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The sudden darkness and silence engulfed Calderón's deepest depths, leaving only the vague sound of water.

In a world where there is no light at all, the Grim Reaper, who resolutely stepped onto the path of the ancient gods again, recalled for a moment the uniqueness of the "Red Priest" that he had once obtained.

Long before the "Battle of the Four Emperors" in the Quaternary Period, Salinger learned the mystery of the "hidden adjacent path", and also confirmed the validity of the thesis that "the corpse collector, the witch, and the hunter can indeed be exchanged in the high order, and the harm is only slightly higher than that of the adjacent path". Therefore, at the very moment when the "War of the Four Emperors" began, the Grim Reaper targeted Alista Tudot.

And after exerting a lot of effort to kill Arista Tudor, because the gods of the Northern Continent have no outstanding "hunter" path extraordinary person worth cultivating for the time being, and no one is willing to touch the uniqueness and characteristics of the spiritual imprint that fuses "three sequences step together, a crazy true god capped" in an extreme time.

These things were directly acquired by the premeditated Grim Reaper, who successfully became the last living and victor in this divine war, absorbing the greatest benefits.

Although there is still a question mark over whether his true god can successfully occupy the "hidden adjacent path", the Grim Reaper does not intend to give up this opportunity - it is normal to be nervous and afraid, but what if it succeeds? - In retrospect, Salinger always felt that there was some intrigue in his actions and the final outcome, but he was sure that even if he did it again, he would still choose to take these things, and even if he didn't contain them, it would be in his own favor to take a dip in the river of eternal darkness.

Of course, even the Grim Reaper, who was eager to take this step in the Fourth Age, would not be taken upon any time to contain it directly - Arista's crazy appearance was still vivid, and no one wanted to die because of a wrong judgment on the way to a higher place.

Therefore, he chose to use the power of some of the tributaries of the "River of Eternal Darkness" first, and used his corresponding essentia to pollute these extraordinary properties and uniqueness a little, temporarily suppressing the four spiritual imprints.

However, in the moment of trying to contain the uniqueness, the Grim Reaper still felt like he had swallowed a mouthful of fire, a burning fireball!

How can a soul that is infinitely close to death take on such an activity?

Therefore, the Grim Reaper at that time had to suppress the emotions of burning by fire by seeking the power of the River of Eternal Darkness, but he did not want to be more recognized through this uniqueness. The River of Eternal Darkness failed to help him find a balance between this extraordinary power of extreme activity and extreme silence, and he eventually ran into madness, finally burning himself like the first two masters of this one-nature.

He was on the right path, but at the wrong time.

The fear of "death" and "darkness" is an innate instinct of any living being.

In the past, even the ancestors of a civilization who believed that "death is only a state and that death coexists with humans" would perform a drama to kill the god of death on specific festivals to vent their fears.

Death and darkness are two sides of the same coin, and battle, war, and calamity are the paths to these two fears.

And this time, Salinger, after accommodating the uniqueness and extraordinary characteristics of the adjacent pathways, did not feel the madness at the first time.

There are no sudden outbursts of babbling, no sudden madness.

Nor did it compare with the mad joy and pain that seemed to be burned by fire together with the body and soul after swallowing the Red Priest's banner last time.

There was only a dead silence.

The extraordinary qualities of tranquility and dreaminess that implied it merged with the shell of the Grim Reaper, his eyes darkened suddenly, and his raised arms remained in a grasping position, as if they were still in the darkness like a sculpture.

His will fell into the endless darkness, like an inextricable nightmare, leading to the "end" of nothingness.

There was only a dead silence.

……

When she saw the change in the main peak of the Honaches Mountains, a panicked look appeared on the face of the Mother Earth Goddess.

To his surprise, just a moment later, the massive demon wolf stood on the top of Honaches, and headed straight for Calderon with an aura of unspeakable terror, colliding with the light of the twilight with his army of secret puppets.

Once dragged by Antigonus, the god of war really has no chance to defend himself and help himself!

What's more, Leodro is determined to take away his Fenerport, in the face of such a killing intent, will Badhair really be willing to fight for his mother and the god of thunder, a true dual-path powerhouse?

Mother Earth felt that she didn't need to take any chances, and the ancient forest she had built was gradually falling apart under the attack of the Thunder God...... It's true that life and plants are endless, but the speed of thunder is far faster than the speed at which destroyed trees grow!

Mother Earth Goddess is not even sure if the other party has used the extraordinary ability of the "White Tower", if not, then the other party is waiting to destroy his hiding place by the simplest means, and directly simulate the extraordinary ability to target the weakness, and strive to kill him with one blow.

If God also had a physical reaction born of fear, then Mother Earth Goddess would now have goosebumps on her face.

"I'm willing to surrender!"

Faced with this situation, the Mother Earth Goddess gritted her teeth, and while squeezing her extraordinary strength, she shouted loudly in the thunder:

"I am willing to be your subordinate god and give the land of Fenerport to Rune!!"

After being incorporated into the territory of Rune, the citizens of the former countries of Segall and Lenburg were not severely oppressed, and those small countries still followed the original order and did not change the law. Except for the strict control of the faith, it is not allowed to believe in any god other than the god of thunder - but he still has the title of "god of truth, god of wisdom" after all. Since they were not severely oppressed, the vast majority of the people, with the exception of some devout believers and rebels who wanted to restore the country's independence, gritted their teeth and accepted the rule of the "tyrant".

"The members of my church are good at farming, good at planting and blessing, and I am willing to provide Rune with whatever food he needs, whether it be bread, rice, or meat! Kill me, and all you get is a dead and wounded church! I would like to be your servant! ”

What he wants is food to ease the internal contradictions of the country, a victory brought about by an inspiring god, a new land, so he should not want to get a complete land of death......

Mother Earth, or Lilith, knows exactly what her death will bring to believers.

Unlike the previous two battles between adjacent paths, the authority changed rapidly, the faith simply changed direction, and if He died, almost all the cultivators would be affected...... Except for those who believe in the "Fallen Mother Goddess"!

And the believers of the "fallen mother god" cannot be eliminated at all, and can only rely on the control of the church, if he dies, these believers will definitely receive the message of the real "mother" and quickly make things happen...... Moreover, the chairman of the school of life, which also controls some of the "moon" and "earth" pathways, has disappeared for a long time, and this school has basically been occupied by the believers of the "fallen mother goddess".

(Bakerlandry had a child sitting in his stroller, staring blankly at the rooftop toys, and no one knew about it.) ）

So, clinging to the last bit of luck, Lilith wanted an answer - he was useful, at least more useful than the god of war.

It didn't take long for Lilith to suddenly feel the thunderous storm weaken slightly, and a sudden burst of ecstasy welled up in his heart, but a deeper vigilance spread out from the bottom of his heart, for fear that this was a trap that the other party deliberately led him to see.

But then, Lilith heard the thunderous sound ringing in her ears.

The "tyrant" looked down at the goddess of the earth, and said arrogantly and calmly:

"Yes."

"But in your country, there are too many people."

Lilith's joy was suddenly extinguished by the next sentence of the "tyrant", like pouring a basin of cold water on his head, and he thought that he had developed a country of this size in an era, and he thought of what the tyrant had said "too much", and he was uneasy for a while.

How much is too much?

How much to stay?

Nine times out of ten, or three or four out of five, or ...... Halfway?

Lilith was in uncontrollable fear of her imagination, and the tyrant seemed to see through the confusion and fear in his heart, and once again dropped a bombshell in the heart of Mother Earth in a flat voice:

"Leave a quarter."

Bang!

It was as if an invisible thunderbolt had struck Lilith's mind, and Mother Earth's face suddenly lost its blood.

Three quarters!

Lose three-quarters of your anchors at once! Lilith almost felt like she was crumbling, although in terms of the number of Fenerport's population, even if only a quarter was left, it was still a million people, which was more than enough as an effective anchor to support a true god, but Lilith couldn't guarantee that she would be able to maintain her current state after losing such a large number of people at once!

Know that ...... "Mother" was watching Him all the time!

And it's no secret that he's not in a good state...... Except for the god of steam and machinery, he is the only god who can't even decide who he wants, otherwise he would not have opened up two different systems of "divine favor" and "divine chosen".

Just when Lilith hesitated, the sound of the thunderstorm exploded again, even more violently than just now, as if the tyrant was expressing his dissatisfaction, and was already brewing a fatal blow.

Lilith subconsciously winced, and she looked up at the sky, as if she saw a pair of cold, indifferent and mocking eyes that were high above. In an instant, Lilith suddenly understood the other party's intentions.

Actually, it's not necessarily that the God of Thunder really thinks that Fenerport has too many people.

Nor does it necessarily feel that a quarter of the population is the most beneficial for Rune.

But......

This is the "domestication" of tyrants.

Lilith understood that the way of the "tyrant" was the extreme obedience of the inferior to the superior out of fear, and Leodro was using this method to make him submit.

If you don't say yes, you're going to die. If you agree, to such a condition that is absolutely impossible to agree to in your own principles, then what else can you not agree to in the future? If you have resentment, but you are afraid of the other party's strength and dare not speak, and you can only lower your bottom line again and again, then it means that your body and mind are equivalent to having succumbed to the tyrant and become a part of the trembling fear of him.

He represents absolute power, absolute violence, and is meant to make everything in the world tremble and bow down in fear.

- Klein didn't know that he couldn't accept the death of Richard and others, and resolutely chose to follow his own heart and sense of justice to throw himself into the demon of knowledge, and escaped Leodro's "domestication" of him.

"I ......"

Lilith realized that when she had the idea of giving in, she had already been affected by the "tyrant".

Mother Earth had no choice but to bow her head in despair:

"I accept."

A sneer was clearly transmitted to Lilith's ears, and Lilith's fingers clenched, but she did not dare to show any dissatisfaction. He cursed Badheil loudly in his heart, and his hatred for Him reached its peak like never before.

Immediately afterward, Lilith was shocked to realize that she was hating Badheil, who had no ally morals, instead of hating the Thunder God who directly attacked and threatened him, which made Lilith's heart even more angry and powerless.

With that sneer, Lilith saw that the silver-white electric light was no longer falling in the sky. With a wave of his hand, the dense and huge ancient forests around him aged and decayed, and finally turned into a spiritual spirit and dispersed, as if he had completed a reincarnation and merged into the spiritual environment.

Leodro looked down at Lilith and didn't press the other any further.

Then, he glanced back meaningfully in the direction of the southern continent. And he issued an oracle to all the believers who were still there, to return to their own country.

Lilith had left the spirit realm, and since Badheil didn't care about him, he had made up his mind to break the covenant that had been maintained entirely by his bloodline identity. He directly chose to join the camp of the God of Thunder - it just so happens that the other party has now lost the Mother of Heaven, and he should need a subordinate god and a new land to show his identity and power as a "tyrant".

As soon as he returned to the real world, back above Fenerport, the crimson moon filled his mind with chaotic babbling.

Before Lilith could issue an oracle to her followers and people, she saw countless clouds in the sky suddenly converge towards Fenerport, firmly obscuring the moon in the sky.

The occult connection was cut off to the maximum, and the influence of the fallen mother goddess on Lilith was suddenly reduced to its usual state.

At this moment, countless thunderbolts suddenly fell from the sky, and the huge thunder light converged into an ocean, which instantly submerged most of Fenerport, countless people who were still asleep, countless people wandering on the streets, and countless people who were still working in factories turned into humanoid char in the thunder without any pain, and at the same time, there was no damage to any building.

At the same time, a brass-colored eye appeared in front of Lilith, obscuring her vision.

There was a huge number in the eye that was rapidly decreasing, and the single digits kept flashing between 0-9, so fast that it was almost impossible to see.

In just two breaths, the number for "10,000" drops by one place.

When the death of the people is concretized as a beating number, it seems that the guilt and reluctance suddenly decrease. Lilith looked at the string of numbers, watching its "10,000" and "100,000" digits jump in turn.

Soon, the first "million" also decreased by a single digit.

While Lilith was horrified by Leodro's actions, she seemed to have lost her ability to empathize with what was happening in the real world because of numbers. The silvery-white light that flooded the entire Fenerport could be seen in almost any corner of the North and South Continents, and the white light in the sky kept flickering, and everyone except the gods didn't know what it meant.

In the midst of countless buildings, people who were lucky enough not to be killed by the first wave were awakened by the thunder, and in fear they found that their family members or colleagues who had eaten and lived with them had been turned into black ash and sticky burnt marks that had been blown away by the wind.

They let out desperate yells, let out crazy roars, or go crazy on the spot, run into the streets and end their lives in the thunder, or they keep chanting the name of Mother Earth as if they were grasping at the last straw, wanting to be saved and protected by the gods, wanting to wake up from nightmares, and wanting to know if their relatives and friends have returned to Mother Goddess.

And above this country, Mother Earth stood quietly under the cloudy sky, watching all this with compassion and powerlessness.

After about a minute, or two minutes, the speed of counting in the brass-colored eyes began to slow down, and after more than ten seconds, the numbers stopped in turn from "10,000", to "thousand", to "10,000", and then to "ten". With the last beating of the single digits, the country's population is frozen at 17 million.

"It's over."

Lilith seemed to hear someone pronounce the sentence.

TBC

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Good night. (End of chapter)