Logging (1)
The 4th Expeditionary Force entered the Plague Zone and for the first time suffered damage worthy of the modifier ‘fatal’.
A small number of people were corrupted and turned into monsters, and as the monsters attacked people in an unconscious state, no small number were sacrificed.
Of course, thanks to the quick response of the saint, the leader of the spinning knights, and the princess, the damage did not expand beyond a certain point, but compared to the smooth schedule so far, it was definitely a huge damage.
In particular, the fact that the saint was injured after being attacked by the leader of the corrupted Orion Church was a fact that everyone kept quiet about, but it was a fact that no one knew inside the expedition.
However, even in such a state, strange rumors began to circulate as it became known that the saint himself went out and healed those who could not wake up from the illusion, and only the saint could cure those who showed signs of depravity in the meantime.
It is said that he is curing the fallen, who could not be cured originally, while reducing his own lifespan.
It is said that among the people who received the treatment was an elf princess, who cried and asked the saint for forgiveness.
It is said, in fact, that the leader of the Spinning Knights acknowledged that if there had been no saint, the expedition would have been wiped out in this incident.
While the expedition was stagnant to treat the sleeping people, all sorts of rumors that had not been confirmed were swirling inside the chaotic expedition due to unprecedented damage. did.
“It is true that Saint Ronan healed me of my corruption. As a priest, I am ashamed. I am very sorry to Saint Ronan.”
“Let me be clear. If it weren’t for the apprentice saint, the damage we would have suffered would have been close to annihilation. The saint was strong inside, and we were weak.”
However, the words of the princess and the commander of the knights, which were poured out one after another as if refuting the saint’s words, were enough to rekindle the rumors that had been in a lull for a while.
What? If so, aren’t most of the rumors that have spread so far true?
The only rumor that has not been verified is that the saint’s lifespan is used to treat those who have progressed in the fall, but the saint denies absolutely not, but he has already denied all rumors earlier.
Seeing that other priests cannot heal, it seems certain that the saint is special.
It has been a very natural principle that has been handed down since ancient times that a special power that is not allowed to humans also comes with a special price.
Could it be that you didn’t want to make people worry about the fact that you were sacrificing your own life?
Is it reasonable to have such a mind after curing others at the expense of one’s own life?
No matter how greedy you are, if you are doing such a great job, isn’t it human nature to want to let people know a little bit.
It wasn’t even something he spit out with his own mouth, but he noticed it on his own, but on the contrary, he denied his credit even saying that it was not true.
For the saint, it is more embarrassing for such a fact to spread and cause others to have feelings of concern than the fact that he is wasting his life.
Indeed, that is the true saint. He is different from ordinary humans and shows the love of God personally.
Along with such feelings, a strange perception of the saint spread within the expedition due to the fact that even though the saint was almost killed by the corrupt leader of the Orion Church, he still did not discriminate against the priests of the Orion Church.
And those perceptions began to manifest in direct action.
In the current situation of the expedition, which was no different from wartime, it was common to treat superiors with simple etiquette.
However, from some time ago, soldiers, not only soldiers, but also knights, magicians, and even elven priests, stopped at the spot and bowed their heads when they saw the saint.
Very deep, like your head is about to touch the ground.
There was no room for misunderstanding the meaning of the greeting.
Gratitude. Respect rather than gratitude. Awe rather than reverence. And emotions closer to faith than awe.
Through faith in the saint, the expedition was gradually recovering from a shocking incident in which a colleague who had shared the joys and sorrows of a while ago turned into a monster and killed another colleague.
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“Saint Ronan, are you feeling well? Are you not uncomfortable?”
“Yes. I don’t have any pain anywhere and I’m fine. Really. I think you’ve already asked me hundreds of times.”
“But you weren’t overdoing it yesterday either.”
“Yesterday, I just cheered up a little because I thought I could treat all the remaining people. I didn’t do anything that could be called impossible.”
“Still, it doesn’t change the fact that I overworked myself when I needed to get myself in shape. It’s also a good idea to delay the start a little bit.”
“Azalea-sama. You’ve seen how demon worshipers work. The priority now is to finish the maintenance as soon as possible and deal with the demon worshipers.”
The princess hesitated to answer despite such an obvious reasoning.
Why the hell has this princess become so polarized?
After all, is it a problem that those unfounded rumors are accepted as orthodoxy?
A few days after the expedition as a group indulge in fantasies.
Over time, there were definitely people who woke up on their own, but most still had to artificially release the illusion, so I spent a very busy time waking people up.
In the meantime, there must have been a lot of agitation inside the expedition, and rumors spread to a ridiculous level, so I went out and eradicated it myself, and the princess and the knight commander came forward to rekindle it, so I thought I was going to die from a headache.
Yeah, after all, some of those rumors are close to the truth.
But what I was trying to deny was the rumor that I was cutting my life span.
In the meantime, there is no need to reveal the flaws of the commander-level figures, so they just denied it together.
Why does everyone have such an upright mind? It’s a hard-to-follow mentality for me.
Thanks to that, all the denials I did were treated as lies.
No, I can’t say it’s not my fault for denying everything, but just because some of the content is true, it’s too optimistic to assume that the rest is also true.
That day, when the princess came and asked if it was true that she was risking her life to treat people, she really let out a sigh.
It was hard to stop the princess from acting as if she would kill everyone right away, saying that it was the right decision to kill all those who showed slight signs of corruption rather than curing the saint’s lifespan.
I was only able to calm myself down by explaining it over and over again that it was absolutely not the case.
Although it wasn’t a sign of complete trust until the end.
Anyway, what the hell would you do if the princess was fooled by such nonsense?
I’ve clearly said that I’m not writing a lifespan many times?
I’m going to take a slap in the face if someone says nonsense about why a person who cuts off his lifespan so much later lives so long.
“Even if it weren’t for that, didn’t you actually almost die?”
Hmm… This is what I intended to complain about.
Certainly, I wanted to stage a desperate situation right before I was beaten by the leader.
At the time, I thought it was a useful way to kill the leader without noise, but now that I think about it, I think it was too much.
In order to make the princess a witness, the situation was deliberately staged by the leader, and it actually succeeded, and the princess killed the leader.
Actually, since the princess was already taken over, it wouldn’t have been necessary to go so dramatic.
What can I do? It’s already happened.
“Even now, I can’t believe it. The leader has corrupted so quickly and tried to attack the saint. I really don’t know what would have happened if I had been a little late.”
If the princess had come later, I think she would have been more leisurely gathering information.
Of course, it wasn’t a sound I could say out loud, so I decided to make a mouth-watering sound instead.
“I still feel very grateful. But I don’t think Edgar-sama had a particularly evil heart. Iris-sama also showed signs of corruption. It’s hard to stay sane if you whisper darkness or get abandoned.”
This was, of course, a reason I came up with moderately, but at the same time it was a reason that seemed quite plausible.
Wouldn’t most of the expedition members be able to take it for granted without having any doubts about the fact that the leader was corrupted?
If you say this, it’s good for the leader to keep the minimum honor, the princess is good for getting some indulgence, and I like that I can convince everyone why the leader had to die. Everyone benefits!
“Is that what Saint Ronan is saying?”
“yes?”
“Isn’t Saint Ronan the first person to wake up from the illusion?”
Me? I’m an exception. I expected it to some degree in the first place, but I don’t have any religious beliefs.
When I laughed awkwardly, the princess shook her head and added another word.
“Besides, aren’t you in trouble because you couldn’t attack him because of that soft mind?”
The gap of misunderstanding is too deep. I have nothing to say in terms of all misunderstandings I intended.
I bowed my head and apologized.
“I hesitated because I couldn’t let go of the lingering feeling that I could instantly cure Edgar-sama. I’m sorry. It won’t happen again.”
“I didn’t say this to ask for an apology from the saint.”
After saying that, the princess shook her head and sighed.
“If I say more, it seems like I’m the only bad person again. Okay. I won’t oppose the will of the saint any more. Let’s finish all this and go back.”
That’s what I want.
I nodded my head in a strong affirmation.
“All preparations are complete. Saint Ronan, announce the restart of the expedition again.”
It’s not the first start, it’s just starting again after being severely attacked and reorganized.
If it helps to slit the devil worshiper’s throat, I’ll do it.
I slowly followed the princess’s guidance and stood in front of the expedition corps that had been completely cured and maintained.
Compared to when I first left the academy, the scale had definitely shrunk, and people’s faces were darkening.
Certainly, morale should be raised.
“Everyone, just a few days ago, we suffered a painful loss.”
There was a glimmer of gloom in everyone’s eyes.
A vacant place for colleagues who cannot return.
Even though the cause itself is a devil worshiper, it is not possible to feel free to grieve because it can result in a problem of the person’s will to fall into the enticement of corruption and become a monster.
You might be told to grieve for a villain who has been tricked by a demon worshiper.
First, I decided to give them an indulgence to mourn the deaths of their comrades.
It wasn’t a difficult story. Isn’t there an easy indulgence that the princess has already tested?
“Among them was the Archbishop of the Order of Orion, Edgar-sama. He was undoubtedly a faithful servant of Orion-sama.”
In the end, the audience was agitated by the remarks that seemed to defend the leader who had been tricked by a devil worshiper and tried to kill him.
“It wasn’t faith that he lacked. Rather, it was the whispers of corruption that were more difficult to resist because he was overflowing with faith. The stronger the faith, the darker the shadows cast.”
Because he was sincere, because he had strong convictions, he fell.
It doesn’t make sense at all, but as I’ve used it once, comfort is not based on logic and reason.
If you tell him what he wants to hear, people will accept him more easily than you think.
“Of course, I’m not saying that those of you who haven’t fallen lacked faith. It just means that you had many things to lean on besides conviction and piety.”
A story is added so that the fall from there does not feel like an unavoidable force majeure.
“Neither did I. I am not, as you say, a complete human being on the inside, but I have too many responsibilities on my back to sit where my faith is denied.”
A story that will inspire and motivate those who have not fallen into corruption.
I raised my hand and showed the ring the leader had.
“It’s a keepsake that Edgar-sama left behind. Now that I have it, Edgar-sama’s remains must also be mine.”
Of course, this is a lie. The leader was already in a state of rage at the time, so he wasn’t in a state to hand me anything. Besides, the princess’s head was blown off by the sword. This ring is just a sacred tool that I plundered at will.
But in fact, it can completely change its appearance depending on how it is packaged.
To those who don’t know, the scene of the leader who came to his senses before he died, repenting of his sins and handing me a ring, might not have come to mind.
“Because I’m carrying the support of so many people, I can’t sit still. And I think the same goes for you.”
Even if it’s not the person who lost a close colleague in this incident, it’s okay.
At least one person who doesn’t have a single family member at home, such as parents, relatives, lovers, or wives, can be counted on one hand.
Determination began to float in everyone’s eyes.
“So, gentlemen, our environment is no different from the illusions you have already overcome. Do not give in to the trials that come your way. If you feel like giving in to your trials, think of those who have sustained you all this time.”
I grabbed the ring and raised my divine power.
“Let’s end this situation and return to them all alive.”
It is always right to give vitality with soft light. You can extract tremendous efficiency compared to your efforts.
“Long live Saint Ronan!”
“Long live Saint Ronan!”
As the halo of light spread out in all directions, the crowd began to shout.
I wondered if this was okay, but neither the princess nor the knight commander seemed to have any special thoughts. Well, is it better than being intimidated?
“All troops depart.”
I thought so and announced the restart of the expedition.
Surely, if this demon worshiper is dealt with, the leader will be able to close his eyes in peace.
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Leader Yangban. I will definitely fulfill the legacy you left behind (never left).
Please watch over me from hell! Don’t curse me for that.
