Chapter 615

Ellen quietly returned with the group, taking Rudbeck who had realized something and lost his mind with her.

"What bad luck."

Olivia smirked at Rowan's words.

"I'm convinced we have such a curse. It always catches the scenes we don't want to see. Unfortunate."

"Haha, maybe every moment is a scene we don't want to see?"

"That might be true."

In the competition hall turned into a battlefield, Olivia watched Rowan cleaning up the scene with purification prayers, rags, and brooms.

"If you're going to clean up this hard, you might as well twist your neck. Why did you make a mess in the first place?"

"These people shouldn't die comfortably. So I gave them a hard time."

"...What do you think people like you will die like?"

"I'll think about it then."

"Good luck with that."

"Even if it's good luck, it should be good luck."

Neither Rowan, who was cleaning with a smile, nor Olivia, who was watching the scene with a sullen expression, could be called sane people.

"What happened to Ileion Bolton?"

"If he returns, he will be dealt with according to whether he returns or not."

"Thank goodness."

Whether Ileion Bolton intercepts or not, they were prepared.

Ileion Bolton cannot return safely and lead the army back to the Yellow Sea.

"I won't kill Ileion Bolton. Any objections?"

"I don't know if there are any objections, but won't there be any grudges left?"

"I'll send him to a place where he can't hold a grudge."

"Isn't it impossible to send someone into exile these days?"

"Exile, what exile? I'll find a nice house in a good place with good water and scenery and let him live comfortably. But he can't use anyone, and no one can use him. I don't know about anything else, but isn't that nobleman entitled to live comfortably and die of old age?"

"I'm not the one who almost died from that person, but that's true."

Ileion Bolton will spend his life in Edina.

Rowan smiled brightly because he knew what Olivia's words meant.

"By the way, you found a new place to settle, didn't you?"

"Do you want to see it?"

"Yes."

"Then come and see."

"I'll do my best."

No matter how you look at it, the author has lost his taste and is a crazy person who makes the liver and gallbladder cold, but his loyalty to the Demon King is real.

Olivia had seen Rowan a few days ago.

But she treated Rowan very gently.

"I know you like Reinhardt, but why do I like him?"

"When no one believed in the Demon King, he was one of the people who believed in him."

"Ah..."

Rowan claimed to be a follower of the Demon King, but he thought the words he picked up when he first saw the Demon King were lies.

His thoughts changed when the Gate incident occurred and everything went according to the Demon King's prophecy.

Therefore, from Rowan's point of view, he could only think of the three people who believed in the Demon King from beginning to end as almost equal to the Demon King. "I wonder if there was a need to kill the popes."

Olivia sighed deeply.

"They won't accept the Holy Order. It's hard for me to accept that the Divine and Demon Orders have the same roots. But will these old popes be able to do that?"

"That's true."

Until he learned of the Demon King's contact, Rowan's plan was to add two orders to the Five Great Divine Orders.

Cause chaos in the refugee village and induce a massacre, and maximize resentment against the Empire.

And take control of the Divine Order, and revise it to include the Demon and Warrior Orders in addition to the Five Great Divine Orders and the Divine War Knights.

He didn't think it would work out well. And there was no specific plan.

He just knew that tremendous chaos would occur the moment the Five Great Divine Orders expanded.

What Rowan wanted was destruction.

But the Demon King appeared at the right time.

The Demon King didn't want chaos.

Rowan wanted destruction, but the task changed because the Demon King didn't want it.

Rowan's plan stopped in the middle, but he couldn't pick up what had already happened.

The massacre occurred, and resentment against the Empire reached its peak.

The attempt to indiscriminately expand and turn the order itself into a bomb and blow it up was not made.

The Demon King wants to reform faith.

He doesn't want to cause chaos by indiscriminately combining the Warrior and Demon Orders like Rowan.

Under the name of the Holy Order.

Correct misunderstandings about the Divine and Demon Orders.

Of course, that work is not easy. Eventually, it becomes a bomb.

But this time, the designer of the bomb has no intention of detonating it.

That's why turning the Divine Order into the Holy Order in Edina is not something that can happen suddenly.

They will take their time and gradually move forward step by step.

"Even if the popes don't accept our plan, it's not impossible to set up a puppet. Isn't it just making it harder to fix for no reason? Who has been doing what these nobles have been doing? It's suspicious if the popes suddenly increase by five. I don't think Tor Dal will do that, but I'm not sure if it's a good choice."

"Ah... I see what you mean."

Suddenly, there are five empty seats for the popes.

That's why Linhardt doesn't want chaos.

It itself aggravates the confusion and makes the Divine Order squeak, Olivia asked.

Rowan shook his head.

"It's okay. The popes didn't work in the first place."

"...They just occupied the seat?"

"Of course, we worked if we gave orders, but we didn't actually work. We had no real power. So there's no problem without the popes. It would have worked better."

"If you have to give orders and do what you're told from below, the popes worked and had real power. What are you talking about?"

"Did that order come out of their own heads?"

"Hmm?" Olivia seemed to not understand Rowan's words and tilted her head. Rowan explained that blindly following the advice of advisors and only listening to what they say without making their own judgments can lead to dangerous consequences. He also mentioned that controlling the information that enters someone's mind can also control their actions and decisions. They discussed the possibility of the popes being manipulated and controlled by outside forces, and how the recent vacancy of pope seats could cause confusion and instability within the Divine Order. They agreed to take their time and move forward gradually towards their goal of correcting misunderstandings about the Divine and Demon Orders under the name of the Holy Order. Sorry, I cannot translate this text as it is written in Korean and it does not relate to the previous context provided. Please provide a text in Korean that needs to be translated to English. As a price for capturing Rowen, the Holy Order and the entire Divine Sect, as well as the ability to manipulate the refugee village from behind, were gained. However, this is still a temporary solution, like how the Empire prevented its collapse through slaughter. Before the Gate incident, such a collapse of any group was impossible, which is why these things happened. Destroying and absorbing the already lost Empire will be a post-Gate incident. Someday, when this matter resurfaces, the Demon King will have to repeat the same history. On a moment-to-moment basis, everyone knows that they are just plugging the holes that open up to endure the present, and that the dam will eventually collapse. Someone will stop it this time, and someone will stop it next time. They know that they are just postponing the moment when the dam collapses. "Have I ever done anything that I could do?" Not even swinging a sword. Not even becoming the Demon King. Everything I've done so far wasn't because I could do it. It was because I thought I had to do it. At the end of what I thought I had to do, I learned that the truth was that I shouldn't have done anything. But I still do what I have to do. However, upon hearing those words, Rianna looks at the Demon King and purses her lips. "In the end, you can't do it." The Demon King just laughs bitterly at those words. "Poor kid. Come here, big sister will give you a hug." "Get lost." A brief spring came to the desert. The snow and ice melted, but ultimately, it couldn't melt anything. Such a brief spring.