Chapter 113 (1/2)
Translator: Sigma Editor: Sigma
Ray didn’t excel in practicing magic spells, as he could only cast a few. In fact he was just as capable of a bard in this regard. However, he was really good at recognizing certain spells, so he immediately saw what was really going on. Joseph had realized that he could not win, so he made his final move by burning himself and summoning the power of the God.
This spell was just a different kind of God Descending Spell and would have a better result compared to the one cast by Sean. This spell may cost more, which meant that every time this spell was practiced, a powerful and faithful follower would be the sacrifice.
As for the church that had a huge number of faithful followers, like the church of the God of Sun, sacrificing a powerful and faithful follower would not be a big deal. While the church of the Goddess of Harvest was just a church of a medium size, and there were just a few followers who were as strong as Joseph, and the Goddess of Harvest would feel sorry if any of them died.
The Goddess of Harvest was furious, and showed her doppelgänger which had infinite divine power, eagerly hoping to kill one of the God of Quagmire’s doppelgängers who had tried various ways to provoke her, and teach it a good lesson!
Ray didn’t want to stay in the battlefield where the war between the two Gods was going to begin, even if it was in fact a war between two doppelgängers of the Goddess of Harvest and the God of Quagmire! Since a war between between the Gods could cause huge damage, sometimes a country could be totally destroyed, and Ray was just a ordinary person, so he thought it was best for him to run away.
Ray and Steele were running as if on wings, and soon they managed to catch up with the people who were also running for their lives. Madame Teague, Liv, Rank and young Nice were anxiously waiting for them and were relieved upn seeing Ray and Steele come back.
Although things were not as good as they thought they would be, luckily, Ray and others in the team were still alive.
There were not many people now, and everyone felt frightened when realizing that earlier before there were a huge number of people gathering in the plaza.
“The God of Quagmire is crazy!” Ray was furious and didn’t care about the etiquette of calling a God by his alias at all. Then he said angrily, “After having killed so many people at one time, is he not afraid that the God of Justice would hold him to this?”
The God of Justice was a very special existence among all the Gods, neither had he built a Holy Kingdom of his own, nor had he built a church. He had a strong sense of justice and usually sent out his doppelgängers from time to time and was ready to help the weak. Besides, more than once, he had gotten into a fight with other Gods simply because he didn’t like the way they unfairly treated the people. And the God of Quagmire’s doing so was sure to anger him, and he would definitely have a big fight with the God of Quagmire.
When it came to combat effectiveness, few Gods were as strong as the God of Justice.
For a God who was backed up by a group of powerful Gods that belong to a certain department, he may dare to care nothing about the God of Justice, but the God of Quagmire was just a unpopular figure among the Gods of Nature, and had angered the Goddess of Harvest. How did he dare to do so?
Ray had been thinking about this for a long time, and couldn’t think it through even if his head began to ache. At last, he had no choice but to believe that the reason why the God of Quagmire did this was due to the mental disorder that a God of this kind could have. The bard usually said that “one who is mentally disordered usually did things in a peculiar way.”
Madame Teague sighed and said, “We should hurry, things are going to get worse, maybe there will be a bigger fight.”
Ray nodded and thought a while, then he shouted to the people who were running for their lives and asked them to follow him, and leave from the east gate close to the bay.
To do so, they would have to make a big circle of the city, since there were only two gates: one on the east side of the city and the other on the west side. If they meant to leave from the west gate, they would have to cross the plaza, so they could only leave from the east gate.
These people who were in such chaos listened to him and quickly ran to the east gate. More and more citizens of Garth City realized that there would be bigger fight soon, so they also joined the people running toward the east gate.
Right at this moment, a loud blast came from the plaza.
“What on earth has happened!” Ray angrily turned back and saw the sticky monster had countless bubbles all over its body, and there were even some holes on its body. Obviously, these holes were caused by the inner explosion, it seemed that it had eaten something that could explode, and it had exploded inside of its body.
Ray was stunned and saw that inside its stomach, there was a transparent figure shining in green light, and it was doing some sort of magic spell.
But since he was standing too far away from it, he could not clearly see what the transparent figure looked like. Judging from its behaviour and bearing, Ray found that it was Haley Riley who had been eaten alive by the sticky monster earlier before.
“What is going on? She died, didn’t she?”
Ray was confused and quickly swept his eyes over Steele and knew the reason why Haley became like this.
Could Haley… became the holy spirit of the Goddess of Harvest when she died?
Maybe she hadn’t become a holy spirit, but undoubtedly, she changed into a divine creature from a human’s soul and grew much more powerful.
In fact, only a follower in the high level of a certain God’s church could receive the divine grace from a certain God based on how much contribution they had made, after they died and became a powerful divine creature. While for those ordinary followers, no matter how faithful they were or how much contribution they had made, they could never become a powerful divine creature when they died.
Thinking of this, Ray sneered, turned around and left since he knew neither the Goddess of Harvest nor the God of Quagmire, and the fight between the two was just dog-eat-dog.
Meanwhile, in the plaza, Joseph had completely turned into the incarnation of the Goddess of Harvest, a ball of green fire, and was having a fight with Sean, who had been possessed by the God of Quagmire. While the powerful men of all the churches and organizations who had survived were working with Haley, who had become a divine creature, to combat the huge sticky monster.