Chapter 159 – Chapter 159 ― Second Coming of the Saint (3)
Episode 159 ― Second Coming of the Saint (3)
The current knight commander is just an acting leader. Strictly speaking, as the vice-captain, she is the highest in the knights and has the authority to command.
In the end, all the remaining knights by her side had no choice but to hesitate.
“You may follow me.”
Helen moved her steps slowly.
The knights followed her closely.
And what Helen found was well within her imagination.
“As expected, Master.”
Helen muttered a small chuckle as she looked around her audience.
“Here you are. Stop it.”
The saintess’ words continued.
“No human being can stand against him. Stop fighting in vain and listen to him.”
Roan and Helen’s eyes met.
Helen smiled brightly.
I didn’t care about people who started whispering a little.
Roan and Helen, standing close together, ended up laughing mischievously.
— No, where are you? What kind of lightning strikes in the middle of the night? It is a place of great power! Is this the place that serves that so-called ‘Goddess’?!
It was Fiora’s chatter that made Roan take her eyes off Helen.
Roan glanced at Fiora, still smiling, then looked around coldly.
Humans knelt on the ground as if to support him, daring not to rise.
The sight,
It seemed so natural and sacred to Helen.
“Helen. What nonsense You mean we locked you up? You are a child of our church. What did you do to you who came back?”
He was also worthy of a high position.
The pope had the power to resist Roan’s ‘overwhelm’, albeit meagely.
After clearing his mind faster than anyone else with his unique skill, he put on the expression of a benevolent old man.
‘Your acting skills are great. He deserves an example.’
It was a change of attitude that even Roan could admire.
But Helen looked at the Pope with a colder expression than usual.
Helen, who would have obeyed the pope in the past, is staring at him ferociously.
Around the time when all the priests and knights were unfamiliar with its appearance and exchanging glances with the people around them.
Helen scolded the Pope in a shrill voice.
“It seems natural now that you lie. His Holiness.”
“… What… !”
The pope’s face contorted fiercely.
But Helen coldly lowered her eyes.
“If this person had not come, I would have been imprisoned in the basement of the rectory. Isn’t it?”
“How is it confinement for a saintess to stay in the priest’s house? For those who believe in the Goddess, the temple is the hometown and resting place. She dares to call staying in the temple a confinement.”
The bright red concentric circles made Roan’s eyes sore.
Helen snorted.
Her cold face
It was even worse than Roan’s wary look on her face when he had just met her.
“Aren’t you the one possessed by the devil? Who is this guy? To drag such an inconsiderate person into the place where the goddess is worshiped. Are you crazy!”
Her conversation with Helen seemed to lift her momentum,
The pope’s voice rose.
“To spread the gospel of the goddess and to denounce those who sacrificed her life as rotten. Both you and this person seem to have gone out of their minds.”
As the pope’s wrinkled face grew stern,
The knights who understood the atmosphere gathered their minds again and began to draw their swords one by one.
Roan’s eyes narrowed.
Easy to kill,
You can also spread more ‘overwhelm’ than before.
But I don’t have the confidence to save them all.
It’s okay even if you don’t have one limb… ? Because there are a lot of people who can help here.
It was when Roan, who had made up his mind to do so, was measuring the timing of picking out Fiora.
“How stupid you are.”
At Helen’s voice, which seemed to pour cold water on everyone, her audience looked at her saintess in amazement.
How long has it been since I heard this blasphemy?
The Pope was shocked and involuntarily opened his mouth.
And Helen’s words that followed came as even more shocking to her priests.
“I met the Goddess.”
Some of the priests, her eyes wide open, listened to Helen. No matter how rotten the organization is, if all members were like that, the Order of the Goddess would not be able to operate properly.
There were quite a few people in the temple who endured hard work and lived a priestly life to sincerely serve the goddess.
To them, the story of the goddess conveyed by the saintess seemed like a ray of light in the dark church politics.
“And the Goddess said.”
A smile appeared on Helen’s face.
The reason why the expression he makes when he thinks of the Goddess is filled with bitterness is probably because the reality is so different from the ideal.
“Humans and demons are all your children, so don’t be hostile or reject them.”
“What nonsense are you talking about!”
The pope’s roar erupted.
Beginning with his shouting, shouts of disapproval of Helen’s words were heard here and there.
But Helen answered quietly.
“Can’t everyone do it? ‘Detection of lies’. Try it. Are there any lies in my words? You don’t need to pretend to be a saint. I am a priest and knight who has dedicated my life to the Order. Why would I tell her lies in the name of her goddess?”
The loud yelling subsided.
Her words are the truth.
Roan smiled and let go of his hand holding his blood aura and crossed his arms.
But whatever he does
All human attention was focused on Helen.
“But the church instigated the war.”
“Why do demons who do not believe in the goddess need the mercy of the goddess!”
“It’s because everything was created by the Goddess.”
The first phrase of the front page of the scriptures cherished by those who worship Goddess Laurecia.
Looking back at the grace of the Goddess who created everything, she conveys her mercy to the world.
The purpose for which the scriptures were written.
Everyone who recalled the first sentence from Helen’s words glared at Helen with complicated eyes.
Helen smiled and followed her words.
“He asked why we don’t breed.”
“… What?”
Some priests blushed,
The Pope asked in a hoarse voice.
“In fact, I already know that there are people who secretly do the will of the Goddess, but yes. Our doctrine blocks that. But the Goddess asked what that had to do with it. They say that those who become her parents become stronger.”
Knowing that there was no lie in her words, the priests were literally confused.
According to Helen, it means that the doctrines and scriptures they base on went against the will of the Goddess from the root.
The people gathered here are people who have devoted their entire lives to the church.
The thought that what they believed in might have been wrong from the start shook their reason.
“Lie… Do not do that.”
So, the only words the pope could utter were forced struggles squeezed out of clumsy emotions.
“With what evil power are you trying to trick even the priests?”
“His Holiness. Are you still unable to find out? You are as good as a blind man.”
Helen gave her a sympathetic look as if she felt pity for such a pope.
“Even though the goddess sent a representative to rebuke you for your mistakes.”
“… Uh?”
“What?”
The counter-questions broke out in two places.
Roan looked at Helen shyly for her casual reply, but Helen smiled and said she was fine.
“Can’t you feel it? His noble divine power is different from what we have. It is the closest and sacred to the power of the Goddess. Pointing a knife at someone like that.”
Her knights, pointed out by her, looked at Roan with her startled, suspicious eyes.
Helen let out a sigh of relief.
Her church was so messed up that I couldn’t even recognize the power bestowed by the Goddess.
Only then did some priests gasp and gasp as they gauged Roan’s strength, but
The Pope couldn’t believe what he felt.
The clear power I feel from Roan,
He was deeper and clearer than the holy power he had worked hard to refine and collect all his life.
Deep wrinkles were carved between the pope’s brows.
A night in which everything he has done throughout his life is denied by a blue girl and an unknown guy.
It must have been unbearable even for a person with deep spiritual practice.
The Pope had neither the will nor the leisure to examine whether what he had been doing was really wrong.
So he decided to do things the way he always did.
“Continue the evil bullshit… Hello.”
Hesitantly, the knights lowering their blades glanced at the pope’s face.
Their arms regained strength.
It is a long-learned pattern that makes people move when they are embarrassed.
Inertia is a scary thing.
Because there is no need to judge right and wrong in front of him.
“Are you already to the point where you can’t tell the difference…”
Helen burst into her sighs at those who had once been her companions.
“Exclude.”
In the middle of the Temple of Life, the pope’s killing order came.
Like well-trained hounds, the knights’ blades stabbed Roan and Helen without mercy. A scream erupted from the lips of the priests who surrounded them from afar.
However, their powers could not harm the two bodies.
“Ah… !”
The screams soon turned to amazement.
Someone fell to their knees.
The Pope gazed at the domed star cloud that shimmered before his eyes as if his eyes would pop out.
A ‘star cloud shield’ covered Roan and Helen.
“You are wonderful.”
“I practiced a lot.”
A casual conversation ensued.
“Goddess… It is strength.”
However, those of the church could not accept it calmly.
The blades of the knights, who were about to hit the smooth surface that suddenly appeared in front of their eyes, flew in all directions due to the counter-resilience that deflected the momentum of the plunge.
There were those who rolled and groaned,
There were also those who stared at the star clouds with their eyes wide open,
There were also those who wept and knelt down.
“As the goddess commanded, the stars gathered to create a fence that no one could invade.”
Someone repeated a phrase from an old scripture.
Roaring,
Priests reciting the content behind it.
“This is to prevent evil and protect the good.”
More than Helen’s hundred words, they saw a fragment of the goddess in that beautiful starlight.
Sorry for the stupidity, but this might have been a surefire way to enlighten them.
“Helen.”
More than ever, everyone felt the chaos.
Helen nodded her head.
Considering the time of magic tools,
It’s breathtaking.
“Please die.”
Roan’s gaze turned to the wall, and Helen nodded her head again.
Roan spoke with her shield still deployed.
“A rotten church that tries to use even the power of a saint bestowed by the goddess has no right to have a saint. I will take Helen.”
“Sleep, wait!”
People screamed and screamed. However, the shield had already disappeared, and Helen and Roan were jumping on top of a wall well over two meters high.
Roan and Helen disappeared into the darkness as some of the knights hurriedly removed their armor.
It was a neat and tidy exit, but
The aftermath of the midnight commotion was enormous.
“You asked us to take responsibility for her loss of her saintly daughter, and did you intentionally keep her locked up all this time?”
The next day, at the palace meeting, the pope endured ridicule from Sprouse III and the princes, biting his lip until it bled.
The guys who couldn’t keep the princess and Helen in check until now!
Even though he had to shut down his mouth like that, it seemed that the power of money planted by the royal family and nobles was stronger than the Pope’s authority.
The pope had to shrink his body, agonizing over and over again to get a cramp in his head from the pinch at the royal palace that he had been facing for the first time in years.
“They said the saintess was imprisoned.”
“Did the heavenly punishment fall?”
The people who were horrified at the smashed head of the goddess statue in the square last night had no choice but to tremble at the vicious rumors that followed.
“What I believed in and followed, was it right?”
And some priests were in agony.
It was a life of turning a blind eye to the fact that there was something unavoidable in order to move the organization,
The words of the stranger and the saintess who suddenly appeared in the middle of the night were enough to awaken their shame.
The Cult of Laurecia began to falter at its roots.
