Shota's Isekai NTR Adventure - Chapter 2031: The power of faith

Chapter 2031: The power of faith

In the end, this matter wasn’t kept secret.

After I discussed this with the Merman King, he didn’t hesitate to share this matter with the rest of the Merman Empire.

The first ones to learn about this matter were the ministers of the Merman Empire.

Once they learned of this, it was as if there was a veil that had been lifted from them.

From the very beginning, they had been hesitant about dealing with the other races since it was something that they thought would be bad for the Merman Empire.

But now they knew that this matter was related to Aquaron…

“We must do what we can to solve this matter.”

“This is a matter that regards the very foundation of our Merman Empire, of course we have to solve this matter.”

“To think that this is a matter that even involves the prestige of our god, we can’t let them down.”

It was as if there was some kind of fire that was lit under them with how they reacted. It didn’t take any time at all for them to completely change their attitude about this matter.

It seemed that they were willing to overlook the fact that their god had been hiding everything from them and wanted to do all that they could for that god that lied to them.

There was no grudge or sense of betrayal, there was only faith in that god.

It was a bit terrifying seeing them act this way, but it did show the power of faith.

As long as one’s faith was strong enough, they would be able to do anything…

With this power of faith driving them, the ministers didn’t seem to waste any time at all in preparing the things that were needed. While there was nothing that told them exactly what was needed right now, they seemed to move in a fervor as they prepared everything that they could.

It was as if they were preparing for every possibility there could have been.

Since they were making these large moves, it was only natural that there would be others that noticed as well.

When that happened, the Merman King and his ministers didn’t keep the story a secret. This story was shared with all of the citizens of the Merman Empire who all had the same response as the Merman King and his ministers.

The power of faith was blind and it seemed like the people of the Merman Empire were deeply controlled by the faith that they had.

So even if there was something that should have crushed that faith, that faith actually went against it and they were able to overcome this issue.

Once the matters in the Merman Empire had been taken care of, we headed to the taboo zone where the other races were. After all, this was a matter that involved them and it wasn’t as if we could do everything on our own.

It was them that would be receiving the treatment from the sea witches.

But before that, I wanted to let them know what the gods had been keeping from them.

Since they were the ones that had suffered, it was only natural that they deserved an explanation for their suffering.

It was just that the response that I got from them wasn’t what I expected…

“Lord Aestum was just protecting us.”

“I never doubted Lord Aestum.”

“It seems like Lord Aquaron was also protecting us.”

The last statement was one that wasn’t as widely spread, but it did seem like some people did regain faith in Aquaron because of this. Even though it was clear that they were just doing it to protect their own reputation.

This wasn’t something that had been done for the people, it had been done for themselves…

But since these people convinced themselves otherwise, there really wasn’t anything that I could say.

All I could think was that the power of faith was so strong that these people could just ignore everything that happened.

In the end, it seemed like both the Merman Empire and the members of the other races were committed to the same thing. Even though their gods never showed themselves to confirm this, they just seemed certain of this.

But it wasn’t something that I was happy to see.

It was clear that they had suffered at the hands of the gods, but they were still willing to follow the gods like this. It was clear that the gods had a very strong influence in this world and that wasn’t a good thing…

Especially since it seemed like the gods were controlling me in some way…

Still, it was better than the complete collapse of the Merman Empire.

If their faith had collapsed, there was no telling what would have happened to the Merman Empire. The Merman Empire was currently a large part of the racial alliance, so it would have been dangerous if they had completely collapsed.

As such, it was best that they had pulled themselves together without affecting the racial alliance.

After all, the true enemy at this moment was the forces of Destruction that were still hiding out there.

“I’ll head back now. I’ll have Max reach out and help where he can.”

The Merman King gave a nod of confirmation before saying, “Thank you for everything that you’ve done.”

I couldn’t respond to this since it felt wrong for me to do so.

The Merman King didn’t mind this as he said, “You might not believe it, but this is important for us.”

This time, I gave a nod.

However, I just couldn’t agree with something that had to do with those two gods.

All that this showed me was that there was something wrong with the gods.

That was why I wanted to leave the Merman Empire as soon as possible.

It wasn’t that I was disgusted with the Merman Empire, I just didn’t want to be here in their domain at this moment.

So that was how this matter ended.