Chapter 44

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Hyunkeshuni succumbed to the outer god’s words.

The outer god called it persuasion, but in reality, it was a threat saying “If you don’t do what I want like this, I’ll kill you,” so strictly speaking, it would be correct to say she submitted.

At the moment Hyunkeshuni sold countless worlds to avoid suffering a horrible fate herself, the outer god, rather than rejoicing, anxiously worried about how to resolve the current situation well.

The outer god thought.

If it’s just about saving Hyunkeshuni, I can make her a hero.

The sphere humans are currently in a state where they can move according to the outer god’s will.

If all else fails, the thought of becoming an outer god monster that combines with the royal corpses and advertising that it’s the villain, and she came to stop this but failed, crossed the outer god’s mind and disappeared.

The outer god’s mind tended to work well when coming up with cowardly tricks.

But in the outer god’s opinion, this method had a big problem, so it was immediately discarded.

Because even if only Hyunkeshuni survives and there’s a book, there was the big problem that the outer god can’t read the book.

There are two ways for the outer god to remember a book.

Either a blessed person reads it once, or it licks the light of someone who has read it all.

The fact that there’s no method for the outer god to read the book directly shows the outer god’s nature.

Anyway, a blessed person needs to read the book.

But the problem is that there are no blessed people left in this world.

Hyunkeshuni hunted them down and killed them.

While Tis was healing and growing the kingdom again, she too did a lot of work.

Let’s talk about Hyunkeshuni’s story.

First, during the time when the pseudo-religion called the Future Hope Church still existed.

When Yasle didn’t listen to her words, Hyunkeshuni warned him five times and then parted ways with him.

A very long time ago.

When Hyunkeshuni and Yasle first made a contract, Hyunkeshuni contracted on the condition that she would help with what Yasle was doing, but if he ignored her words, she would leave. Therefore, Hyunkeshuni’s sudden departure from the Future Hope Church wasn’t because she betrayed him, but because that was the contract from the beginning.

Rather, if Hyunkeshuni gave five warnings, she was patient enough and left when she left.

To tell the truth, the reason Hyunkeshuni started helping Yasle was quite gloomy, so it was strange that she helped him for a period of over several decades.

By the way, the gloomy reason wasn’t much. From Hyunkeshuni’s perspective, Yasle was originally more of a young clergyman who grew up straight in a religious country called the Luminous Theocratic State rather than the leader of a pseudo-religion.

Full of ideals, merciful, but not forgiving heretics – that kind of rigid religious person.

Conversely, Hyunkeshuni was an evil witch like in fairy tales.

Typically strong against the weak, weak against the strong.

If she needed something, she would go to a village, curse it and plunder, and when strong people came to kill her, she would scatter curses and run away.

Because Hyunkeshuni always smiled when she ran away, people gave her the nickname “Witch of Joy.”

To those dealing with her, she only appeared as a witch who mocked them and ran away.

A clergyman came to such an evil witch.

He came to the witch, full of revenge for losing his country.

The witch found it interesting and decided to cooperate.

She was curious about how this devout and righteous young man would corrupt.

The higher a person rises, the further they fall. How far would this obvious fact hold true?

And as she thought, Yasle became a person who was exactly described as evil, beyond just being trash.

Yasle brainwashed and exploited people solely for his revenge, and eventually even falsely accused innocent people of crimes and burned them to death.

Hyunkeshuni enjoyed watching him, thinking that even such a great and good person can fall like this when they fall. It would be a lie to say there wasn’t a cowardly thought that it wasn’t just her who was like this. So Hyunkeshuni gave a gift to Yasle who had fallen to the same place as her.

If an evil monster comes, let’s tame and use it.

With just that kind of thought, she taught Yasle how to summon a god.

But the evil and powerful demon-like monster they thought of didn’t appear.

Instead, a dull girl who seemed to have special powers but didn’t know how to do anything came out.

Of course, Hyunkeshuni, a coward from birth, suspected that it might not be dangerous from the moment the crossbow used by the warrior of faith destroyed the girl’s face and then regenerated.

Because the curse contained in that crossbow was a curse to bring down and kill a god.

It’s a real curse that actually had a record of killing a monster that could be called the god of wilderness or primitive god in the Luminous Theocratic State.

But even that caution soon diluted.

The monster in the form of a girl needed warmth to regenerate, and above all, she was foolish enough to walk around with wounds intact.

And it seemed more like she didn’t know much about the body rather than it being due to her own power.

Because it seemed like she might suddenly collapse and die at any moment without care, the suspicion gradually disappeared.

Just a monster without a body entered a girl’s body. And if the body breaks, it dies.

That’s how they misunderstood.

But not long after, she heard directly from the outer god about its identity.

That day, Hyunkeshuni understood that what she thought was a law of the world was actually the outer god’s action of eating people, and that monster had been pulled from where the law was and descended to this world.

An evil god was unleashed.

Thinking this, Hyunkeshuni hurriedly consulted Yasle, but he didn’t listen. Rather, he even pressed Hyunkeshuni, saying what’s the problem when it’s moving well according to the contract.

She went to persuade him 3 more times after that but failed. Meanwhile, she heard the term “outer god” spreading around. The situation was getting worse and worse.

Eventually, Hyunkeshuni, terrified, confronted the outer god, and the moment she understood what kind of influence the outer god was having on the entire Future Hope Church, she immediately ran to Yasle.

But this time too, Yasle didn’t listen to Hyunkeshuni’s words.

So Hyunkeshuni, greatly disappointed, immediately left Yasle.

No one knew, but this was the last chance.

The last chance to stop the outer god before it reached out to this world.

Not knowing that opportunity had disappeared, Hyunkeshuni returned to her place of seclusion.

Not long after she returned to her hideout, she realized through her magic that Yasle had died.

Above all, she felt the presence of the banishment magic that only the leader of the Luminous Theocratic State could use. Because she knew what had been banished by that magic, with a lighter heart, she moved towards where Yasle’s corpse was, either to mock him or to mourn him.

And on the way there, she discovered a blessed person using Yasle’s magic and her heart froze.

If it was simply Luminous Theocratic State magic, she might have passed it off thinking it could happen. But Hyunkeshuni’s magic was mixed in there.

The secret technique that she had modified to suit her over hundreds of years and only taught to Yasle.

Several blessed people were using that.

Hyunkeshuni, with her brilliant mind, instantly realized what had happened. She also realized then that a really important technique had been passed to the worst opponent.

And what made her completely certain was when someone used magic to open a passage to the outside and call an evil being.

She immediately blocked it with the safety device she had embedded when handing it over to Yasle, and went to find and kill the person who attempted the summoning.

Until then, she didn’t think of killing the blessed so thoroughly. She just thought she had killed a foolish person trying to call the outer god.

But when she saw several blessed people in the Miriga Order created by Andrew putting their heads together to try to call the outer god, her mind changed.

The coward in her imagined the worst case scenario where the outer god could come back to this world, and immediately massacred the blessed people.

And she immediately returned to her hideout and researched ways to absolutely prevent that from happening.

While searching for a method like that, Hyunkeshuni realized that only blessed people were using that Yasle’s magic.

Hyunkeshuni guessed.

They are connected to the outer god.

So even though the god has left this world, they are using Yasle’s techniques.

Soon Hyunkeshuni concluded that there would be no future unless all of them were eliminated, and created a magic to find blessed people.

And she found and killed them one by one.

Tis was originally a target too, but after hearing that the god of the Holy Spirit Religion had performed a miracle from the sky, she headed to that place just in case. And there, after confirming the enormous holy power, Hyunkeshuni excluded Tis from that target.

And perhaps among the reasons for excluding him like that, it can’t be said there wasn’t fear that even Hyunkeshuni couldn’t face an entire country. The heart that didn’t want to face a real hero protected by god as well.

But except for Tis, she couldn’t leave the blessed people alone. Her cowardly nature whipped Hyunkeshuni to act diligently, and after a long time, she killed everyone except Tis.

Even after killing the last blessed person except Tis like that, she paranoidly checked several times again if there was anyone left, and finally.

Hyunkeshuni returned to her secluded life with relief.

Unfortunately, however, the outer god descended through Tis, whom she had left as the last.

So this is the result of her rushing here urgently.

Captured and threatened by the evil outer god.

Although the words made it sound like Hyunkeshuni had a choice, anyone who isn’t a fool knows there’s no choice there.

At the words that even if she refused, she would be eaten by the outer god and her knowledge would be taken anyway so nothing would change, she finally decided to follow the outer god’s words to save at least herself.

Comforting herself inwardly that she was only threatened.

Thus, Hyunkeshuni’s decades of effort evaporated in an instant, and she fell to become a tool of the outer god.

It’s her own fault.

If she hadn’t known how to summon an evil god.

If she had opposed sacrificing innocent people.

No, from the moment she followed him because she wanted to pleasantly watch the scene of Yasle, who was a good person by Hyunkeshuni’s standards, corrupting due to revenge, this result was determined.

She can’t be said to be particularly evil, but her mindset was bad.

Just like ordinary modern people who want to see famous people commit bad deeds and fall into ruin, exactly that level.

She drew a line saying she had little to do with what the Future Hope Church did, and turned a blind eye no matter what terrible things the Future Hope Church did. Just that level.

An ordinary person who comforts themselves that they’re living a better life while watching someone else’s misfortune through the internet. Just that level.

As a result of doing actions that such a person would do, something that Hyunkeshuni herself named an outer god rolled and rolled and popped out into reality.

And she accepted a suggestion that was tantamount to a threat.

She fell from the edge of the cliff.

And.

Bang!

With a loud noise, the door opened, and a soldier of the Kingdom of Anselus entered a place full of people with purple sphere heads, as if it were a modern art museum.

Just before, he forcibly opened Tis’s bedroom where strangely no one was coming out, to search for the witch who suddenly flew in through the window.

Even if he would be punished for disturbing the royal family’s private time, safety was more important. He was an excellent man with a sense of responsibility.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

And as the price of that responsibility, he witnessed a very bizarre scene that would be difficult to see in an early modern worldview. The reward for his courage was so cruel that he unknowingly sat down and screamed.