Chapter 51 – Chapter 01: Elf Heavenly Horse
“Hmm, well, good. “The point is that in the end, crazy cults are running wild in the federal government ruled by that blood emperor, right?”
“The Federal State is not a country ruled by blood. Also, the fact that the person who was the leader of the highest level of cult called Heavenly Demon Church is talking about a cult is a bit…”
Yeonhwa burst out laughing at the words Yujin spoke with an expression on his face that said he had heard a very strange sound.
“How dare you treat Protestantism as a pseudo-church in front of this sitting? “Do you want to die?”
But Eugene had reached a level where he could almost ghostly figure out her mood when she truly showed her murderous intent.
So Eugene, who knows that she is not particularly angry even though she is talking like that, on the contrary, speaks with an expression of bewilderment.
“What are you saying? “I know very well that although I am proud of the fact that I am a Heavenly Demon, I do not have much feelings about the Heavenly Demon Church itself.”
As she said before, Yeonhwa was a woman who only treated those she recognized as equals.
In that sense, the Heavenly Demon Church, which was full of people who did not even treat her as a human being, would have been like an anthill that she had to manage at best.
Of course, she was not strong from the moment she was born, so she was proud of having risen to the position of leader of the Heavenly Demon Cult with her own hands in her demonic den called the Demon Cult.
That was also the pillar of her arrogance as she held the title of Heavenly Demon.
But her pride only goes so far. It was said that she was proud of her own genius, having reached her peak in her demon cave.
So, it is not surprising that there is not much affection for the Heavenly Demon Church itself.
Therefore, it was natural that Yeonhwa did not get angry even though Eugene called the Heavenly Demon Church a cult or something.
“Tsk, this is knowledge from the future? Or is the problem the one month she spent with me? “You talk as if you know me better than I do.”
“For both reasons. In that sense, I would like to ask you a question. As someone who was the head of the largest pseudo-religion in Wulin, what do you think of Crescent?”
Now, she was showing her attitude that she did not like Yeon-hwa because of Yu-jin’s attitude of seeing through her like a ghost even when she pretended to be angry.
She asked a question that Eugene had never thought of, so Yeonhwa, who slightly tilted her head, answered as if it was nothing to think about.
“Didn’t you tell me? “They’re cockroaches, they are.”
When Yeonhwa said that it was a very poor quality cockroach, Eugene asked why.
“Why are you comparing it to a cockroach?”
“Because it’s not a metaphor, it’s a real cockroach. Even I, who was not particularly interested in the secular world, occasionally went to the institution for work, and all I heard was news about those guys.”
And that continued even decades after Crescent first appeared.
“As far as I know, I heard that the stronghold was finally discovered a dozen years ago and the entire continent worked together to eradicate it…”
I never thought it would show itself again. At this rate, it was not strange for Yeonhwa to say that it was a cockroach.
“Wasn’t the Heavenly Demon Church similar? “It’s a group that keeps coming out and saying that they will unify the martial arts world no matter how many times they are beaten, right?”
“Still, the Protestant Church fairly and forcefully suppressed it from the front, and did not darkly carry out underground tricks like those pseudo-people.”
In that sense, Yeonhwa continued to say that if the Church of the Heavenly Demon is the size of an ant, Crescent is a cockroach.
It’s a cockroach that, if you see it in front of you, you don’t just pass by, but you want to hit it without thinking.
“The human sacrifices they commit are the kind of thing that even I find irritating.”
As Yeonhwa frowned in annoyance, recalling the human sacrifice of Crescent that she happened to see, Eugene asked in an unexpected tone.
“Didn’t you do witchcraft? Human sacrifice?”
“I didn’t. As you said, it is true that I did not have much affection for Protestantism, but I am a little angry at the fact that Protestantism is compared to those pseudo-believers.”
This time, Eugene was a little taken aback by her remark, which seemed genuinely a little angry.
“No, but among magic attacks, there are those types of magic skills, right?”
“That is certainly true. However, although Protestantism is about self-respect for the strong, it is not about destroying the weak. In that sense, there is no way we can allow the seeds of talent who may one day become powerful to be used as mere expendables, right?”
Of course, this also varied depending on the nature of the Heavenly Demon who led the Demonic Cult, but at least when Yeonhwa led the Demonic Cult, the practice of cultivating strength through human sacrifice was strictly prohibited.
“… “The Heavenly Demon?”
Unbelievably, he had no idea that Yeonhwa would pursue a policy of valuing human life, so Eugene looked at her with an expression of astonishment.
“What is that gaze? It was not the throne’s business whether the subjects died or not, but the lives of the subjects also belonged to the throne. “There is no way this throne would allow a magician who uses it as he pleases, right?”
However, when Yeon-hwa says something with a blunt expression on her face, Eugene quickly shakes her head with an expression that says, “That’s right.”
“Okay, tell me why you care about those pseudo-guys. “There’s no way a guy who knows about the future would pay attention to rumors that are just going around. There must be a reason, right?”
At that time, when Yeonhwa urged Eugene to stop her introduction and get to the main topic, Eugene could not help but laugh bitterly.
As Yeonhwa knows that Eugene knows the future through knowledge of the original work, she also knew that he was not interested in these rumors for no reason.
“Crycent… “These guys, whom I usually call the third force, are more troublesome than the Demon King Army if left alone.”
In a way, Eugene was thinking that the future in which the continent would be destroyed would not be caused by the Demon King’s army, but by these guys called Crescent.
“Those pseudo-guys? “I’ve met you a few times, but I didn’t feel anything special about it.”
Yujin explained in more detail the question Yeonhwa expressed as she tilted her head.
“That’s because it’s you. “If we look at it from the perspective of the general public right now, these guys are dangerous guys.”
No, even if you don’t look at it by the average person’s standards, the third force, Crescent, are dangerous guys.
The Demon King’s army at least invaded from another dimension, the Demon World, using dungeons or other means, but these guys were just the people of the Orbital Continent degenerating.
In short, unlike the Demon King’s army, where the biggest means of invasion is sealed by blocking the dungeon, the Crescents are, as Yeon-hwa said, like cockroaches, multiplying here and there if they come to their senses.
In severe cases, it even infiltrated the leadership of each country.
“In particular, as you mentioned, since they are people who commit human sacrifice, they are even more vicious in that they do not choose any means.”
As Yeon-hwa said, it is not for nothing that all the countries on the continent joined hands to completely eradicate it a dozen years ago.
These Crescents are still heretics and are branded as public enemies of all who live on the continent with the Demon King’s army.
‘It’s not for nothing that they’re called the third force in the original work.’
Due to what happened a dozen years ago that Yeonhwa talked about, it was not said to be the third force in the original work after the Empire and the Demon King’s Army, even though it is no longer enough to be called a force.
‘To be exact, during the first year, all kinds of foreshadowing was done, and from the second year onwards, the activities began in earnest under the name of Crescent.’
An organization that suffered a near-annihilation a dozen years ago and hid in the shadows to gain strength, but has now begun to crawl out into the sun again.
After all, that is the time when the main character entered the academy, and it is just a matter of course to aim for the academy depending on the route. Because he was a guy who was commonly referred to as a cliche.
‘It’s a cliche in that the purpose was to kidnap or assassinate talented people who would increase the size of the force.’
Anyway, since it was the beginning of the second year for the protagonist, these guys were also about to begin their activities in earnest with the Demon King Army.
“So? After all, what does it mean that those cockroaches are running rampant in the federal government?”
And when Yeonhwa asks Eugene, who knows what this means through knowledge of the original work, should he explain this? It was something to worry about.
However, he soon decided that there was no need to hide it from Yeonhwa and honestly told him what he knew.
“Considering that the main character is currently taking the princess route… , This probably means that the Taebaek princess, who was slowly getting excited, started to move.”
“Excited?”
In Eugene’s explanation, Yeonhwa let out a puzzled voice at the words whose meaning she could not understand, and Eugene sighed and continued speaking.
“In short, it means that he is going to do something crazy in earnest, but we have no way to stop it right now, so let’s just leave it alone.”
“Why is there no way to stop it? “Can’t I just go and kill him?”
Yeonhwa’s statement was, of course, her standard, but it was also the easiest way to actually get the job done. But…
“It might have been last year, but since we have entered this year, it would be unreasonable for you to run right now, so just leave it alone.”
“… The reason is?”
… When Yu-jin said that she truly thought that even Yeon-hwa could not be killed, she confirmed it through her humanity and narrowed her impression and asked, to which Yu-jin answered.
“You said you felt refreshed. That’s not a metaphor, it’s a literal meaning. “She is the saint of Shub Niguras.”
“Shub Niguras?”
When an unknown word came out of Eugene’s mouth again, Eugene sighed at the silent pressure of threatening to hit him if he didn’t explain it properly.
“The Third Force, Crescent, is a religious group divided into seven sects that serve seven gods called Outer Gods.”
To be exact, it is a group of fanatics, and this is because the foreign gods served by this religious group called Crescent are none other than gods based on the Outer Gods that appear in the Cthulhu mythology.
“Among them, the sect that serves Shub Niguras, the saint of that sect. To be exact, a woman chosen to be a saint. That means she is currently the princess of the Taebaek Kingdom.”
And the important thing is that this saintly being was chosen by a foreign god and received power from a foreign god, and that alone made her status reach the realm of the absolute.
“She doesn’t think that’s a reason why I can’t kill her.”
However, even if she was of the same rank, and even if the opponent was a saint of God, she was confident of killing Mara Papiyas and Mara Pasun. In response to the backlash from Yeonhwa, Eugene continued his explanation.
“If you are simply a power user with the status of an absolute person, there is absolutely no way that the Heavenly Demon cannot win. … The problem is that the other person is a being who has even downloaded divine energy.”
So, I can assure you that if even Yeonhwa were to face the current saint of Shubnigurus from the front, Eugene was sure that she would not be able to guarantee victory.
“In the future I know, in order to win against that saint, the sword saint, the blood emperor, and even the noble and dragon emperor would have to come together and fight in a bloody fight.”
Even though four of these Ozone gathered together and attacked each other, they were ultimately unable to subdue them and were forced to retreat, which was their limit. That is the power of the second main boss of the princess route, the princess of the Taebaek Kingdom.
“Hmm…”
In response to Eugene’s explanation, Yeonhwa was no longer able to assert her absolute victory as four people who had reached the level of absolute power gathered together but failed to win.
I don’t know about the Blood Emperor and the Noble Lord, but since I have met the Sword Saint and the Dragon Emperor before, I recognize the level they have reached.
“Right now, that princess is operating while hiding her true identity? Even if she goes and fights now, she will only be fighting the blood emperor of the Federation, not the princess.”
