Chapter 307: Aojo (1/2)

In his divine kingdom, Xi Wei’s body was flashing like the three-minutes Ultraman color timer.

It meant that he was thinking.

At first, he was not really concerned about the cultists that Leah and the others found.

For one, his attention was mostly occupied by the Twin City Cup, and he was also keeping an eye on Fishmen Island at the same time so that he was ready when the Ocean Goddess turned her gaze upon it once more. Secondly, Xi Wei more or less shared Marni’s opinion that there was no major cultist group hiding in Lancaster.

After all, the Players were Xi Wei’s eyes, and he didn’t have to deliberately take notice of wherever they were since any new places they go would be marked on the minimap. Therefore, there basically weren’t any blind spots on the map in Lancaster where the Players were present in great numbers. Almost everything was exposed to Xi Wei’s eye, and if he wanted to, he could directly use his Divine Eye to observe places where his believers couldn’t enter-such as civilian houses.

That was also why Xi Wei did not directly assign Leah’s group any quests at first.

In fact, he only realized that something wasn’t right after they had found the secret room where the cultists were hiding and ran into the cult leader.

And without using his Divine Eye, he was unable to clearly make out the cult leader’s appearance too!

The situation was actually due to Divine Grace and not some rare powerful ability. It could easily be exposed with Divine Eye, which made divine grace a form of protection of the patron god over their believer, a declaration to other gods that ‘I’ve got this person’s back’.

Reasonably speaking, anyone could earn such a basic Divine Grace if their rank was high enough in their church, which was the case for believers from other churches participating in the Twin City Cup.

In other words, there definitely was an evil god behind the cultist’s back.

But for some bizarre reason, Xi Wei was unable to sense belief in the cult leader. Instead, divine energy was swirling around the other cultists John Dhana had bewitched in the secret room, offered towards the evil god Aojo that they were all talking about.

It should have been impossible for a person without belief to become a leader of a cult, especially in this world where the gods truly existed.

Moreover, Aojo’s name didn’t exist in the memories in the God of Games divinity. It probably wouldn’t be any famous evil god, and was at best third-rate like Rotten Bones.

That was why Xi Wei decided that the cult leader was a problem, and only then did he assign Leah and the others a new quest to have them capture or directly take him out-the gods could get much information they want even if it’s from a corpse. In the end, both Xi Wei and his believers witnessed the same sight.

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Leah watched as the cult leader spat blasphemy before stabbing that suspicious knife into his own eye. Black blood began to shoot out of his eye at irrational volumes, raining over the roof of the consulate and dyeing it black.

At the same time, John Dhana’s body bloated like an expanding balloon before bursting apart with a loud boom on the lightning rod!

The mushroom cloud of an explosion rushed into the air.

But it was not over even though the cultist leader was now in pieces.

Instead, it was just beginning!

As the mushroom cloud dispersed, and the rain of black blood stopped, an arc that would upset Newton to death appeared as it shot towards the skies, converging in the air above the consulate to form a massive black sphere.

Edward, who didn’t know what was happening but was absolutely sure that this mustn’t continue immediately unleashed Black Dragon Hellfire-his most powerful skill—at the sphere.

The black fiery dragon, however, was devoured entirely once it struck the sphere, leaving not a single spark behind!