Episode 61
Holy Knights of the Religious Kingdom.
The symbol is a golden lion known to have been changed in front of humans a long time ago, and a knighthood made up of knights who can literally use divine power.
Although the population of the kingdom was not large, the reputation of the Holy Knights was high.
In fact, it was pretty good even before the return.
If it hadn’t exploded into an infighting, there might have been a possibility that he would have fought with us to the end.
“Rian has arrived.”
“Uh uh…Have you already arrived?”
Lian, who had been fiddling with the magical sphere given to me for a while, widened her eyes.
Then, without hiding a regretful expression, he stopped manipulating the magic tool.
“Kuhmm, I needed more time to check it out, but it’s a pity.”
“You will have plenty of time to check it out?”
After answering that, I turned my gaze to the Holy Knights building.
The goddess Hekau and the golden lion.
An elaborately carved statue was placed, and beyond that, along with the castle wall, newcomer-looking paladins stood guarding the gate.
“Hey, here it is…“
The Holy Knights of the Holy Kingdom.”
Flags and insignia symbolizing the golden lion are hung throughout the building.
Divine power clearly defined one by one.
It was a spectacle that explained why this place was the ‘Holy Knights’ and had a high reputation not only in the religious world but also in the world.
[Hmm, I can definitely feel the energy of Hekau strongly.]
He looked around and said that Set was interesting.
[However, as the old man said, there is something that worries me.]
“For example?”
[Right now there are flags hanging the symbol of Hekau. Something strange is stuck. But it’s so subtle… …It’s not strange that you don’t notice it.]
Churches are filled with priests with the deepest faith and the strongest divine power in the world.
However, even in that religious country, the demonic energy was not revealed in the capital, which could be called the center… ….
‘No, it’s not impossible.’
There are demons who are born with such power.
deceit and contempt.
There was one guy whose specialty was breaking down his prey bit by bit with all sorts of dirty tricks.
His mimicry and acting are subtle.
But he has a weakness.
‘The scary thing is that once he mimics himself, he loses his awareness that he’s mimicking himself.’
In short, it thinks and moves as a completely mimicked object.
Even if it is a being with a tendency opposite to one’s own. For the purpose, he could even become a faithful priest or knight.
Except for very small details.
‘The butler hasn’t died yet.’
No matter how much I thought I’d find something like this first and tell you.
Of course, he wouldn’t have felt Magi intuitively like Set. It must have been that he noticed something strange while checking this and that and analyzed it.
But even taking that into consideration, it’s great.
…Whatever.
“Sounds like there’s something there.”
[Let’s solve it right now. Pretty weak, but enough to be seen by my eyes means that the condition has already deteriorated considerably.]
“I guess so.”
The fact that such deep traces remain in the Order of the Holy Knights means that they have something to do with the devil.
A more cautious approach might not be a bad choice, but… ….
“Shall we go?”
My current existence with the qualifications of a hero is justification.
No matter what excuses the Order of the Holy Knights make, they can’t stop me.
As we approached, two paladins guarding the place blocked our path.
“What business did you come for?”
Without answering, I showed the pendant, the symbol of a candidate for the hero.
At that moment, the two paladins opened their eyes wide.
It’s not strange that he doesn’t know me because he rarely went outside right after coming to Kyoguk.
“Heh heap!”
The paladin, who soon confirmed that the pendant was real, shouted.
“Dear hero candidate…!”
“Don’t make a fuss about it.”
I lightly tapped the paladin’s shoulder as he was about to say a grandiose respect and tried to go inside.
“Candidate Hu! Anyway, going in like that… …”
‘There’s something.’
There is a reason why I shouldn’t go inside right now.
But keep that thought hidden.
“Ah, it’s okay.”
I said to the paladin with a nice smile.
“The reason we have business is the vice-captain Sir Harbei, who is in here.”
“…yes?”
The two knights stopped us trying to stop us, as if this was completely unexpected.
Ryan was also looking at me with a curious expression on what he was going to say.
“Here, Sir Rian Paslov says he really wants to finish the duel he couldn’t finish…”
“…Did I?”
“Yes yes it was.”
I gave a rough answer to Lian’s blankly asked question, but didn’t break the friendly smile.
The position of a warrior candidate.
Besides, an unfinished duel.
Knights are beings who care about decency rather than pretentiousness.
Especially when it comes to the Order of the Holy Knights, that ostentatiousness is no different from the law.
furthermore.
‘What Harvey did to drag Cassandra away wasn’t particularly honorable.’
If only it could have been dragged along as planned, it would have been enough to make it after that.
one couldn’t
Because of my sudden intervention, Harvey’s actions lost their justification.
“Is it wrong to want to continue the ‘unfinished duel’ between knights?”
“That is…“
Besides, since I have the qualifications of a warrior, it is not wrong for me to visit the Order of the Holy Knights.”
Strictly speaking.
The current leader of the Holy Knights is the vice-captain.
In fact, the one designated to lead the Holy Knights is the hero.
Of course, now that the honor of the hero has been greatly damaged, such a pretense is meaningless, but it is perfect for a pun.
“Uhm.”
At my words, the paladins glanced at each other, and then one of them said.
“Could you wait a moment, Joe? Anyway, ready… …”
“No no it’s fine. Because I wanted to see the raw Knights, haha.”
The two paladins broke out in a cold sweat.
“Ha but…”
In the end, it didn’t last long.
There was no way that these two, who were only newcomers, could stop me any longer of their own accord.
when I was about to go inside.
“Candidate Mikhail.”
Someone walked out from inside.
familiar face.
It wasn’t that good, but I decided to welcome it anyway.
“Ah, Lord Havey.”
Vice-captain Habei.
He walked over to me with a face of no face and said,
“I’m really sorry that I haven’t been able to meet and say hello since then. Aside from that… …”
Harvey’s gaze turned to Lian. It wasn’t a very good look.
“I’d like to tell you that it wasn’t a duel then.”
“under.”
It was Lian who received Harvey’s words.
Immediately after hearing that, the boy’s eyebrows twitched.
“Are you pulling back now?”
“I am telling you the truth. It wasn’t a proper duel and it didn’t make any sense.”
It wasn’t a duel then.
I may have said this in the sense that I didn’t want to attach any meaning to it, but… ….
“Ah, then you mean that the uproar that arose then was not a duel, but Lord Harvey’s arbitrariness?”
“…!”
At my words, Harvey flinched.
He glared at me, but hesitated, as if he had nothing to say.
“That is…“
But there’s no way that you alone made that decision…Hmmm, even though I am a candidate for a hero, I think I have the right to break through the corruption and ills within the church.”
If you don’t want to make things bigger, just let them in.
It was roughly such a nuance.
“…Do you really have to do this?”
“I’m more curious when you say that. I just came.”
At my words, Habei was silent with a troubled expression on his face.
but within
“…great. Please come in.”
Having said that, he turned around.
* * *
[Hmmm Hmm.]
Heading inside, Set diligently circled around and checked for any points that bothered him.
[First of all, there are no obvious traces on the outside, right?]
That’s right.
If the truth is what I’m guessing right now, isn’t he the kind of person who would openly leave a mark?
‘It’s hard to identify the traces that were visible from the outside right now.’
The identity of the person who murdered Archbishop Narun before returning was not clearly revealed until the end.
…Even after the church was irreversibly eroded.
Of course, it is not that there are no possible culprits.
That was one of the reasons I came here.
“It’s a lot quieter than I thought.”
Ryan looked around and said curiously.
“…There was a time when I admired the Order of the Holy Knights, but it feels strange to see them like this.”
“But the honor is still very high.”
It’s because the empire has done so much, but a master is a talent that is difficult to have even one in one country.
Master Milium Aria from outside the Empire right now.
Wasn’t she like that?
The status of a nation goes up just by having a master.
She has been called and promised many things by many kings and lords.
A certain king even guaranteed the title of duke, and said that he would provide all sorts of conveniences besides that. What more can I say?
In a way, it was natural.
one-man corps.
The meaning is by no means small.
And the current leader of the Holy Knights of the Church is also its master.
‘The commander of the knights is trustworthy.’
First of all, he is excluded from the list of suspects.
Before returning, he stayed with us until the end and died.
Except for Siegfried.
I don’t like what I don’t like. First of all, he moved as a hero no matter what the results were.
Although he may be a fool, he is not one to join the demons.
That means… ….
“Lord Harvey, have there been any problems with the Holy Knights lately?”
“Yeah, nothing really.”
Habei answered casually.
It’s not a lie.
If there was something, there would be a little bit of agitation, but there isn’t even that.
‘But I’ll check.’
By circulating the mana within the body, secretly manifests magic.
< Detection >.
As it was, the mana that spread from me looked around.
enough not to notice.
carefully.
I walked down the hallway following Harvey and came out of the hallway and looked at the training ground of the Holy Knights.
In the training ground, apprentices and knights were in the middle of training together.
“We do not stop practicing in order not to be ashamed of God. And, of course, prayer too.”
“I don’t think what happened that day was something I could proudly say to God.”
“that…”
Harvey frowned.
“…Prophecy dulls people. In some cases, the meaning is distorted to the point of being rude to God.”
“Like a prophecy war?”
“Is it wrong for me as a member of Yekyoguk not to want to repeat what happened then? As his children, we… …”
“Then it was something we should have approached more carefully.”
I said firmly.
“What qualifications do you have to doubt the one chosen by God? He would also be distrustful.”
“that…!”
Harvey glared at me.
Unlike the first reaction, the expression clearly showed emotion.
Confronting him, I gradually expanded the range of detection magic.
At first, it was like a training ground.
However, by expanding and widening, I began to examine things beyond the training ground.
‘Nothing.’
‘There’s nothing special here either.’
‘Here too… …You can’t miss it The
devil’s aura is familiar.
If you have a specific place and even entered the inside, it is not difficult to find the energy.
With your mouth you say something different.
“Ordinary people say that your attitude is self-righteous.”
“No! We…”
And the detection magic spread further and further downstairs of the Holy Knights.
when you go underground.
wriggling
‘…under.’
something was detected
Great mage who transcends by regression
