The Goddess Made A Mistake Again - Chapter 365: 365 - Seman's Speech

Chapter 365: Chapter 365 – Seman’s Speech

“Wow… that was really hot.” I say absently before nodding to the side, “Am I right?”

“Umm…”

I hear confusion etched with shock beside me, which made me turn around and become shocked myself.

“Shit! Lucian, you were standing there the whole time.” He didn’t reply, “Were you were spying on the whole fucking conversation? …man that’s another level of stalking, I tell ya.”

Lucian still didn’t say anything. He just stood there, looking at the direction where Margaret left and felt his world was spin.

The girl, the woman he thought he knew the best, had changed completely. The person who Lucian thought was the toughest and definitely straight cut about romance, just flirted so professionally.

I just look at the guy and wave to him but he doesn’t reply.

“Alright, I suppose it’s going to take a moment for your soft drive to process that.” I pat him on the shoulder, “But get your head back quickly, we’ll be leaving soon and I am NOT leaving without you, mate.”

While Lucian didn’t understand the meaning of that, Henry went outside the Religias castle and walked around for a while before suddenly standing stiff.

“Wait! How am I supposed to travel?” I look around and see the soldiers walking on their foot.

“Am I supposed to go on foot?… nah, that’s not how nobility works.” I think for a while before understanding my mistake.

“Damn, I forgot to bring a horse.” Then I look back and think about going back but shook it, “Let’s just see if I can find some carriage or a spare horse by the main gate.”

“But which direction is the main gate again?” I look at the soldiers walking in an orderly form at one general direction, “Pretty sure, they’re going the same place.”

With that, I followed beside them with nothing but blind trust.

Along the way, Soldiers started to distance from me and I got suspicious glances from everyone.

It came from the soldiers who wondered who was this sudden giant that propped up like that and then from the civilians who were a bit shocked at such a hulking figure.

The children on the other hand either felt scared and ran or found it funny and came beside me, knocking on my armor and checking if there was really someone inside.

That was when I realized that I had my helmet was fully closed without a visor, which gave people the mysterious and scary atmosphere around me.

I could open the helmet and relive some people but it was much fun seeing their reactions to me. Their biggest question was that if someone was alive inside this big metal piece that clanked with each step.

A while later, we came to the main gate which was surrounded by the tall white wall. Standing over the wall was Seman in the middle and the six captains.

They were already here and waiting for the soldiers to arrive before starting. So when everyone gathered, soldiers and civilians alike, Seman coughed loudly, gaining attention.

“Dear Citizens of my beloved City.”

“You may know me as the lord of Whitedon and husband of my wife, Sarah Religias, Seman Gallacon.”

A lot of cheers came at the introduction, mostly from the soldiers.

Seman didn’t stop, “Today we will be embarking on a virtuous journey. For several months, I have seen a lot of atrocities being befell upon my people and those that travel within our lands.”

“It is the work of those revolting bandits that lurk in the shadows and prey upon us when we’re at our weakest. They not only take everything from us but some of them even do more of the viler crimes upon helpless people.”

Those listening to him sulk at that.

It wasn’t news to them, they already knew this as they heard from it from the bar, friends or just people talking. To them it was gossip, as long as they were in their guarded city, they would be protected.

But when the nasty truth came out from their leader’s mouth, they knew it was to the point where they could be in danger too.

“I’ve gotten several reports about the damages they done upon many and feel myself bleed with each innocent murdered or viciously used by them to ultimately die in their own twisted entertaining ways.”

A lot of the faces paled further as they touched their companions for comfort. The loss of life wasn’t rare, but being killed and raped was frowned upon by everyone. Especially when they were by bandits close to them.

“But no more!” Seman screamed, “I have sent several scouts and professionals out there to investigate where this scums live and breathe their foul stench. Through numerous pain and loss of lives, I… they have given me the information that is most critical to us!” He angrily showed a piece of paper that the soldiers and others roared at.

I on the other hand could see that it wasn’t just empty paper. It was a map with a lot of crosses indicating the location of the bandit camps.

“Today we will take the sons of this city and bring vengeance upon those wretched bastards and give justice to those that begged for this!”

“We Will Bring War To Them And WIN!!” Seman screamed as everyone screamed with him.

The captains and the civilians cheered while soldiers started chanting.

“RELIGIAS!”

“RELIGIAS!”

“RELIGIAS!”

But the name wasn’t his, it was his wife’s. The remains of the legendary visage she left behind.

I carefully looked at Seman’s face, checking for any pain, jealously or something.

The guy didn’t feel no sting at all. Either he was very, very good at hiding his pain… or he just got accustomed to knowing that no matter what he did, the only person that will remain glorious in history would be the Religias name.

“Shit, that’s gotta be very sad.” I say aloud.

“Of course it is! But we will bring victory!” The soldier standing next to me screamed in my ears as his body shook.

“Bruh… chill.”

“…Alright.”

…

After the whole cheering and Religias shout-out, Seman climbed down from the wall and immediately saw Henry.

With the thousand and a half soldiers at the gate, it would be near impossible to find someone specific. But Seman didn’t need to.

Henry stood like a sore thumb among the crowd with his tall and strong figure, combine with the armor that made him seem like a final boss for a gladiator arena.

‘He really has an aura around him.’ Seman thought… but as in good or bad, he couldn’t tell.

…

“Your grace, that was an amazing speech.” I tell Seman.

“You think so?” He smiled, wearing his helmet with visor opened.

I nod seriously, “I definitely have to get some lessons from you.”

Seman laughed, not knowing that someone would be so courageous to say that out loud. Seman looked at me and found it strange, “What are you traveling on?”

“Ahh… that’s kinda why I came. I forgot to bring a horse.”

“It’s okay, just take one of the man-” Seman stopped and looked me up and down before calling someone, “Do we have a stable boy here? We need an XXL Horse here!”

“Here, m’lord!” A stable boy came with a big horse. “It’s the biggest we have but it’s a bit old.”

“It’ll do.” Seman said as I went to pat the horse.

“What’s your name, old chap?”

“It’s Reverence, m’lord.” The stable boy said.

“Reverence huh… quite fancy.” I pat the brownish dark horse with black and long mane and tall but slightly old physique, “Mind if I ride you for a while?”

“Hnnngh!” The Horse neighed loudly.

“It’s just the armor, I’m much less heavy on the inside.”

“Neigh”

“Don’t worry, you’re not gonna die with me riding you.” I try to calm him down, “It’ll probably be a stray arrow that’ll do it.”

Th𝖎𝖘 ƈh𝙖p𝖙ꬲr 𝖎𝐬 pɵѕ†𝑒ḍ b𝑦 Ḱ𝙞𝗍𝙚𝕟ℴѵℯ𝖑

Reverence widened its eyes as he knew… he got fucked.