＜ 14 : Apostle, Euthenia High Lost (4) ＞
Two hours have passed since an unidentified girl entered the village.
And Peter’s eyes, who had been watching that girl, were now colored with astonishment.
2 hours. It is not enough time for an individual to destroy an entire village.
Nevertheless, the girl who came to the village alone made it possible.
The reason was simple.
She was a monster far beyond the realm of human beings.
“Ahhh…….”
blood. A strong scent of blood tickled Peter’s nose.
Peter covered his mouth with his hand at the smell of blood stinging his nose.
I feel like my head hurts at the screams in my ears.
The town reflected in Peter’s eyes was the opposite of what it had been before, full of serenity.
tuk. fight.
Thin raindrops falling from the sky begin to wet the ground full of screams.
Still, there is no sign of the people’s screams fading away.
It was because there were so many lives that were ruined in this place.
“I think we’re almost done. There’s no need to worry too much.”
The girl looked at Peter with a nonchalant look and said.
The thick book the girl was holding was held wide open, caught in the shadows.
Those who were running away to survive also returned to the center of the village, led by the shadow of the shadows.
The town in Peter’s eyes was hell.
Hell spread across the ages.
It has become a terrible place that should not exist, where no one is allowed to live.
“Why, why are you doing this…?”
Peter looked around and spoke with a trembling voice.
The boundary between life and death was decided in an instant.
It was simply a difference of answers.
Peter accepted the girl’s words without knowing anything, and simply rejected the rest without understanding.
And hell unfolded.
It was full of things that Peter did not understand.
The fact that the girl came to the village and that the village has become like this is everything.
The girl who heard Peter’s question only answered with a smile that seemed purer than anyone else in the world.
“Because the Great One wants it.”
“What……?”
“Taking back what you created with your own hands, back into your arms. What’s wrong with that process?”
Because he made it himself, he collects it with his own hands.
It was an idea that would go crazy just by hearing it.
Peter couldn’t understand why people’s lives were taken lightly for that reason alone.
The God he thought was not like that.
He didn’t even want to believe that such a being was the god who created him.
Peter exclaimed, pointing his finger at the girl in front of him.
“Mi, you’re crazy…! You’re crazy!”
“You think so?”
“……”
“Still, if it’s just for him, it might not be that bad.”
again. again.
The girl’s footsteps headed towards the center of the village.
It was adorned with all kinds of texts and pictures, created by the hands of the shadows.
can’t read It is even impossible to understand.
Still, it seemed certain that the girl in front of him was trying to do something.
It is also something crazy that a sane person would not even try.
“——.”
A girl standing in front of the altar made with paintings raised her hand.
🤟🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
As the pages of the thick book turned, red letters appeared on the open pages.
The girl who gently caressed the bookshelf with her fingertips took a deep breath.
Whoa. A soft voice that flows out with a light breath.
What came out of the girl’s mouth was a conscious spell towards a transcendent being.
“——Life. Build stairs.”
A beautiful voice resounded like a poem.
But its content is just the opposite.
The content of forcing a fleeting death for the sake of a great being while downplaying the value of life looking up at the sky.
Nevertheless, they continue to speak words of praise only to the god who judges them.
“——One way to glory.”
“——One way to death.”
The girl’s footsteps revolved around the invisible altar of death.
With each step of her leisurely steps, the piled-up clutter of life was engulfed in a divine light.
The girl in front of me is a non-human being.
And what she prayed for was a being located farther away than that.
Peter, who was looking at the altar the girl had made, began to feel a chill in his body.
“——Respect it. Respect it. Make an offering.”
weight is trembling Chills in the body that sees the consciousness.
However, we cannot take our eyes off the altar full of malice.
A brief but meaningful prayer was about to end.
The girl returned to the first place to finish.
With him, a final prayer flowed from the girl’s mouth.
“——Sing the hymns of life.”
The moment when the offering ceremony ends with the girl’s prayer.
Peter saw huge eyes in the sky overcast with dark clouds.
A fragment of something incomprehensible and incomprehensible.
Those huge eyes looked at Peter, the girl in front of him, and finally the altar where the sacrifice was placed.
And immediately after that, a strong brilliance flashed.
When the light that had robbed Peter’s sight faded, nothing remained in the center of the altar.
Even the traces of the presence of a person there had completely disappeared.
The offering ceremony ended with that.
“ah…….”
An exclamation came out of Peter’s mouth as he watched the ceremony.
The opponent is merely a human being and a different being.
There is no meaning in protesting, just facing each other determines your fate.
It didn’t matter much whether he was looking forward to the sight in front of him.
It was an existence that anyone could not help but feel astonished the moment he saw it.
While Peter was staring at the altar where the villagers had disappeared with his blank eyes, a girl who had completed the ceremony approached Peter with a book in her arms.
“How does it feel to sniff a piece of the Great One?”
She is still wearing a smile that looks innocent.
Power entered Peter’s fist as he faced the girl.
As Peter watched the ceremony, he realized that he was no longer healthy.
He was now terrified.
Faced with an existence that was not even allowed to see, his body was trembling just by peeking at its traces.
“how…….”
“how?”
“You, you… what the hell are you!”
Peter, who was sweating in a cold sweat, asked her who she was.
At Peter’s question, the girl’s eyes filled with interest.
tock. tock.
The girl who knocked on the cover of the book she was holding opened her mouth.
“Hmm, is that what you mean?”
“……okay.”
identity question.
The girl’s answer to that was simple.
“Apostle, Euthenia High Lost.”
The hand that had reached out from the shadow stopped in front of Peter.
tuk.
A dark finger pressed against Peter’s forehead.
But the shadow’s touch never completely crushed Peter.
After finishing the prank, the hand went back into the shadow of Yutenia.
“It is the first paper to honor the Great One.”
* * * * *
“What? Why are there so many coming in?”
The screen of the smartphone that contains the appearance of Utenia.
I have been watching the conversation from the moment Yutenia entered the village until now.
Until Eutenia hunted the characters for the first time, I was just thinking that the characters were doing automatic hunting on my behalf.
However, when I saw the message that came to me right after the offering ceremony was over, I couldn’t help but be surprised.
Because of the offerings made by Euthenia, a huge amount of karma came to me.
– [Apostle: Euthenia High Lost] has made an offering for you.
– Sacrifice offered to you: 43
– The effect of ＜Karma’s Balance: Offering＞ is activated.
– Karma increased by 86 based on the number of sacrifices offered.
The number of characters that Utenia offered to me was 43.
I heard the number of villagers from a character named Peter, and it must have been the contents of the system message.
However, the number of karma I have obtained is a whopping 86.
Compared to the karma when I was hunting alone, I had obtained double the number.
Even if you hunt the same number of characters, it doubles.
It was an unbelievable magnification.
“If a character makes an offering, it doubles? Wow…”
When Euthenia made an offering, it produced twice as much efficiency as my movement.
I still don’t know if it’s because of the effect that depends on ＜Karma’s Balance＞ or because Euthenia is my apostle.
However, if there is one thing for sure, it was that the efficiency was better than that of hunting myself.
If you raise your character, you can level up in a more efficient way.
It seemed that this game was not classified as an idle type for nothing.
“It would be better to leave it to me for a while.”
Of course, considering the movement speed of the character, there may be cases where it is more efficient for me to intervene.
Nevertheless, I saw the possibility of neglect in Euthenia.
The number of apostles I can foster is not one.
If you continue to collect karma and increase the number of apostles, the speed of leveling up will increase proportionally.
In some cases, non-Apostle characters may also be able to make offerings.
As I was drawing such a hopeful upbringing plan in my head, Yutenia, who had completed the ceremony, looked up at the sky and said:
– “I worked hard on my own, but I don’t know if you liked it.”
Did you like the experience?
That was a stupid question.
Who wouldn’t be happy to receive twice as much experience?
To me now, Utenia was like a precious limb.
I took a baguette from my inventory and threw it to Euthenia.
“It’s long. Yutenia. It’s also the character I chose.”
It is natural to give a reward for making an offering.
The baguette handed to Euthenia was an expression of such a reward.
Eutenia, who received the bread, bowed her head and took a bite of the bread.
He was still eating baguettes well.
However, it is impossible to end it with this kind of reward for a character who earned 86 karma.
I moved my finger closer to the screen, thinking of stroking Yutenia’s head.
Whoops.
As my fingers swept over my head, Yutenia’s scream came out of the speech bubble.
– “Heh heh.”
thud.
Eutenia, who was stroked by me, fell to the floor.
Apparently, the touch hurt more than I thought.
As I watched, I felt somewhat embarrassed, so I hurriedly turned off the screen of my smartphone.
I felt like I wanted to hide somewhere for a while.