Chapter 1166 – 1166. A New Path, and the Truth
Armonia’s explanation began with a question.
“Do you know what the source of Enel is?”
“The source of Enel… ?”
It was something I had never thought about on the Korean Peninsula.
There are only two things I know about Enel.
It is God’s good that grants Enel everything he wants.
And in order to produce the god’s goods, the protagonist must rule the stars.
However, it seemed that dominance did not lead to natural production.
The faith and trust shown by the intelligent bodies of the star that the protagonist dominates towards the protagonist.
That faith and trust seemed to be translated into Enel.
“Is it absolute faith? ?”
Fortunately, my guess was somewhat close to the correct answer.
“You’re right. The current method of producing Enel is religious.”
With Armonia’s answer, I was able to understand the source of Enel.
Faith in God.
In other words, it was faith.
It wasn’t just faith and trust.
It is also included forced aspects such as obedience and submission.
Above all, there was no need to believe in God directly.
“Enel is produced just by trusting in the agents.”
Enel could be produced simply by believing in the main character, an agent of the temple or the Zodiac.
But unfortunately, not everything was correct.
“But piety is just one way to produce Enel… It is not the source of Enel.”
“Then… ?”
I tilted my head and asked, but Armonia remained silent, staring at me with hesitant eyes.
Without hesitation, I looked into Armonia’s eyes and waited for her answer.
And five minutes later, the answer came out of Armonia’s mouth.
“Soul… More precisely, it is the energy of the soul.”
“…”
Enel’s source is the soul?
That’s the story…
“The Enel we are using now…”
“It is the energy of the soul.”
“…”
I was so shocked by the shocking fact that I couldn’t even close my mouth properly.
And at that moment, a person passed through my mind.
Gravekeeper.
The only colleague I let go.
I remembered the time when I held his dying soul in my arms and headed to Neo Niflheim, saying I would give him rest.
I trembled, clenching my palms that had nothing in them.
“Then… Among the Enel I wrote… Even the gravedigger’s soul…”
I felt like tears would burst out.
No one would want to be wasted like this, no matter how much of their life they spent.
This is especially true if it is a colleague who helped me by my side.
“It means it’s in… ? Oh, my…”
Feeling so disgusted, I tried to swear…
“No.”
“… “What?”
Armonia denied my question in her usual calm voice.
“The Enel produced today has no soul. “It only contains the faith of the living.”
“Phew… I’m so glad…”
One word from Armonia brought peace to my heart.
It may seem like an exaggeration, but I felt like I was saved by Armonia.
However, there was a catch in Armonia’s words.
“Today… ?”
That means…
“There was a time when souls were made into Enel.”
After hearing Armonia’s answer, I held back my swearing and held back my pounding head.
I still felt upset, but it was bearable compared to before.
I don’t know what point in the past Armonia is talking about, but at least it’s not the time when I lived.
No matter how pitiful you were, it was not easy to feel sympathy for a stranger (or someone you didn’t even know existed).
First of all, I could understand why Armonia suddenly brought up the story of Enel.
“In the past, souls were consumed to create Enel… ?”
The soul-related question I was curious about was closely related to Enel… No, it was actually impossible to answer without explaining Enel.
But as soon as Armonia heard me, she shook her head.
“The premise is wrong.”
“It’s wrong… ?”
“She didn’t use her soul to create Enel. In the first place…”
Armonia hesitated for a moment, then closed her eyes and continued her words.
“In the past, souls did not exist. The dead passed over their soul energy and all memories to the agents they had worshiped, and went through a cycle of being created as new life again with small energy like a seed.”
“…”
In other words, it meant that it used to be a reincarnation system.
I nodded as if I understood.
“Does the soul exist now that the method has changed?”
“That’s right.”
“So you’re saying the current method is overwhelmingly better?”
Anyone who listens to me will nod their head.
At the moment of death, the energy of the soul is handed over and one is reborn with all memories lost.
It may sound like you can live an infinite life, but in reality, it is no different from being born as a stranger.
In contrast, the current method allows you to continue life as a soul even after death.
It was like getting a chance to make up for the mistakes I made in my lifetime.
Meet the children and spouse you left behind in this world again, and be forgiven for your past mistakes… Furthermore, you may be able to meet the child you left behind.
In addition, Enel can also be obtained through faith.
No matter how much I thought about it, this seemed like an overwhelmingly good system.
However, there was one person who could not agree with what I said.
“As Suho said, it is a good method for living things, but it is a very inefficient method for extracting Enel.”
“How inefficient is it?”
“First, let me explain the current situation.”
Armonia said that and explained the numbers of Enel currently being created.
“Currently, the amount of Enel that a person can collect in their lifetime is approximately 10 to 100.”
“Note…”
It was a figure too embarrassing to be disguised as a lie.
However, it was something that could not be discounted as a small figure.
“If you add up the population of one world, it would still be quite a number.”
“That’s right.”
Armonia nodded as if agreeing with what I said.
Armonia’s attitude made me feel better, and I used that momentum to ask the next question.
“Then what about in the past?”
In the past, when a person died, it was said that the energy of the soul was transferred to the temple and the representatives of the zodiac.
How much Enel was the energy of that soul?
200? 300?
‘No, that’s too salty…’ They even used the expression “Inefficiency”… It will come out to around 1000 or 2000.’
I thought so and waited for Armonia’s answer.
And Armonia’s answer had enough destructive power to shatter my expectations.
“If you convert the energy of one person’s soul into Enel, you get about 10,000 Enel.”
“…”
Currently, the number of Enels that can be created by one person is 10 to 100.
In the past, the number of Enel that could be created by one person was 10000.
In other words, if we take the past figures as 100%, Enel’s current production percentage is only approximately 0.1% to 1%.
Armonia didn’t use the word inefficiency for nothing.
It was really inefficient.
Of course, if we only look at Enel production.
“… I’m glad things have changed like this.”
Maybe it’s because I live in a world with souls, but hearing stories about the past wasn’t all that enjoyable.
It was as if I found out the truth for no reason, and it just made me feel bad.
But at the same time that I learned that uncomfortable truth, I also learned another truth.
“Have you been worrying about me all this time?”
I could see that the reason Armonia hadn’t shown her face well for a few days was because of me.
It was a remark that could have been misunderstood by others as narcissistic.
Of course, I have a certain amount of self-love, but it is only at the level of being satisfied and liking myself.
Nevertheless, the reason I said such narcissistic words was because I knew Armonia’s personality.
Armonia, who heard my question, avoided her gaze and answered in a low voice.
“I’m still thinking about it. Is it right to say this…”
“…”
Armonia’s face was emotionless, but her actions were full of rich emotions.
The reason Armonia hesitated was not for herself, but for her or her colleagues.
I approached Armonia, who looked slightly depressed, then placed my hand on her shoulder and opened her mouth.
“I’m sorry for making you worry because of me.”
“No. This is my job.”
“Haha…”
Armonia answered again with an emotionless face.
‘Like the surprised look from earlier…’ It sure seems like he has feelings… Are you hiding it on purpose?’
I wanted to ask why there was no change in expression, but I held back because there were still things I needed to ask Armonia.
“Armonia.”
“Yes, please speak.”
“Then why was the soul created?”
This was something I was curious about earlier.
Difference between past and present.
There must have been a decisive factor that created that difference.
When I asked, Armonia…
“…”
“…”
He started staring at me intently.
I sighed inwardly as I looked at Armonia like that.
‘Could it be that I asked something I shouldn’t have asked again?’
I was worried that I might have opened Pandora’s box.
But I quickly shook off my worries and thought.
‘I already opened it, but it’s funny to just skip it…’
Moreover, the atmosphere of Armonia was quite different from before.
If earlier the atmosphere was filled with worry and anxiety, now there was a calm atmosphere.
Armonia, who was staring at me with such a calm atmosphere, closed her eyes and opened her mouth.
“Thanks to one person’s sacrifice, souls were created in the entire universe.”
“The sacrifice of one person?”
When I asked, tilting her head, Armonia closed her eyes…
‘Huh!?’
Suddenly he began to smile faintly.
I have never seen Armonia smile before.
No, to be exact, I only heard testimony that she laughed once.
‘Hannah said she saw it.’
Armonia said Kang Han-na lied, but…
‘It’s hilarious.’
This proved that Armonia’s words were false.
I thought as I looked at Armonia’s smiling face with her eyes closed.
‘… Are you so lost in her thoughts that you don’t even know she’s smiling?’
It seemed like he had forgotten what was in front of him because he was thinking about the past.
‘I want to take a picture.’
Armonia’s face smiling shallowly.
It’s no joke, if I had a camera, I would have taken a picture a long time ago and hung it in a frame.
Of course, the camera will be taken away the moment you take the picture, let alone get to the frame installation stage…
However, apart from feeling good about Armonia’s smile, jealousy flowed out.
‘I guess you liked it.’
Armonia was smiling as if she was remembering someone she liked.
Armonia, who never smiled in front of me, smiled while thinking of another guy, and I was upset without realizing it.
‘What… It’s only been a few years since I met you…’
She is Armonia, who treated the Dean who has lived for over 500 years as a trivial thing.
There is no way she could have lived without any relationship until now.
And through Armonia’s expression, it was possible to guess that ‘one person’ had a very deep relationship with Armonia.
Armonia smiled while being immersed in her memories for a while…
“…”
She opened her eyes again with an expressionless expression and opened her mouth.
“It is related to the next topic, so I will explain it further.”
“Next topic… ?”
Her head didn’t turn because she was jealous of the guy Armonia was recalling.
However, thanks to her Armonia’s words, her head began to forcibly rotate.
“The one who sacrificed himself and created the existence of souls in this universe… “He is the head of the Zodiac.”
