Raphaella Castle Kingdom – 4
“… … Did you want to meet me?”
I was wondering how the hell was this going to happen again. What the hell did I do? Even the Pope of the Sun wanted to meet me and cared about me because I wasn’t enough of an emperor.
Floretta, not caring about my question, smiled and touched my hand here and there.
They rubbed it slowly with the backs of their hands against each other, or they wrung their fingers together or squeezed them tightly. Perhaps it was because he was the Pope of the Sun, and his body temperature felt very high.
Floretta, who had been fiddling with my hand for a long time, opened her mouth.
“Because God gave me a revelation. A revelation that sooner or later the light will come.”
‘uh?’
As soon as I heard Floretta’s words, something came to my mind.
It was the very line announcing the beginning of the DLC story that can be progressed by purchasing the first DLC of The Brightest Darkness 4, ‘Evil Awakens’.
‘… … By the way, why is that line appearing now?’
I was even more dumbfounded when I realized the identity of the Pope’s words.
If the game is played according to the rules, the entry trigger for the corresponding DLC will be activated only after the main story of the main story has been completed to some extent.
It means that the story doesn’t start just because God gave a revelation by inviting the player to the Holy Kingdom out of the blue in a situation where you haven’t caught all the essential bosses yet and haven’t progressed properly in the main story.
Even the story of the corresponding DLC was in the latter part of the main story, and I was far short of touching it with my current specs.
The mobs don’t matter. The reason I was looking at the specs was purely because of the final boss of the DLC, ‘A Creature Forsaken by God’.
In the boss room, the wearing of a certain rune is essential, and the boss itself only takes proper damage from divine-type attacks, so the armament was half-fixed.
However, the biggest problem was that the game actually turned into a time attack the moment the story started, whether the player was ready or not.
At the point of hearing that from the pope, if you clear a total of 25 quests regardless of the main and sub, or subdue the 5 bosses, the final boss will awaken from the underground of the Holy Kingdom.
When the final boss wakes up, the kingdom is destroyed, all quests related to the kingdom cannot be carried out in that round, and the empire also suffers enormous damage, greatly twisting the story.
If he was left in that state any longer, the ending would even become fixed as an ending with no dreams or hopes.
‘That’s never going to happen, damn it.’
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My body shuddered. To sit still and wait for the day to die of starvation in a world where everything but me disappeared was an unconditional refusal.
“Are you okay? Your complexion doesn’t look good.”
After suffering from negative thoughts that kept coming back from tail to tail, she came to her senses at Floretta’s voice and returned to reality. Green eyes full of concern were staring at me.
“… … it’s okay. I’ve been thinking about something else for a while. I apologize.”
“no. There is no need for you to apologize.”
Floretta laughed while covering her mouth with her right hand as she said that.
“But you are a very special person. You can think of something else even with me in front of you. You seem to have a really strong heart.”
After hearing that, I felt sorry for myself. Did you have other thoughts in front of the Pope of the Sun? He said it was rude and had nothing to say even if his head was crushed by a mace right now.
I don’t know why, but I passed because Floretta showed a positive reaction, otherwise I would not have been able to go out without a doubt.
“Since you seem to have finished your thoughts, I will ask you again. Do you have any questions now?”
“… … .”
There was no way it could have been released. Rather, if it went deeper, it would have been deeper.
Suddenly, there was an enormous amount of work to be done. In preparation for the boss fight, you had to clear the rune dungeon, get a divine weapon or find a buff, and earn experience to raise your strength stat.
‘First of all, the DLC story comes first.’
The condition for the final boss to wake up is 25 quests or 5 bosses, but even if you just progress through the DLC story, you have to go through 13 quests and 3 bosses unconditionally, so the actual limit was much less than that.
In addition, unlike in games where time does not pass unless you touch quests or bosses, time will continue to flow even if you just breathe.
It was right to deal with the DLC story first.
“… … His Holiness, a revelation? Are you Delta?”
Rize questioned in a trembling voice, as if she had finally recovered from the shock. The blue walls trembled ceaselessly. Eyes full of anxiety stared back and forth at the pope.
“I don’t know the details either. How dare you understand the will of God with a mere human body?”
Floretta let go of my hand and smiled softly. It was a very benevolent smile that made even the viewer feel at ease.
However, it seemed to be of no use to Rize. His head was lowered, his clenched fists trembling faintly.
“Can you please tell us the contents of the revelation, His Holiness the Pope?”
“I will, if you wish. However, the revelation that God gives is not perfect. Depending on the interpretation of a single word or sentence, dozens of conclusions may be drawn. Are you still okay?”
“yes. it’s okay.”
I nodded.
If it was an interpretation, I was memorizing it roughly. As the pope said, the content of the revelation was correct in referring to the player’s actions.
In the human friendship route, fighting the world eater is depicted, in the human hostility route, fighting the emperor or the pope, and in the life annihilation route, the monster itself is described.
Of course, I couldn’t hear it in such a calm atmosphere except for the human friendship route. It’s to the extent that I can barely listen to the pope who is dying after the boss battle of the Pope of the Sun.
“A bright light is walking in a place covered in darkness. Wherever the light touches, darkness disappears, and countless humans follow and seek rest. Numerous monsters are attacking in the darkness, but all melt away in the light.”
“… … .”
what.
If it’s the Silver Dawn Knights route, that explanation shouldn’t come out.
“At the end of the path the light walks, a being that humans can’t even imagine awaits. But the light never frightens, backs down, or hesitates, but advances toward its presence. The revelation ended with this scene.”
“then… … His Holiness the Pope. that light… … You mean Delta, you mean?”
“Interpretation is up to humans, so there is no set answer. However, I think so. Because the day I first got to know him, God gave me a revelation.”
After Floretta’s words, the knight commanders’ eyes returned to me. Different colored eyes were staring at me with all sorts of complex emotions. Later, I was asked again what this meant.
‘Light… … .’
The interpretation itself was simple. The ‘existence that humans can’t even imagine’ that Floretta said was the word that meant the world eater, the final boss of Brunet 4.
Unless you take the human hostility route or the life annihilation route, you will have to face the world eater as the final boss, so this is as I expected.
However, referring to players as light was quite different from what I expected. At least in the Silver Dawn Knights route, it was an expression you wouldn’t get a chance to hear.
“Did you say your name was Delta? you-”
ㅡ Again.
The word was cut off. It was because the sound of high heels echoed through the hall.
It wasn’t anyone else’s here. Floretta stood still in her place, the knight commanders were ordinary sneakers, and there was no way I made the sound of high heels.
Floretta’s face gradually began to harden. There was a sad look somewhere, and a crying look somewhere. Anyway, it was never a good face.
When the atmosphere was unusual, we turned our heads and looked behind us.
And I was astonished.
“You’re behaving in vain, Pope of the Sun.”
Darkness drove out the light. To be precise, white light drove out yellow light. The surroundings were covered with moonlight in line with the sound of high-heeled footsteps. The beating sun faded powerlessly.
Silver light spread through the gold. It felt as if the full moon that had risen in the middle of the night came down and descended in front of us.
It was a face I had never seen before, but I was able to instinctively recognize who it was.
“… … You are the king of the moon. Why did you come to such a shabby place?”
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Moon Pope.
When the name came out of Floretta’s mouth, the atmosphere instantly froze. I couldn’t hear anything but the clatter of my high heels.
“Are you sure you don’t know?”
The moon rose inside the cathedral. A woman with dark silver hair was walking towards the Pope of the Sun, hands folded in front of her belly.
“Do you think that the act of holding on to meaningless hopes will make your wishes come true? Do you really think so?”
The Pope of the Moon took one step at a time and headed towards Floretta. The Pope of the Moon and the Pope of the Sun. We, who were caught between the most powerful people in the kingdom, couldn’t even move.
It stopped moving only after moving a few steps away from Floretta.
“Fate cannot be changed. You must not turn a blind eye to the truth. Even if it is the sun and the moon, it means that there is no other way other than walking on a pre-determined path.”
“If we can’t change it, we will find a way. Whatever happens, it will be.”
Floretta said with a determined expression.
“I will never give up on my sister-”
ㅡWow!
Silence prevailed. It took me a while to understand what was unfolding before my eyes.
The Pope of the Moon swung his right hand, the palm touched Floretta’s cheek, a squeaking sound rang out, and Floretta’s head turned to the right… …
As soon as the knight commanders understood the situation, they sighed and stiffened. I did too.
The Pope of the Moon slapped the Pope of the Sun on the cheek. It was strong enough that the affected area was stained red and slightly swelled.
But something was strange. The opposite side was definitely Floretta, but her green eyes were filled with sympathy and pity. It even looked sad somehow.
“I told you not to call me that, Pope of the Sun.”
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