Your Lord Has A Screw Loose?-Chapter 434 - 436 The Mad Divine
Chapter 434: Chapter 436: The Mad Divine
Chapter 434: Chapter 436: The Mad Divine
“The God of Magic… has gone insane???”
Qin Muye’s face was a picture of shock, “What’s going on? How did things get crazy all of a sudden? It didn’t seem so serious before.”
In the past two months, the White Frost Duchy had been using Abyss Mage techniques and Three-Eyed Clan technology to continuously reform the minds of those priests who claimed to be mages—and it actually worked.
As the priests of the God of Magic gradually shifted their faith, it caused violent changes in the deity.
The Spirit Monster spies had already reported back, saying that numerous unexplained disturbances and mutations had appeared within the God of Magic’s Divine Country, even the deity itself was impacted.
But no one expected the God of Magic to lose its sanity because it couldn’t withstand the strain.
According to intelligence relayed by the Spirit Monsters, the entire Divine Country had turned into an extremely hostile environment, and the God of Magic itself had assumed a form of chaos.
Clearly influenced by Chaos Magic, the approach of the White Frost Duke was simple: teach Chaos Magic to distort the mages of the Magic Church, without changing their faith, but rather altering their cognition, leading to incompatibility when the God of Magic received faith offerings.
The disturbances and mutations a while ago were the consequences of this incompatibility, but it wasn’t without remedy. If the deity could adjust quickly enough and keep up with the changes of the Abyss Mages, then stability could soon be restored. However, the White Frost Duke was an awakened member of the Three-Eyed Clan and had a profound understanding of deities.
If it had been an Ancient God like the Holy Light God, transformed from the Three-Eyed Clan, they indeed could have repaired themselves instantly. But these artificially constructed, third-rate deities had no clue what was happening.
Until the overload of the Divine Country, it was all too late. Impacted by the chaos of Chaos Magic, the core Divine Position of Magic was thrown into disarray, inducing an uncontrollable state in the Divine, Divine Fire, and more. Hence, as the main entity, the God of Magic naturally went insane.
“Something is not right. Chaos Magic alone couldn’t possibly drive a deity to madness. It would be more likely if the entire Chaos Magic Sandbox were thrown into it, but Chaos Magic itself is merely a way to manipulate energy.”
Qin Muye didn’t have such a big ego to claim all the credit for himself, so theoretically, it shouldn’t be the damn Chaos Magic he created that drove the God of Magic insane, it must be the White Frost Duke.
“In terms of deploying Gendaya technology, the White Frost Duke was more efficient than Sam, at least the duke managed to achieve initial industrialization of the entire White Frost Duchy in such a short time, even creating thermal weapons capable of targeting Level 3 beings. This was like bringing down the hammer on the whole world.”
“What’s he up to this time, targeting the God of Magic?”
Under normal circumstances, what they should be doing now is lying low instead of making such a high-profile move against the God of Magic. If that attracts the attention of the other gods, all their efforts could be wasted. Qin Muye was also monitoring the gods and their messengers, especially since the Divine Envoys’ growth rate was quite fast.
Apart from a few who were Transcendents by birth, those who had experienced Divine Descent had their strength boosted to around Level 3.
They might be called Divine Envoys, but they were not the deities themselves. Naturally, they couldn’t simply become advanced in one day and legends in three days.
Gaining strength still required a gradual process, depending on the physical quality of the host of Divine Descent. Of course, they didn’t care about the lives of the poor and the serfs, but they needed to survive. If the host of Divine Descent died, they would have to return to the Divine Country. If their mission to eliminate heretics was accomplished, then it’s all good, but if they returned without success, they would likely face punishment.
But the world is so vast, who knows where those heretics are?
Most Divine Envoys are not in the countryside; they’re concentrated in major cities.
The area where Sam resides is not a major city but a smaller locale, so these Divine Envoys probably wouldn’t care about it. Even if they did come by, they would just disdainfully look around and then leave.
On the other hand, the White Frost Duke had become quite conspicuous, having dealt with who knows how many groups of people by now.
“Could it be they’re setting up to catch everyone in one fell swoop?” Qin Muye pondered the matter. Killing them all one by one would take too much time and energy. It would be easier if they all gathered in one place.
“It’s not impossible, but their thermal weapons still seem pretty crude, only effective against Level 3 beings. Even if all those Divine Envoys were Level 3, there’s still the Divine Church to consider. Their Transcendents are not of this level.”
If the White Frost Duke is indeed confirmed as a heretic, it won’t just be a single Divine Envoy sent by Divine Descent that comes, but all the churches pouring out, and most of the nobles will send soldiers to aid.
After all, this is about making an impression in front of the divine, and no matter how difficult, everyone wants to show their face.
In everyone’s fixed impression, noble wars don’t result in deaths; even the White Frost Duke probably wouldn’t be harmed, at most, they would simply divide benefits and reduce him to a duke in name only. Who wouldn’t want to participate in such a win-win situation?
However, these were just Qin Muye’s speculations; he didn’t know the actual situation, nor did he need to concern himself with it now. What he should do was to visit the Divine Country of the Magic God to check out the situation.
At the very least he had to collect firsthand data. Otherwise, sending the Spirit Monsters might take too long, and they might not be able to collect as comprehensive data as he could.
“Prepare to set out, we need to collect the data as quickly as possible before the Holy Light God and other divine beings notice there’s a problem,” Qin Muye said helplessly. Tian Qi quickly prepared everything Qin Muye needed for the trip and then delivered him directly into the Divine Country of the Magic God through the Super Space-Time Transmission Channel.
“Divine Power and the Power of Faith have mixed together, the conversion and containment have failed.”
Upon entering the Divine Country, Qin Muye’s first impression was chaos. Normally, the Power of Faith shouldn’t appear inside a Divine Country; it should transform into Divine Power before it does so.
Through these intertwining energies, Qin Muye saw the massive divine being situated at the center of the Divine Country. It had completely lost its human form.
It sat upon the throne of the divine, like a gorgeously rotten flesh, continuously uttering strange murmurings.
Qin Muye recognized immediately that the mutterings weren’t chaotic prayers but rather spells from Chaos Magic, though they were extremely disordered.
“Can changes in faith really have such a huge impact on a divine being?”
Qin Muye was astonished and then slowly approached the insane Magic God. Although he didn’t know what magic in this world amounted to, it did indeed exist as a divine position.
“This is really… interesting,” Qin Muye kept observing the Magic God. If you said there was a problem, that certainly wasn’t the case; although it had lost its reason, whatever had to operate still did.
Like being still able to respond to believers, reflecting Divine Power, but the process inevitably carried some things that shouldn’t be there, like the Power of Faith.
Normally, everything that gets reflected back to believers is composed of pure Divine Power. But now, because most of the mechanisms of the Divine System have issues due to conflict, the feedback process brings along the untransformed, unpurified faith as well, which causes the priests to go mad too.
But due to the nature of faith, devotion increases, creating a vicious cycle; the divine goes mad, the followers go mad, and they contaminate each other.
“A divine being without reason, the news should not have spread just yet. Shadow, arrange for someone to maintain the appearance of the Divine Country from the outside to prevent other divine being from seeing it, hide it as long as we can, I need time to study this insane deity,” Qin Muye said.
Qin Muye wanted to understand why a change in faith could have such a large impact on a divine being. This situation was very rare and felt to him like a seemingly strong entity dying from indigestion, which was unscientific.
He had thought that the worst-case scenario was toxic faith changing the divine being’s nature, or something similar to transforming a divine position, but to go directly insane was beyond Qin Muye’s expectations.
Normally, a Magic God who has been worshipped by Abyss Mages would become something like a God of Chaos or some other unusual divine being, not result in the entire system becoming dysfunctional.
“I can only say this is fitting for an unfinished project, full of pitfalls.” The divine beings themselves were an unfinished experiment of the Gendaya Civilization; it was normal for them to have issues, or else they wouldn’t have resorted to artificial divine beings to stabilize things.
“But such a huge project, what were those Three-eyed Clan up to?” Qin Muye wondered. He speculated that the divine being project was just part of their plan, and from the conversation between the White Frost Duke and Sam, this project was called the Cradle Plan. Just by the name, it’s impossible to guess what it entails, a giant cradle perhaps?
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