A Guide to Becoming a God Starting from a Monastery

"I'm sorry...sir." The magician bowed.

Giuliano strode off.

Only Rostislav and the magician remained.

"Charlie, you shouldn't have suggested that," Rostislav said. "Do you know why I'm still alive? It's all thanks to Thomas."

"I'm only doing this for the adults," the magician said helplessly. "I don't have any other good ideas."

"Let Thomas be the halberd bearer," Rostislav said. "As long as Thomas can win quickly, it will definitely be of great help to Giuliano."

"Halberd-bearer? It seems that this is the only way." The magician shook his head.

Chapter 30 Fear

Thomas returned to his residence, enjoyed a hearty dinner, then took a shower and went to bed.

Now he actually needs very little sleep, and when he lies in bed, he spends most of his time maintaining the persona of the "Nameless God".

Go and see the altars and believers one by one.

Currently, the vast majority of the followers of the "Nameless God" are spellcasters.

Many ascetics have chosen to worship the nameless god.

Thomas felt that he needed to prepare to write a "Fourth Book of the Nameless Book".

The goal of the third volume is to promote it within Christianity, so there is no doubt that the fourth volume will be promoted within the Star-Moon Religion.

The Star-Moon Sect also has professional spellcasters, the so-called mendicant monks.

They also have this need.

However, today is different from usual days. Lying in bed, the first thing I did was to recall today's battle.

Don't look at the final victory today, but think about it afterwards...

I really took advantage of the surprise attack.

The power of the Plague God is not a head-on confrontation, but the power of the plague is enough to deter even the most powerful enemies.

If the other party refuses to fight and temporarily avoids Thomas... then things will be difficult.

He was able to fight the opponent in such a special environment as the underground palace, forcing him to fight. Besides that, he also had an extremely arrogant and self-centered personality...

I can only say that Thomas was lucky.

Thomas even suspected that his "good fortune" had begun to recover at an accelerated pace.

"By the way, Senior Prasda, are you awake?"

"I'm awake," said Prasda.

It sleeps most of the time, but it will wake up for a while every now and then.

For example, today, she was stimulated by the God of Plague and stayed awake all the time.

"Today I tried the method of disturbing emotions...it seems that things are completely different from what I thought." Thomas said.

Today, when he confronted the group of villagers and militiamen, he tried to interfere with the enemy's emotions for the first time in actual combat.

Prasida had mentioned this before, that when true gods fight humans - in most cases, gods will not fight humans - they will use this ability.

This is a basic application of the field.

For Thomas, who is also a god, this is also a "breaking the window paper" thing.

Last time, Thomas used this ability to scare the disgusting Pope's envoy into peeing his pants. But this time, in actual combat, it failed to scare the villagers.

In fact, it seems to have had the opposite effect—although not necessarily a bad outcome in the end. But it's certainly something worth looking into.

"Oh? Why is it different?"

So Thomas told Plasda what had happened.

"Thomas, this ability is actually directly related to the basic elements of your domain. For example, to create fear, your domain must have 'fear', or at least a related or adjacent basic element. What are the basic elements of your domain?"

"Uh... I don't know." That was all Thomas could admit.

Although he possessed a portion of "evil," he had not yet used it. In other words, his domain lacked any fundamental elements.

"You don't know..." Prasda was silent for a moment. "Then how did you build your domain?"

"..."

Can I say that I figured out the power of the Wolf God, felt that this method would work, and then created my own domain?

Thomas felt more and more that perhaps it was because his damaged divine nature itself was damaged that his situation did not seem to completely correspond to that of other gods, at least Prasda's.

"This may be because your domain lacks any elements related to the mental or emotional aspects," Prasda said finally. "So your mental control can only utilize the strongest surface consciousness of others and strengthen it."

"So, if others are afraid of me, I will be afraid. If others are aggressive towards me, I will become violent?"

"That's probably it."

“Is there a similar godhead?”

"Yes, but basically, as long as you skip the quasi-god stage and collect more godhood, the situation will change."

Sure enough, we need to go further.

Thomas suddenly remembered something, so he lay on the bed and took out the two things he had obtained today.

Two magic items, a metal rod and a metal bottle.

Thomas guessed that the metal rod must be a special tool.

Maybe it's used to make medicine or something.

This kind of thing might be useful for a magician, but it is completely unnecessary for a warrior like him.

But this bottle... I can't tell what's inside it. Its surface is slightly black... It should be a silver bottle.

But the weight feels wrong when you hold it, which means that in addition to silver, other metals are mixed in.

But the bottle itself is just metal; it’s the liquid inside that has the real magical energy.

But I don't know what kind of liquid actually has magical energy...

Thomas had also seen the magician's potion.

However, although the magician's potions are easy to use, they need to be combined to cast spells. When they are separated, they are just ordinary items.

It is a degraded spellcasting method that magicians have to resort to under special conditions.

And the contents of this bottle...

This is clearly not the case.

The liquid itself is magical... just like a magic item.

Liquid magic items, is that possible?

But Thomas didn't dare to open the cork directly.

If it came from a different source, Thomas might have been overwhelmed by his curiosity, but he remembered clearly that this thing came from the laboratory of a Plague God (not quite, but almost).

Although Thomas was not afraid of the plague, others were.

If things go wrong, a plague will break out in Sela City, which would be terrible.

No matter how much power Thomas has, he cannot withstand the consumption of the plague.

Saving one or two people is one thing, saving a city is another.

In fact, Thomas paid close attention to Rostislav's physical condition throughout the return journey.

Fortunately, things were just as Rostislav said. Those lunatics wanted to use Rostislav's body to test poison, so they kept him temporarily unaffected by the disease.

This kind of thing is difficult for others to say...

But for Tarona, who holds the priesthood of "plague" or at least holds part of the power of this priesthood, it is very easy.

"We must find someone to identify it..." Thomas instinctively thought of Giuliano's advisor, the magician named Charlie.

But there is no rush.

"By the way, Thomas, do you want to go to Samarkand next?"

"Ah... I don't want to for now."

Chapter 31: Halberd Wielder 1

"What are you afraid of?" asked Prasda.

"The power of fate." Thomas said truthfully.

He didn't feel that way before, but after the curse, it's not that Thomas doesn't want to go, but that he can't go.

The curse of fate is groundless, without warning, unstoppable, and inescapable. Taking lives without a trace is simply...

Moreover, Thomas will never forget that the God of Heaven came to him.

If Ferdinand knew the power of destiny but not its reason, and could only use it in the most primitive and simple way...

Then Satre, the god of the heavens, is obviously very proficient in this power.

He explicitly said that He discovered Thomas and found Thomas through the power of fate.

In other words, in this regard, Sattre has very advanced knowledge and skills.

If you face this kind of enemy, you won't even know how you died.

Not only that, Thomas could even think that this ability should be a common skill of gods.

Because these gods clearly formed an alliance.

It’s hard to say how high or low their specific levels are, but they all have this kind of magical power.

Everyone can perform magic tricks, but the methods are different. Otherwise, it would be impossible to form an alliance.

If they had to form an alliance, gods who did not possess such ability would have been toyed with to death by people like Satre.

At the very least, you will be suppressed for your entire life and unable to make a breakthrough.

Prasda also has related abilities.

Although she is not good at controlling fate, she can at least isolate herself from such influences through that "field of silence".

If it comes to real fighting, face to face, Thomas is not afraid.

Even if I can't beat him, I can still run away.

Even if he couldn't escape, he would still accept defeat. There was nothing he could do, he simply wasn't as skilled as his opponent.

But being manipulated by this invisible and intangible yet real force of fate is another matter.

"You want this kind of power?"

"Senior, do you know?"

"No, I only have a few memories of this. I only remember that I could isolate myself from the influence of the power of fate through the 'Tranquility Field'. Other than that, I also remember..."

"Remember what?"

"It's hard to say when you reach quasi-godhood, but once a quasi-god ascends to a higher level, they become known as 'sub-gods' or 'lower-level gods.' At this point, they should possess the power to influence or even control fate. Even if their power isn't enough to change the fate of others, they can at least guarantee their own destiny. In this respect, the true difference between quasi-gods and sub-gods lies here. A quasi-god's domain can only weaken the influence of fate, but a sub-god can completely shrug off such external influences."

Is that really the case?

"How can we gain this kind of power?" Thomas asked.

"I don't remember... but I think it's a natural thing that happens as the godhood is improved and elevated, and as the realm is perfected."

Thomas sighed.

He is different from others. He can neither improve and repair his godhood by gathering divine power, nor does he have a good way to obtain the so-called "elements" to improve his domain.

"This is going to take a lot of time," Thomas said. "Is there a faster, more direct way?"

"There's no way," Prasda replied. "If there's any way... it's to find an opportunity, observe carefully, experiment, and determine how the power of fate works. And how to break it."

Unfortunately, such opportunities are hard to come by.

Thomas sighed, lay down on the bed, closed his eyes, and went to play the nameless god.