Chapter 591
Commander of the Knights Templar, Ileion Boelton.
The successor who took over the position after the former leader of the Templar Knights, Leverea Ranche, resigned from the position due to what he had done to his adopted daughter, Olivia Ranche.
Although he was a pro-Imperial figure, that was only compared to Leverier Ranche, and it did not mean that he was completely subsumed by the Empire.
Lebarrier Ranche dreamed of establishing a holy empire by completely separating the powers of the Templar Knights and the Five Great Main Religion, and tried to establish the first successor of the holy empire as her adopted daughter.
He dreamed of an empire of gods named Seonghwang, who ruled over the popes of the five main religions, which were divided into five factions.
Of course, those who knew about that ambition were extremely rare, and he was forced to put an end to his long dream by being killed by the demon king.
Ileion Bolton belongs to the neutral character compared to Leverier Ranche.
This is enough. A person who thinks that it is best to maintain the status quo within the current forces and resources.
That’s why he had no choice but to be a person who suited the tastes of the existing forces.
The fact that he led the Knights Templar brilliantly after the Gate Crisis, and the fact that the Knights Templar is still alive proves that Ileion Boelton is a person with sufficient capacity to carry out the position of Commander of the Knights Templar.
Ellen was alone at the meeting with the commander of the Knights Templar.
However, he was only alone at the face-to-face meeting, and the visit itself was with his party.
Ludwig, Heinrich.
and Louise von Schwarz.
The other three were not in the reception room, but in a separate room after entering the Great Hall, waiting for the face-to-face to end.
That was Louise’s opinion.
Ellen asked if it would be better to wait outside so that Louise wouldn’t get into trouble, but Louise shook her head.
‘Come with me, but face to face with you alone.’
‘Isn’t it nice to meet face to face? If we’re going to be apart, it’s better if the other person doesn’t know that we’re here together.’
If you’re going to go together, go all the way to the place where you meet the commander of the Knights Templar, or don’t let the other person know that you’ve come at all.
Ellen thought it was good.
We came together vaguely like this, but I wondered if the two of us would be as bad as not doing it face-to-face.
‘Just the fact that you didn’t come alone puts pressure on the opponent.’
‘The commander of the Templars should consider my existence because you and I came together, but there is a reason that I only stopped by at the Great Temple of the Templars following my youngest friend.’
‘That’s why the other person won’t believe it. But you have no idea how many problems can be avoided for obvious reasons. The only thing that matters is how you look.’
‘It would be much easier for you to talk if I’m not there.’
‘Do you understand what I mean?’
After hearing Louise’s explanation, Ellen nodded.
‘Yes. I know what you mean.’
Just like Ellen, Louise is a person whose existence alone is meaningful. The head of the Knights Templar won’t actually talk to Louise von Schwartz, but he can’t help but feel its presence.
So, at least once in a while, even if the commander of the Knights Templar had strange intentions towards Ellen, it would have been after giving it very serious thought before taking action.
Ellen herself is a hero, but she is also a guest who came with the heir to the Schwarz family.
Therefore, it can be concluded that deceiving Ellen is not only deceiving the hero, but also deceiving the Schwartz family.
Excessive display of presence can backfire, and Louise knew how to use it in moderation.
So Ellen waited alone in the waiting room while the other party waited in another room.
The value of a warrior’s name is never light.
Ordinary people would not be able to request an interview, and even if someone who could request an interview came, they would have to wait until the commander of the Knights Templar finished their duties.
However, just because Ellen came, the commander of the Knights Templar must immediately stop what he is doing and come to the reception room.
If Ellen says she wants to see the Templar Commander, that means the horse wants to see her, and it’s no different than telling her to jump right in front of me.
It took less than 10 minutes for Ellen to arrive in front of the Great Temple of the Knights Templar, to the audience room, and to see the face of the Knight Commander.
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When the door to the audience room opened and Ileion Boelton, the Templar Commander, appeared, Ellen stood up and bowed her head to him.
“hello.”
Watching Ellen greet her, Ileion Boelton carefully stroked his cropped beard.
“hmm. I didn’t expect to see you in the ecliptic.”
“I see.”
Ellen is very well-mannered, but equally well-mannered. Even when she confronted Louise von Schwarz, she only said hello.
The Emperor and I are at odds with each other because of our Temple days.
So Ellen is not particularly polite to anyone.
Of course, no one in the world points that out. in the past and even now.
“Sit down.”
“yes.”
After being offered a seat, Ellen sat down on the sofa, and Ileion Bolton sat across from her.
The two are quite familiar with each other.
In fact, there were many times when I was on the battlefield with the commander of the Knights Templar, and even though Ellen didn’t always attend the meeting, I saw her face every time.
However, it is very rare to see her face after returning to the ecliptic and coming to the temple of the Knights Templar.
Right before the gate incident explodes.
Ellen was also there the day Olivia Ranze made a fuss about what to do with Reinhardt.
Other than that, isn’t it the first time?
Ellen felt that way.
Even then, of course, I wasn’t sitting there for a good reason, and that’s still the case now.
Ellen is polite, but not a roundabout character.
“Do you know why I am here?”
“… … .”
Ileion Bolton is silent for a moment.
“I have been reported to have entered the scene of a temple fire.”
“Please explain from beginning to end. what is what As much as you know, as much as you know, as much as you do not know.”
Ellen did not change her expression and spoke calmly.
“You knew the hero would come out like this.”
Having never been like this, Ileion Boelton smiled wryly.
“I tend to do it when I have to.”
Ellen knows how to be rude when she needs to be rude.
“If you won’t tell me, what are you going to do?”
At those words, Ellen ponders for a moment.
“I have to ask until you tell me.”
No one could lay a finger on Ellen’s body even if she was lying here.
Even if it was the commander of the Knights Templar himself.
* * *
Ellen demanded the truth from Ileion Bolton, half-threateningly.
But the answer was simple.
“I do not know.”
“… … .”
At the shameless answer that came out so plainly, Ellen stared at Ileion Boelton.
“You don’t think I would believe that.”
“If you don’t know, you have to say you don’t know.”
Ellen struggles to find a way to get around the lie that is too casual.
If the opponent is consistent with ignorance, what the hell should I do?
“Are you saying that Archbishop Rowen, who was at the temple, was not a member of the Templars? I don’t know because he belongs to the Tuan Church… … . What are you talking about?”
“No, Archbishop Rowen belonged to the Templars. He is the Inquisitor of the Temple Knights and the one who oversees the Inquisitors of the Ecliptic.”
As Ellen saw and thought, Archbishop Rowen was the head of the Heretic Inquisition.
“By the way, did you mean he didn’t know that he was torturing refugees in the basement of the temple?”
“To be precise, I didn’t know until now.”
“… … Are you kidding me?”
Ellen didn’t know where to start when she saw the head of the Templars claiming that she didn’t know what she ought to know.
As Ellen glared, Ileion Bolton looked down at the table.
“I must make an excuse for my incompetence.”
“disability… … yo. this?”
“Yes, incompetent.”
The Templars looked at Ellen quietly and said.
“Until now, I commanded the paladins and priests as the commander of the Allied Crusade, and it has only been a little over a week since I returned to the ecliptic.”
“… … .”
“Is it so hard to believe that I said that I couldn’t help not knowing the circumstances of the ecliptic?”
The commander of the Knights Templar was busy.
I was so damn busy.
That’s why he said that he couldn’t care and didn’t know how the situation of the Imperial Temple Knights and the Five Great Main Religion was going.
The words that I don’t know because I’m not competent enough to care about that, and in the end I don’t know because I’m incompetent.
Ellen couldn’t deny that, if nothing else, Elaion Bolton’s words were as honest as that.
The Allied Forces are not limited to Imperial forces. It was an army made up of not only the troops of countless countries that had survived from various places, but also the ability of many groups and countries, including the wizard guild, the Principality of Saint-Ouan, and the Kernstadt Army.
Therefore, each army is subdivided, and the direction of the army is determined by the general headquarters.
Among them, the Knights Templar is also a very important axis of the Allied Forces, just as the Kernstadt Army is included among the very large axis.
Just as the emperor was busy, and the commander of the army at Kernstadt, Louise von Schwarz, could not leave the allied forces until the king took over command of the army.
The commander of the Templars, Ileion Boelton, was also unable to leave the Allied positions.
“I don’t know if the hero will understand, but the Templars aren’t that simple.”
Elaion Boelton speaks with her fingers resting on the table.
“The Knights Templar is an alliance of five main religions.”
“Of course I know that.”
“It means that the empire was created by combining the five kingdoms.”
“… … .”
It may sound like a blasphemous statement, but it is semantically correct. The Knights Templar itself is already a small empire.
“But the commander of the Knights Templar is not the emperor.”
“… … !”
Ellen couldn’t help but open her eyes at those words.
Apparently Ellen had said that in response to Ludwig’s question a few days ago.
The position of the Commander of the Knights Templar is above the Cardinal and below the Pope. They say that you have to pay high to be like the Pope.
When human nations come together to form an empire, an emperor appears, but even when the five religious orders gather to elect the Knights Templar, it is nothing more than the Pope. It’s just a position to command the group by proxy.
“Do you understand that I commanded the Templar Order of the Allied Forces as the Commander of the Knights Templar, so there are bound to be matters of the Order or Order that I do not know about?”
The Commander of the Knights Templar is on duty, but the five Popes are not. And the Grand Master of the Templars has no authority to give orders to the popes.
If there is something the Popes are hiding from the Templar, the Templar may not know about it.
Not knowing is not ignorance.
Ellen is not unaware that it is a daunting situation just to wage war.
Truly, the Templar Commander could have known nothing.
* * *
Ileion Bolton had no choice but to be ignorant of the circumstances of the ecliptic.
It could be because he was too tired to carry out the war, and it was also because the Popes were in charge of the affairs of the Church of the Empire, so there was no obligation to convey them to Ileion Bolton.
Since the Knights Templar nominally have lower authority than the Popes, the fact that the Popes did not bother to inform the Commander of the Templars about the affairs of the empire was neither dereliction of duty nor anything, but belonged to the fact that there was no reason to do so in the first place.
Ileion Bolton is not saying that popes are suspicious.
He was saying that it was not strange that the current leader of the Knights Templar did not know the circumstances of the imperial capital in the first place. It just left a lot of room for Ellen’s imagination.
“I knew that Archbishop Rowen was carrying out his duties as the leader of the Imperial Inquisitor. But he didn’t know that he was torturing the heretics.”
“And I got a call this morning and dispatched the Paladins. There is nothing good for civilians to enter such a place.”
“My instructions were correct for controlling the site and hiding the underground facility.”
“As I just said, you know why.”
“But I don’t know what Archbishop Rowen was doing.”
“I just hid things people shouldn’t see.”
Ellen was still listening to what Ileion Bolton had to say.
Because the fire drew attention, it was impossible to ask about the incident quietly in the first place.
If what he said was true, Ileion Boelten had the paladins deliberately collapse the building, burying the stairs leading to the basement in the rubble.
Incidents have already occurred, massacres have occurred, and even fires have started. It was fortunate that the looters did not go underground and be buried alive.
soon.
Neither the raiders, nor why Archbishop Rowen was murdered, Ileion Boelton does not know.
In a situation where the incident scene itself had to be dealt with and the truth covered, Ileion Boelton did just that.
The Paladins in the field also knew that the place was a temple for the Heretic Inquisitors, but they didn’t know what happened.
If it spreads that he was capturing and torturing people in the basement of the temple, public sentiment in the already vicious ecliptic will get even worse. So, there was nothing Eleon Bolton could do except belatedly rectify the situation.
And it was Ellen who entered the scene and grasped the situation.
What Rowen was doing, Ileion Bolton didn’t know. In the first place, it would have been too much for him to return to the ecliptic and figure out the situation.
“You really don’t know anything?”
“I don’t know, but I can guess.”
Ileion Bolton looks at Ellen in silence.
He, who should be in the allied camp, did not just come back in the first place.
“Recently, the graveyard beneath the Knights Templar was robbed.”
It is information that very few people know, but Ellen knew about it. She’s a big case, but she forgot about it because it had nothing to do with her.
“I hope you do that… … ?”
“okay.”
Ileion Bolton nods.
“I would have been looking into that.”
Since the head of the Knights Templar also returned to the ecliptic to find out about the matter, it was clear that the Heretic Inquisitors who remained in the ecliptic were also investigating the matter.
It’s a major accident that you can’t just ignore, even if you can think that something like that happens to other forces or people.
“It was the refugees who robbed the cemetery… … . Is it like that?”
At Ellen’s words, Ileion Bolton shook his head with a firm expression.
“I don’t know that far. And there are no treasures buried in the tombs of saints.”
Ileion Bolton looks at Ellen and says.
“Because what was robbed was not treasure, but remains.”
“… … yes?”
Of course, there was no way Ellen knew the truth.
