Only God
Chapter 219 - 188: The Great Grace (4k Combined)

Chapter 219: Chapter 188: The Great Grace (4k Combined)

God’s kingdom lay within His dreams.

Eight Great Angels gathered before God’s celestial throne, kneeling reverently as if awaiting something patiently.

The Cloud Sea rolled slowly, scattered feathers floating in the mid-air while the Great Angels’ hands were pressed together, heads bowed in prayer.

"God, we praise You!

For in You, we entered the miracle of life,

Leaning on You, we heard the sacred voice."

As the Great Angels prayed in unison, more feathers shed from their wings, eventually forming a gentle orb of light about their beautiful faces, resembling an aura or halo.

The Great Angels were perfecting their Angel Grace through prayer.

Chen Yi watched all this.

The Grace of Angels differed from the Grace of the Gods.

Both were Graces of extraordinary power, but the Gods of the Celestial Kingdom granted their gifts with their own might.

Thus, the limits of the extraordinary power in the Divine Grace were constrained by the deity themselves.

For example, if a prodigious talent were fortunate enough to receive the Grace of a Divine being and his talent was high enough to cross the ranks of Divine Power, even possessing the gift to leap from First Rank to Fifth Rank.

But if that bestowing Divine were a Fourth Rank Divine,

Then even if that mortal had a talent on par with the Divine, his limit would only be Third Rank, he would always be one rank below the Divine who granted the Grace.

Angel Grace, however, was different.

Angels were created from the spirit of God, Who is the source of Angels.

The Angel Grace they created is better described as God’s might bestowed upon Angels through Himself.

To God, Angels are like rivers to the great sea.

Only in nature do rivers flow into seas, but with God and Angels, it is the exact opposite.

The sea is boundless and a river cannot contain it; only by widening can it accommodate more might.

And how to widen?

Through the Angels’ prayers.

Hence, the Grace granted by Angels possesses an almost limitless growth potential; theoretically, the more might the Angels can contain and the higher their ranks, the higher the ranks that those who receive their Grace can climb.

At this moment, the halos of the Great Angels grew brighter and more resplendent, a sense of holiness wandering among them, strengthening their connections, and their might ascending further due to their prayers to God.

As the prayers continued, a growing invisible pressure weighed upon their shoulders, the Great Angels appeared to hit some bottleneck, their prayers becoming softer.

The pressure originated from the Divine Power that flowed from Chen Yi.

Feathers fell in greater numbers, rolling upon the Cloud Sea.

The Great Angels’ countenances grew paler, their bodies trembling unstoppably, straining to maintain their prayerful pose.

As their prayers weakened and words grew more labored, three Great Angels suddenly released their hands, their bodies collapsing onto the Cloud Sea.

God observed the scene before Him.

There were still five Great Angels enduring.

Not long after, the four-armed and four-legged Kara’s voice weakened to an extreme, his form shook violently, barely holding on before inadvertently breathing out, then suddenly could no longer sustain himself and fell onto the Cloud Sea.

Following his collapse, another Great Angel could not continue praying and fell as well.

Next, Maisy fell; among the Great Angels, he was the purest and youngest, relying on a heart of utmost purity and goodness, he had more talent than the others but still could not withstand the pressure to continue praying and tumbled down.

In the presence of Angels, only Solamus and Schiller remained steadfast.

Above the celestial throne, the Divine Power flowing from Chen Yi intensified.

That power was both holy and majestically immense; if it were to fall indiscriminately between the worldly realms, it would take only a moment for destruction to descend, the land would crumble, the oceans roar, the sky filled with dark clouds, unleashing storm after storm.

But...

At the creation of all things,

God chose to bring forth light.

The halos around the faces of Solamus and Schiller intensified, from ethereal to solidifying, just like the contours of planetary rings that became intensely hot; between the thrones, nothing but the radiance of the two Great Angels could be seen.

Schiller rocked unsteadily, his heart not as pure as Maisy’s, but his stubbornness would not let him give up, so he continued to hold on, even as he was drenched in sweat and trembling.

And Solamus, as the Angel Leader, the Angel who understood God the most intimately, he longed to draw closer to God, to contain more of God’s might, even... to guard God’s throne in Heaven one day when God left, for ten thousand years and beyond.

The might pouring from Chen Yi grew more abundant, like an inexhaustible spring, which could turn a boundless desert into a land of gushing springs in an instant.

The might caused the Cloud Sea to boil like turbulence,

Time began to slow, and the surrounding space suddenly became chaotic.

From God’s body emanated a radiance more dazzling than the sun, reducing everything in sight to a blinding white.

Finally, the endurance of the two Great Angels reached a critical point.

Schiller was the first who could no longer hold on, his hands suddenly released, and in a more disheveled manner than the other Angels, he collapsed onto the Cloud Sea.