Chapter 71: Deity of the Past (2/2)

Fun fact, no matter what the tools looked like, their effects were all the same, meaning that a chainsaw made from divine energy wouldn’t be able to cut faster than a toenail clip. This was because there were no differences in their essence.

The only reason why Xi Wei used a chainsaw to sever the ties was because he thought this weapon was cooler and easier to use. What, was he supposed to clip at the ties with a toenail clip?

After he sawed for a while, one of his tentacles bonked into the part of his body that was probably his head.

“Something’s not right!”

He threw the chainsaw to one side unceremoniously, and then thought about it carefully.

What made Xi Wei pause wasn’t the Rotten Bones God, but the situation of Eleena and company down in the mortal realm.

Before explaining what was wrong, exactly, one had to know the hierarchy of religion in this world.

The being at the top of the pyramid was of course, the deities themselves, no matter if it were the main deity or a subordinate god.

One tier lower were the saintesses and the saints, along with the Chosen Ones. These people could all be categorized as the second-highest positioned people in a church, and were considered the servants or even avatars of the deities themselves.

After that were the people like popes which were the highest positions a regular member of a church could get. As long as someone could obtain power by the deific properties of the deity that they worshipped, they could be categorized in the third tier.

After that were different according to the specific church, but the people like priests and clergies that seemed to be high and mighty in the eyes of the commoners were in reality the same as regular believers of the church, categorized into the fourth tier.

Even though there were some exceptions, but this was generally the case in this world.

For example, Urgat who had been killed by the players was the leader of the Rotten Bones Church and held all the power in the church, but because he didn’t have any deific properties, he was still an archbishop and couldn’t call himself a pope.

In theory, when a believer offered their worship to someone of third-tier and above, the deity that was in the first tier would be able to obtain divine energy.

This meant that if the frogmen thought of Eleena as a messenger from God and gave her their praise and worship, then Xi Wei should be able to obtain corresponding divine energy in theory…

Xi Wei was quite confused by this. Granted, it was true that even if the believers of a church were tricked to pray and worship another deity, as long as their beliefs hadn’t changed, the deity that they were tricked to worship wouldn’t obtain even a trickle of divine energy.

But this was on the basis that the worshippers had their own deity.

The players didn’t know what the frogmen were saying, but because Xi Wei was a deity, he had the ability to understand every language there was, so he knew that they were worshipping a deity called the Aquatic Lord.

But the problem here was, that the Aquatic Lord had died in the war!

This meant that the prayers of the frogmen were actually not owned by any deity, and in theory as long as they worshipped Eleena, Xi Wei would be able to obtain divine energy from them.

Thinking of this, Xi Wei carefully tried to sense the divine energy coming from the frogmen, but to no avail.

“What’s the situation here? Did the Aquatic Lord get revived? That’s impossible, even his divinity was destroyed…”

There were only a few frogmen, and it was impossible for a new deity to be born from such a small village.

But no matter what, now that it was related to a dead deity, things could become quite troublesome…

And so, the siege on the frogmen village that had been seen as a trifle by Xi Wei suddenly became shrouded in mystery.