Cataclysm (2)
It was an unexpected event for Ronan, but the reasons why the emperor could raise an army had been steadily piling up for a long time.
Despite the broken balance of power, the imperial family and the church could coexist because the church was an indispensable being that permeated the entire human culture and the recognition that the church itself was an absolute good had a strong effect.
Occasionally, even if an accident occurred that would damage the position of the absolute good, the church regarded it as an individual deviation and cut off the tail, so it was impossible to directly attack the body of the church.
However, the story changed when Ronan sniped the body of the church through revelation.
As Ronan was recognized as a true saint both in name and reality, he took away the position of absolute good that the church had so far, and when such Ronan pointed out that the church had rotten parts to its roots, the imperial family naturally created an excuse to attack the body of the church. .
In addition, the emperor absolutely trusted Ronan’s remarks by personal reasoning and thought that he had been forgiven for leading the destruction of the Holy Empire, which had been the yoke of the imperial family for a long time, so even if Ronan’s will was different from his own, he was willing to accept it. had
In such a situation, to provide an opportunity to clean up all the annoying parts of the church, which was the long-cherished wish of the imperial family.
As long as it was confirmed that his own will and the will of God matched, the emperor had nothing to hold back.
Moreover, at the point where the saint suddenly declared a hunger strike and Ronan leaked that the reason for the hunger strike was poisoning, the emperor felt as if Ronan had crossed that long distance and told him what to do in the future.
In the emperor’s eyes, Ronan was not a person who was frustrated or denied expedients by being stuck in the frame of correct theory, even though he was fair and fair.
He is not a cunning enough to invent an absurd assassination attempt, but if there is an assassination attempt, he is a person who can use it to create an advantageous direction for himself.
And, in the Emperor’s opinion, spreading rumors to deliberately forestall poisoning attempts was not just to avoid making innocent victims.
Of course, due to Ronan’s temperament, the reason must also have a high proportion, but above all, it was important that the assassin made the assassination attempt a known fact without giving him a chance to assassinate him at all.
I didn’t know that the Church would do such a reckless thing, but in any case, they would be confused because they were caught by Ronan and failed before they even tried it.
One wonders whether Ronan noticed their assassination attempt and declared the hunger strike, or whether it was a really unlucky coincidence.
Besides, the church has to make a choice.
After collecting and bringing back the person who issued the assassination order, will you claim that this is an unfounded frame-up, or will you obediently bring the assassin and dismiss it as a personal deviation.
If the church was on the defensive as it is now, there was a high possibility that it would choose the latter. If the person who tried to assassinate the saint was the head of those who were hiding behind the church that the saint said, and if they properly fleshed out the tail, somehow this situation He could have been thinking that he might be able to get out of it.
So now is the best opportunity.
Now, with the fact that there was an order from the church to assassinate the saint, they obtained an excuse to start using force. It is not easy for the church to properly deal with the rumor as the rumor has not spread widely yet.
It was quick to make decisions, even quicker to give orders.
“What is the difference between a demon worshiper and a demon worshiper trying to drive out the legitimate representatives of the gods who have descended to this land? We must root out the evil that has lurked in the church.”
Hearing that the emperor was moving the soldiers, not only the church, but all the nobles began to pay attention.
Watching the saint starve for dinner, those who expected another storm to come tomorrow couldn’t help but be frightened by the emperor’s sudden action.
Of course, the fasting of the saint was a very strong pressure. But now, less than a day has passed.
I expected to begin full-fledged pressure by tomorrow at the earliest, but sooner than that? No matter how sharp the saint’s fasting was, it would not be easy to handle the backlash if the imperial family raised an army and launched an attack with just that…
Following the numerous people who tried to fathom the emperor’s intentions, the eyes they planted eagerly conveyed information.
Catch the circumstances of the cult’s assassination attempt.
Oh, did the church strike the first bread? Then the story is a little different.
Upon hearing the news, the nobles inadvertently covered their foreheads. Now they understood the emperor’s reckless move.
Of course, there was still controversy over the fact that the saint was clearly a member of the imperial family, but looking only at the current situation, it seems that the saint and the imperial family are putting pressure on the church.
In the meantime, if the imperial family tried to assassinate the saint who provided an opportunity to put pressure on the church, there was nothing to say even if the imperial family raised an army.
Some people said that no matter how insane the church was, they couldn’t have tried to assassinate the saint, but that statement was refuted by saying that there are people pretending to be priests in the church, and then disappeared.
The emperor leisurely gathered soldiers and dispatched them to the main headquarters as if he had waited for the rumors of the saint assassination attempt to spread all over the empire.
Of course, I didn’t send these soldiers with the intention that they would really be able to get into the headquarters and arrest everyone who belonged there.
In fact, even as the emperor, it is impossible to capture all the numerous priests in the headquarters, and even if you catch and investigate like that, you don’t know exactly who the people belonging to the shadow are, so it’s unclear whether you can find them out.
That said, there was a good opportunity to mobilize soldiers, but it was regrettable not to mobilize them.
The goal was for the soldiers who surrounded the main office to cut off contact with the main office and the outside world so that the assassin who had received the assassination order would never come into contact with the main office, and further press them.
There are still many believers who are confused when the saint suddenly attacks the church, but if the church tries to kill such a saint and the imperial family dispatches soldiers to the church, as evidence of that, the soldiers aiming spears outside the building where they live If there is a large group of herpes, no matter how much the church tries to control information to control its followers, no matter what it does, it will inevitably go through great difficulties.
If all this pressure overlaps with the saint’s fast…
If we do well, we will see the final choice of the Shadows before tonight is over.
Will you repent of your mistakes and surrender…or will you choose to rebel?
The emperor thought so, but deep down he thought that there was absolutely no way they would surrender quietly.
There was no doubt that even if they surrendered, they would all be sentenced to death.
If there’s a place to put hope, it’s probably the saint’s mercy…
The emperor tilted his head and thought of Ronan.
The saint also knows that the church needs to cut out the rotten parts in order to regain its original purpose.
Ronan’s fasting was due to a minor misconduct.
If you really really don’t want to make an innocent victim, you can just purify the poison from your dinner and act like nothing happened.
It means that you don’t have to fast and inform the people around you.
There was no doubt that all of this was a plan Ronan had in mind, given that he deliberately created an atmosphere that allowed the word to spread.
If it was Ronan like that, he would have known how to act after receiving the news.
Moving the imperial family and making them point their spears at the church. It’s as if Ronan is holding the empire with both hands and kneading it.
In a way, he was just being used by Ronan, but the emperor smiled happily.
Is this how it feels to be used according to God’s will? I can’t believe I can feel bad even if I know that I am being used. It’s really surprising. Couldn’t it be that the imperial family aroused and forgave the feeling of debt they had for this moment?
if so…
The emperor laughed once again, saying that he now understands why the clergy have no choice but to be obsessed with God, and that he cannot help falling in love with a transcendent being who can comprehend all of this and handle it skillfully.
After a sleepless night in which everyone was terrified by the sudden development, morning finally came.
* * *
…can’t someone tell me how the heck things are going?
I sat at my desk in a daze and pretended to pray while sweating profusely inside.
Yesterday’s Ronan, who thought everyone sleeps at night, quickly come out. Come out and fix this situation.
To be honest, when I first heard that the emperor had mobilized troops, I was a little scared, wondering if I might have heard the news and raised soldiers to find the assassin.
Wouldn’t it be natural for such a large-scale military force to find the assassin, that the bishop would be caught regardless of how competent he was?
To be honest, if you can run away from the Church’s secret pursuit and the imperial family’s extensive pursuit with your own body, then you have to doubt the incompetence of the Imperial family and the Church, not the individual’s competence.
Fortunately, I was relieved to hear that the troops were heading to the main office, but another worry followed.
Can you just poke around like that?
Of course, it’s true that I wanted a certain amount of stronger pressure… Forced use? Isn’t this a very strong card?
I don’t think they’re barbarians who pull out their knives all the time. As soon as an excuse is given, they immediately pull out their knives and threaten them.
I didn’t see the emperor like that, but he was also a human with a medieval mindset.
If you think about it, he must be eating the emperor because he is at the top of this medieval mindset, but I overlooked it.
No matter how much it was, I didn’t know that a nobleman who was in politics would enter into an armed exercise without a word of thought!
…Well, an unexpected situation is a situation. In fact, it wasn’t such a bad thing considering the gains and losses.
The slightly lacking wedge role I was thinking about before going to bed yesterday. Those soldiers were able to fill that wedge role instead.
Seeing the imperial family wielding force in earnest, even people who don’t know anything about it will be interested in why the imperial family is holding back the church like that.
In the meantime, it is only natural for rumors to spread that the church is trying to kill me, and the more it does, the more the church has no choice but to fall into a swamp from which it cannot escape.
It’s not easy to deny the assassination theory, to deny it you have to deny my words, and to deny my words you have to deny that there are non-believers in the church that has been placed on them.
Besides, if the emperor had an idea, he wouldn’t do nonsense by burning down and destroying the entire church headquarters with the soldiers just because he raised soldiers.
As long as they kept the right way, these soldiers could certainly become a means to choke the church.
growl
Hey, just be patient a little longer.
I touched the stomach a couple of times to soothe it when it began to protest earnestly asking for food, and then I thought about what would happen, and then quickly beat it up.
Yesterday, I thought a lot about the future situation, but did you predict that the emperor would suddenly mobilize soldiers?
At least the situation seems very favorable to me, so let’s wait calmly.
smart.
While I was thinking about that, a visitor came to me.
“Come on in.”
“Did you sleep well all night?”
The person who entered was the princess.
It was a visit that started early in the morning, but it wasn’t surprising because it was expected.
If you’ve been working so hard all night, you should give me an after-action report.
“Yes. I slept well. How is Azalea-sama? You seem to have been busy all night.”
“I didn’t expect you to go that far either. He pushed very recklessly.”
Unexpectedly. I thought the princess, who went blind as soon as she went on a fast, pushed hard. It was all the emperor’s fault.
“I didn’t have time to inform Saint Ronan last night because I was also contributing.”
Seeing that there wasn’t even that much gap, it seems that he helped hard enough…
“Are you feeling okay? Your stomach must be sore because you’re still on an empty stomach.”
“are you okay.”
In terms of pure time, even 24 hours is still close. This is tolerable.
“Then…could you possibly meet people?”
“A person?”
I tilted my head at the sudden words of the princess.
Where will I meet someone? Nominally, I’m in custody anyway, so the royal family should take care of cutting out useless people.
Thanks to that, I am enjoying this leisurely and peaceful time even after punching the church with the explosive remark of revelation.
“That’s… Priests from all over the country are flocking to the academy. If it’s one or two, I’d refuse, but there’s a lot of them.”
“Yes? Why?”
At the princess’ remarks that I hadn’t even thought about before, a question came out as a reflex.
What is it? Did you receive orders from the church and come as a group to protest against me?
No, then no matter how many numbers there are, the imperial family will take care of it.
As I was puzzled, the princess gave me the answer.
“All of them are priests who are faithful to Orion, and they are the ones who came to want to prove him to Saint Ronan.”
…uh.
It took more time than I thought to understand the words that were not difficult.
“So…these are the people who came to prove that they are not the disbelievers in the revelation I mentioned?”
“That’s right.”
why now…?
I was confused by a story that I couldn’t understand with my common sense.
It was clear to anyone that the church and I were fighting a power struggle.
Then, shouldn’t the general clergy hold their breath and bow their heads to the winner when the winner is decided?
It’s not like they’re going to be purged just because they didn’t step out and do nothing.
In this case, there is nothing to lose by staying still.
On the other hand, to come to me like this and want to be proven by me, I can only see that you clearly rode my line.
Doesn’t it mean that you will prove your innocence with my guarantee because you believe in my revelation and every word I have spoken and believe in my strength as a saint?
If the denomination were to win, and I was accused of being a liar, and furthermore, if I were to be exposed as a fake saint because of that lie, all the priests who rode my line would be torn apart.
why…?
Is it an ulterior motive to decide that the victorious spirit has solidified after seeing the imperial family even use force?
“Ronan-sama, you think it’s strange again.”
omg.
Celia, who was standing still next to me, suddenly spoke to me.
“What do you think is so complicated? I think Ronan-nim always underestimates himself too much.”
Who in the world is as good at self-objectification as I am?
“Ronan-nim, the saint, and God pointed out that the entire church was rotten, but if you are a faithful priest, of course you want to prove yourself faithful. Ronan-nim is the only one who can prove that right now.”
ah.
Celia’s words helped me understand what I was missing.
Yes, I haven’t had a chance to experience it lately, so I forgot, but basically, most of the priests in this world have no choice but to be fanatical. Otherwise, they’re completely disrespectful.
Thinking of the shadows of the church I am dealing with, I naturally thought that all clergy belonging to the church would make such a profitable judgment. I thought it would be understood only when I showed him, but the faith of a pure priest was much stronger than I thought.
So the people who have come now are probably the only ones who don’t doubt my words at all?
This was nothing to worry about.
I looked at the princess and nodded.
“Of course we should meet.”
It is a signal that the pure part of the church that was covering the shadow without knowing anything in earnest is splitting up, and this cannot be ignored.
It was an unexpected income.
Fasting, physical pressure from the imperial family, even a boycott declaration by internal personnel?
Eh…? Can I eat this at the headquarters of the church by tomorrow evening…?
