NOVEL NEXT Chapter 38
The result of the sales activity, no, the proselytizing activity, was a great success.
[Player ‘Choi Si-won’ joins your denomination.]
[Player ‘Shin Ah-young’ joins your denomination.]
[Player ‘Oh Jae-min’ joins your denomination…]
“Thank you for choosing us. We look forward to working with you, brothers and sisters. Limen will also be very pleased.”
The sermon that lasted a whole 30 minutes.
My passionate sermon, which was reminiscent of a job fair, was rewarded with a very hot result of all 5 people joining.
How I will lead them and what kind of support I can provide them in that process.
At the end of the very blatant, passionate speech saying, ‘When it comes to the subject of holy power, no one can keep up with our denomination,’ they all chose our denomination.
And that is a clear fact.
I didn’t have a great talent for teaching someone, but fortunately, we had the perfect man to be our teaching assistant.
“Archbishop Leo.”
“Yes, Your Holiness.”
“I have great faith in Archbishop Leo. Haha.”
Leo Lumen, the best priest who took charge of training inquisitors in Eden, and was admired by many!
Leo was the driving force that made me confidently spew out passionate words.
Did he notice my scheme to freely exploit him?
Leo narrowed his brow and quietly whispered to me.
“…Your Holiness, your words seem a bit different. You clearly said weekends…”
“Oh, I said I’d find you weekends. I didn’t say I’d find them right away, did I? Let’s try our best.”
“Your Holiness.”
“Limen said she will bring additional personnel from Eden to help with the education of new believers, so let’s try a little harder. Okay? I promise to properly reinforce the workforce.”
Looking at it this way, I feel too much like an evil boss.
When I even mentioned Limen’s name, Leo could no longer express his dissatisfaction.
Instead, he heavily nodded his head and asked.
“By any chance, do you know which brother is coming over?”
“I requested to send one of the Holy Knight Commanders. Each new brother will have different talents, so we can’t handle them all, right?”
Just as not all mana users become mages, not everyone who awakens holy power serves God as a priest.
There are truly various ways to use holy power.
Some use holy power to bestow healing or blessings, while others lead the crusade on the frontlines with holy power and armor wrapped around their bodies.
“Certainly, in the current state of Earth, the Holy Knights will be of great help.”
“I suppose so.”
The beings representing the latter case are none other than the Holy Knights.
Of course, there is a special office called battle priests, who have combat abilities among priests, but that belongs to a very special case.
It was no exaggeration to say that the Holy Knights were the best military force possessed by the Holy Church.
From how to operate holy power in a combative manner to various weapon techniques, including shield techniques.
In addition, although not as much as healing priests, they also have healing techniques that can be usefully employed on the battlefield.
To borrow an Earth expression, they can truly be called hexagonal players.
“Of course, it will take a long time to raise them to the level we want.”
“Isn’t that unavoidable? Earthlings have just recently bloomed holy power, so they will need sufficient time to become familiar with it.”
“Adaptation won’t take that long.”
“Why is that?”
“Earth has a helper called the system.”
I was also able to use holy power with ease, thanks to the help of the system.
My plan is to expand our influence as much as possible through the information gap until Earthlings become familiar with holy power.
If just one Holy Knight Commander comes over from Eden, it will give us sufficient momentum.
As I was quietly talking with Leo like that.
“Now that I’ve joined the Limen denomination, can I comfortably call you Shi Yu-hyung? Shi Yu-hyung.”
“Hoho.”
Jae-min, who had already touched my nerves once before, asked me with an innocent face.
For someone who unhesitatingly threw out comments like ‘with bare hands?’ until just now, he had an unnecessarily innocent face.
I quietly looked at Jae-min’s face like that, then nodded my head benevolently with a smile.
“That seems a bit difficult.”
“Ah, why hyung! You said it was okay earlier!”
“Did I say that? Haha, I just said I’ll think about it once.”
I don’t know why he’s being so direct with that ‘hyung’ title.
But it seemed to be sincere for Jae-min.
The guy made an expression full of irritation, then soon spoke with a slightly higher-pitched voice.
“Then I’ll just go to another religion. I’m offended.”
I knew he would be like this.
If it were earlier, I would have somehow appeased him, but now there was no need for that.
I carefully brought my mouth close to Jae-min’s ear and whispered in a very small voice.
“Oh dear. What should we do about this? Once you choose a religion, you can’t convert for 180 days. I guess you didn’t check it carefully.”
This was information I had confirmed in advance through Mr. Semyeong.
Conversion is possible, but it has to be 180 days after choosing a faith.
Judging by this guy’s reaction, it seemed he didn’t know. He acted all cunning in the world, but he was a complete idiot, wasn’t he?
“That can’t be… huh?”
Our Jae-min froze for a moment as if confirming something.
I patted Jae-min’s head like that and said.
“It seems our brother Jae-min needs special education. No matter how much we are like a family in this denomination, there is a level of decorum that must be maintained between people. You might be too young to know well, so I will specially assign a very good teacher for you. Archbishop Leo?”
“Yes, Your Holiness the Pope.”
“Our brother Jae-min suddenly wants to convert to another religion, and our Archbishop Leo is good at faith counseling, right? Have him get some fresh air and receive some faith counseling.”
At my words, Leo politely bowed his waist and replied.
“I think guiding a shaken faith is a glorious responsibility as a priest. I will faithfully follow Your Holiness’s orders.”
“Ah, right. And while doing faith counseling, it would be good to also educate on the minimum etiquette that should be kept between believers. Is that possible?”
“Of course.”
“P-please spare me.”
“Don’t worry. I will definitely revive the fading faith of our brother Jae-min.”
Like that, Leo took Jae-min, whose face had turned pale, and left the auditorium, and I cheerfully said with a broad smile on my face.
“You know, there’s a saying. It’s easy to come in, but hard to leave. Haha, that’s how faith originally is. Now, our new believers. If you have any questions, please ask them here.”
It was a natural result, but among the 4 new believers who remained there, no one asked me a question.
According to Team Leader Kim, the plan was to have holy-type players also complete basic education at the Awakener Academy for each age group.
I also very happily accepted their plan.
Just because they are holy-type players doesn’t mean they are not Awakeners.
The Ministry of Ability Management is the expert when it comes to the mindset of Awakeners or the rules that Awakeners must follow.
Anyway, since we had already achieved our primary goal of having them join the denomination, Leo and I handed them over to the Ministry of Ability Management and returned to the temple.
Feeling psychological fatigue, I was resting for a moment in the audience room when Leo handed me a smartphone and said.
“I think you should take a look at this.”
“How come you seem to be better at using smartphones than me?”
As a person with a conscience, I gave Leo the latest model smartphone as a gift for his hard work.
Still, Leo is my right-hand man in name and reality, so I need a way to contact him even if I go out for work.
But I didn’t know Leo would learn how to use a smartphone so quickly.
Should I say it’s an unbelievable acquisition ability for someone from a barbaric tribe in northern Eden?
Even I find smartphones still awkward after returning after 10 years.
“Miss Si-yeon had taught me a few times before, and the controls were surprisingly simple. In that sense, how about installing a router in the temple? The believers who visit here will really like it.”
“…Okay.”
A router is fine.
It was time to take care of employee welfare.
I roughly nodded my head, then looked at the smartphone Leo handed me.
What Leo showed me were various internet articles.
The first to react were, of course, religious circles.
Established religions, whose influence had been steadily weakening since the Dimension Opening 5 years ago, began to raise their heads one after another.
After skimming through those articles, I casually put down the smartphone on the desk and murmured bitterly.
“Holy power won’t be as omnipotent an energy as those people think.”
“It’s true that it’s more efficient than mana when dealing with magical beasts.”
“That may be so, but the enemy isn’t only magical beasts. Earth is a much more complexly intertwined world compared to Eden.”
In the case of Eden, most countries had already been destroyed by the Demon Lords, so the survivors united and fought together.
In contrast, Earth is different.
Numerous countries still remain, and only the form of competition that had been going on for a long time has changed.
Holy power is an energy that shines when trying to protect something, and its range of application is not as wide as mana.
Right now, they are just excited about the expectation for a new energy, and these facts will be revealed soon as research on holy power progresses.
“We just need to quietly do our job.”
“Understood, Your Holiness.”
I shrugged my shoulders, then returned the smartphone to Leo.
And I casually brought up our denomination’s system interface in front of my eyes through a command.
[Limen Denomination]
●Main God: The Primordial Goddess – Limen
●Origin Dimension: Eden
●Official Believers: 255
-Possessed Traits-
-Subordinate Groups-
None
★Possessed Sacred Points: 1,700 points
Is it just a simple misperception that it still feels somewhat empty?
Compared to before, the only thing that has changed seems to be that
It was a situation that occurred because sacred points were not left over due to reasons such as bringing Leo from Eden and building a sanctum.
“It’s about time to fill in the substance a bit.”
It’s obvious that sacred points will be consumed again while bringing additional personnel from Eden, but it seemed necessary to fill in those traits.
There was also a condition in the main quest completion conditions that the sum of trait levels must exceed 10.
Moreover, now that new players have joined the denomination, traits that can help their growth were also needed, so should I try it out a bit?
I lightly stroked my chin, then immediately opened the DLC store.
Perhaps because I was opening it after a long time, as soon as I uttered the command, countless message windows filled my vision.
And among them, a few message windows that particularly caught my attention.
[You can purchase a total of 17 traits and 3 special offices.]
[There is a trait you should pay attention to!]
-Notable Trait:
[Displaying information about the trait
*Price: 10,000DP
“Oh.”
It’s been a while since I hit the jackpot.