My Lord Who Is Being Prudent! [EN]: Chapter 96

§ 96. The Saint of the South (2)

Sian stared blankly at the notification window that popped up on his smartphone screen.

It was the notification window of Mobile Lord, who was about to faint.

Legendary Achievement: Saint of Chaos.

Sian wondered what this was all about.

It was an achievement that had been unlocked out of the blue.

More than anything, it was Saint, if it was Saint.

What was this Saint of Chaos?

Did it mean he was a being with both the souls of light and darkness?

Such a being could never exist in the first place.

Light and darkness were completely incompatible.

It wasn’t about the standards of good and evil.

The very nature they were born with was mutually exclusive.

You could see that just by looking at Sian, who felt disgusted by Aria’s divine power.

And yet, the achievement was clearly ‘Saint of Chaos’.

Mobile Lord must have been quite dumbfounded by this.

Mobile Lord usually showed a serious attitude when a legendary achievement was achieved.

But this time, what.

《Saint of Chaos?!?! Chaos! Destruction! Mangaaaaaak!!!!》

Mobile Lord glitched even though he hadn’t spent any money.

Sian really wondered what was going on, but he quickly shook his head.

It wasn’t that important.

The important thing was that he had achieved a ‘legendary’ achievement, even if it was out of the blue.

And if he thought about the rewards from the last legendary achievement…

‘As expected.’

Sian could confirm that a new Arnaise perk had been unlocked.

【Arnaise’s Blessing】

③【: May infinite glory bless you.】

[Effect 1] – The concept of ‘disease’ no longer exists in the territory!

[Effect 2] – The growth rate of crops and animals in the territory increases by +5,000%!

[Effect 3] – You can use ‘Muriel’s Blessing’ once every 100 hours!

[Unlock Condition: Achieve a legendary achievement related to a Saint or Saintess.]

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And , which was unlocked this time.

The effect itself was so-so.

To be exact, it was an effect that was expected enough.

However.

‘Muriel’s Blessing?’

[Effect 3], Muriel’s Blessing.

He had no idea what this was.

And as if knowing Sian’s question.

Soon, a new notification window popped up on the screen.

『《Muriel’s Blessing》

[Effect 1] – For 1 minute, all physical abilities of the achievement holder are increased by +1,000%!

[Effect 2] – Within a 100-meter radius, all allies’ physical abilities are increased by +50% for 10 minutes!

《[Effect 1] and [Effect 2] cannot be used at the same time!》』

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“Wow… !”

Sian shouted without realizing it.

It was because the effect was crazy!

First of all, increasing the physical abilities of the achievement holder by +1,000%.

In other words, it was no different from increasing Sian’s physical abilities by +1,000%.

In simple terms, it meant that Sian could exert 10 times the power.

It wasn’t just about strength.

Reflexes, agility, dynamic visual acuity, aura utilization, etc.

It literally meant that all physical abilities he had would increase by 10 times.

What was crazy if this wasn’t crazy!

Moreover, he could increase the physical abilities of other allies by 50%.

It was truly crazy.

Of course, it seemed that he had to choose between [Effect 1] and [Effect 2].

There was also a restriction that it could only be used once every 100 hours.

But even considering that, it was a crazy ability.

Was Muriel really Muriel?

Exceed, a realm that only 6 people in the long history of the continent could reach.

Aria was called the reincarnation of Muriel, but.

She was still infinitely lacking to follow Muriel.

And the legendary achievement, ‘Saint of Chaos’.

In this case, Sian was handling both magic and light at the same time.

To be exact, that’s how others could see it.

‘Is that why he’s the Saint of Chaos?’

A knight with the attributes of darkness and light.

Sian chuckled.

That’s right.

‘Can I strengthen this too?’

Strengthening perks with fame points.

This was also an Arnaise perk, so he should be able to strengthen it in the same way.

Sian immediately entered the fame point shop.

And.

‘It’s not here?’

was not visible in the strengthening items.

No matter how much he looked, he could only see and .

‘Could it be that it’s not possible?’

He thought for a moment.

‘Ah, that’s right.’

Sian quickly realized the reason.

Come to think of it, he hadn’t applied .

He had only unlocked the perk by achieving a legendary achievement.

He hadn’t applied the unlocked perk.

Sian checked again.

And as expected.

《 Unlock Cost – 500,000 G》

The value was 500,000 gold, like the other perks.

Still, was it because the achievement was difficult?

Fortunately, the unlock cost of the perk remained unchanged at 500,000 gold.

Of course, 500,000 gold was not a small amount of money.

‘You have a conscience.’

Sian chuckled.

And he glanced at the gold in his inventory.

[Currently held gold] – 69,950 G

“Damn it.”

69,000 gold.

Approximately 70,000 gold.

He had pre-emptively borrowed 100,000 gold from Aria.

But he had spent 50,000 gold to strengthen the S-grade armor to SS-grade.

So, the amount was the sum of the existing 20,000 gold and the remaining 50,000 gold.

In any case, it was far short of 500,000 gold.

‘Should I ask Aria to borrow another 500,000 gold?’

“Oooooo Saint… !”

“It’s God’s blessing! This is God’s blessing!”

He should just bring it up.

#

Sian, the Saint (?) who descended on Juren Village.

Sian was able to drive out all the plagues spreading in Juren Village, befitting the title of Saint.

The time it took in the process didn’t take that long either.

Many people were infected with the plague.

Almost everyone in Juren Village was infected with the plague.

However, Sian’s healing speed was so fast.

In fact, it was more accurate to express it as subjugation rather than healing.

In any case, that was a fact that only Sian knew.

To others, it was no different from treatment.

Moreover, the more he healed, the more Sian’s power amplified.

Far from being exhausted, he only gained more speed.

The time it took to heal all the people in Juren Village was really not that long.

“Oooooo… !”

“You are indeed a Saint!”

The praise for Sian only amplified further.

Sian, who had dealt with all the plagues that had spread in Juren Village.

Sian calmly looked around.

“H, how did I…?”

“I’m alive…? Really?”

The villagers were regaining consciousness one by one.

Not all the villagers had regained consciousness yet.

But those whose condition was not so serious were able to come to their senses quickly.

“W, what on earth is going on…?”

And they questioned the current situation.

That’s because saying that the condition was not so serious meant.

It meant that they were infected with the plague the latest.

That’s why they knew.

To be exact, they watched it from the closest distance.

Their family, friends, and lovers.

What kind of pain they were going through.

And that there was no way to cure it.

That’s why when they knew they were infected with the plague.

They were thinking of taking their own lives.

They didn’t have the confidence to endure that terrible pain.

And they thought it would be better to die than to spread the plague to others.

But is it so easy to take your own life?

People lived day by day, unable to die.

To be exact, day by day.

They were just waiting to die.

But look now.

“Doren! Doren!! Are you awake?”

“M, Mom…?”

“Ahhh…! Thank you! Thank you so much, God!!”

The people infected with the plague were regaining consciousness one by one.

The village, which was full of the energy of death, was coming back to life.

“Honey! Honey!! Are you awake?”

“H, how did I…?”

“Ah…! If you had died, I would have really…!!”

Juren Village had become a sea of tears.

They were holding on to their precious ones and crying out loud.

If an ignorant person saw it, it was a scene of mourning for those who had died from the plague.

But this was not a sign of sadness but of hope.

“Thank you… Really… Thank you so much, Saint…”

“Thank you… Thank you so much, Saint…”

The people of Juren Village teared up and thanked Sian.

Sian felt embarrassed at the sight of those people.

To be honest, Sian didn’t do it alone.

Aria and Laura.

And it was possible because several priests helped together.

Of course, not Archbishop Lahir, who was panicking over there.

It was possible because several priests helped.

But everyone attributed it to Sian’s achievements.

Sian felt embarrassed and slipped away.

Sian, who had moved away from the people.

Sian took out his smartphone and checked the progress rate of the Demon Soul Technique.

[Demon Soul Technique Progress Rate 26.78% (+11.73%)]

A progress rate of 26.78%.

The progress rate was only 14% at first.

If it was 0.1% per person, it meant that he had treated more than 1,000 patients.

“This is really honey, isn’t it?” [Referring to a sweet deal or easy task.]

He was healing people.

And the blocked progress rate was soaring.

It was truly the best of the best.

“It’s a shame to end it like this, isn’t it?”

That’s why he felt it was a shame to end it like this.

“Were you here?”

A voice calling Sian was heard from one side.

Aria was approaching Sian.

“You came at the right time.”

Sian put his smartphone in his pocket and said to Aria.

“Can you lend me 500,000 gold more?”

“What?”

Aria was dumbfounded for a moment.

Suddenly, he was asking her to borrow 500,000 gold more?

What was this out-of-the-blue sound?

“I have something to use it for.”

But Sian only said that.

Anyway, that damn money, money.

Aria sighed softly.

“I don’t have it right now.”

She had the travel expenses she brought when she came to the South.

But that wasn’t 500,000 gold.

Who in the world would bring enough money for a family of four to play and eat for 1,388 years as travel expenses?

“Is that so? Then, well, I can’t help it.”

Sian knew that, so.

He didn’t push her.

Well, he couldn’t apply right now.

But it wasn’t urgent.

Sian shrugged and said.

“More than that, that Cardinal Rachel. When is she coming?”

“That’s… I just asked, but I don’t know. In the first place, she didn’t say where she went or why she went.”

Aria gave an answer with a sorry expression.

That’s because Aria knew why Sian came to the South.

To check whether Rachel was a demon or not.

It was to find Muriel’s ruins.

But Rachel had left somewhere.

He was stuck in Ae Meokde and was struggling to treat plague patients.

From Aria’s point of view, she couldn’t help but feel sorry.

“Well, I can’t help it.”

Aria was very grateful to Sian for saying this.

Whether he knew Aria’s feelings or not.

‘It’s good.’

Sian was rather thinking that it was good.

Sian immediately said to Aria.

“Then let’s go right away.”

“… Huh?”

Aria tilted her head at Sian’s sudden words.

“Go? Where are you going?”

“Where else, to another village.”

“Another village?”

Sian nodded.

“You said the plague is spreading throughout the South. Then, not only the people of Juren Village are infected with the plague.”

“That’s true, but…”

“Instead of waiting here until she comes. Wouldn’t it be better to treat the people of other villages too?”

Sian immediately moved his steps.

Aria hurriedly followed Sian’s back at the sight of Sian.

“Are you going right away? You haven’t been treating people for long. Rest a little…”

“It’s okay. And people infected with the plague will be suffering even at this moment. We have to move quickly.”

Sian was increasing his walking speed.

‘Well, I don’t know when Rachel will come.’

How could he just wait for Rachel to come?

It was much better to travel around the South and treat people.

What if Rachel comes back then?

Then tell her to wait.

There’s no reason why the other side shouldn’t wait when this side has been waiting.

‘I’m wondering if I should find Muriel’s ruins first…’

Still, Sian decided to treat people.

Right now over there.

“Thank you… ! Thank you so much… !”

“Ahhh… H, how can I ever repay this grace… !”

The people of Juren Village were crying out loud.

There would be many such people throughout the South.

Muriel’s ruins are important, but people’s lives are more important than that.

If there is no proper way, then maybe not.

Now that there is a way, he thought it would be better to take care of people first.

Of course.

‘Also, to increase the progress rate of the Demon Soul Technique.’

In many ways, it’s good to be good, isn’t it?

The progress rate had only increased by 14% so far.

But treating the people of Juren Village increased it to over 26%.

Where else could he raise this progress rate!!

Rachel or Petitchel [A playful alteration of Rachel’s name].

He couldn’t give this up!

So Sian quickly moved his steps.

But for some reason, he couldn’t feel Aria’s presence.

Wondering what it was, he turned around.

Aria was standing there, staring blankly at Sian.

“What are you doing? Aren’t you going?”

Sian asked at the sight of Aria standing still.

But Aria didn’t say anything.

Her expression seemed to have lost focus.

And her eyes looking at Sian showed various emotions.

It was as if she had broken down like Amelia.

Can a Saintess break down too?

He thought, but… never mind.

“Let’s go quickly.”

Sian grabbed the hand of the broken Aria and led her.

#

The southern part of the Holy Empire.

And an unnamed forest located in the center of the South.

Step.

A woman took a step there.

Her name was Rachel.

She was a high-ranking cleric in the Holy Empire with the position of Cardinal.

Cardinal, the position after the Pope in the hierarchy descending from the Pope, Cardinal, and Archbishop.

However, not all Cardinals were the same.

There was a hierarchy even within the Cardinals, called the ‘Cardinal Corps’.

Bishop-level, Priest-level, and Deacon-level were the levels, and Rachel was a Bishop-level Cardinal among them.

She was one of only eight Cardinals with the highest rank and position.

In other words, she was a being with great power within the Holy Empire.

Rachel continued to move her steps.

With that, her beautifully braided white hair shook back.

Although it was white hair,

It was not the color of white hair due to aging.

A color resembling a pure white lily.

That bright atmosphere made her beauty even more prominent below.

However, another atmosphere that contrasted with that bright atmosphere was felt.

A calm atmosphere that was so cold.

It contrasted with the splendor and made her age, which was in the ambiguous boundary between youth and middle age, predictable.

Suddenly, Rachel stopped walking.

And Rachel’s gaze turned to one side and slowly opened her mouth.

“What’s going on, Sir Garrett?”

With Rachel’s words, a man revealed his appearance.

An impression like a veteran mercenary.

A knight wearing pure white armor.

He was Garrett, the leader of the Holy Knights of the Cardinal Corps.

Garrett slowly approached Rachel.

“Currently, there is a strange rumor circulating in the South, so I came to tell you.”

“A strange rumor?”

Garrett nodded once and continued.

“There is a rumor that a Saint has descended in the South.”

“Saint?”

Rachel’s head tilted.

A Saint.

What an absurd rumor.

Saint or Saintess.

This title was not given carelessly.

To be exact, it is determined from birth.

That’s because divine power itself is a congenital result in the first place.

Divine power that can only be obtained by being chosen by God.

And Saints and Saintesses were those who were chosen among those people.

It was literally a living miracle.

It was truly a being sent by God.

That’s why Saints and Saintesses are not something that mere humans can designate.

Saints and Saintesses are determined by God from birth.

That’s why they express it as the birth of a Saint.

They don’t say the descent of a Saint.

It was a fact that others didn’t know well.

But a Bishop-level Cardinal couldn’t not know.

“It’s a false rumor.”

That’s why Rachel was able to come to this conclusion at once.

The plague that is currently rampant in the South.

As a result, the people of the South were suffering.

The divine power of the priest was useless, so they were just waiting for the day to die.

It was natural to have a desire for a miracle called a Saint to appear and save them.

That vain hope was perverted and turned into a rumor.

Rumors, once spread, gain life and cannot be controlled.

Rachel dismissed it lightly.

However.

“It is said that the Saint is actually treating the plague.”

Garrett’s words were not very reassuring.

“Are you saying that the plague is being treated? That can’t be…?”

“I didn’t believe it at first, but after confirming it, it was true.”

Rachel shut her mouth tightly.

At the same time, her expression hardened.

“What should we do?”

Rachel had no answer to Garrett’s words.

Rachel’s calm atmosphere freezes at once.

A cold silence falls.

How much time had passed like that?

“I’ll have to meet that Saint myself.”

Rachel slowly opened her mouth.