The Half-Puny Priest Hopes To Retire

196 – Life of a Herbivore (5)

I was neither let down nor arrogant.

They were fully prepared and the battle line was flawless.

At the time of the attack, Zilga, the main member of the party, and other colleagues were somewhat distant.

It was extremely harsh to describe the beautiful gap, which could have been narrowed at any time if one wanted to, as a loophole.

Zilga and his companions were completely defeated.

There was no room for any excuse in that fact.

Therefore, the only task left for them now was to use this defeat as a foundation to discuss what they were lacking.

Should we have conducted more thorough preliminary information research on the enemy?

How about reexamining the camp again?

Strength. Or, if you sharpen your skills more than now.

No, no.

Jilga’s thoughts suddenly became blurry.

This was because his intuition as an S-class adventurer who had gone through numerous hardships and adversities had already revealed the cause of this defeat.

Status as a living thing.

In the end, Jilga had no choice but to accept that this tragedy was caused by a pure but cruel gap that could not be bridged with effort and experience.

In fact, it was unfair to even call it a defeat.

Even if an elephant tramples an ant on the floor to death, it is not said that the elephant defeated the ant.

Rather than a fight to the death, it would have been more appropriate to describe what happened between that girl and them as a violation by an overwhelming predator.

This is the second time I have felt such a huge difference in skill.

Actually, in this case, it was better.

Firstly, we couldn’t even compete for sum.

A festival of the century that no citizen of the island knows about. Divine protection ceremony.

Naturally, Jilga and his companions were among the crowds that flocked to see the glorious sight of a saint bestowing blessings on a warrior.

It goes without saying that Jilga, who was confident that she would not be defeated by anyone in the world in her longing for the title of warrior, looked at such a scene with envy and jealous eyes.

However, it didn’t take long for Jilga’s anxious look to be swallowed up by her strong feelings of astonishment.

Red and blue eyes watching each other on top of a pure white stone building.

The vicious spirit that seemed at first glance like murderous intent hovering around him imprinted an unprecedented sense of defeat into Jilga’s bones of hers.

What made him nauseous due to the rising fear was his shameful secret that he had sworn to take with him to the grave.

It was from that moment.

Although Jilga admired the title of hero, she completely gave up her lingering affection for him.

This was natural.

By nature, humans are bound to give up even looking up to that goal if it is too far away.

Jilga dared to assert.

A warrior of the current generation. Triana Abigail.

It’s her

”A hero appears!”

She is the strongest being of mankind.

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”Are you okay!? Come to your senses!?”

”Da, you…?”

The soft voice of a man coming from a short distance carefully strengthened Jilga’s consciousness, which she seemed to be cut off at any moment.

”Rest assured. Because the wound she was thoroughly treated. If you take a rest for a while, your life will not be in any danger.”

”····That’s right!”

As I slowly lifted my eyelids, which had become as heavy as wet cotton, the scene where I could barely see her outline her began to gradually regain its original freshness.

Her nameless benefactor who was carefully treating her as she was suffering from death.

I thought for a moment that he might be an old man because of the gray hair that was visible through blurry vision, but his true identity was a young priest estimated to be in his early or mid-20s.

The traces of training that can be seen here and there on his skeleton implicitly indicate that he is a person with strong bones.

No matter how good his capabilities were, he was at the top of B-class, and he was definitely not a strong person who could walk around without an escort in the danger zone where a special dungeon disaster occurred.

Are there any survivors in this town?

Jilga, who quickly realized that he was not an adventurer sent by the guild to rescue them in trouble, rang her neck urgently.

”Oh, quickly run away! This is not a place where someone like you can come—”

”Hero! We are currently in the process of treating these people! You must never come this way! You know!”

”Yes! Okay!”

”─!?”

Even though he didn’t even fully understand the current situation, the series of troubles that came one after another was constantly adding to the confusion in Jilga’s mind.

Cheonggang! Quang! The Quagga River!

Every time the two agile new models clashed violently, a heart-chilling sound echoed majestically.

One of them belonging to an unknown girl who wiped out her party.

The other one is someone who has never forgotten his status since he tasted it from afar on the day of the blessing ceremony.

A warrior of the current generation. It was clear that it belonged to Triana Abigail.

”Toy. I’m going to play with it. Get out of the way.”

”You. You look a lot like the person I hate the most in the world.”

Jilga felt that the peaceful conversation that leaked out intermittently was much more frightening than the bloody voice of iron clashing with iron.

”How on earth…”

It wasn’t a dream.

Just before she lost consciousness, she could not help but be astonished, having thought that the image of her warrior appearing in front of her out of nowhere was just a fantasy of her dreams.

Why is there a hero here?

And who on earth is this man?

What is his relationship with the hero?

Jilga was sure that the intense headache that was plaguing her mind was not just because she had hurt her head.

”Yes, that’s right! Do, colleague! Colleagues! Ugh!”

”Don’t move! Calm down. All my colleagues are safe.”

The corpses of my colleagues suddenly passed through my mind.

Just before he lost consciousness, he reflexively launched himself at his colleagues, but since there was no way to know what happened to him after that, this horrified reaction was, in a way, natural.

”Brother, you flew away to protect everyone, right? Thanks to you, the remaining colleagues are safe without any major injuries. Look.”

”····!”

Sigh.

Jilga’s eyes opened wide as he followed the man’s movements.

There, neat and tidy colleagues without any wounds were lying in a row on the floor.

But that wasn’t the part that surprised Jilga.

A chain surrounding the fallen comrades in a circle.

It was surrounded by a strange aura that I had never felt before in my life, and it was protecting Jilga’s comrades from the fragments of the deadly battle that occasionally flew in.

The sight of a huge rock fragment being cut into two pieces and then dancing on the spot was like watching a living creature.

My mind is literally saturated with the amount of information.

The hypothesis that all of this might be a dream occurred to him.

The tingling pain that remained here and there on Jilga’s body clearly informed him that all of this was a clear reality.

How long has it been like that?

Even the S-class adventurer Jilga could only follow with his eyes, and the unique attack and defense from that level finally met Chisel.

Kwasik!

”Wow!”

The girl who took a direct hit from the hero’s sword spattered red petal-like blood and hesitated for a moment.

A slash cut diagonally across the upper body her. Needless to say, the blow, which accurately crossed three or four vital points, was a fatal wound.

But even as the spark of her own life she was dying out, no emotion could be seen on the girl’s face her her her.

”Huh?”

”It’s over.”

Crash.

After seeing her own blood-stained hands, the tip of the hero’s merciless sword was aimed again at the girl, who seemed to have recognized her own wounds.

Even though it was a long way off, Jilga, who had felt that green killing intent before, was able to intuitively sense it.

No one in the world will be able to stop the slaughter that will soon arrive here.

”Hero! Wait a minute!”

”Yes! Father!”

Kwaang!

The view was reversed again.

Immediately after the priest urgently rang her her her her her, thick dust rose like smoke, completely blocking Jilga’s vision her her her her.

”Say, priest—!?”

Jilga’s thoughts were filled with despair.

The center of the binge drinking was right in front of her.

Because it was the place where the priest, the savior of her own life, set her feet on hers.

Even though she had just escaped from death, it was not the right thing for her to let go of the benefactor who saved her life and that of her party members like this.

Jilga quickly threw her body away.

His first steps may have been accompanied by some hesitation, but there was no doubt that his sturdy steps, picking up the dust, were as unstoppable as a fairy tale hero.

”Priest! You’re okay… It’s okay…”

Jilga’s eyes became blurry in an instant.

So much so that I didn’t even notice that my beloved eye patch broke off and I fell helplessly to the floor.

It was clear that being dumb was referring to the current price.

”Hero! For a moment! Wait! What if you suddenly hug me? You promised not to do this in front of others!”

”Huh! It was like that! I forgot!”

A transcendent being who had no doubt that he was the strongest, fawns like a puppy on the weak who are far below him.

The power of that absurd sight was enough to transport Zilga’s thoughts to another dimension for a moment.