Heavenly Inquisition Sword - Chapter 1371
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Episode 1371. faith and self-confidence
Metatron got up from his seat, put on a gray robe, and left the alcove.
As I passed through the slums and entered the downtown area, I became conflicted about whether I was doing something for no reason.
It is not yet clear whether Count Elio Lagoa is an enemy or a friend of the Church.
Where is that?
He himself tried to condemn and kill him today along with the Holy Knights of the church.
The brisk pace gradually became slower.
Whether he was an apostle of Shastra Parakti or not, he was not qualified to ask for advice from him.
Metatron stopped when he saw the sign of Fermosa Estella in the distance.
‘Mana Prathras! ‘What should I do?’
But God, as always, did not respond.
Metatron sat crouched in the darkness, out of reach of the streetlights.
After wandering around as an orphan, he was kidnapped by a warlock and suffered all sorts of hardships until he was saved by a paladin.
The church tried to kill him, saying he was a warlock’s assistant, but he was barely able to save his life thanks to the paladin’s assurance.
After that, he worked hard to prove that he was a kidnapped victim.
His history as a warlock’s assistant followed him even when he became a temple knight.
The teacher’s words, ‘there are many flaws’, were alluding to that.
In the meantime, he pushed himself harder than any other priest.
However, even though I spent all day repenting in my closet, my faith did not grow.
Even when he became a Paladin, the highest rank of Paladin, that much remained the same.
At this rate, wouldn’t it be okay to assume that you are being ignored by Mana Prass?
While Metatron was wallowing in self-pity, someone approached him.
Metatron, who had been inadvertently raising his head, quickly looked away.
This is because the person who approached was Baron Fabian Cloud, a vassal of Count Elio Lagoa.
“Have you come for revenge?”
Metatron was so dumbfounded by his words that he burst out laughing.
“I know the subject too, so how can that be possible?”
“Anyway, I’m bringing you here.”
Metatron, surprised by the unexpected words, raised his head.
“Count Lagoa?”
“yes.”
“Why?”
Then Fabian shrugged his shoulders.
“I don’t know either. “I was only told to bring the Holy Knight.”
Metatron, who had been staring blankly at Baron Cloud, slowly stood up.
Fabian, overwhelmed by the paladin’s huge physique, naturally turned around.
Metatron followed Baron Cloud with a look of abandon.
Fermosa Estella.
Fabian guided Metatron to Elio and then moved to another seat.
Elio spoke to Metatron, who was standing with a complicated face.
“Please sit down.”
Metatron quietly sat down across from Count Lagoa.
“It doesn’t look like you came here to assassinate me. Do you have any business?”
Metatron, who had been thinking about something for a while, opened his mouth with difficulty.
“Are you really an apostle of Shastra Parakti?”
“I often say nonsense, but I never lie.”
Metatron, unable to tell the difference between nonsense and lies, frowned lightly.
But at least I felt like it wasn’t a lie.
“You refer to yourself as ‘an unbeliever who does not believe in any god.’ How can such a person become an apostle of Shastra Parakti?”
“Aha, I guess I need some explanation. I know that God Shastra Parakti exists. It’s even a very, very close relationship. However, this does not mean that we serve or worship Shastra Parakti. That’s why he was called an apostle. For now, that is the word that best describes my relationship with Shastra Parakti. The Shastra Parakti Order will undoubtedly recognize me as an apostle.”
“We have a close relationship with Shastra Parakti, but we do not serve or worship Him?”
“Exactly.”
Metatron looked at Count Lagoa with an even more uncertain expression.
A profanely close relationship with a goddess?
It was a sound that he could not understand at all.
But I decided to move on for now.
The Shastra Parakti Church would determine whether he was an apostle or not.
“Since you are an apostle, I will ask you at the risk of shame. Heavenly Punishment is a unique grace bestowed only on me by Mana Pras. But you returned the punishment I had used back to me. Because of that, I felt abandoned by Lord Manaptras, and even my faith in God is shaking.”
“Hey, I’m sorry for what I said… … . “Isn’t it better to confide in such things to a priest or priest rather than a non-believer like me?”
“Of course I met him. “They say it happened because of my lack of faith.”
“ah… … .”
“As a non-believer, your power is stronger than my faith, so you have been deprived of heavenly punishment.”
“… … .”
“I don’t know what to do anymore. Since you are an apostle, teach me. “Is it really because my faith was weak that I was robbed of heavenly punishment?”
Metatron stared at Count Elio Lagoa with despairing eyes.
Elio shook his head vigorously at the unexpected words.
“It can’t be. I don’t know who said such an ignorant thing, but it’s not true at all. “That is truly a baseless superstition.”
Metatron paused at the merciless belittling of his teacher, Priest Almatio, but silently waited for Count Lagoa’s explanation.
“My return of heavenly punishment was merely an application of swordsmanship and had nothing to do with the Holy Knight’s faith.”
“Application of swordsmanship?”
“Don’t you often find inspiration when fighting with someone? When the Paladin’s divine punishment fell, I somehow felt like I could hit back if I did that. “In my hometown, we call it ‘transferring flowers to trees.’”
“iced coffee!”
Paladin Metatron immediately understood Count Lagoa’s words.
As a non-believer, he merely returned the heavenly punishment with swordsmanship.
How strange it must have seemed to talk about faith in front of such a person.
“And I know that faith… … I understand that it is not big or small, but it is present or absent. “How can we say that faith that is not visible to the eye is big or small?”
“but… … .”
“The monks in my hometown certainly taught that. That’s what I experienced too. In the first place, it is ridiculous for humans to discuss whether the size of faith, which only God knows, is big or small.”
“… … .”
Metatron, who had lived his life hearing nails in his ears, saying, ‘It’s because you have little faith,’ wanted to refute, but in the end, he couldn’t say anything.
Although it was a little strange, what Count Lagoa said was not wrong.
This is because unless the priest Almatio, the teacher, was Manaptras, the extent of the faith could not be known.
‘Then what are all the things Master said?’
The teacher said that everything was due to ‘little faith or lack of faith.’
“I don’t know the paladin very well, but I don’t think the paladin’s problem is because of his faith. Rather, I think I lack self-confidence.”
“Why is that so?”
“The person the Holy Knight met must have been far from swordsmanship. So he would have said, ‘It’s because of lack of faith.’ However, the Holy Knight is someone who has reached a high level of swordsmanship. “If he had a firm belief in himself, he wouldn’t have been swayed by such nonsense.”
Metatron was greatly shocked by Count Lagoa’s words.
You cannot live as a paladin without confidence in your choices.
None of the paladins who knew him would be able to say that.
The patron saint of the poor, the agent of a cruel god, lacks self-confidence!
But if you think about it, it wasn’t wrong.
He lived his life going back and forth between despair and hope at every word of his teacher.
The reason he whipped himself a little while ago was because he was unsure.
After a long time, Metatron opened his mouth.
“Are you saying that as an apostle?”
I plan to unconditionally accept whatever God’s representative says.
Since the authority of an apostle was higher than that of his teacher, priest Almatio, no one would say anything.
But Elio is not an easy person.
He said while looking at Metatron.
“People who lack self-confidence always try to rely on authority. Trust the paladin’s judgment. You have that level of discernment, right? If you don’t even have that, it would be better to quit being a paladin and live as a mercenary.”
It was an insulting remark, but strangely Metatron didn’t feel bad.
Trust your own judgment.
On the contrary, I feel like I have been recognized by him.
Count Lagoa said not to rely on authority, but even that sounded like a message from God.
At that moment, an explosion occurred in my head.
The top of my head was wide open, and the secrets of the universe seemed to unfold before my eyes.
Metatron, overcome with emotion, jumped up and lowered his head.
“I believe that you are a true disciple of Shastra Parakti. Thank you for the good teachings. “I hope that Mana Prass’s grace will dwell on your journey.”
And before Elio could respond to the sudden greeting, he left.
After a while, Fabian, who had left, returned with a beer glass in his hand.
“What did you say that makes me like you so much when you were so dead just now?”
“I don’t know. I criticized him a little bit and he said something like that. Are you a person who needs to be criticized to gain energy?”
“What did you say?”
“He told me to trust my own judgment when I became a Paladin. If you think you can’t do that much, he said to quit being a paladin and become a mercenary, and that’s it. “This doesn’t sound nice, does it?”
“It may not be normal yet. “It went to the berserk stage.”
“is it?”
As Elio tilted his head, Fabian spoke in a confident tone.
“Of course. What is berserk? “Your mind is spinning, isn’t it?”
“That’s right! “The aftereffects of going berserk are no joke.”
After that, the two people talked about Metatron’s strange behavior for a while.
***
Dong-gu Island.
Shastra Parakti Temple.
Around noon, two people sat face to face in the guesthouse of the Shastra Parakti Order.
They are High Priest Vanuat of the Shastra Parakti Church and High Priest Hal Erian of the Mana Trass Church.
As soon as the two met, they spent some time chatting casually.
A thirsty person digs a well.
In the end, High Priest Hal Erian of the Manaptras Church spoke first.
“I heard there was a slight disturbance in the main plaza in Buk-gu yesterday. Did you hear it?”
High Priest Vanuat of the Shastra Parakti Order suddenly raised his head and saw High Priest Hal Erian.
“If you are talking about the Great Plaza of the North, are you talking about the fight between the apostles of our church and the paladins of the Manaptras church?”
Then, High Priest Hal Erian asked back with a perplexed face.
“Is Count Lagoa really an apostle of the Shastra Parakti Church?”
“That’s right. Common sense tells us that there is no way a famous noble like Count Lagoa would go around pretending to be an apostle of this church.”
“Huh! I had no idea. Although it is late, I still congratulate you on the appearance of the apostle.”
“thank you. I, too, was curious. “Why did your church’s paladin act hostile to our church’s apostle?”
If Manaptras is the creator god, Shastra Parakti is the guardian god of the universe.
The two main deities are complementary, not master-servant.
From the beginning, the paladins of the Manaptras Church had no authority to condemn the apostles of the Shastra Parakti Church.
High Priest Hal Erian displayed his agility in response to High Priest Vanuat’s counterattack.
“I guess there was some kind of misunderstanding. “I apologize for Metatron’s wrongdoing.”
High Priest Hal Erian did not mention Count Lagoa’s heresy.
Apostles are God’s agents.
This is because denying his claims will only highlight the problems facing the denomination.
High Priest Vanuat accepted High Priest Hal Erian’s apology.
In this way, the accidental conflict between the two largest denominations on the Rodina continent was resolved for the time being.