Chapter 147: Thirty Years Down The East River… (1/2)

“This feels so amazing!”

Xi Wei was clutching the seven Sapphires in his divine kingdom and rolling about without any dignity. “I’m rich now!”

His self-directed act had proved very successful, with his divine edition of the traditional shadow play coming to great effect. Even if the fishfolk deity he had fabricated never really showed up, it still left every last Player in the Fishmen Village utterly astonished.

Yes, it was ultimately a mirage. Xi Wei had even kept the area of effect for those images within Fishmen Village to save divine power, and only the Players there could witness it.

It was even easier to make the Players believe their HP was dropping… with control over their System completely in his hand, was there anything simpler than just adjusting those values?

And it was precisely with that short performance that Xi Wei tricked the Players of the Sapphires.

What, the show was too short and not enough for you? Nonsense! CG needs divine power too!

Still, there was no telling where the Ocean Goddess had gotten the Sea Sapphires—the gems were clearly not durable and could break if even ordinary Players unleashed their full power, and yet it somehow could act as a crucible to contain enormous divine power like the skull of Rotten Bones.

After all, the Ocean Eye definitely existed beneath the waves, but it was basically a portal connected to undersea tectonic plates and formed naturally.

Unlike Xi Wei who could use a secret power like transmigrating to create the Lifestone portals, the range of the Ocean Goddess’ authority did not correlate to portals at all. In fact, the portal was obviously both a natural phenomenon and magitek, and was instead one of the authorities that Magic Violet, one of the Ocean Goddess’ bitter rivals back in the War and one of the seven Divine Fathers wielded.

Coupled with the obstruction of the World Barrier, the Ocean Goddess had actually built the Ocean Eye over Fishmen Island by force. As such, the pseudo-portal that pierced space to achieve the objective of ‘teleportation’ by using divine power required a lot of divine power.

And the seven Sea Sapphires were the batteries used to power the portal.

To use an inappropriate comparison: if Magic Violet’s authority over portals was an insurmountable wall and entering was to cast teleportation, what Xi Wei did in using his power of transmigration was merely to lower the spiked steel wires over the wall and open the gates over it, while the Ocean Goddess had simply brought barrels of dynamic to blow up Magic Violet’s wall…

From that point alone, one could see why the Ocean Goddess whom even Aslan the Great Lion nicknamed the mad hag was ruthless and unrestrained.

Because the sheer force of the Ocean Goddess’ divine power was very distinct from his own, Xi Wei had difficulty quantifying the divine power inside the Sea Sapphires according to the standards he set previously.

Be that as it may, he realized that the divine power inside wasn’t violent after the briefest of touches.