478 The Divine Realm, the Holy City and the Church

Point the cutting-edge of the Holy Sword in your hands at your opponent.

The cutting edge only braces for a moment.

Slight force from left to right, made it look like it stopped moving.

Then he took evasive action as the immortal, formerly Pope and also known as the Apostle of God, jumped to the left rear as if to react in a vicious manner.

I stepped all the way in to chase it and approached it for a few moments.

Again, wave the sword.

but that's a feint too.

The immortal who saw the force in my upper arm tried to dodge me again.

But it's a bad idea to jump again and try to escape after a big backstep.

The movement is easy to read and you'll find out where you're going.

Therefore, in anticipation of the motion, I swung down the holy sword vertically by placing a slash at the point of movement due to evasive action.

In that blow, the body of the immortal is cut into two pieces.

I guess I won't be able to move if that happens exactly.

The apostle of the former God, lying on the ground, rested in a peaceful sleep, even as his body cramped all freaked out.

How many immortals would you have defeated already?

At first, I was wary of immortals with high physical abilities, but they never hunted us down that far as powerful enemies.

After all, I guess he was originally a church person but therefore has no combat experience.

My physical abilities are so high that I can watch and react to my movements, but that's all.

Caught on the feint like it's funny.

So it was also possible for me to direct the movement of my opponents, and no matter how much I was called a former apostle of God, I was not a great opponent.

Tanatos and Ian, warriors of Atmos who were used to fighting just like me, were also dealing with immortals.

This one is giant, wielding a stick and blowing it away.

Instead of responding with small moves like me, they seem to be putting together and driving away the undead that flock to a prominent body called the giant.

Besides, they also seem to be using demon-guided weapons as shieldmen.

Avoidance was also rough to come from the opponent, and this one was under attack as funny.

Immortals swarming like a bonus stage are dancing through the universe.

"You have more numbers than I thought. It's just going to work out, Archbishop Paul."

"That's good. But it doesn't feel good to know that people with faces are crusaded like this as immortals."

"Huh? Do you know the Apostle of God, Archbishop Paul?

"Of course it is. We Church officials are the apostolic sons of God."

"... Oh really? Does that mean Archbishop Paul was born in this divine world? So, like, parents are here or something?

"Perhaps. Most likely, the child born will soon be brought down to the lower realm and raised in the Holy Capital. So I don't know my parents."

"... don't you want to look? My own parents and brothers."

"Right. Sometimes that's what I was thinking. Maybe that's why you went central without ending your life in Fontana. But now you won't be able to say that."

Something about a church is a lot of things.

I never really cared about it before, but it didn't seem like anyone could be a priest in church.

A child born in this divine realm, inhabited by former Popes known as the Apostles of God, is raised in the Holy City and educated as a priest.

And they say that what finishes that education is sent everywhere as priests and sisters.

The Church operates and is named everywhere, and if its power rises to the Archbishop, who can use [purification], it is returned to the center.

And further from there, they can reach beyond the Cardinal to the Pope and finally return to the divine realm, where they were originally born.

Something made me think you looked like a fish.

Once a juvenile fish born in a river grows from estuary to sea and in the Great Seas.

And when they become adult fish capable of giving birth to children, they come back to the river of their birthplace to lay their eggs, and again the children are scattered throughout the wider world.

For church officials, I still wondered if the estuary of my birthplace was the sacred capital and the upstream was the divine world.

"But I've been wondering, can I ask you something?

"You surprisingly can afford it while defeating the immortal, Ars. What is it?

"This is how the apostles of God who are here and the priests who were in the Holy Capital are dying, but do ordinary people who were connected by name to those people lose their magic? Well, the people in the Holy Capital will have Naja [collecting] that power."

"Oh, I see. Is that so? Then there's no problem. We swear to God before we are sent anywhere as priests. And when you die, you give back that magical connection to God."

Listen to Archbishop Paul in one effort as he chops down the immortals who still come out with the Holy Sword.

Little by little in that story, I've also figured out how the church works.

The church is located in each aristocratic territory and baptizes and names all the inhabitants there at a certain age.

It's a system that gives residents the magic of life in its namesake ritual, while sucking up magic from it.

But if you think about it, that's all this system is useless.

Because there is a question of what happens if a priest suddenly dies.

If the priest dies suddenly, the magic connection is broken, and all the inhabitants of the land can no longer use the magic of life, it's hard.

Every time a successor comes as a church, you won't want to do something like baptize all the residents again.

And it doesn't actually generate that kind of hassle.

Because when a priest dies, no magic is lost from the inhabitants.

What is going on with this is that those raised as priests in the Holy Capital come to the divine world only once before they are dispatched everywhere.

And I swear to God in that divine realm.

that I will devote my life for the Church.

Then, along with that oath, the priest said that the named magic formation would be available.

And when the person dies, the magic path is returned to God.

In other words, if Archbishop Paul dies, I can use life magic, restorative magic, etc. just like before, and the magic I have will be sent to God.

So he can also say that even if the apostles of God died here, it would not have such a great impact on the ordinary people.

"Hmm. Does that mean there really is a God in this place? I mean, isn't that a bad idea? Wouldn't it be outrageous if that god were to be molested by the immortal, or [collected] by Naja?

"That's why we're here. We must stop at all costs to protect God.... Okay, it looks like you defeated the strange immortal. Ars, can you see there's a building over there? I'll be there."

"Oh, could there be a God over there?

"Exactly. We have to help God first."

Still, Tanatos and Ian are fighting the remaining immortals, but there are still fewer opponents coming a long way closer.

Then what Archbishop Paul pointed to was a building in the middle of the divine world, above the mountainous places.

Apparently there's a god and a god there.

He said the first thing you need to do is help the god.

Thus I went to the building to worship the face of God.