Chapter 586: I’ve Become a God! (1/2)
GDK 586: I’ve Become a God!
Years before, when Han Shuo was assassinating a grand duke, he suddenly lost self-control with his mind occupied by lust. When Han Shuo came to his senses, he resisted this powerful energy forcibly altering his temperament and paid a huge price for it.
After many years, with Han Shuo now having become a god, he realized that the energy he previously felt came from spider goddess Rose. However, as they were separated by many material planes, Rose’s energy was greatly diminished and therefore she did not manage to subvert Han Shuo.
This debt of blood had always been on Han Shuo’s mind and he long had the intention of killing spider goddess Rose. When he returned to Brettel City to learn from Stratholme that Adele had actually established shrines within his territories and appropriated his power of faith from the citizens of Brettel City, naturally, Han Shuo was outraged.
By using the altar at the center of the temple and with Adele as the medium, Han Shuo had successfully conveyed his wrath to spider goddess Rose. After obliterating Adele’s soul, she had absolutely no possibility of another resurrection.
All signs of life on her completely vanished. After casually letting go of her, Adele’s powerless body collapsed onto the pool of blood. Han Shuo placed one finger on the center of the altar. Ruthless energy was suddenly released, shattering the altar into pieces.
After his avatars cultivating in the energy death and destruction became gods, Han Shuo gained some understanding as to how gods collected the power of faith. The altar Han Shuo shattered had the function of converging the power of faith and was the key communication link between spider goddess Rose and her disciples. Now that this altar was destroyed, without a mighty follower of hers rebuilding one, Rose would not be able to communicate with the souls of her disciples.
Take, for example, Han Shuo’s lowgod of death avatar; although separated material planes away, he could still receive the power of faith from the Abyss realm. Han Shuo could even vaguely sense the thoughts of those disciples that received Han Shuo’s Baptismal Radiance back in the Void.
Faith was an unusual matter which was incorporeal and yet clearly detectable. Through faith, Han Shuo could form some kind of mysterious connection with his disciples. What’s more, if those disciples of Han Shuo’s constructed an altar at the Abyss realm, they could even acquire a direct connection with Han Shuo even if they were separated innumerable material planes away. Han Shuo could also bestow upon his disciples some of his energy through it.
Back then at the slave trading house of Valen City, Han Shuo once saw the scene where the three-eyed evil god manifested himself through bones and flesh in a pond of blood when a necromancer had successfully acquired a connection with the god using the bloody altar. These worked on the same principle.
Han Shuo killed Adele and destroyed the altar, removing the roots of all evil altogether. However, those believers who were blocked outside of his invisible boundary still looked hatefully at him. They seemed to be ready to charge forward at any moment and dismember Han Shuo’s body into a million pieces.
“I’m the City Lord of Brettel City. This woman was the root cause of rebellion and I’ve given her the death penalty. I now declare that from this moment onwards, within Brettel City and its territories, the practice of worshipping spider goddess Rose is outlawed,” Han Shuo announced plainly as he gazed at the people of Brettel City with cold eyes.
However, even as Han Shuo finished those words, he discovered that the animosity in these people’s eyes was still showing as before. It appeared that they did not abandon their faith towards spider goddess Rose just because he was the City Lord of Brettel City.
Once a commoner handed over their faith, it would usually be very difficult for them to walk out from this kind of influence. Although Han Shuo had an outstanding reputation compared to Rose who they had worshipped as their goddess for several years, Han Shuo fell far behind in terms of influence.
Seeing the hostility in their eyes, Han Shuo realized how thorny the problem was. Unless spider goddess Rose somehow died or these people somehow realized just how impotent their religion was by themselves, Han Shuo had no way of immediately making these people leave from this kind of influence.
These people were citizens of Brettel City. Although their minds were deeply poisoned by Adele’s brainwashing, they mustn’t be killed. It appeared that all Han Shuo could do was to give it time and slowly purge the influence from their souls.
“From today onwards, all temples of the spider goddess within Brettel City will be destroyed. No one shall pray and worship in her temples anymore,” Han Shuo bluntly commanded.
Every time a believer piously worshipped at a shrine or temple, their dependence towards the god they believed in would deepen, increasing the influence on their soul. Due to reasons such as how staunch one’s willpower was and the length of time one had practiced the faith, different believers would be dependent on their faith to different degrees.
For example, the zealots of the Church of Light were some of the most extreme and fanatical believers. For these people, the god they believed in was their everything. Unless the god they believed in was killed, there would be no way to convert them. Additionally, this sort of people would kill others practicing any other religion without a care for their own lives!
For their kind, it was only through killing that all sins could be ridden!
When it came to Rose’s followers in Brettel City, as the indoctrination had been rather brief and not as intense, they have yet to sink to that level of fanaticism and zealotry. As long as they were slowly rehabilitated and guided step by step, they would walk out from the influence of spider goddess Rose sooner or later.