Jom held back his impatience despite finally seeing the light of the quest's completion. He did not interrupt the man's narration, and instead waited patiently for him to continue.
"Clearly, in their desperation, the humans could not decipher the dwarves' technology, which was why they made the foolish decision to use a divine relic from the last era to forcefully activate those weapons …"
"A divine relic?" Terry said by reflex. "Shouldn't an item a god left in the Prime Material Plane be called a divine relic?"
"That's when that god still exists — or at least when his Authority is still in operation, human child." The wise man did not blame him for interrupting, and instead continued amiably. "When a god falls and its original Authority is lost, the objects he left in the world are divine relic. Unlike divine relic, they are rather unstable after losing their creator. While they could unleash greater power than a divine relic, the price is that they and their wielder would be destroyed together. "
"In other words, they took the bombs and blew the dwarves' weapons awake, right?" Terry clapped his hands together in sudden realization with an expression that said 'I'm slowly understanding everything'.
"That's right. You could understand it that way."
The wise man replied slowly.
Naturally, it was not that simple. Jom believed that the wise man did not intend to explain further and confuse Terry further, which was why he said that.
"There's no telling if it was a coincidence or the humans did it on purpose, but the divine relic they brought came from Wendy, the Wind God … and half of the Wind God's Authority has become the authority of Lord Sothor, whom we worship."
"And the other half?" Terry asked.
"In the hands of Babatos, the King of Howling, a publicly acknowledged evil god," the wise man added.
A thread had been opened in the Player forums, and the program that was broadcasting their quest had posted it.
After a while, Old Man Vanke replied.
As the Minister of Etiquette of Tierra, Old Vanke's knowledge was second only to the Minister of Culture who was in charge of the Faculty of Arts, and he knew more about rural history.
[Vanke: The Lord of Howling Babatos is indeed a famous Evil God, but it is said that he was a subordinate of the Wind God Wendy in the previous era. After the Wind God fell, he had always wanted to seize the Wind God's Authority from the God of Sky and Thunder Sotor to revive the Wind God Wendy, which was why Sotor classified him as an Evil God.]
[Jim: Old Mister Vanke, you even know about this gossip between the gods?]
[Vanke: In the past, the Brilliant White Church had spread a lot of rumors about the other Divine Fathers in order to attack the faith of the other seven Divine Fathers so that they could claim more believers. I think it might be useful, so I recorded it all down.]
[Princess Doesn't Want to Learn: Should I say, as expected of the Brilliant White Church, to actually do something like this …]
[Vanke: This isn't even a stain on the Brilliant White Church's record. They've done plenty of disgusting things. By the way, Your Royal Highness, have you finished your homework for today?]
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"The Wind God's Relic had transferred part of its divine power into those weapons, causing them to wreak havoc when they woke up … that was when the Bods' city was destroyed."
Naturally, the sage of the Bods wouldn't know that Jim, who appeared to be listening attentively, was actually messing around and continuing his story.
"We were powerless against those weapons, and in the end decided to leave and look for a new place to settle down. Even so, we were too naive. Those war machines had terrifying mobility and wouldn't stop until they killed all their targets, and the divine power that flowed into their bodies gave them enough energy to do so … In the end, the Bods, who once had tens of thousands of citizens, had no choice but to split into dozens of small settlements and flee in all directions … "
"As the Great Sky Prophet, I was naturally one of the people who led the retreat. Unfortunately, we were targeted by a weapon while we were retreating. No matter how we tried to escape, we couldn't avoid the fate of being caught up." The sage sighed. "That was why I had no choice but to lead everyone and set up a barrier in this forest, trapping that weapon here!"
"Could it be …"
Jem looked surprised.
"That's right. That thing is right under this tree." The sage nodded, the movement causing ripples on his flabby body. "And the reason I don't have to eat is because I'm using this tree as a medium?
To absorb the remnant divine power of the Wind God inside that thing! "
"Absorbing divine power with the body of a mortal?
You're basically committing suicide … "Jim exclaimed in shock.
Divine power wasn't something most humans could touch, and even Xi Wei had to go through a certain degree of conversion to bestow divine power upon his believers.
It was the same for other gods, lowering the nature of their energy by a few levels when they released their divine power. Otherwise, there wouldn't be energy differentiation such as Combat Aura, Holy Light, and Mana in the mortal realm.
"Did I say that?
When I became the Great Sky Prophet, my life and death were ranked behind many other things … "Bode the Wise said with a smile without hesitation, but then sighed." But as you can see, even with Lord Sotor's blessing, the amount of divine power I can bear has reached its limit. Soon, I'll explode and die from overexertion. It's fortunate that I saw your arrival in the Divine Mirror of Prophecy when I was searching for a way to break out of this predicament. "
"So what do you want us to do?" Terry asked seriously, no longer as arrogant as before.
Now that he understood that the sage was a man worthy of respect, he naturally didn't have the attitude of playing around.
Jim, on the other hand, felt that Bode didn't reveal everything. Still, he didn't think that the sage was lying, and was probably holding back.
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"To absorb and preserve divine power, I buried my former weapon — an old wand passed down through generations of the Bods — into my own body fifty years ago. Now, under the nourishment of divine power, it should be infinitely close to becoming a holy item."
The wise man said without hesitation, "Please kill me, take out the weapon from my body, and use it to destroy the ancient weapon sealed under the tree!"
"S-Lord Wise One?!" Clearly, the sage's plan hadn't been told to the others, and the owl-man was frantically yelling to stop him. His entire body had shrunk several times, and he now looked like a twig.
"I understand," Jom nodded as if he had realized something. He took out his wand and pointed it at the Wise Man. "This will free you."
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