Chapter. 16. Saint and Perfection (16)
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Buuuuuu-
Limping- Limping- Limping-
The outside was full of busy people, everyone was busy.
The soldiers were busy creating an open space for the airship to land and sorting out the endless supply of supplies after landing.
The knights and other nobles who served as temporary commanders were wracking their brains and discussing who should sign and take responsibility for the IOU for the cost of supplies.
As I was approaching the ship, I also heard the familiar voices of two soldiers carrying luggage.
“tod. I heard this from people who came back from the dead. “They say that when you reach the border between life and death, you start dreaming in a situation where you can’t tell whether it’s a dream or reality.”
“This is not a dream, Centurion.”
“Don’t do that, just slap me on the cheek. A ship that size came down from the sky. It couldn’t be real, right? I guess something went wrong with me during the battle. Maybe he got hit hard by that boar-like Mute or lost too much blood. “I’m sure I’m lying in a hospital bed with fatal injuries by now.”
“It’s not a dream! I know this because when I went to get food, the guy who was serving me spilled the soup and tried to heat it. It’s real. Really. “I made a flying ship from the golden top.”
“Ah, this guy really! I shouldn’t have listened to words like this, even in my dreams! Hit me! When I wake up from my hospital bed, the first thing I will do is thank you for being my lifesaver! Wake me up! “Wake me up!!!”
“…You are so technical in making people violent!!”
-Taaaaaaaaa!
Craddangtangtang!
‘Now that I think about it, I guess I should at least say hello to those friends.’
As I slowly turned the road to the airship and headed in that direction, I saw the eyes of two people who were raising their voices at each other turn in this direction.
“….fortunate?”
“What! Lucky man, why are you here-”
“Oh my! You’ve been in a lot of debt during this time, Chief Baek and Chief Ten! “I stopped by to say hello before I left.”
“…Which way to go? Are we going to the wizard already? Oh my, this person! I need to recover a bit before I go! Haven’t you heard how fire wizards train? Throwing a living person into a fiery pit! If you live, it’s a wizard. If you die, it’s just a funeral! “At best, I should put my remaining life to good use!”
“Ah, wizard. Come to think of it, you two wanted to guard, right? Well… I don’t really need a guard, so that might be a bit difficult. I feel like I want to transfer the affiliation separately, but the reason Hetheln has survived at all is because of veteran skilled soldiers like you, so it would be a bit difficult to separate them from here. “It’s a bit weird to call it a case, but let’s make up for it.”
Wow!
Ttuduk!
The two of them, who were puzzled by my sudden change in speaking style, gaped at my continued actions.
“Ugh! “You lucky guy is crazy!”
“This guy ripped his finger off!”
“This is a gift.”
“It’s even a gift!”
“Hurry and take them to the ward! “I guess I just went crazy from the shock of surviving alone!”
“Now, don’t hesitate and take it. Is this an item that the religious order collects with great effort? If you take this and say, ‘The owner gave it to me as a gift,’ he will probably reward you greatly. A change in position would be possible.”
“Uh, uh….”
“Let’s meet again someday. Lucky guy out.”
Crack.
The professor patted the two people’s shoulders with his large, bandaged hand and placed each of the severed fingers in the arms of the two mesmerized people, then passed them by and headed towards the airship.
“Shouldn’t you stop it?”
“I have to stop him… I don’t know what kind of trouble my friend, who is mentally and physically unsound, might get into trouble if he goes to that precious sky ship…” I
definitely think I should stop him in my head, but looking at that confident tone of voice and gait. For some reason, I felt like that was natural.
‘wait for a sec. A confident… gait?’
Come to think of it, that guy. Since when have you stopped limping?
-When I suddenly
approached them, the sound of the crutches being lifted was no longer heard.
The limping movement that relied on crutches had suddenly become a powerful step. As he advanced, he heard the sound of a discarded crutch rolling on the ground.
chuck! chuck! chuck! chuck!
““Latura!””
““Latura””
The Holy Knights lined up left and right along his path. The sight of them receiving their respect, the sight of them unwrapping bloody bandages and wiping their bodies with the towels handed to them in a sacred glow, and the sight of the person who appeared to be a knight commander politely accepting the robes held out with both hands and putting them on seemed very natural.
When I went among the paladins, I was definitely a lucky person with only one foot covered in burns. The person who came out onto the ramp of the airship at the end was a completely different person from the lucky person they knew.
“Isn’t that… him? The priests in the ward were looking around…”
“I think I got hit…”
The day when the faces of the priests who had been walking around with faces as if they were about to die for 24 hours turned bright colors. When I saw the crumpled wad of paper being passed around, I thought it was a picture of a woman, but what they willingly gave me was not a picture of a pretty girl, but a picture full of strong men.
Pictures depicting someone’s biography. A picture of what the priests say is the greatest feat in the history of the Order, lighting the way in the most precarious part of this temple.
“That guy… was the Saint of Light?”
For a moment, he and Charles, who were ascending the airship with a halo, met their eyes. Although his face had obviously been melted in such an ugly way, the saint with a face without a single scar entered the ship, giving a thumbs up as if to reassure the man who could not believe it.
The situation passed by in an instant, as if it were a dream.
“Tototototod! Just slap me on the face! Hard! “With all my might!”
In a situation that was even more unrealistic than the airship, Charles had no choice but to give Todd the same order as before.
Only the two bloody fingers left on the hands of the two mesmerized people proved that the events of the past few days were not a dream.
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– Jokass: Kaiser Soze! Kaiser Soze!
– Heungan Mandu: A lame person is a saint!
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….I committed it. Ah, I committed it. I was just going to go, but the moment I saw the eyes of the paladins running out and Hetheln – Dumb and Dumber, who was left behind, I had to be able to hold back.
Just before entering the airship, I couldn’t be more satisfied to see Charles taking the finger I gave him like it was a disgusting object and putting it in his arms as if he were possessed.
Certainly, Hetheln’s troops were of good quality overall. If Köln or Olpea were in this situation, it seemed like they could expect more infantry power than expected.
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– takealook: It was fun, but is that okay? If people who know a little do a little research, they will find out that the patient in the ward turns out to be ‘the’ saint.
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– professor: Okay. So many soldiers saw it. In particular, the commanders of Cologne, who are paying close attention to this area, will find out more.
– takealook: Did you show it?
– professor: The Paladins came unintentionally and it turned out to be quite grandiose, but it’s true that I let them know that I was here.
– Jokass: ….Are you also the same as Cheonryuje? Did you really want to pair up with the Argalian Sword? When a person reaches a certain level, does such a desire arise?
– professor: Are you crazy? Let’s face that nuclear bomb-like person. After all, this is part of the additional goal of this assassination, ‘to scare the commander.’
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In fact, if there was no Argalian Sword, there was no need to use such complicated means.
You really just have to kill all the commanders.
There is no need to persuade, and
since it is a foreign country’s army, the command authority cannot be taken over alone, but the new commander who replaces the dead one has no choice but to struggle a bit until he becomes a suitable person for the position.
All you had to do was kill him in droves and then take his place as commander.
But now, somewhere on the Western Front, ‘the number one person who should never fight’ is roaming around, and nobles who have lost their feet are using either divinity or magic to shout ‘Agar! The red mute will kill us all!!!’ Since he would have said the same thing, further assassinations are impossible.
Since we can’t kill them, we have to let them relinquish power voluntarily, but I felt like the fear created now was a bit insufficient to do that.
So I took a little risk and spiced up the ‘Red Mute assassination threat’ a bit.
[It seems like the Gwangmyeong Church is somehow related!] A high-quality seasoning.
A patient who is two heads taller than others, has no legs, and has bandages all over his body. Isn’t this a person who stands out like ink dropped on drawing paper?
Among the soldiers, including Charles Todd, who took me to the ward, ‘…is the cripple a saint?’ There will be quite a few people who have noticed this.
Soldiers on the battlefield are the ones who grit their teeth whenever they get the chance, so this rumor will quickly spread. It is also known that the patient brought in as a wounded soldier the day before the assassination was a saint.
The sneak attack of the red mute.
A saint from the Gwangmyeong Church who went into hiding that morning.
Since there is no physical evidence, it may not be easy to relate the two opposites, but it leaves behind a strange feeling.
What I’m going to do is put a wedge in there.
“…I guess I should try to use the religious prestige properly once. “It’s not that I don’t have ability or that I don’t have any talent.”
“hmm? “I thought I just heard you talking about the religious order…”
“Oh, well… I’m glad you came. “Things were already a bit ambiguous, but the moment the paladins came crashing down from the ship, I had a pretty good idea.”
When I asked how these guys who were supposed to protect King’s Land came here, they said that the last time I personally spoke about ‘eradicating heresy’ using sacred communication, Gregory was very impressed.
The only order the Archbishop gave to Gregory and the Holy Knights was to ‘protect the saint.’ Not Kingsland or Roderick’s protection.
Right now, ‘The Holy Son is crossing the line of fire to repel heresy again!’ Gregory, who had the same thought, became impatient, gathered the Holy Knights at dawn, and was said to have come up with a pretty good idea while riding his horse to head to Hetheln, even if it meant cutting through the plains infested with mutes.
If it were a saint’s crisis, wouldn’t it be possible to advance the schedule of the airship in Aedran somewhat by now? That’s what I’m thinking.
So, Gregory contacted an acquaintance on the airship via sacred communication, and the airship stopped loading at about 80% and immediately flew to King’s Land, picked up the Holy Knights, and flew to Hetheln – Gregory explained.
“[Acquaintance]… Idrasil? Gregory? “When did you two get to know each other like that?”
“There was an exchange out of necessity. The Gwangmyeong Church was the center of discrimination between different races in the past, and is now the center of policies friendly to different races. “Becoming friends with people from the Gwangmyeong side was judged to be a very important relationship for me as an elf who came into the world.”
“I just thought that since the church seeks to improve relations with other races, I, the leader of the Holy Knights, should take the lead.”
….I couldn’t understand at all that the ‘acquaintance’ of the airship that Gregory mentioned was the elf Idrasil. Do stalkers have anything in common?
Anyway, except for walking on a minefield called ‘Argalian Sword’, [Leading the Allied Forces in the Dark] seemed to be going quite well.
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It’s been three hours since we unloaded supplies at Hetheln and took off. Thanks to the strange decrease in attacks in the vicinity of Kingsland and Hetheln, which had normalized during my absence, the useful report that another party of warriors killed a chamber maid between Hetheln and Kingsland, as well as the paintings donated to Gwangmyeong by Idrasil, were sent to the church. While listening to useless reports such as that it is spreading all over the world thanks to the active support of .
Thing!
“hmm? horsepower?”
“Professor, did you feel it too?”
“yes. “Otman too?”
Feeling a strange tingling sensation, I looked back at Otman, and Otman nodded as if he felt it as well and walked out of the cabin.
Jump up!
Jump up! Jump up!
“Oh my gosh, who is putting magic on our cute sky house?”
“Oh… I promised to be nice in exchange for a ride… but in cases like this, we won’t tolerate it….”
As I came out of the cabin, most of the other wizards also came out of the cabin, and most of them seemed to feel the same thing.
As I came out, a sailor who had been running around ran towards me as if he had been looking for me.
“Saint! “I think you should come out now!”
“Is the cologne already here?”
“yes! Now, the magicians from Cologne have sent dozens of magic spells toward the airship and sent a message: [To protect Cologne, the center of the Allied Forces, we will check the identities of those entering and leaving the city. “If you don’t comply with my demands, I will destroy it.”
“What if it’s a condition?”
“The airship will land outside the castle at the location they designated, and the Allied Forces will conduct their own investigation into the number of people on board!”
“Doing things that don’t deserve to be done by bastards. That’s all gone. In the first place, the commander of the Teldrat Expeditionary Force is over there, so how can we take down Teldrat’s airship? “To compensate for that, it would not be enough to have thirty generations, not three generations, earning like slaves.”
The airship seems to be fast. How long has it been since I left Hetheln and is already in Cologne?
“But still, their attitude was very aggressive…”
“It has to be that way. A commander like them flew in from a city where people were killed in droves. “Let’s go downstairs and talk.”
The captain and crew looked frightened by the flashing magic that looked like it was about to be released from the walls of Cologne, but it seemed to me that it was very poisonous… a hamster? I felt like I was seeing something like that.
‘Oh my gosh, I was so scared, I was so scared.’
A movement that seems to be very sharp and will not let anyone get caught.
It seemed like the commanders in Cologne were more scared than I thought.
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