The Outer God Needs Warmth – Chapter 60

An enormous number of people gathered in the capital square of the Kingdom of Anselus.

So many gathered that people filled every street, with lines on the main roads reaching all the way to the city walls.

They are all kneeling, facing one direction and praying.

The direction is the square in front of the royal castle.

The center is where I died.

Dakota, now an adult woman, is standing wearing extremely flowing clothes. She took out an old cloth and held it up. On the cloth is the sentence used when making contracts.

It’s made to look like a very old document. Though such a thing couldn’t possibly exist.

Dakota read it.

“The Outer God asks you:”

‘I’ll give myself to you. In return, when you finish everything later, I’ll take everything you have then. How about it?’

The believers of the Outer God Religion all pray joyfully.

In other words, they agreed. Then their skin turned white and their hair changed to purple. For a very small number, those with fatal injuries or illnesses, their skin turned blue.

Yes, that’s right.

I’m sinking below the surface now, but I’m making contracts with people.

I didn’t expect to contract with over ten thousand people at once, but I could do it.

And one doubt I had just in case disappeared.

The doubt that if I contract with too many people, I might not be able to divide myself anymore.

It’s over ten thousand, but I don’t feel any lack at all.

There’s no sense of being able to hold more, or of becoming slightly deficient.

Then it’s fine.

Let’s test even larger numbers later.

And as so many samples were created, I learned the criteria for abilities appearing.

If there’s something they strongly wish for, and it’s a problem that can’t be solved by improving the body, there’s a high possibility an ability will appear.

However, I don’t know how it interprets what they wish for and gives abilities.

Wide is easy to understand.

He wanted individuality different from others.

And that was mixed with the desire to sit in the highest position. Maybe because fire has an image of great power, Wide gained the power of powerful fire.

On the other hand, what about Tis?

He felt strange about the group he belonged to and wanted to escape.

Wouldn’t it be right to gain speed that others can’t catch normally? Why did he gain the power of regeneration? Regeneration that can heal immediately whether arms fly off, legs fly off, or arrows are stuck in the eyes.

There’s an unknown gap between wishes and abilities.

But it’s not urgent right now, so let’s think about it step by step.

The important thing is that an enormous number of harvesters were created.

And I became able to make mass production plans.

There’s one path humans with power take.

Yes.

As expected, the Outer God Religion spread explosively. Then Rebecca did something strange in the meantime.

Holy land.

That is, if you say holy land in the Outer God Religion, there’s only one place.

It means the place where I was executed.

Rebecca came to the holy land and gave a kind of guestbook to blessed people and had them write their names themselves. And she gave one piece of cloth proving that.

At first, I didn’t know what this meant.

But I understood after a few months passed. The effect was right before my eyes.

The goal of all Outer God Religion believers is to come to the holy land, receive a blessing, and leave their name in the guestbook at the holy land. And then return home with that proof.

That’s right.

Rebecca deliberately made people make pilgrimages to the holy land.

Then an enormous number of people came to the Outer God Religion headquarters.

Long-distance travel is hardship. In an early modern era where roads aren’t properly maintained and transportation is lacking, it’s really a life-risking endeavor.

But when you arrive here, you can instantly receive a blessing that heals all wounds and even makes you stronger?

Truly all people, from all places, came here gritting their teeth.

The movement of people is soon the movement of wealth.

Materials rushed into the Outer God Religion headquarters along with people, and a huge market was created in the capital of the Kingdom of Anselus.

It means the Kingdom of Anselus started to become wealthy.

As people with purple hair began to spread like a swarm of locusts, the Holy Spirit Religion went all out to denounce the Outer God Religion.

They say even if you live your current life well, those who sold themselves have nothing after death.

I made a non-rebuttal rebuttal from below the surface.

I just leave the light presumed to be the soul alone?

Of course, if I touch it, it turns black, and if I just take the warmth, the light crumples like a body made of balloons, but.

Since it remains, won’t it come back to life someday?

Honestly, I don’t care about such dregs once I get the warmth, whether they come back to life or not.

Anyway, the Holy Spirit Religion chose war, saying it’s for humanity’s sake with their lives on the line.

The number of Outer God Religion believers surpassed the Holy Spirit Religion, but it’s still barely a 5:5 ratio.

But the royalty of each country basically only believe in the Holy Spirit Religion.

Looking purely at the noble side, it was close to a 1:9 ratio.

In other words, this was the last chance for the Holy Spirit Religion to defeat the Outer God Religion even in my view.

The Holy Spirit Religion gathered kingdoms following them and invaded the Kingdom of Anselus.

But they start to falter even before arriving at the Kingdom of Anselus.

Because saying the top is mostly Holy Spirit Religion means the bottom is mostly Outer God Religion. Even if there are knights worth a hundred men or magicians who can slaughter a thousand people in the army, if the soldiers supporting them leave, their scale shrinks instantly.

People who believe in the Outer God Religion while being Holy Spirit Religion believers.

Especially people with purple hair were used here and there with abilities superior to ordinary people, but they were at the bottom of Holy Spirit Religion society.

They have abilities, but are treated badly.

At first, they made great efforts to persuade their superiors.

But when they wouldn’t listen until the end, they started to defect one by one.

When they were forcibly held back with violence, this time they fiercely attacked their superiors.

When people with special abilities run wild, it’s difficult even for knights who can kill Outer God Religion people without a scratch in one-on-one. Especially in chaotic situations, it’s nearly impossible to deal with multiple ability users without getting hurt.

The army started to diminish before reaching the Kingdom of Anselus.

Of course, it didn’t completely disappear. At most 0.5%?

Even with that much leaving, there are many elite soldiers full of faith in the Holy Spirit.

I was feeling good now that I could harvest countless warmth from the war, but it was clear that the Outer God Religion would be in a bit of danger at this rate.

Even people with abilities don’t all have powerful abilities for killing people.

Some people came from working in mines and gained the ability to see their surroundings in complete darkness.

Some people came from taking care of animals like sheep and gained the ability to speak their language.

The Future Hope Church had many people who gained particularly aggressive abilities because of the environment.

And the roots of the Outer God Religion are people who lived at the bottom. They don’t know strategy or tactics, and the only fighting they’ve experienced is brawls between thugs.

Even if they have numbers, they’re very lacking for waging war.

I know that if someone flees in panic due to fear, everyone will flee together.

They can be defeated even with large numbers.

So I gave up on victory and watched the war thinking it would be good to get a lot of warmth.

And as expected, countless warmth came to me.

So many people died that blood flowed like rivers.

But there’s something strange. It’s a battlefield where even trained people would seem to scream and run away, let alone ordinary people.

But there were hardly any people running away.

I never told them to fight and die.

To begin with, I don’t do anything that twists the mind except for sending Yasle’s memories.

I’ve been watching through their eyes all along, but I don’t know what they’re thinking.

I gain memories the moment I contact the light. The moment they become harvesters, I gain memories from the light and that’s it.

If a person is killed by a harvester, I contact the light of the dead opponent at the moment of death. At that time, I gain memories and warmth from the light.

If a harvester dies for some reason, all I take at the moment of the harvester’s death is warmth. I already received the memories the moment I licked the light before. I can’t receive them again.

That doesn’t mean I don’t know the harvester’s life.

I keep watching the world through that person’s eyes from the moment of contact.

So it’s okay even without memories.

Because I’m watching.

But memory and observation are different.

Memories are more cleanly organized, but often not detailed. For example, the warmth of sunlight felt at special moments or unique smells. The sensation touching fingertips.

In terms of amount of information, harvesters have more. But I can’t clearly know what they’re thinking. I have to guess from the harvester’s physical reactions.

So I don’t know what they’re thinking as they face the Holy Spirit Religion prepared to die. They clearly seem afraid, but they all choose to fight and die without saying anything.

I don’t know why they choose death, but I’m happy to gain warmth even if harvesters die.

The Outer God Religion could lose since there’s already a function to copy harvesters.

No.

It can’t.

At least until I land a blow on Hyunkeshuni, they can’t lose.

What should I do?

Isn’t there some way?

Should I edit and send the memories of someone good at martial arts?

No, that takes time.

During the war, I closely observed harvesters to find a way.

But unlike when I discovered I could create harvesters even if I’m not in that world by saying the words used when contracting, this time it didn’t seem that way.

In the midst of uncertainty.

The Holy Spirit Religion army arrived at the Outer God Religion headquarters.

And they fought very fiercely. Many harvesters died. At the same time, many Holy Spirit Religion people also died.

The most surprising thing in the midst of that war was none other than Rebecca.

I was curious how she had lived, but she’s quite strong. At least strong enough not to die anywhere when meeting individuals or groups.

In the middle of the battlefield.

Suddenly Rebecca stepped out alone, and I wondered what was happening, but a sphere of light appeared as electric discharge shone centered on Rebecca’s chest.

I had made the heart of a creature that I took warmth from by exploding before being summoned. But that. It seems to have been the heart of a considerably evolved creature.

When the sphere shines, armor and weapons around float up. They rotate around her, then turn to dust and disappear.

People? What do you think happens when flesh and bones enter while metal is spinning?

They’re ground up.

She went around literally grinding people while becoming a living grinder.

But human force has limits.

Before long, a power that crushes individual force stopped her. It’s not magic. She would probably die if hit by magic, but she dodged well while hopping around.

A huge pillar of light fell from the sky.

At that moment, all the harvesters in that place melted and disappeared.

Yes, all harvesters. Harvesters fighting on the Holy Spirit Religion’s side also evaporated.

But everyone here knows what this means.

The Holy Spirit used its power.

I thought the Outer God Religion would be defeated here.

Honestly, how can you win against that?

No matter how strong harvesters are compared to ordinary people, they can’t face a god with such orbital bombardment ability.

But in the middle of where that pillar of light disappeared.

Rebecca was alive and well.

Rather, she was smiling.

She turned her body as it was and returned to where the Outer God Religion believers were gathered.

I was wondering why she was smiling, but Rebecca standing in front of the Outer God Religion believers shouted.

That the Holy Spirit burned the blessed ones on its own side.

The Holy Spirit Religion listening to that on the opposite side cheered upon hearing those words. I also saw that they were doing good for the Holy Spirit Religion.

While I was watching making various guesses because I couldn’t know how Rebecca thinks about the Outer God Religion, the situation flowed strangely.

The light burned harvesters regardless of enemy or ally, right?

The story changes as it becomes evidence that the Holy Spirit’s inclusiveness is fake.

And the story was completed like this:

‘From the beginning, the Holy Spirit Religion is a religion for the existing vested interests over there.’

That word spread far instantly. And all people who were even slightly removed from that vested interest class began to attack them.

Saying the Holy Spirit had never accepted them in the first place, Holy Spirit Religion soldiers whose friends who were just fighting together melted stabbed the royalty and nobility from behind.

Confusion spreads.

The army gathered by the Holy Spirit Religion was right in front of the Outer God Religion headquarters.

The Holy Spirit showed its power in front of that, but that causes the Holy Spirit Religion to collapse.

And not only the Outer God Religion, but those with other religions or even atheists moved. The Holy Spirit Religion became a religion of a narrow-minded god, becoming a god not worth believing in.

In other words, the Holy Spirit Religion thoroughly collapsed in this war.

With the words of just one person, the Outer God Religion not only won the battle but also gained status as a universal religion.

On this day, the Holy Spirit Religion essentially ended.

The surviving Holy Spirit Religion believers fled, and the Outer God Religion celebrated its victory.

And immediately after the war ended.

A time when post-war reconstruction hasn’t even finished.

Rebecca, treated as the incarnation of god, declared a witch hunt.

Then a festival was held.

The contents of the festival are as follows:

Tormenting Hyunkeshuni, the Witch of Joy.

Everyone participates joyfully.