When Edward arrived at the huge altar, he saw this scene.
By this time, he had roughly guessed how the Spirit Cult was planning to replace the God of the Sea. Simply put, they were going to use the high status of the artificial God of Death to forcibly pollute the God of the Sea, Kalvetuwa, and turn it into the "shape" of the artificial God of Death.
Afterwards, the believers of the Rorsted Islands' belief in the god of the sea naturally turned into belief in the god of death, and more belief would accelerate the "resurrection" of the artificial god of death, thus becoming the real god of death.
In this way, the sea snake has in a sense become an incarnation of the artificial god of death. Wouldn't Edward's online course plan be in vain?
He quickly searched among these people, trying to find Daniz, but unfortunately there were too many people here, and they were all burying their heads and praying devoutly, so he couldn't find him in a short time. "Could this guy also be affected and become a devout believer?"
"Phoenix, if the gap is closed, can you lead me to the ruins?"
Edward's question was not answered. He turned his head and saw Phoenix staring at the coffin, with strong desire emerging in his dark pupils.
"…"
Edward silently moved a few steps to the side, away from it.
But the desire in its eyes came and went quickly. "What did you just say?"
Edward asked back, "What were you looking at just now?"
"That coffin... no, it should be the place where the coffin is connected, it seems to have something very important to me!"
It's talking about... an artificial death god?
You know, those at higher levels of the Death Path have a strong ability to suppress those at lower levels. Judging from the strength Phoenix has shown so far, it will definitely not exceed Sequence 5. However, facing an artificial Death God who is almost at Sequence 0, it is not only not suppressed, but also has desire? !
Could this guy really be the backup plan for the resurrection of the Phoenix ancestor?
...Does the Goddess of Night know?
If she knew, what would she think?
If I don't know, if there is a problem in accommodating the authority of the God of Death in the future, she won't blame me, right?
Edward quickly threw away these messy thoughts and asked again:
"I just asked you, if the gap is closed, can you lead me to find the ruins?"
"Can!"
It nodded quickly, "I can find the place based on the scent left by those feathers."
In other words, as long as the sea snake dies, I will be the first to reach the elf ruins. +b¢o+o_k′z¨u¢n¨._c+o?m~
But how to make it die?
Edward immediately waved his wand and used the Imperius Curse on the nearest church members, but the red curse was blocked by an invisible wall after flying a few meters.
He stepped forward carefully and poked hard with the stick in his hand - and also touched an invisible wall.
As expected, how could the Spiritual Cult be so unguarded against its own rituals?
Edward took out a few coins and used Amplify + Fatal Attack while throwing them. With a "buzz" sound, huge ripples appeared where the coins hit. Where the ripples passed, pale bones could be seen faintly, connected and entangled with each other, forming a huge spherical bone wall, protecting the Poseidon Cult members and the Spirit Cult underneath.
"Why are these bones so hard?"
"Its power comes from that coffin," Phoenix said.
It comes from the coffin, which means it is an artificial god of death?
The current artificial Grim Reaper, although not even the King of Angels, is at least equivalent to a Sequence 1.
What the hell is going on?
At this time, Kalvetuva, who was fighting against Sea King Yann Kottman in the ruins, finally realized that his territory had been invaded. He roared and released huge thunders to strike those feathers.
Large pieces of its feathers were singed by the lightning, and it squirmed and shrank back as if feeling pain. However, as another group of Poseidon Cult followers died, it regained its vitality and actually moved forward against the thunder, approaching Kalvetuwa little by little.
This was obviously beyond Kalvetua's expectations: as a sea serpent, although it accidentally swallowed the Beyonder characteristics of a high-level elf and became a Sequence 3 existence, it was in a semi-crazy and semi-out-of-control state most of the time, and had little understanding of the Beyonder world.
It had no idea what this suddenly appearing feather was, it only knew that it was extremely dangerous - much more dangerous than the guy outside who had been fighting with it for many years!
The reason why it was so angry that it wanted to descend on Tiana Island tonight and wipe out all the believers was because it sensed this terrible and deadly aura.
So Kavitua, who still had some rationality, decisively gave up the plan to continue to descend on Tiana Island. It quickly withdrew its spirituality, wanted to cancel the sacrificial door to the outside world, and instead concentrate on fighting the feathers.
But how could Yann Cotman give up this golden opportunity? As a Sequence 3 of the Storm Path, he immediately injected spirituality and continued to "replace" Kalvetuwa in maintaining the Illusionary Gate, and took advantage of Kalvetuwa's shifting his focus to the feathers to increase the output. *Jing·Wu\暁~税′汪· ¢更_譆¢醉¢全!
Therefore, the battle on Tiana Island was so devastating that even people far away in Bayam could feel the vibrations.
Kalvetuwa was immediately hit hard, and this gave the feathers a chance to further devour it. As the power of the artificial god of death approached, even Kalvetuwa's hard scales began to grow white feathers here and there!
It twisted its body madly, and used its sharp teeth to tear off the feathered part along with the skin and flesh. Soon its body was covered with holes of all sizes - but it had a strong recovery ability, and all the wounds and flesh squirmed, recovering visibly to the naked eye.
Of course, Yann Kottman also saw this scene. His eyes flashed with lightning. He sneered at the charred Ralfa and said, "No wonder Gehrman Sparrow wanted to lure me here. He wanted to use my fight with the sea snake to make it easier for your Spiritual Cult to control it, right? You are really calculating!"
Ralfa: I didn't! I'm not! Don't talk nonsense!
I don't even know that damned Gehrman Sparrow!
Yann Kottman stopped at this time, and his eyes quickly swept across the dense primeval forest on Tiana Island. Then he condensed a silver-white thunder spear in each hand and threw it fiercely downwards.
Ralfa's face changed drastically, and he could only force himself to open the door to the underworld again.
...
In the underground space.
Edward tried all kinds of magic and extraordinary abilities to attack the transparent bone wall, but still failed to break it.
At this moment, the surroundings suddenly shook violently, the air suddenly became humid, thick fog poured out from all directions, and arcs of electricity wandered in the air. Edward felt like he was in the dark clouds before a thunderstorm.
boom!
The next second, a thunderstorm broke out.
The silver-white thunder instantly submerged the entire underground passage. Edward held Lilith in one hand and Phoenix in the other. His body was covered with a non-existent layer of the emperor's new clothes, isolating himself from the damage caused by the thunderstorm.
A few seconds later.
The silver-white light in the underground passage dissipated, and everything in the passage was directly turned into ashes or charred under the high temperature of lightning. The earthen walls were burned to form a layer of light crystals.
Even the bone wall had been damaged to some extent. If such attacks were to occur a few more times, it would probably collapse completely.
This is Sequence 3 of Storm Path. It doesn't have any fancy tricks, but is simply brutal and extremely destructive—of course, this may also be related to the additional bonus that lightning has on undead creatures.
Unfortunately, after one thunderstorm, the second one did not come, and Edward's Emperor's New Clothes ended first.
"It seems that although the power source maintaining this bone wall is the artificial Grim Reaper, it has not reached the level of Sequence 1. So… let's try one last time!"
The illusory book in Edward's eyes flipped, and he found a record of a blood-stained spear - the Spear of Longinus. Under the amplification effect of Sequence 3, this attack would not be much worse than Bernadette's original.
Hope it works!
Thinking back to the several times he had fought with people from the Path of Death, whether it was Ince Zangwill or Admiral Ludwell of Hell, what gave Edward the most headaches was that they used a large number of undead creatures as shields to resolve Edward's attacks. Now the Spirit Cult is doing the same thing. No one knows what kind of seal or extraordinary ability they used, but they simply created a shield made of undead creatures.
These undead creatures are in big trouble!
Edward secretly complained, and a bloody spear gradually appeared in his hand. But just before the Spear of Longinus condensed, he suddenly cancelled this ability and turned to look at Phoenix: "Where is the ring?"
Phoenix opened his mouth and spat out the square black ring he had obtained from Ludwell.
Edward took it, held it in his palm, and then tentatively stretched out his hand towards the bone wall.
Got through!
Chapter 403 Why do humans believe in gods?
Take a step forward,
The next second, Edward took Lilith and Phoenix through the invisible bone wall unhindered.
As expected, the only thing that can defeat magic is magic, and the only thing that can fight against the man-made power of the god of death is the power of the god of death.
And at the moment Edward stepped onto the altar, the members of the Spiritual Cult who were still dancing the spiritual dance madly suddenly stopped and looked over. Their faces were pale, like corpses that had been dead for a long time, and their pupils were dark.
Then, those Poseidon Cult members who were sacrificed stood up staggeringly, turned into zombies, and rushed towards Edward with roars.
"Tsk, can I be seen even when I'm wearing an invisibility cloak?"
Edward immediately waved his wand, releasing a large amount of fierce fire, burning the zombies to ashes. Various magic spells and extraordinary abilities were released at the same time, covering the members of the Spirit Cult.
Of the dozen or so members of the Spiritual Cult, half were killed on the spot, while the other half reacted quickly and hid behind the coffins, thus surviving.
Then feathers grew on the bodies of the living members of the Spirit Cult, and they turned into feather monsters covered in yellow oil. They became agile and quick, and attacked Edward at the same time.
"Phoenix!"
Edward flashed repeatedly, and then threw the Ring of Death back to the Phoenix. It was stunned for a moment, then reacted and spread its wings to face the monsters.
Suddenly, several feather monsters from the Spirit Cult bent their backs, crawled on the ground facing the Phoenix, and kissed the floor - even if they were monsters transformed by the artificial god of death, they had to follow the path of the god of death, where the higher-level monsters suppressed the lower-level monsters.
Edward stood still and looked at the gap torn by the feathers. In just a few minutes, the sea snake Kalvetuwa suffered more and more injuries under the dual pressure of Courtman and the artificial death god.
If it distracted itself from resisting Courtman's attack, it would be attacked by the feathers; if it fought against the feathers, it would be further consumed by Courtman through the Sacrifice Gate.
If it continues like this, even if it doesn't lose the "Book of Natural Disasters" this time, it is likely to perish.
What puzzled Edward was that the followers of the Poseidon Cult had seen what happened to Kalvetuwa. Couldn't they see that the Spirit Cult was doing something bad to Kalvetuwa?
No!
The Poseidon Cult... or some of the Poseidon Cult's high-ranking officials who cooperated with the Spirit Cult, might have known the Spirit Cult's plan from the beginning, but they didn't care - for many people, faith is often not a simple thing.
I believe in you because I want you to bring me protection, benefits and hope. But over the years that the Poseidon Cult has believed in Kalvetuva, has it really brought these to the indigenous people of the Rorsted Islands?
No.
Only primitive and bloody sacrifice!
In this case, why should I continue to believe in you and protect you?
Why don't I put my faith in the "god" who can give me these?
Hence this collaboration with the Spiritual Cult.
If you can reach a certain height in the mysterious world, you are destined not to be a fool.
roar!
At this time, Kalvetua opened his mouth wide and bit the feathers that invaded the ruins with his teeth full of lightning. Accompanied by a huge thunderstorm roar, the feathers that were grown by the power of the artificial god of death were actually bitten to pieces by it.
As a price, a thunder arrow from Kottman pierced through the sacrificial gate and shot into the ruins where Kalvetuwa was hiding, nailing it to the wall.