Chapter 750: 1 Month On The Island
Chapter 750: 1 Month On The Island
Chapter 750: 1 Month On The Island
During this past month, I decided to accept the agreement with the three religions, but before that, I went to know more about them.
I went to the Temples and Churches of these religions to learn more about their dogmas, history, and the general personality of their Priests.
I've found that these three Religions are really quite out of combat, not weak religions, but their focus not being combat and having few occasions throughout their histories where they come into direct combat.
The Church of Fertility desires the preservation and prosperity of all races, it also rejoices in new races and hybrids, their religion allows children to be born among members of all races, and they can decide whether the resulting child from the mixing of races will be born purely from one of the two races or be a hybrid of the two races.
The Pleasure Demonic Church desires and teaches all forms of pleasure, their Priests, oddly enough, are not complete perverts, they are not just propagating ideals about sexual pleasures, they teach about all forms of pleasure like the pleasure of eating something delicious, the pleasure of being in a pleasant environment, the pleasure of doing what you want, the pleasure of fighting, the pleasure of teaching, the pleasure of winning and of course all forms of sexual pleasure too.
They were hard to find since they were in the hidden city on the other side of the island, their church had many explicit paintings and sculptures, but their Priests preached to people to do what they liked and to indulge in it, I understand how the idea of indulging in pleasure can corrupt a person, which is why this is a Demonic Religion.
The Temple of Love was more or less what I expected, they have as Dogma all forms of love, such as the love of a family, the love of a friend, the love of a romantic, the love for a nation, the love for an ideal, all forms of love that touch a person's heart leaving a mark behind, not temporary pleasures, but a love that changes how you see the world.
I must say it was the first time I cried with emotion like that, the love stories I read in the Temple of Love were incredible in many ways, all of them being real cases only made me sadder in some cases like tragic love stories or me made her very happy in love stories with happy endings.
After visiting the temples of the three religions, always using the bodies of one of my Familiars as some of these places I found the idea of entering very disturbing.
I talked to Vanessa the High Priestess of the Dungeon, I talked to Athena who was raised by a Religion since she was a child, I talked to Ragnar who spent thousands of years beside a God and I talked to Diana who was the Champion of a God, talking about everyone the important points of this agreement that was very simple and about the effects that these three religions would have inside the Dungeon, I finally decided to accept.
It seems that Vanessa already had plans to allow the religions of Love and Fertility to enter the Dungeon, that's because there were many races in the Dungeon with problems to have children, having these two religions would end this problem once and for all, besides the religion of Pleasure seems to be already being followed in the Dungeon, so having her inside the Dungeon or not was indifferent when I was pointed out to how people inside the Dungeon were sexually active, how they played various types of games and how there was training, the incentive for delicious food, mock combats or fights inside the Dungeon every day, I was completely shocked.
With the settlement issue practically resolved, I threw this whole issue to Vanessa to resolve, it seemed to involve a lot of internal politics about religions, so I ran away from it leaving another one to solve in my place, I'm proud to have a competent daughter.
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Another thing that happened in these days was the various fights within the Dungeons, it seems that we had more problematic religions besides the Temple of Law, these other Religions were more brazen when attacking us or trying to capture people from the Dungeon.
I can't forget about Adventurers either, I hadn't thought of that possibility before, but there were worshipers and faithful of the Church of Light among Adventurers.
Not having thought of such a possibility was an error of judgment, I had forgotten that a religion is not just made up of Priests, most of a religion is always made up of normal worshipers or faithful of those Religions.
It was a big surprise when Hinata told me about the dozens of Adventurers that attacked her, Alice, Leonardo, Leo, Nolan, and Caryna inside the Dungeon.
After so much time with Hinata, I discovered that she has a habit of eating her enemies, she does this to completely absorb all the energy and vitality of her enemies, it also seems that she can directly send their souls to the Demon Goddess of Death.
Killing those super talented Adventurers caused a lot of problems with the Guild, but part of that was because we were already considered troublemakers on the Island, which I can't deny.
Diana, Jade, Barok, Sophia, Karina, Sapphire, Ivan, and Ibuki challenged most of the Warriors or Fighters you can find on this island, they lost many times, but as they were competitions being held outside the Dungeon, killing was forbidden, so it was a very good training way, they packed dozens of times a day.
Nicolas spent these days making bets, as he was smart and knew the strength of his teammates, he was able to predict the outcome of some of the fights, so he profited a lot and made a lot of people angry with him.
Freya encountered some Adventurers who use bows and arrows and fought them amicably while improving their techniques.
Alice looks like she went after real combat experiences and delved into many dungeons during her time on the island.
Caryna was going to every restaurant to learn new recipes, she mostly visited refugees to learn about their local cuisine, she also started to learn dagger techniques when she saw a street performer using combat techniques to dance, she thought she could use the same theory to learn dagger techniques for cooking.
For some reason the Blood Demon Queen became very active, she would walk all over the island following the others, sometimes she would go to the Dungeons to train, sometimes she would join the duels to fight, and sometimes she would learn to cook with Caryna and I've heard that in the last few months since she was rescued she's been learning how to be a maid with Freya.
But instead of a maid, she liked Nolan's clothes better, saying they were more elegant and easier to wear during combat, so she dresses more like a butler.
Come to think of it, she has a lot of troublesome people in the Dungeon.