Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 585

[ The final class quest is activated. ]

[ The system wants you, who have obtained the qualifications, to become even stronger. ]

[ ■■ wishes to invite you. ]

[ The quest will begin the moment you accept the invitation. ]

[ Will you accept the invitation? ]

Seeing the notifications, Su-ho smiled faintly.

‘So it became an invitation, not a test or trial.’

Perhaps because it was the last one, it had become quite courteous.

And what drew Su-ho’s attention was not only the changed wording, but the name of the Constellation blacked out in squares.

Thinking about it, a Constellation had always been attached to his class quests.

Of course, he did not know whether the being related to his class quest was a Demi-Constellation or a Constellation, but he would be able to find out through this opportunity.

‘Because now, I have the qualifications too.’

Su-ho immediately accepted the invitation.

[ You have accepted the invitation. ]

The moment he accepted, a rather antique-looking door was summoned in front of Su-ho.

He had expected to be taken somewhere as if abducted while light burst forth again, but it seemed the last one really was the last.

Su-ho walked into the door, whose inside was filled with bright light, resembling the gate to heaven.

Fwaaaah!

The light inside the door flared once more upon Su-ho’s entry, then soon subsided and revealed a new landscape.

“Wow.”

A quiet exclamation escaped him the moment he entered.

Because it reminded him of Cologne Cathedral in Germany.

Of course, he had never seen it in person.

It had been one of the things destroyed after the Great Cataclysm.

But if he actually saw it, would it not feel similar to the scenery before his eyes?

Su-ho was standing on the only road connected to a building reminiscent of a great cathedral.

There were no other people or buildings.

Then there was only one choice.

He naturally headed there, and when he reached the building’s entrance, he faced a tightly closed door.

‘Do I have to open it myself?’

Thinking that, Su-ho placed his hand on the door, and from the point where his hand touched it, the entire building rippled once like a wave.

‘A barrier?’

It was not the building that had rippled, but a strange energy.

It was like a barrier.

Just as he wondered whether he had to cut this place too, as he had in the past, the closed door opened, and a man appeared from inside.

He was wearing a black priest’s robe, the sort commonly worn by clergy.

With an attractive smiling face, he greeted Su-ho respectfully.

“I have been waiting for you, Cardinal An Su-ho.”

Cardinal?

Ah, right.

His class was Cardinal.

But since no one actually called him Cardinal, being addressed as one felt extremely awkward.

Su-ho asked,

“Hello, nice to meet you. And who might you be?”

“Nice to meet you. I am Quai. I am the guide who will escort you to the Pantheon, Cardinal.”

“Pantheon? Is this place called the Pantheon?”

“Yes, that is correct. The Pantheon is the place where all priests gather, and where you are currently standing, Cardinal, is the entrance to the Pantheon. Everyone is waiting, so I will escort you inside first.”

Pantheon.

The place where all priests gathered.

He had been curious about it for a long time.

Whether there might also exist a world that protected healer Players, like the Demon Realm or the Spirit Realm.

And it did exist.

Under the name Pantheon.

With a heart that had grown somewhat reverent, Su-ho followed Quai.

When they crossed the door, there was another landscape there.

But this one was even more magnificent.

If the exterior that looked like Cologne Cathedral was a 1, the building scenery unfolded inside was close to a 10 in scale.

‘It’s this big?’

His chest swelled with awe.

As expected.

The place where all priests gathered was different in every way.

Quai introduced that place as the Pantheon as well, and on the road connecting the gate to the Pantheon, a reddish-brown carpet had been laid out as though to welcome Su-ho.

When he stood at the front entrance of the Pantheon after following Quai, Quai offered him courtesy once again.

“Then, from now on, we will begin the entrance rite.”

“There’s an entrance rite too?”

“I do not know about others, but Cardinals who have been formally invited to the Pantheon must undergo this procedure. Ah, there is no need for you to do anything in particular. I will carry it all out.”

When Su-ho nodded, only then did Quai turn and grab the door knocker.

The door was much larger than the gate he had seen earlier, and the knocker was shaped like a ring held in a lion’s mouth.

When Quai lifted the ring and knocked on the door, a reply soon came from beyond it.

“Who goes there?”

A slightly rough voice.

Quai answered,

“I have brought the Blood Cardinal.”

“Blood Cardinal? We do not know who he is.”

“The Blood Cardinal is Player An Su-ho, the Guardian God of the Human Realm, currently preparing for promotion to Constellation, and the first Player of the Human Realm to cross the wall of High Ranker.”

“So? We do not know who he is!”

“He lived as an ordinary civil servant in the Human Realm, but defeated countless monsters and gates, saving the lives of many people. He also captured countless villains, changed fates that had been destined for tragedy and death, lowered the crime rate of the real world to a record level, and raised public safety to the highest level in history.”

“Even so, we do not know who he is!”

“Though he is not yet a Constellation, he has been bet on by three Constellations, and not long ago, he was also a hero among heroes who prevented the destruction of the Demon Realm.”

“We do not know who he is!”

Four denials.

However, they looked less like denial and more like simple rejection.

Su-ho silently watched the scene.

Then Quai knocked once more.

“Who goes there?”

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