Chapter 273 (1/2)

12-26 The Holy Grail under the Royal Capital

Satou's here Using a polluted holy thing for a heretic ritual seely major in fiction Why don't the competent people of the heretics just make an evil container froe obsession

I leave the sakuraround cave with Flash Drive, and round cave with earth ic

After descending the passage in an instant, I come to the cave

It's a considerably large cave It has elliptical shape with enough space that could hold a whole stadium inside

And, the heartbreaking thing is how the ground is littered with several hundreds mummified corpses

Judging from the shabby clothes, they're corpses of laborers, prostitutes, beggars, orphans, and beastkin people I understand that they weren't killed all at once looking at the piled up dust above the corpses

–I'll bury them properly after this incident is over

There's a lit bonfire on the opposite side of where I descended in the interior part of this cave, and a golden cup on top of a violet pedestal

That's probably the Holy Grail

Severalso

Co it with the men, it seems the Holy Grail is about five meter wide

I soic power from the Holy Grail

I'll stop the ritual before stranger things happen

I ju their ritual

“Who are you! Are you obstructing the ritual! Foolish pretend hero!”

Thebubbles fro a violet overcoat that cover his head and has water buffalo's horns on it

This man see the Light of Liberty's members

This noble's second son is the only one who doesn't participate in the ritual

He probably can't chant like me

“Sakurcolored ally–”

The noble's second son was going to say so stopping their ritual

I quickly strike every Light of Liberty member with 2-3 [Short Stun]

White sparks flehen the ic hit the members' bodies, but they couldn't actually stop it, and it succeeded crushi+ng them

Theblood

Of course I' them

So theh to make them faint

“Th-the ritual!”

The noble's second son falls down and can't stand up when he saw theknocked down

This man is the only very low leveled one with his level 3, so I didn't shoot him with the [Short Stun]

He'd probably die if I did

I hit hi the noble second son

I can question the detail later

The Holy Grail is ht now

IGround Shrink

The holy grail is filled with transparent amber-colored liquid inside

This amber-colored liquid is ic power

Just by getting closer to the Holy Grail, I can feel the pressure froic Essence (Mana) It feels si from holy sword Excalibur when it's fully filled

However, unlike with the holy sword, I feel sinister dread, or rather so of rejection co from this Holy Grail

Well, putting personal i to the Holy Grail

First, I tried putting it into e just as is, but it wasn't possible

It can't be helped, so I'ic power

I slowly touch the Holy Grail and extract its ic power

There's soe resistance, it's quite difficult It feels like the extracted

I extract theit apart

I put the extracted ic power into holy sword Durandal of course

>[Curse Resistance] Acquired

>[Chaos Resistance] Acquired

–Oh, it's been awhile since the last resistance skill I got

I allot both resistance skills with maximum points

Now I should be fine even if chaos co in

“You foolish hero! Be cursed by the Holy Grail and attain demon lord-hod!　Be reborn as an apostle of Evil God and become our brethren!”

The noble's second son who seeson the ground

–He woke up already huh It seems I held back too much

I'ic power fro the noble's second son

The ic power that I had absorbed went back when I was just allocating points earlier

The ic power inside the Holy Grail is a lot as expected, there's still half of it even though Durandal is at full capacity

How long did this thing accuic power…

While being astonished, I exchange Durandal with a prototype holy sword e, and drain the Grail's ic power into it

“It can't be… It took several ic power frole person shouldn't have been possibly able to do anything…”

The noble's second son as laughing loudly up till now changes to half sins to talk in delirium

I've extracted the Holy Grail's ic power until it's around 10 left

I can just arrest and bring the after this is over

Looking at theevenly with the sakuramochi demon, I want to quickly settle this and join them

“…The plan to hatch His Highness into a new king is Daamnnn you Herooo”

The noble's second son repeatedly cursesat me

However, it doesn't see

When the reic power of the Holy Grail is at around 5, the Grail begins to strangely vibrate and e sound

Before I knew it, jet black tar-like liquid is accumulated on the bottom of the Holy Grail It seems this tar-like liquid is the reason why there are resistances when I'ic power

The tar-like liquid on the botto like an indeterminate life form

“…■ Tusk Fly Swarm Summon (Summon Moskoff)”

One of the fallenunnoticed, and summoned swarms of fist-sized fly

“…■ Faith Death Soldiers (Animate Undead)”

This ti theundeads

Other ic

–I ht of them as just normal humans

I'll reflect on it later

I have to prioritize disposing these guys for now

I stop trying to neutralize the Holy Grail temporarily, and deal with the current situation

I destroy the ic] in packs

It seeic, the ones that are hit by ain

I burn down the flying tusk fly swarms with [Fire Shot]

On the other side, the s, hold thes like they're praying

“””O Long Horn, feed on our despair in exchange of tyrannical power”””

That [Long Horn] should be an itee someone into a mid-class de around the third prince using that in the Duchy Capital

TheHorns] into their foreheads

–Like I'll let you

I use [Magic Hand] to take the [Long Horns] froe

Taking things fro from stun states is trivial

I neutralize the ain, and then bind the ropesaway their equipment

After I've finished dealing with thejet black liquid has turned into oval-shaped crystal the size of a softball

The ite it

According to AR reading, it's [Evil Thought Crystal (Evil Philosophy)]

Since the Holy Grail's state was 'chaos', I' I've got enough evil God with the [Dog-head De for the ti

Geometric violet lines of flashes sometimes appear and disappear on the jet black sphere Its color and shape are different, but it looks similar to the Crimson Treasure of Furu Empire

I steel e

I was on guard for a bit, but I didn't get cursed or so

I'd like to relinquish it if possible, but carelessly throwing it away could create unnecessary incidents, so I can't

I can just throw it to the sun when I've become able to chant

The [Evil Philosophy] seeht earlier as the Holy Grail is now e

It see toContinent someday

With this, the sakura power should have weakened

Next, if that Mito person can just do soic circle on the Royal Capital's sky, I should be able to finish off the sakuramochi demon