Chapter.6 In the Name of Glory (5)
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In this world of GG, if you were to choose a profession that is difficult to persuade, everyone would agree that the first place would be a wizard. These people are people who believe that what they understand is closer to the truth than the facts they see. There is no need to explain in words how difficult it is to persuade them, since they can twist reality and use magic based on that understanding.
In fact, a wizard should not be easily persuaded. Let’s say you were using magic with the realization that “water is cold” and someone appeared from somewhere and proved right before your eyes with a great theory. What if I am persuaded by this? In that way, the mental image collapses, making it impossible to use the magic that comes from that realization. So, contrary to public perception, wizards are a bit ignorant and somewhat dark about the world. Living only in the world of your own head is safer in protecting the knowledge you have built up so recklessly.
So what about religious people?
“Now wait a minute! “I really don’t know why I came here!”
“Such blasphemous… “I have committed so many sins that I can’t even count them.”
“Cut the tendons of the limbs and dry them for 100 days in the sunniest place on the roof of the temple…
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‘Fuck! Anything is fine, so please listen to me! please!’
To put it bluntly, religious people are ranked 0. Once they have affirmed something, they are completely unable to persuade, especially if it is related to their god.
The reason why the power derived from divine power, like the spell that is currently entangling my tongue, is called sacred ‘magic’ is because the basic principle is the same as magic.
In the case of magic, the realization that one has established based on a firm understanding of an object is ‘No matter what anyone says, I am right!’ He acquires a strong belief that, through that belief, he ignores the common sense of others and creates his own laws to form magic.
What is half-myeong sacred magic? In the stage consisting of [understanding->belief->establishment of law->expression of power]
mentioned above, ‘understanding’ is missing.
Religion is based on pure faith that is not governed by the logic of reason.
[Ro-Haram ministered the light of the beginning, illuminating the world to the eyes of mortals.]
Church members do not ask ‘why’ in this sentence. Because that is what they call ‘faith’. It means not questioning your faith.
Pure faith, such as the sun rises in the east and the stars twinkle, leaves no room for the logic of an understanding that their faith is a component of the world. That is the basis of divine power.
It is in this context that many religions are eager to expand their religious beliefs. If more people believe in and serve their doctrines, their influence on reality becomes stronger as the number of beliefs increases.
‘They said an oracle came down. From their point of view, the trust is absolutely right, so it has to be implemented in some way. Anyone can tell that the city with the dagger in front is Tobrun, but the sentence about darkness in the back is quite difficult to interpret. I was looking for something about it and got caught on their radar. Since the oracle cannot be denied, its interpretation must be twisted somehow. And you need to establish your case before you start talking about other bullshit!’
If I let them talk any more, they will decide among themselves that I am the evil one and then proceed with the trial, so I need to change their stance on me right now.
‘First of all, we need to know what facts led them to confirm that I was the subject of an oracle and a spy of Mute. You have to know [what] to refute in order to either make a plan or overthrow it!’
The professor swallowed saliva through his dry throat. It can still be reversed. Not yet!
“great. “As a sinner, I ask you to hear my sins before you. As a member of the church, I will confess each and every one of your sins.”
The professor listened quietly to the female bishop’s words.
“Last night. There was an incredibly terrible incident in Tobrunn. As is well known, it was a disaster caused by the hands of a terrible being called ‘Red Mute’, a monster that thinks and speaks human language. “Many people died, many citizens suffered, and we, too blind to follow the Lord’s will, were unable to prevent the tragedy.”
“Oooh ratura lo-haram.”
“Forgive me, forgive me, forgive me!”
The professor pretended to be calm, but trembled on the inside and listened to the female teacher’s words. If it turns out that the red mute and the escaped professor are the same person, it’s already game over. The moment those words come out of your mouth, you should immediately turn them over and run away.
“By the time the church figured out the situation and hurried to the Lead Flow Magic Tower, the evil enemy had already committed a tragedy and fled. Before we scourged ourselves before the icon of Ro Haram, we swore an oath. “To prevent such a tragedy from happening again, we will find everyone involved and make sure they can never do something like this again.”
The female leader folded her hands in prayer for a moment, closed her eyes as if rebuking herself, and then continued speaking.
“We have arrested everyone involved with the magic tower. On the corpse of the 6th rank magician ‘Isaac Mandalius’, traces of unusual tentacle-like objects were found digging into the cervical spine and head, and it was also confirmed that his disciples had conducted unspeakable research that was unspeakable. .”
Falak-
El Senadis took out several pieces of parchment that clearly showed traces of being wet, but had dried well and were legible, and spread them out in front of the professor.
“Isn’t your mark written very clearly on the evidence found there?”
‘Uh…huh? ‘What about that?’
The professor never thought he would see that here. That’s because the parchment in Senadis’s hand was of a type he was very familiar with.
[item: Isaac Mandalius’ wet research diary]
It was Isaac’s research diary that he personally scattered in the air to reveal the tower’s corruption.
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[What are you going to do? Can you run away alone? Shall I help you? If I go outside, I can shake off these guys in an instant.]
‘Can you come to the surface without going berserk?’
[It’s not possible yet. On the physical side, the infectious agent in the entire body must be activated, and on the conscious side, I think it is only possible if you lose your mind or take over the steering wheel. The issue of Mute’s blood… wouldn’t it be solved if we shake off these guys at once and run as fast as we can out of the city? Tobrunn is now the front line. There must be a mute or two wandering around nearby. I’ll somehow find time before I dry out and die.]
‘…No, it’s too dangerous. And it’s not quite over yet.’
First of all, the most important point. It was just confirmed, but they don’t know that I am the same person as Red Mute.
‘It’s certain that my existence was confirmed through the research log. Because it records all the days I was captured and lived as an experiment. When you were looking for me, you were looking for me under the name of ‘Professor Fugitive’, so you probably know that when I entered Tobrunn, the wizard confirmed to the guard in front of the guard that I was human. First of all, the most important problem has been overcome!’
There was a part where I could guess that they were targeting me as an experiment subject rather than me as a red mute.
‘Of course, I have to pretend to be embarrassed now.’
The conversation must be structured carefully and guided well. Just like building a tower made of cards, the only way to tell the truth is to deceive the other person with the truth.
“That kind of…!”
When the professor looked visibly agitated, the female bishop spoke in an even more exasperated voice.
“It is unknown whether Foolish Isaac and his disciples collaborated with Mute. They died in Mute’s attack, but if they cooperated with a monster stained with malice, it was natural that they would be betrayed someday, and even if they did not cooperate, they would have become monsters at some point because they were stained with that blood. Like Isaac, who had something deformed inside his body. Those who paid for their sins with their lives are not important. What’s important is the survivors who were involved in that incident. Just like you!”
The professor opened his mouth desperately, his eyes filled with fear.
“This is ridiculous! If you’ve seen the research records, wouldn’t you know better? That I was simply their test subject! I was a victim! “He was a good citizen!”
Even as I spoke, my pronunciation kept getting tangled up due to the sticky energy that stuck to my mouth. First of all, everything that was said was true, so it must have somehow fallen within the acceptable range.
‘good. I did a good job bringing you this far. If I cosplay as a victim here-‘
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“Be a victim. A good citizen… That’s right. To be exact, he was a good citizen. “Then, Professor, let me ask you a question.”
With her words, I felt the energy surrounding me become stronger. Confession Order. If what you say before asking a question is not true, the spell that seals your mouth is infused with even more divine power.
“professor. If you were just an ‘experiment’ who was dragged into the wizards’ experiments and suffered, how could you escape alive from Turan, which was occupied by monsters? “Are you just an ordinary experiment, neither a powerful knight nor a high-ranking wizard?”
‘come! You took the bait! ‘I thought if I talked about the victims, they would attack me!’
If you had traced my path, you would have found that the period from when I became a test subject in Turan until I was captured by the guards of Tobrun was empty. Then of course you would be suspicious. What did the man who had been abused as a wizard’s experiment do during this empty period? Since he was a person who suffered the pain of having his limbs cut off by wizards every day, wouldn’t he have developed a hatred for humans? Since I soaked myself in the highly infectious blood of a monster every day, didn’t I end up becoming a monster? do.
‘It’s here. You have to twist it here!’
The professor took a deep breath and began to say the sentences he had chosen after careful consideration several times. With a sad and sad expression. Like a man who had his life completely taken away.
“As expected… you knew everything.”
I lower my head and bite my lip tightly. It would be a good idea to shake your body a little as if your emotions were aroused. Sad thoughts, sad thoughts! I am the protagonist of a tragedy. Like Oh Tae-sik in Sunflower and Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment, this is the moment when I face the terrible reality and accept my karma!
– Jokass: Hey, what is he doing again?
– Noroo Drug: If you buy something from the professor’s caravan, you’ll be in big trouble. If a guy like that came in and started talking so loudly, I would empty my pockets and buy everything without even knowing it.
– takealook: A person who has trained his tongue three inches to survive in the wasteland…
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: I think he should be called Gyo-sun (狡脣: cunning lips), not professor.
Thump, thud,
thump!
Tears like chicken droppings began to fall from the professor’s eyes, who succeeded in imaging the sad protagonist despite the outfield’s disturbance.
“Yes… that’s right. I am a monster. “After the wizards abandoned me in Turan, I received no treatment for my infection and ended up turning into a monster.”
Satisfied smiles appeared on the faces of the priests and paladins, including Senadis, at the sight of the professor confessing and crying with his head down on the floor as if he were a high treason criminal. Now, the criminal they captured is confessing his sin with his own mouth.
“Then did you hear the voice of the being whom the monsters called ‘Queen’?”
“….yes. I can still hear voices whispering in my head! He is trying to control me and take away my body’s freedom! That voice! But I’m not a monster. I am human! Even though my body has become like those! “It still has a human soul!”
The face of the female bishop, who was about to order ‘purification’ right away with a satisfied face, was colored with embarrassment at the professor’s earnest cry.
“I don’t understand this. You clearly said that you heard the voice of the ‘Queen’ and that you still hear it now. “Can you swear that there is no error or falsehood in the testimony you have given so far?”
“I swear, don’t swear! In front of that bright Ro-Haram! “I swear I haven’t uttered a single lie!”
I felt a little stiffness at the root of my tongue, but the confession spell still didn’t bind my tongue.
‘Of course. ‘It’s all true!’
The Queen’s voice? I heard. In the early stages of infection. I definitely heard people say, “Come to me~” or something like that.
A voice in your head? You’re still listening to it now. Even now, I can clearly hear the voice that was drooling 24 hours a day and struggling to take control of my body. Although you answered after the question about the Queen, you never said that you had the voice of the ‘Queen’?
I can only tell the truth? Hey, you should have chosen your questions well when writing such half-assed spells. If the person speaking is inhibited, you can control what you ‘not’ say, right? I said it without the subject, but I never lied? Our priests imagined and filled in the information regarding the omitted subject.
‘The media in modern society cannot distinguish facts through fact checking alone. Even fragmented facts can become great lies if they are put together well, right?’
The professor smiled to himself and chose his words carefully.
This is step 1. First of all, let me announce that I am not under the Queen’s command. Now that they have confirmed the confession by casting a spell, this has been clearly proven.
Lady Bishop El Senadis was embarrassed for a moment, but quickly erased that expression from her face and returned to a solemn expression as she spoke to the professor.
“great. So you were infected by a monster and your body was stolen by the Queen, but you regained it by your own will? An infection that no one has overcome so far? “Are you trying to say that you overcame an infection that even the priests of Ro-Haram could not overcome with your own will?”
Umm. Parts related to the authority of the denomination. Here, you have to bow down again. It would be better to show that they overcame the infection with an indomitable will while acknowledging the authority of the church.
The professor was no longer with his head on the floor. He was talking while looking straight into the eyes of the female bishop with tear-filled eyes.
“Because I wanted to die as a human. I also don’t know how this was possible. The wizards had played too many tricks on my body to say that I had achieved this simply through my own will. “I wonder if the experiments they did on me and the numerous drugs had some effect on my will.”
This is not wrong either. I overcame Hyde’s attack with my own will, and until then, I had been relying on the wizard’s medicine and the ‘wound treatment’ to suppress the infection.
Gossip –
Gossip –
“If this happens…. Is the author an enemy of the church? Or are you a poor soul who escaped from the Queen’s clutches?”
“Uh-huh! Do not speak profane words! The oracle has not come down! The oracle clearly means that there is evil in Tobrun! How dare you doubt the will of Ro-Haram!”
“Ummmm… Ratura lo haram.”
“Latura lo haram.”
As the professor’s testimony piled up, the priests surrounding him were shaken.
“Stop it! Be quiet! “It’s still on trial!”
Even the female bishop’s voice, which had been calm throughout, was raising her voice in front of their shaking. After contemplating for a moment with a frown on her face, the female bishop turned her head to the side and opened her mouth.
“…Paladin Ashwell. “Let Jesker, the criminal, be the judge.”
The paladin broke away from the group for a moment at her words with a furrowed brow, and soon brought in a man with obvious signs of torture and knelt down next to the professor.
“Uh uh uh uh …
‘Why is this bastard here…?’
A familiar face. It was clearly one of the three sloppy robbers I met on the street before entering Tobrun who had spilled information about the Church of Salvation. Why is he doing this here?
“professor. “Do you know anything about this guy?”
“…..yes. “This is a thief I met on the way to Tobrun.”
“you’re right. To be exact, he was a thief, but he had been wandering around the city since yesterday, talking about the heresy called ‘Salvation Church’ and predicting an attack by the Red Mute. One of the church’s believers captured him and went through various ‘processes’ to find out everything he knew. He was one of the criminals awaiting execution. Among the stories that came out of the mouth of such a sinner was the story of a large man covered in scars and barefoot who walked from Turan to Tobrunn. Prisoner Jesker said the man told him the story about the Red Mute and introduced himself as a Selector. “What do you think about this story?”
“……”
‘Damn it! ‘I didn’t think about this!’
If you open your mouth carelessly, you will be put under a confession spell. I need to make time…!
“Hehehehe… You stupid cult bastards… It’s over for you!”
At that time, the thief Jesker, who was sprawled on the floor and writhing, opened his mouth.
Jesker, who had changed a lot from when I first saw him, was covered in blood, all his fingernails and toenails had fallen off, and his entire body was clearly bruised, he was smiling with a half-mad look on his face.
“Stupid cult bastards… You didn’t even know who this person was and brought him here without any restraint! This is Red Mute, the one who destroyed the magic tower in one night! Oooh! Selector! You came all this way to save me! No need to postpone anymore! “Now, use the power that killed those wizards and tear all these hypocrites to death!”
As Jesker said that, he looked at me with eyes full of anticipation and a desire for revenge and said,
‘Yes! ‘Thank you, Jesker!’
I responded to Jesker’s words with a very embarrassed and embarrassed expression.
“Oh, that is…”
The professor muttered for a moment, then turned his head to the paladin who had brought Zesker and held out his arm.
“Um… Paladin? “I’m sorry, but could you hit my arm?”
“…What does that mean?”
“That’s because I want to prove something in front of Ro-Haram. “You just have to swing it hard, but just enough not to break your arm.”
The paladin seemed momentarily taken aback by my strange request.
“…Bishop?”
“Please do so. “They say it’s needed for proof.”
However, after worrying for a moment and getting permission from the female bishop, the paladin swung his gauntleted arm at a reasonable speed as I asked.
puck!
Crack!
Arms swinging lightly. And as expected, my arm was bent in a strange direction with pain. The gauntlet wielded by a knight wearing such armor is no different from a metal club. Even if my body has reached a level where it doesn’t interfere with my daily life, it’s not yet strong enough to withstand that level of shock.
“Paladin Ashwell!”
“Oh no, Bishop! “I definitely didn’t swing that hard…”
The professor opened his mouth, extending his broken, shaky arm forward.
“This is why I had to tell such a terrible lie in front of those thieves. My body is so weak. Even though it is mixed with monster blood and recovers quickly, despite its strong appearance, it breaks and gets injured very easily. So I had to lie. “I am the selector of the church and not your enemy.”
The second common sense of modern media. If there are gaps in your excuse, create a provocative incident, look away, and brush it aside. Although it was roughly correct, it was an excuse that could not be said to be without flaws –
“Oh no! That can’t be possible! That person is clearly the selector of the Church of Salvation…!”
“Ashwell criminal back to prison.”
“Oh no! That can’t be possible! Selector! “You’re the selector!!!!”
Another sight right before your eyes! And he showed a performance where he broke his arm. It must be difficult to be even more suspicious on the other side. Since it has already been proven that the red mute is not me, it can be said that the interrogation using Zesker is the female bishop’s last struggle. On the contrary, my innocence became more certain because there was no way such a weak person could be a red mute.
‘If a thief named Zesker had told me about the mess I made in front of them, I wouldn’t have been able to get away with it. So I deliberately put on a more eye-catching show to get through it quickly.’
Anyway, thanks to the confession spell, Jesker’s testimony, and a little show, it was proven that I was absolutely not the same person as the Red Mute, and although my body was a monster, I was an innocent person who did not follow the Queen’s orders. It was great! Perfect! In fact, if I had just pushed for a confession without ordering it, I could have doubted it until the end, but if this happens, the other side will have no choice but to believe it!
El Senadis, who was lost in thought for a moment, suddenly turned to the professor and spoke with a gentle face.
“okay. There was a bit of a misunderstanding. “You were an excellent believer who went through countless hardships and succeeded in not giving up on human will.”
‘Admitted it! My image of myself has changed from a killer to a true believer!’
However, contrary to such words and actions, Senadis’s subsequent actions further accelerated the professor’s fate.
“…To Paladin Drantis.”
At her words, a particularly large paladin among the paladin standing behind her walked out from among the priests surrounding him.
“Professor, your faithfulness has been proven before the name of Ro-Haram. However, it is also clear that the Lord foretold a threat. Even though you have escaped the Queen’s clutches, as long as you hear her voice, you may turn to their side at any time and become a spy selling out information about our humanity. “If you truly reject evil and serve humanity, you should be martyred here.” As soon as she finished speaking
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the paladin pulled out a huge claymore from behind his back. A huge cross sword forged from saint metal. This means that you will respect my death by decapitating me with a single knife rather than beating me to death with a mace or blunt object.
‘It’s the final hurdle. trust. According to their beliefs, the oracle is unconditionally true. Even if the interpretation is wrong, even the wrong interpretation must be followed in order to maintain the faith of the church members.’
Just before the paladin’s great sword fell, casting a shadow over the professor’s neck, the professor hurriedly opened his mouth.
“The evil that has permeated Tobrunn doesn’t mean me, it means the Church of Salvation! Even though I am not following the queen’s wishes, I have some idea of what they want and how they are moving! Please save me! “If I am alive, I will definitely be able to be of help to humanity!”
This is what I thought when I heard the contents of the oracle. The city with the dagger on it clearly refers to Tobrun. At least, as the church thinks, the evil is not me, so it means that something else remains…
‘The Gwangmyeong Church bastards seem to think that the Salvation Church is just one of many heresies, but this is the correct interpretation! Ro-haram! If you listen to this, you really need to save me! ‘I’ll cover all your kids’ missteps!’
As the professor prayed while looking at the giant statue with earnest heart, the bishop raised his hand to stop the paladin’s actions. The faint emotion on her face was clearly excitement and anticipation. That kind of anticipation that she had acquired an unexpectedly great tool.
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