Abandoned Priest at the Hero’s Party

The One Who Protects More People

People are sometimes unfairly treated,

Also, if you lose those you want to protect unfairly, it is natural to have a desire for power.

If he had the ability to do everything he wanted, like that demon lord Grimudo, he would not have lost his hometown or sold into slavery. There are so many sad things in the world.

When you go through such things, you develop a desire to become stronger.

I don’t want to deny that desire. I just didn’t want this kid to get lost.

Because I knew one pitiful person who lost his goal while obsessed with becoming stronger, and whose goal was to become stronger without losing his purpose.

“Once upon a time, there was a man who suffered a very bad wound. Perhaps someone who has been betrayed by someone he trusted.”

Recalling his own past that he told us directly, he began to tell an old story.

Humans are stupid, and history repeats itself. But a foolish person does not learn by experience, but a wise person learns and realizes something through history.

I’m not saying Rocca is stupid, but I want Rocca to be a wise person.

“When even the most precious people turned their backs on him, the person who sought power in the hope that it would never happen again became stronger than anyone else, but there is no one by his side anymore.”

If you’re going to save someone to come under his control, there’s no reason not to.

It shouldn’t be too difficult to find someone willing to come under him and obey him, hopefully. But it doesn’t. I don’t want to interact with anyone else.

Why? Because we are all less than ants compared to his strength?

I had a different feeling. He was preoccupied with constantly researching something. So it was a waste of time to even reach out to others.

“I don’t know what the North Pole is exploring so hard for. But he must have been crazy about it. I didn’t even want to care about everything else.”

I don’t know why they are so passionately exploring and training themselves.

Is it because the power gained as a result of that quest was the only reward in life? But is it worth devoting your whole life to research for yourself?

The Primordial Demon Lord is really, the more you know, the more strange it is.

At one time, I thought he was an absolute evil.

From birth, I thought that he was the most twisted and twisted being of evil. I thought it was a more terrifying existence than all the great evils in this world combined.

The ancient demon king I met in person was just a wandering being.

Even if you wear limitless magic and use countless techniques, the essence does not change.

He is a man who has only built up his strength without even knowing what to do. What is the purpose he wants to achieve with that power, perhaps he himself has not been able to properly establish.

Perhaps, living for countless years and forgetting the purpose that we had intended to achieve with that power and becoming stronger is the purpose of our existence itself.

I really didn’t want Loka to be like that. It is good to build up strength, but I hope that the motive is more large-scale than protecting one person.

“Research was originally only a means, but it became an end and became a ghost that ruled his life. roca. Power is just a tool. I want you to always keep that in mind.”

To the bewildered child, I explained it a little more loosely.

“It’s good to be strong. But it shouldn’t be a purpose that runs through your entire life. I wonder if there is anything else you want to achieve with that power. Loca, what kind of person do you want to be?”

“The one who protects the master.”

He patted Loka, who spoke without thinking too much about it, telling him to think about it again.

To say that only one person is the purpose of life is a twist. I’m really grateful that the target is me, but that’s not the case. Doesn’t that mean that if I disappear, the purpose of life also disappears?

“Um, I don’t know. Loca doesn’t know that.”

It’s not that I don’t know, it’s that I don’t even want to think about it. I wish I had pretended to be worried.

“What kind of person do you want me to be?”

Am I following me so blindly because I am the only precious person left to this child? If so, if the cause can be solved, wouldn’t the result be solved naturally?

“Then, will you be the one who can protect more people than me?”

So said. The child’s eyes widened.

“Rocca. Thank you for always trying to protect me.”

I stroked the boy’s head, and I smiled.

“Sometimes I want you to think about protecting not only me, but more people.”

Rocca’s expression hardened. know. It’s a difficult request.

Rocca suffered hard work from people, especially us humans. I didn’t even ask what happened specifically, but the fact was forgiving that the child didn’t hate people blindly.

To this child whose childhood memories have been trampled upon by humans, it is actually a difficult request to become a person who saves others.

But I don’t want this child to try to push out all other humans based solely on past misfortunes. I wanted to have someone who values me more than me.

“I’m not asking you to put a human inside your fence. It’s fine if it’s your kind, or it doesn’t have to be. Anyone other than me, no matter who it is…”

Once upon a time, someone told me. Rather than a friend who would give his life for me, I would like to have a friend who I could give my life for.

Whether it be a friend, a lover, or a family member, this child can love that much.

I wish there was another person like that other than me. It would be very sad if I was the only person Roka let into her fence.

If there is only one precious person left, and she clings to me and longs for affection, I don’t have to do that, so I wanted this child to have more people to share her happiness with.

It would be nice if Roca made friends, but I don’t know if I’ll ever find a suitable person in this system. On the way to the North Pole, shall we stop by the Eastern Plain, where many beasts live?

“I wish you, other than me, would love someone so much that you try to protect them like this.”

If there is no such person, what does it mean to be strong?

The purposeless power builds up and piles up to become something like that Grimudo.

“……”

Without saying a word, he lowered his head and exhorted Loka. Ultimately, the answer is what this child is looking for.

No one can go their own way. To be a person who can help others is actually the path I have suggested.

Who can force you to walk that path? Lord? Or am I?

I just recommend that you do, and in the end, if your heart doesn’t move, my words are just empty words.

I want this child to help others and be appreciated. Is there a suitable opportunity?

“Excuse me. My name is Albert, the butler of the Imperial Palace. Can I come in for a moment?”

While I was doing that, I heard a knock. When I said I could come in, a middle-aged man quietly opened the door and strode towards me.

Wearing a splendid tailcoat that could be considered a nobleman, he introduced himself as the butler of the imperial palace and shouted in front of me.

“Priest of the Old Gods, Kyle, obey Your Majesty’s will. Priest. Your Majesty wants to see you in person. Please follow me.”

If he was a butler in the Imperial Palace, he would be a nobleman, and the power he held would be great, but he spoke to me in a polite tone. Of course, it must have been directed at the person behind me rather than towards me.

So am I, and so is the Lord.

But just thinking of him as an Old God changed people’s attitudes.

In the past, people I would not have met even if I had expressed my intention to visit them first. A person like Archbishop Armata or a prince came to me first and wanted to treat me like this.

Knowing that the admiration was not directed at me, I did not take the treatment. Because I know how unsightly it would be if I got drunk on the worship of the Lord. Rather, he had to think about what he had to say to His Majesty.

‘If the meaning of the cycle can be found in this imperial palace, there is no need to go to the North Pole, but I don’t think it will end that easily.’

It’s just my intuition, but

It didn’t seem like things were going to be that easy.

Is it the Lord’s guidance, or is this my destiny? Or is it that he already has the clue of what I want to do?

I felt like I had to face the Arctic one once. it’s just a feeling Now that the Star Dream Observatory has disappeared, there is no evidence to support that sense.

But if you dare to guess,

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Meeting him again may be the realm of inevitability.