The Life of a Wise Cult Leader - Chapter 29

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Fire

First, I’ll think about where to allocate the 50 points later, and receive the Sacred Relic reward first.

‘I haven’t had a chance to use the Sacred Relic reward because…’

I got stabbed in the stomach, killed demons, and was thrown in prison, so I was quite busy.

[Random Skill Tree Unlock Ticket x1]

‘Last time Divine Aura came out and I’ve been living off that. My Wind Style Smooth Talking worked well thanks to that. I wonder what will come out this time?’

I hope some unlocked skill comes out. I’m curious what there might be.

A golden glittering coin spins round and round in the center of my vision.

It’s the same design coin as when I first drew.

‘Use it.’

A roulette that you’d see at an amusement park spins before my eyes. Did the roulette design change a bit? I don’t pay attention to the design so I’m not sure.

‘Maybe the theme changed with an update.’

While thinking useless thoughts, skills covered in question marks spin round and round. All I could see was roughly how many points were attached.

‘It’s spinning including the skills I currently have. Roughly looking, there seem to be about 15 skills. If I level up existing skills and include the faith sub-skills, it’s not a small number.’

Should I say it’s good to have many cards I can use?

Tick, tick, tick…

The roulette gradually slows down.

‘If there’s probability manipulation, would the game company compensate?’

There have been quite a few domestic game companies that caused controversy over probability manipulation.

Soon a fanfare sound rang in my brain, and a simple icon and text appeared before my eyes.

[New! | Punishment Lv. 1 : You can now punish targets according to their sins. (View Details)]

‘A new skill…!’

And it looks like an incredibly useful skill with good utility?

‘Wait. There’s no way I could get such a good skill with just one draw. In my unlucky life, getting something for free hasn’t happened even in games.’

[Points needed for LV. 2 : 50 point]

So it was a 50-point skill. Then it makes sense that it’s good.

View Details is a button I’m seeing for the first time? Thanks to the update?

Then, another fanfare sound rang out.

Huh? What level? Me? I had a level too?

So until now I was ?

I looked up above my head but there was no name card.

…

Hmm, that’s not important so I’ll think about it later and look at this first. Here I go thinking useless thoughts again. Really, ‘me’.

[point : 50]

[Voice Transmission : 10]

[Ritual : 15]

[Light of Judgment : 25]

[Mind Control : 30]

New skill!

[Scales: 40]

[Sanctuary Declaration: 70]

Including the previous one, three were unlocked. Three unlock each time there’s an update… Hmm. Is the unlocking criterion when I recover Sacred Relics?

Anyway, let’s think about that later.

‘First let me look at the details and buy accordingly.’

Given the name Punishment, the description, and being a high-point skill, it would be better to use this as support.

[Punishment Lv. 1 : You can now punish targets according to their sins.]

-Can only be used after accurately grasping the target’s sins.

-Sin judgment criteria: Based on the user’s character judgment.

-Type of punishment: Automatically set according to target (manual setting impossible)

I need to accurately grasp their sins to use it?

And that’s based on my character standards?

‘Hmm, is this time to find out how trashy my character is?’

If we’re being strict, I might need to receive punishment first… since I’m a cult leader after all.

‘Anyway, the point is that I need to grasp how many sins they have.’

For example, even if I say I’ll punish the Lion Heart Knight Commander with this skill, it definitely won’t work since I don’t know their sins exactly.

‘The sin of trying to arrest me…? Honestly, this is a bit much to call a sin.’

Murder, assault, extortion, fraud – these are things that definitely deserve punishment.

But… the sin of trying to arrest me is kind of ambiguous to punish, isn’t it?

Moreover, they really think of me as a cult bastard.

Then the one who really deserves punishment is… me…?

Huh…?

If the punishment is something like getting struck by lightning, the lightning meant for the Knight Commander might fall on my head instead.

‘The other skills are Scales and Sanctuary Declaration. I can tell what the latter feels like just by looking.’

It’s probably something about those who enter the range. Maybe it gives buffs or some such effect?

‘I don’t have enough points to buy that skill anyway, and it’s not a skill I desperately need.’

To utilize this Punishment skill, it’s important to grasp the sins. Then…

‘Scales. It looks like it’s used to weigh sins… and this skill was the E skill of the Judge character in the game.’

I’m sure… it was a skill that weighed souls with large scales, giving buffs to the heavier side and debuffs to the lighter side.

Anyway, it was a trash champion so I don’t remember much beyond that…

With my current skill set, I need that skill.

Leveling up other skills doesn’t seem like it would draw out as much potential as Scales.

’40 points for Scales, should I bring Weakness Detection to level 2? Baptism can be postponed for now.’

Good. Let’s get one Scales and one Weakness Detection.

[New skill: Scales!]

[Owned Skills]

-Weakness Detection Lv. 2

-Baptism Lv. 2

-Divine Aura(passive) Lv.1

-Scales Lv. 1

-Punishment Lv. 1(auto)

How much I suffered to go from an empty skill window to such a full skill window… Ah, a life of running around getting my mouth torn, coughing blood, and getting stabbed in the stomach…

‘Yeah, I need at least this much to play the role of a cult leader.’

No matter how I think about it, starting empty-handed like Minecraft was too much.

I want to complain but there’s no one to complain to…

Now that I’ve allocated all my skills, should I try upgrading Sacred Relics?

Oh right. Now that I have a lot of faith, let’s upgrade Sacred Relics.

‘The more you invest in Sacred Relic upgrades, the more profitable it is~’

[Faith: 1050]

And for some reason I didn’t understand, I had an incredible amount of faith!

I have no idea why that is… but anyway, since I have so much, I should be able to upgrade my Sacred Relic about three times. My heart feels so reassured.

‘Purification seems sufficient already, should I try investing in healing?’

When I entered the Sacred Relic window, an enormous number greeted me that made my eyes widen.

[Faith required for enhancement: 800]

[Would you like to enhance the Sacred Relic ‘Chalice of Asclepius’?]

Why… does it cost 800…?

[Sacred Relic: Chalice of Asclepius | +3]

Did I already enhance it to +3? What’s this?

‘Did I forget? Well, I’m getting to the age where I might develop forgetfulness… though not quite yet.’

Since it’s already +3, there’s nothing I can do about it. I should just invest in healing rather than purification.

That large amount of faith suddenly seemed so small. With a heart bleeding tears, I pressed the enhancement button.

[Would you like to enhance the Sacred Relic ‘Chalice of Asclepius’?]

[Sacred Relic: Chalice of Asclepius | +4]

[New Additional Effect: Automatic Regeneration of Bound One’s Body]

Healing changed to regeneration.

This means I can recover even if my limbs get blown off, right? As expected, investing in healing rather than purification was the right choice.

I’ve invested in all my skills too… should I peek through the vision of the believers I baptized to understand the situation?

I slowly leaned my head against the wall. Thunk, I felt the hard sensation of the stone wall against the back of my head.

The prison wasn’t cold or warm. Just sitting on this damn uncomfortable chair was making my body strangely stiff.

As I sat still and was getting sleepy, thinking I might take a nap, I heard footsteps.

Clang, clang clang.

The person striking the iron bars with their scabbard clearly seemed to have a grudge against me.

Ah, it’s that Knight Commander’s lackey A from earlier.

“Sernuan Lumiere. You have a visitor.”

Oh, a visitor. This was something I’d wanted to try at least once if I got imprisoned.

I slowly got up from my seat. The Knight Order Member with an annoyed expression irritably jingled his keys and opened the iron bar door.

The prison door swung wide open, hitting the stone wall with a thud and creaking. Every time I moved, the chains dragged across the floor making a noisy racket.

“The Commander has graciously allowed this visit, so be grateful, heretic.”

I’m more of a cult leader than a heretic… no wait. Here, heretics and cult leaders both get executed the same way, so the distinction is meaningless.

I stepped out of the cell. I thought the air would feel sweet and dramatic just from leaving those iron bars, but since I hadn’t been in the cell very long, there wasn’t really any dramatic change.

‘Maybe in a week the air will feel sweet.’

More importantly, who requested this visit? The Lord? Or the Knight Commander?

“It’s Bishop Cardil. Normally you wouldn’t even be able to speak to someone like him, so be grateful to the Bishop for giving you this opportunity.”

The Knight Order Member deliberately placed his hand on his sword hilt as he spoke. Cardil, sitting in front of the desk, looked at the Knight Order Member with a disgusted expression.

I smiled at the Knight Order Member.

“Yes, I understand. The fact that I can still be alive like this must all be thanks to the Knight Commander’s consideration. I’m well aware of that. But I am simply content if I can comfort suffering souls.”

“You sure know how to wag that silver tongue. Right now the Knight Commander has headed to Solaris to prove your guilt, so just wait for your execution in ten days.”

“Excuse me, could you get lost so I can have my visit?”

Finally Cardil unleashed his hellish mouth.

The Knight Order Member glared at Cardil with innocent eyes before stopping. He probably remembered that he was a Bishop.

“The visiting time is thirty minutes. Considering that you’re Bishop Cardil, we’re specially giving you extra visiting time-“

“Don’t make me say it twice. I said get lost…”

Veins bulged on Cardil’s forehead. I sat in front of him, genuinely scared and completely intimidated.

“It’s been a while, Cardil.”

“I’m glad to see you look well.”

“It’s thanks to everyone’s prayers reaching me.”

Since I had leveled up my Healing Relic with faith, it wasn’t exactly wrong.

“You ended up in prison after all.”

I felt oddly guilty as I could almost hear Cardil’s inner thoughts saying ‘I told you not to get involved, but you went ahead anyway!’

“I plan to be here for just a week.”

“I told you not to get involved but you wouldn’t listen… sigh, what’s done is done since you’re already locked up. Ah, I received the Bishop position this time. For my service in settling the chaos in Astrapolis. Did you know?”

“Antonio told me. That’s wonderful news.”

“Hmm…”

Cardil leaned back in the wooden chair. Instead of dirty priest robes, he wore a light shirt. Cardil crossed his long legs in his black pants.

“I’ll keep this brief.”

I smiled and waited obediently for his words.

“What exactly did you do to get a bounty on your head and end up imprisoned?”

“There are just occasionally those who misunderstand kindness. That’s all.”

What? He requested a visit just to ask this? How trivial.

It would be nice if he brought some special food or books to read.

Cardil let out a deep sigh and said.

“I’ll be blunt. You could die in ten days. Do you realize that?”

Huh, what…?

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