Chapter 1201 (2/2)

“I thought it was too shallow,” sighed Heinz's coar, who had thrust his bare fist instead of his trusty dagger into the man's solar plexus

There were over a dozen other people groaning as they lay on the ground nearby, wearing the same masks

All of theht leather armor that was easy to lance However, the people lying on the ground were holding not daggers, but small maces, axes and some even had shi+elds equipped on their arms

“Both the way you used a fake request to draw us away from Selen, and your attack, were quite sloppy Your footsteps were so noisy I thought soar said

“Sh-shut up… you traitor,” one of the roaned in a strained voice He was the leader… or rather, the one who had been put on the ground first, so he had recovered a little more than the others

However, Edgar's response to his words was scornful laughter “Shut up, huh? Do you people understand that if you all shut up for all eternity, I wouldn't have anything to complain about?”

Heinz looked down on the e to kill theh the man's mask that he was terrified by the wrath of an S-class adventurer

“Why… why do you people, who offer prayers to the God of law, go as far as to commit lawless, futile acts to try and lay your hands on Selen?” Heinz asked

The masked men were not assassins or bandits, but priests who normally offered prayers at the Church and the priest-warriors who protected them

In the Orbaudoiven huhts if they had favorable relationshi+ps with humans, these people were known as 'Alda extremists'

They were those who advocated that Vida's races that originated from monsters, such as Scylla, Lamia and Centaurs, were not people but ardless of whether they were dangerous or not

This opinion was commonplace in the Amid Empire, but it was considered to be a radical idea in the Orbauuised themselves as normal believers

In order to assassinate the Dha protected by Heinz's party, these men had put up a fake request at the Adventurers' Guild under the Church's na to draw Heinz and his companions away from her

Edgar had seen through this and acted as if he had been fooled, pretending to leave Selen in the care of a trusted acquaintance He had left the female Dwarf Delizah, as well as Jennifer and Diana, to protect Selen while he and Heinz attacked the extremists who had been lured out

“You knoill happen if we hand you over to the guards without passing judgment on you here, don't you?” said Heinz

If extremists acted to carry out their beliefs, even if they were affiliated with the Church, they were punished harshly as cri Alda, who ruled over law, it was only natural that they were punished more severely

In cases where they armed themselves and planned to kill people, even if the murder was prevented, violators would not be able to escape becodom's law

The girl in question was someone under the protection of Heinz, an S-class adventurer, the great hero who slayed a Pure-breed Vampire, star of Alda's peaceful faction, honorary nobleirl, it was even possible that they would be executed

But it seemed that the extremists were prepared for this

“Do as you wish,” theunable to suppress his fear “We intended to be caught by the guards even if we succeeded Since we have disturbed law and order, it is only natural that we receive our punishment in a public place”

“… Why are you so determined to try to kill Selen?” Heinz demanded “What did she ever do? She's just a child who has lost her real parents!”

“Because it's the right thing to do!” thesqueezed out of hi disorder to the world! Even if they are harmless now, even if they are friendly towards us, they will cause a great catastrophe one day! What's wrong with obeying the words of our God?!”

The Alda extre iathered fame

He was an S-class adventurer, and even possessed the Guider Job that acted as proof that he was a champion

And he was protecting a Dhairl

There were already all kinds of movements to turn Selen into a symbol for the peaceful faction, and if Heinz and his party's actions continued at this rate, thereto make Selen an honorary noblewoman

If that happened, the doer It would be too late to change things then

It was already quite late, but Selen had to be erased as soon as possible

However, even if they wanted to take action, they couldn't anization… It wasn't an issue of senti the extreanization, but because Gubaanization had stopped working

Thus, these masked extremists had no choice but to take the most extreme of approaches

“The peaceful faction is a weak cos! You people, those who spread these teachings as truth, are traitors!” thehis current situation

A vein appeared on Edgar's forehead as he moved to silence the man

However, Heinz stopped hiht,” he said “Alda wished for the extermination of Vida's races in the past, just as you say, and I'm sure that's still true now If that wasn't the case, he wouldn't have fought the Goddess who battled the Deed his es to the Pope and the clergy Vida's races The fact that this hasn't happened means that what you extremists advocate and Alda's will is one and the same”

Not only Edgar and the masked man, but all of the other extremists stopped in surprise at Heinz's words

“W-what are you trying to say?” the masked man asked, bewildered at Heinz's denial of the very foundations of the peaceful faction's ideology

Heinz asked him a question in turn “I airl under my protection, and yet Alda has bestowed his divine protection upon me and dispatches his Familiar Spirits to aid me Why is that?”

If Alda's ould not acknowledge Heinz's actions, if he really was a heretical traitor, why could Heinz summon a Familiar Spirit with the Familiar Spirit Descent skill?

Was it not because Alda had acknowledged Heinz?

Heinz smiled bitterly at the masked man, as lost for words, his eyes wide open “With that said, that doesn't , too”

“A God, waver? Is such a thing…”

“That's what I want to find out And if Alda says that the eradication of Vida's races is right… I'll ask him why, and persuade him otherwise,” said Heinz

He would meet a God, hear what he had to say and then persuade hiant The masked man held his breath… and then exhaled loudly

“This is our defeat,” he said, re his mask to reveal his now-doubtless expression

After this incident, the Alda extremists who had planned Selen's assassination turned theuards' station

Of course, the death penalty was considered Although Heinz appealed for their lives to be spared, they became criuided them on a search for the location of the Trial of Zakkart, and an adventure to investigate Alda's true will

This was the first record of Heinz guiding others as a Holy Guider