The four people from Room 10 evacuated from the Count Padawan mansion.
It was 3am.
The gates of the Holy Capital are open twenty-four hours a day.
As if no door is closed to believers…
However, even though you can co and go freely, there are guards and a golem at the castle gate.
Passing through the gates of the Holy Capital at such a late hour, or rather at a ti when it was almost dawn, would be quite conspicuous.
They had to avoid any suspicious behavior.
They also had the holy swords they recovered.
Therefore, the four of them were taking a break in a place slightly off the main road.
“Etho, is it true what you said earlier?”
Niels asked Etho.
Of course, that question was not only Niels’, but also Amon’s and Ryo’s.
“Elena-san’s baby? I’m sure there’s a baby in her belly. Elena-san seems to know that too, as all she was drinking was water.”
“I see.”
Ryo nodded at Etho’s explanation.
Co to think of it, what she was stirring during the conversation wasn’t alcohol, but water.
“Well, I honestly don’t know if Tommaso is the baby’s father, but I guess it’s a good fit.”
Etho smiled a little and said so.
It happened in an instant.
“”
Ryo shouted without having ti to stand up.
Almost at the sa ti as the ice wall covered the four people, countless earth spears attacked.
“What!?”
Niels looked around from the gap between the earthen spears attacking the four of them.
However, there was no change in the surroundings.
There was no change, but even he, a swordsman, could sense that sothing was wrong.
Priest Etho, who could feel the flow of magical power, felt even more threatened than Niels.
“What’s this… this unusual flow of magic power? This is the first ti I’ve seen sothing like this… no, since that Explosive Blaze Magician? By any chance, soone of that class? No, there aren’t many people like that, right?”
That was his first experience since being exposed to the magic power of Oscar the Explosive Blaze Magician in Whitnash.
He couldn’t stop cold sweating.
Amon was also shaking.
However, were they tremors of fear, or warrior’s tremors… tremors of excitent.
The joy of being able to et a strong foe…
Although he couldn’t see the opponent yet, he understood that there was soone who was frighteningly strong.
“”
Ryo re-covered the all-around defense package with a laminated ice wall.
A wall of ice that automatically thickened from the center outward.
The earth spear attacks were getting so severe that he had to do that.
At the place where the earth spear collided with the ice wall, light from pair annihilation danced wildly.
In other words, each spear had the sa power as twenty layers of ice wall.
Frankly speaking, it was impossible.
The wild dance of thousands of lights lasted for a full three minutes.
After the rain of earthen spears had stopped, a voice echoed.
“Leave the holy swords behind.”
With that voice, a person dressed in white robes appeared…
“Eh……”
“No way, hey…”
“It can’t be, the Pope…”
Amon was at a loss for words, Niels was shocked, and Etho blurted out who it was.
It was the current Pope whose inauguration was to take place in a few days.
“Leave the holy swords behind.”
The Pope spoke again.
Words without emotion.
“I see. So people said they didn’t think he was human, but he might actually not be human…”
Ryo whispered.
However, he felt sowhat different compared to golems…
But either way, the overflowing magical power was real.
That was completely different from the empty Pope that he saw from a distance when the envoys arrived.
He looks the sa on the outside, but on the inside… that overflowing magical power…
Even though it rained so many earth spears, he still had that much magic power.
In magical warfare, having a large amount of magical power is the differentiator.
“Leave the holy swords behind.”
The Pope’s third call.
“We refuse.”
Niels stated.
The Pope chanted without a mont’s delay.
“”
As the Pope chanted, three flas swirled from the tip of his outstretched right hand and headed toward the ice wall.
They then began to gouge through Ryo’s ice wall.
“”
While strengthening the ice wall in front of them, he rained ice spears on the Pope.
“＜Magic Barrier＞”
However, while maintaining the fla whirlpool attack, the Pope put up a magical barrier and repelled Ryo’s attack.
“Deploying two magic at the sa ti! And earlier it was earth, then fire… two attributes…”
Etho shouted in surprise.
The sight of Etho shouting was extrely rare, but neither Ryo, Niels nor Amon could afford to be surprised by it.
The Pope’s frontal attack was powerful, and his defense was strong enough to block even Ryo’s attack.
“Ryo, Amon, and I will rush in from the left and right and cut him down.”
Niels announced.
“Understood. I’ll support by distracting him.”
Ryo nodded and answered.
Ryo could pull up Murasa and charge in, but if he did that, the defense of the three would inevitably beco weaker.
Rather than doing that, he felt it would be better if the two who were originally in the vanguard attacked.
“Let’s go..”
After Ryo chanted, steam mines were placed around the Pope.
Then, the steam mines and Blade Lang Trident ca into contact, and pair annihilation occurred.
The light from the pair annihilation robbed the Pope of his vision.
After confirming that, Niels and Amon rushed in.
They quickly closed the distance and tacitly agreed to attack the Pope from both sides.
Crack, crack.
However, their swords were deflected loudly.
The Pope fired a in front of him, blocked the ice spear from above with a , and deployed on his left and right to block the two’s slashing attacks.
“How is that possible!?”
Even Ryo was surprised.
“”
The Pope chanted.
At the sa ti, held his staff with both hands.
It was not a staff that Etho and the others carry, but a staff with sothing like a jewel attached to the tip.
He swung it.
Amon dodged and Niels parried the attack with his sword.
“Uwah”
The mont Niels received it, his body was blown away.
Unbelievable physical strength.
And faster than he could imagine.
“He said Enchant.”
“He did. It feels sowhat… blended?”
“Oh, Etho thinks so too?”
Etho and Ryo were whispering to each other.
Of course, they were still being attacked by the Pope’s fla vortex, but they were able to have so ti to talk.
No matter how frightening an attack is, it seems that people will eventually get used to it.
“What are the attributes of the four missing magicians in the hero party…?”
“Earth, Fire, Wind, and Enchanter. Ash Khan, the enchanter, has Wind in terms of his attributes.”
“This magic is extracted from those four people?”
Ryo listed the attributes of the four people, and Etho deduced what he did with them.
“Even if he isn’t a human, I don’t think it is possible to contain this much magical power.”
“Ah, yeah… Ryo has been blocking it all by yourself for a long ti though.”
Ryo thought while nodding, but Ryo didn’t hear Etho’s murmurs.
“But if there is a constant supply, it’s possible?”
“In other words, it’s not that the Pope absorbed the four people, they’re still being absorbed and their magic are just being released through the Pope. If that’s the case…”
“Yes. I think there is sothing like a ‘line’ that supplies the Pope with that magical power.”
Ryo had been searching for it. But he had not found it.
“If Ryo can’t find it, does that an it’s not in the air?”
“Not in the air? I see, from the ground!”
Etho’s words caused a flash of inspiration in Ryo.
The rock-like wild golem that Ryo fought with Abel when they traveled from the Rondo Forest to Rune ca to mind.
It was as if they were being supplied with magical power from the ground.
When Abel knocked one down, it stopped moving.
On the front line, the Pope was still firing his towards Ryo and Etho, blocking the ice spears with his , and clashing with Amon’s sword with his staff.
“Amon, move away!”
When Amon heard Ryo’s shout, he leaped backward.
He probably didn’t understand why he told him to leave, but he had complete trust in Ryo.
“”
As Ryo chanted, ice spread on the ground where the Pope stood.
Furthermore, a wall of ice appeared in a radius of about three ters around the Pope, and the thickness of the ice wall rapidly increased toward the center, that is, the Pope.
“”
While the Pope used his staff to break the ice wall that was approaching him, the Ice Bahn extended toward the sky like a pillar of ice.
Naturally, the Pope on the Ice Pillar rose and gained distance from the ground.
As the Pope moved away, his movents gradually beca weaker…
The Pope was surrounded by a wall of ice and was frozen in ice.
The Pope was frozen about 20 ters from the ground.
It wasn’t easy to see from directly below.
However, Niels, who was blown a little further away, could see it clearly.
“Amazing, what is that?”
Niels asked Ryo.
“His Holiness the Frozen Pope.”
Ryo replied with a smug look on his face.
However, at that mont, light from the heavens struck the ice.
When the four of them looked at the ice in surprise, the Pope who had been trapped had disappeared.
“What…”
Ryo was shocked and speechless.
The other three were speechless too.
The ice shrunk and returned to the ground.
The place where the Pope was was now empty.
It seed that the ice did not break and only the Pope’s body was transported to another location.
“The being behind the Pope is quite troubleso.”
“Well, that’s why they want the holy swords back.”
Ryo said and Niels answered.
Although Ryo nodded to Niels’ answer, it didn’t sit well with him.
The being behind the Pope, a Fallen…
Even if they really are originally an angel-like being, would it be possible to defeat them with holy swords?
Naturally, the first being that cos to mind when Ryo thinks of an ‘angel’ is Michael (pseudonym), whom he t in the white space.
He said it himself. That he is like an angel.
And that sense of presence, or rather the level of existence… it felt like he was on a completely different level from that of a person like Ryo.
For example, if you ask him if he could defeat Michael (pseudonym) with these holy swords… he doesn’t think he could defeat him.
He literally felt like a different dinsion.
An unimaginable existence on another level.
Why is it so unimaginable?
Because just by changing one dinsion, it becos a completely different thing.
For those of us who live in the three-dinsional world, it is almost impossible for us to imagine what the four-dinsional world is like just by looking at space without the addition of ti.
Even if there’s a sense of understanding sothing when it’s explained in mathematical formulas or words, it’s impossible to picture it.
That’s because we had never experienced four-dinsional space.
In the first place, does space with more than three dinsions exist?
The answer is yes.
On Earth, its existence is confird by physics.
In the first place, the world in which humans exist has more than nine dinsions.
But we only perceive three dinsions.
Where are the remaining six dinsions?
That’s the problem with extra dinsions.
Is it close to us in a compact state as represented by the so-called Calabi-Yau manifold, or is it expanding in the opposite direction like Brane cosmology?
We don’t know.
That is because we who live in the third dinsion cannot recognize or grasp the six other dinsions…
Eh? Why can we say that sothing is definitely there even though we cannot recognize it or see it?
Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense.
What we derived was ‘String Theory’, said to be the cutting edge of theoretical physics.
In the 21st century, string theory is a theory that genius physicists around the world are working on, so much so that it can be said that there are almost no theoretical physicists who completely deny it.
It was derived from such cutting-edge theory.
Although it’s not recognizable.
But we would like to understand.
We would like to understand what the higher dinsions look like when viewed from the lower dinsions…
How should we do it?
It’s easy. Just think about it by subtracting one dinsion.
For example, if you think about it in the three-dinsional world we are in, you will understand.
The three-dinsional world can have three axis: length, width, and height. Hence the ‘three’ dinsion.
Below that, two-dinsional is a plane-only world where only two axis, vertical and horizontal, can occur. Therefore, it is ‘two’ dinsional.
Drop one dinsion.
Let’s imagine that we are in a two-dinsional plane, and consider what happens if we try to interfere in the next higher dinsion, the third dinsion.
We are on a plane.
It’s flat. There is no height.
Trying to grab a ball that is one centiter above the plane… In other words, trying to grab a ball that is three-dinsional… Of course, you can’t grab it.
Because we live on a plane. Because we are a two-dinsional person.
In other words, we cannot interfere with things in the higher dinsions.
However, if the ball stops floating and falls onto the plane we are on… we will be damaged.
It would hurt if it hit.
In other words, if they feel like it, the upper dinsion can interfere with the lower dinsion…
All power over life and death is held by those at the higher dinsion.
However, you should notice it now.
The two-dinsional and three-dinsional worlds do not necessarily exist in different places.
There are so areas where they intersect.
There are so areas where the two-dinsional and three-dinsional worlds are in contact.
Even the theoretical we, who are in the two-dinsional world, can grab the ball that cos into contact with us… probably.
No, even if we can’t grasp it, we can still interfere.
It’s possible to touch it.
Only at that mont does sothing in the lower dinsion have a chance to influence sothing in the higher dinsion…
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