Chapter 967 – #99. Three Thousand Concubines and Emperor Gaiden (25)
Were you afraid to see the truth?
The priest raised his divine power to the end and couldn’t confirm whether I was a demon contractor or not.
From the priest’s point of view, it would have been much easier to think that I was a demon contractor.
If the truth is inconvenient for oneself, it is better not to see it, not to hear it, and to live believing in the truth that is not the truth.
Seeing that this kind of guy eats well and lives well as a priest who serves God, it makes me think that God didn’t cut the world for nothing.
How will this priest react when they learn the truth that they have been abandoned by the god they believed in?
Of course…
“I’ll pretend not to believe it.”
“I will not be shaken. I will not be shaken by the devil’s temptation!!”
What I said to that priest was a trick the devil was trying to corrupt himself.
Even so, he must have known that he would be able to endure it only if he denied my words.
Just because you struggle like that doesn’t mean the results will disappear.
“I’m sorry, but even if you put in so much effort, the results won’t change. The actions I didn’t confirm by using my holy power are proof that I acknowledge my identity.”
“!!!”
If your beliefs were firm, you should have confirmed whether or not you were a demonic contractor according to my words.
And you should have accepted the consequences of your beliefs.
That was a way to make it a little less ugly.
However, the priest did not use divine power until the end and did not confirm that I was a demon contractor.
It was evidence that faith was already shaken.
“What are you saying to me? Rather just kill me!”
The horse would have the confidence that it would not kill them even if they did.
That’s why it comes out to kill like that.
“You’re bragging about leaving the temple on your back despite being so frightened. Do you think you’ll be able to survive here in the first place?”
“What?”
It seemed that the priest did not take the threats I had made so far seriously.
“Do you know how many soldiers have lost their lives because of what you did? Sending such a guy intact just because he’s a priest and leaving him to live in the temple sighing?”
The priest must have read the truth in my words and cried out in fear.
“Crazy!!! Are you going to ruin the country because you can’t stand your personal grudge!”
“Isn’t it absurd that those who don’t care if the people of that country die or not are the ones who follow God’s will if they lose the temple in the first place?”
Those who should be more compassionate than anyone else are deciding whether or not to treat for their own benefit.
As soon as the soldiers of the empire were ordered not to heal at the temple, they did not use their abilities on the bleeding and dying as if they had never shown kindness.
Even though he was a soldier who could live with his abilities!
If you have a job that saves ordinary people, shouldn’t you feel sorry for the dying person?
I’m not going to use my abilities, but I can’t say anything…
‘It was crossing the line to laugh at a soldier crying for help.’
By the way, the soldier who cried at that time was not a dying soldier, but a fellow soldier.
The fellow soldier knelt down and begged him to save him, but they turned away without blinking an eye.
I wanted to hear the Hippocratic Oath at least for that bastard.
From then on, I had no intention of forgiving the temple bastards.
The only problem was how to silence the opposition from other nobles.
‘There are many faithful guys in our empire.’
In the meantime, killing the priest on my own?
The reputation I’ve built will crumble, and the aftermath will reach the Crown Prince.
That’s why I left the priests alone for now.
Until these bastards cross the line someday.
Since his usual behavior is so arrogant, I thought that if I waited for some time, the day would come when I would cross the line.
“What do you mean by putting them in a place like this to look good? Treat them the same as other prisoners! And I will allow you to be tortured to find out how they created the plague.”
“Go, torture? You’re going to torture us? To us who serve the surveillance god?!”
“God is noble, isn’t your body noble?
In fact, at first, the soldiers were a little uncomfortable with my order to torture the priests.
However, they could not disobey the strict emperor’s order, and when torture was applied in earnest, the priests began to spit out things they knew one after another.
Isn’t it highly unlikely that well-bred priests would have strong mental strength enough to endure torture?
And fortunately, the people who heard the truth they spit out couldn’t hide their anger and rather started saying that they should catch them and kill them.
It was because these pups crossed the line brilliantly.
“Poison the well?”
“Fuck, you thought you were going to kill us all.”
Water is one of the essential elements for human survival.
How could he have imagined that the water in the well would be poisoned?
I’m glad I know now, otherwise I would have died.
“How about decoding?”
“A few priests had the antidote, but the amount was not large. They said they only had the amount to take on their own in case of an unexpected situation.”
“You motherfuckers!!!!”
Even now, soldiers are sick and dying.
Even the fact that they were priests was useless in their vicious tactics.
I deliberately did not hide what they had done, but spread it widely to everyone.
“The priest poisoned the well?!”
“How could a person do such a thing… And the priests did that?”
“Was it because of the priests that I was sick? How faithfully I was praying to God…!”
The vicious behavior of the priests made the soldiers, who were faithful believers, feel a great sense of betrayal.
It was a great achievement that there were nobles among those who felt betrayed.
‘Because even nobles need to drink water.’
In other words, the fact that the vicious numbers of the priests was an act that threatened the lives of the aristocrats themselves seemed to arouse anger.
Aristocrats began to appear who sympathized with me when I said that gods are great and priests are not.
“Would it be difficult to obtain the antidote separately?”
“That’s…The poison these guys use is demon blood.”
“Ah, devil’s blood!! Oooooh!”
“Weeek-! My, the water I drank couldn’t have been the water from the well!?”
“No, that’s ridiculous… Devil’s blood!!!”
The image of the existence of the devil is almost the worst.
“Demon blood?”
However, I didn’t know exactly what kind of poison demon’s blood was.
“It’s not real demon blood. It’s a deadly poison produced by an alchemist by grinding the bones of demon contractors.”
“Grinding people’s bones to make poison?”
“It has no taste and is clear in color, but the lethality is staggering. Plus, this venom can kill even demons.”
“Kill the devil?”
“There is a myth that this poison was applied to a sword to kill a demon.”
You released that great poison into the well?
Really these bastards, it seems like they thought it would be nice if we searched all over.
“How can a person who worships a god be so malicious!!”
“This is not something humans can do. It’s not a priest, it’s a demon!”
“Haven’t you been acting like a more demonic contractor while taking Your Majesty as a demonic contractor?”
“Even God will be displeased with being served by such people!”
The nobles trembled at the vicious numbers of the priest.
Being in the position of being victimized, I couldn’t help but feel resentment and disgust even though I knew that I shouldn’t touch the priest.
The unfavorable public opinion about priests intensified as time passed.
The remaining question was what to do with the poisoned soldiers.
“Call all the sick soldiers together.”
“Yes?”
“I know it’s not an epidemic, so if there are soldiers who can’t wake up, bring them out to the square on their backs.”
I waited patiently for today’s performance.
It’s a pity for the soldiers who died from poison in the meantime, but I wasn’t a real god, so I couldn’t save everyone.
“Yes, yes!”
Still, the aristocrats, as if not paying attention at all, began to move with expressions wondering what I was trying to do.
“Abama, are you going to do something?”
“Yeah, I can’t get an antidote right now. What should I do? I’ll do as much as Jim can.”
“What are you going to do? Are you going to show me a miracle like you showed me last time?”
“For some it will be a miracle, for others it will be despair.”
Healing diseases and healing wounds were the privileges that only priests could do.
But imagine that I show a miracle of healing tens of thousands of soldiers at once.
It will be difficult for the temple to claim me as a demon contractor.
The emperor of the empire revived a dying man, but he continues to claim that he is a demon contractor?
The temple will have to prepare an excuse for those who have doubts.
Otherwise, it would become an axis of evil that framed the messenger of God.
Oh my, oh my…
Turn it off… Help me… It hurts so much…!
After a while, when I went outside, sick soldiers were lying on the floor, moaning.
He’s probably cursing a lot in his mind, wondering what the hell he’s calling a sick person to do.
Isn’t that how you can’t see your surroundings when you’re sick?
It was not gathered with the intention of making the soldiers suffer.
“Everyone will know by rumor that the well in the temple was poisoned. Isn’t it truly disgusting what those who claim to be servants of the gods did? I saw you praying.”
“…”
“Heuk!”
“…Sniff!”
Hehe!! Mother… I want to go home…!”
The soldiers writhing in pain shed tears at my speech.
There was no one who did not know how deadly the poison they drank was fatal.
“They borrowed the power of the gods and handled people’s lives as they pleased. Even so, they pretended to be noble while doing things like servants of the gods. If it stays like this, the terrible things they did will be buried, and we, who threatened the priests, should become enemies of the temple. Will do.”
“Bad bastards…!”
“Pup…!”
“You bastards who will be punished…!!!”
Wild profanity flowed among the soldiers who could not hide their anger.
“They can kill us, but we can’t fight with the temple, so we have to return them to the temple with their bodies intact.”
Hehe!!”
“It’s unfair!! I don’t think I can close my eyes even if I die because of the unfairness!!!”
“Your Majesty!!! I’m sorry!!!”
The soldiers’ anger and resentment reached a peak.
Fortunately, the soldiers who were not poisoned were sympathetic to the pain of their comrades.
They clenched their fists tightly and trembled, unable to hide their anger.
