Omen (2)
Alter Kramati.
To him, the world was a space where success was guaranteed from birth.
His father was an archbishop and his grandfather was a cardinal. It didn’t matter too much to Alter, who had no interest in people who were already dead, but his great-grandfather and probably great-great-grandfather were also cardinals.
He was born as a superior being who was chosen by Orion.
So, one day he himself will become a cardinal and be given the mission of guiding the inferior.
I lived the world with such an idea.
Although there were times when I felt anxiety when I saw children of my age who sometimes had more divine power, even a little bit of anxiety disappeared after I learned the secret my father had told me.
Those savage guys wouldn’t even know in their dreams. That divine power is also the mercy of the church. So it’s only natural that those with divine power serve them.
Furthermore, according to his father’s words, he would one day be endowed with divine power worthy of a cardinal, incomparably stronger than those guys, so he had no worries.
There were at least two more grandchildren of the cardinal who were comparable to him, but Alter considered himself to be the foremost among them.
Damian was just an idiot and Lennox was a coward who knew how to roll his brain to a certain degree but overestimated the situation.
So, one day, when he gets to the position of cardinal, won’t he lead the Orion Church?
Perhaps he would be able to restore the position of pope, who had never been crowned since the fall of the Holy Empire.
Everything was going well until the guy showed up.
Ronan.
Without a proper last name, a lowly citizen who has never cared.
Now that I have become a saint, I still haven’t forgotten my grandfather’s request to make friends.
That I, the next cardinal of the Orion Church, who was chosen, approached the lowly people first and bowed my head?
I wouldn’t have been able to stand it if that lowly person didn’t understand the subject and really tried to climb on his head.
Fortunately, Cheonmin knew his subject well.
As soon as I took care of myself and came in, the anger subsided to some extent.
In the meantime, I was even glad to see him refuting to Damian that he would take care of a girl from the lowest class in the same situation.
Just because they get along with each other, or because they wear the coat of arms of saints, doesn’t mean that the people of the lower class are not the people of the lower classes.
It was a sin worthy of death to dare to refute the cardinal’s son, but since he had bowed down enough to himself, he was willing to let go.
He’s a guy who will work hard for himself and the church in the future, but there’s nothing he can’t do with mercy.
I felt bad when I used my holy power to perform useless stunts and bewitch people, but it was obvious to see that I recuperated for several days after that.
He seems to have collapsed after doing that once. A weak guy. In order to be useful in the church in the future, he will need training.
Such optimism did not last long.
After dispatching the princess from the empire, she left alone with the saint.
Even though he knew that Seongja was a chess horse to be promoted externally, he was angry.
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Later, I heard that despite the persuasion of the cardinals and archbishops, he went straight home after finishing his private lecture.
How dare you treat a girl as a princess and disrespect the Orion Church this much? I’ll make sure you pay the price someday.
And then, suddenly, to the Imperial Academy.
It’s hard to understand that he has to live in a space of such savage unbelievers, but the reason why this happened is because of that celestial saint.
I complained to my father, but I was only told not to waste it because it was a golden opportunity to benefit the church by keeping an eye on the saint and making friends with the nobles of the empire.
Why do you have to keep bending over and entering? You are the one chosen by God. This was all because of the empire and the unbelievers it created. I couldn’t even dare to go against it.
From the moment I came to the academy, there were a lot of things I didn’t like.
probationary saint. probationary saint. probationary saint.
Everywhere I looked, I could only find stories about the poor.
Starting from the welcome ceremony, every step of the lower class was irritating.
I gradually began to dislike my father’s words, which sounded plausible in the past, that it was safest to put the face madam in front and control it from behind.
Shouldn’t we just do that face madam?
How could the chosen ones regain their past prosperity without taking even that much risk?
If I had the name of a saint, it would have been much more useful than that stupid guy who took useless subjects because he couldn’t fake his bloodline.
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Look at yourself. Didn’t he draw the respect of the nobles by interacting with them even without the name of a saint?
This is true leadership and charisma.
Even so, the princess, the elves, the beastmen, and the dwarves all looked for him and didn’t care about him.
I couldn’t forget the gaze of the elf princess who was still looking at the insect.
Where can an apprentice cadet try to be equal? A different race that knows nothing…! A b*tch of the royal family thinks like that, so there is no progress.
The saint, who would not have been able to defend himself, just watched the scene. No, it was clear that he was laughing inwardly.
I told Cardinal Monto several times that the intentions of the lowly people were suspicious, but no action was taken.
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Listening to the situation at the time, the saint seemed to have defended himself enough, so I was told not to speak about it any more.
Everyone was fooled by the confidence that he was a saint.
Alter’s suspicion and anger toward Ronan, and his feelings of inferiority, which he would not admit, culminated in Ronan’s healing of Helena.
Cured what the cult said was incurable? Called it a curse? Do you think it makes sense for the cult to miss the curse?
If you express an opinion that is contrary to the words of the church, it is not normal to first suspect that the saint is lying.
How can you think of using that as an excuse to put pressure on the church?
This was obviously a huge conspiracy. And the lowly people were at the center of the conspiracy.
Being chosen as a saint? How could the lowly people who interfere with the church do that?
After all, he was right. He was the only one who saw through the truth when everyone else was being deceived by lies. That wasn’t like a saint.
But things only got worse.
The nobles who were hanging out with them all started looking for Ronan.
Even those who had been scorned by the elf princess last time asked to arrange a meeting with Ronan again.
Everyone was anxious about not being able to contact Ronan somehow, and because of that, there were many nobles who approached Ronan’s servants, the lower class, rather than themselves.
Among them, there were quite a few who refused with cold eyes when he approached them.
Teeth cleaved naturally.
Fools who can’t even distinguish the truth in front of their eyes.
Then I will reveal it. I will reveal the bare face of the poor people.
With such a mind, another few days to go back and forth between the building where the lowly people are staying and the now empty accommodation.
I finally got a clue.
Was it because he was trying to hide his weakness when the incident started to grow?
I was sure when I saw that he hid the necklace he had been wearing around his neck every time through the attendants.
This is it. This is the secret of the lower class.
All of those miracles were the power of sacred tools. So, is this a first-class sacred tool? Or is it… a sacred object?
In Alter’s head, there was no question of how the ‘lower people’, whom he despised so much, could have taken the holy relics from the headquarters of the church.
Even if he had recalled it, he would have assumed that it would have been helped by the forces that created the huge ‘conspiracy’.
Alter wore the necklace without a shadow of a doubt.
and…
slowly.
“Alter. Isn’t it too strange these days?”
“I…? What am I?”
“You ask because you don’t know? Aren’t you talking to yourself in the air… Aren’t you laughing at yourself… Even the nobles are reluctant to you?”
“…Are you one of them too?”
“What are you talking about?”
“You’ve already gone too far, right? You stupid bastard. I recognized you right away.”
“…Are you crazy? Why should I listen to you like that?”
“Alter, Damien. Stop both of you. What’s wrong with us?”
“Lenox, I thought you were still a little crazy. There you go. Fools.”
“What’s wrong with this bastard?”
“…Let’s leave it alone. I think I’m going crazy because I can’t be a king.”
The nobles who had flocked to Alter immediately fell away due to his strange behavior.
Even when they were gathered, the nobles whose purpose was to approach Ronan did not approach Alter at all because they went around talking about themselves as the cardinal’s grandchildren.
Even Lennox and Damian, who looked down on each other but maintained a close friendship, quickly parted ways. They were just that close.
Still, Alter didn’t care at all.
After all, if the bare face of the lowly people is exposed and he is proven right, everyone will praise his foresight.
slowly.
“This…this. Is it the power of the Holy Spirit?”
Alter marveled at his bare hands in an empty place.
In Alter’s eyes, there was a brilliant light that could only shine in his own eyes.
And those hazy eyes were already depicting himself as he had already destroyed the people and was being apologized by the princess and the princess.
slowly.
The apprentice cadets’ weekend outings were still going on, but there was no one around Alter, who seemed to have gone really crazy lately.
After all, it was no longer important to Alter.
Alter, who was walking around the square alone, heard a voice.
“…is this also a trainee? It’s in very bad condition.”
[Follow my will.]
“This guy can’t do it. Let’s find another guy. At least we should pick one that the saint won’t suspect.”
[The chosen one. Follow your will.]
“Still, if the mind is broken to this extent, it should be easy to corrupt it.”
[Let the world know that you are right.]
“If you start a rampage as soon as you enter the academy, it’s a total disaster. This is only suitable for worshipers of Anheela.”
[You are my true apostle. saint.]
In the eyes of Alter, who had already reached the stage where he could not distinguish between reality and hallucination, he could not see the suspicious figures disappearing after looking at him as if judging him.
He was just listening in a ecstatic mood as a majestic voice coming from somewhere affirmed everything he had wanted so far.
Also, he wasn’t wrong.
Does it make sense that such a lowly person is a saint?
Suddenly, Alter felt the back of his right hand getting hot.
“This… this…”
Stigmata on the back of the right hand that followed.
This is the biggest proof.
The biggest proof that half-hearted people are fake!
“hahahaha! With this, I don’t even have to rely on the necklace anymore! Wait for me!”
Slowly and smoothly, I went completely insane.
* * *
After one more weekend and finally returning to my normal academic schedule, the first thing that greeted me was not the excessive love calls from nobles or the approach of priests from different races that I had expected.
The priests of the different races may have been obsessed with devil worshipers lately, and they were busy communicating with their home countries about new curses and devil worshipers, so it could be a little quiet for a while.
Then, if there were unexpected love calls from nobles, that wasn’t the case either.
Because, unlike before, a lot of people were approaching me even though the princess was by my side.
“You bastard! Even now, if you tell the truth rightly, I might have mercy on you!”
It’s just that before all the nobles could approach me, some madman proudly stood in my way and shouted that, so everyone couldn’t come any closer and stopped.
The one who screamed was the one who had been acting as the head of a trio whom I hadn’t seen since the last time I had been broken up in a restaurant.
…No, but why did that bastard do that out of nowhere? Did you pick up something wrong?
