*
[Skill, ‘Expansive Vision’ is activated].
Camilla’s pupils are dilated.
[Hawkeye]’s Awakening skill allows her to see everything with a vaster, deeper vision than Hawkeye could. Even if it’s just an area enveloped in the black magic.
Furthermore, Camilla’s current location is above the sky, where there is nothing to worry about.
Or, more precisely.
She’s on top of Jesse’s broom.
“Things aren’t looking good, Jesse.”
“Can you be specific?”
“Same as it was with Lox.”
Lox, the name makes me bite my lip.
“It’s an abnormal state, corruption. but it seems no normal body can withstand the after-effects of a corruption……? That’s neither demon nor human, I suppose?”
I would describe it as.
“A mangled mass of flesh.”
Jesse cut to the chase.
“Do you think it’s a threat to Chief Lee?”
“I don’t know. To be honest, no?”
After Lox’s resignation.
Camilla had become the de facto Guild Master of Shining.
How the position made the man.
It meant she was able to look at things more calmly than before.
Camilla continued.
“Of course, just like with Paimon, seeing as the infinitely deep darkness has been unleashed… there may be problems that I haven’t witnessed, but I don’t think those corrupted citizens are the cause.”
“Yeah, I see.”
Jesse clenched her fists.
It was the cone hat that recognized the subtle reaction.
It was the Tower Master of the cone hat.
-What are you concerned about, Jesse?
Chief Lee, it’s probably because you preached so much about the importance of Anomaly. I’ve never had to see an anomaly in my life, so I guess I’ve got a good eye for it.
-You are concerned about the world’s eyes.
A world of adventurers.
What a complicated and inefficient world it was.
It meant there were too many things to worry about.
-If it were adventurers who were corrupted, it wouldn’t matter if this chief hunted them down. Jesse, the man who was your companion proved the danger firsthand.
Humans are contradictory creatures.
Without looking at the essence as it is.
It means to look at things relatively.
The cone hat organized a complex situation with a top-down view.
-But they are nothing more than pitiful lumps of flesh that pose no threat to themselves. It is natural that empathy becomes easier. They would think that if they had been unlucky, they could have ended up like that.
For the record, Tower Master’s vision was cold and dispassionate.
-For your information, if it were me, I would have killed them the moment I saw them.
Abnormal state, corruption.
The cure is currently unknown.
It is different from the status abnormality and [Possession]. It had a strange effect that changed its very essence, as if it were a status abnormality manifested by the Ten Thrones rather than a demon.
-I am not as benevolent as Chief Lee.
And so the Tower Master knew, and Jesse knew.
This is a malicious trap. The curse was not hidden, but manifested, drawing the world’s attention to this place and forcing Chief Lee into a conundrum for which he had no answer.
Once again, it becomes clear.
‘The demon is the demon.’
No matter what they look like.
No matter what masks and iron skins they wear.
A demon is just a demon.
“What’s our best bet, Camilla?”
“Best bet?””
Camilla didn’t think long.
“You know, Jesse. I’ve been going through my own struggles lately. Besides, it’s the Commander in Chief, not anyone else, right?”
What she meant by that was simple.
“Whatever the outcome, who are you to judge?”
Logically, she was right. No one is more accustomed to dealing with demons than Chief Lee, and no one would be a better judge of character than Chief Lee at this moment.
It’s just.
In fact, you don’t have to worry one bit about what the world says.
“Wouldn’t you rather be praised more than before?”
Awe.
Respect and fear coexist.
The feeling only grew deeper.
*
There was no regret.
‘Paimon, did you see this?’
That’s right.
By my death.
If the reverence for the Ten Thrones, Lee Ho-yeol, becomes even stronger.
“I am willing to die.”
So, Ten Thrones, Lee Hoyeol.
You may make any judgment you wish. Choke to death on the clinging mass of flesh, or sweep it and me away!
Barbatos laughed in Choi Changwoo’s voice.
“Hoyeol, why can’t you say anything, huh?”
It wasn’t Hoyeol’s voice that came back.
“I command.”
“Yeah, whatever ……! ”
“I, the head of Claudi’s family, command.”
“ ….. What?”
“I, Grandfell Claudi Arpheus Romeo, command.”
With his next words, Barbatos lost his gentleness.
“《El Dorado》”
Wait.
El Dorado?
The power of Paimon, no doubt.
How could that guy.
Is he manifesting the full power of Paimon?
Grandfell speaks to the horrified Barbatos.
“Behold, the power of Claudi.”
Barbatos is stunned.
“Uh, how can you be a ‘human’……?!”