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[Mazda Incarnation]
Turn back time a little and a few days ago
Lily fiddled with the communicator with an excited expression on her face.
“If I call you when I get there, you’ll be surprised, right?”
“They’re probably going to tell me to go back to Earth right away?”
Lily’s expression quickly became glum at the answer of Abraxas, who was next to her.
“I don’t want to do that… but I also want to travel to a place called Moorim.”
“so do i. “It’s a bit shameful for the landlord to monopolize dimensional travel by himself.”
“that’s right! It’s disgusting! So, As, please speak well. “Let’s travel together, the three of us.”
A smile of conversion appeared on Abraxas’s lips.
“That’s why I deliberately didn’t bring a homing device. “The two of us cannot return to Earth until we meet Daein.”
Lily looked up at Abraxas with respect in her eyes.
“As is, after all, a genius dragon.”
“Have you finally realized that?”
“I’ve known it for a long time, but I know it once more!”
“really? “Our Lily is smart.”
Abraxas stroked Lily’s head and looked around.
The two were passing through the gate to Wulin.
A pure white road made of magical power.
I heard from Kiri that if you keep walking, an exit will appear at some point, but the time at which the exit appears varies depending on the dimension.
‘What kind of place is the dimension called Moorim?’
Aside from curiosity, the corpse-like dragon walked forward with excitement. Next to me, Lily was talking to Malang.
“Smooth. “Aren’t you guys excited to see each other again?”
Kyaaa!
The mallang put its body in Lily’s bag and stuck its head out to touch Lily’s cheek.
“Ahaha! “It tickles!”
It was then. Abraxas felt a sudden change in magical power.
Crackling, crackling-!
The magical pattern inside the gate was distorted, and part of it seeped into Lily.
And
roar!
A flame rose from Lily’s body.
“Ahh!”
Lily, startled, tried to put out the flame, but the fire did not go out easily.
Although her skin or clothes did not burn, the flames enveloped the girl’s body like a thin film.
Chijijijijiji-!
The magical power around me was becoming increasingly distorted. The once straight road became winding and the white surroundings turned red.
Lily looked around with a scared face.
“Ah ass. “Why is this like this?”
“This is…”
Abraxas used all his magical knowledge to quickly grasp the situation.
“…I think a magnetic effect occurred in that dimension and affected you. Even so, this is too strong… Huh…?”
Abraxas looked down at his arms.
My body was heavy. I couldn’t move much, as if there were metal bars hanging from my arms and legs.
That wasn’t the only problem.
‘The soul… is being separated from the doll.’
Her soul was being separated from the elf doll where it had resided until now.
The magic power inside the gate fluctuated unstable, affecting the possession magic. It’s like glue melting under strong heat.
‘It’s too late to return to Earth now.’
A magnetic effect occurred, pulling the two people towards the martial arts world. As the road moved on its own, the surrounding scene changed rapidly from moment to moment.
“Lily…”
Abraxas called out to Lily with difficulty.
It wasn’t long before her soul was completely separated from the doll.
“At the exit… there will probably be a strong… magical response.”
“As? Ah? what’s the matter?!”
“When you arrive… you will be alone… but don’t panic… act calm….”
There was fear in the girl’s eyes. .
“alone? What about As? “Aren’t you going together?”
“If you wait, I will soon find a way…”
“As! “As!”
“don’t worry. I will be by your side…”
That was all.
dump.
Abraxas’ body collapsed to the ground and Lily, engulfed in flames, was sucked into the martial arts forest.
“Assuh-!!”
Lily’s cry echoed for a long time.
***
Grumble!
Flames were burning on the altar built high in the sky.
Holy Fire (Holy Fire)
A sacred fire that has never been extinguished for 500 years since the Heavenly Demon Church was established on this land.
The sacred fire was burning in the main shrine located in the very center of the main temple of the Church of the Heavenly Demon.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Because today was a special day, all the doors and even the roof of the main shrine were opened.
Inside the temple, hundreds of leaders of the Heavenly Demon Church were inside, and outside, tens of thousands of people were kneeling toward the temple and praying.
“Mazdashi….”
Just below the burning flame.
On the uppermost steps of the altar, Cheon Mu-han, the leader of the Heavenly Demon Church, was presiding over the ancestral rites, dressed in flashy ceremonial robes.
The leader of the Heavenly Demon Church and the successor to the title of Heavenly Demon in his time.
He was a man with pale white skin and brown, almost red hair.
thud.
As Cheon Muhan knelt in front of the altar, hundreds of warriors lined up inside the temple knelt all at once.
Thump thump thump thump!
The temple shook and sparks flew out from the flame. After a short prayer, Muhan Cheon proceeded with the ceremony as scheduled.
“Bring the goat.”
Mmm~!
The goats prepared as sacrifices twisted their bodies and cried out in pain as they got closer to the flames.
However, Cheon Muhan paid no heed and threw the goat into the torch.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
The flame that engulfed the goat bloomed loudly for an instant. Seonghwa flickered his tongue of flame like a strange snake.
As if he was still hungry.
Cheon Muhan read the meaning and spoke to the shaman next to him.
“Bring in the infidel.”
After a while, the warriors of the Heavenly Demon Church captured and brought in a man with a melancholy face.
“Damn it! Let go! “Let go of this!”
The man who resisted fiercely was an agent of the Murim Alliance who had invaded the Heavenly Demon Church.
He was overconfident in his abilities and sneaked into the center of the cult, but was eventually caught and offered as a human sacrifice.
“Whoa! Even if you kill me, it won’t be like this! Better cut off my head! That means stabbing the heart like a warrior! It’s a sacrifice to the demonic god…! “Do not pollute my soul!”
The spy was a man of considerable skill. However, the leader indifferently pointed at his acupuncture points and prevented him from moving.
“Mazda will purify you.”
And then he threw the man into the torch.
“Kwaaaaaak!”
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
The man was burned alive, and the torch that received the human sacrifice swelled greatly.
The leader looked at the scene indifferently and spoke again.
“Bring more heretics.”
The captured warriors of the Murim Alliance were brought in one after another. They screamed, cursed, and begged for their lives.
The religious leader gave equal judgment to all of them.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Each time the torch engulfed a living human being, it swelled greatly and then subsided. It looked like fireworks were dancing.
“father. “If you burn all the prisoners like that…”
the young man kneeling behind the religious leader said with a pale face.
Chun Muhan looked back at the young man with a stern expression.
“A ritual is being performed. “Call me leader.”
“…Master. “I am worried that if you sacrifice all the prisoners, our relationship with the Murim Alliance will worsen further.”
At that moment, a sneer formed on the corner of Cheon Muhan’s mouth.
“Do you think there is any more relationship left to deteriorate? They want war. And so do I.”
“…….”
Sojiju Cheon Mu-jin saw a fierce fire burning in his father’s seemingly indifferent eyes.
It was hotter than the flame of that torch.
A flame of madness that will burn all enemies and even burn oneself.
“Today, we will accept Mazda’s wishes and set a dispatch date.”
‘In the end, only countless amounts of blood will flow without meaning…’
Cheon Moo-jin could not bring out the words of opposition that were in his heart.
Because if I did that, I felt like I would be thrown into that torch too.
The Church of the Heavenly Demon was a religious organization before it was a military group.
They have maintained their doctrines since they settled on this land 500 years ago. Although things have been added or changed over time, the fundamentals have not changed.
They believe in the one god Mazda,
worship his symbol of fire, and
wait for a savior who will one day take them to the paradise and home of their ancestors.
‘But nowhere does it say that you can receive an oracle by offering a living sacrifice to the icon.’
“You should know that too and prepare.”
The religious leader glanced at his son with eyes that did not tolerate any objection and turned to Seonghwa again.
“Mazda Karoda…”
A language that was not the martial language began to flow from the leader’s mouth.
A scripture that the first Heavenly Demon brought with him 500 years ago when he led his compatriots to settle on this land.
The prayers written in their scriptures were written in a language completely different from the language of the martial arts.
It was proof that their roots were not martial arts.
“Mazdakarodarurugoramildacheonnumiro…” “
MazdakaRodarurugoramildacheonnumiro…” “Mazdakarodarurugoramildacheonnumiro….”
As the religious leader began to recite the prayers in the scriptures, the prostrate warriors also chanted the scriptures with their inner energy. I started memorizing.
Wooooow!
As more than a hundred dancers memorized the phrase with all their energy, the sound began to resonate.
Soon, believers outside the temple followed suit and memorized the sutras.
“Mazdakarodarurugoramildacheonnumiro….” “Mazdakarodarurugoramildacheonnumiro….” “Mazdakarodarurugoramildacheonnumiro
….” “Mazdakarodarurugoramildacheonnumiro
….”
Uuuuuuung!
Oooooh!
As tens of thousands of people chanted sutras together, the earth shook and the air became hot.
By memorizing sutras over and over again in a certain rhythm, the believers reached a state of mental unity.
“iced coffee…!”
They believed that at that moment they were in contact with the one God, Mazda.
“Aaaah…!!”
People who shed tears from the amazing and dizzying sensation, people who cried out for Mazda, people who hit their heads on the floor, and people who fainted one after another.
“Oooooh!”
“Mazdashi!”
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
As if resonating with the collective madness, the flame of the torch began to rage even more fiercely.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
The fire that people have worshiped for 500 years without being extinguished has acquired its own spirituality.
“…Savarada-yas!”
“…Savarada-yas!”
“…Savarada-yas!”
Seonghwa, a special flame, attracted Lily, who was coming from Earth to Wulin, like a magnet.
After a while, the gate opened inside the torch
and jiiiiiiing!
At the same time, the flames rising from the torch pierced the sky like lightning shooting from the ground.
Puhwaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
It was an enormous fire. It was a sight that made me think heaven and earth were being torn in two.
Jump up!
Even Cheon Muhan, an absolute expert, stood up and took a step back.
“!!”
With an astonished face, he looked up at the pillar of fire that connected heaven and earth as one. And desperately cried out God’s name.
“Mazdashi!!”
The religious leader believed that this explosive firework was a blessing and revelation from God Mazda.
‘This is a revelation to subdue the hypocrites of the political faction and take over that rich land!’
The thunderous lion’s rear of the determined Heavenly Demon Cult leader spread beyond the temple and throughout the entire church.
He decided to start a political war faster than planned.
“Mazda has responded! Prepare for war immediately! He gave us victory… Wow!”
A single-word scream suddenly erupted.
The elders, church leaders, and church members looked at the religious leader with surprised faces.
At the same time, the sect’s guards tightened their grip on the handles of their weapons.
How many things in the world can surprise the Heavenly Demon like that?
And a moment later they also screamed the same way.
“Huh!”
“That thing…”
A being was seen flying through the torch that had become a pillar of fire in the sky.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Vivid crimson hair and eyes that seem to contain burning flames.
The flame of the sacred fire naturally flutters over the skin, wearing unique clothing that does not exist anywhere else in the martial arts world.
Although her appearance was only that of a small girl, the mystery she contained was by no means small.
Prisoners muttered everywhere.
“No way…”
“The incarnation of Mazda…”
“Did he come down in person…”
At that time, when everyone was confused, the girl looked around at the people kneeling at her feet and shouted.
“As! Ass-!!”
“!!”
At that moment, people were shocked as if struck by lightning.
‘Yass!’
Yas, as written in their scriptures, means ‘bow down.’
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
The flame slowly died down and danced wildly. The flames wrapped around the girl like wings behind her back, as if protecting her.
It was a miracle that could not be explained except by the power of God
.
“Oooooh…!”
The believers who welcomed Mazda’s incarnation could not contain their emotions. Everyone cried out the name of God with all their might.
““Mazdashi-!!””
Tears and saliva flowed from awe and fear. My whole body was shaking like an aspen tree. Those who were deeply religious sang the glory of God, and those who were lacking prayed for forgiveness.
“Mazdashi…”
Everyone was equal before God. Even the religious leader was no exception.
Because he too was just a person who served God.
“…a lowly servant cares for his master.”
thud!
The Heavenly Demon of the time, the leader of the Heavenly Demon Church, knelt in front of the girl.
[Incarnation of Mazda] End
ⓒ Ganjjajang
