King of Titans and Dragons
Chapter 1349 - 1349 1334 Conquest

Chapter 1349: Chapter 1334: Conquest Chapter 1349: Chapter 1334: Conquest “Oh Deity!”

The youth clad in a hemp Robe stood atop Mountains, looking down at the attack and defense below, where a Monster with seventeen heads broke through the city walls with unstoppable force, leading the Beast Tide into the city, followed by a human tragedy.

The Monsters showed no mercy to the race invading their territory, catching Creatures hiding in dark corners with their keen sense of smell and devouring them as Food, without a shred of compassion.

From the perspective of the Intelligent Races defending the city, this was certainly an infuriating, blood-boiling hellish scene, but at a higher level, it was simply a struggle for survival and Resources between different species.

This was natural selection, the survival of the fittest, also part of species evolution. According to the youth’s current ideology, he would not intervene in such affairs. To his eyes, all beings were equal, with no distinction in rank or status.

Helping either side would be trampling on the lives of the other, unless there was a reason compelling enough for him to take action, and the existence that saw everything just happened to find a reason, or a thing, that made it legitimate for him to intervene.

The Monster that had broken through the walls was not a naturally-born creature; on its body was a faint trace of a Deity’s Qi.

If nothing else, this Monster must have been modified by Divine Power, thus gaining the Destructive power to destroy Fortress-level walls and infuriating Defensive power.

Yet, what the youth found interesting was that the Divine Power within the Monster bore an extreme similarity, or rather was identical in origin, to the Qi of the Idol worshipped in the city’s Temple.

A Deity that lived on Faith manipulating a Monster to Slaughter its own Believers sounded like an absurd, inconceivable story, but it had its own logical reasoning.

Faith was born out of fear, disasters, Monsters, poverty, or desires—various irresistible calamities or issues that Creatures wanted to solve but lacked the power to do so, driving ordinary beings to pray to a greater existence, the reason Deities of Faith were born.

Because of their vulnerability, yet equipped with enough wisdom, Intelligent Creatures became more numerous, with too many things causing them distress, trouble, or even fear, and so Deities capable of responding to the prayers for Faith emerged under the intense longing of all Creatures.

But possessing majestic strength and their own thought and consciousness, Deities had their own demands, craving for more Divine power and strength.

For a Faith Deity, the most fundamental way to achieve this was to expand its worship base, and when the number of Believers reached its limit, some Deities began to find ways to improve the quality of their Believers.

The Faith provided by one Devout Believer exceeded that of ten Pan believers, yet the majority of Believers that Deities had were the least valuable Pan believers, but Pan believers could be transformed into Devout believers.

How to convert one’s Pan believers into Devout believers was a subject of study for all Faith Deities, and some Deities chose some straightforward, repeatable methods.

For instance, they created Monsters themselves, conjured natural disasters, intimidated their own Believers, and then at the brink of annihilation, performed miracles to save them, gaining an increase in the quality of their Believers at a minimal cost.

For some unscrupulous Deities, this was standard practice; of course, only a minority of Deities could do this, most Deities could not, as their divine offices constrained them.

However, those capable were already terrifying. The evil of a Deity against its own Believers was something the Believers, being absolutely weak in comparison, could not resist.

“What an ugly Drama,” the youth observed the Monster rampaging and Slaughtering through the city, his expression calm and unruffled.

From His perspective, He could see that most Creatures being slaughtered by the modified Monster were those without Faith or with only superficial Faith, whereas the Devout believers and other Intelligent Creatures above that level were, well, mostly unharmed.

They always found salvation at the critical moments of life. And after the death toll of Intelligent Creatures in the city exceeded a thousand, the Idol towering among the many Buildings of the city finally revealed an anomaly.

Under the fervent gaze of praying Believers, the originally simple Idol burst forth with sacred Light, then transformed from a lifeless stone statue into a body of flesh.

“It’s unsightly, but effective,”

In the youth’s vision, He could clearly see that when the revived Idol led the remaining resistance forces on a killing spree through the city, the Power of Faith surging toward the Idol instantly shot up by more than fifty percent, with many Pan believers in that moment successfully becoming Devout believers.

“I wonder what these poor Mortals would feel if they knew the truth,”

The youth silently considered, then shook his head, “Such truth is too cruel for them; I guess they wouldn’t believe it. After all, sometimes creatures only choose to believe what they want to believe.”

“Well, it’s none of my business. I only need to know that a Deity collecting Faith in this manner doesn’t meet my standards.”

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The residents of Bellio City watched with uplifted spirits as the Avatar of the Deity, enveloped in a faint cyan Divine Light, wielded a Long-bladed weapon, lavishly slaughtering the Monsters that had invaded the city.