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Chapter 915 Ceremony

Chapter 915 Ceremony
"Is this the consequence of merging humanity and divinity?"

Milo stroked his chin thoughtfully.

One's own power gradually disappears—or rather, it should be called a loss of control, and moreover, it is a voluntary relinquishment of control over that power.

Moreover, it's not just a matter of power; the life sequence level, including the entire self-will, has undergone a peculiar "degeneration."

From Imnar to the Messiah of the Kingdom of Kem.

The tone and manner in which they speak and act are completely different from those of the same being.

It's also possible that this was all an act, and it was because of this suspicion that Milo chose to smash one of Imnal's heads to spy on him.

The conclusion drawn is that, when a person in a position of power absorbs and ingests a sufficient amount of humanity, their soul, strength, and will inevitably degenerate.

This kind of degeneration is what the gods fear, so these superior beings in dreams only take faith and do not accept the humanity and many complex emotions presented by the believers.

……

How could this be?

Milo didn't quite understand.

Does that mean I'll become like that too?

He muttered to himself.

After all, in the current Shadow faith system, Milo accepts all followers without question.

Unlike Imnar, Milo has a gentler side to the fire of sin, a fire fueled by humanity. Even so, Milo can still clearly feel the difference between himself and the past after accepting humanity.

This is a potential problem, but it doesn't seem that serious.

……

As for Imnar's subsequent fate in the Kingdom of Kem, it is quite predictable.

Having "degenerated" from his divine position, he was overthrown by the awakened people after the invasion of the Abyss's awakened order. The one nailed to the city gate was the first, and then there were a second, a third, and a fourth.

Under the erosion of the awakened order, people's will has changed and become distorted. The colorful makeup and styling are just the surface; what lies hidden deep within is that certain evil desires in human nature have been unearthed and amplified.

The objects of their former worship and faith have become, in today's understanding, villains who bind their freedom.

However, the story that happened to Imnar did not unfold in the same way as the story in Milo's memory. Imnar, who was nailed to the ground, did not come back to life after seven days. Judging from the degree of decomposition of the body, he had been hanging there for at least one or two months.

...

After rubbing the mud off his hands, Milo continued walking deeper into the royal residence.

This is a mansion about the size of a lord's fortress in the South. The Kingdom of Kem is small, and the Kem royal family is also small. The total area it occupies is not even as big as the Hee-Hee Castle of Yowados.

Today, this mansion is decorated in more vibrant colors than the fingernails of the bearded uncle on the street.

Well, it's just that there's a kind of...

It felt like I'd stumbled upon the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics; I always felt like a greasy, middle-aged man dressed entirely in blue would jump out from around the next corner.

...

Then, it actually jumped out.

Snapped!
This time, Milo didn't even bother pretending to be from the Beiyang government. The instant the blond, bald man covered in blue paint jumped out, he snapped his fingers, and black flames shot up, instantly burning the man to ashes.

The deeper they went into the Kingdom of Kem, the stronger that instinctive feeling of nausea became.

Milo knew this was one of the many "non-divine" reactions that came with humanization, and it was unavoidable.

The good news is that he possesses the power of the Shadow Sequence, which allows him to burn away anything that disgusts him.

…Upon entering the Kem royal residence, Milo witnessed a relatively somber scene.

Although the interior was decorated in bright colors, deep inside lay a large pile of charred corpses.

The vast majority of them belong to Imnar.

Before long, a group of brightly dressed people dragged in a freshly charred corpse of Imnar and threw it into the main hall deep inside the mansion. This was the same Imnar who had been shot in the head at the gate of the abandoned monastery earlier.

Besides the Imnars, it was not difficult to distinguish some Kem people of different ages in the hall. Among them were young people, old people, and even children, all of whom were charred and rotten.

According to Imnal

Apart from the three children in the cellar, all the others whose wills had not been corrupted by the awakened order were dead; these corpses were the people he was referring to.

...

The problem is that deep inside this hall, there are not only corpses, but also many local bells, drums, heavy books, and burnt-out candles.

Milo was all too familiar with these props, along with the piles of corpses in the lobby.

Cults all over the world operate in the same way, even across global boundaries and the passage of time, with virtually no innovation.

Compared to the makeup and styling of the Kem people today, the ritual props at this priest's scene seem somewhat monotonous and dull.

...

Those who can resist the awakened order of the abyss must be born spiritual beings, and those with extremely strong soul will. These people have now been burned to death, burned as human sacrifices, becoming part of the ritual.

Milo initially thought that the Abyss had merely distorted the minds of the Kem people with a will called Awakening, but the truth was clearly not that simple. The Awakened Kem people had betrayed their original faith in the Heavenly Father and instead attempted to summon some higher being through human sacrifice.

Judging from the traces at the scene, the summoning ritual was unsuccessful.

But precisely because they failed, Milo had no idea what they were trying to summon.

It was difficult to discern for a time whether it was the awakened will that was driving the awakened ones to do this, or if there was another reason behind it.

...

Behind the large pile of charred corpses inside the hall, there was a grotesque abyss-like rift running across the wall.

Performing a summoning ritual in the abyss is hard not to speculate about.

He flipped through the heavy books on the ground, but found no incantations; the pages inside were all empty.

"That's strange."

Milo crouched down and examined the burnt-out candles.

Just then, a figure darted in from outside the mansion.

The man's grave was filthy, his beard and hair were tangled together, and he was carrying two hard loaves of bread in his hand.

It's still Imnal.

He is alive again.

Or rather, what died was the fractal.

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