Abandoned Priest at the Hero’s Party

The Red Nightmare

It was almost evening, and drinks and food were served just in time.

Even a sixteen-year-old can drink alcohol. And children at that age often have fantasies about alcohol, so I thought Loca would be interested too, but it didn’t.

yum yum.

well water.

Rocca was only interested in the meat dishes that the attendants brought. There was no interest in wheat noodles or sweet confectionery, especially in dishes in which vegetables accounted for more than half of the ingredients.

Come to think of it, alcohol is also made from grains, fruits, and, rarely, honey, so it was unlikely that Roca would be interested. There is no such thing as alcohol made with meat.

At this point, I could also realize that the child was a huge picky eater.

Even if you don’t eat grass, you seem to be healthy, so you can’t force yourself to do it, just say so. One of the attendants brought a whole keg of ice next to us. Perhaps it was put in the warehouse to ripen, and then brought out immediately.

“If you are in the position of an emperor, sometimes you can’t just do what you want.”

The person who handed me a glass of alcohol did not have that majestic appearance before. It just seemed like a tired old man trying to endure hardships by drinking alcohol all the time.

“I’m sorry earlier. I called the benefactor and couldn’t say thank you. Instead, I only talked about myself. It’s late, but thanks anyway. Thank you so much for saving this child and me.”

“Of course it had to be done.”

“Then you must pay for it, but I have already heard what you are looking for. You said you were looking for what’s hidden in the word cycle. I do not know the answer.”

I lifted my glass and took a sip. I didn’t even know what the taste of the drink was.

There was no time to taste how different it was from ordinary wine. My head was complex, and my thoughts came together. Indeed, going to the North Pole may be unavoidable.

The ancient demon king. The demon king who doesn’t know how long he’s lived.

If we look at the level of knowledge alone, only the one who is not lacking even if we call him a sage will know the answer to the cycle. If you don’t even know that, no matter how much you think about it, there is no one who will look for the answer next.

How about Mage Harmael? But if you don’t even know Grimudo, do you think it’s her?

“okay. Also…”

“So, I want to prepare other rewards, what would be better?”

“just…”

I was just about to say it was something I should have done, but I suddenly saw Loca.

It reminded me of a story the boy had told me earlier. You said you wanted to become stronger.

“I want you to help that child, not me.”

“Are you talking about a child who is lucky to see me eating?”

His Majesty smiled, and Roka’s eyes turned round as she swallowed the chunk of meat.

“He wants to be strong, but I don’t know how to help because I don’t work with magic. I would like your Majesty to give him a little help.”

“I heard that my daughter has already become her teacher. You can’t attach another teacher to a child whose master is already a teacher, but just give him something that might be helpful.”

His Majesty raised his hand and called the imperial butler. Then he ordered me to guide Roca.

“Make arrangements for this child to take any one of the items in the Imperial Repository.”

“Are you talking about anything?”

He looked startled, but His Majesty was unstoppable.

“Hey. Go and pick whatever you want. Whatever you choose, it won’t be a wrong choice, as everything in it is only helpful to you.”

“…thank you.”

Roka swallowed what she ate and then politely thanked her. Then he looked at me for a moment, and as I smiled and nodded, he followed the imperial butler and disappeared.

“If you want to go to the North Pole to meet Grimudo and ask for the answer, wait a little bit rather than leave right away. I am going to send an envoy to Grimudo myself, so how about going with him as a party?”

“Are you talking about the delegation?”

Not me, but the princess who had been silent all the time raised her head and shouted.

“That, sending an envoy against Grimudo is nonsense. If the temple finds out about this, it will rush to protest like a wolf, but…”

What the princess is worried about, I know.

There are two ways to get from the continent to the North Pole. One is to move through the sea and cross the Near East Sea full of ice and monsters to the North Pole, which is very dangerous.

Even experienced explorers sank and lost all their supplies, and in many cases came back alive only with their lives. In fact, he was treated like a hero even if he saved his own life and the expedition’s life.

It is dangerous to go there by boat. But if the other way is not dangerous, it is not.

“Isn’t Kalcamir, the continent’s highest mountain range, blocking the continent between the North Pole and the continent? The delegation cannot cross that cold mountain range. If it was a master like me, I wouldn’t know…”

“okay. what’s the problem you said it with your mouth You can do it.”

“Your Majesty’s words…”

I was surprised, and so was the princess. I looked at His Majesty and asked, and he nodded.

“It’s not an envoy, it’s an envoy. You are the only one going to the envoy. Ardain. Why do you think I have given you a symbol to represent so many positions and burdens? Because you are Jim’s goodwill ambassador to visit the North Pole Citadel on behalf of the imperial family.”

That means that the princess will be with you on the journey to the North Pole.

But this alone should be a warning. Grimudo is never a good thing to think so easily.

“your majesty. It may be a frivolous remark, but to Grimudo, His Majesty’s authority is infinitely light. Seeing His Majesty’s face, I don’t think he’ll be able to touch the princess.”

“Jim knows that. My daughter is said to have risen to the Masters, but if Grimudo is her opponent, it may be difficult to even escape alive.”

But surprisingly, His Majesty kindly accepted my words.

People on the continent usually underestimate Grimudo to some extent. Because there is no face-to-face meeting with him, he never witnesses his power, and in that case, he often thinks that his existence is just something from a legend or something from a ghost story.

But the Emperor was not like that. As if he already knew a little about Grimudo, he seemed to acknowledge to some extent the fact that his power overwhelms the imperial family and even the entire empire.

“So this is not something I can force. Ardain. how are you As my envoy, do you intend to follow this saint here to the North Pole?”

“that…”

“If you can’t go, just send someone else. But as a father, I have to ask you one thing. Baby, are you still interested in Jim’s place?”

After hesitating, the princess, unable to continue speaking, murmured a little.

“It is not. just…”

“just?”

“Edmund, I will not tolerate him becoming emperor. My father-in-law told me to forgive him, but I can’t.”

“Got it. So, think a little more about what I said. I don’t want to hear an answer right now, so please think about it with plenty of time.”

His Majesty the Emperor beckoned.

“Come on, then you go to sleep. Jim will do a little more masterpiece with the saint here.”

“Hey, can’t I be there too?”

“It’s no big deal. But it’s also an important story. It’s also a story you shouldn’t hear, so go in and sleep. Honey, it’s late at night.”

The princess reluctantly greeted me and Her Majesty, then left and disappeared. Watching the back of my daughter disappearing, His Majesty suddenly asked me.

“So, Priest.”

I spit it out like nothing happened,

There was no way this was a casual question.

“What do you think of my daughter?”

*****

southwestern continent. Calderan Mountains.

“Twitter, I have no luck today.”

The herbalist, Ada, straightened her back and looked up at the sky. It is difficult to find herbs through grass and trees, and the wages are not very good. People with money do not buy medicinal herbs, but go to the temple to receive treatment, so it is obvious even without looking at the wallets of those looking for medicinal herbs.

So, even if you dig up herbs and sell them at best, you will have a disastrously small number of readings left in your hands. Besides, there are many competitors for this.

It is because mining medicinal herbs is a side job that any commoner should consider at least once. Because there is no villager who can’t tell the difference between medicinal herbs and poisonous herbs.

“If you sell all of this, you can still get a few coins.”

The Citadel Kingdom became the Citadel Republic, and a system of electing apprentices was now established by voting, but for a rural herbalist like Ada, it was nothing like that. No, it’s someone else’s business.

In order to have the right to vote, the state has to pay a large amount of voting tax. A country where everything is settled with money. The center of continental shipping. It was the reign of the Citadel Republic.

To be honest, it doesn’t matter whether you become a king or an apprentice to rule above. Anyway, there is no change in the fact that they are high-ranking people who will never see their faces once in their lifetime.

“Hey, it’s good that the weather is bright today.”

Whether he was a doge or a king, it was the cloud above him now. Through the clouds, the sun at first glance blazed and radiated light, and the clouds adequately blocked the sunlight, making it cool.

“The sun is as hot as midday…”

The herbalist, who was looking at the sky in the shade to avoid the sunlight, felt something strange and narrowed his eyes. There the sun is clearly hiding in the clouds.

It’s like noon without a cloud, it’s sunny everywhere, but the sun is half covered by the clouds? It is common knowledge that everyone knows, even if they are not herbalists, that the sunlight cannot be this bright.

“Tae, tae, tae, and the sun are two!”

So where the hell did this light come from? As he looked up at the sky, his gaze stood still and found the sun illuminating the world.

The sun that was not covered by the clouds blazed and lit the earth brightly, and Ada’s trembling gaze carefully turned to the sun earlier. I wish I had seen it wrong by all means.

But the sun, shining alone among the clouds, was definitely there. Even though its brightness is pale compared to the real sun, it is definitely the sun. It was the sun in the sky!

– Kuruk?

Or maybe it was the eyes of an absurdly huge thing. In the clouds, the sun rolled.

When it reappeared, two suns were looking at Ada. As the wind blew and the clouds lifted, it was finally revealed to the world. A flaming bird with a pair of sun-like pupils lingered in the air to see the world.

“Wood, freak, freak…”

No matter how big the world is, where are there so many big things like that?

Ada, who was also a citizen of the Citadel Republic, knew it well. I didn’t even know the name of that, but I couldn’t figure out what they called these things.

“The monster, the monster! He is the monster of Grimudo!”

Immediately, their apprentice borrowed a monster and turned the country upside down with that power.

It wasn’t something that could be hidden by lockdown. How big is the monster? Do you mean that you should keep a secret and slaughter all the citizens who saw that huge thing? That doesn’t mean that secrets will be kept, and that fact is already an open story with no secrets.

Why did such a monster appear here now?

He would not have been a herbalist if he could ask this question soberly. Ada was frightened and ran away. She ran away with tears in her eyes!

He prayed and cried out to a god he had never normally sought. Nemi, Elysia, Hillai, Aldehir, Oberta… They ran frantically, spitting out names that seemed to give them even the hope of salvation.

The King of Monsters did not pay any attention to him as he ran away with a runny nose. I didn’t come here to eat something like that in the first place.

Fuck!

It cried once and began to sink to the ground. The distance from the ground was getting closer and closer. 500 meters. 150 meters. 100 meters… At some point, the vegetation caught fire, and a forest fire began to spread. The ground was dry with the heat, and a hot wind blew in all directions.

And finally, 0 meters.

The ground shook like a wave. Dust reached all the way to the sky.

Everything standing on the ground could not withstand the impact and was destroyed, and the soil and rocks shook and collapsed everything. Desperately running away, Ada was buried in a pile of dirt several tens of meters in size, leaving no trace. Just by digging into the ground, this tragedy occurred.

The phoenix, the phoenix, came here and did this not because he wanted to harass humans. It’s not even that he came under the orders of Grimudo.

It just needed to be under the mountain range. What was done without any malice caused great disaster, and even this was just the beginning.

The monster is too large for the terrain of this world to handle.

It was less than a minute later that Vales City, the capital of the Citadel Republic, noticed the problem. The prelude to the beginning of the red nightmare reached the city of Vales.