Chapter 1002 – #99. The Story of the Three Thousand Concubines and the Emperor (60)
“Uh, how… Uh… Ugh…!”
The priest, who was completely absorbed while sitting on the floor, could not say anything and broke into a cold sweat.
Additionally, her groin area was soaked, and her stains were visible.
Who would have imagined that the size of the explosion was unexpected and that the range was so large that our allies would be swept away?
Moreover, this priest really survived by luck.
If I had been even one step closer, I would have been caught in the explosion and turned into a cold corpse.
But luckily she was one step behind and barely managed to survive the aftermath of the explosion.
Of course, there were some injuries because he flew through the air and fell to the ground in the aftermath of the explosion, but that was much better than dying.
When she came to her senses belatedly, she wet herself at the eerie scene that unfolded before her.
And she did nothing but moan.
“Ahhh, my legs… My legs!!! Ahhh!!!!”
Because she flew so far away, unlike her intact limbs, people who lost parts of her body and other sick people suffering from her various pains began to overflow here and there.
The problem was that the priests who were supposed to cure the patient were not in a normal condition.
“What on earth have you done!!!!”
She sent her soldiers away, saying she would kill the emperor, and there is no trace of where she sent them.
So, when I asked what to do about the emperor’s issue and what he was doing here, he got all excited and told me to wait.
The Geos nobles looked upon the unreliable temple with distrust, but obediently let them do whatever they wanted.
And the result is this.
I knew they were doing strange things among themselves, but I couldn’t ask them to tell me because it was true that information was leaked to the enemy, and they were in trouble.
Isn’t this really the last chance to receive help from the temple?
“Everyone is dead! What are we going to do about this!! How are we going to fix this!!!”
“Yes, the other side is also dead…!”
“Far from being dead, they are all alive and well!! If you have two eyes, take a look!!!”
The Geos noble grabbed the collar of the priest who was stuttering and unable to come to his senses.
Then, he dragged the priest and showed him the sight outside the collapsed castle wall.
“Look!!! Who died from that strange power you were so confident about!!!”
The Geos noble did not let go of the priest’s collar and hurled all sorts of insults at him.
In a situation where everyone was out of their senses, the voice of a Geos noble rang especially loudly in their ears.
“Well, that’s me, I said uh… Why is this like this… Uh…”
“You bastard!! Explain it properly!!! What on earth did you do!!! Where did you put all the soldiers you took away?!”
The Geos nobles were not fools.
Many soldiers taken from the temple.
I felt uncomfortable from the moment I handed it over, and it even created a strange phenomenon that made no sense.
Moreover, it failed to succeed and ended up killing all of its allies, which was the worst result.
It’s a temple now, and I can’t tolerate these bastards.
“I used everything, everything, as materials…”
“What?”
Ingredient? What material?
“What are you really doing, you idiot? You used people as material? What kind of material? Could it be that explosive material that killed all of our children?”
“Uh… Uhh… That’s a secret.”
“Are you crazy? You just said it with your own mouth.”
“Oh, I can’t… I shouldn’t know that…”
“It’s true that I’m not sane. Ha! There are no normal people. There are no normal people. Sigh!!!!”
The Geos noble was at a loss as to how to resolve this unfair situation and cursed in anger.
The gates and walls were completely pushed back, and the soldiers died to the point where fighting was impossible.
There is only one thing left.
Whisk-!
“Evil!”
The Geos nobleman, who had taken the priest’s collar off without consideration, made a difficult decision.
Just because it’s an imperial palace doesn’t mean you don’t know what happened at the gate.
In a situation where the castle gate, which was the last bastion, was gone, resisting would only result in the loss of one’s life.
The only option left for the Geos Empire is to raise the white flag.
Now was the moment when the emperor’s decision was needed.
The surviving nobles moved to convey the reality of the castle gate to the imperial palace and ask the emperor’s opinion on surrender.
No, I tried to move, but I couldn’t.
“What is that?”
A shocking scene unfolded to the point where the survivors forgot their pain for a moment.
“Warlock?!”
“A warlock?”
Roaring-
Hearing someone’s shout, the Geos noble could no longer turn away and called the distracted wizard to check what was going on.
“Look, wizard!”
“Why, why, why are you doing that?”
“I need to check what’s going on over there. Use some magic to see what’s going on over there.”
“Even if I suddenly ask you to use magic… I’m not in a good condition…”
“Because this is the situation right now, I need to write more!! I need to know what the situation is! Those who are dead, and those who have survived after making up for it should not live!”
The wizard seemed to have come to his senses after hearing the nobleman’s words and used magic as instructed.
Only then was the noble able to see with his own eyes what was happening over there.
“What is this?!”
“God…”
And both the wizard and the noble who used magic gave a mixed reaction of astonishment.
Hell was unfolding in this world.
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An explosion that destroyed a person’s life.
I’m not sure what mechanism it has.
However, I could see that unused life energy was flowing within that large mushroom cloud.
However, what I wanted to do now was not to use that energy.
‘Why take the easy route?’
What I want is to let people know what this ability is made of.
And the most appropriate thing to spread the word to people was to clearly show the evidence ‘visually’.
For reference, the people of this world are underdeveloped video media and are naive people who do not even know what movies are.
Those people would not be able to see this scene and not feel anything.
That-that-that-that-that-that-that-that-
Something black and ominous was coming out from within the mushroom cloud.
Its appearance resembled that of a human, but it had no legs and was crawling on the floor.
There were no eyes, nose, mouth, and the place was completely open, so it was so bizarre.
The unique sounds they made me frown.
“Well, what on earth is that?”
“Hmm… I checked to see what on earth that bundle of light was made of. It didn’t feel right, but it seems my intuition was correct.”
“I feel worse because I imitate people?”
“What if they attack us?”
“No, I won’t attack.”
Because it is not a fantasy designed that way.
Rather, it would be difficult if our soldiers came close.
Then you will realize that this is just an illusion.
Black human-shaped things kept crawling out of hell, and the black figure that managed to escape began to struggle in pain.
“I feel like I’m suffering…”
“Yes, it’s bound to be painful.”
Slowly, people around me started to notice.
They look scary and ominous on the outside, but there is absolutely no reason to be afraid.
That being, who was suffering for an unknown reason, had no intention of attacking, and was instead clinging to them to save them.
“Why, why are you doing this?”
“Don’t get close. It won’t do any good to get close. And it’s all just an illusion. An illusion left behind by the debris left after the explosion.”
“Less… Then did they really use people as material?”
“”!!!!!!!””
A nobleman finally succeeded in guessing whether he had succeeded in uncovering the truth.
It is useless for me to speak first.
It was only meaningful if other people saw that and first understood the situation and spoke out the truth.
“Yes, they used people as materials to increase their destructive power. The Geos Empire has done a terrible thing.”
“This is crossing the line.”
“That’s why God punished us. Look, we were protected by His Majesty, but weren’t those who used that power attacked in return?”
“It is shocking that the temple stood still and did not stop the Geos Empire from doing such a thing.”
“You probably didn’t know. There’s no way you could keep silent even if you knew, right?”
Until now, they could not have imagined that this terrible act was led by the temple.
“We can’t just leave these guys alone!”
“That’s right. We need to bring them out right away and report all their crimes to the whole world!”
“I wonder how many people’s lives were wasted…”
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
It was a time when everyone became solemn and held a silent prayer for those who were sacrificed.
“…”
“…”
Even while looking at this scene, there was a place that was particularly silent.
I spoke by deliberately looking at them.
“I have something I want to ask you.”
“!!”
The priests gulped as I looked at them and spoke to them.
“I heard that people who use people’s lives for power are called devil contractors. Isn’t that right?”
“That’s right…”
The other priests did not readily open their mouths, but the priest who had made a bold suggestion to me was the only one who responded to my words.
“So, let me ask you. Is the Geos Empire that did this a devil contractor?”
“…”
It seems clear to me that the priests know what that is.
Otherwise, there would be no way for me to think like that.
“Your Majesty, doesn’t your Majesty use a strange power? There is no evidence that the power you used just now is a power created from life.”
It was an awkward excuse, as if he had something to hide from anyone.
Are the nobles looking at this guy? He was looking at the priests with an expression like this.
“Really? So, even if you did something like that, you didn’t make a contract with the devil. What on earth is the definition of a devil contract you are talking about? They say that if you use divine power, you can check whether you are a devil contractor or not, but that is also doubtful. They were simply witch hunting. I doubt it.”
Witch hunt.
There was a similar situation on our side, but in this world, warlocks and demons existed, so witch hunting occurred even more intensely.
It is said that at one time, people died just by reporting that they thought they were witches.
In fact, there were very few cases of true witches, and most of them were unfair victims, but because of those ‘very few’ cases, witch hunting has continued for a long time.
Especially here, witch hunting was also used by priests as a means of confirming their power.
And it didn’t seem to be any different now.
“Can’t you see those innocent lives suffering in your eyes?”
