My Alter Ego Is Becoming a Giant - My Alter Ego Is Becoming a Giant chapter 87

Great Battle of Picaol (2)

“Five! I have heard many stories, Sir Heinrich. Truly, as I heard, you are a great talent!”

“You are overjoyed, Cardinal. You must be busy, but thank you for welcoming me like this.”

“It’s not about anything else, it’s about the Holy Sword. There, the saint personally recommended it, so you should see her face like this! Heh heh heh—”

Heinrich arrived at the Great Temple of Picaol and was assigned a place to stay, and was immediately able to meet Cardinal Donovan, who was in charge of the place.

His first impression, with his long white beard and a kind smile, was that of ‘the kind grandfather next door’.

But that impression flashed through my mind the moment we met, and then disappeared as soon as I looked down my neck.

‘Wow, what a shoulder.’

Because that body was never normal.

“Heh heh, he’s still young, so he’s got great muscles. I want this, because I am old and my body is not the same as before. In my old years, I too…”

The wide shoulders, upright waist, and muscles that sting every time he moved were so great that he felt a sense of detachment from his face.

‘Did you say that this person was also a Paladin?’

I heard that he had risen to the rank of Cardinal because of his strong reputation, but he seemed to have never forgotten to train even once he got there.

He must have been over 60, but seeing his muscles so full.

“Yes, Sir Heinrich? I heard that you have become a personal escort of the saint, what can you do?”

“Ah, so far, under his direction, I have been spending most of my time training for the ordeal of the Holy Sword. Apparently, the saint only stays within the Holy Land.”

“Right. How is he doing? It’s been a while since I saw you, but I don’t know how you’re doing now. A big thing happened a while ago…”

It was referring to the attack on the Great Hall of the Immortal King.

However, he seemed to have a lot of interest in the saint for some reason, and soon after, he started complaining, probably because of his mood.

Simply put, it was about showing off how close he was with the saint.

“Huh, it seems it has been more than three years since I saw the saint. It means that once you reach this level, you can’t vacate your seat recklessly. Had I known this would be the case, I would not have assumed the post of cardinal.”

However, the level seemed a bit excessive.

The saint, who was enrolled as the adopted daughter of the current Pope Hatian II at a very young age, grew up in the Holy Land and was loved by everyone in the denomination.

A small and cute child walks around with a bright smile, how many people would look down on it?

And it was the same with Cardinal Donovan, who was then a paladin.

“Do you know? How cute was the lady who put an earthworm on her little hand and offered it to her to look at it?”

“That… that’s right. It seems to me somehow.”

To him who was married but had no children, Saint Riesta was like a daughter and granddaughter.

Nearly ten years have passed since I watched her grow, who had just joined the church.

Donovan was promoted to cardinal and was appointed as the head of the Great Hall of Picaol here.

“By the way, I mean, it’s not that much of a headache here. The Kingdom guys are not cooperating at all, so can you afford it?”

The Rescue Kingdom, where the Great Hall is located, was on the better side, but the other kingdoms were implicitly checking them so that the power of the Order would not grow beyond that level by uniting themselves.

Of course, the most severe of them was the kingdom of Thalia, where Heinz II was located.

At the cardinal’s words, Heinrich nodded his head seriously with a look of ignorance.

It was as if he deeply sympathized with his words.

‘But why are you telling me this?’

He was sympathetic to his superiors when he talked about them, but he couldn’t understand why he was saying such things to himself.

So when he is puzzled in his heart.

Aww—

Cardinal Donovan naturally rubbed his shoulders, and those thick arm muscles slowly tightened Heinrich’s breath.

“Chu… Cardinal?”

“Yes, Sir Heinrich. I’m the last…”

Even in that situation, his kind expression and friendly tone were not disturbed in the slightest.

“The saint’s bright smile is so good in my head that I can’t even afford to see her sad face.”

The muscles around Heinrich’s neck swelled up as veins lined up in the arms around his neck.

“But since he was young, he grew up only in the Holy Land, so doesn’t he know too much about the world? So I’m worried that I’ll get hurt in the future. Yes, for example… some bastard trying to seduce an innocent man.”

There was no longer even a smile on the cardinal’s face, who spoke as if chewing and spitting.

Those scorching eyes met Heinrich’s.

“Do you know what I mean?”

“…Yes, of course. As a ‘personal escort’, I will thoroughly protect the surroundings of the saint. Do not worry.”

What more could you say in front of this eight-and-a-half-year-old grandfather?

It’s better to give you the answer you want right away.

As he made eye contact with his fully mature acting skills, the smile returned to the cardinal’s expression as he looked at him quietly.

“Heh heh heh! Yes, it will be reassuring if you can keep by the side of the church’s most promising young lady, Kyungi. I wish you all the best in the future.”

“yes! Because that’s what I have to do.”

After such a friendly conversation, the cardinal, who barely had time to meet him, got up to deal with the overdue work.

“I’ll just have to go back. I hope that you will be able to become the master of the Exotic Holy Sword. As long as the Immortal King is resurrected, there is no more time to delay.”

Then Cardinal Donovan left, followed by the Archbishop, who was in charge of sealing the Holy Sword.

“The preparations have already been made. When would you like to go?”

“There is no reason to delay coming here. I will try right now.”

As the Holy Sword was the core of the Sealing Barrier, it required a fairly complicated procedure to get to where it was.

So, there was a limit to the number of challenges in a year, but this time Heinrich got a chance.

‘It’s a bit burdensome for me to say that even the paladins called me failed…’

Still, he had his own beliefs.

After all, isn’t he in a close relationship with the Lord God?

Maybe this time too, will you take good care of me?

‘Well then, thank you. I’ll do better in the future!’

Heinrich followed in the footsteps of the Archbishop and offered a reverent prayer to the Lord.

With a little bit of selfishness.

***

Kingdom of Thalia, the residence of the Duke of Bright.

“Yeah, you mean you don’t have any information yet?”

“That’s right. Apparently, the Church swept through the Immortal King, so there were no major warlocks left in the vicinity.”

“What does it mean to form an information organization?”

“We are working, but we need a little more time to get information from far away.”

Well, it couldn’t have been that easy.

It was a problem that had to be looked at in the long term from the beginning, but it was unavoidable that it was regrettable right away.

“I get it. Even if it’s a small dagger, if there is a warlock that you know of, report it separately. Oh, and those who get in the way of things. I’ll take care of it here.”

“···All right.”

As Mulleau bowed his head lightly and left, Heinz walked over to the window, pulled the curtains back, and looked up at the night sky.

‘Hans has no intention of doing anything yet, but if something goes wrong, it must mean that the others are preparing something… I don’t know how to get information.’

It was also necessary to expand the force a little faster.

And he now had the best human resources on the continent.

flutter—

Even the moonlight was swallowed by the clouds and the night sky was engulfed in darkness.

Hans looked down at the earth with a pupil dyed in the abyss.

‘I don’t have anything else to do right now, so I’ll just let Heinz help out.’

As a bonus, I was thinking of recruiting slaves who could eat as much as I wanted… No, I was going to recruit extras and staff.

Of course, it wasn’t an unfair contract.

Because I was going to pay everyone something precious as a remuneration.

It means ‘life’.

‘I can’t take responsibility for accidents that occur on the job… but if you’re lucky, where is the chance of living?’

Wouldn’t it be better to die right now?

[Khhhh… There, there’s a guy hiding.]

If you are a demon belonging to the demon, you cannot escape from his “eyes of the abyss”.

***

Azerion Empire adjacent to the Holy Land.

“uh! I got a signal!”

Sitting on an armchair in his well-decorated room, the blonde man, lying dead, opened his eyes.

“Oh my God, I hope he was still alive. I mean, even if you really know about the Immortal King this time, you don’t know. Why hasn’t the signal been picked up all this time?”

His unique skill, 「Track Observation」, was an ability that was optimized for information search.

It was a skill that could read the past.

When I heard the news that there had been a great event in the Great Hall of Roselia before, I dug into it to find out the details, and found out the story of the Immortal King.

‘The place where the Immortal King appeared in person had a huge barrier, so I couldn’t check it myself, but the basic information is to explore the surroundings.’

There were not one or two people who were mobilized to fight him, and it was relatively easy to gather information through them.

Because they were careless, and every word they spit out was information.

Of course, that was possible because he had been working all sorts of things to get karma and strengthened his unique skill three times.

“It’s bitter, but it’s because he’s a giant after all. Even though I’ve strengthened it so much, I can’t see it. I expected it.”

Of course, his abilities were also limited.

I had to have detailed information about the object I wanted to observe, and I couldn’t read about the opponent who was too strict.

It’s only natural that when he becomes the Immortal King, he can’t observe it with his abilities.

But he had a reason for reacting this way.

Previously, when I activated “Track Observation” just in case, the result that came out was very strange.

It’s not that ‘can’t know’ because of lack of ability, but ‘can’t do it’ because there is no target in the first place.

So I was worried that he might have died in the Great Battle of Roselia, but all his colleagues dismissed it as nonsense.

If the Immortal King had been fully resurrected, there was no way he could have died just that much.

Since that day, I have been observing the existence of the Immortal King habitually once a day, and today the result has changed to ‘unknown’.

“You were really right… So, have you been hiding in a barrier where the dimension is cut off for recovery?”

He licked his lips and ruffled his dull blonde hair.

Still, the situation wasn’t bad.

The big business will start soon, but if the Immortal King resumed his activities, it would be good for them too.

‘Is it a good time? Is luck with you?’

There was not much karma left until the fourth reinforcement.

If this task is completed well, we will be able to strengthen it without difficulty.

And since this operation was only the beginning, it did not end there.

‘If you contribute to the destruction of a world, how much karma can you earn?’

He smiled and sat comfortably in the armchair.

‘If you get information from a convenient and safe place, the rest of the people will take care of the work. This is the creative economy.’

He knew very well that the people he was with were very dangerous, but it didn’t matter to him.

He’ll already be on Earth by the time he gets enough karma and this place gets really dangerous.

“Ah, looking forward to it. Wouldn’t it be possible to conquer the world by returning to Earth? It’s a national secret, it’s a nabal, and I confided it…

Another awakening sent to the Aurica dimension was so alone in a sweet dream.