The messiah

After about five minutes of waiting the priest appeared again.

He had a grin on his face and a red stone in his right hand.

"Hold this stone. It's connected to the system. The system is the power of the land the next mist wall over if your wondering. The system has powers of divination it knowns what you really are."

Given the fact of my charm I don't have to worry about it being some kind of object used to harm me.

So I reached out and grabbed the stone.

{ processing }

A blue screen appeared infront of me.

*Ding!*

The priest clapped his hands in excitement.

"That means it's processed! It's processed!"

Why would someone get so exited at something like that. Surely he knew it was going to work. Didn't he?

Again a blue screen appeared in front of me.

{ Name: Greg

Race: ordinary human

Racial ability: Cannot use the system.

Class: n/a

Stats: strength 0(6-disability) agility: 0(14-disability) intelligence: 140 charm: max

Divine artefacts: unbreakable soul, forever loved

Skills: flying: max, gunmanship: max, Nation admistration: max, ect}

I glared at the blue screen. It lied.

There was no way I couldn't use the system. And my strength wasn't zero. It was infinite!

Also I wasn't in any way an ordinary human. I was real true blue bonafied god!

The priest snatched the stone from my hand.

"We'll let's see your so called god like power." He said his voice dripping with sarcasm

{activating divine artefact: forever loved}

The priest eyes widened as his jaw dropped.

"What. No this shouldn't be possible. There's supposed to be only one divine entity. How?

I looked up at him. I wondered what stats he was seeing. Because the stats I was were clearly lies. Why did he see truth and I see lies?

"Show me." I said I wanted to known my true power.

The priest raised his brow at me.

"Haven't you already seen it?" He said

Shit. At this rate I would be found out.

I let a look of complete confusion grace my face

"What did you say?" I said

His brows furrowed.

"I asked why you wanted to see the system screen even though you've already seen it." He said

I let the confusion on my face increase in intensity.

"But I never asked that. Are you sure you aren't hearing things" I said

The priest scratched his head.

"You're right. I was probably being stupid."

When in doubt! Gaslight! It always works! It's literally impossible to fail at gaslighting!

"Anyways. Given that you are actually a god. Somehow… I guess I'll take you to the pantheon."

The priest bent over and grabbed my body. And the next thing I knew. I wasn't there…..

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Assaulting me was a barrage of impossible concepts. A fish with human teeth. A man with heads for feet. A floor that was also a castle wall and a time travling king kung fu fighting butterfly.

The second that assault ended I was somewhere else.

I fell jaw first into the smooth obsidian ground. My jaw screamed with pain and a wave of nausea overcame me.

A spurt of vomit spilled from my mouth.

"Ewwwwww!" Yelled the priest.

"Is this the first time you've ever teleported?!?" He asked incredulously.

I only gave him a sad look in response.

"Ugh. It is, isn't it." Said the priest.

"Okay. Cleaning spell!"

A golden light surrounded me and all the vomit around me vanished.

The priest bent down and lifted me up by the armpits.

"Okay what do you see around you?" Asked the priest.

I looked around myself.

I saw two impossible statues and also very familiar statues.

One was of a pig man that I had once met in a courtroom.

He held a round square in the sky with a victorious grin on his face.

The other was of a normal humanoid man with a goat for a head. He held a mountain in the sky rose forever. Which should be an impossible image because this place had a roof. And I could not see it passing through the roof. But despite that it went on for infinity.

They were a pair of paradoxes.

In between these two statues was an empty altar that held absolutely nothing in it.

"I know those two." I said while pointing to the goat and pig.

"Oh really. What about the one in the centre?" Asked the priest.

"What do you mean? That's just empty space." I said

"Maybe you don't get it. I'll bring you closer."

The priest dragged me right up to the altar.

There written on the altar was a single word in blood red.

Pain.

That was it. That was the whole statue. Well I guess it wasn't really a statue. It was just a word.

"Doesn't everyone know pæįñ is?" The sounds warped and twisted the second I said that word.

"Wait….. You can read that?" Asked the priest

I nodded

"Yes. It says pæįñ." Again the sound warped. The priest dropped me onto the floor.

"Then. You're it. You're the one we've been waiting for! Your the messiah!" Yelled the priest

Me the messiah? Makes total sense. I'm surprised I haven't been called the messiah before. After all, in my past life I united the world with the unbreakable bonds of spilled blood.

"I'm the messiah. Sotake me to your people!" I said

A quizzical expression appeared on the priests face.

"No. You could be lying. After all you claimed to be not the messiah. There's a test to see if you're actually the messiah." Said the priest.

I pushed myself up and turned my body around so I could look up at the priest.

I let a smug grin grace my face.

"What more of a test do we need other than my unfaltering charm?" I asked him.

He scowled.

"So what. You're faking it then?!?! Don't tell me you think you can fool us into thinking your the divine messiah just my reading and speaking the divine language?!?" Yelled the priest.

~Okay. I'll take the test. Anyways it's kind of inevitable that the results will come back positive. After all I many rings higher than a paltry messiah. I am the rightful king of this world!~

"Okay. What's the test?" I asked the priest.

He smiled.

"First we nail you to a cross."

Oh no I do NOT like where this is going.

"Then we put a stake through your chest. And if you survive then you are the messiah."

I felt the cold sensation of dread settling in my bones.

~I can't do this. I can't risk seeing the void again.~

I gave him my best smile

"What if I told you I'm not actually the messiah."

The priest scowled.

"Nice try buddy. But your still taking the test. I don't want to miss the messiah just because of my stupid suspicion."