tried to catch up to him.
He was already at the edge of the church when this happened but there was still some forest around which thankfully let him hide easier.
And, out of nowhere, the demonic presences in the area vanished entirely.
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. Maybe they have some way to moving to their hide out quickly?" Soma muttered, his mind flashing over the various possibilities even as he continued standing very, very still.
He stood there for another 10 minutes before he moved, but instead of continuing to move away from the place he went towards the church itself.
The demonic energy just now was extremely strong for the current Soma. If he was forced to face someone with that level of energy and was as fast as the demon he faced before he would lose.
As such Soma decided he might as well go into the church right now.
He still had a dire need for all sorts of things and if a battle had just happened then there was every chance that there could be some stuff he could loot out of the battle that happened. His actions were not anything glorious since looting bodies hardly was an honorable thing and returning to the church could be a bit dangerous, but this town was already extremely dangerous from what he could tell and any advantage was something he had to look out for.
Returning to the church while sneaking towards it he would be extremely hard to see, being trained for about 85 years exclusively by all the Hassans and getting the approval of the Gran Assassin himself meant his stealth was no joke. If he wanted to not be seen then, unless the person was extremely cautious and aware of him, he would not be seen.
Getting inside the church it was clear a battle had happened. The floor was destroyed, several pillars were broken and strung over the floor, even the cross itself had lost its top and now looked like the letter T.
Walking deeper inside Soma saw a passage to the underground.
Reaching there he found about 27 human bodies, all destroyed and thrown around. Limbs everywhere and blood in all walls, the innards of several blown all over, and the disgusting smell of shit, piss, and blood mixed together into a stench that could make most people vomit.
Soma didn't feel much about it besides reassigning his danger levels of the demons to an even higher level if they could so easily and quickly go about and decimate so many people. Moving about he found several guns, weird lightsabers of sorts, crosses, and several other items.
Nothing of too high a quality, but Soma figured he could use those well if he used his Alchemy with them.
GRAB
Suddenly, a hand grabbed Soma's leg. Looking down he saw it belonged to someone who was still miraculously alive somehow.
His side had a hole that looked quite bad, even if he was alive for now there was little chance of his surviving if things continued as they stood.
". .
. Must.
. .
Fight. Have to wi-"
Words were spoken very quietly and Soma approached to look closer and then he saw.
His eyes, the eyes of this exorcist, they did not give up. He still wanted to fight, his drive for victory and to win shining through despite his state.
He still was holding onto life and some obsession with fanatical fervor.
Soma could only sigh to himself. This would be troublesome, he lacked the necessary equipment for the most part but letting someone with such eyes die because of some demon did not sit well with him.
"I will save you even if it kills you. " Soma said to the young stray exorcist who looked at him intensely before closing his eyes, but his hand did not slack in the slightest.
Thankfully Soma managed to pry his leg free before doing emergency treatment to the exorcist. It was nothing much to be honest, just some basic applications of alchemy for healing purposes and projecting some cloth to put in the hole to stop the bleeding.
Saving lives and healing were two things that were hammered firmly in his head thanks to Nightingale and Asclepius, it was not easy but if Soma wanted you alive then dying would not be all that simple.
Giving the emergency treatment for the exorcist Soma stood back up seeing as he took away all the items in here with the exception of a huge instrument he did not know the use for, and even if he knew the thing was too big and heavy to just carry away.
Leaving the underground Soma was about to run away when he saw another corpse lying about on the floor. It was perfectly still and apparently very healthy despite not being possible to see any movement on its chest.
'Well, I am already trying to save lives. Maybe she is still alive but just had her heart stop.
' Soma figured, such cases were entirely possible after all.
Reaching out to her, however, he felt that she was beyond a doubt dead. There was no soul in her, which was a slight shame but not anything he could do.
"Huh? This is odd. " Soma said as he felt that there was something weird inside the body he was holding.
If he was to compare it would be like when one implants someone else's body with a Noble Phantasm, something that was hard to do no doubt, and removing such an item of someone alive was near impossible without the person willing for it to happen.
But with a corpse like this? A simple application of Flash Air was all it took to remove the thing from inside this body.
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"A pair of rings? Weird, but not the weirdest Noble Phantasm out there I guess. " Soma said before standing back up and thinking for a moment before running towards the other place where a battle happened and he sensed a demonic presence earlier.
Soma would not dare come back to this place in the near future, better to loot everything this place has to offer before calling it quits for now.