Chapter 613
Ileion Bolton was waiting for a space transfer in the warp spot.
Even the popes knew that the demon king’s followers were increasing. And Ileion Boelton, though he did not know the details, was clearly sensing the current.
But that wasn’t the point.
The power of the Church of the Imperial City had already been strengthened by the followers of the Demon King, and it was clear that Rowen was a key figure.
However, it was only the forces of the cult of the ecliptic that were passed over like that.
allied forces.
The Paladins and Priests, which Ileion Bolton had always commanded, could support the Demon King, but they couldn’t be controlled by Rowen.
The bond that has crossed countless battlefields and lines of fire together is not something that can be easily betrayed.
Therefore, compared to the Paladins and Priests of the Allied Forces, the forces of the Church of the Ecliptic were literally only a handful.
Although the rank of the Commander of the Knights Templar is lower than that of the popes, their authority and power are enormous.
That’s all Rowen has in his grasp.
The Commander of the Knights Templar can stage a coup as much as he wants, and that is the case even now.
If you return to the allied camp and lead a large group of Paladins, Illion Boelton has enough troops to wipe out the turbulent forces of the ecliptic.
Ileion Bolton was the one who committed a mad act of purging the enemy’s chieftain in the middle of the enemy territory.
It was possible because the elite paladins who carried out that order were the people of Ileion Boelton, but all of them were killed by Rowen.
Rowen’s combat power was underestimated. It is clear that he was hiding his true power.
Ileion Bolton thought of returning to the Allied garrison by selecting and selecting those who could not be recruited from among the remaining people, holding his breath.
The power of the Church of the Ecliptic is already out of control by the Popes and the commander of the Knights Templar.
I don’t know what to do, but I have to go back to the allied camp and think about it.
There are a few places where I came back thinking it was my hometown, so I have to organize my thoughts in a situation where my personal safety is secured.
“from now on… … . How is it going?”
“I do not know.”
It is infuriating that the popes handed over the entire church to the devil, and even the popes were not the ones who had the right to decide on the church in the first place.
And he was ordering Rowen’s people to track down Rowen.
The ecliptic is dangerous.
I have to leave.
That’s why Ileion Boelton was waiting for the mass teleport magic to return to the allies from the warp spot to activate.
“When I go back, I go straight to the camp. Even there, there’s no guarantee that Rowen’s tricks won’t work. Once we do the verification, how do we handle this after that… … .”
he ruined everything
The thought of messing everything up made Ileion Bolton want to bite his tongue.
go back once
If you just go back, then.
next?
If you do it wrong, civil war may break out.
This place is no different.
Allied Paladins and Priests follow the Templar Commander even more than the Pope. There are those who support the Demon King, but that’s just compassion, and they sincerely follow Ileion Boelton, who has served together. So, they have no choice but to be completely on Ileion Bolton’s side.
Now, Ileion Boelton is a commander who has abandoned his army and jumped into enemy territory.
As long as you can return to the original position, if you can bring the army, control of the situation will come to Ileion Bolton.
He had no intention of overstepping the authority of the popes.
However, if the authority of the popes has become worthless, it is a problem that cannot be left alone.
It means that the main church has completely lost its function as a church.
The very fact that the main denomination was privatized by just one person is a problem.
Negotiations and coexistence with the Demon King were ultimately the choices of the chiefs, so there was a thought to respect them. Because there was no reason not to understand.
However, if someone other than the head is already controlling the main church, the church shouldn’t exist that way.
Popes were incompetent.
And, Ileion Bolton was also incompetent.
I thought I was reading the board, but I was only looking up to read the board.
Empire, Demon King, Emperor.
I only thought about those things, but I didn’t properly look at the changes that happen from below.
I judged that the movement starting from below might touch big problems, but I didn’t know that the movement itself from below was already a big problem.
I don’t know where to start, but I go back.
The popes were more than incompetent.
However, while Ileion Bolton is acutely aware of his incompetence, he knows that he is not incompetent.
An enormous order of paladins and priests are still under his control.
After returning, I have to do something about the main church that has already been destroyed.
You will be able to decide what to do next.
“As soon as we return, we will gather at headquarters.”
“Yes, Captain.”
Elaion Boelton was feeling nervous and anxious because his return might signal a huge civil war.
Will he adapt to the situation as it is, what will happen to his bond with the demon king, and what will happen to Rowen’s work?
Too much was in his hands.
how long did you wait
– Flash!
With a flash of light, a mass teleport was cast.
With a flicker of vision, Ileion Boelton opened his closed eyes.
“… … this.”
And, Ileion Bolton couldn’t help but realize everything as soon as he saw the scene unfolding before his eyes.
Since you moved from the warp spot, you should have moved straight to the warp spot of the Allied Garrison.
but.
Now, Ileion Bolton has arrived in an unknown forest.
And there was not a single person in the party that was with him.
But he wasn’t alone.
There were two people in front of me.
On a certain tree stump, the Demon King was sitting.
“I heard they decided to call it the Intercept… … . Well, it’s a function, you know since you’ve just experienced it, right?”
And next to the demon king was a girl with pigtails.
“… … It’s a first meeting.”
Daughter of the Archduke of Saint-Ouane.
Heriot de Saintoine, who was called the greatest genius in the history of magic, was guarding the Demon King.
“In the first place… … . I couldn’t even go back.”
When Ileion Bolton passes away, a civil war breaks out.
There was no way that the commander of the Knights Templar himself knew what others did not know.
“This is so… … . uncomfortable. It was only a while ago that we decided to hold hands, but the fact that we have to face each other like this.”
Yesterday’s enemy is today’s friend.
Yesterday, when we were meant to be friends, went somewhere, but today we became enemies again.
It was just a story that went round and round.
* * *
What will happen when Ileion Bolton returns to the Allied Garrison.
I didn’t know that I had to be most wary of it, so this had no choice but to happen. In the first place, the moment Ileion Bolton disappeared, it was only natural to try to return to the garrison.
“Originally, I had no intention of killing any of you.”
The demon king speaks quietly.
“That’s right. What’s the use of changing popes or Templars? It just hurts my back.”
“I like the status quo. I like you more than you.”
“Of course, I don’t want the gate situation to remain the same.”
“So, without major changes, the Templar Commander remains the same, and the Popes remain the same. It rolls like this and there is no noise with each other. Let’s not bleed to fight each other. I was thinking like this So I had no intention of killing or changing it.”
“But if you don’t change, shitty things might happen.”
“And, while you were plotting shit, you didn’t tell me about it?”
“I know it’s hard for us to be a perfect alliance or a top-down relationship. But the Popes tried to kill all the heretics.”
“I was thinking of being used. But since it’s attached to the gallbladder, I didn’t mean to let you destroy the liver, and since it’s attached to the liver, I’ll let you remove the gallbladder.”
Ileion Boelton’s eyes widened at the demon king’s words.
“Yeah, you wouldn’t know. It must have been the pope’s idea. Did you have time to think about something like that when you couldn’t keep your eyes open while killing monsters?”
“Thank you for not having to make lame excuses.”
“I wouldn’t say it’s wrong to not know. It’s not really wrong.”
War was too much for Ileion Bolton.
Because he knew how things were going in the ecliptic, what the popes were thinking, and how the church was going from there, Ileion Bolton was too far away from the ecliptic.
It was the same even before the allied forces were dispatched. Rather than being at the Templar headquarters, he wandered the battlefield.
Concentrated on the war, he was too far away from practical work.
That’s what Ileion Bolton’s defeat is.
Worked too hard.
In order to fulfill his duties and convictions as a powerful paladin who fights on his own, because he worked so hard.
I didn’t care about politics.
“So, the popes decided to change everything. Of course, if he puts a knife to his throat and tells him not to do that, he’ll have to nod his head saying he won’t do it. By the way, the dogs who are sick have already fucked enough when they did not tell me about the pagan massacre. So, I think it would be better to have someone there who listens to me and knows my heart well.”
“no way… … .”
Ileion Bolton blankly stares at the Demon King with his mouth open.
“I met Rowen too late. I don’t know if it was before Rowen went crazy, but if we leave it like this, either all the cultists will die or the empire will be destroyed, or one of the two will happen.”
The demon king had to decide.
“The five main denominations will be unified, and a new religious system will be established in which the Demonic Church and the Brave Church are integrated. To protect all infidels. No, I’m not even a heretic anymore. You will be incorporated into the main church.”
Unified Divinity Church.
“And, an older sister I know well will be the head there.”
Arrows and bombs fired by others explode here and there, eventually converging into one big explosion.
In the end, it was a huge unity and at the same time the beginning of division.
Instead of preventing chaos right now, later it will also become the heart of division.
“In the middle of the empire… … . Are you trying to plant the flag of the Dark Land… … .”
Everyone knows that the demon king’s forces have entered the ecliptic.
“okay.”
If he didn’t do this, everything might be ruined, so the demon king stepped in.
I tried to use the Five Great Main Order as it is, but the situation got out of hand. That’s why it’s a situation where you can’t survive unless you improve your constitution even more.
Things that would have been postponed to the future if he hadn’t tried to kill Rowen were brought forward by a single decision by Ileion Bolton.
“A purge or something like that, honestly, I didn’t agree. That’s why I left you guys alone. But I think Rowen is right.”
“… … .”
“It seemed like new wine should be put in new wineskins.”
If you take control of a group and leave it alone, your existing interests will remain. If that’s the case, it’s practically the same as not taking over. You can hide as many things as you want to hide from your superiors, and you can collude as much as you like.
“It was impossible to clumsily lend a name.”
If you’re going to do it, make sure it’s accurate.
And brutally.
There should be no backtracking.
Even in an age without chaos, regular purges, and at this point in time when the whole world is shaking, I realized that it would be foolish not to drive out the existing vested interests when trying to take control of a group.
I thought he had taken control of the Order and Knights just because he had recruited the Popes and the Knights Templar.
But reality was not in the slightest.
The existing popes had the idea of ridding the pagans someday, so they are not the ones who fit in with the religious system to be reformed. And we cannot hope that new ideas will inevitably be implanted in their senile brains. If you cooperate, it will pretend to cooperate.
The popes who were mistaken for having real power when they had no real power were eliminated.
And this time, Ileion Bolton.
There is real power, there is symbolism, and there are many followers.
In fact, the core of the main church’s armed forces.
If Ileion Bolton returned safely to the Allied garrison, a civil war could have broken out in the ecliptic depending on his choice.
“I hate the Popes, but you did your best, but it seems like everyone just shook hands?”
In fact, Ileion Bolton didn’t even sell the church to the demon lord. It was the Pope’s choice.
Attempting to purge Rowen was, in its own way, because it was best not to cause such confusion at this point.
“But since I decided to push Rowen, I can’t go with you.”
However, since the purges have begun, the fact that Ileion Bolton is also an existing faction does not change.
It’s not that you back down because you’re wrong, it’s that you back down because you have to.
Purges are inherently like that.
And since he decided to hold Rowen’s hand, Ileion Boelton, who tried to kill Rowen, became an existence that the Templars could not leave alone.
“That’s why I want to give you a choice, unlike the popes.”
Ileion Bolton was looking at the demon king with a firm expression.
“option… … ?”
“Yes, just two.”
The demon king spreads two fingers.
“First, die in my hands right here.”
The demon king folds one finger.
“Second, quietly retire.”
retirement.
It was a word that was even more unexpected than death.
* * *
An uncomfortable silence was maintained on the top floor of the Temple of the Templars.
The survival of the dead priest.
And the scene where the priest brutally murdered five popes.
The appearance of Olivia Ranche, who disappeared along with the demon king.
I don’t know how it all started, but Olivia Ranze’s words were plain.
The Knights Templar and the Order of the Five Great Religions now belong to the Demon King.
Ellen was unable to do anything with her fists clenched, and so were Louise and Heinrich.
“The words… … . nonsense… … .”
Only Ludwig, on the spot, glared at Olivia Ranze with his eyes wide open.
“How can you be here? How could the Demon King have the Knights Templar? Such a thing… … . That kind of thing shouldn’t happen! How are you guys! like this… … . like this. so proudly Talk like that in the middle of the ecliptic!”
Ludwig’s anger, which had been dormant in a sense of shame and self-reproach, explodes.
“Do you feel no guilt at all? Do you know how many people died because of you guys? But is this all the devil’s plan? How can you guys do this so brazenly… … !”
“hey.”
“Am I talking to you?”
“… … what?”
Olivia clicks her tongue briefly.
“And who are you in the first place?”
“!!”
For Olivia to remember, Ludwig was just someone who passed by too briefly.
