The new religion officially adopted my title as its name.
The Outer God Religion.
Originally it was used secretly, but this time they made an actual sign. And the Outer God Religion began writing new scriptures under Rebecca’s direction.
First, she gathered people who had conversed with me.
And in a huge conference hall where even the Anselus royalty participated, they organized my story over 7 days. Yes, that’s right.
They organized the scriptures of the Outer God Religion.
There’s one strange thing.
The emotion readable on Rebecca’s face is gloomy, but the doctrine of the Outer God Religion is basically forgiveness and freedom. And that I come to take people when they die. It’s too soft.
For a religion to grow, powerful evangelism is needed.
But the Outer God Religion rather gives freedom of religion. They pasted exactly what I said.
‘Whoever you believe in, if the Outer God blesses you, the Outer God comes to take you at the end.’
Looking at Rebecca or Dakota’s emotions, forgiveness seems like an element that should never exist. But the Outer God Religion encourages forgiving others, just as the Outer God did.
Because the Outer God blessed people and took all their sins, you too should forgive others and release them from sin.
They developed logic like that.
From my view, this seems easy to be pushed back by heretics.
Moreover, I don’t know why they emphasized so much that I come when people die.
They put the most emphasis on content that’s just: if you received a blessing from the Outer God Religion, I come to take the last remaining warmth regardless of gender or age.
Full of loopholes.
Meager doctrine.
Weak evangelism method.
It was a religion full of nothing but problems.
But the religion was different from my expectations.
It spread instantly beyond the Kingdom of Anselus to other countries.
Then the capital of the Kingdom of Anselus became like the headquarters of one religion.
Gradually people come to offer prayers in the square where the Outer God died. Human movement occurred. As people increased, those selling things increased.
Commerce gradually prospered.
Of course, there was strong opposition from the Holy Spirit Religion. It’s the Holy Spirit Religion that was so fervent about other religions that they sent orders to suppress other religions in the middle of the famine.
They instigated kingdoms around the Kingdom of Anselus to eliminate the new religion. As I said before, most countries east of the Skard Rocky Desert believe in the Holy Spirit Religion.
In other words, they’re under the Holy Spirit Religion’s command.
The Kingdom of Anselus, hearing this news, immediately tried to inform people of this fact and prepare for war.
But no country responded to the Holy Spirit Religion. About a year and a half after the famine ended.
The king who had collapsed from overwork barely got up.
He saw the completely changed country and looked at his own hair. And he simply abandoned the Holy Spirit Religion.
I don’t know what he thought because he didn’t say to anyone or even monologue.
The king immediately contacted the Outer God Religion.
Rebecca and Dakota. And 17 former Holy Spirit Religion priests.
Or one person resembling the Outer God, and 18 blessed ones.
At first the king also mistook Rebecca for me, but understood after hearing the truth. While doing so, he told a story he heard from his grandfather Tis.
A second grand conference was held and the scriptures were renewed again.
Honestly, it was extremely funny to me, but it seems it was an important matter to those people.
The people of the Outer God Religion listened to the king’s story with consistently serious expressions, and took over a week again to write it into scriptures.
As the Outer God Religion grew like this, the Holy Spirit Religion suddenly gathered its legions and invaded.
But even if it’s called a war, the numbers weren’t large.
Even combining all the paladins and priests, it was only 200 people. It seems too few to not raise questions, but seeing that the number of Anselus kingdom knights is similar, it’s not a small number.
Rather, the Anselus kingdom knights are few. These are just knights fighting wearing armor without god’s miracles.
About 10 or fewer magicians.
Seeing them fight like that, I thought they were done for.
No, honestly, how can you win against people wielding god’s power?
But they won.
Yes.
I didn’t grant miracles, but a miracle occurred.
Originally there was only the Anselus kingdom army. But believers of the Outer God Religion stood with them.
But until then, the Holy Spirit Religion people attacked from outside the capital walls. It didn’t make much difference that citizens inside took up weapons.
But as days passed, believers gradually increased. They came from outside the capital.
Around a week later, believers from other countries joined with weapons. So rather, so many people gathered that they surrounded the Holy Spirit Religion.
I heard through harvesters that paladins can fight 100 to 1, but it seems they were human too.
When truly over 100 times the numbers gathered, they lost their fighting spirit.
The victory was not the Kingdom of Anselus’s but the Outer God Religion’s. A festival was held after victory. But that festival wasn’t an execution festival tying up the losers and killing them.
Rather, they forgave those captured as prisoners, gave them food, treated their wounds, and provided places to rest.
I thought it was a foolish act, but just with that, people appeared who abandoned the Holy Spirit Religion. They said they’ll still believe in the Holy Spirit, but won’t follow the Holy Spirit Religion.
While the festival was being held, only then did I barely hear through harvesters’ ears why other kingdoms didn’t invade, and why people took their side.
During the famine.
The Holy Spirit Religion took food from all kingdoms within their reach, not just the Kingdom of Anselus.
At that time, people who hated the Holy Spirit Religion increased throughout this region, and the Outer God Religion dug into that gap.
Moreover, the Outer God Religion embraced the Holy Spirit Religion. Strictly speaking, they didn’t show hostility to believers of the Holy Spirit Religion. Just like now.
You can believe in both.
People have the right to freely believe in religion.
There’s even the right not to believe in religion.
This seems to have been extremely powerful. I thought heretics would increase, but on the contrary, it played a role in increasing the Outer God Religion.
This combined with forgiveness seems to have shown off which side has a much broader mind.
The most unexpected point was the verse saying I come to take you when you die.
I take you unconditionally if you receive a blessing.
I didn’t think this would guarantee human universality. The recognition that all people are equal sprouted from a completely unexpected place.
I sowed seeds thinking it would be good to enlighten, but it spread widely religiously. Is it the limit of a world with a society similar to early modern times?
And in just 10 years.
The superiority between the Outer God Religion and Holy Spirit Religion reversed.
The place where god sacrificed for people became a new holy land.
And meanwhile.
A prayer created based on some religion’s prayer spread throughout the world. It was a prayer of a religion that doesn’t exist in this world.
There’s just one person. A terrible villain appears. The Witch of Joy, Hyunkeshuni.
Dakota’s enemy. And perhaps, Rebecca’s enemy as well.
Dakota thoroughly chased the witch.
Without any special effort, despite being a religion that takes forgiveness as its central value, only the Witch of Joy was an exception.
It was so natural that no one doubted it.
It took 10 years, but I barely realized that Rebecca knows more about me than I thought. She didn’t just watch from behind like I see harvesters.
There’s a high possibility she saw memories that become my core.
Otherwise, how could she go beyond grasping my intentions to perfectly utilize them?
Exactly 8 years after the famine ended, the Outer God Religion had grasped the Witch of Joy. But they left her alone on Rebecca’s orders.
It was the day Dakota first fought with Rebecca.
But Rebecca persuaded her.
That just killing isn’t enough.
And that day.
Dakota saw the emotion under Rebecca’s skin that I had known all along.
Rebecca explained that she also has a grudge against Hyunkeshuni. She suddenly said it was also Hyunkeshuni’s fault that her family was murdered and her heart was ripped out.
Dakota sympathized with her words.
But I know.
That’s not everything she said. I mentioned it once before, but speaking only part of the truth is my specialty?
Rebecca didn’t say everything either.
It’s not the Future Hope Church that she has an unusual grudge against.
Of course she’s angry that its remnant Hyunkeshuni is alive, but there’s something else she truly hates. I don’t know what it is yet. I guess it’s the world, but I’m not really sure if that’s correct.
Anyway, because of this, Dakota opened her heart to Rebecca. Then Rebecca used that to start wielding the Outer God Religion more zealously.
Then one day.
I found a breakthrough for blessing proxies from a completely unexpected place.
Someone researching and reading materials written about me discovered the contract clause.
‘I’ll give myself to you. In return, when you finish everything later, I’ll take everything you have then. How about it?’
Reading this clause, he answered yes.
Then he connected with me.
I dyed his light black and gave part of myself.
That’s right.
I could make it so blessings can be given just by having them read.
Until now, people who saw that material were royalty or nobility of the Kingdom of Anselus. And former paladins and priests including Martin.
In other words, they were harvesters.
So nothing happened no matter what they did after reading this clause.
This man who could be called a theologian of the Outer God Religion wasn’t a harvester. He was one of the first people to enter when it was finally revealed to the outside after 10 years had passed.
In just 10 years, I discovered a way to sprinkle blessings.
And this instantly rose to the core of the Outer God Religion.
And.
Now the hair color of Outer God Religion people becomes purple.
For now, only some of those living in the capital of the Kingdom of Anselus, or the headquarters of the Outer God Religion are selectively receiving blessings.
But they plan to widely release this soon.
I thought that if people have such power, they would monopolize it and run things.
And as I thought, Dakota said only special people should receive this blessing.
But Rebecca rejected that. Rather, she gathered people leading the Outer God Religion and made plans to spread this widely.
I laughed below the surface.
If I had hands, I would have clapped.
Soon harvesters will increase tremendously.
Rebecca is really wonderful.