Night of the Soulless Heathens – 495



#496. Night of the Soulless Blasphemous 7

“But you speak as you did when you were alive and you move with the same will as when you were alive. Isn’t that right?”

Azadin walked towards the undead soldier who had said those words.

Even though others criticize him and laugh at him Azadin can no longer afford to despair.

He proudly walked forward towards the undead soldiers his chest held high.

“Your family your brothers your friends anyone! There are still people out there right? Do you want to give them this world of despair? Do you want them to become undead because you have become undead and to wander the cold nights with you forever?!”

“no!”

“Who would want that!?”

The undead soldiers fought back.

They did not become undead because they liked it. They became undead after being injured or killed while Sok Lord was fighting off attacks from the Heralds and other Sedrin commanders.

I don’t want to pass this pain on to others.

They do not want their homeland to remain forever engulfed in ice and darkness.

Who would want that?

“That is your will your desire! There is a will and desire left in you that even death cannot erase! Then you are not dead yet!”

The undead soldiers were shocked by Azadin’s words.

Azadin says that if you still have hope you should fight even if you become undead.

Unlike those who regarded necromancy itself as a terrible blasphemy Azadin viewed the undead left behind by necromancy as human.

Azadin was the one who used necromancy when necessary. However those who did not know about Azadin’s detailed actions could not help but be surprised when they heard Azadin the emperor affirming the undead.

“Are you telling us to fight for our surviving families?”

“What must be respected is the human will and soul. You have will and desire so you must be respected as human beings. This is also for the sake of your families.”

“….”

The undead soldiers were speechless. Suddenly one of the undead soldiers muttered.

“Anyway it was Sokran who made us like this. He didn’t make us his puppets though…”

“Then can we live by our own will?”

The undead soldiers realized that they had free will and could do anything.

But then sharp taunts poured out.

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“Wow you are truly a great conman.”

There was a lot of ridicule among the living soldiers.

It wasn’t just the undead soldiers who were in despair.

Even the living are in despair.

To those people Azadin was telling them the absurd thing to have hope.

Is there any hope in this horrible hell?

Was that because it annoyed you?

It was a reckless remark that I would never have made normally.

Azadin knew who was speaking even though he wasn’t looking.

“You are a hospitalist.”

The brooch of the Knights of the Salvation Order was pinned to the cloak of the soldier who had taunted Azadin.

A wheel-shaped brooch made with the wings of three angels. It was a brooch symbolizing the three archangels of the Knights Templar.

Judging by the luxurious build this was not just a simple soldier of the Knights Templar but a paladin and a hospitaler-grade paladin at that.

Anyone who has this is not someone who was hastily appointed as a knight by Medium but rather someone who was originally a member of the Rescue Knights.

But when Azadin noticed the brooch he felt ashamed and tried to hide himself.

But Azadin would not let him go.

Azadin grabbed the rescuer who was trying to hide his body and asked him.

“Can you use divine magic?”

“It was there.”

He turned his gaze away from Azadin.

Most of the hospitalers of the Rescue Knights were unable to use holy magic making their name as paladins seem meaningless.

Most of those of noble blood were able to use divine magic with the power of the King’s Church as they lived lives far from virtue.

But when Empress Midiam granted the status of knights to all the other people she made them all knights.

It was then that the rescuers were able to use divine magic for the first time.

I was happy.

Because they had been keenly aware that they were fake knights of inferior quality compared to the knights of the King’s Church.

I was also happy.

The fact that the teachings they believed in and did not follow were so obvious that no one believed them and they were ridiculed but they were true and had great power.

But when the night of despair came everyone let go of the miracle.

This miracle is too small.

The miracle was so small compared to the night of despair that it was impossible to hold it.

He tried to look away not wanting Azadin to find out that he had betrayed his faith in the miracle that had come after so long.

“Even if a miracle happened between us this darkness is too strong. We are not great people like you.”

“Who am I?”

“You are of the blood of the Emperor and the King…”

“Does it still have meaning now that the light of the King’s Flower has faded? And do you know how many Yaegas royal families have slept with human men and women over the past eight hundred years and created offspring? Yaegas blood flows through the veins of all of you!”

“But… I was useless! I! I couldn’t stop the attacks of Lord Sok and the undead let alone those Nether Reapers! And that wasn’t all. With one swing of his sword Lord Sok created a pillar of ice that could destroy an entire city and while my comrades were swept away I lay there trembling like a child! What good is my feeble divine magic in the face of such power?”

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The hospitaler took off his helmet.

“Don’t let the words of a hero fill people’s hearts with hope! You’ll find out in the end! You’ll betray them at the most crucial moment! We’re not heroes or anything!”

“You are angry because you yourself have betrayed your expectations. Isn’t that right?”

“….”

“But you are mistaken in one thing. Do you think that Nana and the Archangels of the Trinity are looking down on you from on high?”

“Isn’t that so?”

“No. I am asking for help. So are the Archangels of the Trinity.”

“….”

“The Archangels of the Trinity are not gods who look down from heaven. They are people who despite having inferior powers compared to the messengers of the Nether came down to earth because of their desire for humanity and eventually lost their strength and turned to stone. They are not saviors.”

“What is that…..”

Those who held the faith of the Knights of Salvation were shocked by Azadin’s statement that the Archangels of the Trinity were not saviors.

It is an irreverent statement that directly challenges the faith of the Knights Templar.

Is Azadin really a soulless blasphemer?

“The angels have said from the beginning. Please help them with the power of virtue. This is also the case with the spirits of Yaegas! It is the wish of the gods and the angels that justice be established on this earth and only humans can achieve this. If humans do not establish justice on this earth it is meaningless! Therefore humans are the saviors of the gods.”

“…….”

“Pray. You can use the sacred white magic.”

“…But.”

“I can use it.”

Talking straight!

The rescuer who had lost faith almost said that.

But the moment I saw Azadin’s purple eyes I was speechless.

Because Azadin could feel through his eyes that he truly believed so.

And then suddenly a divine protection was activated within his body.

An aura of holy light surrounds his body.

“ah….”

It is definitely a miraculous power that I have tried once.

Sacred white magic.

Compared to the Nether’s messengers compared to the despair that covered this world it may have been a pale light but even so the light did not abandon him.

“Can I… someone as helpless as me be of any help?”

“Of course. Have you forgotten that we are the hope of angels?”

“But the enemy is strong. What should we do?”

“The angels trusted humans until the day they were turned to stone facing enemies stronger than themselves.”

“….”

That’s right. Those who mock the faith of the Knights Templar always say this.

Didn’t the angels eventually get defeated and turn to stone?

But that also means that the angels sacrificed themselves for the cause even though they knew that it was a formidable enemy that would defeat them.

To defend a cause without backing down from an enemy stronger than oneself. What else could that be but a noble sacrifice?

But is that what Azadin demands of humans?

That wasn’t it.

“Of course don’t worry. It’s different now. I will win with all my wisdom courage and everything I have! So help me and save the angels and gods together. If you help me we can break this despair and save the three archangels.”

“…I see. That’s the New Testament.”

This was already in Azadin’s New Testament and the hospitaler had already memorized the contents.

But until now the content has been nothing more than ink on useless paper.

The sound of lip service lingers in our ears and empty sermons just pass by on the paper.

Only when a hot soul beats the heart do words become truth.

A soulless person…

This is ridiculous nonsense.

Isn’t the Emperor’s soul burning most passionately right now?

“uh…”

“This can’t be happening. Healing….”

Paladins who have lost faith can now use healing spells.

Divine light returns to the hordes of defeated soldiers healing their wounds and frostbite.

“Even though we betrayed faith did not abandon us?”

The rescuers were impressed by the miracles they could perform.

Even to those who run away in despair and fear faith still works miracles.

“Hahahaha!”

Azadin burst into laughter at the sight of them.

“your majesty?”

“Admit it. You love life too much to despair. I really envy you.”

The knights were ashamed at Azadin’s words.

They loved life so much that when Emperor Azadin returned and unleashed the incredible holy fire of Aurelia Dawn they could not help but feel hopeful again even if they hated it.

They were afraid that they would be betrayed if they trusted him but they still wanted to live so the moment Emperor Azadin returned they had already placed their hopes on him.

“Everyone get on your knees!”

Azadin gave orders to the defeated soldiers and the undead.

Everyone followed Azadin’s orders at once.

“Sit down as boys and rise as knights! I re-appoint you rise as hospitallers!”

The defeated soldiers sat down and stood up as hospitalists.

All people are knights. Even the dead beings defiled by necromancy have become knights.

It is a miracle that has already been broken once.

A miracle that Medium performed once using Azadin’s name.

However by getting back up again after being broken the Rescue Knights were reborn.