Chapter 316 – Chapter 316 ― Second Day (5)
Episode 316 ― Second Day (5)
The princess has returned to Merde.
It was not a problem that the aristocratic family was excited.
The royal family was literally turned upside down.
No matter how ignorantly he followed the advice of the court mage who was aiming for the collapse of the Dark Forest and Merde, for Sprouse III, war was also an important matter that depended on his luck.
It was because it was a good opportunity to break the power of the nobility and church and deal with the successors who threatened his place.
However, the war did not go the way Sprouse III and Schlaner had hoped.
The demons resisted stronger than they thought, and in the end, the emperor of the demons, Roan, made a truce.
Merde’s aristocrats were supposed to take advantage of this gap, but due to the war, the aristocratic faction and the Church of Laurecia also lost their power.
Grunent, who became their center, has disappeared, and the church, which has become their back ship, is also shaken.
There was nowhere else to trust.
The nobles chose to lie flat rather than risk it.
However,
That very princess, Grünent, has returned.
If the rumors are true, it’s only a matter of time before the game changes. There’s no way they couldn’t have made that calculation.
“Didn’t the royal family or nobles rush out like crazy to find out the truth? It wouldn’t have been strange if the Capital Knights had come out right away.”
If there was a princess, there would have been an excuse for the knights to take her, and if not, they could drag people who would be the scandalous seeds who spread such rumors.
However, even the Knights couldn’t move hastily in the face of Count Hilfe’s power.
In today’s stressful Sprouse, money is power.
“As you said, the knights came. However, Count Hilpe and Sermo guaranteed it, so they had no choice but to retreat. Even after searching the inside, there was no trace of Mr. Grünent.”
“I really wasn’t there then.”
Grunent came here last week.
It seems that Grünent had been plotting through Schikwiena even before he came to Sprouse.
The Knights of the Capital went through confirmation, but rumors continued to spread through the succubus who had already hid in social circles and the royal palace.
In addition, Count Hilpe supported them and became close to the people of the Church of Life.
“Anyway, it succeeded in making the Church of Life look good to those who were looking for an outside force to join hands with.”
If it had been popular among the people, the new followers of the goddess would have been just gossip of the nobles.
However, if there are rumors that a hip-heavy aristocrat like Hilfe, or even a princess, is involved, the value changes.
Even the saintess who went to rescue her princess appeared in the new church.
The rumor that the princess has returned became the basis for not feeling it as just a rumor.
Someone followed Helen, Hilfe, or Sermo. It was to make sure the princess was really staying inside.
Of course, their tailing failed each time at the main gate of the orphanage.
It was partly because Count Hilfe’s elite guarded the orphanage, and partly because magic tools and tracking magic did not activate near the orphanage at all.
The pursuers did not know why.
There was no way to know.
I couldn’t have predicted that Roan would have planted Astor crystals along the walls of the orphanage.
No magic could work properly around the orphanage.
“I can see that everyone tried. But the church still needs to grow.”
Schlaner’s position within the court is still strong. In order to overturn that, the human aristocratic society needs to move bigger. Only then will Grunent return
In addition, the church is also helpful in making humans reduce their resistance to the demons and move to Evirgio.
The Church was correcting errors in the scriptures of the Laurecia Church based on what Roan had heard from the goddess.
The demon tribe is also a life created by the Goddess, and Evirzio has a different culture, but if there is no war, it can unexpectedly become a land of opportunity.
“The Count, hurry up as much as possible and let me control the important positions inside the palace. The sooner Grunent reaches out, the better.”
“All right.”
Count Hilfe bowed her head politely.
The acquisition of the prime minister has already been completed as before, but
The organization of the royal palace is great.
With the Count’s money, power, and justification as Grünent, it would only be a matter of time before he was seized.
“As you said, there are a few things we can discuss about sending the corps to the east.”
Roan, Count Hilfe, and Grünent moved on to the next topic.
East of Merde.
A place bordering Evirzio.
In the middle of the long north-south border stretches the Dark Forest, which occupies about half of the border, and below it is the Southern Dark Spirit of Evirgio, and on top is the West Blood Spirit.
If you go further north from there, you will find Dos, the central city of Northern Baengnyeong, but in order to do so, you have to cross the mountain range across the north of Merde, so not many humans live there.
“The trade products were selected mainly from the territory near the Dark Forest.”
The reason why he dares to go up to the border with Evirzio, east of the top of Merde’s largest count.
Through this, it was to secretly trade the by-products of the Dark Forest received from Evirgio and send humans to Evirgio more safely.
An era in which long-distance communication is limited.
It takes a long time for the Church to expand beyond the capital and to other territories.
The Church has not yet been strong enough to protect humans who will move to Evirzio.
If you use the protective force of the upper level, which already has a system, it becomes advantageous to protect humans.
On top of that, the opportunity to exclusively trade precious items that can only be found in the Dark Forest through demons, which even humans cannot get, is a bonus.
It’s something no human being has ever done.
If the corps went to the dangerous border area above and below the dark forest to obtain such precious things, there was no choice but to be convinced.
Humans do not yet know that the demons have started trading with the Dark Forest, so they cannot imagine that they will officially obtain it through the demons.
“Your majesty.”
Suddenly, Sermo interrupted the conversation between the three.
Roan raised his head.
“Is it already time?”
“That’s right.”
His smile is benevolent
Respect and joy seemed to well up in his heart as he thought of what Roan would do in the future.
“You should go.”
As he said that, Grunent’s expression was dripping with regret. Roan put a slight smile on his normally insensitive mouth and kissed her forehead lightly.
“Come in the evening.”
“I’ll wait, Your Majesty.”
After greeting Grünent, Roan accepted what Helen had given him.
A hood that covers the face.
Once he used a transformation tool to cover his horns, but once again it was just in case.
The small phrase embroidered on the back is the same as the doctrine of the Church of Life.
— All lives are equally valuable.
This was what Roan realized after meeting the goddess several times.
“Shall we go?”
Roan took a step.
Helen followed.
**
We rode a simple wagon to a small square not far from the orphanage.
“It has grown more.”
Helen’s voice was strange.
She seemed happy and worried.
Fritz, standing in the center of the crowd, seemed to be finishing his sermon.
“Master, please don’t overdo it this time.”
Helen seemed desperate.
The last time she used her holy power to the bottom of her body, she became dizzy for a while, and Helen is still worried after a few days.
Who called someone overprotective?
“I get it.”
Roan smiled softly and patted her Helen’s head. Her concern was admirable.
Taking her hand, Roan quietly lowered the hood.
The carriage stopped.
People’s attention was already focused from the moment the carriage entered the square.
The Church of Life has given sermons here several times. Humans knew what would happen next.
“Agent!”
“The saintess has arrived!”
There was a buzz of surprise and anticipation.
At first, the sound that started as a whisper rose like a wave and became a cry. The power that amplified the human voice was desperation.
People in shabby clothes rushed toward the wagon first. People dressed in rather slick clothes stepped back from a distance, as if they couldn’t blend in, then approached nervously for no reason.
What stopped them were the people of the Church of Life who had been surrounding Roan and Helen’s carriage from a long time ago.
“Step back. Dangerous.”
“Please keep order.”
But the crowd seldom retreated. It was then.
“Stop.”
A low-pitched voice came out.
At that moment, the commotion surrounding the carriage died down like a lie.
Even if it wasn’t the power of the skill ‘appeal’, the divine power that was subtly permeated gave strength to Roan’s voice.
The door opened in silence.
Roan appeared, hiding his face under the hood. He was accompanied by a saintess behind him.
“Don’t rush, gentlemen. Please keep the order as you have been given.”
Helen opened her mouth.
People were buzzing.
“It’s a saintess.”
“Goddess.”
“You really are a saint… !”
She was once a saint who was promoted by the Order of Laurecia. Because she is a sacred object, Helen’s portraits used to be hung here and there instead of statues of goddesses that could not be handled carelessly.
Many people knew her face.
People were so surprised.
It was as if she, her saintess, had served her agent with great care.
But whatever they thought, Helen didn’t care, and got out of her carriage first and made her way through the crowd so that Roan wouldn’t be inconvenienced.
“Agent.”
Fritz and other church members greeted Roan. Roan headed to the tent the church members had prepared in advance.
And the people gathered in the tent were lying down, sitting, or being supported by someone, unlike the others surrounding the carriage.
People who can’t even move alone.
Before Roan arrived, the people of the Church of Life had selected and gathered them.
“A little father… Help me…”
Roan’s gaze turned to a child.
Fatigue and tiredness were visible on his face, which was dripping with soup.
It was too heavy an emotion to put on the face of a child who would have been less than ten years old at most.
But it was commonplace in this world.
Not too long ago, the children of the demons were like this.
And it is also Merde’s daily life.
“How did it happen?”
“From the war, after the truce came back…”
I didn’t have to listen to it anymore.
No matter how many priests you have, you can’t cure everyone. The priests recruited for the war would have used their holy power centered on nobles and knights.
And in the case of this poor father in front of me,
Even if her arm had been cut off, she would have only received moderate treatment to heal the wound.
However, the road from the border to the capital is long.
There was always a possibility that the affected area would deteriorate in the process. Even after he returned, he would have had to support his family and would not have the energy to take care of his body.
So.
As if right in front of her eyes, under her amputated left elbow, pus filled and maggots crawled.
In front of her father, who had already lost her sanity with severe inflammation and fever, a swaying child grabbed Roan’s sleeve.
The people around them held their noses at the stench and let out pitying sighs, even though they were blocked by the members of the Church of Life and were unable to get closer.
