Chapter 300 – Secret Fiona

The center of the broken wreckage.

Fiona lowered her head and muttered a lamentation, enveloped in a dark aura like the shadows of the middle of the night.

“The seething calm… You should have let me die.”

That’s right.

Because one of the worst cases our party envisioned is when Fiona dies while hiding that she is a cultist until the end.

The relationship between the Levantine Empire and the Righteous Church of Light will fall apart, and we will end up on the Most Wanted.

Abandoning the Levantine Empire that occupies half of the continent and starting?

It is no different from starting with a huge loss in the upcoming all-out war.

If the situation gets serious later, we will hurriedly hold hands again… By then, it must have already suffered significant damage.

It wouldn’t be easy to reveal that he was a cult after death. Fiona would have destroyed physical and human evidence long ago.

The only possibility is the degree of distortion of the body that humans who have accepted the power of evil spirits normally experience.

However, there is no way that Fiona, who specializes in camouflage, will remain suspicious even if she pretends to be like that.

So she pondered over her troubles, but Solari just tilted her head as she saw us.

‘I’m not going to die?’

More precisely, he said he would never let the seething silence die.

The reason was simple. Because being an apostle is not something anyone can do.

Just looking at the Righteous Church of Light right now, among so many followers, only Helena was born with the qualities to become a saint.

I am… Well, it’s a little unusual body, so it’s out of the question.

In any case, the other saints candidates in H&A awakened the qualities of a saint through individual episodes, but did not have them from the beginning.

Being an evil god doesn’t make the situation any different.

No, compared to the good side, the number of believers is insufficient, so they are the ones who use monsters to cover their strength. Finding talented people to become apostles will be even harder than we are.

So, some of the apostles that appear in the second half are rather eaten by power and become monsters without intelligence, or have clear weaknesses. There were quite a few guys with some flaws.

The order of the story was to catch the one with the most fatal defect in order.

At the time, if all the apostles were the same, their powers would be similar, so I thought it was a setting that was put in to increase the difficulty sequentially… The truth is, it was hard to find a good apostle.

Players can become any god’s apostle if they follow the route properly, and I also tried to make Solari an apostle, so I didn’t really realize it, but I still need to know.

The ability to accept God is extremely rare.

It’s not just because you have talent, it’s a bonus that you have to pour in a huge amount of protection to lay the basic foundation.

Didn’t Helena immediately mix her body with mine to fill her lack of protection?

Thanks to that, there were only three evil gods with perfect apostles from H&A.

Seething silence, narrow-minded usurpation, and ugly prosperity.

Since I took Karla, there’s no chance that the ugly prosperity will have a proper apostle.

In any case, in this situation, Fiona is an irreplaceable talent to the seething Goyo.

Even if it consumes a lot of divine power and blows the chance to check us, it must have been too wasteful to throw it away.

More than anything, Boiling Silence is an evil god specializing in stealth and camouflage.

He would have been confident enough to take Fiona out of this place if he had poured in his strength unsparingly.

Solari, hearing Fiona’s lamentation, smiled ferociously and said,

“That’s stupid. Do not think that God and man have the same vision. What is important is different, and what is dangerous is different.”

“Is that so. In the end, it must be my fault for not understanding the intentions of my master even though I served him for a long time.”

Fiona nodded calmly and admitted her mistake.

By this point, no one could deny Fiona’s favor with Seething Calm anymore.

Except for just two.

“Pi, Fiona? What is this…”

“Uh… Mother?”

Emperor and Crown Prince. Fiona smiled softly at the two who still wanted to deny reality.

A wise wife and a loving mother’s smile. But somehow an ominous smile.

Havel, right next to her, immediately swung her sword. The aura that had been tangible for her earlier flashed coolly.

Wedge-Ae-Ae-!

For some reason, Havel’s sword didn’t cut Fiona and went right through.

Havel, who twitched her eyebrows once, swung her sword one after another, but the result did not change.

Even her ghost passed through Fiona’s torso as if it had been cut, and neither Havel’s sword nor the aura sword on it could cut off a single part of Fiona’s clothes.

But even in this miraculous situation, Fiona continued to say what she was trying to say in a calm tone, as if she had no inspiration.

“It’s unfortunate that it ended like this, Your Majesty. I was really curious about what expression you would make if I held your heart and whispered love…”

“Hey Fiona you… !!”

Rodrigo roars. However, Fiona turned her head and looked at the prince as if she had no regrets about him.

“My dear. Do you want to become a good emperor like her father and have a good woman like this mother as your empress? I wanted to see you surviving alone after losing both of them one day, but it’s a pity.”

“Mother… Why… I am…”

The prince, staggering as if shocked, tries to approach Fiona. Havel snatched him up in an instant and landed next to Rodrigo.

If you can’t cut Fiona right away, she must be protecting the most important person first.

Havel stood up as if to block the emperor and the crown prince, and shouted in a loud voice.

“Household troops! Protect Your Majesty and the crown prince with top priority! I will stop this wicked cult here!”

“Yes!”

At those words, the knights formed an orderly formation and evacuated the emperor and crown prince outside.

Following him, nobles and attendants left the throne room, but Fiona did nothing but watch them.

Haha Fiona, who has not awakened as an apostle, has no combat abilities, so is it natural for her?

In the first place, that black haze is not Fiona, but the power that seething silence uses directly.

But she won’t be able to keep it forever. It couldn’t be easy to distort the sword master’s sword. Obviously, even at this moment, a huge amount of divine power must be consumed.

No matter how much the seething silence has hidden so far and recovered a considerable amount of power, it is bound to become a burden.

So, even if the attack doesn’t work right now, this side has to make their own preparations in case the air flow disappears.

Her party gave out weapons hidden in the inventory in advance, and cast magic so that they could trigger it at any time.

In addition, Iris and Solari installed double barriers of magic and divine power to cover the throne room.

Havel was also raising his aura with confidence when there was no one around to be swept away.

The blue aura became more and more transparent, and soon it became transparent like glass. It looked like it was preparing something.

That’s how she was fully prepared and surrounded Fiona… For some reason, he was smiling peacefully even in this situation.

“Oh my goodness. For a helpless woman like me, I never thought that sword masters and young heroes with high reputations would gather like this. This is kind of scary.”

“It is said that he received all the powers of a cardinal level only through camouflage, but he is a candidate for an apostle hiding in the imperial palace. Right now, it is protected by a silent veil. There is nothing wrong with being careful.”

That haze. So, I clearly remember that the Silent Veil is the main culprit that inflates the difficulty of Fiona’s boss fight.

An authority that hides its existence from the world and grants absolute evasion from all attacks for a certain period of time.

Since Fiona is not yet an apostle, the seething silence may have been the power she used overdoing it… In any case, the effect is absolute.

To the point where it would be better to focus on defense and evasion while waiting for it to release itself.

“Did you know that far? But then the question becomes even more curious. … Why do you think I’ve been waiting quietly all this time?”

“… What?”

Wasn’t it simply trying to find a corner to escape with the power of seething silence?

A dizzying sensation grazing the nape of the neck. As she reflexively twisted her waist, she saw a black awl approaching right in front of her eyes.

There was a shield spread out like a habit, but the awl passed through my shield so naturally and approached.

Let’s be frightened and swing the dagger.

Kang!

An awl that breaks too easily.

“… It is light.”

I was surprised to see it pass through the shield, but it was so light even though it was light.

It’s like a hollow attack from a newcomer who has just gained power…

No way?

I quickly looked back to where Fiona was, but there was Fiona nodding her head with a nonchalant expression just like before.

“Are you doing this? It was my first time, so it was a bit like that, but now I get the hang of it.”

Then, Fiona makes an awl and shoots it again.

I know the identity of that awl. Awl of Silence, one of the few combat-type powers of Seething Silence.

The effect is an unexpected blow that ignores all magical defenses.

At first glance, it sounds like a ridiculous fraudulent power, but the power is subtle and the physical defense cannot be ignored, so it can be easily blocked even with just one piece of armor. You can hit it with a weapon like you do now.

“Everyone gather in one place!”

After confirming that the party was back to back, he cast a telekinesis spell on the shining lion dagger. Then he drew a winding trajectory.

Visor! Visor! Visor!

A dagger that intercepts all the awls flying at different speeds from here and there at once, as if teasing this one.

In the first place, the awl of silence was an attack aimed at a moment of carelessness, and it was not an authority that was openly used like this, so it was natural.

However, Fiona couldn’t help but get used to her new powers. It was because the awl started to gain sharpness as it went further back.

When it was time to cut them all off, Fiona’s awl could no longer be called light.

Is it crazy to give you a new power at this timing?

It is still a silent tent that is extremely draining. Even sending it through the gap in the seal would have exponentially increased the consumption of divine energy.

As long as it’s not like the Solari in Solaris, it’s a mess without thinking back…

“Ah?”

Fiona, who looked at her incredulously, was enveloped in a haze that intensified. It was as if she would never tolerate her obstruction.

Perhaps sensing something, Solari opened her eyes and shouted.

“You insidious bastard! That’s not wasting time! In the meantime, I was making you an apostle!”

At Solari, who vents her exasperation, Fiona smiles with joy.

“Answer. But knowing what can I do? Whatever it is, the fact that the Seething Silence hides my existence does not change.”

“This… !”

Asked the snarling Solari.

“How come there is no way? Solari-sama is also a god.”

“… Doesn’t exist. I have it to be precise, but I can’t use it because I don’t have the strength.”

Solari, who gave up halfway on the descent of the main body, ran amok in Solaris. Of course, there’s no way the divine power I used back then has already recovered.

I don’t know if it’s a simple divine power fight, but in a fight that deals with miracles like this, firepower is inevitably lacking.

I didn’t know that the boiling silence here would go all-in on Fiona.

Of course, the result will be quite unstable because the force is lowered in a hurry while the seal has not been properly released…

Still, an apostle is an apostle. In H&A, it was the monster that tore down Havel, the sword master, and destroyed the imperial palace alone, which was no different from a battle fortress.

It was only for a while that my teeth gnashed at the thought that there was nothing I could do except watch in front of me.

Havel, who was quietly maintaining her concentration, glared at Fiona and asked.

“I can cut half of it. Can I ask for the rest?”

“Yes?”

The moment she looked back at Havel, wondering what this meant, her breath stopped.

The glass-like aura suddenly became completely transparent, and the sharp aura surrounding her Havel was gone.

It’s like being a normal person. But strangely, instinct keeps ringing the alarm.

That’s dangerous

Havel asked me again as I stood blankly.

“If you’re hiding your existence from the world, cutting it down with the world is enough. But now I can only cut half. I asked if I could leave the other half.”

Looking at Solari, he shook her head with a Gingaming expression.

“I think it’s still a little lacking?”

“… If it’s a little bit, I think I can do something.”

Mana and divine power do not mix, but they do not react.

If only enormous magic power and control power are supported, it can handle divine power. Just like how I forcibly ripped off the protection of the sun god the other day.

Pulling the trigger on Yong In-hwa, he grinned.

“We don’t have time, so let’s start right away.”

Awesome

I heard the sound of something breaking and reassembling inside my body.