477 Luciens Saint Badge (2/2)
Before joining the Secret Praying Congress, Lucien was told about the Seed of Spirit. The existence of it was constantly being mentioned afterward. Cautious as Lucien, he must have been prepared.
After reading through the materials, based on the features of the false gods and their power, referring to the design of Sun's Corona, Lucien made a semi-finished badge using the materials he had.
Although at that time he did not have the full grip of the structure that he learned from Sun's Corona, Lucien was still quite confident that it could absorb the power of the Seed of Spirit and turn into a complete divine item.
After knowing how God's Glory and the Seed of Spirit worked, Lucien was totally confident that his plan would work. Therefore, he took his time watching how Francis took in the power of the seed.
Then, as the Secretive, Lucien successfully deceived Ell and Francis, who never thought of thoroughly investigating Leviathan. Relying on the resonance from Sun's Corona, Lucien absorbed the Seed of Spirit using this badge and turned it into a level-three divine item.
The badge could improve the wearer's recovery ability, agility, speed, and strength to level three. If the wearer's Blood Power originated from the silver moon, then the level would be increased to four. But, since the badge did not improve the wearer's reaction speed, a real level four grand knight would still be more competitive.
Lucien left the message within the item and named it,
”Ell's Saint Badge, level-three senior-rank divine item.”
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”Perhaps, this badge is the truly devoted follower.
”From Lucien Evans.”
Hanging the badge under his robe, Lucien started fixing the two magic items using the powder. Then he would be meeting Anheuse.
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At the bottom of Solna River, among the currents, there was dim light emerging. The voice of the Lord of Underworld came,
”I'm finally free! I will kill you, Ell! I'll put your soul deep into the underworld and lash it for ten thousand years!”
Somehow the Lord of Underworld had freed Himself from Confinement and returned to this dimension.
After the dizziness from teleportation disappeared, the two red light spots in the Lord of Underworld's sockets suddenly froze,
The Lord of Underworld saw no one around, but he thought that it was his avatar finding the Lord of War for help that freed him.
As soon as this thought appeared, a sword entangled with flame emerged out of nowhere, carrying an overwhelming power of destruction.
A deep crack appeared the body of the Lord of Underworld. The two red light spots disappeared easily, like candlelight that was blown out.
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”My sincere appreciation and gratefulness, my Lord. I did not expect this at all… It was all my fault.” After losing the power for maintaining the human look, Asin now had gone back to his real look — an old centaur. As Asin spoke, his white beard swayed fiercely. He was obviously very upset.
The Lord of War, whose appearance was a middle-aged man wearing an eye patch, nodded. ”The enemy is too cunning, and the rest of the gods are too timid. You are the first one serving me in loyalty, and I will treat you well.
”This godhood is from a false god I killed last month. It suits you, so take it.”
A light ball was sent to Asin from the Lord of War's hand.
It was a great surprise to Asin, as he never expected that the Lord of War would make such a generous reward.
”My Lord, this is… godhood of the Morning Star?” Asin stammered.
”The Star of Morning, the Star of Dusk, the Incarnation of Love and Beauty, the Secret Death and Resurrection. After you take in the godhood, you will become Ell's main target,” Antanas said rather openly. The four duties coming from the godhood would be a great tempt to Ell, as nothing else other than the godhood of the Lord of Underworld and this one worked better for Ell to boost his power.
The Lord of War was using Asin as a bait, obviously. After a second of hesitation, Asin still took in the light ball. There was no other option.
As Asin absorbed the godhood gradually, His body started to change. Features of the centaur and the beard disappeared, the shape of human body resumed, but now Asin had turned into a gorgeous beauty with fine skin and blond hair.
”Good. From now on, you're the God of Love and Beauty, the Star of Morning and Dusk,” said Antanas, satisfied, as he reached out his right hand and touched Asin's face.
After Asin left, the hall became quiet again, and cold wind blew in. Antanas just stood there in silence for a long time.