Nightmare Light

Chapter 231 The Rebellious Son's Plan

After settling the children in, Lin Wang breathed a sigh of relief.

The most important thing is now done...

"Next, there are two more things that need to be cleaned up..."

Lin Wang turned his head and looked at the distance behind him.

With a cold expression (actually, she was expressionless), and looking like a little girl, the leader of the Shadow Rebels, Miao Miao (actually, she had forgotten her own name), was squatting on the ground...

Take a bottle of ink and pour it into the ant hole!
...Has the Shadow Rebels' leader's sanity fallen to this level...?

Lin Wang's mouth twitched.

Beside Miaomiao, a little boy was squatting, also intently watching the ant hole, talking to Miaomiao as he watched.

The two children were so happy that snot bubbles were coming out of their noses.

Lin Wang walked closer and heard the little boy say to Miaomiao, "You can't pour it in like that. The ant hole is all winding and twisting! The ink can't flow in!"

Wow! You're pretty knowledgeable, aren't you? How many ants have you ruined in the yard? Confess!

Before Lin Wang could finish his complaint, he saw Miao Miao look up, prop her chin up with her fingers, and pondered for a few seconds: "I have a way!"

After saying that, he snapped his fingers.

Immediately afterwards, an aura of divine magic rapidly condensed in the air, and a holy and majestic light shone in front of the two mischievous children, even their snot bubbles seemed to carry a touch of sacredness.

"The law commands! Holy light guides the way!"

After Miao Miao shouted these words with a serious expression, she raised the ink bottle and poured it onto the divine light.

The divine light swiftly entered the ant hole, and the bottle of ink followed the light into the ant hole.

...These ants were worth it.

Lin Wang couldn't stand it anymore, so he stepped forward, picked up the two kids, one in each hand, and asked, "Have you had enough playing?"

"Teacher Long Strip!"

"Northerners!"

Lin Wang carried the little boy back to the activity room, casually tossed him to a teacher, and then, carrying Miaomiao, switched his mental powers and sent her into the tree fern space.

"You'll be staying here for the next period of time."

"Why should I listen to your orders!" Miaomiao grinned at Lin Wang, deliberately showing her defiance, and muttered, "But it's alright, at least this place won't be attacked by the Holy Army... Wait, where is this place?"

She muttered to herself, looked around, and then looked up to see the enormous tree overhead, which almost covered the entire sky.

"This...this...a tree fern?!"

Miaomiao's cold little face slowly opened her mouth, revealing an expression of extreme shock and disbelief. She exclaimed again, "Tree fern?!"

"You truly are a high-ranking priest; you recognized the origin of this tree at a glance." Lin Wang ruffled Miao Miao's hair. "I will have the tree fern create a room for you, and you will stay here for the next period of time."

Lin Wang thought it would be a simple matter, but to his surprise, Miaomiao shook her head with great effort and seriousness: "No, I can't live here."

"Why?" Lin Wang didn't understand. "In the mortal world, the Shadow Rebels have been wiped out by the Temple. You have nowhere to go."

“Then I can’t live here either.” Miaomiao’s attitude was extremely firm. Her little face stiffened, and she looked up at the giant tree, her gaze somewhat complicated: “Do you know what the Shadow Rebels have always wanted to do?”

"I don't know. All I know is that the people of the temple call you rebellious children."

“Rebellious children…” Miaomiao smiled, “Actually, that’s not wrong. We are a bunch of rebellious children.”

She walked to a tree root, jumped up with all her might, but failed on her first attempt. She then climbed up the tree root several times using her hands and feet, finally reaching it. She turned around, sat down, and looked at the distant plains and temple.

Lin Wang knew that she was preparing what she wanted to say, so he didn't rush her.

After a good ten seconds, Miaomiao spoke up: "What the Rebels want to do is to erase the foundation of Mother's existence in this world."

A thunderclap exploded in Lin Wang's mind.

These guys, they're planning something this big?!
While Lin Wang was still in shock, Miao Miao continued, swinging her short legs, "Actually, if you have carefully observed the state of the entire temple and learned about its history, you will find that the temple's connection with Mother has been weakening in recent centuries... or even longer."

“In ancient texts, the temple and the mother can communicate freely, and the mother will even personally descend with divine magic... Some texts even record that the mother personally descended to the mortal world.”

Lin Wang nodded—he had read a lot of related books these days, and he knew some history in this area.

“Some texts show that after the priests became aware of this phenomenon, there were many large-scale debates about it within the temple.”

"After these debates, the temple gradually split into... several different factions."

Miaomiao suddenly sneered: "There's nothing to say about those mediocre secular factions. They're no different from those idiots you chased away before—weak and mediocre, even colluding with secular forces..."

As she spoke, she puffed out her chest and said, "We're different."

“We believe that since a mother’s authority in the secular world is diminishing, we, as mortals, cannot sit idly by and wait for our demise…”

“We believe that she should be stripped of her earthly authority and a new god should be elected to the divine position. A healthy and stable new god should take charge of earthly authority and protect humankind.”

She picked up a vine and played with it in her hand: "This is what the Shadow Rebels are really supposed to do."

She turned to look at Lin Wang: "Someone like me, who has spent my whole life preparing to strip my mother of her authority... and now you want me to live under my mother's 'authority'? Is that appropriate?"

strip the goddess of her authority, and then elect a new goddess...

What an insane plan...

Whether or not the plan can be realized, its audacious spirit still shocked Lin Wang.

Anyone who could come up with such a plan, regardless of their original intentions... is either a madman or a genius.

Lin Wang pondered for a moment, his expression changing slightly: "So, that's why you gave Vice Bishop Zhao a wisp of divine thought in the Shadow Realm..."

"My complete plan was to intervene when she was about to complete her deification, so that the deity would be under control after it was fully completed," Miao Miao readily admitted. "I didn't expect you to arrive so quickly."

"Controllable...you want to control a god?"

“The control that mortals have over gods is not about mastery and control, but rather…” She spread her hands, “It’s not that complicated. I was the first mortal He saw, so I can be His first saintess.”

Hearing this, Lin Wang understood the Shadow Rebel's thinking: "Once He has completely completed His deification, you will be the first leader of this new religion, and the remaining Shadow Rebel Order will transform into the only religion under the new god's command."

“At that time, the weak old temple will be reduced to ashes in the religious war of the new gods.” Miao Miao’s expression was calm and cold.

Then she sighed: "And then, you messed all of this up."

(End of this chapter)