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Chapter 343 – Seoul (27)

People were starting to get used to the temple building that popped up from the former soccer stadium .

Those who condemned the existence of the temple quickly disappeared, instead claiming that the excessively high building threatened flight safety over Seoul .

It was natural .

The government remained silent no matter what the people said about the temple .

The people wondered how they would demolish a building that had been created overnight, and whether it was possible in the first place .

Even those who raised their voices against the temple said that they would rather impose a fine or tax on me rather than demolish the temple .

But now, their voices were also disappearing .

After the Lee Ho-jae Faith began to spread in earnest, there was an atmosphere that bore down on people like them .

I looked out at downtown Seoul from the temple .

Thanks to its high location, the entire city could be seen at a glance .

To be honest, it wasn’t such a good sight .

“Oh, look at the air . ”

This is a city where people live .

In the Tutorial, I’ve been to many places, but I’ve never seen a city with such serious air pollution .

I went to a place filled with all kinds of odors and toxic gases, but it was not a place where people lived .

“It smells bad too . ”

[Sorry . ]

Earth, which had been quiet for a while, apologized again .

Well, I wasn’t talking to you .

No, looking at it, I was right about what I said to Earth .

[Sorry . ]

I said yes .

Earth talked from time to time .

Usually when I think of Earth, I think of the environment including the earth or the sky of this planet, or I think of the world as a whole; it was like that .

Maybe it has always been like that .

Every time people think of Earth,their faith builds up little by little .

Just like how I respond with a system message whenever I gain faith from believers .

Earth would have only apologized every time .

That would have been all it would do .

Even if it could do more, only I could hear its words .

The wind blew out the murky air in Seoul .

At the same time, I wanted to create a strong wind, but if I did, those who walked the streets in broad daylight would be mutilated .

A lot of time was wasted trying to move the wind at the right intensity .

It was a temporary measure, but a little bit of contaminated air went away .

It will be better for a while .

Let’s seriously think about purifying Earth’s environment later .

I can ask Kim Min-hyuk to figure out how .

Recently, he moved to the temple and lived there .

It was almost completed so there was no inconvenience in life .

Rather, the accommodation was uncomfortable due to how “perfect” it was .

As Yong-yong’s decorations have not yet been completed, it can’t be opened .

In the near future, believers will also be able to visit the temple .

On the lower floors of the temple, there was plenty of space for the members who visited the temple .

From a distance, Hochi was holding his cell phone and talking on the phone .

Hochi was more and more frequently talking to humans .

It was unavoidable because he was busy taking care of the Lee Ho-jae Faith every day .

The Lee Ho-jae Faith, which seemed to only grow, was experiencing some ups and downs recently .

There have been several incidents in which believers who have secured a large amount of public value by pouring capital money in the early stage have used the score to play foul .

Of course, as soon as they did such an act, the public value was reduced .

Because of such actions, the church’s image was deteriorating .

Negative behavior of individual members of the congregation immediately affected the score, and these events could have become even more serious if it were not for a system that others could check .

There were also conflicts with existing religions .

Existing religions that have been rooted in Earth before the introduction of tutorials and the Hundred Gods Temple .

Most of those religions either partially admitted tutorials and Gods Temples, or distorted them all as being part of the religion .

From the standpoint of existing religions, they would have wanted to completely deny the Hundred Gods Temple and Tutorial .

They couldn’t pretend to know the monsters that appeared in front of their eyes and the rise of the Awakened who fought against them .

Because of this, they had to go back and forth through their old doctrines to find clues and connect stories .

From the standpoint of such religions, the rise of the Lee Ho-jae Faith was inevitably threatening .

It was just a simple thought .

In the case of the Hundred Gods Temple, even if the facts were distorted and related to existing religions, there was no response .

However, when they say that they have a religious connection with Lee Ho-Jae, a protest from my denomination immediately rushes out, demanding them not to speak nonsense .

Every time they protest, they will get public value, so the believers will protest more confidently and stubbornly .

Moreover, the system Hochi devised was overly lethal .

Beyond religion, it was shaking the existing economic and social systems themselves .

The theocratic state theory is already spreading in Korea .

Eventually, the existing major religions identified us as pseudo-religion and began a campaign against us, unlike when the Hundred Gods and the Tutorial appeared .

While considering dropping a bolt of lightning on top of the protest site, Hochi argued that it would be better to overcome and solve the problem with the believers at the religious level .

The operation of the denomination was completely left to Hochi, so I decided to follow Hochi’s opinion .

Thanks to that, Hochi, who was already busy, became more busy .

Well I didn’t want to stop him even though he said he would volunteer to work hard .

It wasn’t just bad news .

As the number of businesses incorporated under Lee Ho-jae Faith increased, Hochi added the option to add the products of those businesses to the system .

I had to store the business’s products in my subspace and distribute them to the system, so I was able to run them immediately .

Thanks to this, the list of rewards had increased significantly .

All kinds of businesses were incorporated into the system, starting with hospitals and pharmaceutical companies whose institutions were in jeopardy due to the Lee Ho-jae Faith’s compensation system .

So, the number of members who spent both daily life and work at the Lee Ho-jae Faith increased .

It had a good effect on both the growth of the denomination and the increase of faith .

Thus, the Korean economy itself was being absorbed by the Lee Ho-jae Faith .

Won is now used only when using vending machines or products and services that are not handled by Lee Ho-jae Faith .

Not long ago, Hochi said he was preparing a plan to include the credit card companies in the system, so that would soon disappear .

Naturally, the value of the won plummeted .

Originally, it was a situation that would have a devastating negative impact on exchange rates and trade .

Fortunately, after the cataclysm of the monsters, the trade routes between countries were greatly reduced .

The global trend was economy centered on the domestic market or neighboring countries .

In the case of Korea, most of the trading came down to Japan and China .

At the very least, it was to export the Awakened to earn foreign currency and to bring in some food or industrial products .

In the case of food, both Japan and China were in short supply, so it was not necessary .

“But who is Nakamura?”

Before I knew it, Hochi came back from the phone call and I asked,

“A cabinet member I met when I went to Japan . ”

It was an unexpected person .

I thought it would be a Japanese cartoonist or novelist .

“This time, they helped establish Lee Ho-jae Faith’s Japanese branch . They also promised to cooperate with the denomination in the future . ”

What, really?

Hey, why are you so competent?

At this point, it feels a little strange .

Hochi was smiling confidently .

When he first took over the job, he completely disappeared as he was somewhat anxious or unconfident .

Now Hochi himself was sure he was doing well .

“Ha!”

Instead, his nose was rising with a momentum to pierce the sky .

Hochi returned from the phone call, so I sat on the couch again .

“By the way, the mantis doesn’t think about coming out of the church . ”

Kim Min-hyuk said .

The mantis was becoming the leader of the Gangwon-do denomination .

Well, it wasn’t very different from the truth .

In fact, it was emerging as some kind of guardian .

It was the mascot of the denomination, and it was taking in a little bit of faith .

If it continued like this, I thought that sooner or later it would easily gain godhood .

There was also the power it regularly received from Yong-yong, so it was almost definitely going to happen .

“What is it?”

Kim Min-hyuk had been taking a break since earlier .

That’d been the case even before Hochi got up to speak on the phone .

I don’t know what he wanted to say, to call me and Hochi, but he wanted to tell the matter as soon as possible .

To be honest .

Waiting for someone who feels like they can talk, is quite a pain, from the standpoint of being able to read other people’s thoughts at any time .

“Oh, well, I got a call from the United States . ”

“United States?”

“Huh . Some of the Awakened people in the US lab are from Korea . I got a call through them, but…… . ”

Well, good .

I’ve decided .

Let’s seriously think about hitting Kim Min-hyuk later .

“They say it seems like a meteorite is flying to Earth?”

“Huh?”

A very strange story popped out of Kim Min-hyuk’s mouth .

What meteorite?

“It was observed yesterday . There seems to be a giant meteorite flying towards Earth . ”

It was definitely an unexpected issue .

“Oh really?”

“Huh . ”

There are really special things in life .

What crime did the earth commit that only bad news kept popping up since the beginning of the 21st century?

[Sorry . ]

I ignored the earth’s apology and asked Kim Min-hyuk .

There was one questionable thing .

“But if it’s flying in, what else is there? You’re not sure are you?”

“Because I hadn’t observed it at all until a while ago, I found out about it out of the blue . I don’t think we have confirmed it yet . Still, the contact sounded almost certain . ”

Well, I see .

“So I mean…… . ”

Kim Min-hyuk dragged his words again .

I was urged to feed him honey chestnuts so at least he wouldn’t get hurt .

I thought about it for a while, but eventually decided to quit .

Kim Min-hyuk was too weak to hit with his light heart .

I thought that I should put this guy in the Tutorial and train him .

“That… What you did… It’s not you right?”

Kim Min-hyuk asked, looking at my eyes .

“Huh? What?”

“You mean that meteorite, isn’t that something you made or dragged here?”

“… not really . ”

Kim Min-hyuk threw off his hesitant attitude and smiled broadly .

“Yes! As expected! I believed in you, man . No matter what you’ve done, I don’t think you would drag a meteorite to Earth . ”

Then, he sighed for a long time .

When I looked at his face, it looked like he had lost ten years .

This motherfucker, you doubted me, you’re suspicious of me .

What do you usually think of me?

Recently, I was annoyed due to seeing people who were working against Lee Ho-jae Faith .

I left it to Hochi, but I still didn’t like it .

Kim Min-hyuk also knew that .

Then, when he heard that a meteorite was flying in the car, I guess he thought I was trying to drop a meteor over the heads of the opposing activists or religious groups .

I understood .

That’s understandable .

Still, I didn’t feel good .

“Get some athlete’s foot . ”

Kim Min-hyuk trembled .

“Suddenly, my foot seems to be itchy, but is it just my imagination…… ?”

Why blame your imagination?

To heal that, you’ll need potions, not regular athlete’s foot medicine .

Originally, I tried to give him circular hair loss rather than athlete’s foot, but it seemed too severe, so I compromised with athlete’s foot .

“Anyway… So, a request for cooperation came from the US’ side . It is impossible to stop meteorites with only technology . Can you stop it?”

Kim Min-hyuk asked .

It was much more comfortable than when he asked if I was dragging a meteorite .

“Of course . ”

In fact, I can do anything with inanimate objects .

Whatever it really is .

“Can you make the meteorite stop without any damage?”

It’s easy .

I just need to erase the kinetic energy .

“Is it possible to make the meteorite into Kim Min-hyuk?”

Hochi intervened from the side and asked .

“It is possible . It’s like pouring out my power into useless places . ”

I could have done it .

After the meteorite is reduced, it could be transformed into a human body, and Kim Min-hyuk’s memory, personality, and soul could be injected into the body .

It wasn’t easy .

It was a meaningless waste of power .

“Why is that an example…”

“It would be best to just blow it up in the atmosphere in moderation . I think that will be the least troublesome . ”

When a meteorite approaches Earth enough, it just bursts .

Like a fireworks display .

“Then would there be additional damage from the fragments?”

“That’s something I can handle easily . ”

In fact, if Earth had been sanctified, a much more colorful and fun way could have been used .

There was a lot of faith in my religion on Earth, but it wasn’t enough to make it my sanctuary .

A sanctuary has great significance to its God .

The biggest difference between a deity and a non-deity is that they can twist the laws of the world .

The divine power, which begins with the power to interfere with others, changes the world itself .

Individuals who have full control over themselves will be able to interfere with other microcosms outside through divine power .

And the individual who is able to interfere with another microcosm soon reaches the level of interfering with the grand universe .

A god can use its divine power to modify the laws of the world in the direction he wants .

And the god who is united with the world through a sanctuary becomes another being .

It is the same in that it modifies the laws of the world .

However, the cost of the modification disappears .

Therefore, the power that a god exercises in his sanctuary is not a twisting of the law .

It’s the redefining of the law .

I explained it to Kim Min-hyuk and Hochi .

Both of them have recently had a growing interest in Godhood .

“Something just doesn’t come across . ”

Kim Min-hyuk said .

It’s a story too far from himself .

Hochi looked similar .

I decided to give an example that touched a little .

“If Earth was my sanctuary, I could explode a meteorite and change all the fragments that fall into pieces and fall into Kim Min-hyuk . Let thousands of Kim Min-hyuk fall from the sky like hail . At no cost . Or you can make Kim Min-hyuk fall from the sky instead of rain . Not once, but every time . Until the end of the world . ”

“Ah, I get it . ”

“…It’s a clear explanation, but why is that the example… ”

The theology class stopped right there .

Although both are showing interest .

Actually, it’s going too far .

Kim Min-hyuk was natural, and even Hochi was .

“Returning to the previous story, Can I ask you if you could come to the US the day after tomorrow . Oh, and the story about the meteorite is absolutely secret . ”

“US? It’s annoying . ”

Can’t I just tell them to come here?

Meteorites will be handled roughly .

In Korea, there are people who believe in me and support me .

In America… it was an annoying situation, they’d be asking questions .

I wanted to send someone else as my agent .

Everyone was busy now .

It will be a little hard, but I’m just thinking of asking Hochi .

I suddenly saw Hochi sitting next to me staring at me .

“What is wrong with you . ”

“Hey hey hey . ”

“What, why . ”

“Can we spill the information that the meteorite is flying in?”

Hochi’s eyes were twinkling .

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