Little Priest's Cat Diary

"The sky ladder... descended... came...!"

With difficulty uttering rough and ugly sounds from his lips, the man tied to the trunk of the giant tree looked up at the invisible sky.

His eyes were full of madness.

He had waited too long for this moment.

He tried his best to plan the layout, deceived the gods, turned himself into a human pillar, and even endured endless torture and pain for more than 1000 years, and became the present appearance of neither human nor ghost——

Everything is for this moment!

Ladder.

The only channel in the world that connects the world and the kingdom of God.

The power of gods can only come down to the world through the ladder of heaven.

Miya's pupils shrank suddenly.

He looked at the man who was staring up at the sky where he couldn't see anything, and the fanatical look in the man's eyes.

This person's goal from the very beginning was the ladder.

That's why, knowing that he would die, he still begged for divine power from his previous self.

Because he needs his previous self to die.

After death, the Son of God lost his power and could only be reincarnated in the world.

If you want to welcome the Son of God back to the Kingdom of God, you must let the ladder connecting the world and the Kingdom of God descend.

This man planned and endured for thousands of years, but his ultimate goal was to wait for such an opportunity.

This is simply...

Mia didn't know how to describe her mood at the moment.

"Ladder? Arrival?"

Sardis, who first subconsciously grabbed Mia's arm amidst the violent shock, repeated his ancestor's words, and in the next moment, a surge of hostility suddenly gushed out of his eyes.

"Is it a passage to the Kingdom of God? She is going to take you back by force?"

Just through the short sentence uttered by the ancestor, he keenly deduced the current situation.

His complexion immediately turned cold, and a storm seemed to be brewing in his eyes.

And he clenched the hand holding Mia even tighter.

Sardis's eyes sank, and he looked at his ancestor in a blink of an eye.

Napsius raised his head, his withered and pale hair was scattered more and more messily on his face and on his bony, half-rotted body with protruding ribs amidst the violent shock.

The disheveled appearance, coupled with his face convulsed and twitched due to excitement, made him look even more like a hysterical lunatic at the moment.

Perhaps because he sensed Sardis' gaze, the crazy man turned to look at his descendants.

He obviously looked skinny and haggard, but those dark and deep black eyes were frighteningly bright at this moment.

"Do you understand it?"

Perhaps because of getting used to it slowly, Napsius' words gradually became smoother.

Sardis did not answer Napsius' words.

He looked at each other with strange eyes, his courage and vigor were no less than that of his ancestors.

The eyes of the two seemed to collide with fierce sparks in the air.

Napsius grinned his dry lips.

"You should... understand."

He laughed.

"My descendant... the current king of Portoyas... as the current emperor of mankind, you..."

He gasped and paused.

The man's black eyes stared straight at Sardis, and his eyes were full of wind and clouds, raging storms, and raging flames.

He looked at Sardis, his hoarse voice was still steady, without the slightest sign of excitement.

"'Here, is the country of men'...that's what you said a while ago."

The descendant standing in front of him was beyond his imagination.

Moreover, in the past thousand years, among all his descendants and the successive kings of Portoyas, the only one who dared to confront the gods and refused to submit to the pressure of the gods was the one named Sa Descendants of Erdis.

Only this young emperor said the same words as him in the past.

…………

More than 1000 years ago, natural disasters struck.

Disasters ravaged the land.

Countless human cities were destroyed, and countless people died in the disaster.

Human blood and tears stained their land red...

When he was young, he crawled out of the collapsed city, and what he saw was a pile of dead bodies.

People said that it was the punishment of the gods, because there were too many sinners, causing sins on the earth, so the gods sent disasters to punish them and eliminate the sins of mankind.

People say that everything is God's will, and they must obey God's will.

... But why?

Why does God say that human beings have sinned, and man has sinned?

Why does God say that human beings should be destroyed and that human beings will be destroyed?

Why should the gods treat them like a piece of pottery that failed to be fired? If they are not satisfied, they will be thrown away and smashed without mercy.

They are not inanimate instruments.

They have their own thoughts and souls, and they should have their own future.

Everyone is working hard to live, why should they be erased from the earth just because of a god's thought.

[Master Shenzi, what do you think should be done? 】

[As long as the guilty people are eliminated, all the evils are eliminated, and the kind and pure people are allowed to multiply, the sins on this land will disappear. 】

【………】

The Son of God who came to the world and saved a part of mankind because he could not bear to let mankind be completely destroyed.

Gentle God, merciful God.

It is his belief, the existence he admires from the bottom of his heart.

But... the Son of God is God after all.

…………

The earth has stopped shaking, but the dense canopy of the giant tree that blocks the sky and the sun is still shedding its fallen leaves.

The wind swept past, and pieces of dark green leaves kept passing by the three people under the tree.

"Since ancient times, gods have led the way of human beings."

Napsius said.

He spoke very fluently.

"Or it should be said that human beings can only move forward according to the requirements of God."

"When human beings gradually have self-awareness, have their own thoughts, and are no longer willing to be marionettes, and no longer willing to follow God's will in everything—there is sin."

"'Disobedient human beings, then destroy'."

Napsius said, in a tone that seemed even.

The haggard face seemed calm, but every word, the hoarse voice seemed to penetrate from the depths of his chest.

His voice was not loud, but somehow revealed a terrifying penetrating and tearing force.

He said: "Human beings are not the toys of the gods!"

The life and death, prosperity and destruction of human beings should not be at the mercy of God!

If we are always just dolls in the hands of gods, then human beings will never find their own way.

Napsius let out a long and soft breath.

His body was emaciated, and his half-rotten body was extremely ugly, but his pair of black eyes were terribly bright.

He stared straight at Sardis.

"It's time... the power of Agathodis, the royal aura accumulated by the kings of Portoyas, plus the divine power that has been awakened by you in your body..."

"My descendant, the emperor of mankind."

"Now, all these powerful forces will belong to you."

The man said, his voice sonorous and powerful.

His eyes were burning with dark flames that burned everything.

"Go, use this power to destroy the ladder!"

——Give Man Freedom——

Napsius raised his hand, and a black flame ignited in his hand.

The dark green vines that originally ran through and wrapped around his right arm were reduced to ashes in the black flames.

He stretched out his flaming right hand to Sardis, and it was about to fall on Sardis.

"and many more."

A hand was raised, in front of Napsius.

Mia who spoke stopped between Napsius and Sardis.

"Master Shenzi, do you want to prevent us from destroying the ladder?"

"I know, that's the only way for you to return to the Kingdom of God."

Napsius stared at Mia.

"But it's a pity that you are not strong enough to stop me now."

His voice was soft, but extremely firm.

"Sorry, I have to destroy the ladder, so please get out of the way."

Mia didn't move, his eyes were fixed on Napsius.

"As a human pillar, you protect the royal city. If you give all your power to Sardis, then..."

"Without my power, I will no longer be a human pillar. Without my power, the barrier protecting the royal city will disappear soon."

Napsius replied calmly.

"The city will be destroyed."

"!!"

"However, even if it is destroyed, there will be a ladder to bury it."

"There are hundreds of thousands of lives in this city, and they are all your people."

Lunapsius smiled slightly.

"There is no difference. Even if the power to protect the city has not disappeared, the impact of the ladder falling on the ground is enough to take the lives of everyone in the city."

His face was gentle, but what he said was crueler than anything else.

"Master Shenzi, sometimes, for more important things and for more people, necessary sacrifices are inevitable and worthwhile."

With a city, tens of thousands of lives are exchanged for the freedom and future of the entire human race.

From the beginning, he placed the city and all its people on the altar of sacrifice.

This man has never been so decisive and ruthless.

In order to achieve his goal, he will do whatever it takes.

Whether it's someone else's life, or his own.

Mia opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but before she could make a sound, an arm suddenly stretched out from behind, grabbing him back.

He was wrapped around the shoulders by Sardis with one hand, and he was pulled into the arms of the other party.

He opened his eyes and watched Sardis stretch out his other hand over him.

The hands of the first King Podoyas and the current King Podoyas touched each other.

The black flame burning in Napsius's hand suddenly increased by an inch, and it moved forward suddenly, swallowing Sardis's hand in the flames.

In the next second, the black flame in Napsius' hand was annihilated, leaving only the flame in Sardis's hand burning hotly.

The jet-black flame went up along Sardis' arm, sinking into his body.

Sardis looked at his hand and squeezed it twice.

There was no expression on his face.

In his pupils, there was a slight amount of fluorescence circulating endlessly.

His whole body seemed to be surrounded by invisible air currents, lifting the corners of his clothes.

The long hair behind him became more and more brilliant like flowing gold, blown by the invisible air current, and fluttered endlessly in the air.

Sardis stood there, obviously his body shape had not changed, but it gave people the feeling that he had suddenly become extremely huge for no reason.

Like a towering peak.

An invisible sense of coercion emanated from his body, even if he couldn't see it, Miya could still feel the power and terror surging in Sardis' body at this moment.

[This force... is indeed powerful enough to destroy the ladder. 】

A familiar voice sounded in Mia's mind.

[But at the same time, as you said, when the ladder is destroyed, the city that lost the power of Agathodius will also be destroyed. 】

【I can feel that the power to protect this city is already weakening, and soon, it will be...】

Antiste and others outside flashed in his mind, Mia clenched his hands tightly, he turned sideways, and grabbed Sardis' arm.

"Sadie, you know very well—"

Before he could finish a sentence, his lips were suddenly blocked.

Mia's slightly dilated pupils reflected the handsome face in front of her eyes.

The side shoulder was grabbed by the opponent.

The chin is held by the opponent.

Sardis bowed his head and kissed his lips.

The slender eyelashes hang down, casting a light shadow on Sardis' face.

It was a shadow that was gentler than anything else.

Turn the sharp eye corners of the young emperor into soft traces.

Mia opened her eyes wide.

Not because Sardis suddenly kissed him at this moment.

It was because he suddenly felt a powerful force rushing into his body like a surging ocean wave.

The very familiar... like the warm waves surrounding him, filling him up little by little.

This power is...

['Our' divine power? 】

A surprised voice sounded in his head.

At the same time, Napsius' hoarse roar sounded.

"what have you done!"

This was the first time this cruel man showed his out-of-control look and let out an out-of-control roar from the first meeting to now.

"How can you return the divine power to him!"

Seeing that things were suddenly completely out of his control, Napsius roared angrily.

"You ruined everything—"

【Um?The power of Agathodes who guarded the city has reappeared?And it got stronger? 】

[Wait, this is... a new human pillar? 】

Mia's pupils contracted violently when the doubtful words of the self in the previous life resounded in her mind.

He understood almost instantly.

He opened his mouth to speak, but his lips were blocked by Sardis, and he couldn't make a sound at all.

He stared at Sardis with wide eyes, and tightly clenched Sardis' arm with his fingers.

Sardis didn't open his eyes to look at him.

He kissed him, tenderly, intently.

A black mist surged up from the feet of him and Sardis, surrounding him.

The hazy fog blurred his vision and covered everything around him.

Watching Sardis disappear before his eyes, the heat of the hand holding his shoulder and the temperature of his lips disappeared in an instant.

"Mia."

"My royal city, my people, will be guarded by me."

That was the last sound that rang in his ears.

"The rest is up to you."

The low voice still rings in my ears.

Mia eagerly stretched her hand forward.

His hand stretched out in the black mist, and finally caught nothing.

The wind howled past, blowing away the black mist that surrounded him.

The blood-red moonlight fell and shone on him.

Mia stood on a high altar, her light golden hair was dyed with a reddish gleam.

He stood there in a daze, his grasping right hand still hanging in mid-air.

In front of the altar, the tall tower that seemed to penetrate the sky and the earth was actually tilted forward by the violent vibration just now.

The tip of the tilted obelisk, shining with golden light, just happened to point directly at the huge blood moon in the sky.

Mia raised her head sharply.

On the sky, a pure white light trail fell from the blood moon.

In the dark night, it is as warm and bright as white jade.

It extends downward from the sky, showing a rainbow-like arc, like a bridge that is about to be built between the sky and the ground.

It is beautiful, but to humans, it is extremely terrifying.

It is slowly falling from the sky.

It won't be long before it hits the ground.

The moment it hits the ground, the enormous power it brings from the Kingdom of God will sweep across the earth, taking the lives of everyone in the city——

[The rest is up to you. 】

A gleam of light flashed in Mia's eyes.

The blue light gushed out from the bottom of his eyes, circulating endlessly at the edge of his pupil iris, like a raging ocean wave in his eyes.

The wind picked up.

Frantically wreaking havoc on the entire earth.

It roared past the young man on the altar, lifting the hem of his clothes and hair high.

The light golden hair fluttered messily in front of the boy's blue eyes.

The shadow of that hair did not fall into the eyes of the young man.

Because those blue eyes are shining brightly, in the dark night, they are brighter than anything else.

A white shadow flew from the air, circling around the boy.

The boy standing on the altar stretched out his right hand.

The white shadow fell gently.

A snow-white bow lay quietly on his right hand, shimmering.