By now everyone had already left the church after praying to Angel Johan for what felt like hours to me but was in fact only five minutes.
Angel Johan huh? It kinda has a nice ring to it if you know what I mean. Hey, at least the cult isn't evil, I think…
The question is, do I go along with Zacka— I mean Pope Zackariah's cult leader dreams?
Hmm, on one end of the stick it sounds like a real hassle which could get in the way of my goal of finding new ways to kill myself, but on the other end of the stick, if this whole Angelic Church turns out to become a big deal, I could build some nice connections and then maybe I don't need to die.
You see, what I wanted to do was accomplish one of two goals. My original goal was to find some way to die, but after trying for so many years I had practically given up on that for the most part unless death was standing right in front of me, hence me jumping into a river of lava. Never doing that again by the way.
My new goal on the other hand is to find someone. Someone with the cursed ability to travel through time.
If you can even call that a curse. Sounds more like a blessing to me, especially compared to my curse of immortality.
Oh right I haven't explained the whole deal with curses and whatnot. Well to sum it all up, humans are born with the chance to get cursed by the world. Not enough information? Well fuck, I didn't wanna have to explain everything.
Well anyways, from what I heard, long ago, the gods came to earth to live alongside mankind. The humans lived in prosperity gaining riches beyond what they could have ever dreamed of from the gods. Don't ask me their names, they were practically wiped from history, all except for one of course, the god of time. Technically, we still don't know his or her name. All we know is the gods title. Hell, I'm not even sure whether gods have names or not.
Anyways, getting back onto topic. One day, a man named Salum walked into the residence of some random god and stole from its treasury and while doing so he obtained a divine artifact.
A divine artifact is an item imbued with special properties from a god. These tools are said to hold power beyond what one could ever hope to imagine. In Salum's case he got a spear that had the power to corrupt anyone it strikes as he sees fit. The spear can't kill people, which to me, seems kinda stupid, but it can corrupt one's mind and like all godly artifacts, it also has the ability to rest within one's soul granting it the power to be summoned and concealed at will.
Anyways Salum somehow already knew what the weapon could do and in some way, he got away with his thievery and what he did next with the weapon was what angered the gods enough to the point that they would forsake mankind.
At this point, human kind had completely earned the trust of the gods. Which for Salum was a good thing since it made his job way easier. One night at a banquet that was being held in some ginormous temple by the humans for the gods, Salum got assigned to be a gods personal servant. You see at most banquets, you would think that they'd all be eating together but gods seemed to like their privacy.
So they all had their own private booths so they could all eat in privacy which again, made Salum's task all the more easier.
Anyways, the god he was tasked with serving was a well known and loved god who was very kind to everyone, gods and humans alike.
When he got into the deity's private booth which looked like a massive white triangular tent, he managed to get close to her and then he summoned the spear quickly striking the deity's heart which had much more effect compared to if he were to just graze the gods arm.
Then using the corruption, he whispered into the gods ear. "Using this spear, without being discovered, stab as many gods as you can through the heart and tell them to kill every deity they come across besides you and after you've stabbed ten gods, I want you to kill yourself." he then handed the spear over to the god and walked away as if he were an innocent man.
I'm sure you can guess what happened from there. No? You can't? Well basically, none of the gods died. Yeah, none of them. If I had to guess, the god of time used an ability to see into the future and then used a godly artifact or the ability of another god to get rid of the corruption festering inside of that kindhearted deity.
But yeah, the gods didn't take too kindly to that whole massacre attempt so they left our world while cursing our planet to hand out curses to people whenever it sees fit. In any case, that story is the reason we decided to call our abilities curses.
What do I think of that? Well I think it's a whole load of bull.
I mean come on, why the hell would they give humans supernatural abilities after trying to butcher the lot of them. I mean, my ability is definitely a curse but what about people who get the ability of super strength or telekinesis and the ability to draw a perfect circle. I mean come on, who wouldn't want to be able to draw a perfect fucking circle.
The only thing that makes the story believable is the fact that some people get the shitiest of curses. One time, I read in a newspaper about someone who had gained the cursed ability of blindness. I mean, I don't know how much truth there is to the story, but it was in the newspaper and journalists never lie, they just twist the truth a bit so I choose to believe them. Imagine having 20-20 vision and then waking up one day completely blind.
It's like "Congratulations you've earned the curse of blindness." like, the fuck.
"I'm s-sorry lord Johan" I opened my eyes to see a beautiful, pale woman with long flowing blonde hair and blue eyes who looked to be about twenty years old, prostrating herself on the floor and yabbering nonsense as she tilted her neck up to look me in the eyes.
"Huh?" I looked at her with utter confusion written on my face.
"I apologize for intruding outside of p-p-praying hours" the woman looked completely petrified, like she was about to cry. "I-I will never intrude upon you again m-my lord so p-please, please don't curse me with blindneth." She bit her tongue…