Chapter 197 - Conspiracy Against a God (VI)

"God will accept any lost lamb and lead it to the light again." Thoughts of Kinvara, Reverend Mother of the Faith of the God Emperor of Humanity.

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When dawn broke, Tywin and Robert looked at the army below them with calm and indifferent expressions, but behind that indifference they were both completely furious.

Of the seven thousand soldiers that Tywin had taken to the battlefield the night before, three thousand had returned!!!

This result left Tywin completely furious, even the calm he could maintain at all times shattered in an instant.

This was not a modern age where one bomb could kill tens of thousands of people. To lose so many soldiers at once in ten minutes was completely unheard of. Even magic couldn't have that much power, but reality was facing them, so they had to accept that they had lost four thousand soldiers.

Taking a deep breath to calm the angry feelings inside him, Tywin looked at Robert and spoke with a cold tone. "Your Grace, the plan has partially worked. We won a victory, but as you can see, the price for victory was high."

Robert nodded and felt an enormous headache forming in his mind. Four thousand soldiers, four thousand families, four thousand people he had to help or else the soldiers would never fight him again if he ignored the dead.

However, before Robert could say anything, the loud but peaceful sound reached his ears. Just as the king of House Baratheon was about to ask what was going on, a soldier quickly came up to him and whispered a few words in the king's ear.

Robert's face turned completely grim hearing the news that the soldier had just spoken to him. The King of House Baratheon took a deep breath and showed a solemn expression, which made Tywin also show an equally solemn expression.

"We're going to the Wall." Without explaining anything, Robert spoke as he walked towards the Wall of Harrenhal. All the lords followed their king with confused expressions.

However, the closer they got to the wall, the more their expressions turned to sheer disbelief.

The woman's voice was in everyone's ears, as if she were standing next to them, whispering gently in his ears.

"Hallowed be Thy name;

Thy kingdom come;

Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

The sound of the people had intensified, so that all of Volantis could hear the prayer of hundreds of thousands of people together.

Give us this day our daily bread;

And forgive us our trespasses,

As we forgive those who trespass against us;

And lead us not into temptation,

But deliver us from evil."

The beautiful voice, full of a maternal gentleness, continued to whisper in everyone's ear, then they all reached the top of the wall and saw a crowd of people gathered in front of thousands of bodies lying on the ground, some of the bodies barely complete.

Obviously killed by Sigismund.

But it wasn't this that made everyone's eyes widen, but Aenar who was praying silently while a woman with long black hair and red eyes prayed aloud, the same voice they were hearing.

In an instant, everyone knew what the enemy was doing.

Praying and burying the dead.

Robert's face turned terribly grim as he looked at his own soldiers, saw that even some had joined hands in imitation of Aenar and began to pray together. This made King Baratheon's mood even darker.

"What a terrible religion, it turned some soldiers into believers with just a few sentences." Robert muttered to himself, looking at Aenar for the first time with a touch of fear.

On the other side, the entire Red Legion began to pray along with the Reverend Mother, although the heretics were heretics, they were still the king's people and they had the right to repent their sins and return to the light.

While the Red Legion prayed aloud, following Kinvara's lines, the Lords of Westeros and their vassals and commoners didn't know what to do. Many had the Faith of the Seven as their faith, but seeing an incredible number of people praying, they hesitated for a moment and began to pray together.

They imitated the king's gesture and the Red Witch's words and began to pray without waiting any longer. If that was what it took to reach the power core of House Targaryen's court, they could pray even to demons.

But listening to the black-haired, red-eyed woman's prayer, the anxiety that was in their hearts seemed to disappear with the beautiful prayers being said by the woman.

Together with the relaxing, sacred and solemn atmosphere of tens of thousands of people praying at the same time, everyone began to pray more sincerely to the dead and to God. The commoners just followed their feudal lords and prayed even more sincerely.

In his eyes, a god who could accept the souls of his enemies' dead was a good and benevolent god. Along with the atmosphere in the place, many began to believe in God. Although it was a shaky and even fragile belief, it was a start.

After all, everything begins with the first step.

Aenar and Kinvara looked at each other and saw the growing satisfaction in each other's eyes. Praying and burying the bodies of their enemies was Aenar's idea and Kinvara accepted his request without hesitation. Seeing the result, Kinvara couldn't help but admire the Messiah's thoughts.

She, who was over two hundred years old, never thought that showing such an act of benevolence could create so many believers for God. But it showed that she still had a lot to learn in order to be a Reverend Mother qualified to guide the Faith of the God Emperor of Humanity.

When she had finished praying, Aenar made the sign of the cross and ordered that the bodies be buried with the honors of a soldier, regardless of whether he was an enemy or a friend.

Aenar's words only made the soldiers who followed the Lords of Westeros feel great admiration and reverence for the young king. For some reason, the thought of dying to such a king didn't seem so fearful.

Unlike the Religion of the Seven, Aenar made the existence of Heaven and Angels very specific in the Bible, so fear of death was the last thing a Red Legion soldier would feel when facing death head on. Something these soldiers who have always lived in Westeros would come to learn.

Dying is only the beginning of a new journey.

Because of this, Aenar saw that many soldiers over the years didn't fear death, they feared not serving long enough to enter Heaven and enjoy eternal life. Honestly, his brainwashing was a complete success.

He just had to have millions of Astartes Adepts and control the known universe. Although the age of Special Exploration was still hundreds of years away, the first step had already been taken and he was laying the foundations of the Empire of Mankind.

Kinvara clearly noticed the change in the commoners' expressions and felt great satisfaction as she saw the number of her God's lambs increase more and more, this only made her more motivated to indoctrinate the whole of Westeros, until only the Faith of the God Emperor of Mankind is the one supreme religion of Westeros and the entire planet.

While Kinvara fantasized about indoctrinating the entire planet, Aenar felt a gaze fall on him and he raised his head towards the clear, cloudless blue sky, which was rare in the Riverlands.

The gaze Aenar felt couldn't have belonged to a mortal, so he knew who was staring at him at that very moment.

But Aenar didn't show any very excited reaction, on the contrary, he just frowned and understood that the God of the Seven Faces wouldn't be so easily drawn into the battlefield again.

Aenar had expected this, gods were not fools, with a weapon capable of wounding and even killing a god, no god would be foolish enough to risk his own immortal existence rashly.

For the God of the Seven Faces to actually descend into the mortal world once again, it would have to be the final battle.

However, it wasn't Aenar's turn to feel rushed, but the God of the Seven Faces'. Aenar had ordered Daenerys to attack Old Town simply to force the God of the Seven Faces to descend to the continent again.

So Aenar was calm and didn't seem in a hurry.

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