Chapter 59: Building the Divine Kingdom!
Modo City, Grand Temple.
Due to Soren’s constantly increasing power, the temple in Modo City is gradually being expanded to the scale of a colossal temple, destined to be the core of a divine pantheon in the future.
After collecting thousands of souls, Soren quickly returned to the temple. His divine kingdom is now within the Shadow Plane, and the integration progress is nearly complete. Unfortunately, due to the Saint’s Cataclysm, Soren cannot enter. However, not being able to enter does not mean there is no connection; Soren can still send the souls of his believers into it.
This time, the number of deaths was a bit high.
The fleet of Modo City unexpectedly encountered a Divine Bastard, resulting in over a thousand deaths. These souls were devoured by the Divine Bastard and later saved by Soren after being killed.
Since he hasn’t yet reached strong divine power, Soren cannot purify and send souls directly to Mount Heaven like the Lord of Radiance. Therefore, what he needs to do now is rely on the temple to cleanse these souls and then send them into his divine kingdom to be reincarnated as Prayer Weavers.
Currently, Soren’s Prayer Weaver form has basically been determined.
Non-combat Prayer Weavers appear as ordinary people, roughly resembling their younger selves in life, with the specifics depending on the purity of their souls. If some souls are inherently excellent, they may evolve into heroic spirits or holy spirits on their own.
Combat Prayer Weavers take the form of Demon Hunters.
Soren’s initial test subjects have achieved great success in the Bottomless Abyss; the first modified Demon Hunter possesses immense combat power.
However, the energy expenditure is also much greater!
Currently, on the third level of the Bottomless Abyss, Soren’s Demon Avatar has nearly controlled the lands of three Lesser Demon Lords. The only constraint on its development now is the Abyss Dragon. Without defeating the Abyss Dragon, Demon Soren cannot continue to grow, but it’s impossible to defeat it relying solely on the Demon Avatar; Soren himself must step in. Given Soren’s current situation, it is nearly impossible for him to go to the Bottomless Abyss to slay the dragon. Therefore, the current task for the Demon Avatar is to amass an army, frantically gathering Coward Demons from the wilderness, and let them evolve through slaughter, collecting more combat-type Frenzied Demons and Frenzied Combat Demons.
Currently, the troops of the Demon Avatar have reached nearly 100,000. With the hiring of Evil Spirits mercenaries, it is easy to pull together around 120,000 Demon troops.
Of course, among them, there are still many low-level demons used to fill numbers.
In the temple, Soren quickly transformed into his Saint form. Although he cannot enter the divine kingdom, it is easy for Soren to open a crack.
He found a reincarnation pool from within the divine kingdom of the God of the Hunt, which has been initially modified and sent directly into the divine kingdom. However, since Soren cannot enter, he still needs help from others.
Heroic Spirits!
Earlier, it was mentioned that during the second wave of the Saint’s Cataclysm, people in Modo City had begun to die in battle.
The first Demon Hunter was born from a heroic spirit-level soul, and later, other souls were re-forged by Soren in the temple, becoming heroic spirit-level Prayer Weavers, and were kept within the statue.
Today is the day when Soren will utilize them.
After death, the memories of the past life of heroic spirits will be partially erased, but their truest beliefs are preserved. These heroic spirits represent a new life, only this new life retains a portion of past memories. The extent of memory retention depends on the strength of the belief from their previous life.
Currently, the heroic spirits created by Soren retain only about thirty percent of their memories.
Fortunately, there is one good point: these heroic spirits have retained many skills, and as Prayer Weavers, Soren can directly impart some important knowledge to them.
“Master!”
As Soren transformed into his divine form, five heroic spirit Prayer Weavers knelt before him on one knee.
Soren gazed at the heroic spirits before him. They were all tall men whose reincarnation, shaped by a deity’s hand, left them in the pinnacle state of their past lives, mostly young-soul transformations. He looked down at the kneeling heroic spirits and said in a deep voice, “What you need to do next is to enter the divine kingdom.”
“I will send the reincarnation pool in, and your task is to place it within the divine kingdom.”
“And then.”
“I will give you new tasks.”
Due to the fall of the divine kingdom, Soren’s internal divine realm certainly lacks much life force, and there may even be Prayer Weavers going berserk due to the previous deity’s death. For example, followers of the Lord of Shadows, who had the transformation of Shadow Life in their divine kingdom, if they have not perished after the fusion, may even go crazy and attack the Prayer Weavers that Soren sends in.
If Soren could enter now, it would certainly not be a problem.
But currently, he cannot enter the divine kingdom, so the first thing to do is to send the heroic spirits in, build a city, and quickly quell the chaos within the divine realm.
Unfortunately, Soren does not currently have holy spirit-level Prayer Weavers to send into the divine kingdom, so he can only rely on the number of heroic spirits to make up for it.
“Yes!” the five heroic spirits nodded.
In the next moment, Soren waved his hand and sent them directly into the divine kingdom.
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This is a chaotic land.
The entire world is shrouded in a grayish tone, while the distant sky is clear. This world has an indescribable peculiarity, as half of it is gray, as if covered with a thin layer of shadows, while the other half is bright and filled with sprawling green forests and vegetation.
This is the result of the fusion of the Shadow Divine Kingdom and the Half-Elf Divine Kingdom.
Without a deity to lead, the fusion of the divine kingdoms is imperfect, only barely held together, displaying a very obvious asymmetry at the borders of the two kingdoms.
The five heroic spirits’ figures appeared at this junction.
To the left for several kilometers lies the gray land and gray sky, while to the right for several kilometers is a dense forest.
“Now we begin to complete the tasks assigned by our master.”
The five heroic spirits descended from the sky, clad in full armor and armed with weapons. After observing their surroundings, they moved towards a lake.
Immediately after, strange stones began to fall from the sky; they quickly accumulated around the lake, occasionally imbuing the area with some twisted shadow beings. Those that dared to approach them were swiftly eliminated, while the heroic spirits ignored those that did not attack.
After about half a day’s time.
Within the Grand Temple, Soren received prayers from the heroic spirit Prayer Weavers; they had completed the reincarnation pool.
“Very good!”
Soren’s spirit surged at the news, and he transformed into a golden giant. When he opened his palms, thousands of souls appeared in his hand. Soren harnessed the strength within the temple, used his divine power to purify these souls, and then personally sent them into the divine kingdom one by one.
In the Shadow Divine Kingdom.
The five heroic spirits knelt at the sides of the reincarnation pool, praying devoutly.
As their prayers rose, a golden beam of light suddenly fell from the sky, and then they could see some souls descending from the light into the reincarnation pool.
Sacred power gathered!
Most Prayer Weavers are in energy form, but due to the nature of the divine kingdom, they are transformed into tangible bodies visible to the naked eye. Essentially, Prayer Weavers will dissipate into pure soul crystals upon death.
The water in the reincarnation pool bubbled as if boiling, and a man covered in light emerged from it. He appeared to be in his mid-twenties, with a look of slight confusion, though his body radiated a faint glow.
This indicates that he is a heroic spirit!
“Come forth, my brother!”
One heroic spirit warrior stood up, retrieving a set of armor and weapons, and said in a deep voice, “Our master needs us! Put on your armor and take up your weapons! We need to guide more brothers to come!”
Prayer Weavers retain a portion of memories.
The man who emerged from the reincarnation pool quickly regained clarity, nodded, donned the armor, and stood to the side.
The second soul fell into the reincarnation pool. This time, it was just an ordinary Prayer Weaver, without the glow of a heroic spirit, and he was placed on the other side. The divine kingdom needs more ordinary Prayer Weavers besides heroic spirits, as this kingdom needs to be rebuilt.
The third soul to descend was a female.
With the bubbling of the reincarnation pool, a beautiful woman emerged, covered in light.
She seemed more aware than the other reincarnators, immediately donning a set of armor and stating, “For our master Soren!”
She was a fallen priestess.
Her soul form was even higher than that of a heroic spirit, but she was still a step away from being a holy spirit.
Among the fleet of Modo City, there were also priests sent along by the temple, and she was one who died in battle, resembling a half-elf, reincarnated as a more advanced Prayer Weaver than a heroic spirit.
The golden column of light in the sky continued.
One by one, souls were cast into the reincarnation pool, and soon nearly a thousand Prayer Weavers were gathered beside this lake.
Some wore confused expressions, while others appeared clear-headed. Their soul qualities varied; the more excellent the soul, the faster it regained its clarity. Among them, those who were priests in their past lives had become leaders of this group of Prayer Weavers.
Heroic spirits served as guardian warriors.
Since all the dead were from the army of Modo City, there were also many heroic spirits, with nearly a hundred heroic spirits reincarnated.
These Prayer Weavers quickly built a makeshift altar and divine statue.
With the prayers of the priestess heroic spirit, the leading female Prayer Weaver spoke in a solemn voice, “Our master has issued a divine edict!”
“He needs us to quickly build a city nearby!”
“There are other souls and Prayer Weavers still in this kingdom, and as long as we capture them and send them into the reincarnation pool, they will become our brothers and sisters!”
“Our master has revealed to me what the city should look like.”
“Now.”
“Everyone start chopping wood; we must establish a camp within three days.”
Everything in the divine kingdom is coming into existence from nothing.
Though this is a world ruled by deities, Soren can only transfer matter into it; specifically, what kind of divine kingdom it will become still requires his own planning.
Just like the domain created by the Succubus Queen, everything depends on the deity’s personal preferences!
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(PS: The overdue drafts are almost finished. Once that’s done, I can stabilize updates here. Currently entering the divine kingdom line, Soren needs to start planning his divine kingdom.) (To be continued ~^~)
