156 – Not my taste – 1

– Big!!

– Kyaaa!!

The troll’s body, characterized by its powerful regenerative power, was being crushed. Seeing that the troll was completely destroyed like a piece of meat and could not be easily regenerated even with its strong regenerative power, I turned my eyes to Veronica.

You fight so well

Veronica’s movements as she effortlessly dodged the ogre’s attack and wielded a mace filled with holy power were like a dance.

Why can’t I dance so well when I can move so well?

“God will destroy you!!”

Crying out loud, Veronica eventually smashes the ogre’s head with her mace.

With the final blow, Veronica, who had blown off the head of a man-eating monster, swung her mace with blood dripping.

Chew.

Dirty blood tainted with evil is scattered on the soil, stones, and a bit of weeds.

Veronica, who completely neutralized the ogre, heard the Divine Mark, and from the blasphemy pattern, holy flames began to burn the body of the ogre.

“Are you done with that?”

“As you can see.”

Veronica saw the trolls I had captured. Likewise, when they lift the Divine Mark, the bodies of the trolls wriggling to regenerate burst into flames.

“Very, great people are doing it.”

The coachman, trembling in fear behind him, exclaimed with delight.

But that wasn’t what mattered now.

“Let’s change direction and move. Now, prepare for departure.”

“Yes. Yes…”

That’s how I turned the wagon. When I arrived at a village not too far from my current location, I found that there were knights there.

“Huh? Isn’t that Cardinal Veronica?”

An ant-man, a hard-to-see, walks with a spear in his four arms.

Seeing him, Veronica was stunned.

“Brother Anderson?”

“who?”

“He’s Lacey’s lieutenant.”

“Huh? As far as I know, Lieutenant Lacey…”

Surely it was an eagle beast?

“You mean Sister Lerayman? I’ve hired new people besides her.”

“Aha. I’m the sage Song Hyeon-woo.”

“I’ve heard of the wise man’s reputation. I’ve wanted to meet you before, and it’s an honor to meet you like this. If you’re not rude, just shake my hand four times… Ah. And please be comfortable with your words.”

“Um. I see.”

I shook hands with his four hands, which he wiped with a handkerchief.

While he was flustered and delighted, Veronica gently grabbed my shoulder.

“So? Brother, why are you here?”

“That’s… In fact, strange things have been happening in the Trallman Manor lately.”

“Are people disappearing?”

“How did you know?”

I gave information about the monsters I saw earlier.

Demonic spirits with blasphemous patterns engraved on their bodies.

Hearing that it was evidence of devil worshipers, Anderson sighed heavily.

“How come you can’t be quiet. A devil worshiper…”

“So? What does Lacey think of this agenda?”

“How and what.”

A woman in a white uniform walks from the side where the soldiers were gathered.

Openly frowning, she gritted her teeth and began to show her anger as it was.

“You have to kill them all.”

The lord has the responsibility to protect the people of the land.

So, for Lacey, touching Yeonji would be like throwing mud in her face.

But that anger and that sense of responsibility made me a little uneasy, so I had no choice but to speak.

I reached out for the carriage. As the lute in my pack flew in, I lightly plucked the strings.

-Tiriling…!!

A low-pitched melody spreads around.

Not only Lacey, but the expressions of the angry soldiers and knights gathered here begin to diminish little by little.

-Tee-ring~ T-ring- T-ring~

“veronica.”

“Huh? Yes.”

He must have known what the music that came out of the lute. Veronica cleared her throat slightly and opened her thick lips.

“My Lord.”

The clear voice and the timbre of the lute slowly blend together. The voice containing holy power naturally spread to people, and it created synergy with the musician’s performance and began to fill not only physical strength but also mental strength.

“There will be light.”

-Tiriririring~!

Veronica, who had quietly sang the hymn with her hands on her chest and her eyes closed, slowly opens her eyes after finishing the last verse.

“Uh, uh?!”

Before I knew it, knights and soldiers were gathering around.

When they looked this way with faces that were quite relaxed, Veronica couldn’t help but laugh awkwardly.

“…Huh. Thank you. Thanks to that, I was able to calm down my excitement.”

“Then are we going to do it like this?”

“That’s… after. Wait a minute.”

Lacey took us to a house in the back of the village, presumably the headman’s house, and she served us prepared tea.

“So? Why are you guys here? A date?”

“Well, a date…”

“It’s not like that.”

“….Hmm?”

“What.”

“No. Nothing.”

Lacey stared at me as if something was strange. But that was only for a moment.

“Because that’s not what’s important. There’s a devil worshiper around here… Aha. Did you come to bust devil worshipers with Veronica? That’s great. We’re joining in.”

“That’s it, but I have other things to do. No, more than that.”

I stared at Lacey.

After the Cronus Crisis, Lacey took full control of the Trallman Territory and rarely left the territory to develop it.

She must have always been pushing herself hard to become the perfect lord.

“You. Are you dancing these days?

“…No. I’m busy.”

“What about hobbies? Don’t you enjoy leisure?”

“There’s no room for that. I received a lot of help from Veronica, but the estate is still confused. A little more. We need to make the Trallman estate even greater.”

As a family head, this is a very good resolution.

However, I want it to be too much.

The fight between herself and her brother caused confusion in the territory, and it seemed that Lacey was doing her best to restore the power of the Marquis Trallman family, which had weakened due to the family split.

“Then you… self-destruct.”

“…What?”

After my parents passed away and I decided to take revenge, I was commissioned at the Special Forces Academy, and they continued to drive me until I became a special forces officer.

Be strong.

Be strong, and be strong again.

There is no time to rest.

Sleep is enough to rest.

I was constantly training myself, and about a year after enlisting, a slump came.

training and study.

Everything is sluggish, and rather, the efficiency is starting to drop.

That’s why when I was more focused on training, the chief sergeant brought me and interviewed me.

Since people are not steel, they cannot be trained indefinitely.

After hitting the railroad, cool down repeatedly, and through it, become stronger.

What about those who are weaker than iron?

So people definitely need time to take a breath and relax.

So that.

You will be able to achieve what you want.

As if I hadn’t wasted my time, the chief sergeant immediately figured out why I enlisted in the Special Forces.

Although I have discovered that underlying all my actions is a vengeance against the terrorists.

Rather than stopping it, it taught me how to discipline myself.

When I returned to the executive dormitory after the interview, Sergeant Choi Young-ho, who always gives me headaches about women, told me.

If you want to find something to spare, meet a woman and date her.

I hated that.

First of all, there was no time or money.

I had to do personal training even on the weekends, and Sergeant Choi Young-ho called me every day and made a lot of noise when I bought her a present.

Money is not everything in the world, but I knew at the time that it was most of it.

To me, money was capital to buy information about terrorists and bullets to survive in the world.

The wealth my parents left me was considerable, but not infinite, and I am still young, but my time is limited.

I couldn’t waste that precious thing on something like romance.

Then Sergeant Hogawei, who was occupying the next room, held out his laptop.

then how about the game?

I turned it down because I hadn’t touched anything like a game since my parents died, but it was much better than the other offers that followed.

Because he lends a laptop he doesn’t use, and the game is also discounted, so the initial cost is almost zero.

And if you don’t like it, it’s easy to find something else.

That’s how the game started.

He was the seeker of the eight stars.

It’s fun, there are a lot of elements to dig into, and there’s no ending, but there are also story updates and DLCs coming out constantly, so give it a try.

I started playing games to relax and unwind.

At first, I thought they introduced me to a game like this just to f*ck me.

That’s also true, the hit rate is 98%, but isn’t there a miss?

A relatively weaker small monster attacked, but the character died because of consecutive critical hits.

I was so dumbfounded that I wanted to destroy my laptop.

That kind of luck came to me too, so I just tried to refer to it.

like that.

an hour before bed.

When I had time and whenever I could, I took my time doing Eight Star Pursuit, and then I got over the slump and grew up again.

After being discharged from the military, around the time when he became the chief member of the World Terrorism Suppression Team.

I had become a deceased figure of the Seeker of the Eight Stars, with over 3000 hours of total play.

As such, among the many skills and experiences learned in the Special Forces, it could be said that the interview with the chief sergeant was the most helpful.

If I hadn’t learned the importance of leisure and recovery from him

Like those who failed the enlistment test of the World Terrorism Suppression Council and failed, or who did not last long even after enlisting, they would have collapsed and collapsed in the end.

The only ones who endured for a long time in the endless fight against the terrorists were those who, like me, were able to enjoy this special relaxation method.

The immediate unit commander, Lieutenant General Vladimir Irinoa Piberts, also said that the reason he was able to stay on active duty for decades was that he had time to relax by playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 while drinking vodka.

Anyway, Lacey now was similar to me when I couldn’t afford it.

He is driven tirelessly, whipping himself with an excessive sense of responsibility and duty.

Perhaps, if it continues like this, it was clear that he would eventually collapse, so I said it with sincerity.

“If a person is always in a state of tension, they are destroyed.”

“…”

Lacey, who seemed to be at a loss for words, opened her mouth after sighing.

“…If it’s not someone else’s advice, but a sage’s advice… I have no choice but to follow it.”

If you don’t listen, I was going to bring up my old story.

He nodded his head to see if he had realized something just from the words of the Tao Te Ching.

I’m glad.

Persuasion worked well.

“Wow… I thought you could convince Lacey so easily.”

“Ah~. You’ve persuaded the ghosts who have accumulated resentment for countless hours.”

“Ahahaha. That’s right~.”

“Anyway. Relax your shoulders a little.”

“Yeah… I’ll think about it. But even so, I can’t just let the enemy who attacked the territory.”

I guess I couldn’t give up that much.

Facing the hostility in Lacey’s eyes, I shrugged.

“Ah. Then would you mind supporting us?”

“…What are you talking about?”

“It seems to me that demon worshipers have something to do with the target we are aiming for.”

Otherwise, why would demon worshipers appear here out of nowhere?

Especially considering the events that will happen when she defeats the Prostitute, she and the devil worshipers may have joined hands.

Although, of course, it is cooperation among those who are ready to slap each other at any time.

“Ummm…”

“We can’t just leave them as devil worshipers anyway.”

“we?”

“we?”

Veronica had anticipation, and Lacey looked curious.

What’s wrong?

“Sage. I didn’t expect you to be so passionate about defeating a demon worshiper… Hmmm… Well. Is that so.”

Lacey shrugged lightly. Then, he reached out to Veronica.

“I’ll take care of you.”

“Whoops. Thank you.”

“Now. Then let’s just keep the devil worshipers in check. What they want most is to get their hands on the prostitute.”

“The two of you joined hands… didn’t you?”

“On the surface. But the prostitute is probably using them for her own magic…”

Devil worshipers…

Like the advent of the Great Devil, which sometimes appears in Adventure Mode, he must be trying to sacrifice the prodigal daughter.

Like the two holding hands to eat each other.

Let us join hands to catch them too.

“And if you think you’re helping us and move together.”

“…..?”

“Can’t you relieve the burden of being for the sake of your family?”

I waved the request form.

At that, Lacey’s eyes move back and forth.

“Without thinking, you can move with the thought of stepping on those who are intrusive.”

As much as Lacey is a swordsman, she must have a desire for destruction.

If the title of marquis and the position of head of the family are suppressing it, it would be better to help him solve it in this way.

“Let’s try it and decide. If you don’t like this, it wouldn’t hurt to take another break.”

I advised her like Sgt. Hogawei had recommended to me before.

Lacey.

He closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them and murmured.

“…that would be fine.”