Chapter 34: Return to Morvia (4)

Because she is not a native demon, Lady Empty Silence does not have an uncontrollable chaotic nature like other demons, she is calm, calm and cunning, and has become cold and cruel under the influence of the will of the abyss, originally acting like her, as a god should have fallen a long time ago, but the will of the abyss helped her to obscure part of the attention of the will of the heavenly law world, as long as she does not get out of the endless abyss, her divine authority and even the priesthood can still be used as usual.

In this way, Ms. Empty Silence has become a very special existence, not a god or a demon, but she has the dual expertise of a god and a demon at the same time, she was originally just a demigod, and her godhead suddenly grew to the level of a true god, and in the environment of the endless abyss, she was assisted by the will of the abyss, even the main god could fight, and she was extremely strong.

And she also obtained the identity of the Demon Grand Duke, although she is not among the top among the dozen or so Demon Grand Dukes in the Endless Abyss, but she is not completely homely like other Demon Grand Dukes, and she becomes a worm when she leaves the Endless Abyss...... That alone is disgusting enough.

The belief of the Empty Lady was once very popular in the Thanreth Continent, because she was a rather generous demon god, and even followed the principle of equal exchange, as long as she was provided with enough sacrifices, such as souls, blood sacrifices, etc., she would give corresponding rewards, strength, money, health, etc., such a generous god was simply unprecedented, even if she was a demon god, she could not stand the large number of believers, and for a while, the belief of the Empty Lady blossomed in all directions of the Tamreth Continent and prospered for a while.

But this behavior is undoubtedly digging the corners of the gods, and it is impossible to be allowed, so both the good gods and the evil gods tacitly united, and destroyed all the temples of the empty lady on the entire continent of Tannery overnight, and the clergy were positioned as "heretics", and there was no forgiveness for killing, and the behavior of believing in the empty lady was regarded as evil god worship (in fact, it was almost the same), which was a felony, and the following months were really bloody, and the once flourishing belief of the empty lady was eradicated on the continent of Thanreth, Only in the dimensional planes such as the astral plane still have some remains.

Therefore, believing in the Lady of Emptiness is definitely quite a deadly act, once it is discovered, there is no need to say that the believers of the good gods will not let go, even the believers of evil gods and evil gods will not let go, this is a real mortal enemy.

And Stannis Moormanstine is just a believer in Lady Silence, and his faith is quite religious today, if Lady Silence's sect is still there, the Pope may not be able to do it, but a bishop or even an archbishop is not running away.

Speaking of fate, the original Stannis no longer had any extravagant hopes for the position of Grand Duke, his brother was above him in terms of talent, strength, brains and popularity, and he had a pair of excellent sons and daughters who perfectly inherited the blood of the family Yan in the Spring and Autumn Period, so what else could he expect?

So when he was in his twenties, he left the Duchy of Moore and began a trip to the continent of Thanris, only to accidentally find a statue of the demon god form of the Lady of Emptiness in a ruin in the wilderness, and the ruins were once the location of the temple of the Lady of Emptiness, and the statue was once a treasure of the Lady of Emptiness's sect, a treasure used to communicate with the Lady of Emptiness.

Knowing this, Stannis's already extinguished fire of ambition suddenly burned again.

He knew the name of the Empty Lady, how powerful the Empty Silence Sect was, and even more aware of the generosity of the Empty Lady that was unique to the gods, so he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and Stannis turned himself into a cultist......

Through the continuous sacrifice of the demon god statue as a medium, Stannis quickly had his own power, originally he was very sad to encounter the bloodline inheritance that only has a one-third chance of "bloodline deterioration", this life is destined to be with the profession, but the power of the empty lady has changed his bloodline, giving him the power of black flame...... Although the Lady of Empty Silence did not really respond to his sacrifice from the beginning to the end, everything was just the statue's independent feedback, so the power of giving back was relatively small, but it still helped him become a transcendent being, worthy of the name of Lady Empty Silence's generosity.

Strength fuels ambition, and Stannis, who has gained power, can no longer hold back, so after years of planning, he finally succeeds in usurping the throne, plotting to seize the Duchy of Moore, and further plans to hold an unprecedented sacrifice in exchange for greater power from the Lady of Empty Silence.

No one knew that he had actually been in contact with the fish-man's immortal genius Mogol, and this fish-man's large-scale invasion of the ground was of course the will of the fish-man clan to unite itself, but it was Stannis who suggested that Morgol do so by concentrating on attacking the Moore principality, so he even took the initiative to withdraw many fortresses and military fortresses before the fish-man attacked, leaving the innocent people to the fish-man, which is one of the main reasons why the fish-man can be so powerful.

Because he needs these people to die, he needs the souls of these people!

At the same time, it is also his means of eliminating dissidents, such as the wave of people in the city of Tanzan, and through the sacrificial circles he secretly shoots to various parts of the Duchy of Moore, all the people who died under the fish-man butcher's knife and the souls of the dead fish-people are obtained by him, and then sacrificed to the lady of Empty Silence through the statue of the demon god every day.

Yes, every day, today's sacrifice is only the last one, because the fish-man has already withdrawn from the army, and even Mogol can't be contacted, and he only has this last group of souls left on his hands, but he didn't expect a surprise to come, and the empty lady actually took the initiative to respond to his sacrifice for the first time in history.

And with this active response, he has obtained an unprecedented amount of divine grace - his power has been directly raised to the level of legend!

As mentioned in the previous document, the advancement of the clergy mainly depends on the divine grace, if the gods look at you pleasing to the eye, you can quickly advance by leaps and bounds like taking an elevator, far more refreshing than the bitter haha's own cultivation, the disadvantage is that the upper limit is locked, the peak of the legend is already the culmination that all clergy can theoretically achieve, there is no possibility of self-breakthrough and then canonized as a god, at most after death by the gods to be promoted to the Holy Spirit and the like, in addition, if there is a problem with their own beliefs or is disgusted by the gods, all the divine grace will disappear, The power gained from the gods will also dissipate, and it can be said that the honor and disgrace of oneself are all at the hands of the gods you believe in and serve.

As for Stannis, his actions are invisibly in line with the actions of a priest, and he can directly accept the divine grace of the Lady of Emptiness.