at the same time.
Xiao Si and Xiao Bai are at the Holy Church headquarters.
"You guys want to challenge me?"
[Chapter 78: The Truth about the Holy Church]
At the same time as the Demon King's Banquet took place.
Laplace from "The Clown Company" took this opportunity to invade the "Inner Courtyard" of the Holy Church again. Last time, he met the demon lord "Roy Valentine" (one of Luminas' followers) here.
According to legend, the Western Saint Church, which has always been merciless to monsters and preaches that all monsters are evil and want to destroy all monsters, actually has a "greatest evil" existence in an important place within it, the Demon King. The people behind Laplace are very interested in the secrets hidden in the Western Saint Church, so when the Demon King's banquet is held, they want to use Laplace's ability to sneak in again to investigate the secrets of the Western Saint Church while the Demon King is not at home.
But Laplace's action ultimately ended in failure.
Because there is more than one existence of the level of Demon King Roy. When Luminas took Roy to the Demon King's banquet, Roy's brother Ray was left at home. And not only Ray, but also the saint Sakaguchi Hinata was there.
Because Laplace was discovered by Roy last time, the Holy Church knew that there was a little mouse plotting against them. This time, Laplace was discovered by Rey just after entering the inner courtyard. Unlike Roy, Rey is more cautious. Laplace faced Rey, who was about the same strength as Roy, and Hinata Sakaguchi also rushed out from the side, so he decisively gave up this impossible task.
Laplace showed incredible strength. He was repelled by Roy with one blow during the last invasion, but this time he actually escaped under the joint attack of Rei and Hinata. If Rei hadn't discovered that Laplace seemed to have hidden strength and reminded Hinata not to chase him, someone between them might have been injured.
The expected little mouse turned into a dinosaur.
With such an unexpected event, Ray naturally tried to inform Luminas immediately. At the same time, Luminas had just been subdued by Xiao Si. After receiving the contact from Ray, she said goodbye to Xiao Si and hurried back to the church with Roy.
Luminas returned to the church and sat on the throne, with Roy Rei and Sakaguchi Hinata, who was known as the strongest human, standing below her.
Only a few people in the Holy Church know that the true identity of the God Luminas they believe in is the Demon King Luminas who disappeared thousands of years ago. The vampires that the Church is best at dealing with are actually released by the God Luminas.
The purpose is to harvest faith through such a self-directed and self-acted way. Ordinary citizens only need to live obediently under the protection of the church according to the doctrine. There is no inequality or gap between the rich and the poor here, because the fate of all citizens has been arranged since birth. But the church needs enemies, so the Holy Church defines monsters as evil, and vampires also invade this country from time to time to maintain the doctrine.
In addition, this country has been running like this for thousands of years, and this system has become extremely perfect. Unless something happens to Luminas, there will be no changes.
As for the deprivation of the freedom and thoughts of ordinary citizens, no one cares because they can live a peaceful and stable life without worrying about survival, because the goddess Luminas will grant them a peaceful and happy life.
This is an ideal utopia, where some sacrifices can be ignored. Some people may think that this is a prison and a pasture where vampires are kept.
There's nothing wrong with that.
But even if the truth is known, no one can resist Luminas, so it is better to pretend that the truth is unknown. And the humans living here are happy. There is no need to worry about the harvest of food, no need to fear the invasion of monsters, and war cannot break through the strongest human guardian. Just donate blood regularly and you can live well.
In this alien world, this place is undoubtedly a holy place for mankind.
Hinata Sakaguchi once tried to challenge Luminas.
But there is an absolute gap in their strength.
Hinata was defeated by Luminas, but Luminas did not kill Hinata and successfully persuaded her. After all, the vampire clan did not harm humans and acted as the guardian. Luminas was as powerful as a god, and humans could never contend with her. As long as Luminas's will did not change, the Holy Church would still protect humans. Then what she had to do was very simple. Until Luminas betrayed the agreement and became the enemy of humans, she would protect the Holy Church and this secret.
If Luminas becomes an enemy of humanity.
Then Hinata will also take responsibility and kill Luminas.
This is the enlightenment of Saint Hinata.
Luminas told Ray and Hinata what happened at the Demon King's Banquet and asked them to come up with a feasible plan.
"I have surrendered to the Demon King Lucifer, that's about it. Now I want you to come up with a plan to change the church without affecting the church's foundation."
Because Lucifer needs
What matters is faith.
"That lord has given me such a precious treasure, so there is nothing wrong with pledging allegiance to him."
Rey made a quick decision.
After all, Lady Luminas had been defeated, and that lady had also offered a treasure that their clan could not refuse.
Sakaguchi Hinata looked serious.
This matter was difficult for her to accept for a while.
She couldn't tell whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.
It is even more uncertain what Lucifer is to humans.
"Hinata, our agreement is still valid. And I am sure that Lucifer has no ill will towards humans. What she wants is faith. Perhaps this is a sign that the God of Creation is about to be resurrected. And to put it bluntly, we cannot refuse. If Lucifer has that wish, it would not be difficult for her to destroy humans."
"I understand."
Hinata Sakaguchi knew the seriousness of the matter.
Lucifer only sent one of his subordinates to defeat Lady Luminas, who was as powerful as a god in her eyes. If Lucifer took action himself, it would be very likely that he would destroy all of humanity. Moreover, the information about Lucifer's abilities that have been made public so far is so powerful that it makes people despair. The ability to manipulate time and space, and the huge magic power that even surpasses the dragon species, is so powerful that it is not a natural disaster level.
Even when facing the legendary dragon species.
The evil dragon——Veldra.
Hinata Sakaguchi is confident that he can defeat his opponent.
But facing Lucifer.
Even though she had never met him, she knew from Luminas-sama's description that he was absolutely invincible.
"Well, let's start preparing. Although the children downstairs may make a lot of noise, this matter must be carried out. I can see that Lucifer takes this matter very seriously."
Luminas reminded.
If it fails.
If this caused Lucifer to take action himself.
Things will become very troublesome.
[Chapter 79: Taboo that cannot be mentioned]
Luminas handed all matters over to Hinata Sakaguchi, asked Rei and Roy to assist Hinata in secret, and told Hinata that she didn't need to be polite if she needed help.
But that being said.
It is still very difficult to accomplish this task.
Because the top leaders of the Holy Church do not know the truth.
The Seven Stars Elders, who knew the truth, did not get along with Hinata.
Even with Luminas' orders, it was unknown whether the elders would obey Hinata. And because Luminas was absolutely confident in her own strength and didn't care about power, even if she came in person, it would be impossible to control the church without using force.
But as long as Luminas uses force.
Then things will become easy.
That's right, seriously speaking, the reason why Luminas chose this approach was actually just to give Hinata a chance. If she took action, there might be sacrifices, but if Hinata could do this well, then the sacrifices would be minimized. Hinata herself knew this, so she would act more radically next time.
But the development of things was beyond her control.
The meeting had just begun and she had just arrived at the scene when she was immediately ridiculed by her colleagues. The reason was that she had failed in her previous mission and failed to kill the leader of the Monster Kingdom. Now that the notice of the Demon King's banquet had come down, everyone knew that the leader of the Monster Kingdom had become a member of the Demon King, and this was undoubtedly Hinata's fault.
It was Hinata who decided to destroy the monster on his own.
But she screwed up.
Now that monster has become the Demon King.
He will undoubtedly become a great enemy of the church!
For these provocations.
Hinata changed his usual attitude and said bluntly: "If you have any objections, you can compete with me in the training ground. If you don't dare, just shut your mouth."
Faced with Hinata who seemed like a powder keg that could explode at any time today, those who wanted to cause trouble suddenly didn't dare to do anything. They only dared to do such a thing because they saw Hinata's sense of responsibility, but they all recognized Hinata's strength.
"I received an oracle that the goddess Luminas has already paid tribute to the church. This is what we are going to discuss today. Next, we need to change the object of our faith, but this matter cannot affect the lives of ordinary citizens."
"Hey, I haven't heard of such a big thing."
"Hinata-sama, are you sure this is the instruction of Goddess Luminas?"
"Why didn't the Seven Lights Great Elder say anything about this important matter?"
"It's not you who wants to seize power and usurp the throne, is it?"
Regarding these doubts.
Hinata just said with a cold face:
"This has been decided. If you have any objections, your identities will be revoked and you will be expelled from this country. You can also try to challenge me."
"In other words, if we don't agree, you plan to be hostile to all of us, right? You are indeed a person who claims to be our representative. I have a new respect for you."
Saree, one of the captains, said so.
He had never been convinced by Hinata.
At this time
The attack was also expected.
But to be honest.
He really needs to take action against Hinata.
He will still consider it seriously.
One may not accept the defeat, but whether or not one can win is another matter.
Sarre's words did not affect the other captains.
The captain who supports Hinata still believes in Hinata.
The captains who didn't want to cause trouble didn't make any decisions.
Even if there were a few who were dissatisfied, because they were not sure that they could defeat Hinata by joining forces, and since this was an oracle, no one dared to rashly oppose this matter.
Things didn't change until the appearance of the Great Elder Qi Yao.
What was unpleasant was that the way the Seven Stars Great Elder appeared on the scene showed that he hardly took Hinata into consideration, and he wanted to seize control of the meeting as soon as he appeared on the scene.
Hinata originally thought that even if these elders did not get along with him, they would not dare to object since they had been informed by Lady Ruminas on this matter.
But what happened next was beyond her control.
As soon as the Great Elder Qi Yao appeared, he refused to mention this matter again.
Instead, he blamed Hinata for his previous negligence.
And Hinata is held responsible!
"Since three demon kings have appeared in the Jura Forest, and one of them was once your target, then the monsters that are hostile to the church cannot be spared. In order to make up for the mistakes you made, this time you will lead the Holy Knights to attack the monster kingdom and eliminate the three demon kings."
One of the Seven Great Elders announced this.
Hinata's eyebrows furrowed.
She didn't understand the thoughts of the Seven Lights Great Elder at all.
Defeat the Demon King of Jura Forest?
Is this some kind of joke?
Not to mention Lucifer and the demon king who defeated Lady Luminas.
Even Rimuru, whom I met before, was a strong enemy.
One on one, the kind where the chances of winning are slim.
After all, that guy didn't look weak to begin with, and now he has awakened to become a demon king. Hinata will not blindly believe that he can still defeat Rimuru. If Rimuru summons angels again, he will be absolutely invincible.
Therefore, the idea of conquering the Monster Kingdom is simply a joke.
Hinata couldn't help but glance sideways at these elders.
"Why, do you have any objections?"
"Let me confirm this for the time being. Do the elders have objections to Lady Luminas's decision? They want to challenge Lucifer, right?"
"...Hinata, it is not yet your turn to confirm our will."
"That's right, you just need to answer whether you obey the order or not."
The Seven Stars Elders have their own ideas.
Although they received the notice from Lady Luminas, they did not meet Lady Luminas, and Lady Luminas did not give them the thing as promised, so they doubted whether the order was given by Lady Luminas herself.
It just so happened that they were also unhappy with Hinata.
So they made this bold decision. Whether it was sacrificing Hinata or forcing Lady Luminas out, they would not suffer any loss.
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