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However, the most important reason why most nobles did not leave was because they believed that even if the Sixth Fortress was captured by the Black Beast Mercenaries, the management of the place would still require the management of this group of nobles with noble blood, extensive knowledge and rich experience.

Their idea actually makes sense. If Walter was still the Walter with an army of 100,000, in order to maintain temporary stability in the conquered area, he might take his time with this group of greedy nobles and would not easily show his fangs.

It is a pity that the current Walter is no longer the Walter of the past. Today, Walter knows that what the Black Beast Mercenary Group needs now is not the stability of the ruled area, but the stability of people's hearts and the rapid expansion of troops.

The former was to stabilize the old members of the Black Beast Mercenary Group and consolidate his rule, while the latter was to restore the Black Beast Mercenary Group to its maximum strength. Although he successfully captured the Sixth Fortress with only a few thousand troops, in fact, the success this time was mostly due to Greve's killing and catching Claudia off guard.

After all, although the Black Beast Mercenaries are individually powerful, if the Knights of Dawn hold the city walls from the beginning, it is hard to say who will win this time. After all, Claudia's military command ability is really first-class. With a tight military formation and the foundation of the church, there is a high probability that they can withstand the Black Beast Mercenaries that have not yet been strengthened on the battlefield.

After being able to hold on in the early stages, the direction of this war will develop in an unknown direction.

In order to avoid this from happening again, Walter decided to start a warlike expansion of troops, not thinking about long-term business, just doing a deal. This means that Walter changed from a warlord to a bandit, and Walter planned to use a destructive snowballing method to strengthen himself.

Walter's specific approach was to rob, kill, and plunder. He first forced the young civilians at the bottom to join the Black Beast Mercenary Group, and then led his troops to systematically plunder all the nobles, churches, and clergy residences in the Sixth Fortress. The wealth was divided equally between the individuals and the mercenary group. The noble men were directly slaughtered by the new members as a token of their loyalty, while the women were sent to serve in the newly established service camp.

Walter came up with the idea of ​​recycling waste. He assigned a large number of tender-skinned male nobles to the side of the monster aliens, not to change the monsters' sexual orientation but to avoid wasting precious resources such as women.

After all, facing monsters that are at least five or six meters long, it doesn't matter whether they are sent over there or not, the final result will be death by being pierced through the body, and the value of letting young and beautiful women die under the monsters' sticks is far less than the value of keeping them in the service camp, so Walter made the best choice.

Walter's evil spirit came into play, and he ordered Grave, the old general who had helped him "a lot", to be sent to the Monster Servant Camp. The same thing happened to his son Klaus.

The reason why Walter did this was to take revenge on Claudia. Without her support and command, his current gains could have been doubled. Not only could he have taken over everything in the Sixth Fortress, but he could also have directly attacked the Seventh Fortress. If he could have occupied the next two fortresses, his chances of winning against Alicia would have been greatly improved.

Unfortunately, all these fantasies became delusions because of the hateful woman Claudia, so Walter chose a revenge that he thought was cruel. He believed that Claudia, a woman who was rumored to value family and had a loving relationship with her husband, would be very angry when she knew that her husband would die of anal fissure, and anger would lead to mistakes, which was the result Walter wanted.

Although Walter always suffered losses when facing Roy, his methods were still very powerful when facing people other than Roy.

It was only a week after the capture of the Sixth Fortress, and he had absorbed all the remaining population of the Sixth Fortress through various means, such as pledges of allegiance, beauty, and wealth, and he also managed to make these newcomers, who had joined the group for less than a week, have a high degree of loyalty to him.

After this group of newcomers became initially familiar with the structure of the Black Beast Mercenary Corps, Walter also began his new step, which was to strengthen this group of young and strong men, totaling 80,000 people, with dark rituals. After the baptism of fierce war, Walter's vision has been greatly improved. He no longer thinks highly of ordinary soldiers, and as an excellent commander, he keenly realizes that extraordinary soldiers are the theme of this continent.

Be it the magic heavy cavalry of the First Fortress, the spiritual barrier of the Third Fortress, or the divine knights temporarily created by the Sixth Fortress, all of these are telling him that only the extraordinary can fight against the extraordinary, and only magic can defeat magic. No matter how many ordinary people's troops there are, they will all be slaughtered in front of the organized extraordinary soldiers.

And he also needs to control this new batch of fresh blood joining the group through a ceremony.

The process of Walter arranging the dark transformation ritual went smoothly. The old members of the Black Beast Mercenary Group were either staying in the service camp to vent their energy on the noble ladies of the past, or counting the gold and silver treasures they had robbed. They did not have many objections to Walter putting a leash on the newcomers, and they were even happy for this to happen.

After all, all their old members have been controlled, and you newcomers still want to escape?

This is the evil nature of human beings. It doesn't matter if they suffer, as long as others suffer too, they will feel balanced psychologically.

With everyone in silence, a huge magic ceremony covering 80,000 people was held in the central square of the Sixth Fortress.

I don’t know if it’s because the magic ritual is too powerful, or because the physical and mental qualities of this group of young and strong people at the bottom are not up to standard, but the death rate of this transformation is much higher than the first time.

The death to success ratio soared from one-half to one-tenth. Out of 80,000 people who entered the magic circle, only about 8,000 people walked out. However, the strength of these 8,000 people who survived was also very strong. After being strengthened, this group of people had caught up with the old members who had been strengthened for a long time.

Of course, there is a reason why they are so strong. When Walter was arranging the ceremony, he added a part of the sacrificial ceremony to the dark strengthening ceremony. On the one hand, he strengthened his control over this group of people, and on the other hand, he made use of the weak who failed to make the strong stronger.

The result of the ceremony was that the death rate was five times higher, which was a bit unexpected for Walter, but everything else was within the calculations of this tycoon.

After a period of recuperation, the Black Beast Mercenary Corps has finally returned to its size of tens of thousands. With a total of 12,000 extraordinary warriors, the Black Beast Mercenary Corps is already a huge force on this continent. With this power in hand, Walter regained his confidence in establishing the Kingdom of Service.

After half of the food in the Sixth Fortress was consumed by the Black Beast Mercenaries' destructive actions, Walter only left two thousand men to defend the city, and the other ten thousand people went out in full force to head towards the Seventh Fortress. This time, with his strong army, he not only wanted to capture the Seventh Fortress, but also the Fourth Fortress where the Goddess's reincarnation was located. He wanted to make the Goddess and the church disappear completely. He believed that as long as the Goddess was severely damaged, the power obtained from the divine power in Alicia's hands would fade away.

In order to defeat Alicia, one must first capture the goddess' reincarnation. This speculation was made by Walter after he gathered all the wizards and wise men he had and analyzed the books in the hands of the nobles of the Sixth Fortress. Of course, the evil will behind Walter was also fueling the flames, otherwise Walter and the others would not have come to the conclusion so quickly.

Chapter 177. Variables

Once there are more than ten thousand people, there is no limit.

The Black Beast Mercenaries marched rapidly towards the Seventh Fortress with a solemn and fierce aura.

The Seventh Fortress and the church's tentacles spread throughout the entire area soon learned of the Black Beast Mercenaries' attack on the Seventh Fortress. They were also mobilizing resources and using their strength to urgently strengthen the Seventh Fortress's defenses. In order to buy more time for the defenders, they even learned how to launch a mass offensive without any instruction, trapping the Black Beast Mercenaries in a vast ocean of people.

At the call of the church, the Black Beast mercenaries were all fortified and set up traps along the way by the goddess's fanatical followers. There were even many fanatics who launched suicide attacks on the Black Beast army.

The reason why the church had such a violent reaction was because the news of what the Black Beast Mercenaries had done in the Sixth Fortress had been leaked. After knowing that Walter had treated the clergy and nobles in such a cruel way, a consensus had been reached in the Seventh Fortress that the Black Beast Mercenaries must be kept out, otherwise their power, wealth, and families would be reduced to ashes.

The church's actions to obstruct the Black Beast Mercenaries' advance did cause the Black Beast Mercenaries' forced march to encounter a lot of trouble at the beginning and caused considerable casualties, which slowed down the Black Beast Mercenaries' progress for a considerable amount of time. However, these underhanded tricks were quickly swept away by the Black Beast Mercenaries' hard power.

Thousands of giant monsters, each starting from seven or eight meters tall, marched in unison with heavy steps to clear a path in front of the Black Beast Mercenaries. The traps that were deadly enough for humans were undoubtedly just tickles in front of them, and the wooden thorns that could pierce the flesh could only polish them in front of their hard scales.

As for the suicide attacks of the fanatics, they can only be regarded as a temporary supplement in front of the army of monsters. Under Walter's orders, all humans who appear in front of the monsters can be disposed of as they please. Of course, the monsters will eat the men directly and fuck the women first and then eat them.

In this way, the monster army opened the way in front and carved out a bloody path. All creatures that appeared in their route were killed by the monsters. In the process, at least thousands of civilians and more than a dozen creatures in five or six small towns were destroyed by them, leaving no bones behind.

With monsters leading the way and destroying everything in front, the marching speed was indeed much faster. However, the news that the Black Beast Mercenaries were killing people without mercy and liked to eat human flesh and blood spread throughout the entire Seventh and Sixth Fortress areas in a very short time. Even in the rapidly spreading rumors, the image of the Black Beast Mercenaries was no different from the legendary abyss demon.

The image of the Black Beast Mercenaries has been completely destroyed in the area belonging to the Seventh Fortress due to the promotion of the Church. Under the bombardment of public opinion, the lower-class people here would not even think of joining the Black Beast Mercenaries. They would probably flee as soon as they see the flag of the Black Beast Mercenaries.

The church's propaganda was so thorough that it even caused widespread panic in the area. After hearing that the Black Beast Mercenaries were coming, many residents of the Seventh Fortress began to look for various ways to escape for fear that they would run into the Black Beast Mercenaries.

It is well known that emotions can be transmitted from person to person. As panic spreads on a large scale, it is not just the lower-class people who are beginning to suffer from fear of blacks. Some middle-class people, such as small businessmen and small landlords who are unaware of the situation, are also beginning to suffer from fear of blacks. This emotion is even gradually spreading upwards.

Because the church members tried their best to publicize the horror of the Black Beast Mercenaries, the Seventh Fortress became timid before the battle even started and turmoil broke out. It even affected the army and caused morale to be weakened to a certain extent.

Before the enemy arrived, a fight broke out in the Seventh Fortress between the Fight to the Death faction and the Escape faction, making the already insufficient defensive forces even worse.

In the end, it was Claudia who could no longer bear the farce in the city and sent troops to quell it. Claudia was indeed a person with full military command ability. After temporarily suppressing other voices in the Seventh Fortress through military capabilities, she directly took over the Seventh Fortress through military means.

Under her command, the huge war machine of the Seventh Fortress finally began to move. Although it was bumpy at the beginning, as time passed, the movement of this war machine became smoother and faster.

Before the Black Beast Mercenaries arrived outside the city, the Seventh Fortress, under the command of Claudia, had already transformed most of the foundation accumulated by the Seventh Fortress and the Church over hundreds of years into military strength. In a short period of time, the Seventh Fortress invested resources at all costs and created 30,000 powerful Knights of Light and thousands of Divine Knights baptized by the power of the Goddess.

With such a powerful military force at hand, as long as the nobles in the city don't act stupidly and hold back, Claudia has enough confidence to make the Black Beast Mercenaries suffer a severe setback in front of the Seventh Fortress.

She had truly witnessed the terrifying physical fitness of the lower-level dark soldiers of the Black Beast Mercenary Corps. Although the strength of the Light Knights who were urgently trained was indeed not as good as those of the Black Beast Mercenary Corps, their quality did not produce a crushing effect. The Light Knights could not defeat them but at least they could hold them off, instead of being directly crushed to death like the Knights of Dawn before.

Even though the Light Knights are not that powerful, they are numerous. If you can't defeat one alone, three or four together will surely be able to defeat you.

By this time, Claudia had already received news about the Black Beast Mercenaries' surge in troops, and even got the specific number. The 30,000 Knights of Light and thousands of Divine Knights were urgently created after knowing the detailed intelligence about the Black Beast Mercenaries. Otherwise, with the church's stingy character, it would never have used up its resources to strengthen such an army. They were all scared by the Black Beast Mercenaries.

The person who provided the information to the church and Claudia was none other than Alicia, disguised as Roy. After seeing the configurations of the church and the Black Beast Mercenaries from a bird's eye view, in order to prevent the Seventh Fortress from being directly flattened in one wave, Roy specifically revealed the real-time intelligence of the Black Beast Mercenaries to the church when the church asked for help from other fortresses.

Of course, intelligence support and certain material resources were all the support Roy gave to the church. As for sending troops, that was absolutely impossible. On the one hand, the various fortresses and kingdoms that were undergoing reform needed troops to suppress local scoundrels. On the other hand, the Black Beast Mercenaries and the church were fighting to the death and consuming each other, which was exactly what Roy wanted to see.

Neither of them is a good person, so it would be best to let them fight each other.

Under Roy's remote attention, the second match between the Church and the Black Beast Mercenaries slowly began.

Thirty thousand light cavalry + one thousand divine knights vs eight thousand dark soldiers + two thousand giant monsters.

Two extraordinary armies that were once capable of sweeping across an entire continent began a fierce and bloody clash in front of the Seventh Fortress.

The holy knights filled with the power of light and the dark mercenaries shrouded in darkness and ominousness fought from dawn to dusk but still could not come to a conclusion.

After leaving a bloody sea of ​​corpses behind, both sides called off their battles and planned to fight again another day.

And a variable that changed the course of the war occurred that night.

Chapter 178: Walter Goes Crazy

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After a night of fierce fighting with the Seventh Fortress, Walter's face turned particularly grim when he learned about the day's losses from his staff officer Keane.

The Black Beast Mercenary Corps had lost more than 2,000 people in just this day's battle, and this was because the dark energy had greatly enhanced the human mercenary corps' self-healing and survival abilities. Otherwise, the number of deaths today would probably be even greater.

Of course, their opponent, the Seventh Fortress, also paid a heavy price. The Black Beast Mercenary Corps lost one-fifth of its members, and the Seventh Fortress paid nearly one-third of the price, with nearly 10,000 casualties.

The reason for such heavy casualties was mostly due to the monster troops of the Black Beast Mercenary Group. Although the church's divine knights could compete with the strengthened monsters to a certain extent, they were outnumbered.

There are only more than a thousand Divine Knights, while the number of giant monsters is twice their number. Even if the Divine Knights try their best, they can only hold back more than a thousand giant monsters. The other more than a thousand giant monsters can only be stabilized by the Knights of Light who sacrifice their lives.

If we only look at the loss of manpower, then the Seventh Fortress definitely suffered much greater losses than the Black Beast Mercenaries, but that's not how it's calculated.

Although the Seventh Fortress has various internal problems such as corruption, it is after all an old and powerful force that has existed for hundreds of years. It has sufficient experience and foundation in blood-making. With the reputation and materials accumulated by the church over the years, it will be no problem for them to quickly train a group of Knights of Light.

With the entire church as its backing, the Seventh Fortress can easily replenish its troops. However, it is not easy for the Black Beast Mercenary Corps, which has been on a long expedition, to replenish qualified troops. Claudia has already taken in all the civilians within 50 kilometers of the Seventh Fortress into the fortress in advance, which makes it impossible for Walter to forcibly capture the civilians and convert them even if he wants to.

But now the Black Beast Mercenaries are facing a dilemma where they cannot afford to die. It is true that they are strong individually, but it is also a fact that they are few in number. It is basically impossible for Walter to replenish his troops before conquering the Seventh Fortress.

Without the ability to replenish troops, Walter knew very well that if he fought to the death with the Seventh Fortress, his Black Beast Mercenary Group would indeed be able to shake the church's rule of hundreds of years by making every household in the Seventh Fortress mourn, but the price of doing so would be that the entire Black Beast Mercenary Group would be consumed.

The Seventh Fortress can afford to die, but he cannot. After all, he still wants to fulfill the ideal of the country he serves. Walter plans to put aside this tough nut to crack, the Seventh Fortress. As an experienced mercenary, he is very familiar with the characteristics of the church and the nobility.

They may indeed unite temporarily when facing a powerful foreign enemy, but once the external threat is gone, they will immediately start fighting among themselves due to various conflicts of interest.

Walter's plan was to avoid the attack first, and then leave some people to stir up conflicts among the nobles in the fortress. He believed that the Seventh Fortress, where tens of thousands of people had died, would definitely have big conflicts after losing the external threat of him. Whether Claudia used the army to severely suppress other nobles or other nobles asked Claudia to get out, it would be a good thing for Walter.

And at this time, the main forces of the church have been gathered in the Seventh Fortress, which also means that the guard force of the Fourth Fortress to which the Goddess' reincarnation high elf Celestine belongs has been withdrawn. If not now, when will they steal the house?

Walter immediately planned an alternate-world version of a decapitation operation overnight. He urgently dispatched a thousand of the most elite dark soldiers from the Black Beast Mercenary Corps. Under the cover of night, they left the military camp in front of the Seventh Fortress and rushed towards the Fourth Fortress in the distance.

Because the two sides had fought a fierce battle before and Walter did not bring any monster troops with him, it was four or five days later when Walter led his team to attack the Fourth Fortress and was discovered by the Seventh Fortress. At that time, Walter hid during the day and came out at night, relying on the bonus of darkness for dark soldiers. He came to the Fourth Fortress directly like a god descending from the sky.

The Fourth Fortress, which was completely unprepared, was caught off guard. Walter's decapitation troops captured the deepest fortress of the Seven Shields Alliance in the dark of night without the defenders of the Fourth Fortress taking any defensive measures.

When the defenders of the Seventh Fortress were sure that Walter was no longer in the military camp outside the city after a brutal field battle, the news that the Fourth Fortress had been captured came through the church's secret channels.

After hearing the news, all church members fell silent. The flames of internal strife that had been brewing were instantly extinguished by this shocking news.

Any clergyman with a sound mind understood what the fall of the Fourth Fortress meant. It was equivalent to the Western Jerusalem being occupied by heretics and a country's capital being captured. The Fourth Fortress was almost becoming a holy city because of the existence of Celestine, the reincarnation of the goddess. Now both the reincarnation of the goddess and the holy city fell into the hands of the Black Beast Mercenaries.

They could not imagine how Walter, the madman who called for the establishment of a country of service, would do such a blasphemous act against the sacred goddess. If he really did such a blasphemous act, then there was no doubt that the church's century-old prestige would be wiped out in a very short time.

The loss of the church's dignity is not the most terrifying thing. The terrifying thing is that Walter can still use the Goddess' reincarnation to hold the goddess hostage to control the church. There is no doubt that Celestine, as the reincarnation of the Goddess, has the highest right of interpretation in the church. In this way, the decline of the church is a foreseeable thing.

The only way to save the church now is to kill all the remaining members of the Black Beast Mercenaries outside the city as quickly as possible, and then retake the Fourth Fortress and the Goddess Reincarnation before the news spreads widely, or let the Goddess Reincarnation that may be desecrated "accidentally" die in the war. Only in this way can the crumbling church be saved.

As a result, the 6,000 Black Beast Mercenaries guarding the Seventh Fortress (one more was lost after Walter left) suffered an unprecedented attack. A large number of Light Knights emerged from the Seventh Fortress and rushed towards them like a white wave without fear of death.

When the Black Beast Mercenary Group outside the Seventh Fortress was under crazy attack by the Seventh Fortress Church forces, Walter and his soldiers were frantically digging deep in the Fourth Fortress looking for something.

"Damn it. Why did the last reincarnation of the goddess disappear out of thin air when the plan was so good and I took down the fourth fortress? Search hard. This high elf must be hiding somewhere in the fortress. I allow you to use any means to find that bitch, whether it's threatening hostages or massacring the city."

Walter was almost mad at this time. He had captured the fourth fortress and was about to make a comeback, but in the end, all his plans were in vain. The most important part of the plan disappeared out of thin air. Without the Goddess Reincarnation, how could he realize his next plan? How could he deal with Alicia, his mortal enemy?

Walter knew that if he failed to capture Celestine and only took down the Fourth Fortress, he would definitely suffer a crazy counterattack from the Seven Shields Alliance or a fight to the death. After all, the Seven Shields Alliance could only be established because of the goddess as a bond.

However, Walter's action of locking the fortress was ultimately fruitless, because the goddess reincarnation Celestine, whom he was desperately searching for, was already in the First Fortress thousands of miles away from him. However, this time it was not Roy targeting Walter but pure coincidence.

Chapter 179. The origin of transmission

The story of Celestine's transfer from the Fourth Fortress to the First Fortress started with Roy's magic experiment.

When Walter was preparing to attack the Seventh Fortress, Roy considered that the two sides would not be able to come up with any results in a short time, so Roy began to study the unique magic and divine power knowledge of this world. Changing the world is indeed interesting, but Roy never forgot what his roots are, that is, a powerful wizard.

Although Roy has multiple jobs with the help of the chat group and has many other magical abilities such as true energy, internal strength, skills and other extraordinary means, the profession of mage is still the one that Roy is most proficient in and has studied the most.

As for the profession of mage, if one wants to become stronger after reaching Roy's level, there is only one way to go, and that is to master more knowledge. After all, the saying that knowledge is power is a true portrayal of the profession of mage.

The pursuit of unknown knowledge is an instinct ingrained in every mage, and Roy is no exception.

After a preliminary study of the magic system of the Black Beast World for a while, Roy, who is at the level of a magic master, has already seen the magic framework of this world.

Compared to the magic in other worlds, the magic in the Black Beast World is rough and full of personal style.

This crudeness does not mean that the magic is weak, but that the principles of magic are crude. From Roy's perspective, much of the magic knowledge in this world is the kind of "I think" power, relying on great force to achieve magic effects.

It is basically impossible to release these powerful spells before one's strength reaches a certain limit. Even if one's strength reaches that limit, the magic with personal style will limit the number of people who can use it to a specific group of people. This also makes magic particularly difficult to learn in this world.

This also results in most of the magic in the Black Beast World being unsystematic. Spiritual magic with a clear system like the one in the Third Fortress is extremely rare.

However, after Roy finished catching up on the history of the Black Beast World, he also understood why the magic in the Black Beast World was like this, with a hammer here and a hammer there.

In the final analysis, it is all because of the existence of the goddess. As mentioned before, the goddess of this world is particularly fond of beautiful and kind-hearted women. The purer and more ignorant these beautiful little white flowers are and the more they believe in the goddess, the stronger their power will be.

After reaching a certain limit of the power granted by the goddess, no matter what they want to do, they can achieve it with the help of the power granted by the goddess as long as they have enough power. From this point of view, most of their so-called magic is similar to the magic of wizards in the Harry Potter world, which tends to make wishes come true and change reality with will.

The only difference is that the wizards in Harry Potter's world rely on the magic in their blood, while they rely on the divine power bestowed by the goddess.

After seeing through that most of these magics were created by goddesses of all generations who chose women and used their divine power to create black boxes, Roy lowered the level of attention paid to these magical knowledge. He stopped studying them in depth and started to see if there was any magic that could inspire him.

With this mentality, Roy quickly finished reading the magic books collected from several fortresses. He gained something after all, among so many books, there were always some that could touch Roy's blind spots in knowledge, but there was no revolutionary progress. These magic books could only increase the breadth of Roy's knowledge but could not strengthen and broaden his depth.

Even the spiritual power system left by the first generation of witch that Roy valued very much, Roy studied it thoroughly after studying it for a while. The so-called spiritual power ritual was just a special variant of magic.

The magic of the Black Beast World did not bring Roy much improvement in strength, but there was one thing that attracted Roy's attention, and that was the so-called goddess power in this world.

With the cooperation of Kaguya and Alicia, Roy began to study the divine power of this world.

Divine power was actually not something strange to Roy. The strength of Mori Man Luo and Brave Warrior Luo was not much different from that of God. Moreover, the two big guys in the research group on divine power had done a lot of experiments in advance. Roy was also quite familiar with the nature of divine power.

To put it simply, divine power is a more advanced type of complex energy that involves the level of laws. This type of complex energy can indeed do many things in terms of universality, such as regenerating severed fingers, restoring youth, prolonging life, etc. However, this is limited. Things like resurrection from the dead and turning back time cannot be achieved by relying solely on divine power, because those effects have already touched upon the laws, and cannot be achieved without the corresponding laws.

Originally, Roy was curious about the power of the goddess of this world and just wanted to see what laws this goddess mastered from the aura of divine power. However, after studying it in depth for a while, Roy found something wrong. It seemed that this goddess mastered too many laws.

Originally, Roy thought that this goddess was nothing more than an ordinary deity who had mastered one or two laws and performed one or two divine duties. After all, there were very few gods who failed so badly that they could be reincarnated as a ball of fluff. It was simply a disgrace to the gods themselves.

But after research, Roy found that he was completely wrong. Judging from the breath and nature of divine power, this goddess almost mastered all positive laws, including life, nature, the sun and so on.