Blood of the Hunting God

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A distorted and cacophonous voice full of evil and profanity.

"Put out the torches, and we'll be found."

At the front, Disma, who had already realized something, whispered, and then Tardiff, who was holding a torch at the back, hung the torch in his hand directly on the wall next to him, and the group of people proceeded carefully in the dark like this, bit by bit Came to the source of the sound.

It was a huge room on this floor, and a thing that seemed to be some kind of altar was placed in it. A golden strange thing with complex patterns was located on the altar, and the shape seemed to be like a cup.And around this altar, there are many filthy monsters with distorted figures, muttering indistinct, indecipherable strange words, circling around the golden cup on the altar over and over again.

Bang!

A large-looking monster dressed like a clergyman knocked the golden cup on the altar with a staggered arm.

The murmurs of all the monsters disappeared in an instant, and these distorted monsters knelt down on the ground, facing the direction of the altar, or kowtowed, or opened their arms, or scratched their ears, and then stood up in a trance, and continued to surround the altar. The altar circled up.

"They... are enshrining that thing?"

After secretly observing outside the door for a while, Solal, who noticed something, opened his mouth in doubt.

"The Holy Grail of Lucerne City, I have indeed heard of this thing. It is said that the kings of the ancient times sealed their secrets and treasures in the Holy Grail dungeon. Only by mastering the correct ritual can they be opened and entered. That cup It is a passage leading to another place outside the world, where all the precious treasures that have existed since the establishment of the city of Lucerne to its destruction are buried. This...should be the real thing, right?"

As a bounty hunter, Tardif obviously has a good understanding of these secrets, and he is even a little excited at this moment.

"Do it or not."

After rubbing his hands, Tardiff looked at the three people beside him.

"There are quite a few of these guys. There are at least twenty or thirty of them that we can see, not counting those out of sight."

Disma somewhat hesitated.

"It's worth a try, at worst, run away."

The Sun Warrior who had come to dig the ancient ruins agreed.

"……Dry."

The hunter, who rarely spoke, agreed with a hoarse voice, and even gave a thumbs up.

The votes were three to one at this moment.

"Okay, let's do it!"

He lifted up the mask and spit, put it on again, took out the hatchet the next moment, kicked open the door and rushed in.

The rustling sound disappeared in an instant.

Amidst the sound of bone shattering, it was Tardiff who slashed the face of a monster that was closer with an axe, splitting the rotten face from the middle. "

【Roar! ! ! ! ! 】

Amidst the bloodthirsty roar, monsters rushed forward one after another.

With a loud "bang", Disma and the hunter fired at the same time, and the scattered projectiles made the rushing monsters stagger, and some of them rushed too fast and even fell to the ground.

The meat saw knife burst out with a cold light, and popped out in an instant, biting the flesh and blood of the monster and then bounced back to smash it into two halves.

The hunter turned around at this moment, and immediately five or six filthy monsters fell under his attack.

【Roar! 】

Immediately afterwards, a monster barely maintaining a human shape leaped towards the back of the hunter, and was shot by the approaching Disma and pulled the trigger. It was broken into two pieces.

The tall monster that was standing in front of the altar howled and turned around, and the skeletal tail that grew out due to the mutation of its body swept over, but it was blocked by Solal's shield, and the hunter who followed behind rushed forward. The giant sword aimed straight at the monster's body, and the fierce blow made the three-meter-high behemoth stagger.

zizi——

The golden Thunder Spear flew forward at the same time as the hunter rolled and retreated, hitting the huge monster that was about to chase after it.

Tardiff's angry curse sounded not far away, he grabbed the necks of the two monsters, and slammed them together forcefully.Then another human soldier turned into a monster and rushed forward, but was knocked to the ground by Tardiff, and the fist contained in the metal glove slammed down hard. Two or three punches directly smashed the monster's entire face into it. up.

"boom!"

Disma, who shot again, blasted a monster's head with a precise shot.

And the hunter had already greeted the tall monster at the moment when he bent down because of the pain, his fingers stretched out like iron pincers, directly piercing the monster's eye sockets, penetrating the eyeballs and stirring into the brain with a howling sound. Inside, after clenching tightly, he tore off a large piece of flesh and blood and pulled it out from the thing's eye socket.

"Aha!"

Solal, who was wielding a big sword, was behind the hunter and killed several monsters who wanted to come up and attack him.

After a fight, the ground was in a mess.

The blood-stained soldiers panted slightly, as they had won the battle.

"Ha, it looks like the combination of us is quite powerful."

As he said this, Tardiff reached out and took off the gold cup and stuffed it into his pocket.

"call……"

And Disma, who was sitting on the ground, just exhaled a little tiredly, and looked at the monster corpses around him.

Chapter 96: Self-Psychoanalysis

I should go to Sergeant William.

For some reason, Abigail had the idea.

I have something to tell the other party, and I have to explain very important things to the other party.

However, he couldn't remember at all what he wanted to say to the other party.

This feeling is really... so strange...

"Well, what's the matter?"

Sitting on a bench on the side of the courtyard of the Trust House, Abigail showed a slightly distressed expression.

"Sister Abby, what are you thinking about?"

The other children in the yard were playing, and two or three children who noticed Abigail's strange expression came up and asked.

"It's nothing, don't worry about me, you can play your own."

Abigail, who waved her hand, smiled lightly, then got up and left, and returned to her room.

There is a feeling that I forgot something.

At this moment, the young girl has this feeling more and more strongly.

Calm down, just calm down.

Sitting alone on the bed in the bedroom, the girl exhaled softly, closed her eyes, and slowly relaxed her mind.

First, when did this feeling start?

I can't remember the specifics, but it should have started today, to be precise, after I took a nap today.

Did you dream about anything while you were taking a nap?

No, I have no such memory at all.

After taking a nap, I didn't dream at all, and I woke up when I opened my eyes after falling asleep on Mr. Hunter's bed.

Then, after waking up, I had some strange feelings.

So what exactly does it feel like?

door panel——

Looking up, Abigail looked towards the bedroom door.

Yes, I thought there was something on the outside of the bedroom door, the side facing the corridor.

I feel that the clean door panel is not normal, and I think there should be something on the door panel.

Why do you feel this way?

I don't know, I can't think of it.

However, can it be deduced that I feel that there is something that has knocked on the door and looked for me outside?

Then the next second anomaly was that I wanted to go to Sergeant William.

Why would I want to go to the sheriff with the dog?

Obviously he doesn't like each other very much.

Yes, Abigail was actually somewhat afraid of William, especially the fierce, muscular and agile hound that followed William.Although the hound would wag its tail and lick her hand in a friendly way every time it saw Abigail, the girl still had a subconscious sense of fear.

Such a self, why would you want to find Sergeant William?

If he was really in danger, shouldn't he want to go to Mr. Hunter?

If I really need to go to Sergeant William, what is the reason?

Sergeant William... yes, he is the sheriff, that uncle is in charge of order in the entire town, arresting civilians and hunters who violated the law, protecting those who are injured, and maintaining the normal order of the entire town Running without getting out of control, and organizing manned border patrols to prevent monster swarms from attacking the town.

Wait, prevent monster swarms from attacking the town?

The girl suddenly widened her eyes.

If I really have any reason to find Sergeant William...

However, why should I go to him so determinedly after I woke up from sleep, as if I had been warned and knew something that would definitely happen.

sleep...a ​​dream without a dream...

"Miss Doll?"

The pupils constricted slightly again, and Abigail seemed to realize something.

Yes, there is nothing wrong with that.

If someone can warn himself in the dream.

The only possibility is the mysterious and unpredictable Miss Doll who once accompanied Mr. Hunter, who gave him the power to guide the invisible echo.

Then, have you forgotten these memories?

Rubbing her head, the girl couldn't help but feel unreliable because of her bold speculation.

But, in the absence of other evidence to disprove this idea, the

No matter how absurd it is, it cannot be denied casually.

So assuming this inference is true, why would I forget this memory?

She and Miss Puppet met in a dream, she did not forget after waking up, and described the characteristics of Miss Puppet to the hunter.

If it was really Miss Puppet who came to warn her, there was no reason for her to wash her memory out of the way after the warning.

So what if the enemy had wiped her memory?

What if in the dream, she encountered something other than Miss Doll?

Something that wasn't friendly, malicious, and caused her amnesia?

pat-

Abigail, who jumped off the bed, exhaled lightly. For a moment, she wanted to run out of the bedroom immediately because of panic, but after a while, she took a deep breath and adjusted her expression to normal stand up.This expression change seemed a little stiff, but she took several deep breaths in succession, and finally made herself look no longer as emotional as before.

Patting her cheeks, Abigail opened the bedroom door and saw Aunt Linda just passing by.

"Why did you come out of the bedroom at this time, you can't sleep late."

The smiling Aunt Linda looked at Abigail and said.

"I forgot to make the bed sheets."

Abigail blushed slightly and said shyly.

"Mona will nag when she sees you like this."

Linda said this and turned to leave, then suddenly thought of something and looked at Abigail in front of her.

In her line of sight, there was a girl who was yawning and walking casually to the other side of the corridor.

"..."

Without saying a word, Aunt Linda just stood there, watching Abigail walk slowly towards the stairs, and then turned and left without saying a word. "

Abigail, who has been watching the reflection of the window glass from the corner of her eyes from the beginning to the end, and watching the sight behind, continued to maintain an ordinary look, and walked down the stairs step by step to the first floor.