Chapter 268 - Even If The Sky Falls (3)

Chapter 268 - Even If The Sky Falls (3)

Whoosh!

With a dull sound, the zombie’s head flew off.

It was Elagon. Watching Irenae and Henry from the side, Elagon had punched the zombie, blowing its head off as soon as it lunged at Irenae.

- Khu khu khu!

As the zombie collapsed, spraying blood from its neck like a fountain, Elagon puffed up his cheeks and kept punching the air, showing off his ferociousness.

Elagon’s vicious punch had saved Irenae’s live.

‘Looks like it wasn’t just your body that changed.’

Henry could tell that Elagon’s speed had evolved drastically, given how fast he had reacted to the zombie, closing the distance almost at lightning speed and punching it viciously.

It looked like it wasn’t just his magic that had been amplified through his evolution.

Henry kicked the zombie far away, then he bowed and apologized.

“My apologies. I should’ve been more careful...”

“N-no worries! Elagon saved me.”

- Khu khu khu!

Elagon was glad to receive more praise.

Henry stroked Elagon’s head and said, “Anyway... I don’t think this was my spell’s problem.”

“I agree. Then I guess this is the only clue we have left.”

“Clue...?”

“It’s about the thing that I was going to tell you in the Holy City. And before I tell you... I apologize. I should have told you sooner, but the circumstances prevented me from doing so.”

Now that the experiment had failed, Irenae apologized and proceeded to tell Henry about the important thing she had wanted to talk about in St. Hall.

“When we encountered Arthus in Charlotte Heights and he disappeared into thin air, His Majesty Herarion, Logger, Ananda, and I, all felt something from Arthus.”

“What did you feel?”

“Divine power. We felt a distinct and tremendous divine power from him.”

“...!”

Henry hadn’t expected the words ‘divine power’ to come out of her mouth.

However, Irenae wasn’t distracted by his surprised look and continued, “The four of us were unsure at first, and we didn’t have time to discuss it fully because we had to fight against the Chimera army. But after the battle, His Majesty opened the floor for discussion, and we all reached the same conclusion.”

“Then do you happen to know what god Arthus is getting divine powers from?”

“Yes, this again is His Majesty’s suspicion, but it’s more or less confirmed...”

“So which god is it?”

“I don’t know much about this god, but His Majesty Herarion told us that this is the divine power of Janus, the god of night and death of Shahatra, whom he used to worship.”

‘Janus!’

Henry was once again baffled at Irenae’s response. Come to think of it, hadn’t Arthus been pursuing Janus’ power for a long time?

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Arthus’ obsession with Janus was so great that in the past he had deliberately worked with Benedict to orchestrate a rebellion to gain Janus’ power. However, Henry had managed to stop Benedict and recover Janus’ token of proof.

‘Just how in the world did he obtain the power of Janus?’

Henry knew about that religious war as well. It had broken out around the same time the continental conquest had ended, when the Eurasia Empire was about to be established.

That religious war had been a power struggle between different religious groups that worshiped different gods. The reason for such a conflict was simple—after the unification of the continent, the new empire was going to choose a state religion, and the representative of that religion was going to have almost as much power as the emperor himself.

In short, it had been a fight for power and wealth.

The empire had already unified the continent, so if one religion became the state religion of the empire, the majority of the people would convert to it.

Evidently, the winner of that religious war had been the Church of Peace, which was currently led by Ross Borgia I, the Pope.

“Most of the soldiers in that war were religious people,” Irenae continued, “so they knew how to use the Holy Code, but all sides used it to heal and strengthen themselves. Nobody used, or thought of using, the Holy Code to suppress or destroy the opponent’s power or their Holy Code because nobody was dealing with magic.

Irenae made a good point. Holy Codes were designed to protect the faithful and serve others, so there were no Holy Codes that could directly harm someone else like magic could.

‘This isn’t good...’

Henry’s hopes vanished as quickly as they had emerged. He had initially thought that they were about to come up with a solution for their problems, but they were back at the drawing board.

After Irenae was done talking, Henry closed his eyes and immersed himself in his thoughts for a while. He looked extremely frustrated.

Irenae also had no choice but to remain silent at Henry’s expression.

But just then...

“Wait a minute.”

“Yes?”

“Since the foundation of the Holy Code is to protect the faithful, the paladins were nothing more than ordinary soldiers in that religious war, right?” asked Henry after a few moments of thinking.

If the foundation of the Holy Code was to protect the faithful, then the paladins, who were very powerful against demons and devils, were nothing more than ordinary soldiers who had a higher level of armor and could heal themselves against civilians.

“Technically, you could say that, but that doesn't mean that the paladins were ordinary soldiers. They were essentially holy warriors who fought against demons and devils, so using the Holy Code for that purpose also empowered them greatly in the religious war...Oh!”

As she continued to explain, Irenae realized the contradiction in her explanation.

Henry had initially asked about how to deal with those who possessed divine powers, which was why Irenae had explained that there was no Holy Code that could do that.

However, the fight between those with divine powers was different. If both sides had divine powers, the one with the stronger divine power would have the advantage.

The Church of Peace had won that religious war because of Logger and Ananda, both extremely powerful warriors.

Henry smiled at Irenae’s realization.

“We have our solutions. If Arthus possesses Janus’ power, then I’ll just have to attain as much divine power as him from the god that is Janus’ counterpart. I’ll be stronger than him in terms of pure force anyway.”

Henry’s mouth curved into a smile as he finally found a way to fight Arthus. They finally found a ray of hope to this seemingly impossible problem.

“So the opposite god of Janus would be...” Irenae trailed off.

“Janus rules over death and night in Shahatra, but La rules over day and life. Given that the majority of religious people in Shahatra have been killed by Arthus’ apostle, I have a chance at this.”

Henry’s judgment was cold but pragmatic. Shahatra’s palace was in ruins because of that damned apostle named Grumpy. In addition, because of Benedict’s death, the position of La’s Sword had been vacant for a while.

Having concluded the debate about divine powers, Henry turned to Irenae and asked, “Saint, while I’m at it, can I ask you for one more favor?”

“Of course, go ahead.”

“Will you come with me to Monsieur?”

The Saint and Elagon were the best healers Henry knew. His intentions were obvious—he wanted to help the people in Monsieur who were in critical condition.

Irenae immediately nodded and exclaimed firmly, “Of course!”

Henry dismissed Elagon and held out his hand to Irenae.

Flash!

With a flash of light, Henry and Irenae disappeared.