Chapter 106 – Chapter 102 – The Saint and the Realm of Wishes (3)

Hernán, holding Karine’s twins, looked around at the word that it was the temple of an old god.

The ceiling and the beautiful garden where the reddish sunset comes in.
And a huge wall surrounding it.

Looking at the shadowy stone wall, Hernán sensed something faint.

“Several pieces and paintings.”

The saintess placed her hand on the wall so that Hernán could easily recognize him.
She slowly moved her hand along the rim of the figure carved into the wall, making it easier for her to recognize her.

“This… What are you describing?”

Hernán asked, looking at a relief that presumably depicts a gigantic human woman.
The saintess removed her hand from her wall.
Then, he fixed his eyes on the picture Hernán was looking at.

“Looking at the location, it probably represents the owner of this temple. She must have been a goddess among the old gods.”

Hernán had a strange feeling as he heard the description of the woman who was difficult to accurately identify.

A familiar yet unfamiliar feeling wrapped around the body.
It’s the same feeling I got when I first came here during the day.

“By the way, saintess.”

Hernan looked away from the wall, guessing where he had gotten this feeling.

“How did you know this was the temple of an old god? It is difficult to accurately recognize the paintings and sculptures, and the inside is just a garden with a somewhat unfamiliar style…”

In ancient ruins, there are quite a few cases where the image of a god is drawn, even if it is not a temple.
If that were the case, she wouldn’t have deduced that this place was a temple simply by looking at the picture depicting the goddess.

Expecting that he might have seen a phrase written in ancient script, Hernán looked at Marina.

She turned her head away from the unrecognizable wall, where even her sunset had faded.

“Do you remember what I said when I wrote the Wish Ticket to the Demon God?”

The saintess continued her words without waiting for her answer.

“Old God. I mean, I can feel the energy of an ancient evil god.”

“I remember. He also said that a demon god shouldn’t use only magic power and exude that kind of energy.”

She thought the saintess was a bit confused about what she was saying.

“Did you ever feel the same way?”

“That’s right.”

Marina nodded her head with her heavy face.

“It’s intense enough to hold her hand. This is the first time I’ve seen the energy of the old gods so vivid. It’s almost like a springing well. In addition, the style of the wall is similar to that of an ancient temple, so it must be a temple.”

A small voice came from the saintess’ back as she spoke.

“Mom.”

The sleeping saintess and Hernan’s daughter, Lenny, seemed to have awakened.

“Lenny? Are you hungry?”

“Yes.”

A calm tone without any fuss.
She is quiet like a saint.

“Lady. Let’s go downstairs first and keep talking.”

Hernán led Marina out of her, looking at the child, who was a dark blonde.
She also took Hernán’s firm arm as she watched her garden virtually immersed in her darkness.

Two children in her arms and a woman leaning on her arm on this side.
Hernan moved his feet carefully so that no one was hurt.

As she made her way to the door along the barely visible path, Marina continued the subject.

“At first, after being trapped here, I thought about where we were trapped. A bizarre environment with no divine power or magical power.
I thought it was probably a subspace forcibly created by a demon god, or a facility hidden by concealment magic.”

Not only the saintess, but Potina, who had a deep understanding of magic, and the demon king, who had studied both theology and magic to some extent, expressed similar opinions.

There is no place in the world where God’s power and magic do not reach.
So, you can think of this place as a hidden sub-space without divine power or magical power, or a place hidden by the magic spread by a being at the level of a demon.

“But this powerful Old God energy… And to the ceiling connected to the outside. Looking at this, this is a facility that is more like an ancient ruin than a subspace.”

Instead of Hernan, whose arms are not free because of the babies, the saintess pushed the door and continued talking.

“I understand that the energy of the old gods is close to a kind of divine power. Considering that divine power opposes magic power, it may be that all magic power has been driven away by such a thick divine power.

Marina eagerly demonstrated her self-reasoning.

“Besides, it may be difficult for other gods to interfere because of their excessively strong divine power. That’s why I use the divine power I’m familiar with… I will do what I can’t do.”

After Marina’s words, which had been paused in the middle, ended, a strange silence hung over the two.

A saintess who cannot use divine power.
A man who was one of the people who provided the cause.

And the daughter of the two of them.

The moment Hernan opened her mouth to say something, the saintess spoke her first.

“Come on, the stairs are out. The lights are on, so shall we hurry?”

Marina, deliberately staring at her lights in an exaggerated motion, tried to let go of Hernán’s arm.
However, Hernán held her arm against her body to prevent her from taking her hand out.

“Hernan?”

“Heavy people should be more careful when going down.”

Hernan’s gaze was fixed on Marina’s stomach.
Since it was 5 months old, the lower belly that was barely covered by the top was convex.

The saintess followed her Hernán’s gaze and looked at her ship, then she stopped her feet for a moment.

“Besides, you’re carrying a child on your back, aren’t you?”

When Hernán suggested it once more, she finally grabbed his arm.

However, the distance he opened to remove his arm remained the same.

Keeping that distance in mind, Hernan started to descend again.

“In conclusion, since this place is full of the divine power of the old gods, are you saying that you are naturally cut off from the outside world?

“Yes. There is no magical power, and it is difficult for the gods of mankind to interfere. Besides, if the Demon God was careful and concealed it, there wouldn’t be any unlucky adventurers coming.”

Hernán, who went down little by little and listened to Marina’s explanation, organized his thoughts.
And I asked questions that came to me out of nowhere.

“By the way, originally, a place called a temple is a place where divine power is stored or emitted naturally?”

“Yes? Of course not. Divine power is the power bestowed only by the gods worshiped by us. A place that is only a building can never create divine power.”

The saintess eagerly explained, she added with a slightly unsure expression.

“Of course, in terms of our god of humanity, yes. The energy of the ancient gods is not exactly the same as the divine power of the gods now, so it may be a little different.”

Hernán, who felt more doubtful about those words, continued to ask questions.

“Then what happened to the energy of the old gods that fills this place? Of course, objects containing the energy of the ancient gods have also been found in ancient ruins, but aren’t they only close to traces?”

The saintess commented on the energy of this place earlier, saying that it was like a well with water gushing out.
If so, it must mean that there is a lot of energy left that can be said to be the very powerful energy of the old gods, or the divine power of those gods.

But didn’t those gods all disappear long ago?

“I wonder how the old gods got so much power left. Aren’t they already gone? The remaining Demon Gods are usually considered male gods, so they don’t even match the image of the goddess you showed me earlier.”

Marina did not answer this time.
Instead, he responded with a facial expression.

Seeing the uneasy expression on her face that secretly occupied the saintess’s face, Hernan was silent along with her.

By the time she had almost descended the silent stairs, there was no sound except for the sound of footsteps and the occasional talk of Lenny looking for her mother and father.

“Maybe.”

The saintess looked around her.
She made sure no one was there, but she hesitated until the very end and hesitated to open her mouth.

Then, as she descended her last flight of stairs, she suddenly saw Hernán’s arm in her hands.
Looking at her arms that held her firmly and led her here, Marina said slowly.

“Upstairs, one of the old gods appears to be asleep.”

Is god asleep?

Hernán frowned as he realized that she was different from what he knew.

“Aren’t all the old gods gone except for the demons?”

“I am just guessing. I don’t know for sure.”

The saintess answered briefly like that, then lowered her head.
But Hernán was about to question her, thinking she must have something more of her.

“Lady. Maybe it’s important to all of us, isn’t it? If you know anything, please…”

“Mom… Mamma.”

It was not the expressionless saintess who interrupted Hernán, but her daughter, who calmly complained of hunger.

Marina subtly removed her hand from Hernan’s arm and opened the door to Carine’s special room.

“I will organize my thoughts and tell you. To be honest, what I just said isn’t clear yet, so I’m sorry to say it.”

After saying that, the saintess entered the special room first.

As she went ahead with her back turned, Hernán casually met her eyes with her daughter clinging to Marina’s back.

Her staring eyes looked like those of a saintess who was bitter for some reason.

Ernan somehow thought that the current situation was not just a demon’s play, and he chased after the saintess.

* * *

All evening she remembered the conversation she had with the saintess and felt uncomfortable.
After the saintess finished eating her children’s meals, she said she was tired from basking in the sun for a long time and immediately went into her room.

Thanks to her, all she knew was that she definitely didn’t mean to say anything.

“Hernan!”

Hernán quickly erased the thoughts she had just had.
Now is the time to deal with another woman who is full of expectations.

“Yes, Sylnia. Shall we go into the room?”

Silnia, who was watching Hernan with a smile in her living room, sneaked up to him.

“First, the medicine.”

Hernán nodded and took out the vial.
Of course, he also took out the manual and stopped Silnia from snatching her bottle.

“Read the description first.”

“I read earlier…”

Despite grumbling, Silnia accepted her manual.

“One pill at a time. Watch her body condition and take it carefully… To do. The easier it is to get pregnant, the more you eat… What to limit?”

Silnia, not entirely familiar with human texts, stuttered as she read her writings.

When Hernán later taught her children how to read, she thought of teaching Silnia as well.

“Do you understand everything?”

“Uh. So you’re saying I just need to take one right now?”

“You are not wrong.”

Hernán sighed lightly as he saw Silnia burning with her desire to conceive.

“Then shall we go into your room? Oh, and don’t overdo it that you’re pregnant. You always hold out saying you can do it as many times as you want, and wake up the next day almost fainting.”

Handing Silnia a pill, Hernán stood up.
She also quickly swallowed her pills and got up.

But instead of following Hernán, she grabbed her arm and stopped him.

“Huh? Why, wash first?”

Well, I might have been sweating from the sunlight today.
It’s better to wash after doing it, but if you’re an elf with a sensitive sense of smell, you might not like the smell of sweat right now.

“No. Let’s do something different today.”

Silnia’s eyes twinkled.

“A place where you can feel the energy of nature.”

Ernan smiled shyly.