chapter 35
Episode 35-Mission
Hero Isaac.
Other people were referring to a young man born and raised in the North.
He himself denied the title of hero.
But heroes are made.
Just as you can’t rise to the position of a hero because you want to be a hero yourself, you can’t become a hero even if you don’t want to be a hero.
Isaac was an ordinary young man born and raised in a small northern town.
If it had not been for the big incident that befell him, he would have been able to live a normal life without hearing the title of hero.
A life of ordinary farming while worshiping the village god.
But Isaac couldn’t live that kind of life.
Lemfra, God of Creation.
At first, he was known as an evil god, but when Isaac first heard rumors about Lemfra, he didn’t regard him as an evil god.
His life wasn’t very long, but the countless people he saw growing up defined anything different from him as evil.
The reason why the god Lemfra is an evil god was not much different from him.
Unsurprisingly, Lemp was not an evil god.
He was not just an evil god, he was a creator god who created this world.
Isaac didn’t want to believe that Lem Phra was a creator god, but he changed his mind completely when he participated in the crusade started by Lem Phra and Gad.
A dark-haired woman who stood at the front of all the soldiers and sliced through the enemies.
Her strength was on a different level from that of normal humans.
When she saw her spear piercing lightly through a man, he had no choice but to correct her thoughts.
Lemp is the creator god.
If he wasn’t a creator god, how could he create a human with such strong power?
‘I want to be like that too.’
At the same time, I had a dream.
I want to be like her.
I want to reach a high level that normal people can never reach.
He has lived with that one thought.
3 Hours a day he prayed to Lemfra and he never did what Lemfra told him not to do and he did what Lemfra wanted.
In the process, they united with like-minded people and occupied several villages in the north.
People saw that and called Isaac a hero, but Isaac was not impressed.
It was meaningless for humans to call themselves heroes.
The only existence that had meaning to him was Lemfra.
I couldn’t think of anything happier than getting into his eyes and being able to become a new apostle.
“Captain, what do you think?”
“I have no idea.”
As his village was included in the newly created Lempria Empire, he was given the title of Captain of the Ten Commandments.
It was a position that Lempria gave to those who led a certain number of subordinates while receiving reports on the situation in each village, but to Isaac, the position of captain of the Ten was very special.
Lempria was one of the only two apostles of Lemfra in the world and was a great emperor whom he respected.
Such is the position she gave me. How can you deal roughly?
“Recently, the opposition from the north is strong. It seems difficult to go in any further.”
“I know.”
I heard that Gad’s power in the north has grown very strong.
These days, when I heard rumors that even villages with their own gods take care of God before their gods, I thought it would be difficult to conquer the northern villages by force.
Scattered humans were weak, but united humans were very strong.
‘I guess we can only enter after the missionaries who infiltrated the northern part divided the village.’
“Then, are we going back to the village today?”
“I will.”
He returned to his village with his followers.
He entered his house, leaving behind the villagers who hailed him as a hero.
As soon as I got home, I started praying to Lemfra.
As a faithful follower of Lemfra, it was a very natural routine for him to pray as soon as the day’s work was over.
‘Dear Lemfra.’
[Why are you calling me?]
At first he thought he had heard it wrong.
It seemed that his own strong aspirations had become ill and were in vain.
[Why did you call me? Are you ignoring me?]
“Are you the real Lemfra?”
His body trembled.
My heart was pounding like it was going to explode and sweat started flowing.
[Then are there real Lemfras and fake Lemfras? What if I told you that you would believe that I am Lempra? Do I have to tell you that there is a mole under Lempria’s left buttock?]
“No!”
Isaac hit his head on the ground right away.
It was a situation where the god he worshiped so much spoke to him.
You shouldn’t miss this opportunity, he thought.
[The reason I came to you is to hold you accountable for the things you’ve done so far.]
His saliva was swallowed.
What sin did he commit that God himself came to ask him?
My body began to tremble with fear.
[The reason you believe in me is very impure.]
What was the problem?
He thought that he believed in God to the best of his ability, but was it not satisfied in his eyes?
[The reason you believe in me is because of your longing for Lempria. She has been saying her prayers to me and trusting me with her single-minded desire to be like her. It was not a god, but a believer who followed that god.]
Isaac had nothing to say.
True to Lemfra’s words, he believed in Lemfra only after seeing Lemfra’s trembling strength.
However, there were also unfair parts.
He started to believe in Lemfra after seeing Lempria, but now he trusted Lemfra more than anyone else.
[If it weren’t for that impurity, I would have made you my new apostle, but that impurity has become a stumbling block, so I can’t make you my apostle.]
Joy and despair flooded Isaac’s heart at the same time.
He felt proud that the work he had done had come close to the apostle, but at the same time, his heart felt like it would break at the thought that all his efforts had gone in vain.
Apart from believing that everything he did for Lemfra would be rewarded in the world after his death, he really couldn’t help but think that his mistake blew his chance.
[But since everything I’ve been trying so far is imaginary, I’ll give you a chance.]
A blurry swirling pattern began to appear on his forehead.
[Tear down the hat. If you complete this task, you will be remembered forever as my apostle.]
With those words, the connection with Lemfra was severed.
Isaac immediately stood up and touched his forehead.
He couldn’t feel it with his hands, but he could tell that something had been engraved on his forehead.
The swirl pattern is only engraved on the apostles of Lemfra.
He felt infinite gratitude that the pattern was engraved on him.
‘Tears down the hat.’
He couldn’t see anything else. To destroy Gad and become an apostle of Lemfra.
That was Isaac’s only goal.
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“Ouch!”
A man with a huge body flew away.
“Are you willing to fight more?”
“I lost.”
The man who received Isaac’s fist was able to intuit that he could not be Isaac’s opponent.
“I heard he was a hero, but I didn’t expect him to be this strong.”
Isaac, who received a vague imprint, has a different power than before.
Although it didn’t have the strength far beyond humans like Feint and Lempria, it had more than twice the strength of a normal person.
“So, do you intend to join hands with us?”
The man was the leader of a small group of tens in this area.
Isaac, who judged that more troops were needed to attack the north, came all the way here to bring his forces under him, but in order to talk to him, he demanded that he win the fight against himself. .
There was no way a man could beat Isaac, who was weakly blessed by God.
“I don’t know why a great person like you needs us. A man with great strength like you could eat a small village by himself.”
“I will break Gad’s neck.”
“Your dream is so big.”
The man, who dismissed Isaac’s words as a joke, burst out laughing and said, but Isaac looked at the man without blinking an eye.
Only then did the man realize that what Isaac was saying was true.
“We are those who follow Lemfra. If there are those who know about the existence of Lempra but do not follow him, it is only natural to tell them the truth.”
As Isaac said, it was a very natural thing.
However, how many people in this world can truly say that they will break the head of Gad?
“I can see why people call you a hero. Your aspirations are no joke.”
He knelt down.
“Let’s get under you.”
“Welcome.”
Behind Isaac stood about 100 strong men who had already decided to agree with him.