The Ex-Hero Is Too Good at Exorcism

“I am the opponent! Back off!”

Monica ran towards the protruding anima.

The arm of the blue spirit is grotesquely bent.

He swung the pointed ice at the end of his arm like a mace.

The power contained there was more than enough to turn a person into porridge.

kang!

Monica’s spear smashed the block of ice with a harsh bursting sound.

I don’t know if it’s because of her ability to fight, or because of her spearmanship, but it was the perfect angle.

But it was too forceful.

The arms of spirits in human form are not one.

If you hit the one arm of the guy with ice cubes on both arms that hard.

The opponent found it too easy to take advantage of the recoil.

“Quaaa!”

As I expected, the spirit twisted and stretched out the other arm.

On the other side is a greatsword made of ice.

It counterattacked like two pendulums connected as one.

Its momentum is quite fast and sharp.

As for the monsters I knew, they weren’t quite as good as Death Knights, but they were on a different level from normal skeletons.

Is this… dangerous?

I was worried about Monica for a moment.

But her inaction was beyond my expectations.

“-!”

The blue greatsword cut through the air with the sound of the fierce wind.

Monica lowered her stance and narrowly escaped the sword’s path.

And she immediately went on the offensive.

From the spirit’s point of view, two major attacks have failed.

Of course, there were bound to be gaps.

Monica dug in between them.

Light gathers at the end of the window.

Then, it stretched out in a straight line and pierced the spirit’s chest.

“Kiik…!”

Anima stopped moving with a strange noise.

It cracked like broken ice over the anima’s torso.

But the guy didn’t fall.

The spirit’s mouth opened bizarrely.

“be careful!”

“Kaaa!”

It was almost the same as my warning and blue cold air pouring out of the spirit’s mouth.

Monica immediately opened the distance.

It was a transcendent reaction speed, but did the Spirit expect even that?

The guy attacks Monica as it is.

I thrust my cold body into her, who had not yet adjusted her posture.

“Kuh…!”

With a short moan, Monica flew several meters and crashed into the wall.

After falling down for a while, she got up again, but she didn’t look good.

He told me to leave as if I was getting in the way.

Only after this… should I step in?

That was when I was thinking about it.

“·······”

Monica muttered something unintelligible.

Her shinki reacted to this.

***

“Kuh…!”

A moan escaped Monica’s mouth.

An imperial spirit that rivals a common exorcist.

Indeed, that level was not a level that Monica, a trainee, could easily see.

“The attack is clear…!”

Monica’s blow pierced him right through the chest.

However, the spirit did not disappear just like that.

It was obviously an attack with spiritual power, but it didn’t do fatal damage enough to exorcise it at once.

If that’s the case… is that guy not a mere spiritual body?

Monica thought about the question for a moment, and the answer came quickly.

Among the spirits that have reached the anima, there are cases in which they possess their own corpses.

In that case, the spirit will have the tendency of an intermediate body in which the spirit body and the physical body are mixed.

At this time, did you say that you will have some level of resistance to spiritual power?

It was a memory I learned during a theoretical education class at the training center not too long ago.

At this, Monica smiled bitterly.

She was looking at the training center with contempt.

The process I was forced to complete just to work as an exorcist in Korea.

For Monica, it was nothing more, nothing less.

It seemed that it was conceit.

“Whoa…”

With a short reflection, Monica struggled to stand up on the ground.

The area in contact with the spirit begins to cool down gradually.

If I can’t exorcise the spirit, my whole body will probably freeze like this.

However, in her mind as she fixed the spear, the possibility of that already did not exist.

Facing the emperor again, Monica silently recited the starting line.

“There is no god like me in all the world.”

Then her sacred object, the staff of Moses, responded.

It was just silently accepting spiritual power, and it shook like an engine that had been started.

Explosive spiritual power emitted a feeling of intimidation in all directions.

“The beasts of the river will rot you.”

The cold air that had been encroaching on the ground was gone.

Instead, what you feel is rather a muggy heat.

It was also very humid, and the heat was stuffy as if it was suffocating.

The heat melts the frost on the ground in an instant.

“Sir, I hate it! cold! It’s cold!”

The spirit glowed.

But the unpleasant heat spread in all directions.

And what appeared in the heat was a pair of yellow eyes.

It was the size of a human fingernail.

It spread like a pestilence silently across floors, walls and ceilings.

In the blink of an eye, thousands of eyes stare at the anima.

and.

“————-”

they started to cry

The noise made by the countless frogs became a deafening roar that shook my head.

“Kiaaagh!”

Ryeong clutched her head in agony, then suddenly looked at her chest.

The wound Monica had pierced was painful.

Just a moment ago, a wound that was nothing.

However, the wound was gradually rotting away.

Not just the corpse, which is a shell, but the spiritual body itself, which can be said to be the main body, decays.

Lyeong screamed at the impossibility.

It was painful.

And I was afraid.

death.

I was so afraid of that futility.

I didn’t want to die again.

Ryeong, who was spitting out his throat in all directions, soon turned his anger on Monica.

It was all because of that woman.

Without that woman, I would be free from this pain and this fear.

So the spirit waved his arm and charged at Monica.

The rushing flash of green was the last thing he saw.

***

“·······”

I watched the slowly dissipating anima.

Lyeong, who had a bizarre appearance, disappeared like smoke for most of her body.

Soon, all that was left was a white bone covered with ice.

After all, this was also someone’s corpse.

“Whoa…”

Monica, who drew the spear, let out a short sigh.

Monica’s battle that I saw a while ago was quite fresh.

A hot wind that drove away the cold air around it that was dominated by the anima.

And the frog that was created in the frenzy.

And even the ability that started to corrupt anima.

It was never the magic I knew.

However, it was not something that could be explained by martial arts or martial arts.

Perhaps that is the true power of Shinki.

Indeed, it is said that the church is a place where people eat and live on sacred things, but there is no such thing as fraudulent items.

“are you okay?”

Monica, who came to me before I knew it, said.

At first glance, it seemed like a friendly question, but that gaze was strangely looking down at me.

How are you counting me?

A face that seems to ask.

Was that what kept me from lifting a finger?

It was good because it was comfortable, but it felt like the medicine was rising subtly.

“Are you really okay? You got hit and flew away a while ago.”

I said that and looked at her body.

The black nun’s uniform near her left arm was torn, revealing the skin underneath.

red-hot skin.

It was what the ice block guy did earlier, so he looked like he was on the verge of frostbite.

In my gaze, Monica quickly covered the wound with her hand.

“This is fine.”

“You don’t look okay.”

“The spirit is extinct. So that power is gone.”

“Is that so? Then… what should I do with this skeleton?”

I pointed at the white bone left where the anima had disappeared.

Monica’s eyes shook slightly.

“Remedy, you have to do it.”

Monica took out the black cloth that was wrapped around her shinki.

Then, with it, he began to collect the bones he had defeated one by one.

“Then I’ll look around a bit.”

“around···?”

“Reconnaissance.”

Monica nodded, as if telling her to do whatever she wanted.

I turned around and turned my consciousness to the game frame in sight.

First log window.

There was some good content there.

＜The monster has fallen!＞

＜Experience is distributed according to contribution.＞

＜Additional experience is acquired by the skill ‘About Buddha’.＞

＜Your level has risen!＞

＜Your level has risen!＞

Maybe it was because he was a level 20 emperor, so he seemed to have gained quite a lot of experience.

2 levels up.

I just watched the fight, but it was like I reached level 9.

“It’s honey.”

As the level went up, it wasn’t just the number that changed.

It’s really like a game, such as stamina and strength.

The stats displayed on the character window rose little by little.

Current overall stats are around 10.

However, only the spiritual power stayed at 9.

Obviously, when I was level 7, my spiritual power was 7, but it goes up by 1 per level.

Also, the HP bar in the corner was slightly raised.

It was a change of about 3 at most from 1, but it would be more helpful for the body that was crawling on the floor.

However, the changes in the game screen were not the only ones.

Right after the spirit fell, the quest icon was flashing.

＜? : Complete the exorcism practice!＞

– Quest items for difficulty setting have been dropped on the field!

– Quest rewards increase when you use quest items.

This was the reason why I dared to scout and leave.

quest item.

I don’t know what it is, but since the rewards increased so much, there was no reason to leave it there.

“then···”

I made my way through the darkness with the LED.

Considering the spirit from earlier, it could be dangerous.

But I had the skill to detect spirits.

Thanks to the technology that detects all spirits within 20 meters, I was relieved and focused on finding items.

And soon after,

“huh?”

I found something highlighted in the corner of the casino.

Just like a game, the outline of something rag-like was once again drawn with white lines.

I heard that it was an old overcoat.

Is this a quest item?

“or not···”

I searched the pockets of my coat.

Then, in my inner pocket, I grabbed a thin, hard, rectangular thing in my hand.

It was a card, to be exact, a hotel card key.

Then the highlight on the coat disappeared, and the highlight moved to the card key.

I looked closely at the card key.

Only the number 1631 was written on it.

“Room 1631…?”

It was a hotel, so I couldn’t think of anything else.

I guess I should go here.

and after a while

I was heading to room 1631 with Monica, who had finished collecting the body.

Of course, I couldn’t tell you about the quest, so I vaguely explained that I felt something from this card key.

“···okay.”

Monica seemed to believe me without much doubt.

Apparently, my ability is to analyze spiritual power, so from her point of view, it must have been judged that there was no doubt.

So we got out of the basement and went upstairs using the emergency stairs.

2nd floor, 3rd floor…and up to the 9th floor.

I was slowly out of breath.

However, Monica climbed the stairs casually and stopped on the 10th floor.

“Why did you stop? I have to go to the 16th floor.”

I said, waving my card key.

Monica only turned her head away with an expressionless face.

“know. Still, follow me.”

She went straight to the 10th floor.

I don’t know why, but I also followed Monica’s lead.

As we exited the door leading to the stairs, a long dark hallway greeted us.

It’s just as gloomy here.

There was no problem using the entire hotel as a filming location for a horror movie.

“see?”

“what?”

“Magic beings.”

I shook my head at Monica’s words.

If there was such a thing, she would have told me before she even said it.

“okay.”

Monica answered that and continued walking to the end of the hallway.

And I spurred the door in the far corner and went in.

But even there, Ma didn’t exist.

“···Strange.”

“It’s strange, what is it?”

“Nothing. Entrance, remember?”

Apparently, there were close to 10 Han and salts in the lobby of the hotel.

But now that I think about it, on my way up to the 10th floor, I couldn’t detect the spirit even once.

There were so many demons at the entrance.

Why is there not even a trace of a demon inside?

“The basement was similar, but… did Han or Yeom gather at the entrance?”

“Han and Yeom cannot move. And in the basement…”

Monica was speechless.

There was no Han and salt in the basement.

Instead, there is only a powerful emperor.

I couldn’t even think of a reason.

It must have been that the emperor ate all the salt and bitterness that existed underground.

If you think of it that way…

“I don’t think the emperor absorbed all the floors upstairs… Because there was a Han in the lobby.”

Monica nodded.

The stairs leading to the basement were right behind the lobby, so if the emperor went upstairs, there was no way he would miss the lobby.

Therefore, he never came up from the underground.

Then there is only one answer.

“So you’re saying there’s another thing like the emperor.”

For some reason, he didn’t touch the lobby.

But instead, it traveled all over the ground for a long time and swallowed the mantra.

And he’s now… somewhere upstairs.

“You have to be careful.”

Monica said with a slightly nervous face.

He became an emperor just by absorbing an underground demon.

However, if all the demons on the 20th floor were absorbed.

He must have become more of a monster than an emperor.

“·······”

In anticipation of that, I looked at the quest window in my field of vision with subtle eyes.

And I realized my mistake.

The added quest description said that using the quest item would increase the reward.

I picked up the card key just by looking at those words.

At the same time, the quest item was also an item for specifying the difficulty level.

In other words, as the reward increases, the quest also becomes more difficult.

“Is this right?”

I tilted my head and looked at the door Monica opened and entered.

The number written there is… 1030.

Room 31 did not exist on the 10th floor.

“Again, go.”

But Monica hurried me on without even noticing.

After thinking about it for a while,

“···it will work out somehow.”

I muttered that and started walking towards the emergency stairs again.