Academy’s Undercover Professor Chapter 644

Episode 644 Salesin Van Bretus (1)

Ludger thought it would be quite a large figure, but this was beyond his imagination…

The Holy Emperor is coming in person…

I also understood why the priest of Lemria was so motionless…

‘Although they are of the same royal lineage, Salesin is the current Holy Emperor and has the strongest control over the priests.’

While Lemria unconsciously thinks that she should follow Ludger’s orders that are not orders…

As for Salesin, a simple word would act as a huge deterrent to her.

‘Still, I expected a famous person from Seonghwang’s family to come, but I can’t believe Seonghwang came to visit in person…’

Is it to poke at a loophole on this side, or is it simply to show that there is room?

In any case, it would have been fortunate for Ludger if the highest authority had appeared…

“For someone who has ascended to the throne to come to a place like this in person… he seems to have more leisure than I thought…”

“Because my subordinates worked hard for me, I actually had nothing to do… Do you call me a face madam? “I’m in exactly that situation.”

Salesin was humble, but Ludger did not believe what he said.

He had a smiling face, but those sharp red eyes did not look like he was smiling at all.

‘Just like I’m trying to scoop him up, he’s also trying to scoop me up.’

Salesin did not rise to the position of saint simply because he was the eldest son.

Aside from Salesin, Ludger had quite a few half-brothers and sisters.

And the talents of the brothers and sisters at that time were at a level that is difficult to find even when looking through the history of the successive kingdoms of Bretus.

Among those who displayed outstanding distinction, it was not because of luck that Salesin ascended to the throne.

Because he was so much better…

It is said that in addition to having the right skills to become successful, he is also equipped with brains and political insight.

A person like that comes to see you in person because he has some spare time? Even the passing dog didn’t believe it…

“They say my half-brother, who disappeared, has appeared. As an older brother, how can I not come?”

“You didn’t come because you wanted to kill me yourself?”

“I? why?”

“Have you forgotten what the cardinal and other archbishops were planning to do?”

Salesin shook his head…

“It was something that Cardinal Patrick and the archbishops under him did as they pleased. It had nothing to do with me.”

Unrelated matter?

Ludger curled up the corners of his mouth…

Thousands of troops… That’s how many troops were gathered in one place…

No matter how great the cardinal is, would he have been able to gather that many people without the approval of the Holy Emperor?

Of course, Salesin’s influence must have been involved…

From Salesin’s perspective, the death of Cardinal Patrick, as well as the priests and knights, must have been a painful loss.

Nevertheless, without changing his complexion, he insisted that it was Patricio’s dogma.

“Still, you are really cruel to someone who once believed in you and followed you.”

“No matter how much he is a cardinal, he betrayed God’s will, so it is a fair assessment.”

“It’s God’s will… I don’t think it’s something someone who didn’t follow Lumensis’ will would say more than anyone else…”

At those words, for the first time, a change occurred in Salesin’s smile.

There are no cracks in the smiling mask, but the corners of the eyes are torn longer than before.

“Little brother, I felt a huge wave of power at the place where Saint Archenis and the Great Devil fought in the past. I guess you opened a window to communicate with God, right?”

“Was it really just communication? I even saw Lumensis exercising his power…”

Salesin knew that Ludger had annihilated the punitive army, including Patrick.

He is also a member of the Lumensis Church and is a saint with more divine power than anyone else.

No matter how far away I was, I definitely felt that power…

“I said I killed Cardinal Patrick, right? But there’s just one thing wrong… It’s true that I killed the other guys there, but I didn’t kill Patricio…”

“Hmm, you killed so many people and then you say that the only one you didn’t kill was the cardinal. If not you, then who else did it?”

“If you think about who exercised power in that position, you wouldn’t know…”

The corner of Salesin’s mouth curled up as if he was amused.

“Do you want to say that Lumensis personally punished you?”

“That’s the truth… The cardinal never truly served God in the first place… And that goes for you too…”

“····”

“Lumensis knows that the Holy Kingdom of Bretus, whom he rules as a servant, no longer truly serves him and has degenerated… That is why he punished Patricio then… Are you curious about his end?”

Salesin shook his head at Ludger’s words.

“In the distant past, Master Lumensis preached the doctrine that if you serve him sincerely, you can ascend to a high heavenly position and look down on the world with him.”

Ludger listened in silence to the sudden introduction of doctrine.

“People believed that completely and praised Lumensis even more… But that was only a well-known surface truth and not the reality… Are you curious about Patricio’s end? “I don’t wonder at all, because I know how he died.”

“You know?”

“To look down on the world together means to become one with Lumensis… And to become one with him means to be absorbed by Lumensis, not as his henchman, but as an existence itself… When humans break down their bodies and turn into light and lightning, “I’m being sucked into him.”

Ludger recalled Patricio’s final days.

The sight of a human body breaking through a black hole and being absorbed into a halo of light…

It was an unbelievable sight to see, but Salesin was convinced that it would be so without even seeing it.

“Lumensis has never loved humans in the first place…”

“So you’re trying to betray me?”

“betrayal? “Betrayal is something that happens to someone you trusted. But Lumensis didn’t trust us in the first place. Can you call that a betrayal?”

“You… knew very well what your role was…”

“Am I the only one? Everyone from generation to generation, starting from my father who was a prosperous person in the past, knew very well that the reason Lumensis gave us this power was not because he loved us, but to make this world the way he wanted. We are just tools. It’s just that. Where do you think the literature that turned into light and was absorbed by him came from in the first place?”

It was only then that Ludger was able to understand Salesin’s words.

A long time ago, several saints met the same end as Patrick…

“It was thanks to the fight between the saint and the great devil that we got the opportunity… Because in that fight, Lumensis completely lost its authority…”

“So they took advantage of this opportunity and made the Holy Kingdom of Bretus theirs?”

“No, on the contrary, it was ours to begin with, and now we have regained its rightful ownership.”

“On the other hand, you didn’t do what Lumensis asked you to do properly…”

The development of human history was proof of that.

Originally, Lumensis was concerned that humans would develop too much and go against his will, so he created a cult of followers.

In order to give strength to that religious order, he created a Holy Kingdom and gave power to the Holy Emperors from generation to generation, thereby exerting a strong influence in the lower world.

But the moment that passage disappears…

The essence of the Holy Kingdom of Bretus was changed…

As before, it had a strong influence across the continent, but not to the extent of stopping human development.

In particular, the development of science over the past 100 years has been extremely fatal.

Because the power of religion has diminished considerably, magic engineering has emerged, and firearms have developed dramatically…

“You can’t live as his puppet forever, right? “Because this world belongs to humans…”

If you say it that way, it may sound like a human hymn, but the inner meaning is completely different…

“You may have escaped the oppression of the Lumensis, but all your actions have not been for the sake of humanity. It is simply because you do not want to let go of the power you hold in your hands.”

In the end, this conflict that arose between Lumensis and the Holy Kingdom of Bretus was because both sides insisted only on their own desires.

“What does it matter? What matters is the fact that you were born…”

Salesin stared at Ludger with red eyes.

“Heathcliff, you know what your existence means.”

“okay·”

“Lumensis must have thought that it was no longer possible to intervene in the underworld… But it did not give up… It saw an opportunity to somehow become even more powerful than before… As a result… You are what was created like that…”

A child who should not have been born was born…

Heathcliff Van Bretus·

While all of Seonghwang’s bloodlines had pure white hair, he was the only child born with black hair.

Illegitimate son of the royal family·

and·

“The Holy Grail created by Lumensis to contain its power…”

“····”

“A talent that surpasses geniuses and can be called a monster. Even if you were an illegitimate child, that level of talent would have been enough to make you successful.”

But others, including Salesin, did not

In particular, Benedict, who was a successful member of the squadron, realized what kind of person Ludger was.

“You are nothing more than a tool sent by Lumensis to exercise his power in the underworld again. A mere god who can do nothing is trying to take away our power once again. Should we remain silent despite that?”

So they tried to kill Ludger…

He is the Holy Grail to contain the power of God…

If he lives, Lumensis will rule the Holy Kingdom of Bretus again…

“It can’t be done. It can’t be done.”

Ludger realized what emotions were fluttering in Salesin’s eyes…

It was a desire

Greed, desire for power, all attachments that arise from sitting in a high position,

“I really worried a lot until you disappeared… I wouldn’t have been so anxious if I had had you right in front of me… Because I don’t know where and what kind of power you’re building up… But now it’s different… You appeared before our eyes again like this and came under water. ·”

“So you’re trying to kill me?”

“If you say so?”

Salesin stretched out his hand toward Ludger…

He simply held out his hand and took the stance of grasping something from behind the bars, but a handprint was left on Ludger’s neck.

If you apply this much force, you can break Ludger’s neck.

Ludger quietly stared at Salesin with an unchanging expression.

“Of course not right now…”

Salesin withdrew his outstretched hand.

“Killing you here wouldn’t be of any help to us…”

“You have so much patience…”

“You should save it for later… You should not die quietly in a place like this… There should be a much bigger stage and audience… So you will be executed in front of everyone… An evil enemy of the Holy Kingdom, a traitor to humanity…”

Salesin no longer hid his feelings.

Now that Ludger knows the whole story, trying to hide it would only prolong the story.

“For the past 20 years, we have been hunkering down so much that the continent has forgotten the power our Holy Kingdom once possessed. But now it is different. I will not let that happen.”

“It might have been possible in the past, but it won’t be that easy now. It was in the past when the name of the Holy Kingdom was spread throughout the continent. Who would follow orders in this day and age?”

Sell ​​indulgences and depose the king…

That was also a story hundreds of years ago…

In a world where science is developing and anti-discrimination laws, equality laws, and labor laws are coming out one by one…

They were just old people holding on to the legacy of the past and begging for recognition.

“That’s right… people in this day and age lack respect for God… and that doesn’t happen just because we talk about it…”

“Are you sad that it was there and then gone? “Did you ever think that people would live like fools forever?”

“Haha, that can’t be true, otherwise we would have been disappointed. Isn’t it fun when the level of puppets being manipulated becomes so miserable?”

“···what?”

Ludger sensed something ominous in Salesin’s words…

“What are you planning?”

“It’s nothing. It seems like this world has forgotten the greatness of Bretus, so I plan to engrave it in their minds again.”

“Is this a bluff? There’s no way something like that is possible…”

“You’ll soon find out whether it’s a bluff or not… Heathcliff, didn’t you think there was something strange? Just like the beings we now call devils, all gods have their own apostles. If you have been through many things in the meantime, there is no way you would not know that.”

“····”

That’s natural…

In the first place, apostles were the representatives and closest beings of the respective gods, and those who preached their voices to the underworld…

“Then let me ask a question here: Does Lumensis have any apostles or not?”

“…Could it be so that an apostle exists in the Holy Kingdom of Bretus?”

No way·

If that were the case, there was no way that no trace of the apostle would have been seen for a long time.

“It wouldn’t be fun to say any more than this. But don’t be too curious. You’ll find out soon.”

Salesin said this and waved his hand at Ludger.

“It was quite an enjoyable experience. Let’s meet again in our home country next time.”

It will be your last…