Chapter 59 - EPISODE 59 – DIVINE REVELATION (2) (1/2)
God.
A transcendental being.
Unlike in their past lives where there were many arguments of whether it exists or not, gods existed in Pleiades.
But strictly speaking, the gods of Pleiades were far from the omnipotent god that they knew in their past lives.
They were clearly powerful beings with well-defined limits.
They were called immortals, but it was possible for them to disappear.
‘If I had to be completely honest, you could say that they possessed stupendously strong supernatural powers.’
But still, these gods were gods.
They were the targets of faith and were great existences that human beings dare not to approach.
‘There are three main kinds of gods in Pleiades.’
First was the heavenly creator called Lú, the god who created the world.
However, he or she was close to a conceptual existence, whose existence was even questioned.
It was the four archangels who led the heavenly realm, and not the creator god Lú.
‘The angels were called gods.’
They were originally angels and not gods, but due to human ignorance, they became beings worshipped as gods.
Among them was Solari, the sun god, who was their representative figure.
Originally, the heavenly archangels only saw humans as livestock that needed rearing, but Solari, the seventh archangel, was different.
She regarded humans as young children or younger brothers and wanted to guide and look after them.
‘Solari wasn’t alone. There were many angels who joined her will, and they descended to the human world and were worshipped as gods by humans.’
But it was all a story of the past.
Because of the long-standing war with the demons, these gods on earth ceased to exist.
‘The last one were the outside gods.’
They were transcendental beings who existed in the third world, which was neither heaven nor hell.
However, their influence in this world was insignificant.
It was not an exaggeration to say that the degree of their influence was at a level where people only knew that outside gods existed.
‘And the wild gods (barbarian gods).’
They were beings that do not belong to any of the three kinds listed so far.
‘At present, neither the Sälen Kingdom nor the Argon Empire recognize the existence of wild gods.’
For political reasons, both countries somehow recognized wild gods as fictional existences created by the primitive folk religions of the barbarians.
‘Even those who acknowledged their existence only thought of them as spirits who possessed strong powers.’
And Jude also thought similarly.
The reason was simple.
‘Because they do not appear in the original story.’
These wild gods were occasionally mentioned in manuals, settings books, item descriptions, and so on, but they never made a direct appearance.
‘There was a theory that they all died because of Belial, the overlord of corruption…’
In any case, that was all a story after the great invasion of the northern barbarians.
There was a possibility that at the present moment, which was a point in the past before the event occurred, they were still alive.
‘No, they are alive.’
In front of him right now, there was a being who proclaimed himself as a wild god.
Great Storm.
The wild god of the wind who was worshipped by the Great Storm tribe.
“You seem to be thinking of something rude?”
Unlike when he first appeared, Great Storm’s manner of speaking was slightly less serious, perhaps because he looked like a boy.
Jude said hurriedly in denial.
“No, it’s not. I was just so surprised that I couldn’t think of anything else.”
In fact, it wasn’t completely a lie.
Because he was really that surprised.
He never thought that Great Storm would really appear. And in this way too.
“Hmph, you’re a smooth talker.”
The boy somehow reacted like Cordelia before he made a rock rise from the ground by pointing several of his fingers and then sat down on it as he said.
“Well then, I am Great Storm. You have diligently and continuously used my name as an excuse.”
He talked mischievously with a raised chin, as he flatly played innocent with his eyes and facial expression resembling that of a rascal.
‘First of all, I don’t think he’s really upset.’
If he was really angry, he would have tried to punish them first for using the name of a god in a deceiving manner.
“Uh…ahem, ahem, it’s an honor to meet you, Great Storm. My name is Cordelia Chase. This is my fiancé, Jude Bayer.”
As Jude was in the midst of hesitation and unsure of what to do, Cordelia stepped forward and spoke.
Great Storm smiled in satisfaction at her polite manner of showing respect.
“But the girl knows what manners is, I like it. If you meet a god, you shouldn’t blankly look at them but reveal your names first. Girl.”
At the end of his words, he clicked his tongue. Cordelia seemed to have caught his fancy, but not Jude.
Instead of being shaken, Jude showed his manners as he politely said.
“O Great Storm, I ask of you to listen to our story.”
“Tell me.”
His response was within Jude’s expectations.
Great Storm did not reveal himself to punish them.
‘If so.’
Jude took a deep breath and steeled himself.
From now on, he had to deceive, no, tell a white lie to a wild god, and not just a fairy queen or a witch.
“Beyond the border in th-”
“Wild lands. That’s what we call it. Not the land of barbarians.”
Great Storm made a comment one step ahead of him, and Jude resumed after expressing his thanks.
“I’ve heard of stories that danger was approaching the wild lands.”
“From whom?”
“From the fairy queens and the soul of a witch in the south.”
To begin with, there was no connection between the fairy queens and the wild gods as far as Jude knew.
However, instead of specifically pointing out who they were in case Great Storm didn’t knew of them, he showed the Fairy Steps and Fairy’s Bonds he received from the fairy queens.
Although his outfit had changed because he was in a dream, the two items were still in his arm.
“Hmm…setting aside the fairy queens, but a witch’s soul?”
“Yes, it is the soul of a great witch who fought against Asmodeus, the overlord of lust, for many years.”
“What did they say?”
“They told us about the threat of demons that were approaching the wild lands. In particular, the witch’s soul told us about an organization called the Devil’s Eye who seemed to have done something harmful to Red Gale, the chieftain of the Great Storm tribe.”
Great Storm furrowed his brows at Jude’s explanation.
And Jude was certain of it then.
‘It’s coming through.’
As expected, Great Storm didn’t know who the witch’s soul was or what she did.
But there was a mixture of truth in Jude’s words.
Devil’s Eye.
They were doing something harmful to the wild lands.
Red Gale was dying from an illness of an unknown cause.
“So that’s what the witch’s soul said.”
“Yes, and my fiancée here, Cordelia, is the witch’s successor, who inherited some power from the witch’s soul. Because of this, the witch asked me and Cordelia to go to the wild lands to stop the plot of the demon followers.”
At Jude’s words, Great Storm turned to Cordelia, who blinked her eyes and quickly nodded.
“Yes, that is correct.”
After she answered a little stupidly, Cordelia’s face reddened, but Great Storm felt that appearance to be rather trustworthy, so he said while scratching his chin.
“Then, to sum it up, is it something like this? The fairy queens and the witch’s soul warned of the dangers in the wild lands. In particular, the witch’s soul even told you about my tribe and told you to go and help.”
“Yes, that is correct. On our way to the wild lands, we heard of a story about someone with the blood of the winter elves…a girl from the Great Storm tribe, who was caught and held in the slave auction house, so we rescued her. She is Red Wind.”
“Hmmm…”
Great Storm scratched his chin again and Jude inwardly smiled.
Because there were no holes in his story.
On their way to meet the Great Storm tribe, they saved a girl from the Great Storm tribe.
Can he even find any faults in their story?
Jude waited for a while before he hit the nail on the coffin.
“We had willfully used Great Storm’s name to win over Red Wind, who had become distrustful after being caught and turned into a slave. I kindly hope you will forgive us.”
Jude deeply bowed from his waist, and Cordelia, as if by telepathy, bowed her head at almost the same timing.
At the courteous apology of the two, Great Storm made a groaning sound before nodding his head.
“All right, well, because I’m a little benevolent, I will forgive you two for now.”
“Thank you very much.”
“Thank you, Great Storm.”
Jude and Cordelia promptly expressed their gratitude to Great Storm who decided to actually forgive them.
And Jude took it even one step further.
“O Great Storm, this humble one dares to ask of you to listen to a little more of my words.”
“What is it?”
“I would like to repay your kindness for forgiving our great sins. I hope that you will allow me and Cordelia to fight for the Great Storm tribe. I would like to become a warrior of Great Storm.”
It sounded like he was saying that he wanted to volunteer, but the truth was completely different.
‘Our self-proclamation becomes official.’
At the moment Great Storm allowed it, Jude and Cordelia would become real warriors of the wild god Great Storm.
‘We’ll be actively moving in the wild lands anyway.’