A few days later.
Witga arrived at the underground temple.
And Witga left Isla, whom he valued highly, and went straight to meet Yasle.
I can’t see without blessed people.
So unfortunately, I don’t know exactly what happened.
But I know that there was an argument.
Most people who received my blessing have good hearing.
Faint shouts. The sound of something breaking.
These can be heard even through walls.
Above all, I could see directly through Isla’s eyes. Witga’s expression as he came out after just finishing the conversation was very bad.
It’s enough to know that the relationship between Yasle and Witga has been damaged.
The gap between the people of the Future Hope Church is gradually widening.
Now what choice will Witga make?
If it’s too late, he won’t even be able to make a choice.
Because Andrew is also moving now, seizing the opportunity.
There’s exactly one blessed person in Andrew’s meeting place. So I know what he’s trying to do.
And surprisingly, Andrew is trying to negotiate with the Kingdom of Anselus using this opportunity.
The reason he decided to negotiate is, amazingly, because of Tis.
Yes. Andrew knows Tis’s identity.
A blessed person.
A superhuman.
The fact that the Kingdom of Anselus accepted someone blessed by an outer god is the reason he’s trying to abandon the Future Hope Church.
He’s inciting people by asking since when Cruxshibal was the name of the god we believe in. Actually, looking at the memories of Andrew’s subordinate who’s there, when Andrew was in control, they just called it God.
He sanctified it, saying the name shouldn’t be spoken carelessly, and made them call it only by honorific titles.
Then he brought up a name he had never used before.
Miriga.
All those around him nod in agreement as Andrew shouts that this was the original name.
Even the person who received my blessing is nodding. I can’t read minds to know exactly what they’re thinking, but there’s a high probability they’re creating memories.
Sometimes people create memories that don’t exist to supplement their memories.
I don’t know about fake memories. The end of memory is the point where I lick the light. After that, I just watch.
But since when has my memory become this good?
I wondered for a moment, but anyway, as long as I’m watching hundreds of people simultaneously, that question is meaningless.
Because I’m not human anymore.
So Andrew prepared to contact the Kingdom of Anselus through his subordinates. Unfortunately, the person in charge of this task isn’t someone who received a blessing.
We’ll know soon enough.
Because the Kingdom of Anselus is already heading towards the Skard Rocky Desert, leading skilled soldiers. And Tis is among those people.
The boy who hated the Future Hope Church.
His desire for revenge has changed into a mission. Because he’s a good person by nature, he prefers to live for someone rather than hate someone.
A week was too short, I guess.
Or there’s a possibility that he’s become more vicious.
Because one person’s mission kills more people than one person’s hatred, right?
Hehe.
If I explain it like this, you might think the Future Hope Church is evil and the Kingdom of Anselus is good, but that’s not actually the case.
Early modern average?
It’s a good country for those inside it, but for those outside, it’s just a country.
Although it moves centered on the religion called the Holy Spirit Religion, it’s difficult to see it as a religious state like a theocracy. To put it simply, it’s similar to medieval European monarchy.
So they’ll probably capture blessed people and experiment on and dissect them. Also, beyond the eyes of the blessed ones, I can see many people devastated by the tyranny of the Kingdom of Anselus.
I’m just slightly inserted into the flow of grand history.
And I’m trying to gain the most important thing there.
Warmth.
I thought I’d be in this world for at least 10 years, but it’s ending soon. So I need to somehow gain the knowledge to summon me.
Of course, I thought it might be okay to be captured and made to pour out blessings, but looking at Anselus’s nature, there’s a high possibility they’ll kill me as a heretical monster.
Even if I regenerate moderately, I’ll probably die when I die.
This body itself belongs to Rebecca Rolfe.
If the vessel breaks, the contents inside will spill out. I don’t know what will happen to this world after that, but I should prepare for the worst case.
Then I suddenly looked at Joanna beside me.
She’s the person who has been taking care of me by my side for half a year. Her skin has turned blue, and her sclera has turned black, what’s called demon eyes.
After blessing hundreds of people, I’ve learned something.
The more serious the body’s condition, and the older the age, the more severe the mutation.
One day, a man close to old age received a blessing. And like Joanna, his skin color turned blue, and his pupils turned yellow while the whites of his eyes turned black.
But he became younger.
From then on, not just bottom-level or ignorant believers, but people in fairly high positions started receiving blessings.
Rejuvenation is a terrible temptation.
And for those who receive it, it’s a blessing to boast about.
The person who became younger boasted of not only regaining his youth but becoming stronger than before.
And Yasle encouraged this. He said that if you do things that help him, you can avoid any wounds, and even aging.
Thanks to that, I was able to learn about the Future Hope Church in detail.
The story went off on a tangent, but Joanna is the first person to receive a blessing.
She’s the one who told me there was another way.
Moreover, she’s also the person who has been taking care of me for over half a year.
That care wasn’t bad.
But I have nothing to give.
I’m not telling her to leave here though.
Yes. As long as she’s a member of the Future Hope Church, she won’t.
Would Rebecca Rolfe say that?
Thinking that, I stopped exercising and stood still, looking to the right from where the sun rises.
At the far end of the Skard Rocky Desert.
Where rocks and pebbles disappear and grass starts to grow.
Tis has just set foot there.
And the Future Hope Church first confirmed that the Kingdom of Anselus has invaded, targeting this underground temple in the middle of the Skard Rocky Desert.
In about a week, the elite forces of the Kingdom of Anselus will attack.
Moreover, the Kingdom of Lasve and the Kingdom of Kogni have also moved their troops to the Skard Rocky Desert. The reaction is too fast for people to have come and gone exchanging stories.
There was a magician who knew magic that could transmit thoughts within a radius of 100m.
She was a sacrifice whose warmth I stole.
She only knew that, but isn’t it illogical to think there’s no technology like telephones in this world besides that?
So it seems they know about the Future Hope Church.
But the Kingdom of Lasve and the Kingdom of Kogni didn’t join forces. They’re just maintaining distance from each other and gradually moving south while killing Future Hope Church people who interfere with them.
Even now, people who received my blessing are disappearing one by one.
And villages betraying the Future Hope Church are increasing.
Blessed people come to collect tribute and are killed by kingdom warriors hiding in wait. Considering that there are far more villages that blessed people don’t go to, you can imagine the state without me saying it.
It’s happening not only in the Kingdom of Lasve, Kingdom of Kogni, and Kingdom of Anselus, but also in smaller kingdoms.
In short, they’ve lost public support.
The Future Hope Church is collapsing like dominoes.
But there’s one thing that Hieronymus’s plan has succeeded in.
Ah.
I guess it’s more correct to say Yasle, not Hieronymus.
The superhuman corps led by Wide.
Those who gained special abilities have honed those abilities and become experts who fight. And they’re planning to attack the capital of the Kingdom of Anselus using their various abilities.
I said it before, right?
Since winter came, all blessed people went to the Kingdom of Anselus.
Over a hundred ability users are no different from a country’s army by themselves. There are fusion techniques, abilities suitable for mass slaughter, and abilities that have terrible effects on specific people.
They should be able to destroy the capital sufficiently.
If the Future Hope Church falls, the Kingdom of Anselus will fall.
Because Wide’s desire for power is piercing the sky.
Of course, most blessed people are those who faithfully follow the Future Hope Church.
But what will happen if the core of the Future Hope Church breaks?
The people who give them orders will disappear.
The moment there’s no one to command, there’s a person who can immediately provide a new blueprint.
Many people will follow him. And when that happens, Wide will establish a new group.
Coincidentally, there’s an invaded royal castle there?
It’s the perfect place to grab a rolling lid.
Of course, there’s the assumption that they need to capture the capital, but honestly, thinking about how blessed people have fought so far, it doesn’t seem difficult to capture.
Therefore, there’s a high possibility that Yasle’s wish will come true.
Since coming to this world, I made a contract with Hieronymus.
A contract full of lies.
But if it’s fulfilled, I can say I faithfully fulfilled the contract, right?
If it doesn’t fall apart, it was all lies anyway, so let’s say the contract is void.
It’s fine however things flow.
So I’ll watch comfortably from this place.