episode_0117

To me, who could not help but feel disappointed, the fourth article continued its explanation.

“I hope you don’t look at me like that. I’m in a position where I can’t give it to you even if I want to.”

“Why?”

“That’s because you got the first knight’s glare.”

“…..”

The first knight of the Black Sky Knights.

I heard through Helen that the knight was the first emperor, Astyrene.

‘I felt it all along, that lady really hates me.’

They were wary of me because I’m a Titan. The first emperor is acting like this… Stop discriminating against race!

Anyway, it seems that her subordinate, the fourth knight, cannot easily help me.

“So, from now on, everything I say is just a lie.”

“ in?”

“It is said that the relics of Taranis, the god of lightning and punishment who was defeated in the last war, remain in the Storm Plains. It will be an irreplaceable elixir for the Titans. Even the First Knight is worried that it could fall into the hands of the Titans.”

After saying that, he began to draw on the ground with his sword.

“Well, I don’t need to worry about it. After all, it’s been over a thousand years, and no one has found it. All they’ve found is a picture that theologians are talking about.”

It was hard to tell because there was no color, but it seemed to be a hint about the new water that the fourth article mentioned.

‘Hills, flowers and lightning.’

By the time I had completely memorized the picture, the fourth knight began to erase the picture with his feet. Then he looked at me and said:

“Okay, I’ll be going now.”

“Thank you.”

“I didn’t do anything to deserve your thanks.”

She answered coolly and quickly left the place as if she had come to find me.

‘That person is secretly a tsundere.’

In any case, the information she gave was top-level information.

Although I felt like it was a bit lacking for the reward I received for my hard work, if I could really find it, I would be able to handle a new divinity.

So he went to find Helen to get help from the Holy Kingdom.

When I asked her more about it, Helen was quick to share with me what she knew.

“You mean Taranis, the god of thunder and punishment.”

“Does Helen know too?”

“Yes, because one of the main tasks of the Holy Kingdom is to recover the divine legacies that are still hidden throughout the continent.”

However, Helen also seemed slightly embarrassed, as if it was the first time she had heard the information provided by the fourth knight.

“But I never dreamed that the sacred thing left on the Storm Plains would be Taranis’s divine relic.”

“Is this information that even the second apostle of the Holy Kingdom couldn’t read?”

“That’s probably not it. It seems like this is confidential information shared secretly among the Black Sky Knights.”

“Why?”

“The potential of the new water is incomparably greater than the legacy. If someone were to use this power without permission, the entire West could disappear.”

“Can you just leave something so dangerous unattended?”

“It seems that the Black Heaven Knights also abandoned it because they couldn’t find it. In fact, they haven’t found anything for a thousand years.”

“I see.”

No, wait a minute.

You gave me that thing that no one could find and called it a reward?

“The compensation is too small.”

“If you are not satisfied with the compensation, don’t worry. Our kingdom will give you a proper compensation for this support. I will also personally, reward you.”

Helen speaks with a blush and a stutter.

Could you give me something special?

Just as I was about to ask her out of curiosity, Camilla came rushing to find me.

“Here you are, warrior.”

“Camilla, what’s going on?”

“I heard from the adjutant. He said that you are seriously injured. Since you are not feeling well, I will lead you in your stead.”

“Leave this… ”

Camilla made a motion to lift my body.

Although I was a head taller than her, her body, trained as a knight, lifted me without any difficulty.

Helen asked Camilla with a big smile, wondering if she was happy.

“Hoohoo, Camilla, Sian says there’s something to find in the Storm Plains. Will you help me?”

“If it is the apostle’s command, I should be happy to help.”

“I’ll ask you as a mother.”

“Okay, mama.”

That’s how I was able to get personal help from Helen and Camilla.

It would be easier to find if all of the 2nd Paladins helped, but the other Paladins need to sort things out first.

“Do you need to think deeply? You are a Titan. In times like these, you should utilize the Titan’s characteristics.”

“How?”

“Try sniffing it.”

“Camilla? You want to get hit by me?”

Of course, Camilla wasn’t serious and was just joking.

Every time that happened, I wanted to hit him, but I couldn’t because I wasn’t feeling well.

“Let’s first organize the information. Helen, do you know anything about Taranis?”

“There aren’t many stories about Taranis left in literature, so from what I know, Taranis is a god who loves women… and there are no followers of a god who is already dead.”

“If the spirit remains, doesn’t that mean there are still people who believe in him?”

“That may be true, as Sian said, but if that is the case, there should be those who serve Taranis near the water, like Oronak.”

“That’s right.”

Helen’s explanation gave me a headache.

This is harder to find than you might think.

“There is not enough information, so I guess I will have to go out and look for it myself.”

Camilla finally gave me a proper opinion while I was struggling.

“First of all, it can’t be underground. If it was, Hadron would have discovered it long ago.”

“I guess so.”

The underground city that spread out beneath the Storm Plains was breathtakingly vast.

If Taranis’s divine waters were underground, Hadron would have found them useful.

But given that there appears to be no trace of it, Hadron has failed to find the divine waters of Taranis.

“There is no underground, and it is not visible above ground, so all that is left is the sky. Strangely enough, it seems as if there is none in the sky either.”

“Why?”

“When I jumped here, I didn’t feel any divine energy in the sky.”

Since I didn’t sense anything, I ran without thinking much. But guess what? Suddenly, lightning struck and I almost died.

“At that moment, lightning suddenly struck. It felt like an attack on an enemy who had invaded my territory.”

“Mr. Sian, could you please draw the picture you mentioned earlier?”

“Is this it?”

When I drew the picture shown in the fourth article, Helen seriously told me what she thought.

“Hmm… If you exclude the meaningless parts, the important parts seem to be the undertones, flowers, and lightning.”

“I think so too.”

“But the flowers here are nothing but simple dandelions.”

Camilla said, pulling out some dandelions around her.

“Unlike other dandelions, it has bright yellow petals, but there are no other special features.”

“Just in case, let’s look for a special flower in the Storm Plains?”

“Warrior… Don’t you know how big this place is?”

“That’s true.”

I’m doing this to heal my body, but I might die from overwork before I do that.

“I think I know a little bit.”

“Really?”

Helen seemed to have caught on to the secret of the hint and continued explaining slowly.

“I’m just guessing, but I think the lightning bolt represents Taranis himself.”

I expected that too.

Isn’t Taranis’s nickname itself lightning and punishment?

If lightning appeared in the picture related to it, the explanation is already finished.

“And this hill looks like an altar.”

“Altar?”

“Yes, except for the twelve gods that our kingdom serves, most of the other gods have accepted humans as sacrifices.”

“Human sacrifice… ”

Although it was a disgusting story, sacrificing people to gods was a common practice.

Even in the past life, there were traces of human sacrifices worldwide, even though gods did not exist directly.

To that extent, humans were beings who could not survive without mentally relying on something.

“Then what about flowers?”

“Probably… referring to a woman sacrificed to Taranis.”

“Why a woman?”

“In the literature, the god Taranis was also a god who coveted women. Isn’t that why the record is left in this picture? And in mythology, flowers mostly refer to women.”

What the… are you some kind of Zeus guy?

“He was a dirty guy.”

“Do you hate your own kind?”

“Why are you suddenly causing trouble?

“Well, don’t you, warrior, indulge in women just as much as Taranis?”

“Huh? If you say that… I have nothing to say.”

As Camilla said, it wasn’t like he was in a position to say anything, considering the number of women he’d touched.

“But I will definitely make my women happy.”

“Hmm? You have to take responsibility for those words.”

“Of course.”

Camilla suddenly stopped talking, perhaps because she didn’t like the way I spoke confidently.

Camilla, can’t you just be cool with it?

When the mood became tense because of Camilla’s sudden silence, Helen continued her explanation.

“I wonder if Taranis maintains his existence by kidnapping women. In fact, there have been frequent cases of women suddenly disappearing from nearby villages.”

“If that’s true, shouldn’t we be investigating this on a large scale? People are going missing.”

Killing human women to survive.

Wow, what an ugly god.