The Demon Prince goes to the Academy - Chapter 579

Chapter 579

After leaving the refugee camp, Rowen headed to Tuan’s temple on the outskirts of the ecliptic.

“Are you staying over there?”

“I tend to rest at the temple closest to where I need to go the next day. So there is no specific place to live.”

The ecliptic is as wide as the refugee zone. That’s why she rested wherever she belonged to the five main religions and was wandering around the imperial capital without a fixed place to live.

“Please come here by nine at the latest tomorrow. If you come late, I will throw you away. OK?”

At Rowen’s playful words, Ludwig scratched the back of his head with a clumsy expression.

“Yes, I will make sure to come.”

Helping Rowen is only a stopgap, but necessary.

Just being able to help with such a task seemed to relieve Ludwig of some of the pressure and pressure.

If you were smart, if you were wise, would you know what was right?

When Ludwig faced a difficult task, he faced his own limitations that could not overcome it.

So, to the lost Ludwig, Rowen was, in a sense, a salvation.

Temple of Tuan.

The aura of decline was felt in the temple.

The surroundings were empty, with no passers-by, and the people guarding the gate were clearly tired, as if they thought that the injustice would spread.

Not only that, but scrawled graffiti on the stone walls of the temple were also damaged in places.

People’s anger and hatred for the Tuan faith were telling the decline of the temple and the graffiti.

The temples of Tuan and Ars should have looked like this wherever they went.

There are also few believers who people avoid and visit, and people even secretly damage them.

“Are you shabby?”

“yes? ah… … .”

“Sometimes people try to start a fire.”

Arson attempts beyond graffiti and vandalism.

At those words, Ludwig couldn’t help but be astonished.

“Is that enough… … ?”

“Yes.”

There was a deep sadness on Rowen’s face when he said that calmly.

People treat Tuan’s temple as if it were a temple to worship the devil.

Ludwig approaches the entrance of the temple.

Then the complexion of the people guarding the door changed.

like something tense.

Of course, it wasn’t that he was nervous looking at himself.

The eyes of the priests turn to the right of Ludwig.

“Archbishop! Thank you for your hard work today!”

“Yeah, you all had a hard time too.”

archbishop.

At those words, Ludwig couldn’t help but freeze.

“See you tomorrow, Mr. Ludwig.”

“yes? ah… … . yes yes!”

Rowen looked at Ludwig, bowed his head slightly, and went inside.

Come to think of it, he said he was a priest. Rowen did not say what level he held.

Ludwig didn’t even ask. So Rowen didn’t lie on purpose, he just didn’t say things he didn’t ask.

Of course, I just thought it would be a rank priest.

but.

It was only then that he realized that a priest who displayed divine power enough to purify the vast refugee district simply by praying could not be an ordinary priest.

Does the fact that the archbishop wanders the refugee camp alone without being escorted by paladins mean that the archbishop is a great person?

Or does it mean that the Tuan Church has declined to the extent that it should?

After learning that the priest he had been walking with all day today was the archbishop of the Tuan Order, whom he would not normally run into, Ludwig was bewildered for a while.

He even questioned why the gods chose the demon king in front of the archbishop.

I don’t know if Rowen showed mercy because of the situation, but if it was normal, it would have been like committing a disrespect that I would have nothing to say even if I was dragged away by the Heretic Questioner.

Rowen was not a rank priest, but an archbishop.

He was a priest of an extremely high status.

But Ludwig is an idiot.

‘The Archbishop… … . How high is he?’

I was surprised to learn that Rowen was of a high rank, but I had no idea what level it was.

* * *

I knew what the research was doing at the Temple College of Magic, and I even checked it with my own eyes.

He was doing more than just reviving a dead wizard as a lich. In other words, it should be said that it is a half-resurrection that restores the abilities of the previous life but not the memories and ego.

It was on a completely different level from Lich or Death Knight.

I passed on my findings to Sarkegar.

The connection with the Black Order could not be discovered right away, and even if there was, I decided to accept it, so I decided not to take any action on this matter.

If ending the Gate incident is the only good in this world, then the one that can end the incident as quickly as possible is a better one.

So, I will condone and stand by the sidelines of what the Empire is doing.

It was a situation where I had no choice but to put my own strength to meet Bertus in person, but the results were not bad.

I don’t know what this and the conversation I had with Bertus will develop later, but this was all I could think of right now.

I did not return to Edina right away.

to be honest.

Right now, Ellen will be crying all over the temple when I’m gone.

If he leaves me here and doesn’t return to the allied camp, I will have no choice but to be chained here.

It’s better not to cause a missing cat case that could affect Ellen’s mentality for nothing.

If there is something urgent, there is a way to leave Sarkegar instead.

Anyway, it is a situation that has no choice but to remain at the temple for the time being.

In the banquet hall in the late evening, people who returned late from business were eating dinner. Even though dinner time was over, the banquet hall had preserved food prepared for those returning late, so even if you couldn’t eat a proper meal, you could eat a meal.

Ellen and Heinrich patrolled the ecliptic today as well.

It seems that neither of them had anything special today. I don’t know anything else, but the monster problem seems to be handled well.

There can be no more monster problems in the first place. Subjugation forces outside the ecliptic are not simply guards or knights, but resurrected war heroes.

The exact mission is not to subdue the monsters in the first place, but to see if they are controlled well enough to be put into actual combat.

Heinrich and Ellen had nothing to do as they were shooting missiles rather than knives to kill chickens.

In addition, Ludwig, who had just returned from the guard work, was late.

There was no reason to sit separately, so the three of us were sitting together and eating a late dinner.

Ellen biscuits and water.

Heinrich jerky.

Hard bread was placed in front of Ludwig.

Knowing that even this much was a luxury, everyone tended to make news.

It was late, so there were few people in the banquet hall.

I sat at the table in the form of a cat, listening to the guys talk. Ellen held out dried jerky, but I didn’t take it.

I’m not particularly hungry.

Neither do I hate wasting food.

Ellen tapped the bridge of my nose a few times as I turned away from the jerky, then bit the jerky into her mouth as if not to forcefully feed it.

“archbishop?”

“How high is the archbishop?”

As soon as Ludwig returned, he sat down next to Heinrich while drinking a cup of water and some crusty bread.

What does the guard job have to do with the archbishop?

At Ludwig’s sudden question, Heinrich chews on the jerky.

“well… … . This must be so often.”

“Are there many cases?”

“Because I don’t know if the archbishop is a hierarchical archbishop or an archbishop as an archbishop.”

“… … Archbishop? what is that?”

At Ludwig’s question, Heinrich looked at Ludwig quietly.

Ludwig’s brain might be overloaded? Or is it just overloading your brain while explaining?

Come to think of it, Heinrich is not as stupid as Ludwig.

Heinrich opened his mouth with a thoughtful expression.

“I don’t know too much about it, but to tell you what I know, the archdiocese is the priest who manages the archdiocese. But not all archbishop-level priests have jurisdiction over the archdiocese. There are archbishops who are in charge of archdioceses, and there are priests who take on the role of archbishop because of a completely different role. So, strictly speaking, archbishops often do different things, and the ranks are divided.”

“… … .”

At those words, Ludwig was silent and looked at Heinrich.

“I’m sorry… … . What else is the Archdiocese?”

“ah.”

It is not a matter of understanding.

Beyond understanding, I don’t know anything.

Heinrich froze with his mouth slightly open, not knowing where to begin.

“Think easy.”

In the end, our Ellen stepped out.

“If the person who manages three or four temples is a bishop, then the person who manages dozens of temples is an archbishop. Not all of them are like that, but you can think of it in moderation.”

“ah… … . Are you like a lord?”

“huh. I think a bishop is a lord and an archbishop is a lord. In fact, there are cases where priests, such as bishoprics and archbishoprics, do the same thing as lords. Of course, it’s meaningless now.”

It’s not like a lord, but in the case of a bishopric or an archbishopric, there are cases where he is actually a lord.

If a bishop is a lord, then an archbishop is a high lord, so Ellen’s abbreviated it quite a bit, but it was an explanation that Ludwig could easily accept.

“Then you are a very high priest?”

“Yes, the only priestly ranks above it are the Cardinals and the Pope.”

“By the way, what does it mean that even archbishops are divided in rank?”

Heinrich said useless things, so Ludwig became curious.

Ellen quietly put the biscuits in her mouth and mumbled for a while. Then, take a sip of water and say.

“The Archbishop who manages all the temples of the zodiac.”

“The Serandia we occupied this time was also a big city. So, there must have been an archbishop who managed all the temples in Serandia.”

“The Archbishop of the Imperial Capital, the Archbishop of Serandia.”

“They are both archbishops, but who is higher in rank?”

In response to Ellen’s question, Ludwig said, “Ah! I nodded my head with feeling.

“You must be the Archbishop of the Imperial City?”

“That’s it.”

Ellen nodded, seeing that she understood quite accurately.

“By the way, is there an archbishop who manages the entire imperial city?”

“… … I don’t know because I’m not a member of the Knights Templar or the Five Major Churches. But the ecliptic is the city with the most temples in all continents. So the parish would be a little more subdivided. Archdioceses may also be divided, and in the first place, the archbishop of the ecliptic may have completely different ranks… … .”

Ellen looks at Ludwig as she tries to explain something.

“I do not know.”

Ellen said quietly and asked for bread.

okay.

don’t explain

He doesn’t understand anyway.

An archbishop is a high rank, but all you need to know is that even archbishops are divided in rank.

But our Ludwig had a more curious expression.

“Anyway, cardinals and popes are higher in rank than archbishops?”

“huh.”

“Then what rank is the commander of the Knights Templar?”

ah.

yes you can wonder about that

“More than a cardinal and less than a pope.”

Ellen answered briefly.

“In the first place, the position of the commander of the Knights Templar is ambiguous because it is a rank that does not exist in the first place. In reality, it is under the pope, but the real power precedes the pope. So, in fact, it can be said that he is equivalent to the Pope.”

“I see… … .”

“But why is the Archbishop suddenly?”

It was Heinrich’s question, and I was thinking about it too.

Why is he curious about this?

Ludwig explained everything that happened today.

In an area plagued with epidemics and in charge of escorting a priest.

And then, after all the work was over, he found out that the priest he thought was a rank priest was actually an archbishop.

“The Archbishop is doing it himself? And without an escort of paladins?”

“The situation seems very serious.”

Heinrich and Ellen both seemed shocked by the story that the Archbishop was running on his feet.

In fact, if there are any surplus clergy manpower, they should be split up and scattered throughout the refugee camp. It’s better to enlist the help of the guards.

“I guess I will continue escorting him from tomorrow.”

“Good.”

He seemed very confused these days, but seeing that his expression improved, it seemed that he felt quite rewarded for today’s work.

It’s not dangerous, it’s what people need.

And it’s kind of hard to say this, but it’s also a never-ending task.

The epidemic will continue to break out here and there, so it literally has no end until the starvation problem in the ecliptic disappears.

It is walking in a vicious cycle that never ends.

Nothing happened today, but there is no guarantee that nothing will happen in the future.

“But when you think about it, it might not be that strange.”

Those were Heinrich’s words.

“Isn’t that strange?”

“An archbishop-level priest moving alone.”

“ah… … . I heard that it is because priests are needed for a lot of work.”

“No, there might be a lot of archbishop-level priests. So you might be traveling alone.”

“uh?”

“Almost all the places that could be called Archdiocese were destroyed. That’s why there are bound to be many archbishops in the Allied Garrison, the Knights Templar, and the Ecliptic.”

“Perhaps.”

Can a lord who has lost his territory be called a lord?

Then an archbishop who has lost an archdiocese to administer could still be called an archbishop.

So Heinrich said that it might not be strange for a priest of that level to travel alone, since archbishop-levels are concentrated in the ecliptic, and I thought that was quite plausible.

There was no safe place in the world, so high-ranking priests flocked to the ecliptic.

That is why the number of archbishop-level priests, which is difficult to see in normal times, has increased.

Most of them will be serving in the allied forces now, and those who are not may be wandering the streets to cleanse the plague like this.

Rather, the power of the high-ranking priests was concentrated.

However, it is still a situation that cannot be laughed at due to the lack of manpower.

Actually, that’s normal too.

Because more survivors are concentrated in the ecliptic than the priests gathered in the ecliptic.

Still, the Archbishop… … .

-Eong

“Why?”

this is something

I mean it’s cheap.