The Undying Magician - Book 6 - Intermission 4 (Patreon)

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Somewhere on the Holy Continent
Year 2853 | Month 7 | Day 7

“It begins soon,” the Archbishop of the Diving Lightning Temple declares while slowly closing his eyes after seeing the Warrior section of the Arcane Crown coming to an end. The man is wearing a flowy purple robe, has long, flowing blue and purple hair, and he is standing at the head of a vast hall where numerous statues of different religious figures related to lightning specialized wind mana stand. With hundreds of priests gathered in the hall and several screens floating in the air in front of them showing the Arcane Crown. “The Undying Magician will soon make his appearance in the next brackets.”

The priests of the Divine Lightning Temple have never cared about the Arcane Crown before. Not until they learned that this year the Undying Magician would be participating.

And the same goes for almost every religious organization on the Holy Continent.

Unlike the other continents, the Holy Continent is made up of magicians claiming to be priests worshipping their elements instead of scientific mages bending and controlling their elements. They worship, pray to, and feel awe towards mana itself. And any act against reality that harms it is heresy in their eyes.

That includes what happened to the Undying Magician.

However, none of the religions dislike the Undying Magician. Rather, they pity him.

A poor, lost soul who had his entire life changed by a clash of heretical magicians.

“Keep an eye on the Mage of Storms as well, Observers,” the Archbishop adds after a brief silence. “He may have the potential to become a Messenger.”

Many of the religious nations begin to worship certain powerful magicians out in the world. However, the specific magicians vary depending on the religion in question as not all religions are against damage to reality.

The Divine Lightning Temple follows a doctrine of not damage to reality, but alterations to reality are fine. Thus many of the bishops and archbishops at the temple have begun to recommend the Mage of Storms as a religious figure in their temple.

And Archbishop Tempest is no different.

The Archbishop watches the priests and observers in the hall for a few seconds before leaving the hall. Then numerous sparks of electricity crackle near him as a man appears wearing leather armor with a cloak on over himself and a mask covering his face.

“Reports have come in,” the cloaked man declares. “The sin mana has been spreading out of the Temple of Sin into the surrounding temples. Word is that the Pope of Sin is purposefully spreading it, but we haven’t figured out why yet.”

“Find out,” the Archbishop orders without hesitation as he continues walking.

“Understood,” the cloaked man responds before vanishing into a bolt of lightning and leaving the temple in an instant.

The Temple of Sin…

The Archbishop’s eyes narrow as he gets a bad feeling about this matter.

I feel bad tides coming.

The Pope of the Temple of Death stands at the front of the hall with his head bowed and his hands clasped together, with hundreds of priests standing behind him. All of whom are wearing black robes emitting death mana just like the Pope, except with theirs lacking the faint dark purple and silver lining his robe has. Meanwhile a single enormous statue stands tall at the front of the hall.

One depicting the Undying Magician.

Their one true god.

Unlike the other Temples and their messengers, the Temple of Death ruling over a large portion of the Holy Continent has never taken any death magicians as official Messengers of Mana. All because the very concept of a Messenger of the Temple of Death being capable of dying is heresy in itself.

The temple’s Pope, Sagiterious Morbius Deterious, believed that there would never be any religious figures of the Temple of Death all the way until the end of time.

Until the temple learned about the Undying Magician.

A death magician incapable of dying.

Immediately after hearing about him and confirming his existence, a unanimous decision was made across the entire religion to declare him their god. Without even a single disagreement.

Prayers echo throughout the hall as the priests, bishops, Archbishops, and even the Pope himself all conduct their evening worship. And once that finishes, the Pope begins reading the scriptures of death. Then the priests are dismissed and he leaves the hall himself.

It doesn’t take long before he hears news about the Temple of Sin, but he doesn’t pay it much mind for the moment. Simply because his greatest priority right now is spreading the word about their god, and dealing with any nation’s attempts to bother their god.

Unlike the other continents, the Holy Continent is the only one capable of standing up against the Alliance and the Magic Towers. Simply because the temples of the Holy Continent are extremely united against any other outside force and will work together to face them regardless of their internal relationships.

And the combined forces of the largest continent on the planet working together under religious fervor is a terrifying force.

The Temple of Death will not stand for any attempts to control the Undying Magician by others. And they are more than willing to use one of their Divine Decrees to unite the Holy Continent for war if necessary.

These heretical nations better not bother our god.