Knights, Let’s Smash Them

139 – Luvern Alroy and the Wonderful Village (2)

The young man’s condition has definitely improved. I don’t know what to say, but the effect of drugs is direct. Except that life is eaten straight bread with pain.

However, problems such as drug addiction can be suppressed to some extent as long as the priests exist.

For now, wouldn’t it be right to save and see people first?

“Then I will leave for the village as soon as the potion is completed.”

“Please.”

The next day.

As soon as the day dawned, I set up an investigation team heading to Strarum, the young man’s hometown.

Earl Dionaos Rupel was also taking the situation seriously, so the investigation team consisted of me, the commander of the Knights of Xianne, and 10 people, including 3 ordinary knights.

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In addition to that, Saint Catherine and her attendants, who were in Tiffen Village, were on their way to Strarum.

Anyway, it’s a plague.

Unless the cause of the disease is identified, in the worst case, the entire village may need to be incinerated or a separate quarantine station built to manage the residents.

It is a thousand times better to prevent an accident by making a fuss than to be careless and spread the influence throughout the territory.

Besides, the outsider the young man talked about.

‘The possibility that it was the Blue Cross cannot be ruled out.’

Last time, the remnants of dragons and heroes resurrected as undead caused a commotion in Tippen Village, so the remnants may be fighting again in the county.

After actually examining the bodies of the members of the Blue Cross, it was confirmed that other officers of the Blue Cross were scattered throughout the empire and the continent.

I rode the horse that had always been with me from the Black Lion Knights until now.

There stood Lucy and Petra, who were on standby for headquarters.

“I’ll be back. Both of them are taking good care of the Count.”

“Don’t worry and go, Dad!”

“Leave this to us, brother.”

A father and an older brother.

It was a title that made me feel high just by hearing it.

Lucy also became an official squire as of yesterday, so he was confident that he would do well by taking care of himself.

Even if it was only up to the 8th, the strength of the Orgius Heavenly Sword that Lucy had acquired was real.

“All preparations are complete, Luvern.”

Similarly, Cianne, who was riding on the horse standing next to me, said.

After hearing that, I turned around and saw Ronz, Heinz, Descartes, and Liberia, who belonged to the investigation team, nodding their heads at me.

In addition to the squires following behind, and the corps mobilized by order of Count Dionaos Rupel, the total number was about fifty.

It’s not quite as big as the last time I went out in Tiffen Village, but it’s quite large in its own way.

In addition to another person’s worth of crow masks to prepare for an unexpected situation, they also packed a lot of potions kept by the knights.

Fully prepared.

As long as the dragon you saw last time doesn’t suddenly pop out or a monster similar to it appears, you should be able to deal with anything with this amount of personnel and equipment.

“Then let’s start soon… ….”

“Lubern Magistrate!”

Just as I was about to depart, Police Officer Baker, who had been bumping into me all along until just a few months ago, called me with a voice full of trust.

“How long will it take to Strarum?”

“If you go through the newly opened Iron Road, you will be there in less than four hours.”

With the support of the imperial family due to the incident in Tiffen Village, the completion of the Iron Road in Rupel Manor was almost at an end.

Strarum, a small town in the east, did not pass through the Iron Road, but geographically it is located near the road, so it should be easy to reach.

“Thank you again, magistrate. I only believe in you.”

“You didn’t like me just a few months ago, but now you’re doing this?”

“Oh no! Even then, I didn’t hate it, I was just wary! There are a lot of outsiders coming in who want to scam the original body, so I can’t help but avoid suspicion!”

A constable who rolls his eyes in bewilderment at the sharp words. I couldn’t help but burst into laughter at the easy-to-see reaction.

“Okay. Just leave it to me. Have you ever seen me deal with things like sh*t?”

“Yes…… When you come back, buy me a drink.”

“I will eat it with Imperial Stout. Or blue whiskey.”

Both were expensive drinks. The face of the constable, who was also familiar with alcohol, was slightly wrinkled.

“Damn it! Okay! Can’t i buy one? To come back safely. I’d like to accompany you, but since some of the troops stationed in Petalonto have been mobilized, there will be a hole in the city’s defenses, so there’s no choice.”

Anyway, since it was a plague, this expedition attracted more attention than the other vassals, especially the constable.

The outbreak of plague inevitably leads to a collapse of public security.

“As always, I will believe in you.”

“Yes.”

“The Snow Leopard Knights, go out!!”

With that last word, Xianne slammed her horse’s reins and took the lead.

The sky was hazy with the chilly winter wind. It’s like a warning to us who are going out hoping that it won’t be a big deal.

***

Saint Catherine Sisella of Laterano headed straight to Strarum with two paladins, two combat nuns, and bishop-level priests sent from the Imperial Palace to escort her.

Plague.

The word, which seemed to draw life just by its name, was not very unfamiliar to Catherine, a saint of Laterano.

She was a saint of the Imperial Court, and at the same time the head of the combat nuns, and a permanent advisor to the Heresy Judgment Bureau.

In fact, contrary to popular belief, her main job was not to listen to the concerns of citizens in their daily lives, to provide food and water to economically difficult neighbors, or to lead them to a place where they could rest.

Catherine’s main task is to break the heads of pagans and demons like the Blue Cross.

Once he attended the Council of Cardinals and acted as a mediator for the insidious old men.

It was to pass a lawful judgment on injustice occurring in all parts of the continent.

And most of those unclean things are done with words like ‘plague’ or ‘contamination’.

As a saint of Laterano, Catherine had a duty to stop this before it escalated.

“Why do things like this happen only here in Rupel Manor… ….”

“That’s right.”

The inside of the wagon. Bishop Clementine of the Medes, who was sitting next to Saint Catherine, spoke bitterly.

He was the newly appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Count Rupel.

“It is clear that some big conspiracy is targeting the county.”

“But isn’t this county a territory that was on the brink of bankruptcy just a few months ago? The reason why evil spirit worshipers bother to aim for such a territory…….”

“It must have been because it was a territory like this. Isn’t it the perfect place to nest?”

If you think about it, it was.

Since the territory is on the verge of bankruptcy, the administrative ability of all parts of the province will be virtually paralyzed.

The estate is in chaos inside and out.

For those who always act secretly in the shadows, it must have been a place of apostasy.

“Still, it is fortunate that the administration has been normalized before it is too late. Perhaps the reason why problems are popping up here and there is because the evil forces that couldn’t stand it crawled out as the water started to become clear.”

Dirty pests grow naturally in such a messy environment. The cleaner the environment is, the more pests will disappear.

As much as Count Rupel is currently making a brilliant development that can be called the second golden age.

As Auxiliary Bishop Medes said, there is a high probability that he is rebelling without finishing his work.

“…… If so, it is as if Magistrate Alroy of Luverne saved the estate.”

The ‘administrator’ who made all of this possible.

It was never a skill that could be dismissed as an administrative officer’s. It was not for nothing that he was designated as a subject of concern even within the Imperial Office.

“Yes, financially, physically or religiously.”

Somehow, the answer touched my heart. A person who directly does what the Beophwang Office, which is losing its luster after being overlaid with all sorts of slander, could not do.

This kind of sage should be the ‘Apostle of Laterano’.

Catherine, instead of saving the saints, thought of the present Lateran apostle who was shutting herself in the Imperial Palace and only flirting with her on a fictitious day, and unconsciously bit her tongue and kicked it.

“Saint, I see Strarum over there.”

At that moment, the man sitting in the driver’s seat of the carriage lifted the curtain and said. Thanks to the paved highway that can only be seen in the capital city, it arrived much faster than expected.

The saintess opened the window that had been covered with a black cloth. A small village looming over the wide rolling hills.

For some reason, the empty fields in the winter give off a dreary atmosphere.

“I can already smell the evil.”

“Be careful, saintess.”

Katherine involuntarily touched the mace hanging from her waist in the atmosphere of pressure on her shoulders.

“Please.”

Now she just wanted all the villagers to be safe.