Faith Life of a Former Scammer

038. It was darkness within darkness.

‘It’s neat.’

After checking the report, Leone headed straight to the prayer room. Of course, I didn’t go there to pray to God.

‘I have to redefine the plan.’

Everything went according to plan, but there was one unexpected problem.

‘There is someone.’

According to Flint, someone gave me the location of the book. It was new information that I did not know even before returning.

‘Behind me, who was in darkness, there was a darkness that I didn’t even know existed.’

The reason Leon was so sure was simple.

feeling and mood.

It was Rion who lived her entire life in darkness. It couldn’t be wrong.

‘… … If this happens, the plan will go wrong.’

Another darkness that Rion doesn’t even know the identity of.

This was not an ordinary existence.

‘I have to think about this simply.’

If you think about it complicatedly, there were no limits. It was necessary to consider completely revising the plan, as well as scrapping it.

So don’t make it complicated.

‘I’m just going to point out the core.’

Only the key points were pointed out, and only the direction of the plan had to be revised.

‘The original plan was to change everything… … .’

The force that was representative before the return.

The Magic Tower, the Swordsman, the Fist, and the Church of the Sun.

Half of these forces fell, and the Church of Dawn tried to take its place.

‘The preparations were going on step by step.’

If you revise the plan, the things you have built up to now will be overturned.

So I just had to change direction.

‘Those forces must not collapse.’

Even Flint had been in contact with them before. This will be the case elsewhere as well.

‘You can’t let it collapse. I have to keep it the same as before returning.’

The reason for maintaining each force was simple.

‘If it’s the guy playing behind the scenes, he’ll have prepared another arrangement in case it fails.’

It was only natural to prepare an ‘anbae’ in the dark.

This arrangement was a problem. When the arrangement is activated, it is different from the future situation that ‘Rion’ knows.

You can’t even predict how much it will change.

‘To put it under my control, I have to maintain this situation.’

Fortunately, it was before the forces collapsed. If you think about it, it was a situation that solved the problem in the future.

‘It’s not about ruining it, it’s about breeding it so that it can be used. It’s enough to keep growing the Church of Dawn.’

There was no collapse of power, and Leon’s plan to grow the church was maintained.

‘Then what should I do first?’

The saintess who was captured by the grandmother. It was necessary to make this saintess flow according to the original history.

‘And I have something to take care of.’

Before going to Killika, I had to pack a present.

Leone came out of the prayer room after a few days and went to see Priest Runda.

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“Rion! If you want to see it, you can call. Why did you come all the way here?”

“No, priest.”

As soon as Priest Runda saw Leone, he laughed out loud.

“Every time I see you, I feel better. Were you okay with the priestly robe I gave you?”

“It was really good, priest. Thank you very much.”

At Leon’s greeting, Priest Runda nodded in satisfaction.

“It was good, I’m in a good mood. okay. What did you come for?”

Priest Runda asked with sparkling eyes if she smelled the gold.

Leon put the leather bag he had brought onto the table.

“During the confessional, I thanked you and gave you these things.”

“It’s an old bag.”

It looked like an old bag, but it was the one Flint had given him.

“At first I thought it was just a bag. Since it was a gift from a believer, I thought to use it gratefully.”

“no way… … Isn’t it just a bag?”

If it’s not just a bag, there’s only one artifact left.

“Yes. It was my first time with something like this, so it took me a while to learn how to use it. May I take out the things inside?”

“Take it out, take it out!”

Priest Runda’s hips moved with a flushed expression.

Rion got up from her seat, grabbed her bag, and poured out the gold.

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“Heh heh heh. It’s also a belly button! Good luck!”

Priest Runda smiled brightly.

The problem did not end here.

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“So many! At this level, it was rejected at this budget meeting! Leona, I believed in you!”

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pouring out

“Ah, are you still coming out?”

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pouring out

“This is a bit too much… … .”

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after it pours again

“Well, I guess you can stop.”

Chew.

It’s over.

“… … Leone.”

Priest Runda called out to Leon with a serious expression.

“From my point of view, you seem to have saved the world. What the hell kind of confession did you do?”

“I just reached out to a person who fell in despair.”

“haha! Great job! Disturbance!”

Although the destruction was postponed, Priest Runda’s words were not particularly wrong.

Besides, the really good things haven’t even started yet.

“The things received during the sacrament of confession are, in principle, understood as belonging to the individual priest.”

“Yeah, that’s right!”

Leon said with a calm expression.

“I don’t need this much gold.”

I don’t know about Priest Runda, but this gold was part of it.

There was still a lot of gold left in the bag.

“no way… … .”

“Yes. I hope Priest Runda writes well.”

“… … Leone.”

Priest Runda was moved to tears.

“As a priest, isn’t it natural? Priest Runda came to mind first.”

“Heh heh heh.”

Will tears of joy be like that?

Priest Runda shed tears, but her expression was smiling.

“No greed, no greed.”

Rion scratched the back of her head at Priest Runda’s words.

“Why am I not greedy? I am full of greed to check the patients on Killica side.”

“Huh. At best, greed is… … .”

Leon said with guilt.

“I’m still a prospective priest, but I’m already thinking about going out, so I’m worried.”

“This nice guy. You just have to feel it and go out and see it!”

“How can you tell a lie with the will of God? I never thought of that.”

The reason Leon was doing this kind of trick was simple.

God’s will loses its specialness if it does not bring performance and results that match God’s will.

‘It is absolutely forbidden to abuse God’s will. This is my best weapon.’

That’s why I chose this method.

“What a difficult thing that is. I’m going to say I sent you an errand, so go!”

“Yes? However… … .”

“But go to bed and go. Are we going to do everything Rion wants to do!”

“Yes, priest.”

“I’ll take my bag too!”

Leon came out with a bag pretending not to win.

“The church’s future is bright! ah! Was it because of the gold?! Heh heh heh!”

Priest Runda’s happy voice was faintly audible.

‘Anyway, he’s a great man.’

Leone headed for Killika.

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Meanwhile, the inside of the magic tower was also busy.

“Homunculus team! How did the operation go?”

“It was impossible to restore it to its original state, but it should be able to handle physiological phenomena smoothly.”

“Was that for the best?”

“Of course it’s for the best! We saved something that even the priests could not recover from!”

“Did you save me?”

“… … Anyway, it was a surgery that would go down in the history of the Magic Tower.”

What Flint did gave a big wave to the inside of the Mage Tower.

‘A man who gave up something more precious than his soul for magic.’

‘Who said that the magic tower was stagnant! Ask that person to look up and see Flint!’

‘Did we really bet everything on magic?’

It wasn’t what Flint wanted, but it sounded an alarm to the stagnant and complacent Mage Tower.

A new wind blew through the magic tower.

“Someone even cuts it off and devotes himself to magic!”

“Where did I go when my heart was beating with magic!”

“How long are you going to settle for where you are now!”

It ignited the passion of the magicians.

The top leaders of the Mage Tower were also quick to judge.

“Keep Flint alive no matter what! He will be a new wind for us!”

“Yes! Master of the Magic Tower!”

Thanks to that, Flint was able to get all the latest surgeries.

Before anyone knew it, Flint had become the hero of the Mage Tower.

“Seniors.”

The one taking care of Flint was the junior who first discovered him.

“You need to wake up.”

A senior surrounded by luxurious hospital rooms and high-end items. There was nothing most important to such a senior.

“Keugh. Why would you do something like that?”

Flint couldn’t even get over the wall.

Then Flint’s fingers moved.

“uh? senior?”

Flint’s fingers moved once more at the sound of his voice.

“What crazy! Wizard! Senpai is awake!”

The junior ran outside and brought the wizard in charge.

The first thing Flint saw when he opened his eyes was the wizard who was in charge of surgery with his junior.

“Seniors!”

“… … I had a bad dream.”

Flint opened his mouth in a hoarse voice.

“Yes?”

“… … A terrible dream in which I did something crazy to cross the wall.”

“Good, senior.”

The junior could not bear to answer and only called for Flint.

The wizard in charge of the surgery realized he had no choice but to speak. He opened his mouth on behalf of his junior.

“I have to give you some bad news.”

“… … News?”

“Flint-sama’s mana has burned all the bad places.”

“Wasn’t it a dream?”

“Fortunately, the surgery was successfully completed so that daily life is possible.”

But these stories didn’t help at all.

“I… … .”

“Seniors?”

“I’m a eunuch!”

“You need to calm down!”

“I’m a eunuch!”

“Seniors!”

Leaving those words behind, Flint passed out again.

Afterwards, Flint passed out and repeated waking up.

“What are the walls!”

I was also angry.

“It’s all because of you!”

“Seniors?”

I was also resentful.

But that didn’t last very long.

“What have I done… … .”

regret.

“Now what do you mean?”

despair.

“I don’t need anything. Don’t stay here either.”

“Sunbae, senior?”

Give up.

Flint let everything go.

“What am I for… … .”

Everything seemed fleeting and insignificant. It was even funny that I was so obsessed with the wall.

“How have I lived?”

Then I was able to look around.

“There is nothing.”

Obsessed with the wall, went crazy and threw everything away while living. There was nothing left by his side.

“I had to throw something else away.”

What I had to throw away was my obsession and greed for the wall, but I’ve only abandoned other things so far.

“It’s late, but I’ll throw it away even now.”

Now that it had disappeared and his greed was gone thanks to overwhelming despair, he began to put it down one by one.

Originally, things that could not be thrown away or given up.

“It is possible to throw away only after losing the most precious thing.”

They started disappearing one by one.

Of course, it wasn’t that Flint was able to put it down all of a sudden because he had overhauled himself.

This was the [Talent Looting] effect.

A forbidden book that destroys the mind and plunders talent. It is not a forbidden book if only talent is plundered.

He absorbed negative emotions along with his talent.

“I really had a lot of dirty feelings.”

All those emotions crumbled along with the talent. Flint was like a well-wrapped gift.

“Flint-sama, a guest has arrived.”

“Guest?”

“It is said to be a priest of the Church of Dawn.”

The owner came to pick up a gift.