Chapter 318: Zainan Gorge (3) (2/2)
“Hehe, I’m number one. First place.”
Cordelia, who had been obsessed with becoming number one for a long time, carefully stepped inside the stone chamber and soon trembled from excitement.
“Oh, it’s so thrilling. I love it. This must be why being first place is the best.”
She’s so happy. (Jude)
I should have let her win first place before.
Still, she looks cute from jumping in excitement even when she isn’t first place.
How hard must she have wanted to experience it?
[My successor, you sound like a pervert.]
It seemed like some of his thoughts had leaked out.
Jude cleared his throat as he felt Valencia’s cold gaze and stepped inside the stone chamber.
“There are a lot of books.”
The stone chamber appeared to be only about 17-20 square meters from the outside, but when they went inside, a space larger than what they had imagined appeared.
The distance from one end to another was 50 meters, and the shelves were full of books as though they had come to a huge library.
Kirara recalled her childhood treasure, an old fairy tale book that she had lost, as she viewed the books on the bookshelves and stood on her tiptoes. On the other hand, Cordelia looked at the books in a slightly different way.
“Wow, seriously?”
The books had magic in them.
Cordelia glanced at the books on the one side of the bookshelf and once again exclaimed in happiness.
“Jude, Jude, Jude! These are all dungeon books!”
All of the bookshelves were filled with dungeon books. They estimated that there were more than a hundred books ranging from basic dungeon books like the dungeon book in the temple at Bailon, to advanced dungeon books with a fairly high level of difficulty.
“Did the denomination make it for training purposes?”
Jude pulled out a few books and studied them, and it seemed that he was right.
“There are some books here that the high elves made. These must be something that the denomination had collected.”
The Solari denomination was destroyed after a fierce battle with the demon followers.
But their legacy still existed around the world, and this stone chamber was definitely one of it.
“Let’s use this to raise Lucas. And Kajsa and Scarlet.”
Jude and Cordelia could not find any dungeon books here that were useful to them now, but it was enough for the training of the Lucas, Kajsa, and Scarlet trio.
“We’ll all become stronger together.”
While watching Cordelia pick out books in her excitement of nurturing the three, Jude walked around the place.
The dungeon books and various ancient books were clearly a huge profit for them, but their biggest reason for finding the stone chamber in the first place was because of something else.
“The tomb of the champion Gallus.”
A paladin of Solari who defeated Demon Prince Leisegang despite his human body.
Jude stopped when he reached the end of the stone chamber. Filling the wall were paintings of Solari who was said to be the most beautiful and gentle of the seven archangels in Heaven.
She was a red-haired archangel.
The goddess of the sun.
Jude offered a brief prayer to the now dead goddess before he looked up again.
He began to decipher the codes hidden in the paintings one by one.
***
Archbishop Manuela sat on the throne and frowned.
The emperor had escaped, and Elio whom they had hard time in coaxing had failed.
Now, it was simply a matter of time before civil war broke out within the empire.
It was not good.
What Manuela wanted was a war between the empire and the kingdom.
A civil war in the empire would not create the chaos necessary for the Great Summons.
‘The Great Tribulation.’
Members of the Devil’s Mouth continued to enter the eastern part of the empire.
The demon follower groups originally set their respective regions and kept each other in check, but they had now began to cooperate under his command, exerting power beyond one’s imagination.
But that was not enough.
As the demon followers gathered their forces, so too were the opposing forces.
In particular was the annoying five heroes of Paragon.
Druid Fran had yet to join them, but the fact that the four of them were together was annoying him.
They were those who should have died.
They should not have been gathered as they were now.
He now knew where it went wrong.
Demon Slayers.
Jude August Bayer and Cordelia August Chase.
The two of them had saved Lena, changed Landius’ mind, and saved Velkian’s life.
But Archbishop Manuela was not that obsessed with the two.
The stage had already grown.
Rather than focusing on an individual, it was better to look at the full picture.
To give up the west and take control of the east.
The disaster born in the east would be sent to the kingdom to cause a Great Tribulation.
As soon as the civil war in the empire was over, they would begin a chaotic war with the kingdom.
Now was not the time to conserve power. He had to mobilize not only the high-ranking demonic humans, but also the powerful demons and sealed demons.
‘But it’s still not enough.’
Just a bit more.
If I only had a bit more power.
Archbishop Manuela stared at the darkness.
He began his calculations as he moved his fingers.
***
Archangel Raguel conveyed her will to crown princess Daphne and the empress dowager.
The heavenly voice made it clear to the two women on what had to be done.
The nobles of the kingdom were called by the crown princess and gathered in the center.
The pro-Imperial Family faction that were loyal to the emperor gathered in the northern part of the empire.
King Henry II did not ignore his daughter’s words.
Having heard the heavenly voice in person, he finally made a decision. He once again acted so as not to repeat his mistake.
The emperor followed the advice of the empress dowager.
Together with his trusted and dependable mother, he stood before the Imperial Family loyalists.
Henry II caught his breath.
The young emperor clenched his fist and opened his mouth.
They were in different places.
But what was happening occurred at the same time.
Henry II spoke.
The young emperor proclaimed.
“War.”
“Let’s begin it.”
The 301st year of the Sälen Kingdom.
The 517th year of the Argon Empire.
A war was declared that would decide the fate of the continent and the two countries, as well as the entire Pleiades.