Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant-Chapter 472

After a stretch of silence, Su-ho spoke.

“You’re really...”

- Why?

“...Never mind. Forget it.”

In his heart, Su-ho vowed he was absolutely going to give Grid the rest of the Seven Deadly Sins runes later. Like, much later.

But Grid had an uncanny sense for detecting both being cursed at and ominous vibes, so the moment he felt something off, he hurriedly added—

- W-why, why? What is it? What’s the problem?

“It’s nothing. Seriously.”

- Don’t tell me it’s because they’ll reject you? Why would that matter? The fairy race has a huge superiority complex—if you weren’t a corruption fairy, they would’ve hated you from the start anyway!

“Yeah. Got it.”

- Hey, I’m serious...! And if it were me, I would’ve picked the Seal of Corruption no matter what. I’m not joking.

“I know. I get why now. So you can stop talking.”

- Then... there really isn’t any problem, right?

“Yeah. Probably.”

- What do you mean, probably?!

Hmph.

You’ll probably never understand for the rest of your life.

Shaking his head, Su-ho opened his status window and invested all the bonus stats he’d just obtained into True Mana.

Then he stepped out of the portal.

“Kyah-ooo!”

Outside the portal.

The Plague Fairy Gate had been cleared.

But despite the huge rewards, the gate itself wasn’t an End Gate, so Madagascar Island was still overflowing with monsters.

And that was despite the fact that he’d definitely wiped the surrounding area clean before entering the gate.

“Ugh. Annoying bastard.”

Watching a corrupted Dolvirak charge at him, Su-ho summoned Hercules’s Club and layered Blood Armor over it. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

He planned to fling a slash.

But just as he was about to swing, something he’d never seen before stood out to Su-ho on the corrupted Dolvirak.

“Hm?”

He hadn’t imagined it.

It was a faint cluster of light with a slightly greenish hue.

More precisely, it flickered inside the corrupted Dolvirak’s body like a soul—and it was something he hadn’t seen at all until he arrived on Madagascar Island and entered the fairy gate.

But now, as if something had changed, he could see it clearly.

‘What is that?’

Su-ho withdrew the slash he was about to fire and canceled Blood Armor. Then he lightly smacked the charging Dolvirak on the head.

Kwaang!

He’d hit it lightly, but the Shock Wave option attached to Hercules’s Club triggered and a powerful shockwave erupted.

It didn’t die.

Because he’d hit it lightly.

Instead, the shockwave that followed twisted its brain into a mess and knocked it out with a concussion.

“Hm.”

Su-ho examined the unconscious Dolvirak closely.

This thing that looked like a headbutting dinosaur had corrosion all over its body—its flesh rotted, its bones were exposed, and it drooled something that was either spit or poison.

In short, it was no different from a zombie... No, it was obviously a zombie no matter who looked at it.

And yet, he was suddenly seeing light inside this zombie Dolvirak.

Was it only this one?

He looked around.

“Kiaaaaa!”

“Kuoooooo!”

Other Dolviraks that had noticed Su-ho late came charging at him.

Not just Dolviraks. Other monsters too, including elephant birds, came shoving their jaws forward, drooling something that was either poison or spit, looking no different from zombies.

And inside their bodies, the same greenish cluster of light flickered like a soul.

‘What is this?’

I’m really curious.

Su-ho layered Blood Armor over Hercules’s Club again.

Then he swung it hard, as if drawing a big circle.

[ Sky Severing activates. ]

Seogak— Tteooooooong!!

The Sky Severing that swept out in every direction carved through the surroundings as if devouring the whole area, and then the club’s option triggered Shock Wave on top of it.

The result was a massacre.

Countless kill notifications popped up in front of Su-ho, but Su-ho’s attention wasn’t on the kills—it was on the monsters themselves.

“Hm.”

The slain monsters slowly vanished.

Nothing remained.

Then what were those things he’d seen inside them?

Su-ho shifted his gaze back to the unconscious Dolvirak.

“......”

The Dolvirak said nothing.

After a moment of thought, Su-ho placed his hand on it.

That was when—

[ Corrupted Fairy Power has been detected. ]

[ Corrupted Fairy Power reacts to you. ]

Corrupted Fairy Power?

In that instant, the green light inside its body resonated through Su-ho’s hand.

At the same time, memories of how it had been corrupted began flowing into his mind.

‘This is...’

The Dolvirak had been an ordinary monster—one summoned from a gate that had been open for a long time.

Then one day, it had been corrupted by plague fairies that suddenly appeared, becoming what it was now.

The memory transfer played like a film reel, then naturally faded out and ended.

It was fascinating.

Was it because he’d used the same Seal of Corruption?

He hadn’t known he could learn the path of corruption like this from a corrupted target.

‘But why is it showing me this?’

After thinking for a moment, Su-ho asked Grid.

“Grid.”

- Yeah.

“When I grabbed a corrupted Dolvirak, the corrupted Fairy Power it had resonated with my aura, and suddenly the route of how it got corrupted came into my memories. What phenomenon is this? What’s the point of showing me these memories?”

- What else? Your Fairy Power’s status is higher than the fairy who cast the sorcery on the Dolvirak, so the sorcery placed on it submitted to you.

“Submitted?”

- Fairies care a lot about status. And you have corruption power, plus you inherited that supposedly ‘great’ Queen Family bloodline, right? And your current Fairy Power is going to be influenced by your mana stat, so it means your status is far higher than the corruption sorcery some measly plague fairy cast.

“Then that green energy I saw inside it was active sorcery?”

- Basically. But since you made contact with the target, the sorcery on it got broken, and as proof, everything got revealed—from who cast it to the sorcery’s level. Simply put, sorcery is similar to shamanism. The one with higher status and more power wins.

“I see. Then what can I do to it now?”

- That depends on you. Sorcery is a composite of energy and imagination. If you imagine what you want to do, based on the power you have, it’ll be realized to some extent in proportion to that power. You don’t need formulas or catalysts like magic. With sorcery, it’s all about seals, Fairy Power, and status.

“Anything I imagine?”

- Yeah. Within the theme of ‘corruption,’ anything goes.

“Within the theme of corruption...”

Muttering, Su-ho suddenly recalled a line from the Corruption Sorcery description.

...

# The power of corruption is greatly influenced by Fairy Power and the fairy’s mind, and the form of corruption is realized as fully as possible in the form the fairy imagines.

...

Right.

It had said that in the skill description too.

Nodding, Su-ho looked back at the Dolvirak.

It was still unconscious.

And the sorcery that had been embedded inside it was still connected to Su-ho’s hand.

Su-ho closed his eyes and slowly began to operate True Mana.

More precisely, he imagined the Fairy Power inside his own body—like the Dolvirak’s—and started moving it.

[ Corruption Sorcery activates. ]

A system notification appeared.

Sorcery activated in accordance with Su-ho’s intent.

With his eyes closed, the corner of Su-ho’s mouth naturally lifted.

Soon, Fairy Power moved within Su-ho’s body, merged with the sorcery placed on the Dolvirak, and began ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ tangling together.

Hwi-ooooo!

The combined sorcery resonated, kicking up a vortex.

Grid silently watched the scene with his arms crossed.

Because he was curious.

Not long after, the sorcery inside the Dolvirak’s body began transferring completely to Su-ho. And right after the sorcery fully moved over to Su-ho, Su-ho slowly opened his eyes and looked away from the Dolvirak.

- What did you just do?

“Shh.”

Su-ho hushed Grid’s question.

A short while later, an astonishing phenomenon began.

Tseuzeuzeuzeu—

The corrupted Dolvirak’s body began regaining its original color and slowly recovering.

- What the... Partner, what did you do to it?

“I removed the corruption.”

- You removed the corruption?

“It just occurred to me. If you can corrupt a target, you should be able to remove corruption too, right? So I thought about how I could purify it. But if my only card is a Seal of Corruption, I can’t exactly do something like heal or recovery—so I decided to confiscate the corruption sorcery itself. Either way, it got corrupted because of sorcery.”

- What... How is that even... possible?

“Seems like it is?”

It was true.

The Dolvirak that was slowly regaining its color soon had exactly the same coloration it had when it was first summoned here.

There were no rotted or festering areas.

Because the Corruption Sorcery that forcibly rotted it was gone.

And most importantly—

Its name changed from “Corrupted Dolvirak” to just “Dolvirak.”

Of course, there had been a bit of a level drop in the process, but that made sense.

A corrupted state was probably stronger than its normal state.

At a change beyond his expectations, the corner of Su-ho’s mouth rose naturally.

But not everything about the result was perfect.

‘Wounds and flesh that festered during the corrupted period don’t regenerate on their own.’

It couldn’t be helped.

What Su-ho had done was simply remove the corruption sorcery—like a curse. He hadn’t turned time back.

But Su-ho wasn’t especially disappointed.

‘Because I’m a healer.’

And not just any healer—first-rate... No, the strongest healer across both his past life and his present life.

Of course, the skill itself was a lower rank than the Saintess from his past life.

‘But the energy going into it is different, isn’t it?’

If he were a mage and cast Fireball, it wouldn’t just be Fireball—it’d be meteor-level firepower.

Su-ho reached out and used his skills.

[ Heal activates. ]

[ Recovery activates. ]

As expected.

The healing power of Heal and Recovery, infused with silver-colored True Mana, was beyond imagination.

The two skills instantly healed the Dolvirak’s wounds and regenerated its flesh, and even cured the concussion he’d caused.

“Kyirik?”

The Dolvirak came to its senses, slowly opened its eyes, and pushed itself up.

And sure enough, by the monster’s natural rules, it bared its teeth at Su-ho.

Seriously. Ungrateful bastard.

So do I kill it now?

As that thought rose and he reached for the club, a fun idea suddenly popped into his head.

Smiling, Su-ho used a skill on the Dolvirak.

[ Influence activates. ]

The moment he used Influence, hearts floated up in the Dolvirak’s eyes.

S+-rank Influence made the target feel powerful intimacy and loyalty as long as mana was supplied endlessly.

There was no failure for this skill.

The Dolvirak’s power and status were far lower than Su-ho’s.

Now the Dolvirak became Su-ho’s loyal underling.

However, even if Influence succeeded, it didn’t mean the Dolvirak’s identity as a monster changed.

“Not yet.”

With the same lifted corner of his mouth, Su-ho spoke to the Dolvirak.

“Become my citizen.”

“Kyahk!”

[ The Dolvirak accepts your proposal. ]

[ The Dolvirak has become a citizen of Su-ho Land. ]

Seeing the system notification, the corner of Su-ho’s mouth shot up even higher.

And at the same time, a thought surfaced.

How could he efficiently reclaim Africa—a land turned into a living hell that no one wanted to come to?