148 – World after Defeat – 3
After a devastating and crushing defeat in battle with Olivia, Christine wandered the kingdom wherever she came. It was to gather an offering of repentance to her god.
Dozens of towers made of human flesh and blood emerged from the hands of a nun who walked around weeping with her hands folded in front of her chest, with the face of a loyal puppy abandoned by her owner.
The timing was also right. Following the evaporation of the capital of the kingdom, Charlotte disappeared and was not revealed, so public sentiment was extremely uneasy.
At times like that, bad-quality criminals were bound to rampage as if they had met their new world, so it was only natural for Christine, a woman walking around crying alone, to become a target.
The goddess-like beauty that descended to the earth, her beautiful and even violent breasts, and the garter belt that wrapped around her narrow waist and slender thighs, mass-produced thieves who fell in love with her appearance and did not even understand her subject.
Thanks to that, there was no shortage of repentance offerings, so it was fortunate.
It would have been enough if he wandered aimlessly across the continent with a blank face, butchered and sacrificed all humans who approached him with a mean smile.
Christine had to walk for almost a fortnight to stop such aimless wandering.
“God, my God. Please watch over this poor lamb and give me a revelation. Show me the way to go. Shine a light into these foggy eyes. What should I do? Where should I walk?” Now, God, please…”
A prayer close to crying resounded in a church covered in blood. The height of the cathedral was at most two stories, so it wasn’t that big, and the appearance was shabby.
If it weren’t for the pagan patterns on the door, it was a building that could have been passed off as if someone lived in the forest.
The heretics who prayed to their god in this cathedral saw Christine passing nearby and tried to make up for the lack of offerings, and ended up being offered as sacrifices.
Christine’s surroundings were lined with broken statues of gods worshiped by evil heretics.
It was so thoroughly destroyed that nothing of its original form remained, only fragments. So much so that no one would have thought that these remains were statues.
In one corner of the interior of the cathedral, a mountain of corpses was created, with the limbs and top of the neck all torn off, leaving only the torso.
Beside it was a hill of human arms, and beside that hill was a hill of legs. It was a sign that Christine had carefully classified the usage in her own way.
The most important head and spine, of course, were lined up on the other wall.
A kind of puddle was formed on the floor of the cathedral due to the overflowing blood, and the floor was completely soaked in blood and lost its original color.
Christine’s body was also covered with the blood that splattered when the heretics were condemned, and it was like a demon.
Weeping cries filled the cathedral that had turned into such a creepy look.
Christine had a rough road ahead. It was because God had given her the last revelation, the word to go beyond, and there was no way to realize it.
“What more do I have to offer for my faith? Where do you think my faith is lacking? What do you mean I have to work harder? Please, please give me the answer. If you do, I will give you more. So, then, please send a ray of light to this lamb. The Lamb of God seeks an answer with tears, please…”
I didn’t know the meaning of the word beyond. It must have been said that you should raise your strength and prove your faith here.
However, the method was problematic.
No matter how long I prayed, no matter how many sacrifices I made, I never felt that I had exceeded my limits.
Christine blamed the situation on her own infidelity.
Her god believed in Christine even to the very moment she was kidnapped by an evil apostate, but she herself was unable to reciprocate that trust.
Christine constantly blamed herself for that cruel fact and shed tears filled with bitterness.
A week has passed. The cathedral was still stained with blood.
The blood that flowed out of the human body should harden after a while, but it was a miracle that was possible because Christine’s divine power prevented the corruption and transformation of the sacrifice.
The firm belief that sacrifices to the gods must always be kept in the best condition keeps the freshness of flesh and blood like a freshly killed corpse.
No matter how much her faith was tested, her heart torn apart, and she felt a deep sense of powerlessness, Christine was still Christine.
However, no matter how much time passed, there was no sign of realizing anything, so in the end, Christine chose the best way for herself.
To pray until God gives a revelation.
If God doesn’t answer, if God doesn’t hear Christine’s prayers. It was enough to cling to faith until the revelation came down.
No matter how much time it takes before God changes his mind.
“…”
Four weeks have passed since the boy was taken away.
Christine was still praying in the church. It was a posture that hadn’t changed at all from when I first started praying.
The mountain of corpses piled up in one corner of the cathedral seemed to have raised its height even further. The number of arms and legs pulled out also increased.
These were the words of the unfortunate humans who came to investigate the news of the bloodstained building and interrupted Christine’s prayers.
Christine went on a rampage and slaughtered all those unfortunate humans for daring to interfere with the holy act of praying to God. After sorting, she focused on prayer again.
No one approached the cathedral now. I couldn’t.
Not a single human being who approached the cathedral survived.
“ah.”
It was also around that time that Christine finally received a revelation from her God.
It was unknown whether the boy really gave the revelation, or if it was some kind of self-fulfilling belief that Christine’s faith had brought about.
But one thing is for sure: Christine, who was terrified that she might have been abandoned, eventually proved herself that she wasn’t abandoned.
Christine cried out in uncontrollable joy.
“Huu0uu Can possible thank you?
The sense of relief that she was still useful to God and the sense of security that God was still watching her swelled together and turned into faith.
On the very day the revelation came, Christine left the church. As soon as Christine disappeared somewhere, the human blood and corpses that were flying around the church decayed rapidly.
It was the moment when a ghost story arose in the estate where the building was located.
“He told me to find the holy relic. I will complete that revelation, even at the cost of my life.”
Enter the temple and find the holy relic. It was a revelation to Christine.
The meaning of the revelation was simple. To visit the magic tower owned by the boy and find the holy relic sleeping in it. The temple mentioned in the revelation was the magic tower.
Although the capital city evaporated in the aftermath of the battle, the mage tower where the boy kept the cursed weapons did not collapse.
In order to obtain the ancient dragon’s ring stored inside, Charlotte changed the spatial coordinates and temporarily moved the magic tower to another location.
The Mage Tower, which had been moved to another place, later rebuilt the capital and returned it to its original location, and thanks to this, the cursed weapons were able to survive even while the capital was blown away.
“As soon as possible, for my god…”
It was a rope that I had barely grasped after wandering in the dark for a month. Christine had absolutely no intention of missing this rope. My head was filled with the thought of finding the relic.
Christine broke, purified, and destroyed all the obstacles in her path, and moved in a straight line towards the Mage Tower.
Citizens on the way trembled in fear and some guards tried to stop Christine, but it was none of Christine’s business. First of all, it was close to impossible to stop Christine with her eyes reversed.
Had Charlotte been in good health, there would have been no doubt that a fight would have broken out once more after receiving a call saying that a saintess was approaching the capital.
However, Charlotte did not come out of the door to completely control the ancient dragon’s ring before leaving the dragon subjugation, so there was no friction.
It was fortunate for the citizens who re-entered the rebuilt capital.
“Is this… the temple revealed by the gods?”
As soon as Christine arrived in front of the old-fashioned mansion, she instinctively knelt down and bowed her head at the divinity she felt inside.
No matter how well it was disguised with magic, it was useless in front of Christine. After praying to God for a while, I went to the main gate of the mansion.
Mana invalidation was activated and the overlapping space was torn into pieces. In the place where the mansion disappeared, a towering magic tower appeared.
Seeing the huge tower that suddenly appeared, people stopped walking and wanted to know what was going on. Christine ignored the noise and stepped inside the magic tower.
The defensive magic on the door didn’t even work because it nullified mana, and adamantium was a metal that was no different from ordinary steel to Christine.
“Ah ah ah ah ah…….”
As soon as Christine entered the magic tower, she shuddered like an aspen tree at the tremendous divine power she felt. It was the first time a place was so filled with divine power.
There was something at the top of the tower. Something with such enormous divine power that it could overwhelm Christine with just the leaked divine power.
There is no need to look further, it must be the holy relic that God has revealed to us to find.
With her eyes closed, her hands folded in front of her chest and her mouth uttering a prayer, Christine took the circular stone steps and climbed step by step to the top floor.
If I didn’t offer my prayers, I felt like I would faint and collapse. The closer you got to the top floor of the tower, the stronger the concentration of divine power. Correspondingly, the convulsions in the body became even stronger.
At the point where the relic was and only one more floor was left, I couldn’t stand up on my own two feet, so I crawled up the stairs on all fours.
As soon as they crawled and reached the top of the tower, Christine cried out loud and fell flat on the ground.
“I am, I am a bunch. God. I am so insignificant and filthy that I have no courage to face with these dirty eyes what is behind me. , This sinner is someone who shouldn’t meet such a clean thing.”
The top floor was modest. A wall made entirely of stone and a door made of wood. All other spaces were empty, and that was all.
However, the divine power Christine felt was on a different level. I was convinced that if I witnessed the holy relic behind this with my own two eyes, I would never be able to maintain my sanity.
It took more than a full day for Christine to recover from being overcome by divine power and gather the courage to enter the room. Now was the time to make a decision.
My body was shaking so much that I couldn’t control myself, and tears welled up in my eyes. My heart beat so fast that I wondered if it would explode if I continued like this.
I had to do it though. In order to fulfill God’s revelation and step under its feet again, it was necessary to repent even a little bit of the sin of not keeping God.
Christine grabbed the doorknob of the wooden door with trembling hands, not even thinking to wipe the tears welling up in her eyes.
And, as soon as I opened the door, I was stunned by the enormous divine power felt inside and lost my mind.
