Chapter 176 (1/2)
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The God of Justice sent over the weapon that he normally used, a holy battle-axe of higher order, called “Courage.”
The axe was only a normal lumber axe back then, and Yorgaardman was only a common lumberjack in the north countryside back then too.
Lumberjacks did tough work and the income was very low. They would also be exploited by the owner of lumber mill. So many lumberjacks would fell trees illegally in the forest.
It was of course dangerous, as the nobles declared that the entire forest belonged to the feudal lord, chopping any tree and any blade of grass would be a great offense. Plus, the extreme Druids viewed anyone who chopped trees as an enemy of nature and swore to punish such criminals. Not taking those mentioned earlier into consideration, the beasts, snakes and insects in the forest itself were dangerous enough.
Yorgaardman was a brawny man. He had great physical strength and courage, and he was quiet in response. He brought along a few friends with him to fall trees illegally. Regardless of snakes, insect or beasts, nothing could stop them. Every time they chopped a tree, they planted some saplings. That way they gained forgiveness from the Druids. But for feudal lord’s tax officer and patrolling soldiers; they wouldn’t tolerate with that!
Even so, their income weren’t high. The logs wouldn’t be able to sell for much. The bunch of lumberjacks couldn’t pick up any carpenter craftsmanship and the illegal timber could only be sold to smuggler. Although they omitted the exploitation of lumber mill, they were then exploited by the businessmen.
Then, he still managed to earn some money. After a while, he had a friend that fell sick. He and a few friends spent all their savings on a priest from God of Businessmen but didn’t manage to save the friend’s life.
Not long after, he saved two adventurers that were nearly killed by a black bear. He heard from the adventurers that the expenses of the magic “illness removal” only cost half the money that they spent.
He found it unbelievable. But, with the assistance of the adventurers that thanked him for saving their lives, he kidnapped the secretary of a temple and found out that after the priest took their money, the priest didn’t provide any sort of treatment to their friend, but fed their friend with an expired medication to fool them.
Yorgaardman who bristled with anger caused chaos at the temple and killed the temple; then became a wanted man. Since then, he wandered all over the world and became a lonely adventurer. The only thing that kept him company was the old lumber axe that never left his side.
Time flew past like a shuttle. It had been a few centuries, and Yorgaardman took action to uphold justice wherever he went and left many touching legends behind. Later on when he successfully became a God, he became the God of Justice. The lumber axe was then his designated holy weapon and He named it “Courage.”
Courage derived from one’s heart, simple but pure, needless of any modification and assistance. Because it itself was the source of power.
When Sui Xiong picked up the axe, admonition rang in his heart.
With a faint smile, Sui Xiong waxed the awe-inspiring lumber axe. With one light swing, almost all the devils within a few hundred miles were chopped into two pieces.
Although the axe looked crude and ugly, its power was shocking. The blood stain on it was from the God of Businessmen. Ever since Yorgaardman became a God, the first thing He did was find the God of Businessmen’s holy kingdom, barge in, and kill the bastard that encouraged such unscrupulous merchants. There were a few openings from a few strong Gods like the God of War. Those were traces that were left behind from the war between the God of Justice and Them.
His most recent war was that he dashed on the Wheel of Order to challenge the great Master of Gods. No one knew the exact situation of the war but Yorgaardman was upset after the war and admitted his defeat. On the other hand, the Master of Order who was grim and ruthless didn’t kill the betrayer but complimented His courage and looked forward to his next challenge.
One day, I will go to the Wheel of Order again, to make that stubborn old man recognize my logic and make amendments of the world’s order!
The God of Justice roared through the holy weapon and it reverberated in Sui Xiong’s head. Then, it was followed by a powerful strength and gave him an illusion. He felt that as long as he had the axe in his hands, no matter how many devils there were, how many Kings of Devils there were, he could kill them all!
Sui Xiong quickly eliminated the blind confidence that was utterly groundless. He waved the lumber axe all over and put into play some self-taught axe skills twice and the world was in peace again. There were any devil armies but in his world, there was a thunderstorm of devil’s dead bodies that covered the entire sky.
There was a devil’s dead body that was extremely huge, almost the size of half a world. It was the King of Devil from the world before. Sui Xiong didn’t know when he killed it. Maybe the guy kept his strength in secret and hid among the bunch of devils, planned to launch a surprise attack but was swung dead by the axe.
After dealing with these stumbling blocks, Sui Xiong laughed and continued to drag the worlds that got even heavier to fly forward. Then, he noticed that the lumber axe’s shine was dull, especially the back of the axe. It even appeared to be rusty.
“The hell! A holy weapon of higher order can rust too?”
He cried out in shock and quickly rubbed it with his tentacles. But after he rubbed it, not only did the rust not disappear, it worsened.
Sui Xiong was stunned and pondered. He then finally guessed the reason.
A holy weapon is an item of order. Although the attributes are relatively opposed to each other and could bring about huge damage to the devils, against the Abyss that was filled with Chaotic Power, it was like metal left open in moist air without protection. Hence, it was easily corroded.
After understanding that, he was suddenly unwilling to hold the precious holy weapon in his hands but cast magic to make an outer shell of power of order, to wrap up the axe named Courage.