Chapter 551
The royal family is not the only one buried in the imperial mausoleum.
Those who have made achievements that deserve to be buried with the imperial family are also buried there. To that extent, in the sense that the Empire recognizes their meritorious deeds, those who are not members of the royal family and are buried in the imperial mausoleum enjoy tremendous honor.
Therefore, they will inevitably be heroes or great people who have been very great in history.
In conclusion, Olivia’s opinion of supplementing Death Knight by grave robbery is the best option in terms of practicality alone.
Assuming it works, it’s a much better place than Serandia and other battlegrounds.
It was virtually impossible to replenish Death Knights in the Allied Garrison, and the Imperial Mausoleum would only have to be avoided.
Of course, Charlotte was trembling as her complexion turned blue.
“If I have to… … . I can’t help it, but… … .”
As long as the purpose is the purpose, Charlotte wanted to shout “Absolutely no”, but sat down as if she thought she had no right to do so.
“But can remains properly become a Death Knight?”
“I haven’t done this much, so I don’t know how it will turn out. But the important thing is, there are many heroes who haven’t been buried for a long time.”
Olivia grins.
sister… … .
My sister is scared these days.
“Right now, there will be heroes who made meritorious deeds during the gate incident and whose corpses were properly recovered and entered the imperial tomb, and even before that, there was the Pandemonium War, right? Among the dead in the Pandemonium War, those who showed a little bit or showed something would be buried in the imperial mausoleum.”
“ah… … .”
“Right… … . do… … .”
Charlotte nods with a miserable expression.
It is a time when there are bound to be many heroes.
So, Olivia’s words that the imperial mausoleum would be overflowing with remains that would become materials for the Death Knight had to be true.
It is true that many sacrifices are made, and will continue to happen until the end of this war.
The living die.
So, is it justifiable to take advantage of someone’s death?
I can not know.
There is no certainty that this injustice will not lead to another injustice.
However, the fact that it is necessary does not change.
There was no one who could deny Olivia’s words about whether there would be anything to cover when the lives of the living were fading away.
* * *
Should we call what we’re about to do robbery?
Grave robbery is the looting of burial items buried with the body. But we have no interest in burial items, we are looting the remains themselves. From a moral point of view, it is bound to be worse than robbery.
winter.
Just as the allied forces reorganized themselves, we also made a plan to power up the remains of the imperial mausoleum as Death Knights in order to strengthen our own power.
To do so, of course, he had to leave Edina and go to the ecliptic.
A total of three members.
Olivia Ranze, who has to raise the Death Knight herself. And Harriet de Saintoine, who will help you move and escape in case of emergency.
In addition, me in case of physical emergency.
Airi would be helpful, and Charlotte would be even more helpful, but I had no intention of taking her. In many ways, she will be invisible to Charlotte, and since Airi is a demon, her actions are limited.
“Sheesh, I went on a date with Reinhardt after a long time, and as expected, they caught up.”
Olivia glared as she watched Harriet prepare for casting.
“How are you going to get to the ecliptic without me in the first place?”
“Can’t we just let it go and pick it up in a couple of months?”
“… … Is it going to take that long in the first place?”
“Because I don’t know what will happen to people. The allied forces are also resting anyway? I was going to rest a lot with Reinhardt too?”
Doing this and that until spring comes, Olivia smiled at me.
What are you saying, this man?
“If you look at the ecliptic now, you wouldn’t say that.”
“Hmm… … . Are you that stupid?”
“It’s not a situation that can be said so easily, but… … . Well, I know when I see it.”
If you really want to rest, Edina is better, the imperial capital is not a place where you can feel that you are resting.
The ecliptic Gradium in our memories is safe, but the gloomy atmosphere that pervades the entire city has turned the ecliptic into a gray city.
In the first place, he was on his way to securing powerful undead.
“Don’t say unnecessary things, unnie, when you have to be careful not to be punished by God.”
“If you ask me, I wake up with the power of God, so why am I being punished? A blessing is a blessing.”
“… … Why does this make sense when you look at it?”
Harriet continues casting as if she doesn’t want to fight any more.
That’s right.
It’s not that I’m being punished by God, it’s because Kier’s authority is the power of a god in the first place. Isn’t it grace itself in the first place, rather than being punished for raising some undead with Kier’s power?
I’m trying to get dizzy.
“I’ll go.”
Blue magic lines began to seep from Harriet’s body, and soon we left Edina with a flash of light.
* * *
An alley in the gradium of the ecliptic.
Olivia, who arrived there by mass teleport, clutched her nose as soon as she arrived.
“… … What is this, what does it smell like?”
It was the same for Harriet, who had a weak stomach, to vomit as soon as she arrived.
An indescribable disgusting smell, mixed with the smell of something rotten and an unknown fishy smell, vibrated in the alley.
Even if it was an alleyway, it was more than enough.
Even in winter, when the smell subsides with the temperature, it is this much.
“Let’s leave at once.”
“Oh, I feel like throwing up… … . Woo-wook… … .”
“no! Don’t really throw up.”
“If you vomit, take it with your hand… … .”
“Looking at the bullshit, it seems to be bearable. Let’s go quickly.”
If you’re talking nonsense, you can afford it, so it’s bearable.
I also wanted to go quickly because the unidentified smell from this place was the same.
– Woo-wook!
however.
A ‘real’ sound came from behind.
“… … Upset?”
“… … Did you see that he was real?”
Olivia stared blankly at Harriet, who was trembling with her hands against the wall.
-Ooh, ooh… … . Oops!
No, are you forcibly trying to block it from coming up?
“mind! Don’t hold back, just throw up!”
Come to think of it, Olivia is from the street.
But our Paktong was a real princess, so she wasn’t the kind of person who could stand something like this.
* * *
“… … .”
“A quarrel.”
“Ha, don’t! Don’t do it, seriously!”
At Olivia’s words, Harriet became tearful and shed tears.
It’s true that I made my princess see a lot of bad things, but now I get to see her vomit and vomit in an alleyway.
Harriet was suffocating with tears in her eyes.
Still, Olivia seemed to be worried, but when Olivia swept her back a few times, Harriet opened her eyes wide, saying that she was feeling surprisingly well.
“Don’t underestimate the authority of the leader of the Holy Church.”
“… … That’s not the older sister’s power, it’s the power of God, isn’t it? Why are you pretending to be a great person?”
“If that power is expressed through my body, it is my power, why is it God’s power?”
“Reinhardt, all the gods are crazy. You give strength to this little man. it is not so?”
Harriet looks at me for consent.
“M-I’m sorry… … .”
“Why are you sorry?”
“Oh no what… … . just… … .”
I apologized without even realizing it.
uh! Gods are weird because I’m weird!
Like Olivia and Harriet, it feels like Blasphemy is now passive.
Olivia is saying that the gods are not great, but I am. Harriet is saying that the gods are crazy.
Anyway, I got out of the alley and came out into the street.
In the first place, we were wearing a robe, and Harriet cast a cognitive impairment spell on us so passers-by could not recognize or do anything about it.
The destination is the Wenster district in the southern part of the ecliptic.
It is a place closer to a temple than an imperial castle.
“Wouldn’t it be nice to drink something?”
“… … Yes.”
Still, our pain, if it was the past, I would have cried and cried all day because I looked like I couldn’t see it in front of others.
He said he had a hard time meeting a harsh guy, and that’s what it’s like.
I could feel the melancholy hovering over the entire street, but I tried to buy Harriet a drink to rinse her mouth out.
“… … Damn, what three silver coins is a bucket of water?”
Of course, there were few places to sell it, and the price was murderous.
It’s just water.
The price of water in the ecliptic is going crazy right now, to the point where you have to pay three silver coins for a bucket of water.
Harriet rinsed her mouth with water with a guilty expression.
“I don’t have to check anything else.”
Olivia clicked her tongue briefly as if she sensed the reality of the ecliptic from the price of a bottle of water.
I walk the streets, watching the behavior of people coming and going on the streets, and the appearances of people who are obviously starving.
It is true that death lurks on the battlefield, but death in the name of hunger lurks here.
It’s winter.
Fortunately, we haven’t seen it with our own eyes, but people without homes and nowhere to go will freeze to death in the alley.
“At least it’s better here. The situation is even worse in the refugee settlements on the outskirts.”
The ecliptic has lost its ability to support itself due to an overcrowded population.
However, an empire that had to operate a huge army.
In the meantime, those who are turned away die.
“Why are there so many people over there? Do you have any rations?”
-line! line up! line!
Following Olivia’s finger pointing, I looked at the place, and there was a crowd of people in one corner of the plaza.
I thought it was food rationing, but it wasn’t.
“I’m a recruiter.”
It was Harriet who recognized what it was.
It was the guards who controlled the crowds in the high seats, and above them, people dressed in imperial military officer uniforms were chattering loudly.
The sound could not be heard properly due to the clamor of the people.
“At least you won’t starve in the army.”
Olivia said softly with a wry smile.
If you’re going to starve to death, you’d rather join the military. It’s the same whether you die from monsters or from starvation.
It is not for a grandiose cause, mission for humanity, or dedication.
If you become a soldier, at least you won’t starve.
Exhausted common soldiers were being replenished in this way, and it was not so unexpected.
Consumables thrown into battle with only a single spear in loose armor without proper education on weapon skills.
Such people will constantly be replenished and die from starvation.
“If we do our job right, the war will end early, which will be good for those people as a result. Let’s not turn our eyes to useless things and go where we need to go.”
At Olivia’s words, both Harriet and I follow her.
It was a remarkably optimistic, yet terrifyingly cold word.
That was the reality now.
“sister… … . It’s kind of scary.”
“If all this is over just because you cry, you can cry for everyone in the world. But isn’t that it?”
“… … .”
I don’t cry because tears can’t solve anything.
Just as I have changed, just as Liana has changed, Olivia has also changed.
* * *
In the imperial mausoleum, there are also tombs of great men and heroes who made great achievements with the previous imperial family.
We had enough information from Charlotte about that before we set off.
Even if we don’t care about the remains of the imperial family, Charlotte helped us to use evil powers when the mausoleum of our ancestors was invaded.
Charlotte made a very difficult decision on her own.
We were crossing the pier connecting the southern and northern parts of the ecliptic.
The imperial castle Emperatos was visible on the hill in the north, and the temple was visible in the south.
The vast refugee camp in the outskirts of the ecliptic was not visible from the center of the city. Seeing it will only make you feel depressed, so is it better not to see it?
“If the operation of the magic train has been suspended, it must have been serious in many ways.”
“I guess so.”
We were moving on foot because the magic train, the key transportation method of the ecliptic, would not operate except for military and administrative needs, no matter how scarce the resources were.
We were realizing that most of the Empire’s national power was consumed to produce and operate Titan, watching the stationary magic train of the ecliptic.
How will they cope with the problem of the monsters that occasionally raid the refugee zone?
I’m sure you’ll have such useless thoughts, so it’s better not to see it.
Olivia muttered while looking at the distant imperial castle.
“Even heroes have grades… … . Well, it would be natural.”
Of course, not all those who have made meritorious deeds can enter the imperial mausoleum.
Among the war heroes, only a very few could enjoy the honor of entering the imperial mausoleum. Usually, such honors will be bestowed upon the dead, and few will now have those honors already established in the living state.
anyway.
Not all heroes are in the imperial mausoleum.
“Even if it’s not the imperial mausoleum, I think I can just rob the graveyard in the northern part of the imperial capital… … .”
According to Charlotte’s words, it seems that those who made remarkable achievements are buried in the cemetery in the northern part of the ecliptic.
If all the heroes had entered the imperial mausoleum, they would have burst into tears, so in a way it was natural.
Of course, the honor of entering the same tomb as the imperial family is not a privilege that anyone can enjoy.
Therefore, national cemeteries are of course larger in size than imperial mausoleums, and there are bound to be many people buried there.
The Pandemonium War, and the Gate Incident.
Those who died in those two wars and made great achievements are bound to be more in the National Cemetery than in the Imperial Mausoleum.
To put it bluntly, those whose remains have not yet decayed or who are likely to return are there.
“Because it would be easier to enter the national cemetery on the outskirts than to infiltrate the imperial castle. I think it’s right to go there first.”
Olivia shrugged at Harriet’s words.
“What are you talking about? We’re both going.”
“… … It seemed like he would say that.”
Harriet sighed.
“You have to write everything you can. do you know Would one of the famous warriors stand up by any chance?”
A group of five warriors.
Lagann Artorius.
Ragdna Olfie.
Seyaria.
Mullern.
Shadin.
The graves of the five must be in the imperial mausoleum
“You would have to assume that the body is there and that it can be raised.”
“I can’t go. I don’t know how helpful the warriors who became undead will be.”
Of course, this is only possible under the assumption that there is someone who left the body properly.
Charlotte has made it clear on this point.
The tomb of Lagann Artorius is in the imperial mausoleum, but there is no body inside the tomb.
There is no corpse of Lagann Artorius, who fought and destroyed the demon king, nor the body of the demon king Valie.
The body of Lagann Artorius is missing.
So you can’t even save it.
However, in the case of four others, the bodies were recovered.
There are some that can only be called incomplete remains, but they were recovered.
So, except for the tomb of Lagan Artorius, the bodies of four other warriors are definitely in the imperial mausoleum.
“Lagan Artorius would be impossible, but other cases are just in case, so I have to go.”
As if Olivia knew that too, she said that and looked at me.
“Can we call this revenge? Reinhardt.”
To put it bluntly, those who helped kill my father are brought back to life as undead to fight.
“If it helps, it doesn’t matter. Is there any need to write such grandiose words?”
“You really, sometimes it seems like you have no emotions at all? Especially in this part.”
Well, since you’re not actually parents, isn’t it something you can’t help?
If I had been a real Valier, I would have hated Ellen, it wouldn’t have happened.
But I didn’t have to say that.
There was no such thing as affection or attachment to the predecessor Valier. Because we haven’t actually talked to each other.
However, there is something similar to guilt.
Balie hoped the gate crisis would not happen.
However, I ended up being the cause of the gate debacle.
Valier’s wishes were forever ruined because of me.
A certain sense of guilt and responsibility stemming from that.
That was the extent of my feelings for the predecessor, Valier.
However, that feeling could never be said to be small.
