Cathedral Management for Beginner High-Ranking Angels - 2
Cathedral Management for Beginner High-Ranking Angels - 2
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I began to feel as if someone was shaking me awake. The shaking might be done with good intentions or without any thought, but it feels unpleasant.
It felt like when a junior shakes you awake in the army because you have to pull duty.
"Ddyuddya..."
A sound that seemed almost like infantile regression reached my ears. The familiar "Ddyuddya" sound, reminiscent of a squeaky toy.
I lifted my heavy eyelids and sat up. To anyone watching, I was making a face that clearly said I just woke up and was slightly annoyed.
"Haat! Come to think of it, I had lost consciousness, right?"
After reading books like a madman... I looked in the mirror and my eyes were glowing... and then I lost consciousness?
"Ddyuddyuddya!"
The Ddyuddya-ing sound I heard earlier came again. Looking around, palm-sized... cute little humans? Human SD-like things were shaking me.
And soon, I realized the things shaking me were Lower Angels.
A being made up of only a slightly bluish-tinted color... the ring on their head... usually called a Halo, and a pair of wings on their lower back. Looking exactly like the description in the book, they were undoubtedly Lower Angels.
"Where's the Middle Angel gone, and why are you guys shaking me?"
I frowned and spoke.
"Ddyuddya..."
The Lower Angel stretched out its hand and index finger, pointing upwards.
"What, look up?"
I lifted my head as instructed, and something like a game notification window was floating there.
[Congratulations! You have become a Beginner High Angel → High Angel (True)!]
[The handicap for Beginner High Angels is maintained.]
[Please handle your assigned duties.]
"What is that... The books I read didn't mention anything about notification windows like this."
Feels like I've seen it somewhere... my memory is hazy.
"Ddyu...!"
The Lower Angel, having confirmed the notification window-like thing, tried to drag me somewhere. Hmm... it's too long to call it 'Lower Angel,' from now on I'll call it 'Ddyuddya'.
I got up from my spot and followed where Ddyuddya led.
"A desk? Why here?"
I sat cross-legged on the chair and looked at the desk.
[Arca Dei Cathedralis...]
A report title written in the Celestial Language. Translating it to Korean...
[Cathedral Arcaday (Unrecordable)~2034 January Maintenance & Management Report]
Something like that. A stack of documents with that title was placed there. Documents were piled high to the left and right as well. No, it wasn't a stack. A tower, or rather a castle, made of paper seemed a more fitting description.
"What is all this..."
"Ddyuddyuuddya!"
"What! What do you want!"
Ddyuddya floated up slightly and began pointing at the document tower once, then at me, while Ddyuddya-ing.
"You want me to organize these documents? Me?"
"Ddyuddyuddya"
Ddyuddya nodded as if saying yes.
"Why me?"
I expressed the obvious question.
"Ddyuddyuddya!"
This time, Ddyuddya pointed once at the notification window floating in the sky, once at me, and finally with its finger toward the documents.
"What, because I'm a High Angel, I have to do this?"
"Ddyuddya,"
Ddyuddya nodded.
"Why me?"
An MZ-generation mindset emerged as I pressed the confirm button on the notification window to dismiss it.
"Ddyuddya?!"
Ddyuddya made a surprised expression.
"Ddyuddyuddya..."
Then it slowly floated down from the air, landed on the desk, and soon with a sullen expression,
"Ddyuddya..."
It began to shed tears.
"No, no, I didn't mean to make you cry!"
I flipped over the first page of the document to see its contents. The contents weren't much different from what the book I read had taught.
The main content was simply writing down where the cathedral was damaged and how many resources and personnel needed to be consumed for it.
"Sigh... Fine, I get it, I'll do it if you say so. But just a little, okay?"
Seeing such a cute face go sullen and even start crying made me feel sorry for it.
"Ddyuddya...?"
"Really just a little,"
"Ddyuddya! Ddyuddya!"
Ddyuddya, seemingly thrilled, began hopping up and down on the desk.
"What's there to be so excited about..."
Since I knew the content, I proceeded with the paperwork quickly.
Of course, the volume was overwhelmingly vast. An amount that made one wonder, 'Could a person really do this in a whole lifetime?'
The oldest ones were so numerous the end wasn't in sight, so I started with the most recent.
[January 2034]
It was the same month I ended up like this.
"So, a huge amount of time hasn't passed, right?"
[Zone 100-a Extinguished Candles]
[Currently available personnel: Lower Angel {1}]
The content was that the candles in the corridor right in front of this room, about 5 meters long, were out.
First, I wrote down that I would assign the minimum and maximum available personnel, one Ddyuddya.
[High Angel: Seo Ha-min (Human)]
In the signature space, my name...
"Should I write my name?"
This doesn't feel right.
[High Angel: Seo Ha-min (Human)]
I drew a line through the written name. And after a bit of thought,
[High Angel: Seo Ha-min Se-a (Human)]
I wrote the name Se-a. Se Æ in the Celestial Language means 'self,' and the suffix 'a' means 'high.' The exact pronunciation is 'a-e-i,' but since the 'e' sound at the end is almost silent, I decided to read it as Se-a.
"Se-a, meaning 'high self' in the Celestial Language."
And in the signature box,
I finished signing. This is how you finish paperwork, right? Did I just approve this?
Then, a golden light began to swirl in the eyes of Ddyuddya, who was watching me work on the paperwork from the desk.
"Ddyuddya...?"
Ddyuddya made an expression as if it didn't know why this was happening either, so I said,
"Alright, off you go~"
Pointing toward the room door at Ddyuddya.
"Ddyuddya!"
Then Ddyuddya nodded as if it understood and headed for the door.
"...I wonder if it'll do well."
It didn't seem that intelligent, and it was too small. I wondered if I had conveyed the task properly. I followed Ddyuddya as it opened the door and went out.
"Ddyuddya~"
Ddyuddya seemed excited about something.
I stuck just my head out the door and watched Ddyuddya, who had gone into the corridor, to see if it was doing its job well.
The corridor, still pitch black with no end in sight... if you kept staring toward the end of the corridor, an inexplicable sense of dread washed over you. I got goosebumps, averted my eyes from the corridor end, and looked at Ddyuddya.
The corridor right in front of the room was somewhat visible thanks to the light seeping from the room.
"Ddyuddya~"
Ddyuddya, who had been humming, soon stood in front of the first candle. No, it was floating. Ddyuddya stared at the candle for a while, then closed its eyes and seemed to concentrate on something.
"Ddyuu...!"
Paaat-
With Ddyuddya's shout, light emanated from in front of Ddyuddya.
"Ddya!"
The candle lit up. And repeating this for the extinguished candles several times, soon all the candles in the area I had tasked were lit.
Only then did I feel relieved and pulled my head back into the room.
[Zone 100-a has been unlocked!]
Then a notification window popped up. Roughly saying the area where the candles were lit had been unlocked.
"Ddyuddya!"
Ddyuddya, having finished the task, came into the room, poking its head in with a triumphant expression.
"What, you want me to pat your head?"
"Ddyuddya!"
Ddyuddya nodded. I gently patted Ddyuddya's head.
[Reward: Lower Angel {1} will be unsealed.]
Then another notification popped up.
"Unsealed...? What does that mean?"
Then, the door in the a-1 zone, visible through the still-open room door, began to glow.
Bleulk-
The door opened with a feeling like pulling a character in a gacha game.
"Ddyuddya!"
And another Ddyuddya popped out from inside that room.
"Ddyuddya?"
"Ddyuddya?"
The Ddyuddya's, wary of each other,
"Ddyuddya!"
Soon, as if realizing something, hugged each other.
"Then... shall we continue the work?"
[Zone 100-b Extinguished Candles]
[Zone 100-c Extinguished Candles]
[Currently available personnel: Lower Angel {1→2}]
The available personnel had increased to two. Paper that changes information in real-time... it's like a phone or tablet. But if it's like this, isn't this huge amount of paper unnecessary?
"Hmm... But if it's like this, how do we tell who's who?"
The direction of the ahoge or the shape of the eyes are slightly different, but it's a really subtle difference.
"Then... how about this? You're Ddyuddya 1"
I pointed at the first Ddyuddya and said.
"And you're Ddyuddya 2, got it?"
And I pointed at the second Ddyuddya and said.
"Ddyuddya...?"
Ddyuddya 1 and 2 made expressions as if they didn't understand what I was saying.
"Ddyuddya!"
Soon, as if they understood, they got excited and began Ddyuddya-ing and hopping around in the middle of the room.
"It's almost embarrassing to call it a name, I didn't expect them to like it so much."
I wrote down the assigned zone and assigned Ddyuddya on the document and submitted the approval.
"Ddyuddya 1, 2, go!"
"Ddyuddya!"
The Ddyuddya's set off excitedly again.
[Zones a-2, a-3 have been unlocked!]
Not long after, a notification window saying the zones were unlocked,
And the Ddyuddya's coming into the room,
"Ddyuddya!"
Then Ddyuddya 1 poked its head forward again, and seeing that, Ddyuddya 2 also made a shy expression and poked its head forward.
"Are their personalities different too..."
I said, patting each of their heads with one hand.
"Come to think of it, is there nothing this time?"
[Reward: Cathedral Management Golem Production Possible]
As soon as I spoke, a notification window popped up.
"Cathedral Management Golem? What's that?"
From the bookshelf on the wall, I found and opened a book titled:
[What is a Cathedral Management Golem?]
[Cathedral Management Golems are powered by Divine Power...]
"So, it's basically a robot-like thing that maintains the cathedral? How do you make one?"
[Cathedral Management Golems are created by imbuing metal armor or very tough leather armor, etc., with Divine Power...]
"Armor...? How am I supposed to get that here,"
"Ddyuddya?"
Ddyuddya 1, noticing I was pondering, spoke to me as if asking what was wrong.
"You're worried about me? Thanks for that,"
I gently patted Ddyuddya 1's head, then started thinking again.
"But do I really have to make it?"
If I just keep unlocking zones, wouldn't one eventually appear? Thinking that, I looked at the document.
[Zone 100-a {Damaged Office} Repair]
[Currently available personnel: Lower Angel{2}]
[Warning(!) This task is impossible with currently available personnel!]
"Ah, then I guess there's no choice."
So, the fact that I need to obtain armor to make a Cathedral Management Golem remained unchanged.
"Hmmm..."
My head was filled with the thought of where to get armor...
"Ah, dang it."
While continuously pondering, I unconsciously drew armor on a blank sheet of paper. Not that I drew it very well; it was a blocky, square armor picture like from BlockCraft.
"Ddyuddya?"
"Ddyuddya!"
"Ddyuddya!"
The Ddyuddya's looked at the picture I drew, conversed, and then suddenly ran... no, flew out of the room.
"Where are you going!"
The Ddyuddya's ran out before I could stop them.
"Ddyuddya...!"
And after how long? The Ddyuddya's struggled back in, carrying armor hung on an armor stand.
"You found it from the picture? By the way, where did you find this?"
"Ddyuddya!"
In response to my question, Ddyuddya 2 pointed toward the a-2 zone room and Ddyuddyad.
"So the rooms aren't completely empty spaces after all..."
The thought occurred that maybe the moment would come when I, too, would have to go out into that scary-looking corridor.
"Hmm... So I can make a Cathedral Management Robot... no, Golem, with this, right?"
Come to think of it, how do you use Divine Power? I've only seen the Ddyuddya's use it; I've never actually tried using it myself.
"Hmm..."
Divine Power...
Divine Power...
Then, I remembered the Ddyuddya stretching its hand forward when using Divine Power.
"Hmm... Is it like this?"
I stretched my palm forward and focused the sensation in my whole body and palm. I felt something ticklishly flowing from the area of my heart.
"Is this Divine Power...?"
Wooong-
A golden sphere began to form in my palm.
"Ooh...!"
The gradually enlarging golden sphere,
Kwaaaang!
With a roar, shot forward like a ray of light.
"Uh...?"