My Stubborn Soul Card Follower

Chapter 797 - 480: Goddess of Death, Yet a Maiden (4K)

The occurrence of the Divine War made Harms feel like things were slipping out of his control.Although the "Twilight Saintess" had recovered, her power was far from being restored.

Harms continuously intensified the efforts for the Descent Association, yet things seemed to be progressing poorly. The Saint Yimiti, sailing on the ocean, lacked enough sacrifices to activate the Alchemy Array.

This special alchemical magic array could not be activated by simply offering a few living people; certain conditions had to be met, and these conditions needed to conform to the current world’s rules.

For the real world, this rule was dueling, a life-and-death duel with the loser’s soul offered as a sacrifice, becoming part of the energy for the Alchemy Array.

In the original plan, the matches from the Pacific Cruise Championship would become part of the sacrifice, but due to an oversight in the critical early preparations by the Descent Association, they only successfully replaced two contestants, and for some unknown reason, one of them even surrendered directly.

This left Harms very dissatisfied, and he issued a relentless order to the Descent Association.

They would find a way to gather enough sacrifices to activate the array; if necessary, they would become a part of the sacrifice themselves.

Harms quickly adjusted his plan.

According to Harms’ existing intelligence, after a fierce battle, the two Gods, Daylight and Thunder, had already fallen into a slumber, and it seemed unlikely they could be summoned again shortly.

To deal with the three Main Gods, the "Twilight Saintess" needed to regain all her power, but if it was only against one War God, it might not be as troublesome. Harms now entered the Temple with Alice’s puppet, intending to directly solve the War God.

At this moment, Harms had already descended into a state of complete madness.

His rise was too legendary, too magical, to the point he was now wholeheartedly devoted to the faith in the Twilight Saintess.

Originally, he would have had no chance whatsoever to become the War God High Priest.

However, after converting to the Twilight Saintess, his life trajectory underwent a massive shift.

First, the former War God High Priest suddenly died in Elm City, and his predecessor hastily took office; having no foundation within the Church, he had to promote his old subordinate Harms to a higher position to ally with the civilian clergy group behind Harms.

This kind of alliance was initially meant to be temporary, and after his superior gained control of various major factions within the Church, Harms’ role would become obsolete, and he would return to his former position.

But unexpectedly, the former War God High Priest also met an untimely end in the Northern Lands’ Snow Realm, inexplicably dying near the Thousand-Year Mine.

Thus, according to the doctrine of the War God Church, when the High Priest could not perform his duties, the deputy he appointed would automatically succeed to the position of War God High Priest.

In this way, Harms, who originally had no hope of becoming the War God High Priest, completed a meteoric rise within a few short years, successfully reaching the high ranks of the War God Church.

All of this happened after he converted to the Twilight Saintess, thus he increasingly believed in the Pseudo-Dusk Council’s internal rhetoric.

So, how exactly did this extreme apocalyptic rhetoric within the Pseudo-Dusk Council come about?

Shen Sui casually had Arianna investigate it.

Good grief.

It was spread by the War God Church.

The War God Church induced the formation of the Pseudo-Dusk Council to make it an extreme terrorist cult, thus affecting the public perception of the Twilight Saintess, slandering the Twilight of the Gods mission they proclaimed, in a method known as glorified destruction.

At that time, when Bargas devised the plan to deify Vivian, did he ever consider that this could become a boomerang, eventually hitting back at the War God Church?

Hmm, he probably didn’t, because he never thought he would fall before the War God Church.

When Alice returned to the Divine Realm where the War God had been encountered previously, the ground was already littered with bodies.

"All of these are the higher-ups of the War God Church," Harms said coldly, "Their lives will be the first nourishment for your source of power."

Alice had seen them at the War God’s sacrificial ceremony; they almost represented the entire leadership of the War God Church.

No, it wasn’t just the Church’s hierarchy.

As Alice looked at the bodies lining the entire corridor, though a puppet cannot convey smell, she could almost sense the stench of blood filling the hallway.

Among them were many of Harms’ former friends.

The walls on both sides were engraved with mysterious runes.

These runes squirmed, absorbing the blood from the corridor, appearing particularly eerie under the dim magical glow.

Harms had gone mad.

The occurrence of the Divine War made him sense the breath of a new era, and he couldn’t wait to dedicate everything he had to board the ship of this new era.

The aura of Harms began to change gradually.

His strength skyrocketed to the limit of the fourteenth tier in an extremely short period.

A broken domain projected from his soul.

This kind of power, with just the people in this corridor, was surely insufficient.

Shen Sui immediately realized something was amiss and issued a warning to Alice.

Harms might regard the clergy from the Thunder Church and Daylight Church, who came to witness, as sacrificial targets as well.