Urrr! Kill the Evil Spirit! Urrr! 5

The Goddess of Blood and War thus changed her divinity.

One might question whether divinity can be changed so easily, but it is common for the subject and symbol of a god to change according to the beliefs and faith of humans.

Even the goddess Freyja of Norse mythology possesses divinity encompassing beauty, war, desire, love, death, and motherhood.

Divinity can change its nature according to human belief and faith.

Moreover, the red ideology based on capital and Übermensch, extreme elements that currently sweep through the Enchantment of the Fallen layer, was the most unique and almost singular belief among the ideologies held by humanity in the Ark.

It was a belief almost akin to religion, so the Goddess of Blood, Grundealrun, had a simple task.

“Comrades! Stand up! I, Grundealrun, the Goddess of Red Ideology, support your total and comprehensive labor struggle!”

“Waaaaah!”

She just needed to step forward and introduce herself as the goddess of capital-controlled socialist ideology, centered on the Übermensch, who had dyed the layer red.

Her experience in manipulating believers as a false god and with madness hadn’t gone anywhere, so the goddess easily gained the people’s belief that ‘Wow! That goddess is the Goddess of Red Ideology!’

A god is directly advocating for red ideology!

We are right!

Many people who had already received the grace of red ideology recognized and believed in Grundealrun as the true Goddess of Red Ideology, and their faith naturally turned to the goddess.

At first, she had agreed because she thought she would really die at Alice’s hands, but, ‘Oh? This is better than I thought?’ the goddess thought.

That was because red ideology had spread not only in the Enchantment of the Fallen layer.

In the Ruincrest layer, where nobles resided, a sinister ideology was gradually eating away at the layer, based on the students and intellectuals of the Academy, and the lower layer had an overwhelmingly larger area and population than Ruincrest and Enchantment of the Fallen combined.

Since that population was following red ideology, the goddess, who had been an unnamed false god, experienced an immediate elevation in existence.

Red ideology was not a religion, but it was an ideology with almost religious fanaticism and enthusiastic cheers, so the goddess naturally found a connection with faith. Faith is not only the energy for a god to live on but also the source and status of their existence.

Thanks to this, the goddess regained the name of her divine authority, Grundealrun, which she had lost long ago.

Of course, she became a never-before-seen god of red ideology with a sickle and hammer, not the cool and lofty Goddess of Blood and War, but she wasn’t dying, and she could eat so much wonderful faith, so was that important now?

Right now, my house.

No, my value has increased.

[Ah- I missed this. This power, this sense of omnipotence. It’s time to return to being Grundealrun, the Goddess of Blood and War…!]

Even at this moment, she felt full from the enthusiastic and pure faith pouring in.

However, Grundealrun did not return to being the Goddess of Blood and War.

[Cough!? Wh, what… Why! I have such powerful strength and omnipotence, yet…!]

The moment she tried to remove the red ideology and return to being the Goddess of Blood and War, she lost her name again, and her status fell to that of a mere false god. Grundealrun realized.

Ah, I’m practically dead without red ideology right now.

There are many humans who follow red ideology, but not many humans who follow me.

Moreover, red ideology could be expressed as ‘controlled capital socialism centered on the Übermensch.’

Here, the Übermensch meant Alice from the perspective of the workers, and no matter how omnipotent Grundealrun felt, she could not go against Alice, the Übermensch.

[Th, this damn it…!]

In other words, the goddess Grundealrun did not have her status elevated or anything like that, but became something similar to a subcontractor of a robot Overseer.

As expected of a being who used to be a god, she quickly came to the truth by spinning her head, but even if she reached the truth, it did not create new choices for Grundealrun.

Quit this subcontractor work?

Then she would die.

Currently, several false gods were being eaten by Alice in the Enchantment of the Fallen, and the reason Alice spared Grundealrun was merely a whim.

Just that the people needed a mascot.

It was burdensome and annoying for her to step forward herself, so she entrusted it to the goddess Grundealrun… along with the nonsense that she was the Goddess of Blood and would go well with red ideology.

In other words, there would be no problem with red ideology even without the goddess, so if the goddess showed any rebellion, she would face permanent annihilation as a divine being, not physical death.

[Hmm, maybe it’s not so bad?]

Her pride was a little hurt, but it was much better than barely living in the Enchantment of the Fallen layer as a false god.

Her status had also increased, she had regained her old name, and, above all, the faith of red ideology coming in was quite lucrative.

Spreading madness or fear in the Enchantment of the Fallen layer to gather fanatics?

Honestly, that was a result of twisting her body somehow to make a living, and it wasn’t dignified like in the old days, just a dirty mess of orgies and murder.

Wouldn’t it be much better to gather in the red square and shout ‘Everyone, stand up!’?

Wouldn’t it be better to do it properly since she was going to do it anyway?

Thus, Grundealrun, the Goddess of the Sickle and Hammer, settled into the present and began to spread this red ideology in earnest.

Her skills in creating fanatics in the Enchantment of the Fallen layer hadn’t gone anywhere, and the believers. No, the workers wearing red armbands began to increase.

Of course, the efforts of Sabrina and other Labor Party members were the greatest, but the ideology that the god directly began to spread was very effective.

Of course, there was also the reason why Alice and the Execution Legion made execution judgments on other uncooperative false gods in less than 10 seconds and tore their limbs to absorb them with the power of Gluttony.

[I ask! Are you truly workers who follow the red wave?]

“Yes!”

“We are workers with sickles and hammers!”

[Then I ask again! Are you willing to carry out the most difficult tasks?]

“Waaaaah!”

In the red square, the workers-believers- of the red wave cheered.

Unable to contain their cheers, they raised one hand high and voluntarily made gestures of admiration.

Although she was a fallen and twisted goddess, the instigation and madness induction that a being with divinity directly uttered was very effective.

Even people who had no interest began to join the red wave in the red square, and their numbers quickly swelled.

[We may lose! To spread red ideology not only in this layer but throughout the Ark, many trials will surely await us! Many humans will not understand us, oppress us, and try to exclude us!]

“Dirty central bastards!”

“Fat pig bastards!”

“I didn’t want to come here either!”

[The rulers have personally taught their mortal enemies how to destroy themselves! That is you! Red workers with sickles and hammers! That is you!]

When the goddess’s instigation and speech reached its peak, the workers of the red wave burned like a bright red flame.

[I ask, do you want total war? If necessary, do you want our complete and total struggle beyond what you can imagine? Are we, who follow the Übermensch, ready to go against the will of the center and continue this struggle until we achieve victory, regardless of the outcome of any fate?]

“We are ready!”

“Waaaaah!”

“Waaaaaaah!!”

[Now is the time, workers of all nations with sickles and hammers! Unite! Rise up like a storm!]

What burned was passion, the weak self of the past.

Now they would be proud workers with sickles and hammers.

“Oh, you’re doing better than I thought? Next is Berthart Industrial Complex.”

[Haa, why do they follow such a crazy ideology…]

“It’s funny that a goddess who eats babies as human sacrifices is talking about crazy ideologies.”

At Sabrina’s words, the goddess flinched as if she had been stabbed.

No, that’s because the perception of human sacrifice and infanticide only improved in modern times… In the past, children had no human rights, and the era I was born in was such an era….

“You also created that old ideology when you were cultivating fanatics in the Enchantment of the Fallen layer, right? If it weren’t for Alice’s mercy, your divinity and everything would have been torn apart long ago, so you’re lucky.”

The goddess couldn’t refute those words.

Moreover, that woman Sabrina was presumed to be close to Alice, so she couldn’t act carelessly.

Still, apart from the friction between them, Sabrina and the goddess worked well together in spreading the red ideology with Alice as the Übermensch.

Sabrina had an inexplicable loyalty and faith in Alice.

The goddess had the experience and instigation skills to create fanatics.

Even if it was private, they subtly complemented each other, so they could be considered decent business partners.

When the propaganda in the red square in one city was over, the goddess moved to a new city and created another red wave.

Capital socialism with ultra-luxurious distribution based on enormous capital.

And with the red goddess’s splendid rhetoric centered on the Übermensch and the spell of passion added to the entire layer, the red ideology, which was originally planned to pass lightly, began to sweep through the entire Enchantment of the Fallen like a tsunami.

The expectation that the layer’s area was large and would take a long time was pleasantly wrong.

While the goddess and Labor Party executives were cooperating to spread the benefits of red ideology, Alice was not idle either.

Alice, who had hacked into the layer’s entire computer network, first cut off all connections with the outside.

The central administration already had quite a bit of trust in Alice.

She had stopped the rebellion twice, completed various difficult missions, and even had information that she had hunted a True Ancestor, so it was natural to pay close attention to her even though she was only a Level 2 Overseer.

However, in the case of the Enchantment of the Fallen layer, Alice was clearly showing insubordination and unilateral actions close to refusing missions.

Normally, the central administration would turn a blind eye to the lovely Overseer’s unilateral actions, but Alice didn’t know how long this would last.

So, it was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, and since there was no certainty that the outside or the center would just leave Alice’s behavior alone, she decided to cut off the lines first and see what happened.

Having cut off all external interference, Alice began to hunt false gods.

“Kuaaaaak! A mortal, yet!!”

-Thwack!

The thorns of the mechanical tendril pierce the once divine body.

It was not simply piercing in a physical sense.

The foundation of the god.

Divinity.

Faith.

Divine power.

All the energies that could not be expressed were being taken away by Alice, so the god was being truly annihilated.

“What, you mental parasite.”

“I am not a parasite! I may have fallen, but…!”

“Ah, yes. Yes. Watching you twist your body to eat a child, I can’t help but feel respect. Wow, I don’t think I could struggle so pathetically? Amazing!”

“Y, you, damn metal human!”

But the end of the conversation was always similar.

A being from the lower layer, a mortal being.

There were various repertoires, but it was ridiculous that those who lived on human faith looked down on humans.

-Thwack!

[Initiating fusion.]

-Squish!

[Initiating fusion.]

Thanks to this, Alice was able to achieve fusion several times.

Even if they were rotten, they were false gods.

She had not achieved dramatic changes or evolutions like when she fused with the True Ancestor, but Alice’s abilities were gradually increasing as she absorbed those who had once held the status of a god.

As time flowed.

Around the time red ideology spread throughout the layer, Alice was able to pinpoint the location of hell.