Chapter 453

While Xi Wei's wager with the Lord of the Peaks ended in a rather comical manner, it did not affect the final outcome — Xi Wei, the God of Games, was victorious.

"Your believers have done a good job," Roland said with a smile.

Aslan the Great Lion soon ran to Xi Wei's divine kingdom to congratulate him. "And here I thought that they would be at a disadvantage for some time, before winning with that weird revival ability of theirs."

If the Great Lion who had a certain understanding of the Players' abilities thought so, the other gods were naturally surprised by the outcome as well.

After all, on paper, the Church of Games had too few believers. Even if they included shallow believers who had yet to awaken their system, there would only be two to three thousand of them.

On the other hand, the Lord of the Peaks' believers had three sizable hill-people settlements around Valla alone, with the weakest of them having around that many warriors.

And yet, the Players emerged victorious this time.

Not even Xi Wei himself expected that.

He had assumed that the Players would have a high casualty rate since there were so many hill-people, and the Players could be killed with a sea of monsters.

In the end, Terry and Jom, who were out on a bounty quest, managed to fool the Scepter of the Temple of Glory, which in turn allowed the Temple of Glory to interfere and wipe out the strongest of the three hill-people tribes.

As a result, when the players gathered together and fought against the other group of natives, they felt a little dull and uninteresting in comparison …

Be that as it may, a win was a win.

Unlike the ruins of the Invisible Pantheon's gathering place, this divine kingdom was on the verge of collapse. That was probably why no god intended to lay a finger on this place after it was discovered.

Unlike the ruins of the Invisible Pantheon's Divine Kingdom, the ruins of this Divine Kingdom were on the verge of collapse. It was probably because of this that after it was discovered, no gods intended to lay their hands on this place.

With the experience of participating in the gathering of the Invisible Pantheon and his ability reaching the level of an Intermediate God, Xi Wei's journey across the divine realm was much easier.

With the Great Lion leading the way, he soon arrived at the remains of the divine kingdom.

Soon, the Lord of the Peaks arrived as well.

The figure looked a little like Magni Bronzebeard from the World of Warcraft, but it was more than three meters tall, and its skin did not have the texture of a living creature. It looked more like it had been smeared with a layer of cement, and then rolled around in a quarry.

He had no eyes, and the rest of his face was made of rocks and moss-like things. When he spoke, his voice rumbled like thunder.

"The believers of Kratos (the God of War) joined the battle!

I wouldn't have lost if I asked the Earthweaver to command his believers to help! But that's dishonorable, which is why I didn't do it! " But it was dishonorable, so I didn't do it! " He shouted, "Only a weird-looking ball like you would do such a despicable thing! That is why I don't acknowledge the outcome of this wager! "

Xi Wei thought to himself, 'It's not your place to say that other people look weird, right?' "I didn't ask for the God of War's help," Xi Wei said inwardly. "The outcome is the choice of the believers themselves."

Though he did not expect the Lord of the Peaks to renege, Xi Wei more or less guessed that the Lord of the Peaks would use the Temple of Glory's interference as a bargaining chip, which was why he had already prepared an excuse. "I naturally wouldn't say anything if your believers could ask the believers of the Earth Church to help."

At those words, a crescent-shaped crack appeared over Ji Si's spherical face as if he was mocking the Lord of the Peaks. Patting his own spherical surface with his tentacle, he then said with a tone of 'sudden realization', "Oh, look at my bad memory. Your hill-folk believers are a bunch of bandits who would not shrink from any crime. The Earth Church had already drawn a clear line between them and your believers, so how could they help us?!"

"Damn it, your Master God definitely didn't teach you to be more respectful to the gods who are higher than you!"

The Lord of the Peaks flew into a rage out of humiliation, divine power surging over his body.

As a veteran Intermediate God and a subordinate deity of the Earthweaver, one of the Seven Divine Fathers, the Lord of the Peaks was clearly much stronger than a newbie Intermediate God like Xi Wei.

If Ji Si were to fight with him alone, he would definitely suffer a great loss from this sudden attack.

Even so, he was not alone this time — in fact, he would not have made a face-to-face deal with the Lord of the Peaks if he was alone.

"Stop, Rock Head!"

Aslan the Lion of Justice bellowed in rage, the mane over his neck fluttering despite the absence of wind. His imposing demeanor directly subdued the enraged Lord of the Peaks, preventing him from making any reckless moves.

"Just protect it, Aslan! Just like how a cat likes to play with a ball of yarn! " The Lord of the Peaks hesitated for a long time, but ultimately did not dare to attack Aslan, the most powerful deity beneath the Greater Gods, and could only shoot off his mouth.

"As promised, hand over your divine power!" Aslan continued bellowing.

"I refuse! Come at me if you want to, I won't resist! " The Lord of the Peaks bellowed, refusing to back down even in the face of defeat. "But remember, you're hurting a subordinate deity of a Divine Father!"

Aslan was clearly a little wary of the Earthweaver's existence as well, and both sides thus fell into a stalemate.

Just as Xi Wei was about to see if he could extract some information from the Lord of the Peaks, or have him use some divine item that was useless to him as a substitute, an incomparable fear suddenly arose in Xi Wei's heart.

Like a small raft amidst raging waves or an ant amidst a forest fire, the unfathomable horror around him directly gripped his spirit, and even his divinity was quaking slightly.

Then, a frightening divine power arose outside the divine kingdom. The divine power that had seeped into the remains of the divinity was already far beyond Xi Wei's reach in both quality and quantity!

At the same time, the already tottering remains of the divine kingdom finally could not hold on even if the Lord of the Peaks was not deliberately exerting pressure, and began to shatter!

Even without seeing the face of the Lord of the Peaks, Xi Wei realized something — the Lord of the Peaks was laughing maniacally in front of him!

The three-meter-tall stone dwarf raised what appeared to be his hands up high, and shouted at the skies of the cracked divine kingdom: