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This is the legendary... Ascending the Divine Steps.

Once you climb this staircase and reach the end of the vortex in the sky, you will arrive at the Void God Realm and ascend from a mortal being to a god.

Madness and the joy of impending revenge nearly consumed Beverly's vision. She climbed onto the wall, which to others looked like she was standing precariously on the edge of a tower.

Just as she was about to stretch out her foot and take her first step on the illusory staircase in mid-air, a light and gentle voice suddenly appeared.

"If I were you, I wouldn't go up there."

The sound wasn't loud, but it was like a gentle breeze piercing through a curtain of rain, clearly and accurately reaching Beverly's ears.

Beverly was momentarily stunned, only to see the illusory staircase connecting to the sky ripple like water and quietly disappear.

Her front foot was already in mid-air; if she leaned forward even slightly, she would fall from the tower like a leaf in the wind and crash to the ground.

"……Why?"

Beverly's eyes widened.

She wasn't terrified of having just brushed with death; instead, she was filled with astonishment.

Why did the long staircase leading to godhood suddenly disappear?

The clouds that had gathered in the sky and formed a vortex were gradually dissipating, and the dark hole at the center of the vortex was slowly closing.

"no, do not want……"

Beverly was stunned.

Why did her ascension ceremony suddenly end before it even began?

The divine realm... the void... the ascending staircase to godhood...

These things are like a dream, appearing only for a moment before vanishing into an unattainable bubble.

"Why!??"

Beverly was almost in a daze, kneeling on the wall, completely devoid of the arrogant demeanor she had just displayed.

All that remained was bewilderment and confusion.

“I had the privilege of witnessing another initiation ceremony, and compared to that performance, yours was rather rudimentary.”

That light and melodious voice appeared again.

Beverly then realized what was happening and looked in the direction of the sound.

At the foot of the tower, among a crowd of prostrate believers, a petite figure draped in a black cloak stood quietly in the center of the crowd.

"who are you?"

“I have quite a few titles, listing them all would take too much time.” The figure removed her hood, revealing a beautiful and lovely face, and silver hair that cascaded down like a waterfall in the wind and rain. “However, you can just call me Miss Ella.”

“Ella…Haviel?” Beverly was stunned for a moment, then exclaimed in shock and anger, “It’s you!”

“If you recognize me, that makes things easier.” Ella smiled slightly. “Former Archbishop of the Ocean Sanctuary in Stormport, Miss Beverly Shelley. You used dark magic to bewitch the common people, incited riots, and organized cult rituals. Please come down from there and come with me to the sanctuary.”

"Are you kidding me?" Beverly's voice trembled. "I...I'm going to become a god...!"

“You’ve tried everything, haven’t you? It won’t work.” Ella spread her hands. “From the very beginning, your ritual was destined to fail.”

"To ascend to godhood, one needs a divine kingdom, divine people, and authority that symbolizes divinity. You may have believers and authority, but where is your divine kingdom?"

"Don't you understand yet?"

"You are merely a bewitched victim, a sacrificial lamb used for blasphemy."

Chapter 89 The Corrupted Bishop

“Huh…?” Beverly stood in the rain, listening to Ella’s words, her eyes wide. “You, you’re lying to me… I get it, you want to take this opportunity to seize my godhood…”

She pointed at Ella, only to realize that her hand seemed different from before.

Beverly looked at her hands in a daze, only to be horrified to discover that her hands had somehow turned into webbed toes like a frog's.

Using the puddles formed by the rain against the wall as a mirror, she saw her face covered with follicles.

Theocracy is ultimately not a convenient magical tool; even gods who use it too much in the mortal world will suffer backlash from it.

Correspondingly, the divine power required and the backlash would be enormous to convert people, who are scattered across almost the entire continent and corrupted by the Twin-tailed Fish, into believers.

It was so enormous that even a true god could not bear it.

This is why the cunning fake saintess did not personally wield the divine power of the "Fish Mother," but instead grafted it onto someone else.

In the illusion of the incomplete ascension ritual, once Beverly steps onto that false staircase, she will fall from the sky because she lacks the divine kingdom and does not meet the conditions for godhood.

As her physical body perishes, the unstable divine power bound within her soul will erupt through divine authority, corrupting all those who are defiled.

Even though Ella was cautious and stayed in the North City, and later discovered the unusual flow of people in the prison through her familiar, she arrived at the crucial moment and interrupted Bella's step of sacrificing herself.

However, divine authority had already transformed the magical power extracted from the souls of many believers into divine power, which was then gathered in Beverly's body.

Without a divine kingdom, Bevli's mortal soul could not restrain such immense divine power.

This led to her downfall.

"No, what is this!?"

Beverly scratched her face frantically, her sharpened nails piercing the follicles, and blood mixed with pus flowed down her arm.

But instead of decreasing, these disgusting things multiplied with each scratch.

Her limbs began to swell and grow large, and her originally graceful and slender body was like a balloon being blown up, her skin stretched and then collapsed, forming circles of wrinkles like tires.

The thick black robe was torn apart by the swelling flesh, and blue fish scales appeared on the pale skin. A fish tail that kept twitching and swinging grew from the lower back.

The mutated and swollen giant body instantly crushed the towering tower, and Beverly, who struggled to get up from the ruins, no longer resembled a human.

A head as large as a catfish sprang out from the billowing dust, its calf-sized pupils contracting and expanding before it opened its flat, massive mouth and let out a piercing howl.

The real "Fish Mother" appeared at this moment.

Fortunately, Ella had summoned a torrent of mud before the commotion, sweeping the prostrate believers out of the neighborhood.

The pollution caused by the unstable divine power of the Fish Mother continues to affect the surrounding believers. To stop it, we must find a way to take away this creature's divine authority.

Ella took a deep breath and faced the colossal creature that was nearly six or seven stories high. She opened her palm slightly, and tentacles that grew from the mud in her palm gradually gathered and intertwined, condensing into a pitch-black scythe.

This is the Judgment Scythe, a replica of the Holy Light spell.

The mother fish roared and clapped her hands, causing endless waves to surge out from the shattered ground, completely destroying the surrounding streets and houses.

However, the towering waves that rose from the ground could not drown that tiny figure.

Ella enhanced her physique with her beast-like abilities, and with a powerful leap, her slender legs propelled her into the air like a rocket.

A wisp of black flame flickered on the blade of the scythe she held, and with a swing, it condensed into an arc of flame.

The flame blade gradually expanded as it flew, slashing head-on at the mother fish's bloated body.

The mother fish immediately let out a scream as black flames poured onto her slippery skin, scorching a shocking char.

The enormous body immediately swung its hand again, attempting to grab Ella, whose body was suspended in mid-air.

But Ella's dexterity could not be captured by such clumsy movements.

Several tentacles sprang out from under her cloak, wrapping around the other's wrists before the webbed hand could grab them, and she flipped over the other's fingertips, lightly stepping on his arm.

Then, Ella, wearing short boots, glided down her thick, long arms as if she were water skiing, and landed directly on the mother fish's shoulder.

She swung her sickle in an arc, slashing at the giant catfish's head.

The sharp blade pierced the skin, and jet-black flames surged into the pale wound.

What gushed out was not bright red blood, but a foul-smelling liquid like deep blue seawater.

Ella's tentacles extended from under her cloak to protect her from being splashed by these things, but the slashed catfish head gradually stuck back to the body below as the blue liquid surged.

Then, the mother fish suddenly swung her upper body, and the immense force instantly flung Ella off her shoulder.

Her petite body landed on the ruins on the ground, but apart from a little dust mixed with rainwater clinging to her cloak, it was nothing to Ella.

Just when she thought the other party was going to continue pressing down with its huge body, she suddenly saw the mother fish swing its limbs and drag its long fish tail as it rushed towards the other side.

What is she going to do?

Ella's heart skipped a beat as she looked in the direction the Fish Mother had gone, where two bridges leading to the South District stood prominently.

In the northern part of the city, those who were not severely polluted or who had not joined the Pisces Society had already fled the chaotic area and moved to the vicinity of the bridge or the harbor area near the southern part of the city.

When they saw the enormous object crushing buildings and rushing towards them, they immediately panicked and fled in all directions.

The enormous female fish charged with incredible speed. With her webbed limbs, she easily tore down the buildings in her path, her body skimming the ground as she swam through the rubble and ruins, carving out a winding trench.

Ella used her enhanced beast-like body to leap and bound between rooftops, barely managing to keep up with the speed of the fish mother.

She summoned countless tough tentacles to grow from the ground and wrap around the mother fish's body, but they were easily snapped by her.

Although this thing is not a complete deity, it is ultimately the original form after being infused with divine power and undergoing a transformation.

It's like arm wrestling with a finger against a whole hand. Even though the hand is all that's left, it's still quite difficult to bend the other hand with your finger.

Ella's current feeling is somewhat similar. Her most powerful spell is a replica of the sun god's black flame, which can break through defenses but has never been able to deliver a fatal blow to this thing.

While the Earth of Life and tentacles can be summoned in unlimited quantities, they simply cannot bend this thing.

But this is not reasonable.

In Ella's vision, even if this incomplete god possessed immense divine power, without a divine kingdom, its divine power would only leak out like a leaky ball.

The ritual magic circle near the prison tower has also been destroyed by Ella. In theory, those who are corrupted will be affected by the divine power it releases, but they should not be drained of their magic power in return.

But after this exchange, instead of becoming weaker, this guy has become even more energetic.

What is replenishing its magic power?

Ella stared at the other's bulky body crawling through the town, nearing the shore, and suddenly paused, looking up at the rain-soaked sky.

Chapter Ninety: The Holy Maiden of Divine Fist

water.

Ella even felt a little slow on the uptake, realizing this only now.

This knowledge about the gods was not something Ella figured out on her own; it was mostly thanks to Ye Xiao's tireless tutelage with the little maid.

Therefore, at this time, it is not very easy to apply what one has learned to other situations.

Rainwater falling from the sky, under the control of the Fish Mother, can also be transformed into a source of magic.

The believer determines the total amount of magic this creature can manipulate, while the constant flow of water from nature replenishes the magic it consumes.

The Fish Mother does not have her own divine kingdom, but the city itself under this weather is her temporary divine kingdom.

No... there are places more suitable for it than the city in the rain.

Ella looked towards the bridge, or more precisely, the strait beneath it.

This thing doesn't seem to be very intelligent; going to the sea is probably just its instinct after its degeneration.

But the female fish that returns to the sea will likely achieve a more complete growth.

It is not a god, but it is definitely a demonic being at the level of a high-ranking saint or even a mythical being. At that time, there will be no possibility of saving the corrupted believers.

After realizing that the mother fish wanted to return to the sea, Ella naturally couldn't let it succeed.

But the mother fish was like a giant tank charging at full speed, and nothing could stop her. Ella, who had to keep jumping and dodging between rooftops, was gradually being pulled ahead.

We need to figure out a way to get that guy to stop.

[Late Night Snack: "Roaming Squad" Execution Plan Two, Location Adjusted to North City Bridge Entrance, to Ambush That Bighead Fish]

【Saintess's Dog 2015: Received】

Most of the Seven Stars Society members went to the secret tunnel beneath Wind Chaser Fortress, and only two members were actually assigned to the "Wandering Squad".

However, this does not mean that the team actually only has two people. On the contrary, in order to assist in the large-scale search, they are actually the team with the largest number of people.

Those extra people were the henchmen of the Fishermen's Guild, the largest gang in the harbor area.

From the very beginning of the plan, this squad's mission, in addition to searching, also included working with Ella to defeat the Fish Mother.

While Ella was single-handedly discovering and dealing with the Fish Mother, they also took the opportunity to concentrate the manpower that had been spread out to search for her.