Satou-san, what are you searching?"
"Records about divine punishment in the past."
This place is the forbidden library of Tenion Temple in the Duchy Capital.
I came after getting the permission from the elder head-miko, presently a miko apprentice, Lily. Of course, Lily got the permission from the present head miko and temple head.
According to Princess Shistina, books regarding belief and miracles are more complete here compared to the books in the kingdom's forbidden library.
Apparently, these books have been handed down from the time of the Orc Empire before Shiga Kingdom, or even older than that.
"There sure is a lot of priests that misrepresented things as god's divine punishment."
"Yes, unfortunately, there's always some imprudent priests no matter the age."
When the little girl Lily said such things with a serious look on her face, she looks like a child who's trying her best, it's heartwarming.
"Satou-san, this slate here has records older than Furu Empire era written!"
"Ara ara, oh Sera. I was going to guide him there later."
Lily sticks out her tongue and makes a face that looks like a child who's failed in her mischief.
"Let's go, Satou-san. Records about big divine punishment probably only exist in things that are more than 1000 years ago."
Are the gods more mild than I thought?
I imagined them like [Wrathful Gods] from the Dog-head's and Corpse's talks, but perhaps they seldom intervene directly.
Let's stop judging them as evil unilaterally.
They do give forecast of demon lords and great disasters through oracle after all.
That said--.
"These divine punishments seem to be quite merciless."
"Oh my, you can read the slate from the age of gods?"
"Yes, it's the same language as the ancient language dictionary that Sera-san found."
Written there, a divine punishment made 80% of the people living in a continent to go extinct through flood and glacier. It's quite severe.
Such a severe divine punishment happened several thousands years ago, after that the scale got gradually reduced.
Most calamities come from the rampages of monsters from dungeons and monster dominions all over the world, attacking cities near them.