The Priest of Corruption - Chapter 91

Are you innocent…?

Are you innocent…?

“I am so innocent!!! There must be some misunderstanding! Obviously!!!”

Jamel wasn’t innocent at all, and it was true that he was a worshiper of evil spirits, but he couldn’t just turn a blind eye to him since he was a fellow traveler.

‘Kill and kill.’

It’s really unfortunate, but my mother’s whisper that I should just let go without getting entangled in it. I pressed my mother’s hand and said to Dakia.

“I think it would be good to find out what happened first.”

“that’s right! You can’t let Jamel go like that. hey! Wait!”

At Dacia’s cry, the guards who were dragging Jamel, who was struggling, stood still. We walked quickly towards the guards.

Jamel cried out in tears among the stopped guards.

“I am really innocent! Priest Ma Marnak knows very well! The fact that I am incredibly innocent!”

Before I could say anything, one of the guards was talking to us, covering Jamel.

“Do you know the interest rate? Princess Dacia.”

The reason the guards stopped was to find out who Dacia was. Dacia’s words will have more influence on them than mine, so I stepped back for a moment, allowing Dacia to speak comfortably with the guards.

“Hmmmm.”

Dacia took a moment to clear her voice before speaking calmly.

“Anyway, the woman I’m taking now is a colleague who traveled with me, so I want you to tell me the details.”

Jamel looked at Dakia with his eyes twinkling while his whole body was tied to the rope. As if seeing a savior fallen from the sky.

“Wo, I also believed that Princess Dakia would not turn away from me!”

The guard opened his mouth slowly, looking at Dakia with an expressionless face no matter what Jamel said.

“There was an anonymous accusation. An anonymous accusation that there are worshipers of evil spirits among the guests staying here. Based on the accusation, we have come here to arrest this woman who is believed to be a worshiper of evil spirits.”

“An anonymous accusation?”

“yes.”

Dacia paused for a moment before opening her mouth again.

“Isn’t it too coercive to arrest people without questioning and answering because of the accusation that you don’t even know who the informant is?”

“Recently, due to large-scale incidents by demon worshipers in the Northern Kingdom, strict guidelines have been changed. Those who are suspected of being worshipers of evil spirits are to be arrested and watched first.”

The guard glanced at Jamel, who was tied behind him, and continued talking in a very businesslike manner.

“I understand very well what the princess is worried about. However, the worshipers of evil spirits hide their identities extremely secretly, so even the princess who traveled with them may not be aware of Lee Ja’s true identity. Don’t you know? I wonder if this woman’s real purpose is to harm the princess.”

Considering the position of the Northern Kingdom, which has suffered considerable damage due to the worshipers of evil gods appearing in many places at the same time, the attitude of that guard toward Jamel was extremely correct. Dakia was well aware of that fact, so she carefully selected and asked questions to the guards.

“Then how long will Jamel be detained as a new recruit?”

“It won’t take long. Coincidentally, the priests of the Sacred Crusade were stationed here, so if we contact them, it’s late today, so they’ll find out if this woman is a worshiper of evil spirits or not within a few days at the earliest tomorrow.”

“Heeep!”

Jamel’s face turned white at the word annihilation shear, and he began to hiccup violently.

This is difficult. It’s really very difficult.

The Extermination Squadron, which entered the Northern Kingdom to find out the worshipers of the evil god, must have had a ‘holy relic’ that could identify the worshipers of the evil god.

What should I do? The current situation was truly a slippery slope. The justification was completely out there.

Arresting Jamel with just a simple, anonymous tip was only a matter of apprehending the guards once they had any suspicions and then asking the Extermination Squadron to confirm that they were true worshipers of evil spirits. In fact, it was very natural to react like this.

If we stopped their actions here, we could be misunderstood as colluding with the worshipers of evil spirits. If I received such a misunderstanding, it was clear that difficulties would arise in my future travels.

what to do

‘Kill and kill.’

It’s really unfortunate, but her mother’s advice is that it’s time to give up on Jamel. The voice of the mother who conveyed the words did not belong to a person who felt sorry at all, but she passed it over as a trivial matter.

“Princess. As this woman is an acquaintance of the princess, we promise to treat her with the utmost humane treatment. And as soon as it is confirmed that this woman is not a worshiper of evil spirits, we will release her without delay. Then can I just go see it?”

“Heeep!”

We had absolutely no reason to stop that guard. Dacia looked at me with calm eyes.

Of course, there was no sharp way for me to break through the current situation. After beating the guards in the middle of Beatus, he couldn’t escape with Jamel.

I turned away from Jamel’s gaze looking up at me with my eyes wide open. Jamel’s face was stained with despair after confirming my ignorance.

After moving her lips several times, Dacia finally opened her mouth to speak.

“Go… look.”

“yes.”

The guards turned their backs without hesitation and commanded the others to take Jamel and leave. The hiccups that sounded like ‘Heeep!’ slowly faded away. Dacia looked at Jamel’s back as she walked away with a pitying look and said to me.

“Really how?”

It was only a matter of time before Jamel’s identity was revealed. In addition, Carmen and Sagittarius did not even know that Jamel was a worshiper of an evil god.

“What do you think will happen if Jamel is found to be a worshiper of evil spirits?”

“Perhaps the new recruits will be led directly to the annihilation squadron? And you will be tortured for information about the libertio. And that… until death.”

Dakia spat out the last word with great difficulty and let her shoulders droop.

“How can there be no way to save Jamel?”

“I can’t think of any other numbers right now either…”

A method suddenly came to mind. There might be a way to save Jamel.

The principles of ‘holy relics’, which identify the worshipers of evil gods whose identities are not revealed at all, were mostly similar.

No matter what kind of god they serve, the divinity of the god they worship always remains in the bodies of priests who use authority. It’s an extremely minute amount, so it’s almost impossible for other priests to read the existence of the divinity, but ‘holy relics’ that find worshipers of evil gods identify those worshipers of evil gods by grasping such minute residual divinities.

In other words, if the sacred object was to remove all the divinity of the ‘clotting rock’ in Jamel’s body before using the holy object to verify Jamel, the holy object would surely determine that Jamel was not a worshiper of evil spirits.

However, it was impossible for anyone to remove the minute amount of residual divinity that would remain in the body.

“What method did you come up with? Yes?”

I smiled and answered Dakia.

“yes. I thought of a way I might be able to save Jamel.”

okay. It’s a completely impossible story. Because I’m too lazy

But what if ‘God’ directly removes Jamel’s residual divinity?

After unlocking the seal and growing up, the mother purified the divinity of other evil gods and made it into a pure divinity. If the mother herself purified Jamel’s residual divinity, it would not be impossible to make Jamel completely innocent.

“If my mother helps, I might be able to hide Jamel’s identity.”

‘killing!’

My mother replied to me why I had to use my own strength to save her. I patted my mother’s hand and said.

“I would be very happy if my mother could help me save Jamel.”

‘killing!!!’

A cry that the method is very petty.

‘Kill kill!’

My mother said bluntly, “What will happen to her if I don’t help her say that?” A brief silence followed. After thinking about

‘killing…’,

my mother eventually declared surrender, saying that this is the only time to help with that burden. I patted my breast pocket and said.

“thank you.”

Dakia, realizing that her mother had given her permission, spoke to me vigorously with her eyes twinkling.

“Then shall we go see Jamel right away? You never know when the priests of the Sanctuary of Extermination will come with holy relics.”

I shook my head.

“There is no meeting. Mother has to reveal herself in order to purify her divinity, but if she visits her, there will be guards watching over her, so she cannot reveal herself.”

Dakia, who understood my meaning, widened her eyes.

“Then…”

“Yes. You are right.”

I said with a bitter smile.

“I think we should break into the prison where Jamel is being held.”

– You mean trespassing?

Tergio, who had been quietly standing next to me and listening to my conversation with Dacia, opened his mouth vigorously.

– This third knight, Tergio, will help the heir to infiltrate more secretly than anyone else!

***

“Sniff.”

Jamel, whose belongings had been confiscated, sat in a corner of the prison and sobbed to himself. Actually, I was caught by the guards who suddenly came in while I was sleeping with a hangover, so I didn’t have a few things to take away.

“Sniff.”

With her back against the cool prison wall, Jamel pondered seriously.

Was it a mistake to follow a priest named Marnak? I haven’t been particularly monitoring myself during my travels lately, so maybe I should have just taken the opportunity to run away? Wasn’t Marnak a golden rope?

In the first place, Jamel did not specifically want to become a worshiper of evil spirits.

Abandoned by her parents and starving in the back alleys of the city, the one who reached out to her was a worshiper of an evil god who reached out to her, and her life was just that she was fortunately chosen by God and became a priest among the orphans whom the worshipers of evil god took in.

“Congealing rock… What am I really going to do now… Whip.”

I thought about running away, but in the middle of this city, using my powers to break out of the prison seemed like an act of suicide.

“Will Priest Marnak really come to rescue me… Yes, yes. Since Priest Marnak is a very affectionate person, he will come to rescue me! Definitely will!”

She is self-indulgent and tries to think as positively as possible.

dark night. Jamel’s shadow swayed along the flickering torch.

When the guards were away for a while. The shadows behind the bars swayed and the two men and women rose up. Jamel’s eyes widened when he confirmed the identity of the two men and women.

“Jar Jarn? And Giselle?!”

The two men and women who appeared in front of him were his former colleagues who had parted ways in the ancient ruins.

Jamel was happy to see the two faces after a long time, but soon realized that the current situation was very difficult.

Someone accused him of being a worshiper of evil spirits, and he was arrested because of that, but only a few hours after being imprisoned, Jarne and Giselle appear as if they had been waiting?

It couldn’t have happened without a huge coincidence. If it’s not a coincidence…

Jamel asked in a trembling voice at the sudden thought.

“It’s no wonder you guys accused me…?”

When the woman took off the cap of the robe she was wearing, her black hair tumbled down.

Giselle glared at Jamel and replied.

“that’s right. How have you been? This ‘traitor’.”

***

Shasha shak.

The sound of something moving moved the gaze of the guard guarding the entrance to the building. But in the direction he looked, nothing existed.

“Is it a rat? haam.”

With a small yawn, he turned his head again to look in the other direction. At that moment, a small silver fuselage shimmered.

The small silver knight ran faster than anyone else and entered the prison using the blind spot of the guards.

His only mission is to infiltrate the prison before Marnak and Dacia infiltrate, find out where Jamel is imprisoned, and pass that information on to Marnak.

Tergio, who had shrunk to the size of the palm of his hand, clung to the wall and spoke in a stern voice.

– All this for the successor!