Chapter 154 – The Mermaid Bride (8)

Anne’s return her to her was left to her knights her. She tried to get me back because I was in time, but she refused because Anne said she didn’t like me. There was no reason for me to hold Anne. The mermaid had enough of Selu and Eve. I didn’t think Ann would fit everything for me.

“…Is this person really a servant of the Demons?”

The priest followed my words very obediently. However, he never tried to admit that he was a servant of the demons. He tried to ring the bell of truth several more times, but the priest insisted that he was a priest of the Church of Love and had no connection with the demons.

This situation made Eve suspicious of me. They seemed to think that I was just beating up the Sarangkyo priest because I didn’t like Sarangkyo or because I thought it was a rival of Daecheonshinkyo. I couldn’t help but frown at the status window that only popped up in my eyes.

The phrase [Asmodian’s Servant] Was written all over the status window, but I had no way to prove it. I tried to beat the priest hard, but he didn’t even speak satanic language, only screaming like a girl.

But Eve, while saying what she said, didn’t seem to have any intention of stopping my actions. She said earlier that I would kill the priest, but she admits that the religion she loves is suspicious.

“Anne said that the people claiming to be the cult of love were trying to get her. Ask her about it.”

“Priest. Why are you trying to catch mermaids in the Sarang Church?”

“Are you talking about mermaids? According to the archbishop, mermaids are also part of our family, so we should bring them into the arms of the cult of love.”

That was a good thing to hear. But I found that word suspicious. The demon’s minions are trying to take the mermaid? In a situation where the current leader of the demons was confirmed to be Evangeline, it was a very suspicious action for the ‘minions of the demons’ to try to attract mermaids.

Mermaids are idiots outside the water, but on the contrary, they are follicles in the water. If it was a named-class mermaid, it could disintegrate the limbs of a knight sunk in water. Because it is underwater. Humans who cannot move freely and cannot breathe become meaningless the moment they enter the water.

Dealing with mermaids in the water would be suicidal unless you could move at ridiculous speed even in the water and had overwhelming stats to defeat all the mermaids that caught you.

And all the mermaids are captured by the demons, and if they are strengthened with some ‘power’ that Evangeline says, the continent’s seaway will be completely blocked.

“Suspicious…”

“Suspicious! I can’t believe it! I believe it!!”

The priest once again uttered a prayer. But whether the priest was reciting prayers or chanting, anything suspicious was suspicious. In fact, the very act of memorizing prayers came very suspicious to me. Some bastards say the prayer, ‘Faith. Hope. Does it mean that you only have to memorize three things? If there was such a religion in real life, it was usually a pseudo-religion.

“Who is your captain?”

“It is the Archbishop.”

“Who is the Archbishop?”

“Ah, he originally had a different name, but he changed his name and is using the name Angel.”

“…Angel?”

“Yes. Angel.”

There was nothing to say other than the creepy naming sense. The priest spoke to me with a light of hope on his face, wondering what kind of change of heart it was for me to remain silent.

“Lusius?”

“What.”

Eve watched the scene and told me if she remembered something.

“Groom. I heard from Elsie that the Archbishop of the Church of Love was originally the head priest of the Church of Heaven.”

“I beg your pardon?”

“Do you know who it is?”

I shook my head. There was no room for thought. Because I didn’t know all the priests of the Archangelic Church. Even the head priests of a religion as large as the Daecheonsingyo did not know each other’s faces. Even for me, the first time I met the Northern Priest was during the Northern Ain Extermination Operation, and I had never met the Western Priest.

“Because I don’t know all the priests of the Archangel Church. By the way, you said that the Archbishop was originally using a different name, right?”

I asked the priest. The priest quickly nodded his head in response to my question as I nodded my mace.

“Yes! Yes! Yes!”

“Do you know what your original name was?”

“Oh that…”

The priest, as if he couldn’t remember, licked his lips and covered his head. I sat in his chair and waited for the priest to come up with something. Eve stood next to me and rubbed my shoulders a little. I stretched his waist admiring Eve’s massage skills with her.

“Uh, there. It’s nice there. Uh…”

“Groom. Don’t talk like a man.”

“You’re good at massage.”

“He did a lot for my mom.”

Eve was also a filial daughter. The priest shouted at me while I was getting a massage with my eyes closed.

“Ah! Aaaaa! Heimaaaaang!”

“…I’m surprised. Did you remember?”

“Yes! I remembered! Originally the high priest of the Archangel Church! Real name! He said Ernst Mayhem!”

“Mayhem? Fuck High Priestess Mayhem?”

I jumped up from my seat. Eve put her hand on my shoulder and, startedled by my exasperated response her, removed her hand her. I pushed the priest.

“Is that his name? He’s the high priest of the Daecheon Shinkyo church, and he’s got a long beard on his face his, and he’s greasy and he wears glasses?”

“Yes! Yes! It is him!”

The priest hastily nodded his head. Every time he nodded his head, the moonlight reflected through the iron bars and shimmered. I sat down again and sighed. I thought he was dead because Mayhem had disappeared, but he wasn’t. He was alive He was plotting to lead us into a trap by living a brisk life.

“Why? Who is it?”

“He’s a very bad guy?”

“No! Our Archbishop is not like that!”

The bad guy got hit. Originally, Mayhem’s true identity was Echoing Cutlass, one of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon Lord, and he was a doppelganger who could transform anyone into that person. The High Priestess assassinated Mayhem with poison, and then Cutlass, who took over the position, was declining the support of the Archangel Protestant Church by implementing a vicious donation policy and an extreme policy of denouncing all local religions as heretical.

He was a villain who was defeated by the main characters who visited Daecheonsingyo, and he had the highest basic stats among the four heavenly kings. I wrapped my head and fell into trouble. If Saranggyo was the den of the Four Heavenly Kings, they had to catch it as soon as possible. Shall we call the hero right now and catch him?

“What’s wrong? Huh? Is it that serious?”

Eve was taking care of me. I looked at Eve and shook my head. She seemed to be able to calm herself down a bit as she rubbed her shoulders again. As she leaned her head back, Eve’s voluptuous breasts touched my head. Rubbing my hair over her chest, I looked at the priest’s status window again.

Asmodian Servant

This human is under the control of demons.
Stats increase by 10% of the demon’s stats.

I said 10%. 10% of Asmodian stats. I checked the priest’s stats again.

Stat

Strength 34 (+25)
Agility 36 (+26)
Intelligence 34 (+20)
Luck 38 (+20)

Even with a rough calculation, strength is 250 and intelligence is 200. My current strength is 161. Even if A.A trained hard and passed 200, it was a fight that I lost without knowing the opponent’s passive or characteristics at all. I didn’t know what would happen if I attacked like this.

I barely calmed down and looked at the priest again. And asked him

“Priest. How do you contact the Sarangkyo main school?”

“Ah, yes! I write a letter every week. If a letter does not arrive more than a certain period every week, Sarangkyo dispatches an investigation team to investigate.”

“Then write a letter saying how you’re doing.”

“Yes?”

“If you want to use it, use it. If you don’t want to get hit any more.”

“Ah, yes! I see! Saraaaaang!”

He chanted the prayer again. I asked Eve to bring me a stationery and a pen, and next to him was an impoverished merchant munching on rice while watching all this. His stomach his, which had barely regained stability after eating porridge until yesterday, is now strong enough to pass through rice.

I left the priest who had gone to bed again and talked to the merchant.

“How. Are you able to live now?”

“Yes…”

The merchant smiled awkwardly and nodded his head. He was weeping with emotion as he looked at the rice and water in front of him. After pouring the water into the rice again, he was inserting it with great sincerity, one bite at a time. It seemed that it would take some time for this merchant to go back to normal.

After having the priest write a letter, I appointed new guards to manage the dungeon. These guards were the ones who would guarantee meals and a minimum sanitary environment for the prisoners here instead of being exempted from guard duty in the future.

Even so, it was an excessively excessive punishment for a prisoner to starve to death in prison. Unlicensed trade was a matter that usually ended in fines or hard labor. Eve felt bad about kidnapping the mermaid and she seemed to have locked it up for now, but if it were me, he would have just paid a decent amount of money and been released.

Then, I decided to go up to the office and send a letter urging the kingdom to enter the elven kingdom. I don’t know what Echoing Cutlass did, but it was because his stats were incredibly high. I didn’t know if that stat was a fake or a real stat, but rather than expecting it to be a fake and charging in, it was much better to believe that it was real and build up my strength so that I could go in with the hero.

The dungeons in the west coast or the dwarf kingdom with difficult entry procedures were very likely to get caught. It was good to clear the dungeon in the elven kingdom. The hero would be there too, so it was good to talk to the hero and conspire to catch the Four Heavenly Kings, and it was good to meet Erina and have sex with her after a long time.

In the meantime, in order to hide the fact that I had imprisoned the priest or that I was digging up information about the Archbishop of the Sarang Church, I was going to send a letter saying that the priest of the Sarang Church is doing very well in this estate.

All arrangements were perfect. In the distance, through the gate of the mansion, they saw a cart carrying Ann leaving. She urged the driver to leave even as she kept looking out the window of my office.