Chapter 53 – Episode 53 ― The Goddess Comes to Me and Delivers Words of Wisdom (4)
Episode 53 ― The Goddess Comes to Me and Delivers Words of Wisdom (4)
“Goddess…”
“Laurecia, you mean?”
Roan’s small muttering voice was drowned out by Lee Ron’s sharp questioning.
Treasurer Rich. His body and the strength of the goddess are very incompatible. The treasurer, who was originally a little snarky, was now at his peak.
However, Helen’s expression is calm.
“Yes. That’s right.”
“Did Laurecia tell you to change your mind?”
The treasurer’s sarcasm sounded nervous, but Helen answered without hesitation.
It was as if Dora had realized it.
“No. Goddess…”
And what she said was quite surprising.
“He said that humans and demons are all your precious children. So, do what I think is right.”
The meeting room fell silent again.
All the thoughts that come to mind.
From religious and political ideas to simple things like ‘If you put that into perspective, what is the power of the divine power that inflicts additional damage on the undead!’.
But exploration and discussion are for later.
First of all, it is important that Helen changed her mind. Roan asked a few questions to prove it with clear actions above all else.
The operation of the Laurecia Church and the Order of the Holy Knights, and the movements of the Merde family related to them.
Even though Helen had already expressed her intentions in her own words, it was hard to believe at once that she confided everything like a lie.
‘Did the captain give a strange order?’
But even so, it is unlikely that she would lie by mentioning the goddess.
More than anything, her feelings are felt through her likability and numerical values, as well as her skill ‘listening’. Everything tells me that she is friendly with Roan.
‘Really, Goddess Laurecia… ?’
A world where God intervenes in people’s lives like this. I know it’s a fantasy world in a game, but I can’t help but be surprised.
God, why are you helping the demons?
Roan, who was searching for memories, suddenly realized one thing.
‘Maybe it has something to do with my magic?’
Two enchantments obtained as quest rewards.
Magic that had nothing to do with it.
‘Starlight’ and ‘Star’s Blessing’.
It was said to be ancient divine magic.
The fact that he realized next made Roan’s whole body rigid.
Though he didn’t realize it, Helen eagerly asked questions, Helen answered them, and Grünent watched the scene nervously.
The power that activates that divine magic,
What is it based on?
‘Isn’t that magical power?!’
The Demon King, who was gazing leisurely at Helen with one chin resting on the outside, was actually barely swallowing his astonishment.
‘Really, holy power? I have holy power inside me, and it was magic that moved based on that?’
If that’s the case, it was understandable that the goddess said, ‘Evils are also my children’. If the demons can also use holy power and it is manifested from themselves.
Of course, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary.
The demons do not have priests of goddesses. As I recalled earlier, the powers of not only goddesses but also gods act particularly strongly against undead demons.
I can’t be sure of anything right now.
Roan clenched one of his fists that had been placed on his table. I’d rather be able to meet the goddess or whatever and ask her in person. Whether it’s a dream
Once again, Roan’s eyebrows twitched and moved.
A warm voice from a dream that I had heard right before I entered the body of the demon king suddenly came to my mind.
— Aye.
Unknowingly, Roan jumped up.
At least, the cry was barely tolerated.
“… Your majesty?”
Grünent looked at Roan anxiously.
She seemed to be worried that Helen had made a mistake.
Helen and the nobles of the meeting also stopped talking and stared at Roan with nervous faces.
After a while, Roan sat down in his chair, barely smoothing the hem of his clothes.
“Oh, no. Stop thinking about something else. Go on, Helen.”
“Yes. Your majesty.”
The female knight with a cool voice continued her small meeting and conversation.
“So the most important thing for the Templars is the Law of the Templars. The law takes precedence over anything else, and there are situations in which it takes precedence over orders issued by names of denominations or bishops.”
“His name, even though he would be the Pope? For example?”
“It’s like a wartime situation, or at a site where a battle is underway. Like in the middle of an operation to rescue someone.”
At the last word, everyone made subtle expressions.
But Helen smiled faintly.
‘Now I’m disqualified from the Knights.’
She herself broke the laws of the Templars.
If captured by the enemy, protect the Knights’ comrades and protect the organization under any circumstances.
Even in exchange for your life.
However, doing so would not protect Grünent. As Grünent said, should we stick to the devil and save our lives?
Helen prayed for such anguish.
“Are you saying that the laws only for the Templars can take precedence over the rules of the Order?”
Minoreus asked Helen in a tone that seemed incomprehensible at first glance.
The idiot Knights follow only one standard. They give their allegiance to the Demon King.
Whether the order is right or wrong.
The demon knights are different from the human knights.
Human knights usually have people who are stronger than their masters. That is why the Knights are bound by a complex noose of discipline and reward.
However, the demons and the knights of the demon king are different.
What if one day the knights don’t like their master? It may all be swept away like autumn leaves.
Therefore, the most important thing that the Knights must prove is their blind loyalty. That’s it.
Since he was Minoreus, who thought that way all his life and became a knight and led them, the law of the Laurecian Knights was difficult to understand.
“Isn’t the church’s law meant to serve your god? How could the laws of the Templar Order, which are part of the Order, take precedence over the laws of the organization above it?”
“It is rather true because our church knights are for the goddess.”
There was a faint pride in Helen’s voice.
“The law is absolute. If there were exceptions to the Templar’s law, no one would be afraid. The strictly followed law is like a sheath. And I think that is the biggest factor that makes the Laurecia Paladins strong.”
‘Surely.’
Roan nodded his head.
Yes, the reason why there are idiots in the Order of the Holy Knights is,
Even so, the reason why the Church of Laurecia can exert its powerful power.
It’s probably because they’re severely constricting the Holy Knights based on strong laws.
Grunent said that if the Holy Knights joined the battle, they would be able to change the situation.
Because there is such a strong knights, the church can make a loud noise even to the royal family.
And the complex emotions in the voice of the powerful Laurecia Knights Vice-Captain,
Proud of the organization you belong to,
Love of Goddess,
Bitterness toward oneself who became a traitor.
“A knife is a thing that kills and cuts.
It is a powerful tool that replaces the ugly work that the master cannot do. So you don’t need a will, you just have to focus on the function to achieve your goal.”
“If it’s a function.”
To the chancellor’s question, Helen answered.
“Efficient enemy destruction.”
Saint Helen said mildly.
“The enemy’s quick death. That is the most important goal of the law. An unconcentrated knife point cannot be sharpened.”
And Helen’s gaze turned to Minoreus.
“What if the knife touches the user’s body part? As long as you swing the knife around comfortably, like the user’s limbs.”
“I will get hurt. Cut or.”
For a moment, Roan felt a difference and lowered her arm that rested on her chin and looked at Helen.
Her dark blue eyes glittered deeply.
At the same time, the presence of Minoreus felt in ‘detection’ was different from usual.
“So what do you need?”
“The scabbard. Is that the law of the Knights?”
“That’s right. It is a sword sheath to protect the prestige of the higher organization and the Goddess.”
Roan frowned slightly and looked around. Aranya and Lyron, who felt a sense of incongruity, also looked at Minoreus and Helen as if they were strange, but there was nothing wrong with their conversation.
Minoreus just slightly leaned towards Helen, as if being sucked in.
“If the user’s body rots or something, what should I cut it off with?”
“Knife.”
“That’s why the sword must be forged and in the scabbard. The sword sometimes cuts through enemies from within as well as from the outside. Because the master of the Knights Templar is not the Order.”
Helen caught her breath once.
She looked right into Minoreus’s eyes and said.
“The Knights Templar are the blades of the Goddess.”
“Right.”
The feeling of intimidation she felt in her moment was astounding. Roan watched as everyone who had listened to the conversation between her and her knight leader in silence fell involuntarily and nodded at her.
And after answering, Minoreus suddenly frowned. He unknowingly noticed her leaning towards Helen and straightened himself up.
It’s like trying to get yourself back as if you’ve fallen in love with someone.
Roan realized what Helen’s skill was.
A strong presence that is based on Charisma and appears when a high Wisdom level is combined.
A powerful force that makes the other person understand even the facts that cannot be readily understood. Leader’s skill.
‘Charisma!’
Since Helen is a masochist, I never thought she would have this skill.
[Message: Ding dong deng! You have successfully guessed the skill you want to acquire. An additional buff is applied to the skill cast on the attack target.]
[Message: Second Quest — Duplicate the skill ‘Charisma’ from the Saint of the Kingdom!]
A message was pinned to the top right, indicating that Roan’s guess was correct.
In the game, ‘charisma’ is shown in the way a character has more options after talking with another character or the way the character follows his/her words.
I’ve never seen such a specific scene.
That’s why Roan looked at Helen with curious eyes.
And Helen also faced Roan.
As her skill caster, she realized that Roan was completely unaffected by her own skills.
‘As expected, he’s the monarch of a country.’
Helen was amazed.
People in this world couldn’t read their status or abilities like Roan.
That’s why she, Helen, was only dimly aware that her skills were the power to persuade people, and that sometimes she could make even absurd words work.
After many trials and errors, Helen
She realized that her powers did not work well with people who were authoritative and had a strong presence, such as politicians and leaders.
Of course her powers grew with her.
Even the commander of the knights at the pinnacle of this country’s armed forces focused as if guided by Helen’s words, albeit for a moment.
Even seasoned politicians, such as Prime Minister Il or Finance Minister, did not listen to her at the last minute.
However, the Demon King was silently contemplating the conversation as if observing something.
Helen smiled lightly.
It was an expression close to laughter.
‘Now everyone will laugh at me.’
How amazing would that be
A person who breaks the law and confesses everything to the demons speaks of the law.
But she was no longer in agony.
Above all, because there was a clear will of the Goddess.
Helen remembered her conversation with Grunent the day before.
*
“It’s like going back to my childhood.”
Grünent said excitedly.
“There was a time when you came to my room sometimes. I’ve never been to your room like this before. Whoops, it’s the first time. Watching your bed.”
“Okay. Grunent. It was.”
Helen remembered that time. It was a pleasant but painful memory for her.
There were several times when she chatted all night in her room, secretly fell asleep together, and returned to the church at dawn.
She didn’t tell Grünent, but she was unlucky and caught by her priest and subjected to disgusting corporal punishment.
“I think I’m happier now than when I was young.”
Said Grunent, rolling around hugging her pillow.
Helen’s eyes widened at her words.
“Now?”
“Huh. Right now, my only wish is that the war end quickly, just like His Majesty said.”
“… Right.”
Helen could understand.
The Merde family was a suffocating place for Grunent. She had many things she wanted to do, but her royal family stood in her way in everything she did.
Rather, she is more free now that she has become the devil’s concubine.
Helen had seen Grünent working at a merchant. She had just started work and it was a hectic day, but Grunent seemed happy.
That’s why Helen’s worries were deep.
“Because neither demons nor humans can yield to each other…”
Grünent said regretfully.
“If Evirzio withdraws from the front, Merde will push down. Merde is…”
“It’s a war that started first, so you don’t want to back down.”
“Huh.”
Grünent smiled softly.
“As long as there is no rebellion within.”
