The Demon King's Paladin Part 1 Vol 2.

Chapter 248. Scouting And Experimenting

                                                                    Anna Ericsson's Point Of View

A dagger through his head and I was able to protect John and Sarah. While I was a little irritated that they turned their back on our enemy, I can't really blame them. I mean, I did the same thing, thankfully, John was there to save me, this time, I was there to save them.

" Anna, I love you a lot!"

And with his words, I felt my tension start to leave my body. Well, his words and the fac that I could tell my dagger actually was the finishing blow this time, I could feel the Goddess's mana destroying whatever it is Pete became from the inside out. How did John know this though? I'll need to ask him about it. I walked over to Sarah and John. It looked like John was observing Pete's corpse while also thinking deeply about something.

" Darling, how did you know that the Nature Goddess's mana is what would kill him?"

" Hm? I didn't really know, I just assumed based on the knowledge we had. Those tendrils, they're vines. Vines are a type of plant that grows in jungles and the like. However, judging by the feeling that I got from Pete ever since he appeared, no... The feeling was actually amplified since those vines popped out, now that I can think about it for a moment. Anyways, I figured that it was something " evil" in origin."

" Evil?"

" Yes, evil to us and our Gods who's favors we've gained. I think that we're dealing with an Evil God in that sense."

" What!?"

Sarah responded with shock, but I was somewhat convinced of this myself. I mean, he attempted a sneak attack on John and me only. Meanwhile, even though he was clearly outclassed, he didn't mind fighting Sarah. The only thing that John and I have as a commonality in our skillset is that we have the backings of different Gods... Or Gods and an Archangel as John told us. Either or, it's something of Divine origin that we get our powers from.

" The fact that he was happy to clash swords with me when I didn't have my Mana Blade active but then happily avoided me when I did, or the fact that he did his best to protect himself from my Holy Bolt and Holy Arrows also was a hint. And now after thinking about it and looking at his corpse... I think we're dealing with an Evil God that might be the opposite of the Goddess of Nature. Or if not that, then something close to it. Did you see what happened when I did land my Holy Flame on him? It spread like it was slathered in oil. My Holy Flame, when it would hit an enemy, it would explode on impact like the Holy Bolt, this was different. It acted like proper fire. And then, there's this."

/PLOP!/

John pulled my dagger out of the corpse of the butler. It was covered in what looked like black blood.

" See, his blood was red originally, those vines sprouted out of him though, and now his blood is like this. That also says nothing about the fact that the Nature Goddess's mana and this hypothetical Evil or Dark God or whatever it is, it's mana was fighting against our Goddess's mana for quite some time until your dagger finally won out, Anna. There's still questions though. Where did those vines come from? Seeds that were inside of him maybe? Did he sacrifice his organs when he knew he was dying for power maybe? Did Pete even know what he was doing? Or did he die before we even came to Zana? Questions for Victor, I guess. Hey Victor, talk to me! I see you over there, the battle is over."

" Great, he's off to his own little world, we'll have to keep this short this time though, Evil God or not, they've taken our people, Anna. We need to get them back."

" Of course we will, Sarah. But I'd rather gain some information that might help us now. Let him think for now, I'll make sure that they're okay for now."