Chapter 225. If (3)
A gentleman wearing a shirt with short sleeves walked around the square, ringing a handbell.
“Everyone! Have faith in the Holy Tower! Why did the Tower come to be called the Babel Tower? Do you know? The answer is simple. Here, we humans can communicate freely. It’s God’s miracle! God once brought down the Babel Tower. However, after thousands of years passed, he mercifully allowed humans the opportunity to ascend to heaven once again! Let us be thankful for God’s mercy!’
Kim Gong-Ja was at Guild Yoo Soo-Ha that day. Not only did the guild have an atrociously awful name, it had only four members—Yoo Soo-Ha, Ja Su-Jeong, Kim Gong-Ja, and the slime, which was raised as the guild’s pet.
Despite having only four members, the location of the guild base was pretty remarkable. Their three-story guild building was located at the Central Plaza Intersection in the heart of the main district of Babylon, the first floor city, also known as Ascension City.
Yes, building this had required a lot of money, but one person’s money could buy someone else’s happiness. Kim Gong-Ja sat elegantly at the guild terrace and looked down at the plaza, drinking a venti-sized white mocha frappuccino with four shots, which he had ordered through a delivery app. Half of the top was covered with java chips, and chocolate syrup was drizzled on the other half. When he heard the gentleman’s speech, he scoffed.
“What kind of bullshit is he spewing?”
Ja Su-Jeong was also on the terrace next to him, drinking carrot juice through a straw while working on her laptop. “What can I say? It’s some cultist nonsense. Don’t listen to what people like that man say. Mr. Kim Gong-Ja, if curiosity gets the better of you and you approach them to ask them to elaborate on their nonsense, they snatch you and make you one of their own.”
“Oh...”
“Even the parts that don’t seem to make sense are all bait. They’re small losses for the ultimate victory. You go in thinking, ‘I’m smart, so I can see through all that nonsense!’ but then you get locked up and brainwashed. When you wake up one day, you find yourself spreading God’s word in the plaza.”
“Do these people use such advanced strategies? Really?”
“Religion sprouts from human guilt, and cults nest from human arrogance, Mr. Kim Gong-Ja.”