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Chapter 352 – Earth (4)

“Oh! Hey, that hurts!”

“I’ll slap you till it hurts, you bastard . ”

I said, striking Hochi in the back .

Even though I beat him, I was still disappointed .

I have to hit harder .

I have to make it more painful .

It was a shame that I couldn’t do more than this .

“Hey, you’re evil! Hey, it really hurts!”

Hochi screaming in pain was consolation .

Hochi is good at lying .

I don’t know what kind of character he is, but he has been like that for a long time .

He hates training and experimentation, so he avoided me with excuses like this .

He also did the same when he scammed powers from all the gods on the 61st floor .

He always did .

It was not a deliberate, insidious lie designed to trick someone, but rather a lie of a young child who wanted to escape the situation at hand .

So I never pointed them out loudly .

There were many times when I was fooled .

However, this lie couldn’t be dismissed as a mere lie .

The lie that I ended up ‘dead’ by ​​using excessive force to stop a meteorite could collide head-on with my divinity .

My divinity itself is shaken if my death is made true by the believers .

By nature, my divinity can be completely destroyed by a very small shake .

Unless most of the faith I’m gaining comes from the 61st floor believers .

If I had been greatly influenced by the followers of Earth, I would certainly have been weakened .

In fact, I was still wondering why I was fine .

No matter how limited the story is to the members of Earth, it is a situation that can cause some damage .

“If it weren’t for you, I would have pulled something out . ”

Kim Min-hyuk, who had been a little farther away, was seen flinching .

He seems to have been fully cooperating with Hochi because he wasn’t stopping him from doing anything strange .

If it weren’t for Hochi, it would have been alright .

I can’t let this naughty boy who has caused me harm go .

It was not my will, but my divine will .

Just because Hochi was my family doesn’t mean that I could overlook his faults .

It was because of Hochi’s characteristics .

“Hey, isn’t this too much!? There is Yong-yong here too!”

“This time uncle was wrong . ”

Yong-yong neatly gave up .

Hochi looked at Yong-yong with a shocked face, but Yong-yong gently turned his head and looked away .

It serves you right .

How dare you feel shunned when you get turned away by your nephew?

* * *

“I looked it up . ”

“What the hell did you find out, you turned me into an undead?”

“Oh, you’re not an undead . Rather, you’re a spirit . ”

This kid mixed the increasingly difficult words and made nonsense .

I guess he’s adapted to Earth too quickly .

“The completion of all religions is death . ”

“Why did you come to such a conclusion?”

I believe that the essential purpose of religion is for a better life .

“No . At least it wasn’t the purpose of Earth’s religions . What matters is whether you’re born again in the next life or in a nice place after death; that’s the greatest strength of religion here . ”

There are other points .

Clearly .

“Think about it . What would people think if the religious window was still visible after you died?”

“Oh, I can see this even though Lee Ho-jae died . So, this is not from Lee Ho-jae’s ability, but from the Tutorial . He wasn’t God . They will think like this . ”

“No . They think you exist after death . ”

Does that make sense, you f*ck?

I can’t stop swearing .

“It shows you overcoming the fear of death that people most want to shake off . Obviously, the human body died, but your strength remained . You were even resurrected . ”

I didn’t resurrect .

“Now, all you have to do is create a doctrine, show people it, and then disappear again . People will believe in the existence of the afterlife when they see you once and then come back, and they will become believers to overcome death . ”

[Oh my god, you’re smart . ]

The God of Hope, who had been trapped in the collection bin, whispered .

[I better thank you!]

“Shut up, before I pull your wing . ”

A short warning blocked the mouth of the God of Hope .

I was not going to inform the party that I had captured the God of Hope .

He is the God of Hope that penetrates even if there is a small gap .

It would be better for everyone in the party to not even recognize the existence of the God of Hope .

“Think about it . In Earth’s religions, have religious leaders never died? And the death event has never been simple . The revival of religion always took place only after the death of the leader . ”

“It’s just those people’s end of life…… . ”

“Hey! You can’t say that! What if the believers hear it? You have to be careful about your words as well . ”

Hochi shouted .

Damn you… I managed to pull down the sound that had risen to the end of my throat .

Ugh .

What, what can I do?

Now I can’t kick him back to the 60th floor .

[If you’re going to kick him out, how about giving it to me?]

The God of Hope added more nonsense .

Later, when the party can’t see me, I’ll have to take him out and grab a wing .

“Okay . Well, as you said, my faith has risen dramatically . ”

There were certain achievements made, so I decided to skip it without further criticism .

For some reason, there was no damage to my divinity .

Perhaps, as Hochi said, it may be because of the advantage of being known to overcome death rather than being known to be dead .

My believers on Earth, especially those who are fanatical, would believe this .

No matter what, I can’t be defeated or die .

I’m already dead .

And then I came back from that death .

It was interesting .

Can this be connected to my divinity?

The afterlife does not exist .

Death can be avoided by overcoming the limitations of the human body and breaking out of that frame .

However, even the deities who reached the peak could not escape the final death if their divinity collapsed and deviated from the perception of their believers .

In this situation, how does the fact that believers think that their god will come back even if he dies, work?

Let’s find out more later .

It was worth researching .

I checked the religious window again .

Certainly, the faith received has increased tremendously .

Until before, it was mostly churches that recouped their merit expenses .

Merit value was not directly related to faith because it was a score based on achievements for religion .

Because of this, when calculating the resources and power consumed for compensation, the Lee Ho-jae Faith was always seeing a deficit .

But now, even taking into account the rewards consumed across the planet, they were seeing a surplus .

I was earning faith .

The biggest advantage I got this time wasn’t simply that I was seeing a surplus .

People started to believe in me .

Not the religious system and the rewards of that system pulled by a strong challenger in the Tutorial .

They were devoting their faith to Lee Ho-jae .

Because I heard about the God of Order from the God of Hope, I learned that the system was born from faith .

It felt pretty encouraging .

Maybe when the Lee Ho-jae Faith grows up, the Lee Ho-jae system can also gain credibility .

Perhaps the mantis, who plays the role of the mascot of Lee Ho-jae Faith’s Hongcheon main school, will gradually become the deity .

“One more positive thing is that conflicts with existing religions have disappeared . ”

Hochi said again .

It was an idea that I couldn’t understand without explanation .

“It happened because I can attach it to the doctrines of other religions . Someone’s reincarnation, somebody’s second coming, the third prophet who came down to Earth…… . ”

Somehow, if explained in detail, they were words that seemed like a big deal .

“After the Hundred Gods and the Tutorial appeared, the position of religions was shaken, and I was trying to make a change in my own way . It was easy to absorb them . Rather, it made them choose the Lee Ho-jae Faith as the end point of all the paths while maintaining all the frameworks of the existing religions . ”

Oh my, I don’t even know anymore .

“Not only the dispute within Lee Ho-jae Faith, but also the disputes between other religions will disappear . At least among the religions who have chosen to be in solidarity with the Lee Ho-jae Faith . ”

“What religions are those?”

“I have absorbed most of Earth’s major religions . ”

It was a ridiculous speed .

The upright religious community should reform their doctrine and choose to absorb it as the subordinate force of other religions .

They even took the risk of going under one roof with other religions, even those that they swore and quarreled with, calling them pagans .

Even that in just a few days .

Is it possible?

“Of course I did a little trick . ”

Yes, I suppose so .

There were countless ways you could do it if you wanted to .

This side can manipulate any number of divine phenomena .

Existing religious circles can simply ignore such a phenomenon .

As long as the believers are not agitated by that fact .

“Not bad, huh?”

Hochi said with a smile .

Obviously, Hochi did well .

Since coming to Earth and starting to do this and that, Hochi has always outperformed my expectations .

It was the same this time .

Even though the expectations had risen quite a bit, it produced surprising results that were unexpected for me .

The problem was that my social death was the opposite .

“You were too lazy to be in front of people anyway . ”

“… Yes, well . ”

* * *

“I brought sweets, Homen . ”

Three days have passed since the meteorite was destroyed and I returned to Earth .

But I couldn’t get used to that bloody greeting .

“Whose idea was that?”

“Well, since everyone started doing it, no one would say they were first . ”

They use the word “Homen” at any time .

They use it when they say hello, they use it when they pray .

If you feel good, use it, and if you feel bad, use it .

They were using it meaninglessly as if saying something in a dialect .

“Isn’t this completely blasphemy?”

“How is that blasphemy?”

“If I’m offended, it’s blasphemy . ”

Hochi didn’t answer .

The whole party was gathered in front of the TV .

Today is the day I go back as a mystery .

What kind of nonsense is this?

It is the day when the god Lee Ho-jae, who died from stopping a meteorite, resurrects and returns after three days, tells his disciples the doctrine to follow, and then returns to the heavenly world .

“Homen . ”

Hochi said, opening a bag of cookies .

Do you have to say that before getting a snack?

“Homen . ”

Seregia, who had approached, took a snack from Hochi’s hand and said the prayer, then ate the cookie .

“Homen . Haha . ”

Yong-yong, who was sitting on my lap, shouted Homen, smiled a little, and picked up a snack .

… Ugh .

On TV, an anchor shedding tears was speaking enthusiastically .

It was overwhelmingly emotional .

The screen returned to downtown Seoul in front of the temple in an anchor’s solo scene .

As if the anchor we saw just before was weak, there were several humans who were crying all over with their whole bodies .

It was clearly distressing .

“Hey, all of those people are filling your faith . You should be thankful . ”

Well, that’s true .

But I couldn’t sympathize with how close they were or how sad they were .

As we waited for a while, a bright light began to shoot high from the ceiling of the temple where we were now gathering and eating snacks .

As part of it, I used the same visual effect that I used when the meteorite appeared .

People began to cry more and more at the sight .

The sound of them saying, Homen, Homen, rang up to the inside of the temple .

Riding on a bright pillar of light, a fake image that resembled me began to fly above the sky .

The brightness of the light pole was properly adjusted so that it could be captured on the camera screen .

It was solemn and gracious .

Nevertheless, because I had to maintain the original shape of my face, it was an illusion that I had elaborately created by inviting plastic surgeons to the hospital .

“That, it would have been better if you just did it yourself . ”

“I would have died from embarrassment if I did . ”

Really .

I may have died of shame on my way up to heaven .

Neither I nor my divinity could have survived that embarrassment .

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