“I wonder when you will follow my teachings… … .”
“Sorry, sorry… … .”
The saintess of Vasah, the double-faced god. Ariel lowered her head, hiding her reddish arms with her sleeves.
In the meantime, it was a corporal punishment that took a break when moving to attract Adelian Kruger, but the teaching started again thanks to Adelian, who for some reason did not come to the gambling house from a certain moment.
“Since he is known for his incompetence, he will be contacted soon. But in the meantime, you can’t neglect your studies. Be diligent every day.”
Ariel, with a stunned face, carefully opened her mouth to the High Priestess who was wiping the cane with a dry cloth after touching her sore arm.
“I have a question for you… … .”
The middle-aged High Priestess raised one eyebrow in surprise at Ariel’s creeping voice.
Because the saintess, who was only an obedient child, rarely asked proper questions.
“A saintess? Say something.”
Ariel swallowed dry saliva and cautiously pursed her lips.
“Dear Prince Adelian… Wasn’t it a bit excessive to show you until dawn… … ?”
The existence of God is so huge and difficult that Ariel’s little brain couldn’t understand it even after learning it over and over again, but she knew one thing.
That God can become as strong as humans believe and rely on.
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There are many other ways, but that is the most common.
beliefs and beliefs. offerings and sacrifices.
They make the gods stronger and the stronger gods share their power with the world through their priests.
That’s why dawn was a special place. No one gathered there had a story, and they were that desperate.
However, if the world knows that trading in so-called miracles will come out of the pantheon… … . At worst, Basah, a two-faced god with a small power, might be accused of heresy.
“There are rumors that I am a fool. If he carelessly opens his mouth… … .”
The high priest snorted at Ariel’s words. Wiping it with a dry cloth, he took out the cane again and opened his mouth in a noble tone.
“If you remember everything I said once, you can be called a saint.”
Tsutsutsuk.
that tongue-in-cheek sound.
Every time he heard a tsk, Ariel, who had been crawling with her head, her shoulders narrowing, and her back crouching, rolled up her arms, which were now gradually spreading purple, at the sound of the high priest waving in the air and cutting with a cane.
“Do you know how many times he made the saintess win in a row and showed him the dawn after making him go in and out of the gambling house?”
A subtle flavor that is always smoked in the gambling hall.
It’s a common taste that can be smelled at a party of ordinary nobles, but the recipe is a little different.
A very, very mild blend of herbs, combined with a few hints, becomes a shield against the black market ‘dawn’.
The sense of incongruity and anxiety that you feel when you try to put it out of your mouth. Guilt like committing a sin.
A man named Adelian must have permeated that restraint that shook his mind.
“He won’t be able to comment on Dawn. It’s better if you try to do it.”
I will feel that incongruity and search for you right away.
The middle-aged high priest raised the corner of his mouth and swung a cane.
* * *
“That place called Dawn.”
“yes. Adelian.”
“I gave a brief explanation to everyone. How about it, everyone, tell me your opinion.”
Soul is a black market where currency can be collected and traded only at dawn.
Even if it was a bit suspicious up to that point, it was the black market that exists everywhere on the continent. Even in the game, there have been other black market stages other than Dawn.
However, when I came here, it was a different story when it was not the special weapon or material I saw in the game, but if the tradeable thing included a miracle.
“Sure, huh? when you eat.”
I was a bit embarrassed because I felt like a K-patriarch at Rachel’s grumbling, but I had my own excuse.
“Who always runs away when I have a meeting?”
“Oh, please continue talking.”
Rachel, who was eating sweet and salty stewed meat in a brown, glossy sauce on bread, urged her to speak quickly.
“Actually, it’s a black market that would be moderate for those who don’t know what’s going on, but there’s a problem with the items being traded.”
I was able to find out about this because I had approached first from the Church of the Double-Faced God Vasaha, and if I had taken the usual route at dawn, I wouldn’t have known that that miracle was being traded.
“By the way, Bocchan. is that really possible? If that’s possible, I don’t know why other temples don’t do it.”
“That part is a blind spot.”
In the original game as well as in the game, the gods of the pantheon do not come to the fore.
Even if the Evil Gods are so lazy, they don’t give out a common hero, and they don’t come down with a revelation to defeat.
But if it’s not very useful, it’s not that, what should I say.
A feeling that only shows movement very indirectly.
But Vasaha openly put miracles on display as if they were for sale. in a place called dawn.
No matter how much Vasaha’s church was involved, the mechanism by which the miracle was performed could not be imagined.
“The more souls I collected there, the more powerful miracles I could buy.”
“How far can that go?”
Kane slowly moved his pupils to look at me, and at the words he threw, I also rolled my eyes for a moment and began to calculate properly.
“Because I was quite confident. well… Even if I can’t do it, can’t I bring the dead back to life?”
Instead it… Reversing the original was not so easy. Except for one place.
“But, that’s a soul… The more you collect, the more powerful miracles are possible?”
Rachel swallowed the drink in one shot and opened her mouth, wiping her oily lips with her sleeve.
“If you really collect a lot of them, you’ll still be famous, but saving one person is the end?”
Although Resurrection is a magic that even dragons cannot easily abuse, it is at a level that is possible and cannot be used without recoil in the body of an ordinary person.
In the end, if you think about it backwards, you can use it with recoil.
“Then what mighty miracles can you imagine?”
Leaf started writing on the blackboard as Zero said as he rummaged through the salad.
[Something like accurately finding out the past of a thousand years ago.]
Is it my feeling that even though it’s just letters, it’s mixed with a bit of grumbling?
Seeing the letter, Zero slightly averted his eyes.
“Or, conversely, kill all the people on the continent.”
“men and horses.”
I lifted my fork towards Kane and stabbed the air, and Kane confidently looked at me with eyes wondering what to do.
Ha, I have to go back to mental training sooner or later.
“Is it possible to wish that everyone would be happy?”
At Luna’s words, I mumbled and let out a breath.
“Well, I don’t know how much soul it will cost.”
Usually, if you grant a wish like that. As a person who sold subcultures on Earth, I only think of bad things.
Actually, among the artifacts I have, isn’t there a continental monkey hand?
Instead of making a wish come true, the direction never goes right.
If you take the wish that everyone mentioned by Luna is happy, for example, you can make it like a brain in a vat.
“I am curious. whatever.”
Rachel puts one hand on her chest and grumbles, looking a little displeased.
“How on earth do you get that soul anyway, and why don’t other gods do that? If there are any other gods who do that, I wonder why they don’t do it in public.”
I mean, even if it’s suspicious, it’s not a little suspicious. While I was scooping well-cooked corn kernels with a spoon and putting them into my mouth, Leaf opened her mouth.
―If you want, I think it’s also a way to find out by sharing a party.
“I thought about that for a second. That dawn is not a place anyone can visit by chance unless they are invited.”
And as I often said, I tend to think that it is better not to try to have a party at all.
If you think about the power balance that was like a twisting nether as you went… In fact, in case of really bad luck, I couldn’t ignore the possibility of encountering a dragon or an opponent equivalent to it while passing by like the Lepis incident that happened last time.
At least if we’re together, we can do anything.
‘The power of the party I am in is getting too low.’
However, if Kane is attached to me unconditionally, the meaning of sharing the party will be blurred.
‘So we live together like one family, even if we die together… … !’
… is not a bit
I’m not originally from this place, and if the moment comes when the need to throw is forced, I’ll be the best value for money.
“young master. You are thinking strange things again.”
“… What are you talking about?”
“Looking at the eye movements and the awkward facial muscle usage, I think it fits.”
Kane What is this bastard saying?
“Well, at least it must be a useless delusion. Eat meat, not beans like this.”
I take away the bowl of corn that I used to eat well, and suddenly Rachel puts a stewed meat in sauce in front of me with bread.
―In addition, sleep time is short these days, manager.
“Oh, that’s a bit of a lot of work these days.”
“Looking at the atmosphere, you should go to bed early today, Adelian-sama.”
Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve been bullied.
I put the stewed meat on bread with sauce and took a big bite.
“Honestly, among us, don’t I sleep the most?”
Why are you worried about me sleeping? The moment I open my mouth, everyone’s eyes subtly narrow… … .
“If you feel unfair, come and wake me up too.”
At Rachel’s words, I swallowed the bread I was chewing without a word.
* * *
“If it was really possible, I would like to open the top of my head once… evil!”
“Can I say that or not?”
Rachel pursed her lips and rubbed her side. No matter how much it was, Zero slowly opened his mouth while watching Rachel quack at Luna, asking where she was stabbing her with an aura on her finger.
“The god presumed to be behind the black market.”
“You mean Vasaha?”
At Kane’s answer, Zero smiled and nodded.
“yes. Since I was in a labyrinth, I must have lacked common sense. Please explain.”
In addition, Luna from Chavid, who had almost no followers in Vasaha, whom Kane had already had, and Leaf, who had been in the airship for 1,000 years.
In addition, after looking at Rachel, who seemed to have nothing recorded in her brain compared to the years, she touched her temple and opened her mouth.
“I don’t know very detailed doctrines or personalities, but… I will only tell you what I know.”
Kane caught his breath as if to organize his thoughts for a moment, then slowly opened his mouth.
A coin, and a two-faced god. Basah.
“We know that a coin usually means a price to be paid, not just gold or silver. And if you say two sides there, you would think of it as a double meaning.”
“Yes, it is. Apparently, from what I heard from Adelian, someone is serving as the priest of Vasaha and the priest of another god.”
“I know? isn’t that That’s exactly what I hear.”
Isn’t it double? Looking at Zero who said that and Rachel who added her own opinion, Kane said while making an expression that seemed worthy of such thought.
“Since the front and back of a coin can never face each other unless twisted and folded, no matter how thin the two sides are, they are basically parallel and touch something inviolable and incomprehensible.”
At Kane’s words, Zero lowered his gaze and cut the air with his pupils, as if trying to remember something.
“If you are a god of such things, it is possible to penetrate both sides for a moment.”
Kane didn’t think much of it in response to Zero’s slowly echoing words.
“Maybe it is.”