Chapter 749: Gathered (2)
“How fancy.”
Sayeru walked up to Cale as he got off the carriage. Sayeru’s expression did not look good.
“Cale-nim, I don’t think that this is the time for such appreciation. We are the last to arrive.”
Sayeru made his annoyance visible on his face, but could not be angry toward Cale.
This journey from the Henituse territory to Puzzle City... The sacrifices delivery convoy had moved at a schedule usually reserved for VIP travelers.
The priests wanted to hurry, but they could not do so. The carriages and everything belonged to the Henituse Estate.
Cale shrugged his shoulders and gently responded.
“There was nothing we could do about it, priest-nim. We need to make sure that sacrifices for the White Star-nim are in the best condition. Isn’t that right?”
“Ha!”
Sayeru shook his head side to side before turning around as if he didn’t want to talk to Cale anymore. Cale grumbled in a shocked voice toward Sayeru’s back about how fussy he was being.
“It’s not like we’re late. How fussy.”
“What did you just say?”
Sayeru turned back and Cale responded with a nonchalant look on his face.
“Do you need some donations?”
“Ha!”
Sayeru turned around with disgust before walking over to the carriages with the sacrifices and giving an order to Vice Captain Hilsman.
“Please move the sacrifices to the ‘White Sky’ immediately!”
The Vice Captain looked at Cale instead of responding. Sayeru frowned and asked.
“Are you not going to answer me?”
“Mm. I’m sorry, sir. My superior is the young master-nim, and he is the one in charge of the overall delivery and safety of the sacrifices.”
It had been like this.
Sayeru had not been able to do anything as he pleased during their trip here. Normally, everybody was supposed to whimper at Sayeru’s every word, but that had not been the case this time, potentially because of Cale Henituse.
However, he couldn’t even get angry. Why?
“Vice Captain! Of course, we need to quickly move the sacrifices!”
Cale Henituse was being a total drama queen as he continued.
“Safely! Without a single injury! You remember, right?”
“Yes, sir. They are our precious sacrifices.”
“They sure are. Ah, I should go as well. I am the person in charge of the delivery, so I should watch them until the end. Isn’t that right, priest-nim?”
Cale Henituse had truly worked hard.
He had not talked back to Sayeru nor any of the priests and had done everything logically.
Cale headed over to the luxurious carriages with the sacrifices and said something once he was next to Sayeru.
“I heard that some of the others just tell their subordinates to move the sacrifices and don’t even check what happens to them later? Haaaaa. They are lacking sincerity, totally lacking sincerity!”
‘That damn sincerity.’
Sayeru became disgusted whenever he heard that word now. He finally realized it.
‘He’s rebelling like this now.’The source of this content nov(el)bi((n))
He had realized that Cale was messing with him a long time ago. It annoyed him, but he had to hold back his sneer.
‘Yes. Now that he cannot go against our liege, the only thing he can do is to mess around like this.’
Cale Henituse had annoyed Sayeru and the priests but had properly delivered the sacrifices in the end. Basically, it meant that he submitted to the White Star.
‘I’m sure that his liege will be quite happy to hear about this as well.’
Sayeru watched the Henituse territory’s sacrifices being delivered to the White Sky and smiled.
Unfortunately, there was something he did not know.
Cale’s eyes were thoroughly recording the Salvation Center where the sacrifices were stored.
‘The White Sky?’
Vice Captain Hilsman was moving the sacrifices to the White Sky with a stiff expression on his face. Cale, who was watching a bit farther back, took a look at this building that was called the White Sky.
It was the final resting place where the sacrifices that had fallen into despair rid themselves of that despair before going to the sky.
The White Sky.
This building was said to have one story above ground and three underground.
‘It’s located right next to the temple.’
The splendid five-story marble temple at the center of Puzzle City.
The White Sky was the black building just a bit away from the temple.
The sacrifices remain in the basement of this building until the start of the cultus, imprisoned in the dark underground without any light.
“Mm. Everybody on the list is here.”
On the above-ground floor of the White Sky... The priest looking through the document nodded his head toward Vice Captain Hilsman.
The only floor above ground was set up like an office. Numerous sacrifices were walking down a long pathway on one side of the building.
Cale took a peek toward the end of the path. He could not see anything because it was dark. However, he could tell that this was the only way in and out of the basement.
One of the White Star’s loyal subordinates was protecting it.
“Oho? Young master Cale is here?”
At the front of that pathway...
Lion king Dorph. That bastard was sitting on a chair leisurely waving his hand toward Cale. He looked quite small for a Lion without being in his berserk state.
However, there were lots of Darkness Elementals floating around him.
He walked over to Cale and patted his shoulder. There was no hesitation in his movements.
“Good job bringing the sacrifices here.”
Cale also smiled as he responded.
“Yes. It was quite arduous. You don’t know how much sincerity I showed as I brought them here.”
Amiru stopped glaring at Cale and signed the document.
Dorph was cheerfully watching when he heard Cale’s voice. Cale’s voice was extremely light and peaceful.
“Then can I go rest now?”
Cale calmly asked the priest who nodded his head and smiled. There was some sneering and goodwill mixed in the smile.
The sneering was toward the last person who had resisted against the White Star while the goodwill was at the fact that they were on the same side now.
“Of course. We have especially chosen a good place for you to rest so please rest well and enjoy the celebration before you leave.”
The celebration.
This was the process of offering the sacrifices to the White Star.
They called that a celebration.
Cale opened his mouth to speak.
“Is this already the 50th celebration?”
“It is. We have made it even more magnificent because it is the 50th.”
It had been over a year since the central temple took its place in Puzzle City.
There had been 49 celebrations since then and this was the 50th.
There were too many people who had died as sacrifices until now.
“I’ll have to watch the whole thing before I leave.”
Cale smiled as he responded before walking out of the White Sky building. He made eye contact with young lady Amiru before he left.
It was only for a moment but she slightly nodded her head.
Taylor Stan, Amiru Ubarr...
Aside from them, there were also Eric Wheelsman, Gilbert Chetter, and others.
The people who had come as the representatives of their respective territories to deliver the sacrifices had gathered at the central temple.
That wasn’t all.
People were gathering from all over the Western continent.
He got back on the carriage where the children averaging ten years old were waiting and mumbled to himself.
“The White Star used his head quite a bit this time.”
The White Star made the people in charge of the different territory’s sacrifices delivery come to the festival at the central temple and forced them to watch until the end.
It was to instill fear in them while showing them his strength.
Furthermore, it was also a process to check who had any feelings of defiance.
It was the reason he called a lot of the influential figures.
“It’ll make things easier for me.”
Cale was planning on using this to his advantage.
He put his hand into his shirt pocket. When Taylor Stan had brushed past him... He had put this piece of paper in Cale’s pocket.
Cale had asked Raon to do something.
He asked Raon to tell his friends to come watch.
The friends who had responded were gathering one by one.
There was a luxurious and magnificent building slightly farther away from the central temple and the White Sky building.
Cale’s carriage was headed there. This was the resting area for the influential figures who were pretty much hostages.
“Raon.”
“What is it, human?”
Raon, who had been busy with On and Hong in the carriage, moved over to Cale after hearing his name. On and Hong came over as well and Cale pointed outside the window after making eye contact with On.
“That rock wall.”
Outside the five-story central temple... There was a large wall surrounding it. The wall that was built extremely sturdy like castle walls blocked the temple from the outside, as well as highlighted the status of the temple that a person could not easily approach.
“Did you say that the rocks used in that rock wall were from all of the rock towers in Puzzle City?”
“That’s right, nya. The White Star told the people of Puzzle City to make it, nya.”
The children averaging ten years old had already stopped calling the White Star ‘White Star-nim.’
“That’s right! The White Star made the people of Puzzle City take down their rock towers and ordered them to make a wall to protect him with those rocks!”
It was even denser because people had moved the rocks one by one to build this wall.
The rock wall was only about one-story high compared to the five-story central temple and was lacking when it came to protecting the temple, but the building process itself held a lot of meaning.
It was a symbol of submission and respect toward the White Star.
“Hmm.”
“Human, why did you ask when you already know?”
“Just because.”
Cale looked at the numerous rocks that had now become a single wall and mumbled to himself.
“That should be useful.”
- That’s correct. It is useful.
Cale and the Super Rock... The two of them had the same thought while looking at the rock wall.
Cale arrived at the resting area and asked Ron a question.
“The celebration is in two days?”
“Yes, young master-nim.”
Ron delivered another message as well.
“We just received this message from the temple that crown prince Alberu will deliver the congratulatory speech for this celebration. Apparently, it was decided this morning.”
Cale looked at the temple’s stone wall through the terrace window and asked the Super Rock a question.
“Should we destroy it?”
- Sounds good.
The Super Rock added on.
- I guess the celebration will be ruined.
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