I’m Going to Destroy this Country

Noel still vividly remembers the events from about 20 years ago.

When his mother Henna, who looked exactly like the Pope, brought a child of unknown identity.

-What is this newborn?

-From today, this is your child Samael.

-What?

-Why? Aren’t you unable to have children?

-…!

-As you’re well aware, that fact must never be revealed. Your brother Goel is worthless 4th rank trash, and now I can only trust you.

-Mother, please don’t worry too much. We can just adopt an heir.

-Don’t put on airs in front of me. You know better than anyone. Do you think you can beat Adam with this flaw?

I know well. And I know well that mother entered the Eshua ducal family by begging her brother the Pope, having a one-sided love for Elai Eshua.

Moreover, I know well that she’s so terrible she even killed her own child after giving birth to a younger sister after Goel.

‘Well, I can roughly guess why she killed my younger sister.’

Anyway, as long as Adam exists, the fact that he can’t become family head remains unchanged. But Adam was like a saint created by God, lacking nothing in character or ability.

So he tried to forcibly take it away.

By switching babies.

The information that a living sacrifice was needed for Saint awakening was originally known through the Pope’s family.

So when all the servants were killed by demons and only the newborns remained, he considered it an opportunity given by God.

He killed all remaining witnesses.

His wife? He pretended not to see her dying.

It was originally a loveless arranged marriage, but he couldn’t get attached to someone whose child he didn’t even know.

If it had been a daughter, there might have been some value in using her, but a son without even Eshua blood flowing? Meaningless.

So he carefully raised Kaya as a card to kill first his eldest brother, then Isaac.

Well, the Pope’s family who noticed Kaya’s secret did cooperate, but he was pissed that they were subtly threatening him at the same time.

“That Pope’s family is going to collapse first?”

Noel was very pleased to find his cousin at the Papal Office. He blocked the Gold Cardinal trying to avoid him and sneered mockingly.

“My, you’re in quite a state. Your Eminence Hirei.”

“!”

“You’re being cut off over the fake Pope issue, and people are trusting Isaac and entrusting requests to him.”

“!”

“Why, am I wrong? It’s on a different level from when you suffered losses because the Blue took all the national projects last time?”

“…!”

“My goodness, for the Gold to suffer such humiliation, isn’t this the first time in thousands of years? Are you going to lose the Pope’s authority like this? You were just suckers raising the Blue? Everything’s messed up because of one Isaac.”

Finally, the pissed off Gold Cardinal grabbed Noel’s collar.

“Shut up! It’s because you didn’t do your job properly that Isaac bastard is running wild! You were so confident you could take the family head position, where did that go when you were just taking help!”

Then Noel immediately shook off the Gold Cardinal.

“Why are you bitching at me for your failures? That’s why you should have awakened Kaya first instead of Leia!”

“…!”

“You just ended up strengthening their side. You know? If you had awakened Kaya first, Isaac would have immediately died as the living sacrifice!”

The Gold Cardinal glared at Noel with disgust.

“So you came to mock me now that you have time to spare?”

“No? I came to tell you something valuable. Isaac took the core from the God of Awakening.”

“…What did you say?!”

The Gold Cardinal was so shocked he couldn’t close his mouth. The God of Awakening had completely turned to ashes with nothing left.

Didn’t even the Black Cardinal who received the corpse for investigation say:

-Are you kidding? What am I supposed to do with this fish meat?

-Fish me… Show reverence to God, Ballag. Just because it’s not the Black God doesn’t mean you can speak rudely.

-Then you should have brought the core at least. I would have treated it as a mermaid then.

-Mermaid…

-Anyway, this won’t be much help to you.

-Shut up and investigate. Find out anything.

-Ah. If you had the core, I might have been interested.

What? Core?

This bastard must be crazy.

.

To be precise, that was part of a god’s origin, the final power left behind by gods for humans.

Usually humans offered worship and used it graciously. Be it for a good harvest, curing diseases, or raising soldiers. In various forms.

Anyway, with that anyone could power up unconditionally. Who doesn’t know you’re thinking of raising the Black faction with it?

But Isaac took that??

When on earth?

Soon Noel snorted.

“He was trying to use it to power up his knights and himself.”

That makes sense.

Since it’s the God of Awakening, it would suit that side better.

The Gold Cardinal’s eyebrow twitched.

“Moreover, Isaac’s weakness is White faith’s healing divine techniques. Wouldn’t that cover that too?”

“This…!”

The Gold Cardinal barely held back the curses about to burst from his mouth. Is that bastard exactly like his father, interfering with him at every turn!

He had actually planned to quickly acknowledge and proceed with the Pope selection, the , now that evidence of the fake Pope had emerged.

He was thinking of quickly raising Kina. Because Kina was the only one who could take the Pope position right now.

But what?

At that expression, Noel smiled wickedly.

“So this time I’ll help you. I’ll take care of Isaac.”

The Gold Cardinal looked exasperated and dismissed Noel.

“What are you going to do when even the God of Awakening is gone? Don’t tell me you’re planning to face him head on? You? You’re determined to get your head cut off by Duke Eshua, aren’t you?”

Then Noel chuckled.

“Don’t you know? The God of Awakening that died this time was the ‘Light’ God of Awakening.”

“!”

“There’s one more God of Awakening. The ‘Dark’ God of Awakening. It’s a secret technique deeply sealed in Eshua.”

“…!”

“It’s a very powerful force, but it was buried away because it’s a shortcut to becoming a dark priest, but its awakening is the same. It takes living sacrifices. The difference is that it chases until it eats the living sacrifice.”

Noel set conditions as if to say he should understand by now.

“So you guys take care of father. I don’t have good compatibility with him.”

The Gold Cardinal looked exasperated.

“Why should I listen to you?”

“Damn it. When did you happily use me? You think only I will die? Do you know how many of your weaknesses I have? Should I reveal everything about whose doing it was to bring in demons and attack eldest brother?”

The Gold Cardinal widened his eyes.

“You dare instigate me to murder the family head? You, this won’t end with just being driven out.”

Then Noel became very triumphant.

“Eshua absolutely can’t touch me. Because they think I’m the Saintess’s father.”

* * *

Around that time, Isaac was laughing hysterically.

‘Very good material has fallen into my hands.’

To think that Noel bastard switched babies. This was good material to bring down Noel’s side all at once.

No, just Noel? It was an opportunity to sweep away all opposing forces.

‘Well, this comes first for now.’

Isaac took out the golden ball of light he had previously torn from the God of Awakening’s body.

Seeing that, the king-level Holy Spirit Shalrak clicked his tongue.

[It was hard work extracting and storing that. Let me tell you, don’t think you can end this with just a penny or two.]

Kuhehehe. Okay, I’ll give you plenty.

Isaac had his own Holy Spirit store the god’s power. No matter what, he couldn’t have Whisper swallow holy power.

‘Only a Holy Spirit can store something like this.’

And this guy’s origin was .

If I just use this…!

‘I can upgrade everyone even if they’re not of Saint bloodline!’

Is that all?

‘With this I can reach the long-awaited transcendent level!’

With that thought, the excited Isaac smiled as if bursting with joy and activated the core.

Flash!

At the same time, the God of Awakening’s power entered his body.

Isaac poured that power into his magic core.

Dung!

Of course, his existing magic core was strong enough, but he was frantically laying the groundwork to reach transcendent level while squeezing his Holy Spirit.

But even with such efforts, the realm of transcendent level was something he couldn’t guarantee.

‘But if I forcibly develop the magic core with the God of Awakening’s power…!’

And at that moment.

Isaac’s eyes flew open.

“Good! I finally succeeded!”

[Ooh!! Master! You finally succeeded!]

‘Yes! The root I couldn’t create when I was a skeleton! It finally grew!’

Do you know how to reach transcendent level?

Growth ends when you reach 10th rank, the highest point. Simply put, it’s like reaching the end of the world, with only a cliff existing before your eyes.

To cross that cliff and go to new land, you had to build a bridge. A bridge where roots grow, stems shoot up, and can extend anywhere.

That’s where the realm of transcendent level began.

But this was difficult in that damn skeleton state!

‘Though only the root has sprouted for now, transcendent level is possible now!’

A foothold to go beyond 10th rank has been prepared.

So Isaac shouted:

“Now, look! Isn’t it amazing? I told you to just trust me, right?”

However, Shuri and the knights watching that scene furrowed their brows.

“…What are you doing?”

“…It doesn’t seem like there’s any change though?”

“What’s going on?!”

At their gazes looking at him like a madman, Isaac was dumbfounded.

“Hey, Kim Shuri!! Can’t you really feel this?!”

“…What?”

“Do you know what I did with this? I made roots! With this it’s ultra-fast to 9th rank!”

“…Huh?”

“Simply put, I made a foothold to reach high rank!”

Then they tilted their heads as if to ask what he was talking about.

“Ah, I know that. It’s the ancient training method, right? The method of pushing yourself to the extreme.”

“Hey. If that’s the case, you should pray more to God and receive power. Why use such an outdated method? It just takes a long time and wastes energy.”

“What did you say?!”

Isaac held the back of his neck.

‘These idiots!’

There’s a limit to just praying to God!

If you don’t do this, you can’t reach transcendent level!

“I went to all this trouble! To raise you guys to be the strongest too, huh? With this, damn it! We can beat magicians, gods, and dragons!”

But Shuri and the Blue knights, who couldn’t know that fact, whispered:

“Young master said he would awaken us, but isn’t it too much for us after all?”

“That’s right. Killing a god and all, such an unfilial believer.”

Isaac subtly trembled.

‘Haah. This is how amazing it is.’

To not even notice something like this.

‘As expected of uncivilized humans.’

[Master, you’re human too.]

‘Shut up.’

“Anyway, you guys, weren’t you envious that Joseph and Benjamin awakened? Since I’m the one who awakened them, do as I say.”

“But…”

“I guarantee, the Benjamin and Joseph I awakened will beat all of you?”

“!”

“Lilai will lose to Benjamin or Joseph too??”

“Wh-What? Are you talking about me??”

As Lilai, who had been quiet, suddenly widened his eyes round, the Blue knights laughed saying not to joke.

“…Come on. No matter what, those two are 6th rank and 5th rank. Lilai is 9th rank, and we’re 8th rank.”

Isaac popped a vein.

“Fight!!”

“What?”

“Huh?”

“I said fight one-on-one, you bastards!”

“What?!”

Isaac’s eyes blazed.

“Especially Kim Shuri! Lilai, if I’m right, you guys will be rolled right away. It won’t end with just a little for you guys!”

…What did you say?