## Chapter 1399 – Premonition

Anyway, Karin suggested that we deal with this threat quickly.

That’s a valid point. It’s right to deal with threats as quickly as possible. Ignoring something like this? That’s something Kim Kat wouldn’t allow.

“Sis is right. If we’re going to deal with it, we should do it right away.”
“Right?”

Karin nodded.

“Okay, everyone heard that. As Karin said, it’s best to deal with it right away. That’s how I feel, at least. I think you guys probably feel it a little less than I do.”
“Probably? Kat will probably feel it more keenly.”

I’m more sensitive to these kinds of things.

“Yeah. I feel it’s quite threatening. To explain how I feel… it’s a huge distortion of dimensions. A powerful force. This dimensional problem is a real problem. There are all sorts of things outside this world.”
“…That’s true.”
“So it’s that dangerous.”

The Shurdick Great Desert.

I once caught and killed the otherworldly soul eater, Karset, whom the Colossus had sealed there. That blue bastard was very strong, but he was no match for me. But he had a special ability.

He could instantly control all the humans in a very wide area.

Even the weak ones, making them come to his side. That’s how dangerous the other world is, full of bastards like that.

Ordinary people can’t deal with it.

If the Lich brought back someone like that again?
Very dangerous.

So we have to prepare right away.

“Hilde.”
“Yes!”

When I called Hilde, she raised her hand and answered energetically.

“When you go to the Great Temple later, make an official announcement.”
“Official announcement…! How should I announce it! Kat!”
“Hmm.”

How do I announce this?

That I suddenly felt an absurdly evil energy, so everyone should take care of themselves? Evacuate? Something incoherent like that wouldn’t make sense.

After organizing my thoughts for a moment, I continued.

“Say I prophesied it.”
“Prophecy!”
“Announce that the great Kim Kat, the Heavenly Demon, saw the future. A future where something absurdly terrible, something more evil than the demons, invades this land.”
“Understood!”

This Kim Kat prophesied.

These words will be incredibly effective. Usually, prophets are beings without any credibility, and I don’t trust prophets at all, but if the demigod Kim Kat, who has the trust of all the people, prophesied, everyone will believe it.

Of course, this isn’t a prophecy.
It’s just a feeling of an omen.

“Everyone will believe it if you say it’s Kat’s prophecy!”
“Wow. Now anything the Dark One says becomes a prophecy?”
“Because it’s Kat. This is obvious.”

That’s right.

“Hehe, that’s right. No one will believe it if Kat prophesied. Because he’s so revered.”

Claudia patted my shoulder with a smile.

“Right? Now you’ll almost have the title of a future-seeing demigod. Anyway, if I prophesied, people will easily follow this control.”

Good.

“Then Hilde, officially announce that I made such a prophecy now.”

Hilde is now the leader of the Heavenly Demon Church. As I saw last time, she’s very good at giving speeches, so she’ll make the announcement very well.

“Liz, put more budget into the air raid shelter construction.”
“Hmm… Okay. Let’s build the air raid shelter first.”
“Then I’ll go help with that construction.”

Karin helping with the air raid shelter construction?
That would be very good.

She has also become a master of civil engineering.

“Okay. Sis, do that… Ah. Wait. Sis?”
“Why?”
“You have to do that too, besides that. That. Evacuation drills for the people. You’re the Chief of Public Safety.”

As Chief of Public Safety, you have to oversee the evacuation drills.

“Then should I do that too?”
“No, wait. Kat. Karin. I think it’s better for me to direct the evacuation drills. It seems easier for the head of a religious group to order things. I’ll direct, so Karin, please control.”
“Well, okay. That’s not bad either.”

Good. It was decided that way.

“It’s definitely better for Hilde to announce the prophecy and then tell people to cooperate with the evacuation drills.”

This is how it should go.

“Then I’ll allocate a separate budget for the air raid shelter.”
“Okay.”

The agenda is progressing smoothly.

“Excellent.”

Kadie also nodded.

“Kadie. Then oversee the work.”
“I understand. I will do as instructed.”
“And after doing some work, Claudia. Winia. And Karin. Liztina. Hilde… is. Exclude her because she has a lot to do.”
“Huh?”

The five of us.

“Let’s get back together for defense training. Let’s do some combat training while assuming situations when something appears.”
“Okay. We have to do that too. We can meet after work, right?”
“Ugh, then shall we go after working hard once?”

That’s enough.

That’s how I quickly gave instructions. In the face of such a threat, I can’t dawdle. Now, we need to quickly get rid of what we can to minimize the damage.

Fortunately, I can make decisions and execute them very quickly and easily, so there’s no problem.

“Ari, prepare to produce food in case of an emergency.”
“Yes. I will.”

With Ari, we can handle even a large-scale evacuation.

“Then Kat. For the prophecy explanation, should I first announce the threat and then announce that Kat will defeat the enemies again, just like when you drove out the demons?”
“Hehehe, of course, you have to announce it that way.”

Hilde is smart.

“If I don’t reassure them, who will?”
“Yes!”
“Hilde is really smart.”
“It’s easy to manipulate people’s minds!”

Indeed.

“You really have a talent for the position of leader. Our ancient angel.”
“This is all talent passed down from the bloodline!”

With this, we can say that the preparations are complete. We can inform everyone quickly because Risha is here.

“Then let’s go to work.”
“Yes!”

That’s how we left the conference room.

Now we will do our jobs in our respective places.

* * *

I concluded that this threat was the Lich’s machinations.

It’s hard to think of anything else. If I had to point out anything, there’s Lucifer of Pandemonium or the Spirit Kings of the Spirit Realm, but I’ll keep those in mind, but the important thing is the Lich.

He definitely has a lot of means that I don’t know about.

I was quite embarrassed when he sent the Dark Knight. Of course, even such a Lich bastard was relatively useless in the face of the demons’ massive bombardment, but if he has that much ability, he must have something.

And that something is the dimensional distortion I felt this time.

“Hmm.”

Anyway, I execute all the planned things and keep a close eye on the dimension. I constantly watch the trends. I focused on that, and they also focused on their work. They had the ability, and the people followed the control well, so the plan proceeded without a hitch.

Of course, nothing dramatic happened even after a few days.

The same thing didn’t happen again. Originally, just because there’s an omen doesn’t mean something happens immediately.

“There have been many unusual reports recently.”
“What kind of reports?”

Kadie came to my office to inform me because we are preparing to deal with the emergency. Thinking about it now, the positions are reversed. Kadie is coming to tell me about work.

“There are reports that a lot of damage is being caused by spirits. Reports of demons being sighted are also appearing so much that they cannot be ignored.”
“In the capital?”
“No. A little further away.”

The Heavenly Demon Empire is vast. This kind of thing always happens throughout the country.

“When I was working as a saint in the capital of the Karga Kingdom, there were quite a few reports like this, but this time.”
“It’s an unusual situation.”
“That’s right.”
“We need to check it out.”

In the past, the Spirit King came over from the Spirit Realm. At the time, I caught the Spirit King, who was taking a big penalty, with some difficulty.

“Maybe a gate to the Spirit Realm was created due to the dimensional distortion. Considering that the farmland became a completely ice fortress at that time, it’s not good.”

I said that and immediately got up from my seat.

“Kadie. Keep working. I’m going out with Risha for a while.”

Kadie nodded, and I immediately went to find Risha.

* * *

East, west, south, and north of the Heavenly Demon Empire.

The city at the end of it.

A new church of the Brass Celestial Angel Society was established there. They were born and raised in a polytheistic country from the beginning, so they didn’t care whether the national religion of the Heavenly Demon Empire was the Heavenly Demon Church or anything else.

They just requested to build a church in my country.

I gladly allowed it.

Because we were eating from the same pot.

They all thought so too. Therefore, the feelings that the paladins of the Brass Celestial Angel Society had for me were friendship and respect. I also think so.

Anyway, shouldn’t we support the Brass Celestial Angel Society when they ask to build a church? These priests were beneficial just by their existence. They were filial sons from the ruler’s point of view because they were enthusiastic about maintaining public order and subjugating demons and heretics.

So I fully supported them.

Because there are almost no superhuman soldiers that can be operated now. We have to treat them well and get help. The paladins who received the support did the same things as usual. Maintaining public order and collecting information.

“The frequency of appearances of spirits and sea monsters is increasing.”

The southernmost part of the Heavenly Demon Empire.

The coastal city of Calothia.

The paladin Tudorrec, who is in charge of the branch of the Brass Celestial Angel Society there, reported that.

“After collecting the words of the residents who have been living here, they all say that it is a clearly strange phenomenon. Even if it’s sea monsters, the appearance of so many spirits is… a very unusual thing.”
“The rampage of spirits.”

Indeed.

It wasn’t just happening intensively in a specific area. Overall. Damage caused by spirits increased here and there in this world.

But I didn’t particularly feel a gate to the Spirit Realm…

“Can you organize the report and give it to me?”
“Here it is.”
“Thank you.”

I took the report and talked with him while looking at it.

The rampage of sea monsters.

This is not an unfamiliar thing. When I went to the sea last time. At that time, we were not only attacked by sea monsters, but we also annihilated a heretical group led by mermaids.

In addition, a giant sea monster called the Sea God also landed… After finishing the story, I came outside.

“Risha. Spirits and sea monsters are rampaging at the same time.”
“It seems that the two monsters are not unrelated.”

That’s what I think too.

“The possibility that the Lich scattered the boundaries with the Spirit Realm and stimulated the sea monsters… is not impossible.”
“I think so too.”

Heretics communicated with each other.

The beliefs of the mermaids alone are like that. They are always growling, saying that they will wipe out all the humans on the ground and submerge this world in water. And the Lich is hostile to humans, although I don’t know well. In addition, the spirits are psychopaths who want to kill humans as soon as they see them.

It’s not strange at all if those crazy guys join hands.

A long time ago. When I went to Sangula, an illegal slave trading city. Heretics were active there. To get fresh humans. It happened to be a coastal area. Thinking that way, there is a possibility that the heretics on the ground and the mermaids contacted each other.

“Lich, you bastard… if that’s all true.”

You’re a really transcendent insider.

Not only colluding with demons, but also with the Spirit Realm, and this time with sea monsters.

“Then what are you going to do now?”
“First of all, I have to find out about other places, but I have to do what I can right now.”

We can track down things about spirits or sweep away these sea monsters once. I’m just thinking, but monsters that are hostile to humans may join forces and attack.

That shouldn’t happen.

Wow, but why do all races hate humans?

It’s really amazing.