They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 71 My Death
“Miss Werewolf, you are the one who orchestrated this sacrifice and led the townspeople to the abyss.”

Ria turned her head, her golden pupils gleaming brightly against her exposed skin.

“My Lord is merciful. He has given me the spot. Now you can entrust everything to me, rest well, and return to the embrace of the abyss.”

As the rain subsided, Delanya ripped off her cloak, unable to contain the gushing silver fur from her body.

What makes you think you deserve His approval?

"That's all."

Lia took out a box of matches, picked out a match, and quickly slid it across the gunpowder side, creating a bright flame that shone in the dim environment.

Almost instantly, Delenya understood what he wanted to do.

"madness!"

The mermen behind her swarmed towards Ria, and in the instant Ria dodged, the mermen spat water from their mouths, completely soaking the box of matches and rendering it unusable.

"You want to start a fire here? Don't you even consider the surroundings? It just rained, and you actually want to set a fire here?"

"It's too late, Kelcha. Accept your fate. Your fate is death."

Delanya sneered, and the surrounding merfolk suddenly stiffened, raising their heads and staring straight up at the abyss, their mouths and gills opening and closing repeatedly. The big-headed fish climbed onto their bodies and returned to their mothers through their split abdomens.

Female fish are rare among the fish-men, but they can lay eggs and hatch the first generation of big-headed fish.

The decaying matter of these bighead fish after they die is left on the bodies of the fish-men, which, when sacrificed, enhances the pollution of rainwater and causes more people to give birth to bighead fish.

The fact that fish-men cannot give birth to fish-men suggests that these fish-men have an unusual origin.

The species produced through reproduction are not one's own. The god of reproduction may only care about the number of offspring and not about the different kinds of creatures that exist in life.

Survival of the fittest; the odd ones will eventually be swallowed up by the bigger odd ones, ultimately creating a stable ecosystem. The laws of the abyss are similar to some laws of nature, but there are also inexplicable differences.

"Praise be to the Lord of the Gale and the Abyss."

The fish-men opened and closed their jaws as they chanted the names of the gods. Under their influence, Ria found that fish scales were reappearing on her body, and even fish-like bone spurs were growing on her back.

He couldn't help but want to raise his head and look straight into the abyss, chanting His name along with the fishmen.

Delenya's smile deepened.

Because she saw that Ria had completely given up resistance, and like the ordinary sea people, she raised her head and uttered His name.

See? So-called disorderly people are nothing more than this.

"Now that our families are all gathered here, let us return to our ceremony and officially begin our celebration!"

Delanya stretched out her hand, letting scales grow on her body and pollution spread over her. The sun statue quickly turned fiery red, and the fire completely engulfed the statue.

Wait, fire!?
She suddenly realized that there shouldn't be any source of fire here, and Ria, who seemed harmless, once again became the prime suspect.

"what have you done?"

"..."

Ria ignored her, instead staring blankly up at the sky, muttering incantations like the other fishmen.

But Darrena still felt something was wrong.

She took a few steps closer to Ria, and with her wolf-like keen hearing, the "incantation" she heard was completely out of place in the current ritual.

"A nightmare resurrected from the depths of the extreme cold abyss"

In the endless dark sea,
The god of fertility, fallen to a place where no remains of bones exist.

The hurricane devoured all unclean life.

The abyss brings eternal life...

Unclean believers offer you gifts.
All of Grani will become your property, and your lowly followers demand from you an inextinguishable flame, imbued with the mystical artifact—the Dream Lamp.

Delanya was incredulous. She quickly extended her claws and grabbed at Ria's body.

The young man's body was weak from malnutrition and under the influence of ritual pollution, so he was unable to resist and was cut in half by Darenya.

"Crack!"

Crimson blood, mixed with internal organs, flowed from the cut surface.

Delanya gritted her teeth and looked at her claws stained with scarlet. Although there was nothing wrong with her sense of touch, feel, or even hearing, she still sensed that something was wrong.

correct.

She realized that Ria wouldn't bleed at all.

What's going on with that person on the ground, almost broken in two but connected only by a thin layer of skin? And her blood-stained claws are burning with pain. Everything should have been arranged by her, so why is her body in so much pain?!
Is there a fire?

Yes, the sun statue is burning.

It smells burnt.

It's normal for the sun statue to smell after it was burned; some fishmen got too close.

She smelled burnt.

It must be an illusion. These are all tests from the abyss, the hateful radiant sun influencing her will.

She cannot be influenced.

She will continue to complete the next part of the ritual, even if her body is burned away by phantom pain.

……

reality.

Lia stood atop the sun statue, holding a kerosene lamp. A wisp of red smoke billowed from the lamp, but the statue did not burn.

Below, flames raged, creating a scene straight out of hell.

The scorching flames burned on the fish-men's bodies, but they remained oblivious, maintaining their open-mouthed, abyss-facing pose.

Among them, Derenya's expression was the most devout, but she couldn't utter a sound.

They were like clowns performing a silent play, constantly making laughable gestures, and Ria appropriately offered compliments.

He shook the kerosene lamp in his hand twice. This thing was the extraordinary item, the Dream Lamp. Ria had suffered greatly at its hands before, and the Order Association's investigators also lost a member because of it.

It can create an absolute illusion for those around it, but the price is that the user pays with their own life.

Thanks to Little Swarth's wake-up call, he woke up quite early today and arrived at the Church of the Sun before everyone else. He sat on top of the Sun statue and waited for everyone to gather before releasing the smoke from the Dream Lamp.

He drew a flame from the abyss and set all the creatures on the ground ablaze. The fire, which was difficult to spread, was then carried by the tamed bighead fish.

Fire can purify all filth, and those so-called sacrificial arrays quickly turned into fire arrays, shining brightly. Ria also successfully fulfilled Steyr and Darenya's "prophecy".

Ria will die.

Everyone will die.

"This is a great gift. I hope that prophet will accept my help and then give me a corresponding amount of 'cost' in return."

Ria didn't care about death.

No one here can kill him, except himself.

He understood this deeply as early as when he first learned of his impending death from the prophet.

(End of this chapter)