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Chapter 6 Episode 26 – Infiltration 2

“The cause of mine is the flu… . This was my first time knowing.”

“It’s not certain yet, but the possibility is very high.”

“As expected, you are amazing. You are perfect not only in appearance but also in intelligence!”

By the time I was getting used to Sergeant Reese’s ignorant bullying. We succeeded in reaching a position where the Patriarchate building could be seen.

“That’s right! Zeke is awesome! cool! It’s fifty, fifty!”

“Kher, not Sheen, but God. God.”

“God! god! Zeke is a god!”

Kerr, who had been depressed the entire way, suddenly regained his energy and showed his usual tension. I think he got excited because Reece kept praising me.

“Um… . But it’s strange.”

“What?”

“The Virgin Mary has clairvoyance, so why did she neglect it until it got to this point?”

Sergeant Reese asked a rather sharp question.

In fact, it was a question that would arise if one thought a little deeper about this situation, but it was also something that could not be said carelessly due to the status of the Virgin Mary.

Even though recognition of the Virgin Mary has recently hit rock bottom, the very existence of the Virgin Mary is considered sacred.

In that sense, the fact that Sergeant Reese posed this question out loud. This means that she has no particular faith in the Virgin Mary.

“If you prevent it in advance, it won’t attract the public’s attention.”

That’s why I was able to speak without being noticed.

Patricia staged a self-made drama called the Mine Incident, instantly raising the status of the Virgin Mary Church. Even though there were more people she could not save than the people she saved.

In fact, it is wrong to say that it could not be saved. From Patricia’s point of view, humans are her enemies and demons are her subordinates. Therefore, it is reasonable to say that he gained the trust of humans by sacrificing the demons of the north.

In other words, she overthrew the empire, a powerful hostile force, in just a few days, secured billions of subordinates, and gained absolute trust from the surviving humans.

In addition, he has neutralized the humans’ greatest strength, Lufia, and is on the verge of using her as his subordinate to take control of the Kishidan.

‘It sure is strange to think that way.’

With such outstanding ability, why did it only appear now? If I had put my mind to it, I could have taken over the empire a long time ago.

Of course, for Patricia, this would have been the perfect time to take control of the empire.

It would have been easy to inject Lufia with the disease because she was seriously injured in the West Continent, and Gordon and his team, who had contributed greatly to maintaining public order, were all dead, and the corruption of the Virgin Mary was reaching its peak.

However, this does not explain why the empire remained silent before it was properly established, or even before that.

‘From technology to population. Humanity in the past would have been overwhelmingly weaker than today. Is it because it was the era when the Holy Sword was active?’

If we look only at humanity itself, the modern era would be overwhelmingly stronger, but if we assume that all the Holy Swords are active, the situation is different.

Fran said that even with just one holy sword, he could fight on equal footing with the monarch.

‘I’m not sure. There is too little information.’

Come to think of it, I was trying to contact those who record through Aslen. In the next route, I will first meet people who record things like Patricia and Maria.

“Um… . ah! Zeke. I made my own guess, but may I tell you!?”

Sergeant Reese’s voice was heard through the monologue. He asked me with shining eyes whether he had any plausible ideas.

I nodded with anticipation, and she spoke confidently.

“I think this whole thing is a play by the Holy Mother Church!”

“Oh, what is it? How did you know that?”

“Oh, is that the correct answer!? Ahh!”

Reese is jumping around like an excited child, expressing his joy with his whole body.

” King Ong! What? What’s going on?”

Ker started running around without knowing what was going on.

Karjen was looking at the two from a distance as if they were pitiful.

“I know you’re excited, but please be quiet. Did you forget you were infiltrating?”

“Oh, sorry. I’m so happy… .”

“……sum!”

As Sergeant Reese calmed down, Kerr also noticed and covered his mouth with his hand.

Regardless of the fuss, the conclusion she reached exceeded expectations.

Sergeant Reese doesn’t know that Patricia is a fake Virgin, and he probably doesn’t even know the concept of a monarch in the first place. In such a situation, you can infer that it is a self-made play with only fragmentary information.

My evaluation of Sergeant Reese has increased significantly.

“So. How did you find out?”

“Why doesn’t it appear often in novels? A pharmaceutical company deliberately spreads a virus and then sells a treatment.”

“……Did you just think it was a self-made play?”

“Yes!”

Should I say it’s like catching a mouse while a cow is backing away? Even a broken clock is right twice. Am I just a fool for expecting it?

“I also thought it didn’t make sense… . I thought it made no sense to have already met Zeke… . lol… .”

As I looked at her with that stupid expression, my evaluation of her dropped considerably.

He used to be a capable person, even if he was a bit strange, but now he is a person with a lot of headaches.

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The southern continent, Rusk’s base.

Babylon gently descended from the sky and landed on the ground.

“Ron, what is the situation?”

“It’s not very good. The first person’s subordinates are ready to attack at any moment.”

“Tch. It’s annoying.”

“Well, since we have to cross the sea, it won’t be possible right now.”

Rusk was lost in thought with a sullen expression on his face.

After coming to the Southern Continent, she is recovering her strength smoothly. This is thanks to absorbing all the demonic energy that was thickly spread across the southern continent, and even the demonic energy contained in the demonic sword.

But this alone is not enough.

In order to regain its former glory, hundreds of times more demon energy was needed than now.

Magi is chaos energy. When order is destroyed or a disorderly phenomenon occurs, demonic energy is created, and the larger the scale, the more concentrated it becomes.

Therefore, the demon crisis that occurred in the central continent was a golden opportunity to obtain a huge amount of demon energy.

The problem is that things went completely differently than Rusk expected.

Rusk knows full well what the Lord of Plague’s powers are. I also expected that Patricia would turn humans into demons. However, the variable occurred after that.

Originally, humans were supposed to wage war against demons. And it was planned to become stronger by absorbing the demonic energy of war generated in the process.

But humans collapsed too easily.

From Rusk’s perspective, it was a situation that made no sense. That’s right, because in her mind, Patricia was incompetent itself, and more than anything, there were Zeke and Lufia on the human side.

I knew that Lufia was incapacitated by the plague, but to be honest, I believed that she would quickly shake off the poor plague that Patricia had created. Because Lufia is no one else, but the strongest human hero of all time.

“Ugh… . To be hit by something like a plague… !”

Rusk kicked the ground nervously.

The fact that her archenemies were defeated by the Lord of Plague was enough to crush her pride.

But nothing will change if you lose your temper. In the end, the humans were defeated by Patricia without a chance to wage war, and thanks to this, instead of the demons of war, only the demons of plague were created.

“As expected, if I somehow create an army with the remaining magic power… .”

“What should I do to disperse the insufficient power?”

“Ugh… .”

Rusk can produce as many troops as he has as long as he has magic power. ‘Troop training’, one of the abilities included in the power of war, allows you to create soldiers through magical energy.

A large army of one million people who did not need food, did not get tired, and absolutely obeyed orders was the very thing of fear to humans. Because it could not be treated as a living being, it was called a ‘demon’.

And because Rusk was the leader of those devils, humans feared her and called her the devil. In fact, Rusk himself wanted to be called the Lord of War, not the Demon King.

Anyway, Rusk became anxious. Because if I continued like this, I was destined to be killed by Patricia.

Those from the dark world, including the monarchs, are immortal beings. To be precise, even if you die in the gray world, you will return to the black world and your life will not be affected.

Therefore, Rusk was not afraid of death itself. However, the punishment she would receive after returning to the black world and the fact that she would not be recognized by her father made her nervous.

“No… . This can’t go on… . Your father will be disappointed… .”

Rusk is biting his nails and shaking, his usual confident attitude gone.

It was the moment when her true self, which she had been trying to hide while emphasizing the majesty of a monarch and insisting on speaking in a way that did not suit her, was revealed.

“……Heart.”

Babylon, who was looking at this sadly, called Hatra, who was cleaning.

“What’s going on? Oh my… .”

Hartra, who came in with great energy, looked at Rusk’s condition and let out a short sigh.

“Master… . No, Rusk. It’ll be okay. Don’t worry too much.”

Hatra held Rusk in her arms and carefully comforted her. It was a method used to soothe Rusk when he was anxious or afraid ever since he was young.

“……Poor thing.”

Babylon muttered softly. So quietly that Rusk couldn’t hear.

At the same time, she thought of a human man. The man who held them captive but provided them with a comfortable environment and kept them safe.