Chapter 21 – Tencram
“Tell me about the first disappearance that happened in the poor neighborhood. Or at least tell me where the nearest missing person is.”
Glenn quickly turned his eyes. Why is he asking that question? Seeing him agonizing quickly, Ed twisted his wrist again.
“Argh!” “Don’t think about anything else.” “Sorry, I’m sorry!” “Answer me.” “It started east side of the village.”
Ed let go of his wrist.
“If you pull your dagger out now, I’ll kill you.” “Yes! I know.”
Still, Ed stepped back because he seemed to know that if the dagger was pulled out, he would end up dead.
“Show me where it is.” “Yes! This way.”
Ed, who was trying to follow Glenn’s lead, suddenly burst out of the blue from the back and turned his head. It wasn’t just him that stopped, but Glenn was looking back in surprise. Arin pulled her hand off the head of a woman, and there was a deep anger in her eyes.
“She’s addicted to Lapla leaves.”
Lapla leaves are a kind of drug. It gives a strong painkiller effect, but its side effect is hallucination. One of the cheapest drugs. As such, it is highly addictive and difficult to be released once addicted. But I could see how great Arin’s divine spell was when she was able to treat it at once. The woman, whose eyes had lost focus, looked around and screamed.
“Aaaaah!”
Her hallucination was relieved, and the woman was confused. Arin helped her lay down. Arin’s eyes, which laid her down next to her, looked at the women from behind. At first glance, she could see around ten people. She knew she had to treat them all, but she couldn’t right now. If Tencram gives birth to a baby while treating these ten people, a hundred people will die. Lapla leaves are an item banned by Astron Church. And forbidden by kingdom law. Arin couldn’t contain her anger when they were using it to hallucinate women and prostitute them. Ed blocked her as she rose from her seat and approached Glenn. She was in a position to get out of the way, but Arin’s eyes naturally turned towards Ed.
“The Tencram comes first right now.”
Arin clenched her fist, but she understood. They have to find the Tencram, but she needs Glenn’s guidance. Rather than beating the author to death right now, it was urgent to find clues to the Tencram.
“I found it.”
Ed looked back at Glenn and said as she calmed down.
“Guide me.”
Seeing Glenn hurrying along, Ed followed him. Arin looked back at the woman, hallucinated, and gently bit her lips, and walked after Ed. While tracking through a kid in the slum, he meets with a man who knows more and asks him to guide him and tracks Tencram. It’s a way he never imagined. He said he killed so many demons that he was called devil hunter.
They arrived at the east of the ghetto, guided by Glenn. Arriving there, Ed smiled in vain. He couldn’t feel anything.
“I don’t think people live here.” “After people went missing here, the vagabonds avoided it. We moved west because we couldn’t do business if we were in a deserted place.”
Glenn turned pale as he arrived. He almost fainted from the pain of coming here with a dagger on his shoulder. From here on out there was no need for Glenn.
“You did a great job.” “Thank you very much!
Ed cut Glenn’s throat with a dagger. Glenn, whose neck was dripping with blood, hurriedly blocked the wound with his hands but collapsed. Arin approached and asked.
“I thought you’d save him.”
Ed looked back at her as if he were saying something.
“I never said that.”
He was no good even if Ed had let him live. He had to kill him when he thought of people who would be harmed by him. Arin looked at dead Glenn and looked around the empty slum.
“Is there a Tencram here?”
Ed prepared an arrow on the bow and said as he moved.
“Do you feel anything?”
Arin closed her eyes for a moment, held hands together, and prayed. And her eyes slowly opened, shining blue in the sky. Arin looked around the slums and pulled out a round shield and hammer. Then she started walking in the lead. Seeing that Arin has accepted her sacred power from the shield and hammer in her hand, it must be a relic. Although there are not many holy knights from Astron Church, it is too much for a new holy knight to carry around. Aaron was also a priest unbecoming of his age, so she must not be a regular holy knight either. He is a talent that can be the main character. Ed also awakened his senses by following in her footsteps. While walking like that, Arin stopped and put the shield in front of her and said,
“I think it’s that way, but it’s underground. I can feel the maggie coming from underground.”
Her exploratory ability seemed to be better than her sense of distance.
“I’ll take the lead.” “The Tencram is very agile. Be careful.”
Arin nodded at Ed’s words and headed for a shabby house. Arin pushed the gate lightly with a hammer, and the hinges of the gate screamed and collapsed. There was no response inside even though there was a loud noise. Ed sighed when he saw it. This was going to be a harder fight than he thought. It means that he is so patient to not show up even though he feels sacred, and if there is a fight underground, agility will be a great power. Arin opened the door of the house and went inside, and she stood in front of the stairs that went down to the basement and cleared her breath. Deborah was a medium-sized devil, so it would have been easy to beat it because it was big, but it seemed to be nerve-wracking because he had to go meet the devil in person waiting in a small space. Ed instilled courage behind Arin.
“Leave the back to me.”
Arin nodded when he said, “You don’t have to worry about your back when you fight in a narrow space with an agile devil.”
“Let’s go.”
Arin went down the stairs to the basement, and Ed also held his bow. He thought it’d surprise them while they were walking down the stairs, but no attack came in. It wasn’t until they came down to the basement that they knew why. It must have been just before giving birth to a baby, seeing a two-meter-tall, reminiscent of a bird’s leg, and bulging belly wriggling with its arms resembling a praying mantis. When Arin saw it, she turned her right hand with a hammer. Seeing the hammer in Arin’s hand shining blue, the Tencram’s eyes turned to her. Arin threw the hammer straight into Tencram’s red eyes.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
A hammer flew like a flash hit Tencram’s left arm and bounced off and stuck in a corner. They don’t know about the agility of its body, but they could tell how agile the Tencram was by the speed of his left arm. Ed shot an arrow.
Whoosh!
As expected, regular arrows are not difficult to avoid. It can’t move now, but they don’t know how long that will last.
“Astron’s dog! I’ll kill you. Don’t be impatient and wait.”
Arin did not talk in vain after entering the battle. She just stretched her hand forward, but the far-flung hammer came back and caught her. Arin rushed in with a shield. Seeing her rushing forward with her blue-splitting shield on the front, Ed pulled two arrows out from the arrows barrel of Ice and moved to the side. The basement was 4 meters high and 15 meters long. In such a small space, The Tencram’s movements had to be restricted. Ed’s arrow aimed at Tencram’s tummy and legs as Arin rushed and grabbed his eye.
Wooooosh!
The Tencram, who had a powerful blow to the point where Arin, who was rushing with a shield, bounced off, looked down at the arrow stuck in his leg. It failed to stop the arrow that flew to its leg because it was trying to block Arin. At that moment, the Tencram’s eyes turned toward Ed when it saw the surroundings freezing quickly.
“Aaaah!”
The Tencram, who made an unknown sound whether it was a scream or a shout of anger, raised its body. Its arms resembling a mantis were spaced about three meters apart, but it did not seem to be able to buy time to give birth. The Tencram, who raised its body, was going to kill them and make them into minced meat before giving birth. One leg froze, but it didn’t care. When the Tencram rose up, Arin’s hammer flew in. It was an unexpected attack. But it broke its arm the moment it tried to push it out. Arin threw a circular shield. The power was different from the hammer. Arrows flew in again when its arm, which had been slapping the shield while rotating, was deflected into a deformity. Three arrows this time. The Tencram drove off the ground as it cut out the arrow. The frozen leg was only a burden, but it was going to kill the holy knight who threw all his weapons. Ed fired three regular arrows at the same time, and when he saw the Tencram moving, he started firing fast shots. He aimed for the Tencram’s tummy. The attack was aimed at diverting theTencram’s attention to Arin because it was sensitive to attacks on the tummy. When seven arrows flew in so fast that they thought they were flying in a row, even the Tencram could not go to kill the holy knight. Then, the tummy was about to open, so it had to stop and swing his arms.
Siiiiiighhhhh
The Tencram managed to cut off seven arrows, felt Arin rushing from behind, and turned around and waved its arms.
Whoosh!
Arin blocked the Tencram’s arm with a sword. Arin held out her left hand, blocking the Tencram’s arm with one hand, perhaps because she was too strong. When the hammer returned with her left hand, Arin grabbed it, tilted the sword against Tencram’s arm, and approached and swung the hammer. At that moment, the Tencram shot up the ground. The Tencram was just trying to jump over Arin and aim for her back but swung nervously at an arrow flying in as if it had waited for the moment.
Booooooom!
The intense coldness, which is incomparable to earlier, froze everything from the arms to its left upper body. As soon as Arin rushed in, Ed’s attack, which filled the ice bow with mana, succeeded. Arin swung a hammer at the Tencram, where its body froze and fell.
Puck!
The frozen Tencram’s left upper body was smashed. When Arin tried to swing the sword again, an arrow flew into Tencram’s forehead and stuck in it. Then the cold frozen Tencram lost its vitality. Arin sighed with relief when she saw the Tencram falling backward. The Tencram could feel that it would not have been easy if it had faced them one at a time. They wouldn’t have been able to catch the Tencram if they hadn’t attacked its fast legs first. Arin looked back at Ed in admiration. She could see an arrow flying toward her eyes. There was no time for her body to react. The flying arrow spun and brushed her cheek and flew behind her. And a terrible scream was heard from behind. Arin’s eyes, which turned around, saw an arrow embedded in the Tencram’s baby’s shoulder, which was about a meter tall and had unusually long arms that ripped out of the Tencram’s belly. The fight was not over yet.