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Chapter 938 The Origin of Fire
This is something from another dimension.

It may not be higher in dimension than the Dream Realm, but it certainly won't be lower.

It's somewhat like the profound creation's relationship with the golden kingdom.

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The Nebula Giant's destructive power has not yet reached the level of a god, but all the forms of power it displays are unfamiliar to Milo.

Even his black flames lost the extreme restraint they displayed when facing the power of faith.

Yes, these nebulae were not formed by the convergence of faith.

He does not rely on the power of subordinates to achieve immortality in the narrow sense.

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In almost every battle against those in power, Milo has held a certain natural advantage. This advantage comes from the antagonistic property of the fire of sin burning faith. In his hands, gods can be killed, which alone has overturned the foundation of the divine court's rule that the gods of dreams have maintained for thousands of years.

But after the first collision...

Milo was astonished to find that the Sinful Flame, which had long worked like a wheelchair for him, was completely ineffective against the giant's nebulous body.

It not only lacked the terrifying power of igniting faith, but also had no burning effect like ordinary flames.

His upward punch was entirely due to the brute force of his body; the flames of sin served only as a visual effect.

This caused Milo a lot of trouble.

He had never imagined a scene of a mortal fighting against a god, especially since he was no longer a mortal and, in a way, a god in the eyes of those in power.

But when that punch landed, for a fleeting moment he felt like a mortal gazing up at the stars in the universe, an ordinary mortal.

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bang——

The Nebula Giant staggered.

But He didn't have a lower body; His entire body was suspended high in the air, so there was no question of Him falling down.

Milo, on the other hand, fell back to the center of the Kingdom of Kem like a meteorite, carving straight into the depths of the earth.

He hasn't been this embarrassed in a long time.

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In the past, he was always the one who held the fire of sin to restrain the superiors within other belief systems, like Aegon, like the Red Baron whom he had previously crushed to death.

But now the situation is reversed.

Now, the giant's nebulous shell has a restraining effect on the fire of sin.

After the spiraling black flames hit it, all that was left was a tiny bit of special effects. Apart from dyeing Milo black to create a visual contrast with the dazzling nebula body, it had no other purpose.

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Milo lay deep within the ruins.

He felt the soreness and pain in his body.

Fortunately, this physique had been tempered by the gentle fire day and night for a long time, and its foundation was reshaped using Freya's passionate dragon blood. If it were the body from the time of awakening, it would have been shattered by that attack.

Although breaking it doesn't mean it's dead, it's still a bit of a hassle, isn't it?

Milo remained rooted to the ground a hundred meters below, the surrounding rock layers constantly pressing down on his body and bones, yet he remained indifferent, his thoughts racing.

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This blow made him re-examine the path he had taken in the past.

How does one obtain the fire of sin?
That was one of the many contingency plans the Scarlet Witch left behind in the Dreamland. She deceived the previous Lord of the Sinful Fire above the Cold Plains, causing him to persevere until the arrival of Milo, the Fire Usurper. But actually, the origin of the Sinful Fire isn't mentioned in this story, right?
Let's go back a bit further.

Before this, who controlled the fire of sin?
Is it the last priest king from the Cold Plains? Or is it the priest king in disguise, a crybaby?

No, the Flame of Sin has always been controlled by the Temple of Hook.

They somehow found this unstable, forbidden power. Because it was too strongly opposed to their own system, they couldn't use it directly. So they created a priestly dynasty in an illusion to deceive the weeping ghost, promising him a gentle world to appease the forbidden fire.

It was the Hooked Finger Temple that exploited the Crying Ghost's kindness, making him continue burning himself to preserve his illusory kingdom, fantasizing about the day when a gentle kingdom would arrive.

In this process, the Hooked Finger Temple can continuously obtain faith power from the illusory kingdom.

This is an energy converter with a relatively low conversion rate, but its strength lies in its stability.

Until the day the Scarlet Witch arrived, and shortly thereafter Milo kept his promise.

The original balance was completely broken, and the usurpation of the fire was successful.

The problem is that, in this known story, the origin of the forbidden power of the Fire of Sin is also not mentioned.

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It wasn't until Milo clashed head-on with the Nebula Giant that he finally realized what was happening.

All the order in the Dreamland was established by the gods. Under these orders, how could the gods allow the existence of a power like the Fire of Sin, which is capable of destroying gods?

The only explanation is that, at the very beginning of the system of faith-based deification, the fire of sin did not exist in the dream world.

It does not belong to this world, nor to this dimension.

So how did it descend upon the Dreamland?
The divine being Aegon has already provided an answer to this question.

call.

It was summoned from another dimension by the secret of the Hook Temple.

Like summoning the Nebula Giant.

Can't go wrong.

Perhaps the god of the hook wanted to seize control of the Kadas pantheon by mastering this flame that could burn away faith.

This is theoretically feasible, as Milo's experience has proven the power of the Sinful Flame. However, the problem is that Milo is already a member of the Kadas pantheon, which is dependent on faith. The Hook cannot control the Sinful Flame. Therefore, this god-slaying weapon can only be placed in the priestly kingdom at the top of the Cold Plains, existing as another form of "energy" to continuously supply faith to the Hook Temple.

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This is the power of the Hook and the reason for its special status.

He is a being capable of communicating with beings from other dimensions, and perhaps the only deity on Mount Kadas who can summon things beyond our comprehension to the Dream Realm without harm.

Since He can summon the fire of sin, He must also be able to summon something to restrain it. These traditions are imprinted in the vast faith system of the Hookshot Temple, and this part of the faith power is now poured into the divine embryo Aegon.

Thus came the Nebula Giants, who were not afraid of the fires of sin.

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Everything is now in place.

Milo's eyes gradually cleared.

From this perspective, it seems that the Scarlet Witch's schemes only extended to the forbidden zones; she did not foresee that the Flame of Sin would one day be restrained.

He nodded.

Then his figure burst out from deep within the earth's crust.

(End of this chapter)