167 – Behemoth – 4
‘The Inquisitor has already arrived?’
As far as I know, Stella should still be in the Holy Land. It was because it was the player, not the heretic judge, who was catching the Behemoth.
Of course you have to be in the Holy Land to not hear that the player was just playing while catching demons.
The fact that he opened the door right after the Behemoth was captured meant that he had left the kingdom at least a few hours before, even assuming he had teleported here.
However, it was only a few hours before the Behemoth was fully resurrected. The proof is that the city was running normally when I stopped by here just before I set off to get the runes.
The time interval was too narrow. As if he had known that the Behemoth would resurrect from the beginning.
“… … .”
Stella seemed to feel the same way as me. He was very surprised when he saw me. He was frozen in place with his mouth wide open at me, with a face full of astonishment.
The tips of his fingers trembled. Its green eyes vibrated nonstop and looked at the Behemoth, who had transformed into a swollen pig, and the me standing in front of it.
The mace fell to the floor as if the strength in his grip had loosened. thud! A sound was heard and the floor nearby sank halfway, but no one paid attention to it.
“Heretic Judge, are you okay?”
I was the first to break the silence. I couldn’t just stand still and face him like this.
“just… … Yes Yes… … .”
Yes, the answer came back, but the expression and tone seemed far from good. I let out a deep sigh and tucked the wingless nightmare into my waist.
“How did you get here? I stopped by here for a while because the lord asked me to. What about the Heretic Inquisitor? You’re not trying to answer that you came by chance, right?”
Stella, still unable to hide her shocked face, stuttered in response to my question.
“I caught the traces of the Behemoth… … Linked here… … The Holy Father said, uh, now that the monster is dead, you can look closely at things that aren’t certain… … He told me to go once… … .”
‘ah.’
It took me a while to understand because the tone was so random and even sparse, but I seemed to have a rough idea of how it was causal.
I killed the creatures abandoned by the gods, so my worries would have completely disappeared. That’s why I caught the trail of the Behemoth earlier.
Not only did they catch the traces of the Behemoth earlier, but they no longer needed to leave heretic judges and heretic inquisitors in preparation for the awakening of creatures abandoned by the gods, so they must have sent out subjugation to their heart’s content.
In the game, the player caught the Behemoth before the DLC story started, and the Heretic Inquisitor and the Heretic Questioner would have to take turns monitoring it, so they couldn’t leave the subjugation without clear evidence.
If the devil wakes up somewhere else while you’re in vain, the response will be much slower than when you departed from the Holy Land.
‘Wow, this rolls like this?’
I wondered how many times the story has been twisted because of the act of catching a creature abandoned by God while visiting Seongguk.
Being summoned to the imperial palace, being visited by the World Eater, and the relationship between the popes and me. All of them were snowballs after the creature boss fight.
‘Still, the case isn’t twisted, so it’ll be okay.’
Stella’s early arrival wasn’t a bad thing at all. Rather, it’s a good thing if it’s a good thing because you can clear up the mess in the territory faster.
Anyway, even in the game, if the player kills the Behemoth, the Heretic Inquisitor comes with the combat priests, and stays in the city in the name of purification until some time passes.
Orders given by the Heretic Inquisitors and combat nuns of the Holy Kingdom will feel much more stable to ordinary people than the orders given by a lord who was once enchanted by the devil.
It would be a pity for Cassandra, but she had to overcome what happened on her own.
“I understand, Judge heretic. Then may I ask you a favor?”
“ah… … Yes Yes. What is it, sir?”
“I have some work to do from now on, so please clean up the devil for me.”
I pointed with my thumb to the corpse of the Behemoth lying over my shoulder. Stella nodded quietly. I patted him on the shoulder a couple of times as a sign of entrusting him and left the room.
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Just then, I heard the sound of someone collapsing behind me. At first glance, it was Stella. It seemed that the shock of seeing that pillar of light was really great.
“… … .”
“… … .”
In the hallway stood two combat nuns who had followed Stella.
Compared to Stella, the nun’s uniform was slightly less exposed, and the mace and shield rolled nearby. And the face that was staring blankly at me. I wasn’t particularly sane here either.
The combat nuns stood there with dazed expressions, as if they had witnessed some kind of miracle, then clung to the wall in the hallway in amazement at the sound of my footsteps.
Because of that body, only the chest protruded.
I tried to look away to see where Helga had been tied up. It was empty. The curtains hadn’t been ripped but had been untied, and the curtains were fine except for a few wrinkles in places.
Thinking in case anyone had seen Helga, she looked at the combat nuns still clinging to the wall. When my eyes met, the battle nuns trembled.
It was only then that I was tired of hearing the right answer. In the end, it seemed I had to find out for myself.
Stella saw.
A gigantic beam of light pierces the mansion in front of you from the brilliant “sun” floating in the sky.
Divine brilliance spreads near the pillar of light striking down, drawing a scene like a majestic mural.
Despite the bright daylight, the shape of the moon was drawn next to the sun.
Stella watched it all with her own two eyes.
No, it wasn’t just Stella. All the combat nuns here watched it. And the Heretic Questioner, who was still outside the castle, must have been watching.
Stella thought about it hundreds of times in that short amount of time standing on her feet. I wondered if it was disrespectful to even stand up like this without kneeling.
The combat nuns under my command had been doing that since long ago. Throwing away the mace and shield, he knelt on the floor, folded his hands and bowed down, praising that the divine light had descended.
It was confusing. He must have come here after hearing the news that the Behemoth has been resurrected here, but why is it that such a brilliant and divine brilliance bursts out instead of a terrible and dirty demonic energy?
Stella opened the door to the mansion, taking the battle nuns and holding onto her trembling body and mind. I needed to know the identity of that glow as soon as possible.
The mansion he entered was filled with demonic traces everywhere. It was hidden so skillfully that ordinary people couldn’t even notice it, but it couldn’t fool the eyes of the heretic judge.
However, even though there were obviously traces of demons all over the place, there was no disgusting smell peculiar to demons. I’m guessing, the light group has purified everything that has been wronged.
Clinging to my trembling heart, I climbed further and opened the only remaining door on the top floor of the mansion.
“Ahh… … .”
Stella witnessed.
A man facing the dazzling brilliance of the sun and moon, holding a weapon full of divinity, and staring indifferently at a demon that has become a mere corpse. And the halo of light surrounding the man.
It may be a disrespectful thought. It might be a really blasphemous thought.
For a brief moment, Stella had the feeling that the man in front of her had moved much closer to the sun and moon than the sun and moon popes.
It was an instant to fall into chaos once the values were shaken. Stella couldn’t even properly remember what happened after, because of the constant confusion.
The distinguished guest in front of me kept asking questions, but I couldn’t figure out what he answered. No, I wondered if he had answered before that. I mumbled something, but maybe that was an answer.
In the end, the VIP seemed to have given up, entrusted Stella with the treatment of the devil, and left after patting her on the shoulder a few times. A thrill of pleasure surged from the shoulder where his hand had touched.
My body was aching. It was an unknown throb, different from the pain.
“Oh God… … .”
So, in a way, it might have been natural for Stella to sit down on the spot as soon as the guest of honor disappeared.
An existence that felt more sacred than the Pope, because it shouldn’t have existed.
‘Even if you arrive, at a time like this… … .’
Although we broke up without saying anything for now, I couldn’t hide my embarrassment at Stella’s bewildered expression. I saw that 100%.
No, I couldn’t see it. A pillar of light of that size would have been visible to the naked eye from anywhere in the city.
It was a pillar of light that came down directly from the sky and was big enough to shatter the ceiling of the mansion, but if you didn’t see it, you either had no eyes or were physically unable to observe it.
Stella’s arrival itself was welcome because it could quickly clear up the confusion, but seeing the pillar of light wasn’t particularly welcome.
‘The combat nuns probably came by raking in everything they had.’
In the game, the Inquisitor directly tells you that he has brought all the combat priests under his command.
Even more so when they came late to hear the news that the Behemoth had been subjugated, but how many troops would they have mobilized if they had come to subjugate the Behemoth themselves?
In other words, there is a very high probability that the dozens of battle nuns Stella brought to subjugate the Behemoth witnessed a pillar of light that had just been rammed down from the sky.
And a reaction similar to the one you just saw.
‘I can’t help it.’
I thought so. It’s already spilled water, and even if I keep thinking about it, there’s no way.
Anyway, this doesn’t mean that my status in the Holy Land will change. At the point where I was given the brooch of being a guest of honor by the popes, my actual position was actually just below the pope.
Those popes are so close to me that they ask me to wear shorts when no one is around. So maybe he was on the same level as the pope or even higher.
Where was it? The Heretic Judge and the Heretic Questioner were definitely on my side.
Stella and Selene both know that I caught the monster of the underworld of the Holy Land, and that I am intermingled with the Pope, and Stella also has a personal debt to me called Lucia.
At the point where the Sun Pope, the Moon Pope, Heretic Judge, and Heretic Questioner, the core of the Holy Nation itself, were all on my side, the power I possessed was virtually omnipotent.
So if one more anomaly is added to it, something dramatic will happen and it won’t happen.
‘Where the hell am I supposed to find Helga… … uh?’
I tried to figure out where to find Helga, but I stopped when I heard footsteps coming from the other side of the hallway. It was a similar composition to when the enchanted Helga came to visit me.
But this time it was different. The hair peeking through the shadows was silver. And, it was long enough to go around the body once.
“Selene?”