Chapter 317 – Chapter 317 ― Second Day (6)
Episode 317 ― Second Day (6)
“Will the agent give this person a chance?”
Fritz, who stood by Helen’s side, said.
Roan replied.
“Not me.”
The people around Roan, who had made subtle faces at his words, widened their eyes when they heard the next words.
“Goddess will give you a chance.”
That’s right, the power you use is the direct power of the Goddess.
There were many restrictions on the divine magic used by the Laurecia Church and other existing churches.
Things that could have just been revitalized, such as a cold or body ailment, could not be cured with divine magic. There was no way that a missing body part could regenerate.
In that sense, Roan’s “Star’s touch” Was like a miracle even to the former priests of the Laurecia Church.
The power to return the form of life to its source.
A miracle that could no longer be reproduced in the Church of Laurecia, which had been degraded and distorted through thousands of hours.
“Don’t cry.”
Roan reached out and stroked the messy child’s hair lightly.
A soft voice enveloped the child like consolation.
The crying child swallowed her tears with her mouth closed, as if calmed down a little by the skill in his voice.
In between.
Roan’s hand goes to his man’s mangled elbow. With a lump of flesh underneath that was swollen and discolored, covered in pus and scabs.
“Goddess.”
“Oh my God…”
“That… I mean it’s possible… ?”
A shimmering light began to trickle from Roan’s hand to the man’s mangled, severed elbow.
The elasticity of people who burst out.
The festering wound on the tip of his arm opened.
The man, who had lost consciousness at the feeling of his wounds being torn apart, barely opened his eyes in pain.
That moment.
The man forgot her pain through the light.
“Ah…”
She forgot to wipe away her tears, and the child staring blankly at the miracle let out a meaningless admiration.
In the meantime, the mass of light that passed through Roan’s hand and covered the man’s arm gradually increased in size.
As if an arm made of light grows.
I wonder if less than 1 minute has passed.
Those around the place noticed that her new arm had sprouted from her man’s body.
“Oh God.”
The man’s shabby clothes, his clean-skinned arms in stark contrast to her messy body.
It looked so different from the rest of his body, including the top of the elbow, that the new arm seemed foreign and even sacred, as if it had been attached.
The man fumbled in disbelief with her other hand on her new arm.
“Agent.”
The murmur gradually began to subside.
When someone knelt down and prayed, you and I started praying as well.
“It is miraculous.”
“It’s a miracle from the goddess.”
“That agent is real.”
The religion of Goddess Laurecia is believed and followed by everyone in Merde, especially Spros, from birth.
Teaching writing, getting baptized by grown children, being a place where people visit when they are injured, and hosting weddings and funerals are the temples.
The existence of the goddess is a familiar power that is everywhere in life to them.
So they could know
The power that comes from the agent, Roan, is the power of the goddess they believed in all their lives.
The warmth emanating from the agent’s light is more intense and darker than what they felt in the church.
It was a force close to the source.
“… It became. I hope the Goddess’ protection will be with you.”
After finishing treatment, Roan looked around.
Silent crowd.
In the midst of the silence, which was indistinguishable from the number of people gathered in the plaza, there were a few people who caught his attention.
‘Are they the knights of the capital?’
Standing among the crowd, peering over their shoulders into this space, or kneeling with others nearby.
However, they felt a very different power from other humans.
Fighting spirit sharpened to the point of being similar to when I met Anmut.
It is the power of the knight.
‘Hmm.’
There are five capital knights that can be felt in the plaza.
Not all of them are fancy like nobles, but they are neatly dressed like merchants.
‘Looks like you’re here to watch. He must have been curious.’
All sharp eyes.
These are the eyes of people who have refined themselves to the limit of human beings.
However, even in their calm faces, it seems that a piece of surprise could not be hidden.
It would be the first time they, like the rest of the square, had seen an arm grow.
Soon, Roan, who had taken care of them, looked around the tent again. In addition to the man he just treated, there were a few more people to treat.
“Next turn.”
Helen was the first to come to her senses at Roan’s brief question.
“… You can move to the right.”
A tent with about ten people stretched out.
A long line formed outside the tent while Roan or Helen treated them one by one.
It was a line to get rations.
The Church of Life is distributing rations to those in need and arranging jobs based on the enormous financial resources of the Hilfe Merchant.
Ostensibly, it is a recruitment of volunteers to collect the necessary resources for the guild near the Dark Forest.
However, in reality, clearing work in the border area of Evirgio, which is known to be dangerous to humans.
Unlike those who have relatively stable jobs by opening shops in the capital or being included in various organizations,
The people who decided to beg for a meal and provide labor here were people who had already left their hometowns and came up to the capital to find work in the capital.
Their first priority is survival.
More people than Roan expected had already decided to work and share the bread.
“Thank you. Priest. Then can you come over here by tomorrow morning?”
“Yes. You just have to wait for the upper carriage to arrive in the morning.”
And there were people who watched as if they were uncomfortable.
Private soldiers sent by noble families to observe the situation. Users.
And the knights of the capital.
Reducing the number of people in the capital means reducing the tax revenue collected by the royal family.
No matter how much they are temporary workers in the capital, if you are in the position of someone who sees them as money, you will regret one thing.
In the meantime, someone’s careless remark sparked a spark.
“This kind of bread that neither the church nor the lord received… The true blessings of the Goddess will be with the priests. Thank you thank you.”
A stout young man said bluntly to the old man who kept bowing his head.
“You sound good. In a country that has just finished a war, who can afford it!”
His voice rang out loud.
The people around them, who were excited by the wind, became quiet.
Unlike most of the people who filled the plaza, the young man was well-dressed, had a good complexion, and was big.
The workers instinctively sensed that they should avoid the young man and lowered their heads.
Roan and Helen, who had just finished treatment and were being greeted by a patient, turned their heads to where the commotion had started.
“Oops, I’m not like that…”
“The Hilfe Merchants are also doing ridiculous charity work.”
Said the young man sarcastically.
Of course, there is no one among the nobles who does not know that Count Hilpe is behind the upper ranks.
There is only one thing that can openly curse the name of such a top.
Royal household.
The people of the Church of Life, who were crazy about him, came to appease the young man and send him away, but his face turned white.
“Rather than filling the mouths of worms like you, who abandoned the territory they were supposed to protect and fled to the capital, shouldn’t the corps have paid their allegiance with their spare energy?”
“You are right.”
A few people around him added their words.
People who are neatly dressed.
“No matter how much the church is named, it is ridiculous to hold up a church made by a bunch of stragglers.”
There is no major deviation from the logic of the young man, who is presumed to be a knight of the capital.
If this country, Merde, was running properly, it would be natural for the nobles to lend their strength to the royal family weakened by the war.
If you want to take care of the people’s livelihood as if you were curing or saving people, it is much more efficient to join hands with the Laurecia Church, which has already taken care of the task.
But the premise is wrong.
And the Church of Life is still struggling to point out that part.
“Are you the right person to talk about loyalty?”
In a low voice, the young man turned to his side.
Across people who don’t know what to do
Roan spoke to him.
‘What is this person?’
The young man, who had been glaring at him involuntarily, stiffened in shock.
Covered by a hood, you can’t even see his face,
Although the body is also hidden inside the robe.
The energy I feel from him is unbelievably powerful.
The young man involuntarily swallowed.
At this level, even compared to the leader, it is not lacking at all.
‘Why… Didn’t you know?’
A cold sweat broke out on the nape of the young man’s neck as he encountered a strong man in an unexpected place.
Rather than his confused head, his body, which wanted to survive, reacted first.
Is the agent from a paladin? Okay. I heard that there are many missing knights from the Laurecia Church. Are you one of them? Hidden strength? Then it made sense for the saintess to follow her there.
“Is your allegiance the abandonment of those in blind spots who cannot be cared for in the highest places? Or to blame the starving people?”
To make someone an ally, politicians often make public enemies.
Divided crowds are most likely to side with the strong and blame the weak. Either fast or slow.
Because the crowd doesn’t have the power to dig deep into the truth.
Now that they have bread in their hands, they will support the Church of Life, but in the end, humans living in Merde cannot rebel against the royal family.
Based on that logic, the young man criticized the Life Church and the Hilpe Merchant.
To the crowd, stand with the royal family.
What if you even resist his words?
Are you not loyal to the royal family? All you have to do is put in one word.
In the era of monarchy like now, the word ‘loyalty’ is no different from a cheat key.
“You seem to have forgotten whose people all these people are.”
“… !”
But rather, the agent stepped into the topic that the young man was talking about as if he was hiding it.
The gap suddenly narrowed.
The young man’s face contorted.
“No matter how high a place is, there is bound to be a dark place that cannot be seen. Someone has to reap the shadows of the world. Don’t you think that’s your role?”
So Roan twisted the direction of the conversation.
This is a problem that you had to solve, without going up to the top of your ranks.
Whether or not this young man, the knights of the capital, and the nobles were really loyal to the king was irrelevant. Roan is not interested in their problems.
In the first place, they did not throw out such words as they sincerely hoped that all the people would give their hearts and minds to the royal family.
Just belittling the actions of the count and the church,
I just wanted to throw in an unguardable keyword.
Did I not expect that the priest, the so-called ‘agent’, would throw a political argument?
“What, nonsense… Still, it is the most important noble duty to prioritize His Majesty and the Royal Family!”
“You dare to tarnish the name of the royal family. There is no way that His Majesty the King, who is merciful, would have to abandon the people and sacrifice everything for the war. With that one set of clothes and one pair of shoes you wear, you should be able to fulfill your duty as a knight by feeding countless people.”
“…”
Judging by the contents alone, it wouldn’t be strange to say it was sarcastic, but because of the calm and soft tone, it sounded like a priest’s point at him sincerely blaming the young knight for his dissatisfaction.
“Our church prioritizes following the words of the Goddess, but there is no doubt about trying to save the people of this country. I hope you don’t doubt the loyalty of the people gathered here and the person who supports the Merchant.”
Finally, the blushing young man, without further words, blended into the crowd and disappeared as if running away.
He decided that if he talked further, he would attract too much attention and his identity might be exposed.
‘Okay. I do not question their loyalty.’
The priests of the Church of Life, to the Goddess,
The fact that Count Hilfe and Grünent are loyal to me may be a little different from the knight’s idea.
And won’t these people soon become the people of my land?
At least one person must be saved
Can’t you make it work?
The mouth exposed under the hood was a faint smile. Thinking of Evirgio’s farmland, which will grow further with human power, made me smile.
