“Grimgor, former supreme commander of the expeditionary force, since things have come to this, it seems it would be better for you to continue bearing this heavy burden.”
Celia ultimately chose a direct approach, deciding to help Kerrigan.
“What nonsense are you talking about?!”
Celia got straight to the point, leaving Grimgor too shocked to speak.
“You have failed, and the god you follow will be banished from this land. But that doesn't mean everything is over, does it?”
Celia pointed at Grimgor and mentioned the survivors.
Those whom the Great Devourer had intentionally spared would continue to live on this land. In the wake of the Great Devourer's path, they had been left behind amidst the scorched ruins.
“Grimgor, do you plan to abandon them and escape your responsibility?”
“You wicked witch...”
An enraged Grimgor struggled, but the Great Devourers holding him did not loosen their grip in the slightest.
Celia also knew how hypocritical her words sounded.
Yet, she simply bore that hypocrisy and pressed on.
“To survive, every single one of us commits sins. And we are the only ones who can wash those sins away.”
Celia cast a spell, projecting a flickering image.
In the areas where the Great Devourer had swept through, survivors still remained.
Low-ranking beastkin warriors and captured human slaves leaned on one another to endure, utterly bewildered by the sudden turn of events.
A human woman hid inside her home alongside the beastkin child she had been forced to bear and once hated.
A beastkin medicine man was treating an injured human knight, while non-combatants hiding in a basement stared blankly at the Great Devourers, who completely ignored them.
“Grimgor, are you going to abandon them?”
“...”
Grimgor's lips quivered, his gaze wavering.
His anger toward the Great Devourer and his obsession with a glorious death were not as strong as the sudden surge of responsibility in his heart.
“I... I am one who serves another god, one whom you despise.”
Grimgor hesitated for a moment, letting out a bitter smile.
“I cannot forget His teachings. As long as His power remains within my body, I cannot coexist with you.”
Although he did not fully understand, Grimgor had a general grasp of the competition between gods.
He knew they eliminated each other's servants and territories to win the competition, attempting to claim this land entirely as their own.
“Therefore, I must fulfill my duty.”
Grimgor made up his mind. As long as Uria's divine protection remained upon him, he would always be Uria's servant.
Of course, the Great Devourer possessed the means to sever a god's connection, but Grimgor was unaware of this.
“Then we...”
However, before Celia could speak first—
“The divine protection... is gone.”
Startled, Grimgor looked up at the sky.
As a brilliant pillar of light descended from the heavens and enveloped him, all the remaining connections within his body began to sever on their own.
[God of War: Live on, my proud warrior.]
Hearing the oracle, Grimgor lowered his head at the sudden emptiness of no longer feeling any connection.
“It's not just Grimgor; the divine protection on all the beastkin has vanished. Elise, halt the slaughter!”
Lin Miao's eyes widened in surprise.
Although he had waged war against various deities, the God of War, Uria, was the first to make such a choice.
Reclaiming divine protection also consumed a significant amount of power.
It would have been more beneficial to simply let them die.
Even so, Uria made this decision just to allow those who were once his servants to live a little longer.
“...Tch.”
Within the nest, Elise frowned in displeasure, swinging her crossed legs.
【Elise is highly displeased with the enemy deity】
The object of Elise's displeasure was Uria.
To think a god would actually abandon his own servants.
Cutting the connection and severing their bonds just to let them live?
This was something Elise absolutely could not tolerate.
To Elise, being disconnected from her god—Lin Miao—was far more terrifying than a death sentence.
It was equivalent to an eternal punishment of being lost and wandering forever in the endless void without direction or path.
This misunderstanding arose from the difference between the beastkin, who were complete entities from the start, and the Great Devourers, whom Lin Miao had nurtured from scratch with his own hands.
Thus, if Lin Miao ever abandoned her, Elise could only act in one way.
She would use any means necessary to find Lin Miao, begging him to take her back, pleading and entreating him endlessly.
To die together, or to live together.
This was the true bond between her and her god in Elise's heart.
[God of War: In my view, the master of those monsters does not seem to be an Outer God.]
Just then, Uria published a post on the Divine Net forum.
[God of War: It is far too merciful for servants whose every action is supposedly controlled by an Outer God. None of the Outer Gods I know would halt a battle simply because a deity's protection vanished.]
[God of Knowledge: Hmph, probably just to use them as slaves.]
[God of War: Are you sure about that?]
Uria questioned the assumption intensely.
He questioned whether the Great Devourer, whom the deities had long mistaken for the servant of an Outer God, was truly a chaotic creature existing outside of order.
'It's already too late.'
Lin Miao shook his head upon seeing this.
Lin Miao had long given up on trying to clear up this misunderstanding.
On the contrary, now that he had a grander goal and a mission he had to accomplish, he would instead turn things around and exploit this identity.
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