Silence, understanding, and shock.
If only the high-ranking people had been like that, they could have passed over the situation for now, thinking the Holy Spirit must have protected them. Conversely, if only the low-ranking people had been like that, they could have passed it off saying they didn’t have enough power to kill the outer god, or something like that.
But evenly 3 people.
The fact that someone escaped from the sacrifice after directly witnessing god’s tremendous power before their eyes burned the hearts of the Holy Spirit Religion people there.
If only the highest person had been like that, they could have stopped once before thinking, pushed by power.
But the highest person, and someone below oneself.
When two are seen, resentment towards the highest person tends to be directed at the person below.
“How could you try to survive alone properly! You didn’t pray properly!”
When one of the most radical people couldn’t hold back, the priests looked at each other and identified the coward. And in one voice, they denounced the unchanged people. But the people being denounced had no idea what people were saying.
Because unless one’s hair is exceptionally long, it’s difficult to realize that the hair color has changed to purple.
So the timing of the rebuttal was late.
They received tremendous criticism and were branded as the worst humans.
The sacred place where god’s miracle had occurred was instantly defiled.
The sacredness that had erased the evil god now plunged the image of the Holy Spirit Religion, which was about to rise again due to human selfish greed, back to the bottom.
A Holy Spirit Religion priest who grasped the situation tried to sort things out, but it was already too late.
Everyone saw.
If only the Kingdom of Anselus had been here, they could have declared the Kingdom of Anselus heretical after returning, making some excuse.
But royalty and nobility from other countries are here in droves.
And they watched this show from the best seats.
Originally, the Holy Spirit Religion people here now are those who have gone through all sorts of experiences. But there’s a reason why such people are reacting like children.
Because no matter what they do from now on, they can’t go to the afterlife they believed in by the Holy Spirit Religion’s standards.
In other words, their future becomes unhappy because of their faith. Moreover, the era must be considered. In a society similar to early modern times, faith was everything to them. It’s rather difficult to imagine a society without faith.
It’s not a society where nothing happens if you don’t believe in god like now.
In a situation difficult to endure simply as a believer, there are people who escaped alone. The person with the least mental training exploded first.
They pointed fingers at those below them and denounced them.
And that anger spread like a plague.
Priests who rebelled saying they prayed properly, and priests who couldn’t believe those words.
In an instant, it was stained with a vulgar fight.
And everyone saw that scene.
What will they think?
It’s the vulgar appearance of those who denied their father of the nation.
The gap embedded in their hearts was too big to deny that only people are bad.
Is the Holy Spirit really a great god?
Doubts dug into their hearts. Originally, it takes a lot of time for thought to reach that point, but here there was someone who presented a different answer. People with thoughts recalled someone who answered that.
The outer god.
What on earth did that being say?
Freedom to believe in god.
Or freedom not to believe in god.
Seeds sprouted using human doubt and desire as fertilizer.
It’s not big enough to affect society yet. Only a very small number of intellectuals vaguely felt that something would change in the future.
Meanwhile, Hyunkeshuni covered her ears with her hands.
Because a man who finished watching and returned to his house after the execution was finished shouted asking what she was doing in his house. Hyunkeshuni cursed as if shooing away an annoying insect.
Click.
As the jaw of the skull attached to the staff opened and closed again, the man’s head flew off as if bitten by teeth. Then the woman next to him screamed a piercing scream.
This will be annoying if people come.
Click.
The jaw of the skull attached to the staff opened and closed again. The woman’s head fell off too.
Hyunkeshuni looked out the window again.
The boring show was over.
It was fun at first, but soon became boring because the outer god showed no reaction. Later she watched anxiously wondering if it really dies, but it did die.
That point pleased her.
Whether it really died or returned to its original place, she couldn’t know…
Giggling while recalling the content she deliberately twisted when writing the book, saying it would be better not to return to this world if it’s alive.
Although it was very laughable to see the Holy Spirit Religion people remaining on the execution platform doing unsightly things, it was time to leave the Kingdom of Anselus soon.
Because someone screamed just now, so someone will come here. That is, she needs to escape before getting caught.
Moreover, it’s strangely unsettling now. Hyunkeshuni thought it’s best to pull out quickly on days like this.
Above all, unpleasantly, that outer god mentioned her name at the end.
Hyunkeshuni wasn’t very worried that her name was mentioned since a bad guy died anyway, but still, being a coward by nature, she was the type to immediately pull out when there was something unsettling.
That’s how she survived until now while other witches were killed.
She survived long enough to change the meaning of a woman with various magics and knowledge to a woman using evil curses.
Hyunkeshuni went outside, leaving the fallen man and woman at the doorway.
But when she went outside, a child was lying on the ground trembling. Judging by appearance, the man and woman Hyunkeshuni just killed seemed to be the child’s parents.
“Wh-who are you?”
“Me? Hyunkeshuni.”
Hyunkeshuni said her name. But that was also a death sentence for that child. Knowing it’s troublesome to leave traces at times like this, she raised her staff.
And stabbed the child’s chest.
Hyunkeshuni knows from experience that when something sharp is stuck in the lungs, people can’t even scream.
Sharp bones tear the child’s chest and dig inside. But strangely, blood doesn’t flow to the floor. Rather, it climbs up the staff along the bones.
When the child’s breath stopped, Hyunkeshuni was satisfied that she filled the grudge needed for cursing and turned her body to leave the place.
Dark night.
Two corpses with their heads cut off. And one child stabbed in the chest.
But.
The child didn’t die.
Originally, she should have already died. It was too harsh a wound for the child to be alive.
So how desperate must the scene of watching her parents being murdered before her eyes have been?
How terrible must it have been to helplessly watch the culprit stab and kill herself?
The light fell to the bottom.
Very, very far down.
Beyond the abyss where evil monsters dwell, even further down.
The light that fell on the solid water surface originally called ground, met something crossing a veil that originally nothing should cross.
That something handed itself over to her.
The outer god dyed the light black and blessed it.
The outer god’s blessing remakes the body.
The hole pierced in the chest disappeared, and instead of blood, an alien substance began to flow through the blood vessels. She was still too young to resent and kill someone, but old enough to remember an enemy.
The skin turned blue, and the hair turned purple. The whites of the eyes were dyed black, and the pupils changed to fluorescent colors.
Causality slowly begins to turn.
On a day of special events.
The child remembered her mortal enemy.
And the Witch of Joy gained an enemy that originally shouldn’t exist.
* * *
Wow, Hyunkeshuni is really amazing.
How does she make enemies so well?
I saw the memories gained from the light that fell below the surface.
There was a family living happily, or rather, as happily as one living in a kingdom’s capital. Suddenly, for no reason, a witch appeared and killed them.
On the day when their whole body melted in the Holy Spirit’s light, they were killed by Hyunkeshuni who was caught watching from someone else’s house.
I knew from Yasle’s memories that she wasn’t originally a good person, but I didn’t know it was to this extent.
That child.
A girl named Dakota remembered Hyunkeshuni’s name. I don’t know how the child will grow up, but if she’s lucky, she might take Hyunkeshuni’s warmth.
While holding personal expectations, I examined the first world.
First, after I ‘died’.
Although the Holy Spirit Religion showed such a foolish appearance, surprisingly nothing changed. It seems there was no particular effect since it was just improvisation patching together the words of a somewhat great person.
Still, the fortunate thing is that the Holy Spirit Religion didn’t kill people who received my blessing.
Of course, I know the reason.
A total of 20 Holy Spirit Religion priests.
They killed the 3 unblessed people on their way back. Yes. Surprisingly, they did that. Listening to their story, they said they had to save their lives right now since they were going to hell anyway.
And surprisingly, it was Martin who presented a new path.
Believing in another god.
And that god is me.
Ugh.
Honestly, I don’t want to be called a god. So I tried not to call myself a god with my own mouth, but in the end they accepted it like that.
And unexpectedly, the priests and paladins accepted it docilely.
Listening to their story, it seems the folk belief that there’s a god who takes revenge for the desperate has remained all along.
I thought it would disappear by being corrupted into the Future Hope Church or remade into the Miriga Order, but it had much deeper roots than that.
How deep are the roots? So deep that people in exploited positions find it difficult to live near cities by law.
But it seems that being blessed by the god moved their hearts. There was also resignation that they would fall to hell at this rate anyway.
So they killed the 3 unblessed people to survive. The priest did curse at that time, but everyone ignored it since they weren’t actually cursed.
And when they returned to the Holy Spirit Religion headquarters, they explained their work with appropriate modifications.
The evil god died willingly in exchange for the conversion of the survivors. And the survivors willingly converted. As collateral for that, we became like this, but we still believe in the Holy Spirit.
You can excommunicate us. But please forgive the remaining ones.
It’s an exemplary model of a devout believer no matter where you look. The headquarters also felt uncomfortable about the purple hair. So instead of excommunicating, they accepted it.
The 3 people?
The road there and back is quite dangerous.
It was common to die by meeting bandits.
Little by little, the Holy Spirit Religion began to distort.