Build a Human Empire by Creating Clans

They intended to occupy only the core cities of Germania.

They tried to expand into regions with low bases such as population and resources by enlisting key families such as Loegene and Sudret and gradually reducing the influence of the Wolf Church.

“Because the servant of the clan is plotting something strange. I was thinking of blocking that and using that as an excuse to persuade the nobles, saying, “Do you want to live like this?”

Just as there are many people who follow Horbid with pure faith, there are also many who follow Horbid because it is beneficial for them to believe in Horbid.

It was those people that Edar was aiming for.

“People who aren’t like that kind of person. If possible, I wanted to start with a fresh water change like Northern Wallochia, but… Well, depending on the environment, you have to take a different approach. Once Edar gets the throne and starts to control it, there’s a lot to fix, but it’s easy to fix.”

I pretended to scratch my neck with my wrist.

“But things have changed completely.”

“How is it that I was very determined over there? If left as it is, the people of Germania will return to the dust.”

“Mmm.”

“That’s why we recruit and support the nobles in order to capture the enemy’s number with our own. Like the Marquis of Loizene here, there will be many people who will fight as much as possible if we provide financial support.”

“…”

She covered her mouth and thought for a moment.

“They go out after converting them… The existing religion must be Wolf, and our religion is the Catholic Church that Rachel mentioned.”

“yes. The Imperial Cult, the one Gerhard insisted on and was rejected.”

She recalled the corps commander who was ardently arguing for a naming at the time.

It was canceled because Edar exercised his right of veto, but if it had not been for the right of veto, it would have gotten votes in favor and would have become the Imperial Church rather than the Confessional Church.

Pasimea sighed.

“Edar will eventually become a god. Even though I hated it so much.”

“Well, you should have known from the beginning. It was just a matter of taste.”

She tilted her head.

“taste? Does that person have anything like that?”

“Edar-sama is also a human being, and of course he has hobbies.”

“Uh… I’ve only seen him work all the time.”

He scratched his head shyly.

“Since you got the ring, you don’t feel tired very often. They said there was no problem physically even for a few days and overnights. There was also room for administration there. So, I enjoy my hobbies in my spare time.”

“okay? What are you doing?”

“Crack the peanuts.”

“what?”

She opened her mouth blankly and narrowed her eyes.

“He just cracks peanuts and plays.”

“…”

“At first, it was fruit peeling.”

Griff recalled.

After finishing work late in the evening, Edar brought a bowl of fruit that he had placed on the other side of the office, and he sat down and started cutting the fruit.

I give the peeled fruit to Calliope, and since Calliope doesn’t want to eat it, Griff eats it, and I still keep it and share it…

“Wait a minute, did you share it?”

“How many times have you eaten? It’s what Carly distributes.”

Was that what it was?

Pasimea realized it belatedly.

“But you can’t peel fruit all day. The fruit itself is a bit bulky, and if you peel it at dawn, who will eat it? dry up in the morning So I said, Peel some peanuts, and I gave it to you.”

I was wondering why peanuts appear so often due to corrosion in Yeongju-gwan…

He said to her who was agonizing over what expression to make.

“Gehard will arrive tomorrow. Leave all the cannons out.”

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When we arrived at Daeshinjeon, raindrops started to fall.

I stood at the front gate, leading Calliope and several of my retinue.

It was during the service, and the hymns spread clearly even outside the door.

Like a lighthouse on a dark sea—

Your holiness, who has given rules to all peoples—

“It is terrible.”

Involuntarily, I murmured.

Calliope looked at me with thoughtful interest.

It’s rare for me to reveal my true feelings without thinking.

“It is that that broke the lighthouse, and the rules imposed by that thing are strangling human beings.

I took the tobacco pack out of my pocket and put the tobacco in my mouth.

My family lit a fire at the beginning of the year, and I sucked deeply and exhaled smoke.

‘Has confirmed. The Archbishop is inside.’

The family member who had infiltrated the temple sent a thought.

He was an assassin under Nuadil, the Old Man on the Mountain.

A very small number of people with special talents, such as hiding their existence or changing their appearance, worked under Nuadil under an organization called the Assassination Team.

Many of them had already started their activities on the borders of Germania, but a few, including Nuadil, ordered me to search the Great Temple upon arrival.

‘Did Nuadil search for himself?’

‘no. Nuadil never entered the city. There seems to be another guest outside, checking.’

out of town?

I narrowed my eyes.

‘It is true that the archbishop has been to the church. It seems that he arrived with the descendant of Sudret who accompanied him at the time.’

‘What’s suspicious?’

‘He was holding something in his arms. The content could not be verified.’

holding something in your arms

I recalled several suspicious objects from my memory.

But they are too early to appear in time.

He stroked his chin, pondered for a moment, then said.

‘Can you kill the Archbishop?’

‘Impossible.’

I nodded.

“Go in.”

Calliope opened the great front door.

The wooden front door was taller than the multi-story building.

It wasn’t just the front door that was high, everything was like that.

Horvid’s temple is based on grandeur.

It was designed to intimidate believers and bend their pride.

‘A weak thing that cannot be controlled without being decorated.’

I laughed and went inside.

From the moment the temple passed through the doorway, the worship seats continued.

The chapel took up more space than the hall in the Duke of Sudret’s mansion.

Thousands of people could sit and sing hymns.

Be my strength, punish all nations—

Punish all who stray from your discipline—

And it was.

On the altar, the priest spread his arms out to the side and sang, and thousands of believers raised their voices and sang along.

Hearing the deafening sound of singing, I headed towards the altar.

““Worshiping.””

“Please step back.”

The monks blocked the front.

His face was smiling, but his voice was firm.

“I came to see the Archbishop.”

““The Archbishop is currently absent.””

““The Archbishop is not someone you can meet with just anyone.”

The monks grew in number and besieged us.

He took one step at a time, still smiling.

Each one of them had an unhumanly large physique.

His hair was shaved and his hair was shaved with strange tattoos.

I saw a soft glow emanating from the tattoo.

“I know that Archbishop Gottlov has already arrived.”

Startle

“I am Edar of Sudret. No, it’s Edar Lundlingen. go tell him I want to see you, so shine your face.”

The smile disappeared from the monk’s face.

At the same time, the singing voice that filled the temple stopped.

The heads of the followers turned towards me, and thousands of pupils only looked at me.

“Calliope.”

thud!

Calliope stamped the floor with the sole of her foot.

The temple shook and dust fell from the ceiling.

The monk and the follower lost their balance and stumbled, but straightened up.

The passion simmering from the bottom distorted his expression.

Showing his teeth, he raised his eyes and trembled as if he were about to run.

“You have no manners.”

Then, a soft voice was heard.

Those who besieged us split to the left and right.

A young priest approached me with a smile.

‘He is Archbishop Gottlov.’

The family members who hid themselves in the Shinto sent their thoughts.

A young man who seems too young to be an archbishop.

I narrowed my eyes because it was a person I didn’t even remember.

“manners? Isn’t it funny to be courteous to a subject that charms people and alienates the opposite s*x?”

“You are possessed. It taught me the right thing.”

I stepped on a full-blown tobacco plant.

“Humans are inferior to other races, and it is correct that they are destined to live as slaves because they are inferior?”

“They are people, not slaves. see Is your family sudlet like a slave? What was the result of your ancestors’ integrity? His power is comparable to that of a king, how is it like a slave?”

I snorted.

How many humans were sacrificed to keep that proud integrity?

“Don’t be sad. They are destined for that.”

“There is no predetermined destiny for human beings. Humans decide their lives by their own will, not by God or anything like that.”

Even when he heard the words, “God,” the archbishop smiled.

“also! This is an unbeliever’s idea. There is no room for improvement!”

“…”

“I know why you found me. Are you going to kill me? Are you trying to stop Horvid’s great success? Do you think you can?”

Monks and followers took out daggers from their arms.

It’s because it’s ready to rush at me at any time while spewing vicious death.

Except for Calliope, my followers spread widely around me.

“You don’t show any tension. Do you know? that you will not die.”

Ha ha ha, the Archbishop laughed.

He took out a jewel the size of a fist from his bosom.

The reddish jewel was pointed like a cone.

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I sensed Horvid’s presence in the jewel’s aura.

That must have been the reason he went to church.

“Gotloff. Do you know what is in your hand?”

“sure. I know. Lord Horvid is in my hands.”

that is part

Like Vlad’s ring and Tiamar’s jewel.

A jewel containing parts of Horbid.

“Looks like it can stop me.”

“It is impossible for me, for us to kill you. I had no intention of targeting you in the first place.”

The followers pointed daggers at my neck.

“Because there’s no use for someone like me to stare at you. We won’t hunt you down. I’m aiming for yours, not you. everything you can have.”

just human.

I will annihilate humans.

In my mind, I heard a voice that my ears couldn’t hear.

“Horbid, look down on me.”

The Archbishop stuck the jewel into his forehead.

example

Archbishop Gottlov.

The moment he slammed the jewel into his forehead, Calliope kicked the floor.

The distance of about ten steps narrowed in an instant, and a flash of light flashed.

Awesome!

The flash was the light her sword reflected from its scabbard.

Immediately after the flash disappeared, a long solid line was drawn around the archbishop’s neck.

Took!

The Archbishop’s head rolling over the chapel.

The jewel fell from his forehead as his head hit the floor.

The archbishop’s body collapsed and trembled for a moment before he stopped moving.

that the fire of life is extinguished.

“…”

But Calliope did not back down.

Her gaze was directed to the jewels imbued with the archbishop’s blood.

Because the red light of the jewel was getting brighter and brighter, and the mana flowed.

She’s convinced this isn’t the end.

Fish sis sis——

The jewel vibrated, boiling the archbishop’s blood on its surface.

Blood steam rose, and the haze shimmered red.

tentacle? Narrowing my eyes, I commented on the haze.

The colored haze is really like tentacles.

Shook!

A tentacle stretched out to the archbishop’s head, and Calliope reacted immediately and swung the sword again.

“…!”

However, the blade passed through the tentacles as if they were cutting through the air, and the tentacles clung to the archbishop’s head and his body.

“Cool!”

The closed eyes of the severed head flashed and coughed.

“Ohhh…!”

The monks and believers were delighted.

Because, in their eyes, the dead are alive.

Because I witnessed the miracle of driving out death.

“The Archbishop has risen again!”

“Horbis punishes even death!”

The archbishop’s body rose, grabbed his head, and placed it back on his neck.

The stumbling body began to change as soon as the head was placed on it.

Just like Bishop Bowler did in the Marquis of Loesene.

His body shed his human form and became a wolf.

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“It’s a little bigger.”

The only difference is that they stand on their own two feet and put jewels on their heads.

I chuckled and chinned Calliope.

She storms off at the Archbishop, who has become a werewolf.

– See the glory of Horvid!

Whoo-!

The Archbishop slammed his foot.

Calliope dodged it and burrowed under him.

– Huh…!

She raised a knife and stabbed him as he tried to back away with a startled sound.

Fuuk, how cool the sound of a knife stabbing deep in the throat.

It was at this moment that the Archbishop met his second death.

I was sure

Chew-!

The knife, which had been driven to the root, was pulled out with a swing of the arm.

psssss——

But it was different from the first one.

The blade cut through and cut the neck in half.

The wound on his neck healed, bubbling with blood.

– Because Horvid did not grant me death!

“Punish the sinner!”

“Punish me!”

At the cry of the archbishop, the believers followed and cried out.

A miracle to regain life twice.

But I saw

Among the believers, those who had their heads cut off.

That his head was cut at the same time as the Archbishop’s head was cut.

‘Did he offer his soul as a sacrifice?’

A spirit that emerges from the corpse of a decapitated believer.

The soul floated into the air and was dragged back.

As if a fishhook caught in the nape of his neck, his arms floundered like a man swept away by a torrent, then he was swallowed up by the jewel in the archbishop’s forehead.

And the archbishop’s wounds were completely healed.

“You are doing dirty things.”

– What a beautiful sacrifice!

The archbishop laughed and retorted.

Calliope continued to attack him.

But each time the guy ate the soul and recovered.

Whatever wounds were inflicted on the body, the believer’s soul healed them.

Because the followers did not mind sacrificing themselves for the archbishop.

“Horbid! Take me with you!”

“I give you my soul!”

Living devotees clamored for their souls.

Shindo, who died and became a soul, regretted it belatedly and struggled to get eaten.

I just shook my head looking at this conflicting scene.

It’s something they can’t know unless they experience it for themselves.

– more! more! more! more faith!

The fight went on without a break.

Neither side was tired or hurt.

The archbishop’s attack could not reach Calliope,

Calliope’s attack was immediately corrected by the sacrifice of a believer.

Not to mention, both of them were not so weak that they felt tired.

visor!

The Archbishop hit Calliope’s blade, knocking her back.

After the gap widened and the attack stopped for a moment, he let out a long sigh.

– That’s not going to work either.

The number of dead followers numbered in the tens.

That means the archbishop is dead or injured.

But Calliope didn’t shed a drop of sweat.

The overwhelming gap between the two was clear.

– Because I didn’t think I would beat you in the first place.

The Archbishop held out his hand to the side.

The monks shouted in response.

“The Archbishop wants us!”