Life has dealt a heavy hand to a weak demigod like me.

He had never imagined that the Krolov family would be related to the true God.

An archaeologist or tomb robber can be connected with the Eternal Blazing Sun. Was my choice of straight hook wrong?

And the most important thing is that although Charles did not use his full strength during the first divination, he still got a glimpse of the Krolov family's bottom line.

It's just an ordinary archaeological family...

"Although divination abilities are affected by the differences in astrology between now and ancient times, it shouldn't be this big of an oversight."

The Prophet's Sequence 9 is "Astrologer", which means that one can use the stars to gain the power to peek into the future.

But in the Shire's time, there were no stars in the world - they were all moved to the virtual palace as scenery.

Therefore, their divination mainly relies on the power of the moon.

Now the sudden appearance of stars and the lack of information from the Goddess of Night have affected Charles' abilities, but in his perception the impact is not that great.

How could such a huge oversight occur?

"I can't figure this out. I can't even sleep well when I go back."

"Forget it, let's find a more evil demigod and kill him as a sacrifice to divine the relationship between the Krolov family and the Eternal Blazing Sun."

With Charles's ability, he cannot run away from the true God, but he can still use his ability to trace back the people related to the true God.

If he still couldn't get a result after sacrificing a demigod, there were only two possibilities: one was the intervention of the righteous gods, and the other was that the matter he was divining was too complicated with the righteous gods.

Whatever the case, it's a good thing for him.

At least it can help him prove something. If he is brave enough, he can even use these things to find a righteous god to ask what happened to him.

For Mother Earth's sake, there should be no problem...right?

"If the Krolov family is truly related to the Eternal Blazing Sun, I will visit her again as a fellow servant of the righteous gods."

"We clearly agreed to take a break for a while, so why are there so many things going on?"

"It's been so long since I came to this era, but I haven't been to the red-light district. I feel even more tired than before." Charles felt that his resentment was about to materialize.

At this time, in a country in the southern continent, the body of a demigod who was performing an evil ritual suddenly stopped.

He didn't know why he had a bad feeling.

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Chapter 16: God of Fear, Doll

The Vermissis Mountains were once known as the most beautiful and magnificent mountains in the southern continent.

The Kingdom of Virmisis, located on the edge of the mountains, is known as the most beautiful kingdom in the world.

But that was 1000 years ago.

Ever since a certain "god" called "the God of Fear" came to the world a thousand years ago, the title of the Vilmesis Mountains and the Vilmesis Kingdom has changed from "the most beautiful kingdom in the world" to "the kingdom of fear".

At this time, a sacrificial ceremony was being held in the Virmisis Mountains.

Tens of thousands of people stood silently beneath the platform. Some of them were slaves, some were commoners, some were nobles, and there were even members of the royal family among them.

A trembling priest stood on the platform, waving his scepter and roaring something.

However, after hearing his words, tens of thousands of people below the stage remained silent and did not make any sound.

A moment later, the priest jumped down from the platform with a look of fear on his face.

boom!

The expected scene did not appear, and the priest couldn't help but show a hint of surprise on his face, but this expression did not last long, and his expression became fear again.

Wisps of black smoke slowly flowed out from his seven orifices and eventually turned into black worms. When the worms landed on his skin, his skin slowly began to seep with yellow liquid as if it had been splashed with sulfuric acid.

Under the influence of extraordinary power, the scene of the priest being devoured and drowned by insects appeared in front of the eyes of tens of thousands of people at the same time, and his screams slowly reached their ears.

Some people's eyes remained calm, while others showed a hint of fear.

After a moment, all the people with fear in their eyes began to emit black smoke slowly from their bodies.

Just like the priest, he slowly fell to the ground, followed by bursts of shrill screams.

Those people whose eyes showed no emotion couldn't help but feel a little secretly happy in their hearts.

But at this moment, they also fell to the ground.

"Fear, what a wonderful power." Countless worms transformed from black smoke slowly gathered together and turned into the appearance of a human.

He looked young, but his eyes were filled with indifference as he looked at the corpses scattered all over the ground.

A moment later, when all the worms transformed from the black mist rushed into his body, a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

"It's almost there... In another 9000 years, even if I can't find any extraordinary characteristics that suit me, I can still be promoted smoothly..." the man murmured softly.

There are generally two ways to advance in the extraordinary sequence. One is to consume high-level potions or extraordinary characteristics.

The other is to realize one's own extraordinary power and gradually improve through accumulation.

However, compared to the former, the latter's promotion speed is maddeningly slow.

However, despite this, most of the existing demigod-level figures choose the latter as a way to advance.

As for the reason...

There is a limit to the number of extraordinary characteristics, especially the extraordinary sequence above demigod.

After thousands or even tens of thousands of years of dedicated archaeology research in various countries around the world, only one extraordinary characteristic of Sequence 2 has been brought out from an ancient tomb.

As for hunting extraordinary creatures, it is almost impossible to hunt a god with the ability of a demigod.

Moreover, even if they wanted to hunt, it would be difficult for them to find any god-level monsters in the world that could be hunted by them.

Since the Silver Age, god-level figures have gradually disappeared from the world. Even during the Black Fire Age when such a huge chaos occurred, no god-level figures emerged to take control of the situation.

Their status, whether alive or dead, is unknown, but their extraordinary characteristics have not been passed down.

Therefore, as time goes by, the only way to cross the status of demigod and sub-god is to accumulate promotion step by step.

However, there are so many talented people in the world, and the disadvantages or speed of the second method have caused countless people trapped in the demigod state to continue to look for solutions.

Some people choose to establish churches to gather the power of faith - this is actually a very useful method. The power of faith can indeed help people improve their extraordinary sequence levels. Even the extraordinary characteristics of the five major orthodox churches are created by the power of faith of their respective orthodox gods.

Charles was once sent to the Principality of Dru to spread faith in preparation for his promotion to a god. The Mother Goddess would directly intercept the faith of the people of the Principality of Dru in him and then combine her own power to create the most suitable potion for him.

This way, the risk of advancement can be reduced. Of course, the amount of faith required to make potions is enormous.

Considering the size of the principality, it would take about a thousand years.

Compared to the time required for one's own promotion, a thousand years is simply too fast.

However, if you want to use the power of faith, there is a prerequisite, that is, you must have the true God protecting you.

If one rashly establishes a church and absorbs believers without the watchful eye of the true God, he will fall directly into madness.

Even the essence of the soul was polluted. If he was more decisive, he could instantly destroy the church and kill all his believers, and then split a piece of his soul and put himself in a state of soul split, and he could barely survive.

If you are a step slower, you will become completely crazy, and then slowly fall into a dormant state until death.

However, there is a rumor about this - before the Five Gods Era, there was another era.

In that era, one only needed to reach the level of a Sequence 4 Saint to attempt to accommodate faith and, with the power of faith, break through to Sequence 3.

There are also rumors that people in that era were born extraordinary and did not need to easily learn the extraordinary characteristics of other extraordinary creatures. They could continue to practice with the help of their own extraordinary spiritual light.

But these are just rumors, and even the Five Gods don’t know whether they are true or not - after all, they are gods who ascended to heaven in one step.

Although the demigods failed in accommodating faith.

But they found inspiration from it and gained a new way to grow their power.

This method is only available to a few demigods, who seek advancement by absorbing the same power as the source of their own extraordinary characteristics.

Simply put, just like this "God of Fear", his extraordinary characteristics contain the power of fear.

He spread fear throughout the country, making everyone in the country live in fear all the time. Then he held a sacrifice every few years to harvest their fear in order to enhance his own strength.

At this moment, the so-called "God of Fear" was absorbing the power of fear in the air with great enjoyment.

"What's the point of doing this? It must have taken a lot of effort to create so many weird dolls and keep their souls immortal." Squatting aside, watching the slowly disappearing corpses, Charles asked curiously.

Although those guys just now still looked like human beings, they had actually been dead for a long time.

It’s just that their souls are sealed in the dolls. After each sacrifice, their souls will be cleansed, and then they will be reborn and wait to be chosen next time.

It's not just the tens of thousands of people just now. At this moment, everyone in the entire Kingdom of Virmisis, except for the so-called "God of Fear", is a similar puppet.

They have their own lives, their own consciousness, and their own souls.

But their life consciousness and even souls have always been under the manipulation of this god of fear, like puppets.

But compared to ordinary puppets, their role is greater, at least they can provide power to the so-called God of Fear.

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Chapter 17 Your pocket watch is nice, but it belongs to me from now on.

The God of Fear, who was enjoying the food, suddenly stiffened and disappeared from the sacrificial site in an instant. At the same time, a black aura spread here and slowly surrounded Charles.

"Your reaction speed is good, but you're a little too brave." Charles said with a smile while looking at the surrounding environment.

"Who are you? What is your purpose?" A faint voice sounded in Charles' ears.

At this time, the body of the God of Fear had slowly disappeared into the space, spreading fear all around.

As long as the fearful emotions or forces around him do not disappear, he will be considered an immortal being.

At the same time, because the entire country was arranged by him, although he didn't know who Charles was or what his purpose was in coming here, he also couldn't figure out how Charles broke through his blockade and came here.

but...

Following the aura revealed by Charles, the eyes of the God of Fear gradually became cold.

At the same time, the surrounding environment slowly began to change.

"Me? I'm a man who acts on behalf of heaven, I guess." Ciel said in a light tone, as if he didn't notice his behavior. "I recently wanted to use a Horcrux to divine something, but I'm short of a sacrifice."

"After thinking about it, I think you are quite suitable." He told the truth.

"Arrogant!" If you hadn't said anything at the beginning and attacked me directly, I might have been hurt.

But now..

Go to hell!

The black fog instantly submerged the entire mountain range.

Charles' body was gradually eroded by the black aura.

"You're the one who's so arrogant..." Ciel ignored the changes in his body and continued calmly, "You're so audacious that a demigod dares to call himself the God of Fear."

Generally speaking, apart from the true God, only God can obtain the title of God.

For example, in the Church of the Earth, Ciel's teacher Sivis Alfor is called the "God of Nature".

Demigod... unless one has extremely strong strength, or great achievements, and is valued by the true God, he may be given the title of God by exception.

But the "God of Fear" before him was not qualified in that respect.

"Then let me show you the ability of a arrogant man like me."

"I... am afraid!"

Waves of power that stir people's spirits appeared. Even demigods surrounded by them would feel fear in their hearts and be slowly consumed by the power of fear.

If one is below demigod, he will die of fear the moment the black mist appears.

"Splatter..." Charles' figure was completely submerged in the black mist.

But for some reason, the God of Fear did not feel at peace for a moment. He looked around cautiously.

"Uh...ah——" Just as he was looking for Charles, a sharp pain suddenly came from his body.

Ears of wheat, rice and other crops suddenly grew wildly out of his body.

At the same time, his cheeks and body slowly turned into a dark yellow color like mud.

"Damn... reversal..." The God of Fear tried hard to suppress the deformation of his body, while placing his hands on his chest, trying hard to do something.