156 episodes
43 Rewards(1)
One day after all battles are over.
bum bum, bum bum.
The silver-haired woman was slowly walking down the streets of Legero.
bang! bang!
“ Hey! Bring some more stones! I need to get my hands on it from here!”
“ Wait! The foundation is broken here. If it is not repaired quickly, secondary damage will occur.”
A woman’s view of the people repairing the city.
The faces of those people were not so bright.
‘I have no choice but to do that.’
Because of the numerous battles that took place yesterday, the city was almost completely destroyed and the loss of life was enormous.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that this was an unprecedented situation since the creation of Legero.
‘ Besides, I must have lost a lot of people close to my family.’
If your face is bright, that’s weird.
And it wasn’t just the people of the city who had such dark faces.
“… … .”
Lane and Turzan, who followed her, had also kept their mouths shut and their eyes wide open since yesterday.
Of course, the reason was different.
‘ Probably because of the last battle I saw yesterday.’
Each person has his or her own domain, and it is difficult to accept the crossing of that domain.
A mythical clash that took place yesterday in the city’s sky.
The clash must have been out of bounds for them.
Even the heroic woman herself could not keep her mouth shut while watching the battle.
‘ It must have been a bigger shock than I thought.’
The woman thought so and looked towards Turzan.
A giant who was thinking about something with a more serious face than Lane next to him.
He was called one of the strongest in the world, and in fact, he had the highest level of force.
That’s why I don’t vote outwardly, but my pride must have been great.
That pride must have been thoroughly shattered since yesterday, so it was understandable enough.
‘ Maybe it was better. It’s better to sell first.’
After all, such a shock was something you should feel when facing the Four Great Dukes or Demon Kings later.
I felt it in advance this time, so next time I will be able to accept it more calmly.
Perhaps this event could have helped me grow even more.
Of course, she could have been frustrated and collapsed, but there were no such worries in the woman’s head.
They were colleagues of their own choosing.
So it just couldn’t be broken with something like this.
‘ By the way, I can’t even guess the identity.’
Thinking like that, the woman thought of the existence that destroyed the fallen angel Belial in her head.
A being with a blurry appearance as if it had noise while holding a sword in one hand.
Just thinking of its existence makes me shiver as if I had poured cold water all over my body.
‘ Obviously, its existence always overwhelms Belial.’
All the seals of the Fallen Angels were released for an unknown reason in the middle, but the composition did not change.
In addition to that, the power that erased the ‘collapsing sky’ unfolded at the end of Belial at once!
It was so far away that he, as a hero, could not be sure that he could reach it even if he devoted his entire life to it.
‘ Should I ask if I ever see Iowa again or receive an oracle?’
A being of that level would surely have a huge impact on this world.
So it was right to know his identity.
How much further did you go while organizing your thoughts like that?
“I found it.”
A woman who had arrived at the central square of the City of Light suddenly found someone and muttered a little.
The person at the end of her gaze is a blonde woman healing people using divine power in the center of the square.
It was Elesis Desire, who would become a saint in the future.
* * *
A private gymnasium that exists in the Church of Light.
In a place that normally only high-ranking paladins of level 2 or higher could enter, an outside person who had nothing to do with the denomination stood there.
A man who calmly closes his eyes and spreads darkness deeper than the abyss around him.
It was Zion.
Whoa!
Did he even shrink the universe as it is?
Suddenly, in the darkness that filled the entire dance hall, so many stars begin to appear that the number cannot be guessed.
Nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies that emit brilliant light.
But the light did not last long.
self-
A black star with an alien feeling that appears in the middle of the twinkling stars.
Because such a black star began to absorb all the light that existed around it.
Was one not enough?
Silencers who continue to appear in other places and increase the speed of absorbing light.
One Two Three Four Five.
It was the moment when the black stars, which had grown to a total of five, swallowed up everything else.
Whoops!
All those black stars and the darkness of the black star that became the basis were sucked into Zion.
Sion slowly opened her eyes while exhaling a long breath.
In Zion’s eyes, the five black stars that had just swallowed up all the light were swirling around in a circle.
‘ Now five stars.’
Shion clenched and opened his fists, feeling a new world opened within him.
Was it because he used his original power for a while by using Kronos’ question?
Immediately after finishing the battle with the Fallen Angel, Shion could feel that the wall that had prevented his Black Star from reaching the Five Stars was almost broken.
Therefore, I immediately borrowed the personal dance studio of the Church of the Light and locked myself in it, and I was able to achieve that result only a little while ago.
‘ Thanks to you, I climbed much faster than I thought.’
A satisfied smile appeared on Shion’s lips.
It was still a long way to regain its original power, but even at this level, almost no opponent could be found within the Empire.
It was comparable to the power of Evelyn Agnes, which Sion had recreated in the past.
‘ Do I have to say that I have the minimum conditions to conquer the ‘Tower of Causality’ with this?’
Now, when the time to really appear is just around the corner, and then when Zion thinks of his goal, Tung Tung!
A knock was heard on the auditorium door.
“ Come in.”
One of the priests who opened the door with Zion’s words politely bowed his head and opened his mouth.
“ The Holy Father wants you to meet His Majesty. Would you like to go right now?”
“ I do.”
Shion nodded his head without hesitation as if he had expected him, and immediately left the theater.
Before reclaiming the seal, Zion himself revealed his identity in front of high-ranking officials of the church, so in a way, this meeting was natural.
The Church of Light belonged to the Empire, so it was natural to treat the Imperial family, the ruler of the Empire, as it should.
bum bum, bum bum.
A priest who moves towards the deepest part of the church at a constant speed.
Sion followed the priest and glanced around.
The appearance of people moving in a hurry, almost as if they were running.
The faces of those people were not so bright, probably because they made a huge sacrifice because of yesterday’s events.
‘ Did you say that even the archbishops and the apostles died?’
It will probably take quite a while to get it back to normal.
And it would have been the same not only for the Church of Light, but for all of Rezero.
at that time,
“ Did you find out about the identity of ‘The Destroyer’?”
“I can’t. How can you find out what has disappeared since that battle yesterday?”
Through Zion’s ears, the conversations of the paladins passing by were heard.
the annihilator.
It was a term referring to the beings who destroyed the fallen angels who were released from their seals.
Some said it was a messenger sent by the God of Light, and some said it was the guardian of the balance of the world, but no one knew the exact identity.
One thing was certain: none of them thought that the annihilator was Zion himself.
‘I can’t really guess.’
There were a few clues, such as parts that didn’t appear exactly right or the power they used was similar, but there was no way I could doubt that.
Because the difference in strength and rank was too great for that.
The Annihilator showed an overwhelming superiority against Belial, who had attained a certain degree of divinity.
Compared to that, Zion’s own strength was also widely known, but it was only within the human category.
That said, it is not something that can be compared in the first place.
at that time,
“You can go in here. The Holy Spirit is waiting inside.”
The priest stopped walking as if he had arrived at his destination and pointed to the door in front of him.
Shion immediately opened the door and went inside.
Shrek-
The door opens smoothly without any noise.
And beyond that was a small study with an old-fashioned feel.
The wooden desk and chair were old, as if it was the owner’s character, but they were well maintained, and the other items were only essential.
And an old man sitting in the middle.
Zion knew who that old man was.
‘ Pope Simeon Zacharias.’
The ruler of the Church of Light, the world’s largest religion, and a being called the representative of Luminus.
“ Welcome, Your Majesty Zion.”
The Pope offers a seat to Zion with a soft smile.
The old man’s face was deeply wrinkled with wrinkles, as if showing signs of age.
Even though he was able to maintain youthful enough with his enormous divine power, it seemed that he had a very easygoing personality.
“ Why did you ask to see me?”
A question immediately flowed out of Sion’s mouth, where Simeon was seated.
A young smile grew on the Pope’s lips.
It was because the way he went straight to the main point without pretense was exactly the same as Prince Zion, whom he had been accustomed to.
“ The imperial family has visited the Church of Light, shouldn’t I have to step forward and welcome it?”
“ I know that there are usually archbishops or special paladins.”
“ Even so, Her Majesty Zion is special among the royal family.”
It was probably saying that Shion himself had been designated and oracled by Luminus.
“ And I wanted to thank you face-to-face for this as well.”
With those words, Simeon bowed his head toward Zion.
Although the fallen angel was eventually released, thanks to Prince Zion, he was able to recognize that the seal was being lifted, and that a demon was involved in it.
In addition, the Pope was also deeply grateful for the fact that Prince Zion helped the Church reclaim the seal.
“ Only in words?”
Zion grinned at him and asked the Pope.
“ Of course not. We have prepared enough rewards to satisfy Your Majesty.”
Simeon answers confidently.
Before Zion spoke to him, his words continued.
“ But before that, let me tell you the reward of the light.”
“ A god of light? Did the trust come down again?”
“ Yes. His Majesty, when he was at the gymnasium, gave me an oracle and conveyed his will.”
With those words, the pope’s eyes, who were looking at Zion, shone strangely.
Since the founding of the Church of Light, it has been very rare for the god they worship to directly mention a reward as an oracle.
No, it was right to say it was the first time.
‘ It’s not just that.’
Prince Zion had already received many oracles before that, and he even went through the advent that only the first pope had ever experienced.
Is it really possible that one person can experience everything in such a short amount of time that the average person cannot see even one thing until death?
‘ Maybe… … .’
The Pope, after thinking of something in his head for a moment, opened his mouth to Zion again.
“ Thus said the Light. ‘The promise was, I put it where the first weapon was.'”
“That ’s right.”
It was a word that Simeon could not understand at all, but Shion understood the word at once and nodded.
The place where his weapon first existed in this world.
Because there was only one place.
“ Now, shall we hear the rewards of your denomination?”
Recalling the place, Shion smiled and immediately brought up the next topic.
However, without answering the question, Simeon looked at Zion for a moment, as if thinking about something, no, as if hesitating.
Then he opened his mouth in a lower voice.
“ I’m sorry, Sir Zion, but before we talk about our reward, may I ask you one last thing?”
The pope’s eyes begin to glow strangely as he says that.
Eyes that give a feeling similar to the 1st Prince Rubrios I saw before.
“ Tell me.”
The moment when Shion responded by looking directly into Simeon’s eyes,
“ Your Majesty Zion, are you a ‘destroyer’?”
An unexpected question flowed from the pope’s mouth.