Chapter 2456: Prying Into Someone’s Corner

People in the hot spring city are very enthusiastic, but after being enthusiastic, they will start to preach.

When Darkness said that she believed in the Eris religion, the originally enthusiastic residents' faces changed instantly. They stopped giving them directions, stopped serving them, and even refused to let them stay in the inn.

The moment I saw the believers of the Eris religion, it was like seeing an enemy.

"It is indeed a monotheistic religion." Duran smiled. There are two explanations for monotheism. One is that there is only one god in the religion, and the other is that it is indeed known that there are multiple gods, but the religion only allows believers to worship and only recognizes its own god as the only true god.

So even if it recognizes the existence of other gods, monotheism is extremely denying the gods and believers of other religions, just like the current believers of the Axis religion. They recognize the existence of the goddess Eris, but they believe that Aqua is the only true body, and Eris is at most a secondary god.

Monotheism will naturally not be polite to believers of other gods. In their view, believers of other clans are all pagans, and not directly using burning at the stake is already polite.

It is a service-oriented city, but the attitude towards guests is so weird. Do adventurers have to hide their beliefs when they come here?

Even children are like this, which shows the harm of Axis to people.

"Look, this is the good thing done by God." Duran said, "Do you still think the existence of God is necessary?"

"Stupid goddess, these are all your believers, how do you preach?" Kazuma asked.

Aqua said that it was a very ordinary preaching. She talked about other things and didn't answer Kazuma's questions directly. The goddess is still very satisfied with her believers. It is this attitude that can prevent Eris from corrupting her. Eris is nothing great, isn't she just more open-minded?

Don't chat with the residents casually when living here, because you may be proselytized if you chat. However, Aqua is very popular because she dresses like the real god and is considered a fanatic of Axis by the locals, so she is warmly entertained.

Pah, a little girl spat at everyone and left with disgust on her face. Aqua has been twisted by the Akusis cult at a young age, and she is also deeply sinful.

But since she is here, she still needs to rest for a while, and she must enjoy the hot spring.

But Aqua can turn the hot spring into pure water, because she is the goddess of water, and she will turn on the purification mode if she is not careful, and she will not let go of the hot spring.

Although there are some small accidents, the hot spring is still very pleasant. Even in the other world, the travelers from the island country cannot avoid some common cultural symbols. Beaches, watermelons, hot springs, samurai swords, ninjas...

Duran took a walk around the city, and he could understand why the residents of the hot spring city worship Aqua, because she is the goddess of water, and everyone relies on hot springs for food, and all life comes from hot springs, so they naturally worship Aqua very much. After all, if Aqua accidentally doesn't give them hot springs, they will not be able to survive.

But worshipping to the point of madly preaching to everyone is completely wrong for the Axis creed, because the tradition of the Axis cult is to use the devaluation of other opponents to elevate their own religion, so that everyone thinks that only the Axis cult is the best religion.

At this time, on the high mountain of the hot spring city, there are three shadows overlooking the city at the spring of the hot spring: "Foolish people, they actually believe in a god who can take away their hot springs at any time." These three shadows, Kazuma had seen them behind the goddess Eris before, and now they have also come to the other world.

"Worshiping what they fear is the norm for small countries with few people. There are too many things that cannot be defeated. They have long recognized that their fate is not up to them, so what other choice do they have besides joining the enemy?" The three people were discussing why the people of the hot spring city would worship a goddess who can purify the hot springs. The conclusion is that if you can't beat the goddess, you should worship the goddess, no matter how harmful the goddess is. In this way, you can get psychological comfort by worshiping the unbeatable gods and avoid being nervous.

This is the mentality of a small country with few people, especially the cultural characteristics of an island country, which can be seen from many horror works. For example, if an evil, strange, brutal and unknown force appears in a certain place, generally people will coexist with this force, rather than trying to eliminate it, and even not considering migration and escape. Because in their view, this evil force is like a typhoon, earthquake, and tsunami, which is an invincible force for humans, and they have to face it if they are born on an island. They can't fight, and they can't escape. There is no other way except coexistence, and not only coexistence, but also to make it easier for themselves to accept it, they have to add some nice names to the evil force and whitewash it into a god. In this way, it is not coexistence with evil forces, but worship of gods everywhere.

There are eight million gods in the island country, and anything can become a god, even viruses.

So the three shadows believe that the reason why people in the hot spring city worship Aqua is because they are influenced by the ideology of the island country's gods and worship their enemies.

However, in general religions, believing in gods and accepting their precepts must have benefits. Even if you believe in God, God will say that if you believe in yourself, you will go to heaven after you die. Although this promise is after death, it is at least a promise. And believing in Aqua, Aqua has never promised anything. As the goddess of water, she has never promised that the hot springs will never dry up, nor has she said that she can guarantee the business of the hot spring city.

The people of the hot spring city believe in Aqua, really just because Aqua is the goddess of water, and she is the one they must compromise with.

The three shadows looked at each other, and one of them came out. This person also has the attribute of water. It turns out that these three people were left at home by Duran. They are three unusual girls from the world of Kamen Rider, the Rose Girl in Kamen Rider Kuuga, the girl with superpowers in Kamen Rider Agito, and the water demon cadre Aifin in Kamen Rider OOO.

The three of them followed Duran to this world, ready to establish their own religion in this world. Three people were enough because they saw through the form of the religion in the other world. As long as they gave these locals who needed gods a little benefit, they would definitely betray the original gods immediately. Obviously, they wanted to dig into the corner of the Akusis religion.

Duran walked around the city and basically understood the psychological activities of the local believers. They worshiped Aqua in the hope that Aqua would bless the hot springs, and they probably preached crazily in the hope that Aqua would be happy. The believers wishfully believed that as long as Aqua was happy, their hot springs would be worry-free.

But obviously this inference was impossible to establish. Even if Aqua was happy because of the increase in believers, she might not be able to keep the hot springs. After all, she was really unreliable as a god. Maybe a purification would turn all the hot springs into clear water because she didn't know what it meant to be able to control it.