The next morning we came to the Great Temple where the God of Creation is enshrined. It was considerably larger than the temples of the sea gods and war gods I've seen before. That's the temple of the highest god of this world.

　I heard that this temple was the only one that existed in this area in the past. For some time, people gathered around the temple and began to live there, and a city was built and became the current holy city, so the holy city was shaped like a circle with the temple at its center.

　There were already many people around the Great Temple.
　The morning service would begin now.

　There are three chances to enter the Great Temple of God in a day.

　Early morning prayer time
　Time for a saint to give people a miracle
　Evening Worship Time

　The early morning service is the least crowded time of the day, but by all accounts, there are nearly a thousand people here.

　When everyone here prays to God the Creator at the same time, I'm afraid that God the Creator doesn't recognize my voice alone.

　Well, I'm already in line with the people who have come to worship, so I just do it.

　As I was waiting for the doors of the Great Temple to be opened, I suddenly felt a large amount of magical power moving through the temple. A few dozen seconds later, the holy wards covering this holy city were strengthened. Perhaps Seira had received magical power from the Creation God and used it to strengthen the ward.

　I heard from Seira herself a long time ago that that was her job as a saint.

　She said that strengthening the Holy Warding is not that difficult in terms of manipulating the magic power, but because it could endanger tens of thousands of people living in the Holy City if it fails, it puts a lot of pressure on her.

　Even now, a hundred years later - no, Seira has been doing this for two hundred years since she became a saint.

　It's not something that can be imitated very well.

　A short time later, the great doors of the Great Temple were opened by the priests. The people who had gathered in the square in front of the temple began to creep in.

　When we entered the temple, Seira was not there. I was curious, so I searched for Seira's magic, and when I found out...

　She was at our feet, in the basement of the temple.
　Seira's magic power doesn't move from there at all.
　There is no magic power of the holy knights around her either.

　What are they doing?

　It's a bit curious, but my magic power detection ability isn't that good, and I can only vaguely tell in which direction and at what distance that magic power is located.

　Tina, who is excellent at detecting magic, is able to tell from the movement of magic power even when she is a few kilometers away whether someone is standing or sitting there.

　So I could ask Tina to check what Seira was doing right now, but I somehow felt that I shouldn't.

　If there was a bath in the underground space and Seira was purifying herself there...

　I'm just looking at the magic, so it's not a peek, but I feel like it's somehow morally out of character. Moreover, it's uncomfortable to have Tina do it instead of me.

　Since Seira's magic power didn't move still, it was possible that she was taking a bath or lying down to rest.

　It would not be a good idea to peek at Seira's condition, even if it was only the movement of her magic power.

　Although I was concerned about Seira, I decided to focus on greeting the Creation God for now.


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　The early morning worship time was over.
　As it turns out, the creation God did not manifest.

　Well, even though not many people come to the morning service, there are about a thousand of them. It would have been a big mess if the Creation God had appeared there, so it was probably good that he didn't come out.

　Nevertheless, my dungeon management plan stumbled in the first phase. If I couldn't meet the Creator God, there was no way to negotiate with him.

　I was a bit naive in my thinking.

　The Sea God and the War God I had met appeared so easily that I was caught off guard.

　The Sea God was usually there when I went to the temple at the bottom of the sea, and the Bushin had an obvious standard of appearing when I put out the flames in the temple.

　Since I brought Shiro, the divine messenger──the divine beast, and Chalkia, who had been entrusted with the management of the dungeon directly by the Creation God, I thought that he would at least call out to me....

Mr. Hurt, did you get an oracle or something?
No, nothing. Where's Tina?
Me too....

　Tina also said that the Creator God gave her a little bit of labor when she defeated the Demon King, but this time there seemed to be nothing.

'There was no oracle for me either.
Me too.

　White and Chalk also said that there was nothing there.
　My plan was off.

　What are we going to do now?

　The service was over and people began to leave the temple. It seemed that they could not remain here, so they followed the people around and tried to leave the temple.


'Sir there, may I have a word with you?'

　An old man in gray robes approached me.
　He wore a hood up to his eyes, and I couldn't see his face clearly.

Follow me. And your companions.

　His voice was gentle, but for some reason we couldn't bring ourselves to disobey the old man's words, so we followed him.

　Who are you?　I didn't even feel like asking ─ I didn't feel like asking.

　There were several passages on either side of the Great Temple, and the old man entered one of them.

　There were holy knights standing at the entrances and exits of other passageways to prevent ordinary people from entering, but the passage that the old man was advancing through did not have a single holy knight.

　There must have been some holy knights who saw us entering the passage, but they didn't make a scene.


　After walking in silence for a while, the old man stopped in front of the wall and made a motion as if he was opening a door.

　Then a blank door appeared on the wall where nothing was supposed to be, and the old man entered the space inside through that door.

　Naturally, our feet advanced and we found ourselves all standing in the blank space.


　A space I've been to a few times - the divine world.

''What is this?''

　Tina looks around anxiously.
　Rifa and Luna came close to me and grabbed my arms and clothes.

''Could this place be........the God Realm?''

　Mai and May, the spirits, seemed to have somehow noticed.

''Left-sama,''

　I heard a voice from behind me and turned to see an old man in a gray robe trying to close the door we had entered.

　When the door was closed and the wall of the temple that was visible from it was obscured, the door disappeared as if it had never been there in the beginning.

I'm sure you'll find it difficult to find the right one. I'm sorry, but I had to have you guys come to the divine world.

　As I took my hood off, a kindly old man with a white hair and white beard smiled at me.

'It's been a while, Hurt.'