My parents decided to trust my words even though they are not fully convinced I'm really from God. They're basically relying on blind faith right now. I told them I won't let them down. We hugged each other again in a tight embrace, my parents kissed our heads and cried.
"Whatever your past may be, we accept you for who you are. You have done good things for the family, surely good things from from the Creator? That is enough for us." Mother said.
We all cried together; feeling more united as a family but also fearing for the future at the same time. I grit my teeth in full determination.
I would not let anything happen to my family. I would rather die first.
"Son, if your telling is true. What happened to the people who died praying to... uh Beta... The false God?" my father asked. Vi and mother looks at me attentively.
"Hmm, I think I discussed this briefly with God Alpha when I was in heaven."
This is what he I remember what he said, approximately, "Those who pray to false Gods on the mortal realm because of deception or ignorance will be judged on how well and good they lived. I cannot punish a good person and Damon cannot claim a soul with true love and peace within."
At the same way, those who profess my Holy Name, profess that they follow me but do the opposite of what I stand for. He or she will be claimed by Damon after death. They cannot hide their true nature after death anymore.
Your true nature will be revealed in spirit. If you do evil in life, you soul will lose all of the blessings and gifts that it has after death, and the soul will be eternally decaying and rotting, lacking life.
If a bad person does not repent of his sins while he is still alive, he will be claimed by Damon after death.
How can you life in a house full of filth? You need to clean the house from time to time to avoid sickness and death from setting in. This is what repentance is for."
"That's a very good news to hear." My father sighed. My mother and sister also sighed in relief. "I wonder if the other doctrines which have been added are also true?"
"New doctrines? What new doctrines?" I asked. "What other doctrines has been added Father?"
"Well, if you donate more to the Church, your sins will be forgiven more. If you offer your daughters to be married to the priests, your family will be blessed, you will receive a monthly allowance from the Church and God Beta will bless you. Many people opposed this at first, as it feels sketchy and dodgy, like something is wrong with this teachings but the priests showed the that they were supposedly written in the holy scrolls, written in some ancient language."
"Some people challenged the authenticity of the scrolls again, mostly from the group that worships Alpha.
They sent another group of archeologists, scholars and linguists to examine the scrolls and of course what do you think happened? The new group of people say the same thing, the scrolls are genuine and authentic, ancient and has not been tampered with.
The Alpha worshippers were perplexed. What is going on? Surely the group of people we sent has not been bribed or influenced by the Beta worshippers? They are professional people unbiased by personal sentiments. They have made their vows of truth!
Surely these records are not from God? Young women married off to priests? Getting forgiven by paying for your sins?
These are human sentiments! Human desires!
This caused a great uproar in the Alpha groups community but seeing that they have no way to refute the facts given, they accepted the results.
They have sent their own people to investigate these ruins and these ruins have not been tampered at all, these are all ancient places of worship with Alpha's symbols and markings. They have used the spell holy to check these places for taint of evil, no trace of evil were found.
No matter, evil, no matter how much they pretend to be good, always exposes themselves for their lie. They will make a mistake, their reasonings will not align and on that time, the lies will be exposed, and the name of God Alpha will be used again. These new evil doctrines will be removed from the minds of the people. Now we wait and observe, the Alpha Group said to themselves.
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"Later, the new groups of archeologists historians and linguists then got absorbed as part of the Keeper of Records. Many people have the suspicion that these people have been bribed like the first group, but since they have no proof of this, they stay silent."
"Don't say that dear! You know it's a taboo to say! Do not let anyone hear you say it or we will be in trouble." My mother said in a hushed tone.
I close my eyes and become silent. I gripped my knees tightly with anger. They have done great evil to the Lord! Heresy and blasphemy! They're basically filling their pockets with riches and turning God place of worship into brothels and harems!
"Son!" my father said, sounding afraid.
"I opened my eyes and see myself encased in light. I recognize this as holy light, this is holy light! The light that emanates from God! What does this mean? I check my status."
The Status menu says:
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Status:
Holy Fury. Level 1 (lasts for 10 seconds)
Due to righteous indignation, your soul emanates holy light. Any sinful and evil beings nearby who gets hit with this holy light, their true nature will be exposed. They will be paralyzed for 10 seconds and anything you ask of them, they will answer. They will be forced to tell the truth.
Trigger: Righteous indignation. When you feel something very evil has been done and retribution needs to be made. Can be used once a day.
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This is a great blessing from the Lord! We now have a way to expose evil without training. I calm myself down as the Holy Light disappears.
My parents held themselves together, afraid.
"Sorry about that, it seems that God has answered my prayer and has given me a way to expose evil.
Now do you believe me when I say that I'm a messenger from God?"
"Yes." Father said weakly. Only holy beings can cast holy light."
"No problem Father. It's okay to be skeptical as evil also pretends to be light. I wonder if the Priest Byron is an Alpha or Beta worshipper? I think he cast holy light when he checked my status. "I did try to hide my perks and skills from him. I wonder if it worked."
I told them that we would need a hidden base where we I can practice magic and skills and where I can develop the weapons and equipment that I have from my previous world. Since we are going use the Old Ways, we can develop these things easily, as the old way utilized no advance technology, just simple contraptions to work.
We pause for a while to think where the base would be. Where to build... Where to build... I have an idea where to build our base, but I give time for my Father to decide as well. Teamwork you see."
"I got it son! Why don't we build it here under the house!" Father exclaimed.
"Great idea Father! It would be hidden and discreet! No one would suspect a thing!" I said excitedly. It was actually what I was thinking all along but I let my Father speak first, as respect to him.
"Calm down you two! Or you would wake the whole neighborhood!"
Father and I looked at each other and hushed each other. We laughed quietly as we discussed the plan on how to build the base all night. I pray to God Alpha afterwards and we all went to sleep.
(To be continued)