Paladin of the Dead God - Chapter 269



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Subject Here – Episode 269. The Will of Heaven is the Same on Earth (4)

Juan opened the door and waited for the emperor to approach.

But the emperor did not move and just looked at him from afar. It was as if he was telling him to come to him if he had anything to say.

But fortunately, Juan didn’t have to walk sweatily; Delia Lyon came riding a horse.

“Do you have anything to say to His Majesty?”

She asked with a refreshing smile. Juan opened his mouth after coughing a few times with a shaky face.

“Right now, internally, we are thoroughly strengthening security procedures to ensure a ‘fair election.’ And… … there is word from His Holiness that ‘Bishop’ Katin may enter the city.”

“I’m sorry, Your Eminence.”

Delia asked with a grin.

“I would like to ask Bishop Katin if I may send him ‘a small escort of troops.’ It seems that something unpleasant has happened in the city.”

“… … Excessive force is difficult. However, do as you wish, and tell His Majesty the Emperor not to act rashly.”

“Haha, I will accept it.”

It was effectively a declaration of surrender.

The very fact that Juan was able to open the gate without any resistance proved it.

But the Emperor was not foolish enough to blindly believe that and enter the city. Until the election results are determined, the armed demonstrations will continue.

Even the moment the bishops put their ballots in the ballot boxes.

Then Juan added a word in a trembling tone.

“Um, and tell Bishop Katyn… … that I was against the demotion of the priesthood until the end.”

“Yes? Oh, haha. Of course. Everyone knows the Cardinal’s sincere faith.”

Delia smiled happily and looked around at the other priests and paladins. Although their expressions were not very good, there must have been some internal consensus, so this door was opened.

There are so many people who feel that there are many problems in the church today.

And the most extreme of them may have already turned to the constellations.

“Who is catching the saboteurs who were interfering with the election?”

The corners of Juan’s mouth trembled.

“Watchmen’s Meeting.”

***

“Rohen, you son of a bitch!”

Boom! Flames burst out with a swear word that was not appropriate for this sacred space, the Vatican Conference Hall. The enormous flames filled the hallway and burned, but as Cardinal Rohen recited a short prayer, they dispersed into smoke.

“You betray me! Do you think you’ll let the Emperor take power?”

Rohen didn’t bother to answer.

In the first place, the Watchtower didn’t care who became the Pope. As long as they could hold him in their hands and shake him.

The current Pope, Horma Chmuel, was also nothing more than a puppet they had created. Now, his role has been fulfilled.

“Calm down, Your Holiness. We are only holding cardinal elections.”

“If we hold a cardinal election! If the emperor controls even the cardinals! Then the pope will be next! Then he will appoint priests according to the emperor’s taste, and like the kingdom of Elril, he will turn all my knights into holy knights! What kind of heresy is this!”

While the Pope was talking, Rohen peeked his head through the door. In that instant, a sharp bang split the marble door of the Holy See.

Rohen said quietly, knowing that it was not he who had narrowly avoided it, but the other person who had seen it through.

“Golden Lion Knight Commander Dera Heman. I highly commend your faithfulness to duty, but now is not the time to protect him. Please help me dismiss my subordinates and resume the constellation council.”

Dera Heman did not answer.

As the highest leader of the Knights Templar who protect the Vatican of the Code of Light, he simply did his best in his assigned duties. Rohen also knew that he had not uttered even ten words since his birth, so he did not necessarily expect Heman’s answer.

“Your Holiness, think rationally. The priests are very dissatisfied. It is true that the Emperor has shown insolence, but he cannot act more violently. What will the Emperor do if we resolve the issue ourselves?”

“That means you’re going to replace me!”

Subject Here – “Surely you wouldn’t prioritize personal wealth over the glory of the Code of Light?”

“Horhel! Where is Horhel? He won’t stay still!”

Rohen found the Pope’s words simply ridiculous.

Why on earth do you think Horgel was loyal to you? Could it be because Horma was a great and respectable person?

No, he was just a well-behaved puppet, after all, he was the Pope.

“If you think that the Watchtower Council will be divided in opinion, you are very mistaken.”

The Pope recited the prayer again, accompanied by curses. As the great heat and light began to condense, Rohen hurriedly recited the prayer, thus dampening the miracle.

This crazy pope was trying to blow the back of this huge tower. This miracle almost happened several times, but Rohen stopped him in the nick of time.

It was fortunate that he was so adaptable to the great miracles of the Watchtower Council.

“If you are truly afraid, demand a martyrdom, Your Holiness.”

The Pope did not answer.

“I appeal to the heavenly authorities for justice and morality, and I surrender all authority, so please make a fair judgment. No matter how arrogant the emperor may be, would he refuse the command of the angel of the heavens?”

“shut up!”

The Pope had already made similar requests several times, but had always refused. Up until this point, the Pope had only reluctantly called upon angels to destroy or kill something, and had never thought of asking them to make a ‘fair’ judgment.

I couldn’t possibly entrust my fate to such an incomprehensible crystallization of violent power.

He thought about calling an angel and asking him to roast the emperor, but the moment he was refused, his position would be over. The angel was far from fair to begin with.

They move only for the sake of the heavenly plan.

A young, powerful emperor with strong supporters and a firm sense of purpose.

And the Pope, who is old, fat, and has only a few moral shortcomings.

If you ask the angel which of the two would be the most suitable leader to lead the Dawn Army, the answer is obvious. Even the Emperor had horns, while the Pope himself had no hair.

But Rohen was persistent.

“Only the lighthouse keeper can save you.”

Unfortunately, that much was true.

As Pope, his authority was already at rock bottom. Only an angel was the lifeline that could restore his authority.

The Pope wondered how the church had come to this point. But when he thought about it, he realized that he had simply done what the Watchtower had told him to do. Now, the Watchtower was outside the door, urging him to die, and he was furious.

“You can just call an angel! Like you always did!”

“Excommunication can only be pronounced by the Pope.”

The Pope wanted to cry.

And soon he realized he had no other choice.

He staggered towards the terrace of the constellation.

Below the tower, which was so high, the imperial army surrounding Lichtheim was visible.

What a mighty army this is, what a glorious army this is.

They should have been going to the Holy Land to destroy the wicked heretics, not surrounding the church and persecuting themselves like this.

Horma imagined himself creating an unprecedented force of dawn soldiers that would eventually succeed in reclaiming the Holy Land.

Even now, the Siero Dawn Army was gathering in the millions, two million strong, and countless holy knights were gathering. If they were here, the Emperor would have already been destroyed.

But now all he had left were a handful of knights.

Those who remained out of a sense of duty rather than loyalty.

Hormah Khmuel looked up at the sky and muttered.

“please.”

As if in response to his whisper, a thin ray of light appeared from the sky.

“May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

Before the prayer was even finished, a flash of light spread out as if the sky was about to burst.

***

Isaac, who was riding fast on his horse, finally caught sight of Lichtheim. The grandeur of Lichtheim was even more impressive than he had imagined. And he could see the imperial army spread out like grains of rice around it.

Subject Here – Isaac saw the sight and hurried his horse even more.

At that moment, a tremendous light suddenly burst out from the sky above Lichtheim. The storm of light swept through the area in an instant, and Isaac was momentarily blinded. The horse started to act up and threw Isaac away.

Isaac staggered to his feet. But he still couldn’t see clearly. His whole body was numb and trembling. It wasn’t because of the shock of falling from the horse. It was because the tremendous energy was weighing down on him, even though it was a great distance away.

‘Angel? Did the Pope summon an angel?’

[Nameless chaos watches you.]

[Nameless Chaos advises you to stay away from here.]

Isaac could be certain of the nameless chaos’ reaction.

A powerful angel that Isaac had never met before appeared in Lichtheim. And it was a being whose mere presence could seriously threaten Isaac’s safety.

But Isaac continued to approach the direction where the light was shining.

Towards the scorching flash.

***

The flash, which appeared 1km above Lichtheim, was visible to everyone in the surrounding area.

And everyone who was looking there was momentarily blinded.

A brilliant flash that fills the sky. A radiance that is painful to look at. A heat that is impossible to approach simply by existing.

All people could do was to crouch down and lie down like a piece of meat curling up in a fire to avoid the flash and the heat. However, even in the pitch-black retina, the shape that had been cast for a moment was not erased, but remained burning in the cornea.

It was surrounded by six pillars of light, all shining like lighthouses. In the center were sixteen wings of flame, burning fiercely without flapping.

Four of the wings were covering the central figure, but it was impossible to see what it was.

That lighthouse keeper, the angel of the Light Code, left an unforgettable trauma on hundreds of thousands of people around him just by appearing on this land.

And it was the same for Emperor Baltsemer.

When the lighthouse keeper first appeared, he resisted for a brief moment. He tried to endure the flash that burned his eyes and the heat that seemed to crush his whole body. In doing so, he tried to show that he was a worthy human being who deserved to be chosen.

But he could not last long and, like the others, Dietrich, Brandt, and the brave knights, he too fell.

The lighthouse keeper just watched them in silence.

Kick, kkick, kkick.

At that moment, there was a sound like the turning of a clockwork mechanism. However, the Emperor, who could not see anything because of the light, could not even tell what the noise was. Thinking that the Pope might be doing something wicked and trying to deceive the lighthouse keeper, the Emperor sat up.

“Lighthouse keeper!”

Baltsemer threw off his cloak and his armor. His whole body felt as if it were being burned by the scorching desert, but the very act of daring to stand up in front of the lighthouse keeper was enough to explain his extraordinary prowess.

“The child who received your divine mandate has arrived as the emperor!”

The emperor’s declaration surprised not only those around him, but also Bishop Juan and the priests who were listening from afar. It was natural to be surprised.

Because the Emperor had never told anyone about this until now.

Of course, the people around him also thought that since the emperor had the Eucharist, he must have received blessings from one of the angels. However, they never thought that it would be the lighthouse keeper.

If so, the Pope has invited himself into a noose every month.

“Now I am ready to carry out your divine mandate! Give me your fire, your light, your wisdom! I offer you my empire!”

Kick, kkick, kkick.

The sound of the clockwork was heard again. The Emperor still could not see, but he felt the heat and light changing around him.

It was the sound of the six surrounding lighthouses turning.

Finally, an answer came from the lighthouse keeper.

But that was not the answer the emperor was expecting.

[Baltzemer’s arrogant actions are considered heretical and he is excommunicated.]