134 – forward(2)

“Well, that’s good.”

Orcus, who came after training, listened to my few words of explanation along with the gloves I handed over, and immediately declared passing.

The decision was quicker than I thought, but I didn’t think that Orcus was at my convenience. He was meticulous in public affairs, and above all, Orcus’ eyes as he inspected his gloves were obviously interested.

Perhaps because he is also an outstanding wizard, he recognized the value of gloves at once. Considering the abilities contained in the gloves, even non-mages would think that it was not a special item.

“By the way, I thought I came to talk about the incident this time.”

Orcus speaks with a smile. I spit it out as if it was nothing, but I knew there was a bone in the words. By the incident he is talking about here, is he referring to the kidnapping of Eltman yesterday?

Did he realize that I had stepped out even though he said he didn’t have to step out? Well, half a day is more than enough time to sort things out.

“I was so untrustworthy that you told me to take care of the aftermath. Well, since Eltman was involved, I understand it to some extent…By the way, how did you get cooperation from that naive man? He wasn’t the kind of person who would say anything other than what I ordered. Were the two of you friends by any chance?”

“It’s not like that, it’s just that we know each other across the street. There’s a person I want to contact, but they say I can’t get in touch with that person. So I accepted that request and exchanged a few cases.”

“Tsk, is that so?”

It’s a sad face… I wonder if this guy thought I’d caught his weakness.

what do you see me as

After having a light conversation about what happened that night, we moved the subject back to the magic tool. It had already been resolved, and there was nothing to talk about at length.

Orcus asked me with a small admiration when he saw that the glove on my hand was working properly.

“Certainly, the spells imprinted on it are unusual for it to be called an ordinary magic tool. But there seem to be several more spells written on the glove, but why are you only showing two? In my eyes, it seems to work properly even without that artificial spirit.”

“That’s right, this isn’t a typical prototype. Originally, those two abilities I showed were the end. The added features were made after Elena came and worked on them.”

“her…”

At my explanation, Orcus nodded his head slightly with an expression that he finally understood.

“What is it that she can’t do…?”

It was a bonus to mumble a little.

I think the murmuring Orcus is also a versatile genius, but this time I had to agree with him.

Elena Edelweiss’s genius could be said to be unrivaled. The appearance she showed in the original work was close enough to her versatility, but when I look at her these days, she did more than the original, and I can’t find anything lacking at all.

In addition, for some reason, the present Elena has completed her awakening as a complete transcendent.

Now she has become too high an existence to discuss comparisons with anyone. Of course, it’s only me and her who know that now, but that doesn’t make the fact that Elena is a Transcendent or not, there’s a huge gap between Orcus and her.

Orcus scratched his head here and there with one hand, then threw his head back and took a deep breath.

It was the fact that he had been training his body lately, and he seemed aloof from the outside, but it was clear that he was paying attention to the last fight.

It wasn’t that I couldn’t understand his frustration, so I calmly watched him without saying anything. Unlike before, I’m not in a position to give him any advice now. Fortunately, Orcus quickly calmed himself down and faced me again with the same face as before.

He pointed to the glove on my hand with a determined expression and said.

“Damian, leave that alone.”

“Why is this?”

“I’m going to look into it a little more. Why? Where’s the use?”

“No. It’s not like that.”

At Orcus’ request, I hesitated a little. Even if it wasn’t originally, it was still a gift from Elena. It was because it was a little uncomfortable to borrow it easily.

Was it just because I saw the fire in his eyes?

In the end, I handed over the gloves to Orcus. I didn’t want to make you turn off the light. He seems to have his own motivation for growth, but if he insisted on pouring cold water on it, that would be a bad thing as a friend.

“It won’t take that long.”

I nodded lightly to Orcus, who spoke with a confident voice.

***

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My business was over, but I didn’t go back to the dormitory right away. It wasn’t because there was nothing left to talk about, it was because Orcus recommended that he visit the imperial castle while he was here.

No matter how attached the academy and the imperial castle are, the place where I am now is where the royal family, who is not normally allowed to live. With Noel and Orcus’ permission, I could come anytime, but I didn’t come here very often, so I decided to take a look around.

“I’ll guide you!”

The guy who gave me the guide was busy and missed it. Noel, who was watching Orcus’ training, volunteered as my guide because it was impossible to walk around the vast castle alone as a guide.

“Are you okay? Didn’t you try to train yourself after watching Orcus’ training?”

“Um…that’s what it used to be! Because Damian is here today. If it’s for a friend, you can take a break. Instead! I’ll take Damian’s training session tomorrow?”

“Yeah. Okay. I’d rather have someone with me too.”

That’s how the non-deal deal with Noel ended, and my exploration of the imperial castle with Noel as a guide began.

The reason why it was named Exploration was because the Hwangseong Fortress was so huge and beautiful that it was easy to look around with the light mindset of visiting a friend’s house.

This was true even through the eyes of Damian, who was born as an aristocrat and had a change in his economic outlook.

Even in this world, I had seen huge structures such as the Mage Tower and the Winter Castle of Edelweiss, but the imperial castle felt different from them.

If the Mage Tower was like looking at a gigantic high-rise building, should I say that the imperial castle here is like being inside a magnificent church? Of course, there is a difference that I only saw the Mage Tower from the outside and the imperial castle went inside, but the people here will actually feel the same.

Actually, the imperial castle was like a huge temple.

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Making the ruler an agent of God is a form of politics that has been easily seen on Earth since ancient times, but the difference between them and the Empire is that the Emperor of the Empire is actually an agent of God.

Unlike Earth, where there is no knowledge of the existence of gods, gods were real here, and the royal family were descendants of Altair and inherited the blood of gods. So, of course, the imperial castle where they live shared the role of the house of Altair, the main god, which also meant that it also functioned as a temple.

Wherever you walk, you can see the symbol of God-given Altair, and there is no place without inscriptions with verses from the scriptures.

This imperial castle is none other than the medium of the divine barrier that surrounds the entire Luden. Just looking at it from the outside, you can see that it overflows with holy power, but it goes without saying when it comes to the inside.

Because of this, the sun in the sky is now preparing to disappear underground, but the warmth of the morning sun still seems to be felt here.

“This is probably the worst environment to work in.”

“Huh? Why?”

“It’s like my eyes keep closing. I don’t know if it’s a place to sleep, but it’s not a place to work. Orcus is doing his job well in a place like this.”

It felt like something cozy and tickling was in a warm blanket. It wasn’t hot and it felt just right, similar to the feeling under the blanket when I woke up in the morning.

When I said that with half-sleepy eyes, Noel responded with a smile.

“It’s because Damian has a high sensitivity to divinity. Ordinary people just can’t accept it so comfortably.”

“Really? I thought everyone felt that way.”

“Some people feel calm and stable when they see the sun, while others feel overwhelmed or burned by it.

“I see…Ah, then I have the aptitude as a priest?”

“It may or may not be? Because God is fickle. But Damian is a priest… I think it suits him.”

“yes?”

I tried imagining myself wearing a priestly uniform and writing a blessing, but it didn’t match very well. Maybe it’s because I’ve never been very interested in religion. My imagination was too weak to paint a picture of me as a faithful believer.

[…Giya…]

“Well?”

“Why is that?”

“No, I think I just heard something.”

Are there ghosts in the Hwangseong?

If you think about the place, it’s not a ghost, but it’s a place where you don’t know if there is a god.

The more I enter the castle, the more I hear the sound of someone calling me.

It was just like the ghost in the story, that if someone wanted to widen their senses or look at it that way, they couldn’t feel their presence. No, even if it was a ghost, if it existed, its existence would be felt, but I couldn’t feel anything.

Seeing as Noel, who is with me, doesn’t feel strange either, it seems like it’s just my problem…

‘I feel like my heart is a little stuffy…’

Are you not feeling well?

I don’t think I’ve ever done anything that could be said to be unreasonable these days.

The symptoms that come are too sudden to be called a psychological problem. I looked for the cause as an external factor, but I couldn’t feel or guess anything even after time passed. I couldn’t find the cause, so what was left to me in the end was self-justification.

“No. I guess I’m a bit sensitive today.”

It only touched my nerves, but it was ambiguous enough to say that there was something. The path I chose was ignorance. Fortunately, it was the right way, so I didn’t particularly react to the things that touched me so far, so I felt that that much was weakening.

When I got out of that bizarre feeling like that, I walked around the imperial castle listening to Noel’s explanation again.

How many minutes did you look around like that? By the time I thought I had looked around the castle to some extent, Noel led me to a very wide hall.

In general, if there is such a place in a castle, you would think of a banquet hall, but this place is an imperial castle and a temple at the same time. The wide open hall gave a pious feeling like that of an old cathedral, and in fact, in the center of the place, there was a source of divine power that I had been feeling.

A golden statue and four objects covering the statue.

I could notice that the objects were what are commonly called holy objects. The divine power I felt was emanating from the four items worn by the statue, not from the statue.

“…Noel, is this a place I can come to?”

Like the objects in the middle of the hall, I instinctively think that this is a place I shouldn’t enter. I glanced at her to see if Noel had led her astray, but Noel smiled and said nothing to me.