Paradigm Parasite

Chapter 162: "Temple"

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"What? What are you..."

When I opened the door, there was an elven man nearby, so I grabbed him by the neck and spun him around.

The man sank without resistance.

Weak. Is he a guard or something?

The situation inside is not particularly different from the last time I was here, but a group of warrior-like men were standing by, armed.

Some of them are surprised to see that I killed a guard.

Is it such a wonder I got in here?

"How dare you, my son!"

One of the elves jumped out from among the frozen elves and came at me with a dagger, but was decapitated by Trust, who stepped forward before I knew what was happening.

Those who were about to step forward to join him were eaten away by Savage.

...I'm out of action.

Well, it doesn't matter.

I check the pillars around me and see a few glowing.

I hit one of them with [Explosion II] as a test.

The roar and the flames of the explosion are spread - but...

"Unharmed?"

Does it repel magic?

Perhaps sensing my thoughts, Savage slams his tail into the pillar, but it doesn't even leave a scratch.

He looks back at me and shakes his head. Physics is no good either?

"What a waste! The sacred body, in which the angel's power resides, can't be scratched!"

The first thing that comes to mind when you hear that is that one of the elves says that out loud, and I think, I see.

"Oh, so if it's something that doesn't have power in it, it can be scratched?"

''...na...''

When Savage slammed his tail against the pillar that wasn't glowing... the sacred body, it shattered easily.

Does it break if it's not moving?

"Nah, what a thing to say... You people! You will be punished by the gods!"

"Keep saying it. Savage. Crush the rest."

"No! Everyone, protect the sacred object!"

Several of them come towards us at once.

"Trust."

"Yes."

Trust moves instantly, as if to say that if he strikes, he will be heard, sheathing the sword in his hand and dropping to his haunches.

He takes up a stance similar to iai.

"'Akatsubasa Sekiyo Sousou'."

In the next instant, several people who were coming towards us and all those who were trying to use magic behind them are cut in two from the waist, and the upper half of their bodies fall out of alignment.

"...What will you do with the rest? If you want them to be stroked to death, then immediately."

I take one look at those who have not moved, who are trembling.

From the looks of it, their will to fight is completely crushed now.

"If you don't want to die, stay quiet."

As I say this, an old elf steps forward one with his hands raised.

The expression on his face is deep with fright.

If that many of your friends are killed instantly in front of you, you'll be cowed.

"......, we won't do anything! But, so... just our lives..."

"Then we'll need a little help. Where are the High Elves?"

By the looks of it, everyone here is an ordinary elf.

They may be of the warrior class, but many of them look feeble.

Well, they don't all seem to be very brave.

...It's a bit ironic that they're alive thanks to that.

The old man looks a little lost, but then looks straight at me.

"On the top of this temple...."

I see. I see... he has prioritised Aquiel over the protection of this place.

I look back and see that Savage has just destroyed the fifth pillar.

At the same time, several of the pillars that are still intact glow, and a huge presence is approaching from above.

... they noticed me.

Two High Elves with wings and rings came down through the ceiling.

They are apparently possessed by angels.

''You...''

One of them said something with anger in its voice, but ignored it.

Before it could move, I turned the left arm Human Centipede against it.

The Trust slashed at the rest.

The Angel quickly ducked, but it didn't go well, and my Centipede, aiming for the torso, caught one arm and bit it to pieces.

Blood gushes out, but it stops immediately. The bleeding seems to have stopped in some way.

Before I could make a follow-up attack, my opponent turned his remaining arm towards me.

A cloud-like object appears, and light leaks from inside as if flashing.

Before he can do anything, I magically deploy a barrier.

[Earth Shield II]. A wall of earth rises up in front of me.

At the same time, lightning gushed out from the clouds and blew away the mud wall, but it did not reach me.

As expected, the power is considerably reduced.

This is enough to be able to fight each other.

Looking at the state of the battle next door with a sideways glance, the enemy is firing a series of laser-like thin rays of light, but Trust was cutting them off with his sword from the edge as they flew by.

The speed at which he handles them is also unusual, and his arms appear to be in a haze.

...Eh? What are you doing?

Seeing through the flying rays of light and cutting them down... I can't do that, can I?

How can you do that?

Well, it doesn't matter.

The guy next to me doesn't seem to be worried.

I'll concentrate on the enemy in front of me.

The enemy is missing one arm and has some minor wounds, but they are far from fatal.

So, oh? I think.

The recoil from the earlier magic seems light, but what kind of -.

Suddenly, the angel vomits blood. And seeing that the blood is black, is the damage concentrated inside?

After all, it seems he can't use big moves very well.

From the looks of it, there seems to be quite a lot of strain on the organs, so if you cut them down, they will soon be crushed.

The angel produces clouds again.

Apparently, this guy is good at attacking with clouds.

"Gentiles. Why do you turn your blades against us? Accept our blessing and thou shalt leap further..."

I'm sick of hearing that.

Explosion.

I knew it was a boring mouthful anyway, so I slapped some magic into it to shut it up.

"I heard about it from a guy I met before. I don't have time to go to the trouble of asking the same thing. I'm sorry I can't kill you all, but I'm going to have to shut this place down so that you can't touch me for a while."

"Do you think you can beat us?"

"At least I think I can beat you now, don't you?"

The Noh-like angel's expression changed.

The expression is slightly distorted, as if in discomfort.

''Then thou shalt pay the price of thy arrogance by pain!"

... by pain.

It's like saying you're not going to kill me by implication.

Angels produce multiple clouds.

Each one flashes and leaks light of a similar colour.

Hey, hey, if you use such a big move...

"Judgement... gobble..."

Spewed blood and vomit with flamboyance.

He used his strength while dripping blood from all over his face.

Seeing that, I ran out at once.

Forward.

At the same time, I magically scatter sand and crush their vision.

As far as I have observed, their abilities are completely dependent on their bodies.

It is clear from previous battles that if they deviate too far from their physical abilities, they will be unable to do so.

At the same time, the range of perception would be the same.

At least he was looking clearly in my direction.

When you have all this information, you start to learn a lot about these people, albeit thinly, but... that's enough for now.

Lightning and hailstones fly through the dust cloud, but the aim is sketchy.

They still can't see me.

In short, they are not used to dealing with the bodies of High Elves, which are far inferior to their own.

In other words, they are not familiar with the use of their own bodies.

Their fighting style is based on strength, and they are slow to react in terms of evasion and so on.

I move my left arm's hundred feet and attack from directly below, while I myself go from the front.

''You're so small and clever!''

As soon as I feel the lightning shoot through the hundred legs, I leap at it.

A flash of my right arm. A slash with outstretched claws hardened.

It slashes diagonally across the face.

The claws are filled with poison, so the wounds melt away.

"No, you--"

"No matter how much you underestimate me, you underestimate me too much.

[Explosion II] is struck at point-blank range.

The body is obliterated by the explosion.

At the same time, the glow disappears from one of the glowing pillars.

At that moment, Savage waits and destroys the pillar.

Now the guy can't come out anymore.

I look at Trust, who is also about to drop the angel's head.

The moment the light disappeared from the pillars, Savage destroyed this one too.

The remaining pillars are ......5 pillars? That's more left than I thought.

The sign is .......

At the same time, a roar outside.

Outside.

"Lord Roe."

Suddenly, Trust calls out to me.

"What's wrong?"

"Look at that."

I follow the Trust's gaze and see a glowing pillar ahead... no, it's not right.

They are flashing.

I look at the others and all the pillars have started flashing, leaving one behind.

"What's going on?"

"If you don't mind me hazarding a guess of my own."

"Let me hear it."

"The intervals between the flashing lights, combined with the sounds of battle outside, suggest that they're probably fighting, using up the people."

In short, he's forcibly blasting out high-powered attacks without any consideration for his body, using up his body and then immediately possessing another body?

Savage is trying to destroy the pillars somehow, but it doesn't seem to be working because the intervals are so fast.

I leave Trust and Savage in their place and run out of the temple.

It's faster to deal with them directly when this happens.

Outside, Aquiel is fighting several angels, but he is struggling a lot.

I was able to get a good look at them, because when they attacked, they died instantly and possessed the next High Elf, which attacked them again.

The stock of High Elves is being consumed at a tremendous rate, but the effect is also tremendous.

Aquiel's damage is also quite serious.

His body is pierced here and there, and smoke is rising from his wounds.

Naturally, he is recovering from the power he absorbed and from feeding on the souls of dead elves, but he is not able to keep up.

There are four fighting Aquiel, and one on top of the temple, probably guarding an unused High Elf.

You know exactly what I'm going to do.

I'm going to get rid of the stock.

I fly up to the top of the temple and surprise Grigori.

My left-handed Human Centipede is blocked by an invisible wall, but I don't care, and I hit him with a follow-up spell.

I create a large number of [Fireball III] and scatter them over a wide area.

See, if you don't do your best to block it, you'll run out of places to get on to, won't you?

Countless fireballs hit the barrier one after another, and every time the angel maintains them, its body is destroyed.

But the Grigori use some interesting tricks.

Like the cloud earlier, the barrier used by the guy in front of me is also interesting.

The fact that it doesn't explode when it lands suggests that this is the case.

I wonder if I could use it somehow too?

I thought that the high elves who had not yet been possessed might attack, but they all crouched down and did not move.

Their faces were vacant, some even drooling with their mouths half open.

It's worrying, but it doesn't change what we do.

As the battle behind them progresses, they are being possessed in turn and heading towards the battlefield, while the others are frozen in place with empty eyes.

"Onore..."

The angel was about to say something, but his body was at its limit and he collapsed, spewing blood and vomit profusely.

The angel's body was about to say something, but it collapsed in a heap of blood vomit.

Before the next transfer, I'll shoot more magic at it.

The High Elves don't put up much of a fight and are blown away by the magic.

I hit them with [Explosion III] as a finishing blow.

There was a roar and the roof of the temple? shatters and debris rains down on the surrounding area.

With this, the High Elves are annihilated?

But even so...

Why did they take the attack willingly?