Episode 68. Securing Evidence (2)

“knife! It’s a big deal! knife!”

The way back to the temple with the servants.

There was still quite a bit of road left, but Tira was running from there.

As if something great had happened, he vigorously shook his arms.

“… … ?”

Tira came running with the priestly robe skirt and the hood on her head fluttering.

When she reached the knife, she knelt and gasped.

“Is there a fire in the temple? Or a thief?”

“It’s not like that… … Whoops, whoops… … .”

“Calm down and talk.”

“actually… … .”

Tira barely catches her breath.

She said with a bright smile on her face.

“New buds have burst on the Sacred Tree sapling! Just like the last time I helped Mr. Muir!”

“I see.”

“yes! But the buds are so big and so fragrant… … . But isn’t Carl very surprised?”

If new buds burst on the sacred tree sapling, it means that someone has been allowed to use divine power.

But Carl was not at all surprised.

Rather, with a calm face, he pushed Hanson next to him forward.

“Because I saw who the sun god chose.”

“Ahh! also!”

Tira jumped up to Hanson.

Then, he tapped Hanson’s thick forearms and rubbed his body here and there.

Tira stopped only when Hanson cleared his throat as if he was a little uncomfortable.

But there was still a smile on his face.

“So it was! Hanson feels full of divine power! It seems to be a little different from my divine power, but it’s amazing!”

“It will.”

Carl looked at the two of them alternately.

If the divine power emitted from Tira was like a haze, Hanson had a magnificent momentum as if pouring out a waterfall.

In contrast to Carl himself preventing it from dispersing to the outside of the body through extreme divine power control.

Tira and Hanson are still clumsy in handling the divine power, so the divine power inside their bodies gradually escapes to the outside.

But it wasn’t a bad thing.

It meant that the bodies of the two were suitable as vessels containing divine power, and that the potential for growth was also limitless.

It was a much better sign than not being able to emit it due to the small amount of divine power he had from the beginning.

But then.

Tira said with a different sullen face than before.

“When you die, please comfort the two of them. Meisa and Priest Eric are very depressed.”

“Why are those two people?”

“I guess you were expecting the news that a new bud had burst. However, when both of them couldn’t see the sacred power of the sapling, they looked very sad when they realized that they had not been chosen. Actually, I also expected that the energy I felt from the flower buds was somehow Hanson, but when I tried to comfort Meisa and Priest Eric, my mouth couldn’t move. I have already received the grace of the sun god… … .”

widely.

“oh?”

Carl placed his hand on Tyra’s head.

Then he gently stroked the top of the hood she was wearing.

“Tira is a good kid after all.”

Tira worries about those who are disappointed that they were not chosen even in the midst of this amazing event.

Indeed, it was a sword that reminded him that there was a reason why the sun god chose Tira as the first user of divine power in Meirium.

“lol… … .”

Tira smiles brightly like a puppy when you stroke her hair.

Seeing her, all the servants around her smiled heartily.

However, such a friendly and happy atmosphere did not last long.

Tira rushes in to deliver the news.

It was only then that she discovered the mercenaries behind the servants, tied tightly with ropes.

“I-who are they? Why are you tied up… … ?”

“They’re the ones who attacked to kill me.”

“Ehh?!”

“That guy is the boss.”

Poof!

One of the squire swiped the cloth covering the stretcher he had made.

Then, Marlon’s dead body appeared with his neck bent 180 degrees.

“Ehh?!”

Malone in a state beyond the normal human category.

His whole body was stained black, and his muscles were swollen and burst in places, giving him a terrible look.

Above all, the unknown potion of dark power that Marlon swallowed.

Thanks to this, Tira immediately noticed the unpleasant aura emanating from Marlon’s corpse.

“Ahh… … Something… … .”

“Are you getting goosebumps and feeling dirty?”

“… … yes. You are correct.”

“It is the dark power. To put it simply, it is a power that is on the opposite side of the divine power of our priests. Marlon drank the dark power potion refined in a suspicious way, and soon changed like that. Thanks to that, several servants were injured.”

“Ahh… … .”

Tira quickly looked at the injured servants.

“Everyone should go back to the temple. I think you should go get treatment and get some rest.”

“I was on my way to do that. Farming seems to be difficult today.”

“yes. Go quickly.”

Tira supported the crippled servant from the side.

She had a curious face, but it was Tira who wanted to take care of the injured first.

***

The group arrived at the temple.

Daryl and Peter, who came to meet them, listened to the circumstances and confined the mercenary members in an empty hospital room.

Tira was tending to the wounds of her servants.

At that time, Hanson was standing in front of a seedling, looking at the buds that were in full bloom.

Unlike Tira’s modest flower buds, Hanson’s flower buds had wide and thick petals.

It looked like Hanson.

“this… … .”

Hanson lightly touched the flower bud with his trembling fingertips.

White divine power emanated from the flower bud and wrapped around his large hand.

Then, in a flash, it was absorbed into Hanson’s body and disappeared.

“ah… … .”

Hanson’s face looked very moved.

The knife next to him caressed his shoulder.

“The sun god has chosen you as the second user of divine power in the Temple of Dawn in Meirium. Give your life and obey his will.”

“Yes, priest!”

He was the leader of a gangster who ruled the streets until not too long ago.

However, meeting Carl changed his life completely.

Now, having received the permission of the divine power, which could be the symbol of the priest, he had an emotional expression.

on the other way.

“Don’t be too disappointed, Meisa.”

“… … .”

“Eric, don’t be too disappointed.”

“… … .”

Two people with drooping shoulders and downcast faces.

Tira was allowed to use divine power for the first time in 200 years in the Meirium Temple they belonged to.

However, since a new bud has bloomed there, it is only natural to have expectations.

It was also natural to be disappointed that you weren’t chosen.

Carl spoke words of comfort to those two.

“All five flowers bloom on the seedling. Once the flower buds of divine power burst, they will not wither even in winter until all five flowers bloom. So don’t worry and wait for the right time to worship the sun god as usual. There will definitely be opportunities.”

“Would I really?”

“I’m like Miss Tira or Hanson… … .”

The faces of the two men, who had been dead, brightened a little.

It was because Carl, who claimed to be a messenger of God and not someone else, said it.

By then, many people had gathered in the courtyard where the saplings were.

Carl looked around at them and said to the two of them.

“Also, since we have other urgent business, let’s talk about buds later. We have to deal with this first.”

Carl pulled a small vial from his pocket.

A drop of ominous black liquid remained there.

It was the dark power potion that Marlon swallowed and threw away.

“Gentlemen, please listen to me for a moment.”

Rumors spread quickly that dozens of servants, including high-ranking priest Clemens, and an uproar had broken out, and even the sick in the ward all flocked to the courtyard.

Carl went up to the high platform in the courtyard and shouted.

“I went to the courtyard of the City Hall Gardens last night. And there I found two things. It was the remnants of a golden tree that disappeared 200 years ago, and a crypt resounding with painful screams.”

“… … !”

Those who were listening were astonished.

Meirium, a small city on the outskirts of the Empire.

The ‘Golden Apples’ and the ‘cellars where screams resonate’ at City Hall there.

But thanks to the grotesque corpse of Marlon lying in the middle of the courtyard, people refrained from talking.

“People in City Hall noticed that I had noticed something. And that butler Marlon led his mercenary assassins to attack me. Just this morning.”

“… … Such a thing!”

High Priest Clemens shouted with an exasperated face.

“Priest Carl is like the face of our Meirium Temple of Dawning! Trying to harm such a person is tantamount to threatening the entire Temple of Dawn!”

“you’re right! This is something that can never be overlooked!”

“How much more, the head of the city hall was such a terrifying monster! Besides, having a mercenary member means that you are no ordinary person!”

Following Clemens, Eric, Daryl, and Peter all chimed in.

The sick also looked very angry because they knew all that Carl had done.

“If it wasn’t for Mister Carl, all of us sick people might have been thrown out into the streets!”

“Right! If it’s the head of the city hall who tried to attack the priest, then you should call the mayor and ask him!”

“Before that, we need to convince others as well.”

The last thing I said was Carl.

He made eye contact with the people around him and continued talking.

“Meirium belongs not only to the Temple of Dawn, but to all its citizens. You should go to the fruit market and tell the vendors about this too. The evidence to present to them is that Marlon’s corpse and this suspicious potion he was carrying!”

He held up the dark power potion that Carl was holding.

“I will go to the market with this. If there are people who want to go with you, you are welcome to come along.”

“let’s go! Let’s all go together!”

“song!”

Carl came down from the platform, feeling the atmosphere rise.

Then he said to the chef, Grom, who was nearby.

“Grom, you bring a rabbit and follow me.”

“A rabbit? I do have one that I caught to use as an ingredient for dinner tonight.”

“Put it in the cage and follow me.”

“Yes, priest.”

Grom was taken aback when he was suddenly told to bring a rabbit.

He quickly waddled toward the kitchen and disappeared.

“Let’s go!”

soon

The procession, led by Carl, set out for the market.

Tira, Meisa, Hanson, Eric, and Clemens followed.

Again, dozens of armed servants followed, as well as dozens of invalids.

A huge crowd of almost a hundred people all together!

It was a huge scale that was rarely seen in a small town like Meirium.

Thanks to this, even on the way to the market, more Mayrium citizens followed, wondering what the hell had happened.

As a result, by the time the procession arrived at the fruit market in the center of Meirium, the number had swelled to nearly several hundred.

“What, what?!”

“Was there a war!?”

“Where in Meirium are so many humans… … ?!”

Brand, a fruit peddler, and his son, Terence.

Numerous merchants next to him stared at the procession.

Then, Carl, who was at the head of the procession, spoke to Brand.

“Please gather some brands, merchants and others around you. Everyone in the artisan guild, too.”

“All right.”

A brand with a face that is so curious about what the hell is going on.

But he was a first-hand witness to the miraculous things Carl had done so far.

That’s why I listened to Carl’s request without saying anything.

“Now, tell everyone to gather around the market! The artisan guild and the citizens of the surrounding residences are all! Priest Carl says he has an important message! Everyone move!”

“yes!”

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