Chapter 200

Giving meaning (3)

Until sunset, everyone in the party had to sit around the shore and wait.

The handing over of the belongings they had brought was over immediately, and the monks were sitting amongst themselves and chatting among themselves.

If you look around the beautiful coastal scenery for several hours, your eyes will get used to it, and it will become a daily scene. After all, it’s a deceitful law to look at people’s eyes.

It was around the time when I was having several conversations with Abbot Austin about the life inside the abbey while enjoying the sea breeze.

It is a time when the sun is slowly setting.

Riding on the horizon over the coast, I was thinking about when the sun would push my head... When I looked at the sea again, the water had fallen so much that the sand had risen.

It’s not spacious, but it’s large enough to pass through. Gradually, the nuns also sensed that the time had come, and they were checking their belongings.

At that moment, the door on the majestic saint’s carriage opened.

The immature nuns were startled, and everyone stood up, put their hands together and bowed their heads, and the workers looked up at the carriage with respectful expressions.

The appearance of Clarisse descending the stairs of the carriage in a calm and well-arranged state is as if a messenger from the gods has arrived in the world.

As if symbolizing a neat body, the hem of the white saint’s dress gently sways in the sea breeze.

The pure white hair, the contrasting red eyes, and the bright red butterfly hairpin are just as they were imagined.

Telos consider it a great honor to see a saint even once. Most of it is mixed with a huge crowd, and you can barely see a small figure in the distance.

To be able to see Saint Clarisse in such a quiet atmosphere at such a close distance is like the blessing of a lifetime.

As Clarisse descended on the sandy beach, the atmosphere of the bustling scene completely subsided.

She came out to the shore, escorted by soldiers, and greeted me with a small smile and nodded.

It’s just a simple courtesy, but it was shocking to hear that Saint Clarisse greeted me as a senior... The atmosphere at the scene froze. It wasn’t a very pleasant atmosphere for me.

Clarisse grabbed the hem of her dress and pulled it up. The monks who were watching offered to grab the collar and lift it up, but they politely declined with a soft smile.

And, leading the escorts... they slowly make their way over the sandbar that leads to the Cedric’s Monastery.

The image of Clarisse slowly advancing towards the large monastery in the distance under the setting sun, had a strange aura that made the site sacred in itself.

However, I couldn’t stay still. The nuns were already on their way out with their luggage.

I too, who had been sitting quietly on the shore, got up from my seat, tied the hem of my robe, and walked towards the monastery.

*“I heard that Clarisse-sama’s meals are checked and taken care of by a nobleman... Actually, I wonder if such a grand process is necessary. When it comes to our monastery meal, it’s just grass.”

“Still, it seems that I will lead the basic verification process and the process of entering food.”

“Well, what can I say, as a mere nun, since it is a procedure that the saint has tolerated. Stop doing whatever you want. Don’t worry, we’ll give you everything you need.”

As soon as Clarisse arrived at the monastery, she headed to the prayer room on the top floor of the spire.

It is said that there is also a room where she eats, sleeps, and lives. She used to use the top floor in the Ophelis Hall, but it seemed it was customary to give the saint the top floor closest to the gods. I heard that he also lived on the top floor in Seonghwangdo.

The role assigned to me is to receive reports on all environmental factors that come into contact with her, and to control and manage them so that there are no significant changes.

It is usually done by a high-ranking priest of the Holy Hwangdao, but Saint Clarisse seems to have already said that there is no need to send a special appointment to the archbishop this time.

He seems to be a middle-ranking officer more than I thought, but it felt very strange to be entrusted to me.

However, compared to the importance of work, the workload did not seem to be as large as expected. In fact, it is because environmental changes cannot happen easily in this monastery, which has nothing but a beautiful and majestic exterior.

“I’m sorry that I couldn’t give you a luxurious room. Well, that’s what monastic life is all about, isn’t it? Abstinence and frugality are the basics. In this Cedric Monastery, even if the imperial family comes, you have to live with only weeds in your mouth.”

“I took it for granted.”

“It’s good not to say bad things, but I try to keep the quality of my meals as good as possible, since the peacock is better. Of course, it would be difficult to expect a supper.”

“It’s done. Please prepare the same meal as the other monks. It would all be labor.”

“Hey...”

The inside of the Cedric’s Monastery is just as grand as the outside.

Marble and white bricks are exquisitely combined. After passing the entrance stairs that continued to rise upward, I saw the grandeur of the central chapel... When I first built it, I wondered how they brought so many materials to the island. Well, I would have mobilized magical means.

And if you walk through the door that leads to one side of the chapel, you will find a small garden lush with greenery, and a corridor surrounds it. You can see the garden through the marble columns stretching along the border, and the garden was also neatly maintained.

As I walked along the corridor, even the pleasant drafts felt like a part of the monastery, and I even thought that it would be okay for me to come to clear my mind even if I was not a religious person.

Of course, it’s not a place where access is allowed for personal reasons.

“It certainly makes me feel very warm because a noble man, which is rare these days, will get better.”

“I am not going to give you such a generous evaluation. but...”

Even as I walked along the corridor, I could not help but be conscious of the gaze I felt from the surroundings.

Perhaps because he was walking with Abbot Austin, the other nuns were not allowed to approach him recklessly.

However, a nun passing by with a basket full of vegetables, a foolish nun running around on one side of the garden, a child hiding behind a marble column in the cloister and glancing at it, passersby who are bound to pass when crossing the cloister. Until...

From the chapel to the hallway, it was hard to get used to the gaze that shook my pupils everywhere I went.

“You are a foreigner. You have to accept the curious gaze.”

“Am I really the only man in this great monastery?”

“why? Do you feel like you are in heaven?”

“...”

“I’m not kidding, right. Hell, I didn’t think I would like this kind of environment even if I pretended to.”

Abbot Austin chuckled and slipped inside at the end of the cloister. Apparently, my room was prepared as far inward as possible.

“Well, these days, the male tendency has gotten a lot stronger... But in the distant past, I even took in one or two famous men to take a look... Although it was a long time ago...”

“If the abbot says it’s old, how old is it...?”

“Well. Have you ever heard of the name of the war hero ‘Zellan’? He also used to stop by this monastery and donate. Let’s go a little further back...and so did the previous generation of Archmage Glockt.”

Indeed, like the living fossils of the Telos Church, the names they call are characters that will only appear in books.

Archmage Glockt, a disciple of the Great Sage Sylvania and leaving behind all kinds of great achievements.

Zelan the Severer is one of the three scholars who took the lead in subjugating the Ain tribes along with the guardian Obel and protected the Chloel Imperial Family.

This grandmother was a person who lived at the same time as such humans.

“Well, that’s all the humans I would call a ‘good yangban’.”

“...”

“It wouldn’t be very pleasant to hear this old man say it’s okay, but it is. Kahahak! Oh, you can follow me this way.”

The sun has just set, and it is already time to call it night.

Even in the monastery, the atmosphere was filled with the atmosphere of finishing the day’s work and getting ready to go to bed.

‘Ah... can’t you...?’

‘Oh no, it might be possible if it’s Master Ed, right?’

‘It’s possible! It’s absolutely possible!’

‘That...is it...?’

It would be better if it ended there.

‘Once you hear Master Ed’s voice, your brain stops and your eyes don’t move, so be careful!!’

‘I know that?! Ed said he once killed a bear with his eyes alone!!!!!’

‘According to the rumors I heard, you know how to stand and ride a horse?!!!!’

If you command ‘Look at the water and freeze it, they say the water turns into ice!!!!!’

‘They said that if you put your mind to it, you can read all the books in the library in one night!!!!’

‘Rumors are also circulating that Sylvania is not teaching Master Ed, but that Master Ed is teaching Sylvania Academy!!!!’

‘Also!!! I see!!!!’

“...”

It was the morning of the third day that all these rumors entered Ed’s ears.

Abbot Austin, who encountered Ed from the Saint’s Room, was on the verge of bursting into laughter.

“Good morning. He kills bears with his eyes alone, knows how to perform stand-up horseback stunts, commands the water to freeze, reads the entire library in one night, and the Sylvanian Academy’s teacher, Ed Scion.”

“......”

“You look embarrassed. Aren’t you unfamiliar with the imagination of the nuns who do not know the world? I’m starting to wonder where I’ll go on the day the VIP prayer meeting ends. Aren’t you supposed to rub it with Telos-sama, who gave it to you?”

In a place where beliefs about Telos are being discussed, what are we going to do with the birth of a new belief?

Ed Roth Taylor looked at Abbot Austin with his axe-eyed axe-eyed.

“Well, it’s a rumor that once seemed to be popular, so don’t worry too much. I’m warning you to do something in moderation...but if you control the imagination of a teenage girl, it tends to go crazy...

“Is the monastery always like this?”

“Of course, the tension is lower than this. Isn’t this a place to discuss your faith? I don’t feel any more excited because of you. But... yes... incidents and accidents do not cease to be the same as in the past.”

Abbot Austin, who received Ed’s coat, burst into laughter.

“I hear strange rumors among the nuns these days. The monastery is haunted or something.”

“...a ghost?”

“Last night they heard thumps between the exterior walls, or the sound of people walking from the ceiling. Not only that, some of the ingredients in the monastery kitchen were missing, and there were testimonies that they saw a strange shadow in the hallway at dawn... There were a lot of children crying at night saying they couldn’t sleep alone.”

Ed had heard rumors about him, too. At night, the shadow of a small person often appears by the window.

“It’s not good for such ghost rumors to circulate in the monastery serving Telos-sama. It’s a prayer meeting for the VIPs to come soon, but I don’t like this kind of chaotic atmosphere.”

“Okay... you must be thinking a lot.”

“Still, thanks to you, the atmosphere is not as gloomy as it is. Playing knights among the nuns would be very tiring, but I’d like to ask for a few more days. When you leave, I will bring you a small present.”

“Well, it doesn’t matter to me... Recently... the eyes of the monks looking at me have started to get a little dangerous...”

“Your chastity is up to you. Come on, let’s go fight and let’s go.”

When I looked at my faint eyes, Abbot Austin laughed, jokingly saying that he was rather happy.

“right. should have told you that Look at my mind.”

Abbot Austin has delivered some pretty important news, as if he remembered it too late.

“Princess Persica is said to be arriving at the monastery today.”

*Until the ebb comes, no matter how imperial you are, you have to wait at the seaside while watching the monastery.

It is an act that is meant to clear the mind and prepare to enter sanctuary.

The Princess of Persica has a personality that doesn’t care about giving such small meanings. If you just wait in front of it, it’s just free.

She sat quietly in a large royal carriage and talked about the situation with her aides... Although she had already heard some news about the inside of the monastery.

“That Ed Roth-Taylor is here. The man who is deeply involved in the Roth Taylor family tragedy and is said to be the most powerful supporter of Fenia’s forces.”

“Yes. It is said that you are coming to the throne of Saint Claris-sama, but it is not yet known how this happened.”

“Well, it’s something you have to see and judge for yourself... Still, there is too little prior information about the man.”

Persica is a cautious person in everything.

Selaha and Penia. Since he is the man who is conscious of all the other runners with twins in his eyes, he is thinking that there must be something.

The reason the Princess of Persica came to this monastery even though she strongly expressed her will to Emperor Chloel was to take advantage of Abbot Austin, the elder of the Telos Church. All the ingredients have been prepared.

At this exquisite time, a man named Ed Rothtailer has arrived at the monastery in advance. Is this really a coincidence?

The Princess of Persica has only very limited information about the man.

Information that can be obtained by using the princess’s authority. The man’s past history, background, and location in Sylvania are everything.

Even when he fought a nerve war over the Elte company, he could only come up with the fact that his judgment was extraordinary. In the end, detailed information as a human being can only be judged by seeing it in person.

However, it is impossible to meet without any preparation. As an opponent of high importance, we had to approach it with caution.

“Tune.”

“Yes, Princess Persica.”

“It seems that the man has already been living in the monastery for a few days. That would mean that we had no choice but to co-exist with the inner humans to some extent.”

With an alluring smile, Persica used to look around the aides in the carriage and talk.

“The scholars or the people of the family may have been able to keep their mouths shut, but the monastery is completely burnt out from his point of view. It’s an environment where there are very few humans who can move according to their will.”

“Yes.”

“When you sit in the monastery, gather all the information about it. Excellent numbers of information that could not be known just by researching a bachelor’s degree or family will be pouring out. At the very least, make it impossible to get out of these grips.”

The Princess of Persica stretched out my hand and then grabbed it tightly.

“Since he’s a key figure in the Phenian faction, it’s good to take this opportunity to get it right. either by conciliation or coercion. Let’s not choose any means and methods.”

“Yes, I understand...”

There is still plenty of time until low tide.

The Princess of Persica was arranging her thoughts and staring at the huge Cledric’s Monastery.

Seonghwangdo, the headquarters of the Telos Church. It is not disrespectful to say that it is the next largest scale.

It was truly a magnificent sight.