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Day when the sun sets (3) – One Mind Salvation Church Paradise

A landscape cut exactly in half by the ‘Heavenly Shield’.

Seong Ga-eul, standing at the head of the paladins lined up inside the orange shield, stared straight ahead with trembling eyes.

zombie. zombie. zombie.

Zombies were everywhere beyond the shield.

However, what is even more creepy is.

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The zombies were just waiting with their heads down, without any howling or luminescence.

A sight that contrasted greatly with the experiences she had known, and a distinct sense of heterogeneity that came from it.

I whispered softly as I looked at the zombie wave full of silence.

“… … Circulation.”

These were the waves called circulation that the saint warned about.

“It’s a little surprising, pretty believer.”

A neat voice is heard from Seong Ga-eul, who is calmly assessing the situation.

The man who had put his face on the electronic display board calmly walked out through the zombie wave.

“Or did I misidentify the person? Ah, is it because our great Salvation Church leader is a god and not a human being that his actions are different?”

The characteristic exaggerated theatrical tone and leisurely steps continued right in front of the heavenly shield.

The man tapped the protective shield as if experimenting and smiled kindly at Seong Ga-eul.

“I didn’t expect to be treated with such harsh treatment?”

It is clear that he is an awakened person.

So, are you an awakened person with the skill to control zombies?

“Hmm― Maybe because your eyes are so big, I can hear them rolling up to here.”

Seong Ga-eul did not show any emotional agitation despite the repeated provocations.

The man, who was looking at Seong Ga-eul’s peaceful face with a sneer, added an afterword.

“By the way, that shield in Incheon is also the work of our Salvation Church leader.”

The man who was swinging the ‘heavenly shield’ as if looking at the scenery tapped on the shield as if knocking.

“Knock Knock― Could you please open the door? That’s because I have some good words to say.”

A prophecy from a saint who, if possible, did not announce threats.

The location of the sanctuary is of course unknown unless you discover it yourself.

And an endless wave of zombies unfolded before her eyes.

When we put all of this together, there was one conclusion.

“This is a little embarrassing. Would you mind opening the door? We declared war with such vigor, but I was having no luck waiting in front of the door.”

There was a high probability that what that man boasted about on TV was true.

That alone made him a threatening enough enemy of the Salvation Church.

“You can’t open the door just because a drunkard insists.”

“… … Ho.”

A man who lets out a laugh and curls his lips.

Even that small action was a mixture of exaggeration and acting.

“There is no need for the landlord to come out.”

“… … It’s fun.”

The man who responded to Seong Ga-eul’s answer with a faint smile lingered in front of the shield, keeping an eye on her.

As if he were taking a walk, he turned his back and stared at Seong Ga-eul with strange eyes.

“Then what should I do to get the landlord, who has a very heavy butt, to get off his butt and crawl out?”

Tuk!

He kicked the rock on the floor, hit it with the ‘Heavenly Shield’, and grinned.

“Definitely only here or somewhere in Incheon― According to what my friends told me―”

A man stretches his words and gestures behind him.

Following the man’s gesture, the zombie wave surrounding Paradise gently parted.

A zombie with a unique appearance slowly walks out from the split zombie wave.

“… … Brain.”

Perhaps because of his large head, he waddled towards the man – Seo Taesan recited after seeing the walking zombie.

Hearing the knight commander’s whisper, Seong Ga-eul could immediately tell what kind of variant it was.

An unpleasant variant that Han Gu-won saw at the international airport.

The man who was greeting Brain as he waddled over looked at the knight commander with a look of surprise in his eyes.

“Oh… … How do you know that? I, too, am a friend I recently made. It’s amazing.”

The man, shaking his head, added with a hearty smile.

“I definitely like Seoul. Still, it was a high-end well that had everything.”

Kiiing—!

With the sound of movement, the man’s hands turned pure white.

The man gently placed his white hand filled with mana on Brain’s large head.

Brain’s large head lifts up at the man’s touch, and his large eyes turn pure white.

The man’s eyes turned white as if they were assimilating with Brain.

The man’s white eyes, which had been looking around for a while as if looking at something, gradually returned to black pupils.

The man who took his hand away from Brain’s head shrugged his shoulders.

“No matter how closely I look, it doesn’t seem to be there in Incheon. Moreover, it is not possible to avoid the eyes of our believers spread throughout the city of Seoul – our Lord of Salvation is clearly – ”

Tap!

The man who kicked the rock again tilted his head and made eye contact with Seong Ga-eul.

“It must be here.”

It’s really unfortunate, but that crazy guy’s prediction was spectacularly wrong.

the problem is-

“How― would you like to leave your contact information?”

“What? Do you leave your contact information? Hahaha—!”

Just like that man, she is also unsure of Han Gu-won’s whereabouts.

The man burst into laughter while clutching his stomach and put his fingers inside his glasses to wipe away the tears that were leaking out.

The man shook his head as if soaked in the lingering laughter and looked at Seong Ga-eul with a brighter smile.

“Ah― You really are a believer who is too precious to be in a cult.”

but-

The man who waved his hand with a slight smile continued speaking immediately.

“What is our vice principal guilty of? A man called the cult leader is hiding in a woman’s butt and trembling?”

The gaze of the man who was making eye contact with Seong Ga-eul naturally looked down at her closely.

His eyes looked too calculating to be simple lust, looking up and down at the assistant pontiff.

“Anyway, I’m embarrassed because it’s so different from the picture I imagined. First of all, the most embarrassing thing is―”

The man whispered, waving one finger.

“How did you know and prepare for my visit to Seoul? You did quite a bit of preparation, right?”

“… … .”

Of course, Seong Ga-eul did not answer the man’s question.

I just quietly collected the small clues contained in the man’s words, step by step.

“Well—Okay. In every city, there are bound to be groups of people who refuse to cycle. I’m used to it too. By the way-”

Exactly!

When the man lightly clicked his fingers-

Kkkk!

All the zombies that were lowering their heads looked up at the sky and roared.

The howling of zombies that shakes the entire Seoul, not paradise.

Shock and dizziness that could not be lightly overcome even by an awakened body came all at once.

Seong Ga-eul, who had endured the roar by taking a step back, quickly calmed down.

However, the man who was looking at it all clicked his tongue as if he felt sorry for such an angry person.

“I am very disappointed that the Lord of Salvation Church, which I had high expectations for, turned out in this way. Even though we laid out a plan like this, he was hiding behind the protective shield – but I thought he would attack first like he is the number one figure in Seoul – ”

“… … I think I’m completely mistaken about something.”

The man’s mouth quietly closed in Seong Ga-eul’s cold tone.

“It makes no difference how many zombies you control. It doesn’t matter how much land you have either.”

Long gone are the days when the difference in power was discussed simply through the number of people and the size of the land.

“Most of the awakened people in Korea gathered in Seoul and came to this place after going through trials given by the system. And the one who has reached their peak is our Lord of Salvation. You are excluded from the main stream of the system―”

“Ah- Ah- You can just say that.”

This time, the man interrupted Seong Ga-eul.

The man waved his hand with a knowing smile and whispered quietly.

“I know. Trials, suffering, and stories.”

Things that the system emphasized over and over again to the point where it was boring.

The man who naturally said those words spoke again.

“In that sense, I would like to ask our smart assistant principal, who speaks clearly and clearly. Who was more faithful to His words?”

Him?

Seong Ga-eul’s head was busy at the new clues the man gave her.

The man asked her, pointing to the sky with a polite hand gesture.

“Who went through more trials? Who continued his penance more quietly? Who was more willing to endure the thorny path?”

“While you guys continue to have meaningless fist fights in Seoul, I-”

“I continued my lonely war against those who reached the cycle first.”

“We also continued our lonely war against those who refused to cycle.”

“Finally, a spiritual war against the dirty pseudo-religion that is currently exploiting Seoul.”

The man extended three fingers toward Seong Ga-eul.

“Is there any trial, suffering, and asceticism more suited to the story than me fighting three wars at the same time? In that sense, your words just now are very arrogant and pitiful.”

hmm-

What can I say… … .

The man who tapped his chin with his finger as if thinking about it nodded.

“Does it feel like watching a second child being rude to his older brother? The second child grew up very well.”

Isn’t that right, Mr. Jesu?

Seong Ga-eul’s eyebrows rose at the continued unpleasant provocation.

“Is our second child still struggling inside even after receiving the trust? Ah, is it possible for an oracle to come down to a frog like that?”

trust?

“The oracle you are talking about is a quest given by the system?”

The man answered Seong Ga-eul’s question with a mysterious smile.

“So, you are frogs.”

A sudden enemy.

The mysterious person and oracle that the enemy spoke of.

Even after taking this long, Han Gu-won doesn’t come back.

Seong Ga-eul nodded, gradually solving the problems that were beginning to become complicated.

“… … It’s definitely not a problem that can be solved on my own.”

“Oh― Still, it was worth persuading him for a while. You have an inclusiveness that is unlike any pseudo.”

“I will bring the leader with me, so please wait there for a moment.”

“Of course. If you are having a hard time, please bring some candy.”

Seong Ga-eul, who had been quietly scanning the system window, quickly turned his back.

A man’s cry was heard by Seong Ga-eul, who was moving from the heavenly shield to the center of paradise.

“I can’t wait that long! As you heard earlier, I am very busy―!”

Seong Ga-eul turned her head and answered the man who did not forget his provocation even the moment he left.

“I will keep this in mind, Lord Circular.”

“… … Oh.”

He opened his mouth exaggeratedly, ignoring the admiring leader, and turned his back again.

As I was walking towards the temple, I looked at Seotaesan, who was quickly approaching to protect me.

“Can you win?”

“What do you mean?”

“That zombie wave run by those grumpy awakeners and bastards.”

“Of course. If you just give me an order, right now-”

Ah, I chose the wrong question to ask.

Seong Ga-eul quickly recognized her mistake and corrected the question.

“If the shield disappears, can you win while protecting all believers?”

“… … Um.”

Seo Taesan cannot give a definitive answer to a slightly more complicated question.

He drooled and shook his head indignantly.

“Only the religious leader can achieve such a miracle.”

“… … Yes. I know.”

Clues I gained while silently watching that grumpy man’s show.

The biggest clue among them is-

[Available faith: 3,661,700]

Obviously, the faith points that should increase every hour are still there.

An ominous sign that has never happened before.

His message has gone unanswered ever since the head of another religious group denouncing us as a cult declared war.

His last note was left with a sacred object to be handed over to Yoon Ah-young.

Faith points that no longer increase and messages that go unanswered.

A strange incident in which a threatening enemy does not show up even though it has openly declared war.

All of this pointed to only one thing.

Han Gu-won disappeared somewhere in an abnormal state.

Obviously, it wasn’t dead.

If Han Gu-won had died, she would have known for sure that she had an unprofitable relationship with him.

At the very least, my own ability, which was acting on his behalf, would have informed me of the abnormality first.

But the equivalent condition was clear.

‘Han Gu-won faced a crisis that was close to death.’

Of course, I was sure of that, but it was an entirely unbelievable prediction.

Han Gu-won, that Han Gu-won – is in a crisis other than being the leader of a rotating cult?

The steps leading to the temple stopped as I saw an image that I could not imagine.

As Seong Ga-eul quietly closes her eyes, the face of Han Gu-won sitting on the sofa in her office is pictured in her mind.

He was whispering as he looked at the ceiling with an unknown expression.

‘It’s not perfect enough already, Autumn.’

She bit her lip gently and turned her steps towards the temple.

“… … Vice principal?”

Seo Taesan, who had been waiting for Seong Ga-eul to stop walking, followed her with a puzzled look on his face.

Seong Ga-eul quickly opened her mouth with a determined look on her face.

“It seems like something is wrong with the leader. All Holy Knights except the leader will protect Paradise as is, and the leader will follow me.”

There is nothing more serious than your faith points no longer increasing.

This also means that the entire system of the Salvation Church, which until now has solely depended on the production of faith by Han Gu-won, the ideal virtuous cycle will collapse.

In any case, since the production of faith in Han Guwon has stopped, the collapse of Salvation Church is inevitable.

Even if it were not for the attacks of the circular cult leader or that cult, the Salvation Church would collapse from within in an instant.

Therefore, there was only one decision she had to make.

She covered her trembling hand with her other hand and clenched it tightly.

It’s been a long time since I saw zombies before my eyes again.

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen their roars and creepy red eyes.

The reason why the zombies that still so vividly threaten us have become unfamiliar-

The reason she was so safe—

It’s probably because someone prevented the whole crisis.

So we had to bring him back.

“We must go to the world where the leader disappeared.”

Before the Salvation Church collapsed.

“Right now.”

“Yes, Vice Principal.”

Seo Tae-san bows his head to the pontoon master’s orders without a moment of hesitation.

Seong Ga-eul stared at In-seon, who was too shabby to be a gamble with the survival of the Salvation Church.

The Holy Knights that Han Gu-won had chosen were spread evenly throughout Korea and the Republic of Korea, not Paradise.

It would probably be no use trying to call them urgently.

It was obvious that the zombies of the circular cult had already invaded.

An all-out attack that will cover the entire city of Seoul, not paradise, is probably in full swing.

“There was only one thing the leader commanded me.”

Seo Taesan, who noticed the look in Seong Ga-eul’s eyes, quietly recited.

A trustworthy colleague who had been with her from the library stared at her with calm eyes.

“Protect the pontoon pontoon.”

Kiiing!

The cult leader’s command, engraved in Seo Taesan’s entire body along with boiling mana, rings repeatedly.

[God desires (Lv.15)]

[One. [Protect the pontoon pontoon]

[2. [Protect the pontoon pontoon]

[3. [Protect the pontoon pontoon]

The final arrangement prepared by Han Gu-won to protect Seong Ga-eul as he was leaving for the world.

Seong Ga-eul nodded her head in response to her eyes filled with faith and started running.

There is only one way to overcome this desperate crisis.

Finding Han Gu-won in the world.