Chapter 90: Sacred Place (1) (2/2)

The Fairy Queen graciously smiled at their appearance.

“It’s all right. You don’t have to make such a dejected face. To defend Endymion…no, to save…no, it was for the world anyway.”

Though she was a bit unsettled in the middle, the Fairy Queen still kept her elegant smile until the end of her words.

“To close the Hell Gate, right?”

“Yes, if the Hell Gate had just grown like that…there would have been a terrible tragedy. Cordelia’s actions were rather excessive, but there was no other way back then. Because of Cordelia’s decision on behalf of everyone, she was able to save my life too. If you punish her, let me receive it instead.”

When Jude didn’t just stop defending her and even went as far as to say that he would be willing to receive the punishment instead, Cordelia was startled and blinked, and the Fairy Queen shook her head.

“No, it’s not fair to punish you. As you said, Cordelia saved everyone. And…I think I’m at fault too for neglecting the management of other areas besides the original areas we maintained. Because I didn’t even know of the fact that the Hell Gate opened here.”

The Fairy Queen was also well aware of the Hell Gate’s dangers.

If the Hell Gate had grown just as Jude had said, the fairies would be the first to be at risk.

“So Cordelia, straighten your chest. Although Endymion is gone…isn’t it clear that you saved the world and us fairies?”

“Your Majesty…”

Cordelia was deeply moved and began to tear up.

The Fairy Queen laughed a bit at Cordelia’s response before she continued.

“I know of the name Lena. Holy Angel Lena, one of the five heroes who ended the tragedy of the Paragon Kingdom. But looking at her now, it seems she got the Demon Syndrome.”

“Yes, that’s right. We have to treat Lena.”

Cordelia quickly spoke without thinking, and the Fairy Queen also nodded her head.

“Yes, you are right. She is also our benefactor, so she deserves to be helped.”

“Your Majesty…”

Cordelia’s face was flushed with deep emotions again.

Jude also expressed his admiration of her in his thoughts.

‘She’s a real queen.’

It was unbelievable that the benevolent woman in front of him was of the same race as the fairies he knew.

In any case, the truly gracious Fairy Queen turned around and said.

“Demon Syndrome is a disease caused by the accumulation of hell’s aura in the body. So if you wash away hell’s aura with holy aura, you’ll be able to cure the Demon Syndrome.”

What she said was the truth.

In fact, the quickest way to treat the Demon Syndrome in the game was to go a large temple, give as much donation money as possible, and listen to choir’s hymns while bathing in holy water.

“There is a sacred place not far away. It’s the place where the golden dragon, the king of the wild gods, interacted with Solari, the ancient sun god.”

“Oh…”

Jude unknowingly expressed his surprise.

Because according to the Fairy Queen’s story, it was a land where two gods temporarily stayed together.

It was literally a sacred place among the sacred places.

“I’ll tell you the location, so take Lena there to cure the Demon Syndrome.”

“Really?”

“Yes, really.”

“Wow! Her Majesty is the best! Thank you very much!”

Cordelia was ready to embrace the Fairy Queen at that moment, but their absolute difference in heights prevented her from doing so.

The Fairy Queen laughed a little at the appearance of Cordelia hesitating when she tried to hug her, and she soon looked back at Jude and said.

“Jude.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“I’m saying this out of concern…”

The Fairy Queen’s words trailed off at the end before she suddenly cleared her throat and said while looking elsewhere.

“You can’t destroy that place.”

The sacred place.

Especially the sacred place.

“Of course. I’ll try to prevent the worst situation from happening.”

Cordelia’s face turned red at the moment Jude spoke with a determined look as if he was swearing an oath.

After she struggled in that state, she spoke to the Fairy Queen in an urgent tone.

“I-I promise! I’ll just go quietly! Really!”

“Yes, I believe in you. Truly. Really. Please. Please…”

Her elegant smile remained the same, but at the end, there was some desperation in the Fairy Queen’s words.

It wasn’t really just a sacred place.

Because they had to protect that sacred place.

Especially that sacred place!

“I-I promise. Really…”

The dispirited Cordelia shrank her shoulders as she made a promise, Jude stepped forward again.

“Your Majesty, I will take responsibility and protect the sacred place from Cordelia.”

“Yes, I believe in you.”

“I’m not a demon…”

Cordelia timidly murmured shortly after the Fairy Queen’s worried face and Jude’s determined oath.

The Fairy Queen turned to Cordelia again and spoke.

“I’m sorry. I’ve made you dispirited. As I said earlier, it’s true that you saved us. You can be proud of that. You’re a warrior who made a decision that couldn’t be easily made.”

“Sob, sob, Your Majesty.”

She (Fairy Queen) did a grievous harm to someone and then pretended to help her (Cordelia).

The Fairy Queen smiled a little mischievously at Cordelia whose thoughts were clearly revealed in her face, and Jude also smiled.

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“Ah, thank goodness. There’s a way to cure Lena.”

“You’re right.”

The fairies’ residence, which differed in time and space from ordinary places, wasn’t a very good place to take a proper rest.

For this reason, Lena and Kaplan were staying in a bathhouse in the outskirts of Endymion, which did not collapse.

“Ufufu, I’m excited. If we go to the sacred place, Lena will be cured from the Demon Syndrome, then Lena will regain the power of an angel, and we’ll be able to obtain Lena’s blood. Isn’t that right?”

On the road to the bathhouse, Cordelia energetically walked and laughed, and she even began to sing.

“Le~na’s blood~ doo doo doo doo doo~

Sacred place~ doo doo doo doo doo~

Angel mode~ doo doo doo doo doo~

Lena’s blood~.”

Her singing and gestures were seriously cute and adorable, and Jude tried to distance himself from her. And Cordelia having caught such Jude, glared at him.

“Why?”

“No, are you asking because you don’t know? Look at yourself.”

A beautiful girl was smiling brightly while singing about blood.

“Umm…”

“Isn’t it weird?”

“Hmph. It’s not strange though?”

However, she seemed to be embarrassed as her face turned red.

Jude smiled and continued his words.

“Moving on, it’s good. We saved Lena, and if we go on like this, we’ll obtain the angel’s blood.”

“Yes, I’ll be able to use Ancestral Regression…then it’ll be possible to use this too!”

Cordelia spoke out loud as she took out the Heavenly Judgment, which she had worn on her back throughout their entire trip.

It was one of the hundred swords that the Archangel Auriel himself forged, and a powerful magic item that could use ‘Day of Judgment.’

It was currently sealed, so it was more of a club than a sword, but once she gained the power of an angel, she would be able to remove the seal.

“It’s a happy event, a happy occasion.”

“Yes, I especially like that we saved Lena.”

She had seen her die a lonely death with a painful expression in the cinematic movie, and that scene still remained in her eyes.

But they had saved Lena.

They saved the hero from Legend of Heroes’ first episode, who should have died.

‘It means a lot.’

Among the five main characters in the first episode of the Legend of Heroes, the Ghostblade Kamael was the only one who was active after the second episode.

So if that didn’t happen.

If all the five main characters survived and joined the fight to stop Armageddon…

‘We have to make it happen.’

It wasn’t just Lena.

They somehow saved Iron Man Landius even though the cause of his death was still unknown.

‘The other two too.’

Necromancer Velkian and Druid Fran too.

And furthermore, the heroes of the Legend of Heroes 2 too.

“What are you thinking about?”

“A good idea.”

“You’re saying something strange again.”

Jude grinned at Cordelia’s rebuke, and returned the topic to the sacred place.

“Anyway, I hope that there’s no dragon vein in the place we’re going this time.”

“What are you talking about?”

“No, it’s nothing.”

Jude shamelessly replied and pretended to be ignorant, while Cordelia pouted but it was only for a moment.

“Let’s hurry. I want to give Lena the good news.”

“Okay.”

The two who were walking together began to speed up their pace.

And under the feet of those two.

Deep underground.

The runaway of the dragon veins were continuously causing abnormalities.