episode_0058

The first world changed gradually.

Since the harvesters are all concentrated in the Ansellus Kingdom, we don’t know all the exact facts.

But you can see to some extent how the situation is going.

He started an anti-Christian movement in the kingdom of Ansellus.

When looking at it through the eyes of the harvester, it was clear that not all the people of the Ansellus Kingdom hated the Church of the Holy Spirit.

It was more of an outlet for anger. People who were exhausted from two years of famine needed a place where they could vent their anger.

However, that doesn’t mean I just rushed into the Church of God from the beginning.

He just criticized me verbally and stuff.

But the timing was really bad. Of course, the timing was bad, so people rose up, but it was also a time when many people on the Sungshin Church side were sharp.

The famine was a difficult time for all life.

Just as getting hit when you’re sick makes you more irritated, the Church of God has decided to persecute other religions on a large scale.

An order containing such an intention arrived from the headquarters of the Church of the Holy Spirit to King Ansellus.

The problem, however, is that the Kingdom of Ansellus was portrayed as if it were an enemy country.

The king called all the nobles together and held a meeting. There he unfurled the order that had come from the Holy Spirit Church.

The content of the order was that the king and nobles of the Kingdom of Ansellus were to pay tribute to almost everything they had, and to thoroughly suppress any religion other than the Church of the Holy Spirit within the country.

The harvesters, including the king, were all in a bad mood.

That means there was a very high chance that other people would feel bad too.

And the answer was that the Ansellus kingdom practically ignored the Church of the Holy Ghost.

However, many people refused to separate from the Church of the Holy Spirit because they had believed in it for too long to erase it.

Besides, it was just a matter of words, and since they only sent tribute and bowed their heads, it would be correct to say that it was in fact acceptance.

But the Holy Spirit Church received another order to bring it as written.

How many times has that happened?

At the end, it even included words threatening to excommunicate the kingdom of Ansellus.

From the king’s perspective, he didn’t have the money to pay all that. He had to squeeze the nobles to pay the tribute. But even I, watching from afar, knew that if he did that, there would be a rebellion.

Moreover, with the famine overlapping, it was impossible to squeeze people.

While he was somehow carrying out diplomacy and trying to calm the public sentiment, the king, who was in the harvest season, became more and more haggard day by day. And although he must have had a stronger body than others, he eventually couldn’t endure it and fell ill.

But from the perspective of the Holy Spirit Church, it didn’t seem like much. In the end, the King’s younger brother took over the job as a proxy, and the demands were directed straight at him, as if the kingdom owed him a debt.

And the contents are not gold or silver treasures, but food.

In a dilemma, a year passed while the Kingdom of Ansellus was at a loss.

The famine is not over.

Third year of famine.

The forests were devastated, the fields and paddies were bare of grass, reports of people eating other people came in from all over, and people began to starve to death in the capital.

Then the king’s brother, acting on his behalf, gathered people in the capital’s square and informed them of the demands of the Church of the Holy Spirit, declaring that the kingdom could no longer endure.

It was a declaration that was virtually a catastrophe.

But the people already had an alternative.

yes.

A few people reached me, in the midst of extreme hunger and the resignation that there was nothing left but death.

And you said that some people have special abilities?

There once appeared a man who had the ability to turn stones into bread.

Originally, he was a harvester who was known only to those in the capital. He was a person who desperately hid this ability for fear that his superiors would take it away if they found out about it.

He went to the king’s deputy and asked to serve the new god. But the king’s deputy asked the harvester back, saying that he had seen the god die that day.

The harvester convinced them that he had been blessed after God disappeared, and that the outside world had not completely disappeared.

The king’s brother believed it and decided to believe in another god.

The national religion changed overnight.

It was a time when even the nobles were starving to death. The miracle of foreign religions spread like wildfire.

However, it was different from other cults. Since they were people who knew about the Church of the Holy Spirit, they followed the doctrines of that time and created a somewhat plausible doctrine and spread it.

And the nobles. Especially during the harvest season, they refined the flow and spread it more reliably.

Those who changed the name of the church from Sungshin Church to Foreign Church added several new myths to it.

I brought the words that were there when I disappeared in the first world.

yes.

Belief does not save you.

People have the freedom to believe in God, as well as the freedom not to believe in God. The foreign gods gave blessings without expecting anything in return.

This is a well-combined religion that acts as if it were a way to save others. Forgiveness requires no price. When you give a gift to someone, you don’t expect something in return.

The funny thing is, do you know who created this doctrine? It was 17 people, including Martin, who put it into a very neat sentence.

Those who returned to the Holy Spirit Church, but were eventually forced to be banished to the outskirts because of their unusual purple hair.

They needed a new faith.

And it reached out to the foreign faith that had been swelling in tandem with the famine.

I guess this is why intellectuals are scary.

The Inquisitors, who are on the front lines fighting against other religions, are very powerful when attacking their own religion.

The god of forgiveness.

God for the sake of man.

God who guarantees freedom.

God for the lowliest.

A god who gives blessings for free.

In an instant, foreign religions spread everywhere.

And it was revealed that purple hair is a characteristic of those blessed by an outsider, and that some blessed people have skin that turns blue.

Disparate differences sometimes create sacredness.

A child named Dakota, who was killed by the Hukkeshni, survived.

I know because I’m watching him closely because he’s the kind of person who can stab the scorpion. At first, people looked at him with disgust because they thought he had a disease because of his pale skin, but he barely survived because of his hair color.

But despite starving for dozens of days and being beaten to the point of breaking his bones, Dakota showed incredible vitality and survived until the very end.

And as times changed, she came to be revered as a saint of foreign religions.

Of course, she doesn’t believe in any foreign religions. I’ve heard her talk to herself sometimes when she’s left alone.

All she had been thinking about was revenge on the witch.

I knew she was listening, even if she was alone.

She decided that sitting in this seat would help her get revenge on Hukkeshni, so she sat there and played the role of the saint that people wanted her to be.

And then, after three years of famine, when she had a little bit of relief, she met Martin. And not just Martin, but everyone who had been there when the foreign press was killed.

But it wasn’t because Martin or the former knights and priests of the Holy Spirit Church had gathered together for some reason.

They were half dragged in.

Because foreign media appeared.

yes?

I haven’t been to the first world yet?

As I was looking at it with questions, I saw a familiar face.

A short girl with long blonde hair but fairly large breasts.

She introduced herself as Rebecca Rolfe.

No, why are you coming out of there?

It’s been 84 years since he left that body, so he must be close to 100 years old, but why does he still look so young?

What? If I receive a blessing, can I live that long?

No, Rebecca wasn’t even blessed in the first place, was she?

I was so surprised that I focused on the harvest season.

Looking at the situation, Martin and the former knights and priests of the Holy Spirit Church were people who had seen the outside world up close, so they were almost dragged here.

They said the foreign press was really back.

But Rebecca denied it.

He says he is just a vessel for foreign media.

I don’t know what Rebecca Rolfe is thinking.

If she knew all my thoughts, she would know that I am an evil monster.

If I say it here, maybe I can correct some of the distortions I’ve made.

For example, what happens to a person when they are deprived of warmth.

Then, the illusion about foreign news is shattered.

But I have no power to control this situation.

So I had no choice but to hold my breath and watch.

And Rebecca told the truth as she knew it.

Foreign media is hoping for warmth.

Watching people through the eyes of a blessed person.

And that he used terrible methods to call foreign media.

She told me about what happened at the Future Hope Church, when she had her heart ripped out and died.

And the foreign press said that he saved his life as he left.

Martin asked, stammering.

“Is that resurrection?”

“That’s right. Put your ear to my chest and listen. My heart won’t beat. Once you’re dead, you can’t die.”

Martin was very uncomfortable. His eyes went back and forth to Rebecca’s chest several times. Then Dakota turned to her.

“I’ll do it.”

Rebecca, who had been watching Dakota closely, soon smiled brightly and spread her arms.

“Oh my, you’re a kid? Okay. Come.”

And when Dakota approached, I held her in my arms. Dakota’s ear was pressed against my chest. Instead of the sound of my heart pounding, I heard a whirling sound.

The heart I swapped before is still there.

Dakota tries to stand up with force, but her body doesn’t move backwards despite the force she puts into it.

“What?”

As Dakota was about to ask a question, a faint breath and a whisper came into Dakota’s ear.

“You whose name I cannot tell. Are you listening?”

Rebecca hugged Dakota and whispered softly in his ear, “You whose name I cannot tell.”

That probably refers to me.

“We’ll meet again now.”

And then I let go of Dakota right away. Dakota touched his ear with a trembling expression. Rebecca looked at Dakota like that and laughed, then said to the people there.

“Then, guys. Let’s move for the foreign god. That’s what this body came here for.”

Everyone looked at Rebecca with a puzzled expression. But soon their expressions changed as Rebecca began to explain.

That’s the way I know how. I edited the principles of how one religion spread in some world to fit this world.

With him, a prayer was born.

They took the prayers referenced to torment Hunkeshni and put me in their place, modifying them to suit the foreign religion.

At least she knows what I’m doing and she’s moving to do it. She’s acting knowing that taking away warmth is bad for people.

I don’t know why.

Dakota didn’t seem to notice, but I could see the intense hatred on Rebecca’s face. Maybe she hated the world.

Well, that’s enough.

I decided to keep watching, looking forward to how things would unfold in the first world.