Chapter 229: Back to Daily Life (2)

The outside world was bleak. This place was no longer the world. Not on the other side of the mirror, not in the middle of a wave. It was a world that wasn’t a world. A lonely lake where life couldn’t exist and only spirits occasionally wandered.

—…Will it be okay like this?

A member of the Altar in the lake asked. God answered while fishing.

“It’s okay. What are you so worried about?”

Whether the footsteps you take were forward or backward, they would eventually lead you in the right direction. The outcome would be as God willed, as he always predicted. This was just the process.

—Yes, God. With this incident, the energy for the advent has been restored.

At the call of the believer, he thought of someone for a moment. A truly good man does not say that he is good. Therefore if he calls himself a god, he wasn’t a true god. The logic was too simple, but he couldn’t take that word back because they naturally knew that he was God.

“Okay. The sayings will come true.”

As she said, he was only a relic of the Holy Age. At that time, he was one of the many believers who served the true God.

-Yes. The faith of the Altar is still unchanged.

However, there was no God in this age. There was no longer a being who listened to the believers and cared for their lives and deaths.

“I know.”

God was dead; the believers killed him. That tragic moment was still clear to him. The core of that anger and despair clung to his heart and wouldn’t fall off.

“Devote yourself to the doctrine and be absorbed in the Holy Book.”

Therefore, this continent was an isolated island built by apostates and murderers. A symbol of the original sin that was wrong from the beginning.

-Yes. I’ll just leave.

The voice disappeared, and the stillness subsided. He, who was a believer of the former God, looked over the lake again. He gazed at the scenery of the Imperial Palace reflected in it, the heart of the continent.

“…The original faith is still in my chest.”

He murmured, fumbling for the ashes in his heart.

“Now is the time to spread them and rekindle the faith.”