197 – fall
“That mouth… … shut up.”
As if her pride would not allow her to say that falsely, Caicilia just kept her mouth shut and quietly raised her spirits. Floretta smiled and continued.
“My proposal will remain forever. So please take it easy. As you have just realized, the VIP is the ability to embrace us all.”
I would like to believe that it had a different meaning, but since Floretta said that, I couldn’t hear anything other than that. It seemed that what had happened in the Holy Kingdom was too deeply entrenched in his mind.
Caicilia was silent for a while, then gritted her teeth.
“… … The Pope of the Sun.”
“Tell me.”
“That, for what reason did you keep it alive?”
As if he thought he couldn’t defeat Floretta with words right now, his golden pupils headed for the golden armor that was still alive and wriggling.
Floretta seemed to be just passing it on as if she had no intention of asking for an answer.
“Originally, I would have killed him with my own hands. However, since it is a simple possession, it is not as dangerous as when the devil descended directly, and above all, it was a vassal of His Majesty the Emperor, so I held my breath in case there was something to be questioned. For example, clues as to when, where, and by whom the devil was accepted.”
“Are you going to ask? Ha, you did something stupid. There is no reason to question something like that, right? You don’t need to know where it made a deal with the devil. It just means that your mind is rotten to such an extent.”
At those words, the mutant’s wriggling intensified even more.
Even so, it was only at the level of being able to see the movement a little bit better, but it seemed that it was enough to upset the plant. Cacilia frowned.
“How dare you deny my words, you useless thing. There is nothing to ask of a worm that has given up its allegiance to the woman out of mere jealousy and joined hands with the devil. So, just die quietly.”
“That… … ah… … .”
A murmur escaped his mouth, but I couldn’t understand it at all. I looked back at Floretta, wondering if it was some kind of spell, but Floretta didn’t seem to understand either.
“Captain of the Knights of the Dark Night.”
Caicilia also called me, ignoring the murmur. Before he knew it, at least on the outside, he had returned to the emperor of the empire, which was perfect.
The body will still be in that state.
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“That order of knights is now under your control. You will not disappoint her.”
“I will do my best to repay your Majesty’s trust.”
I knew it would be like this.
While I, who had absorbed the entire Golden Twilight Knights in my sleep, groaned about the future, the one-time leader of the Golden Twilight Knights was constantly muttering something.
“Magic… … .”
“It is so noisy. If you want to search, you will search finely, so why are you begging for your life until the very end?”
Caicilia, who was about to pull out the holy sword in annoyance, paused for a moment before looking at me.
“I will give you an order. Deal with that.”
“I will follow.”
Even if it wasn’t, I was thinking of asking if I could kill the boss because of the EXP for subjugating the boss. He gave an answer that he knew right away and took out the nightmare of losing his wings.
The wingless nightmare of divinity emitted a brilliant light. Floretta was looking at this from the other side with a hearty smile.
“Summons… … .”
I let his murmur go through one ear and tried to strike down the wingless nightmare, but paused for a moment.
It was because I found a reverse pentagram drawn under the body of the guy. When I suddenly stopped my arm, Floretta tilted her head.
“Why is that, my honored guest?”
“His Holiness, do you see the inverted pentagram drawn under its torso?”
“It’s a reverse pentagram… … Oh, that’s what you’re talking about. Yes, I see.”
“Do you know why this has appeared now?”
The inverted pentagram is the symbol Satan worshipers draw when summoning demons. The leader of the Golden Twilight Knights had already been possessed, so of course he had to be invisible.
Floretta listened to my words, pondered for a while, and then held up the holy relic. A golden hemispherical shield covered what was the Golden Twilight Knight Commander.
“I’m sorry, honored guest. I also don’t know why this appeared. However, there is nothing wrong with being prepared in advance.”
He nodded. I’m in a situation where I don’t know what that is. I had to prepare for something. Because if you’re not lucky, the devil could really be summoned from there.
“Emperor of the Empire, can you leave this to me? It is to prepare for the unexpected.”
“Do whatever you want.”
Caicilia also accepted the request without hesitation, as if there was something uncomfortable about it.
As soon as Floretta obtained permission and tried to infuse divine power into the small sun at the end of the staff, the reverse pentagram began to emit red light filled with an ominous feeling.
“Is that so too?”
Floretta’s voice became cold like Caicilia’s. The benevolent smile also disappeared. It must be because he knows what it means to have a reverse pentagram.
I knew what that reverse pentagram meant, but my head was complicated with a different meaning from Caicilia, Floretta, and Minerva.
Because there was no such event in the game. In other words, everything that would happen from now on was outside my knowledge. Faced with something I had never seen before, of course my head was complicated.
‘… … Let’s watch.’
Right next to her, Caicilia holding a holy sword stood firm, and the Pope of the Sun stood in the seat closest to the Pentagram Castle. It was a combination that quite a few devils couldn’t even compete with.
The head calmed down. Yes, you can leave it to the two of us, whether it’s the devil or whatever. I probably won’t even have time to step out. All I had to do was watch.
The red light grew stronger and stronger. Correspondingly, the golden light from the small sun also added more vitality.
“… … .”
No matter how much time had passed, the red light that hovered within the hemispherical divine barrier had faded. It seemed that he couldn’t withstand Floretta’s divine power any longer.
A smile appeared on Floretta’s face again.
“Looks like it’s over.”
I let out a sigh of relief inside. It was my first time seeing it, so I was very nervous.
It was really fortunate that Floretta was right next to me at the right time. If it wasn’t for that, I would have had to fight back no matter what popped out once I was summoned.
“Now, to purify the inside with divine power… … ?”
Floretta, who had said that, blurted out her words. The moment I questioned that fact, the red light started to burst out even more fiercely than before.
Floretta frowned and raised the relic again. The sun was shining brightly as if it would cover everything on the ground.
—-Break.
“what… … !”
However, this time it was to no avail. At the same time as the hemispherical divine barrier was cracked, a crack appeared in Floretta’s expression. Floretta, who hurriedly infused divine power, shouted at us behind us.
“Eternal Wizard! I need your help! Mana is leaking from within!”
‘Mana?’
“What did you say, Pope of the Sun! Did you just say mana!”
Caicilia also hurriedly shouted out as if she had the same question as me, but her voice was drowned out by the swirling mana. Minerva immediately cast her magic.
A blue orb wrapped around the divine barrier that was on the verge of being destroyed. The crimson light that dyed everything nearby disappeared for a moment as it was covered by the blue mana. The golden divine power covered it again.
And.
“You have to avoid it!”
The world was covered in red by the crimson light that shattered the shield made up of mana and divine power in an instant.
“… … .”
Floretta withdrew the divine barrier with a hard face. From the small sun at the tip of the holy relic, a brilliant golden light began to purify every corner of the imperial palace.
What had just happened was a sight that Floretta had never seen before.
Not only did a reverse pentagram appear under the ice body on the verge of death, but it also pierced the divine barrier used by the Pope of the Sun and the mana shield used by the eternal mage with full power.
Such things were not even recorded in the history books of the Holy Kingdom.
“Princess, are you all right?”
Floretta was the first to find the VIP. At the moment right before the explosion, I opened a divine barrier in my own way, but the range was a bit ambiguous.
First of all, the red light had been prevented from spreading outside the corridors of the imperial palace, but other places were not certain.
“Are you a VIP? Why do you not have an answer?”
When no answer came back, Floretta visited the VIP once again. Still no answer came back.
“… … Are you a VIP?”
It was the same for the third ringing.
Rustling, I suddenly heard the sound of rubble being lifted from the other side of the hallway. Floretta hurriedly looked in that direction.
“Whoa, what the hell is this?”
There was Minerva, who wrapped herself in a mana shield and sighed, crushing the remains of the building.
Minerva, who was about to ask if she was okay when she saw Floretta walking towards her, stopped talking quietly when her expression didn’t look okay at all.
And, when I heard the reason for that expression, we went all over the hallway together looking for Delta.
But Delta was nowhere to be found.
So did Caicilia.
“under… … .”
He kicked the floor with his toe. The dirt floor, parched and devoid of moisture, raised a cloud of dust.
Why are you here? I laughed inwardly and raised my head. Cacilia was vigilantly watching her surroundings while holding the holy sword.
“What do you mean by this place? How disgusting.”
Caicilia, frowning, muttered that. I just had to have that feeling. It’s a very scary place to look at.
A river of red blood flowed nearby, and several hills of bone were visible. The floor was dry and cracked, and in places stood wooden sticks with human corpses.
‘I said that I was enveloped in red light, so why did I come here… … Isn’t that better than dying?’
I approached Caicilia’s side. As I approached, Caicilia took the holy sword.
“Your Majesty the Emperor.”
“Speak.”
“I know where this is.”
“I think I know too. It’s likely to agree with you, but tell me anyway.”
Well, it looks like this, but I can’t help but know it. I smiled bitterly and opened my mouth.
“We seem to have fallen into hell.”
In the third DLC of Brunet 4, ‘The Devil’s Sanctuary’.