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Chapter 364 – God of the Sky (8)

“Heuk, haah, haah . ”

The priestess gasped wildly .

After taking a breath, the priestess shouted:

“You’re very strong-willed to come up here!”

That is what I want to say .

The priestess, who I thought would go back after getting separated far away, was still chasing me .

The priestess was trembling in her arms and legs and she was far behind but she was still chasing me .

“It’s okay, you can go back now . ”

The priestess’s job was finished by guiding me to get out of the crowded streets easily and explaining the Church of Hope .

It was enough .

But that priestess didn’t seem to think so .

“You can’t do that!”

She cried out .

It’s a bitter voice .

It was understandable .

The stairs to the sage’s shrine were now becoming like rock cliffs .

Honestly, it was too weird to call it a staircase .

Is there a stairway where one hangs on a rope and climbs up against it like a cliff?

As you climb higher, the wind gets stronger .

Naturally, we couldn’t even hear each other’s voices well .

It was an irrelevant problem for me, but the priestess was screaming loudly .

Of course, her throat was as hoarse as it could be .

“As a guide, I have an obligation to accompany you to the end……!”

Be nice, be nice .

I felt like I was looking at someone in the past .

“She’s gonna die like that . ”

Seregia muttered from the side .

It wasn’t a very sad voice .

She was just muttering about what would happen soon .

I couldn’t help but ask the God of Hope .

What are you doing to foster such a Spartan priestess on such a peaceful planet?

[That’s the doctrine . ]

“To accompany me to the end?”

It was an absurd doctrine .

[No, to survive until the end . ]

To survive .

She’ll be short-lived keeping that doctrine .

[I’m not talking about her life . ]

Tsk, and I had no choice but to click my tongue .

The priestess was now at her limit .

Her trembling lips were telling me that her body was exhausted .

She stopped occasionally and didn’t make any movements, indicating that her body was preparing .

That wasn’t a pause for a break .

Because of excessive pain, fatigue, and fear, her brain is eagerly secreting hormones .

When the human body faces a limit, it does not squeeze the last force to overcome it .

Instead, it anesthetizes itself as if preparing for death .

I watched her for a while and reached out to the priestess .

Even after seeing my extended hand, the priestess did not react for a while .

It was only after I waved my hand like a float in front of a fish, and then the priestess’ eyes accurately recognized my hand .

“Grab on . I’ll pull you up . ”

“…Thank you!”

In the meantime, the priestess tried to express her gratitude with a bright smile .

Then she raised her hand and held mine .

There was no strength in her grasp .

She was moist with sweat .

I was a little uncomfortable .

I grabbed her hand and raised it .

Halfway .

The priestess’ hand was held forward .

Naturally, the priestess moved away from the ropes and from the sides of the cliffs .

She was just stuck in my hand .

“Ex, excu…… . ”

The priestess looked at me with confused eyes .

Her black pupils spoke of many feelings .

I’m a little sorry .

Even so, I hoped she learned from this opportunity .

Her own plight .

I let go of my hand .

The priestess, who had no strength in her grasp already, began to fall .

The priestess could not even scream properly .

She just kept looking at me as she fell .

There would have been nothing to look at other than me .

She kept falling, focusing on the hand that let go of her .

Tak .

By flicking a finger, I moved the priestess in front of the temple of the God of Hope .

The priestess rolled over on the street in front of the temple and looked around in confusion .

After a while, she figured out where she was, and she lost strength and laid down on the street .

People wandering around the temple recognized her and began to support her .

She will be fine .

Although her muscle pain would be serious .

After drinking a potion and resting for a few days she would probably be healthy again .

[Hehehehe, very good . ]

And the God of Hope was happy .

Extremely so .

It was enough that I could feel his emotions .

“What? The fear and despair that the priestess felt while falling, and your existence that came to mind at that moment?”

[Yes, it would have been nice if she fell to the bottom . ]

The bastard .

This guy’s believers should also know this .

[The falling human is always conscious . Oh, I’m falling from this point . They had already foreseen death when they started to fall, but there is the illusion that comes to mind at the last minute of the end . Maybe they can survive this . Like this . Oh, that’s really good . ]

This is the problem .

God does not care about the well-being of each human being .

[If they only moved a little further away . A little bit more…… . ]

It wasn’t even worth answering .

I ignored it and quietly started to climb the stairs again .

This path, which was called a stairway but should truthfully be called a murder rock climbing course, was entwined with magic .

It was much further than looking up from the street, and it was rough .

The sage up there was said to care about even the little things of each individual .

Of course .

If they can overcome this stairway, they will be one of the best superhumans on this planet .

I heard that the only things that the sage went ahead and solved were related to preventing a crisis or disaster on the continent, and so on .

Nevertheless, he was building a false reputation of treating all people equally and solving all worries .

He was at an ambiguous level of a deity standing at the boundary between a superhuman and a god .

I had a good understanding of the nature of gods .

Indeed, he deserved to be called a sage .

“In that sense, the God of Order is an ideal god . ”

It is literally an ideal god .

While imposing minimal rules on the gods, it has little involvement in mortals .

No matter how much I thought about it, the farther away God was from humans, the better .

God is never beneficial .

Although it may seem indispensable for the world, God is absolutely not beneficial to ordinary intellectuals who make up the majority of the world .

At least it was the case for all the gods I saw and experienced in this world .

Deities are bound to be extreme, and the moment you force them on your own believers . The believers’ lives begin to crumble .

It was a little bit better for a world where many gods were mixed like this planet so that God couldn’t force anything on the believers .

“The God of Order will try to become a transcendent god . ”

[Transcendent God? That’s a plausible expression . ]

The God of Order, who has nearly become a transcendent god, will surely impose his order on the world .

As the God of Slowness in the past tried .

[The God of Order has revealed that he has an ego . ]

By my provocation .

No matter how much I thought about it, there was no reason to just let the provocation pass .

The God of Order deliberately showed the world that he had an ego .

That means he has confidence .

[That means there’s not much time left . ]

It was exciting .

It’s a staircase that solves your worries .

As I climbed, I could clearly see what I had to do in the future .

Soon I was able to climb all the stairs .

There was no priestess who was delaying me, so it was very quick .

At the end of the stairs was a well-established shrine .

This is the Tower of Dragon Ball’s Korin*…… .

There were some strange things .

Of course, it was annoying that the interior and landscape conditions were like in a famous cartoon .

There was something more strange than that .

There were guards here, who made it ambiguous whether this was a temple or a storage warehouse .

And all the guards wearing strangely designed armor stood still .

I got closer and looked .

The guards were fine .

There was no sign of being enchanted, nor were they rigid .

They just stopped .

Soon I could see what had happened to the guards .

Time confinement .

They were stuck in time .

The power of the God of Slowness that slows down all worlds except his own self .

It was an overwhelming power to the extent that it seemed like the power of the God of Slowness almost devoured the world of the past .

These guards were overpowered by that power .

Even in a state of deformation .

Time confinement applies to all of the world, leaving only one’s own self as an exception .

However, the time confinement unfolded here was only applied to the guards, not the world .

The guards were trapped in an infinitely slow world .

They were just looking ahead and standing on the lookout without thinking, but from the outside, the guards were completely stationary .

Of course, the guards were the hands of the sage .

They are the servants of a god .

The powers of other gods cannot be applied in this way to those under the power of a god .

They can’t do that…… .

“Things beyond common sense keep happening . ”

It was already a few times today .

What day is it?

“Did the God of Slowness intervene?”

[No . Rather than being the God of Slowness, um…… . ]

The God of Hope stopped talking while trying to explain something .

The God of Hope did not open his mouth .

He flutters all day, but when it really matters, he doesn’t help .

I ignored the guards and entered the temple .

And I could face the sage .

Like the guards outside, the sage looked bizarre .

He was turned into a stone .

That’s absurd .

I came to this place by pursuing the power of the sage I encountered in the Pantheon .

So I could be sure .

That stone is the sage .

Should I say it is dead or alive?

It wasn’t just the appearance of a stone .

The sage was literally a stone .

No reason, no self, nothing left .

It was the same as Earth, with divinity, but no ego .

“Huh . ”

If it had been dead, I would have just let it go .

God wasn’t completely immortal .

But for a god to be a stone .

Let’s organize the thoughts .

The next question is how the sage ended up like that right now .

The purpose of the one who made the sage a stone was of utmost importance .

“It’s probably because of me . ”

[I think so . ]

Rather than an unidentified being who suddenly had a grudge against the sage, he made the sage into stone today and enshrined it here .

It was better to think that it had something to do with me, who was pursuing the sage .

[Rather than someone turning the sage who fled to this place into a stone it was more correct to assume that the sage was brought here after getting turned into stone . As far as I know, that stone has a base on several planets . This place is rather small . ]

I thought so too .

Originally, I thought that the sage, who became a stone, remembered the God of Sky, and fled here .

If someone intentionally put the sage here .

It can be said that it encouraged a collision between me and the God of Sky .

Inevitably, the conflict that the God of Order would respond to .

Who is it?

I understand the nature of the God of Sky and me .

A being who can intercept the sage by intervening between the Pantheon and my conflict .

In addition, being able to encourage this situation by using a technique that I do not understand .

Do you want me to notice?

Or did you think I wouldn’t notice?

If so .

“You seem to be looking at me as an idiot . ”

*

“How are you?”

The answer did not come back .

There is just calm tranquility .

Kirikiri did not wait for an answer .

Answers that don’t come back right away don’t come back forever .

The god who proves time talks like that .

“I guess it’s worth it . Good luck . Nice to see you after a long time, too . ”

Kirikiri said ‘hng’ and sniffed .

The room of the God of Slowness was a strange place .

Even after visiting several times, she felt that way .

“It’s time . ”

[You came to steal my power again . ]

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