Volume 6, Chapter 3 – The Angel That Failed to Evolve

“So fast!”

“Stop her!”

As the bandits shouted, they split into two groups. A smaller number ran towards Camilla on the hill, while the larger group stayed behind to block Yisi. Although Yisi had suppressed her strength to around level twenty, her speed was still abnormally fast in the eyes of the bandits.

Well, with level 20 strength, it won’t take long to deal with some small fries. Let’s just have them exit the stage here.

Using the replica Gungnir as a staff, Yisi gathered magical power at its tip. While leaping into the air, she made a sweeping motion towards the bandits below.

Several golden arrows instantly enveloped the bandits who were trying to surround Yisi. However, Yisi didn’t let the arrows touch their flesh. She simply allowed the magical power to pass through their clothes and shoes, pinning them to the ground and restricting their movements.

“Are you kidding me? I’ve never seen magic like this before.”

“This is just a simple technique, using mana control to make ‘Rain of Light’ land exactly where you want it.”

“‘Rain of Light’ is already an advanced spell in light magic. How could someone control an advanced spell with such precision!”

“And we didn’t even see her chant the spell.”

“Is there someone like that in our church?”

Their mouths agape, the four disarmed carriage guards who had witnessed the battle conversed amongst themselves.

It was just the most common ‘Light Arrow’. Yisi silently apologized in her heart.

Sorry, I’ll be more careful in the future.

She had never systematically learned the magic of this other world and had always assumed that others used magic in the same way. Now it seemed that the technique she had just used was something only a master-level magic caster could achieve.

Easily vaulting over the bandits she had pinned to the ground, only the ‘adult Tiffany’ dragged from the carriage and the bandit leader remained before Yisi. It was worth noting that the bald bandit leader’s face was covered in dark red markings, indicating he was a Fallen on the verge of going berserk.

“Damn it, where did you come from? Are you from the church!”

Taking small steps backward, the bandit leader drew a scimitar from his waist and cursed loudly.

Yisi shrugged.

“No, I don’t know the people in the carriage.”

Brandishing his weapon in a bluff to intimidate Yisi from getting any closer, the bandit leader continued to shout.

“Then get lost! I can give you the money in the carriage. Not just that, I’ll give you everything I can!”

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“A very tempting offer,” Yisi glanced at the priestess girl who had fallen beside the bandit leader, then fixed her gaze on the expectant bandit leader, “If you were a woman, I’d accept this deal.”

Yisi’s words stunned the bandit for a moment.

“A woman? You want a woman?” He looked Yisi up and down crudely. “Could it be… you’re into women—” ¹ woww smartt

The bandit definitely thinks I’m one of them.

All I want is blood.

Before the bandit could finish his sentence, Yisi took a large step forward. But seeing that the situation was not in his favor, the bandit leader, instead of swinging his sword or turning to flee, took a sideways step with the greatest speed of his life, grabbed the priestess girl’s arm, forcibly pulled her up, and held the blade to her neck.

“Don’t come any closer! One more step and I’ll kill her! Then you won’t get your woman!”

“Brave hero, save me!”

She actually called me a hero…

It would have been better if the girl hadn’t spoken. The moment she did, I felt goosebumps all over. Although I once dreamed of becoming a hero, that was a long time ago. To bring it up again felt as shameful as having someone read my chuunibyou diary out loud in public.

Let’s just end this quickly.

Yisi took another step forward. Seeing her move, the bandit slightly increased the force in his hand, and at the same time, his black eyes quickly turned red.

The girl’s deep green eyes gradually lost focus. The voices of the other bandits around them, including the four disarmed guards, all quieted down. If she wasn’t certain that the bandit leader posed no threat to her, Yisi would have suspected that she had stepped into some kind of alternate reality or had been subjected to mental magic.

However, the priestess girl’s dazed state lasted for less than a second. The moment a white light shone from her chest, she immediately regained her senses.

The first to react was the bandit leader.

“Ugh—Aaargh!”

Like someone whose eyes had been burned by the sun, the bandit leader covered his eyes and took several steps back.

The magic that caused those around to lose their senses must be the bandit leader’s Fallen ability, and that white light must be from something like an amulet on the priestess girl. If possible, I’d like to get one for my companions as well.

“Aaaargh!!!”

To Yisi’s surprise, the bandit leader’s reaction wasn’t just to retreat. He began to scream in pain, curling into a ball and rolling on the ground as if he were on fire. At the same time, the priestess girl quickly moved away from the bandit leader, retreating to the side of the four carriage guards.

She didn’t retreat to my side, the one she called ‘hero’, but ran to those four guards who had surrendered without a fight.

It seems I’m being thoroughly guarded against.

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The man’s painful appearance made Yisi raise an eyebrow. Her gaze fell on the priestess girl.

“What did you do to him?”

“I don’t know.”

Her eyes didn’t seem to be lying. Yisi gave up on questioning her and walked straight to the bandit leader a few steps away. Although only a few seconds had passed, the man was lying face down on the ground, as still as a corpse.

“What are you doing?”

“What else can I do but see what’s wrong with him.”

Yisi placed her hand on the bandit leader’s shoulder and turned him over.

—The horrifying sight made Yisi take half a step back.

Just like a scene from a horror game, the Fallen markings on the man’s face were rapidly spreading, like a living creature, pulsing with the flow of blood, giving the illusion of parasites living under the skin.

Not only that, but the man’s skin was also rapidly decaying due to the spreading markings. Bright red blood trickled down his facial muscles. Then, his limbs began to twist uncontrollably, their strange movements like those of a puppet manipulated by strings. The joints of his limbs bent and rotated at impossible angles, and pale white bones pierced through his flesh. A fountain of blood, a meter high, erupted from his chest.

Finally, the man reacted again, but this time the sound from his throat was like the cry of a dying beast. His limbs were pressed against the contours of his torso at terrifying angles. With a crisp sound of breaking bones, his body gradually swelled, becoming a giant ball of flesh over two meters in diameter, standing before them.

Even though Yisi had seen all sorts of cruel acts performed by Edith in her memories, in the face of such a grotesque scene, she couldn’t help but slowly back away. She was never good with horror movies or games, and now witnessing it in person was no less shocking than waking up to find a mangled corpse lying next to her.

It’s a good thing I didn’t bring Mary and the others. It would have definitely left them with psychological trauma.

“Did it turn into something else… It’s a ball of flesh, yet it’s called an ‘Angel that Failed to Evolve’?” ² remember she can see ’status’

Subconsciously, Yisi’s gaze rested on the priestess girl behind her. However, the priestess girl was not looking at her, but staring at the ball of flesh as if facing a great enemy.

Could it be that the two are not related? If she knew what it was, she shouldn’t be so nervous.

“No, now is not the time to think about these things.”

Shaking her head and casting aside the speculations in her mind, Yisi coated the surface of Gungnir with flames. The bandit leader—or more accurately, the ball of flesh—could now undoubtedly be classified as a monster. Its level 20 status, if left alone, would be seen by Mary and the others behind them. It would be better to kill it and bury it.

“You there, let us lend you a hand!”

“The aura of this damn thing is different from the bandits just now.”

“It’s definitely not an ordinary monster.”

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“By the wings that represent the gods, be purified!”

Three of the four guards picked up their longswords and ran behind Yisi.

The fact that they had just surrendered their weapons to the bandits but were now acting so righteously was so strange that Yisi didn’t know what to say.

“Has your church never seen a monster like this?”

However, before the guards could answer, the ball of flesh bloomed like a flower bud, making a retching motion as if it were about to vomit something from its stomach.

I have a feeling something grotesque is going to pop out…

I can’t delay any longer.

“You three, stand back! I’m going to use my strongest magic!”

“Your strongest magic?”

“The ‘Rain of Light’ just now wasn’t your strongest magic?!”

“We understand, please be careful!”

For some reason, the faces of the three guards turned ugly. After exchanging glances, they hastily retreated, not forgetting to take the priestess girl with them before they left, running down the main road without looking back.

“…Why are they so scared? Well, it’s more convenient without an audience.”

“You there, can you spare us?”

“Jero, help me take off my shoes! I’m stuck in my shoes.”

Hmm… right, I forgot about the group of bandits I pinned to the ground behind the carriage.

GAAAAAAA—

The ball of flesh let out a piercing scream.

Yisi frowned.

“You probably didn’t want to become like this either. Rest in peace.”

This is not a human, but a disgusting monster.

Muttering in her heart, Yisi threw Gungnir, filled with magical power and its shaft burning with flames, at the ball of flesh. The moment the spear pierced the ball of flesh, a violent explosion occurred on the ground, and the scorching crimson lotus burned the ball of flesh to ashes.

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Cleaning up the battlefield.

After the explosion, the guards and the priestess girl returned to the carriage, while the bandits were disarmed by Camilla who came later and tied together with a thick rope.

Camilla handed one end of the rope to Yisi.

“Onee-sama, the bandits have been taken care of. They said they just want to get out of here as soon as possible.”

Yisi glanced at the bandits. As Camilla had said, there was a look of terror on each of their faces, as if they were terrified of the ball of flesh from before.

“I see. Thank you for your hard work, Camilla.”

“It was no trouble at all!”

She must be shy. Yisi smiled wryly and rephrased her words.

“Thank you.”

“Mm…”

Nodding obediently, Camilla lowered her head, her face flushed from the praise.

“My lady, thank you for your help.”

A guard stood respectfully in front of Yisi. Besides him, the other three guards and the priestess girl were examining the charred fleshy lump. According to the guards, this was also the first time they had seen such a monster.

Yisi shook her head.

“It was nothing, just a small matter.”

“It stinks,” the priestess girl who had returned from the fleshy ball did not hide the displeasure on her face, frowning repeatedly, her light-green pigtails swaying from side to side as she shook her head, “It’s a good thing the stuff inside the ball of flesh didn’t get out.”

“The stuff inside?”

“Ah—” as if remembering something, the priestess girl’s dissatisfied expression immediately switched to an affable smile upon noticing Yisi, “It’s like this, benefactor. I had my men cut open the ball of flesh, and we found a mutated monster inside that looked like a goblin. I don’t think it was a goblin, but some other, more powerful species. Benefactor, is there anything else you’d like to ask?”

“I can’t be called a benefactor,” she had noticed since the ball of flesh appeared that the priestess girl had actually prepared her magic and was about to engage the monster. Even if she hadn’t helped, she and her guards should have been able to handle it, “My name is Yisi, a noble from the Hels Kingdom. Because my family has fallen on hard times, I can only come to Mitters Bayer with my young lady to seek refuge with a distant relative.”

As she spoke, Yisi introduced Camilla. Camilla gave the priestess girl a proper noble’s greeting.

The priestess girl blinked, then clasped her hands in front of her chest, closed her eyes gently, and returned the greeting to Yisi and Camilla with a smile.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you. I am a novice priestess who has just recently joined the Ymir Church. My name is… Shalu Ymir. You can just call me Shalu, benefactor.”