The Priest of Corruption - Chapter 2

what is life

what is life

what is life

Life is an egg. boiled egg.

What does this mean?

No matter how hard you try, it means nothing.

Like me, who lived by being forgiving and ended up falling into the game.

***

I will put my hand on my heart and confess honestly.

I manipulated the save file using the Editor.

But hear me out.

I have no shame in using an editor for my game.

first. This game, which I can’t even remember the name of, is a single game. In other words, no matter what I do to my save file, no one is harmed.

second. You might ask, ‘If you are a true gamer, shouldn’t you enjoy the game innocently?’

right. That’s absolutely right.

If you truly love games, you’d be right to avoid using an editor that kills your interest in achievement.

But I will make excuses. In my late twenties, my life was too busy and tiring to play games, a hobby I really love. So I compromised with reality. By using the editor only until I start in the conditions I want.

Yes. In the first place, I wrote an editor until I changed my job to ‘Priest of Corruption’, which is the reason I bought this game.

This game, whose name I don’t even remember anymore, was a game released with the motto of ‘infinite freedom’, and it was a free world filled with countless jobs. As always, I looked for news and information about new games in my spare time, and I fell in love with one of the jobs in this game, ‘Priest of Corruption’.

Cult of Corruption.

Isn’t it a name that sounds like a world achievement? If the Church of Corruption was a church beneficial to the world, it would have been called the ‘Church of Fermentation’. Oh, I want to tear kimchi with my hands and eat it.

anyway.

The Church of Corruption in the game was a Church that had already been annihilated. The player follows the traces of the church, collects hard trials and rare materials, and finally succeeds in changing jobs as a priest of corruption.

This was all I knew about the Priest of Decay. I didn’t read the rest because it’s a spoiler.

The evaluation of the Priest of Corruption’s play was very simple.

– The difficulty of the previous job is also extremely bad. Difficulty to play is too bad. Performance sucks too.

This single line of evaluation made my heart race. Poor performance? That meant that most people didn’t choose.

In the first place, I enjoyed doing a job where I was treated like a deceased person when I played games. Some will criticize it as a useless hipster temperament, but what about making your heart race when you see a bad job? To be born, to be born like this.

So I immediately deleted the game and used an editor on the Internet to put all the materials needed to change the priest of corruption to the character and move the character to the former location.

This is one of the choices that I still bitterly regret.

Why didn’t I seek more convenience?

Whether it’s maxing out all stats, putting a huge amount of money in your pocket, or turning on invincibility at all!

If I knew I would fall into the game, I would have just made a fraudulent character.

With all the materials for the changeover ready, I mechanically pressed enter while watching the changeover quest. As materials disappeared one by one, the job transfer quest progressed in an instant.

And the moment I press the ‘yes’ button to the last job change quest.

I fell into this game.

Become a ‘priest of corruption’.

***

A withered hand wriggled in the breast pocket.

And one word came into my head taking shape.

‘killing!’

‘killing! killing!’

Yes, shouting like this outdated death metal singer is the ‘Mother of Corruption’ that I enshrine.

In fact, this is also a great development, and it is only after absorbing the divinity of the first holy object that he can communicate words.

Until I took the first holy relic, I hadn’t been able to convey that word to me. Of course, there was no important message at all.

five years.

It was the time it took me to take the first of the thirteen sacred relics.

five years ago. Waking up in this game, all I had was a pair of priestly clothes from the Church of Corruption and a hand wriggling on my chest.

This ‘Corruption Mother’s Hand’ is the final ingredient for the Priest of Corruption and should have disappeared at the same time as the original. But for some reason, this withered hand that did not disappear and wriggled over my chest acted as a walkie-talkie connecting me and the ‘Mother of Corruption’.

Thanks to the presence of the giant being felt beyond my hand, it was easier than I thought to admit that I had really fallen into the world of the game.

In particular, this priest of corruption was a body optimized for me, a modern man, to survive in this world.

According to the game setting, the priest of corruption is an enhanced human whose body has been modified with drugs.

As the world’s public denomination, the priests of corruption aimed at a small number of elites, and most of the quests to become a priest of corruption were focused on gathering rare materials needed to remodel the body.

If there is one thing that this body is better than anything else, it is that you cannot kill the priest of corruption with an attack that does not contain ‘divine’.

Thanks to that, even though my head was blown off by the rangers who chased me earlier, I was still alive.

Excellent physical ability and sensitive five senses. A body that does not die unless it is divinity. It was good to say that it was a body that was created assuming that modern people would live in a fantasy world.

However, when this remodeled body became my body, there were fatal flaws.

Somewhere in the brain seemed to have lost its taste, compared to the more sensitive five senses. I, who couldn’t see blood well, was no longer bothered by any cruel sight.

Yes, this would be more of an advantage.

The problem was that I had become a body that could no longer taste anything.

I’ve lost my sense of taste

The loss of taste was nothing at first, but as time passed, it came to be a bigger disadvantage.

I want to eat something delicious. really really I want to eat crispy grilled pork belly wrapped in kimchi! I want to eat stir-fried kimchi fried rice! I want to eat jajangmyeon and sweet and sour pork too!

‘killing!’

The voice of the Mother of Decay dragged me out of my thoughts.

“It will move without much pressing. Mother of corruption.”

I moved heavy steps through the snow field. The thick snow obstructed my steps, but my steel-like body walked through the snowy field without incident.

‘killing!’

“No matter how hard you try, you won’t be able to find the next relic right away. I need some time to hide away from the eyes of others until this commotion subsides. Mother.”

Ilguian Lee Bujija (一口二言 二父之子).

If you say two words with one mouth, they say you have two fathers. After using the editor once, I suddenly became a mother.

Still, the ‘Mother of Corruption’ was the only side of me in this world that I could trust without a doubt.

Because I was the only priest of the goddess hated by everyone. That’s why I didn’t hate the voice of the goddess whining every day.

As the sun set, a terrible darkness fell over the forest, making it impossible to see an inch ahead.

Fortunately, as a reinforced human, I could see ahead with only a little light, and my two tireless legs guided me.

The flesh-cutting cold hit me in the face with the wind.

The cold was tolerable, but I couldn’t stop all kinds of thoughts from running through my head.

Just like my mother always told me, pick a job that ends on the fly.

Warrior. Wizard. powwow. these fake jobs.

If I had chosen a job like that, wouldn’t it have been okay if I hadn’t had to experience having my head blown off in this snowy field at least once?

The wind started blowing snow.

it’s a snowstorm

No matter how strong a person is, there are definitely limits. I quickly looked around and found a place to lie down for a while until the blizzard stopped.

Just then, I saw a dark cave in the distance.

As I entered the dark cave through the snow that had piled up to my thighs, a pair of eyes glared at me.

It was a bear the size of a house.

‘killing!’

“I will not fight. Mother of Corruption.”

I shifted my seat in front of the cave in a wary gaze and sat down. That giant bear won’t attack me first.

Most of the monsters and animals in the game were neutral for the Priest of Corruption. In other words, as long as I don’t take the first attack, the other side won’t attack me.

From what I’ve been living in this body myself, it seemed that animals and monsters felt unclean energy that intelligent creatures couldn’t feel.

Thanks to that, except for a few unusual animals, all of them turned away from me.

In the bear’s gaze, I closed my eyes and settled inside. A status window with everything omitted slowly came to mind.

[Divinity: 1623]

All the original stats disappeared, and only one divinity remained in my status window.

That divinity serves as a kind of skill point for the ‘Priest of Corruption’.

The exchange fee was very simple.

If you pay 10,000 divinity, you get 1 ‘power’.

It’s not a vending machine, and the power comes out as soon as divinity is put in.

However, thanks to that vending machine-like system, I recently succeeded in absorbing the divinity of one holy object and awakening one ‘power’. If you openly use it, you will immediately be pursued by all kinds of denominations, and you will receive a ‘power’.

As I leaned against the cold cave wall, I felt a bit of sadness.

All in all, what kind of trouble is this after falling into the game?

‘killing!’

“I’m not depressed. Mother of corruption. Don’t worry.”

I held onto the withered hand in my bosom.

Still, it’s not like I’m not at all on my side, so it’s a relief. My mind calmed down a bit as I held onto this withered hand.

Yes, 13 Holy Relics. No, now, if I collect all the divinities of the 12 remaining holy objects, the ‘Mother of Corruption’ will grant all my wishes.

Then you should ask for a sense of taste to be restored first.

Ever since I fell into this world, I have replayed my usual self-suggestions in my mind.

After all, this world is just a game, and I’m just playing a little realistic virtual reality game.

So let’s enjoy this life.

My butt got a little sore from the bumpy stone floor. I murmured sadly.

“Still, it’s a bit sad.”

***

“Stop there.”

A guard to stop me. Their well-maintained equipment indicated that their discipline was fairly well maintained.

“Please present your ID.”

I smiled as reverently as I could and spoke in a sincere voice. Right now, I was wearing a priest’s uniform from one of the simple two-spaced inventory.

“May unwavering happiness be maintained in your life. I lost my ID card in distress on the way back.”

The guard looked me up and down and asked briefly.

“Which denomination are you a priest?”

“It enshrines the goddess of maintenance who protects daily life.”

It is a serious crime to falsely tell the name of the god that a priest worships. The punishment was not imposed by the church, but by God directly on the priest. Non-priests impersonating priests are also subject to divine punishment. Those who pretended to be priests were punished with a ‘stigma’ due to God’s wrath. The ‘stigma’ of sin visible only to the members of that church.

The guard bowed his head slightly and said hello.

“Welcome to Gus, priest. However, it would be better for you to make a new ID immediately upon entering.”

I smiled benevolently.

“I will keep that in mind.”

‘Kill!’

Our benevolent Mother of Corruption was very tolerant of such impersonation.Thanks to the Mother of Corruption’s protection against the cost, I was able to imitate another priest without paying any price for impersonation

. Impersonating himself, he entered Gus, a city in the north.