Chapter 696: Tracking
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
After the news of Grand Duchess Amerie was released, it had caused a huge uproar within the Stan Duchy.
Although the huge catastrophe that affected the entire world caused all the living to be in deep misery, those forces slightly maintaining power in the ruling family all expressed their disapproval toward the legitimacy of this grand duchess.
Especially Earl Rode.
This younger brother of Grand Duke Stan directly announced that he would not submit to the governance of the grand duchess, and even started gathering troops with some thoughts of attacking Santana.
If not for the Noether Kingdom being in a similar mess, and the awkward timing of many nobles busy providing disaster relief, he might have perhaps still chose to lure this wolf into the house.
Regarding this rebellion, Fang Yuan was never afraid. Regardless of how the opponent mustered his gang and gathered his huge armies, he simply brought three thousand soldiers and launched a decisive battle against them at the Halbert River region.
In this battle, he fully opened up his Disaster Halo. The terror of a Legend was completely exposed, providing enhancements to the three thousand soldiers and allowing them to break through the tens of thousands of enemy troops to destroy the array of Earl Rode, resulting in the resistance army suffering a major defeat.
After the battle, he used the name of Regent Timo and investigated the nobles who participated in this rebellion. He disposed of twenty-seven families in one swoop and reduced the titles of nobility and fiefs.
From then on, the fiefs in the Stan Duchy under the direct jurisdiction of the ruling family greatly expanded. The momentum of splitting was instantly effectively curbed.
Of course, the reason why this was so smooth was because the external forces were busy enough with their own affairs.
The heaven collapsing earth shattering catastrophe had caused the entire world to be affected and human civilization to suffer great damage.
Natural disasters, Evil Demons… with various disasters occurring one after another, this caused large numbers of injuries and deaths to the human population. At the moment, human society was sparsely populated. The nobles did not even have time to provide disaster relief, much less have the mood to expand!
After the threat from the Noether Kingdom dissipated, it was naturally an easy task for Fang Yuan to clean up the situation in the duchy.
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Time moved slightly forward.
Just after Grand Duchess Amerie succeeded her position, it was the day for Regent Timo to assume authority.
After Fang Yuan controlled the military forces of Santana, he did not bother about providing disaster relief and such, immediately scattering them in search of clues.
“That day’s fiery meteor shower is definitely problematic. It must be some God who couldn’t control their power, causing these repercussions.”
Meanwhile, he brought along some people to seize everything from the Church of Death. Currently, he held an ancient book and was rapidly reading through it.
Knowledge regarding the Gods was taboo in this world, and only large-scale churches would have them in their collections.
Of course, with the previous foundation of the Church of Death, these reserves were naturally there and benefitted Fang Yuan.
Compared to plundering other churches, since Death God Hess had already perished, there would be no risk in being merciless with the fallen. So why wouldn’t he be glad to do it?
If those higher-ups in the Church of Death were to resurrect and see this, they would perhaps be angry enough to die again.
They had travelled thousands of miles and experienced many hardships in relocating, but in the end, they instead gave their entire trove to Fang Yuan, like a child giving away wealth
The surroundings were extremely quiet, and only the shasha sound of flipping pages was heard.
“Found it!”
Finally, Fang Yuan raised his eyebrows as he looked at a paragraph in the ancient book.
Joy Goddess Sunny, a God that was promoted in Sun God Year 1569. Her Godhood is happiness, dancing, and singing… Not a very strong God, and her fighting prowess is nothing exceptional.
For a God of this world, even the one with the lowest fighting ability was still powerful.
Furthermore, if they had the recognition and amplification of the world, they were not much different from the Da Qian’s True Sages and True Elementals.
In other words, they were like Superior Wu Zun and Qian Huanyi during their peaks!
Although they might not part of the Nine Pillar Gods, they would definitely support the world if it was really forced into a desperate situation!
And Sun God Ramon was more so the absolute Sage and Creator!
By saving the world this time, he had obtained the enhancements from the world’s power, and his ferocity was practically billowing to the skies!
If Fang Yuan had not obtained the assistance of origin power last time, he would have basically been unable to heavily injure him.
In fact, regardless of Ramon or Hess, they were both extremely unfortunate. Their heavy injuries were inflicted by origin power.
Otherwise, with Hess’ abilities and him being one of the Nine Pillar Gods, even if his incarnation and all of the petitioners were dispatched, his true body would not have been so miserably killed by a Half-God.
“If it’s in a God Nation, it’s a little troublesome for even a Sage to take down a God. But now is the best opportunity!”
Fang Yuan put down this ancient book. “Sunny’s weapon is a bracelet that twinkles with the glow of the stars. Once used, large amounts of fiery meteor rain will descend. The previous catastrophe was the repercussion created from her losing control… As long as I follow the trail of the meteors, she won’t be able to escape!”
“Sir!”
At this time, a knight respectfully came forward from outside to report, “We have already thoroughly searched through the nearby surroundings of Santana and found three places suspected to have meteors crashing!”
“Great!”
Fang Yuan’s eyes lit up and grabbed a cloak. “Call the others and follow me!”
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Fang Yuan rapidly finished inspecting the east and west ruins, but did not find anything.
However, in a massive meteor crater in the north, his forehead stirred and felt the aura of a God’s power.
“… The true body of Sunny landed here?”
While thinking, he released a spell. A foggy halo appeared and seemed to be absorbing a few clues from the surroundings.
“We have to speed up our progress. Otherwise, it’ll be a troublesome matter if the Goddess’ church also comes!”
Ever since the Gods had descended into the mortal world, various churches had also suffered heavy damages.
Without the God Nations being a transit station and massive reservoir, nearly all of the magical skills of the pastors experienced a massive suppression. Currently, a high-level pastor needed to expend a lot of mental and physical effort in order to unleash a trivial healing spell.
Of course, even so, the Gods still relied on their churches in the mortal world.
At least, if a God was able to contact their church first, there would be no concern for their safety.
Following the clues he obtained, Fang Yuan pursued all the way to a deep mountain.
“A very obvious clue!” He looked at the bonfire trace on the ground and shook his head. “It seems that before apotheosizing, this Sunny wasn’t a powerful adventurer!”
Some of the Gods had a very impressive Saint form, innately having horrifying fighting strength.
Even if they lost the amplification of their God Nation and Godhood, they were not easily insulted.
Whereas the innate fighting prowess of some of the Gods were a tragedy. Once they were swept off the God Nation, they were practically useless!
Of course, the foundation of a Saint was still present even if their fighting prowess was a tragedy, and they could not be flouted by the average person. However, Fang Yuan was not an average person, but an experienced hunter!
These remaining clues made Fang Yuan ascertain that the one he was hunting down was definitely not an experienced and ruthless person.
“Apotheosizing does not always only rely on strength. The luck needed is also great…”
He walked forward a few steps and saw a cave.
A cover of magic light was encircling the entrance of the cave, endlessly flickering like a firefly guiding the way.
Seeing this, a smile appeared on Fang Yuan.
In the dark depths of the cave, he could faintly make out a fifteen or sixteen year old girl squatting on the ground, her hands clutching her knees as her shoulders shivered. ” Wuwu… Don’t find me… Sunny is so scared…”
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At the same time, a secret monastery in the Noether Kingdom.
“Dear Mother Earth Meira accepts us generously. The earth is her body, growing leaves and fruits that are bestowed to us as gifts… Thank you, Goddess, for giving us sustenance!”
A solemn sermon was currently being carried out in the monastery.
Inside the monastery of the Noether Kingdom, many of them were either the unsuccessful second sons or daughters of knights. And of course, there were also those who were banished for committing an offense.
Currently, with the prevalent natural and man-made disasters, these countryside monasteries instead became a hidden land of peace and happiness surviving with difficulty, even accepting a few refugees.
Inside the monastery, a pastor of Meira was preaching to a group of ignorant refugee youths.
“Thank you for saving us, Goddess. We are willing to believe in you, just like how we serve our parents!”
The eyes of those youths lit up as they crouched down.
“Huh?”
At this moment, the eyes of the preaching pastor moved.
Originally, increasing the number of believers for the Goddess would have allowed him to obtain a great amount of joy from her, but at this moment, there was evidently nothing.
Instead, an ominous feeling that something was wrong constantly bounced in his heart.
After some thought, he released a magic spell with much difficulty. “Identification!”
Although using this spell only needed an average pastor before, it was now necessary for a bishop-rank pastor to use it.
A ray of pure white instantly expanded and enveloped these youths.
They were muddle headed and had no anomalies.
This indicated that they were all ‘pure,’ did not worship other Gods, and had no underlying blasphemous powers in their bodies.
However, a youth suddenly shouted as a blood red glow erupted to cover his body.
“This…” The bishop’s pupils contracted. “Divinity?!”
Ever since the Evil Demons descended, the existence of divinity was already no longer a secret.
“Sir?” Two warriors quickly rushed over and looked at this youth.
He was very frail and looked to be around fourteen or fifteen years old. At the moment, his eyes were filled with apprehension.
The bishop walked forward and asked with a very gentle voice, “What is your name?”
“Dja-Django, the son of a soldier!” the teenager stuttered.
“You have not killed an Evil Demon before, but there is divinity in your body!” the bishop said slowly. He had previously seen some examples of this. The inheritance of divinity, other than through slaughtering and reproducing, had an active entrusting and embellishing component.
From this point of view, Django’s aptitude was beyond expectations.
“As for whether you have plundered this for yourself, or it’s a gift from your father, this is already not important… Do not be afraid, my child.”
The bishop raised his hand and touched Django’s head. “You are a lucky lad… If you had landed in the hands of the Church of Death three days ago, you would have definitely been burned at the stake, but we are under the command of Mother Earth Goddess!
“Furthermore, before the Goddess descended into the mortal world, she had given an oracle requiring us to take good care of you all!”
His voice seemed to carry a small comforting strength, making the guard and uneasiness of this youth relax, looking toward him with full of appreciation.