chapter 4
Episode 4-Absorption
‘You do funny things.’
Lemp, who saw the village chief moving with the expedition, including himself, followed him.
He knew that humans couldn’t see him, so he followed closely behind the expedition.
He tried to give an order to search for other people living nearby, but before he gave the order, he never imagined that the village chief would move on his own.
‘Ancients don’t have enough knowledge, but their heads may not be much different from modern humans.’
Where the followers who believed in him once set foot, even Lemfra could follow them, so he continued walking along with them.
“Chief! Here.”
Rehat, a young man reputed to be the best hunter in the village, pointed out a small trail on the forest floor.
“It’s a trace of a person.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, wild animals don’t leave these marks.”
When Rehat looked around, the traces were pointing to one side.
“I think we should go that way.”
“Everyone, from now on, be tight.”
At Rehat’s words, the young men took out their spears.
Although it was a spear made by sharpening the tip of a broken tree, the spear that combined with their strength and pierced strongly boasted considerable power.
Continuing forward along the rehat, the small trees gradually disappeared and the height of the grass seemed to decrease, and a place appeared where the typical characteristics of a side road created by people passing by were visible.
“I will take the lead from now on.”
He was the village chief, one of the oldest in the village, but since he was blessed by Lemfra, he has regained his middle-aged body.
After that, he trained himself and made his body so full of muscles that no one in the village could beat him in terms of sheer strength.
As I walked along the side road, I saw a small village.
Similar to their village, the village built in a clearing in the forest didn’t look much different from their village, except for what looked like a cave around it.
“Who are you!”
A man who appeared to be a guard shouted, and the villagers turned their attention to them.
‘They speak the same language.’
Could it be that their village and Lemfra’s village speak the same language because they originally started in one place and then diverged?
Or is it an arrangement arranged by the creator god?
Among the residents watching the village chiefs and young people, I was able to discover a woman named Lemp who had a completely different atmosphere from others.
The woman was also looking at Lemfra.
Even though there is no way that the appearance of God can be seen by ordinary residents.
‘That woman seems to be a rookie leading this village?.’
I passed by the believers who were confronting the residents of the village and entered the village.
Although it was impossible to move to a place where the residents had never set foot, it was possible to increase the distance by several tens of meters just by consuming a little divine power.
“Who are you?”
It was a voice directed at myself that I hadn’t heard in a really long time.
She recognized her Lemfra just as Lemfra recognized her.
“Lemprada. The god of those who visit your village.”
“Why did you come here?”
The woman looked up at Lemfra with great vigilance.
One curious fact is that even though the woman clearly had golden hair and blue eyes, she had no problem communicating with Lemfra.
“I didn’t come to you. My followers came on their own to spread their faith in me.”
“Then why don’t you quickly hand over your followers? I have no intention of sending my children under you.”
Lem Fra raised the corners of her mouth as she observed her followers.
Most of the devotees were wary, looking at her Lem Phra and her own followers, but a few were seen putting her hands together and offering her prayers.
“Our mother, please protect us.”
“Mother…”
“God is the one who takes care of human beings. Is it strange that such a god is called mother?”
“How did you introduce yourself to your followers?”
“I told you that I am a god who has come down to take care of you.”
He is a god who came down to take care of people…
“You’re weak, do you think you can stand up to me with just that kind of faith?”
“That kind of faith! Many civilizations regard gods as their parents.”
“Why don’t you just come under me?”
Lemfra looked at her with her relaxed smile.
Katria couldn’t help but feel intimidated by his eyes because they contained so much composure.
“Come down?”
“To abandon the position of the main god and live as a subordinate god. It is common in ancient times, for the god of the conquered to become the subordinate of the myth of the conquerors.”
The woman looked up at Lemfra with an exhilarating smile.
“Do I have to work under you because I’m inferior to you? Shouldn’t you just come under me to avoid unnecessary fights?”
“The level of faith is wrong. I introduced myself as a creator god to my followers.”
“The Creator is a mass of light.”
It looks like that woman also met a mass of light?
“Right. But what does that matter? My followers believe so. Don’t you remember what the mass of light said?”
“… Faith is power.”
The woman grabbed it and bit it.
“Yes, as long as my followers believe in me as a creator god, I can have more power than you. In fact, I have given oracles twice, and even small miracles and blessings, what do you do to your followers? Did you do it?”
The woman did not answer and hung her head.
The only thing Katria did for the believers was her oracle twice.
Thanks to the two oracles, the standard of the village where her followers live has risen dramatically, but she has not left any visible traces of faith, so the level of faith of her followers is low compared to Lem Phra. .
‘Is there such a big difference between introducing yourself as a creator god for the first time and not?’
I wondered if Lemfra was lying.
All the words that the oracle gave miracles and blessings twice are all lies, and isn’t it a scam to deceive yourself?
However, Lemfra’s eyes were so calm.
As if she wasn’t lying, Katria finally had to erase her doubts with her strong eyes.
‘Yes, I just have to live somehow.’
In the first place, Katria had no intention of serving as a god among the ancients. She
She has no way of going back, and she is only among the believers because she has already done it.
Even with group assignments, the group members are less burdened than the group leaders.
It was quite obvious that it was psychologically much easier to go under someone else’s footsteps and do what he said than to try to overcome these difficulties on his own.
“That’s good. They have the divine power to bestow at least one light oracle. I’ll introduce them as followers of your creator god.”
“Don’t do it right away, let’s organize the settings. We will meet many competitors in the future, and we need a way to explain them within a mythological system. It could happen, right? I need to be prepared in advance so that I don’t get into a situation where the kids call the child I designate a god a devil, or call my enemies a god.”
I couldn’t invest a lot of time because the people in the two villages seemed like they were going to fight right now.
In the end, Katria was one of the fragments created by Lemfra, the creator god, when he first created the world, and a myth was created with the setting that the fragment grew and acquired an ego.
All the competitors you meet in the future will become fragments, and those who enter into the bosom of the creator god will have a mythical setting as a god existing under Lemfra, and those who do not will have a mythical setting as Lemfra’s adversaries.
As soon as the settings were sorted, Katria immediately entered the village chief’s spirit.
“Hey.”
“God, how can I overcome this difficulty?”
“Don’t worry too much. They follow Lemfra, the creator of me.”
“Creator… You mean?”
“That’s right. I lost my memories of when I was first born into the world as a fragment of him and wandered around, but when I saw him again, I realized that he was the one who made me. Don’t reject them and live together well. .”
With those words, the connection between Katria and her village chief was severed.
I wanted to tell her about all the myths, but she couldn’t tell me more because she lacked the divine power of Catria.
However, the two villages were able to pass without fighting just by telling them about the identity of the other party.
“Learn those who follow the great creator god, Lemfra.”
From the village chief’s point of view, it felt like a new creator god had suddenly appeared, but since his own god himself said so, he couldn’t help but believe it.
“Do you know who we are?”
“Yes, our god told us about Lemfra.”
The tension of the young people, who thought there would be an uproar, was relieved in an instant.
Catria’s followers may need a bit more explanation, but it was an established fact that the two villages believed in one myth the moment Katria, their god, pledged to obey Lemfra.