Holy Idol [EN]: Chapter 832

◈ 832. Hand Over Rembrary

“High Priest Kamuel is coming here?!

The Redrin paladins were taken aback by the sudden announcement. With the festival long over, what reason could High Priest Kamuel have to come here?

“Why is he coming?”

The paladin training camp director asked worriedly. The position of high priest was too important to simply brush off, especially since he wasn’t even from their own temple.

“I don’t know. He only said he’d explain when he arrives.”

“Just a notification, then.”

The training camp director frowned and muttered.

However, he couldn’t exactly tell High Priest Kamuel not to come.

And a few days later, High Priest Kamuel actually appeared, bringing his own paladins, high-ranking priests, and several lay priests to serve him.

As High Priest Kamuel and his entourage rode their large horses in a line into the spacious training grounds, the apprentice paladins stopped their noisy chatter.

The children stared at the high priest’s group with curious eyes.

For children who had never seen a high priest in their lives, he was like a character from a fairy tale.

Mullu alone continued to strike the wooden dummy.

“Welcome.”

The director, who had been waiting in front of the building, approached with a smile as if he had been waiting for him for days.

He skillfully hid his emotions and showed courtesy.

However, the director’s smile became more genuine as soon as High Priest Kamuel sat down in the meeting room and spoke.

“You’re going to rescue our paladins?!

The director asked with a brightened voice.

The Kamuel paladins’ faces showed pride in their high priest.

“Yes. Aren’t these difficult times? Kamuel has ordered us to help the paladins who suffered misfortune while trying to do great things for the world.”

“Kamuel has……!”

The director and the Redrin paladins were both surprised and moved.

When it came to a battle between demons and humans, everyone was on the same side, but that didn’t mean that priests who worshiped different gods were always allies.

Yet, in a situation where there seemed to be no benefit, High Priest Kamuel was stepping forward to offer help…!

“We are truly grateful. We’ve been discussing whether or not to send a rescue team, as we’ve been out of contact for a long time.”

“You should send one.”

“Normally, yes. However, the paladins who went to Seosahal are among the most skilled.”

The director was grateful but also a little prideful, so he pretended to wipe his sweat with a handkerchief.

In any case, the other party had come a long way to offer help. He should only express gratitude at this point.

“Indeed. It must be a dangerous place, so the strongest went.”

High Priest Kamuel also gave them some face without insulting them.

The director felt even more grateful to him.

“But hearing that story makes me worry that it’s more dangerous than I thought. Can you provide me with a healing priest when I go to Seosahal? That would put my mind at ease.”

However, the gratefulness crumbled like a sandcastle knocked over by the high priest’s request.

“Excuse me?”

The director asked, dumbfounded.

“Sir Morso. That healing priest is still a child. An apprentice.”

One of the Redrin paladins quietly informed him. He thought that High Priest Kamuel had made this request because he didn’t know that Rembrary was young.

“I know. I met him at the Central Estate.”

However, that wasn’t the case.

The Redrin paladins and the director couldn’t help but gape at High Priest Kamuel’s nonchalant words.

He knows he’s a child, but he’s still taking him?

“Why are you so surprised? The Redrin Temple also sent him to the Central Estate. Even though monsters appear there.”

When High Priest Kamuel saw that the Redrin paladins were dumbfounded, he spoke as if he didn’t understand why they were so surprised.

“The order of events is reversed.”

The paladin who Rembrary had saved interjected, annoyed.

“It wasn’t that Rembrary went to a place with monsters, but that monsters suddenly appeared where Rembrary was.”

The director frowned and added.

“Sir Morso. Rembrary is nine years old. Nine years old.”

“He can just come with us to the safe zone.”

Morso didn’t back down.

The Redrin paladins did their best to manage their expressions so as not to get angry at the person who had come to help them.

“Absolutely not.”

The director drew the line once again.

“Not even if he’s just taken to the safe zone?”

“Still no.”

The Kamuel paladins exchanged glances but didn’t step forward. They knew that their high priest was making a difficult request.

High Priest Kamuel nodded as if he understood.

“I see. Understood. Then I’ll be on my way.”

However, as soon as Morso said that and got up from his seat, the director couldn’t help but stand up as well. He’s just leaving?

“Are you threatening us?”

The director asked in a subdued voice.

“Threatening?”

High Priest Kamuel waved his hand and smiled.

“Since it’s such a dangerous place, I’m just saying I won’t go either.”

Is he even saying anything? The Redrin paladins gaped.

It’s not like they asked him to help, but he just suddenly came and said hopeful things about helping.

To turn around so coldly just because they won’t send a child with him. He was a truly strange person.

The Kamuel Temple’s high priest is strange.

Our Redrin has excellent judgment and doesn’t accept anyone as a high priest unless they meet his standards. It seems Kamuel accepts anyone as a high priest.

Very disrespectful thoughts arose in the Redrin paladins’ minds.

At that moment, the door burst open and a girl appeared.

“Mullu?”

The director and the Redrin paladins immediately recognized the child, as she had always been at the top of her class without fail.

More than anything, she was the younger sister of one of the missing paladins.

“Please take me with you.”

Mullu bowed to the director and then asked High Priest Kamuel.

“I’m very strong. I won’t be a hindrance.”

As the child pointed to the spear she was carrying on her back and spoke firmly, Morso, who had been deliberately stubborn, became embarrassed.

Did he really want to take a child to a dangerous place? He was only doing this reluctantly because of Kamuel’s oracle [divine instruction or prophecy].

But when a child who wasn’t in the oracle came up and asked him to take her with him, Morso refused immediately.

“Children are not allowed.”

“I’m older than Rembrary. So why is Rembrary allowed but I’m not?”

When Morso was hit with a direct blow, the Redrin paladins twitched their lips.

“Okay. I’m stronger than the paladins. But I don’t have healing abilities. If you have healing abilities, I’ll take you.”

Morso, realizing that there was no point in arguing further, simply got up and left.

As the high priest got into the carriage as if he was really going back and the carriage started to move, Mullu shed tears.

Mullu hadn’t come to mock Morso. She had come because she wanted to save her sister.

Seeing this, the director hesitated for a moment before gritting his teeth and shouting.

“Bring that ridiculous high priest back! Tell him we’ll inquire with the temple. But say that there’s a high possibility it won’t work!”

As two paladins ran out, the director patted the child’s shoulder.

“Don’t worry. You know best how strong Sir Cheru is, right?”

While waiting for Morso to return, the remaining paladins felt restless.

They were angry at High Priest Kamuel’s unreasonable demands, but at the same time, they felt reverence for Rembrary.

Just how amazing was this child that the high priest of another god knew about an apprentice priest and asked him to come with him to a dangerous area because he was scared?

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“No matter how great Rembrary is, absolutely not!”

The Redrin High Temple’s highest-ranking priest shouted, his forehead veins bulging, as soon as he heard the message from the person sent from the paladin training camp.

“Such absurd words should be cut off at the training camp level.”

The secretary priest next to him frowned and added.

The paladin felt wronged as he was scolded from all sides.

“We kept saying no. But as soon as we said no, he immediately got into the carriage and tried to leave.”

The highest-ranking priest barely resisted the urge to say, ‘Then why did you come here right away?’

With their comrades missing in action and no news from them, they would want to grasp at any straw, as he was someone who had a high chance of rescuing them.

If High Priest Kamuel hadn’t come in the first place, it would have been one thing, but it wouldn’t be easy to send away the hope that had come right to their doorstep.

“Still, we can’t send the child.”

The highest-ranking priest sent the person from the paladin training camp back and ordered the secretary priest to go and appease them with kind words.

Rembrary asked where the secretary priest was, and after hearing the story from another priest, his eyes widened.

“I can go, though.”

Rembrary said immediately, but the priest who had told him the story jumped up and down, saying absolutely not.

“That high priest made an absurd request, and we shouldn’t be swayed by it.”

Rembrary thought of Cheru and was about to say something more, but Ridal grabbed his arm and shook his head.

“Let’s go, Rembrary.”

Rembrary, Ridal, and Kentry were currently enjoying the honor of taking classes directly from the highest-ranking priest.

They absolutely couldn’t be late for this class, so Rembrary quickly followed Ridal.

This matter slowly faded from Rembrary’s mind.

However, just as Rembrary had almost forgotten about it, a horse carrying a paladin urgently appeared at the main gate of the High Temple.

The person on the horse was a Redrin paladin and a Redrin secretary priest.

As soon as they got off their horses, they didn’t even hand the reins to the servants and ran straight to where the highest-ranking priest was staying.

Rembrary was playing while drawing pictures, and with his sketchbook tucked under his arm, he quickly followed them.

When Rembrary arrived, they had already entered the highest-ranking priest’s room and were out of sight.

However, as he approached the door, a loud shout could be heard from beyond the door.

“Why is it that only Sir Cheru hasn’t returned?!

Sir Cheru? Rembrary pressed his ear to the door.

“A monster appeared right before he was about to complete the mission. The sealing tool fell while they were exchanging it……”

The rest of the words were too fast and the voice became too small, making it difficult for Rembrary to understand.

He kept his ear pressed to the door, but all he could hear was a mixed murmur, as if the people who were shouting had disappeared.

“Still, the Demon Realm! How can we find someone who fell into the Demon Realm!”

Rembrary stood there blankly before finally opening the door and entering.

The highest-ranking priest was standing up in front of his desk, and around him were the Redrin priest and paladin.

Everyone stopped talking.

“Rembrary? What’s wrong?”

As the child appeared, the secretary priest immediately asked with a smile that seemed to say, ‘Nothing’s wrong. So, will you go out?’

“I’ll go.”

Rembrary cut to the chase, omitting all other words.

The highest-ranking priest was about to say no, but Rembrary said firmly.

“I’m going.”

“It’s dangerous.”

The secretary priest said, but Rembrary shook his head.

“High Priest Kamuel is going too. I can go too.”

You’re not a high priest. Why are you comparing yourself to a high priest? The surrounding priests thought to themselves as they tried to appease the child.

“If it’s about going to the Demon Realm, it’s best for me to go.”

Then, everyone fell silent at the child’s unexpected words. What does he mean?