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Chapter 73 The Soul Chasing Freedom
The young man laughed.

"Sir, you are so arrogant that you can judge a person's future at will."

"If I am a scholar, what about you, what kind of person are you?"

Hephaestus laughed too.

"Me? I am a god far away from the hustle and bustle of the mundane world, a burning flame at the end of time, and a craftsman living in Lemnos."

The young people laughed more cheerfully.He thought Hephaestus was very interesting, very interesting.

He said to Hephaestus: "So you are an unbelievers. What arrogance."

"There are gods who will like your arrogance, and of course, there will be some who don't."

"If we can meet again in ten years, you will definitely become a legendary figure at that time."

The truth is sometimes harder to trust than lies.Hephaestus laughed.

He followed the young man's words and continued: "What about you? Deliberately believe in a god who never responds to the needs of others. Aren't you also an unbelievers?"

"Hey." The young man put his palms up in front of him to show that he didn't approve of Hephaestus' words.

He said: "That was before. But now I am a faithful believer in Anser."

"In order to meet Him, it took me two full years to come here from the distant seaside."

"I've been on the road, and I don't regret it even if I can't see the road ahead. I only wish to witness the traces and teachings left by God Anser in the world."

Hephaestus looked at him: "I have always known that you are a very devout believer." After speaking, he took a bite of the sesame cake given by the young man.

The atmosphere fell silent for a moment.

The young people were a little uncomfortable with this silent atmosphere, and took the initiative to break the calm.

"In fact, belief has always been human freedom."

"No matter what kind of gods they are, they can only force people's bodies, not their hearts."

"So I don't exclude unbelievers."

Hephaestus ate the sesame cake and replied casually: "That may not be the case, the power of the gods is beyond your imagination."

The young man nodded: "It makes sense, we don't understand God, and we don't even know how many Gods there are."

He joked: "Maybe you are really a god far away from the hustle and bustle of the world, but I can't recognize it."

"How about you guide me?"

Hephaestus glanced at him and asked, "Sure. What kind of guidance do you want?"

The young man thought for a while and said, "Well... let's go to the temple of God Anser."

Hephaestus: "That's easy."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, and an illusory red light filled the surrounding space.Then the space in front of it was mottled and blurred, and a temple appeared.

The young people who witnessed everything were stunned in place.

Hephaestus looked at him and greeted him: "Let's go, I have briefly shortened the distance between us and the Temple of Anser."

……

The new Temple of Ansir is located on the side of a high mountain deep in the mountains.

The newly built temple is still relatively rough, and the materials used for the construction are not as elegant as the original ones.

Even so, it can't stop the enthusiasm of believers, because Anser is the only god who doesn't ask believers to pay.

With the relocation of Anser Church, the God Anser has been separated from the sun.

But even so, there are still a steady stream of believers who come from afar and gather here.

They live at the foot of the mountain, leaving the high place to the god Anser who is believed in.

The person in charge of taking care of the temple is the second priest of Anser Church, an old man named Sata.

As early as when the god Anser was still controlling the sun, he was already a priest of the Anser Church.Believers trust him very much.

On the side of the Anser Temple on the mountainside, he built a thatched hut by himself, and lived there on weekdays.

In the thatched hut, Sata lit a brazier, threw the straw papers full of words in his hand into the flames one by one, and watched them be swallowed by the flames and turned into ashes.

These papyri are derived from several transactions with a god named Pandora.

Those who know this god call him "knowledge" in awe, and as long as you offer sacrifices, he will return everything you want to know.

As far as Sata knows, many scholars are followers of this "knowledge".

Looking at the ashes in the brazier, Sata felt for the first time that reality was far more magical than the stories in the storybook.

I should be the closest human being to the gods in history.

The priest, Anser, Anser's mother, the struggle of the three sun gods, and the inexplicable status and life.

He was already old, and he was at the age of facing death, so he was prepared in his heart.But surprises and accidents came so suddenly. After parting with the god who was suspected to be Anser's mother, he found himself different from others.

He seems to have lost his sense of time, and the outside world has already passed for several days after he often falls asleep.

He becomes less tired...

Sata didn't understand this at first, so he sacrificed to the god called "Knowledge" for this.He tried to borrow the power of another god to know what kind of god he believed in.

As far as he knew, this was the first time that "knowledge" refused to accept the sacrifice, and the first time in history, there was no reply even if it was vague, but he directly chose to refuse.

Sata panicked.

And the closer to the truth, the more so.

Even though he lived deep in the mountains, Sata did not give up his attention to the outside world.

He knew that Helios, the first god to unfurl the banner of the Sun God, had quietly lost his voice in his church...

……

"Anser exists, and he will not respond to the demands of mortals, nor will he interfere with the choices of mortals." This is the first sentence Sata sent to Anser believers when he changed the teachings.

But the rest of the words have been buried in his heart: "However, this is only because Anser didn't notice us. One day, he will know all this and bring His judgment."

After burning the toilet paper in his hand, Sata had an intuition that this day had come.

He walked out of the hut, walked into the temple of Anser, and knelt down on the ground.

at the same time.The scene in the temple was mottled, and Hephaestus led a young man with a dull expression into it from thousands of miles away.

As soon as he entered the temple, the body of priest Sata, who was kneeling on the ground, began to tremble imperceptibly.

The young man stared blankly at everything in front of him until he heard Hephaestus' laughter.

Hephaestus pointed to the trembling Sata and said, "This man is very strange, and your church is also very strange."

"Perhaps it is because you have already guessed the reason, so you both respect and fear me."

Young people are already trembling.

Hephaestus smiled indifferently: "You are right to be afraid, but I suddenly changed my mind."

"Because what you believe in is not me, but freedom."

"I like freedom, and I like the soul chasing freedom."

His figure gradually disappeared in front of the two mortals: "You can do it yourself..."

(End of this chapter)