The Holy Land of Bigot is located in the northeast of the Klein Federation, northwest of the Empire.
　It is a religious state with the teachings of the ancient saint Bigot as its state religion, and the temples were more influential than the royalty and nobility.
　However, the Supreme Temple Chief, who unites all the temples, and the King, who is the head of the state, are formally equals.
　The two were currently meeting in the Supreme Temple in the Holy City of Lieve, the capital of the Holy Land.
　When the king has to go to the temple, it's clear which side is actually superior to the other.
　Nevertheless, Alyosha, the reigning head of the temple, remained polite and courteous to the king.

It is a pleasure to have you come all the way down here to see me, Your Majesty. Your Majesty.

No, it's only right that we pay homage to our God, Your High Priestess.

　King Volker II replied with a stern face.
　Alyosha was fifty years old this year, about twenty years older than the king.
　Perhaps it was because he wore a long golden hat and golden vestments, the sign of the Supreme Temple chief, that his wrinkled face and brown eyes looked dignified.
　The king, on the other hand, was still young and of a bloodthirsty age.
　His golden hair and blue eyes were full of grace, but any careful observer would sense something dangerous about him.
　He didn't like anything about it.
　It was humiliating for a king to have to go out of his way to be king, and what a disgusting old man Alyosha was, who still maintained his ostensible decorum.
　I'm tired of having to be polite to him, and I'm tired of having to be polite to him.

(We'll see. Someday, I'll have absolute royalty.)

　He thought secretly.
　He longed for a kingdom in the west, a nation where the head of the state had absolute power, like the empire in the southeast.
　If he tried to be foolishly honest, the temple forces would naturally rebel and he would be ousted from his position as king.
　It was said that ninety percent of the population of the Holy Land, out of about nine million, believed in the teachings of Saint Bigot.
　In other words, if the king and the temple forces faced off against each other, it would be a one-to-nine fight.
　There was no such thing as a win for the king's side.
　That's why Volker II had no choice but to endure the current situation with depression.

"Today, of all things, we are here to discuss the recent threats to our homeland by demons.

　Alyosha's words made him think that he must be right.
　He couldn't think of anything else at the moment that was important enough for the head of the temple power to bother calling him over to speak.
　The Holy Land has lost two towns and four villages because of the delay in the initial response.
　In addition, the king's knights and the temple's pride, the temple's knights, have started fighting for the credit, and the atmosphere has become acrimonious.
　Because of this, they have lost a town and two villages, which is an unpredictable situation.
　It was in this situation that the High Temple Chief and the King finally began to discuss the situation, a situation that would not be possible in the Empire or the Federation.

''It's going to be tricky if we don't do this. I think we have no choice but to seek support from other countries, how about it?''

　Volker II said, and Alyosha smiled pityingly.

'How could such a thing be possible? 'How could a bunch of exotic barbarians enter the holy ground of our holy country? His Majesty the King is tired, I see.'

　The king shuddered with humiliation and anger.
　Alyosha is polite, but every single thing he does is in this tone.
　He has no doubt that the Holy Land is supreme and the rest of the world is inferior and unclean.
　And he believes that the people in the temple are God's chosen higher beings, even the king is only an inferior being.
　And this is a view shared by him and many others in the temple community.
　As a result of the fact that the country could not exist for a long time without the faithful, the number of arrogant and distorted thinkers has increased.
　Volker II refused to do anything about it until this happened, hating his fathers and abusing them daily in his heart.
　He had to bear the debts that had accumulated as a result of the procrastination of his ancestors.

'What shall I do then?　The demons' unity is not much strength, but the violence of their numbers is a threat.

　Alyosha smiled politely and scornfully at the king's words.

'His Majesty's Knights of the King, without God's blessing, would be. But not His Majesty's glorious Temple Knights, blessed by God.

Say what you will: ......

　Volker II barely stifles the feeling that he is about to explode.
　There is little difference in strength between the Knights of the Temple and ordinary knights.
　The only difference to look for is that the Temple Knights have many users of recovery magic.
　There is no reason for the Temple Knights to win against an opponent that the normal knights can't win, but the Temple forces can't understand that.

(Can we just remind them?)

　I think Volker II.
　It's because he thinks that the Temple Knights are an important fighting force and necessary for maintaining public order that he has kept a bare face.
　But I can't leave it any longer.
　I feel the need to teach him the reality and break his nose.

(That way he'll be a little more docile.)

　The king, who had suffered so much, had no illusions that it might make it easier for the temple forces to rule.

'Then will you show me the glorious power that God has blessed you with?

　When Volker II said this, Alyosha turned her brown eyes on him suspiciously.
　He was trying to find out why the king had made such a humble statement.
　But the king is not a foolish king, and he doesn't do anything to make his emotions disappear and give his opponent a hint.

I'm sure you'll be happy to know that I'm not the only one who can do that. ...... If His Majesty the King desires, I'll be happy to show you the power of the temple.

　Alyosha took the fact that he hadn't been able to read anything from the king as a sign that he wasn't backed up.
　If that was the case, he could only assume that he had bowed to the temple forces and cried to them.
　It felt great to him that the king of a country would ask the temple to do something about it.
　So he gladly accepted and decided to sell him plenty of gratitude and keep his head above water for a long time to come.
　He was only a temple force, so he wasn't interested in state power, but he really thought that God's glory would trump state power.
　It would be exciting to be able to take a step towards that ideal.

(Don't feel bad, Your Majesty.) There is no way you can beat the glory of God in the body of a man.)

　Alyosha did not make fun of Volker II.
　He only believed that the glory of God is above all.