Still, the ones who benefited the most from this campaign were neither the Players who each received a reward item, nor the Long Ears who managed to escape the Hyena-men and the Mountain Tigers' suppression and gain a wide margin of retreat. Instead, it was Xi Wei, who had been watching the show from the sidelines until the very end.
After the Roaring Blaze Tiger Warrior's death, the god sprout in his body would have completely vanished along with the Mountain Tigers.
Still, even if the god sprout had turned into chaotic energy, it was a manifestation of divine energy in itself.
Xi Wei, who had been watching everything from start to finish naturally seized the opportunity to take in the unowned energy, believing that he would be able to assimilate it into his own with just a little time.
In the first place, though the energy was very precise, it wasn't much in quantity. If he had to put it in perspective, it was about the same as the divine energy Xi Wei had scattered for the Players' equipment and EXP rewards, and it was worth it.
Still, Xi Wei unwittingly gave Angora, who had come to the Western Continent to watch the show, a new overlord quest. He had him build a statue of his own in the Western Continent — both the Unnamed Town and the Lancaster Hideout had temples of Xi Wei in which his statue was worshiped.
Anyone who wanted to join the God of Games' church had to start by worshiping the statue of his god. Reality had proven that the believers' devotion increased much faster with a physical object, and the ratio of them becoming true believers was much better than before, when they didn't even know what their god looked like and could only cultivate faith blindly.
At first, Xi Wei didn't hold out much hope and was just doing it out of convenience, and the quest he gave Angora was just a fortuitous encounter quest with no penalty.
But Angora became excited as if on steroids when he received the quest, muttering 'the God of Games really didn't forget about me' even as he had Vela find Rangka. Then, he went to Rangka and managed to convince the Long Ears who liked to 'pledge his allegiance' in the first place.
Rangka was also strangely helpful this time, and managed to convince the Long Ears' chief after a round of persuasion that the Players could build a statue in the Long Ears' village.
With the Overlord System in hand, Angora naturally showed the bumpkins of the Long Ears what a Player's speed was.
Less than five minutes after the Long Ears' chief agreed, a colossal divine statue that resembled the Cup of Hercules rose from the ground and stood at the center of the Long Ears' village, becoming a landmark that completely surpassed the chief's tent.
"How impressive." Rangka clicked his tongue in wonder at the golden goblet that was over five meters tall. "But why would your god lift a ball?"
"No. That ball is our god, and the people holding it down below symbolize us believers," Angora replied seriously.
[Rangka:]
"Let's forget about it this time. Rangka, remember not to mention this topic again if you join our church in the future."
"Divine retribution?" Rangka quickly understood.
"No, you will be banned."
Rangka:???
* * * Meanwhile, in his Divine Kingdom, Xi Wei wasn't too concerned about his believer's rather disrespectful words, and merely sensed the situation in the mortal realm in surprise.
He could sense that when the Titan Goblet — or rather, the statue of the God of Games was built, a small portion of the divine sprout that had been covering the skies above the Long Ears had melted and dispersed, gradually absorbed by the statue and transferred to Xi Wei's Divine Kingdom, becoming divine energy that Xi Wei could directly absorb.
Clearly, some of the Long Ears were envious and even longing to become beings like the Players after the Players' food drive and display of their powerful ability.
And the divine statue became the object that they relied on for that mentality.
That meant that the divine sprout of every nonhuman race in the Western Continent could be absorbed! As long as the Players could spread the name of the God of Games among the nonhuman races and build statues in every tribe, Xi Wei could definitely hide in the shadows and grow wretchedly in this land abandoned by other gods!
Even if he couldn't become a greater god after absorbing so many divine sprout, he would at least become an intermediate god like the Great Lion, wouldn't he?
Xi Wei was filled with determination at the very thought, and cast a kind look at the Players who were led by Zonyan in the mortal realm to stage the Prince's Vengeance.
Your god is looking down on you from the heavens!
While the assault on the Mountain Tigers' fortress wasn't a system-organized event, there were many Players who participated. Most of them were newbies who had just joined the Church of Games, and it could be said that it was their first collective event after joining the church.
Even celebrity Players such as Princess Leah had shown up to participate in the battle, and the scale of the event didn't lose out to any normal event.
In the end, the destruction of the Mountain Tigers was a glorious victory for the Players. Therefore, the event was naturally followed by a traditional celebration feast for the Players.
Although it was still a feast held in the Long Ears' territory, the atmosphere this time was entirely different.
After the statue of the God of Games was completed, the Long Ears had clearly opened their hearts to the Players and accepted them in the truest sense.
That was why the Players received a System notification, informing them that the Long Ears were now vassals of the Players, just like the frogmen of the Warty Tidal Flats.
That was Xi Wei's plan from the start.
As Xi Wei kept leveling up the complete version of the System, he had spent too much divine energy, and it was clearly difficult to recoup his investment on newbies.
That was why Xi Wei had specially prepared a castrated version of the System similar to the frogmen for nonhumans whose divine energy couldn't compare to humans.
What's there to be dissatisfied about since you could farm monsters to level up anyway?!
You want a complete version of the System? Sure, as long as you become devout believers, Xi Wei wouldn't mind upgrading the Eunuch System to a complete version …
Naturally, neither the Players nor the Long Ears paid attention to that. Today, they were simply mingling together, singing and eating barbecue with their arms around each other's shoulders, watching the Players who had collected the complete version of the dance duel on the temporary stage.
However, there was one person who was incompatible with this joyous and lively atmosphere.
It was Gerald, who kept blaming himself for not being able to save Marni.
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Chapter 274
Wretched development
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