Chapter 429

It could actually communicate!

Still, Edward could not help being surprised even though he was trying everything he could.

For some reason, the creature's head was no different from normal Maggots, and yet he could see traces of a human on its face.

"Are you a believer of the Fire God?" Edward swallowed his saliva and whispered to the maggot.

The monster nodded slightly, the gurgling sound of its mucus was rather disgusting.

Everyone had a look of disbelief on their faces — not at the monster, but at the fact that it had turned into such a state!

The Maggot was moving rather slowly, as if there was a delay between when it heard Edward's words and when it started to move.

"The God of Fire … Ignizdorag met with some accident, right?"

Edward asked it again.

The monster nodded again.

Edward hesitated for a moment before asking quietly, "Has the God of Fire fallen?"

"Hey, isn't that a little inappropriate?" Terrosche said.

Asking a believer if the god they believed in had fallen was a little too much.

And just as expected, the monster was silent for a long time.

After a long time, it nodded its head firmly.

Then, as if in great sorrow, its entire body lay flat on the ground and shriveled, as if it would melt at any moment.

Everyone stared at it in shock. While they had a general idea that something had happened to the God of Fire, they did not expect that Ignizdorag, one of the Greater Gods, would fall so suddenly.

No wonder the God of Games would leave the matter to its own devices and not want to be involved.

That explained everything.

After a long silence, Edward regained his spirit and asked the monster, "Then why did you become like this? Were you cursed? "

The monster shook its head.

If it wasn't a curse …

"Could it have something to do with the God of Fire?" Edward guessed.

The Bizarre Decay Maggot remained silent for a while before it reluctantly nodded.

"Could this be divine retribution?" Gou Dan asked in surprise. "I've heard that some gods would bestow divine retribution on believers who disobeyed their divine decrees, turning them into pigs and dogs to be enslaved and slaughtered …"

"But as you said, that's when they disobeyed their divine decrees. Why would the gods bestow punishment on their believers for no reason? That doesn't make sense. "

Big Joe said, scratching his head in bewilderment.

"Not everyone is as merciful as the God of Games. Don't you know how the other gods act now that things have come to this point?"

Gou Dan didn't take it to heart as he mocked and ridiculed from the side.

"If that's the case, it's not inconceivable that the god who killed the God of Fire and took his divinity would bestow divine retribution on the God of Fire's believers." That was when Jessica voiced her opinion. "If that's the case, it's not inconceivable that the god who killed the Vulcan and seized his divinity would punish the Vulcan's believers."

"Cut the weeds and eliminate the roots?" Goudan also nodded, feeling that it made sense.

"No," Edward shook his head. "If that's the case, then the new God's method is too slow! Since he had already mastered the original Fire God's divinity, wouldn't it be better to directly inherit the Fire God's foundation and harvest the faith of the original Fire God's believers? "Wouldn't it be better to kill all of the God of Fire's original believers with the God of Fire's divinity? Wouldn't it be better to kill all of the Fire God's original believers through the Tunnel of Faith? It's completely unnecessary to turn your believers into monsters! "

If it was a situation where the gods were the most powerful, such a thing was not incomprehensible. After all, gods who treated their believers as playthings and tortured them at will did exist.

However, after taking Ignis' divinity, the godslayer whose true form was unknown would definitely be viewed as an enemy by the other gods. Toying with the original believers of the God of Fire under such circumstances and turning them into monsters would undoubtedly increase the enmity of the other gods. It was not right no matter how one thought about it.

"Can you feel the general reason why you and your people became like this?"

Edward asked the Alien Rot Maggot, puzzled even after much thought.

The latter nodded.

Edward was overjoyed, so he started asking questions.

"Does it have something to do with the new God of Fire?"

Edward shook his head.

"Could it have something to do with the original God of Fire?"

Edward nodded.

"Did the original God of Fire turn you into this?"

Edward shook his head.

"Did Ignis' divinity turn you into this for some reason after Ignis's fall?"

Edward nodded.

"I see."

After a moment of silence, Edward felt that he was about to come into contact with the truth behind the matter.

"What does that mean?" Eggface and the others were still bewildered.

"Actually, the answer isn't far away. In fact, it has always been right in front of us."

Edward answered.

"Could it be …" Jessica seemed to have realized something as well.

The others, however, were still bewildered.

"Think carefully about the monster's name." Edward reminded Eggface.

"Alien Rot Maggot … Ah!"

Having been prompted to this point, Eggface finally revealed a look of sudden realization.

"So, what's going on?"

Joe, whose brain was probably made up of muscles, still had a puzzled look on his face. He looked to his side, hoping to find a companion who was as clueless as him. In the end, he discovered that Eliza had already started eating her lollipop, seemingly uninterested in the truth of the matter.

"Isn't the answer obvious?! Maggots! "

Eggface explained to him. "Isn't it normal for rotting corpses to give birth to maggots?"

"You mean … the reason why these people became like this is because of the maggots on Ignizdorag's corpse?"

Joe was still in disbelief. Would maggots exist in the realm of the gods?

After all, the maggots in the mortal realm were the larvae of flies, and it was because of the existence of flies that maggots existed.

Could there be flies in the realm of the gods as well?

"That's why it's just a guess. We'll have to see if that's the answer."

Edward answered.

He turned towards the Alien Rot Maggot and asked, "Did those maggots somehow descend upon your bodies through the passage of faith and take over your bodies, turning you into what you look like?"

Hence, the others turned towards the Alien Rot Maggot that Terrosche had subdued.

Under the gaze of the players, it nodded its head vigorously.