Chapter 479: Project God Making (1/2)
GDK 479: Project God Making
Through that narrow fissure, Han Shuo’s glittering eyes stared fixedly at the few standing on the platform above the Ice Goddess statue, cautiously eavesdropping on their conversation.
“When will the project really be complete. It’s been more than a hundred years,” a disciple of the Shrine of Ice sighed.
“Ever since the start of Project God Making and up until now, our shrine has consumed incalculable labor and physical resources. And it has now come to the most critical moment. We must, under no circumstances, be careless. The reason our Shrine of Ice has always been pushed under the Church of Light and Calamity Church is all because our Shrine of Ice does not have our own true God on Profound Continent, without which miracles could never be performed in this world. That is why we couldn’t even recruit more followers. Once Project God Making succeeds, our Shrine of Ice will be able to change the current situation once and for all, and become a shrine that the entire continent will look up at. No more acting in accordance with the will of others,” another disciple came over and explained in a cold voice.
Project God Making?
Han Shuo was stunned by what he heard.
By now, Han Shuo had long accepted that there were indeed gods in this world. Evil goddess Rose, who previously attacked Han Shuo’s consciousness from across a few planes of existences; the Saintess that hid deep within the Sacred Mountain of the Church of Light; the six-horned tribal king of the Soul Race with unmatched might. All these were attestations to Han Shuo that Gods were, without a doubt, real.
However, from what Han Shuo knew, even the weakest God went through tens of millions of years of cultivation, and little by little came to comprehend the elements in the world or the true essence of nature’s laws. Only then, with some good fortune, could they break through their own shackles and become a God.
This really was the very first time Han Shuo had ever heard the term “God-making”. That remark was the most egotistical, most shocking thing he had heard in years. At this point, the Shrine of Ice was, in essence, wrecking his most basic understanding about gods.
Was a god really something that could be manufactured?
“This project is already in its final stages. In due time, we will be able to complete this venture, achieving the magnificent feat of directly evolving a Divinely Favored into a God in the span of only hundreds of years. What a grandeur endeavor this is! During this period, we cannot afford any slip-up,” one of the men said in a deep voice. His tone carried an inexplicable arrogance.
A Divinely Favored? Han Shuo was again bewildered. After processing it for another while, he became fully convinced of the validity of this project.
Those who possessed a Body of Divine Favor had body structures that were different to that of an average person and usually had special abilities. They could possess extraordinary strength like Janet did, or be like Elizabeth who had the ability to absorb divine energy.
There were also many of those Divinely Favoured who could easily form connections with certain elements in the world. Once they began practicing in that line of magic, they would make astonishing, unimaginable progress. They could achieve what an ordinary person achieved, but in perhaps just a tenth or even a hundredth of the time.
For what seemed an eternity, Han Shuo had been fascinated with those who possessed a Body of Divine Favor, and baffled by the special abilities that their unique bodies bestowed on them. After listening to the conversation between the few people above him, Han Shuo arrived at a simple realization.
Could it have been that those Divinely Favoured were descendants of the Gods?
“That’s enough. Let’s hurry up. Pour those energy crystals and leave!” one of them was somewhat impatient and urged.
After he finished his words, Han Shuo immediately started paying even closer attention to the platform above the statue. He saw that from their space rings, they took out crystal fragments containing intense water element, which they carefully held using magic, and then insert them into a small chink on the skull of the Ice Goddess statue.
Once the crystal fragments containing water element fell into the statue, they rapidly dissolved with the iced water composite within. Through the mixture, threads of water element gradually flowed into the naked young lady located at the womb of the statue.
In just a short amount of time, the men had deposited heaps energy crystals into the statue of the Ice Goddess. They carefully observed for a while and after making sure that the Ice Goddess statue was operating nominally, they finally retracted the platform that split open from the wall, disappearing from Han Shuo’s sight.
After the few had left, Han Shuo immediately turned all his attention back to this Ice Goddess statue. Gazing at this gigantic statue which the Shrine of Ice squandered for a hundred years to make, in his heart, he exclaimed in astonishment.
That young lady with cold, jade-like skin located inside the Ice Goddess statue showed no perceivable presence of life. She was like a unique receptacle, accumulating enormous amounts of energy from the iced water mixture in her body.
After pondering for a moment while staring at this Ice Goddess statue, Han Shuo made up his mind right away. He had to destroy this Ice Goddess statue, including what was within it that might produce a “true God”. Between the Shrine of Ice and Han Shuo, there existed only an absolutely irreconcilable bad blood. It was because the Shrine of Ice currently possessed no godly existences that Han Shuo could be on the offensive in his war against the Shrine of Ice.