Following the plan, I stole (?) Halphas and headed to a secluded end of the hallway.
“Why did you bring me all the way here…?”
“Ah, don’t worry. Redian won’t find out.”
But Halphas looked at me with eyes that were anything but devilish. Considering he’s one of the Redian’s close aides, he must be a leader of a large legion. His expression made him seem like a helpless lamb caught between me and Redian.
“You can hide or change your appearance, right?”
Regardless, I got straight to the point.
“It would be troublesome if someone saw us.”
Of course, I had been preparing thoroughly so we wouldn’t be caught by anyone, but… Shall I start to provoke him a bit? The truth is, I had a different reason for bringing Halphas here.
“Oh, can you turn invisible by any chance?”
“That’s Ipos’s ability, not mine.”
“Oh, really?” Feigning disappointment, I muttered. “Maybe I should have brought Ipos.”
“Other than that, I can do everything better than that guy.” Suddenly, Halphas, who had been meek, flared up.
“Hmm, really…”
It was true that he could do everything else except that. Halphas really could turn into a fluffy rabbit, then a leopard, and then back into a boy.
“Anything else?”
But no matter how dazzlingly he changed his appearance, my reaction remained indifferent.
“I wish you were something smaller and less noticeable.”
“Smaller?”
“You said you could do anything.”
I had a specific purpose in mind from the beginning.
“Tsk, maybe I should have brought Ipos.”
Given their nature, they wouldn’t comply easily, so provocation was necessary. As Redian’s subordinates, they had a strong sense of competitiveness and obsession.
“Ha, if that’s the case…”
Finally, Halphas’s eyes sharpened with resolve.
“Good, this is it.”
He transformed into the form I had been aiming for from the start. A subtle but clear shape of light… The very essence of a soul, the primordial state of the ‘Psyche.’
While heaven considered this Psyche state the most sacred, the hell saw it as the weakest form. Though both Ananke and Mephisto were left as mere souls, one was a great angel, and the other a low spirit.
-Damn it, turning into such a pathetic and insignificant form that no human would even notice me feels like wearing those dreary robes priests don.
-As expected, devils are a race that only trusts their flashy appearances. Such superficial creatures.
I heard Halphas and Ananke growling in my ears. But since I had achieved my goal of turning Halphas into the Psyche state, it didn’t matter.
Is it a bit sloppy?
Ignoring his lament, I drew a summoning circle on the floor. Just as I was about to be satisfied with my work,
“…What is this?”
I had to acknowledge the presence before me.
“Ah, it’s a failure.”
Hearing my murmur, Vallentin narrowed his eyes. “Aren’t you a bit too openly disappointed?”
“Why you, of all people?”
“My beloved and respected Princess, I’m also quite disoriented from being suddenly dragged here.”
This time, it was supposed to be a human’s turn to be summoned, so I intended to call one of the Norma. Even without Redian, there are plenty of options like Inein, Francis, and Vallentin. But I got the most troublesome one.
“Though I’d gladly offer my heart for Princess’s orders, I’m also a king. I have my dignity.”
Oh, a king, is it? Seeing him in a well-fitted purple robe and monocle made me laugh.
“Don’t worry, I’ll finish it by dawn.”
“Since it’s come to this, why don’t we just stay together until morning?”
Feeling a bit grateful, I patted Vallentin’s cheek, which made him respond like that.
“No, absolutely not.”
Gratitude aside, what must be done must be done.
“Big Sis!”
“Goddess! Lon time no see!”
Lee Juyong and Moriana appeared from the summoning circle. I had given them prior notice.
“Big Sis, wouldn’t the high priest be more helpful in this matter than me?”
“No, the high priest isn’t involved in this anyway.”
I briefly thought of Kailus. Come to think of it, Kailus and the temple had been unusually quiet. Being a group with divine power, they must have sensed something…
Well, it’s right before the founding festival.
As Meteora was founded by the goddess’s will, the festival was a ceremony commemorating her resurrection. All priests would be undergoing rigorous spiritual training, meeting no one.
“I think we’re ready.”
Clearing my thoughts, I looked at those gathered behind me. Even though it was a rather hastily assembled group(?), I was satisfied.
The archangel of the sky, the elementalist connecting heaven and earth, and the fragments of the goddess’s soul scattered on the earth by the wind. And a human born from that land with the devil from hell. It was a seemingly very complex combination, but they were all the beings that made up the world.
“Where are we headed?”
“Arche.”
At that moment, the breaths around me stilled.
“If it’s Arche, then surely…”
“That’s right. The place where the Holy Grail (the chest holding the records of God) and Theia’s weapon are enshrined.”
In other words, it was a space thoroughly sealed, and it was akin to the heart of the Great Temple.
“But Princess…” After a long silence, Vallentin spoke with concern. “You know that even the Emperor of Meteora and the High Priest cannot enter there.”
In fact, since the record was something left by my past self, I should have been able to open the seal’s door by myself. But the reality was different. I had killed Theia’s soul myself, making me incomplete. In short, it meant that it was still impossible for me to do it alone.
“That’s why I gathered you all.”
Even if the beginning was humble, success would come with the right people. What does it matter if my power is lacking? After all, I’m the only one who could gather them.
“Deliver my message.”
The five primal lights recorded in the sacred text.
“When the five lights forming the world gather at my fingertips…” I murmured to the sealed darkness
At the same time, everyone transformed into Psyche, a single ray of light…
“The secret door will open.”
The unified light mass crashed through the wall. As the brilliant glow carved into the wall like a fierce wing beat,
“And on the day the door finally opens…”
Light-infused mist swirled through the cracked wall.
“I will be resurrected and create paradise for you.”
As the sound of the wall splitting open,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
I could see it again. The memories left on that summer night.
* * *
The scattered blood of paladins scattered across the ground, their bodies sinking into the sea…
-Behold, I will create a new paradise.
With those words, the land and sea disappeared. And a new paradise began to descend from the sky.
-For those who follow me.
As the voice of a leading woman became clear,
“Gasp!”
Kailus woke up with a start. Though he had often lost consciousness during this period, his heart had never raced so madly.
“No way.”
Hastily heading to the window, Kailus looked up at the sky. It seemed like thick smoke was spreading from the golden censer offered on the altar. Just like the record that prophesied the ‘last day.’
“Lucifer is a devil.” Gazing at the mist-shrouded night sky, Kailus murmured. “Devils are unforgivable beings.”
-The goddess has already forgiven him.
Someone replied.
“How can that person be a goddess?”
-…
“Theia died in the sea. Therefore, that woman isn’t the goddess we serve.”
Theia died in the sea. This meant that the goddess awaited by the Great Temple and Meteora was already gone.
“Twenty years ago, following the goddess’s will, I banished Redian Hyu Rixon beyond the castle walls.”
Also, that woman had killed his Theia.
“My goddess would not have forgiven that devil.”
-Kailus.
At that moment, Ananke’s voice called him.
“Your Holiness… they have arrived.”
It seemed the guest the High Priest had been waiting for had arrived.
“Cast a barrier around the temple and let no one enter. No one must witness this meeting.”
Kailus was the high priest of this land. The role of the high priest was singular. As the goddess’s representative, he had to do whatever was necessary to uphold the goddess’s will.
So, on this deep and silent night.
“I’m quite surprised you sought me out, Your Holiness.”
The shadows of two individuals, who seemed like they would never mix, overlapped.
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