024, the Lord of Judgment
Before the surface world imprisoned the storm divinity and the soul fire refined the earth divinity, Talos never thought that dealing with the two Popes whose strength was above him would become so smooth, and it had to be said that Aurora's arrival had increased the success rate of his plan out of thin air.
Not only did he successfully remove the two popes in the Terra plane who were most qualified to explain his beliefs, but he also gained an earth divinity and a storm divinity from them.
Of course, the most important part of this is still him, and the moment he sees Aurora, he thinks of using her as an external threat to prompt Claude to desperately snatch the holy sword that has been sucked into a waste sword by him, which requires extraordinary intelligence and reflexes.
Even better, no matter what the outcome is, the person who finally snatches the holy sword will be invaded by the twenty-four jealousy seeds, and the conflict will be exacerbated by the ownership of the holy sword, so that he can reap the benefits of the fisherman.
Withdrawing the smile on his face that could barely be hidden, Talos knew that now was the time to enjoy the fruits of victory—two whole divinities!
As a very important part of the Divine Spirit Realm, divinity in the hands of any fifth-order powerhouse can be transformed into more powerful combat power, and even become an admission ticket to the Divine Realm.
However, in Talos's eyes, they were just good materials for strengthening soul fire, just like the divine power he had obtained in the Impasian Plane Arena.
Of course, Talos also considered absorbing divinity and transforming life forms into divine beings between mortals and gods—they often had a life as long as the primeval dragon and the golden titan, measured in tens of thousands of years—but that was by no means something that could easily cause a qualitative change by one or two divinities, otherwise the three popes would not have continued their lives by such primitive means as seizure.
Moreover, Talos is a tidal Naga, and the most suitable attribute for him is water—the water elemental faction used to be Talos's best spell faction—and the sea divinity that originated from Titis VIII and corresponds to the water elemental has long used its value to maximize his value to help him advance to the third order.
If it weren't for that, he wouldn't have had the opportunity to stand here now, as the last pope of the world, to get rid of Claude VII and Aurora XXI and hold on to the faith.
At the moment when the divinity of the earth was refined, Talos once again sensed the Force Ocean of the Terra plane, and the colorful elemental energy gathered together, vast and surging.
The bright buttery soul flame splashed a round of warm yellow flames, which returned to normal after ten seconds, faintly growing in a circle, but otherwise there was not much change.
The divinity that had allowed the soul fire to obtain a metamorphosis did not cause too violent reactions when it was refined by the soul fire again, which made Talos keenly aware that he might not be able to quickly grow the soul fire with the two divinities.
As the Soul Fire quality level increased, the energy and resources required for each growth and promotion also increased exponentially, and the time he stayed in the third order would be much longer than the time of any previous rank.
"That's fine, for most of the year, I've continuously activated my bloodline, crossed the first and second orders to become a four-armed Naga, and achieved achievements that other people would take more than ten years or even decades to achieve, and it would be a bit exaggerated to quickly advance to the fourth order. ”
Talos comforted himself, remembering the identity of Sandra's legendary mage and gorgon, and became careless: "What are you afraid of, unless the church finds out that I secretly collect faith, even the Sea Temple will not suspect me because I have made too rapid progress." ”
This is another important reason why Talos did not choose to directly absorb divinity, faith is the basis of divinity, and a divine creature with only third-order strength is too easy to attract the attention and investigation of the church.
While Talos was refining the divinity of the earth, Aurora was at the end of her rope in the surface world.
In her not-so-short life, she had never seen such a strange monster, and every time she opened her mouth, she could take some of her power from the Storm Divinity, and even tear and devour her soul and consciousness attached to the Divinity.
If the body is lost, it can be found again by taking it, but the soul is wounded, and even the well-informed Aurora has no suitable way to repair it.
She would become insane due to her crippled soul and lack of consciousness, and even become a complete lunatic.
Fortunately, Aurora soon did not have to worry about becoming a madman for this, because as time passed, her consciousness and storm divinity gradually declined, and she was no longer able to resist, and was finally swallowed by the earthly python in extreme reluctance and disbelief.
As a collection and symbol of [gluttony], the earthly python can devour all things, the divinity is only an insignificant one in his recipe, and the speed of digesting the storm divinity is not much slower than the soul fire.
Bear!
The soul fire splashed a round of flame light again, and the huge energy transformed through the storm divinity was partially absorbed by the earthly python itself, becoming more hideous and terrifying, and partly transferred to the soul fire, strengthening the root.
"Your Majesty!"
Talos opened his eyes and found that the elders and knights of the Earth God Domain were staring at him together, with a hint of confusion and confusion in their eyes.
It was the first time since the establishment of the Earth Domain and the Temple of the Creator that they had encountered the special situation of the Pope's fall and the death of a faceless under the punishment of the Creator.
Talos knew it was time for the Earth Realm to embrace the faith of the Lord of Judgment.
Clearing his throat, Talos characterized the event: "Claude and Aurora were bewitched by the Demon God of Desire to fall and die one after another, and the divine magic will become history in the three major divine domains of the sea, the earth, and the sky." ”
"Your Majesty, then we knights of the Divine Domain—"
Hernan was convinced of Talos's words, so he took the initiative to ask while the others were still struggling to digest the fact that Claude had died and the magic had disappeared.
"The Creator has always been there. Talos posed as an unfathomable god, "From the birth of the world to the germination of all things, from the unverifiable past to the present when the three races are separated, the Creator has been watching the world. ”
In fact, no, the three popes were not punished by the Creator for their wicked actions to gain eternal life and break the shackles of power, and Talos did not believe that his actions would attract the attention of a dying god, even though his actions were inherently worse than those of the three popes.
The three popes stole faith in the name of the Creator, and Talos replaced the faith of the Creator with the Lord of Judgment.
"As members of the Divine Domain, you should know that He is order and chaos, the origin and ......the end," all the Divine Domain elders and knights present listened carefully to Talos' teachings, "It is one and it is ten thousand, it is instantaneous and it is eternal, it is the creator and the master!"
"His word walks forever on the earth, as in the kingdom of the Creator. ”
"It's the same with magic, it doesn't go away, it's just a shift from one way to another. The divine magic bestowed by the Creator is gone, but the divine magic of the Lord of Judgment remains. ”
This is not the first time that the knights of the divine realm have heard the term Lord of Judgment, in the mouth of Minos I he is an embodiment of the Creator in the realm of judgment and judgment, just as the Creator means kingship, law, and sacredness in the human realm, and in the Harpy tribe symbolizes storms and lightning, and in the Naga tribe represents tsunamis and life.
"You elect your own new pope, and I will send a Knight of the Divine Domain to deliver the Apocalypse of Talos to the Earth Divine Domain in a year's time. ”
For the rest of the year, Talos was busy compiling and perfecting the Book of Revelation, which was not an easy task, as he had to pick the right spells and replace the magical terminology with theological terms.
A year later, the Apocalypse of Talos, who had performed immortal feats on the Afaryn plane for Talos' cause of collecting faith, was reborn on the Terra plane, containing Talos's previous knowledge of magic and spells extracted from the Ring of the Magic Web material.
Knowledge is power, and once again the saying is validated.
The death of the three popes has collapsed the soul-driven belief and theocratic system of the three gods, and there is no more godcraft in the world, but as a great pope who has received the revelation and received the oracle, Talos has lived up to expectations and rightfully brought gifts and hope to the three gods.
The Apocalypse of Talos is divided into two volumes and is a well-deserved holy text.
The first book records the teachings and powers of the Creator incarnated as Talos, the Lord of Judgment, that God loves the world, but that sins deserve to be judged and punished justly.
According to the content of the "Book of Revelation", the "Supreme Code" abolished the punishment of multiple crimes and life imprisonment for several extremely heinous and anti-social and inhumane acts such as murder, and replaced it with the death penalty.
The second book records the precious treasures of the great Pope Minos I during the apocalypse, another gift from the Creator, the use of elemental energy.
Harnessing elemental energy with spirit and casting spells on oneself is undoubtedly a means of magic.
But in the Terra plane, Talos says it's a gift from the Lord of Judgment, so it's a gift, it's magic.
When the new pope of the Earth and Sky Domains received the Apocalypse bestowed by Talos, the last doubts about Talos vanished.
Aside from being truly apocalyptic, they are unable to explain the new magic in the Book of Revelation.
When the knights of the Divine Domain with the talent for casting spells once again unleashed a spell, "Minos I" became the most legendary person outside of the first Pope after the founder of the Three Great Domains, and his exploits were spread everywhere among the three tribes of humans, Naga, and Harpys.
What happened next was a natural one, and the belief in Talos, the Lord of Judgment, as the incarnation of the Creator, gradually spread in the Terra plane, and the stone statue in the Temple of the Creator of the Sea God Domain changed from the previous female four-armed Naga to a male six-armed Naga armed with a scimitar.
The seeds of faith have been planted, and the next thing is to wait for the harvest.