Paladin of the Dead God - Chapter 265



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Subject Here – Episode 265. All-Khan Discipline (5)

Just when it seemed like it was over, Atlan swung the curved sword he had stuck in his tentacle and tore open the wound.

Atlan, who had sprung out like a stream, looked miserable. It was full of chewed and cut wounds. It was amazing that he didn’t die even after being hit head-on by the tentacles, but it seemed like he couldn’t be Isaac’s opponent anymore.

Then Atlan opened his mouth.

“If you fight fairly, I’d leave you alone, kid. If you fight lethally, you’ll be useless.”

The air around them began to change. New skin grew on the torn and wounded trees, and the crushed grass began to rise.

As a presence began to appear that changed the atmosphere of the area, Isaac could tell what had happened.

“I meet the living beings.”

The angel of the Olkan discipline, the Mansengja, had entered Atlan’s body.

Isaac looked at Atlan, no, at Mansengza, with a nervous look.

Atlan, who had been given the Manseongja, looked more peaceful than ever. His wounds healed in an instant, and he seemed to have a healthier vitality than before.

Isaac felt lethal again, but he couldn’t complain because the tentacles also healed and served as weapons.

‘Mansengja, Ors Maktu… … .’

There are many nicknames for the man who lives.

The first reincarnated being, a wanderer between lives, a explorer of all things, a wandering shaman.

When Olkan stole the secret of ‘rebirth’ from the furnace of the world, the first shaman to receive the knowledge and build the doctrine of reincarnation was Ors Maktu.

Since then, he has lived by attempting to reincarnate into many things, including not only orcs, but also birds, insects, beasts, and even plants. Olkan highly valued Ors Maktu’s wisdom and experience and appointed him as a celestial being. Thanks to this background, all the shamans of Olkan’s discipline respected and revered Mansaengja as their greatest teacher, elder, and mother.

Mansengja looked at Isaac with a gentle smile.

“You recognized me right away. You are truly an extraordinary child. Your name has been heard in Urbansus as well.”

Isaac broke out in a cold sweat.

Being known by your name in Urbansus means you have a certain level of fame, but that’s not a good thing.

Because the gods he knew were jealous and always sincere in keeping latecomers in check.

“I thought that the only angel who would appear would be Manseongja, since the other angel, ‘Yellow Heaven,’ would be by Khan’s side, and ‘The Wolf Who Swallowed the Sun’ would have no intention of leaving Urbansus.”

“You sound like you know us well.”

“The fame of the Olkan Discipline is heard even beyond the plains of Sahar.”

Atlan tilted his head crookedly.

“I don’t understand why you, who know so well, don’t retreat and block the advance of the Khan’s army. Do you think a few tentacles will protect you?”

Isaac didn’t say how many angels these few tentacles had taken down, because he had never taken down an angel with his power alone.

And the living are opponents who can be persuaded. There is no benefit in provoking them.

Besides, this situation was exactly what Isaac had been waiting for.

“Beyond that city lies my territory. It is a small place, with people who believe in me and follow me, and houses like a pile of stones. I dare to block the Khan’s army, but please do not take that to mean that I do not respect Olkhan.”

Isaac spoke of the difference between Khan and Olkan. Olkan, who is a god, and the Khan on earth, who is merely his agent, are on different levels beyond comparison.

Mansengja smiled as if he found it amusing.

“Swear allegiance to the Khan’s army, and I will grant you my request, for your kind heart’s sake, to preserve your territory.”

“Even though I am an insignificant person, how could I abandon the god who has supported me throughout my life and wander from one faith to another? This is an act that even Olkan would not welcome.”

Isaac spoke shamelessly, showing little respect to the Code of Light or the Nameless Chaos. But in reality, the Olkan do not like apostates. They prefer those who are threatened with spears and swords to those who come to them on their own.

They are even plundering the believers.

Subject Here – “I don’t like this, I don’t like that. You keep talking too much. If you do that, you’ll just get trampled on.”

“As you wish.”

Isaac answered nonchalantly, but inside he was sweating coldly. If Mansengja said, “Then die,” and ordered the Khan’s army to advance, Isacrea’s territory would be trampled and Isaac would have to live with his in-laws.

Fortunately, Manseongja stared blankly at Isaac despite his provocative words. As one of the few angels capable of ’empathy’ thanks to observing and communicating with the lives of all things, she opened up a way for Isaac to escape.

“Do you know how many troops have been prepared for this great plunder?”

Isaac had estimated the number from his reconnaissance to be 100,000, and since Rottenhammer had said there were two more forces to the south, he had estimated the number to be around 300,000. However, Isaac knew how large the ‘total force’ would be if a real raid were to occur.

“Three million?”

“Of course not.”

Isaac kept his mouth shut.

Ten million people? Even in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, they exaggerate by saying that there are one million or ten thousand armies, but they never say that there are ten million.

If ten million people who do not produce and consume move, isn’t that in itself like a swarm of walking locusts? It would be impossible to take responsibility for their distribution, and in their wake, not a single root would be left behind.

Above all, to do that, even the Gertonian Empire would have to drag everyone out, from children to the elderly. Even the Olkan Discipline that Isaac played didn’t do that. It’s hard even for a settled population with enough support, and if the Olkan Discipline, which lives a nomadic life, does that, it will be difficult for the country, not just the religion, to survive.

Isaac thought it was a bluff at first, but he couldn’t be sure. These guys seemed like they would do it even if it meant ruining themselves.

So the question is ‘why’.

Why do you do that?

***

“What do you want?”

Isaac got straight to the point.

If they simply wanted the wealth and technology of the Gertonian Empire, a grand plunder would suffice. But I wondered why they were bluffing by talking about tens of millions.

Of course, Isaac knows that the target of the great raid is the secret archives of the Censorship Office in Lichtheim.

But I don’t know what kind of knowledge they are trying to plunder from there.

“There must be a reason why you started this war. There must be something you want to do.”

“What if I tell you what you want? Child. Do you have the power to give it to me?”

“I have already stopped an army that was thought to be unstoppable with a handful of troops.”

I had already heard about Soeru’s situation through the eyes and ears of the people I had planted. The messages I heard through my will were all positive.

What was happening in Soer now was not a battle, but a slaughter. When the other Olkan discipline troops learned that the troops who could not even be reincarnated had suffered enormous losses, they could not help but be shaken.

“Trust me a little more. Haven’t you already seen that I will do ‘anything’ to protect my territory?”

“Wouldn’t things be easier if I killed you here and now?”

Man-saeng-ja felt the temptation and fiddled with the curved road.

Isaac believed that she would not do such a violent thing. However, the other angel did not seem to think so. Suddenly, a bluish light flowed out from the Kachulain that Isaac was holding.

[If you try to harm the great warrior of Elril, I will not stay still, Mansengja.]

It was the will of Calurien’s dragon heart that was embedded in Kachulainn.

Isaac was surprised at the reaction of Calurien, who had been sleeping silently for a long time.

I thought he would just watch, but when the crisis came, he stepped forward to help.

The reason why angels cannot run wild and harm believers of other religions at will is because angels of other religions stand in their way.

But I didn’t know that Calurien, who wasn’t even the Code of Light, would hold me back.

Subject Here – Mansengja laughed.

“Just like that? Archmage, are you trying to stop me with just your shattered heart?”

[Of course it is difficult for me. That is something that the great warrior of Elril will take care of.]

Isaac felt the respect and admiration he had for Calurien quickly fade.

[The Grandmaster has skills that are acknowledged even by Elril. He will never be easy. And if the Grail Knight dies, Amundalas of the Salt Council will be quite sorry, and the Mirror Maid of the Red Grail will also be annoyed at the plot being ruined. And the World’s Furnace… … Even if there is no particular reason, he will happily send angels if it is a chance to break your head. Oh, and he is also a saint appointed by the Code of Light.]

Isaac felt like the most important part had been pushed to the end, but he was surprised that Calurien was aware of all the connections.

Man-saeng-ja also frowned, as if he had not known that Isaac’s connections would be that great.

“Considering that you said you wouldn’t do things like wander from one faith to another, you’re quite broad-minded, aren’t you, Grail Knight?”

Isaac just kept muttering.

[And you know what terrible power is trapped inside the body of the great warrior. I hope that the Grail Knight will not use that terrible power to protect himself. You, Manseongja, should also fervently wish for that.]

The living were silent.

The intervention of an angel can in itself be a pretext for the intervention of another angel, just as an angel descends to protect a mortal he cherishes.

If angels intervene, terrible damage will follow on the battlefield. At a point when it was thought that a great plunder was possible with just the army of Olkan Discipline, there was no reason to call in the intervention of angels.

“I had no intention of harming you in the first place. I was just trying to find out the Grail Knight’s intentions.”

The man muttered as if grumbling.

She stared at Isaac with calm eyes and then opened her mouth.

“Let me correct you. You said we started this war. That is wrong. This war was started by the Code of Light.”

Isaac really thought that the Siero Dawn Army had crossed over to the Man Sahar Plain and caused a ruckus. However, the words that came out of Man Saeng Ja’s mouth were unexpected.

“The lighthouse keeper censored some important knowledge. Very important knowledge.”

Before Isaac could even comprehend the words, the Mansengzi began to explode with angelic authority and momentum that he had never before displayed.

“Olkhan took this as a declaration of war against us.”

As a messenger delivering the word of God, even a sensible person could not show a simple and kind appearance.

Isaac barely managed to stand before the oppressive celestial authority.

The being before my eyes was clearly Atlan.

But behind it all, a horse’s neck, a cow’s head, a chicken’s claws, a grasshopper’s wings, a flea’s legs, an eagle’s feathers, skin like moss, a lion’s mane, a snake’s tail, the eyes of a bee, veins of vines, hair dripping with flowers, limbs outstretched like trees… … all kinds of creatures mixed together, tangled together so haphazardly that it was hard to tell what they were, and it was impossible to see them clearly because they were constantly changing their forms as they devoured and gave birth to each other.

[The Olkan Discipline will not stop plundering until it discovers what that hidden knowledge is, and it declares to the world once again that no knowledge can be hidden and controlled!]

All things in the world were crying out with the voice of the living being.

[All knowledge must be liberated! All wisdom must dream only of freedom! All censorship and bondage must be used only against those who wish to censor and bondage! This is the will of Olkan!]

Isaac held on to his feet, trying not to collapse even under the pressure that made his whole body tingle. It was the spirit of angels who had already endured countless times, but he just didn’t feel like he could get used to it.

Isaac asked the living being who had become the roaring messenger.

“What knowledge was deleted?”

If you don’t even know what knowledge was deleted, you can’t have this purpose. You don’t even know what the stolen item is.

But you will also know what has been erased, because you will feel its absence so clearly.

Even Isaac couldn’t bring out the entire basement of the Lichtheim Censorship Office.

Fortunately, the man who was born knew what had been erased.

[The name of the nameless chaos.]

Isaac’s expression hardened.

[The Olkan Discipline will not stop plundering until that name is discovered again.]