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Chapter 2026 Soul Furnace
Guild leader Zero still remembers the Great Beast God.

Almost two years ago, the Great Beast God was defeated by the Fairy Kingdom. After witnessing the power of all kinds of gods, demons and monsters, the Great Beast God was somewhat unsatisfied.

Admittedly, the battle in the Goblet of Fire was quite spectacular at the time, but that was about it. The Great Beast God was like an ordinary, exceptionally powerful monster that was defeated, and its impact was not as compelling as the liberation of the Beastman race.

Thinking about it now, it is indeed a bit strange, but the Great Beast God was indeed defeated. After his death, the dust that his body turned into resembled the black smoke rising from a bonfire, covering the sky and then quickly disappearing.

Ultimately, the problem lies in the scarcity of information about the Great Beast God, who happens to be a very prominent world-class boss, located in the most conspicuous Goblet of Fire in the orc territory. Even without completing the prerequisite quests, one can directly challenge him.

Back then, the Fairy Kingdom encountered the High Priest of the Great Beast God disguised as a bard when they were on their way to the Goblet of Fire. They guessed the trick at a glance and tricked the High Priest of the Great Beast God until the High Priest couldn't hold back and turned against them.

The strange feeling in the orc territory today may be because the Great Beast God incident has not been fully resolved.

The group followed the elderly orc to a remote corner of the tribe, where the elderly orc, considered unclean and a harbinger of calamity, lived alone.

The aged orc stopped, turned around, and revealed his face with irregularly shaped, long, curved horns.

“Stranger, terrible things are happening on this land. The followers of the Great Beast God are trying to create the next Great Beast God, and the flames in the furnace have been rekindled.”

“Furnace? Isn’t that a cup?” Ice233 remembered the Goblet of Fire that he had seen in the medium-sized stronghold.

"It is both a cup and a furnace, a furnace of souls. You should have already seen the scene of the flames of souls merging into one in that Goblet of Fire." The old orc gripped his cane tightly, his voice ancient and distant.

"That was the Great Beast God's talent. He was special, possessing the ability to connect all races. The power of the orcs he conquered manifested in his body, making his physique even more majestic, and he could only be called a [Dragon]."

"After the Great Beast God was defeated, his talent turned into seeds, which were sown across the entire territory of the orcs in the black storm that day."

"Now the followers of the Great Beast God have picked up those seeds and rekindled the Soul Forge. The orcs who have been granted titles of king and general will also be promoted to candidates for the Great Beast God."

"Wow~ This Great Beast God is quite something." Guild Leader Zero revealed a meaningful smile.

"Judging from the description, he seems to possess the ability of [Chimera], which allows him to absorb the souls of other individuals and alter his own soul. The last one with a similar ability was the Titan God."

"One is a soul furnace, and the other is a life furnace, and both can share this ability."

"That's why we need to extinguish it."

The aged orc walked up to Guild Master Zero, extended his withered left hand, and slowly opened it to reveal a pair of eyes in his palm, with two dancing flames in the pupils.

The Great Beast God Priest's Burning Eyes

[The relic left behind by the High Priest of the Beast God, the one who received the blessing, at the moment of his true death and turning into dust. Even though life has vanished and the soul has shattered, these eyes still gaze upon the soul furnace that connects all things.]

"Stranger, use these eyes to find those soul furnaces and extinguish the embers left by the Great Beast God." "But why are you telling us this? If the Great Beast God were to be reborn, a hybrid like you should be able to regain your auspicious status, or at the very least, you wouldn't be ostracized and hated like you are now." Guild Master Zero did not take the Burning Eyes, but instead gestured for Ice233 to take them.

"My current predicament as a multi-horned hybrid has nothing to do with the Great Beast God. The other beastmen's disgust and fear stem from the fact that the multi-horned hybrid, relying on its auspicious status, committed all sorts of evil deeds during the Great Beast God's peak reign." The old beastman shook his head and gave a self-deprecating smile.

"The current plight of polygamous people is nothing more than karmic retribution."

"Moreover, multi-horned hybrids are certainly not auspicious symbols. Our existence is a twisted product born from the Great Beast God's short-sightedness and wrong choices."

Without needing to say more, Guild Master Zero understood a corner of the dark past of the orcish territory in the old orc's words.

Just as the Great Beast God conquered various clans with power and forcibly connected them, the orcs also used a more brutal and simple method to cater to the Great Beast God's attempt to make the orcs one, which was the combination of bloodlines, thus giving birth to multi-horned hybrids.

Without a doubt, whether then or now, this behavior was quite distorted, an overcorrection of the goal of unifying the various races and clans of the orcs.

The emergence of hybrid clans today proves that different orcs can coexist harmoniously without blood fusion.

Orcs do worship the Great Beast God, but it's clear that worshipping the Great Beast God is better for them.

Although the elderly orc brought them here by using the [telling the dark history of this land] technique, after taking out the Burning Eye, he said nothing more and returned alone to his dilapidated dwelling, as if he had done everything he needed to do, and was just waiting for death to come quietly.

The multi-horned hybrid is like a completely flawed existence. It was born to cater to the Great Beast God's goal of unifying the orcs, but its auspicious nature exacerbated the conflicts among the orcs, and even nearly caused a split between the new orcs and the old orcs.

The current flourishing of the orcish territory proves the mistakes of the Great Beast God and the polymorphism. As part of those mistakes, the most appropriate outcome is to disappear quietly and cease disrupting the current peace.

"The Great Beast God..."

Guild leader Zero narrowed his eyes. He was a peace enthusiast for a limited time, and it was best to quickly eliminate this kind of trouble that might affect the entire orc territory.

However, neither he nor [Rust Gospel] could operate openly, as [Azazel] was keeping a close eye on them. Moreover, the matter of the Great Beast God involved the entire orc territory, and the scope of their activities was far too wide; a dozen or so of them couldn't handle it well.

Guild leader Zero's eyes fell on Ice233. This was a good choice. They could use the pre-event activities of [Somado] to resolve the issue of the orc territory.

Although Somador and Blazer are closely connected, as long as he is in charge and prevents the situation from escalating, limiting the impact to Somador's pre-event activities, Blazer will not interfere.

That's a good idea.

"Go and report the matter of the Blazing Eye, the Soul Forge, and the multi-horned hybrid to the event organizers as soon as possible. In exchange for event points, tell them to take action quickly."

(End of this chapter)