like black smoke from a fire.

The ceremony is starting even though no one is there.

“Everybody is dead… Crazy guys made it activate right away when they die… !”

Sometimes.

It was arranged so that when they died, they would sacrifice themselves as soon as they died and activate their consciousness.

The magic circle glows with the blood of dead fanatics.

The life of the dead pagans as the center of the black demon is united to form a shape.

The demon, made from body to limbs, appeared sporting a horn on its head.

[Who called me….]

-Seoguk

“Oh, I didn’t call. Go back.”

The devil’s head is cut along the white trail.

The devil has nothing to do, so you can kill him right away.

In my hand was a short dagger made of pure white shining silver.

A nameless devil who had been suddenly decapitated was stunned as he blocked the demonic energy spewing out of his severed throat with his hand.

[Keep.. Ugh..! How can a human… !]

“Why are you so careless about going back? No one called you.”

– Puk puk pupuk pupuk

I grabbed the demon’s horns that were holding it by the neck and stabbed the demon’s body with a sterling dagger.

It feels like sticking a knife into a bag of sand.

There are often these guys.

Since demons are beings from another world, there are quite a few individuals who are not vigilant because they do not take damage in the normal way of this world.

However, if you know how to injure yourself like this, you can cope with it.

It seems that a low-level demon with no name has been summoned in a hurry.

The demon could not resist and was hacked to pieces, then lost its shape again and scattered as black smoke.

“A piece of garbage that dies as much as a weapon made of silver weighs.”

A nameless low-ranking demon is grabbing weight and making a fuss.

A demon with a high status does not take damage properly unless it is a rare metal class.

I defeated the devil, killed all the fanatics of the devil church, and secretly went into the dormitory to take a shower and wash dirty bloody clothes.

With this, no demons will appear in the dungeon exploration practice.

“Um..?”

There is someone.

Someone is creeping this way.

Is it still untreated?

Or is it an academy official? ?

I was waiting quietly because I was curious about who it was, and I suddenly felt alive.

-Tang tang!!

‘.. Gunshots??’

Thundering through the thick demonic air, a thunderous gunshot echoed through the cave.

It was too late to avoid it, so I cut off all the flying insects with my sword, but I could clearly see them the moment they touched.

‘It’s not just a bullet. Great Demon… It’s a silver bullet!’

I saw bullets made of pure white silver and the word of God engraved on the surface.

These bullets are not easy to obtain.

It’s terrible to blow silver, a precious metal, for one-time use, but you also have to work on the bullets separately.

There are not too many people in this world who carry rare weapons like guns.

To me, this only means one thing.

‘Hayden finally showed up?’

The academy’s Devil Slayer, who was thought to have disappeared, has appeared.