A Guide to Becoming a God Starting from a Monastery

"Ha...haha..." The chief priest laughed. "That's true, but so what?"

When there is a fundamental difference in power, nothing else matters.

And with every minute and every second, he will become more familiar with the power he controls.

He turned to look at the distant magician. "You know a lot! But you must know... as long as the Holy Flame is rekindled, there is no need to pay the price of physical decay!"

"The Holy Fire..." Gandalf looked at the scene and suddenly understood. "Aragorn, hurry up! Don't wait for the Holy Fire to light!"

"If the sacred flame isn't lit, he'll be finished in fifteen minutes at most with just the power of the flame! But if the sacred flame is lit, he can maintain this posture forever!"

"Holy flame? But... which one here is the real holy flame?" Thomas shouted.

There are flames all around!

"Oh...you know this?" The chief priest gave him an ambiguous look. "Well, let me tell you." He pointed to the flame still burning in the ruins. "This is the Holy Fire!"

Thomas was shocked. The range of this holy fire was too large.

Burning beneath the entire ruins.

Or rather, burning on Marlowet's body.

So... the corpse of the god is the fuel for the sacred fire?

How can we put an end to this?

"This is not the true Holy Fire!" Gandalf shouted. "The true Holy Fire has not yet been lit! Otherwise, you will not only face the High Priest!"

"Wrong, it's already lit!" The High Priest laughed. "Or rather, the Holy Fire just hasn't taken shape yet. It's already burning."

"You're lying! As far as I know... this can't be the real Holy Fire. The real Holy Fire is a gift from the gods, the perfect embodiment of fire, which can give the Mu Hu monks unlimited power. Now, you obviously don't have this power! So this is not the Holy Fire!"

"Forget the holy fire... Even an ordinary bonfire wouldn't be lit and burn brightly in an instant." The old priest laughed. "To make you give up, I'll tell you the truth."

"The Holy Fire isn't so easy to ignite! Specifically, the core element that can ignite the Holy Fire isn't the body of a deity, but... the essence of the deity."

"The fire must ignite the essence of the deity before it can burn further and become the true sacred fire."

"Right now, the Holy Fire is still burning the deity's corpse. This state won't last long, as it will soon spread into the deity's essence. Once the deity's essence is ignited, the Holy Fire will be fully formed."

"So, don't expect to extinguish the Holy Fire now. That's impossible!"

"So that's how it is. This is why the Zoroastrians were unable to rekindle the sacred fire after it was extinguished until the country was destroyed... The difficulty of rekindling the sacred fire is equivalent to becoming a god!" said Gandalf.

"Master, what did you say? Conferring the Gods?"

"An ancient legend of a method of deification," Gandalf explained. "The first step in deification is to collect the essence of the deity from its fresh corpse. Some say it's called divine fire. Integrate it into one's own body..."

"That's the nonsense of ignorant people." The chief priest interrupted Gandalf. "How can a human absorb the essence of a god? Only a god can do that."

"So what do we do?" Thomas asked. "How do we stop it?"

"Find a god to absorb Malovit's essence!" The chief priest laughed. "Then the holy fire will indeed be unignitable. Otherwise, forget it."

Thomas looked back at Gandalf, and Gandalf looked back at him.

"It seems that your arrival here as a heretic magician is no accident," the chief priest said. "Converting to the Holy Fire is your only way out. Otherwise, you will die!"

"Gandalf, what exactly is that oracle you mentioned!" Thomas roared.

There is no other way but to seek information and inspiration from Gandalf's oracle.

Do you really want to join Zoroastrianism?

But people were probably willing to accept Gandalf, but not him.

It was obviously because he had just killed the other party's disciple.

This is a mortal feud, a life-or-death struggle! There's no other choice but to fight to the death!

"Oracles? Haha, oracles!" the high priest laughed. "The gods dwell within the foundation of this world, observing its operations from a perspective beyond time and space. Devout believers, through their secret connection with the gods, can, to a certain extent, glimpse the course of the present and future. These so-called oracles, in the final analysis, are nothing more than that. There's no guarantee that the oracle itself is correct, nor is there any guarantee that your understanding of it is correct! If that's the case, then what's the point?"

"You're jealous!" Thomas said suddenly.

"What did you say?!"

"I mean, you're jealous!" Thomas sneered. "Because Zoroastrianism doesn't have oracles!"

"nonsense……"

"Ahura Mazda is outside this world, and can't offer you any oracles. Ultimately, this world is just one of his many battlefields," Thomas said. "Mithra long ago lost his independent consciousness and no longer possesses the spirituality or judgment to grant oracles to his followers. Therefore, Zoroastrianism lacks a central deity to issue oracles! You're just being blatantly jealous!"

"Bullshit!" the high priest finally cried out in anger. Nothing could irritate a clergyman more than slandering the gods.

He raised his hand and a ball of explosive force exploded on Thomas.

During this period of time, he was constantly familiar with and controlling his own power.

He hadn't been accurate before, but at this moment he was sure that he didn't have much error.

However, Thomas had already disappeared from the spot.

When he came to his senses, he found that the Christian Knight was rushing towards him.

At that moment, his speed was increased to the extreme, his body squeezed the air, causing a strong wind explosion and a violent air flow.

Steel Soul Secret Technique: Time Stands Still.

Originally this was an attack using bullet time, but this time, Thomas turned it into his own charge.

The air kicked up by his charge dissipated the heat from around the High Priest's body.

The high priest didn't even have time to gather the flames again because Thomas was faster and more powerful.

In an instant, the distance between the two was shortened.

The long sword thrust out, it was a simple stab.

The most primitive and naked violence, a sword hit the high priest's chest. Then another blow chopped down, cutting down the high priest's body.

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The violent sword light slashed through the flames. The crimson lotus wrapped around the high priest expanded outward like a raging wave.

Steel Soul Secret Technique: Snow Sword.

It looked like only one strike, but in reality, it involved five or six, slicing the young man's body, who hadn't yet recovered from his shock, into pieces.

The broken limbs fell to the ground in pieces.

At this moment, the intense heat finally broke through the airflow and spread. Thomas immediately stepped back to avoid the burning heat.

This attack was unexpected and he had already used all his strength.

The air in the chest was completely drained away, leaving nothing behind. It was like draining the pond to the ground.

Although the air mass recovers quickly, it still takes some time to fill up in this situation.

So even though Thomas has mastered the highest secret, unfortunately, the "time standstill" trick cannot be used indefinitely.

Thomas stepped back a certain distance and looked back.

There were exclamations all around.

Including those Zoroastrian monks and Gandalf in the distance.

"Aragorn, run!" Gandalf shouted.

Before Thomas could come to his senses, he saw the remains of the high priest burning with flames and black smoke, and quickly condensed into one.

The high priest's limbs, which had just been chopped off, regenerated from the flames, appearing completely unharmed. Aside from the rips in his clothes, there was no sign of having received a severe blow.

But his eyes still looked confused, and it was obvious that he was not fully conscious yet.

"His body may still appear human, but it's actually transformed into a fire element!" Gandalf's voice echoed. "It's not flesh and blood, but energy! He can't be killed with a sword!"

"Damn it!" Thomas cursed. Why didn't you tell me earlier?!

But once the arrow is shot, there's no turning back. Thomas turned back, drew his sword, and closed his eyes.

A second later, when he opened his eyes again, an indescribable brilliance flashed in his eyes, and his sword was covered with a layer of gray-black energy.

Destroy the good and cut!

This was the first time Thomas used the Breaking Good Slash in actual combat after learning it.

In theory, this move has extra lethality to clergy, and this damage is extremely difficult to heal and offset.

The chief priest had not yet fully recovered, but the high temperature and heat around him were daunting.

But Thomas rushed forward straight ahead and chopped him down head-on with Poshanzhan.

"Go to hell!"

The next moment, the high priest's eyes, which had just looked hazy and dull, suddenly opened, and a strange light flashed in his eyes.

The next second, a devastating blast of wind and extremely high temperatures blew up in a large area right in front of him.

It was a sudden, completely unexpected blow. Thomas was blown backwards by the wave of light and heat.

The whole person crashed into a broken wall, knocking it down.

From the depths of the crimson light, Thomas's body emerged from the flames, his skin carbonized.

His broken body was half-kneeling on the ground, holding a sword in one hand.

"Awesome! You are worthy of being a Christian Knight!" The high priest exclaimed in a series of emotion.

"At first, I actually wanted to use Christianity as a pawn, hoping to use its power to weaken the Perun Order," he said. "Now that I think about it, I was really arrogant."

“With…Christianity?” Thomas struggled to raise his head.

"Yes, I wanted to provoke a direct conflict between Christianity and the Perun Cult," the High Priest said. "At that time, I didn't take Christianity seriously. I felt there weren't enough Christians, and they were mainly confined to the city. I originally thought the Perun Cult would be the real threat to my plan. I didn't expect... I underestimated! Fortunately, Christianity was introduced at the last minute. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to deal with Marovit alone! Even if we could have, we wouldn't have been able to prevent a third party from taking advantage of the situation!"

The chief priest looked at Thomas. "I can only say that you're quite lucky."

Thomas sighed deeply. He closed his eyes and saw that nearly forty clusters of divine power still remained above his damaged godhead.

He didn't have that much divine power before, but he just killed a Mu Hu monk.

Killing figures like priests grants additional divine power. The exact mechanism is unclear, but this is the actual effect.

He now had a deep fear of the high priest.

It’s a pity that the other party didn’t intend to let him go, otherwise he really didn’t want to fight anymore.

The high priest waved his hand, and a blazing flame swept over, enveloping Thomas. The high-temperature flames sent gusts of air surging, as if dragging him down into the burning hell of hell.

"It's really... a very powerful force." Thomas took a breath and stood up straight.

The carbonized skin on the body's surface crackled and fell off like dust, revealing the white, intact skin underneath. It was as if the falling skin was just a layer of harmless dust.

If you want to deal with this powerful enemy, you must use all your strength.

"Next, I'm going to go all out," Thomas said.

He charged forward.

Steel Soul Secret Technique: Shrinking the Earth.

Although it cannot reach the speed of "time standing still", it is still very fast.

The high priest seemed to sense something, his eyes flashed, and countless flames surged out from the sea of ​​fire in front of him, turning into flaming meteors that shot towards Thomas.

He himself, relying on the blast of air, moved backwards as quickly as if flying, putting distance between him and Thomas. His speed was no less than that of a shrinking earth.

The flaming meteor struck Thomas, burning his body and carbonizing his skin and flesh... before falling to the ground in harmless ash.

Thomas had already activated his divine power.

This effect occurs because the supernatural healing effect of the divine power and the lethal effect of the flames cancel each other out.

It seemed that Thomas charged forward unscathed, braving the flames.

But he himself knew that his divine power was being consumed rapidly.

The opponent's attack is unlimited, but his divine power is limited.

Thomas changed direction midway, no longer chasing the chief priest, but rushing towards a Muslim monk.

He was a young man who had just been a loyal spectator, but he did not expect the disaster to come suddenly.

The sword flashed, and Monk Mu Hu's head and body were separated.

There were almost thirty more balls of divine power on top of the damaged divine nature.