Episode 108
Episode 108: T’s Watch (1)
[Adhesive liquid]
Wow!!
Should I even use this spell? A slimy liquid squirted from my fingertips.
“Kuok!! Wow! Ugh!!”
The target of the slime is his open mouth. With the sticky liquid stuffed into his mouth, he was unable to finish his plea for his life. But despite that, he didn’t stop struggling and going crazy.
“Stay still!”
Wow!! Left ahhh!! Juwaaaaa!!
“Wow!! Wow! Wow!!”
I poured more magical power into the erupting slime, completely covering my entire body. That cult member ended up rolling around on the floor, pushed by the water pressure, and became a large lump tangled with slime, dirt, leaves, etc.
Although it may seem a bit odd, life is precious.
It is a wooden Amitabha Buddha.
[Achievement achieved! You have defended the first raid.
You have earned the ‘Standard Achievement: First Defense’.
As a reward for the achievement, you will receive a ‘Stand of Beacon’ and experience points.]
[You have successfully defended your residence against plunder. Gain experience.]
[You have defeated 52 cultists (descendants of Fomalhaut). Your understanding of the ‘Living Flame Church’ as a whole increases.]
I can’t level up like this anymore.
The staff of the beacon is the staff that the cultist was holding earlier.
When I checked, it was an item that gave me the ability to summon a few flame-type spells and the Burning One without having any understanding of magic.
It’s not a bad thing, but it’s not what I need. If you attach it to a ghost golem, can you make a fire-breathing golem?
“Okay, then shall we summarize now?”
We need to find out how these guys found out about this place. It seems like I’m repeating it over and over again, but it’s impossible to convince this many cultists.
For now, we’ve fought over the situation, but if things don’t work out, we may have to fight endlessly until the entire church is destroyed.
“If it were the descendants of Fomalhaut, there would be over 100,000 believers… … .”
You can fight, but fighting an army of 100,000 at such chaotic timing? It’s a job that doesn’t make any money! no! bothered!
Wow!! Together!!
A command golem with a unique design approached me and delivered a message.
“Have you organized everything?”
It looks like all those who resisted have been subdued.
“Let those who are about to run away run away, and give first aid to those who are likely to die. If possible, encourage those who are running away to take you.”
Click, click, click.
The command was given, but instead of carrying out the command immediately, the command golem took another action. How do you point to a place by lifting a part of the body that would be the size of a human hand?
“Over there? “What is there?”
Other than the cultist lying down covered in slime… … .
“Oh, if I leave it like that, I’ll die.”
[Generating clear water]
Sigh!
I threw water in the direction of his face.
“Sigh! Haha!!”
The mucus covering his entire face was completely blocking his breathing.
“Wow, I almost killed someone.”
Now that I think about it, what that guy said bothers me. T’s watch? what is that?
Oh, is that the clock in the attic that King Mangeum spoke of?
“Hey, throw that slime-covered guy in the yard too.”
Crackling, crackling, crackling.
When I went to the vacant lot in front of the mansion, I saw about a dozen cult members lined up at evenly spaced intervals.
People who are relatively healthy are tied up with ropes, and for those who are not, spirit golems are walking around providing basic first aid.
“No one died.”
“Oh, thank you.”
Heo Sang-hyun has a somewhat different expression than usual.
The appearance of always blinking big eyes with an anxious expression is gone, and the tension and strictness like a knife are everywhere. Why are you saying this when you are not even a military veteran?
“Can I report to you what we confirmed from the prisoners?”
“what? “Have you been interrogated?”
How far do you want to go?
Ah, it seems that Heoju always ordered something like this after beating up other religious groups or wandering problem solvers.
“No, I couldn’t do that because there were no special instructions. There wasn’t enough time… … . “I just wanted to tell you about the information I gained from what they said during the capture.”
Heo Sang-hyun looked anxious for a moment and opened his eyes wide.
Oh, they ordered it, and can they also interrogate or torture it? Actually, he is someone who can use necromancy, right?
In any case, he is a person who has been toiling under the psychopathic Skull Gourd for several years. Contrary to what he appears on the outside, he must have had many difficult experiences.
“No, there is no need for interrogation. These guys are the Torch Band… … “Do you have any other information other than that they are descendants of Fomalhaut?”
“These are not Shinhwa, master… … So, it looks like they came here to attack the former master. The tee that the previous owner had? “They say they came to take that away.”
“Ah, I heard that earlier too. “I heard it’s T’s watch. Do you know anything about it?”
“no. I don’t know either. However, my former master often captured cultists or sacrifices from other denominations… … So we don’t have a very good relationship with other denominations. “This is not the first attack like this.”
While Heo Sang-hyeon was speaking, he opened his big eyes even wider and blurted out his words, but you can roughly guess what he omitted.
By capturing… … It may have been used for physical pampering or to satisfy sadism.
Among the beings of the abyss, there are those who are in a relationship that can be called brothers and sisters or parents and children. For that reason, there are denominations that are close to each other, and even if they are not related to each other, there are also people who create some kind of interest group or association for the same goal.
——————
faqwiki.us
Join our Discord for new chapter updates!
https://discord.com/invite/xr7SxG5T6V
——————
Meanwhile, there are denominations that are at odds with each other, calling each other simply a heretic.
For example, the cultists who serve the [King in Yellow Clothes] regard those who serve the [The One Who Sleeps in Rlie] as their enemies.
But I was a player anyway.
Among various plays, there are not many times when I played with the identity of a cult member.
Therefore, we do not know very well how the network of relationships among cult members is specifically set up.
“Anyway, Heo Ju must have been quite a crazy person even among the cultists, right?”
“It was somewhat like that. But it didn’t mean there was no interaction.”
“Exchange?”
“yes. “I attended meetings and events, and sometimes I received letters from outside.”
I feel sorry for Heo Sang-hyun for speaking so seriously, but I couldn’t help but laugh when I imagined that scene. Where is the meeting attended by the skeleton man who turned all the church’s believers into undead? And what kind of crazy person would be to send a letter to such a grumpy skeleton man?
“Do you still have that letter?”
“After Shinhwa came, if it wasn’t abandoned during the major cleanup, it would remain. “I’ll take a look.”
“Well, I guess I might have thrown it away. “It’s not important, so you don’t have to look too hard.”
“All right.”
I looked around at the descendants of Fomalhaut rolling around on the ground and said,
“Once properly treated, let anyone but the executive level run away. “It doesn’t really matter if an executive runs away, so don’t chase them anyway.”
“All right.”
“yes. “I think I need to go up to the attic.”
First of all, I think I need to know what T’s watch is. Then you can decide whether to negotiate with the children of Fomalhaut or to threaten them so they never come again.
There was no one inside the mansion except the two command golems who were waiting to guard the first floor.
“You two, please go outside and help Sang-hyeon, leaving only one of you left.”
Snap, pop, pop.
“It’s an attic… … . “There really was nothing there.”
In the past, when I was infiltrating as a player, I used a window in the attic ceiling.
There was only one coffin, but other than that the room was strangely empty.
Have the settings changed?
Or maybe there was a trigger that I wasn’t satisfying at the time?
I headed up the creaky wooden stairs to the attic.
Good profit… … .
I opened the attic door, but there was only one thing I could see from the attic.
coffin.
In the center of the dark attic lies an open coffin without a lid. It is a sarcophagus made of stone.
“I don’t think you would have called that a clock, right?”
It’s just a dusty and spacious attic.
It wouldn’t be strange if there were things like spider webs or insects walking around, but wouldn’t it be surprising if you couldn’t see anything like that?
Other than that, there was only one window opening in the ceiling. What’s in that window?
It seems like it’s a structure that can’t be solved just by peeking through the door.
“It’s not like you suddenly have to solve a mini-game puzzle or something to make it appear, right?”
I walked to the side of the coffin, looked left and right, but didn’t see anything special.
What is in the attic is really a coffin placed right under the window. That’s the only one.
However, the location of the coffin seems… … .
“Surely this coffin is for lying down and looking at the stars?”
It is structured so that when you lie down in the coffin, you can look up at the window.
“oh… … .”
found.
The moment I raised my head right next to the coffin, I realized what the clock was that the descendants of King Mangeum and Fomalhaut had previously talked about.
A complex and dense mechanism was hidden in the attic’s ceiling.
It is a device that is hidden by the ceiling rafters and beams and cannot be seen from other positions even if you turn your head.
Dozens of mainsprings, rods, counterweights, and chains are connected around the attic window, forming a kind of mechanical device.
The structure is reminiscent of the interior of an antique analog clock.
“But it’s not moving?”
People think of it that way because they call it a watch, but it is not something that looks like a watch to anyone. There are no numbers or needles to indicate time.
If you had seen it under other circumstances, you might have thought it was just a piece of excessive decoration.
There can be no negotiation with this.
“What the hell? “It’s annoying, so should I just rip it off?”
And what on earth is this coffin?
Is this also a set?
A coffin placed in a position where you can look up at the window exactly when you lie down.
And a mechanical device arranged to surround the window.
“… … .”
damn… … . I have a feeling that if I lie down here, I can find out something.
“But it’s an incredibly unpleasant structure.”
The moment you lie down, a trap may be triggered and something terrible may happen.
Some crazy person might want to break into someone’s house and lie down in a coffin, but don’t underestimate Cthulhu World.
Regardless of context or probability, there are countless traps designed to tease people simply out of curiosity.
I carefully activated the magic.
[Trap detection]
Kiiiiing… … .
“Oh, look at that.”
There is something under the coffin.
Let’s see. There is a tracheal device attached to the bottom of the tube, and it is a structure that operates when a certain amount of weight is placed on the tube.
“It’s a bit hard to call this a trap.”
Anyway, I think whoever put this here wanted someone to lie in this coffin. I don’t know if it’s a clock or a trap that’s working.
“Okay… … . “Still, there’s no use in taking time like this.”
[Fox’s agility]
[The brilliance of the eagle]
[Eagle Eyes]
[protection team]
I lay down on the coffin, activating magic to counter the trap that would be activated at the wrong moment.
Crash.
At the same time, it felt like the pipe was moving down a little and something was working.
Thump, thud, thump… … .
The springs hanging from the ceiling began to move with a heavy noise.
fantasy,
