Apostle of the Gods

181. Mysterious Child

After a while, I saw the enemy slowly descending.

The whole thing was covered in something like a golden haze, and I couldn’t exactly see the enemy’s appearance. I still don’t know who the enemy is. However, the golden haze was very similar to the golden smoke that spewed out of the wound of the tails of Tenebris.

『Try not to die, everyone.』

And then, I shot spells at the mist.

Flame, lightning, ice, water, wind, earth, no-attribute magic.

Because I don’t know which attributes are valid for this enemy, I formed magic bullets of multiple attributes and shot at the enemy.

There is only one fixed attribute that works on the tail of Tenebris. Similarly, only one attribute was valid on Tenebris itself, but the main body was constantly changing the valid attribute.

Since the enemy was shrouded in a golden haze, I judged that there was a high possibility that only one type of attribute would be valid.

Magic bullets of various attributes were sucked into the golden mist.

However, only the wind magic bullet cut through the golden haze and flew far.

『Tina, wind magic!』

Responding to my words, Tina launched a Magic Tornado at the enemy in the air.

The golden haze was blown away by Tina’s tornado.

「Hou. Not bad, for a child.」

The one who came out of the haze was a child, who looked the same age as me.

「You’re one to talk.」I said.

「Haha, for sure.」

The child laughed happily.

「A child?」Rosetta raised her voice in surprise.

『It may look like a child, but it’s a demon. Don’t let your guard down.』

『I-I know.』

And the child landed on the ground.

「It seems that you have been quite harsh with my children. Will Wolms.」

Similar to the Cardinal we defeated earlier, this demon seems to know my name as well.

「Your children?」

「I guess it will be easier for you people to understand if I said “Cardinal”?」

「Oh, that guy. Yeah, I killed him.」

「And you also killed a number of my tails. Will Wolms.」

「Tails? You talking about those monsters?」

The tail that comes to mind is the tail of Tenebris, the beastkin.

The child counted even the tails as people.

It seems that not only the demons but also those monsters are regarded as people in the Tenebris Cult.

「I won’t forgive anyone who insults my children, you know?」

「Calling the Cardinals and the tails your child, just who are you?」

「There is no point in telling you people who are going to die in accordance to Divine Judgement, is there?」

「It would be a pleasant memory I can take to the afterlife.」

I said so in order to extract even a little bit more information.

The child grinned, as if he knew my intentions.

「Very well. I am Pope Tenebris. The Holy See and the Representative of God. The Son of Tenebris.」

He seems to be someone like Rubeum to the Dragon God and I to the Human God.

「I see. So the Cardinals weren’t the head of the Cult, huh.」

「Yes, those fools didn’t seem to notice my existence.」

“Those fools” must be referring to my disciples, the Council of Sages.

Considering his appearance, the time when the Pope, the apostle of Tenebris, was born is not much too different from mine.

Before the Pope was born, the Cardinals would have been the actual top of the Cult.

「Did you just recently become a Pope?」

「I am born Pope, Holy See, Representative and Son of God.」the Pope proudly said.

However, is it really possible that the intelligence department led by Dion didn’t notice such an existence for eight whole years?

「I suppose I will have to investigate this later.」

「There is no later for you bunch. From this point onwards, the divine punishment of the Holy God Tenebris will be sentenced upon you.」

「It is you guys who won’t have a later.」

The Pope raised his right hand with a fearless smile unbefitting a child.

A magic circle formed in the air, and five demons appeared.

「I thought you were going to be a solo action, being called the Pope and all.」

「That’s right, Will Wolms. I can create demons whenever I need.」

「Create? You can simply create demons?」

If that is true, then this guy is a threat. But is that really possible?

The Pope did not answer my question. He just smiled.

It certainly didn’t look like a summon or a transfer, considering the flow of mana.

It looked like the demons were created right at this spot.

「Pass down God’s Judgement on to those fools.」

When the Pope ordered so, the demons started to move.

The demons charged up five magics. The attributes were different for all five.

Wind, water, lightning, flame, earth.

「Demons are no threat!」

I closed the distance with the demon at once.

Arti started to move almost at the same time as me.

The moment Arti and I closed in on the demons, I heard the sound of the wind being cut from behind.

Passing right next to my face, an arrow pierced the forehead of the demon in front of me.

The arrows shot by Rosetta pierced the foreheads of the five demons in a row.

Rosetta sniped them in the gap that occurred at the moment when the demons tried to respond to us.

The demons made strange voices like “ueh”, but they didn’t die nor even slow down.

Even for a demon, being pierced through the forehead with an arrow is not a small damage.