Hyunkeshuni spent time with endless laughter.
Let’s believe she’s surely happy since she’s laughing.
Anyway, the Outer God Religion that captured the Witch of Joy immediately tried to call the Outer God. But unfortunately, Hyunkeshuni’s magic alone couldn’t summon the Outer God.
Only by adding the secret techniques Yasle brought from the Luminous Theocratic State could they finally surpass the minimum conditions to reach the Outer God.
But there was a problem.
The knowledge the Outer God sends is less audible the more clear-minded a person is. So even Tis never felt the summoning method the Outer God had been sending all his life.
The more vague the self and messed up the mind, the better the malicious information sent by the Outer God enters the head. That’s also why the Miriga Order quickly gathered people who knew how to summon the Outer God.
Most people had their self-esteem shattered by the brainwashing of the pseudo-religion and were dependent on others, so they readily accepted the summoning method.
But the Outer God Religion had a slightly different direction.
The Outer God Religion doesn’t annihilate people’s personalities, but rather is a religion that forgives and accepts others.
It means it’s a religion that expands the size of the heart.
So they analyzed Hyunkeshuni’s knowledge, but couldn’t reach the knowledge to call the Outer God with that alone.
That required Yasle’s special secret techniques.
After several attempts to call the Outer God failed, Rebecca gave up on directly calling the Outer God.
Instead, she decided to use another method.
Matching information received from the Anselus royal family and information extracted while giving pain to Hyunkeshuni, it seems the Outer God appears more easily if there are many blessed people.
So she decided to make very many.
Rebecca first spread the blessing that was only done at the holy land throughout the world.
She publicly announced that sentence in the name of the Outer God Religion.
An era arrived where anyone who wanted could receive the blessing.
And Rebecca added to that, using what she saw and learned from the history of another world.
She created doctrines to spread as widely as possible among people, imitating the universal religion seen in the Outer God’s memories.
This resembled Hinduism which absorbs other religions, not Abrahamic religions which exclude other religions.
The religion Rebecca created by mixing various things spread widely, with its ambiguity rather becoming a powerful weapon.
And one of the reasons the Outer God Religion spread quickly was because legends about the Outer God exist everywhere in this world.
A god of salvation who comes to those despairing of the world and gives final strength.
It’s no different from the Outer God Religion existing before the Outer God Religion spread.
Of course, there were pseudo-religions derived from that primitive religion, but they didn’t last long and were quickly dismantled and absorbed.
Because there was the blessing.
Anyone can receive the blessing if they believe the Outer God exists and read one sentence.
Whether you have no arms, no legs, or are suffering from skin disease, if you just receive the blessing you become a clean body. Once you feel the greatness of the Outer God, completely new doctrines approach.
Believing in god is humanity’s freedom.
The doctrine even acknowledges the freedom to not believe in the Outer God. Blessings are not things given as collateral for faith. Whatever you do, there was a promise that the Outer God comes to take those who received blessings at the end.
At first glance, it looks like a sentence that weakens faith. If you don’t have to believe, doesn’t that mean you really don’t have to believe?
But where this sentence really exerts power is when other religions are beside it.
When there are two religions, people unconsciously compare them.
Holding similar things and pursuing which is more efficient is an instinct humans have had since prehistoric times.
They receive just the blessing from the Outer God Religion and return to the religion they originally believed in.
But what’s there are people.
Their hair turned purple and skin turned white from receiving the blessing. How will people think when someone stronger and smarter than them appears, someone who suddenly grew with the blessing? What if that person was originally inferior to them?
They reject.
Saying they sold themselves to an evil being, they forbid those with purple hair from entering their domain.
Then what happens?
They don’t immediately enter the Outer God Religion. Because they have their mother religion until now, they just received the blessing because it said they’d become stronger if blessed. They still believe in the local god, but are rejected there.
Then now places arise where people who received blessings believe in the local god.
This is close to a disease.
To someone neutral or on neither side, it just looks like two of the same temples appeared.
There’s not much difference to third parties. Still, people who went to the Outer God Religion once go to places without purple hair at first because it’s uncomfortable.
They continue going to where they originally went like that, but if you’re human, there comes a point once or twice in life when you wish for god.
Where is the place that most intuitively helps people at that time?
The Outer God Religion.
If you receive the blessing, most things are resolved.
Moreover, you can just receive the blessing and still believe in your original god.
The number of blessed people increases. For example, let’s say there’s a family. The head of the household had an accident while working. So he received the blessing and his body healed.
Then, which way will the family go?
To the temple the head of household can’t go to? Or to the temple he can go to?
In the end, the place where people gather becomes the second temple. And the first temple loses people due to the culture of rejection and breaks down.
People gradually become accustomed to blessings. Of course, at that point it benefits the Outer God if not the Outer God Religion. Because many harvesters were created.
But where the Outer God Religion really digs in is the next generation. Everyone’s hair is purple. The alien appearance of the Outer God Religion living in the same village has now become normal.
Because most people already have purple hair.
Resistance decreases, and familiarity increases.
And as that happens, opportunities arise to learn about the Outer God Religion’s free doctrine. And they compare. A god who must be believed in to give something, and a god who gives blessings even if not believed and comes to take you at the end.
Which is greater?
Not every village or city is assimilated in this way, but they ultimately follow similar procedures.
It’s not a religion done because others say to do it, but the Outer God Religion’s doctrines gradually seep into cultural roots.
And that one sentence of freedom there.
The space for other faiths is gradually torn away.
Where there is no faith, there are two miracles.
Blessings are given first, and the price is received later.
The miracles of other gods receive faith first and miracles later.
People prefer easy and quick miracles.
Why go out at a specific time every week to pray? Moreover, many other religions demand a lot of money.
Originally, all religious groups demand money for various reasons. No matter how much a religion puts compassion first, money is ultimately needed to live in the material world.
But if that’s small, where will people turn their gaze?
The Outer God Religion was too powerful in terms of both faith and money.
So it wasn’t that strange that in less than 40 years, most people on the continent came to have purple hair and exceptionally white skin.
When there are many such people, a stigma effect also arises.
Even if they’re not actually like that, if they have purple hair and snow-white skin, they’re just treated as Outer God Religion.
It’s like the hasty generalization error of unconditionally seeing Muslims as terrorists in the country where the Outer God who was once human lived.
From the victim’s perspective, it would be easier to understand if foreigners unconditionally say East Asians are Chinese or Japanese.
And scale sometimes attracts even larger scale.
People living in modern society experiencing public opinion manipulation and people swept up in it know from experience.
It’s good to look up the word McCarthyism and study related events.
Whether truth or lies, groups sometimes lightly commit nonsensical acts.
In the middle of the continent. There are the Adu Jungle and Skard Rocky Desert.
It took just 30 years to paint the entire region east of that standard with purple hair.
And 60 years after the Outer God died at the holy land, most people on that continent were dyed purple.
Very unfortunately, it became like that.
From some day, people heard the sound of something cracking. But nothing happened.
So people lived thinking some natural disaster or big event must have happened somewhere far away.
People were still in the realm of faith to approach scientifically.
Of course, it was just the point where humanism was being born based on Outer God Religion doctrine.
It was still an era when it was easier to blame god than to find the phenomenon to solve questions.
It’s not that there weren’t people trying to find it, but they couldn’t find the cause of the cracking sound.
Over about 8 years, the cracking sound became more frequent. Then people became accustomed to that sound. Thus the last hope disappeared too.
But there was one person who had heard this sound before.
And there was one person who knew what it meant.
In the basement of the old Outer God Religion headquarters that most people no longer use.
It was close to a lump of meat with no human form, but it was once human.
Several generations ago.
A person who once had the name Hyunkeshuni, the Witch of Joy.
There was a human whose mind was already broken by torture like breathing. A young woman came to that place.
Dakota.
She hadn’t aged either. People think it’s because she’s a saintess, but she herself knows she has some ability.
When you receive a blessing, some gain special abilities.
It was the ability that her body doesn’t deteriorate until she kills Hyunkeshuni. Beside her was a middle-aged woman with white hair.
Her name was Rebecca Rolfe. After nearly 200 years, she finally started aging too.
Of course, she was still short.
Rebecca approached Hyunkeshuni.
“It’s been a long time, old witch.”
Crack.
Behind her, the sound of something cracking was heard. A terribly eerie sound. And Hyunkeshuni, who had heard it before, opened the one eyeball remaining in her skin.
She who could no longer smile because she had no muscles thought about the sound she just heard with the one ear remaining.
Long, long ago. Before the pain in the middle of hell began, there was such a sound when there was something very, very, very frightening.
There was the Outer God.
Crack crack.
That sound was heard again.
The sound of a glass plate cracking, unable to withstand the weight when a heavy object gets on top.
“The time has finally come for it to end, so I came to say goodbye.”
The witch looked at the smiling Rebecca. She tried to say something, but couldn’t speak. There were already no organs that could speak.
She tried to smile. But the muscles that could smile had long been removed from her body obsessively.
She could only look at Rebecca with her eyes, said to be the window of the heart, full of fear.
Crack!
The sound of something breaking, unable to endure, was heard.
At that moment, Hyunkeshuni felt the pain of burning that she had experienced hundreds of times now. Dakota had stabbed a burning sword into Hyunkeshuni’s body.
But that was the last time a person could do anything.
Do you remember the saying that when the Outer God blesses people, it puts itself in them?
Do you remember that every time the Outer God came to this world, cracks occurred as if broken by a heavy weight?
Crash!
They were thrown outside the world.
No, not just them. All life living in that world fell in a single direction. The glass bottle called the world shattered due to the weight of the things inside, and fell to a place that could only be called an abyss.
Rather than up and down, it was closer to the space itself moving servers.
To a place with old, ancient light on the verge of breaking, the further down you go.
For the creatures of one world falling now, there was no longer a world to protect them. They fell into countless worlds.
Not simply people living different lives. Some were shining like light, some were scattering like paint.
Down, down, down, experiencing insane environments changing over and over as if crossing from world to world.
And the bottom.
Splash!
To be precise, they touched the water’s surface and sank below it.
And immediately after, a tremendous cold dug deep into their souls.
To summarize.
The Holy Spirit was right.