Episode 158
Allen, along with the late arrivals, headed to the garrison they had established.
He could hear many things as he headed there.
For example, it’s been more than half a year since the battle started here, and their offensive started getting stronger three months ago.
In addition to the crumbling iron that guided him, he also knew that the dry wave could not meet him as he was blocking the attack of the undead, and he heard that the people Allen was dealing with were doppelgangers that had recently started appearing.
“It was only after some time that we realized that the advance squad that had started first had suffered.”
A man with the title of patriarch next to Allen answered his questions.
His voice did not falter even as he hurriedly made his way to the garrison.
”They killed our followers and peeled off their skins.”
The ranks of the circle church are divided into two, starting with the priest.
A high priest who is usually in charge of evangelism and gathers information locally, and a bishop who manages the rotation Christians in the area.
The High Priest goes through many regions to help with various tasks and draws the right people to the circle, and the bishop is responsible for educating those who have been evangelized.
As the years of years accumulate and trust increases, the high priest becomes a cardinal according to the vote, and the bishop becomes the archbishop in charge of a small area.
The man in front of him was in the position of a patriarch one step higher than the archbishop.
“Doppelgangers even come out? As far as I know, they are rare because of the small number of them…”
“Yeah, but what they’re doing is getting more and more diverse.”
Cardinal position that Allen spat out haphazardly•
Those appointed as high priests are trustworthy figures in the circle, usually comparable in power to the archbishop, and the cardinal elected by the vote of ordinary lay faithful compared to the patriarch, who is in the position of directing all the circles of a region. do.
It is otherwise called the general parish.
“Thank you for your help during this time.”
He was a high-ranking clergyman with the exception of the five prophets who determined the future direction of the circle church.
“No… the ring bridge is where I belong now, so I don’t need to be so grateful.”
“Haha, is that so?”
But even so, he humbled himself too much toward Allen.
“If you tell them that the Apostle has arrived, everyone else will be delighted.”
“Only by my existence?”
He nodded as if it was natural.
“The mere existence of the Apostle proves that we were not wrong, isn’t it?”
“•••I would.”
Allen calmed his heart when he saw the good-natured man smile in an instant.
The place he is going now is not the church of the priests that existed in the past.
Those who wish for the destruction of the world and for the destruction of the present age for the sake of the new world to come.
He was in a position to receive the faith of such fanatics at once.
‘Because you know the future:
For that reason alone, he was honored by the Patriarch and was given the privilege of being met by one of the five prophets.
That’s why the 3rd forces tried to use them before they returned.
He treats Allen like this, who hasn’t shown his face a few times.
“I’ll be here soon.”
As he said, looking ahead, he saw a stone wall at the end of his gaze.
A castle built high and a flag fluttering above it. But what was strange?
“Go over there and spend a day reading…”
“The Archdiocese. I have a question for you.”
“Yes, tell me.”
He didn’t care too much about Allen’s interruption. Allen raised his eyes with his sensibility and slowly put the sight in his mouth.
“Is there anything to burn there?”
“It’s going to burn, what…”
Allen pointed his fingertip to the top of the garrison.
“Is the black smoke rising?”
Hearing his words, the patriarch’s face hardened in an instant. He didn’t even doubt Allen’s words. Those around them were also the same.
The speed of the crumbled metal that was walking ahead increased.
They too followed closely behind the Prophet and speeded up. The party gradually moved closer to the garrison. Now everyone could see a couple of black smoke rising above the garrison.
As we accelerated a little more, the garrison appeared.
“•••You’re one step late. But luckily you made it through.”
Mumbling mixed with lamentation and relief.
The broken iron quickly approached. The fortresses erected at regular intervals had collapsed in several places, and bodies and blood were everywhere.
The flag with a circular circle, the mark of the ring bridge, was tanned to see if it was lit.
Bricks rolling on the floor rarely maintained their original shape, and if one of the fortresses was tilted, it was likely to collapse.
As Allen and his party hurriedly approached the scene full of traces of the battle, a voice could be heard from above the castle.
young man’s voice.
“Apostle-sama! Apostle-sama is here!”
He exclaimed with a happy voice, as if he had seen Allen’s face from above.
As the crumbled iron stepped forward, the iron door full of bumpy traces carefully opened. He opened his mouth to the devotees who had met him.
“What happened?”
They wanted to turn to Allen, but they had to report first, so they quickly answered the Prophet’s question.
“After the Prophet went away, a large army came as if they had been waiting.”
“•••Are you saying that a large army has come?”
“Yes, many times more than usual, the undead attacked as if intended.”
As a golem, his expression was always the same.
But nonetheless, anyone could feel the shadow in his expression.
In normal times, two prophets were always stationed to block the attack.
Originally, only Dry Wave managed the excavation site, but after the last meeting, he also settled here to support him.
There are two prophets here, who originally only existed in one ruins, so the cycleists who were blocking the undead must have breathed their breath. By the way, the attack came as soon as he left… .
He stopped thinking about continuing.
As long as there are dry waves, traitors can never exist.
“•••Okay. First of all, I think I’ll have to meet her so that I can bring the apostle inside.”
They ran towards Allen with happy faces.
The crumbled metal looking at it thought for a moment and then nodded my head.
“No, the time must be tight for that. I will take care of the apostle.”
“ah….”
As Allen was looking at him with an awkwardly sad face, a golem studded with metal and stones approached with glass-like eyes.
“Follow me. Let me introduce you to another prophet.”
“Another prophet?”
“Yeah, she wanted to see the Apostle again, too.”
As the golem turned, Allen followed him. Enelia stuck behind him like a shadow.
The broken iron glanced at it, but didn’t stop it.
Allen felt the gaze following him from behind and followed him.
Allen could see more diverse reactions the more he went inward.
Those who called his name and stared at him were nothing but medicine, and many even knelt as he passed.
He tried to ignore the sight and looked inside the castle.
This place was not lacking enough to be called a castle, a small city.
In the center of the inner city, there was a stone ruins, and many workers and armed men came and went.
Essential facilities, including a forge and a restaurant, were built nearby, followed by religious structures and wooden inns for others to stay.
What is interesting is that there are buildings made of stone everywhere.
“Are you excited?”
Perhaps noticing Allen’s gaze, the broken metal opened his mouth.
“It’s my ability. If the rotten roots can dispel curses and the like because of their birth, I can pull stones or ore from the ground up to the ground.”
He was just a nameless golem.
A golem for a miner who had no self-consciousness, and was just created according to the use of a wizard.
After the wizard’s death and neglect for several decades, he suddenly had an ego. And he gained the ability to manipulate stones and ores that had been close to him all his life.
No one knows how he came to be.
I don’t even know why the body that must have been destroyed by the passage of time after running out of magic remains.
However, he thought that there was a reason for this, so he gathered with five groups each with their own story, and revived the circular bridge, which was only a small cult at the time.
I rushed down the road and arrived at a small hut.
The pillars and walls of the hut were full of flowers of Starbucks4, where bees and butterflies flew.
The hut between the stone buildings had an alien appearance, but the crumbled iron approached the door with familiar footsteps.
“The door is open.”
He opened the door and stood quietly.
When Allen looked at him with a puzzled face, he opened his mouth, glimmering in the sunlight shining through the glass.
“The Apostle is the only one going in. I will go in after the conversation is over.”
Allen turned to Enelia. It was clear that she would go with him if she had his orders. But Allen shook her head.
If this was a procedure, there was no need to provoke them for nothing.
Obtaining the airship requires their cooperation. Allen looked at him, standing firm like a statue, and opened his mouth. The bracelet on the wrist gave a voice.
[If anything happens, use your powers with all your might. There is no need to buy it by noticing it for nothing.]
She looked startled at the words, but quickly straightened her expression. She nodded her head slightly.
‘Vestla, you see the opportunity, and if anything happens, help her.
“Wait, Allen, what are you trying to do… .”
Allen handed the sword to Inellia with the scabbard on her waist.
They didn’t take their weapons, but Allen felt it was not polite to carry weapons to the place where they came to have a conversation.
It was seen that the expression of the crumbled metal had softened a little more.
Allen stepped into the hut.
Oddly enough, the room was closed on all sides with no windows, and it was bright even though there were no openings. A hut with a small bed, a fireplace and a table.
There was a bathtub in the center of the place where you can feel a strange sense of life.
Allen’s expression looking at her changed strangely.
The lower body like a fish with scales, an eye patch that covered the eyes, and the area around the eyes around the eye patch showed a hideous change of skin as if it had been burned.
She turned her head towards him as if she felt popular.
In an instant, goosebumps arose.
It was as if something had peeled off the outside and looked inside.
“Allen Reinhardt.”
She opened her mouth with a big smile, tearing her lips apart.
Wait, what? Allen felt strange. When she came all the way here, most of these people, even the broken metal, she would have called herself Apostle… .
“An apostle who claims to be an apostle who does not exist.”
“Wait, what…”
But before he could raise any questions, she spoke first.
“What did you come here for?”
The dry wave, the second prophet looked at him and smiled with an unknown face.