Chapter 180: The Spine of God, Deya who controls the power of the God of Dawn!

Deya originally thought that this secret basement would be built as complicated and mysterious as an underground palace. If he wanted to find his target, he would need to avoid many mechanisms and traps.

But when Deya really entered here, he found that this was just an ordinary basement. Apart from being spacious and having a high enough ceiling, there was nothing special about it.

The only defense is the heavy door engraved with mysterious patterns and the Holy Emblem of the Dawn.

This vast underground space is over a hundred meters long and wide, and is supported by several thick stone pillars.

What appeared in front of Deya was a three-meter-high crystal with irregular diamond-shaped surfaces, emitting warm morning light.

This crystal was floating about half a meter above the ground. On the ground below the crystal was a huge and complex ritual formation.

Deya could not tell what the specific functions of these ritual arrays were for the time being, but he was very familiar with this ritual array.

Because no matter the patterns and symbolic designs carved on it, they are telling Deya that this ceremony is related to the Dark Moon Goddess!

Deya's mind moved, and he waved his hand and used a lighting spell, making this empty underground space as bright as day.

As the light shone into Deya's eyes, he finally saw clearly that the four walls and stone pillars of the entire basement were all covered with the symbols and emblems of the Dark Moon Goddess!
After being stunned for a moment, Deya became alert again and focused his attention on the steps outside the rear door.

He didn't know whether Monroe, the president of the Inquisition, wanted to use him to open the door and then come in to seize the fruits of victory.

However, there was no movement on the stairs. It was as if Monroe wanted to make him completely reassured. His breath remained there without any movement.

"How is this going?"

Deya didn't dare to step into the ritual circle casually. He calmly asked Patricia who was sitting on his shoulder.

As a puppet with a close relationship with the Dark Moon Goddess, even if Patricia's memory is incomplete, she knows the Goddess and everything about Her better than herself.

"The person who set up this ritual array is very clever. He is using the power of the Dark Moon to steal the power of the God of Dawn!"

"Didn't the Dark Moon Goddess fall? What's the use of her power... No, even though the goddess has fallen, her power is still there!"

Deya thought that the ritual of resurrecting the dead that he used was actually stealing the power of the goddess.

This means that the Dark Moon Goddess may have fallen, or may have lost her self-consciousness, but her power still exists objectively. Anyone who knows the rituals related to the Dark Moon Goddess can obtain and use her power.

"The Dawn Church is lying. In fact, there are many books and rituals related to the Dark Moon Goddess that have been passed down and have always been kept by the Dawn Church."

Deya suddenly realized.

Even as the son of Darkmoon, Deya had never read the texts of the Darkmoon Church.

The abilities he acquired were acquired through the Enochian language, not learned from books.

At the very least, the ritual array in front of him was beyond Deya's knowledge, which meant that the person who set up this ritual array had conducted very specific and detailed research on the Dark Moon Goddess.

Before conquering the Golden City, Deya did not find any collections about the Dark Moon Church in the city. It seems that when Susaitani became independent, the separated Susaitani Church took away all the books related to the Dark Moon Goddess.

Then all the knowledge recorded in those classics was used here!

“The Susaitani Church split 450 years ago, and this third church was founded 410 years ago.

I understand now. The first Pope of Susetsei was the first to discover this mysterious crystal. He must have had the idea of ​​splitting the church at that time.

It just so happened that the Garcia family defeated the King of England, and the first Pope of Susaitani took advantage of the civil strife in England and successfully split the church! "

This also explains why there are no records about the Dark Moon Goddess in England, but there is such a strict Dark Moon ritual array in Susetani!
So the question now is, what exactly is this crystal that made the first Pope risk his own life and consider splitting.

"You are the chosen one of Dark Moon, Deya, don't worry. This ritual will not affect you in any way. Just go ahead."

When she came in front of this mysterious crystal, Patricia was no longer as impatient as before, and her voice was calm and composed.

Deya trusts Patricia very much and believes that she would not murder him. Their souls are connected, which is why Patricia can die for him.

He took a deep breath and walked among the strange patterns engraved on the ground.

Just as Patricia said, this unknown ritual, when Deya stepped into the ritual site, the lines on it twisted a little, but there was no other reaction.

Deya could even feel that these patterns and lines seemed to be welcoming him.

Deya remained calm and quickly walked to the three-meter-tall crystal.

Faced with this mysterious crystal, Deya was cautious not to touch it directly, but just observed it.

The crystal is non-transparent, and its irregular surface reflects a faint glow and the warm and gentle power of morning light.

"Is this using the opposition between Dark Moon and Dawn to indirectly manipulate the power of Dawn through the ritual of the Dark Moon Goddess?"

This was the only possibility Deya could think of.

Even if the Dark Moon Goddess falls, her power will instinctively fight against the power of the Dawn.

Patricia nodded first, then shook her head: "The morning light and the dark moon are opposites and unity. The morning light represents the day, and the dark moon represents the night. Only when the two are combined, they form a complete whole."

Deya's mind moved, and he asked, "So the Dark Moon Goddess will fight against the Dawn Goddess? Both sides want to obtain the other's power to make themselves complete?"

"You can understand it this way, Deya, take out the 'divine thing' of the corrupt god."

Deya took out a small glass bottle from his arms.

"And then? You want me to sprinkle the contents on this crystal?"

Deya asked, shaking the sticky liquid in the bottle.

"Yes, that's what we have to do. The person who got this crystal doesn't know that this crystal is actually a protective shell that protects the things inside.

To open this protective shell, you need a divine object. Not to mention how difficult it is to obtain a divine object, even if you get one, who would dare to use a divine object to attack this crystal?"

Patricia's tone was mature and calm, and there was a hint of anticipation in her scarlet eyes.

"You are right. Even if I get this crystal and a divine object at the same time, I will not do this."

Deya opened the lid of the glass bottle, and an addictive fragrance overflowed from the bottle.

He carefully aimed the mouth of the bottle at the mysterious crystal and let the sticky liquid pour out of the bottle.

The viscous liquid fell onto the surface of the crystal like a drop of oil falling into a cauldron of raging flames.

There was a sizzling sound of burning all over the surface of the crystal, and even a faint smoke came out.

What happened next was different from what Deya had imagined. He thought that this crystal would release a more powerful force of dawn.

However, things developed in the opposite way. The morning light on the surface of the crystal gradually faded and retracted into its interior.

The entire crystal also changed from a luminous state to a non-luminous state.

Deya once again stood up and looked at the heavy door carefully, fearing that Monroe would break in at this time.

Patricia comforted him, "Don't worry, this ritual array won't hurt you, but if that person comes in, he will be devoured by the power of the dark moon here and will surely die."

Hearing this, Deya was completely relieved.

The crystal, which reached a height of three meters, began to rotate rapidly and its size began to shrink.

The power of the Dark Moon Goddess, which was looming around, seemed to have sensed something and began to fluctuate violently, but because Deya was standing here, the power of the Dark Moon was very obedient and there were no other unnecessary changes.

When the crystal shrank to about one meter in height, Deya no longer had to look up at it.

"Click————"

Cracks appeared on the surface of the crystal. Under Deya's nervous and expectant gaze, the cracks grew bigger and bigger until they completely shattered!

"This is?!"

The thing protected by the crystal was finally exposed to Deya's eyes. He was stunned and subconsciously took a step back.

The crystal protects a young girl, or to be more precise, only the upper body of the girl!

The girl in front of him was floating in the air, with her head lowered. Her indescribably noble golden hair fell like a waterfall, half covering her snow-white and plump body.

He has no limbs, and the part where the hands and legs are connected is a complete cross-section. There is no flesh or blood tissue on that cross-section, but it is pure white.

If I have to describe it, Deya can only say that it looks like a pure half-body mold of a woman!

There was a soft and gentle glow of morning light on the woman's skin.

Deya could not describe His beauty.

Even though His upper body was naked, His slender waist, plump roundness, and even the pale cherry lips were all revealed to Deya's eyes.

But Deya couldn't even feel any romantic emotions in his heart. Only a faint sense of holiness and purity soothed his complicated emotions, even making Deya doubt whether he had lost his ability as a man.

This is a completely opposite feeling from Mavis's charm. It is as if looking at the woman in front of you will only make you eliminate all the negative emotions in your heart.

"He is the Goddess of Dawn?!"

The blonde girl who possesses the power of the dawn, the only person Deya can think of is the fallen goddess of the dawn!
Although he was startled, Deya quickly calmed down.

The Dawn Goddess in front of him should be 'dead', otherwise she would not have been able to produce mysterious crystals to protect herself, and she would not have been used by the Dawn Church for so long without any reaction.

Deya finally understood how the Dawn Church of Susetani issued false oracles and brought about divine punishment!

They used the corpse of the Goddess of Dawn!
Of course, the Dawn Church probably didn't know that this was the corpse of God. They simply mistook the crystal for something belonging to the Dawn Goddess and never imagined that inside the crystal was the corpse of God.

After knowing that the girl in front of him with her head lowered and only the upper body exposed was the Goddess of Dawn, Deya's curiosity increased greatly.

What does the Goddess of Dawn look like?

Whether it is the Dawn Church or the Dark Moon Church, the face of the goddess is always blurred on the statue, making it impossible to see the true face of God.

Perhaps sensing Deya's thoughts, Patricia said quietly, "This is just the corpse of a god. It's not very dangerous. You can go and satisfy your curiosity."

Patricia's words made Deya take a step forward boldly. He slowly stretched out his hand, and his fingers little by little approached the body covered by gorgeous golden hair.

This is true blasphemy!
Deya's fingertips first touched the goddess's golden hair, which was as soft and smooth as silk. He then gently parted the hair that hung from her snow-white shoulders, revealing the goddess's true face.

She was a beautiful girl with delicate and noble features, although her eyes were closed and her sparkling eyes could not be seen.

But just seeing those harmonious and delicate features made Deya think of the girl's youthful vigor. Then Deya remembered that in the records, the goddess of dawn was also called the 'eternal girl'.

Now that he has seen the true face of God, Deya feels that this title is really correct. Even if it is a corpse that has lost its breath, it still gives people a strong sense of girlishness.

Deya curiously pressed the cheek of the Goddess of Dawn with his fingers again. Her skin was delicate and soft as jelly, and there was a faint blood color on her snow-white skin, as if she was just sleeping and not losing her life.

Deya did not continue to desecrate God's body, mainly because in front of such a beautiful naked girl, he had no desire as a man, only the purest emotions, which should be the influence of divine power.

At this moment, Patricia suddenly turned her wrist, and a slightly curved short blade appeared in her hand, like a moon!
This broken blade looks like both the bone of a living creature and metal. It is dark blue in color. On the short blade are the holy emblem of the Dark Moon Goddess and mysterious runes.

When Deya saw the short blade, he was startled, thinking that Patricia was angry because she saw her enemy and wanted to torture the corpse.

To be honest, when Deya saw the corpse of the Goddess of Dawn, his first thought was: Can this corpse be used?
Of course, it’s not that kind of usage. Deya is not that perverted.

As a necromancer, being able to see the corpse of God is definitely the happiest thing in life.

Although Deya himself estimated that with his strength, it was impossible for him to really transform the god's corpse into his own power, the gap between the two was too big.

"Patricia, what are you doing?"

"All the strength of this corpse is concentrated in the spine. Deya, this knife is enough to hurt the body of God. You are a necromancer and should know how to perform an autopsy. Go and take out His spine."

Patricia's tone was calm and indifferent.

Deya looked at Patricia silently and asked, "What did your memory recall?"

The puppet girl smiled softly: "After seeing this corpse, I remembered some things. Go and take out His spine. It will bring you unimaginable benefits!"

Deya took the dagger that Patricia handed to him and played with it in his hand. Apart from its unique appearance, the knife looked very ordinary and he could not feel any power from it.

Although he didn't know what Patricia was going to do, since she said so, Deya was ready to do it.

He didn't know how to use the body of God, but judging from what Patricia said, she knew how to use Him!

Deya walked behind the upper body of the Goddess of Dawn. On her beautiful white back, he could see the slightly raised shape of the spine.

God's body is flawless, and the ultimate curve at the waist is simply the most perfect curve for a woman.

But Deya had no desire. He held the short blade in his hand, and the sharp tip of the sword gently cut along the angle of the spine.

No blood flowed out, it was like a dagger scratching on silicone, making Deya feel even more that the goddess in front of him was simply a product of inverted membrane.

The pale spine in the flesh appeared in Deya's sight. He didn't know what this short blade was made of. He just applied a little force, and the god's skin was cut open, and the bones connecting the spine were also cut off.

Deya's right hand reached deep into the flesh and blood, grasped the god's spine, and then with a little force, he pulled the spine out of the body!

In an instant, Deya felt that countless consciousnesses were connected to his sea of ​​consciousness through his spine.

Sad or happy lives, scenes of prayers and countless words appeared in Deya's mind.

If these images and sounds had not been transmitted to his mind through his spine, Deya's consciousness and soul would probably have been overwhelmed by the huge sounds and images.

“Is this…the believer’s prayer to God and the believer’s life?”

From those words and pictures, Deya immediately guessed what they were.

He looked at the god's spine in his hand. It looked like a bone sword and a mysterious staff!

“Although Dawn has fallen, his body is still passively accepting faith and instinctively responding to believers.

The Dawn Church of Susetani accidentally discovered this secret and tried to influence this mechanism to control the gift of God. "

Patricia sat in mid-air and spoke calmly.

Is this why the Susaitani Church controls the production of priests in England? They use the power of God to prevent England from accepting God's gift, so that the number of priests is decreasing.

"What is the use of faith? Do gods need faith to live?"

Deya asked again.

Although according to Deya's analysis, the god of this world is not a pure god of faith, but that is ultimately just his own guess, and it is far less clear than asking the person involved directly.

Deya already knew Patricia's identity, and Patricia probably knew it all herself, but the two of them kept it to themselves and didn't say anything about it.

The puppet girl smiled and said, "The power of God has nothing to do with faith. Even if all of His believers are killed, God will not be harmed.

Faith is more like a coordinate for God. This coordinate guides the direction for God. Even if God dies, he can be resurrected through this coordinate, but it is very difficult. "

After a pause, she continued, "...As for the nine true gods, if they lose their faith in the divine world, they will lose their way and will no longer be able to find the physical world."

Deya thought for a moment, and he understood.

Faith is neither important nor unimportant to God. Even without believers, God is still God.

However, after losing his believers, God no longer has the ability to influence the material world. God is indeed still alive, but from a mortal's perspective, a God that cannot influence oneself is no different from not existing.

Deya looked at the spine of the god held in his hand. He could feel the faith of the Dawn followers through this spine, but he couldn't figure out how to influence the faith through this spine.

It took hundreds of years for the Church of the Dawn in Susetani to be able to use this ability. Even though Deya discovered the essence of this power, he found it difficult to figure out how to use it for a while.

Secondly, as the chosen one of the Dark Moon Goddess, Deya did not think he could control this item related to the Goddess of Dawn.

Well, let’s just treat this section of the god’s spine as an object.

“Don’t think of it as the morning light, but think of it as the dark moon.”

Patricia suddenly said at this time.

Deya held the tightly connected bone staff in his hand and asked, "What do you mean?"

"I've said before that the relationship between Dawn and Dark Moon is both contradictory and unified. They are complementary. As the chosen one of Dark Moon, your body is partially composed of Dark Moon's divine power.

You can imagine the morning power in this spine as dark moon power, and then try to use them. "

Patricia explained the method to Deya in detail.

Deya's heart moved, he closed his eyes, and immersed himself in his mind.

As a wizard, emptying one's mind and meditating is the most basic ability. He soon used meditation to communicate with the morning light power contained in the 'God's Spine' with the power of the spirit.

When his spirit began to have a vague connection with that power, Deya quickly began to use his mental power to associate it, imagining the power of the morning light into the power of the dark moon.

Then Deya was pleasantly surprised to find that this could actually be done.

The power of morning light, which was not large in amount but extremely strong, actually changed in his imagination, as if the morning light and the dark moon were one from the beginning!
In the state of meditation, Patricia's voice came again:

"Divine power has no attributes. It is the cognition of God. The reason why God is God is because God recognizes himself as this part of divine power. Therefore, God becomes part of the rules and controls this authority.

Theoretically, the power of Dawn can be converted into the power of any other authority, but because it now has the attribute of 'Dawn', the conversion is very troublesome.

But Dawn and Dark Moon are two sides of the same coin. If you convert the power of Dawn into the power of Dark Moon, it will be effortless."

Patricia's scarlet eyes looked at the complicated ritual array patterns in the basement again and said:
"The purpose of this ritual is to use the opposition between Dawn and Dark Moon, and to mobilize the power of Dark Moon to wear away Dawn's divine power. Divine power is chaotic and cannot be controlled by mortals. The confrontation between Dark Moon and Dawn can reduce the uncontrollability of divine power.

Then, using the unity of Dawn and Dark Moon, and using the rituals of Dark Moon to indirectly control Dawn, she gained control of the goddess power of Dawn.

The person who uses this ritual may not understand the nature of the gods, but he has undoubtedly explored this method through experiments over a long period of time and noticed the compatibility between the morning light and the dark moon.

I also have to admit that this is something that only a resilient and talented person could do without knowing anything.”

Patricia's words of emotion echoed in Deya's mind, and at this time Deya had already recognized the power of dawn as the power of dark moon.

Therefore, as the son of Dark Moon, he can completely control this power!
The belief in the Dawn on this continent is connected to Deya, and within that vast belief, there is also a part of the belief belonging to the Dark Moon Goddess.

However, the beliefs of Dark Moon were very shallow, and were probably the same beliefs that he had spread in the town of Zomlit.

As a human being, Deya now completely accepts the beliefs of the Goddess of Dawn and the Goddess of Dark Moon!
This section of the god's spine is like a receiver and transfer station.

Through this piece of spine, Deya can manipulate this part of faith like a god, and even grant those who have faith the power to become priests!
He does not have the power of God, but he has mastered the "gift" of God!
“So that’s how it is. Because the gods have fallen, the total amount of power of the Goddess of Dawn will no longer increase. The power of priests does not come entirely from gods.

Divine power is only the seed of the priest. The priest's power comes from his own faith. The corpse of the Goddess of Dawn is instinctively converting faith, cultivating more believers for herself, thus guiding the path of His resurrection.

The devout believers who were sacrificed by Kirkadi II before had their power of faith forcibly extracted in a violent way, thereby releasing all the divine power nurtured by the power of faith, forming a divine punishment. "

Deya finally understood how Kirkadi II's divine punishment was used, and why he used sacrifice.

Because he can only turn the faith of those believers into real power through sacrifice.

The church leaders, the crusaders, the devout fanatics, these people had the strongest faith, so the Pope sacrificed them all!

And now, Deya, who controls the Spine of God, can even be said to have become the human incarnation of the God of Dawn. He can grant any Dawn believer the ability to become a priest. Then he is the God of Dawn!

Patricia said calmly, "The body is not complete. It was divided into five parts, and the one here is only one of them.

I will give you a task, to find the lost limbs. Before you find a complete body, I will lend you this power temporarily."

Deya licked his lips and asked tentatively, "Why borrow? Can't I use the corpse of God to usurp His power and become the true God of Dawn?"

He even thought about whether he could transplant the spine into his own body.

Patricia said with a half-smile: "Don't be too greedy, Deya, gods will not die easily. You control this part of the power of the Dawn, which also means that you have become the body of the Dawn's resurrection.

If it weren't for the contract between you and me, and if I hadn't blocked His will, you wouldn't have been able to control this part of the power of Dawn so easily.

If you really want to be God, I don’t know if it’s possible, but I think you have a better goal, one that I can help you with.”

Deya also calmed down at this time. He was just a five-ring necromancer. If becoming a god was really that easy, there would already be a bunch of gods in this world.

Greed is the original sin, and you must restrain yourself.

"What goal?"

he asked again.

Patricia said softly:

"The Silent Chanter, the God of the Undead, half of Him is God's essence, which is under my control. Instead of coveting the power of the Dawn, it is better to find a way to pull Him off the throne. This will be revenge!"

(End of this chapter)