Necromancer School’s Summoning Genius Chapter 164
“What’s this…….”
Lethe looked at Simon’s divinity in disbelief, then stuttered.
“Yes, yes! You too finally have faith in the Great Goddess! It is worth reading the scriptures!”
“I don’t think so.”
“Then what is that flower on your left hand? It’s proof that your faith is full!”
Simon said with a sullen expression.
“The goddess is a liar.”
“What, what? Hey you bastard! What did you just say…”
Hwaaak!
However, the divinity in Simon’s left hand grew larger and brighter. Seeing this, Lethe’s mouth sank.
“It’s proven.”
Simon laughed round and round.
“At least for me, divinity doesn’t come from belief in God.”
“Nonsense!”
She was scratching her head in pain. Divinity is the power that comes from the goddess, and there should be no exceptions. Lethe felt that the entire tower of faith she had built so far was shaken.
Then Simon smiled embarrassedly and asked.
“But how do you turn this off?”
“…….”
She buried her head in her lap and raised her head in agony.
“I’m getting permission from the goddess… Thank you for lending me your great authority today. I’ll go back to being a normal human again.”
“okay?”
Simon tried to do as Lethe said.
‘Does he have the chin to do it?’
Next, I used the previous know-how. He asked permission to give up the power to himself, not to God. but fail.
‘Isn’t this it? It feels a bit different though.’
Simon pondered and changed his mind.
‘Actually, it’s normal that I can’t use divinity.’
Hwareuk!
As soon as I made up my mind, the divinity of my palm went out like a lie.
“oh.”
Lethe’s eyes lit up.
“Has the goddess heard your prayers?”
“No, just like auto-hypnosis, it turned off because I thought I couldn’t use divinity.”
shaking.
Her body as she knelt down trembled like an aspen tree. Feeling a slight sense of danger from her, Simone tried to step back, but she was one step ahead.
With a reddened face, ‘Wow!’ He rushed at him and in an instant laid Simon on the grass and climbed on top of him.
“You bastard! Are you doing this on purpose?”
Dig!
In the hand she stretched out above her head, a pure white divine spear appeared.
“Are you sure you don’t know your ulterior motives? You’re trying to destroy my trust, chief of Ephnell! There’s no way! Who are you instigating to do this?”
“……What are you talking about? I haven’t told a single lie in class.”
Simon said in a steady voice.
“What would you lie about when my mother’s life was at stake? I’m more serious than anyone right now. If I have to keep you in check, it’ll be after I get the ingredients from the Tree of Life. What’s the point of shaking you here and now?”
“…….”
She bit her lip and trembled. She eventually withdrew from Simon and sat down on the grass.
“Haaa.”
It was a sigh of deep anguish.
“Lethe.”
“for a moment.”
she said, extending her hand.
“Give me a moment to think.”
“…… Huh? Huh.”
Twenty minutes passed as I asked for time to think about it.
Simon, worried, asked again.
“If it’s hard, shall we stop here for today?”
“no.”
She raised her head.
“……I was stupid.”
“huh?”
“I just haven’t yet grasped the great will of the Goddess. In the eyes of the Goddess, even the most obvious causation seems to be wrong in my narrow field of view due to my lack of training. It’s just that my faith is shaken by this, it’s a lack of training. F Maybe I was missing something fundamental because of the arrogance of being Chief Nell.”
Simon laughed inwardly. It seemed like she was just self-justifying, but she decided to pretend she didn’t know.
“Okay, let’s move on.”
Lethe then taught Simon to turn Divinity on and off at will. I explained the specific principle of the occurrence of divinity and tried to feel the flow.
“It all starts with feeling mana.”
Whether it was divine or pitch black, the base was mana.
If a necromancer uses an organ called a ‘core’ inside his body to process mana into the power of pitch black.
Priest just felt that his whole body was his core. The moment the mana inside the body is released out of the body, the mana is discolored and becomes a divinity.
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“Be a little more conscious with your head.”
Of course, it is useless to release mana without thinking. In order to make mana holy, it was necessary to have a very strong mental awareness, so strong that it could actually be called brainwashing.
‘Faith’ that Lethe continues to emphasize. Simon’s realization that he could use divinity was the switch that brought about divinity.
‘……I think I know why there are so many fanatics in Epenel.’
In a way, divinity was the realm of madness. I had to realize that I had a power that I didn’t have yet.
Even if I didn’t have it, if I was aware that I existed, I was there, and if I doubted that I was not there, I didn’t exist.
A maniacal belief that borders on brainwashing indeed. I even thought that the system adopted by the divine power users to fill that belief was a religion.
All complex thoughts are omitted. Only the absolute, complete, and infinite goodness of ‘God’ is placed. After that, everything becomes clear.
If you build faith centered on faith and use it as the basis for generating divine power, the user will be able to freely generate divine power.
Of course, if that belief is shaken, it could collapse endlessly like Plema.
“Lethe.”
During a break, Lete, who was reading the scriptures to reflect on her faith, answered with her characteristic cynical voice.
“What is it?”
“In normal cases, how do priests of the Holy Federation be able to use divinity?”
She raised her head.
“This is the power bestowed by the Goddess. The only answer is training for the sake of faith.”
According to Lethe, every village in the Holy Commonwealth has a monastery. When a child was born and reached the age of 7, he had to go to a monastery and take a compulsory ‘sacred fitness’ test.
And children with fitness above the standard have the duty to become followers of the Devas. They receive theological education at the monastery for a certain amount of time every day, and develop their faith in the goddess.
“However, very few people can become a Priest, a priestly rank among lay people. To become a Priest, you must pass through the 19 penances.”
“What else is that?”
Listening to Lethe’s story, it was truly ‘mortification’.
Carrying a heavy cross, walking on a pilgrimage, fasting for three months, walking through a forest of thorns naked and by faith, entering a fire, and so on. It was just the things that made me sick to hear.
“Did you do that too?”
“of course.”
She crossed her arms as she answered in a voice full of pride.
“After you’ve done all of that, you’re eligible to enter the Hall of Divinity.”
The divine view is the last 19th penance. I had to endure for a week, trapped in a coffin with an endless flow of divinity.
“…Why are you so inhuman and cruel?”
She snorted at Simon’s words as he shook his head.
“This is what faith is, and what faith is. If you just dirty your body and make a core, it’s on a different level than you who call it a dog or a cow or a necromancer.”
“Yes, yes. But what happens when ordinary people are exposed to such a large amount of divinity?”
“A small amount of divinity can heal wounds, but if you are exposed to divinity for a whole week, it’s a different story. Divinity is ‘dysentery’ in the body of the general public. If you can’t stand it, you will die.”
“……crazy.”
Through this ignorant consciousness, a kind of ‘mutation’ occurs in the human body, and humans with extremely high divine fitness are born. It is they who are baptized and become priests.
Those who give up in the middle say that they still lack faith and must go back to the laity and build up from the first penance. And even if they endured for a week, the mutation did not occur, and those who did not meet the standard of divine fitness became ‘clerics’.
“I’ve never heard of a cleric again.”
“They’re just… keuhmm, they’re the ones in charge of the church or monastery. They can use divinity, but they’re not as good as us Priests.”
The Holy Commonwealth was a strict hierarchical society.
public. Shinto. Cleric. Priest.
The lower caste must absolutely obey the upper caste.
Of course, the Dark Union was also divided into commoners and nobles, but the difference in status was not that severe.
Among the commoners, soldiers, merchants, and necromancers also had greater social authority than nobles. Even in Kizen, skill and grade were more important than social status.
However, the difference was that in the Dark Union, the status was hereditary, and in the Holy Federation, everyone started as commoners, and their status changed according to the position they obtained.
“Certainly, to properly pretend to be an apprentice priest, it would be better to study the culture of the Holy Commonwealth.”
Lethe nodded at Simon’s words.
“That’s right. If you know how to use divinity but don’t know what a cleric is, you’ll be suspected by the Heretic Questioner.”
“Listening to your story, I have a question.”
“What is it?”
“I said that divinity comes from the faith of the goddess. In fact, it’s not just faith, but isn’t it different depending on the ‘sacred fitness’ you have from birth?”
Lethe growled immediately.
“Ah, really! If you put it that way, even among the Priests of Ephnell who have a similar degree of divine fitness! Some rise to the rank of bishop, but some remain Priests for life! How do you explain this?”
“It will depend on your efforts and ability to handle divinity.”
“Of faith! The difference!”
she shouted.
“The stronger your faith and faith in the goddess, the more divinity you can handle and the ability to control it!
If that’s the case, shouldn’t high-ranking members of the Holy Federation be taking personal gain or accepting bribes? It doesn’t seem like everything is fair.
However, if I refuted further, I thought I would really fight, so it was Simon who swallowed back talk.
‘…Yes, because Lethe has her own values.’
She must have seen and learned things in her life. It was only natural that if she denied or cut down those values just because they were different from mine, there would be a backlash.
“I’ll stop here for break time.”
Lethe put her hands on her knees and came back with a serious expression.
“I hate to admit it, but if you’re a divinity like yours, you’re not lagging behind priests who have passed the divine view. So, let’s move on to the basic training course. It’s the level the apprentice priests you have to play learn.”
“I’ve been waiting for that.”
Simon’s eyes lit up. Lethe rummaged through the backpack she had brought and laid out the textbooks she had been using herself from her Ephnell.
“A total of 9 subjects are taught in all the sacred schools, including Epenel.”
Blessings.
divine mechanics.
healing science.
Holy Spiritology.
patronology.
new mathematics.
s*xual intercourse.
Dark Defense.
Mass class.
She picked up a nearby twig and scribbled on the floor. Seeing this, Simon’s pupils shook.
It’s obviously the first time I’ve heard of it, but why is it so familiar?
“Fnel’s 3 major subjects, students call it Chuksinchi for short. And below, there are 4 supplementary subjects called Seongsu Shinto.”
When Simon smiled, Lethe frowned.
“What else are you splitting up? I feel bad.”
“No, I thought that people live there after all.”
“What?”
“never mind.”
Earlier, I heard a story about asceticism and the view of sacredness, so I felt a sense of cultural difference.
There were many similarities, such as Curse and Blessing, Divinity and Darkness, Matou and s*xual Combat, etc.
“Ah, why do you keep smiling!”
Simon grinned at Lethe’s angry words.
“No, I wondered what it would have been like if I had gone to Ephnell instead of Kizen.”
“……What a crazy sound.”
Lethe pursed her lips, but Simon didn’t care.
My heart was pounding.
Since I learned divinity from No. 1 Epenel, shouldn’t I do it properly?
“Then what subject will you teach?”
My body itches, I can’t stand it.
Give me something to learn quickly.
