Chapter 14
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Chapter 14: Order Church
The morning light has arrived.
A little light shines into the gloomy cell. Leo hides under the blanket, his hands clasped together in prayer, a golden light flowing over him.
After a few minutes, he lifts the blanket, releases his hands, and looks at the symbol of the Order Church in his palm.
The symbol is the same as the one released by the Order Chain: a girl crying, bound to a cross.
This symbol was left by Ashley; it is necessary for praying to the God of Order and studying the magic of the Order sect.
"I never expected that this oath-breaker still had this token. Otherwise, even if I knew how to gain the power of Order, it would still be in vain."
The golden light slowly fades from his body, and Leo can clearly feel that there is a certain power hatching in his mind.
That must be the power of the God of Order. Once that power hatches, he will become a follower of the God of Order.
Miss Mucus has taken on the form of Tina and is patrolling near the altar.
As a human sacrifice who had just spread the gospel yesterday, he can rest in my room today.
"Wow, breakfast even includes coffee and milk. Life is really good for these believers…" He took small bites of the food, replenishing the sugar his brain needed to function.
Leo continued to remember what Ashley had taught him about the power of order.
After Ashley’s explanation, he began to understand how to practice the power of order.
Joyful Church believes in indulgence and twisted love, promoting violence, lust, and enjoyment, while the order cult believes in restraint and abstinence.
This is something very strange in Leo’s eyes as a person from the 21st century.
Believers of the order cult must remain celibate for life, dedicating their lives to the God of Order.
This celibacy does not mean having no pleasure for life; after all, the cult also needs more serving believers, so they need them to reproduce.
This celibacy means that believers are not allowed to feel "love" for any living being.
According to the teachings, once a living being understands love, feels love, and makes love a part of themselves, they will be influenced by "love" and cannot always stay clear-headed.
However, the supporters of order always need to make the most rational and cruel choices.
If a train is rushing towards you, and ahead on the tracks there is an innocent person tied up.
At this critical moment, you find that you have a lever in your hand.
If you pull the lever, the train will move to another track, and this innocent person will be saved.
But on that other track, there are five innocent people tied up.
If it were you, what choice would you make?
This is a hard question to answer, filled with ethical dilemmas and the struggles of human nature, and the devoted believers of the God of Order would resolutely choose not to pull the lever, allowing the train to continue its path.
Simply because the weight of life on this track is one, and on the other side, it is five.
To let five people live, one person must die.
This is their belief.
But if the innocent person on the planned route is his beloved, perhaps a spouse, perhaps a child, or perhaps any pet that he loves.
Then can these followers of order still make such a cold and rational choice?
Leo does not know the answer, and perhaps the God of Order does not know either.
Therefore, the followers of the God of Order are forbidden for life to love any living being. They can enjoy having children, but the joy must happen in the church’s sacred hall, under the watch of the statue.
The children born must be raised by the church and can never know their parents.
Leo is shocked by the teachings of the Order Church.
In his eyes, the Order Church and the Joyful Church are like two sides of the same coin.
No wonder, their magic, whether it was Enchanting Eye or Order Chain, was used to deal with each other’s special attacks.
"Ah, no wonder Ashley has always looked so serious and exacting, and no wonder she chose to leave her faith after going through those experiences." Leo sighed and let out a big burp, feeling quite moved.
According to Miss Mucus, although Ashley’s memories had become a chaotic mess due to her abandonment of her oath, there was one part that was incredibly clear.
During her mission to judge the unbelievers, Ashley rescued a survivor from the deadly cult’s domain.
The survivor fell in love with Ashley, and after a series of events that could fill countless volumes of romantic novels, they became a couple.
When the Order Church found out, they sentenced the survivor to a brutal execution by fire.
After that, heartbroken Ashley abandoned her faith and chose to join the Joyful Church, quickly falling into a darker path.
She stained her hands with the blood of dozens or even hundreds of lives through slaughter, cruelty, and dismemberment, trying to comfort her aching heart.
Until her mind became chaotic and her memories grew blurry, hoping to forget those sorrowful memories.
Unfortunately, she never achieved it until her death.
Ashley is a cursed person, but she is also a contradictory person.
Is the cold doctrine of the Order Sect really correct?
"But thankfully, the rules of the Order’s doctrine are mostly made by the higher-ups of the sect, and it doesn’t mean that once you practice this power, you will be forced to change your mind. Otherwise, I really wouldn’t dare to touch this power at all," Leo said with a sigh of relief.
Because Ashley’s memory is muddled, he only got three spells of order from her.
The first one is to pray to the God of Order, allowing the light of order to flow through the body, improving physical abilities; this is the "Order Prayer" that everyone in the Order Sect practices.
The second and third are the "Holy Restoration Technique" that Ashley used to heal herself and the "Order Chain" that he has completely learned.
It’s unclear if it’s because his Spiritual Vision has reached 8 points or for some other reason, but Leo learned the "Order Prayer" after just trying it five times.
If the cult’s priest saw him, they would probably hurry to take him back and train him as the most talented one.
"But I don’t want to go to that awful ascetic church."
With a mocking smile, Leo secretly made plans for what to do next.
He wanted Miss Slime to turn into Tina and Ashley every day so he could have fun and gain free attribute points to strengthen himself.
Every day, he would use the "Order Prayer" to improve his physical abilities, preparing to work with Tina to help her consume the warden before she came back.
If possible, he wanted to learn the "Holy Restoration Technique" for emergencies.
In short, after these few days of preparation, his chances of escaping this horrible place were getting bigger.
While he was still thinking, he suddenly heard the sound of chains coming from outside the cell.
Leo frowned and looked outside, only to see a woman with silver hair and red eyes, her limbs bound by chains, lying weakly on a cart being pushed by several believers.
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