Chapter 98
Translator: StaringAtAStar, SnowTime
【Additional task 2 completed—analyze the composition of the brain repair serum, and study the drug that prolongs the life of the covenantor.】
Congratulations to the host, three missions were successfully completed, so you will receive three times the reward.
Constitution +7 (+1 + 2), memory +10 (+4 + 3), mental strength + 10 (+5 + 5), appearance +15 (+3 +4), lifespan +5 (+1 + 2), the bonuses within the parenthesis are rewards for the additional tasks.
【Also, choose two skills to learn.】
Shang Ke was too listless to exchange “feelings” with the System, so he immediately went to choose skills. Expanding the options, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the【magic】 skill was lit up in addition to a useful new skill【forging】.
Shang Ke unhesitantly chose those two skills, before heading into the refining space…
The overlaying learning period passed as quickly as always, once he finished learning, he began the journey to a new world.
Although he already knew the extent of the System’s deceptiveness, it was always energetically exceeding his expectations.
Shang Ke transmigrated only to find that he had become a statue; that’s right, a STATUE!
Even more importantly, he was a statue of a “god”; but sadly, he was a statue of an “evil” god.
The people of this world believed in all kinds of gods, and built statues and temples to them, made offerings for them year round, using their piety in exchange for blessings from the gods. All the gods were originally created by men, transformed from metal models into statues, and then sent to the soul refining pool. After eighty-one days of immersive refining, the precious body of the golden statue can become a true icon of God.
Faith in a model would turn into something spiritual, their emotions invested in the model would give it a soul, and their desire would create a body. Once the statue has enough faith, feelings, and desire, it can transform into a God. The continent of Scom has many statues of gods, but not many real gods. Being a god is both their pinnacle of power and signal of their near-death.
The gods are created by men and will surely also be destroyed by men.
The god statue Shang Ke transferred into is an evil god called “Unos”. It was created by a barbarous clan around the belief of slaughter and curses. They wanted to borrow the power of the Evil God in order to conquer other clans. Under the blessing of the Evil God, the barbarous clan indeed became infamous and conquered the area. However, their savage ways finally drew the disaster known as death upon themselves, and they were wiped out by the believers of the War God.
Although the barbarous clan was destroyed, the Evil God Unos’ statue could not be destroyed. Humanity both loathed and feared him and all distanced themselves on after another from the Mount Altia where his temple lay. From then on, no one worshipped him.
And thus, the Evil God Temple was abandoned by humans for a thousand years and gradually became ruined, at a single lonely temple on Mount Altia.
In theory, as long as the statue of the god wasn’t destroyed, even if it had no believers, the bit of spirit self that was the source of the god left within the statue will last forever. However, he did not have power and his spirit self could not leave the temple range. As such, he could only forever be confined to this tiny piece of land.
But Shang Ke knows that not long later, the Shu Clan will migrate here far from their home. Since they were not very educated, they do not know of the legends of the Evil God. After they find the ruined temple, they will mistakenly put their faith in him as a Mountain God.
After the Evil God had been confined for so long, now that he finally had some believers, there was no way he could let them go. So after they settled down, the Evil God used his meager power to help them drive away beasts, to open up new opportunities for them, and to drive away their nightmares. He allowed them to enjoy peace and security, and with them happy, their faith in him naturally became more devout.
A few years later, the Shu Clan would hear that the Yi Empire’s Prince was preparing to choose a consort. Every clan’s Princess and young ladies of marriageable age could participate, so the Shu Clan’s Chief decided to have his daughter go try her luck.
Yi Empire was the empire established by the Imperial Yi Clan. After developing for a thousand years, they have turned into the largest nation in Scom. The Evil God did not forget that it was this group of people that killed all his believers and turned him from a High-ranked God to a god immersed in dust. Leaving him with only a bit of spirit self while suffering alone for a thousand years.
Carrying this hatred in his heart, the Evil God attached himself to the Chief’s eldest daughter, Tima. In secret, he would curse the girls that were more outstanding than the rest to help reduce competitors for Tima.
Tima was already originally very beautiful, with the additional help of the Evil God, she won the competition and became the fiancee of the prince. The Shu Clan were all elated by the news and decided to move into the King City of the Yi Empire.
But the Shu Clan did not abandon the Evil God, they believed that their current wonderful life was all due to the “Mountain God” they believed in. As such, they took the statue of their “Mountain God” with them into King City.
And that one move brought great disaster into the Empire.
The origin of power for the Evil God was slaughter and curses, he could exploit the weaknesses of humans and arouse their ugliest side, while bringing them bad luck at the same time and provoking war. With the development of the Shu Clan, he obtained more and more believers while his believers’ devoutness also gave him more and more power. Ultimately, a rain of blood, conflicts, civil strife and fights for the seat of Emperor was brought to the Yi Empire… what should have been a flourishing, number one King City had turned into chaos within a short ten years.
These misfortunate events finally roused the sleeping War God Saya. He had been worshipped by the Imperial Yi Clan for over a thousand years and obtained a lot of divine power. However, he had not turned into a god yet because he had not accumulated enough emotion and desire. Some time later, he finally found the culprit, Evil God Unos and requested him to curb his actions and just be the “Mountain God” the Shu Clan worshipped.
How could the Evil God give up? He not only had divine power now, but had also been promoted into a god with substance, due to hate and desire for slaughter. With a human form, he promoted more chaos within King City.
The War God Saya saw that the Evil God had no plans of changing his ways and was finally angered. He barely used thirty percent of his powers to seal the Evil God into his statue. Saya did not want to drive him to his death, but the Evil God, who had already turned into an actual god, could not relieve his hate and desires after being sealed. This eventually led to his statue breaking down and to him therefore being completely wiped out. As such, the Shu Clan who had placed their beliefs in him were also implicated and gradually declined under the curse of the Evil God.
After Shang Ke obtained the information, he was a bit dumbfounded. He felt that he had entered a very strange world, everything in this world exceeded his cognition.
【Main Mission—Obtain the acknowledgment of the War God Saya.】
If he hadn’t misunderstanding something, the War God Saya and the Evil God Unos seem to be enemies! A thousand years ago, the Evil God’s believers were wiped out by the War God’s believers. And now a thousand years later, the Evil God is going to do a reversal and cling onto the legs of the War God in order to create a more favorable impression of himself?
The source of the Evil God’s powers come from slaughter and curses. How was he going to make the War God believe that a natural villain like him had mended his way? Reason was telling him it was irrational!
What happened to the so-called easy world? A world that was full of gods flying around could be called simple?
Wait, System, who’s the main character of this world? The main character was his clue to finding his man, this information can’t be missed.
【 Main Character Pending— War God Saya, Prince Yitamo, Love God Neil.】
Shang Ke: …Want to add some more while you’re at it (sarcasm)? Putting the War God and Prince aside, where the hell did that Love God come from? The information you gave didn’t mention a lick of him alright?! Plus, what the hell does it mean it’s pending?
【The designated main character is dependent upon Host’s choices and progress. The initial difficulty of this world is set to simple, but if Host courts death, then there is a chance the difficulty would be raised.】
TL: Otome game vibes…
Shang Ke was completely enraged: What the fuck, isn’t my mission to court death in the first place?!
The System went back into lurking mode so Shang Ke could only face reality.
The time period he transmigrated to was right when the Shu Clan was about to arrive at Mount Altia. From then on, he would be worshiped as a “Mountain God” and obtain divine powers. Shang Ke felt that the history of these few years did not need to be changed, he can continue handling things the way the original Evil God did. Helping the Shu Clan expel beasts, open up opportunities for them, and keep their nightmares away.
Gods could not go far unless they attach themselves to their believers. Only someone as strong as the War God could travel independent of them.
Having made his plan, Shang Ke let out his divine sense and carefully observed the Evil God’s statue. He saw that he had a sinister mask and his torso was naked with a single beast tooth hanging from his neck. His lower body had an animal hide skirt that was kept in place by a single string. He sat in the Buddha pose and held a hammer.
This image… is really wretched.
Shang Ke did not place much hope on the beauty standards of ancient people from over a thousand years ago, but at least they made the evil god statue’s body very strong and had even very considerately given him a mask, allowing plenty of room for future generations to use their imagination.
Just while he was letting his imagination run wild, a clatter of voices made their way into the temple, followed by someone yelling, “Hey, look at this! There’s a temple here.”
Not long afterwards, five to six strong men walked into the ruined temple.
The members of the Shu Clan arrived.
The following days, the Shu Clan set up camp nearby, but did not seem to have plans to settle.
However, their arrival brought some life to the cold and cheerless temple. Some children would occasionally run by and greet him, giving some kowtows that were clearly just for playing around. But it was still enough to give him back divine power.
Shang Ke guessed that it was because the spirits of children were purer compared to adults, so even if they only had an infinitesimal bit of sincerity, they still helped him to some extent.
Thanks to them coming to pray to him once in a while, and even occasionally leaving him some fruits—although they were still eaten by the children, Shang Ke’s spiritual sense could finally leave the range of the temple and follow these children to check out their camp.
He had not even entered the camp when the sound of weeping reached his ear. On an empty space ahead were two bodies, from the looks of their wounds, they were bitten to death by beasts.
Ever since the Shu Clan’s family home was destroyed, they had been wandering without a place to call their own. Most of the other cities were unwilling to admit other clans, so they could only wander outside and survive in the wild. They wished to find a plentiful land that did not belong to anyone to settle.
However, ferocious beasts roamed the wild freely and poisonous things of all sorts littered the area. Furthermore, all sorts of strange gods made trouble for them in secret. Who knows how many clansman they already lost from their journey.
Their Chief heaved a long sigh, “The beasts here are very fierce, it looks like we need to find another place to settle.”
The other clansman all wore bitter faces.
Shang Ke (hand reaching out): Wait, don’t leave so fast! I can protect you, make your family rich, make your careers go well, help you find a marriage partner, turn you into ‘Ms./Mr. Perfect’ and bring you to the peak of your life. The only thing you guys need to do is to bring some fruit to me every few days and sweep the dust! There isn’t a deal out there that is better than this!
SnowTime: Since the explanations may be a bit hard to understand, basically it’s like an idea for a book, then when you actually get to writing it down you actually got something to read, then when you actually publish that book it becomes a real deal. So idea -> statue with some life + investments of emotions and desire -> full god with their own body and not just a statue.