Chapter 68: “Kingdom of Hiers — Emergency Legislative Assembly”
Countless magnificent chairs were arranged in a giant circle inside an equally magnificent, spacious room
This was the conference hall on the first floor of the Hiers royal castle.
Normally, members of the church would rent out this room to hold religious meetings, but today it held an assembly of the people in charge of the kingdom. This included leaders from the church, starting with the patriarch of the Holy Church of Hiers and extending to other prominent bishops.
“—received an oracle. A new threat to humanity has been born.”
Furious whispers filled the hall in the wake of the patriarch’s words. One of the guards standing by against the wall, Thomas, felt the frenzied commotion vibrate through his body as though there had been an actual shockwave. For those gathered here, the news was in fact that shocking. And that was true even for a common soldier like Thomas.
Threats to humanity. The six catastrophes. The harbingers of despair. The incarnations of carnage.
There were many ways to curse them, but they actually all referred to the same things.
—On the western continent, rumors claimed that the lord of the infamous Genesis Castle was a true vampire.
—In the north pole, there was a giant wall of ice known as the Crystal Wall. Since ancient times, a golden dragon had been sealed within, one that had descended from above the heavens.