< Chapter 84 - The Abbey of Saint Croot (with Cordelia emoticon) >
Chapter 84 – The Abbey of St. Croix
Arriving in front of a large stone tomb engraved with the Solari emblem, Uther and Cordelia turned to look to the side instead of opening the lid right away.
Because the ninth-level angels who had fallen flat on the floor at Cordelia’s command – the guardians of the tomb – had really complicated and subtle expressions on their faces.
‘Well, from their perspective, they’re probably being subjected to unfair power. No, rather, they’re struggling with the conflict of orders.’
In fact, the guardians of the tomb were not that intelligent.
This is because, like now, they were people whose job was to stay in one place and guard tombs, seals, etc.
‘If I had high intelligence, I would have gone crazy.’
Because it was no different from being locked up for life.
In any case, as guardians of such tombs, they were more compliant with orders than other angels, but because of Cordelia’s order to ‘kneel,’ they were currently experiencing internal conflict.
The order is to stop anyone approaching the sarcophagus and to obey one’s superiors.
But then it happened.
Cordelia looked back at the guardians of the tomb, who were whining like puppies who needed to poop, and smiled.
‘I’ll try to figure it out.’
‘No, it’s a bit much to blow up kids who listen to you······.’
‘Hey, aren’t you going to blow it up? Of course, most problems can be solved by blowing it up.’
‘hey?’
Cordelia ignored the startled look in Yuder’s eyes and cleared her throat with a cough before speaking to the tomb guardians.
“Guardians of the tomb, I have not come to covet the sarcophagus. Rather, I have come to free you from your long mission.”
What does this mean?
Uther crossed his arms to listen in silence for a moment, while the tomb guardians looked at Cordelia with suspicious eyes.
Cordelia continued speaking.
“You have served your duty well for hundreds of years already. This is enough. However, as long as this sarcophagus remains, you cannot be released from your duty. Your duty is to guard this sarcophagus.”
As the tomb guardians nodded, Uther looked at Cordelia with a puzzled look, and Cordelia shrugged.
“So, guardians of the tomb, I, as your superior, will open the sarcophagus and retrieve its contents, freeing you from your duty. Without the sarcophagus to guard, your duty will also be lost. That is why I have come here. To free you.”
[Ohhh.]
The tomb guardians gave a low exclamation and then looked at Uther and Cordelia with much more relaxed faces.
Their eyes seemed to be telling me to take it quickly.
‘Hehe, hehe, what do you think? Huh?’
When Cordelia asked with a shrug, Uther smiled slightly.
‘What consistency. What a truly upright person.’
‘huh?’
With the sarcophagus gone, there is nothing left to guard, so it is no longer dangerous.
Bridge and Endymion and the Snow Queen and so on.
Uther looked at Cordelia with warm eyes as he recalled the many nonsense Cordelia had claimed in the wild lands, and Cordelia, feeling somehow offended, pouted her lips.
‘That’s what I’m saying.’
‘Good, really good. You did really well. You’re making great progress.’
‘Right? Right? Right?’
Satisfied with the words that her insides were black, Cordelia laughed and looked at the sarcophagus again.
“Anyway, let’s open it now.”
“okay.”
Uther pushed the lid of the sarcophagus open with one push.
Then, at that moment, a white light shot out from within the sarcophagus and was sucked into Cordelia’s chest.
“Cordelia?”
“Huh? Huh. Divine power. Solari’s divine power.”
It was the same as absorbing the celestial energy that remained in the Temple of Life.
When he opened the tomb of Paladin Galleon, he was still human and could not absorb divine power, but now that he was an angel, he was able to absorb divine power.
“ha······.”
Closing her eyes and fully absorbing the divine power, Cordelia leaned slightly against the sarcophagus and sent a message magic.
[I guess I’m an angel of the Solari lineage. It was the same during the time of Claude Solas… It’s easier to absorb the divine power of the Solari.]
What determined Cordelia’s lineage, who became an angel through ancestral regression, was her ancestors’ blood.
The ancestors of the Chase family appear to have been angels of Solari.
[Anyway, that’s good. The angel’s power has gotten a bit stronger, right?]
[Oh, it’s not like the level went up, but overall it’s gotten stronger.]
Cordelia flinched at the sight of Gwang-ik again, then clenched her fists.
[Okay, let’s take it out.]
[huh.]
The contents of the sarcophagus were not much different from those found in Galleon’s tomb.
One triangular stone slab, one Solari spear, and one set of female armor, presumed to have been worn by Vespa, who was a woman.
While Uther was gathering the stone tablets, Cordelia picked up the Solari’s Holy Lance and spoke with her eyes looking very hazy.
[Does it remind you of Solari’s Holy Lance?]
[Huh? Oh, I remember.]
Because it destroyed the rocky mountain of the rough avalanche.
Even now, when he closed his eyes, he could picture the small back of Yuder, who had been sitting down and wailing in the rough snow.
But Cordelia said, stroking the sacrum, that it was a little—no, a lot—different.
[After all, everything becomes a memory after it passes.]
No, it isn’t.
I don’t think so.
I think I should also hear the story of the rough avalanche.
No matter how much Cordelia had a crush on him, Uther couldn’t agree with what she just said.
Of course, that doesn’t mean I broke the contract.
‘Come to think of it, I wonder how you’re doing.’
A rough avalanche that was going on for a long time.
It had already been several months since we had parted ways in the wild land.
‘Well, I’ll be fine.’
Because even the Golden Dragon King has awakened.
Perhaps by now, work is in full swing to restore the wild land.
The same goes for building large cities where various tribes live together.
‘After this is over, it might be a good idea to stop by for a bit before going to the Empire.’
Yuder, who had made up his mind, took out the armor, the last item, leaving Cordelia behind, who was still embracing the Holy Spear and lost in her own memories.
‘Is that chainmail?’
It was chain mail made of extremely thin chains, but the material was unusual.
First of all, it was light, but it was also because the metal itself had magical powers.
‘Mithril?’
A magical silver that only dwarves can mine.
It was initially weak against striking weapons because it was thin, but it was an item that could block most slashing attacks.
The basic anti-horsepower was also strong.
[You can wear this.]
[What about you?]
[If your purpose is to use a sword, it’s okay since you already have Sword Origin.]
Cordelia nodded obediently, as it was the right thing to say, and put the Holy Spear and Chainmail into her space-expanding bag.
‘And the stone tablet.’
After confirming the location of the next stone tablet, Uther made sure to memorize it in his memory palace and handed the stone tablet over to Cordelia.
[Okay, so that basically concludes our business?]
[Yeah, now we just have to deal with them.]
Cordelia nodded and spoke to the tomb guardians who were looking at her with expectant eyes.
“You have completed your mission. However, I cannot abandon you now that the path back to Heaven is blocked. Therefore, I will give you a new mission.”
At Cordelia’s words, the tomb guardians, far from looking annoyed, looked expectant.
Because they were born to carry out orders one way or another.
“Come up with me. I will introduce you to the humans who have inherited the will of Solari, so protect them and this land.”
[I will do so.]
[I will do so.]
As the tomb guardians nodded in response, Cordelia turned back to Uther and shrugged.
‘how is it?’
Is this neat enough?
You also get a stone tablet and give new jobs to the tomb guardians.
Cordelia became even more excited as Uther nodded in approval and led the tomb guardians with excitement.
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Manuel blinked in surprise when he saw Uder and Cordelia.
I already knew that Cordelia was an angel, but I realized that there was a huge difference between just knowing and actually seeing.
“Ah, angel······.”
As Manuel knelt down and prayed without realizing it, Cordelia spoke with a holy face.
“Manuel, I forgive you your sins.”
“Ahhhh. Thank you. Thank you.”
Manuel knelt down once more, and Uther sent a magical message to Cordelia.
[A sin?]
[No, just. To get in the mood.]
Cordelia laughed and helped Manuel up again before explaining the situation to him.
“Did you find the sealed angels?”
“Yes, they are the Guardians of the Tomb, ninth-grade angels. They will be guarding the Monastery of Saint Croot from now on.”
“Ohhh······.”
The story about Vespa’s tomb was deliberately omitted.
Because there was room for various conversations about the contents.
‘Because what’s good is good. Right?’
‘That’s… true.’
Perhaps Uther himself would have said so.
But when did Cordelia become so cruel?
Could it be that Yuder himself has done something irreversible?
But that was just then.
“The branch manager is waiting. Let’s go together.”
“Yes, I understand.”
As Yuder answered Manuel’s words, Cordelia suddenly grabbed Yuder’s sleeve and sent a message magic.
[Yuder, Yuuder.]
[why?]
[You’re going to meet the branch manager and talk to him now, right?]
[however?]
[I have an idea for you.]
[Thinking?]
[Thoughts on how to effectively persuade the branch manager.]
What is he talking about now?
But Cordelia had recently shown rapid growth. Maybe she had come up with some kind of trick.
[What is it?]
[therefore······.]
Cordelia told a detailed story, and Uther’s eyes widened. It couldn’t be helped.
Because Cordelia came up with the idea of doing the exact same thing that Uther himself was trying to do.
[Geun-mok-ja-heuk… Has the potential exploded?]
[huh?]
Cordelia tilted her head with an angelic, innocent expression, and Uther nodded with a sense of inexplicable guilt. He approved Cordelia’s plan.
&
There were seven grandmasters in the Order of the Holy Cross.
The Guardian Commander who leads the entire Guardian Corps and the six commanders who work under him.
The six captains, including the swordsman Kamael, were basically combat personnel, so they rarely settled down in one place.
Because it was the mission of the six captains to travel all over the continent and fight against the demon followers.
Of course, there were cases where the eldest of the six commanders, the high elf Eltharion Prime, stayed at the Guardians’ headquarters to guard the headquarters and the commanders, but in most cases, it was the regional commanders who led and guarded the Guardians’ branches.
Heine the Saint.
A master of divine power who leads the Monastery of Saint-Croute.
At thirty-four this year, she was on the younger side among the branch managers, and like most of the young people in the Guardians, she was very friendly towards Uther and Cordelia, aka the fantasy couple.
“Are you saying that there is an evil spirit in here?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Yuder answered with a serious face and glared at the golden necklace placed on the branch manager’s desk.
A necklace containing the soul of the infamous mercenary captain, Gamor Khan.
As Heine swallowed dry saliva without realizing it, Cordelia spoke with a very serious face.
“It’s a truly evil spirit. It has already told us the truth, but it might say something different this time.”
Gamor Khan is actually a servant of the black dragon Malekith, and Malekith’s awakening is just around the corner.
Cordelia, having relayed the general story, released the seal on her necklace and summoned Gamor Khan without further ado.
[Ahhhhhhhh-!]
A scream seemed to come from the purple jewel on the necklace, and soon black smoke rose up and took the shape of a human being.
It was the body of the evil spirit Gamor Khan.
“Gamor Khan! Tell the branch manager again what you said before!”
Gamor Khan frowned in response to Uther’s command.
[A story? What are you talking about when you just released it for the first time!]
“As expected, it was a prank from the start!”
[No, from the beginning, this is the first time······.]
“Oh my! Didn’t I already reveal last time that you are Malekith’s subordinate!”
[Huh? How about that?]
Gamor Khan was genuinely surprised by Uther’s remark.
No, how did Malekith’s name come out here?
Cordelia clicked her tongue as Gamor Khan looked visibly flustered.
“I know because you told me. I told you everything last time. That you are a servant of the black dragon Malekith, and that your allies are the dark elf necromancer Sicilia and the corrupted dwarf Madurus.”
Gamor Khan was so shocked by Cordelia’s words that he couldn’t even refute her.
Because it was all true.
“He also told me this. The black dragon Malekith, who was defeated by the founding king, Richard D. Cailloune, and was thrown into the sea of the South Sea, is about to rise again. He plans to devastate the South when he rises. Your role is to lead Malekith’s army. He told me so proudly.”
[No, no.]
It was a dazzling sight for Gamor Khan.
I thought they would interrogate me or something since they had captured me, but completely unexpected things were happening.
Of course, Malekith, but also Sicilia and Madurus.
Why do you know that?
No, how do you know?
“Don’t be shy and just tell me. Tell the branch manager everything honestly. You already told us everything once.”
At Cordelia’s urging, Gamor Khan protested, beating his chest violently.
[I never said anything!]
“Then how do we know all this? Huh? We know because you told us! We want to pounce on that insolent Cecilia, but you even said you were holding back because she’s Malekith’s lover!”
[When, when did I!]
Gamor Khan stammered in extreme embarrassment.
Because it was a thought I had been harboring alone for a long time.
‘Seo, is it really true?’
Did Gamor Khan himself confide in these two? Was he under some kind of magic?
This was information that I would never have known otherwise.
As confusion crossed Gamor Khan’s face, Uther smiled and continued his story.
“Gamor Kahn, you say this is the first time you have been released, but this is the second time. It seems that you have lost your memory due to the aftereffects of the sacred magic we used last time.”
[Is that so?]
As Gamor Khan answered without realizing it, Cordelia quickly followed him with a dark smile.
“That’s right. In fact, you can still use the same magic you used back then. It’s magic that will cause you pain worse than death… It’s magic that will make you cry out for death instead. That’s why you told us back then. I’ll tell you everything, so please don’t use it next time. If you claim that you lost your memories and didn’t tell us, tell us this to convince us.”
[This, this?]
“Oh, this. The reason you’re looking for the other Ultimate Series is actually because of Malekith. The Ultimate Three – the legendary dragonslayer Ascalon, is your target? You need to be able to hit Malekith in the back of the head when the time comes.”
At Cordelia’s final blow, Gamor Khan’s face turned pale at the subject of evil spirits.
Because this time it was all true.
[Me, really me?]
“Oh, you. Your chest is aching just now? Even if your head doesn’t remember, your body remembers. The sacred magic you used last time started from your chest.”
[Oh, come to think of it······.]
I’ve been feeling a pounding sensation in my chest for a while now.
No, now my heart really aches.
[Ugh······.]
It seemed like everything the bastards in front of me were saying was true.
Loss of memory and the confessions that occurred in between, etc.
‘How painful was it?’
I can’t believe that I, of all people, would reveal all those things to him.
I tried hard to remember, but I couldn’t remember.
That is why the pain of the past that Uther and Cordelia spoke of became an unprecedented fear, and the fear again became pain and weighed on Gamor Khan’s chest.
[Ugh······.]
As Gamor Khan made a pained expression, Uther spoke fiercely with a very cold face.
“Gamor Khan, tell Chief Heine everything you know once more. If there is even one thing that is different from what you told me last time, I will once again cause extreme pain.”
Gamor Khan, startled by Uther’s words, crumpled his face as if he felt very wronged.
[Ha, but I lost my memory, so I don’t fully remember what I said to you······]
“That’s your matter.”
“And can’t you just tell me everything you know? I told you everything last time, but if there’s anything missing this time… you know?”
Cordelia, who had been following Uther’s lead, smiled and gathered divine power in her right hand, and Gamor Kahn shrugged his shoulders and said.
[Ah, those devilish guys······.]
There is a morality to interrogation.
However, Uther and Cordelia lightly ignored Gamor Khan’s protests and gestured for him to speak quickly, and Gamor Khan began to reveal everything he knew in front of Branch Manager Heine.
‘Oh, there was that kind of information too.’
‘Because not all of them appear in the game.’
Even the most trivial information that would not have been known otherwise.
Of course, because it was so trivial, there was quite a bit of useless information, but at least it was more than enough information to convince the branch manager in front of me.
“Okay, it’s pretty similar to last time.”
[Phew······.]
Gamor Khan, who breathed a sigh of relief at Cordelia’s declaration, entered the golden necklace without being asked.
Since I couldn’t run away anyway, I wanted to avoid being questioned any further.
“Haha, problem solved.”
Cordelia muttered very quietly, sealed the golden necklace again, and spoke to Branch Manager Heine.
“Chief, as you have just heard, Malekith is a very real threat. We must prepare for him.”
Malekith was not a demon or a demon follower, but he was clearly a great evil that threatened humanity.
“First, I need a way to contact Kamael. Can you prepare it for me?”
In response to Yuder’s question, Branch Manager Heine immediately nodded.
“Of course. We will dispatch our personnel to the south to find Kamael. We will also notify the Guardian Headquarters.”
It was a satisfactory answer.
But Heine went one step further.
“Is there anything else I can do to help?”
If someone else had captured an evil spirit and told him the same story, Heine would not have believed it.
But I had no choice but to believe it, since it was none other than Uther and Cordelia who had captured the evil spirit.
The story of Gamor Khan also had great credibility.
Assistance to the abbot of the monastery of St. Croix.
She’ll do anything she can to help.
Uther and Cordelia looked at each other and shared a dark look in their eyes.
Without a doubt, the two of them had the same thought.
“Chief Heine.”
“Yes, Lord Yuder.”
“There must be an armory at the Abbey of St. Croix, too?”
Like a treasure trove.
Branch Manager Heine nodded at Yuder’s question, and Cordelia smiled happily.
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