Chapter 348 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Souls were delicate for both humans and gods.

To finish transforming Elder Grand’s soul, the Goddess of Bumper Harvest had been refurbishing it repeatedly with Divine Power. Though she tried hard to control the power each time to avoid even the slightest backwash and minimize any possible harm to Elder Grand’s soul, the refurbishment turned out to be so much that it exceeded the limit.

What was worse, it was the “limit” of the god’s part of the soul that had been used up. In other words, since the god’s part of the soul had failed in getting through to the injuries, the remaining human’s part of the soul had collapsed.

Before that, the elder’s soul had been supported by the surrounding transformed parts of the soul like a solid foundation. But once the foundation had broken down and couldn’t support anymore, the soul became as fragile as sand sculptures exposed to violent storms and waves. It collapsed in no time.

Moreover, the broken part of the soul was exactly the core part of Elder Grand.

That made sense. Over the past few years, he had been continuously pursuing his own dream and tempering his soul. Though he had decided to give up now, the last bit for him to give away would surely be the most critical part.

He was like an old man who would sometimes forget about house chores or what he had eaten or seen, but his most unforgettable memories would never fade away. Old men usually enjoyed talking about stories of their young age, their great successes, bitter failures, saddest partings, unforgettable reunions, romantic love, etc. They recalled their parents, their wife, and their children, even though they might not still be around because these were the greatest memories.

For Elder Grand, the most unforgettable and difficult thing to let go was the path he had been going along all throughout his life.

His unwillingness to abandon his path had prevented him from taking the one proposed by the Goddess of Bumper Harvest. Once his most critical path had been destroyed, so had his entire soul.

This had happened so fast that there was no chance to save it. Though the Goddess of Bumper Harvest had reacted in time and immediately tried to force the breaking soul to gather again with its Divine Power, her efforts would just be in vain. Saving a core-breaking soul would be impossible even with the joint efforts of several great Divine Powers.

In no more than one or two seconds, Elder Grand’s soul had completely shattered into countless luminous spots.

His body, though without the soul now, was still transforming with Divine Power. Without the binding soul, the physical body quickly finished the last phase of transformation and turned into a glowing figure.

That was an Oracle who was far more powerful than Elder Grand had ever been in his life. But it was meaningless for the Goddess of Bumper Harvest or the God Ceremony.

It was so disastrous to lose an Oracle created only with sufficient time and Divine Power and sacrifice the only demigod in the church!

Apart from Elder Grand’s death, the Goddess of Bumper Harvest had also been injured.

She was connected to Elder Grand by the Divine Current while leading the God Ceremony. She had been seriously injured by the disturbed current caused by the collapse of Elder Grand’s soul.

Having taken a hit, the Goddess of Bumper Harvest’s body in the God’s Kingdom started to topple, and blood came out from her nose and mouth. Instead of cleaning or healing herself, she struggled and insisted on dealing with the more urgent thing—the thing on the ground.

Elder Grand’s soul had collapsed, the ceremony had failed, and the great Divine Powers were smashed; an earthshaking explosion was about to take place any minute.

It would carry no smaller power than the previous one that hit Garth City. Being filled with Divine Powers, the entire Rem City was like a giant bomb. Once it was blown up, even the Goddess of Bumper Harvest’s God’s Kingdom would be affected by the Divine Current!

Gods saw their God’s Kingdoms as the real entity of themselves, so an exploded God’s Kingdom would be like losing a part of themselves. That was why the Goddess of Bumper Harvest had to ignore her injuries to control and reorganize her Divine Powers and prevent the likely explosion.

After her tireless efforts, she finally managed to bring back control of the Divine Powers to her God’s Kingdom. She had no more energy to look after the praying followers on the ground or those church seniors who had already come to realize what was going on there.

This was a grievous defeat, and now she needed to heal and recover herself even though she didn’t know how long that would take.

During her recovery, the Divine Powers to be released would be limited and so would be the response to praying. She would be able to maintain a much smaller size of the church.

Of course, this newly created “God’s Kingdom” would have no future and eventually disappear to a negligible page in history.