How to Live as an Illegal Healer

279. Ritual Room

“The hourglass in the arena!”

“An hourglass?”

“It had the same decorations on it. The source is my memory, so you can trust it.”

Alec smirked and shook the key.

It wasn’t a credible statement because it was Alec, but he could recall that the rim of the hourglass had a similar decoration.

“That hourglass… It was an important item for the Church.”

“Then the owner of this key must be the priest?”

A key similar to the hourglass that announced God’s judgment.

If so, it seems that this key is also an important item for the church.

“It looks like you dropped it while fighting with me earlier.”

It was a pretty fierce fight, so it wouldn’t be strange if he dropped it while fighting.

Kang Seung-hyun hates wearing accessories because he doesn’t like that.

“But where is this key?”

“If you look at it this fancy, it won’t be an ordinary key.”

“Isn’t that the key to the treasure house?”

Ji-ah Lee shouted with her eyes shining.

Certainly, if you look at the colorful design, it looks like a key to a treasure chest or treasure chest.

“Oh…then should we scatter and look for them?”

“Shall I ask a question?”

“To whom? To the teacher?”

“Of course they are members of the church.”

The rest of the followers are only the lowest, so it won’t be much help, but it’s better to ask an insider than an outsider.

– “What are you doing?”

After a while.

Lee Ji-ah’s alter ego brought a follower.

He was so nervous that even his hands were shaking.

“What did you bring me to, so the reaction was like that?”

“I didn’t say anything! ‘Follow prisoner number 24601!’ The only thing I had to do was drag him out.”

“…I have to bring it while explaining.”

Kang Seung-hyun pushed away Lee Ji-ah, who was immersed in prison guard play, and approached the nervous follower.

“Are you writing well?”

“Ah…yes! I am writing the best sentence ever!”

Shindo smiled awkwardly and showed the letter.

A quick glance revealed that the church was the axis of evil and was preparing a plan to destroy the world by descending evil spirits, but Kang Seung-hyeon, who found out about it, defeated the church after a fierce fight.

“Not bad. Instead, please add a setting that the friend who disappeared in the middle appeared as an enemy in a brainwashed state. Dramatically.”

“All right!”

“Manipulation as natural as breathing…”

Lee Ji-ah thought that Kang Seung-hyun’s job in Korea must have been a scammer.

“I didn’t call because of the letter, I called because I wanted to ask you something.”

“You want to ask?”

Shindo swallowed his saliva with a nervous face.

“I picked up this earlier. Do you know where the key is?”

“It looks similar to your sect’s hourglass.”

“Ah, this…is the key to the ‘Renunciation Room’ that the headmaster has.”

Fortunately, Shindo knew the identity of the key.

It’s generally not information that a low-level follower would know, but he seems to have known that the Seymua Rize Church is a small group with only a few hundred members.

“A room for ancestral rites?”

“It is located at the innermost part of the first floor of Daeshinjeon.”

“It’s inside the first floor… what’s inside?”

“I don’t know because I’ve never been there myself.”

“You’ve never been?”

“Because only the headmaster can enter and leave the ancestral room.”

Shindo shook his head and replied.

Hearing those words, Kang Seung-hyeon thought with a puzzled look on his face.

‘Isn’t that a bit strange?’

Usually, a room for ancestral rites is a space where an altar is installed and used for ceremonies to pray for the god enshrined in the church, offer sacrifices to the god, or communicate with the god enshrined.

‘The room for the ritual is locked and the believers are blocked from entering?’

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t understand it.

This is because sometimes idle divine beings bestow blessings or gift items to believers praying at the altar.

Therefore, locking the ancestral rite room is virtually no different from preventing believers from communicating with God.

‘Even the 2nd and 3rd ranks Adri and the Bishop were blocked from entering…’

What on earth was in the room that prevented other people from entering?

Kang Seung-hyun, who was fiddling with his chin, asked the others a question.

“what do you think?”

“Uh… um? well? I don’t know.”

“Of course it must be a treasure trove!”

“Isn’t this a secret space prepared by the principal to spend time alone?”

“It’s my fault for asking.”

One hundred words are not enough.

I got the key and found the location, so I guess I’ll have to go in and check it myself.

– “This is the room for ancestral rites.”

Kang Seung-hyeon and his party headed to the church’s ancestral rites room, leading the lower-ranking believers.

Click.

When I opened the door with the key and entered, the first tea time table and sofa caught my eye. Shelves and bookcases lined the sides, and red curtains were drawn behind the sofa.

“Didn’t you say that only the religious leader can come and go here?”

“yes. I heard that no one except the religious leader could enter and that he had never entered.”

Shindo replied that way, but Kang Seunghyun didn’t think so.

‘If it’s really a room that no one can enter, there’s no way I’ll leave the reception table and tea cups there.’

No matter how you look at it, the table and sofa in the middle of the room were not for one person, and crucially, there was a teacup set for others.

‘It’s not Adri. If it’s Adri, there won’t be any need to hide it.’

I don’t know who it is, but the religious leader had a secret meeting with someone unknown to the church members in this room.

‘If you hide it from the members of the church, you’re not an ordinary person…’

Wow!

As I pulled the red curtain, the altar of Seymua Rize appeared. There was nothing particularly noticeable, and the overall design was rather simple, unlike the fancy room.

‘huh…?’

The only thing that bothered me was that there were a lot of empty bottles rolling around in front of the altar.

“Oi, do some tidying up. Doesn’t the principal here know how to clean?”

“It is strange. Normally an altar wouldn’t be so messy.”

“Where… it says {sedatives}. All potions are the same.”

The bottle that was rolling around the room was a mental recovery potion.

It is a high-end product with good performance and good taste.

“Did you buy it because your mental strength would be reduced when you met God?”

“Usually, religious leaders and apostles will recover their mental powers when they meet their god.”

“Then why did you drink this?”

“Obviously! He drank because he was harassed by God. It is clear that he was criticized for not performing well.”

“What is the company…”

I opened the shelf nearby, just in case, and there were plenty of tranquilizers.

“There are no treasures, only potions.”

“This one is also expensive, so let’s take it.”

“Then it’s a treasure!”

While Kang Seung-hyun and his party robbed the leader of the sedative, the low-level follower was looking around the ritual room looking for something.

“What are you doing from now on?”

“That’s Simua Rize-sama… No, I was looking for the Seymua Rize’s icon or icon.”

“What did you say?”

Believers say that there are no paintings or sculptures depicting Simua Rize in the church.

“Oh, I have lost my faith! do not misunderstand!”

“thank god. If you didn’t say that, I was going to execute you immediately.”

Seunghyun Kang took out the knife and put it back in.

The believer who saw that swallowed his saliva and continued talking.

“I was just curious what it looked like! Could there be something here? I was just looking for it! It’s nowhere else!”

“Wait a minute, so you’re saying that members of the church don’t know what Seymua Rize looks like?”

“Yes, yes… I’ve never seen or appeared before.”

Within the church, only the leader had contact with Simua Rize, but

‘…he will appear as you imagine.’

Because it was explained, it was unknown what it looked like.

-“Then we’ll go to the passengers!”

“I hope you get this and cook me delicious food tomorrow too…”

“Let’s ask them to boil beef radish soup!”

Kang Seung-hyeon and his party came out of the ritual room with plenty of tranquilizers.

Other than that, there was nothing else to save, and the rest of the passengers must have lost quite a bit of their spirits from what happened today, so it was to share it with them.

“See you later.”

“Ahhhh…”

Kim Ho-jeong and Lee Ji-ah ran to the dorm with plenty of tranquilizers, and Kang Seung-hyun and Alec walked leisurely and followed them.

“Hmm…”

“What did you think of that from earlier? Breakfast tomorrow?”

“Symua Lize. It’s suspicious like this and that.”

“What is it?”

Kang Seung-hyun opened his mouth while drinking the stamina potion.

“He is the main god of a 3-month-old new religion, but he is able to exert this much power, and when his followers are in danger, instead of helping them, he mercilessly ate them.”

Divine beings do not get involved in human fights and stand by, but intervene when a crisis comes to the church.

“The layman can’t help it, but at least it’s right to help the religious leader when he is in danger.”

But let alone help, he turned the cult leader into fertilizer without hesitation.

“I heard that. Not the Holy Ghost style.”

“On the contrary, if you look at what he does, he’s more like a black god.”

Sacrifice and sacrificial offering Human sacrifice is something that can only be seen in so-called xie jiao, which is often referred to as the followers of the Black God, who deals with tainted holy power.

Although it is a forgotten god, Sehmet, to which Kirkarashtel or Alec belongs, is representative.

Of course, that doesn’t mean that general denominations are necessarily just.

‘They don’t openly offer sacrifices, and if they get a chance, they’ll try to kill the heretics.’

In addition, there are also black gods who hate slaughter, and in the first place, divine beings are people who cannot distinguish between good and evil by human standards.

“Well, there are quite a few crazy ones among the gods in this town, so Muellery must be one of them.”

“Even the most insane gods wouldn’t do that.”

Simua Rize performed a crazy act of judging the humans who came to become her followers and turning those who failed into fertilizer.

If such incidents are repeated, it is obvious that the number of believers who want to visit the church will decrease.

“Come on, let’s stop talking about boring things and have a drink. I saw that there was also a wine cellar.”

“Then we should ask the passengers to make some snacks for us.”

After finishing the conversation, the two exited the Great Hall and headed for their lodgings.

-“I’m going to sleep… I can’t stand it anymore…”

“Good night! See you in the morning.”

“I should put my alter ego on auto mode and go to sleep too. Let’s see!”

“Good night everyone.”

Kang Seung-hyun and his party robbed the church’s wine cellar and enjoyed a simple party, then went to their respective rooms and lay down in bed.

‘Should I go to sleep soon?’

Kang Seung-hyun closed the book he was reading and lay down on the bed to sleep.

It was the time when everyone was asleep, so it was quiet all around, and only the sound of the waves could be heard from time to time.

Oh oh oh oh…

oh oh oh… oh oh…

and how long has it passed.

Kang Seung-hyun opened his eyes when he heard a cry that gave off an ominous feeling.

Looking out the window, I saw something huge floating in the full moon sky above Daishinjeon.

The guy started to slowly come this way, perhaps recognizing Kang Seung-hyeon’s gaze.

‘You’re here too. Mr. Simua Rize.’

Kang Seung-hyun, who opened his eyes, stood up as if he had been waiting for that.

‘I made a fuss at the temple, but there’s no way I won’t come.’

When humans provoke the divine being to the limit, that night the divine being crawls into the dream and creates a mess.

So Kang Seung-hyeon was certain that Simua Rize would come to visit him, just like he did in Zumaire, and deliberately fell asleep to meet him.

‘I must have been quite upset when I saw him appearing not long after he fell asleep.’

Kang Seung-hyun put on a gown and went out into the hallway.

If someone you don’t know enters your dream, it’s natural to beat them up and kick them out.

‘Before going, check your dreams.’

Even if you know it’s a dream, checking the status window is essential.

Seunghyun Kang opened the status window.

[Name: Kang Seung-hyun]

[Occupation: Healer?]

[Birthday: 02/12]

[Height: 187cm]

Then, a translucent screen appeared before my eyes.

“…uh?”

If this place were a dream, it wouldn’t appear.