Into the Creations 1050

## Chapter 1050 – Divine Authority

“I seem to have kept you, esteemed guest, for too long. Please, come inside the temple. We have already prepared a room for you.”

“I need a woman… Do you have any?”

“We have gathered all the beautiful female followers. They are waiting for you in your room.”

“Is that also a divine revelation?”

“We heard the report from Guide Kang Ji-woo. And we have been watching you for a long time. It was a divine revelation from the Mad God. Of course, back then, you were not yet the esteemed guest… But that doesn’t matter now.”

The fact that they had been watching me from before gave me a bit of a shock.

‘I didn’t feel anything strange… Were they monitoring me from afar?’

Or maybe they were just doing a background check on me.

Either way, it was unpleasant. But I didn’t have the power to confront the cult leader directly. Even if I did, all I’d get would be an apology.

The cult leader spoke to Park Su-ho and the other followers.

“You will all become sacrifices tomorrow. Sacrifices for the Mad God, for the world. Accept your fate. It will be the greatest service to the Mad God. Do you understand?”

“Yes, Cult Leader. We will gladly sacrifice ourselves for the Mad God.”

One of the followers spoke on behalf of the others. The rest bowed their heads deeply in agreement. Park Su-ho was among them. The cult leader smiled contentedly.

I wished Park Su-ho well in the afterlife.

‘I’ll take good care of your sister, Ga-in. Farewell, Park Su-ho. It was fun while it lasted.’

Suddenly, the goddess Selbretina seemed like an idiot. Why did she make Park Su-ho a hero?

“Good. Now, purify your bodies with a ritual bath, and cleanse your minds with prayer until the ceremony tomorrow.”

“Yes, Cult Leader.”

“Now, go that way.”

The followers got up and went where the cult leader pointed.

I slightly tilted my eyes. Park Su-ho brushed my hand as he passed by. I didn’t know why, but it seemed like Park Su-ho’s brainwashing had been undone. Maybe it had something to do with this temple space.

‘Since he’s supposed to be a hero or something, he must have some special power.’

Park Su-ho might have a way out. It seemed like I should meet him later.

After that, the cult leader personally guided me to my room.

It was a room that could rival a five-star hotel. In the spacious room, beautiful women were wearing sexy lingerie. They were all stunning, regardless of whether they were Asian or Western.

“Welcome, esteemed guest.”

“We will serve you, esteemed guest.”

“We can accept any kind of play.”

I swallowed hard and took off my pants.

***

After a satisfying sex session, I took a shower and came out of the room. I was planning to meet Park Su-ho. I wasn’t going to sneak around. I was the esteemed guest. I was the one who was being treated with respect by the cult leader. It was the followers who had to be wary of me.

“Hey.”

I called out to a passing follower. The follower bowed his head as soon as he saw me. He was a foreigner with brown hair.

“Yes, esteemed guest.”

He answered in English. Thanks to my entertainment app, I could speak English like a native speaker.

“Where is Park Su-ho’s room?”

“Park Su-ho…? I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“…I mean the place where the sacrifices for tomorrow’s divine authority ritual are.”

“Ah! You mean the prayer room for the sacrifices? I know where it is… But by the cult leader’s orders, entering there would taint the sacrifices… So, entry is forbidden.”

“I’m fine. Or what? Am I going to taint them? Huh?”

“Ah, no! If it’s you, esteemed guest, you’ll be fine! Yes! Of course!”

Judging by his reaction, maybe my status was even higher than the cult leader’s.

‘Is it related to the fact that Brahmasen is trying to make me an apostle?’

I looked at the follower walking ahead of me. Judging by his clothes and demeanor, he seemed to be a follower with some status.

“Hey. What’s an apostle?”

“An apostle is someone who has received the Mad God’s power… A being like the Mad God’s incarnation.”

“So, higher than the cult leader.”

“If we’re just talking about status… Yes, that’s right.”

“And I’m going to become an apostle.”

“That is likely the case.”

An apostle (true).

That’s why the cult leader was being so nice to me. I grinned. It wasn’t bad.

“Here it is.”

We stood in front of a white door. The door was tightly closed.

“Good job. You can go now.”

“Yes. I will go. And my name is…”

“I don’t need your name. I remember your face, so just go.”

“Yes, esteemed guest.”

The follower, who knew a thing or two about social life, retreated. I watched him disappear and opened the door and went inside.

The floor was covered in marble. On one side, clean water flowed, and on the other, naked followers were kneeling on the marble floor, facing forward and concentrating on prayer.

The followers didn’t react even when I came in. That’s how focused they were on prayer. And on the wall in front, there were unpleasant patterns drawn all over it.

‘That’s probably another brainwashing effect. Park Su-ho might have been brainwashed again.’

If that’s the case, I’ll just turn around and go back to having sex.

I looked for Park Su-ho among the followers. Park Su-ho was also naked, and his gaze was fixed forward. I knew he wasn’t brainwashed. His penis was erect. He must have gotten an erection from seeing the naked bodies of the beautiful female followers nearby. I quickly turned my gaze away. I immediately erased the traces of pre-cum from my mind.

“Hey, Park Su-ho. Are you in your right mind?”

Park Su-ho looked at me.

“Hyung! Why are you so late?!”

“Do you think it was easy for me to get here?”

“I thought you had abandoned me.”

“Do you not know me that well? I’m not that kind of guy. Get up first.”

Park Su-ho got up from his spot. His legs were wobbly. I frowned at the sight.

“What are you doing with an erection?”

“My legs are numb from kneeling for so long. And the erection… It can’t be helped. Look around.”

There were men and women. Especially the women, most of them were beautiful. There were over 100 of them. Among them, some were kneeling on the floor, bending their upper bodies forward as they prayed. Their buttocks were spread open, and their vaginas were clearly visible.

“Hoo. I’m glad you’re relatively okay, hyung. You really have a strong mind.”

“Relatively okay? I’m completely okay.”

“Come on. Don’t try to act tough here. If you were really okay, they wouldn’t have made you do that.”

The things I did at the Light Source Church flashed through my mind. I decided to keep quiet about this.

“So, do you have a plan? Should we go outside and ask the Association for help?”

“No. It’ll be too late that way. According to the goddess Selbretina, it’s dangerous if we don’t stop the divine authority ritual right away.”

“……You talked to Selbretina?”

“Yes. She said this space is closer to Selbria than Earth. And since this is a temple, the goddess Selbretina can exert some power.”

“Really? So, what are we going to do now?”

“First, we have to stop the divine authority ritual. It’s impossible to stop it completely right now, so… We have to destroy the ritual chamber and buy some time. After that, we’ll go outside and inform the Association and get help.”

“If we want to make the Association move easily… We’ll need evidence.”

“There’s plenty of evidence around. Just look at this scene…. And you have your smartphone, right?”

“What about you?”

“As soon as I entered the prayer room, they took away all my clothes and everything.”

“Okay. Let’s go outside first. We can steal a follower’s clothes and wear them.”

I went out of the prayer room with Park Su-ho. Park Su-ho stole the clothes of a follower passing by. When I ordered him to, the follower immediately took off his clothes.

“Hyung, you really have absolute power.”

“It’s not like I wanted it.”

But it’s the power I wanted.

I swallowed the last words and looked around the temple with Park Su-ho. It was to leave evidence to move the Association.

“We’ve been everywhere. Should we go to the ritual chamber now?”

The ritual chamber was in the basement of the temple.

We easily found it by asking a follower. By the way, the rituals in the temple are said to be held 24 hours a day. It was different from the special divine authority ritual. This ritual was something the Light Source Church had been doing every day.

“Hyung. This place… It’s going to be really bad. Are you ready?”

“I think you’re the one who should be ready.”

Park Su-ho’s expression was stiff. We both knew what kind of ritual was in front of us.

A ritual.

It was on a different level from the ritual we did at the Light Source Church training camp.

In this temple, they performed human sacrifice rituals. They killed people every two hours and offered them as sacrifices. Twelve people died as sacrifices every day.

‘The Light Source Church got this temple about two years ago… So, at least 8,000 people must have died as sacrifices.’

The sacrifices weren’t followers. They were humans kidnapped from all over the world. Sacrificing followers was only done for the divine authority ritual.

Park Su-ho and I entered the ritual chamber.

It was dark. And the air was hot. The stench of blood was so strong that it was hard to breathe. It was a large space like a lecture hall, and in the center, there was an altar on a staircase. On the altar, there was a man’s corpse. It was a decapitated corpse. Blood was flowing down the stairs.

“Esteemed guest! What brings you here?”

A man came running towards me in a hurry. He wasn’t the cult leader, but he was wearing fancy clothes.

“Are you a guide?”

“I am Murat, the first guide!”

“I see. Die.”

*Pzzzzzt.*

I swung my fist, charged with lightning. Murat’s head was crushed, and pieces flew everywhere.

“Yujin hyung!”

“What, do you have a problem with that?”

“No! I was just wondering if you needed a weapon!”

Park Su-ho was cutting down the fanatics with a sword he had stolen from a nearby follower.

“I’m fine.”

Followers with swords rushed at Park Su-ho. They were at least C-class hunters, but Park Su-ho easily subdued them. It wasn’t Park Su-ho’s own power. It was too clumsy for that. Some kind of power was helping Park Su-ho.

“Esteemed guest! Why are you doing this!”

“The Mad God told me to kill you.”

“Ah, I see. Then please kill us!”

“……”

They threw away their weapons and spread their arms, urging me to kill them. They even had bright smiles on their faces. That made me so annoyed that I electrocuted them to death with lightning to inflict as much pain as possible. But the followers’ blissful smiles didn’t disappear.

“Ahhh. I’m going to the Mad God’s side…!”

I was the one who felt more disgusted. Park Su-ho and I silently killed all the followers. They didn’t resist or give up on my orders. I couldn’t leave them alive because they might prioritize the cult leader’s orders over mine.

“Hyung. These guys deserve to die. How could they do something like human sacrifice?”

“Okay, okay. Calm down. You’re more of a problem than me right now.”

“Ah. That’s… Damn it.”

Park Su-ho squeezed his eyes shut. His body was trembling slightly. But that was only for a moment. Park Su-ho regained his composure and began to destroy his surroundings. The objects needed for the ritual were being broken one by one. This would buy us some time until the divine authority ritual.

I found a door at the back of the ritual chamber. It was a door covered in blood.

I opened the door. There was a staircase leading down.

‘This is already underground, but there’s another underground level? …Is this maybe the real ritual chamber?’

It was too obvious for it to be a secret passage.

I went down to the basement and my eyes widened.

There were corpses everywhere. Over ten thousand corpses were piled up randomly, forming hills. The stagnant blood was so deep that it reached my calves.

Most of the corpses were decapitated, followed by those with their stomachs ripped open or their hearts extracted. There were few dismembered corpses.

‘They’re all naked, so they must be the humans who were sacrificed. They must have done something to keep them from rotting. Are they planning to use the corpses again later?’

*Splish, splash.*

I walked forward. This was a corpse storage. There was nothing more to see. But something caught my eye. I had to confirm it.

“Huk! C-crazy…! Hyung! Where are you going?!”

I heard Park Su-ho’s voice from behind. I ignored him. Park Su-ho wasn’t important right now. My heart was pounding. It was an ominous feeling.

*Thud.*

My legs stopped.

It was Han Ha-rin.

There was Han Ha-rin with her stomach ripped open, her intestines completely exposed.

“……”

My anger rose to the point where my mind went blank for a moment.

*Pzzzzzzzt.*

Blue lightning spread from my legs in all directions. The blood evaporated, and the corpses burned. The flames spread to all the corpses.

*Pzzzzzzzzzt.*

The lightning continued to burn.

“Hyung! Hyung! Get a grip! Yujin hyung!!!”

“I’m in my right mind.”

My absolute sanity wouldn’t allow me to go crazy with anger. Even though my anger and hatred were rising to the top of my head, I was maintaining my sanity.

“…Park Su-ho. What day is it today?”

“Today? It’s the 28th. No… It’s past midnight, so it’s the 29th. Hyung. More importantly, it’s dangerous for us to stay here. Let’s get out of here quickly.”

“……”

I made sure that Han Ha-rin’s corpse was completely burned away before I went outside.

My destination was where the cult leader was.

“Hyung! Where are you going? Hyung?! We have to get out of here! We’ve found all the evidence, and we’ve delayed the ritual, so we need to get out and get help from the Association!”

“You go first. I’m going to kill that cult leader bastard and then leave.”

“That cult leader isn’t as weak as the other followers! He must have received the Mad God’s power! Hyung, please think calmly!”

“I am calm. Because I’m calm, you do what you want. I’ll do what I want. It doesn’t matter anymore. From now on… It’s just me venting my anger.”

“What are you talking about? Ah, really! Hyung, please!”

Park Su-ho, who was blocking my way, flinched. He couldn’t stop me. Park Su-ho had good instincts. If he had kept blocking me, I would have killed him.

“Ah, really…! Okay. You do what you want. I’ll do what I want.”

Park Su-ho left.

I summoned the Fire Lotus Flying Daggers in front of the cult leader’s room, grabbed them in my hand, and kicked the door open.

*Kwaaang!*