Chapter 931 - Divinity is Immovable
-No?
"Indeed, no."
Audin was firm.
He spoke with the will that there was no compromise in this part.
A gentle light shimmered on Audin's shoulders.
Since he spoke even rousing divinity like this, what more was there to say?
It was an attitude no different from swearing on his Will.
-Then why did you come?
His master asked.
Audin straightened his posture.
He gathered his hands neatly and straightened his back.
Polite yet confident.
Now was the time to persuade his master.
"I came because it is obvious that if I stay as is, the barbarian from the West will start running wild, calling me the youngest."
The light flickered.
It was still a confession no different from an oath.
Audin continued.
"The swordsman from the North will also act arrogantly."
The light flickered a few times.
In human terms, was he nodding?
Or tilting his head?
-Explain.
The answer came back.
Audin knew the habits of his master made of light.
He had a lot of interest in worldly affairs.
To the point where he would want to call storytellers here all day if allowed.
Assuming the storyteller wouldn't die from their eyes melting due to the intense divinity.
Furthermore, if it were the story of the disciple he acknowledged, his interest would be piqued even more.
On the surface, he looked like the incarnation of some angel, but looking closely inside, one could see an old man with a lot of interest in other people's business.
"Then."
Audin began his story.
A story that would have been incoherent in the past, yet now it was delivered in a plausible, organized manner.
Should he say this was also thanks to Enkrid.
Teaching him, watching and learning from him again, it was like learning how to speak anew.
The long story ended.
-It's interesting.
His master revealed his enjoyment.
Audin nodded.
"They are enjoyable days."
Beyond suffering from past mistakes after grasping the direction of his wandering life, he accepted and moved forward.
Now was the time he ended his wandering and broke the restrictions.
Although he still saw the illusion of the child Saint who died making medicine underground, there was no resentment like before.
He just smiled occasionally.
That seemed to tell him the path he was walking now was right.
-You have made up your mind.
His master said.
Audin's armor didn't have a physical substance.
It was a kind of metaphor.
-Take it.
His master spoke and projected light.
The light turned into a form, lingered on Audin's shoulders, flowed down, and constricted his whole body.
Audin accepted it readily.
At the same time, he observed his inside.
-How far have you realized?
His master asked.
His master was someone who abandoned himself to protect Legion a very long time ago, in an era worthy of appearing in history books.
Not a fool eaten by divinity, but one who sacrificed himself to protect everyone.
Audin answered by spewing divinity instead of words.
'Vortex.'
Based on what Enkrid showed him sometime, he imbued rotation into divinity.
The armor placed on Audin's whole body dug into his flesh little by little.
Because of that, blood began to flow from his entire body.
If he stayed like this, he would die.
Whether a knight or whatever, one dies if they bleed a lot.
Audin spewed divinity and wrapped Holy Light Armor over his skin.
Materialization of divinity.
Drawing formless power into a tangible form.
'Increase the density here.'
Mixing what he learned while talking with Enkrid the other day.
The Holy Light Armor formed under the armor crushing his body and endured.
Thanks to that, the bleeding stopped slowly.
-Form transformation and materialization.
His master's words seemed to be heard from far away.
Audin raised his concentration.
Dropping his hands at his sides and casting his gaze into the empty air, he concentrated and concentrated again.
'One more time.'
Beyond form transformation and materialization, he permeated his divinity into the armor refined with light pressing down on his body.
-Even transfer and projection.
His master's words were heard consecutively.
No matter if this was his domain, one couldn't know the detailed techniques the opponent possessed.
Therefore, his master was surprised.
Enkrid wasn't the only one who overcame difficulties in the meantime.
Also, the madmen stimulating him endlessly from the surroundings were together.
Even Theresa would break out of her shell eventually.
In the past, Audin was so drunk on divinity that he entrusted a part of his divinity here.
More precisely, his master tore it off by force.
-If you are eaten by that armor, a splendid berserker like never before would be born.
A Paladin drunk on a sense of omnipotence, caused because his talent was excessive beyond outstanding.
Of course, the desire to turn away from the world full of suffering also played a part.
If his master hadn't been there then, the current Audin wouldn't exist either.
Divinity he clung to as if escaping from reality because his heart was in pain.
If he entrusted his body and mind there, this suffering would end too.
-Eventually, you would have become something like a slaughter machine killing those opposing divinity.
His master had recited Audin's future.
Audin cut off a part of the divinity he realized with great difficulty.
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Instead of being drunk on power, he opened his eyes again in a place full of suffering.
A time when the boy's illusion still spewed endless resentment.
-It is armor you forged. If you are confident to overcome it later, take it then.
Even after shedding his restriction, he had no intention of receiving this again, but.
'The situation has changed. Brothers and sisters.'
Audin couldn't live lagging behind Rem, he'd rather be beaten to death.
That barbarian bastard was already realizing something and moving forward.
Having noticed that, how could he stay stopped in place?
The true form of the armor made before was divinity forged while forgetting himself and the world.
Swallowing that whole and making it his was the purpose of coming here.
Rotation, transformation, materialization, transfer, and projection.
As his master said, Audin handled divinity freely.
It was a flow similar to the nature transformation of Will in a way.
With that, he tried to suppress the armor.
But this wasn't the answer.
Nor was it the end.
'Wrong path.'
An incorrect direction.
No one told him and his master didn't teach him, but innate talent told him the path.
Even wandering in a wilderness without a single starlight due to thick clouds, finding the right direction with just intuition.
That is the advantage talent gives.
Audin was the strongest genius in the history of the Legion.
He ruminated and wove together what he learned from his Martial Arts Priest days to the present.
'What is divinity?'
Is it power given by God?
If so, why doesn't it dwell in all the faithful?
If so, why give power to the impostors worshiping the grey god?
The manifestation of divinity belonged to some talented ones, it was not proof of piety.
'If divinity wasn't actually given by God?'
Disbelief brings cracks.
Audin accepted the cracks.
He endured breaking and shattering.
-You will die. Audin.
His master said.
Vibration made of light rang his chest and was conveyed to his head.
Cracks originating from disbelief shattered the Holy Light Armor formed over Audin's body.
Because of that, the lump of divinity made while drunk on power crushed his whole body.
Digging into flesh.
Trying to tear muscles and break bones.
'Do not doubt the Lord Father.'
Audin ruminated on the words of the scripture.
'Must I not doubt even in this moment?'
Didn't You, as the Gray God, cast aside the piety of all divinity holders?
Ask and wait for an answer.
God does not answer.
Therefore, disbelief grows.
The funny thing was that Audin thought of Ragna here.
"If the destination appears, how can the path taken be considered wrong?"
Walk until the place he wants appears.
Ragna is like that.
He doesn't have a shred of doubt in the path he chose.
Only a human, yet there is no wavering in the will he harbors.
Thoughts continued and reached the Captain.
'The Captain.'
Audin still doesn't know how Enkrid reached the present.
His talent was terrible.
It wouldn't be strange if he died anytime.
Effort?
The world doesn't change with just effort.
'But he changed.'
Enkrid did so.
He swung his sword sparing even the time to doubt.
These single moments gathered to become a day, and that day became a month.
Like that, time clumped together to form the present.
'Since it is a life forged by Will.'
Steps taken without a shred of doubt.
'Hold as much as you believe, and walk as much as you believe.'
Words of the scripture mix and rummage through his head.
Audin believes in God.
He realized what was inside him wasn't disbelief.
He believes wholly.
Believes desperately.
Relies and leans on.
He hoped for infinite benevolence, and received as much as hoped.
Within faith, thoughts settled anew.
'Divinity is given by God.'
However, it is only people who use it.
'The Lord just gives.'
He does so with infinite benevolence and love.
A sword held by a murderer kills people, but a sword held by a person with a will protects people.
Just like the sword his Captain held.
'Giving divinity to talented ones, telling them to use it rightly.'
Speaking through scriptures and hymns.
God always spoke.
It was just divided into those who listen and those who don't.
Audin heard the scream of the divinity he built in the past.
It was the scream of stubbornness trying to break and crush everything around, fitting everything into the order set by God and forcing it in.
'I was young too.'
Unlike before, his eyes seeing the world changed now.
Audin steadied his mind and gathered his divinity.
'If Will is change.'
Divinity is immovable.
A central axis firmly settled within a shaking heart.
Faith does not collapse even if it shakes and fluctuates.
It must be so.
'Divinity is the center, an anchor.'
Holding what naturally tries to bounce here and there to make it stay.
Power making one keep their place firmly even if a tsunami rages.
'So is it enough to be firm like a rock?'
That is not it.
If the user wishes, divinity becomes a rock and becomes steel.
It also becomes a current, and also becomes flames.
-Anything is possible. Believe in omnipotence. Faith is a weapon. If you believe in yourself, your divinity will react and catch up.
His master's words were heard.
Audin agreed too.
Faith granted a part of omnipotence.
Divinity becomes anything.
'Just as will does not change, if faith does not change, that is enough.'
Thoughts are gathered and peace comes to the heart.
The child's illusion nodded.
Blood flowing from Audin's whole body stopped, and wounds began to heal on their own.
Blood flowing through veins doubled in speed, and divinity residing within emitted healing light.
Starting from Audin's fingertips, up to his forearms, shoulders, face, and down his thighs to his feet, a gentle light slowly dyed his body.
'Moving according to faith, but.'
The center is faith.
Believe and serve.
Then whatever it is, it will be achieved as desired.
'Because God loved us and bestowed it.'
One only needs to know how to use it fully.
-I look forward to it. Later, you will come to end me, right?
At his master's words, Audin opened his eyes.
"I will."
The Guardian Knight of Legion still guards this place.
He heard Pope Noah raised his voice saying the soul placed here must be released immediately.
But Audin knows his master's intent.
He was a person as peculiar as his adoptive father.
If he wanted to die, he could end his existence himself.
He could let go of everything, cut it off, and go to meet the God of War seated above the heavens.
But he doesn't.
-Out there is still full of war and demons.
Saying so, he doesn't let go of himself.
He still guards this place.
Therefore, he is the Guardian Knight of Legion.
However, his grumbling was severe enough to say he wanted to die, and God just leisurely accepted that much whining.
The Pope also noticed that intent and just let him be.
"I will come again."
-Do so.
Outside, the time was just before evening.
Sunset fell and brightened the surroundings.
Orange light wrapped the world.
Audin felt God's love.
Giving love even like this.
"Oh Lord."
He always looks over his world.
Wraps with light and hides with darkness.
Helping those in difficulty and reaching out to the pitiful.
Spreading benevolence regardless of right and wrong.
Even if humans looking at it use it wrongly, the Lord's benevolence does not change.
Audin took a step.
Now if he returned, he would be able to beat up that Rem bastard, Ragna, and even Jaxen once or twice.
He looked forward to it immensely.
'This too must be a joy given by the Lord.'
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