Chapter 673 – [White Church]

A scream echoes from the academy.

It started with the residents who lived near the Institute of Industrial Science and Technology.

“Kyaaaaah?!?!”

“What?! Knight? No, what?!”

“Why is the Holy Knight of the White Church in the academy?!?!”

They were ruthless The meaning of taking a hostage is that you put your life on hold, but on the contrary, it means that you don’t care how much you get hurt as long as your life is attached.

As the paladins swing their swords, several villagers are wounded and bleeding. They are dragged along, restrained, and locked in one of the warehouses used by the Institute of Science and Technology.

“These children!!!!!”

“I don’t know why there are Paladins from the Kingdom, but kill them!!!”

Those who could fight at the academy, mainly students, academy staff, and professors, moved quickly while coping with the paladins.

Even so, the academy is not going to go easy on it. Even in the last year, there have been endless incidents, such as the pirate king Edward’s armed demonstration or the appearance of a dragon, so his ability to cope with situations was excellent.

“No?!”

“Your self-fantasy doesn’t work?!?!”

However, all opponents possessed a piece of Zantmann that nullified self-fantasy, not a body-enhancing type.

It doesn’t just stop there, but the owner of the sculpture can use self-fantasy, so the difference is even greater.

Heheh?!?!”

“Professor got hit!!!!”

“These bastards!!!!!”

If you are a professor at the academy, those who have achieved achievements in their respective fields. Also, the science fiction professor was a talented person that wouldn’t be strange to be the leader of a nation’s knights.

However, the self-fantasy was invalidated and there was no business in front of the violence of numbers. He did his best to protect his students, but he had a limit.

[To all the residents of the academy!!! Currently, the Holy Knights of the White Church have invaded the academy!!! Please evacuate to the evacuation center in each area first.

Even the students who were broadcasting were beaten by them. Fortunately, at least a little bit, the residents told us what to do.

Residents chose to evacuate as informed on the broadcast. After some time, the head of the department, Rurikies, would appear to solve the situation.

“Hold on a little longer!!!! The head of department is coming!!!!”

“When the head of the department comes, you guys are all dead!!!!”

And as if in response to their expectations, a huge golden dragon appeared from the sky.

[These crazy fanatics finally did their job!!!!!]

“It’s the head of the department!!!!”

Ruri appeared with a roar that resonated throughout the academy and landed in front of the Paladins with a growl.

A gigantic creature looking at a high-rise building shows hostility towards them without hesitation. But her paladins, though nervous but not fearful, confront her with her swords.

Fanaticism is like that. Under the indulgence of God’s name, he believes that everything he does is justice and behaves like a human without brakes.

Even if he dies, he only thinks of it as a martyrdom going to the side of God. Because there is salvation even after death, radical people who believe in religion cause suicide bombing.

[Just search]

With those simple words, Ruri’s figure disappeared.

She didn’t leave the place, she just became invisible. It’s hard to deal with even if you can see it, but it’s even more difficult to deal with because you can’t see it.

Kwak Kwah Kwah!!!!

Eventually, as the foot or tail passed by, the Paladins were swept away along with several academy buildings. Without screaming or dying, his body exploded and died.

[Invisible Dragon], One of Ruri’s self-fantasies and the only battle-type self-fantasy, is a body-enhancing self-fantasy. Therefore, it is not affected by the fragments of Zantman.

No, it doesn’t matter if you take it. Even with such a penalty, with human specs, it’s not enough to defeat a giant creature called a dragon.

“Rurikies!!!!”

[Yes, fanaticism is better than crazy. Did you really hit it right this time? It seems that the White Church wants to be destroyed, right?]

As her Lurie made her appearance, Cardinal Pierre, the commander of this plan, appeared before her as well.

Like other paladins, he had no fear. But he wasn’t nervous, he was rather confident.

“Do you think you can destroy it?”

[Then did you think it would be fine?]

“Before you put your hands on this side…Wouldn’t it be nice to think about the hostages we’ve taken?”

[……..]

Some time has already passed since the incident occurred.

Hundreds of paladins held hostages well over a hundred. Besides, there must have been no preparations, so even if the captured hostages were fantasy-powered, several of them would die at once with their swords.

[Do I look like an idiot who would sacrifice the entire academy for just a few?]

“If it weren’t for that, you wouldn’t have come up with this plan. Do you think we wouldn’t have investigated the four years since you’ve been interfering with continental history for thousands of years?”

[……..]

The fact that Luri intervened in continental history and gained influence in society while running the academy meant that, conversely, it was an opportunity for them to learn about Luri as well.

After thousands of years of analyzing Ruri’s behavioral patterns and finding the best way, she is a hostage after all.

It would be foolish to give up the entire academy just for the sake of a hundred hostages, but… Ruri’s heart wasn’t hard enough to abandon those hundred people.

It’s a different matter from Ruri being a descendant of the highest god. The alignments are also divided among her Ruri, so even if she is Mad Max Ruri, who is a personal character, she abandons them, but as a dragon Ruri, she cannot abandon them.

Although now it includes other reasons as well.

[………Great]

Cardinal Pierre smiled at Ruri’s words after thinking about it.

[Instead, from now on, don’t kill a single person from the academy. If I kill even one person, I’ll treat you guys as having no intention of keeping us alive, and I’ll start moving as a hostage and a fool]]

“Don’t let that happen”

Cardinal Pierre clicked his tongue. In her heart, she wants to kill all the students of different races, but if she acts hastily, Ruri moves.

Even a fanatic, he had the ability to see farther than what was in front of his eyes. That is why he has survived to this day and has risen to the top of the Continental Ten.

First of all, it was decided to guarantee the safety of students of different races. But he did not say that he captured them unharmed.

[And know that you will pay for this in the near future]

“However much”

[You will definitely regret that line]

Lurie laughed at Cardinal Pierre as she thought of what was to come.

*        *    *

There were some people who were captured by the Paladins of the Kingdom, but there were more people who escaped.

As long as the academy is anchored in the territory of the kingdom, there is nowhere to escape, so what they mainly target is not human students, but students of different races.

The White Church is a religion of human supremacy. This race is persecuted under the name of the goddess.

Oddly enough, there is a heterogeneous tribe that believes in the white goddess in spite of such a religion, but in the end it is a minority. Ordinary heterogeneous people did not like the White Church and the White Church, and began to evacuate quickly the moment they heard the news of their invasion.

However, if the places to escape are limited, they will only be driven to one place.

To another Continental Ten River whose name is spread throughout the continent and at the academy. To a man who, despite being human, is friendly with other races.

The third prince of the empire is a human, but his name has spread to other races as well. Even if they were elves, they led their food culture, and Asterope, the daughter of Pleione, the head of the elves, was by his side, and the accessibility of the different races was relatively low, such as demolishing the delusion of Garuna Highlands.

However, even though they flocked to the dormitory where the 3rd prince was staying, he was not there. There were only his acquaintances.

“Please go inside little by little! If you push each other, you will get hurt!!!”

“There are still plenty of seats! Come in slowly!”

Luminous and Hui Jinyu guided the crowd of students from different races and organized the situation to avoid further confusion.

You can fight the armed forces of the two, but on the contrary, if you are taken hostage, you are a person who can gain an advantage over the two of the Continental Ten, so you are here without hasty. At least, they knew how to position themselves politically.

“I heard that there is a shelter, so why is everyone flocking here?”

“It can’t be helped!”

Even if there were shelters, it was only natural that someone who could defeat an army alone was reassuring.

Even if there is no facility, only trustworthy people instinctively flock to it. That’s the judgment of those who seek safety.

“I hear the White Church is going wild right now, should we wipe them all out?”

“You just step back”

“Why? Can’t we just defeat them all?”

“There are hostages. You have to move with the timing in mind to reduce further damage. Even if you move now, there is a limit as long as the hostages are being held. Can you ignore the hostages now and fight?”

“Write, I can’t help it!!!”

Ruby, who evacuated together, took a step back at Shion’s persuasion.

For reference, the worst and Seoni and other personnel were looking for the right timing to get out of the dormitory, save the hostage, and hit the back.

“The Holy Knights of the Kingdom are coming!!!!”

Eventually, someone’s screams became the starting point.

Students of different ethnicities clustered in the dormitory area shout, scream, and express fear. As they are hostile to the different races, you can imagine what they will do if they get caught.

Soon, in front of them, Claude Fiat Frolle…… No, his official position was Claude Bishop, and about twenty paladins appeared.

In front of those who seemed ready to rush in and commit a massacre at any moment, Luminus and Hui Jinyu took up their weapons and confronted them.

However, Hui Jinyu’s self-fantasy doesn’t work for them, even if it’s Luminous. In the end, you just fight and get overpowered.

“Everyone is crowded here.”

“To commit such an outrageous act. It seems that the White Church intends to go to war with the entire continent, right?”

“Otherwise, I wouldn’t have done this.”

“There will be a price to pay for this.”

“If you can make it pay.”

There are students of different races, but on the contrary, there are enough nobles among human students. Luminus, the daughter of the Ten Continental Powers of the Empire, and Hui Jinyu, the son of the Ten Continental Powers of the Han Kingdom. Even if they act hastily with the two, the international situation will lead to catastrophe.

Considering that in one kingdom, the crown prince was dethroned after being manipulated by Asterope and Luminus, this is enough.

However, there was nothing to stop them from preparing for a long time and gaining confidence and confidence.

At least if it existed on this continent.

“Leave it there”

“Ah………”

Then, Zion appeared before them.

Shion, who changed her appearance in an instant and appeared in the form of an adult, was showing off her goddess-like beauty as if it was not too much to call her out of awe.

“You are here.”

“I’ve done a really bad job. Aren’t you afraid of my husband?”

“The goddess gave her an oracle to tell her about it, but… In the end, since she is a human, if someone important to her is taken hostage, she won’t be able to act hastily.”

“…………”

That’s right. At worst, from the moment Shion is taken hostage, she will bend and enter.

However, on the contrary, if she harms Shion, she will experience the fear of a transcendental being who has abandoned her humanity from then on. Even the phantom who has reached the absolute is afraid of that part, so he doesn’t touch it.

“A few months ago, when I saw you, I realized that if your beauty had not been blessed by the Goddess, she would not have been born that way.”

“I’m just like my mother.”

“Isn’t that also a blessing from the Goddess?”

If Ellie, who is in charge of the manager of a universe, heard it, it was a story that would make her laugh even if her emotions were thin.

Can a god who is not the only god on a planet, but one of three, be compared to a manager who manages a universe?

Claude’s words and actions were nothing more than words that he could only spit out in his arrogance and conceit because he was a man who knew nothing. Zion can only sigh.

After all, that doesn’t last long.

“I’ll give you one last chance”

“Yes?”

“If you step back now and confess your sins, we will ask her husband for your mercy.”

Shion is a good person, but he is not a good person.

However, that meant that he was a good person whose heart was not hard enough to kill even the wicked. Because of that personality, getting your hands dirty is the worst thing to do.

“Legendary treatment is what I have to say. If you confess your sins in the name of the Goddess, I will accept you as a nun who serves me. Oh, of course, I will defer the treatment of the filthy people behind me as well.”

“That seems to be the purpose of the clergy.”

“This is mercy for those who impersonate the name of the goddess.”

“It is not persuasive to say such a thing to a subject whose eyes are full of desire.”

Compared to the members of the Gray Temple who had no greed, they were too greedy. White and gray, although different but similar colors.

“But one thing. Do you know why I deliberately stood in front of you and talked about it?”

“…….What?”

“Thanks to that, I was able to pass the time really well. Not a single person on this side was hurt.”

At that moment, Korma suddenly appeared next to Shion.

To be precise, it is an alter ego. It was not the main body, but an alter ego, but it was possible to convey the words secretly.

“I found the place where the Paladins are holding hostages. Your Highness is slowly moving.”

At Korma’s whispered words, Shion smiled so enchantingly that even the goddess would lose her light. It’s not a bright smile, but it’s rather light, so that smile stands out even more.

Bishop Claude and the Paladins who were watching this seemed to lose their reason for a moment.

However, there will be no opportunity to recall it in the future.

“Now let’s start the party”

It will be a really fun and enjoyable party.

At least not to the people belonging to the White Church.