Kuro no Maou

Late at night, there were two shadows on the balcony of Daedalus Royal Castle.

"The daytime talks seemed quite exciting, and the look on the face of Lord Saliel's face seemed brighter than usual."

Archbishop Luchrome utters his words as he gazes at the night view of Daedalus, which spreads beneath his eyes.

Standing next to him, toward his brother Mariabel, with a neutral beautiful face as confused with the woman as he is with himself.

The two are real brothers, with the same Yugnosis surname.

"Hehe, I'm glad you are"

Mariabelle, who closes her eyes and floats her thoughts about people, now has only her brother, Lychrome, so she is back to her age-appropriate, boy-like tone by quitting her hard salutations.

"I would have been happier without Sir Mass."

"I guess she wasn't worried about Lord Saliel either, because the boulders just call themselves‘ eternal rivals', hehe, what a smile."

Being a near-old same-sex, or Mass's rival view of Sariel, is a story so famous that no one knows it in Elysion.

Luchrome, who actually has the opportunity to make contact with the Apostle, said, "Whoa, wait, Saliel!

And I've actually seen Mass intertwined with everything I can, and I know it's not just a rumor story.

"Ha, I really don't like being such a kid stained junior, if only I could wake up a little sooner to the Apostle -"

The apostle is essentially given a number in the ‘awakened' order, which remains the sequence.

Sometimes Mass is older than Mariabel, and it is very natural that she awakened as an apostle first.

But "Still!" And I couldn't help but regret every time Mass told me something.

"She will certainly be as fine as the apostles of history, from my point of view, Sir Mass is an age-appropriate and truly girly sensual common sense person"

"... I don't know"

"Yes, it is."

Mariabelle with an unconvincing look on Luchrome smiling meaningfully.

The two brothers continued their conversation soothingly under the starry sky as it was.

"- By the way, what's under Cardinal Ars?

The moment Luchrome asks that, Mariabelle's expression tightens.

He said, "Don't worry about the Mercedes."

"Really?"

Lychrome's gaze is directed beyond the walls of Daedalus, which stand blackened.

‘Hands of Mercedes’, that is, an army that has come as reinforcements after the battle of the Goldran, currently deployed to occupy villages in Daedalus territory.

"Since Virginia, the capital of Daedalus, and Aidon, the need for maritime trading, all three of these important hubs are already in hand, I don't think we need to expand our territory until we're in contention."

A crusader who won the battle of the Goldran and took control of Daedalus, but if you look further at its internal circumstances, that army is a faction of Cardinal Ars among the republics.

Starting with Lycrome, the right-hand man of Ars, on the sub-command, the 15,000 crusaders were mostly those he had gathered in his own voice, and there was only one apostolic, Saliel, who could clearly be said not to belong to anyone's faction.

Even that Saliel had a shallow edge with Ars, and from the facades of parliaments, popes, cardinals, nobles, etc. in the Republic, all the crusaders were a composition that could be said to be breathtaking for Ars.

Everyone shunned adding their own gestures to the defeat, an army that was originally a must defeat.

But it is something that Cardinal Ars, who can be considered a substantial ‘owner' of that army more than the Crusaders have won in reality, must acknowledge alongside himself that he holds control of the occupied land.

Therefore, the first landing point, Virginia, the capital city of Daedalus, the giant fortified city of Daedalus, and the port town of Aidon, which connects Daedalus with other countries on the Pandora continent, are all dominated by Ars.

However, the newly dispatched reinforcements after the Battle of Goldran are ostensibly affiliated with the same Crusaders, but their contents are, so to speak, ‘coalitions' of churches and nobles, mixed with thoughts by various factions.

One of the three cardinals with particular influence is a man named Mercedes.

"If we don't give ‘em some land too, we'll be in trouble."

If you want to suppress all the many who try to devour Pandora's rights, starting with Mercedes, and monopolize all of Daedalus territory by itself, then rebellion is imperative.

The Pandora continent today is too attractive to them, which is why heretical interrogations through assassinations and wet clothes are rampant, so much so that the Crusaders could cause internal divisions.

But on the contrary, if you give them that much ‘distribution’, as Luchrome said, they won't stand out and rebel so much.

If the Ars side declares that Daedalus dominance is a ‘quick win', it will be a competition between the newly landed reinforcements.

If we are not served, the Als side, which has already secured enough land, will never mind how other factions crush each other, is already in a state of defeat when it comes to Pandora rights.

"But that's until Daedalus' reign is confirmed"

"Yeah, we just took control of an area of the eastern part of the continent."

The Pandora continent is vast, just because we got some important bases in Daedalus, and if we don't get control of all the other lands, the advantage we have now will be somewhere negative relative to zero.

"But it will be a while before we cross the Galahad Mountains into a group of central urban states."

"So you're going to augment your brothers' armaments within the moment."

"We've lost a lot of company in the battle of the Gold Run, so we have no choice but to use this time to gather trusted soldiers again"

"Conversely, even if the aristocrats took the lead and attacked the center,"

"Now we just have to miss it.

Even if they do, there's no chance they'll cross the mountain. "

Luchrome, with an invincible grin, had several reasons to say so.

Firstly, in that the Apostle Saliel, the ultimate force of war with absolute power to kill dragons, basically does not participate in future battles.

No apostle can be more disturbing from those who want a new territory if they come out in battle for victory.

Since we must first occupy the land ourselves in order to acquire territory (claiming control), we want to limit the appearance of the Apostle only to the presence of powerful enemies who cannot be helped by our own power.

Therefore, Saliel himself will not be asked to appear until such time as an enemy emerges that would determine that 'we cannot win very much on our own, OR, but the damage is too great'.

No matter how many commander-in-chief, if we move until we blatantly disregard our intentions from everyone, the rules for the distribution of profits will collapse, causing a crisis of crusade division.

Therefore, after the attack on Daedalus, which seems to be the greatest difficulty at first, it is strongly believed that there will be no more Saliel's presence, and as a general conclusion of all the Apostles, Saliel has stated that he will 'watch over' the completion of Pandora's conquest.

And Sariel herself has fully understood the role required, trying to stand around trying not to irritate as much as possible the Crusaders where all sorts of thoughts are intertwined, and will never do anything extra.

"In the first place, we know very little about private soldiers in church and nobility, and we can't cooperate much if we don't belong together."

"Exactly, but the biggest reason they can't cross the mountain is' Sparda '"

"Sparda?"

"It's the name of the Daedalus territory and the neighboring city state, whose sparda protects the border along the Galahad Mountains."

"So you're strong?

"Originally the demonic army is powerful.

But Sparda, known as the "City of Gladiator," is one of a few city states to pull out and gather their troops. "

"'Gladiator', after all, is the only demon left with a barbaric custom."

"But thanks to that custom, Sparda has a collection of hands-on exercises that I remember in my arms from all over Pandora.

In preparation for the invasion of Daedalus, there is an immediate system in place to hire these people as mercenaries in addition to Sparda's defense forces.

On top of that, Sparda is a terrain so suitable for protection that it can be described as a natural fortress protected by the Galahad Mountains.

If you take it down, you'll need more than the battle of the Goldran. "

Approximately a month after the fall of Daedalus, Lychrome has already begun to gather information about a group of urban states in the central part of the continent, starting with Sparda, the crusader's next target, and further surrounding countries.

And he had no intention of sharing that gathering information with all the Crusaders.

"Yeah, but maybe we'll hit that sparda, they'll..."

"Hehe, if you can't cross the mountain, we'll let you take your time in Daedalus until you cry to His Highness Saliel."

In anticipation of ‘low-brain demons’ and insults and the inevitable painful defeat ‘they’ will experience, Lychrome has sealed off so much information that it does not convey the exact power of Sparda, rather than a ninja cover-up.

Though the same crusader, it is only from Lychrome, and hence Ars, that the soldiers of the other forces are damaged, than there is a feud between factions.

"As always, you're being mean. Your brother..."

That's how Mariabelle shrugged when she saw her brother's fair face smiling with pleasure.

While the Jugnosis brothers were spending time without family water, the Eleventh Apostolic Mass slept naggingly in the bedroom reserved in the castle, in its luxurious bed with its canopy.

In addition to the lack of cakera of chastity, the underwear wrapped around it is also a gorgeous thing that goes to the cutting edge of fashion in the republican ladies' world.

She never wore them, such as white rugged underwear, which Sariel also used to pay for her favorite crucifix sisters.

As a person, I'm just piercing my fashion sense, but from what I see around me, I just look like a wagga mom.

However, such a girlfriend is also a namesake to the Apostle, and few try to rely on that power.

"Hehe... I can't believe some crusaders are counting on me, not Saliel"

In Mass's hands is a piece of paperwork, the seal it contained, which has been broken in chaos and thrown away there.

"I've come all the way to the corner pandora continent, just look at Saliel's face. Yes. Sayonara, it's too tsumannai."

Mass laughed like a child who came up with a prank, releasing the paperwork round his hand.

The paper that flies drawing the void emits a pale light just before it falls to the floor.

Immediately afterwards the light subsided and only a few ashes remained.

"Demons or pagans, but all who defy God, this Eleventh Apostolic Mass will punish you heavenly!

Haha, and a mass that gives you a high laugh.

The voice was even heard by the Third Apostle, Mikael, in the next room, but like a mass of motherhood and mercy, she had nothing but to let her cheeks relax to her good neighbor.