Chapter 90: The Fallen Abyss! [Bow in Gratitude]
Shadow Divine Kingdom.
After Soren sent the golem puppet into the divine kingdom, the speed of the Prayer Weavers’ growth became astonishing!
In almost half a month’s time, a city had already risen near the Rebirth Pool. Such a speed could almost compare to a year’s accumulation in Modo City. An important reason for this achievement was that Soren had a continuous influx of population within the divine kingdom. As long as he captured the believers of the God of Half-Elves and the God of Shadows, Soren could turn them into his own Prayer Weavers. Unlike mortals, Prayer Weavers were not weak; many of them could work for extended periods, greatly increasing construction efficiency and rapidly expanding the size of the army.
Now.
Within a city covering about five square kilometers, nearly fifty thousand Prayer Weavers had gathered.
These Prayer Weavers had only a small portion who died in the battle of Modo City; the vast majority came from a recent offensive. The newly promoted Holy Spirit Priest captured a former Grand Temple of the God of Shadows, converting all the gathered Shadow Prayer Weavers into a new life form.
The efficiency of this expansion was extremely fast!
In a short time, Soren’s army within the divine kingdom reached over ten thousand.
This was a snowballing process— the more Prayer Weavers followed Soren, the faster the believers of the Lord of Shadows and the God of Half-Elves were eliminated. Ultimately, vast numbers of Prayer Weavers were converted almost every day.
The Lord of Shadows had existed for about a thousand years.
The God of Half-Elves had been invested about five or six hundred years ago.
Although the divine kingdom had experienced disasters due to the fall of deities during the Saint’s Cataclysm, it had not been completely destroyed, and many Prayer Weavers still survived. The accumulation of over a thousand years meant that there were traces of Prayer Weavers’ activities throughout the divine kingdom. Soren now controlled about one-third of the land within it.
In addition to the central city he built himself, Soren’s followers had also occupied three Grand Temples.
These three Grand Temples were quickly transformed into places to serve Soren, and two more Rebirth Pools were discovered and occupied. One was the Shadow Rebirth Pool, used by the God of Shadows to convert believers into shadow-shaped life forms. The other was the Half-Elf Rebirth Pool, which converted forms into Half-Elves.
Currently, these two Rebirth Pools were unused.
Soren needed to enter the divine kingdom and modify them, and he also required an Otherworldly Messenger to manage their operation.
After this period of adjustment.
The former Divine Kingdom of Half-Elves and the Divine Kingdom of Shadows had nearly completed their fusion.
Once the structure of the divine kingdom stabilized, the Holy Spirit Priest conveyed the size of the entire nation through prayer to Soren.
The fused divine kingdom didn’t have much sea area; most of it was land, rich in mineral and forest resources, the former coming from the Shadow Plane and the latter from the Wilderness.
According to Soren’s calculations, the entire divine kingdom after fusion had an area of about 1.2 million square kilometers.
This was already a considerable nation.
Although gods could create an independent divine kingdom, a newly invested god having a land of ten thousand square kilometers was already quite remarkable. Gloria’s created demiplane had only expanded to about one hundred square kilometers in size up to now, illustrating the staggering gap compared to the divine kingdom!
The Northern Witch Council’s demiplane had been cultivated for hundreds of years and now only measured a few thousand square kilometers, at most equivalent to a large meteorite.
Soren’s divine kingdom’s area was equal to an independent nation, a separate world; more than 1.2 million square kilometers was enough to easily accommodate millions of Prayer Weavers, if he had that many right now.
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Modo City.
After completing the third test of the Battle Flag Plane, Soren gained many important insights.
During this period, as his divine power accumulated, Soren finally made a significant decision! That was to lower the Shadow Divine Kingdom into the Bottomless Abyss!
This was a major decision.
It affected not only Soren’s current power but also represented the core domain of his future divine profession.
If Soren used [Shadows] as his core divine profession, it would be best for the divine kingdom to stay in the Shadow Plane. However, if he lowered the divine kingdom into the Bottomless Abyss, even if [Shadows] was currently a primary divine profession, it would become a secondary divine profession in the future.
The divine kingdom’s descent into the Bottomless Abyss.
Soren’s core divine profession had to be transformed into [Slaughter] and [d*ath]!
And it was precisely because of the power of [Slaughter] that Soren did not fear the repulsion of the Abyssal forces.
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Shadow Plane.
New Moon Era, July 3, 1677.
Today was an impressive day for all beings in the Shadow Plane.
Starting from early morning, the entire plane began to tremble slightly, feeling like an earthquake, but it did not cause any horrific disasters.
At this moment.
All deities related to the Shadow Plane sensed it and looked toward the direction of the Overseas Islands. Soren stood silently on the clouds, overlooking everything, then mobilized his divine power to make the divine kingdom continue to descend.
The entire Modo City fell into a state of alert.
Because today, the vast majority of Soren’s priests lost their spellcasting abilities, and many believers outside of Modo City couldn’t even connect with Soren.
This was the price of lowering the divine kingdom.
During the process of bringing the divine kingdom into the Bottomless Abyss, most of Soren’s energy would be consumed, making him unable to respond to the prayers of his believers during this time. In the long history, not many deities had done this; the Spider Queen – Rose was one of them.
When a divine kingdom descends, the deity becomes somewhat weakened.
Under normal circumstances, it would be safer to stay within the divine kingdom at such times, but Soren could not enter the divine kingdom now, so remaining in Modo City was the safest.
The trembling of the Shadow Plane lasted the whole day.
However, as Soren’s divine kingdom separated from the Shadow Plane, this tremor affecting the entire plane gradually ceased.
— “Saint Form!”
— “Plane Lock!”
After removing the divine kingdom from the constraints of the Shadow Plane, Soren focused all his spirit on the third layer of the Bottomless Abyss.
As his divine power continued to deplete, Soren’s divine kingdom also gradually approached the lower plane. This process might take three days, and during these three days, Soren would be quite weakened, and the alert in Modo City would continue until Soren completed the descent of the divine kingdom.
Day one.
The divine kingdom approached the Spirit World, and Soren felt a pull.
This indicated that the divine profession Soren mastered was accepted by the Spirit World; if he wished, he could place the divine kingdom in the Spirit World, allowing Soren to resonate with [d*ath].
Day two.
The divine kingdom approached the Underworld, and Soren felt a strong attraction.
This was the acceptance of [Slaughter] and [d*ath] by the Underworld, and the entire Underworld was implicitly welcoming the arrival of Soren’s divine kingdom. If he chose to place the divine kingdom in the Underworld, Soren could be assured that there would be no rejection and could easily integrate with the Underworld.
Day three.
The divine kingdom finally reached the lower plane.
But in front of Soren appeared a fork—one path leading to the Hell of Bartok, and the other to the Bottomless Abyss.
The Hell of Bartok welcomed Soren.
Although this welcome had nothing to do with the Archdevils, and it was merely the plane’s laws aligning with Soren’s divine kingdom, Soren still could not enter the Hell of Bartok. Compared to the welcome from the Hell of Bartok, the Bottomless Abyss had a slight rejection towards Soren’s divine kingdom.
This was the rejection of the factions.
However, this rejection was not strong enough because Soren still possessed the powers of [Slaughter] and [d*ath].
The Three d*ath Deities had long left their mark in the Bottomless Abyss, and this mark made it easier for the Bottomless Abyss to accept Soren’s divine kingdom.
Soren ultimately chose the Bottomless Abyss.
His divine kingdom began to gradually approach the Bottomless Abyss and followed the trajectory of the River of Underworld, starting to approach the third “Land of Forgotten” from the surface layer of the Bottomless Abyss.
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Bottomless Abyss. Third Layer. Land of Forgotten.
This day was not a good day for the majority of demons.
Because today, the Land of Forgotten experienced a great earthquake, and then an ‘evil’ power descended upon this land.
The demons felt this evil only as the Evil God!
Indeed.
Today, the Land of Forgotten welcomed a terrifying Evil God!
He lowered his divine kingdom upon the Land of Forgotten, directly attaching it to the third layer of the Bottomless Abyss.
While there had been Evil Gods who placed their divine kingdoms in the Bottomless Abyss, very few did so this early due to the early layers of the Bottomless Abyss being too close to the bl**d War. A kingdom of an Evil God here could easily influence the variables of the bl**d War.
After a simple collision with the plane, the divine kingdom began to merge.
Like the moon revolving around the Earth, Soren’s divine kingdom thus attached to the third layer of the Bottomless Abyss, though it didn’t rotate like the moon. (Note: Most divine kingdoms’ relationships with planes can be understood as Earth and the moon, with this moon able to leave Earth and move to Mars or other planets.)
An Evil God has come!
Not only the third layer of the Bottomless Abyss, the Land of Forgotten, but all the demon lords close to the top ten layers of the Bottomless Abyss sensed a stirring.
They felt a terrible evil power!
An Evil God with at least [Medium Divine Power] descended into the Bottomless Abyss, attaching his divine kingdom to the southwestern corner of the third layer of the Bottomless Abyss.
They felt the aura of slaughter and d*ath.
This was that terrifying Evil God proclaiming his existence to other demon lords and warning them not to provoke him lightly; otherwise, they would face the wrath of a being who controlled slaughter and d*ath!
On this day.
Soren arrived as an [Evil God]! He officially entered the Bottomless Abyss!
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(PS: Because some matters involved criminal aspects, I was busy until today to have time to write. Bow in gratitude to everyone!) (To be continued ~^~)
