Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 423 Gods are nothing more than this

Anglo-Soviet conflict? Soviet laser satellite launches surprise attack on London!

"The British Civil War: Bombers Carpet-Bombing the Suburbs of London!"

Poisonous gas leak! Large numbers of plants and animals suddenly mutate outside London!

Tsunami Sweeps Rio de Janeiro!

Rio Crisis! Mutant Sea Monsters Attack Humans!

"We strongly protest that Soviet aerospace weapons seriously threaten global security! It is extremely dangerous to rashly elevate the global order from a Cold War-era nuclear deterrence posture to a space warfare stage! We demand that the Soviet Union disclose its aerospace weapons technology and re-establish a balanced space deterrence..."

"That semi-transparent dome is likely a defensive weapon; experts speculate it might be an ion electromagnetic barrier..."

"I think the idea of ​​sea monsters is sensationalism. In reality, they are just some larger marine creatures, and some species we've never seen before. This phenomenon of giantification in marine life is not uncommon, in the Arctic..."

"God! Oh God! Can you see that?! Jesus! It's the real Jesus, walking in the heavens..."

……

In Rio, when the giant stone statue spread its arms in the air, countless people below witnessed the scene. The sea monster's slaughter temporarily stopped, as if it had been awed by the majesty of the gods.

Devout believers knelt on the blood-stained, mangled ground, weeping and crying out, "God! God has come to save us!"

In an instant, Murphy's Odin Eye magic antenna detected a significant increase in the world's magic level.

However, the next moment, their god was struck by a beam of light, shattering half of his head. The next moment, the staircase of light beneath his feet seemed unable to support his weight and collapsed with a crack. The colossus immediately fell from the sky and crashed to the ground, turning several houses into ruins.

Bright red blood gushed from the gaping wound in the colossus's skull, soaking half of the colossus's face and making its benevolent smile appear eerie and sinister.

"Ha, ants!"

The colossus snorted, and a halo rose from behind its head, transforming into a disc above its head, firmly blocking the beam of light.

It then stood up, and several mangled corpses fell from its knees, turning into a bloody mess. But it didn't care. It strode forward and trampled several sea monsters and kneeling believers in the street into mincemeat.

"My God! God is walking among us!" But the believers in the distance remained excited, "He is going to raise us up to his kingdom!"

Some even ran wildly along the huge, bloody footprints, crying out, "Loving Father, don't abandon us!"

Some people suppressed their fear and came to the front of the colossus, saying, "This is salvation, this is salvation. If I die here, I will definitely go to heaven..." before being trampled to death.

The colossus walked toward a mountain inland from Rio, where a pyramid hidden in the valley is the location of the Brazilian Ministry of Magic.

But as soon as he stepped out of the city center, a missile suddenly fell from the sky, shattering half of the holy light disc above his head with a loud bang. Then another missile struck, shattering the other half of the disc. The impact caused the colossus to fall to the ground. Just as another tactical missile was about to hit, suddenly, a fighter jet flew in from the side, and two air-to-air missiles flew out from under its wings, intercepting the tactical missile in mid-air.

At the same time, an intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and reached low Earth orbit moments later, destroying several satellites that were attacking the Colossus.

The colossus suddenly gained its freedom and quickened its pace, arriving at the pyramid in no time.

He raised his hands high, clasped them together in a fist, and then slammed them down hard.

"Boom!" With his movement, the ground seemed to suddenly explode like a nuclear explosion. After a huge flash, a huge blood-red cross bloomed in the air.

……

"miracle!"

President William of the United States stood before the cameras, declaring, "God has appeared and is saving His people! Yet the Soviet Union has dared to attack God with satellites! Unforgivable! We will send fighter jets to protect the Colossus of Jesus, and we are simultaneously developing a battle plan to destroy those satellites!"

……

"Boom boom boom!"

Around London, Murphy, using a combination of satellites and missiles, finally blasted Dagda into pieces and destroyed Stonehenge. Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, he saw the Colossi launching an attack on the pyramids in his distant vision.

The United States has always regarded South America as its own backyard. Murphy's satellite and missile attack on Brazil stung their nerves, especially since it hit their beloved god on the head. The United States' reaction was somewhat expected.

But why would the gods attack the Ministry of Magic?

The next moment, the Siberian Eye of Odin monitoring system emitted a piercing alarm: "A sharp increase in magic concentration has been detected, with an increase of 500%!"

At the same time, in the underground divine research institute, Odin suddenly opened his eyes. The "mental field" that was restraining him had just shaken for a moment. The fluctuation was very short, but it was enough for him to take action.

"Bang!" A bolt of lightning struck, blasting a hole in the glass dome below, along with the coil cooling device.

The liquid nitrogen exploded, enveloping the laboratory in a white mist. Without the cooling device, the magic coils heated up rapidly, and the mental field, which had been as unshakeable as steel bars, suddenly relaxed. Odin's magic finally regained a bit of vitality. He struggled with all his might, and his body suddenly grew larger, shattering the entire glass dome with a bang.

A piercing alarm sounded, startling Leonard, who was conducting an experiment comparing divine blood and primordial matter. He instinctively opened a red cover on the instrument panel beside him and took out a button-like object.

But then, with a loud "Boom!", a giant strode into his office. The giant's eye crackled with electricity as it glared at him. "Mortal! The sin of imprisoning the gods will be repaid with the blood of millions! And you will suffer eternal damnation!"

As he spoke, he stretched out his giant hand and grabbed Leonard, squeezing so hard that he crushed all the bones in Leonard's body, but he did not kill him.

The excruciating pain nearly drove Leonard mad, but Odin's divine power kept him conscious. He understood that his opponent intended to subject him to endless suffering.

"Beg for mercy, you maggot, and then regret it in eternal torment!" the giant glared at him.

In a daze, Leonard suddenly remembered the time when Murphy brought him to the laboratory and he first saw the gods.

He was shocked by the power of the gods, both in terms of their physical bodies and their will. They far exceeded human imagination, and they seemed to have been born to rule over mankind. At the end of the visit, a giant crab god almost broke through the cage that held the god in captivity and escaped, which scared him so much that his legs went weak.

Afterwards, he felt he was not qualified to study the gods. "They terrified me. I felt like an ant trying to challenge an elephant. This task should be left to someone with more courage."

But Murphy comforted him, and he still remembered her words.

"Fear is normal. Even a person would be afraid standing in front of a tiger. Everyone would feel fear when faced with a dangerous creature that is difficult for us to defeat."

"But if we put on armor and carry hunting rifles capable of killing tigers, wouldn't the fear lessen?"

"Please remember this fear, Mr. Leonard. Our research is to find their weaknesses, discover ways to fight them, so that future generations will have the courage to confront them in the face of this fear."

"Heh heh..." Leonard suddenly let out a muffled laugh, spitting out a few mouthfuls of blood and muttering something.

Odin frowned. "Your voice is too soft, you maggot!"

"Cough," Leonard spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments, "a bunch of...wandering ghosts..."

"God is nothing more than this..."

As he spoke, he twisted his fingers and pressed the button.

The next instant, a sun shone down from the ground.

(End of this chapter)