episode_0072

“Eat the Divine?”

“Yes, it is recorded that it was taken orally.”

Helen’s explanation was absurd.

“Is that possible? And if you eat it, your body accepts divinity?”

“Of course it is impossible. However, if a human being with a special constitution that can accept divinity in a human body maintains his blood for several generations, it is a different story.”

“Really?”

“That’s exactly what Mr. Sian guessed. The Titans deliberately practiced incest to evolve a special constitution that allowed them to accept divinity. They didn’t stop there, they even preyed on their own blood relatives who had eaten divinity to raise their resistance to divinity to the limit.”

“Crazy… ”

I couldn’t help but swear at the shocking story.

‘Incest is inevitable given the historical context, but cannibalism is…’

They call it kinship, but strictly speaking it would have been cannibalism between parents and children.

Only then did I understand why Helen was hesitant when explaining the Titans.

But I am a descendant of that race?

“…Tell me it’s a lie.”

“I’m sorry. It’s the truth, so there’s nothing I can do.”

“No, isn’t there a misunderstanding? These clothes might not have been mine originally. Maybe I just picked them up and used them?”

“That may be so, but didn’t the poet himself devour the divinity?”

“Me?”

“Yes, you swallowed the divine legacy yourself. Even now, the divinity of the ‘one who walks the lowest’ that you swallowed is currently present within you.”

When Helen touched my body, a black light began to ripple. Only then did I recall the scene that had passed by like a dream. Yes, I sacrificed myself in place of Irina and swallowed the inheritance of the gods.

“I didn’t mean to… ”

At that time, I simply swallowed it with the intention of neutralizing it by using Oronak’s protection, and I had no intention of absorbing the divinity itself.

As I recalled the memory, a cold, sweet taste came to my mouth. But it was definitely delicious. My mouth is watering.

I sat down, trying to suppress my suddenly rising appetite.

“Huh… So I can use abilities like time stop like the Legacy of God?”

“You can’t do it right now because you haven’t fully digested it yet. But gradually, that power will become yours.”

“That’s amazing.”

Time stop.

If I had a power that seemed to come straight out of some racy comic book, what would I do with it?

“Anyway, I’ll say thank you first, Helen.”

I have been greatly helped by her in many ways.

If it weren’t for her, I would never have known about my birth.

“No. As an apostle and as siblings to the same goddess Hestia, it is my duty to do so. And… ”

Helen, who had been thinking about something, wiggled her fingers again, then moved her small lips and spoke.

“It may be sudden, but would you like to go to the Holy Kingdom with us?”

“In the Holy Kingdom?”

“Yes, we would like to protect the divine bloodline of Sian and the child that will soon be born in our holy kingdom.”

“Hmm…”

Helen’s suggestion made me think for a moment.

Holy Kingdom.

It was an organization that protected humanity from disasters that people around the world could not solve, and it was the most powerful force on the continent, backed by the imperial family.

Objectively speaking, it was a good thing to enter the Holy Kingdom.

but…

“I’ll think about it a little more.”

It’s still too early to make a hasty judgment.

The image of the Holy Kingdom that I saw just now was only a fragmentary one. Of course, the people of the Holy Kingdom who participated in the expedition with us, like Helen and Camilla before my eyes, were certainly good people, but there was no guarantee that the leadership of the Holy Kingdom would be like that.

Also, since I was due to give birth soon, it wasn’t easy to go anywhere right away.

At least it was something I had to talk to Chloe about and make a choice about.

‘I also reveal that I am a Titan.’

Helen wasn’t particularly disappointed by my answer; she just understood my position.

“Okay, if you change your mind, please let us know anytime.”

“Are you leaving already?”

“If possible, we would like to bless the future of the new born child, but there are people who need our help, so we must go to them.”

“Is that so? Thank you.”

I was sincere.

Because her sacrifice for the world is admirable.

“Huh, no. I do it because I want to, and because it is the duty the goddess has given us nymphs.”

Although it was a dark basement, Helen’s smile shone brightly.

I shook her outstretched hand and said hello.

Then, as if something had occurred to him, he told me one thing.

“And I’m saying this out of concern, but there’s something strange about this village of Lugeron.”

“Strange?”

“I stayed in the village for three days before the expedition and visited every home in the village.”

“Have you done that too?”

Before the expedition started, I was very busy preparing the items needed for the expedition.

“I wanted to convey Hestia’s words as usual. And also to ease the anxiety of the continuing winter.”

“So what’s weird?”

“There are no old women in this village.”

“Are you talking about your old mother?”

“Yes? That’s the old lady.”

I was momentarily confused by the synonyms.

Anyway, Helen continued her explanation.

“I can’t say for sure what I saw, but I think there may be some bad customs in this town that aren’t apparent.”

“Hmm… Okay. I’ll be careful.”

I took it seriously.

If she has the intuition to serve the goddess of love and family, there must be something there.

‘The village men’s attitude towards women was certainly strange.’

As I was leaving the ice storage with Helen, I had various thoughts.

“Huh?”

Once again, a cool sensation rose up the back of my neck.

. . .

“Unlike the nickname, it’s a place with nothing special about it.”

In the past, even visiting the village of Lugeron near the Dark Forest was a life-threatening affair. Perhaps because of the higher concentration of magic power than in other regions, the monsters in the Dark Forest were stronger and there were even more of them.

Of course, to get here, you had to fight your way through the monsters swarming in the dark forest.

But recently, things have changed since Cian came to live in the village of Lugeron.

To be precise, the work started by his adoptive father, Ian, has been fully undertaken.

“The closer you get to the village, the fewer monsters there are.”

“It’s spicier than I thought.”

The reason why monsters were not seen near the village of Lugeron was simple.

Because everyone who came to the village was hunted. This process was repeated for decades, so the monsters learned. They should not go there. In fact, the only monsters that attacked the village of Lugeron in recent years were Yetis and Goblins whose habitats had changed.

Of course, the knights of Count Anitul, who were unaware of this fact, could not help but be disappointed by the insignificant magic realm, and the Count beat Baron Hipro for not even managing it properly with lame excuses, even though it was his territory.

“You don’t seem to have any sense of being a noble. How much do you think you’ve spent in taxes?”

“Ugh-sorry, sorry.”

Although the Count’s whipping was painful, Baron Hippo could not resist and had to take the beating.

He was upset by the sudden turn of events.

Suddenly the Count came and told me to guide him through the village of Lugeron, and now I had to get beaten in front of everyone.

Although it was shameful and painful, Baron Hipro endured it to the end for the sake of the people who believed in him and relied on him.

But the more he endured, the more Count Anitul’s sadism grew.

Baron Hippo, who had become almost half-crippled, lost consciousness.

One of the knights who saw this asked the count.

“Are we just going to leave it like this?”

“No, I’ll take him later and hang him in his domain.”

To the nobles, the people of the estate were worse than beasts.

The lowly ones do not realize why they must serve the nobles, and they rebel whenever they get the chance, so in order to make them obey, they must be beaten as an example, as is done now.

“First, organize it from here.”

“Name.”

The Count, having arrived at the village of Lugeron, first began by taming the land.

He would immediately beat up villagers as soon as he saw them, as if they were knights that ordinary people could not defeat even if they died, and if there were any women, he would strip them naked in front of everyone and try to rape them.

“Who are you?”

“We are the knights of Count Anitul. So shut up and obey.”

“What is this?”

The townspeople were not just being bullied. The vigilantes, especially those made up of young men,

He tried to resist the knights who suddenly attacked him with their weapons drawn.

Of course, they weren’t even a match.

“You were trying to resist the best knights in the West with just that skill?”

“Carlson!”

Carlson, the strongest in the village, was able to blossom his aura through chance with Cyan’s help, but that did not mean he was on par with a 4th-tier knight.

Now that he had reached the 4th rank, it was impossible for him to even share the sum with a 4th rank knight.

“Please stop.”

A woman stopped the knight from cutting off Carlson’s head.

It was Elsia.

As she appeared, Count Anitul looked at Elsia with eyes filled with base desire, despite her beautiful appearance and dignity that did not fit in with the countryside.

Despite feeling those gazes, Elsia shouted confidently.

“Currently, the Knights of the Holy Kingdom are resting in this village after a arduous expedition. If the Count came here to meet them, he must stop killing for the sake of the honor of the Holy Kingdom.”

“Hoo.”

Elsia quickly figured out why Count Anitul had suddenly visited the village of Rugeron, and began to mediate by coming up with a justification.

Seeing such a wise appearance, Count Anitul began to desire her even more.

“You are a woman too precious to be left in such a remote place. I will personally give you the honor of becoming my servant.”

“Are you talking about a bodyguard?”

Elsia was dumbfounded by the count’s words.

The count, who was not even a maid, but merely gave her the position of his sex slave, looked so low and pathetic that it seemed ugly to him to give her such a grand thing.

Isn’t that a beast, not a noble?

Elsia hid her true feelings and answered as Xi’an’s concubine.

“I already have someone to serve. I have no intention of becoming a cesspool for the Count’s base desires.”

“You bitch!”

“Keep going!”

At Elsia’s answer, the knight near her became enraged and grabbed her by the neck.

“You insult the Count? I’ll tear your mouth open right now.”

“What the hell are you doing?”

But it wasn’t long before both of the knight’s arms were blown off.

It was because of the black-haired, golden-eyed man who appeared in an instant.

“You?”

“I don’t know the situation, just look for it!”

With a squeak, Cian blasted the head of the knight who had touched her woman.