Night of the Soulless Heathens – 404



#404. The Age of Revelation 5

“As expected you are amazing.”

Azadin was amazed that Jecht had not only survived Vissen’s betrayal but had also captured Vissen’s bishop.

Although they lost all their troops Zect’s troops were under a spell so in reality they were not alive even though they were alive.

Although the human officers who remained loyal to Zect were annihilated even though he committed murder and practiced sorcery right before their eyes they were treated as dangerous elements within Azadin’s warlords.

For Azadin it was the best situation that Zect had ever faced having lost all his troops and returned alive and well.

“Sir Jecht. I heard you’ve had a hard time. Suddenly Bisen betrayed you? And you brought the Bishop of Bisen with you?”

“Yes. I lost my golden armor because of it. What a shame. It was a custom-made piece that opened up in various parts to release tentacles and Nether blood from all over my body.”

“….”

“You can laugh here.”

“But what trick did Bisen use to make you suffer so much?”

While fellow Inquisitor Astarte specialized in dealing with a single enemy Jecht was a versatile figure who could respond to a wider variety of situations.

The nether magic he uses is the purification of the Inquisition’s research and even he alone could raise an army to fight as long as he had enough meat.

“They were blood-soaked red Celestials. I let my guard down after seeing the Celestial Fires’ lax skills but it seems that the Northern Emperor and the Wisdom Sect have created something quite interesting. Perhaps the Archangel’s statue was broken and bleeding….”

The Archangels of the Trinity are the main deities of angelic faith and damaging the statues of such Archangels was a serious crime of a different level from damaging a few small statues of angels and causing them to bleed.

‘No all the angels are dedicated but some are higher in rank so they are more problematic and some are lower-ranking angels so they are okay to break but that doesn’t seem right.’

However no matter how much one is immersed in magic and touches the angel statue a person who is a member of the Knights of the Salvation Order will not be able to touch the statue of the Trinity Archangel.

‘If you had no interest in the belief in angels you would have touched the Archangel statue from the beginning but did you do it later when circumstances were not favorable? Or did you not touch it until then in order to reassure the clergy of the church you were with? No but the Celestials came out to punish you in the name of the King’s Church?’

When Azadin was thinking like that Jecht said.

“I understand that Celestial Fire has entered the castle.”

“Oh right. They decided to lend us their strength…”

“There must be a spy.”

“I don’t think there’s anything missing right?”

Azadin did not rule out the possibility that there was a spy within Celestial Fire.

“But I’m not in a position to accept such things. Above all if we’re going to look at it that way the most suspicious person is right in front of me right now. It’s like he wants to cut my throat at any moment…”

“Yes that’s right.”

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Jecht smiled and drew his sword. The sound of the blade’s blade echoed eerily in the large stone building that was hardly guarded enough to be called the King’s Audience Hall.

“Ject Sir!”

Jibek who had been watching from the side drew his sword and stopped Jecht.

But Jecht didn’t even look at Zibek and glared at Azadin with blazing eyes.

“King Azadin. I beg you to duel me.”

“duel?”

“How impertinent Lord Jecht. Why should the King duel you?”

A king must not accept a duel from anyone without permission.

A common knight-errant might be ridiculed for refusing a fair duel but when a responsible person such as a military commander or a king fights without permission and dies the repercussions are uncontrollable.

But unlike him Jecht opened his eyes wide and glared at Azadin with a blazing gaze.

“Because I heard something that I absolutely could not understand.”

“Is that something you can’t possibly accept?”

“I was curious as to why the priests of the King’s Church suddenly attacked you as if they were going to kill you so I questioned the Bishop of Vissen. Do you know what he said? Why do they who seemed like they would be willing to negotiate with you before now hate and detest you like a monster?”

“Hmm? Because I’m Aragasa?”

“That’s not it but since you’re deliberately giving ridiculous wrong answers I guess you know the correct answer.”

Rather than laughing at or mocking Azadin’s wrong answer Zect realized that he had knowingly made the mistake on purpose.

Indeed Azadin was embarrassed.

“I’m embarrassed to say it myself.”

“Yes then I will speak for myself. King Azadin. The Northern Emperor Cohen Lionaire testified at the council of bishops of the King’s Church that you were revealed to the spirits of Yaegas. That you were the rightful king of Banreung. However the reason Cohen Lionaire received the grace of the spirits of Yaegas was because you did not fully follow the oracles and revelations of the spirits of Yaegas and so it was given to you as a kind of ordeal.”

“….”

Jecht’s statement was shocking. Jebeck also knew that Azadin had used the throne of Banreung to summon the light of the king’s flower but he had never thought that he had been officially chosen by the spirits.

‘No if something like that happens you should tell the whole world… Oh I guess people won’t believe it. No but shouldn’t you at least tell your close associates? But wait a minute? Cohen Lioner testified to that?’

Jibek felt confused and asked.

“No then why? Have the bishops collectively lost their minds? Why are they going against the rightful king chosen by the gods….”

Azadin answered instead of Zect.

“If contrary to what the Church of the King usually says there really is a just king chosen by the gods then the positions of the priests are in danger.”

“What is that…..”

“The rightful king chosen by the gods has announced a new covenant that negates the existing priests so the priests have realized that you are sincerely trying to purge them.”

“So that’s why Bissen betrayed me. If I had taken the throne through collusion there would be room for negotiation but if I were the rightful owner of the throne there would be no way to negotiate so we are complete enemies. Is that what the bishop said?”

Azadin tilted his head as he remembered the bishop Jecht had brought.

“But what does that have to do with you and me Jecht that I should duel you?”

“It must be because of an inferiority complex.”

Jibek said as if he was telling me to listen to the project.

“Haha. Sir Jibek. You’ve grown too bold. Even interfering with the conversation between me and the king.”

“I don’t see why we shouldn’t interfere with the words of a madman who is trying to assassinate the king because of his inferiority complex Lord Jecht.”

“Shut up. Do you think I’m laughing like this because I like it?!”

Zect fired at Zibek.

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“Even if you are of royal blood no power is given to someone who has never sat on the throne! I was abandoned by the church since childhood and I trained hard to gain this power. Do you think I enjoy using the Nether’s sorcery? If not for me there aren’t many people in the Inquisition who would study this dangerous sorcery! I ended up becoming tainted because of it!”

“….”

Azadin smiled bitterly at Zect’s words. To be honest no matter how much Zect suffered it wouldn’t have been as much as Azadin.

In any case Jecht was the king’s brother and Azadin was a lowly being even among the lowly Heralds. Azadin also participated in the nether magic research that Jecht had suffered through so he knows how difficult it was.

But for now it was better to just let Zect vent his frustration.

“When I was young I hoped to somehow build up my skills so that the royal court would call me back and when I got older I tried to make a contribution to my brother’s kingdom. However the king became corrupted by pleasure.”

“….”

“After pushing me out and becoming king you were intoxicated with power and status took the beauties of the kingdom killed the people and exploited their wealth! Unable to control your sexual desires you fathered countless children and those so-called princes traveled around the kingdom as errant knights and such to secure their own rice bowls committing all sorts of evil deeds. I was pushed out by such trash?! Just because of this damn church law!? And yet if there were an agent of the gods right before my eyes right now I couldn’t stand to cut him down and undermine the will of those great gods! If I cut this bastard down I can’t stand to see what fate the spirits of Yaegasu have arranged!”

In fact Jecht hated the King’s Church more than anyone else in this world.

The reason I joined Azadin was because Azadin was the lowest being under the order of the Church of the King of the Herald Clan and his very existence was a mockery of the order of the Church.

But then I found out that Azadin is a prophet of God?!

Helping Azadin became an act of helping the divine order rather than an act of mocking the worldly order by elevating Azadin an untouchable to a higher position.

“That’s why we call it an inferiority complex Lord Jecht.”

“Stop it Jeebek.”

Azadin stopped Zibek.

“No matter how true it is you shouldn’t say it so directly.”

“….”

It was a remark that had little meaning.

Hearing the commotion the guards rushed in but no one dared come within range of Jecht and Azadin.

A sinister aura emanated from Zect and inhuman eyes began to appear all over his body.

Azadin was enduring this terrifying murderous intent with his body full of vulnerabilities.

He dared to show off in front of Jecht one of the strongest knights of the King’s Church in a posture that seemed like he could cut off his head with a single stroke if he were to make a surprise attack.

The space between Zect’s ferocious murderous intent and Azadin’s resistance is a fierce battleground where countless clashes of spirit are taking place. Anyone who gets in between will be torn to pieces in an instant.

‘That’s amazing courage.’

Jibek felt a mixture of bewilderment and admiration for Azadin who was leisurely enduring Jecht’s killing intent.

For Zect Azadin’s presence was like a twisted manifestation of providence that had been twisting his life.

The pain dissatisfaction and irrationality of Zect’s life. All of it was as if he was standing here in human form and his desire to immediately cut it down and his desire to convey how much he had suffered and suffered were intertwined and conflicting.

So Zect couldn’t bring himself to make the first move but even if he knew that would he really be able to act so lax in front of me?

What kind of courage does it take to face Jecht’s murderous intent so calmly?

Then Azadin opened his mouth.

“Sir Jecht. It’s funny how you seem so obsessed with cutting me down to see if you are a puppet of fate or not since everything moves according to the will of the gods. Is this the difference between the King’s Church and the Knights Templar?”