episode_0087

City (5) ― Gocheok Sky Dome, Guro-gu, Seoul

“Master. All believers gathered.”

“Ah, good job. You stay behind me.”

“Uh, how dare I… ”

“Hehehe. Okay. All believers know your hard work.”

I made Jiwoo Lee, who refused with a bright smile, stand behind me.

She deserved to enjoy today.

Gocheok Dome’s spacious stadium.

It overlooked a lawn filled with about a thousand people dressed in white.

Kim Ji-ho and the early believers were busy raising their voices and organizing the lines.

Since there was no proper podium, I waited for them at the reserved seat on the 4th floor.

My physical condition could not have been more perfect.

Thanks to the moderate mana usage yesterday, there was no shortage of mana at all.

I just feel uneasy about the hardships and trials that the system has declared.

I thought of the hidden piece, the mural.

All of the special locations I have encountered so far have been closely related to murals.

Having overcome all of the fourth murals, there is only one mural left.

‘Record 5’ in the last city log.

A man on top of the fallen.

The powerfully beating heart that the man was holding.

“… … It’s the heart.”

“Yes? Is there anything you need, leader?”

“Haha, no.”

I shook my head at Lee Ji-woo, who immediately responded behind me, and continued my thoughts again.

The mural that I could clearly tell was related to ‘heart’.

However, yesterday the system gathered all special bases and merged them into one.

So, are newly created special nodes also affected by the mural?

… … I couldn’t figure it out.

“… Teacher. We are ready.”

“… … Yes.”

Even before I continued my thoughts, the somewhat chaotic atmosphere had calmed down.

Believers filling the stadium were waiting for me.

Everything was awkward and the believers were inadequate.

Cleanliness, trust, and the length of time they stayed with me.

However, despite this, they wore the clothes of the Salvation Church.

They proved their purity with pure white color.

Therefore, these are my children whom I must lead.

Mana was put into the low whispering voice.

That mana was amplified by faith and love, and the stadium rang.

“I closed my eyes and opened them, and the world collapsed.”

A calm sentence marked the beginning.

“That is the only truth.”

I made them aware of the fact that was most difficult to believe, but that they most desperately needed to realize.

“I closed my eyes and when I opened them, the country had collapsed. Society was destroyed. A beloved family member has disappeared. That is the only truth!”

As the voices get louder, the believers’ eyes become more and more teary-eyed.

The sound of their loudly beating hearts was so clear that I could hear it all the way up here.

“When I close and open my eyes, a strange man tells me to trust myself! Those in strange white clothes force their faith!”

The strangest situation they found themselves in.

“But, that is the only truth!”

The crowd is engrossed in my words.

By empathizing with their own experiences that are drawn naturally, they become absorbed more easily and sympathize with them more easily.

“The process is not important. My children, my sons and daughters, who have finally come together with one mind! You’ve held on well so far!”

I pointed at Gocheok Dome with my finger.

I could feel their heads and shoulders shaking in response to my excited tone.

“Here, right now! The first glorious community in a broken world is born! This is the only truth!”

Ahhh…

I spread my arms out and raised my voice louder.

I shouted into their hearts, not their ears.

“Close and open your eyes, my children! Worship the sole beginning you witness!”

I clicked YES on the system message and uttered my last words.

“… The name is One Mind Doctrine of Salvation!”

Waaa!

Light came down to the enthusiastic believers and me.

[You have entered Guro-gu’s last special base ‘Plaza’.]

[The theme of ‘Plaza’ is ‘Mirror Court’.]

Awakened people who enter the special base start at the location intended by the system.

That was the truth until now when starting the special base.

So, does this mean that this is the system’s intended position?

Nothing has changed.

The believers look up at me while maintaining proper order.

They were also pounding their bodies and were surprised by the sudden abnormal phenomenon.

Although it is not higher than Gocheok Dome, the platform is clearly positioned above the believers.

As I stood on the podium, I slowly looked around.

Believers staring at me blankly, unable to understand the cause.

The believers suddenly covered their mouths and looked at one place in astonishment.

Kiiing!

The preheated mana gushes out and vomits white light all over the body.

Following the gaze of the believers, I also widened my eyes and was astonished.

“Surprise Mother Pucker!”

Honest voice and bad English pronunciation.

‘I’, wearing the training clothes I often wore before the apocalypse occurred, smiled at me.

Kiiing—!

Even time to think was a luxury.

With a small sound of movement, my telekinetic power immediately started from my right hand and bit the back of the guy’s neck.

The plan was to tear it apart without any time to feel any pain.

However, the white mana that was biting the guy’s neck slowly disappeared.

He looked up at me as I was surprised by a phenomenon similar to Seo Joo-won.

“Holy shot! That bastard is using his powers? Is it okay to do this in a sacred court?”

[I admit it. If you use the ability again, you will be sanctioned.]

what? court?

I frowned and looked at the overall scenery once again.

A square large enough to accommodate about a thousand people.

Two towering platforms stand in the center of the square.

There is a different ‘me’ up on that podium.

The theme ‘mirror court’ mentioned by the system.

What the system has prepared is a colony of zombies like a swarm of ants.

It wasn’t an extreme situation that limited his abilities.

Everything he had mentioned so far stretched out like a panorama.

The theme of the city and me is ‘faith’.

He consistently forced trials and tribulations on me.

A saint is built on trials and tribulations.

So what are the trials and tribulations of a saint?

Just as a special base was created with the motif of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness.

This time will be no different.

How does Catholicism, which is where it got its motif, honor saints?

Ordinary people say that miracles or those who help others a lot become saints.

However, this is only half right and half wrong.

For an adult, that alone is not enough.

Adults are born after numerous complex examinations and procedures.

Among them, I realized the procedure he wanted to imitate.

What role another ‘I’ will play in that process.

[Han Gu-won, please speak.]

As soon as the system finished speaking, he grabbed the microphone in front of him.

Devil’s advocate.

A position that stands on the other side of canonization petitioners and blocks canonization in order to prevent erroneous canonization during the process of canonizing saints in the Catholic Church.

Han Gu-won took a deep breath and let out a harsh cry as if he was vomiting.

“Aaaaa! I fucking want to have sex ahhh!”

A huge silence fell.

He raised his voice even more, pointing to the believers seated right in front of him.

“You fucking bastards! If you guys had met people like Seo Joo-won, you would have been 1, 2, and 3 in your inventory. Where the fuck are you making your choices?! ok! Do you want to rummage?!”

The guy who had been holding his breath thanks to the long string of swear words opened his mouth again.

“If you collected the animals, fed them, and put them to sleep like humans, you should be so thankful. Give me food, damn it, I’m scared, show me the proof. Fuck you! Do you really want me to believe you if I show you my telekinetic powers? Oooh!”

Han Gu-won’s voice was the only voice that rang out in the plaza that seemed as if it had died.

“Fuck Paris, you bastards! Have you still not grasped reality? You are not that great and precious, you bastards! I will tell you the truth about life, so listen carefully! Fuck, if you just realize this, you’re halfway there! Okay?”

He brought the microphone closer and shouted the last words.

“If you want to save it, men should quietly offer up their labor and women should offer up their virginity!”

When people are too surprised, they open their mouths and make no sound.

My current congregation was exactly like that.

As if he wasn’t tired, he grabbed the microphone again and whispered.

“PS! P S! While playing and eating somewhere, girls who are not virgins should at least offer up their anal virginity. Over!”

Han Gu-won’s remarks have ended.

I couldn’t find anything to deny what he said.

I even felt a strange coolness.

If I had the Holy Sword of Truth, I would have constantly answered that everything was true.

Nevertheless, I managed to maintain a poker face.

“Whoah~!”

Guwon Han sighed in relief and looked at me.

He gave a compliment with a bright smile.

My right eyebrow, the only part where I couldn’t keep my poker face, twitched as if there was an earthquake.

[Cult leader please speak out.]

“… … Ha!”

I burst out laughing at the system’s words.

Only then did all the murals overlap and shine as one.

The eyes stuck together on the membrane had a double meaning.

It’s a system, but it’s in front of me right now.

I could see the eyes of thousands of believers waiting for my remarks.

To those people, I give my heart.

under… … .

He showed his true heart.

My greatest hardships and trials prepared by the system.

The system declared again to me as I stood in front of it.

[Cult leader please speak out.]