Chapter 312: Rewards and the Conclusion of the Twin City Cup (2/2)

Naturally, any benefits come with their own shortcomings. He was becoming known to many other gods after he had ascended thanks to the major event that was the Twin City Cup, and he was no longer able to develop himself discreetly like before.

He could even tell that some unruly god would definitely command their believers to make things hard for Xi Wei in the near future.

“Still, it’s not like I can prevent such a thing even if I want to. At best I could just keep an eye out for it.”

Not to mention that there was other good news for Xi Wei—there was progress with the investigation he entrusted the Great Lion with.

That being said, it did not really count as an investigation as Aslan did react to the name Finnia before. However, whether he was afraid of their conversation being spied upon or he needed to compile some data beforehand, he didn’t immediately inform Xi Wei about what he knew, and visited Xi Wei’s divine kingdom directly instead.

“I remember it well. It was in a flowering season in the Third Age, when the Trinity had yet to confine every other god into their respective divine kingdoms…”

“Are you going into a narrative the moment you enter?” Xi Wei asked helplessly, watching as the Great Lion face turned nostalgic. “You’re even using first-person perspective.”

“Should I perform a vanishing trick for you as the fee for your investigation?”

“Fair enough. Keep telling your story, I’ll make you something to drink.”Xi Wei rolled his eyes, before extending his tentacles to whip out a cocktail shaker and began to jiggle it.

Aslan naturally didn’t nitpick with Xi Wei and continued his story.

“The world is no different from a high-precision machine built by the Trinity, with everything within operating under principles and rules. Even so, even the best machines would develop errors as time passes.”

“And in that flowering season, a special child was born unto the Prime Material Plane. She is human, and was no different from any other human aside from one little fact… She couldn’t believe in any god.”

At that, Aslan’s voice turned quiet. “It did not matter how devoted she was—her prayers would never reach the gods, her sadness never tugging the heartstrings of the divine. In fact, us gods could hardly observe her even if we tried to do so with purpose. That was why she was taken to be faithless, with nations and churches torment her as she wandered aimlessly for her whole life, ultimately dying in isolation and despair.”

Aslan paused then. “And yet, that’s only the beginning of the tragedy.” Xi Wei opened the shaker and poured a clump of jiggling jelly, which had a slit over it that resembling a mouth as if saying, “Hurry the heck up! No cliffhangers please!” The Great Lion merely slammed his paw down and squished it before continuing. “And since she wasn’t taken in by any god, evil gods couldn’t find her either… not to mention that the Prince of Darkness was still playing mud at who knows which hellhole… either way, death was not the end of her despair—tormented eternally and caught in perpetual isolation without any chance of peace, her mind was lost to madness.”

“Her mad spirit hence drew other despairing souls to herself, eventually becoming a crucible of hopelessness and suffering that mutated frighteningly… it was too late when us gods finally noticed. She had been corrupted utterly, reborn as a new evil god of despair…”

“Divine Injustice, Pain Eternal.”