1 – prologue – excommunicated
A synagogue where numerous priests and paladins gathered.
and..
Standing at the top of the tower, a blonde, green-eyed woman with a face that is both beautiful and cunning…
archbishop
Maxim Cafeora looked at the young paladin in front of him and spoke in a stern voice.
Reddish blonde hair with slightly brown skin. And a man with black eyes.
Even at this moment, he was looking straight into the archbishop’s face and showing a cold gaze.
“I will ask you one last time! Will the sinner admit his guilt and kneel before the Lord?”
“I’m really… what the hell did I commit? Do you keep doing this?”
-bang!-
A young paladin who asked back with a voice full of absurd emotions.
Regarding this, the archbishop vented his anger and hit the podium with his fist.
“Didn’t you covet riches with the body of a paladin who worshiped God! Those who walk the path of priesthood should only concentrate on serving the will of the Lord! How could he have done such an evil thing!”
“No.. Is making money a sin? Besides, I didn’t embezzle property with things like indulgences like you do, and this was just the result of a transaction carried out according to a legitimate contract!”
“This… this man… who dares speak such blasphemous words! What a dress! How dare you use the body of a paladin to blaspheme the sacred indulgences written by the Holy Father to save the people from their sins!”
“Salvation is a piece of sh*t… How do you save someone with just a scrap of paper…”
The words of a young paladin stabbing their own private parts head on.
As a result, the priests there, as well as other paladins, began to express their deep anger.
“I… I… Author to the end!”
“How dare an apostate do such a foolish thing!”
“What are you doing! Judge the author immediately, Archbishop!”
“You are a corrupt servant who blasphemed the Lord!”
“Follower of Iscariot, blinded by money! We cannot have such a person as a paladin any longer!”
Voices of criticism are heard from all sides.
However, even in the midst of that, the young paladin stood upright on the spot without showing any sway.
And, seeing him like that.
The archbishop asked in a cold voice filled with burning anger.
“I will give you one last chance. Even now, repent of your sins and make an oath! Swear that you will never do such a thing again, and that you will voluntarily give your possessions to the Lord as a sign of repentance! If you refuse to do so to the end, I will deprive you of your divine right to serve the Lord as a paladin!”
The archbishop speaks with a final warning.
The deep rage in her green eyes had subdued countless people before, and she was sure it would do the same this time.
However, the young paladin spoke to her in a light tone.
“To be honest, I have no intention of being a paladin anymore. Just keep doing what you do.”
“… This… this bastard…”
A paladin who speaks without blinking an eye even in spite of his own disgrace.
Seeing him like this, the archbishop felt that the last of his patience had finally snapped and began to shout in a furious voice.
“Okay! I can’t do it if you come out like that until the end! Still, since he is of noble blood, he tried to be lenient and keep the opportunity to serve the Lord! Now that this has happened, there is nothing we can do about it!”
With those words, the archbishop takes out the prepared declaration.
Then she stamped her seal on the proclamation with a wild motion and shouted in a voice full of rage.
“Defendant Santana Andreas indulged in wealth as a paladin, and denied even the indulgence of the Lord’s divine will! This is a serious crime that has damaged the dignity of the Holy Knights, who should be more sound than anyone else! Therefore, Archbishop Maxim Cafeora, the defendant Santana Andreas, is sentenced to excommunication!”
“The Archbishop’s excommunication has been declared!”
“Bring out the sinner right now! Confiscate all the paladin’s armor and marks and drive them out!”
The young paladin was dragged out at the same time as the declaration of excommunication.
Santana Andreas
He had lived his whole life as a paladin, and he was a person who had a reputation in the city.
At this moment, he was deprived of all his rights as a paladin.
Although they brought this and that crime, the decisive crime was that, as a member of the clergy, he accumulated considerable wealth by mobilizing a strange method… the so-called ‘devil’s trick’, and in the process of being questioned, the holy pope that he had blasphemed the indulgences of
This was a felony that could lead to the death penalty in some cases, but since he had the lineage of a fallen aristocrat, the trial came to an end by declaring excommunication as the greatest punishment that could be given to an aristocrat.
However, even if he had not been sentenced to death, this could not be viewed favorably.
In this country where the power of the church is strong, excommunication was practically a punishment equivalent to refusing to treat human beings.
The basic rights of a person are obliterated, and as a result, legal protection cannot be obtained at all, and property, including land and houses, is also subject to seizure through a procedure.
Literally, it means that even if you live, you will be in a state that is no different from not living.
It was the usual outcome for those who were excommunicated for this to be expelled from the lands dominated by the Church, either to the heathen territories in the east or to the heretics to the north.
however..
The moment when such a cruel judgment was handed down.
As a result of the excommunication declaration, the paladin Santana, who has been stripped of the mark of the paladin and is being kicked out with his armor removed…
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No, to be precise.
She is an ant investor in Korea possessed by the person Santana, and until just a few months ago, when she woke up, she spent much more time looking at charts than looking at people’s faces.
I am Taehwan Kang.
Far from despair, I was feeling deep anger for a completely different reason.
‘Yeah… you’re going to come out like this in the end? Then I’m done with you guys! The goddamn coffee mix archbishop… and the goddamn paladins and church bastards! Try doing well without me anywhere!”
Originally, in the world, I, Kang Tae-hwan, had been trading the stock market, bitcoin, and futures as my main business.
However, after getting into a car accident not too long ago, I enjoyed reading a dark fantasy novel.
I became possessed by Santana, a passing extra paladin from ‘The Fallen Paladin’.
Literally, there is no contact with the main character, but it appears only once as a passing background in the beginning, and after that, it does not even show its face until the end.
At least I remember the name because it appeared at the beginning of the work and it had the same name as a character in a famous cartoon I like.
However, just because I was possessed by such an extra, I couldn’t just play the role of a paladin like the original.
Regardless of the weight of the original character, the background of this place is a dark fantasy world that is extremely gloomy for the paladins.
In the future, epidemics and famines will occur one after another. And the war that followed one tail after another.
In it, the paladins and priests of the church will literally crawl through the bottom of hell, and eventually, at the end of the work, most of the priests, including the paladin protagonist and his colleagues, will die or be defeated.
As the background and development are like this, it is very likely that Santana, who is not even mentioned, died miserably in the process.
I, who became possessed by Santana, read the original work heartily. Using future knowledge as a spoiler you know as a reader,
And.. based on the knowledge of the original world,
The people of this world tried to save the Church forces and Holy Knights by using the so-called ‘means of earning money’ that they did not know well, and to extend a helping hand to the main character’s party.
however..
Unexpectedly, this kind of action of mine was branded as a miraculous act against the conduct of a paladin, and ended up being excommunicated from the church.
I started to help in any way, but with this, I get in the way by arguing like a beggar, and on the contrary, the dog-like bastards of the church try to rob me of the wealth I have accumulated through hard work for the future.
Seeing these rotten moves, I couldn’t help but feel the pity and all sorts of emotions disappear.
‘Anyway… all those who fail have a reason? No, they said they would make money on this side to help them live, but then they go trolling like this? Yes, do whatever you want! I’m going to cut the rope with my hands, but let’s see how it goes!’
Having been kicked out of the synagogue, I went back to the paladin’s residence where I usually stayed while feeling deep dissatisfaction.
Even if you go, at least you have to pack your belongings in order to leave somewhere, and there are still things to be done the year before.
But… the moment I arrived at the entrance, the two female paladins guarding the place stood at me with their swords pointed at them.
“..what?”
“You filthy heretic! How dare you step into the holy paladin’s dwelling!”
“The excommunicated bastard who earned dirty money through wicked tricks! Get out of here right now!”
Two female paladins talking in cold voices.
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Nune Spolia.
Tine Glasate
Both of them were women with the appearance of a relatively pretty Western woman within the typical blonde wall. At this moment, they were threatening me with their swords pointed at me.
This sudden change of attitude of the two years that had been flickering in front of me just a few days ago.
At this, I shouted with absurdity beyond anger.
“What is that… hey! This is my building that I bought with money? No matter how excommunicated you are, it will take another week for the official excommunication process to be over! Until then, I still have the right to live here legally!”
“Ugh! Where are you talking nonsense about being excommunicated in front of the Archbishop!”
“If you don’t back down now, I’ll cut your throat in the name of the Lord!”
With the money I earned here, I was the one who moved the paladin’s residence to this place, which had a nasty feeling.
As a result, even though it was a place used as a residence for paladins, the name of this place was clearly in my hands.
Right at that moment, these b*tches in front of me expressed their joy with the spirit of bowing to me, and even flirted with me to look good in any way.
However… these children were now pulling out their swords to stop the legal landlord, abandoning even the grace of that time.
“No, let’s go inside for a minute! The excommunication hasn’t been formally dealt with yet, and I have a lot of my belongings in here right now, but even if I leave when I leave, that much… gagging!”
The next moment, a sharp pain cut through one of my shoulders.
I collapsed on the floor, bleeding from my shoulder due to an unexpected attack. Looking at me like that, the paladin Nune said in a cold voice with a bloody sword in her hand.
“This next one will cut your throat!”
“Get out of here right now! There is no more mercy than this!”
“These…these…the bastards…”
like that..
While getting hit with a knife on my shoulder and not being able to enter my house, which I bought with my own money, in an absurd yet fiery situation, I began to harden my mind once again.
The damn Archbishop and the Holy Knights who tried to help me out of pity, but treated me as a criminal and excommunicated me while catching a false accusation about it.
When I tried to rescue a drowning man, I broke my limbs and made my mind clear about this beggar situation where I was treated like a robber.
‘Yeah.. I can’t do anything more than you guys appear like dogs like this. Trash-like guys who are blinded by the cash in front of their eyes and cut the lifeline with their own hands! I won’t care whether you perish or not, I’ll live as I please!’