1041 Original Sin Part 1 (1/2)

Theisio was less than a hundred miles away from Guderian City. He intended to rush to the city, but the oracle had other thoughts.

The other two oracles remained back in Holy City. If he knew what had just happened was going to happen, Theisio would not have allowed the oracle to tag along.

He felt like slapping himself. If he had not insisted on asking for three days off, the oracle would not have gotten interested in leaving Holy City.

The trip had been awful. The oracle was interested in just about everything they saw and wanted research everything. Theisio had began to suspect if that oracle was simply a mage in disguise.

But then again, mages would not have a temper as bad as the oracle's. After spending some time with them, Theisio was shocked at the true nature of the oracle.

Greedy, lustful, feverish, distrustful, pretentious...

All of the shortcomings mentioned by their god were shown in the oracle. Aren't these oracles beings closest to god? They were only a little over than a hundred miles from Guderian City, but the oracle altered their flight path and took Theisio to the mountains and dove into the cave.

Theisio was almost rendered mad by the oracle's antics. The cave had many twists and turns, leading deep into the ground. He had no idea why the oracle had insisted on going to such depths to search the place. Is there a beautiful female adherent waiting below or something?

The regal, shinning figure of the oracle shimmered, attracting all sorts of bugs and monsters below ground, which attacked them. The oracle killed all of them. Holy Light Shimmer alone proved adequate to overwhelm all beings below level seven. It felt like a scenario where two sides were at war, but one side simply blew at their enemy and won.

”Lord Oracle, may I ask what are you looking for down here?” Theisio was unable to help but ask.

”Something a heretic god left behind, probably shards of divine persona.” The oracle answered without bothering to hide anything. Their level was one whole level higher than Theisio's and had far greater power of faith compared to him. They did not fear what Theisio was capable of pulling to go against them.

Divine persona shards!

Theisio was shocked. The oracle continued, ”That might not be it, maybe just some god bones or snuffed out seeds of divine fire.”

The oracle answered in a natural manner, not even bothering to add other descriptive words like 'heretic god.'

Their advent was not ordained by their god. The Lord of Glory was fighting a war and the gods of other planes had already invaded the kingdom of gods. The three oracles went absent without leave from the battlefield and somehow managed to get summoned by Theisio.

”Lord Oracle!”

”Alright, alright, Theisio. Whatever you're dealing with, it's nothing compared to what's at hand here.” The oracle cut Theisio off impatiently. In their eyes, an army of over a million-strong waiting for his orders to launch a full frontal assault was something completely insignificant.

If the oracle was able to find broken divine personas, light up their own divine fire, break through the limit of level 13 and finally devour the shards of divine persona, they would be able to advance to the ranks of demigod.

Myers Mainland is really a nice place. No wonder countless gods back then had tried to conquer the place. There is just so much wealth and so many secrets to be found on the mainland.

”My lord, there is a million-strong army waiting for us!” Theisio had enough. He had been planning the operation solely to lure Saleen out. He had found the weakness of the mage that earned the oracle's attention, the defiler, and that weakness was his loved ones.

”Alright, Theisio. You're afraid that your target is going to run off somewhere else, correct? If we can find whatever is down there, even if he's going to run back to that Metatrin City you speak of, I'd simply go to tear the city down myself,” the oracle said without a care. They only gained such confidence after descending to that plane. A level 12 oracle caught in the midst of a war between kingdoms of gods was but a mid-level officer.

Despite having their powers reduced by one whole level after descending to that plane, the oracle still had the rules they controlled with them. No one would be good enough to fight me.

It's best if the Lord of Glory ends up dead. That wretched a** has been assimilating heavens of each planes into his kingdom of gods, trying to fight his enemy to the death. According to the oracle's estimations, even if the Lord of Glory was able to survive, he would have to go into deep sleep. A god who entered deep sleep would not be able to remember who the oracle was.

If the oracle were able to get their hands on the divine persona shards and wiped out the other two, they would be able to do whatever they fancied.

The oracle laughed sheepishly at the thought. Their voice travelled deep into the cave, causing rocks to fall from above from the tremor.

Theisio was exasperated. He was unable to do anything but to take whatever the oracle said seriously. If the oracle is indeed capable of destroying Metatrin City, good for us. We can finally rest easy after that prick is gone.

They went more than a mile deep, and the air was clammy and hot, as well as very dry. The complexity of the cave exceeded designs of some magic labyrinths. The oracle cared little about that due to having left behind many markings along the way. They even created a temporary coordinate at the entrance, allowing them to leave Theisio behind and run away on their own if anything untoward was to happen.

Divine persona shards are not something that one could get their hands on easily after all. The same goes for seeds of divine fire.