Chapter 557
The tombs of the saints are located in the basement of the headquarters of the Knights Templar.
And, like most of the allied powers, the Knights Templar and the Church of the Five Greats were also putting all their efforts into this war.
So, the headquarters of the Knights Templar was being operated with a minimum number of personnel.
Of course, there are no imperial palace or temple-level barriers at the headquarters of the Knights Templar.
It’s not like I’m undead, so it’s not impossible to enter.
So, compared to the Imperial Palace or the Temple, infiltrating the headquarters of the Knights Templar was relatively easier.
There are very few people, and the place we have to go to is the tomb of the saints, of course, because there are few people.
It’s also an easy place to infiltrate in the first place, but since Kono Lint helped with the idea of going to the end, it was futile to enter the graveyard of the saints.
“Damn, now I really don’t know what is right.”
When we had to forcefully help with what we were trying to do, we must have had a great desire to do this.
However, since Kono Lint knew that the Empire was doing this by leaping forward, it seemed that all value judgments about good and evil had become meaningless.
The person who does bad things first is the owner.
That’s why Kono Lint finally decided to help us make Death Knights in the tombs of saints for the third time.
“It’s not as good as the imperial mausoleum, but it’s amazing here too.”
tombs of saints.
This tomb located under the Knights Templar was not as gigantic as the imperial mausoleum, but it had a noble and solemn atmosphere.
The overall atmosphere is different from the imperial mausoleum.
On the wall of the huge cavity, the names of the gods worshiped by the deceased saints were embossed at regular intervals, and the names and biographies of the dead saints were engraved.
like a morgue.
There will be the remains of dead saints in those walls.
It should be said that it feels like an ossuary containing a coffin rather than an ashes.
The tubes in the wall were to go vertically for more than ten stories.
However, the gap was quite wide, so that the coffin at the end was almost seven meters above.
Among the tombs of great saints, the tombstones were built on the ground, not on the wall, and the coffins were buried behind them.
“The history of the Knights Templar is not that long. That’s why there aren’t many remains of adults.”
“You mean there are more tombs in the main temple of each of the five main religions?”
“yes. But with the exception of Als’ Great Temple in the imperial capital, all the other headquarters would have been destroyed, so it’s meaningless.”
The Knights Templar was created for the Pandemonium War, and its history is not very long. That’s why there must have been a lot of remains of saints in other temples.
“But, since the history is short, most of the saints who enter the mausoleum are chosen for their militant achievements, not for their theological achievements. Rather, we can secure more Death Knights from this side. That’s why I don’t think there’s any need to go to Als’ Great War.”
Those who died in the Great War.
Those who died in the Gate Avalanche.
In the end, because the major is the result, most of the adults in the Templar Order will be priests or paladins.
The absolute number of adults, at least, would be the remains faithful to the main purpose of making a Death Knight.
“Close the door well. If someone comes in and sees it, it will be a headache.”
“yes.”
A huge entrance to the catacombs. Harriet takes on the role of blocking the door.
“Reinhardt, would you like to check? It’s a little difficult if there’s no body this time.”
“yes.”
I head towards the common wall and reach the entrance of the sealed sarcophagus on the wall.
Once pushed into the wall, there is no reason to open it again, so it is a sarcophagus without even a handle.
Without this corpse, things get a lot more complicated.
-Geuggeuk! puck!
I broke the sarcophagus with my bare hands and checked the inside.
“there is.”
“Okay, so that means the Templars never took part in this undead game.”
It was quite surprising that no one was surprised, let alone me, by destroying a stone wall with my bare hands. Even Kono Lint wasn’t surprised.
anyway.
It was the moment when it became clear that the cause of the evaporation of the bodies was the Empire. If this involved the entire Allied Forces, even the tombs of the saints would have been empty.
What is happening now will be the empire’s arbitrariness.
In the end, this time it was confirmed that the body remained intact.
– Knock!
Olivia stood in the center and slashed down the demonic sword Tiamata.
“Now, let’s start for real.”
– Woo-woo-woo!
The power of corruption begins to crawl out of the magic sword.
There will be no failures this time.
* * *
Olivia had said it wouldn’t take that long in the first place.
It just took a long time because they didn’t know that there were no bodies in the imperial mausoleum.
Still, it was by no means possible in a short time.
Around 30 minutes after Olivia started the ceremony.
– thump thump
There was a dull echo as if something was hitting the wall.
“eww… … . ugh… … .”
Kono Lint flinched and clung to me.
Yeah, it’s a moment where you can’t help but be scared.
As if something had begun this time, a strange echo continued on the walls of the graves of saints.
Sounds like hitting something.
– Patter
Gray dust mixed with stone dust rose from the walls, and a resonance could be felt even from the common ceiling.
Stone statues and symbols of the gods sway.
-thud! thud!
The echo on the wall begins to grow more and more intense.
The slow vibration is getting faster and faster.
-thud! thud! thud! puck!
Then, the sarcophagus embedded in the wall, the square tombstone and at the same time the lid begin to crack.
-bang!
Then, along with the dust, a lid bursts off and something crawls out of the wall.
The ashes of a saint, the bones of a saint who had fallen into a dormant state while imprisoned in the wall, crawled out.
-Geugheu
With his eyes wide open and black darkness dripping all over his body, he slipped out of the cramped room and fell to the floor.
-thud!
The body, with only bones remaining, fell to the ground and slowly raised itself.
A corpse was revived, and the saint of bones, who was oozing black energy from his body, was standing there.
-Grrrrrrr
The skeleton, growling in a strange voice, wakes up and slowly walks to Olivia’s side.
The dark energy flowing from the whole body soon becomes a cloak of darkness, covering the skeleton from head to toe.
Skeletons in darkness.
The strongest undead.
A saint resurrected as a death knight kneels in front of Olivia.
“good… … .”
– thump thump
-thud!
Like a bird trying to break out of an egg, the sound of waking beings banging on sarcophagi filled the cavity.
* * *
The ceremony lasted an hour and a half.
Seventy-five in total.
The Death Knights, who should now be called the Seventy-five, were resurrected.
There were obviously things that didn’t happen.
However, due to the Power of Corruption, the remains of adults who became Death Knights were clearly in front of our eyes.
The underground cavity was covered with stone dust rising from the broken sarcophagi.
Because Harriet had the noise canceling turned on, there were no priests who came to this place after detecting an abnormality.
I have no intention of doing anything like restoration.
We will leave this place anyway, and we will never come back.
If the Templars find out that the tombs of the saints are almost half destroyed, it will cause an uproar, but it is none of our business to know, as they have already accomplished their purpose.
This won’t be enough.
However, securing a sufficient number of Death Knights was impossible in the first place. A sufficient number of forces in this war is a very distant number in the first place.
Death Knights are basically in the shape of a skeleton.
Wounds suffered during life or missing parts were reconstructed with the divine power of corruption.
-Grrrrr
The Death Knight, which emits only a bizarre and low sound, does not have a former self.
It’s just a shell.
Olivia approaches one of the many Death Knights.
All of us watched the scene in silence.
One of the seventy-five Death Knights. Behind it was the tomb of Leberier Ranche.
Olivia puts her hand on the bone of the Death Knight, who is oozing dark energy of corruption.
“You look very skinny.”
We watched in awe as Olivia’s corners of her mouth raised eeriely.
The Death Knight, which is only a shell anyway, is not a Lebarrier Ranche.
It’s just that he was once a Leberier Ranche.
He, who was close to immortality, was killed by the demonic sword Tiamata I stabbed.
And now, he was brought back from the dead by the demonic sword Tiamata in his daughter’s hand.
Olivia was staring at the black tear-like smoke flowing from the Death Knight’s pierced eye sockets with a fishy smile.
* * *
When she said that she needed to replenish the Death Knight, it was clear that Olivia was thinking of reviving the Lebarrier Ranche.
The risen Death Knights reconciled with the smoke and nestled in the magic sword, and we got out of the tombs of the saints.
“With this… … . Are you done?”
“I think it’s okay to go to the Great Hall of Als, but I don’t think it’s of much significance. There will only be remains that are unnecessarily old.”
Olivia shook her head at Kono Lint’s question, as if there was no need to work harder just to secure one or two Death Knights.
We are done with business in the ecliptic.
“… … Can we go now?”
“What? Shall I take you to the allied camp?”
“No, I can go back alone.”
I was wrongly hooked up with a harsh guy and forced to help me with something I would never experience in my life.
However, Kono Lint raised a bigger question than seeing the heinous process of making the Death Knight.
Suspicions that the Empire might be doing this, or even worse.
I would have lost track of what it was.
“Just in case, don’t bother trying to find out how this is going.”
“… … .”
As if it was the right track, Kono Lint couldn’t answer my words.
“No matter how well your abilities are optimized for infiltration, there is no need to take risks. And, if you find out, there’s nothing you can do about it.”
“… … I guess so.”
This is the kind of thing you shouldn’t know about.
무슨 일이 벌어지는 건지 녀석이 혼자서 알아보려다가 제국에 덜미라도 잡히면, 더욱 이상한 일이 벌어질지도 모른다.
“아무튼, 수고 많았다.”
코노 린트가 없었다면 일이 여러모로 복잡해졌을 텐데 손쉽고 빠르게 진행된 게 사실이다.
엄한 사람들과 충돌하는 일도 없이 빠르고 깔끔하게 일이 끝났으니 이보다 다행인 일은 없다.
코노 린트는 가만히 침묵하더니, 조심스레 입을 연다.
말해야 할지 말지 고민하다가, 끝내 말해야만 하는 이야기를 하려는 것처럼.
“우리 클래스 애들 얘기……. 알고 있냐?”
“대강은.”
“…….”
이번 전투로 인해 죽은 사람들, 그리고 불구가 된 루드비히.
연합군을 정탐 중이라는 걸 알려 주는 셈이긴 하지만, 어차피 모르는 척할 이유가 없었다. 애초에 연합군의 정보를 수집하고 있다는 건 알고 있을 테니까.
그 슬픔을 보았기에 코노 린트는 부정한 힘을 빌려서라도 이 전쟁에서 누군가가 더 죽어 나가는 걸 막아야 한다고 생각했을 수도 있다.
하지만 전쟁으로 인해 죽은 사람들의 죽음마저 이용하는 게 맞는 건지. 심지어 그것을 제국이 직접 하는 게 맞는 일인지 복잡할 것이다.
누군가의 죽음을 막기 위해 데스나이트를 만들지만, 이미 죽어 버린 누군가를 데스나이트로 만들어 버리는 거다.
“……알면 됐어.”
코노 린트는 그 안타까움과 슬픔에 대해서 굳이 말하진 않았다.
우리도 굳이 대화를 나누진 않았다.
그저 슬프기만 하고, 끔찍하고 잔인한 일이기만 한 화제니까.
이젠 돌아갈 시간이다.
하지만, 코노 린트는 돌아가지 않고 무언가 깨달은 것처럼 안색이 퍼렇게 질린 채 날 본다.
“야. 그런데 너……. 앞으로도 어쩐지 이런 식으로 필요할 때마다 나 부를 것 같은 건……. 내 착각이냐?”
“잘 알고 있네.”
“why me! I hate you son of a bitch! Me, I belong to the Allied Forces!”
“Hasn’t it already been on a boat?”
You are already an accomplice! There is no escape!
His complexion begins to turn white from my strong actions.
“go away! From now on, even if someone asks for help, I won’t even look at you, you bastard! don’t be fooled! I will never be fooled anymore!”
– Phat!
Kono Lint hated it and disappeared through space movement. With that guy’s ability, you should be able to quickly move to the allied camp far away from here.
If Kono Lint loses his humanity, it will all be because of me.
“… … What else will you need lint for?”
Harriet tilts her head.
“Well, that’s something I don’t know. And put it like that, apparently caught in the same pattern. must.”
“Oh no way. I’m sure you’ll suspect it’s Mr. Sarkegar, though.”
Olivia tilted her head as if Kono Lint could be that stupid.
“well? Do you think they will follow you even if they know it’s Sarkegar?”
“ah.”
“ah.”
Seeing how desperate that bastard is, in the future, if she can become a beautiful girl, she might follow me thinking that it would be okay.
He must have suffered so much from this that he is slowly moving on to the idea that it might be alright!
I’m sorry, Lint.
I think I broke you.
“By the way, wouldn’t it be nice to check out what the Empire is doing?”
“that’s right. It won’t be dangerous to us, but I think we should know what you’re doing.”
Harriet and Olivia’s opinions are valid.
I told Kono Lint not to investigate on his own, but our situation is a little different.
There was no need and no intention of putting a fight against what the Empire was doing.
But you need to know what you’re doing.
“That’s it, let’s find out later.”
Now that Sarkegar and I are there, do some intelligence gathering and you’ll know what you’re up to.
Right now, by tomorrow, the headquarters of the Knights Templar will be in an uproar.
The errands in the ecliptic were finished.
“Come to think of it, I have an idea… … .”
Let Olivia try to secure the Death Knight from the tomb under the headquarters of the Knights Templar. I also came up with an expected candidate point.
“Isn’t there a graveyard or something like that in the castle?”
exactly the devil.
As in the imperial palace, wouldn’t there be something similar to the tombs of past heroes or high-ranking demons in the castle?
“Why did we… … . That’s right, you said you had no memories.”
Harriet’s reaction was as if the demon king was asking us why.
“It’s worth going.”
“… … By the way, Reinhardt. You said I was doing weird things, so you end up thinking the same thing as me.”
Is that so?
Come to think of it, Olivia brought her adoptive father back to life as a Death Knight, but am I a worse offspring?
What if the ancient demon kings were resurrected as undead when they wanted to use anything?
I thought of such a motherfucker.
Finally, we headed to Dark Land’s Demon Castle.
However, there were no tombs of successive demon kings in the castle.
There was, but it was not known whether it had already been destroyed or if there was no such thing as a tomb in the first place.
Fortunately or unfortunately, in the end, we couldn’t secure the Death Knight in the castle.
