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The royal palace of the Ansellus Kingdom, which has a long history.

The largest room among them.

The floor is made of geometric patterns created by fitting together colorful stones. Ivory stone pillars rise up, and a glass chandelier hangs from the arched ceiling.

It is a space that is not normally used and is used to show off the king’s majesty, but today it was crowded with people.

The relationship between the Kingdom of Anselm and the headquarters of the Church of the Holy Ghost is similar to that between the European kingdoms and the Vatican in the Middle Ages.

The entire region east of the Skadd Rock Desert believes in Christianity, so it is not much different from Europe when compared to the rest of the world.

There are many differences, such as there being wizards with magical powers or swordsmen who draw sword energy from their swords, but there is one unique difference.

Here, God exerts direct influence.

A warrior or priest recognized by God appears, and a miracle comes down from heaven.

In such a world, the power of the Church of the Holy Spirit was so strong that even the king of a country could not act on it as he pleased.

So when they accused the kingdom of Ansellus of having an evil god, they had no choice but to bring that evil god right away.

Moreover, if God spoke, it is no different from the rules of the world speaking directly.

No living thing can survive outside the rules of the world.

What if I get out?

It’s not a living thing anymore.

And then something that wasn’t that creature appeared, led by the soldiers.

At first glance, she appears to be simply a short girl with purple hair. Her appearance suggests that she is more of a child than an adult, but her large breasts make one wonder if she is really a child.

If you take that out, he just looks like a child with exceptionally white skin.

There is no majesty, no ominousness.

Just a little girl.

That’s what anyone who first saw her thought.

There are a lot of people in this place who have never seen her before. No, more than 80% of them are seeing her for the first time.

Most of the people in this place are nobles or priests.

The only exceptions were servants who moved between these groups, but even these people had a status close to that of semi-nobles.

But this place was not only occupied by people from the Kingdom of Ansellus.

They were people from other kingdoms surrounding the kingdom of Ansellus.

There is a reason why there are so many nobles and royalty from other kingdoms.

Because just yesterday was the funeral of the legendary great man, Tisha.

In other words, since it was a national event, these were foreigners who attended to pay their respects.

Originally, they planned to spend time at an all-night reception after the funeral, then sleep overnight and return.

But then suddenly a major incident involving the Church of God breaks out here?

They attended without fail.

In addition, all the local lords who had come up from the provinces for the funeral were present.

A place where so many people have gathered that it can be said that everyone who could possibly gather has gathered.

Foreign news came in there.

“Oh, right. You came to make an excuse. Try it.”

A space where silence falls like a blank space for a very brief moment as foreign media enters and everyone’s attention is focused.

The first people to speak out were none other than foreign media.

“What is your excuse, you evil being! How dare you open your mouth to the Holy Spirit!”

Then, the knight who had been speaking first immediately drew his sword from his bosom and shouted. He then immediately quoted the Holy Spirit Church’s Bible and criticized the foreign press.

For those who considered the Church of the Holy Spirit as their mother religion, the statement that it was written in the scriptures of the Holy Spirit had a powerful persuasive power in itself.

What this means is that most of the people present here have no doubt that the little girl before their eyes is an evil god, and are beginning to think of her as pure evil.

It was actually pure evil.

If you take away warmth, people are ruined. They are no longer people, but turn into monsters.

It is also a monster that kills life in front of its eyes in search of warmth.

How is this any different from killing a person?

Moreover, it is not simply an animalistic way of hunting and stealing warmth.

You can plant yourself in someone else’s heart and take away their warmth.

It is a disgusting monster in itself, but it takes over the descendants of those who planted it.

When you give yourself away and die, you take everything you had with you.

The foreign press is mistaken in thinking that her contract is connected through blood, but in reality, it is the contract she made that is the cause.

Depending on how it is interpreted, it is a contract so cruel that it has the potential to completely tear apart the Ansellus Kingdom.

But foreign media didn’t know that yet.

Without professional research and accumulated knowledge, it is like not knowing the details of how food is digested in the body when a person eats it.

However, foreign media had no intention of doing that in the first place.

Of course, it’s not because foreign media is kind, but because they can gain more profits that way.

So, for the sake of greater profit, he put on a mask of hypocrisy. He kept the contract purely, without taking more than was necessary.

Even in the case of the first contractor, Yasle, depending on the point of view, he even achieved revenge. This is because the royal family of the Ansellus Kingdom, which Yasle wanted to eliminate, had actually fallen once.

It is not a contract made every time a blessing is given, but a contract that grants wishes.

Looking at the present, who would think that the kingdom of Ansellus still exists? Rather, the royal family is ruled by those blessed by foreign gods.

The foreign press, knowing this, stood in front of him with even greater confidence and said this.

“If you say so, if you say that all contracts are worthless before God, then you can declare it proudly. No one can deny it in front of all mankind. If you really can?”

It’s a provocation.

If you are truly right, everyone will accept it.

At those words, the paladin quickly assessed the situation. Although his speech may have seemed rough and thoughtless, he was still a paladin.

A paladin who specializes in politics, also called the Inquisition.

Wordplay didn’t work on him.

However, I made one mistake.

Foreign media is struggling to survive.

He glanced back at the priest.

In fact, priests and paladins share roles with each other.

A knight in armor and holding a sword uses the good cop bad cop technique, taking radical action while a priest negotiates conciliatory measures to stop him.

A technique of extracting information or making someone give false testimony by scaring them with violence or pretending to be friendly and making them think they are on the same side.

Since this is a place where people live, similar technologies have been developed here as well.

Anyway, I thought that the priest, like any ordinary person, would struggle to survive, just like any evil spirit would.

So, I decided that if that was the case, I should take this opportunity to spread the word about the Holy Spirit defeating the evil god.

It was a fatal decision.

When the priest gave permission, the knight shouted loudly.

“If you say so, I will judge your sins in front of everyone! The Holy Spirit will protect you and reveal all your sins one by one, and punish the evil being accordingly!”

“Come on, calm down. If you’re in such a hurry, you won’t be able to do anything in the Ansellus Kingdom. You should also give them a chance to repay the sins of their ancestors.”

The priest’s words are interpreted as follows:

You prepare the board, and I will not punish your kingdom.

In an instant, the hero blessed by God became a sinner.

Some people in the Church of the Holy Spirit thought that Tisha was a believer in the Church of the Holy Spirit, but not a member of the church. And they did not like the idea that such a person was chosen by God.

So, I thought of taking this opportunity to degrade that divinity and elevate the Church of the Holy Spirit.

This wasn’t a bad thing, but it was annoying.

The people of the Kingdom of Anselus felt a slight sense of resentment at the remarks that ignored the great man who was the pride of the Kingdom of Anselus and who created the kingdom that it is today.

Foreign media, who can read people’s facial expressions, burst into laughter at the sight.

Strictly speaking, I laughed as I rolled on the floor remembering the foreign media calling him a faded man.

Because what the priest just said was the same as saying to a Korean, ‘King Sejong? What do you mean, King Sejong? He’s just a king.’

But the authority of the Holy Spirit Church was too strong to refute it openly. So instead, I sank deep into my heart, waiting for the moment when my anger would explode.

Meanwhile, the king approached the foreign press with a stern expression.

“That’s how it happened.”

He then ordered his soldiers to prepare a scaffold in the square. The knights and priests who heard this nodded in joy, and the people of the kingdom of Ansellus watched in a bad mood, but still thought that they were killing an evil god.

“Yes. People are free to choose their gods. I don’t get angry about that.”

The poisonous blade moves.

“I am angry at those who take away freedom from humanity.”

At this moment, God became the oppressor of human freedom.

But no one thinks deeply about its meaning.

Because it wasn’t such a shocking sound. It was simply done by the Holy Spirit, but you didn’t hate it, so it might sound like a cry for help.

And Hukkeshni, who was watching it from afar, chuckled as the scary foreign news made a sound.

Almost 80 years ago.

The monster that had been thinking about eating people while remaining silent like a doll for half a year is now scared again.

You said you were going to die a little while ago, but now you’re scared and acting cute to people?

Hukkeshni projected himself and thought like that.

People always think about what they have experienced, so it was inevitable.

Because it’s easy for someone who’s always running away in fear of death to see such a sight.

A monster greater than himself trembles before God and begs for his life. And it is the monster that tormented him.

With a sense of gloomy satisfaction, Hukkeshni decided to watch the show until the end.

What will that foreign news look like at the moment of death?

And there was a point of view that was deeply embedded in this world. So deeply embedded that even Hyuckesuni took it for granted.

If you are punished by God, the outsider dies.

okay.

this.

God was that great a being.

During the short time I spent with foreign correspondents, I observed that they were immature brats, unlike what they said, and above all, they said that they were human.

A human who cannot dare to reach God.

So I let my guard down.

While Hyukkeshni was waiting, smiling, imagining the sight of the foreign messenger dying miserably, a huge scaffold was being built in the square in front of the palace.

Meanwhile, a man with purple hair came to meet the foreign press.

He came to see me and asked.

“If you go back like this, what will happen to my blessings?”

It was an extremely selfish reason.

Youth and health now in your hands.

They were worried that this might disappear in an instant.

But foreign media did not criticize them.

Instead, he answered like this.

“Even if I disappear, the blessing will not disappear. It is not a guarantee. I just gave it because I wanted to give it. Originally, blessings are bad.”

The purple-haired people’s hearts skipped a beat at the foreign news, and those who were secretly eavesdropping laughed at the blessed person.

Even the person who received the blessing was surprised and asked again.

“Bad?”

But the foreign press probably did not give the answer that many people were hoping for. Instead, they weaved words to thoroughly disparage God.

“Just as a child leaves the embrace of his parents, blessings are too much of a gift for humanity, who will one day leave the embrace of God and stand alone. But I wanted to give it to them.”

He did not deny God.

It was said that one day he would be able to rise to a position as great as God.

It sounded like it was said without any ill intention or hatred towards anyone.

The foreign press had no intention of replacing the Holy Spirit.

Instead, he decided to plant one idea, which would become the foundation of the Enlightenment, the era in which humanity emerged from the shadow of God.

No one yet fully understood what he was saying.

Not yet.

But it left something to those who heard it.

The foreign press went to the place where they would die, sowing seeds, hoping that they would germinate someday.