Chapter 77: Order Meeting (2)

Chapter 77: Order Meeting (2)

The meeting of the Order, which started with self-introductions, continued for several hours.

The food supply plan of the Order.

The plan to clean up the factions within Lithua-Centrius.

The plan to expand the communication network between the Ceterant branch and the main mountain of the Order, etc.

As an outsider, Daniel had a hard time understanding what these plans were about.

He had no choice but to watch their conversation with his mouth shut for all that time.

There was nothing he could say as a mere farmer among them.

It was natural that he would get hungry after watching the meeting for hours.

Daniel tried to eat the bread that was in front of him.

But every time he reached for the bread, Estasia, who was next to him, kept taking the bread he was aiming for.

“······.”

It happened not once, but several times.

Because Estasia, who was next to him, kept taking the bread, Daniel had to watch the meeting on an empty stomach.

Daniel, who watched Estasia’s mischief, couldn’t help but doubt that she was not an angel, but a devil.

Was she trying to give him a silent warning not to eat the bread?

Or was she claiming that all the bread here was hers?

The meeting continued in Daniel’s troubled gaze.

“That’s how it ends up.”

“Is that so?”

“It can’t be helped.”

-“I see.”

Among the difficult topics of the meeting, there were some surprising stories for Daniel to hear.

They said they would use the miracle of weather control to increase food production.

Controlling the weather with a miracle.

Daniel, a simple farmer, couldn’t even imagine such a thing.

If that was possible, the farmers wouldn’t have to worry about droughts.

“By the way, what happened to that story?”

“Didn’t you know?”

“No. I didn’t get any report.”

“Let me explain briefly.”

Nevertheless, the participants talked about that topic as if it was natural.

They wanted to control the weather, clean up the factions in the city, and extend their influence over the entire empire.

The more he saw, the more frightening the Order was.

He couldn’t even understand why he was invited to this meeting with these people.

If he understood their identities and the influence of the Order, he would know how valuable the information he heard was.

Most of that precious information went in one ear and out the other.

The meeting continued in a heated atmosphere, and before long it reached its end.

The topic they brought up at the end of the meeting was about preparing for war with the Holy Land.

“The long-term plan to increase the power of the Order is as we have discussed so far. If we have a little more time, the gap between us and the Holy Land will shrink.”

The Holy Land was a place that even Daniel, a farmer, knew.

The Holy Land, Crossbridge.

A neutral country that exerted its influence over the entire continent with six temples at its center.

They collected huge donations from most countries and mediated most of the conflicts on the continent.

What the Order was talking about was preparing for a full-scale confrontation with Crossbridge.

It was a worrying story for Daniel, who had to care for his children and grandchildren.

‘Could it be... I won’t be branded as a heretic and punished, will I?’

The Inquisitors of the Holy Land executed or converted those who believed in heretics.

And most of them lost their lives in the process of conversion.

It was a situation where Daniel could also be marked as a heretic for attending a meeting that prepared for a total war with the Holy Land.

Gulp.

Daniel swallowed his saliva as he listened to the content of the meeting.

It was a meeting where he doubted his ears as the topics went on.Follow the latest novels at novelhall.com

“Is Centrius region going to be your base?”

“Yes. We plan to expand our influence throughout the Centrius region from Lithua-Centrius.”

“What about the troops that can use miracles?”

Roan, who waited for his question, answered him.

She stroked the ring with her finger and spoke loud enough for Evan to hear.

“Doesn’t it suit me best here?”

“Is that what you think?”

“I have no one but the great one left. Wearing it on the left ring finger, which is connected to the heart, means that I will dedicate my heart to the great one forever.”

Eutenia spoke of her blind devotion to the great one.

As far as Daniel knew, everyone here revered the great one.

But this woman named Eutenia seemed to be more fanatical than them.

Daniel admired her faith and got up from his seat.

Everyone was ready to leave, so he thought he would quietly slip out with them.

“Did it have that meaning on your left ring finger?”

But Roan asked a question after hearing Eutenia’s story, and the atmosphere of leaving the meeting was interrupted.

Eutenia nodded her head with a smile on her face to Roan.

Her gentle voice echoed throughout the meeting room.

“Of course, it does for me.”

“Really? Then I have to wear it on my ring finger right away.”

“What?”

“It means that I will dedicate my heart to the great one!”

Right after that, Roan put the ring he was wearing on his left ring finger.

The smile disappeared from Eutenia’s face, who was talking to Roan.

She was not the only one who reacted to Roan’s oath.

Pluto also got up from his seat and spoke to everyone.

“That, that’s what it was? I have to change it and wear it right away.”

Pluto took off the ring he had on his middle finger and put it on his left ring finger.

The ring on Pluto’s ring finger reflected the light of the halo on Estasia’s head.

Next was Estasia, who was next to him.

Estasia also took off her ring and put it on her left ring finger.

She smiled happily and flapped her wings as she said.

“By doing this... maybe he’ll let me off for a day even if I don’t work.”

Seeing Estasia flapping her wings, Arcrosis, who was across from her, was not still either.

Arcrosis got up from his seat with a sinister aura and pulled out his ring from his finger that had nothing but bones left.

Clatter. Clatter.

The sound of his finger bones scraping against the ring rang out.

-“It had that meaning. I’ll join in too.”

With that, Arcrosis put the ring on his left ring finger bone.

The ring wobbled because there was no flesh on it.

But Arcrosis didn’t seem to care and just moved his eerie hand.

As most of the participants moved their rings, their eyes naturally turned to Daniel.

Roan, who was looking at the ring on Daniel’s finger, asked him.

“Daniel. What about you?”

Daniel’s mind was full of confusion as he faced Roan.

He was careful not to let his true feelings show and shook his head to refuse Roan’s suggestion.

Wearing a ring on the left ring finger was a ritual for lovers.

And Daniel already had a loving wife.

“I have a wife.”

“Is that all your loyalty to the great one?”

“...”

Sigh.

Daniel took off the ring he had on his index finger.

He wondered if this ring was the cause of everything.

He picked it up because it looked expensive and rolled on the floor, but when he came to his senses, he was dragged into an unknown space.

And everyone in this space had rings on their hands.

The only thing in common between them and Daniel was the ring on their hand.

‘I wish I never came here again.’

Daniel smiled as he put the ring on his ring finger and looked around.

The Order, the Holy Land, and the black mages.

They had nothing to do with Daniel.

With Daniel’s wish not to come back here again, the regular meeting of the Order came to an end.