Chapter 117 - Ah, It's the Supreme! (1)
Goel couldn’t help but breathe heavily.
‘Ah, I really didn’t want to say it!’
But if he holds it in, his insides will explode!
This damn household! I’m so frustrated, I just have to say it!
‘If I hold it in while talking, I’ll really die from internal injury!’
In the end, Goel, who shouted out the whole truth, finally felt a bit refreshed and stretched his back.
There! How is it, are you coming to your senses now!
But even though he went through the trouble of telling the truth, those who heard it aren’t reacting. They’re just blinking their eyes.
Goel’s eyebrows couldn’t help but wriggle.
“…Did you hear what I said?”
“What? Supreme God?”
“Yes!”
“Who?”
“Isaac!”
“Who?”
At that reaction, Goel pounded his chest.
Ah, seriously!
“I said he chose the Supreme God! At the Ordination Ceremony! I said he was chosen by the Supreme God!”
“Goel.”
“Yes!”
“Did you dream it?”
Ah!!
Goel grabbed his head as if he was going crazy.
“Ah, I’m telling you it’s true! I went and saw it at the Berit house! Why would the Berit family try to adopt that bastard and try to kill him at the Gold Pentagon? Why would those guys who are noble and think everyone besides themselves are commoners go that far! Why do you think they did that!”
But Father and his younger brother had faces as if asking what kind of nonsense he was spouting.
“There’s no way a brat like that can choose something that great.”
“That’s right, Brother. Even if Isaac is cute and lovable, that really doesn’t seem to be the case. What if you can’t even distinguish it from a dream…”
Moreover, his younger brother is even sending pitying gazes as if he doesn’t believe it.
“I’ll tell the White faith, so why don’t you go sleep deeply…”
“Aaaaarrrrgggh! Aaaahhh! Aaah!!”
Goel felt like he was going to explode and die.
No, it would be hard for me to believe it too!
Honestly, I wouldn’t believe it either!
“Brother. Do you want to use Isaac’s attachment doll? It will help you sleep deeply.”
When Lilai brought a child’s pillow and doll and made him hug it tightly, Goel was on the verge of going crazy.
But his younger brother was seriously worried about him.
“Don’t worry about the efficacy! I put the White’s sleep divine technique on this pillow!”
“Aaaaaaaahhh!”
Goel threw the pillow and tore the attachment doll in half.
I’m really! I’m going to die from an anger-induced illness because of this damn Saintess’s family! Just go to ruin, Eshua!
How is it that there’s no normal person in this family?
“Ah, okay! If you don’t want to believe it, don’t! Even though you finally got the Pope’s family’s leash, if you want to just blankly let it go, go ahead! I will take Isaac and leave this house!”
At those words, Lilai and even Elai widened their eyes.
…What? Who’s taking who?
Him? Isaac??
“Brother!”
“Yes! Now do you believe it?”
“Isaac likes peanut candies the most. He drinks honey milk tea before going to bed. Make sure he brushes his teeth too, and…”
This crazy bastard?!
“And for the coming-of-age ceremony, make sure to prepare a ceremonial robe with Hisk Mountain fabric!”
Instead of answering, Goel grabbed Lilai’s collar. Even so, Lilai invited Goel’s fist, saying that a blue flower on the chest would be good.
But at that point, Elai seemed to find it strange.
“…Don’t tell me, is it really true?”
“Yes!!”
Please believe what people say, you damn birds!
But Elai narrowed his brows with a shitty expression.
“How can that kid choose the Supreme God?”
“I don’t know that either.”
“With that faith?”
“I said I don’t know that either?”
Elai looked up at the sky. His face looked quite serious.
Was the Supreme God… a pervert?
Or did the Supreme God attach to Isaac because he’s a Saint?
Is what we’ve done so far wrong? Did we have to do the opposite to receive love?
“Excuse me, Father?”
Goel broke out in a cold sweat.
Father’s expression, which seems to be having strange concerns, doesn’t look good.
But soon Elai shook his head.
‘No, God’s taste doesn’t matter. Since faith can be buried from the moment he chooses the Supreme God.’
The god that no one could choose.
An existence that is superior even to the other gods.
They say he chose the Supreme God, who is a divine existence among gods, so what are you going to do! Are you going to suppress the Supreme God and drag him to an inquisition?
But at that point, Elai became serious in a different sense.
He had no choice.
‘What kind of existence is the Supreme God?’
It’s not for nothing that the Gold made such a fuss.
The existence of the Supreme God is truly an immense fortune, but it’s an existence that no one has ever experienced and can’t grasp, so it’s actually scary.
No, that’s not what’s important.
Isaac was in danger in a different sense.
‘The Supreme God level is too much to handle in the first place!’
The opponent is too strong!
And then-
“Master, it’s a big deal.”
“!”
The knight urgently fell in front of him. The face of the messenger, who usually doesn’t lose his composure, had rarely turned pale.
Elai frowned as if he was displeased.
“What is it?”
“The Red faith has brought an inquisition against young master Isaac.”
…What?!
* * *
“What? An inquisition interrogating for heresy?”
Shablis, the Crown Prince of the Empire, narrowed his brows at the unexpected news.
“They brought an inquisition against young master Isaac? Is that true?”
However, at the Crown Prince’s words, the Black Cardinal cut him off.
“Please stop caring about him now.”
“What?”
“He was under suspicion, yet he deliberately crawled into where the Sixth Demon was and was looking at the demon’s letters? He’s out of the question. I didn’t know he lacked common sense to that extent.”
“You’re merciless.”
“I just don’t deal with people who lack common sense, that’s all.”
At the Black Cardinal’s words, the Crown Prince laughed.
“Is there a reason you sent assassins to Count Molech to get rid of young master Isaac?”
“Isn’t that because Your Highness said you really wanted to get close to Isaac Eshua?”
“…What did you say?”
“If the Crown Prince saves him from almost dying at the hands of assassins, he’ll develop a favorable impression. Then, as an Eshua who can’t repay the favor, wouldn’t he naturally pledge loyalty to the Imperial Family rather than breaking his own head?”
Because the Eshua are people who must repay favors.
Then the Crown Prince seemed dumbfounded.
Hah, is he really a priest? Anyway, they’re just like the crows of the North who don’t care about means and methods.
Well, they have the best skills as they guard the most important place in the Empire. And they’re also the Empire’s greatest minds.
But he didn’t say anything if he only instigated Count Molech.
“Wasn’t it you, Your Excellency? The one who started the machination war at the Black Pentagon. You’re the one who made all the families attach assassins to each other and fight, but.”
“It meant for the trash to fall off on their own. Even now, there are piles of problems, and they’re leisurely selecting saints? It’s a waste of time. We need combat power to deploy right away.”
“But as a scholar, weren’t you interested in young master Isaac’s answer sheet?”
The task given to the apprentice priests during the Pentagon was ‘How to catch the Skeleton King’. Isaac gritted his teeth too, but in the end, he submitted the task.
As a result, didn’t the professors and priests greatly marvel and be moved by Isaac’s answer sheet?
-To think of such a method to catch the Skeleton King!
-Is he truly a genius!
-The Blue is not dead yet!
However, the Black Cardinal, who had been silent, laughed.
“If that’s really what he wrote himself.”
The Black Cardinal got up from his seat.
“Anyway, please stop caring about that kid now. The inquisition will begin right after the Black Pentagon. Unless he has a way to prove his innocence at the god selection, the Blue will be exterminated at this rate.”
Yes, that’s what everyone thought.
All those gathered at the Black Pentagon.
“From now on, Part 2 of the Offering Ritual will begin. Since there are dignitaries present, you must never make a mistake. First, we will have time to select a god to make a contract with through the god selection.”
“…”
“…Don’t mind the priests glaring at you.”
How can we not mind!
The young apprentice priests had their pupils shaking. That’s because there were more inquisitors lying in wait at the god selection venue than apprentice priests.
As if they could finally catch someone, they were glancing at someone with sparkling eyes.
Is that all? Even the priests from the Gold side are only glaring at Isaac.
So Shuri had no choice but to hold his forehead.
‘Isaac, this bastard. What the hell did he do again?’
Not only did he keep letting the Sixth Demon go while going to find him, but he also said he could read the message left by the demon.
Well, even Shuri didn’t expect the message thing.
‘I can’t believe Isaac can read the Skeleton King’s code.’
It is said that Isaac was attacked by assassins at the place where the Sixth Demon’s message was.
So the Red priests were excited and started interrogating him about why he was there.
Well, Isaac answered in a textbook manner, ‘I was just investigating because I felt the energy of the Fourteen Demons,’ but. Well.
-We already know that your name and praise for the Skeleton King are written in this message left by the Sixth Demon.
-Confess that you serve the Skeleton King while I’m asking nicely.
-Fucking hell, what are you talking about, you bastards?
-Are you still going to deny it like this? Even the content.
-You fucking bastards! It doesn’t say anything like that! You want to die?
-…?!
‘Isaac, you stupid fool!’
Even if it’s the Blue, they don’t know the language of demons!
As expected, the Reds were excited and thought about taking Isaac away.
But the reason they didn’t take him away right away and came to the Black Pentagon?
‘Naiser will choose and summon the Red God here.’
If a god is summoned, Isaac, who chose an evil god, will be punished by the Red God. Then the evil god will also be destroyed together.
In other words, it was a show in front of the dignitaries.
“Is it true that the Blue has fallen?”
“Didn’t I say I would show you the evidence today?”
Yes!
This is more definite than a simple inquisition!
A way to send the Blue to the abyss in an instant in front of everyone and elevate their own status.
‘Those bastards. Judging by their grinning faces, they’re convinced an evil god will definitely appear.’
But in such a situation, Isaac is grinning as if he’s crazy instead.
‘What is he thinking?’
It was then.
The Papacy priests shouted to the apprentices.
“Now, let’s start the god selection. Put holy power into the orb and call a god.”
With those words, everyone started putting energy into the god stones. Sounds of cheering or sighing at the names that appeared on the god stones could be heard from all over.
As they study the crests and names of gods for this day, they can immediately distinguish the rank of the chosen god.
And Isaac, holding the god stone, couldn’t stop grinning.
‘Yeah, it’s the Gold God, right?’
Heh, I thought it would be a life of hardship since it was a nameless low-ranking god. But the Gold God!
‘Is it the God of Wealth after all? Is that it?’
Can I really eat it raw like this?
No. Honestly, now that it’s come to this, it doesn’t have to be the God of Wealth.
Any god from the Gold would be great. The gods belonging to the Gold were all wealthy gods such as the god of abundance.
‘Yeah, as long as it’s not the damn Supreme God from the Gold side.’
If he chooses it, the status will change, but well, that’s fine. Because that side is a bit of a headache as it causes a lot of trouble in many ways.
It was then.
“What, you still haven’t chosen?”
“The Blue is finished now too.”
At the sneers of those following the Red family, the Blue team gritted their teeth.
The Gold Cardinal seemed to have his eyes closed and was casting some kind of spell.
“Now hurry up.”
At those words, Shuri looked at Isaac with a tense face.
Isaac held the orb and injected holy power.
‘God of Wealth! God of Wealth!’
Even if it’s the God of Wealth, it’s a bit short of a high-ranking god, but it’s still okay!
‘Wealth! Wealth!’
And god selection is a structure where a god is summoned by the priest’s earnest prayers. If you call a specific god, they respond to the call more easily.
At the same time, light began to ripple in Isaac’s orb. But soon, Isaac flinched at the crest and name that appeared.
[Wait. Isn’t this the Supreme God’s crest?]
The crest shone brilliantly as if telling him to look at it, but Isaac wriggled his eyebrows.
No! I don’t need it!
‘God of Wealth, God of Wealth, God of Wealth no matter what!’
Perhaps in response to Isaac’s prayer, the crest began to change, and the corners of Isaac’s mouth lifted.
Yes! That’s right! That’s it!
Here it comes!
‘The Gold’s God of Wealth!’
At that sight, the priests began to stir. And finally, at the confirmed crest notation, the corners of Isaac’s mouth reached his ears.
“Yes! God of weal…”
But then-
As if telling it to move aside, the crest changed, pushing away the God of Wealth.
‘Huh?’
Everyone stirred at that changed pattern.
[It’s the Supreme God.]
…What?
What?!!