Chapter 496
Chapter 496 - 476: Return
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"What’s going on?"
Evil Bone took out a long knife and killed one of his comrades who had just fallen and risen again.
And around him, the resurrected dead people, as soon as they awoke, attacked the nearest fresh meat without hesitation.... some unlucky souls failed to hide, and were directly dismembered, torn apart, and fused.
"...The ceremony must have gone wrong! Damn it, did the Third Disaster come early?"
Having been working here for many years, Rute knew more than most people.
Even without the mural hints outside, he had long known about the so-called "Seven Disasters."
However, he didn’t expect everything to happen so quickly... This was no longer a natural mutation of corpses. It was the summoning ceremony that broke the natural rules and brought misfortune too early.
There were resurrections of the dead everywhere. There were originally more than a thousand believers’ corpses here, and many have died big and small these days.
As enjoyable as it was for the bandits to kill earlier, now they were equally miserable.
The battlefield was plunged into chaos, as suddenly rampaging corpses attacked any nearby targets. What was even more dangerous were those unidentified "ice popsicle" people.
They were fragile dead bodies, alright... But in front of them were devout Beast God believers, many of whom had beastification abilities and had already deeply mutated their bodies.
Now, turned into half-beast corpse monsters that were undead, they were extremely difficult to deal with.
They crawled out of the tombs and attacked everything around them instinctively... But just at this moment, all the living people paused for a moment.
It was like a dizziness caused by an inverted space, the process of a higher-dimensional being awakening and attempting to descend to the mortal world... It was too "huge" and had to shrink its body as much as possible in order for it to "squeeze in."
Even so, the "collision" process still caused instability in the entire space.
A silent roar echoed throughout the tomb, something had awakened and was angry... At this moment, those in the know felt fear, and it definitely couldn’t have been that kind god of the past.
The being tried to descend but couldn’t find a suitable vessel, so it could only be impotent and furious.
At this moment, Great Priest Marian realized her mistake.
"What... What have I done?!"
She forcibly started the ceremony without paying attention to the "vessel" situation. Most importantly, she didn’t complete the priest’s duty to personally guide the deity’s return.
A vessel and a power source were provided, but a "lighthouse" was still needed to guide the way for the "wanderer" to return successfully.
She started the ceremony separated by the God’s Tomb room and indeed successfully completed the ceremony process. However, she failed to guide the "deity" into the body it should be in.
"... Something’s not right. Would our deity be such a crazy being? Curses, darkness, hatred..."
At this moment, she became lost again... Just like when she forcibly connected with the giant snake before!
In fact, that was exactly the case. The "god corpse" is this land’s greatest source of pollution. Its existence has long eroded and transformed the local demons; the "snake" is like the "god"... To be precise, that monster is like a part of the ancient god itself!
The entire forest, the whole land, has been eroded and transformed, and the ancient god corpse is gestating underground. Its flesh, will, essence, and hatred have long been mixed into the earth’s veins.
The "Resurrection Ceremony" made a big mistake, but from another perspective, prematurely waking this corpse god might not necessarily be a bad thing... Most of its physical body is still sealed, and even if its "will" and "pieces" are awakened, they cannot properly enter the mortal world.
Another silent earthquake occurred, as the pressure from the higher dimension did not interfere with reality... However, all living beings’ souls and consciousness were shaken and affected, causing a lapse in their will (stun).
It was like an evil dragon, with a big mouth that couldn’t bite through a small tin can... It didn’t have the necessary parts to exert force.
The accumulated fuel of a hundred years was burned up in an instant, and the traction force stopped here. The power of this level was not enough to truly pull the deity out of its "seal."
However, it wasn’t willing to give up. Even though it was only remnants and broken pieces, even though the seal was shattered and it knew it would soon truly break free, it still refused to give up... Even if it was just fragments and remnants of contaminated mutations, it didn’t want to sleep for eternity.
At the last moment, as it was pulled back into the seal by the tomb, it sensed... Right there, there was a part of itself!
"I grant blessings..."
For the deity, the will itself is power. As the cursed thought materializes into reality, the deity-level curse has already begun to rewrite reality.
The once indestructible door of the God’s tomb Room opened automatically, and the giant God statue lying on the ground received the first and last "Blessing" of the Deity.
The stone-carved face now had an expression, and its mouth grew larger.
At first, the opened mouth was a human scream, but soon it turned into a frenzied animal roar.
It...he, turned from death to life, the stone-made skin showed flesh color, and the originally rigid body began to show color and temperature.
"We succeeded!"
"Finally, finally, our origin tracing..."
"Three generations, eighty-seven years, one thousand six hundred martyrs..."
Even at this dangerous moment, just witnessing the appearance resembling the "Deity" in the scriptures, the Beast God believers had fallen into ecstasy and fanaticism.
One by one, the devout followers knelt down, and some even crawled forward. They dared not stand up straight but crawled towards the statue, attempting to kiss its leg with their mouths...
"Don’t! Something is wrong! This is not right!"
The loud roar of the Great Priest and the sound of a "watermelon being crushed" came simultaneously, and the devout believer became crushed flesh under "his" foot...The next moment, the crushed flesh was absorbed and reassembled, and a devout yet closed-eyed face appeared on "his" leg.
"Become one with God, this is the highest honor, our lifelong pursuit..."
The eerie voice echoed in the stone chamber, coming from the devout face.
At first, his tone of voice was hoarse and strange, but as he continued to speak, it became smoother and sounded like a holy song to the ears of the Beast God believers, as if a devout saint was singing.
"It’s not our Deity! It’s definitely not! It’s a monster! Destroy it!"
Great Priest Marian was the first to come to her senses. To judge whether the being in front of her was her Deity, she didn’t need much knowledge or memory, just "looking" and "feeling".
Although the monster before her had the appearance of a "Deity", its interior was complete chaos, with flesh, hatred, and thirst...these infinitely twisted things came together and eventually wore the coat of a Deity.
"Blasphemy, such blasphemy, what are you waiting for? Attack!"
Some high-level believers awakened and responded to the Great Priest’s call.
But most of the believers either walked towards the monster willingly, or knelt down and prayed, joyfully welcoming their "Lord" with his call.
"Dang!" Another high-level believer knelt down, devoutly looking at the Holy Image, ignoring the blood-basin mouth opening above his head.
"Crack." Then, another face appeared on the monster, and its Holy Sound became even more piercing.
The newly "born" monster was just a baby, but if it had enough flesh and souls to grow from...
Marian clenched her teeth and made up her mind, entering the battle herself once more.
She would make up for the grave mistake she had made... At this moment, seeing the Demon God devouring believers, she was already prepared for death.
"My daughter..." But at this moment, all she could think of was her foolish little daughter.
Was she okay? Would she become more clever after unsealing the Curse? She hoped that her daughter wouldn’t be as foolish as herself, sacrificing her life for faith in God, and wished that she could find someone she loved to spend the rest of her life with...
"Mother!" At this moment, the sound from behind made her smile, a genuine and joyful smile.
Being able to hear her child’s voice for the last time, even if it was just a dream she hoped for day and night, was still a kind of luck.
"Mother!" But the voice grew louder and louder.
She suddenly turned around, and it was then that she saw the familiar face coming from the passage above.
"Catherine!!?"
But where did the strangers behind her come from?
— End of Chapter 496 —