Episode 246
“What a crazy guy!!”
Logan’s thunderous shout broke the moment of silence.
Most of the group, speechless, looked at him blankly.
“If it’s morning, it won’t be too late. Knight! Send a messenger to stop the massacre!”
“yes!”
“Change all orders given to the soldiers. Completely blockade the village where the patient occurred. And gather the patients in one place!”
“Yes, I understand!”
The decisions made in Raftan Castle were quick and the party also moved quickly.
However, when Logan and his group arrived at the village where the patients were gathered, what greeted them was the sight of dozens of corpses lying on the ground.
“Damn you! You bastards!”
“You will be punished!”
The sight of villagers crying.
“Kill me too, you bastards! Oh my…!”
And the image of a woman wailing while holding the corpse of her child, her entire face stained red, was the first thing that came into Logan’s sight.
The soldiers lined up in front of him, forming a barrier with heavy expressions, hurriedly retreated to the left and right as they saw the approaching party.
“Lord Hamel. Who are the people behind you…?”
“These things! Didn’t I tell you to stop!”
“We stopped the attack as soon as we received the order.”
A soldier who appeared to be a senior soldier reported to the knight of Raftan Territory with a pale face.
However, the king is watching from behind.
Knight Hamel took out his sword with a scary expression.
Sreung.
“Disobeying orders is a felony, Gehrig.”
“Lord Hamel!”
“stop!!”
Logan, who couldn’t stand the joke that was about to unfold, screamed.
The knights and soldiers hesitated at that.
ha.
As Logan sighed, Knight Hamel hurriedly bowed down on the spot.
“I’m sorry! Your Majesty.”
“your majesty?”
“Everyone, kneel! This is the coming of His Majesty the King!”
With that one shout, the atmosphere of the village turned upside down once again.
“All at attention!”
“Chung chung!”
“Loyalty!”
Beyond the knights and soldiers who stood up in unison and gave a clumsy salute.
“…king?”
“Why is the king here…?”
“Punish those rotten bastards…!”
“Get down first, you man!”
The people are embarrassed and bow down even while they are sad and angry.
The knight’s shout made the already unpleasant sight even more chaotic.
‘Is it because of the plague? Everyone is out of their minds.’
Logan was tired of getting angry anymore and just passed between the soldiers without saying a word. As I passed the pile of corpses beyond, a disgusting sight caught my eye among the wailing people.
Those who only had red faces were in good condition.
The patient, who was constantly coughing, had a rash sticking out through the skin of his entire body, which had turned bright red. When he scratched his skin, blood was seen seeping through the cracked skin.
“It’s hot and itchy.”
The bigger problem was that the person concerned was scratching the wound, muttering in a dazed voice as if he had no awareness of it.
And around him, there was an even worse-looking person who had already lost consciousness, bleeding from his eyes and ears and foaming at his mouth.
It was a gruesome sight, with people lying all over the village looking like they were about to die, with yellow pus flowing all over their skin, as if their skin had been scratched and cracked by their fingernails and had become inflamed.
“Ooh, please save my mom, my mom!”
The child, whose whole body turned bright red, perhaps because he was quick to notice, looked at Logan and ran towards him.
“Kid, stop!”
“Please save me. Elder please!”
Behind the child, who continued to scream while being restrained by the driver, a woman who appeared to be the mother was seen stretching out her hand with a tired look on her face.
She seemed to have no power to speak, and her condition seemed to be unusual as blood and pus were flowing through her cracked skin.
“Bishop Ilia. I’m asking you from here.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
At Logan’s words, the priests came forward to the villagers.
“We have left the temple. Please come to us in order, starting with those who have symptoms of illness.”
People with blank expressions looked at Ilya, who was dressed in pure white robes.
The thoughts that came to the minds of most of them were similar.
‘What is this…?’
In a village full of dead bodies.
Not only was the plague breaking out, but it was right after the massacre.
Following a series of shocking incidents, priests who had never been seen before in a rural area like this appeared, making it a series of situations that the villagers could not understand.
Ilya read that expression and spoke again in a soft voice.
“Rest assured that there will be no more attacks from the soldiers. We have come to cure the plague. If you have any symptoms of the disease, please come forward!”
The village residents, who had experienced the unexpected tragedy, began to move little by little at the sound of Ilya’s appealing voice.
And in between.
“Let’s go too!”
“Oh no, Mr. Gilbert. But after the priests treated him once…”
“I mean, we’re not wizards like Mr. Gilbert.”
“Uh-huh. Have you forgotten what your Majesty instructed? If we show symptoms, the priests will be the first to treat us. So, trust us! Our mission is the most important.”
“Ahhh…”
The therapists, half of whom had half-reluctant expressions on their faces, hesitantly entered the village.
After they recorded all known symptoms in detail, the priests began treatment.
Therapists will use the records to find ways to relieve symptoms.
Be it herbs or anything else.
It was a relief method that had been discussed before arriving at Raftan.
– Holy power certainly heals everything, but there is a limit to the holy power that a priest can mobilize.
The reason why plagues were rampant even in ancient times when temples boasted an age that was incomparable to today.
Therefore, Gilbert’s argument was that the cure should be created within the Raftan territory now with the priests.
And Logan actively accepted it. If we do as he says, we will definitely be able to prevent this situation.
“Starting today, ban movement between villages. Blockade the entire territory at the village level and wait until the relief team arrives. Food and daily necessities will be provided by the relief team.”
“yes!”
After giving the order, Logan went directly to the forefront of the relief team.
No, I was going to come forward.
“Your Majesty. You don’t need to…”
“We will do it.”
“Give it to me. How could such a precious person…”
Even if the people around her didn’t stop them by waving their hands.
“Your Majesty. I understand your sacred heart, but for you to personally take care of the sick, it would actually be inconvenient for everyone around you. Your Majesty’s mere presence here is a great help to me.”
It seemed that Gilbert’s words were correct in Logan’s opinion.
In the end, he gave up the idea of taking an active role and had no choice but to watch the collaborative work of the healers and priests from a few steps away, directing the distribution of relief supplies and food.
As a result, it was easy to see bad things.
“Why do we have these commoners…”
“I made a mistake when drawing lots. Damn it.”
“Just give it a try. Let’s just pretend we’re doing it. We’re not knights or nobles, so there’s no need to waste sacred power on these crap.”
Voices that would make you doubt the humanity of even an ordinary person, not a priest.
A golden light bloomed in Logan’s red eyes.
‘under. Those…?!’
He may have been whispering because he thought no one else would hear him, but unfortunately, Logan’s attention was focused on the entire village.
Jump and jump.
“Priests over there. What did you say just now?”
Where Logan’s hand moves without hesitation.
The priests who were exchanging vicious whispers simultaneously flinched.
“We were discussing how to treat the territory residents, Your Majesty.”
“That’s right, Your Majesty.”
After making excuses.
“Then I guess I should work harder, right?”
“Yes, yes, of course.”
“Please leave it to me!”
The expressions of the priests changed drastically and their attitude became much quicker than before.
but.
Even that was only for that moment, and it wasn’t even just them.
“Whew. Next.”
Priest Tail stretched out his hand towards the villager and closed his eyes for a while, concentrating. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and motioned for them to go back.
However, the village woman, whose face was red due to a high fever, asked with a shocked expression on her face.
“Priest Four. It doesn’t seem like much has changed…”
“Noisy! What do insignificant things know? Next!”
Unless it is a sacred law that shows miracles beyond a certain degree, divine power is inherently invisible to the eyes of ordinary people.
In fact, Tails was using that as an excuse to sabotage work.
‘I can’t use precious sacred power, which recovers slowly, for things like this.’
After ten years of intensive scripture study and prayer at a basic monastery, he finally awakened to his divine power and entered the path of a priest.
God’s blessing, which allowed Tail, a low-ranking priest, to be treated like a noble, was not for these lowly commoners.
A low-ranking priest like him had to fast and pray for three days to recover all the consumed divine power.
‘Why do I go to such trouble for these? Even if they are rich nobles, I don’t know.’
He was simply dragged in because the lot was drawn incorrectly.
Of course, some of his companions had already used up all their divine power and had begun fasting and praying. But it wasn’t just that he had no sympathy and was trying to save his divine power because his humanity was trash.
‘There are priests who died from the plague because their sacred power ran out. I looked at the record and am I crazy and treating these things? ‘I have to live too.’
Tail was certain that if his colleague had known about it, he would not have healed the people.
But unfortunately for him, there was someone here who could see divine power, and he was the king.
“What are you doing now?”
A lifeless voice heard right next to you.
Tails got scared and turned his head to see Logan with a stern face.
“Your Majesty. I was healing the people.”
“Healing? To me, it looks like you’re just stretching out your hands and acting?”
“The divine power of poetry is inherently invisible….”
“I’m sorry, but I can see it.”
“…Yes? That kind of….”
“Treat those people again. If you even pretend to use holy magic again, I will immediately cut off your useless arm.”
Tail’s complexion turned pale at the murderous voice emanating from the Auror user.
“Yes, yes. Of course!”
How could he think otherwise?
Tail immediately concentrated his mind and used a holy technique on the woman who was about to turn away.
Wow.
Unlike before, Tail was really breaking out in a cold sweat.
In contrast to that, the woman’s expression. Unlike before, she seemed to be clearly more relaxed.
As soon as she felt that her body had become lighter, she immediately stood up and bowed her head.
“Thank you, Your Majesty.”
“Now, next time.”
Logan looked at the village man hesitantly approaching and looked at the priest. He tapped his shoulder.
“I’ll be watching.”
At that sad voice, Priest Tail could only nod with a pale complexion.
That was the beginning of Logan’s threat. He
looked closely at the treatment site and looked for the sabotaging priest. As the accusation was repeated several times, the priests had no choice but to believe the king’s words that he could see divine power.
Naturally, the atmosphere of the priests had no choice but to change little by little.
No matter how many priests belong to the temple, they are fundamentally As a person of this kingdom, you would not want to be looked down on by the king of the country you belong to.
But not everyone was like that.
“I am doing my best, Your Majesty. But it is unfair for you to persecute me like this.”
Aion, the god of water and agriculture. Senior priest Fabian.
The priest with a thick, obese body bowed his head in front of Logan with an expression of genuine injustice.
“No matter how much you are in charge, you cannot impose such unreasonable pressure on the priests of the temple!”
He bowed his head politely, but why? Perhaps he could clearly see the expression under his lowered head, and
a cold smile immediately appeared on Logan’s lips as he looked at him.
