Chapter 495
Chapter 495 - 475: Resurrection
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"Can’t go in? There are people inside? Ah, an intruder?"
When she learned about this, Marian’s composure somewhat collapsed.
As a relatively devout follower of the Beast God, she couldn’t understand why she hadn’t started the resurrection work for her Lord as soon as she arrived at this underground tomb.
And looking at the furious Great Priest who had just come from the battlefield, the terrified believers didn’t have the nerve to say, "It was you who said that you wanted to adjust the timing points to make the Deity resurrect at its best state"...... After a period of powerless rage, she had to accept reality as soon as possible.
Now, the underground tomb had been forcibly occupied by an intruder from the outside world, and no one else could enter.
She looked back at the frontline again, where the giant beast that had turned against its allies was wreaking havoc, killing indiscriminately.
Could they win? It’s hard to say. So, let’s focus on the immediate task.
After some thought, she made up her mind.
Indeed, she couldn’t enter the dwelling of the Deity herself, but the intruder had undoubtedly never considered that the truly crucial treasure, the key to unlocking everything, was actually already inside.
So, as long as...
"Awaken, the sacred relic of my Lord, the holy arm that once strangled the Great Abyss...."
Kneeling by the entrance of the tomb, Great Priest Marian recited the "Unsealing Words".
At this moment, inside the tomb chamber, the arm of the Deity was trembling incessantly... As the layers of Sealing strips on it fell apart, its Divine Power began to release naturally.
According to Marian’s thoughts, no matter who the intruder inside was, they would be directly destroyed under the furious might of the divine.
No mortal could withstand the unsealed Hand of the Divine at close range...
"Did you tell her that the intruder inside is Black Bear?"
"...I did, but she seems to have forgotten..."
When misfortune and Truth-level Curses strike simultaneously, the result is that any action may suffer unpredictable consequences. At such times, saying less and being cautious is the only way to proceed.
"It should be fine, right? The Great Priest never makes mistakes..." Apparently some unlucky people who seemed to know something could only comfort themselves like this.
As the high-level Priests and warriors were fighting on the frontline, the ones taking care of the wounded soldiers and doing logistics at the back were ordinary and lower-level believers. They couldn’t stop Marian... Even when talking to the Great Priest, they kept their heads down and did not dare to speak loudly.
But Marian, at that very moment, activated the Hand of the Divine...
"Huh? It’s alive?!"
Xue En, who was inside, was startled by the sudden movement of the arm.
The twisted and withered claw twitched suddenly, and the bandages on it turned into ashes and fell on the ground as they automatically disintegrated.
"It has nothing to do with me!!" Xue En instinctively emphasized, even raising both his hands to distance himself... It seemed that the boy had been blamed and asked for compensation for various inexplicable incidents before.
The problem was that besides him, there was only that gigantic statue in this small room. He looked left and right, feeling somewhat at a loss.
The next moment, the arm appeared in front of his face, and the black claw tried to insert its finger directly into his head!
"Ah Qiu!" At that moment, he suddenly coughed, lowered his head, and dodged... The black fingers brushed past his shoulder, causing the skin they touched to turn red and twist, and then immediately swell and hurt.
Just a mere brush past, and his right shoulder was in so much pain that he couldn’t stand upright.
But, this unintentionally saved him... He was judged by the Hand of the Divine as a piece of garbage, who, although carrying the bloodline of the Beast God’s imperial guard, was nowhere near capable of bearing the full power of the Deity.
However, even just a partial Divine-Blood still caused him excruciating pain, making him roll around on the ground.
At this moment, the Hand of the Divine naturally chose the most fitting "vessel" in the room, which resembled the Deity’s prototype – the statue that had been prepared for it.
It connected with it... but the Great Priest outside was full of horror. She didn’t know what was happening or why the entrance hadn’t opened yet. Could it be that the bastard inside was still alive?
She didn’t know that Xue En, who had transformed into the "black and white bear imperial guard," was now regarded as a high-level Beast God follower. If he’d only been given a small portion of divinity, he wouldn’t have died on the spot... but looking at him rolling on the ground and violently bashing his head, the pain might be worse than death itself.
"This is bad, the ceremony isn’t supposed to be like this, I should be there to preside over it..."
What would happen if the Imposing God ceremony was held without a host? Large drops of sweat dripped from Marian’s forehead as she felt fear and unease.
She closed her eyes, trying to sense what was happening inside, but only felt the raging and out-of-control Divine Power.
"No matter what!"
There was only one chance. If the Deity’s arm was used up, the Beast God would never be able to come out of the seal.
Now, the crystallization of divine power (Hand of the Divine) and the "carrier" had fused, providing a power source and a body, and all that was left was the "driver."
"My Lord, I summon your presence here. We are willing to offer everything in this burial chamber, praying for your attention and gaze..."
She had become a gambler, one who had almost lost everything.
The Beast God followers’ centuries of accumulation here had been activated. A large amount of resources turned into "sacrifices," with everything being set alight.
Bodies laying on the battlefield, the once-dead, and the burial place of the Beast God followers’ buried bones for centuries... they offered everything they had, just for a chance for their Deity.
The underground burial chamber was opened, and the real sacrifice was the "Beast God followers," while the real guiding markers were the dead’s "faith."
𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
The next moment, the entire burial chamber was filled with dazzling golden light.
The structure of the burial chamber resembled a "drilling rig."
It was wide and round on top, and narrow and sharp at the bottom, gradually penetrating into the earth’s veins.
As this "funnel" burned its essence, everything poured into the earth’s veins and stirred them, naturally stirring the "existence" within.
The first to respond, however, was not the Beast God awaited by the followers...
A great many roars and the sound of breaking ground emerged on the surface outside, while inside the burial chamber, there was restless activity in certain areas...
With the earth’s veins disrupted, the natural order had come to an end... The disaster foretold had come early, and the dead buried in the ground could feel the call from above.
The earth’s seal naturally cracked, and the Beast God followers’ years of preparation had created a massive opening in the earth’s veins... this had been their goal all along, to tear open the earth’s seal and reconnect with their Deity!
But the first to respond had some connection to the Beast God followers indeed.
"...The dead, the bones in the graveyard have risen!"
This was the "Elephant Tomb" of the Beast God followers, their final resting place, where they willingly left their corpses and remains to the next generation as a basis for awakening their god.
It was a devout believer’s burial place and an altar, used to worship the fuel destined to be offered to the gods... They lay there, full of expectations and piety.
But they never expected that before their god was awakened, they would be the first ones to rise...
Screams echoed endlessly through the air. The once-sacrificial tomb had now turned into a hell on earth.
The foolish actions of the living had brought the disaster foretold in the prophecy upon the world ahead of schedule.
Undead beings stood up, completely mutated.
— End of Chapter 495 —