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The White Archbishop's mansion is on the upper west side, and the Blue Archbishop's mansion is on the east side.
The enemy archbishop is in the upper south mansion, the black archbishop is in the north mansion.
A large coffin was placed inside the building where each person was hiding, and soon the coffin was opened.
The Black Archbishop, who had infiltrated the northern mansion, slowly rose from his coffin.
Inside the towering hood, darkness swirled gently.
“Wasn’t it difficult to get here?”
Inside the mansion, local collaborators, eroder knights, and priests bowed their heads respectfully.
The Black Archbishop nodded slightly in greeting, then picked up the black horn and dark purple beads from the large table and put them in his sleeve.
The erosion priests opened their mouths one by one.
“I heard it starts at noon. The offerings are all ready.”
“The bishops are coming up from underground. Even if the Archduke, who is a bastard, has figured out the situation, he will buy them some time.”
“I will ask about the situation of my subordinates in other quarters.”
The Black Archbishop answered their questions kindly and majestically.
“You worked hard to keep the offering. It must have been hard to avoid being noticed, but I am glad for your faith.”
“They must be the ones who hid underground during the construction of the city. They have been waiting for this day for over a year, so their contribution is great. I am sure that the Lord will be pleased with their devotion. Yes, I will gladly entrust my support to them.”
“You don’t have to go. I understand. Everything is going well. All four of us are safe.”
The four archbishops were imbued with the power of the Old Ones.
If we look at their physical composition alone, they should be classified as foreign objects mixed with human memories rather than invasive species.
Since they were all empowered by the old one, now that they were fully alert and had their energy pumped up, it was possible to sense the other person's condition and emotions as if examining my own body.
The Black Archbishop thought as he picked up the ornate ceremonial dagger.
'It was long.'
The answers of the other archbishops echoed.
'Yeah. It was long.'
'Because it was passed down from the ancestors of our ancestors.'
'It's been so, so long. Over 300 years.
He looked at the chandelier on the mansion's ceiling, at the followers, and at the large bishops who had come up from the underground.
'It's a mission that's been passed down since the civil war. It's something that's been decided since the world was created. Either die as a human or live in unity.'
'The Solettaras guys have been putting it off again and again.'
'They were terrible. They were going to die someday, but they held onto the wheel of fate for a thousand years.'
'But time has dulled their guns, and they eventually dug their own graves. Well, if that wasn't the case, they would have disappeared into their graves in the end.'
The Archbishop of Black recalled a time when he had once had a smile on his face, and the darkness within his hood stirred with a similar feeling.
'It feels strange to think that it's really over.'
'Actually, I'm like that too. I was waiting for today, but I really didn't know it would come.'
'It reminds me of the graduation ceremony when I was human.'
'I just thought of that too.'
The monster seemed to be imitating a human.
After a while, they all burst into laughter.
'Hahahaha!'
Memories of my time as a human now felt empty, like reading a boring book.
'Let's meet again after we achieve unification.'
'Until the day we all become one.'
The black archbishop turned to the bishop.
“Your Majesty. I have brought the offerings.”
A large bishop led five or six boys and girls.
Although their eye colors were all different, they all had the white hair of the Soletaras royal family.
His eyes were completely open as if he had taken some medicine, and his mouth was wide open with drool flowing out.
The Black Archbishop grabbed one of the boys and took off his shirt.
The boy complied weakly, like a doll, and the black archbishop looked over the boy's body thoroughly from his shoulders to his lower abdomen.
The white body was no different from a human's, but the place where the belly button should be was completely empty.
“Good. Well managed.”
The Black Archbishop said with satisfaction.
The bishop asked, bowing his head.
“There are two or three more in reserve. Should I bring them all?”
“No. Four is enough. Five might be too many. The soul of Soletaras is strong, tenacious, and difficult to control.”
The archbishop moved decisively like a racehorse that has started to run.
He laid the boy down on the table, holding the spiral dagger in his left hand and the ceremonial dagger in his right.
Phew!
And it stabbed deep into the boy's heart.
At that moment, the homunculus of Soletaras, created using the blood of the illegitimate child, released its soul from its body.
“Ugh!”
The boy trembled and fell to the ground, and the black archbishop caught his soul and locked it away.
Four souls were bound in his hands one after another.
The eroders began to pray without any hesitation.
“Unity.”
It was a prayer like any other prayer, where one takes the body, offers the soul, and receives strength in return.
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But the soul that was to be offered today was different from usual, and the strength that was to be received today was also different from usual.
The Black Archbishop held the spiral magic wand tightly.
It was the most efficient reagent for summoning.
Knock knock!
The twisted horn-like shape of the magic horn seemed to glow white, then straightened out and split apart.
The same thing happened in four places at the same time.
An ominous haze began to swirl across the skies above the capital.
* * *
Magicians and knights who worked in the imperial court were sensitive to both the mana of this world and the magic of the other world.
“Your Majesty! The heavens are strange!”
“It seems like a sign of evil.”
“It seems like a fallen spirit.”
The knights who had rushed out of the hall and the magicians on the palace rooftop all reported with anxiety.
Valencian gave instructions to the two experts he had called in for such a situation.
“Sister. Lorelai.”
"okay."
“Yes, Your Majesty Valen.”
The royal family member who had been in the hall, the green-eyed spirit magician Denia with short brown hair, went out onto the terrace and looked at the sky.
A huge circle rippled across the capital city sky like a midsummer haze, and something was hovering around it.
Denia looked intently into the circle.
For a moment she had a vision of an enormous beak pecking at a fragrant biscuit.
“Ugh!”
Lorelai focused on something swirling around the circle.
It was clearly a human soul, a son or daughter of the God of Light, but it was a splendid soul with a mixed energy of other gods and races, but it was equally powerful and held great potential.
It was the soul of the royal family of Soletaras.
"ah."
The two ran back into the hall and reported to Valencianus.
Denia poured out her words with a face as pale as a fisherman standing before a tsunami.
“A great old thing will appear in the capital sky! You absolutely, absolutely cannot win! You must run away immediately. No. No. It doesn’t matter where you run, it’s the same. Today is the end of the world. We are all finished. Remonstrate with His Majesty the Emperor immediately!”
“Sister. Your mind is polluted.”
Valencian nodded to the priest standing next to him, who then shined his divine powers on Denia.
“Huh, huh?”
“Please sit down for a moment, Your Majesty.”
As she shook her head in confusion, trying to come to her senses, Lorelai reported.
“It’s the spirit of the royal family. I think they’re using that as bait to bring out the old things.”
Valencian nodded, biting his lower lip.
He remembered what had happened when he took the oath of allegiance.
With every step the giant foreign object, measuring a full 1km in length, took, everything broke and was destroyed.
If it weren't for Jaylilith, another one like that might have come out.
'This time too, they must have used those belly-less monsters like that guy back then. I thought they destroyed all the incubators in the area, but I guess there are a few left. Yeah. I expected this much.'
He gritted his teeth and looked at the chief of police.
“Commissioner General. Has the evacuation of the nobles been completed?”
The chief of police nodded.
“Yes, Your Majesty. The court nobles of the old city have already sent their families to their villas in the outskirts, and the magic nobles and military nobles who can fight have gathered inside the palace. A stay-at-home order has also been issued in the new city, and Senator Connell’s vigilantes are controlling the main streets.”
“What about the academy?”
“The student council president of the Jin Alliance has concluded the matter properly. The cadets with the rank of Sword User have joined my command, and the rest have evacuated to the new city.”
Valencian sighed in relief.
The chief of police remembered the moment in the past when he had grabbed him by the collar.
'Don't you all know? How many wars of nerves and political battles were fought to create this place? If that bastard is revealed to be an Encroacher, it could all be over! The Northern Grand Duke Severic is coming tomorrow. Can you allow him into a city where an Encroacher is?'
'So, Your Majesty Valencianus, are you saying that you intend to cover up the incident and hide from the citizens and the nobles the fact that there is an intruder in the capital?'
'You got it exactly.'
Valencian, who had hidden the existence of the Evader Boy in order to proceed with the oath of allegiance as scheduled, was checking the evacuation of his subjects even before the opportunity to wipe out the Evader Archbishop was present.
“Yes. Four people will die today, that’s enough.”
The Chief of Police smiled happily, and Tentia smiled back.
Valencian suddenly looked at Tentia.
“Sir. Why are you looking at me with such an irreverent gaze?”
Tentia also seemed to be thinking the same thing as the Chief of Police, as she told the story of that time.
“You have become stronger, Your Majesty Valencian.”
The Duke of Mangnani glared at Tentia and the Chief Inspector General alternately.
'Desperation and fear make a man no longer human.'
He made an awkward expression as if he was recalling something I had said in the past, then he swept his white hair back as if to hide his face and said.
“Yes. Now there is no need to burden the people. I have come this far.”
“You are very well done, Your Majesty.”
“Tell me again tomorrow. Tell me again tomorrow. I can’t say thank you right now.”
Tentia asked.
“Then what can you say?”
Valencianus picked up the crystal ball as if he had been waiting for it.
He smiled triumphantly.
“Burn it.”
* * *
The main palace of Soletaraon was not a palace that could be attacked by foreign countries, but in accordance with the tradition of the martial spirit, it was surrounded by towers, turrets, watchtowers, and railings.
It was a space where a guard magician was stationed to watch over people entering and exiting the main palace and to be responsible for the safety of the main palace.
Today, dozens of battle magicians were bustling on the roof of the main palace.
The forest was filled with hoods and walking sticks.
“Group 1 is north, group 2 is east, group 3 is south, group 4 is west! Casting is about to begin!”
The genius wizard Celerazi, the grand warlock Archies, the second warlock, and the chief battle wizard of the Cheong Eun Knights were assigned to each division.
“Pure power!”
“Pierce and destroy my enemies.”
“When the unquenchable flames engulf them.”
“A white light splitting the sky, a trajectory like a tree branch, the sound of a crown falling to the ground.”
Powerful magic such as Green Sun, Spear of Wrath, and Chain Lightning are prepared.
Sereraji led a group of battle magicians and headed east.
As she is the most famous lightning magician in the empire, the battle magicians also prepared a bombardment using lightning magic.
Scratch, scratch.
She instructed, blue flames flashing around her yellow eyes and golden aura of the dragon's tongue around her blue eyes.
“I’m going to use my own magic. Follow me.”
“You said it was a unique magic?”
“Someone who isn’t even thirty yet……!”
The battle wizards glared.
If developing a new spell was an achievement, developing a new magic was a feat.
It was a unique magic that only the ivory tower elders had one or two of.
Sererajiga began singing in a fresh voice.
“An unending circle, a trajectory resembling a pillar, a hammer that shatters the inconsistent.”
The battle wizards followed suit and chanted their spells, and thunder gathered in the cloudy sky.
“Sorrow for those who betrayed their dreams.”
Crackle, crackle!
The dark clouds were spinning, and their center was glowing white.
“Live in the moment. ‘Cereraji’s future hope.’”
As he uttered his last words, Sereraji smiled, feeling a little proud and a little embarrassed.
It was an unspoken rule among wizards that the first unique spell had to have the wizard's name on it.
A thick pillar of lightning struck the eastern coordinates.
Flash!
The pillar glowed once.
Jiiiiiing-!
It continued to shine brightly.
"oh my god!"
“How long will this last?”
The pillar of lightning that shone in that spot for over 5 seconds was clearly engraved on the retinas of everyone who saw it.
There was a reason why Sereraji, who wanted to live in the moment, named it 'Future Hope'.
A battle mage opened his mouth wide and let out a sigh.
“I might have done it all in one go.”
Sereraji grabbed the back of his neck.
“You just recited the resurrection spell!”