Build a Human Empire by Creating Clans

“Oh, oh…”

Blood ran through the bleached skin and opened his half-closed eyes.

His body was still thin and weak, but death had disappeared from his side.

He slowly raised his upper body.

“father?”

Julia approached the Marquis.

The Marquis held her hand and gave her an awkward smile.

“The energy that consumed me has disappeared.”

“Uh, how?”

He took out the parasites that had been circulating inside the Marquis’ body and restored the body that the parasites had damaged.

“You’ve been suffering for quite some time.”

I said, looking at the still wriggling clot of blood.

The clot of blood, smaller than a fist, was originally a parasitic insect on the body of the Marquis.

It must have been very small before it took root in the body of the Marquis.

It grew like this while eating the marquis.

“Bishop.”

I said politely.

The Bishop’s shoulders trembled.

His eyes swelled up and his mouth hung open.

He did not realize my calling and saw the gore.

“Bishop.”

I called him with force again.

Then yes, yes? I raised my head with a stupid sound.

“Are you very surprised?”

“Ah, yes… it’s the first time something like this has happened…”

“What is your first time?”

The Bishop closed his mouth.

I said while twisting the corners of my mouth.

“This must be the first time a bug won’t listen to you.”

“…!”

The shaking stopped.

I stopped breathing for an instant.

A look so startled that he couldn’t even react.

I smiled even thicker.

“I knew of your existence before I came to this city, but you still do not know of your master.”

“All, you…”

“Kneel.”

thud!

Without a moment’s interval, the bishop knelt down.

To resist belatedly, to stand up, I put my hands on my knees.

But the body did not budge.

A situation where my body is not mine.

How could a servant, not even a blood relative, reject the emperor’s order?

The bishop who became a servant looked up at me with trembling eyes.

“If you had given up being human and asked to be a slave, you would have been prepared to become a wolf. Isn’t it?”

“Uh huh?”

The Bishop looked up blankly at me.

“What is this…?”

Marquis Loisene opened her mouth and muttered.

I couldn’t accept the current situation and blinked my eyes in a daze.

It was because the person who had been believed to be a benefactor was the culprit.

Even more so, that benefactor was a religiously renowned being.

“How did this happen, Bishop?”

asked Bishop Bowler in a trembling voice.

At my command, the bishop knelt and opened his mouth.

“Did you… you put a curse on your father?”

Yulia Roesene asked with her fists clenched.

Only then did the bishop raise his head and wave his hand.

“no! How can I curse—”

“quiet.”

The power of my words made the bishop’s mouth shut.

I put my hand on his shoulder and whispered.

“Don’t lie in front of me.”

The bishop shuddered.

“Tell me. Who are you? Whose servant are you?”

“I-I’m Mr. Chuter’s pilot’s suit, a bowler.”

Her lips trembled, resisting answering.

However, the resistance was short-lived.

How dare you resist

The orders given by the emperor’s soul.

I put my ringed index finger on the bishop’s forehead.

“What have you done here?”

“Chuter said to curse the border lords. Accordingly, we arrived at the territory where the target was located and secretly cursed the target.”

“why?”

“In order to increase my faith, it is.”

What are you talking about, Yulia muttered.

“In other words, to rule more easily.”

“control···?”

I pointed to a clot of blood wriggling on the floor with my chin.

The clot of blood that came out of the body was struggling to survive.

Because they are parasites, they cannot live long outside the body.

In order not to die, he wriggled in search of a body to parasitize on.

hooked!

Calliope threw her dagger and stabbed the gore.

There was a hiss, and the sound of wind escaping.

“It is like poison. It’s a poison that no one can feed without knowing. How will you use this poison if you have no conscience?”

“…”

Silent Julia.

Rachel answered instead.

“Of course, I will use it for something that is helpful to me. Assassinate political opponents, or weaken and disrupt the rule.”

“Or make the faith stronger.”

“Faith…”

Julia muttered.

Her eyes widened.

“Your father, the Marquis of Loesene, came running for free when he called for a priest?”

“Yeah sure—”

“Yes, of course he will come running. When I call, he will come right away. But didn’t you guys give something after that? Saying thank you for saving my life. While praising him as a benefactor. I must have taken care of something Isn’t it?”

I would have taken care of so many things.

Gold, manors, privileges… what can I do to beg for my life?

Or what can a child do for the parents he loves?

Yulia took a deep breath and shook her shoulders.

“If I had just told you to believe, my faith would have reached its limits soon. However, if you really see healing, it will not be at the level of faith. That is one of the ways Horbidism rules the world.”

Give a bottle and drop the medicine.

He hides that he is the one who gave the bottle.

“Why did the priest do this…”

Julia Roesene covered her face with both hands.

His hands trembled and he repeated the same words over and over again.

Because there is no one in this world who is not devout.

How will you accept the betrayal of the existence you trusted so much?

“No surprise.”

Julia lowered her hand and looked at me.

He opened his mouth to retort.

“It is a common thing. It’s disgusting to be surprised now.”

She was taken aback by the firm tone.

“Aren’t you also a merchant and handing over humans to a different race? But are you surprised that he came and laid a hand on you?”

“That, that’s…”

“that? What are you going to say next? Are slaves not human?”

I smiled and looked at her.

“Who said slaves aren’t human? He is the God you believed in. Aren’t you following because God said that slaves are not human?”

Then, if God casts a curse to increase faith, shouldn’t that also be followed?

“You have to believe in human reason. This is the result of believing in a created god.”

wolf hunt

I grabbed Bishop Bowler by the scruff of his neck and raised him up.

Calliope took the bishop and dragged him out.

“What are you going to do?”

“If you have parasites in your body, you should catch them, and if they are widespread, shouldn’t you be notified?”

The Marquis of Loisene widened her eyes.

“Do you know what you are talking about?”

“Marquis.”

I said tightening my neck.

“I don’t do anything I don’t know. And I don’t worry about what my work will bring.”

“He is a bishop. Not even the king dares to punish.”

“Then what about the Emperor?”

“Emperor?”

“What if you were the one who killed the emperor?”

The Marquis closed his mouth, but soon realized the meaning and opened his eyes wide.

and saw my ring

I saw the seal engraved in the middle of the ring.

The object pointed to by the seal he had forgotten for a while.

Remembering that, he opened his mouth and trembled his hands.

“you···?”

I smiled.

The emperor’s seal engraved on the ring, the magic flowing from the ring, and the harmony created by the magical power. If you know this, the ring is genuine unless you are a fool, and there is no way you don’t know who the emperor I was said to have killed is.

“What humans should fear is humans. It’s not a ghost.”

I got up and came out of the mansion.

###

Sodomora, the capital of Wallachia.

After killing Vlad there, some time passed.

I received several bundles of papers from Nuadil, the Old Man on the Mountain.

– This is a letter that was left in the business of a blood relative.

The bundle of documents was a letter from a servant to a blood relative.

Through this, I grasped the details of the servant’s activities.

‘Even though I know a lot, I don’t know the details.’

Sodomora was one of the few exceptions.

It was a representative place among the bases where blood relatives were active, and I knew it through and through because I had heard it in the previous episode that the period of activity continued for more than several decades.

On the other hand, no matter how much I searched my memory, there were few places that came out clearly except for Sodomora.

‘Vampires are a people who have been able to hide in groups since ancient times.’

It was quite difficult to determine the activities of the vampires.

Because it wasn’t a different race that was distinguished externally.

It was a situation where even the representative system was not properly grasped.

‘It’s not called a parasite for nothing.’

It would be nice to be hit by the sunlight, but since even the sunlight is immune to it, it is not difficult to hunt out vampires.

Like parasites, they eat away at society unnoticed and gain weight, and did not show themselves easily until society reached necrosis.

‘The information passed on by Nuadil is quite helpful.’

The letter left at the business of a blood relative eased my worries.

It was about a servant reporting his activities to his blood relatives.

‘Did he reach out to Germania as well?’

There were also quite a few letters sent from Germania.

I paid attention to the letter sent from the Marquis of Loisene.

The letter said that the emperor’s curse had been planted on the marquis.

‘It’s the emperor’s curse…’

Emperor’s Curse.

It was a famous incurable disease.

It was a disease in which symptoms such as fever, cough, and abdominal pain appeared, followed by large and small wounds all over the body, and death soon after due to hematemesis due to organ damage.

The most well-known cause of the disease is being bitten by a vampire, such as a blood relative or servant, but it is extremely rare to actually get sick from being bitten.

The main pattern was to appear suddenly like a pestilence and sweep the city before disappearing.

‘There is a cure, but it’s practically meaningless.’

There were two treatments.

One was to alleviate the disease with the divine power of the wolf god, and the other was to drain the infected blood from the body.

However, the first treatment only stopped the condition for a while, and the second treatment was practically impossible.

‘Because once it’s planted in the body, only Vlad or a blood relative can handle it.’

As the name suggests, it was made by Vlad.

I was cursed by the lord who had insulted me.

The lord’s family and all humans belonging to the territory were annihilated with this.

And then he took the curse from the lord who begged for forgiveness.

This remained as a record and was named the Curse of the Emperor, and it was said that only the emperor could cure it.

‘It’s not a disease.’

However, the reality was different.

To say it’s sick is deceiving.

The emperor’s curse is not a disease, but a parasite.

‘It’s just another parasite planted by a parasite called a vampire.’

The clot of blood extracted from the Marquis of Loisene was the parasite that had grown into an adult.

Infection is the injecting of larvae by blood relatives, servants, by biting the subject, or by other means such as ingestion of food.

The symptom was the process of the injected parasite feeding on nutrients and growing in the body, eventually consuming everything in the body and coming out.

‘They plant larvae that have lost their reproductive ability, and they look like clots of blood, so it’s hard to judge them as parasites.’

It was to blame that the blood was thought to be infected.

There were many people among humans who knew the truth.

The only problem was that they were priests of the Wolf Church, and that they allied with blood relatives.

“…”

I woke up from the flashback and looked up.

dang— dang——

Bells rang throughout the city.

Even though it wasn’t time for the bell to ring, the bell rang.

People stopped and looked around.

People inside the building also came out to check the situation.

“what’s the matter?”

“Let’s meet at the plaza.”

“Why all of a sudden?”

People heading to the square with a tilted expression.

Between them I walked with Rachel.

“Rachel.”

“Yes, Father.”

“What do you think?”

Rachel tilted her head without answering.

Her eyes rolled degururuly, indicating that she was troubled.

“One man sacrificed another man for God. Do you have any other thoughts after seeing this?”

“Ah, um…”

He scratched his head shyly.

It was clear that he wanted to say no.

“It used to be like that. Humans enslave fellow human beings and sell slaves. Are you still the same? The only difference is that parasites were planted in humans for easier control.”

I shook my head.

“Wrong. Slaves are not human. It’s livestock. Horbidism teaches that class is a divine right. Therefore, kings, nobles, and priests are the ruling class ordained by God.”

On the other hand, commoners and slaves are those whom the gods have ordained to be governed by.

“Slaves are livestock given by God. not human It is an animal made to be dominated by humans and made to be sold.”

Therefore, those who believe in Horbidism do not question the morality of buying and selling human beings.

God has ordained it, so how can I question it?

Wallochian King Pavé was a truly unusual case.

“However, this incident occurred among the ruling class that God has appointed. The person you thought was the same human tried to sacrifice another human for the sake of a god.”

Moreover, the culprit in this case was the bishop of Horbid.

A bishop is a being who can face Horvid directly.

“Whether Horvid found out about the bishop’s behavior or gave orders to the bishop, it doesn’t matter. The important thing is that Bishop Bowler believed and did what he did for God.”

Did the bishop conspire because the Marquis of Loisene was not human?

No, the bishop saw the Marquis as a human like himself.

However, there was only an absolute existence above humans.

That existence was a god, and it was only necessary to sacrifice the marquis for the sake of the god.

“You also see humans as your equals. But if you have to sacrifice a human to achieve what you believe in.”

I asked what to do.

Rachel hardened her expression.

“Man should not be instrumental.”

“Yes… father.”

“You can’t just treat people as means. If you treat it as a means, always, at the same time, as an end. When, in your mind, humans become a means to a lost purpose, you become like them.”

“Father before—”

I raised my hand to stop talking.

In spite of myself, I knew what she was going to say.

It must be that freed slaves were not selected with that intention.

“know. If you know you can’t cure them, and if you can’t at least ease their pain, then at least give them happiness.”

Those who were mobilized as conscripts were not ordinary slaves.

Even his human nature was distorted.

To increase their value as livestock called slaves.

It was literally a broken being.

A broken being that can never be fixed.

Rachel gave them painkillers.

Opium that is very addictive and sometimes scarier than poison, faith.

“But there are a lot of people who don’t understand your thinking.”

Griff, Pasimea, Gerhard, Nuadil…

It is faster to find the kind that understands Rachel.

“You think your beliefs are right. Since you’re doing the right thing, you won’t feel the need to explain it to anyone. That is fanaticism.”

This is why religion is dangerous.

People can make mistakes, but God doesn’t.

To believe in God is to believe in absolute truth.

‘Who dares to say that the truth set by God is wrong.’

“But I am not God.”

“No, my father—”

“I can’t do everything, and I don’t know everything. It’s just that the vague soul is growing bigger and bigger. Yes, it is just a mere human being growing stronger.”