Hero? Are You Worthy?
Chapter 477 - 323 Saint Monica, Death Approaches (5)

Chapter 477: Chapter 323 Saint Monica, Death Approaches (5)

Before "Desire Sin Divine Authority," there was the word "pseudo."

Just as with "Pseudo Absolute Defense," Qin Chu had no difficulty in understanding what this meant.

Although he had obtained some divinity by absorbing the strength from the Divine Statue, this divinity was quite weak. The real Desire Sin Divine Authority was still in the hands of the Lord of Pleasure.

The existence of authority, all are unique.

As long as the Lord of Pleasure was alive, the Desire Sin Divine Authority he held was fake; it was merely a copy.

However, albeit a counterfeit, this Desire Sin Divine Authority already possessed some of the functions of the real authority. Unfortunately, the description of the pseudo Desire Sin Divine Authority was too ambiguous and lacked detailed explanation.

Qin Chu could only roughly judge that in addition to manipulating his own and others’ desires and drawing on the strength of desires to become more powerful, he could even, like a true deity, establish his own church, recruit believers, and even absorb the faith emitted by those believers.

All in all, this should be a good thing, right?

Although Divine Authority could drive witches mad, since he held the power of Holy Light and had both the Little Tree Seedling and goddess hair, he could completely wield the power of Divine Authority without being eroded by it.

Qin Chu immersed his consciousness within his body, and after a thorough investigation, he finally discovered a faint trace of light purple near the root system of the Little Tree Seedling.

This trace should be the divinity that he had absorbed from the Divine Statue.

And the Little Tree Seedling was gently swaying; previously, due to devouring the progeny of the Evil God, it had sprouted a patch of dark purple leaves where the energy of the Lord of Pleasure’s progeny was stored.

During this period, the Little Tree Seedling had stayed quietly inside his body, purifying this force.

But the power of the Evil God’s progeny and that of the believers were completely different in level. Even with the ability of the Little Tree Seedling, fully purifying it would take a long time.

Now that Qin Chu had acquired this trace of divinity, the Little Tree Seedling was transferring the power from the leaves into the divinity.

Although extremely weak, the divinity seemed to be growing and strengthening.

Looking again at the faith continuously spreading towards the starry sky, Qin Chu felt a revelation in his heart.

Faith is one of the sources of divine power.

Powerful gods could not rely solely on faith, but faith indeed could make them stronger. This intangible and insubstantial existence seemed to possess some mysterious yet powerful energy.

The reason why the seven Divine beings in the Void always attempt to erode this world may lie here; they could suppress the Holy Light Goddess but could not eliminate her.

As long as they do not destroy the Holy Light Goddess, they can only be trapped in the Void.

If they could spread their own faith across the Sky Dome Continent, it could weaken the power of the Holy Light Goddess on one hand and strengthen their own power on the other. With this give-and-take, completely annihilating the Holy Light Goddess was just a matter of time.

Perhaps, this time would be very long, needing thousands or even tens of thousands of years, but for those beings with endless lifespans, nearly immortal, thousands or tens of thousands of years are just a subtle number.

After a long while, Qin Chu finally looked up.

Looking at the faith drifting towards the starry sky in front of him, a smile suddenly formed on his lips.

Throwing the Lord of Pleasure’s Divine Statue into a cesspit, crushing a sculpture of His head, and stealing a strand of divinity made the Lord of Pleasure directly mobilize all His believers to try to kill him.

If he now also plundered His faith, would that guy explode in anger?

With a slightly strange expression, Qin Chu felt it was highly unethical to fleece someone like this.

But, it felt exhilarating.

He extended his right hand towards the Void in front of him, his fingers slightly curved as if he were grasping something. Qin Chu’s expression gradually grew solemn, and after a few seconds, he exploded in a shout, "Come to me."

Buzz...

Unnoticed by anyone, in the night sky, patches of light purple mist, as if greatly attracted, instantly formed into a vortex in mid-air, rapidly surging towards Qin Chu.

Qin Chu’s body, like a massive vortex, greedily swallowed the power of faith.

Perhaps because the divinity within Qin Chu was too weak, it visibly grew larger after absorbing this wave of faith.

The faith which was supposed to be absorbed by the Lord of Pleasure was intercepted by him midway, by now the genderless being in the Void must be very angry, right?

Truly delightful.

Angelica and Antasia were looking at Qin Chu with strange eyes, not understanding why Qin Chu was suddenly snickering alone, and with such a scheming smile.

Shaking his head, Qin Chu put aside the thought of laughing at the Lord of Pleasure and looked forward again.

Though he could only see in one direction, Qin Chu’s mind could sense the presence of all believers around the entire palace, with each believer being a tiny speck of light.

Almost all of these light specks were dim, dull, without luminance.

The lives of these believers had already reached their ends.

They burned their souls and lives in exchange for great strength, and when that energy dissipated, the moment of their deaths arrived.

However, still some distance from the palace, he saw a bright purple light. Compared to the dimmer lights, this radiance became increasingly bright and brilliant, like the moon surrounded by stars.

Qin Chu looked that way, but the distance was too far beyond the range of sight. Yet, right before Qin Chu’s eyes, the darkness like fog was peeled away layer by layer, and the scene atop the hill unfolded before him.

When the last layer of fog lifted, Qin Chu finally saw clearly the figure standing thousands of meters away.

Saint Monica!

It was indeed her.

The brightest star among all the believers, all the lights combined couldn’t match the brightness of Saint Monica.

At this point, Qin Chu no longer had any doubts, Saint Monica might not be the president of the Blissful Witch Association, but she is definitely the leader of all the followers of the Lord of Pleasure.

This woman had really hid deep.

If it weren’t for Qin Chu accidentally learning some information from Asina’s memory and piecing all the clues together, he might not even suspect this woman at all.

The only thing that puzzled Qin Chu was the hint of hesitation flickering in Saint Monica’s purple eyes, she hadn’t joined the madness of the other followers in the assault on the palace.

Her self-awareness seemed to still exist and had not been completely eroded.

Qin Chu’s fingers touched his chin, considering whether he should take down Saint Monica that night as well, since Phil had been buzzing in his head for a long time.

But... first, deal with these crazies at hand.

Qin Chu spread his arms, feeling the connection between himself and the madmen below, lost in desire.

He could even issue, through this intangible connection... well, could it be called an oracle?

The smile on his face became more and more malicious.

Below, the battle continued.

Suddenly, the expressions of Violet, Catherine, and Silf all turned weird. They didn’t understand what was happening; the madmen, who had only known to attack fiercely, suddenly stopped their actions and stood in place like puppets.

The purple glow in their eyes intensified, their faces wore almost twisted smiles as they stared fixedly at the sky above, listening to the voice descending from the void.

Even Violet felt somewhat chilled by that eerie scene.

This situation didn’t last long; soon, their heads that were held high slumped down. Just as Catherine tightened her grip on her sword hilt, thinking the great battle would continue, she was surprised to find the Holy Knight in front of her suddenly bellow with:

"Heretics!"

The next second, the spear in his hands thrust directly through the chest of a noble standing beside him.

"Heretics, go die..." Elsewhere, a mercenary also raised his butcher knife high and swung it toward the nun behind him.

The nobles’ private soldiers also threw their weapons at their own companions.

In an instant, chaos ensued before them.

This scene left Violet, Silf, and others exchanging looks, completely at a loss for what had happened to prompt the madmen who had gathered to attack the palace to suddenly begin slaughtering each other?

Their eyes were full of intense hatred as if the companions by their side were enemies who had killed their fathers and stolen their wives.

At the window, Qin Chu’s smile grew thicker—indeed, possessing Divinity and the Desire Sin Divine Authority allowed him to manipulate the followers of desire to some extent, instilling them with certain signals.

Though they all worshipped the same divinity, they belonged to different sects, and the hatred between different sects was often more intense than that for heretics.

In the information they received, only the faith they adhered to was orthodox, everything else was heretical, and heretics must be eradicated.

On the distant hillside, Saint Monica’s eyebrows were tightly furrowed.

Her strength was greater than other followers, so she hadn’t lost her sanity like those people, turning into a madwoman.

That was a direct oracle from the Lord of Pleasure, and Saint Monica couldn’t refuse it, but she knew it wasn’t the opportunity to kill Qin Chu—rather, she didn’t even have enough strength to kill Qin Chu.

So although Saint Monica had come following the will of the Lord of Pleasure, she didn’t entirely comply.

She was observing the direction of the battlefield, and if both sides were evenly matched, she would intervene, becoming the last straw that broke the camel’s back.

But now, with chaos reigning on the battlefield, Saint Monica keenly sensed that something was amiss.

This cunning woman, without any hesitation, turned and left.

What Saint Monica didn’t know was that her reaction was all observed by Qin Chu.

Now, what Qin Chu was pondering was... whether to take the opportunity to finish off this woman?

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