Episode 42. darkness

Disguised as a guard, Tizan, the high priest of Saint Stica Cathedral, followed Professor Ian and prayed in his heart.

‘May the darkness that disturbs people with flattering words be silent, and may goodness triumph without words.’

Professor Ian and the two priests left the school and reached the magic tower where the professors were gathered.

Like a ghost seen in broad daylight, he looked strange under the bright spring sunlight. Tizan, an exorcist who deals with demons, felt familiar.

Under the half-turned-off lights of the magic tower, we follow Professor Ian’s office located in a far, far corner.

A place where doors of the same shape are connected at regular intervals, and there are many alleys like a maze.

Tizan did not express himself and memorized the way back from here, and Tizan’s disciple Dar’s right hand gradually drew closer to the sword.

From the beginning, from the moment Professor Ian entered the classroom, Dar was severely wary of him.

‘Teacher, that person smells suspicious and disgusting. Obviously.’

‘Is it a demon?’

‘I don’t know that far. It’s the first smell, but very strong malice… . I feel something sticky and dark.’

Dar’s sense of smell had never been wrong.

Perhaps Professor Ian is a madman who worships a non-existent devil, or a victim of a rampage possessed by an evil spirit.

‘Either one of them can’t be left alone.’

Tizan risked his life.

It only took about 5 minutes, but the time was as long as a pilgrimage.

And… . With the words, “We’re halfway there,” Professor Ian, who hadn’t said anything until now, suddenly opened his mouth.

“There is no other honor than this to have noble people attend my class.”

“Did you conduct the class like that while knowing our identities?”

“Anyway, didn’t you come to see me after hearing my rumors?”

Professor Ian, who continued to walk with the priests about four paces ahead, looked back at the silent Tizan.

“If you had listened to my evaluation properly, you wouldn’t have said that. I’m not afraid of princesses in class either. What about the priests?”

“Surely you are possessed by a demon and are blind. Even if your lowly blood and madman’s spirit deny your status, you cannot help but fear the goddess.”

“Where in the Bible is it written to fear the Goddess? Besides, aren’t the priests goddesses?”

As if talking to a friend, Professor Ian laughed.

‘It’s obvious blasphemy.’

Tizan started to get angry at the lightness of daring to discuss the Bible and the goddess in front of the exorcist.

“Ian Laver, I address you as the exorcist of San Stica. More than that, do not mislead your students with your wicked tongue. Shut your mouth, repent, and wash away your sins!”

“You seem to think that my class is too radical for the saintess. If you send someone who has been in a monastery all his life into this rough world, shouldn’t you bump into it a few times?”

Tizan and Daru stopped as they were. Ian also stopped and stared at them.

He was also a man who was more suited to the shadows than the sunlight. Tizan let go of the guard’s sword and took out a Bible from his bosom.

“You knew everything. Even though the saintess used a pseudonym and received various concealment spells. Did you research us beforehand?”

“Are you kidding?”

Professor Ian pointed to the ghost girl walking beside him. Tizan was greatly embarrassed.

‘Wasn’t the guardian spirit watching over the professor?’

I knew that she was near him during class, but I didn’t think she would be protecting Professor Ian.

The confidence in Tizan’s eyes dimmed a little. He judged that the girl-free guardian spirit was targeting an evil spirit.

‘A man so unassuming has enough faith to make an oath between the Goddess and the spirit?’

His command was also strange. To think that there is a soul that has not yet escaped from the ministry even though it has been cleared of thoughts like that, even to him who has been eliminating evil spirits in harmony with the guardian spirits for 20 years, this sight was just astonishing.

“You seem to have a strange misunderstanding, but I am also a believer. How could someone who worships the goddess fail to recognize the priest or even the saintess?”

As he rolled up his sleeve and showed his left wrist, the love of the goddess shone. The soft scar carefully carved was clearly a nickname bestowed by the goddess.

‘True teacher?’

“Do you see my name? I am serving the Goddess by teaching her children according to her will. If I went against the will of the goddess, how could my second name shine to help me?”

“that’s… .”

“Teaching the saintess also conforms to the will of the goddess, so my tinnitus must not fade yet. Do you doubt all of this, the commander and the second name?”

Tizan started shaking. How could he, an insignificant creature, understand the will of the goddess?

Does the goddess want the saintess, who will serve the light for the rest of her life, to learn things other than silence and waiting?

Unlike Kiruna School, the miracle of the Goddess has never directly touched Saint Stica Cathedral.

Elma has never answered the saint’s prayers. He did not bring light to our cathedral… .

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Just as he began to get suspicious, someone reached out and pointed a sword at Professor Ian’s neck like a ray of light in the darkness.

“Don’t shake Master any more.”

“under… .”

“If you really are walking the path of light… .”

The tip of Dar’s sword moved to the left side of his chest.

“Take out the stuff in it. What are you hiding?”

“… It’s an imperial secret, so it’s difficult to explain this.”

Professor Ian took out a black and white cube.

It was just a toy-looking cube, but Dar started growling as if it would kill him at any moment.

“Master! Don’t believe anything about him. We must kill the author right now!”

“I was trying to clear up the misunderstanding… . Was it a catastrophe from the beginning?”

“Master, please allow me to kill right now… ! If the devil that humans believe in really exists, it must be Iza!!”

Click.

The cube returned to its original form, and a black mist began to engulf the corridor.

* * *

Darkness came. Not knowing what might be mixed with the black vapor, Dar quickly distanced himself from him.

“Don’t think to fool my eyes, demon… !”

He took off his helmet, revealing long, white ears. Ian saw it and narrowed his eyes.

“Fox human… . Is it sharp?”

If you pass Nodia on the outskirts of the snowfield and head towards the center, you will reach the arc where a blunt wind blows as if to tear everything apart.

Even in the arc, the outer and the center are divided, and even the Jinparang tribe, who are said to be the most cold-resistant among the werewolf Rang tribe, gave up on pioneering, and if they walk one more week beyond the ‘limit line’, then they can reach the heart of the arc, the snowy mountain ‘Sharp’. .

In Sharp, the mountain farthest from the world, lived fox humans who licked only ice for ten thousand years.

Humans call them, Sharps, or Sharps.

sharp. Those who always accumulate wisdom and serve the Goddess with a clean heart in the middle of the snowfield, the highest mountain in the world.

They weren’t easy to see in the world, but… .

“Have you come down to the world with a full fountain of souls? Even if you can’t share wisdom with humans thirsty for ignorance, to doubt the will of the goddess shining in front of you… . It’s ridiculous.”

“Ian, you wouldn’t say such a thing if you knew about our people properly. We have eyes to see ‘inside’.”

When Sharps become adults, they go on a pilgrimage to the secular world.

Above all, they came down from a high place and delivered the wisdom they had learned to people who were at risk like the wind in front of a candlelight.

When the wisdom gathered through meditation and enlightenment dries up, they do not return to the snowy mountain again.

Sharps are revered as sages everywhere because they have eyes that can see through the inside of their opponents, that is, their souls.

The dreamy purple eyes belong only to Sharps. They face the corruption and shaking of humans through eyes resembling violets, and try to lead them on the right path… .

“Your soul is blacker than any human I have ever seen… !”

“… .”

“Master, even human eyes can’t see this darkness clearly!! The fog that surrounds this place is the same color as the author’s soul. That demon is scattering his soul… !”

For the first time, Professor Ian was taken aback by Sharp and Dar’s passionate speech.

“for a moment. This… . It is a side effect of the mana potion.”

“Mana Potion… ? What did you drink that made your soul so full of sin? no way… !”

Ian sighed.

‘Did I drink too much yesterday?’

* * *

‘Ah-oh. The pond is an imperial secret, so I can’t tell you about it… !’

Sharp is a very difficult race to meet because their numbers are so small. In terms of population, it’s second only to dragons.

So, I didn’t know that among the priests, Sharp was on pilgrimage. No, from the beginning, they never thought that the abyssal water would look like the blood of a demon to them.

In fact, in this world, the soul and body mana are almost the same concept, so I thought for a moment that it might seem strange. The reason I drank the Abyssal Water to save the cost of the Holy Water… .

‘The necromancer Inana and Saint Karin didn’t react much when they saw me.’

Black mana seemed to be no problem for the clergy or other races except Sharp.

‘But, this kind of problem happens in front of Sharp. … I didn’t expect to encounter the only race that can see the soul of a living opponent in a situation like this.’

The human priest, who seemed to be Sharp’s archer, opened the Bible as if he had finally made up his mind.

“Professor Ian, you can’t fool Sharpe’s eyes.”

The dark fog that had now begun to fill the hallway covered even my tinnitus, which was shining brightly.

“I can’t seem to understand the language.”

I didn’t want to fight… . Now that this has happened, it seems that there is no choice but to confront them.

No matter what I say, they will see me as the devil.

“By the way… . Why are you two shaking?”

they are afraid of me It would not be that their vision was narrowed by the gradually approaching darkness.

‘It’s probably because the things I believed in were shaken.’

I showed them the tinnitus and the ghost. I showed them the mark of a representative goddess who can take a high position in any church with just one of the two.

That’s why, as long as you’re not looking at me like a monster that can deceive even the eyes of high priests and saints… . Sharp, a noble and clean race, will not seriously try to kill me.

I intended to make sure to use their wavering hearts.

“Isn’t that what you call me devil? Why are you backing away?”

“… Shut up, if you talk any more-”

“Was faith without doubt just that much?”

For a moment, Sharp’s eyes, whose name was unknown, shone.

His sword grazed my cheek a little. If it wasn’t for the magic calculator, I would have died on the spot.

“What… !”

“Even if you are a priest, why are you afraid of me?”

… Asane.

The price of a cowardly surprise attack will be cold.

Not wanting to harm him, I deliberately imprisoned him in ice. Having lived in the snowy mountains, he will not be frostbitten.

“Ahh-!!”

“ah.”

Damn, this was just my guess, but I guess I was wrong.

I did it like it came out of a game or a cartoon, but it was very cold.

I just broke the ice. It must have been quite painful, Sharp rolled down under the sharp and black pieces of ice.

I didn’t know if Tizan would surprise me, so I aimed an ice spear at Sharp and made him a hostage. I really don’t intend to launch… .

“Charp, you called me a demon even after seeing two of the signs of a goddess. If you trust your eyes that much, why don’t you think that the goddess will help you? If I really am an evil spirit bad enough to have the voice of a goddess, wouldn’t it be an honor for you guys to die fighting me proudly?”

“Damn it… !”

“Ambush is really ugly. Is evil justified in destroying it? Is this the only level of mind that was honed and polished at that high place?”

Sharp, who finally came to his senses, picked up the sword without hesitation even though he knew that I was aiming at the ice spear.

“It won’t be cloudy even in the dark!!”

The human priest then recited the Bible and poured light on me… .

“… It’s cloudy.”

“Goddess… .”

The fog in the pond is now completely shaded, and it has come to the point where it cannot be penetrated unless the goddess directly casts light on it.

‘Come to think of it, this isn’t a good thing for me either?’

‘Cause I’m not a demon Even if I received that light, I wouldn’t have been hurt.

‘At this rate, one chance to prove my innocence is gone… . oh shit If Sharp hadn’t just pointed his sword, things wouldn’t have been so twisted.’

In order to protect myself, I had no choice but to activate the magic calculator and mana respirator.

I had to finish it quickly before the blinded Sharp attacked with a sword.

To get the light closer, I hurried towards Tizan.

“Try it one more time.”

“Ahh… . Ahh… !”

“It means to believe more strongly. Don’t be shaken, don’t doubt… !”

Perhaps he misunderstood my words, he was now completely contemplating, and in the meantime, Sharpe again aimed at me from behind.

Brilliant-!

“Ouch… !”

Even if he stayed still, his sword would break on his own, and Sharp suffered while floating in the air.

In the black mist, Meriel stood.

‘Why does a soul with no thoughts make me… !’

In my eyes, she looks no different than usual, but that doesn’t seem to be the case with Sharp.

he was terrified Sharp is not a race that fears death. However, the fear that their beliefs might be wrong seemed to come as an unbearable ordeal for them who had lived their lives religiously.

I approached Sharp, who closed her eyes in pain.

“Don’t trust your eyes too much.”

“Keugh… . Kuk… !”

“Because faith comes from the heart, not the eyes.”

Unable to answer my words, Dar passed out.

* * *

Yuri and Karin clashed their teeth as they watched Professor Ian’s battle.

Dark fog and inexorable ice.

‘That professor was really a devil worshiper… !?’

“Karin… . Aren’t you supposed to help the priests!?”

Yuri had intended to jump out a long time ago, but Karin kept shaking her head. Professor Ian’s voice kept ringing in my ears.

‘Doubt their teachings, chew them again, and stare at them.’

There was no doubt about the sharp eyes of Dar, but Karin calmly organized her thoughts.

Can there really be a demon so evil that it can even manipulate the mark of a goddess? There was no precedent.

It’s something that Karin can do because she’s human, but… . There may be things Sharp’s eyes can’t see.

The soul of a knight whose heart was burned black after being betrayed by the lord he served all his life, and the heart of a human who just lived an evil life, would both look black in Sharp’s eyes.

Sharp doesn’t understand human anguish and sorrow.

The cathedral teaches that you can just look at the light without doubt, but… . It is not advice from the heart to understand human beings.

Professor Ian’s heart was black in Dar’s eyes, so he might be a real demon.

If we believe the two evidences, the two names and the ghost, his darkness can be interpreted differently.

‘X’

Karin shook her head at Yuri and made an X with her fingers.

‘It is absolutely forbidden to arbitrarily judge someone as evil.’

She thought so as she looked at Professor Ian, who supported the fallen Tizan and Dar with an expressionless face.