It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 258

Chapter 258: Clash with the Holy Cross (1)

“Well then……”

It was when Kyung-joon was about to speak, with everyone’s eyes on him.

While everyone in the plaza was focused on Kyung-joon’s next words, there was a moment of silence.

“Oh my, oh my. Everyone, please stop your toasts for a moment. I, a humble servant, have brought a message as an agent of God.”

A sleazy but very clear voice.

Such a voice was heard from beyond the plaza.

“You can read the message later, but to briefly explain…”

Saying so, the man who was slowly walking through the crowd, parting them to the sides, looked like a con man despite being covered in sacred symbols.

An impeccably clean white suit with an uncomfortable amount of cross decorations.

The crown engraved with various icons looked like stained glass from a cathedral, and although he was holding a scripture, it was studded with jewels.

He was a man with an unreadable expression because of his narrowed eyes, making him seem like he was smiling pleasantly but also giving off an unpleasant feeling.

Nevertheless.

A blue aura was emanating from the ornate cross-shaped staff he was holding.

<Holy Cross Canton Branch 3rd Priest>

▼Rone Fordbang

Rone, the priest dispatched from the Holy Cross.

He had reached the front of the royal palace plaza.

“The atmosphere has suddenly become chilly. You don’t all have to be so nervous. I only have business with… that is, the elf Zot and the otherworlder Kyung-joon.”

It was the moment Rone said so.

“puancon! la entulle! (May the awl surround the person!)”

The the Fairy King’s low voice.

Wooong.

In an instant, dozens of sharp spatial needles surrounded Rone.

It was a situation where if the the Fairy King just willed it, he would instantly become a sieve.

“Oh my.”

At this, Rone stopped walking with a faint smile in his narrowed eyes.

The the Fairy King said to Rone with a very fierce expression.

“How impudent. A mere priest of the Holy Cross, how dare you set foot here and speak like that? And. Your words just now seem to imply that you, who are not even a citizen of this kingdom, would dare to object to my words. Since when did a mere priest of the Holy Cross have the authority to talk back to me, the leader of the alliance?”

Wooong.

the Fairy King’s spatial needles tightened even more, as if to pressure the mere priest of the Holy Cross.

Nevertheless, Rone replied smoothly like a snake, still with a faint smile on his face.

“Of course, I am not in a position to speak directly to you, the Fairy King, the leader of the Humanity Cantons. But as I said before… if I have become an agent of God, it’s a different story.”

“What?”

“Here, look. This is a direct messenger from the Holy See.”

Rone took out a piece of paper from his inventory.

It was a letter with the seal of the Holy See’s cross on it.

As if it had received some special treatment, the letter was shimmering faintly gold.

Woong.

Seeing that, the the Fairy King tried to bring the paper over with her mana.

Crack!

As soon as the mana touched the paper, it was immediately dispersed.

[It is an item imbued with divine power.]

[It cannot be interfered with by mana.]

The fact that even the the Fairy King’s mana couldn’t interfere with it.

Kyung-joon’s eyes widened slightly.

The the Fairy King continued.

“…It seems to be a genuine letter from the Holy See.”

“As you can see. How could a sinner like me perform a baptism?”

Even if he was a mere priest, if he had the “order of the Holy See” behind him, his weight was completely different.

Considering that the Humanity Kingdom, which could be considered the core of the Humanity Cantons, was originally the Holy See of the Holy Cross Faction, it was a situation that could not be easily dismissed.

“Tsk. Disfare (Step back).”

Wooong.

In the end, the the Fairy King had no choice but to withdraw all the transparent spatial thorns surrounding Rone.

“Bring it here, mere priest.”

“Yes, please take a good look.”

As Rone stepped forward to hand over the letter himself.

“Wait a minute.”

Kyung-joon, who had been quietly watching the situation until now, stepped forward.

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The reason Kyung-joon stepped forward was simple.

He was just the closest.

“Yes. It’s Kyung-joon. I’ll deliver it.”

“To think you would take the initiative and deliver it yourself. You are a little different from other otherworlders.”

Rone handed the letter to Kyung-joon, looking at him with his unpleasant narrowed eyes.

“……”

The moment Kyung-joon received it with a straight face, Rone added without letting go of his hand.

“Fairy-Elven Magic Academy, Fairy Palace, Whale Forest, and even that small remote Luxemb Kingdom… I hear your name everywhere these days.”

“Yes. I’m a bit famous.”

“Hahaha, you’re so cool. Then please deliver it to the Fairy King-nim. It’s very important to you too.”

Rone handed the letter to Kyung-joon without taking his eyes off him.

After receiving the unpleasant letter, Kyung-joon sent out a very small amount of mana.

[It is an item imbued with divine power.]

[It cannot be interfered with by mana.]

Even Kyung-joon’s extremely fine, nano-level mana couldn’t interfere with it.

<It’s a power called divine power, completely different from mana. It is a power that cannot be analyzed with the existing mana theory system.>

‘……Upload the data you just obtained right away.’

<I’m already doing that.>

‘Good.’

Kyung-joon quickly input the data on the new power without showing it on the outside – only those who were extremely sensitive to mana, like the Fairy King or Azuaz, would notice – and handed the letter to the the Fairy King.

“Here you go, the Fairy King-nim.”

“Yes. Where……”

The contents of the letter were as follows:

“…We cannot recognize the granting of the title of hero, which holds deep meaning in the founding of this world and the Humanity Cantons, to an otherworlder who is not a being of this world? And we have heard news of the black magic stone from Fael University, and we will take the related otherworlders Kyung-joon and Zot to be directly purified?”

In short, it meant that they would take Kyung-joon and Zot to the Holy Cross from now on to handle the matter.

The the Fairy King frowned deeply at this.

“It is exactly as the Fairy King-nim has said.”

Rone, on the other hand, had not changed his expression at all.

This time, he looked at Kyung-joon and his narrowed eyes gleamed.

“And at the same time, we can no longer turn a blind eye to the otherworlder’s castle built next to the Beginner’s Village. At first, we thought it was just an ignorant farmer who didn’t know the name of God playing around, exceeding his station. So we were going to visit and baptize him someday to let it slide, but considering the recent events at Fael University and Favengarden, we have received orders from the Holy See that we can no longer leave it alone. We cannot share the power bestowed by God with otherworlders who do not have faith.”

It’s finally come to this.

Kyung-joon thought so.

When Kyung-joon had tried to befriend the Humanity Cantons, considering the Holy Cross Faction next door as an implicit enemy.

It was the Holy Cross side that had been watching all along, or rather, had not been interested at all.

However.

This time, Kyung-joon had become an unavoidable target.

A human who was an otherworlder who would respawn even if he died, and who used magic that NPCs couldn’t understand at all.

The time had come when they could no longer just stand by and watch.

Now, the Holy Cross would try to cook Kyung-joon in any way possible.

If he seemed dangerous, they would get rid of him, or if that wasn’t possible, they would put a leash on him so they could directly interfere with and control him.

In the end.

“Sigh. It can’t be helped.”

Kyung-joon had no choice but to make a decision.

“the Fairy King-nim. I’ll think about what’s happened.”

“Sigh, are you sure? I’ll trust you because it’s Huma’s request, but if that happens, neither you, I, nor anyone else will be able to predict what will happen next. It could very well be the path that leads the world to ruin.”

“Ruin… what kind of ruin are we talking about?”

“Well, if things go wrong, I might even have to step down as the Fairy King.”

The the Fairy King, one of the seven heroes who sealed the Demon King 700 years ago and founded the Humanity Cantons, and the leader of the Fairy-Elven Alliance to this day.

If even the the Fairy King could be forced to step down, then the expression “ruin” was indeed appropriate.

However.

<Even that is nothing. Master has already received a quest to resurrect the Demon King with the world as collateral.>

“Hahaha.”

To Kyung-joon, that was nothing.

In the first place, he had already experienced real death once in reality.

He was still fighting death and it wasn’t over yet.

What was there to be afraid of from a mere priest in front of him?

And.

If the the Fairy King were to be impeached, he could just make a position for her.

Thinking so, Kyung-joon nodded with a determined expression.

“It’s okay, the Fairy King-nim. Let’s go for it.”

“…If there’s any talk about the the Fairy King-Kyung-joon transdimensional gate or hidden power later, it’s all your fault.”

“Hahaha. I see. I never thought I’d be the main character of that.”

Kyung-joon laughed, thinking how interesting the world was.

The the Fairy King sighed deeply, shaking her head.

“…?”

Rone, who couldn’t understand what the Fairy King and Kyung-joon were talking about.

The man who had appeared at first as a very important figure, taking a large share, was completely pushed to the back burner.

Anyway.

the Fairy King and Kyung-joon stood side by side at the front of the plaza where everyone was gathered.

“As one of the seven leaders of the Humanity Cantons and the the Fairy King of the Fairy-Elven Alliance!”

“And as a descendant of the previous Infinite Knowledge Seeker, who was the successor of the seven heroes of old, and a lord of the Study Territory, which carries on his legacy!”

“I, Takiki!”

“I, Kyung-joon!”

They declared simultaneously at the front of the plaza where everyone was gathered.

“We hereby declare the Study Territory as a formal protectorate and autonomous region, a special administrative zone of the Fairy-Elven Alliance!”

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Special administrative zone.

A concept of administrative division in the Humanity Cantons that arose when the Fairy-Elven Alliance, after ruling the Red Hope Island (Elven: luge espua ile / Beastkin: Xodur xrud-knazur wodar-walt) in the south of the Beastkin Alliance and the surrounding Stonefish Peninsula (Elven: piere fuason peninsula / Beastkin: Sotun-peska fenisl), returned them to the Beastkin Alliance.

The Red Hope Island Special Administrative Zone, with its historical background, is now a territory of the Beastkin Alliance, but it still acts like an independent nation as an autonomous region, and with the ancient Phoenix Beastkin who can use magic, it is still treated as a de facto protectorate of the Fael Alliance.

“……A special administrative zone, is that declaration really true, the Fairy King-nim?”

“Of course it is.”

Kyung-joon’s Gongbu estate had just received this special administrative status.

“Didn’t you hear me swear on my name as well as my position as king?”

“That……”

Rone was speechless at the unexpected declaration of the the Fairy King and Kyung-joon.

And that wasn’t all.

The words “Infinite Knowledge Seeker.”

He hadn’t expected to hear that now either.

“Could it be that the otherworlder……”

He hadn’t imagined that the descendant would be the otherworlder next to the Fairy King.

Kyung-joon shrugged at Rone, who was speechless as if he had honey in his mouth.

“If you don’t believe me, shall I prove it to you?”

“No… It’s fine. If the Fairy King-nim has sworn an oath… then I’ll take that as meaning I should ask the the Fairy King directly about the responsibility later.”

Rone said, taking a step back.

Then the the Fairy King added.

“Anyway, Kyung-joon, no, the estate of the descendant here, has become a special administrative zone of our Fairy-Elven Alliance. Therefore, there is no problem in granting him the title of hero, and if the time comes when his territory is to be handed over, we will treat it the same as if it were my own territory.”

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