Episode. 33 Spread like wildfire (3)
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“Why is the mood like that?”
I tilted my head as I looked up at the top of the castle wall.
Although they had achieved great victories, they did not hear the usual shouts.
Then I realized it only after meeting the eyes of the masked elves.
Right now, Rio Castle is showing a resolution that is much more important than that shout.
“… … .”
On top of the rampart with strong convictions, the elves were looking for me as if they were looking for a corner to escape to.
Are the hot eyes of people who were only uncomfortable with it so uncomfortable?
I kind of laughed. It was as if I had found a tiny crack in the wall frozen with resentment.
“Open the gates!”
Arriving in front of the castle gate with the assault force, the gate opened just in time and numerous troops poured out.
“Quickly clear up the plague before it spreads!”
At the commander’s cry, the soldiers began to spread widely.
tidy up
I glanced behind me.
A corpse here, a corpse there.
Red, foul-smelling filth embroidered the front of Rio Castle.
“stop.”
I caught the men trying to clear the battlefield.
Then, when the commanders acted late and the plague spread, they shouted that it was hard work.
“We swam through that plague.”
He raised his finger and pointed at the stormtrooper behind me. Not a single one of us was stained black.
Because this is a garden.
“Cleaning up is not our job.”
The commanders looked dumbfounded as if they didn’t understand what I was saying.
That moment.
Hwaaak.
The magic circle of the garden that encompasses heaven and earth shone. At the same time, green energy emanated from the World Tree.
Deuk Deuk.
Filthy corpses scattered here and there began to sink into the ground.
As if being dragged into a swamp, without leaving even a single drop of blood.
“We are tending gardeners.”
The elves on the wall recited yeom and realized their karma.
They were tending gardeners, those filthy, filthy masses of blight would undergo many purifications in the roots of the World Tree.
“Heh, heh… … !”
The commanders widened their eyes and sighed.
Even though he experienced the power of the garden with his own body, he seemed unable to accept the current scene easily.
Rio Castle, no, Baren Kingdom should know properly.
How great is this garden they have come to have.
I looked at the garden being put in order in an instant, and emitted a large light.
Thinking that Adelgarten might be overdoing it, it was an intention to add strength.
Brilliant light covered the sky and soon began to spread widely to the ground.
It was like white snow falling.
Even on top of the branches of the World Tree, which were shedding green energy, light was piled up.
“Ahh!”
The scene was so beautiful that it was unimaginable that it was a battlefield where blood and death had been seething just a moment ago.
The eyes of those who looked around focused on me.
chuck.
I stood proudly there and raised my sword.
And with a strong will, it was declared.
“We are the guardians of the garden, the followers of the gods, and the executors of evil.”
If watchmen and gardeners are the karma and salt of the elves, this will be the karma and salt of our religion in the future.
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Meetings were held to report on the progress of the battle and to formulate plans for the future.
The leaders exclaimed in admiration for the power of the garden, but at the same time felt a sense of responsibility and burden for the duties they had to shoulder.
It was decided to report the current situation to the royal family and even send a letter requesting the position of an official watchman.
It was a very historic event.
At a small level, the essence of the elves took root in the human kingdom, and at a large level, it laid the foundation for the harmony between humans and elves.
Although the order was reversed, the results would not have been very different.
I left the empty meeting room and wandered aimlessly.
The place where they finally landed was in front of the branches of the world tree that wrapped around the fortress.
As I got closer, the branches trembled. One of the branches, which was exceptionally thick, reached out in front of me.
I put my hand on it.
– Dad!
I immediately laughed at the innocent voice that echoed in my head. My friends say it’s so disturbing.
Adele, who actually did the work, was still the same.
“How is the new house?”
– the best!
“The best?”
I couldn’t help but question Adele’s answer.
I expected a positive response, but I didn’t think it would show such a happy response.
Wasn’t it dirty lumps of plague that were scattered all over her garden right away?
– The resentment accumulated for a long time in the children’s hearts is slowly shaking. There is nothing more gratifying to me than that.
She said that in a thrilled voice. I’ve always been worried about the elf ecosystem, which is so closed off.
Perhaps the reason she decided to make this place a garden was also for the sake of the elves.
“okay. It is a time when unity is needed.”
Of course, even when fighting the undead, the elves helped us both physically and mentally.
But that intention was only to follow me and Adelgarten.
As befits a peace-loving race, they were not openly hostile to humans, but the line drawn by the elves was so thick that the men of Rio Castle could not easily approach them.
Can we call it reconciliation?
Can I call you a colleague?
“It will gradually change from now on.”
It has to be different.
It does not encourage people to join hands after resolving their long history of resentment.
I just wanted to see people not as human beings, but as one believer.
Otherwise, we won’t be able to stop the demonic invasion.
“By the way, how about the South?”
I asked without taking my hand off the branch.
– Same as me. Mardo put the elves to sleep and left the garden.
Adele replied in an excited tone.
The half that had just woken up seemed to be happy.
She said she could communicate with Margarten through her roots.
As if they had already talked a lot, the constant chatter made my head hurt.
“Stop, so you need more faith, right?”
– Yes. A little more than now… … .
Margarten, who had just woken up, was starving to the point of starvation, and Adele was putting all her energy into maintaining the garden.
The faith currently granted to Adele is 50,000 per day.
I thought I was giving you enough, but it wasn’t enough.
Well, it doesn’t matter.
– Dad, are you okay?
Adele asked anxiously.
Hey, what’s wrong with needing some faith?
“I’ll feed you every day until your stomach bursts, so don’t worry.”
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Dozens of wagons poured out of the east, west, and south gates of the royal capital.
The flags of Horgyo and Royal Family hung on the carriages swayed in the wind.
“For Baren!”
“For Hor!”
The Hor Mission was formed with a total of twenty members.
They were believers and missionaries who were given an important mission by the royal family.
In the meantime, they have firmly established the faith that has blossomed in the royal capital, and finally they want to spread that faith to other territories.
Among them were nobles of high rank and followers of Snowfall.
Five hundred evangelists and believers, regardless of social status, were selected only as those who excelled in evangelism.
They constituted twenty missionary corps.
As soon as they arrived at the territory they marked as their destination, they pulled out the banners of Horgyo and the royal family.
And he sang a song.
It was natural for the lords to be confused by the sudden action. It’s because they’re the permanent residents who have already been suffering from demons.
However, when the song of the missionary group made them feel reverence and holiness, the confusion of the permanent residents quickly calmed down.
Feeling as if Magi disappeared just by listening to the song, the residents were singing along to the missionary’s song before they knew it.
“… … I’ve heard about the royal capital, but seeing it for myself like this… … .”
The lords of each territory expressed disapproval.
It was embarrassing to see dozens of people who suddenly came and sang with unfamiliar flags in the name of missionaries.
Even more so, the reason for doing this is because of religion.
It was even unfamiliar.
As a result, they always asked, as if they couldn’t believe it easily.
“You really mean that His Highness the King declared this?”
“exactly! His Highness, the stern King Varentis, has ordered that the religion of Horus be designated as the state religion of Varen!”
Uncharacteristically for Marquis Trantis, whenever he was asked that question, he answered with a furious expression.
It must have been that he had traveled a long way and had accumulated travel poisoning, but his face was burning with a sense of mission.
“after… … .”
Count Harten, the great lord who ruled over most of the eastern territory of the Baren Kingdom, wiped his face with wrinkled hands.
What out of the blue.
What has been happening in the capital so far?
“I guess I’m getting old too.”
Count Harten muttered in vain.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been in the castle of the lord, afraid of the demon that dyed the sky and soaked the ground.
He covered his eyes and ears in the name of ruling the crowded territory.
However, while he was doing so, religion was gaining power in the country.
I felt like I had been hit hard in the back of the head.
Suddenly, when I came to my senses, I felt very unfamiliar and empty of myself, who had been weeded out.
Marquis Trantis opened her mouth as she looked at Count Harten, who was immersed in thought with a dark complexion.
“Hold this flag and proclaim it directly to the lords. And you, too, feel the Hor that dwells in that heart.”
The feathers of Horgyo were stretched out in front of the great lord.
The count, who had been silent several times, closed his mouth tightly.
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I wanted to ask the Marquis.
Do you believe in God too?
Daejeon What is this?
However, what is important now?
It was when Count Harten thought that his wise Highness was trying to reassure the people with this false belief.
Paaah-.
A halo erupted from Marquis Trantis’ body.
At the same time, the members of the missionary corps that were established behind it began to sing.
“Muh, what!”
A song with a light that drives away the darkness and a very brilliant tone.
The great lord, who widened his eyes, did not even notice that the banner of Horgyo had fallen from his hand.
“Your Highness has high expectations for your competence and skill.”
The Marquis of Trantis leaned down, picked up the banner of Horgyo, and held it out to the Count again.
“Even old people like us don’t have a place to hang out. Baren still needs us, so why don’t you raise the spirit of the country together with Horgyo?”
The old man wrapped in light said to the old man who was losing his skills as if rusted over time.