Kuro no Maou

By Prince Eisenhardt I, captain of Spartan Army Squad IV, "Gladiator," we left Zorozolo and Sparta after connecting to a brief explanation that even the learned adventurer could understand.

The story is, even be defensive where you are directed, and all you need is just the power to defeat the enemy in front of you. A simple, but extremely dangerous mission. Sounds like an adventurer indeed.

Detailed command in the field is exercised by the captain of a roughly divided unit. Between now and today, they have already talked about who will be captain, what will be done with force formation, etc.

The chain of command of each Spartan army unit continues with ten captains, a hundred captains, and a thousand captains, making it the captain of the regiment who leads 10,000 and the general who leads the entire army. And three squads of the Standing Army and an extraordinary fourth, combined, the King will have command of all four Sparda armies.

On the battlefield, he said, on rare occasions, the king himself commands directly toward all armies. But that would be a simple one: an all-arms assault or an all-arms retreat.

So, it's our Gladiator, but only here things change a little.

A platoon, literally a unit of ten, led by ten captains, but this replaces the adventurer party as it is. In other words, the party leader will remain the captain of the Ten. Well, basically, there's a lot of four or five of us to organize, so we're going to combine two or three parties to be ten.

Dozens of parties will then be combined to make it one squadron with a total of around a hundred men, and a squadron leader will be appointed to lead it. Speaking of around a hundred people, that's exactly the same number as when we fought in Alsace. I could say I was a squadron leader at the time, too.

Next, put together ten of these squadrons and call a thousand squadrons battalions, led by a great captain.

Incidentally, they don't call each a hundred captains/thousand captains because they are strictly distinguished from the regular army, the Knights of Sparda. Does that mean the knight's little pride?

Anyway, there are two things to be elected from among the assembled adventurers: this Squadron Leader and the Battalion Leader. Adventurers have a familiar five-tier rank system, and the Alliance has data like a fine rating that includes the character and combat ability of its members. Based on this, they elect and pre-appoint people who can be entrusted with the Squadron Leader and Battalion Leader.

Before leaving, the Squadron Leader and Battalion Leader are announced, entering already under command from now on the road to Fort Galahad. Most importantly, there was little confusion about who would receive the captainship position as an adventurer himself, as rumors were circulating. "Oh, I knew it," "Well, this guy would be fine," I can see that he was a convincing candidate when I saw the reaction around him.

The leader of the Iron Ghosts, Gustav of Red Oak, who defended the village of Ischia, was elected captain of the Great Trust and Achievement.

Well, it's my "Element Master," who made it rank five and was also awarded a medal, but no one has been appointed captain. I didn't say no. We haven't even talked about "Captain, why don't we" in the first place.

"I didn't expect you to be really free to do it"

Will said, "I'll talk to my dad so he can move freely, so leave it to him!" He said something peculiar, but brilliantly it was happening.

This system, officially called 'Independent Guerrilla Authority (Orderlaid)', is about giving some people the right to fight freely on the battlefield, as Will explained before.

If you want to impose restrictions, only pre-emptive attacks before starting combat with enemy forces are prohibited. Preliminary reporting and authorization shall be given to those at or above the battalion captain when carrying out surprise raids, night raids or using military supplies, weapons and weapons, etc. That's about it.

Instead of being under nobody's command, I'm not held accountable. Anyway, it's a system of concepts where you can fight whatever you want and kill your enemies with your eyes full.

We were given such Independent Guerrilla Authority (Order Raid). First Prince Eisenhardt. Immediately, in front of everyone. It is a little medal awarding ceremony.

Most of all, we had two other parties and a few individuals, so I wasn't as nervous as I was then. That is, Falcius, the example Sparda NO1 gladiator, also received personally, so he was the one who had the atmosphere like the lead. I thought boulders were different in popularity from real stars, grown-ups like me.

Still, it seems adventurously more honorable to be given this than to be appointed captain of the battalion. It also means that he was recognized with such strength that he was judged better off acting alone than leading a thousand people. With that in mind, I certainly don't feel bad.

"I'm glad you didn't have any trouble. The superiors don't help with the battle just because they're loud."

Fiona, with a past that has fallen out of her aversion to the mercenary life of the Crusades, talks smudgingly.

"Did I not bless my boss"

"Yes, you don't want to be ordered by a weak person who just dies from a bit of fire"

No, because that usually kills anyone. Even a good commander dies when the fire is over.

"Be careful with Friendly Fire, though you'll take a closer look at it."

"I believe in Mr. Chrono."

Will you stop turning a pure eye there? Before you believe in my ability to dodge and endurance, I want you to make a self-help effort that doesn't involve me.

"Fiona's firepower doesn't make it any more stylish..."

"Oh, please don't give me the name of the blessing, because it's a secret"

Shh, and Fiona making a faceless gesture with her index finger against her mouth, but this is not a joke either, it is a matter of due diligence.

Black Witch Endymion. It is now a good memory that when I heard the name of the blessing that Fiona gained, I doubted my ear. Hopefully, I'm still wondering if I misheard it.

"I'm sure it's powerful... well, I can't help what I was given once"

Nell said it seems to be the protection of the demon gods acquired by the great evil men of the century, but so far Fiona has kept her sane. Today, yesterday, and all yesterday, I think about rice with a blurry face, it's the usual Fiona. It is unlikely that you will commit atrocious and outrageous acts or anything like burning a child to death.

For the time being, unless Fiona sees any anomalies, there will be no restrictions on their use. Use anything you can, even if it's somewhat dangerous.

"Speaking of which, I've never cared at all about it before, but the human being of the Republic, besides being an apostle, does he not grant the protection of the White God?

"… does that mean that it is not as powerful as the Apostle, but it is sometimes given some power?

Jesus. Exactly.

The black gods are polytheistic, therefore their ability to protect is diverse. From pure combat ability, there is also the healing power acquired by priests, the skill of blacksmiths and, at the end of the day, farming specialization that enriches the fruits of crops.

Whatever the strength or weakness of the abilities, in the Pandora continent, those with some protection climb to a considerably higher number. There will be about one in the small countryside, and all those who are called the elite of the Spartan knights have earned it.

But what about in the Cross, the monotheistic religion of white God? Is it only a super-powerful blessing, to give to the twelve who become apostles? At the very least, I have not seen anyone in the battle so far who has used the protector-like power of the White God outside the Apostle.

"Well, it's not exactly in the form of protection, but it's common for white gods to give special abilities and talents"

"... I knew you would"

Otherwise, the Crusaders will obviously be inferior in their abilities only for the portion of their protection. It could not have relied solely on the power of the Apostle to extend the power of the Crucifixion only to dominate half of the Ark continent.

I had always expected that there would be other people besides the Apostle who, like us, had been given some special abilities, but it was now proven at this moment that it was a hit.

"It's called a gift from heaven," he said. At birth, there are many patterns with special abilities, but again, sometimes priests and knights gain the power to pass to God at the end of a rigorous training "

"I see, is it like a white god covering the protection of all the black gods by himself"

"Right. Particularly the special magic given by the White God is called: sacred magic (Providence), or -"

White magic.

That's what I call it, Fiona said.

"White magic, or... that's the opposite of my black magic"

In fact, it would have the opposite nature. I exercise black magic. In contrast, the Apostle uses white magic. It's a silver aura of tremendous magic density that comes from their bodies when they get serious.

"Fiona is not an apostle, have you ever seen a white wizard?

"Yeah, just one. I've seen it many times, and I've taken it."

"Hey, is that okay?

"It's okay, because I'm a classmate"

I'm not sure the logic is that classmates would be okay with eating it, but, well, if you look at what I'm sayin 'all the time with my sleepy face, it really wasn't anything.

"What kind of magic is that?

"It was defensive magic, called the cathedral junction (Sanctuary). It's like a very user-friendly 'Light Wall (Lux Defan)'. When I fired one shot, it smashed."

Well, then defensive magic wouldn't be a big deal where I got it. I took the liberty of picturing Lily's beam-like nasty attack.

Instead, he would be a white wizard of the sacramental community (Sanctuary) or whatever it feels like to be holy, or a classmate or a student of the Elysion School of Magic, was Soytz safe?

"But by the time he graduated, he had grown beyond me, so I don't know now."

"That's pretty good. Genius, no, is this also among the gifts God has graced"

Honestly, it's hard to tell if that person is his natural gift or what God has bestowed on him as a blessing.

In the Sinclair Republic in the first place, there is probably no very notion that man has given or has not given shelter, because he is the creation of God, because all of that person's innate talents will be the idea of God's shame. It is God's handle everywhere.

"So is that white magic ever going to be unusable? Just as our protection vanishes."

Even more so now, the sunshine gained the protection of all the members, so I looked into the protection again. It is during the preparation period for the Rich Crusade.

The Sparda Adventurer Guild headquarters, with its extensive collection of materials, of course, also stopped at the Pandora Temple for the first time. Well, the temple guy really just stopped by, and it didn't make a big difference.

Ritual of proof of protection, one hundred and fifty thousand clans. Certificates of ritual results will be, separately and in part, 20,000 clans. Please note that even if you perform the ritual, you may not be able to find protection, but a refund will not be granted -

After seeing such a fee plan, I left the temple immediately. You money-guarding bastard, and thoughtfully evil in your heart.

Again, religion and money seem to have a deep edge in the business of cutting but not cutting.

Anyway, aside from the unusable Pandora Temple like that, there are two things that I found out about the protection as a result of my research.

One, protection can vanish. Two, the protection can be changed.

"There's talk of people who can't use it anymore, so it's probably the same."

Typical examples of protective extinction are commonly found in the kind of protections that can be gained by living an abstinent life. In short, there are so many constraints to granting protection. Prayer to the faithful God. Rituals. Sometimes they impose harsh commandments like what kind of training monks do, starting with the basics of religion: don't drink, don't eat meat, refuse a woman.

Those who become priests of the Temple of Pandora are given protection by gods who, in one way or another, have religiously holy legends, such as Amadeus, the divine goddess of the law, Clarisse, and Ishlaan, the puritan monk.

Well, it seems world-famous to me to ask the name of this three-pillar god, but I just memorized it all, and I have no idea of its thankful teaching and virtuous telling.

Anyway, it also means that there is protection that can be built on such severe restrictions.

"That's not a big difference from a crucifixion."

"After all, is it tough to be a priest or a Sister?

"There was a priest who said the commandment was for a disloyalty that broke it."

Apparently, a rotten priest exists in every world.

"That's him again."

"Yeah, I hear they devoured the parish's cute kids, depending on the allowance."

"And he's a hell of a lollicon bastard..."

"No, they were all boys"

It is such an animal that it does not make any noise. I have to sincerely hope you go to hell.

"There are other Sisters out there who have said that purity is for the sense of conquest that breaks it -"

"Stop, I don't want to hear it anymore. Because I don't want to hear more about it."

It is the darkness of history, which you will regret if you find out in a detour.

The majestic mountain shadow of Galahad was still far from the other side if you look away from reality and look a little farther down the road. Although naturally I just left from Sparda.

Arriving at the destination Fortress Galahad will be the day after tomorrow. Though distracting, we have to keep pace with an army of adventurers gathered just to reach 10,000, so we can't help but run ahead of one.

Let's go slowly here and not get fatigued. In the meantime, stroke Lily, sleeping well on my lap, to calm my mind.

"But if the Apostle started doing that kind of crap, it wouldn't have happened with the same followers."

We already know that the Apostle, as an extension of the priesthood, does not live in the correct observance of the teachings of the Cross. A joke messenger named Eye was playing with the impersonation of an adventurer. I also heard from Fiona before that there are other apostles who do whatever they want away from the church.

If you're just playing selfish, it's still fine, but if you commit treacherous outrage, it means that a tragedy like Alsace can happen in Sinclair Republic as well.

"Yeah, there are also a few notorious apostles who have done quite a bit of outrage. However, now that the Second Apostle Abel is in good control, there are few problems caused by the Apostle"

What extra competence it is. It would not have been the Pandora Invasion if it had flashed its inner circle with the power of the Apostle.

Nevertheless, if you mean to continue to have protection even if you actually do a bad cot, it may be proof that the Apostle is not bound by the commandments. If it's a protection of the clergy, it seems to be out in one shot.

"Whatever the apostle reveals, will the protection not vanish?

"Not once in history -"

But then went on, Fiona went on with a serious face for it.

"I think it is possible, I am"

"Well, the Apostle would be like a symbol of the Crucifixion, so the protection has vanished, there's no way you can say that"

Fiona also told me that the Apostle is a lifelong system in which no protection is granted to another unless he dies in person.

Coverage doesn't disappear until you die, which is not a whole lie, and that's basically the type you're sure of. Even if it wasn't, the situation wouldn't be very good for a member of the Apostle to change all the time. If you suck, the faithful are fighting hard day and night over the seat of protection, which can be something.

At the very least, the fact that it would rock the very foundations of the apostolic lifelong system, both imaginatively and systematically, would be absolutely concealed.

"Sure, there's gonna be that too... but I got my own protection, so you feel that way somehow"

"Oh, is that a witch's guess?

"Half of them are, right? The other half, however, advanced my understanding of protection, so I had one reasoning."

Um, I've been given first protection by Mia for almost six months, but you never thought about that at all. Desperate to learn how to handle it, it can be said that there has not been much in-depth reflection on the very system of protection.

In that regard, Fiona... I think I've got a glimpse of the intellectual side, worthy of the witch's name.

"What is that reasoning?

"I think protection is a covenant between man and God."

Contract, huh? I can see it as an image somehow...

"- In this world, the existence of God is only a ‘system’ that empowers people, we only give that individual the power he deserves"

Past Fuji's brain was a scene in an alley in Slam Street, where he first encountered Mia the Demon King.

At that time, the answer to the word I had ketched against God for failing to reach out to salvation was sole.

system. Indeed, yes, Mia said.

"You mean if you accomplish a trial, it's not something you automatically get?

"Even if you qualify to be granted protection, perhaps, depending on your will, you can say no"

Indeed, in my case too, if I refused to give proof in my dreams, the protection would not have dwelt in this body. It can be said that there was room for choice, whether to bow or not.

So, if you don't level up the game no matter how far you go -

"Well, maybe it's a contract by mutual agreement."

"And only God and the individual know what that covenant is about."

What Fiona says seems to be made up, at least between me and Mia. In the first place, because the conditions for granting the Defense of the Demon King have not been revealed in Pandora's long history, so far it is undoubtedly just a secret between me and God.

But even for me, Mia only tells me one condition.

"But there will be many with the same protection"

So far, it is a fact that is well known to the public, although it has never been protected by anyone I know.

Famous also as the bride of Demon King Mia Ellord, "Dark Knight Freesia," "Ethereal Thunder Knight Artena," and others are a blessing that many Sparda knights have.

Even for Nell's "Healing Empress Aria," which can be described as extremely rare, he said there were five of them in Avalon.

"I'm sure that means that the conditions for obtaining protection, so to speak, the vast majority of the contract content, or there are many things in common,"

"At first glance, it looks the same, but you're actually saying that the contract is different in a trivial part?

"Some people will be exactly the same. No, most people are the same, but those who can handle that protection at a higher level will have a deeper contractual relationship."

Speaking of the example of the clergy earlier, it means that the commandments need to be followed more rigorously in order to gain stronger protection. You think I have to double my daily prayer time or suffer the hardships I didn't have to do before?

Again, I feel like I'm in the mood of a god who makes it.

"No, is it the other way around..."

"On the contrary, what does that mean?

"When I first met the Demon King, I gave this explanation about the blessing -"

"As you know, you need to devote the faith it deserves to gain protection, but even when it comes to devoting faith, it's not just flattering to God.

It's like a condition that allows God to interfere in the world. No matter how much God likes that person's personal affairs, he cannot be empowered if there is no room to interfere.

Again, if you can interfere, you have to give strength, if you fulfill the conditions, you can give protection to anyone, and you can't revoke it because you don't like it. "

Yes, Mia did say this then.

"If this word is true, isn't the covenant of escort made by agreement between God and man, but by the will of man alone?"

God can only set the conditions for granting protection, but when it is cleared, the decision as to whether to obtain protection is determined only by the will of a person.

No matter how bad he dislikes it, he can be given it if he clears the terms and thinks he wants "protection". Conversely, no matter how good he is, no matter how much he prayed for it, if he hadn't fulfilled the conditions, no protection would be granted.

"... I see there's no contradiction. Does it not mean that instances exist where the protection disappears because it has not damaged God's mood, but has turned into a state in which the conditions have not been fulfilled, so to speak, because it has broken the covenant"?

The commandment of example is also, in the end, just a rule, and no matter how deeply you denigrate God at the bottom of your heart, blessings continue to be given. Instead, it would mean that if you hadn't even broken the rules, it would be okay to imitate them so as to make a hole in the system.

It just seems to expand the interpretation of God's breach of covenant when it becomes a very linear ambiguous thing, like a will to guard or loyalty.

"Maybe only a white god can give protection to whoever he wants, of his own free will"

"There are no conditions for granting protection and no matter what the will of the individual. Is it a restriction that only the Twelve are granted protection because they are violating that system"

If you really want to do whatever you want, more specifically, if you want to rule the Pandora continent, you can easily conquer it by tailoring all the faithful to the Apostles. But only the Twelve, as a reality, have the power of that transcendent protection. It is still believed that there are some restrictions and constraints occurring there.

"If the twelve apostles are truly chosen only by the will of the White God, and have the forgiveness not to take up shelter no matter what action, the apostle will not disappear from shelter,"

But if it's made up of contracts just like us, you mean if we violate it, the protection will disappear.

The question of whether the Apostolic Referral will be extinguished was finally concluded after various detours.

"However, you will not be able to poke there more than you do not know what kind of covenant the Apostle and God are"

In the end, that is something that can be said for almost every protective person. Well, I wasn't expecting anything from Hannah.

"But, if the Cross has a strict commandment like the Temple of Pandora, aren't some apostles really just breaking the commandment and causing protection to disappear?

"There are also many mirrored figures of priests in the Apostles, in history...... The Seventh Apostle Saliel seems to be a fairly devout Sister, so why don't you even let him drink for a try?

Except for wine, Fiona says. Am I allowed to because wine is God's blood after all? I'm not willing to check to see if the Crucifixion puts Christianity that far.

"I don't think jokes and deception work for him."

"Then when it comes to strength, you can also take purity instead of life. Because being a maiden is the most important condition for Sister."

For once, that's what it's built before, Fiona, who says like other HR.

Somehow, the circumstances around it are also speculative. Anyway, it's an alley, it burns back because it's banned, and it's a development like that.

"Either way, if there's a gap in doing that, I'm gonna have to stab Todome. I'm not so desperate."

Sure, Sariel's face is zoggly beautiful, but I don't really feel that way. There's too much resentment for him. At the same time, the fear of absolute power differences.

From me, Sariel feels more like a real demon than a woman. No, is it more appropriate to call him Reaper, a fear that may be taking his life in the next moment?

"That's a joke now. I believe in Mr. Chrono."

The second statement I believe in today. Fiona's eyes are still serious. Is it really a joke, or is it being tried, and don't make an evil push?

"Well, if there's any priors caught up in LastRose's dream. But..."

Actually, even if Sariel had concealed moves like Mass' "Holy Love Charm (Madonna Charm)," it wouldn't make sense to me right now.

"Whatever Sariel says, I will never be confused. It's a fourth blessing."