Returning from the abyss

Chapter 1478 Spinning Star
When day and night spiral together, dawn and dusk can only serve as lines to divide that magnificent celestial phenomenon. At the center where light and darkness merge, an almost pure white line emerges, forming a cocoon in the air.

At the same time, the church's blockade began to flicker with faint magical flashes. Unlike any previous crisis, this time it was a true god who had descended.

Lu Ning was completely stunned.

She almost thought she had summoned this thing by mistake, but then realized that she didn't recognize this god at all.

But just as she was thinking of being cautious, a deity suddenly appeared?
Countless silk threads began to form the shape of a flower around the cocoon. Although this flower looked different from all the flowers in the world, everyone who saw it could immediately understand that it was a flower.

Lu Ning dared not delay and immediately took out the blocking injection from her medical kit and injected herself. When dealing with a god she knew nothing about, no amount of caution was too much.

However, blocking injections are something that only a few people have access to.

The process of the deity appearing seemed both slow and swift; it was as if in the blink of an eye, the flower had already bloomed in the air. Yet, the process of blooming was clearly imprinted in everyone's eyes, minds, and even the depths of their spirits.

Bavotley locked himself in a room, shutting out all senses of the outside world. That momentary shift in his psyche almost made him step towards the flower, but he ultimately suppressed the impulse with his experience and willpower gained from ascending to the fifth rank. Yet, he dared not look directly at it again—without any protection.

Liu, Elti, and Berni had just finished their underground excavation work for the tomb keeper and hadn't fallen asleep when they were awakened by a violent divine fluctuation erupting from the sky. Liu activated the isolation array that had been set up around them as quickly as possible, and then a red light enveloped everything. The warning spell instantly woke everyone up and blocked their vision.

"Elti!" Liu shouted, then heard his colleague yell, "I'm reinforcing the surrounding filter layer! But that thing is directly in the sky! Is there any way to shoot it down? Shooting it down would make things easier for us!"

"Are you kidding me? Me? Shoot down a god?" Liu swallowed a few calming pills. These didn't have the immediate effect of injections, but they could be used as a temporary fix. She immediately began searching for church members stationed nearby. If any were attracted to the god, she would have to find a way to divert their attention immediately—knocking them out was the easiest method.

Meanwhile, inside an art gallery, Danxi's friends were sprawled out asleep, while she sat quietly in a chair, gazing thoughtfully at the deities outside.

"So... this is the truth behind the destruction of Violet City? But this only adds to the mysteries. History... no, fate has formed a cycle here. If this knot isn't untied, the trouble will never end..."

Danshi felt troubled. Although she had solved a mystery she had been searching for, a host of questions followed.

Equally distressed, Mr. Poirot stopped his carriage and gave his apprentice driver a calming pill.

After witnessing several people who had seen the deity in the sky through their windows vanish into bubbles, Poirot no longer doubted the deity's authenticity. With his vast database, he naturally knew what a god's descent into this world meant. Such intense divine power would immediately lead the Church to seal off this area as a highly polluted zone, prohibiting all personnel from entering or leaving. This lockdown would likely extend beyond Violet City, with the surrounding areas unlikely to be spared.

To take things even further, an extermination operation would have to be carried out here, of course, only after the gods have been driven out. Poirot couldn't understand why a god would suddenly descend upon this place.

--why?
"She will be very happy."

The serpent dragon leaned against the wall of the blockade of the Kishi Pivot, a special filtering effect covering his entire body, allowing him to maintain his sense of self under the divine radiance. He was panting heavily, but his tone was one of great satisfaction.

“The most pious hymns” and “deus ex machina”.

A simple plague, yet it can silently bring about the greatest disaster, and also the greatest opportunity. Perhaps Rosemerada only hoped to summon one of the Plague Lords, but the Serpent Dragon still hoped to give her a surprise.

Those ugly things, though they could serve as a starting point for research, ultimately did not conform to the aesthetics of the serpent dragon. Therefore, from his own experience, he carefully selected this "god," or rather, "spinning star," which was quite beautiful in both appearance and power.

The condition of inducing a mechanical descent through the most devout hymn is just a gamble, but the serpent dragon has made that probability one hundred percent. He has already sensed the inevitable fate that is about to arrive, and he has also seen where the person he wants to meet again will begin.

“We can all die here.” The serpent dragon shook his white robe embroidered with gold patterns and walked into the line of cultivators. “But not now… not now.”

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As the flowers bloomed in mid-air, the people in District 13 directly below instantly turned into light bubbles and flew into the sky.

No one could escape the direct descent of the gods. Had it not been for the protective barrier erected by the church beforehand, the entire city would have been doomed.

Lu Ning pressed her hand to her chest, trying to calm herself down. Her heart was pounding so hard under the influence of the deity that it felt like her heart was going crazy. Fortunately, she had been through a lot and her mind was still clear. In addition, the "greeting" she had received from Heitofilko had made her alert enough, which allowed her to break free from the deity's attraction as quickly as possible.

The flowers are actually not very high, only about 30 or 40 meters above the ground. Although many buildings in Violet City are not that tall, the towers are a different story.

As expected, after Lu Ning suppressed her emotions, several lines of fire shot from various towers towards the flowers in the air. However, she could see some of them even through the isolation layer, which meant that the arrival of the gods had caused considerable damage to the isolation layer.

“It’s the Burial Pivot… What kind of warheads here can penetrate the defenses of gods?” Lu Ning slowly adjusted her breathing. She knew that the Burial Pivot had special warheads for use against gods, but the reserves of such things were not high. Generally speaking, when gods descend, they would basically die on the spot. It was rare for the Pivot to deploy its defenses by chance like this. It was only produced urgently when needed.

In the history of this world, there have been fewer than ten confirmed instances of a fully realized deity descending.

Just then, Lu Ning heard a loud shout coming from the nearby street.

"All personnel, deploy!"

The monks of the Kishnu set up their "personal chapels" in the streets, with one leader raising his staff and pointing it to the gods in the sky.

"Three rounds of salvo, maximum charge, fire!"

Lu Ning only had time to fall to the ground before a deafening artillery barrage erupted from the nearby positions. The monks of the Primordial Monastery imbued their "personal chapels" with their own artistic styles, resulting in artillery fire in almost every form imaginable—from scorching beams of light to magical missiles, from physical shells to exploding flames upon reaching the sky. All sorts of firepower poured upon the deity, finally halting its blossoming process. "Second reload—"

The commander raised his cane high again, his voice muffled by the sound of water.

"Fire!"

Lu Ning did not get up. Despite being able to move amidst the booming cannon fire and shockwaves, she did not intend to harm the pharmacist's body too much.

When a deity descends to earth, he must obey the rules of the world and can be expelled by the rules of physics.

The principle that the fundamental principle governs is precisely this. Descending into a world with rules different from one's own is risky. If one cannot instantly distort the entire world, then one must immediately submit to the world's rules; otherwise, the "descendance" itself is invalid. Even ordinary artillery fire, gunfire, magic, and swords can achieve a certain degree of attack effect, but to destroy the structure of a god, considerable power is required.

"The third round—Hurrah..."

Bubbles began to rise from the body of the monk in command. He was directing the artillery fire for the entire team and was also directly facing the power of the gods, which dissolved and spread from his body. In the end, the divine blessing of the Primordial Monarch could not protect him forever.

Then, the monk slammed his cane down, and a beam of dazzling light pierced the night sky from his own "personal chapel," issuing his final order to fire.

The thunderous roar of cannons eventually caused the gods to pause briefly. The blooming process ceased, and the area in the sky where day and night were intertwined, where daylight was being swallowed by darkness, began to slowly return to normal as the divine descent was completed—this was proof that the gods obeyed the rules of the world.

"Spinning Star" spun leisurely in mid-air, its shelling destroying some of the threads around the flower, but the threads could be generated at any time. A gentle white glow emanated around its cocoon, like a moon, but the place illuminated by this glow was a death zone that would turn people into bubbles.

Lu Ning knew she had to leave as soon as possible. Even she, with her slightly stronger resistance to such deities, would suffer the same fate if she lingered. The cultivators had indeed not retreated, and their resistance had been effective, but what was needed now was a truly effective way to expel the deities!

For a world that has suffered a divine calamity, there must be a means of expulsion. If this event were to occur in the capital, the Pope would directly instruct the Papal Office to activate the tenth-tier divine spell "Horn of Praise" to send the deity back the way it came.

In addition, each cardinal has its own way of dealing with the situation. The most effective method is to use the ninth-order divine art "Possession of a God" to invite the god to possess the body and use divine power to fight against and expel the deity. The price is that the person affected will be crippled for life at the very least.

Furthermore, some god-slaying weapons created using the remains of gods also have the same effect. I just don't know if there are any stored here in Violet City.

Unfortunately, this deity was not a religious deity, and large-scale prayers could not exorcise it.

However, after this descent, Violet City will likely never be a habitable place again. The corruption spread by the gods will gradually render everything here unsuitable for human habitation. Places where gods have previously descended can only be slowly purified; there are no other methods to deal with them.

Wait……

Lu Ning recalled the world's most recent handling of the descent incident.

The Church is ultimately a theocracy, and when faced with other gods, it has the most ruthless and merciless solutions.

The problem now is not how much damage this descending god will cause to Violet City, but... how long until the church's "response force" arrives to deal with it.
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Inside Blue Cobalt's residence, he grabbed Red Lady with one hand—she screamed the moment the god descended and was on the verge of a mental breakdown. The others were also in poor spirits; Letter Paper's lips trembled with excitement; Pocket Watch swallowed a handful of pills and turned pale; Ranger's complexion was also terrible, and bubbles were even starting to form on his skin.

“Rosmerada, this is no joke.” Blue Cobalt frowned slightly. “The descent of a god requires rigorous ritual preparation and spiritual training…”

“Blue Cobalt, there’s no point in talking to me about this. We’ve all been labeled as heretics, are we supposed to follow the rules?” Rose Merada was frantically scribbling something down with a pen and paper. “By the way, we should probably take some action against the Ranger, she’s dying.”

Blue Cobalt took a bottle of medicine from his shelf, poured out a few pills and put them down the Ranger's throat. The Ranger took a few deep breaths before nodding to express his gratitude.

“You’d better be clear, Rosemerada. I don’t think our cooperation is aimed at getting us all gone.”

“Blue Cobalt, aren’t you perfectly fine? Your servants must be asleep by now, right? This place is on the outskirts, so don’t worry. If we all suffer here, half the people of Violet City will be wiped out.”

“Answer my question.” Blue Cobalt’s fingers rested on his waist.

“The letter can be guaranteed to be fine. The gods summoned by ‘deus ex machina’ won’t last long after all the summoners have died. This plague is just a… bomb.” Rosemerada made an explosion gesture. “It’s deadly enough in an instant and leaves a strong trail of contamination, but it’s unrealistic to expect it to leave behind any gods.”

"Thanks to you, I'll probably have to move in a couple of days," Blue Cobalt said irritably. "You knew how dangerous this thing was, why—"

“Didn’t I say what my purpose was? Blue Cobalt. Everyone here has stated their goals, and they have the right to act freely. Don’t I have that right too?”

"You want to study the gods?"

"Isn't that so? If I don't actually witness a divine descent, how can I know the attributes of a god? Even if I have some deductions, there should be facts to verify them. From this perspective, the letter is truly a genius; he actually managed to create such a plague."

"Me? Me... Haha, thank you for your compliment..." the letter said weakly.

Rosemerada tapped the densely written notes in front of her: "And now, I have reaped a great harvest, Blue Cobalt. You may leave if you wish, but I will continue, and I will prove the divine here."

(End of this chapter)