episode_0191

“Aaaah!”

A scream came out of Orha’s mouth as she was forced to fly at a speed she had never experienced before.

“How about it? Kill me!?”

“Are you planning to kill me!!”

“Don’t make a fuss. Because there is no need to die.”

In fact, despite its high speed, it is not that dangerous.

Anyway, even if you really fall, you won’t die because of Wayne’s shield.

“If you’re really scared, close your eyes.”

Because the shield even blocks the wind, you can’t feel anything if you close your eyes.

“Uuuu….”

“Like this, I will search every forest on the continent. If you feel something, do you have to tell me right away?”

“Oh, I understand!”

We flew like that for about 3 minutes.

“Wow, I think I found it!”

Orha closed her eyes tightly and pointed in the direction with just her fingers. I immediately fell towards that direction.

As I get closer, a feeling of discomfort creeps up to the point that I can feel it.

A wooden building lying deep in the mountains. There was nothing more to see.

“Wayne, can I drop you off alone?”

“You don’t want to get close to me like that?”

“Yeah, that’s a bit serious.”

“Then… take it down first.”

“I thought about wiping out Sirocco from afar, but I thought there might be a living victim.”

I dropped Wayne from a distance and slowly descended while holding Orha. Then I felt a vibration along with the sound of something exploding.

“Looks like we’ve already started the fight.”

“Ugh… are you done?”

“Okay, open your eyes now.”

I was alert to my surroundings to prepare for any possible danger. It’s not that far from the altar, so there might be a raiser there.

“Over there.”

As expected, I immediately sent Sirocco to the sense of popularity.

“Ugh!”

When it was instantly launched 30 meters above and then dropped, the beholder died instantly.

“Hey, it’s not the guy holding the magic sword this time.”

I continued to catch people around me.

“Whoo, whoo….”

Not long after, Wayne appeared, breathing heavily as if he was tired.

“You worked hard. Who are the survivors?”

“Nothing. No, there was.”

“What are you talking about?”

“They all killed me as soon as they saw me?”

“Crazy guys.”

After this, it was Orha’s turn to show strength. It took her a full four hours to cleanse the altar.

“Cough, Clock….”

Orha continued to cough, probably due to the strain on her body.

“Hmm. Let’s rest here for now.”

It was a cycle of preparing for camping right here, resting like this, and then recovering my condition.

“Time sure flies… but I don’t know if my body and mind can handle it.”

I have no worries. Since he was a god in the first place, there was no need to worry about such things.

Wayne is also okay because he has the power of a warrior and the oath with Arjen, so he is no different from a superhuman.

In the end, the problem came to an end. Unlike a warrior, the power of a saint tends to be focused on divine power rather than strengthening the body and mind.

To be honest, it was a difficult schedule for a young woman to handle.

Moreover, the worry was doubled because this forced march had to be maintained on a yearly basis.

“I… am fine.”

“You don’t look any better, so get some rest.”

“If Eugene gives me a pillow, I might recover faster…”

“……Ugh.”

I approached Orha as if I had no choice.

This was all that could be done compared to her hardships.

“Anyway, it has to be like this for 3 years?”

“Yes. If you’re having a hard time, tell me.”

“I think I’m just doing it to avoid the hardships I have to endure for the rest of my life…”

I burst out laughing at Orha’s almost infinite positivity.

“Hehe, yes. Think so. Once this is over, I’ll tell Stella and let her do whatever she wants for the rest of her life.”

“Uh…? Really? Is that possible?”

“Well… I guess I should ask.”

I think they’ll probably listen if you ask. It’s amazing that a saint who was originally chosen to kill time has achieved such results.

“Eh~ I can’t believe it~”

“…I tend to have a stronger say among the gods than I thought.”

Of course, it is more of a friendship with Stella than a right to speak, but it is not wrong to say that Stella is everything to humans in the first place.

“Hehe~ Then promise.”

“Okay, promise.”

I also gave my finger to Orha who stuck out her little finger.

As a result, this promise was kept. As a result.

***

“Phew… you worked hard.”

Three years have passed.

Countless altars have been purified.

More than a hundred magic swords were recovered and all were entrusted to the Vatican.

“I think there was more emotion in saying that you had a hard time today?”

I smiled and answered Orha’s words.

“Okay. That was the last time.”

“Uh…? Has it already happened like that?”

Orha has grown a little more in the meantime. The face that originally resembled Arjen has become even more similar.

As he tilted his head with that face, I unconsciously stroked his head.

“Okay. It’s over now.”

“But… there might still be an altar left.”

“I guess so. But we can’t get rid of all the altars in the world.”

It was realistically impossible.

Even if that were possible, Akasha would quickly notice if the entire altar was removed.

“So it’s right to quit now. You said 3 years with Wayne in mind, right?”

Wayne, who was quietly listening to the story next to him, nodded.

“Of course. Actually, the best way was to gradually eliminate it over 50 years…”

“50 years is a bit…”

“That’s right. Orha’s life may end, and as the altar becomes active, the gods will lose a lot of divine power.”

“Wow… So it’s really over…?”

Orha looked at me with a very emotional expression.

“Yes. It’s over.”

“So now I can travel as much as I want and go wherever I want even though I am a saint?”

“Yeah, right? I guess I should try talking to Stella…”

It is truly astounding how a child with so much trouble became a saint.

In fact, Orha only had a hard time purifying the altar, but he really enjoyed wandering through the forests all over the continent.

It’s almost a miracle that she remained calm in the Vatican after becoming a saint.

“Then let’s go to the dwarf village first! Quick!”

“Wow… were you that excited?”

“Actually, I wanted to see more elves than dwarves… hehe.”

“Hmm. I’ve already seen a lot of elves.”

For three years, I wandered around the entire forest. It’s impossible not to meet an elf.

“I didn’t know Eugene was so popular among elves.”

“That’s not entirely my ability… no.”

I didn’t have the confidence to explain the awkward title Titania.

Now that I think about it, I was given the feminine nickname “Diva” when it came to singing, and I felt like it was my fault to be given that nickname.

“Good. Now let’s go to the real dwarf village.”

A dwarven village that was the original destination of the trip. As we steadily moved toward that direction while dealing with the altar, the distance had already become much closer.

Enough to go there even without a carriage.

“It would be quicker if you flew, but you still get the taste of traveling if you go to land, right?”

“I’m fine. Hehe, I don’t have to do hard work for a while, so anything is fine.”

“Then. What I really have left now is time.”

Orha and Wayne agreed to my question with their own answers.

So we arranged for a carriage from a nearby village and leisurely set off towards the dwarven village.

***

In a dark cave with no wind or light, a handsome man was frowning.

“What on earth happened?”

His identity is Akasha. Befitting his strict security-conscious nature, it was a vertical cave in deep, rugged terrain that most people could not enter.

“What’s going on?”

No one responded to his angry words. Because there was actually no one around him.

He was talking to himself as if he had lost his mind, and then he looked at the purple-stained crystal and muttered to himself again.

“It should have been completely black by now, but what happened outside to make it so lukewarm?”

The bead that Akasha is looking at was something he made himself, and was a device that represented the disbelief that occurred through the altar.

Although he couldn’t manage it himself because he didn’t want Stella to find out, at least he didn’t have any doubts about the altar’s performance.

‘Someone is deliberately destroying the altar.’

The problem was that there were too many candidates who could be that someone.

This is because what is done at the altar itself is something that would never be accepted by civilized people in the lower world, so there is a good chance that it will be destroyed as soon as it is discovered.

Therefore, even warriors with noble intentions, believers of the Stella Church, skilled adventurers, and bandits with minimal ethics still have a reason to destroy the altar.

At the very least, even monsters attracted by the smell of human blood could destroy the altar.

“……I guess I should take the risk and see for myself.”

He would never go out into the world unless he was fully prepared.

However, even if he wanted to receive reports from others, for some reason the frequency of people with the magic sword he gave out coming to him had drastically decreased.

In the worst case scenario, he thought that even the arrangements for the magic sword could be discovered and interfered with by someone, so he decided to make an exception and go outside.

I felt like if I continued like this, the preparation would never end.

“…Yes, it would be nice to see the sunlight for the first time in a long time. One way or another, my sun is only Hiers.”

At a time when no one expected, Akasha came out into the world.