EP.207 Reunion (2)
The first church of the Delohim denomination.
The main church of the denomination located in the fallen kingdom was of a scale far beyond my imagination. I have never seen a religious building of this size before.
“···It’s bigger than the Temple of Stars?”
Even the temple located in the Holy Kingdom, the headquarters of the religious order, was not this large. I walked after Cardi and took in the sight of the church.
cracked wall.
A collapsed wall.
The church, which had been abandoned for hundreds of years, was piled with ashes. Every time I took a step, ashes flew in the wind. There were no believers praying there or priests preaching the word of God in this church.
However, the sacredness remained.
Ancient letters that seem to be transcribing the words of God fill the walls. It wasn’t just a list of letters. I even feel a sense of mystery in the letters arranged in twists and turns.
And, from mystery, divinity is born.
Even I, who do not believe in stars and think of the Church of Delohim as nothing more than a pile of filth in a sewer, feel a certain sacredness in this church.
“… That’s amazing.”
It was a desecrated and ruined church, but it seemed that even the passage of time could not erase the sanctity that remained in the church.
“What was the Delohim Church like in your time?”
“They were people who believed in God, but did not force their belief.”
Cardi said without stopping walking.
“Although there were unique aspects, the doctrine they emphasized was always human salvation. Although there were different ways to interpret that salvation.”
Cardi laughed bitterly.
“I think we’re almost there.”
He stopped walking.
Ashes were scattered by the wind that suddenly blew. The sight of ash rising into the air and sinking back looked like snow falling.
“This is the place.”
Cardi looked back at me amidst the flying ashes.
“Beyond this door is a path leading underground. “The Holy Grail is enshrined there.”
What comes into view is a tightly closed door. There were huge stone statues on either side of the door, and the swords in their hands were blocking the front of the door.
Huge swords crossed blocking the door.
I looked at it and pulled down my gloves. That stone statue had already been encountered in the northern part of the country. Although it was much smaller than what you see now.
“Can I just destroy it?”
As I clenched my fists, Cardi looked at me with a bored expression.
“What do you break? “You just have to open it.”
“…Can I just open it?”
“Do you think I activated the statues in the wilderness for no reason? This is a device. “It’s the kind of thing that can’t be broken in the first place.”
Cardi tapped the statue.
“Unless you are a being with star power, that is, a saint or a warrior, you cannot set foot in this place. “It’s a device made that way.”
“···okay?”
I narrowed my eyes.
Lately, I could see the faint starlight surrounding the door. The circuitry engraved on the door resonated with the starlight.
‘···this.’
I’ve seen it a few times.
Skebal’s altar, which was built so that it could not be destroyed except by Kyle’s holy sword, had this structure.
“···I think I saw it at Skebal’s altar.”
“That guy must have been imitating this. However, he may not have been able to imitate it perfectly. “In order to create this, Gleria’s divine power was an essential element.”
Cardi pointed to the center of the crossed swords. There was a small hole resembling a key hole.
“The door opens only when starlight is blown into this place. “No other tricks will work.”
Just like when he destroyed Skebal’s altar, imitating Kyle’s holy sword didn’t seem to be enough. I opened my mouth, looking at the hole in the center of the crossed swords.
“Then how do I open it? Neither you nor I have starlight. “You can make it by burning your life, but…”
“Normally you can’t open it. normally.”
But, Cardi said.
“I am possible.”
He put his hand into the hole.
Then he slowly turned his wrist to the right.
“Because I am the designer of this device.”
“Click,” the sound of something being aligned was heard from the stone statue. Cardi took his hand out of the hole and took a few steps back. Soon, the two statues began to vibrate.
Coo goo goong, coo goo goong.
The ground shook along with the stone statue. Stone dust poured onto the floor along with the ashes piled up on the statue. The stone statue guarding the door moves slowly.
The crossed swords move in front of the door.
The tip of the sword lowered diagonally toward the ground points toward the sky, not the floor. The two stone statues raised their swords so that they were perpendicular to the sky.
Hehehe.
Once again, the sound of something being aligned rings out. This time the sound rang out from a tightly closed door.
“It’s open.”
Cardi spoke briefly, and the door opened.
There was not even the slightest noise when the door was opened. The door opened just gently and quietly. It was as if the flow of time spanning hundreds of years had been shunted aside.
“Go down.”
Beyond the open door is a spiral staircase leading to the basement. There was no need for any special torches or spells to create light.
‘···Starlight.’
Because the shining starlight illuminated the path.
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The basement of the church was a huge empty space, and the empty space was lined with pillars.
The pillars seemed to support the church, or they seemed to just decorate it. There were a total of thirty-seven pillars, but I had no idea what the thirty-seven pillars meant.
“Just think of it as a sacred number. “It’s not that useful to look into it in depth.”
That’s all Cardi said.
As I walked along the pillars, starlight was suddenly flowing beneath my feet. Starlight flows along the circuit carved into the floor.
‘Like a sacred place in the north.’
And if you look up along the circuit, there is a source of starlight flowing out there.
‘···glass.’
One glass.
A platinum-colored cup placed on top of a stone statue imitating a human hand. The starlight was starting from that glass. I looked at the glass as if I was possessed by something.
“That is the Holy Grail.”
Cardi said.
“Because it is a vessel containing starlight, it is the Holy Grail… and because it is a cup created by a saint, it is the Holy Grail.”
A sacred cup containing stars.
“Raniel, how much do you know about the Holy Grail?”
Cardi, standing in front of Jan, asked me.
I shook my head. I knew nothing about the Holy Grail.
“What about the Trial of the Stars?”
“I know that.”
I nodded.
‘Trial by the Stars.’
I knew about the trials that must be passed in order to possess the Star Armor. Because Kyle once explained it to me.
“I was a canyon. From the moment I entered the other world opened by the stars, a holy sword was placed in front of me. A holy sword that does not shine. And from the moment I held it, ghosts holding swords began to flock in.”
Escape the canyon by killing and killing all kinds of ghosts that pour in. That was the ordeal given to Kyle.
“Now that the ordeal is over, the Holy Sword finally shines.”
When he overcame that ordeal, Kyle said he was able to handle the holy sword. Most of the other warriors were similar.
Galahaldo of the Holy Spear.
The same was true for D’Estel of the Bigul.
They said that the moment they entered the other world, a non-luminous weapon was stuck in the ground, and the moment they overcame the ordeal, starlight began to leak from the weapon.
“Then it will be easy to explain.”
Cardi said, touching the chalice.
“In the past, after experiencing the Star Trials, Ganicalt spoke in front of me and Gleria. The ordeal of the stars is not much different from the process of becoming a superman. “There must have been something that only that guy who was a superhuman before being a hero could feel.”
A swordsman who was a superhuman before being a warrior.
Ganichalt van Galatric.
“···That’s definitely strange.”
You have to lose something to become a superman.
That was the basic concept of superhumanity that I knew.
‘But… it wasn’t Ganicalt.’
The Ganicalt I saw in the memories recorded in the Tower of the North was a perfect human being. He is a perfect human being who has neither lost nor missed anything.
“Didn’t you have to lose to become a superman?”
“That is the easiest way, said Ganicalt.”
“···easy?”
“okay.”
Cardi said.
“This guy became a superman without losing anything. He said that he recognized the wall that existed inside me, created it, and cut it down. He said that all he had to do was reach the state of swordsmanship.”
“···What is Simgeom?”
“I do not know. I too have given up on understanding what mind-geom is. “Because it was such a vague concept.”
He shook his head.
“Instead, I focused on something else.”
Cardi narrowed her eyes.
“Embodiing the inner wall.”
He grabs the Holy Grail.
The beam of light flowing through the circuit stopped.
“To embody, materialize and embody in reality.”
That is.
“That’s exactly what the Star Trials are all about.”
It’s an ordeal, Cardi said.
“I tried to emulate that. “By utilizing Gleria’s blessing, we succeeded in arbitrarily recreating the Star Trials through a specific medium.”
Cardi lifts the chalice.
The beam of light fluctuates. The beam of light flowing through the circuit began to be drawn toward the Holy Grail. Starlight blooms and floods.
“The magic tool created in that way is this Holy Grail.”
Starlight is in the glass.
I saw a cup filled with brilliantly shining starlight.
“This Holy Grail will react to anyone who has ever witnessed the wall that exists within me. “I will provide them with a trial.”
“···If we overcome that.”
“You break down your inner wall and become a superhuman. “Without losing anything.”
Gulp, I swallowed dry saliva.
‘This… is beyond my imagination.’
Become a superman without losing anything.
This Holy Grail, which made it possible, had tremendous value. It was something that could advance the plan I had in my head by a long time.
“Take it.”
Cardi hands me the Holy Grail.
The glass filled with light was shining platinum.
“It would be much better if you took it with you rather than leaving it abandoned in a ruin like this.”
I looked blankly at Cardi.
The Holy Grail he created was something close to twisting providence. This is something I can’t even imagine how it was structured.
“Hey, Cardi.”
“What.”
“What the hell are you doing?”
Today, the elf in front of me felt particularly unfamiliar. Cardi just shrugged her shoulders at my gaze.
“A former great sage. “Unlike a simple sage, it has the letter ‘大’ in front of it, so wouldn’t there be something different?”
Is there a difference between a great sage and a mere sage? I laughed and reached for the chalice that Cardi handed me.
“If you had something like this, shouldn’t you have given it to me earlier?”
“I can’t give it to you even if I want to. Because it is something that those who are not close to the truth cannot have. “If someone who has never heard of the name Arcadia gets it, it will be scattered.”
I held the Holy Grail in my hand.
The Holy Grail did not scatter.
“Because it’s you, you can hold it.”
Cardi let out a soft laugh.
“You’re still a kid in your twenties, but since you’ve come close to the truth, it’s something you can hold onto.”
We looked at each other and laughed.
I laughed because my journey was not meaningless, and Cardi smiled as if she was glad that she could give this to someone else.
And, it was that moment.
Whoosh.
An arrow flew from somewhere.
3.
“There are footprints left.”
“…Aren’t they the warriors we heard about before?”
“no. “There are not footprints that are one or two days old, but footprints that are only a day or two old.”
This is a path that someone has already passed.
That too, relatively recently.
Since Remi has the best search ability among the elves, she notices traces of someone passing by.
“And, there is the corpse of the demon beast.”
Remia pays attention to the corpse of the demon beast lying on the floor. It was a body that looked as if it had been crushed with something.
“I’ll explore first.”
“…Are you going to be okay?”
“No problem. The corpses of the demonic beasts are not clean. “It looks like he was hit with a blunt weapon… Do you think I’d be the victim of something like that?”
Remia shrugged her shoulders.
“I don’t get fooled by dull guys. Sarah? “Can you give me a blessing?”
“Yes, just a moment.”
Sarah recites a spell. The completed spell turns into starlight and melts into Remia’s body. The blessing rejects the demonic energy that overflows in the land of ashes and elevates her body.
“It’s okay, Remia.”
“thank you.”
With a much lighter body, Remia tapped the ground with her toes a couple of times.
Remia looks ahead.
What she sees is a huge church. There were traces leading inside the church. Remia looked behind her, pointing to the church.
“Come slowly. “Don’t forget to take your share of the treasure.”
“I get it.”
Kyle nodded, and Remia kicked the ground. Elves run like the wind. As if to prove that such stories did not come out for nothing, Remia ran through the church without making even the slightest noise.
Golden hair sways in the wind. An elf’s eyes do not lose direction even in the dark.
And then, Remia discovers a huge door. Traces continue inside the door. She slid into the open door, clung to the railing of the spiral staircase, and looked down.
“······.”
down the stairs.
A huge vacant lot.
‘There it is.’
There was someone there.
Remia narrows her eyes and reaches for the quiver of arrows hanging on her back. Attach one arrow to the arrow shaft.
‘two people.’
They were covered in robes, so their faces couldn’t be seen… but Remia clearly saw what they were holding in their hands. It is a glass from which platinum-colored light leaks.
‘Is that the Holy Grail?’
It is an object worthy of the word Holy Grail.
The purpose of coming here is right in front of you. If you take that away from those grave robbers and give it to Kyle, we can have some fun tonight.
Lick, Remia licks her lips.
‘One shot is enough.’
Multiple arrows were not needed to pierce a defenseless enemy. Remia was an elf called a shrine, and she was confident in her skills.
Continue.
The bow made from the branches of the World Tree bends. The bowstring becomes taut, but the arrowhead placed on it does not shake. Remia tilts her bow with an expressionless expression.
The target is the woman holding the Holy Grail.
There is nothing easier than penetrating a motionless target. Remia let go of the tightly drawn bowstring. An arrow is shot through the wind.
Whoosh!
The arrow is sucked towards the target. A future where an arrowhead pierces a woman’s chest is clearly depicted. There was no error. It was a single shot fired from the blind spot of my field of vision and I couldn’t react.
That’s the moment.
Breaking Remia’s expectations, the woman moved.
For a moment, the woman’s hand, moving with an afterimage scattered, grabs the arrow that was flying at her. The movement seemed smooth at first glance, and there was not even the slightest waste.
Kwasik.
Breaks the arrow the woman is holding.
She slowly turns her head. The gaze is directed directly at Remia. A blue light flashed in the darkness. Although the distance between them was far, their eyes looked exactly at each other.
“and.”
It was the woman who spoke first.
“You crazy bitch?”
A simple voice resonates throughout the cavity.
Remia’s eyebrows furrowed. Remia felt a strange familiarity with the unfamiliar woman.
A word from the author (author review)
There was a question asking who was the strongest among humans.
Of all the humans in existence, excluding the (former) warrior party, Kuntel, a sword superman who attained enlightenment just before death, is the strongest!
*There was plenty of it 😀
