## Chapter 1099 – Krassheim

“Hehehe, it seems you’ve already heard everything. Elise. As you know, I have slain the Great Demon Andromalius and restored justice to this land.”

I suddenly feel much better at the thought of being able to brag to Elise. I appealed to my competence, flaunting my arrogance.

Who else would kill a Great Demon with a party of four…?

Of course, there are many Great Demons in Pandemonium, but it’s incredibly difficult to butcher such a powerful one with just four people. And to top it off, Andromalius surrendered to me and became my subordinate.

“It was an extremely difficult task, but nothing I couldn’t handle.”
“Indeed…! The Saint is truly an exemplar for all clergy!!!”

—*Thump!*

Elise shouted in an emotional tone and stood up.

“To permanently eliminate a Great Demon! This means that one of the greatest threats prevalent in our world has disappeared! And by the Saint’s hand!”
“Of course!”
“Thanks to the Saint’s achievements, the greatest emotions of my life are being renewed one after another…!”
“They will continue to be renewed in the future, so prepare to be even more moved!”
“Understood!”

Elise’s eyes were practically sparkling now.

But she didn’t seem to have changed much since the last time I saw her. Is she not growing any taller now?

“While we were struggling against those countless demons, the Saint was busy slaying a Great Demon! But I already believed it. I believed that no matter what evil happened, the Saint would solve it!”
“Elise, that’s not something to believe.”

I also stood up and looked at Elise as I spoke.

“What…?”

Elise wore a questioning expression at my words.

“It’s not something to believe, it’s obvious.”
“Obvious?”
“Yes! Elise! It’s not even something you need to believe! It’s completely obvious to me! It’s not because people believe they can drink water that they drink it! It’s because drinking water is obvious that they drink it!!!”
“O-Oh, those are wise words!”

Elise shouted with a radiant demeanor, as if flowers had bloomed behind her head.

“It’s not because people believe they can drink water that they drink it… it’s because drinking water is obvious that they drink it! That is the Saint’s principle of action in doing justice! Doing it because it is obvious!”

I don’t know exactly, but it seems that’s my principle of action.

“A truly obvious act of chivalry! There are people in this world who are born with the destiny of heroes and champions! That is exactly who the Saint is!”
“Oh, my.”

I shook my head.

“Elise, do you believe in destiny?”
“Destiny, you say?”
“There’s nothing predetermined.”

This isn’t destiny!

“It’s just moving forward on your own!!!”

I created it!

There’s nothing I can’t do, not after I’ve already come this far! I don’t doubt anything about myself! This isn’t destiny, it’s the path I’ve created!

That is the Heavenly Demon’s Way of the Conqueror.

“Such…!”

I believe in myself more than Elise believes in me. I was already worshiping myself as an individual. A state of respecting and worshiping oneself. This was a state no different from the immortals spoken of in ancient Chinese Taoism.

“This is.”

I reached out my hand to Elise, who was already kneeling in admiration.

“Your Divine Friend, Elise.”
“Nothing is as precious as my connection with the Saint…! Long live!”
“Long live!!!”

—*Grasp!*

I grabbed Elise’s hand tightly.

“And look at this!”
“Ah! Saint!!”

—*Whoosh!*

Kicking off the ground, I grabbed Elise’s hand tightly and spun around like crazy.

—*Whirr!*

The furniture inside the reception room rattled as Elise’s feet lifted off the ground due to the fierce spinning.

“I thought you were saying something good, but suddenly you’re doing something so rash again!! Stop! Please stop! Quiet in the room!”
“I can do things like this now!!!”
“You’ve been doing that since a long time ago, haven’t you!”
“Hahahaha!!”

Kicking off the ground and jumping, I hugged Elise’s waist with one hand, spun like a drill in the air like a missile, stepped on the wall, and sprinted across the ceiling.

—*Whoosh!*

“Saint, please calm down! Running on the ceiling is forbidden, forbidden!”
“Watch closely, Elise!!!”
“I don’t know what you’re telling me to watch!”

Releasing Elise, I showed her the elevated state by displaying all the eccentricities I could perform.

Performing strange rotations in the air or twisting the body. This is something that even those who have trained their bodies and skills to the limit cannot do. Such extreme overreactions were the simplest way to prove an individual’s superhumanity.

—*Tap tap tap!*

I stood on my head and used only the index finger of my right hand to support all my weight, hopping around the reception room.

“Saint, please stop! This is my Order’s reception room!”

I think that’s enough.

“Okay, you have to be quiet indoors. Anyway, did you see it well?”
“I did see it all, but I don’t know what you mean by asking if I saw it well.”
“I just wanted to show you my superhumanity.”
“You don’t have to express it with such frantic overreactions, I already feel your superhumanity through your usual actions!”
“Okay, okay. Let’s be quiet since we’re indoors.”
“O-Oh!”

Elise sat down in her seat.

“Hoo. It seems that nothing about the Saint has changed.”
“Only my power has changed. I am continuing to move forward while enforcing my justice, as I have always done.”

I also sat back down in my seat.

“Indeed… It’s a truly admirable and respectable mindset. It is those with the right mindset, like the Saint, who will gather together to make this world a paradise.”
“Paradise, huh.”

The doctrine of the Holy Light Cross Society.

“If we completely eliminate the evil demons of Pandemonium and annihilate the heretics, this world will…!”
“Not to mention the powerful enemies from other dimensions.”
“Enemies from other dimensions… Certainly.”

There are too many enemies in the world.

“Anyway, Saint… That.”
“Hmm?”
“That…”

Suddenly, Elise, her face flushed, fidgeted and lowered her head deeply, then cautiously looked up at me and opened her mouth.

“That… Saint. I want to hear that.”
“Hear what?”
“The story of… slaying Andromalius.”
“Why are you so shy?”
“I have been eagerly anticipating hearing that story…!”
“Hehehe, of course. Then I have to tell it.”

I explained in detail the story of meeting and killing Andromalius.

Starting from searching the inside of the encirclement and encountering Andromalius sitting on a chair made of demon corpses, to the fact that he suddenly had a seizure and attacked, and finally winning the fight.

“Kuh…!”

Elise clenched her teeth and exuded fighting spirit as she listened to the story.

“And! Saint! I know there’s another story after that!”
“There were guys who tried to steal the Great Demon’s soul.”
“Those heretics!!! We already know all about that!”

Since the information has been shared, everyone will know about what I reported. So Elise will know too.

“Yeah. That’s a serious matter too. They used long-range gate magic and brought Death Knights to the scene as soon as the Great Demon died.”

I calmly conveyed the facts as they were.

“The number of troops was over a hundred. That’s how many there were, including Death Knights, Ghouls, and heretics.”
“So many!”

Elise grabbed her head and exclaimed in horror.

This reaction is too good.

“Of course, they’re just going to become minced meat in my hands. I ground them all up and stopped their evil plot. Oh, by the way, Elise, what did you hear about who was behind it?”
“I heard it was the leader of the heretics!”

For now, the thing about the Lich is just our speculation, so that’s how I reported it.

“Elise, the identity of that heretic leader is likely to be a Lich.”

But it doesn’t matter if I tell Elise our speculation.

“A Lich, you say!”
“Yeah. A Lich. And an Ancient Lich at that.”
“An Ancient Lich!!! What on earth is that!!!”

Elise was greatly shocked.

“When I heard it last time, you told me it was just a guess…!”

I said it once before.

“Yeah. I told you that when I met with the exploration team last time, right? But that was circumstantial evidence. This time, I talked to him directly.”
“Directly!!!”
“Elise, how much do you know about Liches?”
“I… I know that they are evil wizards who have turned themselves into undead. They possess extremely strong power, and are the pinnacle of necromancy… S-Surely! Then the reason why the undead appeared is!”

Yeah. The reason why the undead have been appearing so far is all because that Lich was behind it. There are many necromancers under the Lich. It wasn’t that the heretics and necromancers were cooperating.

They are both subordinates of the Lich.

But there’s no way the Lich would have mass-produced such shabby undead himself, so there’s a high probability that there are many necromancers under him. In other words, it’s speculated that he’s increasing the skill of his subordinates, or doing some kind of experiment.

I told Elise everything, even about the conversation I had with him this time.

“That Lich was controlling everything. I’ve made that assumption while working so far.”
“If it’s the Saint’s assumption, there’s no way it’s wrong!”

Elise sends almost infinite trust.

“Anyway, that Ancient Lich is trying to steal the power of the beings sealed inside the ancient dungeons that are sleeping in this world. The demon incident this time was also his doing. He was also aiming for the Great Demon’s soul.”
“T-To think there was such a serious plot…!”

Elise lowered her head and rested her chin on the table, grabbing her head as if she had just heard a news flash about an asteroid falling.

“Saint! Then what should we do! And what exactly is the identity of that Lich! Did you find out anything while talking to him…!”

That is.

“I don’t know either.”

I haven’t figured it out yet.

“Elise, that’s all I’ve found out so far. The rest needs more investigation. He didn’t tell me his identity either.”
“Kuh… That’s a shame! But if it’s the Saint, you will definitely find out! I will help as much as I can!”
“Hehehe, that would be great.”

The Holy Light Cross Society will also delve deeply into this matter.

“Anyway, to summarize, there is a Lich behind those heretics we have been catching so far. This was just a guess, but now it’s confirmed. And he wants chaos in this world right now. And he’s planning to use some kind of evil means in that chaos to increase his power.”

We have to stop that.

“We have to stop that from now on.”
“That’s right!”
“He’s the one who connected Pandemonium and this world to get the Great Demon’s soul. It’s too obvious that such a guy will do something more serious and terrible.”
“He definitely will! Such an evil being!”

Elise showed infinite hostility and wore a determined expression. Yeah, who else but the clergy would get through this difficulty?

Anyway, I explained things about this situation to Elise in that way, and we shared stories about our recent situations.

“Oh, and you know the story about the Valkyrie appearing, right?”
“Ah! Now that I think about it, there was that too! I heard the news!”
“I have to brag about myself again!”
“S-Surely! The Saint also!!!”
“Don’t be so sure, that’s exactly what happened.”

Next, I explained everything about the battle with the runaway Valkyrie to Elise. But it seemed she didn’t know that I was involved in it.

Still, I received the main award, didn’t she know?

It seemed that the information wasn’t fully conveyed because the distance was far.

“Hoo… Still, to have faced the Valkyrie. Although it’s a fallen Valkyrie, I can’t erase the bitter feeling. Surely that Valkyrie also swept through the battlefield as an angel who destroyed evil in the past.”
“Maybe she did. It’s a pity.”

She was damn strong.

“The more I hear the story, the more I can’t even imagine what would have happened if the Saint hadn’t been there… You are truly a born hero. All the damage could be prevented because the Saint was there.”
“That’s right.”

This world can’t function without me anymore.

It was at that moment that I was talking to Elise.

“Saint.”
“Hmm?”

Suddenly, Elise’s voice seemed to sink.

“By the way… There’s one important thing I need to say.”
“Oh. What is it?”
“Why didn’t you send a letter?”

Wasn’t that what she said while looking at my face?

“What?”

Her attitude changed drastically.

“I’m talking about the letter.”

As expected…! Was she worried about this!