Chapter 313: Eat Dung, Aslan! (1/2)

“Divine Injustice, Pain Eternal…”

Xi Wei pursed his lisp as he murmured the name, finding it much more awesome then trash like Rotten Bones. “She must be very powerful, then.”

Aslan, however, shook his head. “No, Pain Eternal is actually very weak as a newborn evil god. If I had to compare, she was as noob as you were when we first met.”

“That’s quite something if that’s the case, actually!” Xi Wei pouted.

“It doesn’t matter, or as I would say, I knew you were not all that meets the eye from the very start. You certainly didn’t linger on the bottom end, although it still surprised me that you could squeeze your way into second-rate so quickly… really, your growth is divinely surprising.”

The Great Lion straightened his fur with his tongue while murmuring in awe.

“Anyway, you’re saying that the girl who turned into an evil god was that Finnia, yes?”

Xi Wei, meanwhile, had brought out his brews that contained certain degrees of divine attributes, including absinthe (90%), water of life (90% whisky) and Poland vodka (approximately 92%, and one should probably mention by now that antiseptic alcohol is only 75%) as he mixed a new cocktail for the Great Lion.

“Yes. She had since lost all rationality after becoming an evil god, and she was now bent on flooding the world with chaos.” Aslan paused then, spitting out a furball. “At the time, the mortal realm and the divine realm weren’t separated that tightly and the other gods were unwilling to get involved, and in the end, it was I who personally went down there to end her.”

“Why won’t the other gods get involved?” Xi Wei asked, puzzled. If it had been him, he would definitely be joining the fight. “Is there no divine power or divinity to be gained?”

“Divine Injustice is special. She is a being abandoned by the gods in the first place, which makes her divinity and her divine powers poison to other gods even after she had turned into an evil god.”

The Great Lion shook his head, his thick mane flowing in circular waves. “Simply absorbing it does you no good, and it would corrupt your own divine attributes in return.” Xi Wei, who had just finished absorbing Aojo’s divine energy pursed his lips-he did not actually feel ill in any way. “By the way, didn’t the civilization of the Third Age collapse in the War of Gods and Demons?” He then asked. “Why would anyone in this new age know about Finnia?” This time, Great Lion stayed quiet for a long time before sighing heavily.

“It was my fault.”

He said. “I felt sympathy for Divine Injustice after learning about her past, and just when I was about to slay her, she pleaded for mercy when I was about to land the final blow.

“She didn’t beg for her life, however, because actual death was a release to her. That said, after going through a lifetime of abandonment by the gods, she couldn’t accept that she would fall just like one, and was hoping that I would kill her as a human.”

“And I agreed to it.”

“Hence, she was dismembered, parts of her body were thrown into volcanic acid lakes to be melted. Using my divine kingdom as a pestle and the prime Material Plane as a mortar, her divinity was extracted and crushed utterly, and flung into the Void where the remains are left to its own fate. Then, at the very end, I cleansed her divine power with my Authority of Justice, granting her rebirth as a mortal human before I slayed her.”

“Now that I think about it, pieces of her divinity must have slipped through the World Barrier and fell upon the Prime Material Plane. After that, freak accidents happen, preventing her form from completely disintegrating and allowing her power to gain new life.”

Meanwhile, Xi Wei had become silent.

His delight in breaking through the shackles to ascend as an intermediate god had faded considerably.

He knew all along that the Great Lion was powerful and stood at the top of all intermediate gods, but to think that he was that powerful…

And what was ‘using my divine kingdom as a pestle and the prime Material Plane as a mortar’ even supposed to mean!? Sure, it was poetic, but that was basically lifting your own divine kingdom and smashing it down at the Prime Material Plane!

Moreover, the only thing between Aslan’s divine kingdom and the Prime Material Plane was the divinity of one evil god.

Did he have to go so far to destroy a divinity? Why not use a nuclear bomb to break a walnut too!?

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