LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 225 - Revealing Truths (1)
“What? Lady Leia has become a Saintess?”
“Even a 0th rank became 6th rank??”
“You’re saying even incompetents can awaken?”
“Yes, Eshua can do that!”
“At this rate, isn’t the Blue the family chosen by God rather than Gold?”
“As expected, is Isaac the next Pope?”
The clergy society was turned upside down.
Amidst such an atmosphere, Isaac received a summons from the Blue family head.
“You called for me, family head.”
Isaac was inwardly nervous as he entered the family head’s room. Well, it wasn’t that he was suddenly scared of the Blue family head at this point.
Rather, what concerned him in the current situation was…
[Damn bastard. Why did he call only Master at this timing? Isn’t he supposed to be really busy right now?]
That’s right. Why is he calling him when he should be running around being questioned about invading the Gold and the Saintess’s awakening?
‘Has a problem occurred?’
No, that’s not it.
Rather, with Benjamin and Joseph, who were 0th rank, becoming high-ranking priests, not only Eshua but everyone was surprised.
-Please accept me into the Blue!
-I heard young master Isaac discovered a special awakening method?
-Then can our young master Isaac immediately qualify as a Cardinal like Kina Berit?
The old fog… no, 1st class priests were summoned, and everyone focused on Isaac. Isaac’s knights welcomed new recruits with open arms.
And regarding the attack on the Pope’s family, Elai spoke as if he had been waiting:
-Why did we invade Berit? We just went in after catching evidence that the Gold serves demons.
The Gold priests were about to go crazy with high blood pressure, as if they had never seen such shameless bastards, but what could they do?
It’s true that the god was defeated by anti-demon divine techniques.
That wasn’t all.
-We found out that the current Pope is using an ancestor’s Stigma, not his own. It’s clear evidence that the Pope is a fake.
-…What?!
-It seems we need to immediately gather Saint candidates and begin selecting a new representative of God, that is, a new Pope.
-…!!
The 1st class priests were greatly surprised. Something that would overturn the continent was about to happen.
So while that might cause trouble for the Gold, there’s no problem for Eshua. Rather, Eshua was in a festive mood because of Leia’s family.
With public opinion completely overturned by this incident, the Gold faced the crisis of losing the Pope’s position for the first time. The impregnable seat that was thought would naturally go to the Gold for the next Pope was crumbling.
Everything was going according to Isaac’s plan to become Pope.
Yes, that was the situation.
So why are you calling me with such a serious face?
“Isaac.”
“Yes, family head.”
“…”
At Isaac’s answer, Elai was somehow very displeased. Isaac had no choice but to read the mood.
“Um… You said you had something to tell me…”
But Elai still had a look that was very displeased about something. Finally, Isaac, who had been reading the mood, said as if thinking this must be it:
“…Family he… no, Grandpa.”
“Yes. This grandfather called you because I have something to say to you.”
…This bastard. Really.
Do you like the grandfather title that much, huh?
“So what did you want to say?”
“What do you think about the God of Awakening dying from anti-demon divine techniques?”
Isaac flinched.
‘It’s finally come.’
I wondered why he called me.
‘Cardinals aren’t fools.’
Putting aside the Gold Cardinal who was far away, Elai had even directly taken down the God of Awakening. Though he thoroughly hid it, Elai at least noticed during that process.
That someone changed the god’s attribute to undead.
But it doesn’t matter even if he knows.
‘Even if he tries to revoke my succession, there’s no evidence anyway.’
If pushed, I’ll just say it was the doing of true demons or dragons.
So Isaac smiled confidently.
“Even if you ask what I think, the Gold couldn’t have fallen so far as to serve a corrupted god. Wouldn’t it be that the god they served happened to become corrupted?”
“Do you truly think so?”
“Yes. To begin with, a proper god wouldn’t demand family members as living sacrifices for Saint awakening. The Gold must be in cahoots on that part.”
The reason for demanding living sacrifices for Saint awakening was probably a tool for the Gold God to fill its belly and make it easier for the Pope to gaslight the Saints.
Above all, it must have been the best method for the Gold to kill Eshua’s direct line without getting a single drop of blood on their hands.
If they used their heads, they really used them well.
Isaac looked a bit coldly at Elai who called him suspecting him.
Well, if he’s determined to drive me out because he suspects me, I have no choice but to thoroughly use him as a card.
So he spoke coldly to the Blue family head, not his grandfather:
“Isn’t what’s important now not why the god was defeated by anti-demon divine techniques, but what damage we suffered?”
“Yes, you’re right.”
Soon, whatever he was thinking, Elai stared at Isaac who seemed to be wary of him.
“Isaac.”
“Yes, family head.”
“No matter what power you use, I and the Blue will protect and cherish you to the end.”
“!”
Isaac looked at Elai in surprise. It was a completely unexpected statement.
“The other Blue members will be the same. Though they don’t show it, everyone sincerely cherishes you.”
Isaac was momentarily speechless. Not knowing what to say, he unconsciously asked back:
“…Even Noel and Goel?”
Elai held his forehead.
“…Let’s exclude those guys.”
As expected, right?
“So let me ask one thing.”
“Yes.”
Elai looked at Isaac seriously.
“Do you intend to destroy Eshua?”
“…”
Isaac rolled his eyes around.
No, actually the saintly family wasn’t a target for revenge from the start. The real targets for revenge are Gold gods and other gods who shoved that contract at me.
Isaac sighed as if to say don’t talk nonsense.
“Grandpa, my dream is to become the richest unemployed person in the human realm. So destroying Eshua is out of the question. Rather, shouldn’t I raise Eshua and use all priests as the Blue’s slaves?”
“…”
Elai opened his mouth as if dumbfounded by that tremendous ambition.
“You don’t even intend to hide your true thoughts anymore…”
“Is that not okay?”
Elai let out a groan. He felt like a fool for thinking so seriously about something.
“Yes, that’s enough.”
“!”
“Isaac.”
“Yes.”
“Remember that this grandfather will be on your side to the end, no matter what kind of person you are.”
“!”
“You are already my little finger.”
Isaac was silent for a moment, then smiled.
“Yes.”
“And.”
“Yes.”
“Never step on this grandfather’s head again.”
…This bastard, he was still holding onto that?
“Yes.”
I won’t step on your head.
“And lastly, one more thing.”
“Yes.”
“The sacred dragon says she’s coming to greet me as her grandfather-in-law, what does this mean…?”
Damn it…
* * *
“So, whose money are you going to take?”
Noel gritted his teeth looking at Benjamin.
Benjamin pushed up his glasses as if to say what nonsense are you talking about.
“Noel you son of a… Didn’t you already have your Eshua surname revoked? So what money?”
Noel gritted his teeth at his brother’s dismissal.
“Don’t misunderstand. I haven’t been driven out of the mansion yet. My share of the assets is still valid…”
Boom!!!
Noel almost screamed unconsciously at the falling lightning.
“Huh, there’s a limit to shamelessness. You parasite.”
He was originally a strict finance manager who nitpicked everything, but since he became able to use divine techniques, he just threatened with one divine technique instead of nitpicking.
The Pope’s family couldn’t help but grind their teeth.
‘As expected of someone with Saintess’s blood who acts with fists before brains…!’
Noel snorted.
“Brother. You’ll regret treating me like this. How long do you think Isaac can remain as junior family head? You’ll really get hurt if you just trust Isaac, brother.”
“What?”
“Though Father completely tied my hands and feet by revoking my surname, you can’t stop me from breathing! You know the power of someone who bore a Saintess in Eshua isn’t just that, don’t you?”
“Is that all you have to say?”
“No? I’m saying you should clearly know that as long as I’m the Saintess’s father, Eshua can’t drive me out.”
“Right, certainly we can’t drive you out with words.”
“Then please give me the money obediently…”
“Then I’ll have to drive you out with force.”
What’s going on?
“Try blocking this too!”
At that moment, tremendous lightning poured down on Noel’s head.
Boom!
“Aaargh!”
Noel retreated as if driven out. But with the continuous divine punishment attacks, Noel gritted his teeth.
What’s this! Such a gentle bookworm, what’s this! What’s with those Isaac-like eyes?!
Benjamin, who now had both overwhelming wealth and power, flashed his eyes.
“I should fry you and sell your kidneys!”
This crazy…! He’s become completely Isaac-ified!
Finally succeeding in driving out his half-brother, Benjamin sighed. Is there no way to completely banish that annoying guy?
* * *
It was around that time.
“Hey there. Your Highness, are you still fighting with Sapien?”
“…Huh?”
The Crown Prince looked at Isaac as if dumbfounded.
They were in the Imperial archive. Thinking there must be a weakness of the Pope’s family here if the reason for targeting Benjamin was the archive.
But what? Who?
At the Crown Prince’s expression, Isaac desperately held onto the Crown Prince.
“I mean, don’t you grab each other’s collars while fighting and think each other looks pretty, or get so used to each other while fighting that you go crazy wanting to date?”
“…”
The Crown Prince made a genuinely disgusted expression. It was a face as if he had been asked if siblings were lovers.
At that expression, Isaac despaired.
‘Damn it, is there no hope!’
Why are they on such bad terms when they’re both Skeleton King fanboy&fangirl!!! Damn it!
“Well, Charlotte does seem to miss the young master terribly.”
“The princess…? Why?”
“I don’t know. She asks what the young master likes, and whenever she sees me she only asks questions about the young master.”
“????”
Isaac tilted his head, but then the Crown Prince, who was skimming through the archive books, said:
“But the more I think about it, it’s strange.”
“What is? Perhaps why the dragon likes the Skeleton King…?”
“That family members are needed for Saint awakening.”
“!”
The Crown Prince, who had heard about Saint awakening from Isaac, seemed to not understand no matter how much he thought about it.
“Even if Priest Benjamin could become a sacrifice for Lady Leia, I don’t think Priest Noel is the type to voluntarily become a sacrifice to awaken his daughter.”
At that moment, Leia, who was coming over with an armful of books to help Isaac, said:
“Actually, I’ve always been curious about that too. Uncle Noel is a person with a lot of greed for the family head position. But thinking about it, isn’t it possible that he was trying to make his son the sacrifice, not himself?”
“…Son?”
“Ah, yes. There’s Samael Eshua. He must have worked temporarily in the Imperial Guard a few times. You know, the brown-haired one who worked as the 2nd Knight Division captain…”
The Crown Prince seemed to immediately realize who it was.
“Ah, that person.”
But the Crown Prince rather tilted his head.
“Strange. I don’t think Eshua blood flowed in that person.”
“…What?!”
This time, not only Leia but Isaac also looked at him as if to say what nonsense are you talking about.
“I can distinguish people from the Five Great Families with my eyes.”
‘Well, that makes sense. The Crown Prince’s eyes are special.’
“All Eshua bloodlines exude that unique energy. But that person only had Gold blood flowing, so I couldn’t even imagine he was a direct descendant.”
…What? Noel’s son doesn’t have Eshua blood flowing?
Isaac was dumbfounded.
What the hell, then the son couldn’t be offered as a living sacrifice.
Because he didn’t meet the conditions.
‘Then was he trying to become the sacrifice himself as Kaya’s only blood relative?’
That bastard? He was going to sacrifice himself like Benjamin? That selfish bastard??
But it was then.
Leia, who felt something strange about the Crown Prince’s words, searched through Eshua’s family tree.
And seeing something, she called Isaac.
“Isaac! Look at this!”
“?”
Isaac quickly looked at the book page Leia held out. At the phrase he saw there, Isaac’s eyes widened.
-
-Diagnosed with congenital infertility.
-Judged to be due to Eshua’s unique curse.
“…??”
Isaac rubbed his eyes as if he had seen something he shouldn’t have.
Damn it, what?
Who said what?
Infertility?
Does this mean he can’t have children just like Lilai?
At the same time, Isaac widened his eyes as if he had found a very important fact.
…Damn it.
Then the other Saintess, Kaya Eshua.
Whose child is she???