Am I dreaming?
I still can't believe what's in front of me.
Rather, it was a year that was too unexpected.
Last year, the Holy City was destroyed by Naja, the enemy of God.
It is no coincidence that I am still alive.
At that time, I was really lucky to be away from the Holy City, but that's why I earned my life in nine deaths.
On that day, the sacred capital disappeared from the world.
Naja used the Magic [Light of Judgment], which was supposed to be available only to the Doren Royal Family and was already lost.
Every building, man, and thing in the sacred city was turned into salt and scattered.
Historic church buildings, many companions, valuable materials, everything was lost in an instant.
And I couldn't even see it with my own eyes.
I only heard about the demise of the Holy City, just like everybody else.
Through the radio, I heard that Naja, the God's enemy, was headed for the Holy City, and then perished a little later, and that Naja had already been defeated.
A mysterious device called radio.
A magical tool that delivers voices from far away lands to remote locations.
The radio was used to report the demise of the Holy City by Ars von Barca, who was the prime minister of the kingdom of Fontana and was once recognized as a Holy Knight by the Church.
He learnt beforehand that Najah had been given the Light of Judgment and ran to the Holy City with Archbishop Paul, who had been recognized as a saint.
But he said he didn't make it.
If he believes exactly what he reported, it seems that there was only one survivor in the Holy City that was extinguished by [the light of judgment].
No, that would be unacceptable.
The sealed King of the Immortals.
After that dangerous existence was resurrected, and somehow the King of the Immortals entered the world of God and destroyed all the apostles of God who lived there, he heard the news.
And by defeating Naja, who was also immortal by the King of the Immortals, Archbishop Ars von Barca and Archbishop Paul returned to the north.
They then complained about the reorganization of the church in the Kingdom of Fontana.
And it was executed.
Among the remaining church officials everywhere, it seems that they gathered all those who were high in rank and trusted by the people northward.
Archbishop Paul, who rose in rank, rebuilt the church as a new pope.
The messenger who complained about it came to me.
I have a bill that promises tremendous financial support.
Perhaps he did the same to the others.
Everyone would have been anxious about the continued operation of the church if the existing information network had become useless at all.
At that time, if you have a lot of money in front of you, it usually catches you.
But I couldn't go north because I was caught in it.
Because I was once listened to by the late Pope.
Regarding the magic of [Divine Transfer], which can only be used by the Pope, and how to return from the divine world.
A heavenly paradise floating in the sky.
It is a magic called "Divine Transfer" that can only be used by those who have raised their ranks to the Pope.
Activating that magic will expand your magic team and allow you to move from there to the divine world.
But there was a slightly different way of getting back to earth from that world of gods.
A transfer room reserved for the divine world.
So you can send magic back to the ground by sending it to the magic team installed on the floor.
The place of return was the sacred capital.
I had previously asked the Pope why he was coming back to the Holy City.
At that time, despite the information that was supposed to be secret, he told me for the reason that everyone recognized that I would eventually become a pope.
The existence of what lies beneath the Holy City.
An ultra-pure magic stone called the core of the labyrinth.
They say it's deep underground in a huge city called Sacred Capital.
And that labyrinth nucleus is the key to getting back from the divine world to earth.
Ever since I became Archbishop, I have lived in this sacred city, but I have never known anything about it.
I didn't even think there was such a thing underground.
But I'm the only one who knows this.
Perhaps Archbishop Paul and Archbishop Ars von Barca don't know that fact.
I know they want to rebuild the church organization in the north.
But that makes no sense.
Because a place called the Holy City is important for returning from the divine world to the earth.
I declined the request of Archbishop Paul, the new Pope, and decided to return to the vicinity of the Holy City.
Anyway, we need to rebuild the Holy City here.
Because otherwise, there would not have been a true resurrection of the Church.
But I didn't know.
That there was really nothing left in the Holy City.
I didn't realize that the labyrinth nucleus, which was supposed to be even deeper in the salty ground, was being stolen.
The Church's true treasure had already been stolen.
And who's the real killer?
I had no idea who he was at this time.
But that person's behavior changed my life a lot later.