262 – New Common Sense
Even when the demon Harmael rose to prominence and caused demon phobia on the continent,
When the Citadel suffered serious damage from a volcanic eruption caused by a monster,
Even when there were rumors that the elves would be destroyed in an instant and the Shinigami would rise and take over the continent,
Even when the solidly standing ground began to shake at some point,
People were surprised, but only then. Humans are animals of adaptation. Everyone thought that this crisis was no different from the last. People thought it would shock the world for a moment and then disappear into history. Everyone had this thought in their hearts.
‘Could the world really be ruined?’
Even the crazy people who went around screaming that the world would end tomorrow were thinking something like that.
If you really think the world is going to end, there is no reason to go around inciting others. Even if you just think about how to spend your last moments meaningfully, it won’t be enough.
But really.
And really.
This time, everyone really began to accept that the world was going to end.
When Ardein von Illumina once again set foot on the archipelago, there was no longer a single person on the streets. No matter how much time had passed, it was as quiet as if a rat had died.
I couldn’t even find anyone shouting that the world was coming to an end.
The truth that everyone acknowledges and accepts is because no one shouts it out loud. “Water flows down!”, “The sun rises in the east.” If you go around shouting the same thing, who will pay attention?
When one fact finally becomes the truth and is accepted by everyone,
People who go around spreading it are actually idiots.
The system seemed as if time had stopped. There was no vitality to be found. The usually bustling square where the gate was located was empty, and the prisoners who came out from there just looked around blankly.
I like tall buildings and gorgeous architecture that I couldn’t imagine, this is it. However, it is surprising that there is no one there even though there is no fire or attack.
The building is fine, but are all the people dead? The princess, worried, hurriedly ran to the castle. During those few days of clearing up the chaos in the Beastin Kingdom, we have no idea what happened to the system.
“Princess Ardein. Are you back? “Ugh!”
He was not a very high-ranking person, but he was trusted by the imperial family.
So, her man, who was the gatekeeper of her palace, sat down in broad daylight and greeted her with a devastated expression on his face, holding her bottle of liquor in his hand.
He had always carried out his responsibilities with a solemn and disciplined attitude, but just seeing him look so disheveled was clearly a problem. This person may not be very talented, but he is deeply loyal and has a long career, so much so that even the royal family occasionally greets him.
“You shouldn’t have come back. You should have given Your Majesty hope. Even if that hope is just wishful thinking, at least you can have some regrets…”
“What on earth happened, old man? “Please speak properly.”
“Nothing happened. Everyone just knew what was going to happen. Everything will start happening from now on. Lowering. “The empire is ruined.”
He usually bowed his head in greeting whenever he saw members of the royal family, but he only staggered out of the way. The hallway beyond was dark.
All the power of a country was concentrated, and this imperial palace, which was almost like a castle even at night, has already lost its splendor. The hallway was so quiet that it was chilly, and Ardane shivered without even realizing it.
Back then.
Actually, not that much time has passed.
A small room where he was half-imprisoned after suffering from a serious illness and ruining his life.
The scent of the room that no one had visited except the two maids was now coming from the entire imperial palace.
Perhaps, at that time, I would go out from the imperial palace and meet that priest,
All the adventures that took place after being cured by God’s miracle,
In fact, I guess it was just a dream I had on an old bed while I was sick and dying.
It was so foreign that such thoughts came to me without my knowledge. The imperial palace she knew was never like this.
“Princess Ardein.”
Perhaps that is why, when someone put his arm over her shoulder and spoke to her, the princess was so surprised that she almost fainted. Even though he is a master, he is ultimately a human being, and like all humans, emotional ups and downs have a big impact on his skills.
It is natural that the Master’s keen senses will become dull if he concentrates his mind and thinks about other things. However, the basic skills themselves do not go anywhere.
Although he may have been careless, the fact that he avoided the Master’s intuition and made contact to the point where he placed his hand on his shoulder shows that the opponent was no less powerful. Unable to hide her vigilance, she turned around to see a woman whose face she had never seen before, looking at her with a somewhat puzzled expression.
“You’re probably right. “As for the woman with the royal family’s unique blonde hair who has become a Master, she is not known to anyone other than Her Majesty Ardane.”
“Who are you?”
“I am Sestine, a saint of the Hillai religion.”
Not only had she met Ardein for the first time with her smile, but her clothes were just like those of an ordinary priest. Now that she had taken off the elegant saintly clothes she usually wore and the mysterious veil that covered her face, she was already used to these questions.
She was in a situation where even people who had seen her a lot were asking if she was really Sestine-sama, so she would have been even more surprised if Ardane, whom she had no idea about, had easily believed her. Of course, the princess could not easily get rid of her doubts. She’s really a saint of the Hilai religion, renowned on the continent?
“Now that she has lost her reason for existence and has returned to being a mere commoner, the title of saint is undeserved.”
Sestine, the saint of the Hillai religion she knows, does not have that kind of mellow personality. I’ve never met him, but I heard rumors through various channels.
Sestine, one of the three saints of the Church, is said to be beautiful and gentle on the outside, but she is full of poisonous snakes inside. If the rumors are true, that woman is dark on the inside.
She is not the type of person to say something like that. Be that as it may, the saintess was not shaken at all. She had nothing to hide from. She had no intention of deceiving or betraying the princess, nor did she have any intention of taking advantage of her, so she had nothing to fear, no matter what her opponents thought of her.
“Because the bridge between people and God is no longer needed in this era…”
Making an unintelligible sound, she slowly walked away. She was wary and her reaction was to make herself feel more embarrassed. The princess, who was contemplating whether to draw her sword or not, became embarrassed and scratched her head.
For a very brief moment, I thought that the Gyoguo couldn’t get rid of its habits and tried to create an imperial palace once again. But if you think about it again, if that were the case, wouldn’t a paladin have been guarding the main gate of the imperial palace?
“What on earth is going on here? “It doesn’t look very safe, does it?”
I was very nervous this time, so luckily I was able to catch the approach at the right time. So I wasn’t surprised. The princess frowned as she saw the wolf pacing across her hallway.
“How did you get in here?”
“When I showed the sign I received from the Noble House to the person guarding the door over there, he told me to just go in.”
Self-proclaimed King Lang. And Deputy King Su. In addition, since Kisea, who is also a Viscount of the Empire, has a title, it is true that he has the right to enter the imperial palace.
The princess was sighing inwardly, saying, “Anyone can now enter the imperial palace…” When she realized that fact, she shook her head to drive away her distracting thoughts. I keep forgetting that Kiseah is a member of the nobility.
On top of that, he was currently the Deputy King of Beasts, so just looking at his title, he was fully qualified to meet the Emperor of the Empire face to face. He is a beast king in name, but in a few days he will become a king without a country.
The Kalkamir Mountains enter the eastern plains within a week at most.
No one can stop a living, moving mountain. As a person, you have no choice but to avoid and run away, and in fact, just by successfully running away, you have used up all your luck in your life.
“Anyway, if I’m going to live in the empire from now on, I’ll have to talk to His Majesty. I saw you once last time, and now I am the king of the beast people. A monarch cannot miss meeting his monarch.”
Ardain pouted inwardly as he saw Kisea showing greed for territory, title, and status even after running away like that. Although he was quite a snob in his old days, it was difficult for him to even raise his head in front of the real person.
Still, when Kisea joined, there were some things that helped. In the strangely empty imperial palace, Kisea’s nose showed its true value. After sniffing, he led Ardein to where there was a sign of a person. The effectiveness of wolves in the vast and complex imperial palace like a maze was great.
“Mother!”
The place we arrived at was one of the imperial palace’s villas, located in a completely different place from the Rose Palace where the Empress originally resided. There, a woman wearing a white uniform was shedding tears without even a single guard.
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The old woman, who was wearing a white dress that only commoners would wear, rather than a fancy dress adorned with numerous jewels, was none other than the empress of the empire and her mother-in-law. But now she was forcing herself to cry, wiping away her tears with her handkerchief.
“Honey…”
She was a little startled when she heard her daughter’s voice calling, but she soon regained her composure. With her bitter face, tears dripping down that she could not wipe away, she opened her mouth in a trembling voice.
“The empire… This empire was destroyed in our generation!”
The march of the Reaper, which seemed to have no end, stopped.
To deal with the uplift that broke the ground behind them.
Treading on the seemingly invincible army of the Shinigami, another lump of flesh heads towards the empire.
It is not a large mass like the Kalkamir Mountains, but it is large enough for humans to deal with.
“Honey. Not that surprising. “What has to happen… happens at any time.”
When it struck the empire that not one but many such things had arrived,
Only then did everyone realize that the situation was already out of their hands.
The common sense that remained in my heart until the end disappeared, and pessimism covered the world.
Destruction has finally been confirmed as a reality.