True Faith (3) Illustrations
The atmosphere in the church is chaotic.
Pope Sicari sensed that the smell of the wind blowing through the Holy Land had recently changed.
It all started when Estelle, the saint of the church, returned with the Holy Grail.
Holy Grail.
Its identity is Undri, the magical cauldron of the God King Dagda Mor that appears in ancient mythology.
Klau Solas of the sun god Nuada Argetlam.
Aradwa of the light god Lu Rabada.
And the crown stone, Leah Arm, symbolizing the God King.
Undri did not have any special power among them.
But what is important is its symbolism. Because it could be combined with the keyword ‘Holy Grail’, the religious order treated Undri as the highest holy object.
The saint brought such a holy relic, saying that she had been chosen by God.
how? Even though he is the legitimate son of the royal family with the blood of gods and giants, he is chosen by Undri?
How can a saint who does not know the true faith be recognized by Danan’s divine being?
-The Holy Virgin will guide us!
-The saint is, of course, the one chosen by God!
-Dirty magic tower bastards! There are apostates who sold the saint to them!
The saint who returned blatantly rallied the priests and believers of the church.
He claimed that he was chosen by God and incited that there were apostates.
What an apostate. It was an absurd statement to the ‘Paradise Sect’ who knew the true nature of the church and the true gods… but it was not yet time to reveal themselves.
‘That won’t work. We must ask the Church of Zeruem for help…’
Unlike the Church of Zeon, where only the Pope and about half of the cardinals were eroded, the leadership of the Church of Zeruem was completely eroded by the Paradise Arrival Sect.
All of this is because of the saint. Unlike Zeruem, the Church of Zeon was unable to make bold moves because the presence of the saint divided power and symbolism within the church.
Since the saint is in the church, the eyes of the royal family are also focused on this place.
But now the plan is less than a year away. Crouching frost giants will cause a severe winter, wolves will stir up, light will disappear and darkness will come.
The prophecy of Danan and the giants who divided the era. The apocalypse that had been postponed by humans begins.
When that era comes, worldly status and honor will be of no use. What matters is how much more merit you have made in creating a new world.
‘I will become a god. I will stand at the right hand of the God King.’
I can’t give up now. Despite being 80 years old, Sicari Iscariot did not lose his burning gaze.
-bang!
It was then. Suddenly, someone burst into the Pope’s office. He raised his old body and wanted to rebuke this rudeness.
“What on earth…!?”
“Hello, Your Holiness.”
A familiar face. She, with her fancy clothes and pink hair, has been his problem lately.
“Saint…! What on earth are you doing?”
She led the Holy Knights and numerous priests and nuns and stormed into the Pope’s room. Except for the saint herself, those under her seemed unsure of what they were doing.
“I received a revelation. And the Lord told me to verify it.”
People often refer to the second princess of the royal family, Miriam, as the poisonous snake.
Anyone who has seen the bloodshed she has endured since the incident 10 years ago, brutally killing beastman demons, will agree.
But now I see that Saint Estelle was of a similar type. Because she protected the demons and stood up for them by declaring their rights and protection, she just went unnoticed.
The saint who returned to the church instigated the church members and subordinated the clergy like a seasoned politician rather than a saint.
“All this according to God’s will.”
Now the saint who hid the face of a snake has taken control of the church.
* * * *
Akeldama, one of the eighteen cardinals who formed the main axis of the Protestant Order, was dragged in while he was sleeping.
Heavy stone walls, cold iron bars, and even a seal engraved with holy power. A prison cell that completely blocks escape, both inside and outside.
This is a heresy interrogation room that existed even before the founding of the Zeon Church, showing the will to not let prisoners or even sound escape.
A trace of the history of hundreds of years ago when heretics, witches, etc. were hunted down, tortured, and finally executed.
Before I could swallow the question of why I was in a place like this, someone came in from the only entrance and exit.
A brilliant group that does not fit into an interrogation room where not a single light enters.
Paladins wearing blessed holy armor and saints of the church adorned in white silk robes and ornate gold accessories.
“Hello, Cardinal Akeldama.”
“Stand, saintess…!”
Cardinal Ageldama was both pleased and appalled by the appearance of the saint.
This was because her pure white clothes and ornate gold jewelry were stained with blood.
Everyone knows that the saint is invincible. She is the one who cannot be hurt. A child of God who is blessed by God and whose prayers come true.
There is no way a wound like that would cause blood stains…
“Ah, this? I’m sorry. As I was screening out the apostates… there were a lot of people, so I didn’t have time to change.”
“Ship, apostates…?”
“Before that, knights? Everyone, please leave. I want to talk to the Cardinal alone.”
“······All right.”
Even though he knew that the saint was invincible, the paladin, who was supposed to be her guard in principle, made a complicated expression and followed her words.
Although she was a saint with a somewhat free-spirited personality, Estelle was inherently gentle and loving.
She harbors the absurd thought that what she has been doing ‘ever since last night’ is truly for the Lord.
However, that thought quickly disappeared. A saint is a being chosen by God. The proof is that the Holy Grail responded to this.
If a being closer to God than anyone else heard the revelation, then it is truly so. If it were a lie, there’s no way it could have such brilliant sacred power, right?
Only Estelle and Akeldama remained in the interrogation room.
She casually places the bloody mace on the desk and sits down in a chair.
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“Stand, saintess…”
It occurred to me that Agelda’s gentle expression was somehow filled with sharp anticipation.
But just for a moment, clap your hands! Estelle breathes the air with a simple expression.
“Now, don’t be too nervous. If Cardinal Akeldama is innocent, there will be no problem.”
“What do you mean by innocence?”
“For your information, I have no talent for torture. Testimony obtained after intentionally tormenting and persecuting people. It is the method of the Catholic Church. Honestly, I admit that it is a necessary evil.”
The refreshing words are still those of Saint Estelle. But the blood on her cheek, on her collar, and on her mace directly contradicted this.
“Sir, saint… I don’t know what’s going on, but I’m innocent! I can’t believe I’m being dragged into the heresy interrogation room! My holy power is fine! If you give me a chance to prove it…!”
“Do you serve Danan?”
“······Yes? Uh···Isn’t that something from the myths of the apostates?”
Akeldama adjusted his expression with a feeling of desperation. She almost made a stupid expression.
He had to know the existence of Danan only through knowledge. They should not have known that God, the God-King of Light, created the new world.
That the source of my holy power comes from believing in Danan.
“Don’t be so mean. I know that. The ‘Lord’ we have known so far is a fake created by humans.”
“Yes? Yes? Saint! Why are you so evil…!”
It was that moment. A brilliant sacred power appeared around Estelle, filling the dark room with light.
Truly pure white light. A radiance that is only allowed to those who have more sacred power than anyone else and divine power.
He was handed over to the Magic Tower to extract the blood that would resurrect the giant, but he was dazed as if bewitched by the clear light in front of him.
A being who truly carries on the lineage of God. Agel Dama knew well that whether she worshiped her Lord or served Danan, the root of her power ultimately came from the same lineage of gods as her.
“Do you serve the Lord or do you serve Thanan?”
A simple gaze that even confuses the intention of the question. But Akeldama never gives in to this.
The saints are the Pope and 10 of the 18 cardinals. The Paradise Entrance faction, which makes up half of the upper echelons of the church, are the ones that decided to purge.
She is a hindrance to the God-King of Light. There’s no way she’s on their side.
“I don’t know! I really don’t know what the saint is talking about!”
A connection between Gugyo and the Magic Tower was discovered while searching the house. And the saint’s understanding convinced her that he was not telling the truth.
“lie.”
Estelle, extinguishing her brilliant holy power, stretched out her hand towards the bloody mace.
* * * *
Pope Sicari is the son of Soter Iscariot, the first Pope of the New Church that rose up against the unreasonable doctrines of the Old Church and the Witch Revolution.
An incident in history that confronted the Old Church’s Zeruem Shrine and the Magic Tower of the Iron Islands.
I fought for the right faith and prayed solely to serve the Lord.
One day, he succeeded his father as Pope and encountered an intruder in his bedroom.
“It’s Tates Balthazar. According to you, it is a being called God.”
Such an outrageous, blasphemous statement. But he had no choice but to wake up soon.
‘Lord’ is a false being.
The real God is right in front of you.
So I abandoned the Lord. He abandoned false beliefs and served the real God.
For the coming creation.
Unlike the Lord, who tested believers with ambiguous heaven and hell, Danan of Light promised a clear reward.
I will punish the false world and place them on empty gods in the new creation.
“How did this happen?”
And now.
Pope Sicari, who was brought down by the saint when everything was revealed, came face to face with the woman in front of him for the first time in 80 years.
“You are Soter’s son.”
A being who possessed a brighter brilliance than anyone else and was a living divinity. A being as beautiful as a goddess, with hair as fine as silver and eyes as beautiful as the blue sea.
“Erin… Danua.”
“You remember me, Son of Soter.”
“Hehehe… who wouldn’t remember you if they saw you?”
Although the encounter took place when he was only five years old, Pope Sicari was still vivid in his memory. And compared to back then…
“You are still young. You haven’t aged at all. I didn’t know then that you were a goddess.”
“Your father didn’t know either.”
“Yes! You hid your faith from yourself! And you observed my father’s faith, ours. How foolish and ignorant you must have seemed!”
I remember the moment when my lifelong faith was denied.
At first, I denied this and sought the Lord. But there was no answer, and his holy power was still there.
When he finally doubted the Lord, he thought his holy power would disappear. Since he abandoned the Lord, he abandoned the faith, isn’t it natural?
But despite his doubts and disbelief, his holy power still worked.
He said that he was able to control holy power because the priests who manipulated holy power had the bloodline of gods and giants… and had accidentally awakened that bloodline.
It’s just a coincidence.
The feeling of despair when you realize this.
“If God is a false being… isn’t it natural to find a new god? They say I can become a god, and your youth and eternal life will be mine!”
“Did you give up justice just because of that?”
Eren Danua. The goddess representing the divinity of justice rarely frowned.
She was the one who remained despite the rebellion of the Goidel people and even though Danan people like her family left this land.
As a teacher of heroes, Danan of Justice taught martial arts and guided them on the right path. She pitied the greedy and weak human being before her.
“You should have followed your conscience and justice in your heart, not God.”
“Huh?!”
However, the judgment of justice must be firm.
The former Pope of Sicari, who had been stabbed in the heart, fell down with an expression of disbelief. The blood that bursts from the pierced heart forms a puddle.
The scene of cold execution. There was someone approaching, paying no heed to the fishy smell of blood. This is Saint Estelle.
“Are you finished, Goddess?”
“······Yes. This child is the one I gave my blessing to, so I will take it with my own hands.”
“I think they should have hanged him with evidence of his apostasy.”
Erin couldn’t hide her complicated feelings as she looked at Estelle.
Not long ago, I was a lively and bright child. But now Estelle seems to have a hint of sinister fanaticism.
This was also the case with this radical internal purge in the first place. Using the Holy Grail, he spoke of revelations from a god he did not believe in and incited religious denominations and believers.
After quickly forming public opinion, he made a bold move to preemptively attack the cardinal and the pope with the combatants of the religious order that trusted him.
Bypassing all procedures and trials, the upper echelons of the Heavenly Paradise Sect were purged with a quick decision.
There may still be some members of the Paradise Entrance faction remaining, but at a time when the upper echelons of the cardinal level and above have been decimated and the bishops have been replaced, it would be difficult to see the lower ranks accomplishing anything.
Such a drastic internal purge was possible thanks to the synergy between the Holy Grail and the Holy Woman… and Estelle’s unhesitating use of force.
The feedback on his lifelong faith being denied was pouring in a different direction than that of the Sicari Pope.
“Don’t get too drunk on blood. Even if it’s the right thing to do, once people get involved in blood, they change in some way.”
Just like ink staining white paper spreads uncontrollably.
“I know, goddess. Even though she looks like this, she’s still a princess. She’s used to seeing blood.”
She is also skilled in political conflict. She was able to do things that an ordinary priest could not do.
After the Pope’s purge, Erin left the church and left the rest to Estelle. Estelle smiles brighter than ever as she sees Erin off.
The heads and bodies of the rats were cut off. The few tails can be sorted out with just the internal documents of the purged cardinals and bishops.
Truly, the purification of the denomination is not far off. also······.
‘I need to reorganize the doctrine from the inside. ‘We must maintain the current Bible and gradually incorporate various beliefs.’
Estelle knows well what kind of trouble a radical religious reform would cause.
Therefore, she plans to gradually change her faith in the Lord into faith in Danan.
For example, ‘God King’ is ‘Lord God’ and ‘Danan’ is ‘Angels’.
It will not be that difficult to change perceptions in a subtle way, such as interpreting the Bible and discovering new scriptures.
Because you are a child of God, a body that has received revelation from God, and the owner of the Holy Grail.
“Corin~ Corin’s younger brother. Corin, Corin, Corin… A new sun that will lead me. A new faith for humans.”
The master of the sun who will protect humanity against the evil spirit of light and save the world. The saint who inherited the divine power of the earth was drawn only to him.
Well, doesn’t a king need a queen?
It is a combination of the sun god and the earth mother goddess.
It’s a really good tune.
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