Children of the Holy Emperor Chapter 155

§ 155. Tansinyeon (4)

[How do you feel? Should we dance once too? Isn’t the first dance important?]

Yum Yum. Cadmus, who was busy eating, looked back at Logan, who was standing with his arms crossed, and asked.

“Are you out of your mind?”

Of course, I had no choice but to turn my head back to the food while receiving Logan’s disdainful glare.

[Look at me. Since you didn’t do the first dance, those girls are just staring at you like that. Poorly.]

It was just as he said. Not only Delcross but also the VIPs invited from abroad, all the young ladies were looking at him with envy.

It’s just that he hasn’t had his first dance with his partner, so he can’t hastily ask for a dance and just glances at them.

Perhaps the thing that attracted the most attention at today’s banquet was Logan.

He was a strong candidate for the next successful election, and was gaining favor with people across the continent due to his diligent subjugation of sea water.

Considering that many subjugated countries have a fundamental antipathy toward imperialists, this could be said to be a fairly unusual case.

however.

“While I went dancing, you left the place hastily because you knew something was going to happen. “Pay attention.”

It’s because his attitude is so stubborn.

[…] Anyway, just to be honest.]

Cadmus clicked his tongue.

[Hey, descendants.]

“Don’t just call me your descendant.”

Logan’s face was extremely stiff as he gave a stiff answer. Cadmus asked after studying him for a moment.

[Why are you so angry at me? Even after all this, this body has driven out the demon species from the continent and laid the foundation for a thousand-year holy kingdom. Shouldn’t we show at least some respect?]

No matter how harmless Cadmus was, he couldn’t help but be a little bothered by the antipathy that Logan showed consistently from the beginning. Among his descendants, he is also one I like quite a bit.

But Logan’s blue eyes looking back at him were cold and sunken.

“I have high expectations for respect. “Is there anything you’re particularly good at?”

[What did I do so wrong?]

“If you’re so curious, I’ll give you the answer. Seeing as they arbitrarily imitate the will of the god and create saints, it doesn’t seem like they have a particularly deep religious faith. Why on earth did you establish the absurd ideology of ‘realizing the kingdom of the Lord on this land’ when founding the empire? Thanks to this, the entire continent has been suffering from the empire’s interference in its internal affairs for a thousand years, hasn’t it? “Do you have any thoughts?”

[hmm… … .]

If you think about it that way, there was nothing to say.

The mark was simply engraved on her body to make it easier for her to be taken, but what can be done when people start to believe she is the reincarnation of a saint?

Well, it’s true that I left it as is because it was fun to misunderstand.

It’s the founding ideology, and I just left it to my subordinates who were the key players when founding the country.

-The grander the ideology you promote, the better!

-Let’s do everything according to God’s will! So that it’s easy for everyone to understand!

He left it like that, and before he knew it, he had become a demigod who liberated the continent from the demon species according to God’s will.

[Establishing a country is not an easy task, descendant.]

Cadmus advised gently.

[Thousands of years from the era of the three ancient dragons until the ‘original agreement’. Do you know how much suffering humans have suffered under the power of the demonic species that is prevalent across the continent? In order to encourage and drive out those forces and eventually form a prosperous nation, various compromises were necessary.]

“Then let’s say that was unavoidable given the circumstances at the time.”

Logan frowned and continued.

“Anyway, he ruled stably for the next 300 years without any problems. Couldn’t you have corrected the mistakes and led the empire in a better direction? If that was difficult, at least the throne should have been passed on to a proper successor! Why did you appoint such a blood-crazed psychopath as your successor and embroil the entire continent in a panic?”

The 2nd Emperor, Remus, was also nicknamed the ‘Bloody Emperor.’ Because there was always bloodshed everywhere he went, both internally and externally in Delcross.

The first thing he did as soon as he ascended to the throne was to kill all his relatives who might threaten his position. After that, he slaughtered every single one of his subjects who opposed him.

After reorganizing the empire on a large scale, he turned his attention outward and launched a war of conquest to subjugate several countries on the continent. No matter how much blood was shed in the process, he did not hesitate at all.

[That too is a misunderstanding. Remus wasn’t that crazy of a guy to begin with.]

Cadmus answered with an embarrassed look. The divinity moves according to the fluctuation of emotions, and in an instant, a golden scale pattern flutters and disappears on his forehead.

[I only made him my successor because he was quite a smart guy. It’s just that after inheriting divinity from me, he changed so much as a side effect. What can I do?]

“side effect?”

[okay. If an ordinary human being was to endure the immeasurable divinity, he would most likely have problems with his body and mind, and would either die early or go crazy. At least, Remus had some potential as my descendant, so it ended at that level.]

Logan, dumbfounded, asked back.

“Are you saying you handed over your divinity to him knowing that?”

[He wanted it so badly! And it was an inevitable choice in order to maintain the empire. Once the country is stabilized like that, wouldn’t it be okay to slowly recover the divinity later?]

Cadmus picked up a cookie and continued to make excuses that were not excuses.

[Even after that, when someone with a little bit of divinity is born, most of them completely lose their emotions. You are criticizing Remus to your heart’s content right now, but if you had inherited such deep divinity, things would have been very different now.]

He explained that the divinity that Cadmus had gradually recovered over the past hundreds of years had already diminished significantly, and that most of it was concentrated in the prosperous Nate.

[Rather, your father’s case is very unusual. Her unique ability, which was born to her as a blood relative of the child, can be seen as specialized in separating herself from various angles and observing and controlling it. So she doesn’t go crazy, and she doesn’t lose herself in anything.]

Logan had also heard about the blood of the Kornsim clan flowing through him.

Sometimes, among the older high-ranking clergy, there were cases where people from the Seonghwang family still looked at the people of the Seonghwang family with white eyes.

[Plus, that enormous divine power. That divine power continues to completely restore the brain and body that may have been damaged due to divinity.]

Crispy.

Cadmus finished speaking and took a pause while chewing his snack.

[But. What will it be like for the generation of children whose unique blood has faded?]

Then he turned to Logan.

The golden iris tightens, and the pupil splits vertically.

[What do you think will happen if the blood of that clan becomes thinner and a child without even an ounce of divine power inherits some of that divine power?]

“… … .”

[Wouldn’t he probably become a monster with no emotions left? Even more vicious and cruel than Remus, who is called ‘the prosperous king of blood.’]

As Cadmus said that, his gaze fell on the siblings who were in the midst of dancing.

[So in order to endure it, you may eventually have to become something other than human. Or you’ll have to use a unique expedient like your father. Whatever the case may be, the process will not be so smooth.]

“… “Then what are you, mayor of an empire who calls yourself not a human being?”

Logan, who had been silent for a moment, opened his mouth softly.

“You have not lost your emotions like they have, nor have you been consumed by its divinity. But even though Remus knew it would happen, he did nothing. Even though you knew full well that he would kill your infant son. Are you saying that, unlike your descendants, you are properly carrying out that divinity?”

[…] … .]

As Cadmus closes his mouth, Logan’s face suddenly distorts. He spat out at Cadmus.

“The more I know, the more you are the worst.”

* * *

While the beautiful melody played, Leonard looked blankly at the center of the banquet hall and thought.

‘… ‘It’s going to be more difficult than expected, isn’t it?’

The noble daughter of Rohan whom he brought as his partner noticed him several times, but his gaze could not be separated from the dancing siblings.

To be precise, from Princess Amelia, who was moving around the banquet hall with elegant gestures.

Her pale cheeks and flowing rosy hair were full of fresh vitality appropriate for her age.

On the other hand, the hem of the red dress, which spreads like flower petals as she moves, is fatally alluring, like a prodigal woman from an old myth.

She was truly a woman with conflicting charms coexisting at the same time.

“This is it… … .”

Before leaving with Prince Mores, the bright face that smiled at him for a moment never leaves my mind.

Meanwhile, her clear gray eyes looking at him were truly cold.

Where on earth has the poor girl I met at the birthday party last year gone, whom I just fell in love with?

“I’ve been yelling at Romain a lot, and this is really a big problem.”

The problem was establishing contact with the prince, but the princess did not even worry about it in the first place. This was because she was confident that if she were a woman, she could conquer anyone at once.

But now that princess… … .

With an inexplicable thirst boiling up inside, Leonard was pulling his collar hard without realizing it.

Clap clap clap.

At some point, the dance ended, accompanied by loud applause, and soon the music flowing through the banquet hall changed to calm.

I’m gulping down drinks one after another with a dejected look on my face. I heard the sound of shoe heels coming straight towards me.

Leonard turned his head involuntarily and widened his eyes. Before she knew it, Princess Amelia had come up in front of her and was smiling so brightly that it made her lose her senses.

“My younger brother was rude earlier. “Are you Leonard of Rohan?”

“Yes that’s right.”

When she answered in a slightly quiet voice, the princess curled her mouth gracefully.

“I also saw the prince at last year’s birthday party. “Now I’m finally able to apply, something I’ve wanted to do ever since.”

A slender hand slowly approaches him.

“If it’s okay, would you please dance the next song with me?”

Although she is making a request as if she is shy, what is already radiating from her gesture is the dignity of a noble queen. There is no way she would dare to refuse.

Leonard kissed her hand, feeling the strange sensation of being surrounded by something.

“… of course. I’ll be your partner as much as you want. “Amelia.”

And I had no choice but to once again admit what I had tried to deny before.

The fact that he, Leonard, fell in love with this beautiful woman at first sight.

Several dance songs were played alternately, and the atmosphere of the banquet was in full swing.

When the Empress, who was guarding the head table, nodded, the orchestra suddenly stopped playing.

People who were laughing and talking stop their conversation and turn their gaze towards the front.

Archbishop Wesker was seated in front of the brightly lit podium. As planned, the purpose was to widely announce the existence of the saint whom the empire was proud of to people on the continent.

“After Saint Grazie returned to us many years ago, she traveled around the country serving her subjects.”

Her bright voice resonated throughout the banquet hall even without Auror amplification.

“And not long ago, another saint visited Delcross according to God’s will. This is the glory of the empire and the prosperity of the continent! Now, the two saints will celebrate their birthday and bless everyone in attendance!”

This was something that often happened at the birthday banquets of previous great emperors.

A simple event that ends with the saint uttering words of blessing and displaying divine power.

However, Sisley’s face, now standing in front of the podium, was particularly tense.

[Descendants. Is there still no change in your heart?]

Cadmus asks while looking straight ahead. Sisley responded with a nod of her head.

“yes. “I will do as planned.”

[Can you handle the aftermath? This will be the first time since the founding of the country, so it is unknown how the Orthodox Church will accept it.]

Sisley then bit his lip.

As Cadmus said, this will probably be a declaration that will cause an unprecedented stir.

But didn’t Brother Mores definitely offer her a solution? She thought hard and thought hard, but it seemed like there was no clearer way.

“yes. I can afford it. So please help me.”

After making up her mind, the girl raised her head and walked slowly.

Sisley, who received everyone’s attention, looked around the audience with a slightly nervous expression and repeated the words that Seongjin had taught him several times in his head.

and.

“What a beautiful night it is.”

A voice as clear and transparent as crystal was heard clearly in people’s ears, as if amplified by an aura that had been created unconsciously.

fantasy,