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Chapter 224: A Conversation with God 1

"Haa...haa..."

“Hiii! Oh, um, are you here to pray...?"

"Haa...hmm. Yes, I am.

“Then, come this way.”

I even enchanted and came running to the church. When the church people saw me, they got scared. Did I look that scary? The church people were completely innocent, so I took a breath and then smiled as much as I could. Then I came to the place of prayer where that colossal statue of God was.

“Call me quickly."

I'm not praying at all anymore. This is just an order. But it's that goddess, so there's no problem.

"Long time no see! Welcome! I knew you'd come!”

“I don't want to run out the clock, so hurry up and tell me about your hero.”

“I’m a god and you ignored me...! And your glaring eyes, your swordplay...I like it!”

I was annoyed by God's playful attitude. I realized then that I wasn’t calm. I felt defeated to realize that I was overly irritated by God's reaction.

“Hey… answer me quickly.”

“I’ll answer your questions properly. In return, please hear me out first.”

Suddenly, God’s joking attitude changed and she became serious and dignified. I could only nod in confusion at the change.

“Let me tell you what you want to know best. What that saintess, Claudia Areola, said is almost certainly true. And as you predicted, the title of hero was my gift.”

“Oh!"

I tried to hit the god as quickly as I could. I couldn't bear to think of the spirits, devils and beasts that might have been caused misfortune by this goddess.

“Calm down. I want you to do that as much as you want after we talk. Just listen to me for now."

I swung my fist out to strike the seated God. But I didn't hit God. Moreover, I heard a voice behind me. I couldn't see any movement at all. But it made me calm down again.

“I didn't even know spirits, devils, and beasts were treated this way until recently. Perhaps it's out of line for me to apologize to you, but I'm sorry about that."

God sat down and raised her head slightly.

“Then let me explain about the existence of the hero. First of all, "hero" is a title given only to human beings. The reason why it’s only for human beings is that you’re more numerous and weaker than other races. You know that somehow, don't you?”

I nodded. Without special exceptions, it’s true that we cannot contract with spirits. And they have no special talents such as making things that would overwhelm other races like dwarves.

“And while having more population is a plus in terms of strength, it's a minus for the monsters. If there are a lot of small fry, it just means that there are a lot of food and females. They can increase.”

It's an ungodly statement to call humans small fry, but the story somehow makes sense. Goblins and orcs would be the most obvious examples.

“The number of monsters that have increased as a result of this must be thinned out after a certain period of time. That is the role of the heroes. Incidentally, the saints are the healers who ensure that the heroes don’t die during the thinning out process.”

Incidentally, the cycle of when the heroes appear is 100 years after the last one is gone, she said. But I understood the role of the hero.

“Next, I'll explain how that one became a hero...or rather, how a hero became that one. First of all, the hero is chosen from the commoners in order to escape the ties of the nobility. And the title of hero is also made invisible until the age of 15, when the level will be raised to a certain level."

Huh? But didn't she say that those heroes were carefully raised from the age of five?

“That's right. That’s the problem. That country has devised a way to find the titles of heroes that can't be seen yet."

She naturally read my mind. But how could they have found a way to uncover invisible titles?

“That method is inhumane. The extra skills of a hero are manifested when his life is in danger. So they take in a child with high status from each country and take care of them, saying they will raise them. Then they throw the child into a crowd of monsters. If the extra skill manifests itself there, the child is a hero. If not, they are ordinary people.”

“…..?”

“Of course, in order to prevent the world from finding out about this, the child who is judged to be a commoner will have his wounds healed by the saint and his memory magically erased. Even if the child was a hero, he was only five years old, so a few wizards in the country could erase such a temporary memory."

Is that country doing that? Do they want a hero that badly?

“Of course, many children die because of the delay in judging them as ordinary. That country did this kind of thing every year. Of course, when i noticed it, I immediately passed it on as an oracle and put a stop to it right away."

By the way, she didn't teach the cycle of when the heroes appear. She said she didn’t teach the cycle of the appearance of heroes because she thought that if she had taught it, there would have been a sorting out of who was a hero and who was not.”

“Those heroes were born as a byproduct of my late notice. They were originally kind-hearted children, but because of the environment in which they were raised, they developed a character unbecoming of a hero."

If you look at it in a different way, you could say that those heroes were also victims. Even so, I can't forgive them for treating the spirits so disrespectfully.

“I'm done with the general explanation of the heroes. If you have any questions, I'm all ears.”

This time, I asked the goddess a few questions.

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