Genius Warlock

The battle was one-sided.

It couldn't even be called a battle?

It could be said, it was a fight between a child and an adult.

The number of paladins was twelve, whereas the gangsters were fifty.

However, the flow of the fight went in favor of the one in fewer numbers.

The Paladin’s side crushed the gangsters with physical abilities that could easily surpass any ordinary people.

Each time the Paladins wielded their weapon two to three gangsters fell by default, and whenever their unique cross-shaped gun fired, at least four to five gangsters had holes in their bodies.

On the other hand, all the attacks of the gangsters were blocked.

The gangster’s crude guns and clubs were intercepted by the paladin’s hexagonal shield before they even reached their bodies, hence causing no damage.

In other words, it was a one-sided battle.

After more than half of the gangsters were defeated on all sides, the remaining gangsters realized the seriousness of the situation and drank the drugs in a hurry.

“Everyone! Take the drugs! They’re not the fu*king idiots!”

One of the gangsters shouted and drank two drugs at the same time.

Gulp. Gulp. Gulp.

After a while, the drugged gangster's skin turned red, he started to grow taller, and his muscles swelled to an astonishing extent.

It reminded Oliver of the skinny dog that he saw in the battle with the wizards.

Other gangsters hurriedly drank drugs in response to his overbearing appearance.

“Umm…that looks a bit dangerous.”

Oliver thought as he looked at the drugged gangsters.

Obviously, their strength has increased by leaps and bounds, but it was so severe that he could tell by looking at the body that it was all worn out.

It seemed like Dominic thought of using these gangsters only once.

“These poor people…”

Surprisingly, paladin Joanna, as if knowing what was going on, showed a sympathetic expression towards the gangsters who were trying to attack the paladins.

She was truly a strange woman in the eyes of Oliver.

Before and during the fight, she neither did feel exaltation nor anger during the battle, only had emotions of duty and sorrow.

Oliver wondered.

How can she have such emotions on her, and why does she fight even though she doesn't want to fight?

Oliver found her fascinating.

The drugged gangsters began to run, half lost and salivating.

Joanna looked at them calmly and brought the mace to the shield.

[Lamp light]

With those words, a light strong enough to blind the eyes for a moment engulfed the space.

Even Oliver who stood afar closed his eyes, not to mention the drugged gangsters.

They clasped their eyes in agony, and at that moment when they became defenseless, Joanna and her companions moved swiftly and cleared all the gangsters.

"Please rest in our father's arms… Mallelujah."

She said as she drew a holy cross with the blood-stained mace.

As Oliver saw her, she felt more and more strange.

Just a while ago she resolutely smashed the heads of the gangsters, but now she was drenched in sorrow and regret, reciting prayers to comfort the dead.

It felt like something unnatural – Like carnivores eating grass and herbivores eating meat.

Oliver became more and more curious.

What is Parter church, what is a paladin, and what is that woman named Joanna?

More and more questions piled up like a mountain as Oliver began to think.

Oliver felt a kind of joy surging inside him.

It was the joy of living in the world trying to solve your questions and doubts.

Then, suddenly, a question came to him.

Is the Dominic Family so confident with only this much preparation?

At that moment, the surrounding wall broke, and a human-like monster came out from the rising dust.

“Watch out —–!!!!”

The monster was someone Oliver knew.

It was Dominic's subordinate.

The subordinate who previously grabbed Marie's neck.

He had grown almost four times that of his original body, and with his muscular arms bulging out with blood vessels, he swung his iron fist towards the paladin.

His powerful wall-breaking fist shattered the hexagonal shield and smashed the opponent to one side of the wall, while another warlock jumped out of the opposite wall and kicked the paladin who came running, down to the floor.

BANG——!

“Richard…!!!”

Someone shouted as he looked at his colleague who had fallen to the floor like a bursting tomato.

But there was no time for mourning.

Because the people doped with various black magic and drugs by the Dominic family poured out from all directions.

The Paladins, who showed an overwhelming strength and fought against the gangsters up until now, struggled and hesitated.

The Anthony family also joined in and casted [Revive] magic on the dead gangsters and turned them into zombies.

The only one who wasn’t struggling was Paladin Joanna.

Others other than her were struggling due to surprises, sieges, and melee attacks.

Right at that moment, Dominic appeared.

[Inject Hate!!]

[Inject Fury!]

[Burning Life!!]

[Abnormal Built!!!]

[Inject Anger!!]

[Muscle Up!!!]

Oliver couldn’t count the number of enhancement magic used by Dominic.

Life-force and emotions spurt out of the test tube that Dominic held in both hands, then they mercilessly strengthened not only the zombies but also Dominic’s subordinates.

The dark and red energy covered all zombies and gradually turned them into inhuman monsters, and they all rushed toward the paladins.

It was a mud fight with numbers and strength.

The Holy Paladins were pushed to the defense one by one, and it seemed that it would be difficult for anyone to be safe.

Oliver was able to understand where Dominic's confidence comes from, but he soon realized that this thought was also a mistake.

[Divine Protection]

Joanna shouted, stacking her shield and mace.

In response to her call, a strong protective shield was created not only for herself but also for her colleagues.

Contrary to its pretty appearance the soft yellow shield was as strong as the sun making even Dominic's subordinates as well as the zombies who had lost their senses falter.

But there were also those who had courage.

A warlock gathered energy into his fist and threw out a dark red fist.

BANG—-!

A sound loud enough to shake the world resounded, and Joanna's shield shook.

But unfortunately, it was the attacker's fist that got burned.

As if seeing a possibility of defeat, Dominic cast another round of spells.

[Reduced Intelligence]

[Berserk]

Again, intense emotions erupted from the test tubes and covered all the allied zombies and warlocks.

The warlock's intelligence dropped noticeably, and with the drop of intelligence their fear disappeared, and soon their muscles stretched beyond their limits while ripping through their skin.

It was like they can tear a person apart with bare hands.

Dozens of zombies and augmented warlocks began to attack the group of paladins in a berserk state without stopping.

Even when they burned and melted.

bang ᅳ! bang! bang! bang! bang ᅳ! bang—! bang! bang! bang! bang! bang! bang ᅳ! bang! bang! bang! bang! bang! bang ᅳ! bang! bang! bang! bang! bang !

The shield gradually shook at the successive attacks, and the burning of the attackers continued.

Although, while attacking, both the zombies and the warlocks burned and turned into a terrible shape, it will be difficult for the paladins to be safe if it went on like this.

It was clearly a difficult situation but strangely, the paladins were surprisingly calm.

After a while, Oliver found out why they were calm.

[Purify]

With that cry, the holy shield burned and exploded in all directions.

The yellow light was beautiful but also so powerful that it instantly turned the zombies and the doped warlocks into ashes.

Not only that, but it also burned a significant number of Dominic and Anthony’s families' disciples that stood far off.

The minions Oliver placed all around them also burned down and all of this happened in an instant.

Seeing the overwhelming firepower, Dominic hesitated and at that moment, Joanna came out through the holy flame.

She resolutely swung her mace and crushed Dominic's head.

Puck —–!

The details were unknown because the minions were already burned, but it was clear that Dominic had lost.

"Um……."

Oliver looked down at the building.

The few surviving warlocks abandoned their dead masters and fled.

There was no longer any will to resist.

Oliver thought that the paladin Joanna and her party will finish the day by chasing after the fleeing remnant.

Oliver understood why the pharmacist told him to run away.

The Paladin named Joanna was the strongest being Oliver had ever met.

“No…she isn’t the strongest?”

Oliver muttered as he recalled the unidentified being he encountered in his battle with Joseph.

‘Was it the old man on horseback?’

Either way, Oliver's judgment was not wrong. As the pharmacist said, she was an opponent to run away from, at least for now.

Oliver was about to go back after achieving his goal, but at that moment, he got goosebumps from the back of his neck.

[Black Shield]

As soon as the Black Curtain was deployed, a powerful bullet flew and hit the shield.

Oliver was shocked.

The black shield that blocked many attacks got destroyed in a single attack.

Another shocking thing was how they found out he was here.

As Oliver wondered since he completely erased his presence, suddenly someone answered the question in Oliver’s head.

“The [lamp of God] was able to track all evil beings.”

Suddenly, he heard a sound and when he turned his head, he saw Joanna who came flying over to him.

The woman, who far surpassed the human limits, swung her mace as she spoke.

“I forgive your sins.”

[Black Shield]x3

Oliver created the black curtain once again.

It was a triple shield, however, as soon as the mace touched the shield, the shield surprisingly easily broke.

It was the same Black Shield that had withstood guns as well as many bombs.

“…!”

Oliver widened the distance in surprise and asked.

“How did you do that?”

“In the face of the power of the Holy God, all your skill is powerless.”

"Oh… is that so?

Oliver saw the light on the tip of the mace.

‘Is that God's light?’

Joanna aimed at Oliver with a mace.

“Are you a warlock?”

"Yes."

“I speak with divine mercy. Surrender.”

“Surrender?”

“Yes… Repent for your sins, and receive salvation to wash away your sins.”

Joanna's words were sincere, but Oliver did not understand what sin he had committed.

He wanted to ask but soon realized that he had no time for it.

Joanna's companions were flocking towards him right now.

“Can I ask what happens if I say no?

“I will be giving judgment on behalf of God.”

At Joanna's resolute words, Oliver nodded.

“Um, then… Cling Spider Web.”

Oliver shot a black spider web from his hand.

Joanna responded right away.

[Holy Light]

The holy light burned the web in the air, but it didn't matter.

Oliver just wanted to earn some time.

Oliver jumped out of the building while casting targeting spells on the building in the distance and on his body.

Oliver quickly flew to the building, as if pulled by a rope.

Bang -!

The building and Oliver collided with each other as he moved in haste and fell straight down.

[Spider Web]

Before falling, a web of emotions was spread underneath, and he soon fell on it as if it was a safety net.

And then he started running away.

His whole body ached from the shock, but he was in a situation where he could die if he stopped, so he forcibly endured the pain.

Tolerating pain was also one of Oliver's specialties.

"This!"

Oliver lowered his head as he entered the corner.

All of a sudden, a Paladin appeared while wielding a sword and almost cut off Oliver’s head.

“You rat….”

[Hate Bullet]

Oliver fired three bullets of hate toward the one who was about to swing his sword.

Surprisingly, before the bullet of hate pierced the body, a hexagonal shield spread and blocked it, and the paladin got thrown away due to the impact of the attack.

Oliver ran away again in the meantime.

"He is here!"

The paladin got up again as he shouted and followed Oliver right away.

Oliver fell behind in terms of physical abilities, so he turned again and took a stance to attack.

“It won’t work!”

A shield was deployed in front of him.

It seemed to be impossible to break through with the same attack as before.

So, Oliver used a different attack than before.

[Las Bomb]

The bullets of hate containing the bomb of rage flew quickly and set off an explosion.

The scream could be heard along with the explosion.

“Aaaaaaaaaah__!”

Oliver could avoid the pursuer, but he ended up giving his location.

The paladins who had been scattered around the area rushed to the place all at once.

With Oliver's running skills, he thought he would be soon caught.

So, he decided to take a gamble.

Oliver covered his body with the black shield as if he was wearing a black suit, and then casted the target spell on the tallest building close to him, and then put a target spell on his own body.

The two targeting spells pulled each other as intended and led Oliver to the top of the building.

At that moment.

Bang—–!

With a loud gunshot, Oliver's chest felt excruciating pain as he fell.

Thanks to the black suit he wasn't seriously hurt but the gun and the fall hurt his whole body.

But it didn't matter.

So far, it was within his expected range.

Oliver looked around and started running again.

More and more pursuers came, and then he ended up in a dead-end alley.

Oliver, with his back against the wall, extracted a mass of emotions, he made a mass of minions along with Las Bomb and Las Bullet and hid them in a corner.

Not only that, he also applied black magic to the shadows to prepare shadow Vines and shadow spikes, and he prepared to pour out dozens of black darts by placing target magic everywhere.

Soon, Oliver sensed a large number of Paladins approaching.

He was going to pour all the magic all at once and crush the shield with overwhelming firepower.

But as they came a few steps closer, they suddenly stopped.

As if waiting for something.

Oliver noticed that something, a bit late.

“There is nowhere to run anymore.”

Joanna appeared from the building.

She radiated intense light from her entire body.

The intense and sacred light destroyed all the black magic that Oliver had prepared and Oliver who had not been flustered under any circumstances was astonished at this moment.

‘Why such a thing is even possible?’

As the light faded, Joanna's companions appeared and surrounded Oliver.

Oliver saw no way out.

After a long time, the word death came to his mind, and at that moment, the pilgaret made with Joseph's emotions came to his mind.

‘Ahh… if I had known it would be like this, I would have tasted it sooner.’

“Ah… that’s unfortunate.”

“Don’t be hard on yourself. We would have found you anyway.”

“It’s not that…..”

THUD

Suddenly, something fell between Oliver and Joanna.

"……… This?"

Oliver covered his eyes with his arm.

A flash of light burst out in front of him.

“This way! Master! Here!”

A familiar voice was heard.

Oliver ran in the direction of the sound.

As he walked a little, something grabbed his ankle.

“Get down, get down! Get down!”

As instructed, Oliver lay down and crawled somewhere.

"Marie……?"

“Yes, It’s me, Master. This is the sewer! Are you safe? Follow me!”

Oliver followed Marie and ran through the sewer.

(To be Continued)

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