The curtains fell on the Twin City Cup. Mufasa successfully defeated the monk of the Brilliant White Church in the finals held after the defeat of Aojo, becoming the champion.
In a good mood, Xi Wei gifted him the Undying Slash, a legendary weapon exclusive to the Swordmaster class. As its name suggested, it was a special attack against all undead creatures, nullifying regeneration and nullifying any undying effects below the level of Laws.
While the Undying Slash's attack value was not much different from the original longsword, its durability was several times higher. For Players who walked the path of Kengyoku and often parried with their weapons — in other words, smithing — it was much more beneficial than pure damage. After all, no one would want their sword to break in the middle of a show of skill, or it wouldn't be a show of skill, but a show of skill …
Mufasa seemed to like it very much, even hugging the Undying Slash to sleep over the last two days.
Moreover, while Aojo appeared to have been blown up by the Players, its core had been destroyed by Jessica's elven sacred spear and was sacrificed to Xi Wei's divine kingdom along with a part of its body, allowing Xi Wei to study it carefully.
Even so, Xi Wei didn't find any clues about the mastermind behind it.
It was as if Aojo was nothing more than a monster mutated from a normal human who had plundered and retained divine energy through a certain method.
The core that was sacrificed was the part where Aojo stored its divine energy, and it had mutated from normal body parts into a crystalline structure. If Xi Wei couldn't find a suitable way to handle it, the crystallization would continue, and Aojo itself would crystallize. After all, divine energy wasn't something most creatures could touch.
The divine energy in the core was impure and heterogeneous, and there was no way to absorb it normally — Xi Wei had the feeling that he would get a stomach ache if he swallowed it whole.
That was why he simply summoned the First Flame and burned the core, refining it into pure divine energy.
The First Flame was a good way to purify divine energy, but it was a pity that the cost was too high. That one flame burned away seventy percent of the divine energy, leaving less than thirty percent, but it was better than nothing.
In comparison, the other side's faith was much more abundant.
With the end of the Twin City Cup, the Players who had shone brilliantly in the tournament entered the eyes of the public as believers of the God of Games. That was why Xi Wei's stock price as the God of Games skyrocketed, just as the growth curve of his believers skyrocketed.
This kind of power of faith that came from their own believers was the best for the gods. It was easy to digest and easy to absorb.
The substantial influx of divine energy allowed Xi Wei to directly break through the barrier he had been stuck at all along, ascending from Lesser God to Intermediate God!
Xi Wei couldn't help but sigh at the terrifying profits.
Hyping up was good for a while, and hyping up was good for a while …
After becoming an Intermediate God and rising from third-rate to second-rate, Xi Wei finally felt a little more confident.
Although he still couldn't defeat the Sea God, if his previous plan was discovered by the other party, he would probably be hung up and hammered into a target.
But no matter what, he finally had the capital to face the Skeleton God, who was also a second-rate God.
On the other hand, becoming an Intermediate God meant that he was free from the label of cannon fodder. Even if a divine war really broke out, he would have the right to participate as a chess player instead of a chess piece.
Of course, there were good and bad things. After ascending as an Intermediate God using a major event like the Twin City Cup as an opportunity, he would definitely be exposed to more gods, and he wouldn't be able to develop quietly like before.
It was foreseeable that in the near future, some restless gods would instruct their believers to cause trouble for Xi Wei.
"Still, it's hard to prevent it even if I think about it. All I can do is keep an eye out."
Still, Xi Wei had another piece of good news.
There was progress in the investigation he had asked Aslan the Great Lion to investigate.
In fact, it wasn't really an investigation. The Great Lion seemed to have reacted to the name 'Finnia' when he spoke to him, but he didn't directly tell Xi Wei whether he was afraid that the call would be eavesdropped or that he needed to organize his thoughts, and instead chose to visit Finnia directly.
"I remember it clearly. It was a flowering season in the Third Age, when the gods had yet to be confined to their divine kingdoms by the Trinity …"
"Are you going into storytelling mode the moment you arrive?" Xi Wei said helplessly as he stared at the Great Lion who appeared to be reminiscing about the past. "And it's first-person too."
"Then why don't you show me how to scram first? I'll take it as payment for the investigation."
"Go on, I'll pour you a drink …"
Xi Wei rolled his eyes, and reached out with his tentacles to pull out a shaker out of nowhere and start rattling it.
"The world is like an intricate instrument built by the Trinity. Everything within the instrument operates by its own rules and principles, but even the most intricate instrument would occasionally make mistakes after years of operation."
Aslan didn't bother to argue with Xi Wei, and continued his story. "In that flowering season, a special child was born in the Prime Material Plane. It was a human girl, and she was no different from a normal human except for one thing … "
"She couldn't believe in any god," Aslan said quietly. "It didn't matter how pious she was," Aslan said quietly. "Her prayers wouldn't reach the ears of the gods, and her sorrow wouldn't touch the heartstrings of the gods. In fact, it was difficult for us gods to actively observe her. She was treated as a non-believer, and was persecuted by many churches and nations. She wandered from place to place for her entire life, and finally died in loneliness and despair. "
Aslan paused. "But that was just the beginning of the tragedy."
Xi Wei opened the bottle and poured Aslan a wobbly lump of jelly. Then, a slit appeared on the jelly and shouted like a mouth, "Hurry up, hurry up! Broken chapter * ss! "
The Great Lion crushed the jelly with his foot before continuing. "She couldn't be contained by the gods, and naturally wasn't discovered by the God of Death at the time. At the time, Lord Hades was still playing with mud in some corner of the world — either way, even death wasn't the end of her despair. An eternity of agony and loneliness tormented her, and she finally went completely mad. "
"Her frenzied spirit attracted a similarly despairing soul, and she became the vessel of those despair and pain, changing horribly … When we gods noticed it, it was already too late. She had completely fallen, becoming a newborn Evil God of Despair — "
"— [Divine Injustice, Eternal Pain]."
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