Chapter. 16. Saint and Perfection (17)
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“Thank you for your cooperation. “I am Darwen, a knight who serves Marquis Parvalti.”
“Water wizard Ottoman Baudelaire. It is recorded that he has little knowledge of combat magic, but is very exceptional in other areas. If you follow Lord Palmer, he will lead you to a polluted water source.”
“Elf Hydrasil Troll Notum. Due to the repeated words of the commanders, members of this race are not allowed to enter the military operation area. We are fully aware of the many achievements these two have made for humanity, but this is a battlefield where the fate of the species is at stake. Most elves hate humans, and trolls eat them. “I trust you will understand.”
“Clergy personnel have areas set aside for intensive protection and efficient clean-up activities. The personnel from the headquarters of the Gwangmyeong Church… Ah, you are a saint! Ratura. It’s an honor to meet you. After already hearing that the saint was coming, the commanders of the Allied Forces also asked to see him. I will serve the saint myself. “Now this way.”
An open space near Cologne where the airship landed following guidance.
Refined soldiers and knights with military discipline closely attached.
As soon as they arrive, they allocate and move to activity areas according to each person’s specialties and aptitudes, as if they had already figured it out.
‘…Look at these guys?’
The same goes for landing the airship outside. The same goes for bringing in a battalion-sized force and scattering people while showing off the atmosphere that not even a single needle will go through.
This was their intention to clearly show that they had the initiative.
Scattering my colleagues everywhere through a perfectly organized system….
Threatening wizards are isolated in a place where wizards are gathered together.
The Holy Knights dumped the infected patients and made them go crazy, scattering them all and leaving the Saint alone! This means that they will lay me down on the plate they prepared and cook me some Indian food.
‘If you look at what these so-called nobles do, they are no different from neighborhood gangsters. I left my younger siblings and went somewhere alone! The next time I go there, they are all crowded together. I wonder where they teach this or if it is innate in their genes….’
“…Saint?”
When I didn’t move, the driver took a step closer to me and glared.
“Oh, I have something to think about. “What happens if we don’t follow Cologne’s lead?”
“I’m sorry, but I cannot grant you entry into the city. The Allied Forces are also thirsty for supplies and support, but over the past six months, they have experienced more clearly than anyone else the confusion brought about by an ununified command system. They say they will accept the regret of causing confusion in the barely stable Allied Forces system due to the influx of new forces. “The commanders spoke.”
If you don’t listen to what they say, you can’t even enter the city. What’s disappointing is the church and Roderick, not their country. The church is in a position where they must somehow come together to win the crusade, and if Roderick is pushed further, his name will disappear from history. I guess they thought that if it came out like that, they would have no choice but to bend down and come in.
‘Jerk the.’
This is why you shouldn’t stand on the heads of those who have never smelled blood.
The first thing I did after getting off the boat was to alert myself with all my might. He raised all of his senses, including Mana Aura and Holy Power, to check whether there was a human nuclear bomb, the Argalian Sword, in Cologne.
Something the combat superhuman Argalian Sword can never do. A minor flaw created by an incredibly powerful Auror and an equally powerful ego.
‘That person can’t hide anywhere.’
Argalian Sword cannot hide its presence. This means that he is a super human so strong that it is impossible to even deny his own power.
If it cannot be felt even near the castle walls, it can be said that it is not at least near Cologne.
There are no Argalians in Cologne.
What does this mean?
“hmm. great. I already thought I should meet some of the commanders. Since you invited me, I have to go.”
“…Thank you for your cooperation. “Saint.”
Grinning –
‘What is gratitude?’
That means that even if I make a surprise attack in Cologne right now, it will take some time for them to respond. There are a lot of hero units here too, so it would be difficult to just mess with them. In the beginning, just a moment was enough. Just a moment is enough to create an awkward situation for multinational warriors to intervene.
‘The security guards don’t stop lawmakers from trying to get in the National Assembly, right?’
“Gregorius?”
“yes. “Saint.”
At my call, Gregory, who had been waiting next to me with a face as stiff as stone, came forward.
“I was confused for a moment. “Who am I?”
Slam!
“The Son is His instrument, directly touched by the light that illuminates all things in the world. This means that wherever your feet touch is the path that His hand points to, and as a messenger of His will, you can hold in your hands all the instruments of light.”
“also?”
“You have already proven yourself bright through your actions. All events of this church revolve around the actions of the saint. Since you spoke of the importance of Roderick’s Western Front, 3,000 paladins and 1,400 priests raised torches to illuminate this place. Judging that it would be meaningful to rescue the Virgin of Mercy, we signed an oath to abolish all frictions and accusations that had occurred between us with the Church of Mercy, and religious leaders from both sides visited the headquarters of the other church and knelt and swore an oath.”
“and?”
“The empire accepted the opinion of the main group and agreed to record the saint recorded in their founding history as a ‘saint of light’ rather than as a ‘testimony to the emperor.’ This means that it remains as historical evidence that the Church of Gwangmyeong contributed to the founding history of the Empire’s New Imperial Family, and as a result, the preferential treatment given by the empire to the Church of Gwangmyeong within the empire has increased twice compared to the past. Although the Empire’s official religion is still the Church of Courage, there does not appear to be much difference in terms of privileges compared to the Church of Courage, the state religion. “All of this was accomplished by Professor Seongja.”
“Ah, the legendary feat of killing numerous evil enemies and descendants of evil spirits is something that is still difficult to put into words, but it is a great history that will not disappear even if it is not told, so I will not mention it separately.”
“Thank you, Gregory. The Empire, the Church, all kinds of evil enemies, etc…. There are so many things involved that I sometimes forget. Hahahahaha!”
Soldiers and knights of Cologne. It was an empty space crowded with people who had disembarked from the airship, but no one was smiling like me.
“ha ha ha. okay. He is called the light of the church that worships the light, he saves the nearly lost saint of the Mercy Church, and he is a saint who is like a brother and sister to the new emperor of the empire… Even if you look at this objectively, doesn’t it seem like I’m a pretty amazing person? “What… knight?”
“…Saint. Now these actions-”
“Ah Parbalti. Darwen serves Parvalti! Night Darwen. “I don’t know where I learned the etiquette, but I only revealed my master’s and my name, and didn’t reveal my affiliation or family, so I don’t even know who my son is. I’m a knight, Lewen…!”
“Oh my…!”
The knight, feeling in danger, tried to escape from the saint’s side, but his friendly arm, draped over his shoulder, seemed to be a castle wall and showed no sign of moving. Knight Darwen saw his pauldrons buckling under the saint’s grip and realized that the situation he had feared had occurred.
“I’ll give you one last warning! Any further threatening actions will be regarded as hostile acts against the city of Cologne and the Allied Forces-” “
What? “Are you going to deny entry?”
“Ah, no matter how much the church is-”
“As the official religion of Rodrik, you have supported the largest number of troops and endured the greatest sacrifices, and yet you are still doing everything in your power to save Rodrik and eradicate the group of evil spirits, so you will block our actions? Brothers! “Did everyone hear that?”
Slam! Clap, clap, clap!
“This one. I said it with my own mouth. “It is said that the Allied Commander is intent on becoming an obstacle to the event of light.”
chuck. chuck. chuck. chuck.
Clap-
thump!
In a heavily subdued atmosphere, the Holy Knights, including Gregory, were approaching with stern faces, taking out shields and maces.
“…I heard it clearly with both ears.”
“By my Lord’s Light, I agree that they harbor evil intentions.”
thud. thud. thud! thud!!
They are priests who serve God. These are people who have sworn to burn everything in their lives, including their lives and deaths, in front of the name of light, and they are ready to prove this at any time.
How happy were they when an order was given to them to worship the saint whose light had directly touched them? While I admired his simplicity as a model for a priest, how much I was heartbroken by the actions of a saint who did not know his own dignity. How much frustration did he express at the dark eyes of the poor who could not recognize him?
However, I did so because the Holy Son told me to accept it. A priest must always be patient. He is always right, so the reason I felt uncomfortable with the simplicity of the saint was because I was not ready to see the great light yet, so I endured the whipping.
“Brothers. I understand these people. They must be our allies fighting together with us against evil enemies. However, it has been more than a year since I was left lying in a puddle of blood from my relationship with others… Isn’t this something that could cause my brain to rot?”
“Latura. “There is no doubt about the truth.”
“It just so happened that the commanders invited me. “I plan to visit them in person and pray for the blessings of light to rest on their rotten brains.”
“Latura. “Let the grace of light shine with every step you take.”
“…I’ll go first, so don’t be late for the prayer meeting.”
『Ratura lo-haram. Bow down to our main light.』
-Tuwak!
And at this moment. The Son, who had only shown discomfort in attending Him in the name of light, spoke the blessed words he had longed for.
Guide those who are tainted by evil thoughts.
Follow in his footsteps.
Assist in his activities in the name of the denomination.
….Gregorius quickly
got up from his kneeling position and in the blink of an eye, he jumped up onto the castle wall, breaking the wizards’ magic barrier with his bare hands, and saw the back of the saint heading towards the castle.
“Brothers. The saint said, “It seems like these are just unfortunate poor people who have fallen into bad thoughts.”
“Poorly.”
“If you do not have faith, you will be easily shaken.”
The priests and paladins within Cologne had already heard of his imprisonment. Is it necessary to exclude other brothers from the blessed words spoken by the Son? Although it was delivered from the middle of the message, there will be no shortage of understanding its meaning.
The passionate eyes of the Holy Knights turned to the fallen knight and the soldiers who blocked their path.
Soldiers hardened in war.
Each and every article is of an extraordinary level. Indeed, it was enough to be considered the essence of the Allied Forces.
“We do not kill, but guide.”
“Latura!”
They were also holy knights carefully selected by the church to serve saints who deviated from common sense. It is a denomination with the strongest religious power in all of humanity, and it is a denomination that has longed for the power to defeat evil through times of darkness. Among the countless paladins of this denomination, the light-forged sword that has been given the honor of serving a saint is Fifty. A group of 32 Holy Knights, all leader-level from each region, except for the 18 who died along with other brothers lost in the desert.
The best force of the Gwangmyeong Church, excluding saints. The essence of the church’s paladin power, boasting persistent vitality and strong defense, so much so that more than half of them came back alive even after fighting against several times more powerful Mute elites in a desert with limited footholds!
If Cologne’s troops are at the level of being ‘unrivaled no matter what’ and ‘great by anyone’s standards’, each of them is at the level of being ‘named in legend’, ‘one every 50 years’.
“You’re crazy! If you rush to the walls like this… The heroes’ attack-”
Crack!
“If the madness you speak of is our blind faith, then so be it!”
Gregory also predicted what would happen if they rushed to the castle walls like this, and what would happen if the walls guarded by humanity’s elite fell to them? Despite the situation, I knew it was impossible.
I just did what
the saint said .
“To the Holy Knights of Gwangmyeong. I will join the saint before he memorizes the first prayer.”
“Latura!”
The blind paladins rushed in, and the soldiers who had been hit by the maces held upside down began to fly away like fallen leaves.
‘There must be a meaning. If the words of the saint indicate that even if we die here without meaning, there will also be a bright meaning.’
The charge of 32 paladins beyond the castle wall.
The paladins and priests stationed inside the castle wall rioted.
The sight of the paladins holding their weapons upside down and jumping over the castle wall was enough to confuse any hero. It seemed as if a terrible battle would break out between them at any moment. I saw it, but…
“Let’s pass by.”
“Hmm? Ratura! There were brothers who hadn’t lost their guns yet!”
“No, it’s not like that… I came here to kill monsters, not to be swayed by the play of nobility.”
In reality, there was a strange division into those who fought and those who watched from afar. It was a sight.
Paladins running rampant and knight soldiers blocking them.
And those watching.
– Hero Carlisle Party –
“There is chaos in and around Cologne. First of all, we have put our kids on standby, but are you going to intervene?”
“Leave it alone. Who was the one who went outside the designated area and started military action on their own? For some reason, I thought it was really suspicious that they were acting like chickens with their heads cut off all morning.”
“Then let’s just watch? There’s internal division in a city at war?”
“We have never been united from the beginning, so what is the division? Unless there is a separate order from the home country, we wait and see. In the first place, the nobles were only reinforcements in name, so it was stupid to separate their troops and send them to the rear. We are loyal to help even in the fight for food. “There is no such thing. Tell Ephial and Shodar. We will only do our best to protect Cologne. If you want to intervene, we will not stop you.”
– Wizard Area –
“Oooh…. That’s what I mean….”
“I know, Galud. The wizards of the Lateol Flame Tower do not intervene in political movements.”
“Oh Master Ottoman!!”
“You guys! You’re alive! The flow of our school hasn’t stopped yet!”
“Yes! Just like you said, I told it to other wizards!”
“Good job! Don’t get involved in the fight between crazy people and just pump water faithfully here! Not being swept away by the strong current is also a lesson in water flow!”
Similar situations were happening all over Cologne.
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