NOVEL NEXT chapter 22
22 – Saint Nera’s Regret (3) – Charity
There are so many different books in the scriptures that Saint Nerah reads.
Books written about what to do as a follower of the Goddess.
Among those books, if Ner Ah had to choose her favorite book, it would be the book called ‘Saint of Miracles’.
‘The Miracle Saint.’
A long time ago, when humans and demons hated each other, the two races fought and fought endlessly.
I don’t know why the war started, the war gave birth to hatred, and then again, the hatred gave birth to war, and so it was like an eternal chain.
At that time, it was the miraculous saint who stopped the war.
She came to the middle of the battlefield without any weapons. She shed tears as she watched the two fighting tribes and spread the doctrine of the goddess Lachesis.
The two races who saw that scene still fought at first, but after seeing the tears of the saintess for days on end, the two races had no choice but to reform.
The story of the two tribes reconciling by laying down their weapons and embracing each other, the story ends beautifully.
‘Me too…! Just like that saintess…!’
Of course, I couldn’t tell if this story was true or not.
She knows well enough that not all the books in her scriptures are true.
However, Nera believed this story to be true.
Because that’s what’s right…!
She thought that if you do what is right, it will definitely flow right.
That’s why I stood in front of the goblins like this.
To convince the goblins of her own rightness!
“Now, goblins, look this way…!”
“Keruk…?”
When Nerah appeared, the goblins’ attention focused on them.
The goblins carefully observed the sudden appearance of Nerah, holding the weapon beside her while being alert.
As if the exploration battle comes first.
Nerah was so scared of those goblins, but after eating her heart, she put her hands together and said a prayer and spoke to the goblins.
Now is the time to be brave.
“Goblins…! We humans don’t want to fight with you. Let’s make peace now. As descendants of Lachesis, why don’t we talk to each other for peace?”
Nera is not unaware that goblins harm the villagers.
Goblins were definitely enemies of humans. However, Nera did not acknowledge that.
Today she stood in front of the goblins with her resolve to change that.
‘I’m sure if I put my heart into it, they’ll understand…’
Nera thought it was because they clearly lacked sincerity in fighting each other.
Therefore, if she conveys her true feelings through herself, then the two races will surely be able to love each other.
While hoping for that, Nera smiled benevolently at the goblins.
And the goblins who saw that… Hesitated for a moment and looked at Nerah as they approached.
“Keruk…”
A goblin slowly approaching Nerah.
The goblins seemed to have lost a lot of hostility, unlike the first time.
Seeing her like that, Nera was overjoyed.
‘As expected, they know my sincerity…!’
Nerah saw them and thought that he had succeeded in persuading her.
She thought so and the moment she reached out to the goblins.
Unfortunately, the goblin took out the dagger it had hidden.
“Kehehehe!!!”
“Hey…!?”
A sudden surprise, Nera could not resist and was about to be attacked.
It was a very dangerous moment, but luckily Nera was not hit by the dagger.
“Heuk…”
It was thanks to the next hero Alan, who was watching from the sidelines, cut down the goblins in an instant.
After dealing with the goblins, Allan said while looking at Nera, who was still in shock.
“Hey, is this enough?”
It was about whether I had done enough.
Hearing that, Nera couldn’t help but get angry.
“What… What are you doing?”
“What are you doing?”
“I need to reform the goblins…!”
I need to reform the goblins, but to kill them like this…
This wasn’t something a warrior should do.
In the doctrine of the goddess, all living beings should get along. Of course I don’t condone this.
Even if he was attacked like this, he shouldn’t have killed the goblin.
While saying that, Nera went on to argue with Alan.
Alan, who heard that, responded to Nera saying that he was full of energy.
“Hey. Can’t you see this? These aren’t things you can reform just because you reform them.”
He spat annoyance at Nera while pointing at the dead goblin.
Goblins are different from what Nerah thinks.
“How do you determine that?”
“That’s because it’s their nature. It’s just their nature and habit to harm and kill people.”
“Why is that nature…! Who decided that? Could be a good goblin…!”
Of course, Nera wasn’t going to agree with that.
Goblins are bad, of course, but Nerra couldn’t believe that was their nature.
Because there may be goblins with good natures.
Nerah uttered such a passionate speech to Alan, and Alan let out a deep sigh upon hearing it.
“I’ll turn… There’s no such thing as a good goblin.”
Allan’s eyes look at Nera as if he were a troublesome child.
Allan eventually gave up talking to Nera.
“This is going to leak me. I’ll go ahead and take care of it quickly. I don’t want to waste time in a place like this.”
Alan headed to the goblin den alone.
And that’s how Nera was left behind.
“…”
Nera, who was left behind, couldn’t help but think about a lot of things about what just happened.
‘Really… I can’t get along with the goblins?’
Nera wanted to settle things peacefully with the goblins.
Because that was the doctrine Nerah had been learning all along.
She was the one who stood before the goblins in order to befriend all her creatures according to her doctrine.
However, the results did not go according to doctrine.
The goblins attacked him.
As if I couldn’t understand the language…
That incident was very shocking to Nera.
It was also shocking that she was attacked by goblins… But what shocked her most of all.
Hearing Alan’s words, it was because he thought that her doctrine might be wrong.
‘Is it really… Impossible for all creatures to live harmoniously? The doctrine says it’s possible…’
Allan said that goblins simply had a habit that could never get along with humans.
Because of that, he denied Nera, saying it was absolutely impossible to be close with him.
But those theories were very contradictory to the doctrine Nera had been learning so far.
All living beings are descendants of Lachesis, the goddess of life, and everyone has the right to convert, and any living being can be friendly with her, which was her doctrine she had been taught.
That forced her to think.
She wondered if what she had learned was correct.
Doctrine that I first doubted.
Nerah couldn’t help but think about him, so she thought, and she thought so.
‘No… I’m sure we can get along.’
As expected, I couldn’t deny the doctrine.
She also concluded that the doctrine she had been taught was correct. She
She felt that the reason she was not persuasive on this occasion was that the sincerity was obviously not conveyed properly, and she became this way.
So, if you convey your sincerity well, you will be able to convince them enough.
Thought so, Nera immediately followed the next hero, Alan.
Because I really wanted to communicate with the goblins this time.
So she followed Allan into the goblin’s lair.
“Ugh…”
What I saw in front of me were the corpses of goblins.
Certainly, the skills of the next hero, Alan, must have been quite impressive, and he had already defeated a considerable number of goblins.
A state of complete ruin. There were no living goblins in the place she followed.
There were only dead goblins.
Nera prayed briefly for the dead goblins.
“Please… May you go to a good place with Lachesis’ blessing…”
And then she hurried out after Allan.
I hope there are goblins still alive.
Did it run like that for about 10 minutes?
She saw Alan in front of her eyes.
“Now we just have to deal with these guys.”
“Goreuk… Goreuk…”
Allan was trying to kill the last remaining goblins.
Two goblins that are still young and small.
Just as Alan was about to strike the young goblins on the head, Nera stopped him.
“Here… Hang on…!”
“Why again?”
“They are still children…!”
“A child?”
“Yes…! You can’t do this to young goblins…!”
Even if Nera conceded a hundred times to kill adult goblins, she would understand.
Of course they weren’t young goblins yet.
These goblins haven’t done anything wrong yet.
But it made no sense to try to kill him already like this.
“Then what are they going to do? If we leave it like this, they will attack people again.”
After hearing that, Alan asked Nera in return.
What will I do if I don’t kill him?
I asked for a more realistic plan.
Nera thought for a moment.
I was wondering how to go to the road to unity without killing the goblins.
As a result of thinking like that, Nera came up with a very good method.
“I will raise…”
“What?”
“I’ll raise you…! Be sure to become a good goblin.”
That was the way he raised himself into a goblin who was just and didn’t do anything wrong.
Everything was perfect that way.
If you show your sincerity to the goblins this time, you will be able to reconcile them.
Alan heard that.
“Even if she wasn’t just a saint… Just…”
Alan put his hand on his forehead as if his head hurt.