Resurrected Immortal 703

Chapter 703 – 703. Welcome (2)

The daily routine of the prisoners imprisoned in the prison of Erenium, the capital of the Temple of Vesta, was very simple.
They are involved in all manual labor that requires direct human hands, such as construction, cleaning, and maintenance.

“4885! Move fast! I can’t finish properly until lunchtime like this!”

“Big… !”

The former high-ranking priest, 4885, who was struggling to carry the heavy stone, groaned in anger.
Possessing a weak physical ability, he had to take twice as much time to transport a stone of a smaller size than others.
Moreover, as a former priest, he has never done manual manual labor at all, so he lacks skills, so it is unreasonable to ask him to do labor as efficiently as other prisoners.

“Ugh. It’s filthy slow.”

“Well, the great priest, I must have done something like this?”

The other prisoners giggled and sarcastically ridiculed his incompetence.
They were also suffering from forced labor as prisoners, but they were relaxed somewhere.

“Shit…”

4885 couldn’t help but frown at the throbbing feeling in his palms.
Not only his palms, but his entire body throbbed from frequent beatings and violence.
One of the reasons why he couldn’t do proper labor was because he suffered from this violence.
Although he was treated by a resident priest in the prison, his condition was too severe to be cured.
In this prison and forced labor camp, 4885’s status and power as a high-ranking priest were useless.
Here, 4885 is just an ordinary human male who is weak and helpless, so he can’t resist this irrationality.
And it wasn’t until the third day after 4885 was imprisoned and subjected to forced labor that he realized the real absurdity.

“The treatment is over. Go.”

“…”

The priestess, who had been constantly treating the wound on his hand, ordered 4885 to leave the room with a cold attitude.
The priestess confidently displayed an attitude of not wanting to stay with 4885 for even a second.
It was natural for the priestess to despise 4885, knowing all about his crimes and history of selling many priests to other territories or kingdoms and collecting the price one after another.
It is natural for prisoners’ crimes and criminal histories to spread throughout the prison, but the news of 4885’s imprisonment and charges spread throughout the prison at an unusually fast pace.
Moreover, all the prisoners in the prison sharing the same room as 4885 are innocent victims who have a bad relationship with him.
The only thing I could think of was that someone intentionally arranged and created this situation.

“Shit…”

In general, conflict within a prison is one of the elements that the guards who manage this prison have to manage.
Prisoners’ labor is valuable labor in Erenium.
Not because they are great technicians, but because they are an efficient labor force that does not cost any labor costs.
However, the prison’s managers neglected 4885’s one-sided beating.
Rather, I can’t erase the feeling that I am implicitly allowing it and even urging it.
Upon exiting the treatment room, 4885 gritted his teeth in resentment.

“Why… Why am I like this…”

I wanted to think of it as a dream.
Up until last week, if he had been a high-ranking priest with power and power that he could not touch himself, why did he have to suffer such a humiliating situation?
I couldn’t understand.

“Wouldn’t it be better to stop convincing?”

The guard from the treatment room laughed at 4885.
He is the leader who takes 4885 to prison to stop him from doing nonsense.

“…”

4885 frowned and said nothing.

“Do you think there are only one or two people like you in this prison?”

It was certainly rare for nobles or higher-ranking priests of the kingdom to be imprisoned in prison, but it was not the case at all.

“When guys like you end up in prison, they’re all the same at first.”

Deny reality at first.
Before he was imprisoned, he couldn’t forget the position, honor, and power he had outside and couldn’t accept the current situation.
But then, at some point, he reluctantly accepts reality.

“Do you see that guy over there?”

The jailer pointed to a group of prisoners returning to prison after completing his service.
And he found a man among the group who had distanced himself from the other prisoners and returned alone.

“His name is Ashton. Call it Ashton Armitas.”

“Beautiful… Mitas… ?”

Upon hearing the familiar last name, 4885’s footsteps stopped.
Isn’t it the same castle as Eleanor Armitas who took the divine power from herself?
He was the eldest son of Duke Armitas’ family belonging to the kingdom of Pernias.
But that, too, is a story of the past.

“He’s such an asshole. He is a prisoner who harbored a grudge against Lady Eleanor and tried to harm her, but was transferred here for that crime.”

“…”

Originally the heir to the duke’s family, he was stripped of his heir post for allegedly embezzling the kingdom’s budget by allying with other noble factions behind the back of his father, the current duke.
While harboring a grudge against it, he tried to harm Eleanor in order to stain the Armitas family itself with disgrace, and was transferred to the temple main school of the sacred kingdom of Erenium.
At first, he also could not accept the reality due to his position and the idea of ​​the chosen people as nobles, but he accepted the reality as he suffered frequent beatings and labor.
Ashton’s sentence for attempting to insult and harm his next saintess, Eleanor, is life imprisonment.
Originally, there was room for a commutation of the sentence if the victim Eleanor and his family wanted it, but neither Eleanor nor Ashton’s father, Abros, did not want Ashton to commute.
It can be said that he showed the least amount of mercy as much as he rather kept him alive.
The day when Ashton is released from this Erenium prison does not come.
So he accepted his reality.
No longer a nobleman, he looked so helpless as a prisoner.

‘Me too… Will I become like that someday…’

4885 felt as though it had seen its future.

◆ ◆ ◆

The case in which many priests were punished through the trial caused a great stir in the temple of Erenium.
Those who were related to them were all investigated regardless of status, origin, or relationship.
In particular, figures from other countries strongly resisted.
However, at the same time as setting a strong precedent, it was clear that it was a cause, so most of those involved in corruption in the temple and the sacred country were punished, and the sacred country of Erenium was facing a great upheaval.

“Now… It’s really irreversible.”

Agies, who faced the current situation, muttered with a wry smile.

“I can’t help it. We… It was a problem that I had been avoiding and ignoring until now.”

As a result of not catching the beginning correctly, the decay progressed deeper and wider, and the amount of bleeding that occurred in the process of cutting it out was too much.
It’s the right thing to get this right even if it’s belated.
Even so, Darian was not optimistic about the situation.
Rather, he was worried because he knew that the road ahead would be a very arduous one.

“But… Are you really okay?”

“Anything will work. Right now, it is also very smooth.”

“It is, but… To be honest, I don’t know why Anies’s friend helps the temple so much.”

The friend of Anies that Darian was talking about was referring to Eunhyeon.
The great upheaval that has begun to rise in the temple is a change that has been brought about by Eun-hyeon’s initiative.
To be honest, Darian couldn’t understand Eun-hyeon’s actions of eradicating the existence of selfish priests who thought only of their own benefit through corruption and corruption, cutting out rotten flesh, and helping in many ways to grow new skin.

“Are you dissatisfied that he is helping?”

“No complaints. Isn’t he the one who really gave us grace that we couldn’t even repay in our lifetime?”

It would never be easy to arrest and punish not only other priests who were involved in corruption through the Heretic Questioner’s investigation, but also foreign figures related to them.
Of course, foreign countries would retaliate toward the Temple of Vesta or the Holy Nation of Erenia, and the starting point of that retaliation was to cut off the enormous donations that were regularly sent.
However, this problem helped Eunhyeon to provide enormous support for this damage as an ally by connecting the Kingdom of Pernias and the Holy Nation of Erenia.
More than half of that support came from the surplus funds of Eunhyeon and the duke’s family, but the other support came from the national budget of the kingdom of Pernias.
Thanks to this, except for happenings where many court aristocrats, such as Princess Yuria and the kingdom’s finance minister, had to work day and night, who had to organize additional budgets, the Temple of Vesta was able to put out the immediate fire, which was a thankful grace.
The only thing that bothered Darian was his intention to help the temple this far.
There is no such thing as unrewarded favor.
They provide support as if pouring in a huge budget, and are helping a lot to regain the authority and honor of the temple that has fallen to the bottom.
Still, he didn’t ask for anything in return.
Because he was simply a friend of Agnes, the husband of Eleanor, his next saintess, he could not readily assume that he would show such an unrequited favor.

“Okay. You are a suspicious person by nature.”

Agies laughed.
With that kind of personality, Darian thought that the position of the Inquisitor was a good fit for him.

“But you can trust him. Are you okay.”

“… Are you serious?”

Darian doesn’t know what kind of person Eunhyeon is.
All he knows is that he is Eleanor’s husband and Agnes’s friend, and that he has tremendous power as he showed amazing performance in the necromancer raid.
That’s why he was curious.
Why on earth did Agies place such blind trust in a man named Eunhyeon?

“Does he seem that greedy?”

“… No. Not so. But… How foolish it is to judge people only by their appearance… Aren’t you familiar with it?”

Darian was well aware of how many ugly people there were who had committed and concealed many sins behind their backs while putting on a good smile.
Because the work of digging out those rotten pus is in full swing.

“Because he’s moving with a slightly different goal from us.”

It’s not that I don’t have greed or anything like that.
However, Eun-hyeon is moving with a different principle of action than others.
For Eleanor or Agies could have been included among the reasons, but there is only one most fundamental reason that makes him move.
For the mission given directly by the Goddess, ‘Maintaining the Underworld’.

“If he sets his mind to it, he could devour our temple.”

“…”

Darian realized that Agies was not bluffing.
It was because her face, which had a sense of weight, was so serious even though she was smiling a little bitterly.
If the current temple did not have Eleanor or Agnes, there was no connection with the goddess Vesta, and the temple was in a state of decay that could not be saved, Eunhyeon would not hesitate to destroy the group called the temple and the sacred kingdom of Erenia without mercy. Wouldn’t have

“But the reason we didn’t do that was because we needed this place called the temple, and it gave us a chance.”

At least this time, it is similar to the meaning of a warning and opportunity to do it right.
Perhaps it was similar to the reason why he replaced the high-ranking nobles and royal family of the Kingdom of Pernias, where corruption was rampant.

“I like that I can use this opportunity to get rid of all the junk I don’t like and make it a clean temple, and I like that guy because he can use us in his own way. Isn’t that a win-win for each other?”

At least if it was Eunhyeon, she wouldn’t try to use the powers of the temple for unreasonable things, so as the Holy Nation of Erenia, there was nothing wrong with building an alliance with the kingdom of Pernias or a cooperative relationship with Eunhyeon behind it.

“… He is a really scary person.”

Darian smiled bitterly.
And as long as he was given the opportunity, he made a promise to himself again that he would do his job properly.