Clearing the Game at the End of the World Chapter 290

Chapter. 14. One Empire, Three Legends (49)

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“Fuhuhuh hmm! Oh, sorry about this. Would you like a handkerchief? “I think it will stain white clothes if you wipe them.”

“Uh, thank you. The job of a priest is not easy. “That woman blew her nose into my hand.”

“Professor, that’s the problem. If the person who wiped the crying woman’s face said that, it would seem like he was joking when he said it wasn’t difficult at all. In reality, it must have been quite a hardship.”

The professor wiped his hands with the handkerchief Astrad handed him and looked down at the face of the small wizard, who was no taller than his waist.

The boy I hadn’t seen in a long time felt like he had grown a lot in the short time I hadn’t seen him. Not only does he have a laid-back attitude, but he also has the contradictory title of ‘resident’ wind mage, representing Wuthering Heights.

“Ha ha ha ha ha. “There are still a lot of interesting things happening around you, Professor.”

It’s also the same with the fact that I’ve gone from having a sour and expressionless expression to now being able to smile quite a bit.

‘…They say that time does not grow a person, but the experiences gained during that time grow a person.’

The professor grumbled for no reason, feeling as if the time spent wandering around the empty home after losing nearly half of the wizards who were like his teacher and family in Wuthering Heights had raised the boy in a way that was not appropriate for his age.

“fun? “Do you think that’s fun?”

“Um… yes. “There are few scenes as interesting as the Holy Knights debating whether to leave the spire of the temple where the professor was buried and register it as a sacred site, or to cut it off from the bottom in its well-preserved state and place it in the main altar in Roderick and designate it as a holy relic.”

“Umm….”

I can’t refute it. That was kind of funny to me too. I thought I was there to stop people saying things like ‘the symbolism of the location of the steeple and the encounter of the fallen saint’ and ‘the symbolism of large-scale relics made in today’s times and the faith of believers that will be strengthened by it’ with serious faces in the world. Gregory, who I knew, said something like, ‘This matter is being officially discussed at the headquarters in Roderick, so be careful.’ Everyone was so serious, as if they were at a crossroads of a lifetime, that I couldn’t help but laugh. My roots were sore from laughing with Astrad, who came to pick me up next to me.

“If I fall down on the road like this, I’ll say, ‘This is the stone that stopped the saint’s steps! Roharam means to be on guard for a moment and look around! That stone! Dig it out carefully so as not to damage the roots!’ “I could do it.”

“Oh, even if it’s a joke, don’t say it where other people can hear. “I heard you use communication magic earlier, and it seems like if church officials hear about it, they’ll immediately go to the pottery master to get a bottle of holy water.”

“…Did you hear me?”

“The wind is everywhere. “I just happened to hear something.”

“Haaaa. “I don’t know how it ended up like this…”

While dealing with believers who were flocking to me just to hold my hand. I had no choice but to get a call after hearing that the Archbishop had been trying to communicate with me for over an hour.

I had a clear idea of what he was going to say, so I just ignored him, but the communication magic had so much divine power that the connected priest started to glow, so I couldn’t ignore him.

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“Yes, the saint teaches.”

[….]

“Uh… Ratura? Archbishop Norman?”

[….Please come back.]

“Yes?”

[I’ll tell you straight. I want you to return to the main altar immediately, be officially canonized, and sit in the main altar as a saint of the church!]

“Wow, you have a good voice, old man. If it’s because I didn’t keep my promise and jumped into the empire… I’m sorry! Oh, I’m sorry! It happened because the situation was a bit urgent! I don’t know if the news got there, but no, oh my! “Well, to the imperial capital-”

[In the past, the people of the church who called themselves ‘Children of Light’ disparaged themselves as tools and made an indelible mistake that led to the decline in the church’s status. The lost saint descended as a fallen witch and ruled the empire. If it was an incident that turned it into a hotbed of curses, killed the royal family, and almost caused a second evil spirit to descend on this continent where a single evil spirit is on the verge of death, it was reported in writing so that it filled my office – this person who dared to ignore the saint’s warning. I can tell you that Nogu also knows to some extent!]

“Uh… you know very well. yes. As it happened, I felt a sense of duty as a saint of light-]

[And also! A comet full of bright ‘divinity’ that struck the evil star of destruction and stopped its evil ritual! We also know very well that its true identity is our Holy Son! Now still. Are you still going to insist that you haven’t heard Haram’s voice? Yes!]

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Archbishop Norman was so excited that it was hard to imagine him being the dignified and calm archbishop he was when we first met him, and he spoke passionately as if he had gone back to his youth when he was a high-ranking priest of a fallen religious order and was dominating the social world. was vomiting.

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[They even said that the place where the fallen saint fell after stopping the fallen saint was our Temple of Light!]

“It wasn’t that it fell, it was that it got stuck and pierced through. There is now a very large scar left on the skin of my stomach-”

[It’s very symbolic! Since you still have stigmata, wouldn’t it be much easier to record it!]

[No, let’s put those things aside for a moment. You need to come back to the church now. Come and have a proper canonization ceremony and be given a title. There is a mountain of work to do. Umm…. After the day we lost the saint, all the brothers who held positions higher than archbishop, from cardinals to the pope, lowered themselves to the rank of lay priests, saying that they were deeply aware of their sins of not being able to lead the church, and since then, no one has held positions higher than archbishop. There was no one who acted arrogantly. However, if it is the professor who ended the life of the saint who was the cause of this, I think it would be fair to give him a position of cardinal….]

“If he is a cardinal… isn’t he above the archbishop?”

[That’s why I treat you with respect all the time. Professor Cardinal Eminence. It is a position above the archbishop and below the pope.]

“Oh my! I’m done with that. Even just becoming a saint is too much for me right now. “What good are positions to someone who goes out like me?”

[….Isn’t that because I want you to stop going outside now?]

The professor somehow managed to get the Archbishop’s ‘Come into our arms!’ While I was trying to think of something to say to block the attack, I heard the archbishop’s voice sigh and calm as if soothing a child.

[I know. The saint’s spirit of sacrifice. While others are sacrificing their own bodies, you are leaving your light in the world with such passion and passion that it makes you regret not having two bodies. Thanks to you, you wore the mask of a non-believer, but now the whole world calls you a saint. I am serving again. So now, there are a lot of people who think of your name when they think of the denomination. You have become the new center of light.]

“That is….”

[All religions have leaders. Of course, we serve and follow the light of light, but the path is so long and difficult. Sometimes, I feel comforted by the lighthouse right in front of me rather than the pale and wide light that illuminates the world. You are the one who appeared before us who had been wandering and losing our focus. Did you know that the divine power of young acolytes has grown dramatically in recent months? Not only acolyte priests, but also most brothers, including paladins, priests, and monks, are now able to handle greater light?]

[Auror Mana. Of course, it is a great power. But the moment I emptied it. Didn’t you prove that there is a vessel that can contain greater light than anyone else, as if removing the veil that obscures its essence and revealing its true value? Now that many people have seen it, believers will have faith that the saint can wield such great power. Sometimes the effect leads to the cause. Now, one way or another, divinity will come to dwell in the Son’s body. Of course, because of the characteristics of the saint who contains many powers, he will dwell in a somewhat different way from our brothers… but as faith in him spreads, the divinity within him also increases. That is an undeniable fact.]

“Just a moment, Archbishop. Power is so simple-”

[I’m not finished talking yet. Now, even if you and I deny it with open arms, we cannot deny that you have become the focal point of light. However, if the saint throws himself into a rough area and dies suddenly like in this incident. What do you think will happen? After going through penance, a traveler who finds a place to rely on tends to lie down there. The moment you die, that place becomes an endless abyss. Priests who lose their focus and fall into the abyss. The moment you die, there will be a greater religious loss than when you lost the saint. What happened twice can happen three times. Believers will become fearful of having firm beliefs. The name of the light is like that. Haram’s reputation will gradually disappear from the world.]

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Priesthood. Until now, when explaining the justification for a difficult action, I had assumed that this was the meaning of light due to the blindness of it.

Now that he had risen to a very important position in a faction called the Church of Light, the moment had come to shoulder the duty that corresponded to his blindness.

In fact, not only in a religious denomination, but also in any group, once you reached a certain level, people would gather there regardless of your will.

As you play as a knight and accumulate heroic points, you will gain the reputation of being the ‘best knight’ and will urge feudal lords from all over the world to serve you and become furious if they refuse.

If you just play mercenary like Cheon Ryu-je, you will become the ‘Mercenary King’ at some point and the mercenaries that pop up here and there will take care of all the troublesome things for you, and if you sneak a word, they will flock in and make a mess.

If that’s annoying, you can form your own family and become the head of a small group, like the ‘Princess Family’ that Levitt created with his fellow retainers.

In the end, it was a situation that he would have to face at some point if he became a top player.

However… in the case of the Gwangmyeong Church, there is a feeling of being somewhat outraged by the proposal as they have been longing for someone to become the central point for nearly a hundred years and have now found it.

The archbishop seemed to have realized that he was a little overly excited, and seemed to choose his words with a moment of silence.

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[Honestly, even if I said this, I don’t think that someone like you would quietly stay in a safe church and wrestle with me holding on to documents. I ended up talking at length to someone who was busy just because I wanted them to know at least this way.]

[Keep in mind. There is a cloth to cover a small lantern, but there is no cloth to cover the rising dawn. Since the dawn of light has come, please realize that your own safety is not simply your own safety. All of the countless little lights that have fallen on the world are praying for your well-being.]

“I will keep this in mind… I will.”

[Why do you say that? This old man feels a little relieved.]

“Well. “In the end, I’m just asking you to take care of yourself, but it’s not like I can’t give you that kind of request.”

[Of course, you must stop by the main altar and perform the canonization ceremony. Oh and. Speaking of the spire where the saint was martyred, in my personal opinion, leaving it in place and turning it into a shrine will help expand the light of the empire that will be rebuilt in the future-]

“He didn’t die, so what’s the point? “Hang up!”

[Ha ha ha ha ha. Ratura. Please say goodbye.]

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That ended the communication with the archbishop.

“You can’t believe that a person who can’t even read a single line of the evening prayer is given the position of cardinal, which has been vacant since no one has ascended to that position for the past several decades. Despite being a saint and all, in fact, after a private conversation with the archbishop, we agreed to act as a fake saint and move in a direction that would be helpful to the church. In the meantime, there was no religious activity of any kind, let alone Ro Haram. “Right now, when you think of light, the person who comes to mind is Edison, not Ro Haram.”

“If you felt so burdened by the position of saint, I don’t know why you pretended to be a saint in front of people for nearly two hours? “If the professor had the strength, let alone being pushed by that much of a crowd, he would have been able to easily push past those people even if they were stacked three times.”

“Ummmm… I didn’t make it until two hours. “Because I also had the awareness to quickly go to the site of the castle.”

“Yes yes. “You are very persuasive as someone who wiped away the tears and snot of a crying woman until I came to call her.”

“…How come you didn’t say a word?”

“If you want to manage affairs among wizards in earnest, you have to do this.”

one hour? Were you held for a little over an hour?

That would be about the time I was tormented by people rushing to hold my hand.

Honestly, there was a point where I thought this would have been enough. I’m a busy person too, and I want to finish my work quickly and get some rest. Right now, a heavy favor has been granted to the empire, so if I leave some comments to the new empire that is just emerging, I may be able to see the empire grow according to my taste in the future April World. If I wanted to leave even one more word, I had to leave right away, so I tried to do it in moderation and leave….

‘Saint. Could you please name this child? This is a child born miraculously in this tribulation.’

‘Well… Parents are the ones who create new life, and each and every one of them is a part of Haram. Light falls on the name given to us by our parents. Thank you for your words, but I named the child for them…’

‘I am a person who is devoted to this child. The child’s father died protecting his wife, and my daughter, the child’s mother, died giving birth alone without anyone to help her. I don’t know how this child should survive when the only family member left is me, and the nobleman who used to be my parents’ employer has also passed away…’

‘…Give it to me. ‘The kid is so pretty.’

In the midst of all this chaos, the old man came to the temple holding in his arms the child who was sucking the breast of his dead daughter.

‘Saint. I can’t see my hands. I felt dizzy for a moment, as if I was drunk, so I just closed my eyes, but the city was burning, and my hands… ah… pray… I don’t have hands to pray, so can I be shameless and ask the saint to pray for me?’

‘….Even if they wear pure white priestly robes and holy relics and put their hands together, there are those who cannot reach the light. Likewise, just because you don’t have hands doesn’t mean you can’t pray. ‘Could you please take a look at Brother Gregory Lee?’

‘The cult’s purification priests are on their way. We will set up a healing station for the injured as soon as we arrive.’

There was a woman who took off her bandages, held up her empty wrist, which was full of marks from her rough teeth, and asked for prayers.

‘….’

‘it’s okay.’

‘….Ugh….’

‘….It’s okay. are you okay. It’s not your fault.’

The blank-eyed man, who couldn’t say anything with his hands covered in blood, wondering what had brought him here after being pushed by people, broke down at a word from my comfort and confessed his sins until he collapsed from exhaustion and fell asleep.

[You are now the dawn of light.]

I have never seen anything like this, let alone done it.

As I saw people shedding tears at the words I had hastily recalled, spitting out the words that were eating away at them as if they were burning, and eventually regaining their will to live, I couldn’t take my feet off the spot.

‘Nadia… That’s a good name. My daughter will be happy in heaven too. Thank you, thank you so much…. May the light shine on Nadia and the saint’s path ahead…’

‘Thank you for being here, saint. Ah, Latura….’

‘Since you say so…. I will live. thank you.’

Rather than feeling exhausted, the more I suffer, the more I feel like a bright light is turning on in my head.

Even now, where Gainax is located, a word of political advice that will become the foundation of a new empire and a word of comfort to the exhausted people in front of us. When I was weighing which of the two would be worth it, it goes without saying that I was leaning toward Gainax, and in my mind I was urging myself to go and intervene at least once.

‘At least one more.’

‘Just this person. There’s barely enough time to say a word or a prayer…!’

That my mere presence provides such comfort and hope to someone.

[The countless little lights that have fallen in the world are all praying for your well-being.]

The fact that so many people pray for me to be safe and face it by revealing it without any hesitation or subtraction is like this.

It was a really, really good experience. So much so that I forgot everything about the direction of the empire’s growth in April World and what the empire’s military support will be like right now.

“Hmm. Well, it wasn’t a bad reward for all the hard work. “I guess I could say it was healing.”

“Isn’t the fact that they think of it as a reward the reason why people look up to professors?”

anyway. After dealing with the endless crowd of people, I came to my senses and escaped together because Astrad came looking for me because he needed me.

“so. “Why do you need me?”

“Ah, I think the preparations for the coronation will be completed soon, even if only in a small way. In order to calm the chaos, we need to show as many people as possible that the center of the empire is firmly established. “There are about 30% of the survivors in front of the temple and about 70% at the ruins of the castle. They said that if I bring the professor, the remaining 30% will follow, so I came to pick them up.”

“Ah, coronation. right. “Has everyone else arrived?”

“Hehehe. We’ve already arrived and prepared everything. In particular, Lucilla was acting very combatively. I had no idea that so many dresses and accessories survived in this devastated capital. I’m salvaging a decent piece of lace here, and I’m salvaging a decent frame of a dress there. “Most of the maids in the city are experts in this field, and they are all very motivated to help, so they completed a luxurious dress in a matter of seconds.”

“My child is a bit smart. so. Gainax, what is that person’s reaction?”

“I’ll leave that for your enjoyment, Professor. You can see for yourself.”

While they was in a hurry, the two arrived at the cliff that separated the castle from the capital. They crossed the valley with Astrad’s wind and entered the ruins of the collapsed castle.

A few familiar voices could be heard coming from afar.

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