Chapter 85 – Aquarius(2)
Eve can’t follow me as a land representative. Selu’s movement is limited on land, and I have to carry it with me wherever I go, but if I get caught in the Mage’s Tower by mistake, I could become a stuffed mermaid. In Sieri’s case, the mage tower itself was a safe place, so it was okay to take her, but without Sieri, there was no human to put the brakes on Eve. Elsie can’t go because she’s a beast.
Therefore, I had to go on a business trip by myself. Strictly speaking, he was not alone. I was accompanied by several abductees, a few people pulling the carts, and two priests to help with the funeral procession. To explain the plan, the goal was to retrieve the bodies of the priests and then quickly finish the field investigation and return the priests to their hometowns.
Since Daecheonsingyo cares about the priests of its church very much, there is a system in which the priest of the region goes directly to supervise the funeral when a priest dies on a mission related to the church. I don’t know how a church can have more restrictions than privileges. Why is this worldview church not corrupted? If it’s fucking yagam, of course, isn’t the belly protruding and the corrupt pastor going around raping women?
Am I still living a healthy life because I’m not enough?
As I packed my things, I kept those complaints in my head. If it weren’t for a world where the corruption of the church was taken for granted, I was too conspicuous when I did bad things. Eve and Elsie were seeing me off on my way. A little farther away from the view, Selu was waving his hand moderately in the pool.
Sieri went to church early, and Ira still couldn’t leave the house. Eve said.
“Buy me a present.”
“I’ll buy a dog tail.”
“…What do you want me to become? A mermaid mixed race isn’t enough?”
“Because mixed-race mermaids with dog tails are more attractive.”
“Crazy bastard.”
Eve got over my bullshit in moderation. Elsie heard that and she told me.
“If you buy it, a cat’s tail is better.”
“Yes?”
“A cat’s tail is better.”
“Ah yes…”
I couldn’t understand what Elsie was talking about, so I just gave her a moderate response and turned around. As he climbed into the carriage, the priest sitting across from him bowed his head. This time, 6 priests died, so he was the priest who specially came down from the Daecheonsingyo headquarters to supervise the funeral. I also bowed my head as I was a person of an age that I could not treat with disrespect.
“Nice to meet you, Priest Lucius.”
The priest said so. He had a smile on his face, frowning so much that he thought he might have opened his eyes. I felt bad for that laugh, but I didn’t show it.
“Yes. Nice to meet you. What should I call you? A funeral priest?”
“I’d appreciate it if you could just call me Priest Elson.”
The carriage started. The sound of wheels leaving the estate was somehow sad. Said Priest Elson.
“I heard that you made a prison guard this time.”
“Yes. I did.”
After the mermaid woman, the news that she had taken a beastman as her personal bodyguard had already spread throughout the South. Of course, it was up to me who to choose as the escort, and with the certification from the head of the Eastern Priest, Elsie was not a slave, but voluntarily with me, so the Daecheon Shinkyo didn’t say much either.
“You seem to have quite unique tastes.”
Are you kidding me I asked with a smile.
“What are you talking about?”
“Do you feel any special sexual desire for non-human things?”
“Do you think I used Elsie, a prisoner, as an escort because of my lust?”
It was correct, but I pretended not to. There was no way this priest at the headquarters of the Archangel Church knew that I was messing with Elsie anyway.
“It’s not like that, but I’m asking because you’re making appointments so blatantly that I wonder if it’s a bit excessive even for someone who has been involved in the Archangel Church.”
“It’s not against the tenets of the Great Heavenly Church.”
There was nothing in the doctrine of Daecheonsingyo that said that prisoners should not be used as bodyguards or approached. In the first place, Daecheonsingyo did not define ‘human’ itself. The first line of the scriptures of Daecheonsingyo began like this.
‘Human beings have a duty to live as human beings. Daecheonsingyo is the path leading to that duty and the truth.’
“Do you think Priest Elson is not human?”
“It’s difficult to say from my point of view.”
“Then what’s the matter? I’m not sure if you want to point out that my bodyguard is a prisoner or something else.”
I actually knew. If I could sum up what Priest Elson was saying in one line, it would be ‘No matter how many beasts…’. No matter how free Daecheonsingyo was in this respect, it was an intellectual thought that it was crossing the line too much. Considering my political standing and social status, there was bound to be a bit of a backlash against having a prisoner as an escort and treating him like a ‘human’.
Undoubtedly, the beastmen were the invaders who made the humans suffer in the eastern plains. It meant that no matter how much I practiced the teachings of Daecheonsingyo, I had to keep an eye on it. Right now, in the territories of the eastern plains, there were many people whose families were killed by beastmen.
If I were to question my behavior now, I could explain it like this. Hearing the words of his friend’s parents to stay comfortably at his friend’s house his, he is lying on the floor and scratching his stomach on the floor. When you see that, your friend’s parents ask, “What are you doing?”
– You said you were comfortable?
It was like answering this.
Priest Elson is talking softly now. Do it in moderation The fact that headquarters sent a person directly to this incident must have been to convey this to me. The church cannot be political, but even so it could not escape political and social problems. The reason why Daecheonsingyo grew up was because there was support from the kingdom.
Priest Elson said no more. He seemed a little offended, but he had nothing more to say anyway. Because you can’t punish me other than saying things like that. Who would say anything about the fact that I use a freedman, a prisoner, as an escort in my territory.
With Priest Elson shutting up like that, I was able to enjoy a rather comfortable carriage trip. It was because the human right next to me didn’t talk to me, so I could fully enjoy the scenery.
The dwarf kingdom came with a huge mountain range. Although it does not reach the magnificent majesty of the Dragon Mountains, the Dwarven Kingdom was also buried in a huge mountain. In the distance, sharp mountain cuts and holes dug by miners were visible. At first glance, it looked like Swiss cheese, and it also looked like a joke set up to induce tryphobia in me.
I looked at the mountain and turned my head with a frown. Watching it made me feel bad. The hole-in-the-mountain was not something to look at for long. In the original work, the Dwarf Kingdom had found all the mineral veins in the mountains, so they were planning to move to the north. It was hard to know how much the mountain was chewed with the original graphics, but the holes were so crooked that the dwarf cubs were the cubs who chewed the environment as much as they were.
I couldn’t stand the fact that bastards like Brock Lesnar under the press ruined the mountain view.
At the moment when I was in a bad mood, one of the priests running alongside the carriage pointed to the horizon and shouted.
“It’s a mage tower.”
I shook my head at those words. Mage Tower The mage towers in the city were indeed towers. Dozens of hundreds of towers that looked like the Leaning Tower of Pisa were lined up in one city. Inside the tower, there were shops, restaurants, and accommodations. For us, it was a space similar to a residential-commercial complex.
The higher the floor, the more skilled wizards lived, and the less skilled wizards were not assigned a room inside the tower. For this reason, there were many cases where even wizards registered in the Mage Tower did not live in the Mage Tower, but rather built a house or made a tent nearby.
We got off the wagon at the entrance to the city and looked for the person in charge. I saw someone running in the distance. It was evident that he was responsible for making sure we were coming. When it was his turn to work in earnest, Priest Elson let go of his frown and put on a solemn face.
The person in charge took a deep breath and opened the thick list. He was a man with thick glasses and an impressive hooked nose.
“You’re right, Priest Peta Lucius, right?”
“Yes. That’s right. I heard that our priests and the mercenaries we dispatched all died.”
“Yes. That’s right. We collected the corpse and headed this way…”
The person in charge pointed to a small tent. Priests in tents? When I looked at the person in charge with a subtle expression, he hurriedly excused himself.
“I had no choice because there was no room inside the Mage Tower to use as a mortuary! That… Still, isn’t it a bit like giving a room where the body was stored to a wizard who entered the Mage Tower? It’s like putting it in a warehouse.”
“No, I didn’t say anything. Let’s go quickly.”
I didn’t mean to argue, but the person in charge was making excuses on his own.
“Still, since we have applied all sorts of magic, from preservation magic to respecting the Archangel Church, there should be no problem with the corpse.
I went inside the tent. There, corpses were lying in rows with fives. I picked one of the corpses covered in cloth and tried to remove the cloth.
“Woah…”
The body was literally smashed to pieces. It was as powerful as a dwarf putting on a dwarf-made knuckle and putting a super blow in the face. I didn’t know who it was, so I just made a proper last name and covered the corpse with a cloth again. After all, the funeral was the job of the funeral priest.
“It’s a pity. I want to see the scene.”
My duty is to check the scene and uncover the truth of the incident. In the end, the conclusion was ‘Evangeline did it.’ I will.
The person in charge guided me to the site. Priests were collecting corpses in the back. But what if you clean it up like this and then something goes wrong? I said hastily.
“Could you wait a moment, in case you don’t know? Perhaps something will happen to examine the body.”
Priest Elson looked at me with a somewhat dissatisfied expression before stopping his priests. I want to send the priests to their families as soon as possible, so I’m not the only one who is dissatisfied. But what if. The situation could have been complicated enough to have to investigate the body.
