Once upon a time there was a greedy snake.

Chapter 289 The Young Swordsman, Resurrected
As it turned out, the Priests' Court reacted very quickly to the sudden event. For example, the Blood Warband's offensive had barely been organized when it was already pinned down in the city by the four priests.

The warriors were roaring, all for Tathumbto, but the four priests suppressed them, also for Tathumbto's sake—everything was finally starting to look up, and Tathumbto couldn't withstand this turmoil.

Moreover, from the perspective of the four priests, the sudden outburst of the Blood Chapter was not a normal situation. After all, these Starbound visitors had been in Tatunbuto for several days. If the Blood Chapter had any objections, they would have made a scene long ago. Why did they only think of causing trouble now?

"Could it be... that the spy really is real?"

Thinking of this, the four priests couldn't help but recall the intelligence that Casaloran had sent them before.

According to Casaloron's intelligence, an alien spy had already infiltrated Tatunbuto. Although the four priests themselves did not sense anything unusual, Casaloron described the spy's appearance very clearly—it was a spy who could change his appearance in countless ways, and could even be said to be the number one general under the God of Desire.

This puzzled the four priests even more. If they were sending spies into the Star Sea, that would be understandable, as they did need the technology from the Star Sea to enrich Tatunbto and contribute to the advancement of civilization.

However, the gods in the starry sea are sending spies in their direction...

What do those gods receive?
The four priests had never considered this question. After all, in their eyes, or rather, in the eyes of all the Tatunbutos, compared to the advanced and progressive things in the Star Sea, they were so primitive and so worthless.

"But now, regardless of whether they are spies or not, we should at least take action against those involved in internal affairs."

After some discussion, the four priests reached a consensus.

Asking them to capture alien spies is asking too much of them; after all, the ever-changing nature of aliens is beyond their capabilities. While seeking help from the Snake God might be helpful, even with the Snake God's assistance, the fundamental problem remains unsolved.

Ultimately, the reason why the Blood Chapter was incited lies within the Blood Chapter itself. They are too unstable because they only know revenge. Even without spies, they are prone to problems.

"We must find a suitable candidate..."

The four priests began to scratch their heads.

Finding a suitable candidate was surprisingly difficult. In addition to loyalty to the Serpent God and the planet, the candidate needed to be stable, have experience leading troops, and even have the ability to unify the entire legion.

The last one, in particular, was extremely difficult to find.

Therefore, after much deliberation, the four priests had no choice but to summon Setka the Mad Axe, one of the four warriors and the founder of the enforcement team who had been silent for a long time, in an attempt to get him to take on this responsibility.

Sethka naturally chose to decline, as he was already quite busy himself, so how could he possibly have time to take on such a mess?

But Setka recommended a suitable candidate.

“Before the empire was fully unified, I met a warrior… Although he had already passed away before the empire was established, he played an indispensable role in the destruction of the Sun God Kingdom in the north.”

Setka gazed northward, a hint of nostalgia in her eyes.

"If his soul could be found, he would probably be the most suitable candidate."

"You mean, Hapisa?"

The four priests pondered for a moment, then remembered the name of the young swordsman.

Although Habisa had already died before the establishment of the Serpent God Empire, it was precisely because of Habisa's death that the Sun God Kingdom, which originally occupied the north, began to change. It wasn't until the war priest Matt Peri went mad and was killed by the four warriors in the Great Temple that the war truly came to an end.

However, at that time, the serpent god had not yet mastered the power of the god of death, so Habisa was buried outside the former temple of the sun god, which was his hometown.

But now...

"...Give it a try?" The four priests exchanged glances.

This seems to be an unexpectedly good candidate.

The entire process was not complicated. As the serpent god and also the priest of the god of death, they were already very familiar with this kind of thing after resurrecting so many people. If there was any problem, it was probably that Habisa's bones had already decayed.

However, that's not a problem now; we can just replace the body with a terracotta figure.

But that's precisely where the problem lies.

Before the soul of the pottery sage had finished burning in the furnace, a new terracotta figure was created. But just as the four priests had found Hapisa's soul and were preparing to transfer it to the terracotta figure...

The newly created terracotta figurine shattered into pieces on the spot.

"This……"

The four priests were stunned; they had never encountered such a situation before.

Fortunately, they had gained a lot of experience with resurrection, so they quickly found the answer to the problem—it wasn't that resurrection couldn't be performed, but rather that the material of the terracotta figurine was far too fragile for the soul they had summoned.

Simply put, change the materials.

"This……"

The four priests exchanged glances, all seeing the joy in each other's eyes.

Such a powerful soul could indeed suppress the Blood Battle Group. Although the brief incident wasted time, it at least showed that they hadn't made a mistake in choosing the wrong person.

So, after cleaning up the terracotta fragments, they excitedly replaced them with solid wood golems. These were the bodies that everyone in the Blood Warband currently longed to have; the sturdy wood was far superior to the fragile terracotta.

However, halfway through the resurrection ritual, even the sturdy wooden statue shattered with a crash.

"This...is still not enough?"

The four priests were already somewhat shocked.

It should be noted that the Blood Chapter is currently still using terracotta warriors, and only a few warriors have just been trained to the point where they can control wooden golems.

But now it seems...

Even a solid wood golem can't contain this soul?

"Take out the earliest batch."

Those were a batch of steel golems, the first batch of bodies ever made, but after the warriors of the Blood Chapter used them, they found even the most basic act of walking extremely difficult.

This time, however, after a ritual performed by the four priests, the heavy steel golem finally managed to bear the weight of that powerful soul.

And the swordsman named Habisa, after a long absence, opened his eyes.

(End of this chapter)