The first location where Seola took Elena was the general temple located in the outer region. This was definitely going to be the busiest part of the grand temple as it was the only location that was accessible to anyone.
This temple looked quite majestic but sinister at the same time. The Evil Devils had done a good job designing it. As this was a temple for the Goddess of Absolute Evil, it looking scary was natural. Just stepping foot inside it would make a chill to run down a low level individual's spine.
This temple was also loaded with magjc items of various kinds. Those magic items were not the common kind and instead were rare ones which were designed by the devil's themselves. As for their function, it was very diverse.
Some of them could increase or decrease the desire of a sin. Some could even corrupt an innocent person into becoming a sinner. Some of the items even had the power to grant various wishes in exchange for something major. All in all, calling this temple a place of demonic worshiping would not be wrong.
Seola took Elena to a large hall located in this temple. This hall was an idea of hers. There were seven halls related to the seven sins. So the sinners could indulge in their desires here with like minded people. Hearing this idea, Elena gently smiled. This was a very Seola like idea. She had always yearned for friendship and spending time together, so made sense that she would come up with something like this.
Elena decided to come here at a later date to join the gluttony party. She was sure to be able to eat a lot of good food there. Elena also knew that her travelling companions and new little sister was going to definitely participate in the lust party.
There were also other facilities here. One of them made Elena very interested. This place allowed people who had been harmed by a sinner to complain about that and the temple paladins were in charge of making a judgement about this case.
Even though Seola allowed the existence of sin, there was always a limit that everyone needed to be careful about. It was impossible to allow someone to commit wanton crime. So even in case of the greed and Envy, the harm that it did to others was very limited. If someone started to slaughter innocent to fuel their greed, then that would not be tolerated.
Elena was very impressed by how the gods of this world dealt with the matters like these. This was actually one of the things that was hard to balance even for a legendary grade world. That was why, most of the world administrator like gods took a hands off approch and did not differentiate between good and evil. They tried to not interfere with the natural order and allowed the fate to flow naturally.
But this approach, most of the time, had led to many many tragedies. Which was not a bad thing for the world as a whole but it was not a good thing either. That was why, in the long term, the method that the gods of this world used was more beneficial for the world in the long term.
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After visiting the general temple, next Seola took Elena to the seven temple of sins. Among them Elena was only interested in the temple of gluttony for its food and the temple of sloth for its comfy beds. All the other ones were quite generic. The temple of lust also had comfy beds but as those beds were their not for resting but for something else so Elena was not interested in them.
Other than the temples, the outer region also had many beautiful gardens that Windred had not mentioned. These gardens were very pleasing and Elena felt that there would be a significant number of tourists who would like this visit this temple just to have picnic in those gardens. Actually the overall scary atmosphere of the grand temple and the beauty of the garden created a contrasting atmosphere that was super enjoyable.
After spending some time the gardens, Seola and Elena entered the inner region. This was the largest area of the grand temple and occupied almost 60 percent of the total area. This would also be the place where most of the believers and adventurers would be staying.
There was not much to explain about the temples of the outer region, so Seola did not get the opportunity talk much there. But there were a lot of locations in the inner area that had a story behind it. So finally Seola was able to properly do the job of a guide and started telling Elena about those places.
This way Seola told Elena various intersting and ancient stories. Even though Seola stayed alone most of the time, as one of the oldest goddesses to be born, she had seen a lot of events that even other gods were unaware of.
One of the Evil Devil was very interested in those stories. And after a very meritorious deed, that devil had asked to hear those stories from Seola as her reward. That Devil was also responsible for the design of the inner region and she was the one behind the creation of various locations based on the stories that she had heard directly from the goddess herself.
Now explaining all the stories in detailed sounded impossible as that would take at least a few years. But seeing how excited Seola was about sharing them, Elena decided to slow down the time around them. That way, Seola was able to tell Elena all the stories to her heart's content.
Those stories were super interesting. Some of them were actually familiar to Elena as the three Supreme Goddesses had told her about them during their usual tea party. But listening to the same story from a different perspective was also super fun.
One of the story that attracted Elena's interest was about how Seola had troubles creating a second race other than the Evil Devils. As the Devils were super evil, she had tried to create a race that was not evil aligned. But her authority had backlashed every time she had tried to do it. So it always results in failure.
This gave Elena an idea. She was planning to give a gift to Seola before leaving as a thanks for the invitation but she was not sure about what to gift. But now, she had gotten an idea. She was going to help Seola with the creation of a new race that was not evil by nature. That would definitely make her happy.
So while thinking about this new awesome idea and listening to the stories from Seola, Elena reached one of the major attraction of the inner region, the "Plain of Demise".
So what was this place all about and why was it a major attraction according to Seola ?
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