1530 A Mages Deception Part 1 (2/2)

The goddess' body had become a forbidden tree. The tree was filled with fruits, and all of them looked jade green. As time blitzed past, the green fruits quickly matured. One by one, they cracked and dropped onto the temple's altar.

All of the fruits shriveled before even hitting the ground, all energies in them sucked out.

Among the thousands of fruits, only one managed to drop onto the altar in one piece.

The divine beast went up carefully and spit out a divine persona, putting it before the fruit. The fruit cracked and a figure the size of a thumb emerged.

That figure was none other than the goddess herself. She had to re-sculpt her body before being able to purge all of the effects of the Heretic God's power of the Source completely.

After taking the Heretic God's body and gaining most of its power of the Source, the goddess had what it would take to become the most powerful being in the world. The power of Myers Mainland had been completely restored, and no one would be able to pose a threat to her any longer.

The goddess smiled as her body gradually grew taller, returning to her original size within mere moments. She stretched for a bit. Her naked body was blown by the wind, and a pleased expression was seen on her face.

The forbidden tree wilted, but she did not care about it. She picked up the divine persona and gulped it down.

That was not how a piece of divine persona worked, but after returning to her powers at level 18, how it was done no longer mattered. The important thing was that she had regained mastery of the highest rules of the crystal wall system.

”I wonder how our puny mage is doing?” There is nothing she had to be worried about at present. She took out her plane map and opened it. Despite the fact that her power of the Source was capable of enveloping the entire Myers Mainland, enabling her to check out any given place at any given time, doing so would cause quite a drain in her powers of the Source.

She had yet to plan to leave that crystal wall system, so if she were to keep using such powers, Myers Mainland would quickly fall into decline, returning to how it had once been.

”Hmm?” She looked for Saleen, but she was unable to find him on the plane map. She had also lost track of the level 18 scroll.

So that guy was probably afraid of her.

The goddess chuckled and said to the divine beast, ”alright, I'm going to resurrect our brothers and sisters. Stay here and be on the lookout for the mage called Saleen. Tell me as soon as he emerges.”

The divine beast yelped reluctantly, but the goddess paid no heed to it, heading right outside the temple.

The tablet contained her followers, angels, oracles and powerful apostles of the Nature Faith. After consuming over half of the Heretic God's powers and the divine persona that she had hidden before, she became confident of being able to resurrect all of the people.

Brilliant light lit up on the Mountain without End. All the powerful magic beasts in the area looked at the top of the Mountain without End in fright. That power was supreme and every single intelligent being was unable to help but step forward, heading towards the mountain to worship the god within.

The magic beasts in the Purgatory Dessert sensed something as well. However, given how the temple's aura was sealed, the magic beasts were only able to discover the emergence of the great power instinctively, and it had shaken their souls.

The accidental burst of power, the one time where the goddess simply did as she pleased, rattled all the powerful beings throughout the dessert.

The divine beast stayed inside the temple and watched. After spending over a month waiting in boredom, it roared suddenly.

It looked at Saleen, finding that damned mage seemed to have advanced yet again. It was unable to fathom how it had been possible. The divine beast had seen him as a piece of trash, given how his talents were nowhere near extraordinary, so much so that even calling him 'average' would have been an overstatement.

Saleen had indeed advanced, but the advancement was rather incomplete. He had been training in the Hall of Gods for over 10,000 years, and still he had not been able to fulfill his wish. He had barely gotten to level 17, yet unlike the past, he was unable to gain the most powerful combat prowess of the level.

The only thing that evolved was his magic chords. He still knew little about rules.

That was very peculiar. It was usually impossible to get to level 16 without mastering complete rules, but Saleen had actually skipped level 16 and had gotten to level 17 instead.

The contract he signed with the Heretic God had long expired. Saleen went on to purify the other half of the Heretic God's power of the Source and absorbed it himself, which was what resulted in his advancement. If a god were to do so, they would have been able to completely absorb such powers of the Source, and would have definitely become a level 18 god, albeit only becoming the weakest of level 18 gods by doing so.

It was fortunate that Dante had gotten to level 17 as well, meaning that they would have enough to kill the Lord of Glory.

Saleen was surprised to find, when he emerged, that his teacher had gotten to the pinnacle state of level 16. While he was already at level 17, he still felt rather helpless before his teacher.

The most surprised of them all was Guffen the frost dragon. It was shocked to find that Saleen had been able to jump two levels after only training in isolation for a month. It of course had no idea that once a level 18 divine persona was embedded into the Hall of Gods, all kinds of possibilities could have happened.

The greatest use that served was to aid the one who was training inside.

Entering the Hall of Gods meant that one would gain multiple powerful lineages, so long as you were able to pay ample price, which was the divine persona.