What Happens When The Second Male Lead Powers Up [EN]: Chapter 731

Magna Carta (4)

‘Godslayer’?

-KWA-BOOM!

Does that mean killing a god? Really?

-Yuri, I will find you and destroy you to the ends of hell!

-KWA-GA-GANG…!

-Awoo!

I flinched! I snapped back to reality at Tete’s cry piercing my ears.

My eardrums were ringing, my head was buzzing from the continuous explosions hitting my skin, and my lips tasted of blood from clenching them too hard. But seeing the baby’s dark eyes, I somehow managed to breathe.

After soothing the frightened Divine Beast and hiding it in my arms, I rummaged through my bag and took out my scepter.

As I calmly poured ether into it, the scepter responded to my will, emitting a golden light and stretching out. PAAAAAT…!

-Thud!

“Serenete.”

The Crown Prince called me. I shook my head quickly, planting the scepter on the ground.

It’s okay. I need to stay calm, especially in times like these.

No matter how terrible the words I heard were, it’s right to act rationally for now.

“His Majesty Hanan is not trying to harm us. He’s not in a berserk state either; he’s just unleashing the anger that has been building up for over a thousand years. Fortunately, most of the personnel in the castle have been evacuated. So, I, as a priest, must step forward now. Young Master Dioph!”

Kugugugung…! The man, unable to withstand the tremors, leaned against a stone pillar, his face contorted.

I shouted loudly at him.

“Stop doing useless things! Leave this to me and find and protect Sir Johann! He flew that way, but I can’t see him!”

-KWA-GA-GANG!

His expression became even more ferocious.

“Leave what to whom and protect who? Are you crazy?”

“Please take care of Isabel too! Your Highness, please protect Gain and Duke Lasso. Both of them are exhausted and in danger. You all need to evacuate while I calm His Majesty!”

“……”

-Kwarururu! Kwaaang!

Then Cedric silently stared at me.

His eyes, which had returned to their tangerine color, seemed to waver for a moment but soon shone with a garnet-like firmness.

It was a gaze I could always rely on. Knowing that he trusted me gave me even more strength.

I patted the back of the hand that was holding my shoulder.

“This is nothing compared to what happened in the desert ruins!”

-Rustle!

After shouting bravely one last time and getting up, an old parchment flew into my chest from somewhere.

It was a part of the scattered ‘Pope’s Document’.

I glanced at the Crown Prince and nodded once.

Leaving the scene to him and Dioph, I started walking, and Lopi and the little ones quickly followed. Thank you!

“There’s a picture here, Demi! It’s not just written in Divine Language, but there are illustrations too!”

-Kkia!

“Look out below, Demi! Be careful!”

-Kuuung…!

I was showing the red panda the parchment when I hurriedly ducked my head.

At the same time, the Divine Beasts poured into my arms.

Fortunately, no fragments flew this way, and no piles of stones fell. Holding the children, I peeked over the collapsed roof.

Hanan Lumayan, His Majesty, half-materialized in the form of a red spirit, was turning the already ruined barracks building into mush. Kwaga-gang…!

Seeing that, I felt strangely relieved.

-Fenetian!

“Hoo…”

-Kwarleung! Kwakwakwaang!

He’s definitely blinded by anger, but he has no intention of harming lives at all.

Even unconsciously, he’s heading to places where there are no people.

If I give him ether, he’ll calm down soon. The problem is…

-Kkaulleuk!

“Oh, Lopi. It’s a picture that looks like a magic circle, isn’t it?”

At the Divine Beast’s urging, I hurriedly unfolded the parchment.

Even in the midst of my haste, the children seemed to want to check this.

Fortunately, a few more sheets flew to my feet.

It was definitely valuable data, and it might be helpful to the Imperial Army’s strategy, so I carefully collected them.

The parchment seemed to have been specially treated on the surface, so even though it was somewhat old, the contents didn’t seem to have faded away.

I carefully stroked the round and complex illustration that I was seeing for the first time.

The Latin at the top, which seemed to explain the contents of the picture, was all handwritten, and the handwriting was slightly rushed, as if it had been written in a hurry.

It felt crude for a document with the grand name of ‘Pope’s Document’.

Gugu crawled up my wrist with the speed of a fish.

“…I’m not familiar with magic, so I don’t know what this means. It feels different from what I saw in Lilianer Fenetian’s underground passage.”

-Tok!

Then Gugu tapped one side of the paper with its tail. I blinked blankly.

Around that time, I heard the sound of His Majesty Hanan destroying the monster trap piled up in the corner of the barracks. Kkagagang, Woodudeudeuk…!

-Tok tok!

“…Huh?”

Where Gugu’s tail was pointing, someone’s red heart was clearly drawn.

It was exactly at the 12 o’clock direction of the picture that looked like a magic circle.

I examined it and made eye contact with Gugu.

The round, gray eyes stared up at me.

…No way.

“Is this you? Does this heart mean ‘Heart of the Four Dragons’?”

Blinking, the long pupils of the fire salamander narrowed, and the eyelids closed and opened.

Good heavens. The realization that lit up like a match instantly spread like wildfire.

I frantically fumbled through the picture on the parchment again like a madman.

“Wait a minute, then the picture at 6 o’clock here is…”

Crown.

“Crown. It’s ‘Ice Silk Treasure Crown’.”

-Kkia

“West 9 o’clock direction, fruit. Then this is ‘Ilan’s Spirit’.”

-Kkieung

“Finally, East 3 o’clock direction…”

Spear.

“Eliser’s Golden Spear. ‘Harbinger of Headwinds’… The four Fenetian sacred objects are surrounding this circle. Why?”

-Awoong

Tete looked up at me with sparkling eyes.

Then, perhaps it was the harmony of the Divine Beasts, but a scene flashed through my mind for a moment.

‘What! What’s so great about you! You came back after taking your mother’s title! Treason, you traitor, you ignorant, utterly foolish shaman!’

Maika Lasso, holding the blade of a rapier with a bloodied hand, approaching her son imprisoned in a cell.

The old woman, consumed by resentment and inferiority, tearing apart her screams.

‘Someday, I want to be a better person than my mother.’

‘Royal family! Schneider! Summoning circle! You don’t even know one of them! How are you going to protect this family!’

……’Summoning circle’.

“Summoning circle. That person definitely said that.”

The cloudy eyes were filled with old fear.

I tried my best to calm down even in the midst of the tremors that were ringing in my back.

But what was spreading before my eyes was a fragment of the scene I witnessed next.

Kwarururung! The ceiling shattered and collapsed like a broken sky, the murals pouring down over my head.

A picture of a grotesque deity devouring a bleeding daughter.

‘-How dare you! Laying traps in unclean land and plotting to kill God!’

Strangely, I was out of breath. My hands and feet were getting cold as if blood was draining from the ends of my body.

“Could it be that they’re going to summon a god to the ground and kill him…”

That might have been a picture of a human eating a god.

-Kkiaaa, Kkia

“Heok, hoo…”

The Divine Beasts whimpered and clung to my clothes.

It was as if they were encouraging me to ‘stay focused even if it’s hard,’ so I hurriedly nodded.

I swallowed my ragged breath and looked at the Pope’s Document again. This wasn’t the time, but all ten of my fingers were trembling.

Besides, unfortunately, there was very little Latin that I could read.

I had become familiar with a few words because I graduated from law school, but it was difficult to interpret such a long sentence…

‘MAGNA CARTA JUDICIORUM’.

“……”

-KWA-GA-GANG…!

Under the shadow of the curse that was blocking the sunlight, the writing in the corner of the parchment caught my eye.

However, it was clear at a glance that it was someone else’s handwriting.

All the other Divine Language seemed to have been written in the same era, but that sentence alone was crooked, and the color was much darker.

It was as if someone from a later generation had hastily added it.

As if to give someone a clue.

“Magna Carta. It’s usually translated as ‘Great Charter’, but…”

The devastated Lasso estate and its last groan were fading into the distance of my consciousness.

I recited what I knew, however shallow, in a very nervous voice.

The original title of the ‘Magna Carta’ taught in schools is Magna Carta Libertatum. It means ‘Great Charter of Freedoms’.

It is a document that limited the rights of the king by the English nobles in the 13th century, subordinated the throne given by God to human law, and laid the foundation for the constitutional monarchy in later years.

However, the Magna Carta here had a completely different meaning. I can be sure.

This has nothing to do with mortal kings; it’s talking about God.

I took in the word at the very end of the phrase.

‘JUDICIORUM’.

“…’Judgment’.”

A sigh and a word came out at the same time. ‘The Great Charter of Judgment’.

It felt like His Majesty Hanan’s sharp rebuke was hitting my ears.

‘-Not only did you betray me with your filthy three-inch tongue, but you also insulted the Lord God!’

‘-Did the one who invoked the protection of faith as a justification for striking Unio, covet the perfect power of God, stained with dirty greed and arrogance?’

The terrible screams I heard in the underground passage also flashed through my mind like a flash.

‘We had to live even if we wanted to die with our family.’

‘And so, we had to let posterity know.’

‘The king is trying to cut open the Lord God’s belly and steal his power!’

Then, the creepy shelter of Lasso Territory comes to mind.

‘Duke Maika visits this shelter once or twice a year. But he always goes in and out of the prayer room alone, without anyone else.’

‘This room has existed since before Duke Maika was born.’

All the clues are connected by one clear line.

“The black magician Lilianer Fenetian summoned the Lord God to this land to… negotiate. To steal her power. To kill God and become the supreme being herself.”

-Kkiiiii…

“This summoning circle is… this is the ‘trap’ that His Majesty Hanan was talking about. But Wilhelmina Schneider knows this too.”

-Kkuuooo…

A long cry flowed from within my arms. The bodies of the Divine Beasts in my arms felt particularly cold.

The children were all trembling. I have to reassure them that it’s okay.

The contents of the document can be discussed with friends later, and I have to go calm His Majesty Hanan now.

But my head, which had turned white with shock, was unable to enter other commands.

I stroked the edge of the parchment with trembling fingertips. Rustle, rustle…

-Yuri!

-Kwarururung…!

“And some Pope knew this. So this is recorded in Divine Language with the title ‘Pope’s Document’. Even if I don’t know the exact details…”

-Awoong…

“Seeing that His Majesty Hanan is talking about Yuri Fenetian, the first king of the Divine Kingdom, there must be a mention of him here. Someone knew his dark intentions to overthrow Unio. So…”

I wiped the sweat from my forehead and continued to mutter to myself.

It was as if my head would explode at any moment if I didn’t organize it like this.

Because I know the exact identity of the Lord God.

“…Mom can’t come here. Absolutely.”

Of course. It’s too dangerous. It’s crazy.

“Haa…”

My gaze, weighed down by the sudden shock, kept dropping.

Below the picture was a small signature of the person who wrote this document.

The name was obviously not Latin.

‘Matheis Roseharder’.

I doubted my eyes.