Witch, Fireball and Steam Evil God

Chapter 92 Please stop your religious behavior!

"First of all, I am not a god, nor have I ever had any strange dreams, and I am certainly not an apostle of a true god!"

Ethan admitted that he panicked.

When these three men moved in unison, like the best defensive players of the season, surrounding him in a triangle formation, he inevitably panicked.

Ivy proposed many hypotheses.

First, Ethan's true identity is a disguised God with divine power. He knew the corrupt state of the empire, listened to the suffering of the people, and condescended to come to the world. There have been such descriptions in the scriptures of many faiths. The God of Righteousness is often described as a sacred, upright and loving being.

There is a lot of evidence.

For example, the residents of Riverwood Town all said that Ethan suddenly appeared two years ago. He was not from the Empire, and no one knew where he came from. Another example was that he broke into the third layer of the contaminated zone alone and purified the influence of the evil god Bazatos on Riverside Town. He generously eliminated the influence of the Knight Commander's oath-breaking and rescued her from a deadly situation. And just now, facing the flesh and blood giants who were completely immune to magic and swords, he used only a beam of light to purify all the countless terrible creatures.

Ivy thought Ethan's defense was weak and feeble. She could come up with a complete chain of evidence. The followers of the God of Truth always spoke of objective facts. "When your magic looks like God and what you do is like God, then you are God!"

The only thing that made her doubtful was that Ethan's "majesty" was somewhat incompatible with the image of a god.

He had a good temper and always seemed easy to get along with, which was quite different from the sacred and inviolable image portrayed in the scriptures. If Ethan went on to say that he was a messenger of some god, she would be willing to believe it.

"Please stop your religious behavior. It is because of your blind faith that the empire has fallen to this state today!"

Ethan criticized this behavior mercilessly. At the beginning of the establishment of the empire, the church brought together the hearts of the people of the empire through faith and praise of the right God, but inevitably, absolute faith breeds absolute fanaticism, and the development of the church into what it is today is an inevitable result.

"Ivy, you are a believer in the God of Truth, so you should look at the world from a fair and objective perspective. Have you ever seen any gods in person?"

The three of them looked at each other, and then everyone pointed at Ethan in unison, including the golden hair on Ivy's head.

Ethan's eyes went dark. He remembered that when he was in the cabin in the woods, he, Captain Hagrid and the guards all pointed at the "suspicious person" Ivy.

He now understood why Ivy was so angry and wanted to hit him.

"We must believe in objective things and take the material world we can see as a criterion. This is the truth that the people of the empire should follow! And objective reality shows that I am just an elemental shaper!"

"learn."

Ivy nodded and said in a tone full of mission, "How about naming this theory you mentioned "Imperial Truth"?"

This girl is beyond help.

The empire's religious fanaticism seems to have reached a terminal stage. No matter whether it is a righteous god or an evil god, they seem to have to believe in someone in order to make their life complete.

Ethan began to rebuke Rowena, "What's wrong with you? You believe in Khadra, the god of trickery, right? You are not even a believer in the rightful god, so why are you joining in the fun?"

“The atmosphere is here.”

Rowena shrank her neck and said, "When I was still in the Astrologers' Guild, I was fined for not praying in church."

She didn't know whether Ethan was a god or not, but she knew that Ethan was very good at fighting. If everyone was praying but she was the only one who was praying, and if she made the other party angry and he shot her with a golden fireball, her small body would not be able to withstand it.

Rowena quickly expressed her opinion, "If you say it's not, then it's not. I have no objection."

“That’s not the problem.”

Bi'an looked solemn and continued, "Little Ivy is right. No matter whether you are a god or an apostle of God, once others see the spells you cast, they will assume that you are the one. At that time, are you going to go to them one by one to clarify? Rumors spread much faster." As for Ethan's true identity, it was no longer important. In the current environment of the empire, many people hope to have a real god to guide them - just as described in the scriptures, the right god once helped the people of the First Age get rid of darkness, hunger and panic.

"It won't be long before the news spreads from Riverwood Town to Gear City, and then to every major city in the empire."

"Makes sense."

Ethan took Bi'an's words seriously. It seemed that this upgraded fireball technique should never be used easily in a crowded place.

"But before that, Rowena, take me to the rift you just mentioned. Ivy, you and the Knight Commander help recover the giant's arm. This may be the key to our understanding of the curse of the evil god Bazatos."

Ethan was worried about the existence of the rift, which might lead to deeper levels of the contaminated area. God knew what other "artworks" of Bazatos there were besides the flesh and blood giants. It was hard for Ethan to imagine where so many sacrificed souls came from.

You have to know that the soul of the entire Riverside Town only created a flower of flesh and blood, and the curse imposed on the giant seems to be more advanced than the flower of flesh and blood.

Rowena carried Ethan on a broom and sped along the broken land. About a quarter of an hour later, they arrived at a clearing in the woods. She identified this place by the scarecrow still standing in the clearing. The scarecrow was half-smeared with the transformation potion. As she said, she was interrupted by the sudden appearance of a flesh and blood giant when she was halfway through her work.

But now it looks calm here, and the giants haven't even caused much damage here. There is only a small irregular raised piece of soil proving that they have passed by here.

But the crack that Rowena mentioned was gone. She anxiously put down her broom and paced back and forth in the open space, her voice getting more and more urgent, "Where is the crack? How come such a big crack just now disappeared?"

Even she, a great magician with extensive knowledge of mysticism, could not explain the series of strange things that happened tonight. She pointed to the space next to the tree and said confidently, "The crack appeared from here, and those giants ran out from here."

Ethan frowned and did not respond to her.

This made Rowena even more uneasy, and her voice trembled under the mask, "Wait a minute, you don't think I summoned those giants, do you?"

"Someone must have summoned them."

But Ethan couldn't think of anyone who could do such a thing. In his opinion, only a saint could cause a vision of such a scale.

Although the giants are coming for him, someone must use a ritual to summon them to the real plane.

Rowena mentioned that if she had not led the flesh giants away in time, they would have rushed into Creekwood Town along the mountain path, and the place would have become a hell on earth.

But the man seemed to have deliberately let Rowena find him, otherwise he could have easily torn a rift from an uninhabited place closer to the town.

“Whoever that person was, he approached you silently and cast a spell that could tear apart space without you noticing,” Ethan analyzed. “If he wanted to kill you, you might have been killed before you could even react.”

"hiss--!"

Rowena took a deep breath and couldn't help but shudder.

After trembling for a long time, she asked tentatively, "Can I stay at your place tonight? After all, I have done a great service to the town of Riverwood! I can stay at Ivy's apartment next door. I think her house is quite big. I can pay for it, as long as the price is not too outrageous!"

Rowena felt a chill run down her spine at the thought that if she returned to her hotel room in the middle of the night, she might be killed without anyone noticing by some unnoticed presence.

"Then you have to ask Ivy for her opinion."

Ethan said, "But you're right. Try not to act alone before you understand the situation."

(End of this chapter)