Chapter 54 - Chapter 54: Chapter 52: Receiving the Lord’s Gift! (Please follow!) (1/2)

Chapter 54: Chapter 52: Receiving the Lord’s Gift! (Please follow!)

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Grandma Narda was now very old.

She had long felt that her days were numbered, no longer daring to hope for anything from the future, only wishing that her sons could have good lives.

Of Grandma Narda’s three sons, only the eldest, Moore, was clever and brave; the other two were hopeless cases, and deep in her heart, she knew this to be true.

She had been contemplating whether to let her children join Dawn.

The Fischer family worshipped the Lord of the Lost, undoubtedly a great deity, but, after all, faith in an otherworldly god was a capital offense, which the Six Great True Gods Churches abhorred.

It was laughable; the Reforging Church was once considered heretical too, but now the God of Reforging is also deemed one of the so-called True Gods; from that moment on, she realized there was no essential difference between True Gods and Evil Gods.

A god is a god, and the so-called good and evil are nothing but concepts forcibly imposed by the mundane.

It was a time when the rainy season was more frequent, and the rain outside kept pouring down. The aged Grandma Narda, led by a servant of the Fischer family, came to the Fischer house calmly amidst the night.

Upon entering the hall, she saw Madam Irene with her back to her, and the servant bowed and left.

Grandma Narda’s back could no longer straighten completely, and she asked devoutly,

“Respected Madam Irene, I am Narda. Did you send for me?”

Grandma Narda had originally hoped to refer to Irene as “Great Priest,” but Irene had indicated that it would be better to avoid such direct addresses in person, especially as the situation with heretic hunts had grown stricter in recent years across the land, particularly in the Eastern Four Kingdoms.

The members of the Salvation Church, significant followers in particular, often seemed as if they were searching for something, gathering more and more in the Eastern Four Kingdoms.

Irene did not look at Grandma Narda but instead, a clear, calm, and exceedingly enticing voice came forth.

“He said, ‘Let there be happiness and calamity in the world,’ and thus He created the joys and angers of mortals into existence.”

“People always flounder, struggling in pain like beasts within the chaos, enduring the vicissitudes of joy and sorrow, and the despair of life and death.”

She paused for a moment, then continued to speak gravely, gazing straight ahead.

“Only those blessed by His grace will have the chance to transcend their suffering.”

Grandma Narda’s eyes gradually widened, feeling that something momentous was about to happen tonight.

Irene slowly turned around, her delicate face shadowy and indistinct in the dark, invoking awe with its elusive mystique.

She continued, speaking softly, yet her words bore a weight that suffocated.

“Narda, are you willing to accept His gift and become one who has the chance to transcend suffering?”

Grandma Narda understood what was being hinted at; Irene had once suggested that continuously contributing to the great Lord of the Lost would grant one the opportunity to receive extraordinary power.

The desire she had repressed deep inside, which she once harbored and then gradually forgot, to the point that she no longer dared fantasize about in her old age, now surged forth.

She felt as if she had suddenly become decades younger, her wrinkled, aged face breaking into an exceedingly jubilant smile, her frail body shaking slightly.

“I am willing! Great Priest, I am willing to contribute further to the greatness of Him!”

After listening, Irene fell silent for a moment. Grandma Narda immediately grasped what that meant and quickly promised, “If I can receive His gift, I am willing to offer more worldly possessions, Great Priest.”

Upon hearing this, she finally showed a smile.

Not long ago, Byrne took most of the family’s money to buy various things. Irene kept quiet on the surface, but deep down, she bled profusely.

Since they were now about to grant Grandma Narda the extraordinary power of Consecution, they naturally couldn’t let her receive it for nothing, without offering something in return. The more funds the Fischer family had, the better.

Irene really liked money; there was no helping it, as she had truly lacked money in her childhood.

The Time of Ashes was approaching.