The Tutorial Is Too Hard Chapter 239:

[You know that you shouldn’t use explosions here right?]

“Kea-ek!”

Before I knew it, Ahbooboo and the frog approached me to question my decision . Well, I didn’t really mean to use an explosion here either .

[I know . ]

Who do you think I am? I already knew that the enemy should be obliterated with no collateral damage to spectators .

Huge, scaled monsters rushed towards the tower, their drool splattering all over . From a distance, it looked like a fast-paced herd of moving cattle . Very fast-paced . I would be able to block the door, but I didn’t have enough time to climb the tower and attack .

Thinking about how to get rid of them, I condensed a ball of mana over the head of the first monster .  

Bang!

The monster roared as its body got flattened into a sheet . Hm, this was nice . Let’s just use this method .

I condensed multiple **** of mana over the heads of monsters running toward the tower . The more monsters I flattened, the lower my mana got .

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Agonizing roars repeatedly rang out, until not one monster had been left unscathed . It was like having a glass of liquor, while effortlessly completing my part time work .

(T/N: Literally what it said . I’m a bit clueless bout this . QAQ )

I finished my work and glanced down; not a single drop of blood had reached my clothes . The surrounding people looked bewildered and confused .

“What’s wrong with them?”

[I cast a blinding spell . ]

“Why?”

Ahbooboo sighed .  

[Why? I was trying to keep them from seeing you like this . Think about it . If they see you like this, they’ll think you’re a devil who crawled up from hell, not an apostle of a **** . ]

Is that so? I thought I handled the situation pretty well, though .

[As soon as you condensed mana on the monsters’ heads and crushed them, I immediately blinded them . ]

Ugh, then they didn’t get to see any of my amazing power…  

[It’s definitely helpful to show a strong and scary side, but too much will only backfire on you . Take it easy . ]

After mercilessly killing so frequently, I’d grown accustomed to blood and copses . Hence, I’d completely overlooked the fact that this scene might’ve been overly gruesome and abhorrent to other people . If Ahbooboo hadn’t quickly blinded them, then my reputation with my believers might have been damaged, even if the faith count didn’t decrease .

But now, my plan to show myself defeating monsters was foiled . I pointed this out to Ahbooboo .

[I don’t care . They couldn’t see it, but they can imagine it . The sound of monsters roaring and exploding is quite loud, you know? It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what happened . It’s far better than making them see blood everywhere and ruptured intestines]

Following up, Ahbooboo set fire to the field . Unlike an ordinary fire, it was a bright, blazing white fire . Strangely enough, I was unable to smell the nauseating, putrid odour of burning flesh . .

[This flame is used for sacrifices . Normally, Gods hate these kinds of bodies, but I have no other option . ]

Wow, how talented . I praised him for his hard work and looked back at the people again . They were rubbing their eyes, as the blinding magic slowly started losing its effect . They hadn’t even been near the door when the monsters had attacked, and suddenly, they’d also gone blind . All they could hear were explosions and pained roars . Besides being unable to comprehend what just happened, they must’ve also felt anxious and scared .

“Ahbooboo . ”

[What am I supposed to say? In this case, it’s better to be quiet than to say something witty . Please turn back to the field . ]

I heeded his advice silently . As I stared at the burning corpses, the people began to start talking in hushed voices .

[Okay, that’s enough . Now go up to the fifth floor without saying anything . ]

“Right away?”

[Yes . ]

“Without saying anything? But wouldn’t it be a good idea to say something? ‘Now you can rest assured, you can be safe, or you can take this opportunity to give me more faith . ’”

[Belief is what you get when someone trusts you unconditionally . Come on, move . ]

For now, I heeded Ahbooboo’s words and headed back to the steps of the towers . While climbing the stairs, I questioned Ahbooboo again about whether it was a good idea to leave the scene .

[Oh, it’s fine . Warrior, do you remember the doctrine of our sect? It’s universal equality . However, you’re above the others as the founder and chief of the sect . ]

Ahbooboo went on .

[You can afford to take your superiority for granted . You have similar features to humans, but you don’t have to act like humans . ]

After arriving on the fifth floor, I looked out the window . The people below looked flabbergasted .

If they’d seen me in combat, perhaps they would’ve looked at me with disgust rather than admiration .

[Degree of Faith: 47]

Luckily, the degree of faith soared . Before the monsters appeared, it was only 17 and I’d felt dumbfounded that all my hard work could only get me 17 followers .

[I’ll be the one who comforts, motivates and inspires people, so you can stay on the fifth floor . ]

“Okay . ” I agreed to Ahbooboo’s plan . And that’s how I got trapped on the fifth floor .

* * * * * *

[Degree of Faith: 161]

I was bored to death . For the past few days, I’d been sitting idly on the fifth floor . Even though I played with magic, time still didn’t pass any faster . I was beginning to lose my sanity .

Looking at the faith count, I lamented over the long road to 500 followers and the fact that I’d be stuck here for a few more days . If it weren’t for monsters coming every evening, I would’ve been stuck in this room for the whole day .

Ahbooboo had requested that I show my face as little as possible, so, when I was dealing with monsters, I was forced to defeat them as fast as possible before getting sent back to the fifth floor .

It definitely isn’t easy to imitate God . Come to think of it, what **** would meet their own sect to socialize with them? With nothing to do all day, I’d imagine that the daily lives of gods were unimaginably dull .

Rolling around on the floor, I realized that I wasn’t bored because I couldn’t meet people often, but rather because I had nothing to do . I mean, it wasn’t like that I wasn’t used to being isolated from the rest of society; the waiting room did just that .

In order to maintain my reputation with the people, Ahbooboo asked me to reduce my presence as much as possible . Thanks to this, I was stuck in a situation where I couldn’t make any noise or appear in front of people .

Naturally, I wasn’t allowed to train either; this was the reason for my boredom . I hated having nothing to do .

While the other people were living happily, I was miserably stuck in the fifth floor like Rapunzel . The hours where I was allowed to leave my lonely tower were far and few .

An opportunity to go out came when the food in the tower gradually began to decrease . A new forest had spawned outside the tower, so I went in with Ahbooboo and the frog to get meat and fruit . As we moved ahead, I became increasingly immersed in the doctrines Ahbooboo recited .

[Warrior . ] Ahbooboo called out .

“Yeah?”

[I heard it from passers-by on the way here . There are some other towers a little ways from here . ]

“Other towers?”

[Yes, similar to a pagoda . There are seven towers in total . The other towers have approximately the same number of people as us . Above all, they have one common belief . ]

“What belief?”

[That an apostle will come down and take care of them . ]

Ah, the method to clear this stage suddenly became obvious .

“I think we should preach our sect’s doctrines to other towers . ”

If we were lucky, the degree of faith that was obtainable from each other tower ranged from 200 to 300 . In order to get 500 believers, I would have to gain faith from people at other towers . I wasn’t sure if this was the right way to approach things, but it seemed better than doing nothing all day .

Fuck, this was going to be difficult, and it made me annoyed . We’d have to grapple with other sects over believers in other towers . Although we looked like a real sect with the help of Ahbooboo, our opponents were still real apostles . I wished this could’ve been a stage where I only had to defeat seven other apostles in combat .

[Let’s focus on our tower for now . ]

Perhaps I was wrong . It might be better to avoid the wrath of apostles .

[Why don’t you try getting more believers from somewhere else? If there are more people, there will naturally be more religious people . ]

“No,” I answered . While Ahbooboo’s plan was enticing, it wouldn’t work .

[Why?]

“There’s no one else on this planet besides those who are inside these towers . ”

The planet was strangely small . I was unsure if there were any reasons for this, or if there were only a limited number of people because it was a stage .

[You sound as if you’ve looked around the entire planet . ]

“I haven’t, but I can feel it . ”

[What?]

“I can feel it . There aren’t that many people . ”

[Huh?]

“Nevermind . It’s nothing,” I said and ignored Ahbooboo’s onslaught of questions .

The feeling I was talking about was so faint that it was hard to be sure . Having been trapped in a narrow place for so long, I’d initially thought I had a problem with a sense, but now, I’m unsure . It was a strange mix of power and alertness .

As the degree of faith increased, the clearer this strange force felt . Did the rising religious faith of the sect affect me, the founder? Or was it because of the people’s faith in me that I gained this power to deal with monsters faster?

The force was a challenge to describe, and I wasn’t quite sure of how to use it . It made my chest feel stuffy and gave me the urge to go and hunt down a monster . I decided that I would catch a monster alive and try to use my power tomorrow . I thought it’d be a good idea to use sleeping pills to calm the monster .

* * * * * *

[Degree of Faith: 340]

Fortunately, the degree of faith rose to 340 . For now, it seemed like there wouldn’t be any issue reaching 400 .

“Grr… . ” a monster growled from the corner of the tower . Its mouth was muzzled with a rope preventing it from making too much sight .

I found it to be quite an amusing sight . Ah, was I possibly a sadist? I felt schadenfreude looking at the pitiful monster groaning in panic and struggling to escape .

I took a sleeping potion out of my inventory and poured it down the monster’s throat . Well, I attempted to anyway . The monster put up quite the struggle and from the amount of potion that spilled onto the floor, I was unsure whether the sleeping potion would take effect .

Luckily, the monster’s struggles gradually died down, and when it stopped moving, I picked it up and moved it to the center of the room .

I prayed that I would achieve significant results from my experiment . This divine power I felt was becoming clearer by the day . The more people looked up to me, the powerful it became . But, Ahbooboo and the frog didn’t feel such power at all, even though they were also worshipped by the people . I didn’t know if this was because I was the founder of the sect, and hence, gained strength, or for some other reason .

The greater this power gets, the more familiar it feels .

It’s the power I felt at the last moment when I was fighting the apostles who had made replicas of me on the tournament stage .

I lifted the monster’s arm .

<Infringement of control>

The power allowed me to manipulate other organism’s bodies and power . Thanks to that power, I’d be able to win in combat against apostles, but I couldn’t figure out much more about my ability . I didn’t know what kind of power it was, and I didn’t know how to use it . It was just something I happened to find in a moment of crisis .

I tore off the monster’s arm . The strong force makes a huge rip, but the sleeping monster remained unresponsive .

Even after repeated practice attempts of trying to use my newly found power, I wasn’t able to make much progress, and in the end, gave up .  

I defined the force as a power that I wasn’t able to fully understand or use yet, but I was determined that there’d be a day when I could fully control this power .

The monster’s muscles were visible through the torn skin . My eyes shifted to the spot where blood was spurting out from . I lit a fire inside the arm, and the body was soon engulfed in flames . I focused, controlling the fire so as to not let it spread to the rest of the room .

This power, which was supposed to be a kind of divine force obtained through faith, had the ability to violate control .

Was this the supreme ability of the gods?