The Evil God Beyond the Smartphone

Church Conference (3)

When the denomination’s regular meeting was over, Daniel woke up on a fluffy haystack.

After waking up in the hay, Daniel woke up in a cold sweat.

How much did you sweat while sleeping?

A cool feeling passed through Daniel’s back as he looked around.

A harsh breath escaped from Daniel’s mouth as he looked around with complicated eyes.

“Whoa, whoa….”

It was Daniel who was being dragged into an unidentified group called the Church until just a moment ago.

However, after waking up, Daniel was at his ranch as usual.

Is the short but long moment of fear a dream or reality?

In Daniel’s troubled eyes, he saw a jeweled ring on his hand.

The ring on the ring finger of Daniel’s left hand was exactly what Daniel had seen at the meeting.

Daniel checked the ring and stepped back in surprise.

“Heh… Heh Eok…!”

In Daniel’s mind, the images of the attendees wearing rings on the ring finger of his left hand flashed past.

It must have been the ring that an apostle named Euthenia was wearing on his ring finger.

The fact that such a ring was placed on Daniel’s ring finger was proof that what he had seen so far was not a dream.

Daniel was surprised to see the ring and immediately pulled out the ring that was on his finger.

It was a ring with precious jewels embedded in it, but to Daniel today, it was just a cursed item.

Daniel pulled out the ring and buried it in a haystack.

“This . . . this dirty ring.”

He buried the ring in the depths of the haystack, so that it wouldn’t bother him if he had to look for it again to sell it.

The ring that connected him to the church was the most terrible thing for him.

A denomination that prepares its troops for war against the Holy Land.

Daniel and his family would not be safe if their identity was discovered by a heretic inquisitor in the Holy Land.

After burying the ring deeply, Daniel looked around and came out of the stable.

When Daniel got out of the stable, there, Anna Hethroff, Daniel’s wife, was waiting.

“honey! Why are you so late today?”

“There was a reason for that.”

Anna looked at Daniel up and down suspiciously.

It must have been that Daniel had not come out of the stable for a long time, so Anna had come to find him.

It was because he woke up late from the stable to attend the church meeting.

However, even if I asked Daniel why, there was no way Daniel could explain the sect.

Daniel neatly gave up explaining to Anna.

And he started walking towards the house with an innocent look.

“By the way, honey.”

As Daniel began to return home, Anna, standing in front of the stable, called out Daniel’s name.

It seemed that Daniel had something left to say.

He asked her nervously, thinking that Anna was going to raise some troubling question.

“why?”

“What is that ring on your ring finger?”

At Anna’s question about the ring’s identity, Daniel looked at his hand.

Daniel’s left hand is covered in dust from the hay.

There was a ring with a jewel in it on her ring finger.

As soon as Daniel saw it, he was terrified and stepped back.

It was because the ring he had taken out of his finger and buried in the hay had already returned to his finger.

“Ahhh! Why is this here!”

“Are you trying to give me a present?”

Seeing the ring on Daniel’s ring finger, Anna approached him with a look of anticipation.

But Daniel just shook his head and denied it.

If worn, it is a cursed item that will allow you to attend a church meeting.

It was a story that was perfect for a tragedy to happen after being caught by a heretic inquisitor.

Daniel didn’t have the courage to hand these things to Anna.

Daniel removed the ring from his finger once more and opened his mouth, hiding the ring behind his back.

“This isn’t… it’s not like that!”

“Then what?”

Daniel’s hand holding the ring trembled.

For some reason, what he had pulled out of his hands and buried in fear of causing trouble is returned to his hands.

He had to face the troubling situation he had been so desperate to avoid.

What kind of answer should I give to avoid Anna’s questioning?

Daniel, who had been contemplating, finally sighed and decided to break through the front.

“This is what it is….”

“That ring…?”

“It’s something to throw away.”

As soon as Daniel finished speaking, he got up and threw the ring away.

The ring that had left Daniel’s hand flew away at high speed and fell down the ridge.

If I couldn’t explain this ring properly, I thought I’d throw it away in a place where I couldn’t get my hands on it.

Ana’s eyes gleamed with light at the sight of the ring flying far away in front of her eyes.

She tapped Daniel’s shoulder strongly, expressing her anger in an angry voice.

“honey! Why did you throw away that expensive looking ring!”

“This ring is cursed….”

“Why did you throw it away!”

“No, this ring is evil…”

“Why did you throw away that expensive thing!”

No matter what Daniel said, Anna’s attitude as she listened to him did not change.

Instead, he just slapped Daniel on the back with a hand that was stronger than before.

Daniel then stared blankly at the ridge where the ring had disappeared.

He had only taken action for the sake of his family, but the only thing that came back to him was a harsh touch.

No matter how much time passed, Anna would not understand Daniel’s actions.

* * * * * *

the next morning.

Daniel was working hard at the slaughterhouse with a slaughter knife.

It looked like there were neatly slaughtered meats lined up around Daniel.

Nicknamed the Silent Butcher, he skillfully dismantled livestock.

The butcher, considered the best in Everint, possessed the skill of a sword worthy of it.

“Hmm… it feels like something is stuck.”

While diligently dismantling the livestock with the knife, Daniel noticed a strange sensation in the knife and stopped.

His slaughtering skills reached the level that he knew where the sword had to go, even if he couldn’t see it with his own eyes.

However, Daniel’s sword was not moving properly today.

Feeling strange, Daniel twisted the knife’s path and started cutting near it.

spatula. spatula.

A foreign object caught the eye of Daniel, who was handling meat with skillful knife skills.

“······What is this?”

Daniel, who was cutting the meat, reached out and pulled out the foreign material between the meat.

What emerged from among the meat was a ring of metal soaked in blood.

Daniel was curious and wiped the ring with a cloth, and only then was he able to identify the foreign substance.

A gold ring with a jewel in the center.

It was the ring that Daniel threw down the mountain yesterday.

When Daniel saw the ring, he threw down his sword and stepped back in horror.

“Ahhh! Why is this! Why are you here!”

The ring that Daniel threw away eventually returned to Daniel.

Daniel’s eyes, drenched in fear, looked at the ring of the church.

Even if you hide it or throw it away, it will eventually come back.

Daniel Hethroff was destined to escape from that golden ring.

Daniel’s gaze turned to the other hand where he threw the sword.

Immediately after that, a trembling voice escaped Daniel’s mouth.

“Ahh, maybe…”

Even as he threw away the knife in surprise, the ring was still in his hand.

woo woo.

The ring left on Daniel’s hand vibrated.

The jewel embedded in the ring was glistening in the sunlight coming through the window.

* * * * * *

“Why is that skeleton wearing a ring on his ring finger?”

With beer and snacks on the table, I muttered while looking at the screen of my smartphone after the ＜regular meeting＞ was over.

The denomination’s ＜regular meeting＞, which was held for the first time, was rather bland than expected.

Haha, even considering the fact that the characters were only chatting among themselves in the conference room, there was nothing to talk about other than the story of the denomination.

It was impossible to interfere with the characters during the meeting.

For me as an observer, all I could do was drink a beer and watch their actions.

Even a guy named Daniel who participated in the meeting didn’t reveal his position until the very end.

If I had only known where he was, I would have gone to see Daniel and watched him.

– The ＜regular meeting＞ has ended.

– Cooldown time is applied until the next meeting.

When the meeting was over, it was switched to the screen with Utenia, and a message about the end of the ＜regular meeting＞ appeared in the message box.

The skill ＜Regular Meeting＞ has a cooldown time for holding the next meeting.

The next meeting cannot be held until the cooldown has expired.

It’s not a skill that has a separate cost, but it’s not a skill that can be overused like normal skills.

And since there was no reason to hold the meeting again right now, I immediately opened my inventory and checked the contents.

It was to check the status of the items placed in the meeting room.

“It’s really clean with no traces.”

If you scroll down and check the inventory, the bread acquired by drawing had completely disappeared from the inventory.

All the breads brought to the conference hall had disappeared.

During the meeting, Euthenia and Estasia happily ate the bread, but it seemed that they ate all the bread in the end.

As there was no more bread left in the inventory, I had to turn the draw to replenish bread in the inventory.

I sighed and looked at the now empty inventory.

“Ehhh… when my paycheck comes in a few days later, I’ll have to draw a lottery or run it a few more times.”

Utenia also ate a lot of cake, but Estasia ate more bread.

For some reason, Estasia, who normally only ate fruit, ate a lot of bread this time.

It was a situation in which it was not possible to estimate how many draws would be required to fill the number of meals eaten by the two of them.

Of course, this ＜regular meeting＞ wasn’t just about bread.

There was also the simple income I had gained through ＜regular meeting＞.

It’s an income that I can’t understand, though.

I lifted my head and looked at the message written at the top of the message box.

– [Daniel Hethroff] has acquired the ＜Cultist＞ trait.

– Karma has increased by 1.

Daniel Hethroff.

It was the guy who introduced himself as Daniel the Silent Butcher.

The unidentified guy who participated in this meeting had become my fanatic.

Recently, the number of believers was mass-produced only through the denomination.

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a message like this.

When I saw Daniel’s message, a laugh naturally leaked out of my mouth.

“Why are you a fanatic?”

It was a character who was trying to aim at a flying acrosis, but accidentally clicked the wrong button and gave him a ring.

But how could such a character become my fanatic in one meeting?

It was a scene that was difficult to understand for me.

It was because there seemed to be a lack of motivation to become a believer.

Was there any reason to become a fanatic just because you received the ring and attended the meeting?

As I pondered the details of the meeting, I found a plausible answer.

“Have you ever been touched by my compassion for investing hundreds of thousands of dollars every month for yourself?”

There is no one in the world who gives like me for the faithful.

Not long ago, while eating ramen, he presented a holy relic to Sado.

Intoxicated with my own compassion, I mumbled nonsense and drank a can of beer alone.

tuk.

When I put the beer can on the table, a new message appeared at the bottom of the screen again.

I looked at the message box with blank eyes.

“What else is this?”

It was not a message related to Daniel or ＜regular meeting＞.

Rather, it was a message that came to mind for an entirely unexpected reason.

Whoops.

I scrolled down to take a closer look at the new message.

The new message that came to mind was related to the ＜Sacred Response Device＞.

– The accumulated sacred contribution value in ＜Holy Response Device＞ exceeded the standard.

– From now on, you will be able to share the ＜Viewer’s Eye＞ skill with a target with the ＜Cultist＞ trait.

The skill that I had from the beginning of the game, ＜Eye of the Observer＞.

From now on, it was a content that could be shared with the characters of the denomination.