𝑬𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕
Time flew by. In the twinkling of an eye, Lisa had been the hostess of Jungkook’s palace for ten days.
After those ten days, some unscrupulous little thief swept the War God’s palace thoroughly. She found out that gods were actually the real local tycoons.
Even though the decorations of the god’s palace looked simple and elegant, the essence of luxury could be seen everywhere.
Humans used pebbles to pave roads, while gods used rubies, sapphires, and diamonds to do the same…
The tables, chairs, and benches were carved out of the highest-quality white jade, and even their edges were extravagantly covered in gold.
Every time Lisa saw something that sparkled with jewels, she would always say the same thing in her heart a hundred times:
“These things are all mine, all mine; I don’t have to steal them, they are all mine…”
Lisa felt that these ten days had passed very quickly. At this moment, as she was sitting among the sea of flowers, a familiar scent suddenly approached. She stood up and looked up at Jungkook who had appeared behind her suddenly.
“The test is over. We should go to the last temple.” Jungkook sensed a strong change in the last temple. Obviously, Eunwoo and the others had finished the test.
The smile on Lisa’s face froze instantly, and there was some tension in her eyes.
“Did they pass?” Lisa had always believed that her several Phantom friends were the best, but god knew what the test of the God race was like. Jungkook had even refused to reveal it to her, which made Lisa feel very miserable.
“I won’t know until I’ve seen them.” Jungkook picked up Lisa and flew directly towards the gates of the War God’s territory.
In the last temple, the Dragon God and Baekhyun were sitting on the edge of the imperial sacred pool. They had changed into brand-new clothes. Baekhyun’s eyes had also completely regained their golden color. He looked at the five dazed young men with a smile.
Jungkook and Lisa quickly arrived at the last temple.
As soon as Lisa entered the temple, she saw her little companions sitting foolishly on the steps under the throne, bowing their heads one by one and saying nothing.
“Why do you guys look so tragic?” Lisa looked at her friends and narrowed her eyes. Something was obviously wrong with the atmosphere around them.
Taehyung was the first to raise his head. As soon as he saw Lisa, he cried loudly and flew directly to Lisa’s leg.
“Outrageous! Too outrageous! What God race test? It’s simply a nightmare, okay? My whole body has been tortured to pieces. Lili, you must appease my broken heart, ah!”
Lisa was originally a little depressed by the strange atmosphere, but when she saw Taehyung’s vigorous and lively whining, she immediately threw that little depression into a corner. The corner of her mouth twitched and she stared at Taehyung, who was holding her leg and howling, “Can you talk properly?! What exactly is the matter? Tell me! I won’t know if you don’t say it!!!”
“Wuhuhu. I can’t say it. In any case, I was tyrannically abused!” Taehyung grunted.
Lisa wanted to slap this stupid guy to death.
“Did you pass?” She held herself back!
Taehyung looked at Lisa and blinked his eyes, suddenly revealing his trademark smirk.
“Of course.”
Lisa raised her brow and kicked him away.
“Then why are you pretending to be pathetic before me?!” Despite her apparent distaste, Lisa breathed a sigh of relief.
Taehyung smiled mischievously, changing his bitter expression.
“I was merely showing my true feelings, okay? Although I passed the test, you really have no idea just how outrageous that test was. I don’t want to go through it again. Otherwise, I think my brain will explode.” Taehyung was not joking this time around. The God race’s test, in a fundamental sense, was to force out the hidden dark side of his heart. Everything in the test was just like a dream, combined with the bits and pieces of his memory. It was not so much a test of the gods, but rather him fighting with the dark side of his heart.
Only when he had overcome his dark side could he pass the test.
“If it is so easy to inherit godhood, then anyone could come here, don’t you think?” Lisa gave Taehyung a roll of her eyes, then looked at her several other little friends.
“This Taehyung fella has passed the test, how about you guys?” Lisa asked.
Yoongi shrugged his shoulders, “Although the process was rather tortuous, the outcome was good, and I passed.”
Seokjin smiled and answered, “This test is of great significance to me. I am very happy to have taken it, and I also passed. ”
Jimin looked at the smirking Taehyung before opening his mouth. The corners of his mouth slightly raised as well and the gloom that once existed in his eyes had disappeared without a trace.
“I am the big brother; how can I lose to my younger brother? Naturally, there’s no problem on my side.”
After a series of good news, Lisa’s hanging heart was restored bit by bit, but after waiting for a long time, she didn’t hear Eunwoo speak. She couldn’t help but look in the his direction with some curiosity.
Eunwoo noticed Lisa’s glance. Compared to the past, his smile had changed a little, but it was not clear how exactly it had changed.
“Don’t tell me…” Lisa looked at Eunwoo. In fact, among her five little Phantom friends, Eunwoo was the one she was least worried about. Apart from her, Eunwoo was the one with the strongest comprehensive strength. He was not inferior to her in terms of individual strength, intelligence, and mental strength. If it weren’t for the fact that she was an experimental subject, with her talent, she might at best have been on a par with Eunwoo.
However, Eunwoo’s silence at this time made Lisa feel uneasy.
Eunwoo looked at Lisa, stood up and walked towards her step by step.
He came up to her and looked over her shoulder towards Jungkook who was standing behind her.
Jungkook was so tall and majestic, like an indestructible wall, very much capable of shielding Lisa from all harm.
Suddenly, Eunwoo smiled. He held out his hand and, like a big brother, rubbed Lisa’s little head.
“Who are you doubting? I’m Third Little Qi. What hardship can hinder me?”
Lisa’s heart was finally completely put to rest. All five members of Phantom passed the God race test. This was such a perfect result!
“In fact, I’m quite curious; what exactly was your test?” Taehyung stroked his chin. With the content of his own test, he could completely infer that what others had faced was definitely the dark side of their own heart as well.
But…
Taehyung could really not imagine what kind of issues these few bastards would have, that concerned their innermost feelings.
No matter how hard he thought, he could only think that they’re just a bunch of heartless bastards.
“Since you are so curious, why don’t you tell us the content of your test, first?” Eunwoo withdrew his hand from Lisa’s head and crossed his arms over his chest, raising an eyebrow at Taehyung..
Taehyung immediately shook his head like a rattle, put his hands together and cried out, “Spare me, alright? I don’t want to relive that nightmare.”
Lisa broke into laughter, watching the atmosphere become lively again. She also said with a teasing voice, “Seeing each and every one of you scared like that, it really makes me a bit curious about what your tests were really like.” Taehyung might just be overreacting; after all, this guy often behaved like that. However, even Eunwoo, the sly fox, was very tight-lipped. It seemed that the content of their tests must really be very out of the ordinary.
“It’s not as exaggerated as you think. I don’t know what the content of their tests were, but mine was quite beautiful. Listening to a little song, drinking a little wine, and having a beautiful woman in my arms; that kind of enjoyment.” Eunwoo looked at Lisa with a smile.
“That’s a test? You’re not kidding me, are you?” Lisa clearly did not believe Eunwoo’s words.
Eunwoo shrugged his shoulders and did not give any further explanation.
An attitude that told people to believe what they wanted to believe.
Seeing that none of her five little friends were willing to reveal the truth, Lisa did not intend to dig deeply, either. She looked in the direction of Baekhyun and the Dragon God with a smile in her eyes.
“Big brother Baekhyun, have you recovered?” Looking at those golden eyes, Lisa knew that Baekhyun had finally returned to his peak strength and become the true Light God again.
“It was my first time to use the imperial sacred pool for restoration, and the effect was much better than I expected. I thought that my godhood had been damaged, and that restoration would be slow, but it was actually repaired two days earlier than the Dragon God’s.” The smile on Baekhyun’s face hadn’t changed. Although the imperial sacred pool had always existed, the chances of gods being injured were very small, so they had not used it much. “It’s good to finally recover.” Lisa smiled brightly.
Everything went in the most perfect direction.
The five young men of Phantom had passed the God race’s test, which meant that they had already been recognized by the gods and could complete the purpose of their trip simply by selecting the godhood to inherit.
The selection of a godhood had not yet been completed. Even though they had passed the test, they still needed to go through the godhood’s selection to inherit a godhood. When a god died, their godhood would return to the last temple, waiting quietly for a suitable person to appear, to whom it could entrust itself.
Jungkook took Eunwoo and others to the place where the godhoods were placed. The bouncing godhoods sensed the aura of the five young people, and unlike before, their reaction became more intense.
Obviously, they had sensed that the young men in front of them had passed the test of the God race and were qualified to inherit godhoods.
They needed to choose among these young men, which was suitable to inherit each of their strengths.
Different godhoods possessed different powers, which meant that not just any godhood was suitable for Eunwoo and the others to inherit.
The collection of godhood sparkled with brilliance and seemed to be watching the young people. They were carefully observing them to find the one suitable to inherit their power.
Taehyung pulled Eunwoo’s sleeve nervously and said, “Why do I have this strange feeling?”
“Hmm?” Eunwoo slightly turned his head sideways.
“That we are like the pork and cabbages in a market.” Although these godhoods had no eyes or noses, he was having this feeling of being examined from head to toe by countless pairs of eyes.
Taehyung’s words drew the contempt of four pairs of eyes. Yoongi did not like Taehyung’s metaphor at all..
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝒅𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒅’𝒔 𝑪𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆
They were not pork, much less cabbages.
Regarding Taehyung’s language skills, everyone had already given up all hope.
Eunwoo and others were not clear about the way in which godhoods would choose their inheritors, so they could only honestly stand where they were and wait to be chosen.
In the whole temple, there were numerous godhoods that had been returned after the death of their previous owners, but among them, it was not so simple to find suitable ones for the five people to inherit. Each godhood had the will of the previous god that had owned it. If the inheritors differed too far from the character of the previous god, they could not perfectly inherit the power of the godhood.
Of the five, Yoongi should be the one who was most in line with a god that had an indifferent temperament.
Yoongi was also the first person to sense the “gaze” of a godhood. In the radiance of the various godhoods, he saw a sparkling godhood slowly coming towards him.
“It’s the godhood of the Thunder God.” Jungkook looked at the ball of light that was gradually approaching Yoongi and spoke.
“Quite good for this boy Yang Yoongi. The Thunder God’s fighting strength is very high.” The Dragon God was no stranger to the Thunder God. For he, who claimed to have fought against every god, someone whose strength could be recognized by him should be very strong.
Yoongi stared at the godhood that had stopped at the tip of his nose and subconsciously held out his hand to let it float there.
“When you are all chosen by the right godhood, you guys should inherit them together.” Baekhyun looked at Yoongi, who was a little confused, and then added, “Yang Yoongi, get acquainted with the godhood first.”
Yoongi stared at the glowing ball of light with a question mark at the top of his head.
Get acquainted?
How would he do that?
Should he say hello to this ball of light?
However, before Yoongi could finish his struggle with the question of how he should “get acquainted” with the godhood, the brilliance of the Thunder God’s godhood suddenly intensified and Yoongi was wrapped up in it instantly.
A large number of images poured into Yoongi’s head. Under the thunder and lightning, he seemed to see a tall figure standing in the clouds, brandishing a halberd. Countless bolts of lightning constantly flashed around him!
Lisa looked at Yoongi, who was wrapped in the light, in surprise. Just as she was about to speak, Jungkook calmed her down and said, “The Thunder God just wants him to understand the Thunder God’s power as soon as possible.”
There was no need for Yoongi to think of a way to communicate with the godhood at all. Because, for the godhoods who had been lonely for ten thousand years, it was a very pleasant thing to finally find an inheritor again; it would never give up such a moment when its power could be used again. Therefore, when it came to introductions or whatnot, one would definitely be very, very active and take the initiative!
Yoongi was the first to be selected by a godhood. The other four young people all wore a little smile on their lips. They were all really happy for Yoongi.
Seokjin turned his head in Yoongi’s direction, and the smile on his mouth was especially gentle.
“Jin!!!” All of a sudden, Taehyung’s scream rang out. Seokjin turned his head doubtfully and was surprised to see a glowing godhood floating in front of his face.
A gentle force, little by little, infected Seokjin.
Seokjin stretched out his hand and held the godhood on his palm. He felt a warmth he had never felt before.
“Strange; why did the Moon God choose a man as her inheritor…” The Dragon God stared at the godhood on Seokjin’s palm with a face filled with surprise. But what he said made the smile on Seokjin’s face stiffen.
“This is the godhood of the Moon God?” Seokjin turned to Dragon God and asked.
The Dragon God nodded very sincerely..
The Moon God was the superior god who guarded the elves. The Moon God Continent where the elves lived also flourished due to the Moon God.
Among the elves, there were many poems and songs praising the Moon God. When Seokjin and Jimin went to the Moon God Continent, they often heard legends about her.
The legendary Moon God was the gentlest and kindest of the gods.
The elves sang praises to the gentleness of the Moon God and also admired the healing power she held.
In the Elven race, there was also a legend that went like this: The Tree of Life that supports the elves grows luxuriantly only in the moonlight.
The Moon God was also the most beautiful goddess in the minds of the elves.
Yes, goddess!
She was one of the few female gods!
A large part of the reason for the choice of the godhood was the resonance between the inheritor and the godhood.
The godhood of the Moon God chose Seokjin, which meant…
“Pfft!” Taehyung stared at Seokjin with a face red from stifling a laugh. He suddenly remembered the scene when they questioned Seokjin’s gender.
Seokjin’s face alternated between blue, white, and purple.
Being chosen by a female superior god, this matter was not something to be proud of at all, okay?!
“If you dare to laugh, you know the consequences.” Seokjin squinted his eyes at Taehyung.
Taehyung immediately covered his mouth and shook his head vigorously.
It wasn’t that he wanted to laugh at him, but that the godhood Seokjin came across was just really amazing, okay?
In fact, among the six members of their Phantom group, Seokjin was the gentlest one. He was even softer than Lisa, who was the woman among them. Lisa’s style, behavior, and temperament were not at all like normal girls, so her identity as a woman was fruitless. If we put aside Lisa’s physical characteristics, she was much more masculine than a man.
On the other hand, Seokjin was gentle and considerate. He was also good at cooking. If Seokjin were a woman, he definitely would be a good housewife.
Of course, Taehyung and the rest only dared to think about these things in their heads at most. Because if Seokjin knew, they would absolutely be dismembered by five horses.
This couldn’t be blamed on them either. Rather, Lisa was the one to be blamed.
As a woman, she had no female mannerisms at all. If she were just a little timid and fragile, she would not make Seokjin appear so delicate…
Seokjin’s mood was very complicated; he really didn’t know whether he should laugh or cry after being chosen by the Moon God.
If they were to talk about attributes, the Moon God, who was good at healing, was really in line with Seokjin’s profession as a Priest. The Moon God’s power could improve his healing and buffing skills considerably. Therefore, it was understandable that the Moon God had chosen him as her inheritor, but… he was a man, ah!
Although Seokjin was indeed gentle, he would not give in at all when it came to his male dignity.
But then again…
The present situation did not allow him to struggle.
“Jin, I know that you’re making sacrifices for all the people in the world. We all know that.” Eunwoo looked at Seokjin with a tangled face and patted him on the shoulder with a serious expression, earnestly persuading him to accept this reality.
“That’s right. Jin plays a very important role on the battlefield. Only while you stand can we continue standing.” Taehyung tried hard to control his impulse to laugh and looked at Seokjin solemnly.
Seokjin glanced at his unscrupulous little friends, who were still pretending to be serious even though they were already secretly laughing till their intestines were twisted..
Although these bastards were behaving like they were in great need of a beating, their words were not totally unreasonable.
As an Archpriest, Seokjin knew very well that in a wide-scale war, the significance of the support personnel, whether one considered improving the speed, strength, and spiritual force of their comrades, or relieving their fatigue and treating internal injuries… none of these things could be separated from the priest profession. In the whole Brilliance Continent, Seokjin was the one who had travelled farthest along the path of priest. He had become a Saint Archpriest. In the big war, the auxiliary skill of a Saint Archpriest was enough to cover a small army. As long as he were present, thousands of troops would directly have their combat effectiveness increased, and if he were to assist Eunwoo and Yoongi and so on, their offense on the battlefield would also become explosive.
Priests, who had always been the team’s support, had a very limited attack power. Even the second stage profession, the Archpriest, could not be compared with an Intermediate Magus when one considered their offensive strength.
However, the benefits they could bring to the team could not be replaced by any profession.
The existence of a priest could make an exhausted soldier recover to his peak in an instant, and could also free his teammates from negative attacks. A priest was like a machine that transported energy from far away, providing inexhaustible fighting strength for his teammates.
Therefore, in all battles, both parties would first target the supporting priest of the other side, because only by killing them could their comrades be rendered unable to recover. Otherwise, it would be a very terrible thing to face a team that would never feel tired.
In a mercenary corps, the best equipped was not the magician or the fighters, but the priests. It was because only if the priests were safe would their team have a greater chance to survive.
As a Saint Archpriest, Seokjin naturally knew that the more powerful an Archpriest was, the more terrifying the effects of their abilities.
The average priest could only increase the skills of others by 10% to 20%. After reaching the initial level of the second stage profession, this value would be increased to between 30% and 50%. And Seokjin, who was already a Saint Archpriest, had been able to raise this to around 70%.
The nearly double-buff effect could directly help someone who had just become a second stage professional fight equally with a great second stage professional.
This was the power of top-class priests!
What was even more fascinating to Seokjin was the priest’s top profession — the Divine Archpriest — unique ability.
All the priests and Archpriests under the Divine level could not directly apply a buff to their own skills. They could only improve their speed and strength, but could not enhance the effect of their own skills.
But a Divine Archpriest could. A Divine Archpriest was the only profession that could buff their own skills, which meant that Divine Archpriests could directly double the effect of their skills and then release them to others. Others would then directly receive a buff of more than 100%…
What a terrible figure this was. If Lisa and the others, whose strengths were off the charts, were to receive the blessings of a Divine Archpriest, they would definitely become meat grinders on the battlefield!
Even against the devils, they would definitely not fall behind!
Therefore, at any rate, Seokjin would not refuse such a path that could let him become a Divine Archpriest almost immediately.
Wasn’t it just gender?
The Moon God was still a superior god!
He accepted her power!
After accepting the fact that he had been chosen by the Moon God, Seokjin relaxed himself. Feeling Seokjin’s acceptance, the Moon God sent out a light to cover him.
In the hazy light, Seokjin could vaguely see a woman wearing a long white dress and holding a silver staff sitting under the moonlight, smiling at him. Taehyung watched Seokjin accept the Moon God’s choice and laughed.
There would be plenty of opportunities to tease Seokjin in the future.
“Taehyung, are you really fine with laughing so wretchedly like that?” Lisa looked at Taehyung with a face of elation and sighed helplessly. This guy was really not capable of hiding anything.
“Haha, what’s inappropriate about it? In any case, he can’t hear me right now.” With Yoongi’s example, Taehyung already knew that during the period when the godhood and the inheritor were getting along, they were completely isolated from the outside world. Not to mention that he was just laughing here, even if he jumped in front of Seokjin and called him a girl, Seokjin would not hear him.
“Before you laugh at him, you should deal with your problem first.” Lisa raised her eyebrows.
Before Taehyung realized what was going on, a ray of light hit him directly in the face, and before he could even scream, he was shrouded in a cloud of light and became the third inheritor chosen by a godhood.
“That’s… exceptionally brutal.” Eunwoo watched the light that quickly wrapped Taehyung from the side. He inwardly sighed that even the God race had such a “bold and unrestrained” character. It didn’t even say hello ,or give its inheritor any time to react as it charged to him directly. It was really quite brutal.
Lisa was also a little shocked. The godhood that chose Taehyung obviously had a completely different personality than the ones that had chosen Yoongi and Seokjin. The Thunder God and the Moon God both stayed in front of their inheritors first, making them realize that they had been selected before they slowly waited for their inheritors to accept their choice. However, the godhood that selected Taehyung was just great. Regardless of whether Taehyung accepted it or not, he directly went up to carry out the selection!
This temperament was really similar to Taehyung.
“Jungkook, whose godhood is that?” Lisa looked up at Jungkook and asked. Was such a fiery character really something the God race should have?
“Fire God,” Jungkook lightly answered.
The corners of Baekhyun’s mouth lifted up as he glanced at the Dragon God nearby. “The Fire God is the most, or second most, impetuous god in the Sky City. The Fire God and Dragon God can be said to be the strangest existences in Sky City.”
The character of the gods was mostly cold and cheerless. There were so few like the Dragon God. The only one who could match the Dragon God’s energy was the one in charge of the power of fire. Shortly after the Dragon God entered Sky City, these two unreliable superior gods, who shared similar temperaments, fought a vigorous match in Sky City. This was also the root of the Dragon God’s addiction to challenge superior gods in a fight.
Unfortunately, the Fire God had been a god for a long time. After the fight with the Dragon God, he was summoned by the Lord God and given a full education once again. Since then, he had never moved his hands against the Dragon God and continued to act as his superior.
About this matter, the Dragon God was very regretful.
If the Fire God had not been educated by the Lord God, perhaps they would have become a good pair of companions sweeping Sky City, and he would not have been tricked into finding the War God by the two-faced Light God because of the “unbearable loneliness”.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒘𝒐 𝑮𝒐𝒅𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒔
After Taehyung, Yoongi, and Seokjin, Jimin became the fourth one to be selected. He was chosen by the Wind God in a very gentle way and was not as impatient as the Fire God.
Eunwoo was now the only one of the five young men of Phantom who had not yet been selected.
The godhoods were very quiet at this time. They seemed to be still making choices and remained motionless.
Eunwoo was not impatient either. He just stood there and waited quietly.
As time went by, Jungkook’s eyebrows slightly wrinkled.
Lisa sensed Jungkook’s reaction and quietly pulled Jungkook’s sleeve.
“What’s the problem?”
Jungkook bowed his head and said, “Normally, the godhood’s selection won’t take too long. Tang Taehyung and the others have had a normal selection period, but there is something wrong with Qi Eunwoo’s situation. This is beyond the normal limit. The godhoods must have encountered some problems in the process of choosing.”
A large part of the conditions of the godhoods for selecting their inheritor was extracted from the God race’s test that had been passed by the inheritor candidates. During the course of the test, the godhoods would have already figured out the character and ability of the inheritor candidates. What they had to do now was to select the most suitable match from them, which was not difficult. However, there was no movement on Eunwoo’s side. All the godhoods became unusually quiet, just like when Lisa had just entered the temple.
This kind of situation was very peculiar; there must be something wrong.
“Let’s wait and see.” Baekhyun opened his mouth. Shortly after Lisa left the Brilliance Continent, Eunwoo had gone to the God’s Domain. It could be said that during the time Lisa was away from the mainland, Baekhyun had been guiding Eunwoo’s cultivation. Baekhyun also knew a bit about Eunwoo’s talent, ability, and intelligence.
Among the Phantom members, aside from Lisa, Eunwoo had the strongest talent. His wisdom was also quite extraordinary and definitely not beneath Lisa’s. Thus, Baekhyun was extremely optimistic about Eunwoo.
After waiting for another moment, the godhoods finally displayed some movements.
But this movement stunned everyone.
They saw two godhoods flying towards Eunwoo at the same time; one floated on his left and the other on his right.
“Two godhoods? What does this mean?” Lisa was a little dumbfounded.
Jungkook looked at the two godhoods and his eyebrows wrinkled a bit more.
“Can Eunwoo inherit the godhoods of two superior gods?” Lisa’s eyes lit up at this moment. She was very clear about Eunwoo’s ability. Lisa would not be surprised at all if he could do something heaven-defying.
Jungkook shook his head.
“No matter how powerful a human being is, he can only inherit the godhood of one superior god.”
The godhoods contained most of the divine powers of the superior gods. It was difficult for the human body to bear the inheritance of a godhood to begin with. If the physical quality and mental strength were not enough, it was feared that they could not bear the inheritance of a godhood at all. Even the strongest man in the Human race would not be able to stand the inheritance of two superior gods. If one tried, he would definitely explode and die.
“Qi Eunwoo’s situation is not about inheriting the godhoods of two superior gods, but that he has been chosen by two godhoods at the same time and he must choose one of them to inherit.” Jungkook’s eyebrows didn’t loosen and he didn’t relax because Eunwoo had one more choice.
“Is this not a good thing?” Lisa looked at Jungkook’s frowning brows and felt that things might not be as simple as she thought. Otherwise, why would Jungkook be frowning?
“Good thing?” Baekhyun revealed a wry smile and looked at the two godhoods floating in front of Eunwoo helplessly. “If it were the godhoods of other superior gods then it would really be a good thing, but the gods that these two godhoods belong to… why was Eunwoo chosen by them? No wonder it took so long; so, it was like this.”
Lisa was confused. She vaguely guessed that it might be a good thing to be selected by two godhoods, but the thing that was making Jungkook frown were the two godhoods that had selected Eunwoo.
“Which superior gods did they belong to?” Eunwoo saw that the atmosphere was somewhat solemn and felt a bit curious. His companions did not encounter any problems during the godhood’s selection, but why was there a sudden change when it was his turn?
“Death God and Killing God.” Jungkook coldly spat out two names that made people tremble with fear.
Death God.
This superior god, who was in charge of collecting the souls of the deceased, was not a true member of the God race in any real sense. Although he had a divine body and a godhood, the power he possessed was not divine power but the power of the king of the Netherworld. On the Brilliance Continent, there were legends about many superior gods, but the legends about this Death God always made people’s hair stand on end.
According to rumors, when the Death God came, there would always be terrible disasters. Each vivid life would die, and their souls would be guided by the Death God into the Netherworld.
The Death God was not a god created by the Lord God. He came from the Netherworld. After the Lord God and the Devil God created all things in the world, the Death God crossed the door of the Netherworld and entered this world. He was responsible for harvesting the souls of all things in the world. Even the Lord God could not order the Death God to do anything. He did not listen to anyone’s command. He was only in charge of guiding the souls of the deceased.
In many places, people did not classify the Death God as a god, but separated him as the emissary of the Netherworld. He made people dread and left them scared. All the records about the Death God were always inseparable from death.
Lisa and Eunwoo did not expect that the godhood of the Death God would appear in the last temple of Sky City.
Why did this emissary from the Netherworld leave his godhood in the last temple?
“The Death God is dead? But I remember that he did not take part in the battle of the gods and devils.” The Dragon God, who had been silent all this time, suddenly opened his mouth at this moment. He had a conflicting mood regarding the Death God. In his impression, the Death God was such a gloomy emissary who wore a black cloak all day long and kept his body and face under that cloak forever. Even the Dragon God, who was always so insensitive, could smell the danger when passing by the Death God. Therefore, the Dragon God never had any contact with this god at all. The instinct of the dragons made him subconsciously keep his distance from this terrible creature.
“He didn’t die, nor did he go to war. He just left and returned to the netherworld. He said that he would not intervene in the chaos of our world. He then extracted the godhood from his body and placed it here, waiting for the arrival of the next successor.” Baekhyun, as the last survivor of the great war, was the only god who knew what had happened to the Death God.
The Death God was not a real member of the God race. He stayed in the Sky City because he had an agreement with the Lord God. Through the time when the Lord God disappeared and the war between the gods and devils began, the Death God had always been watching from the sidelines. At the end of the war between the gods and devils, he chose to leave this world and returned to the mysterious Netherworld..
As to why he had left his godhood here, even Baekhyun did not know the answer to that. The Death God only said before he left that this world would one day usher in a new Death God and he had finished his mission.
Today, the Death God’s godhood had finally chosen Eunwoo as its inheritor. This unexpected incident surprised the three superior gods present.
“Did the Death God really say that? Did he leave his godhood so that the next inheritor could replace him as the new Death God?” The Dragon God gritted his teeth. He always believed that the Death God was a very unsociable god.
Furthermore, his power did not belong to the God race, or even to this world. Just like the phantom beasts summoned by Summoners, he came from another place.
“Perhaps, but we don’t know about the power of the Death God. He had never really shown his real power in front of us. Although Qi Eunwoo is talented, he is a human being after all. Can he bear the power of the Death God?” Baekhyun’s brows wrinkled. The Death God was the god they knew the least about. They could not grasp how powerful the Death God really was. If his strength exceeded the limit Eunwoo could bear, it would be very bad.
“Then let Qi Eunwoo choose the Killing God?” The Dragon God suggested. After all, compared with the unfamiliar Death God, the Killing God was still a superior god that they knew about.
However, Baekhyun let out a sigh and said, “Do you think it’s appropriate for Qi Eunwoo to be the Killing God?”
The Killing God was precisely what its name seemed to indicate: a god created to kill.
If the Death God was only responsible for harvesting the souls of those that had already passed away, then the Killing God was the vanguard opening the path to death.
“Uh.” The Dragon God immediately shut his mouth.
“Killing God? I have never heard of this superior god before.” Lisa blinked her eyes. There were many records about the God race in the world. After learning that Jungkook was a god, Lisa had also studied the legends about the God race, but she had never heard of the name “Killing God”. It was when she first met Haruto that these two words popped up in her head.
Slaughtering in all directions! With an awe-inspiring, murderous spirit!
Although it was not clear what kind of god the Killing God might be, just the sound of its name already felt very ferocious.
“Sky City has not had a Killing God for a long time. The Killing God was one of the earliest superior gods created by the Lord God after building Sky City. However, he later fell and his godhood has been preserved here. The Lord God once thought that the new gods bred by other gods would inherit the godhood of the Killing God, but it was a pity that nothing ever came of it.” Baekhyun explained.
From beginning to end, only one Killing God had existed in Sky City.
“He had fallen? How?” Lisa looked at Baekhyun. The gods had very few chances to die before the war against the devils. Not to mention that they were superior gods. The reason why there was no record of the Killing God in the world was obviously because the Killing God had fallen very early, much earlier than the beginning of the war against the devils, so the world did not leave any words about him.
“Due to the backlash of the Killing God’s own power.” Jungkook’s quiet voice suddenly sounded.
Lisa’s heart skipped a beat.
“The Killing God has a very formidable power. He was the superior god next to the War God. The War God has the power to devour and is the most powerful existence among the superior gods. However, the Killing God also possessed an extremely terrible strength. If his killing force is fully utilized, the Killing God can fully compete with the War God. However, the power of the Killing God has one of the most terrible drawbacks: that is, its backlash.” Jungkook explained..
“The killing force will leave the soul lost in the murders and burn the soul. Once the limit is exceeded, it will recoil on the body. The Killing God died precisely because of the backlash of this killing force. For a long period of time, the Lord God did not intend to let people inherit the godhood of the Killing God. Until finally, the Lord God found the right candidate, but in the end, he still gave up the plan because he was worried that the backlash would be too strong.” Jungkook explained and continued, “Once the killing force is used, it will gradually consume the soul of the user. However strong the willpower one has, they will gradually lose themselves in the idea of killing and become a weapon that only knows to massacre.”
“Who was chosen?” Lisa asked.
“Yaksha.”
Lisa’s eyes widened. Yaksha was supposed to inherit the godhood of the Killing God?
Wouldn’t that mean…
Lisa could hardly imagine it. Yaksha himself was already very ferocious. If coupled with a murderous and dreadful godhood, his character would definitely be distorted to death.
“I suddenly think that the Lord God is still quite reliable in handling some matters.” If Yaksha really inherited the godhood of the Killing God, then he definitely would have been a frightening superior god. His terror index would definitely surpass that of the Death God!
At the very least, the Death God only collected the souls of the dead and guided them into the Neatherworld. In a sense, he was still a transporter of life.
The Death God did not produce undeads. The Death God was merely a porter of souls.
But the Killing God was born to kill!
Lisa was very glad that the Lord God’s brain wasn’t flooded with water and did not come up with another Killing God. Otherwise, after the Lord God disappeared, there was no need for the devils to come out in insurrection. A single outburst of the Killing God was enough to plague the world with chaos! However, these two godhoods seemed pretty similar overall. One was not much better than the other.
Lisa did not understand why Eunwoo, such a sunny teenager, was favored by these two ferocious godhoods. There were so many better, perhaps more appropriate, godhoods here that did not choose him; instead, the Killing God and the Death God were the ones that selected him. How would he choose from these two?
Should he choose the unfamiliar Death God and inherit the unknown power of the Netherworld, risking the possibility of explosion and death?
Or choose the formidable Killing God, but at any time risk death by the backlash of the killing force?
No matter how one thought, either one would lead to death, okay?!
“Should we wait a bit more? Perhaps there are still other godhoods that will take a fancy to Eunwoo?” Lisa did not want Eunwoo to take such risks to inherit these two unstable godhoods.
If he were to inherit the godhood of the Death God, it was possible to die right here and now. If he were to inherit the godhood of the Killing God, he might still die in the future!!!
“That’s impossible.” Jungkook shook his head.
“Why?” Lisa said.
“The power of the Killing God is second only to mine. The godhood’s selection is done in a way wherein the strongest can choose first. Unless the godhoods of the Killing God and the Death God directly give up their choice of Qi Xia, other godhoods will not make a move.” The God race also had a hierarchy.
Lisa’s shoulders instantly collapsed. She looked up at Eunwoo and found that this guy, instead of being nervous, was smiling at her tangled face.
“You are still in the mood to laugh!” Lisa wanted to slap this idiot to death. Right now, he had to take care of his own life and death.. Really, what kind of shitty luck was this in the end? The superior gods of the godhoods that he had attracted were simply extremely dreadful!
Eunwoo shrugged innocently, still smiling.
“Things are not as bad as you think.”
Lisa gave Eunwoo a blank look. Then could it be worse?
Eunwoo raised his hands, his left and right hands held up the godhoods respectively. After which, he turned to look at Lisa and said, “Lord Jungkook said just now that when they choose, the strongest comes first. The two godhoods appeared at the same time, which means they are equal in strength. The reason why we think that the godhood of the Death God is dangerous is because no one can judge how strong the netherworld power is. However, him appearing together with the Killing God has given us a good reference. The power of the Death God was equal to that of the Killing God.”
Lisa looked at Eunwoo and her tensed face relaxed instantly.
“Luckily, a brat like you can still remain so calm at a time like this and analyze things.”
Eunwoo was right. The root of their dilemma was their inability to judge the power of the Death God. However, the simultaneous appearance of the Death God and the Killing God indicated that the power of the Death God was equal to the power of the Killing God. Otherwise, the godhood of the Death God would not have appeared here.
“The Death God should be very strong. Perhaps he is even as strong as Lord Jungkook, but don’t forget that he doesn’t belong in this world. He came from the Netherworld. He didn’t die but just left this world, leaving his godhood behind. Most of his strength is still held by him. Therefore, the power that the Death God’s godhood contains cannot possibly be more than I can bear.” Eunwoo’s smile widened a little bit. He also had just thought of this. However, what really made him smile was not that he didn’t have to take risks, but that a little fellow as smart as him had lost her cool and judgment in this instant.
Eunwoo was very happy by this.
She was worried about his safety.
“Lord Jungkook, please tell me, which one is the Death God?” Eunwoo looked at Jungkook and his words had identified his answer, indicating his choice.
“Left hand.” Jungkook replied.
Eunwoo put down his right hand and held up the godhood belonging to the Death God in his left hand.
“I would like to inherit the power from the Netherworld.” Eunwoo smiled as he spoke out his answer while holding the godhood of the Death God.
In a flash, a mass of dark green light surrounded Eunwoo in an instant; at the same time, the unchosen godhood also returned to where the rest of the godhoods were, continuing its long wait.
In the end, Eunwoo chose the godhood of the Death God, and he would become the first person in the world to feel the power of the Netherworld.
With Eunwoo’s choice, the five members of Phantom had all found the godhood that suited them. After a period of familiarizing, they emerged from the light with deep expressions, as if they had not yet awakened from the memories of the godhoods.
“Now, I will take them to inherit the godhood. Lili, wait for me here.” Jungkook looked down at Lisa in his arms and gently kissed her on the space between her brows. Then, he took the five young people of Phantom with him and walked into the depths of the temple.
Lisa looked at the familiar figures with a thick smile on the corners of her mouth. She looked relaxed, but her hands were clasped together in front of her chest.
“Lord God, if you exist in this world, please bless my companions and make it so that they can smoothly inherit the power of the gods. We will protect this piece of heaven and earth in your stead.”
Both in her past and current life, this was Lisa’s first prayer, and it would be her last.