HBWnovel Chapter Vol. 3 Ch. 161
Chapter Vol. 3 Ch. 161
Incredible. She could actually sense everything within the divine realm simultaneously, every living being on the Sky Island, every blade of grass, all within Violet’s consciousness.
The world seemed to have become her hands, as if at her whim, she could instantly kill any target with precision down to the individual, or even resurrect any traces of the deceased.
She could easily reverse the flow of rivers and mountains, flip the floating islands, reverse the direction of gravity, seemingly capable of anything within the realm of the divine realm.
She could clearly “see” Edwina, who was currently fighting alongside the Human United Kingdom’s guards, pushing back the Abyssal Beast suppressed by the 【Radiance of the Holy Light】, as well as Felina coordinating relief efforts and dispatching aid, and Theresa, busy taking care of the injured. She could see the Feathered Emperor Estini and the High Priest Estila, who had already left the Sky Temple and begun overseeing the overall situation.
She also saw Lucas and the half-dragon Rosa, who had already broken out of the temple’s range but were still engaged in intense combat in the air. If she wished, she could probably make either side victorious immediately.
Incredible. Was this what it felt like to be a deity?
Just then, in the midst of the confrontation, the divine realm of life and withering finally shattered completely. The last plant turned to ashes under the light, and the figure of Seth, the Goddess of Earth, fell from the void in the next instant, tumbling in the air for a few rounds before stabilizing.
She didn’t appear to have any obvious external injuries, but compared to before the battle with the little dragon girl. Violet, whose senses had been infinitely magnified by the divine realm, could notice a significant and genuine decline in Seth’s aura.
This wasn’t surface-level or physical damage. In truth, it was an inevitable trauma inflicted upon the divine soul that bore the essence of the divine rank during the collision of divine realms.
For a deity, this was truly a difficult injury to easily recover from. If described in terms of the techniques from [Illusory World], it would be like depleting one’s SP, or even lowering the maximum value.
The battle of the divine realms was so fierce, and Seth was only manifesting a divine realm driven by incomplete divine ranks, the backlash she suffered would be even more severe.
“............”
If it were at the beginning of the battle, Violet might have mocked Her a few times, but now, with absolute victory in her grasp, watching the goddess, who seemed crestfallen and complex-faced, she found herself devoid of the desire for lengthy speeches.
Or perhaps, it was just the sense of omnipotence bestowed by the manifestation of the divine realm that had caused a slight change in the priestess’s mood at this moment.
“It seems you’re determined to treat us as some kind of oddities. Since that’s the case, there’s nothing much to explain. I just ask you, why did you let the created beasts slaughter the life on Earth? Why destroy the Sky City?”
“Why?”
As if hearing an especially ridiculous question, the sarcasm at the corners of Seth’s mouth grew even thicker.
“I am a god, the Goddess of Earth. At least half of the life in this world is directly related to me! The seeds I sow, if they’re needed, I can harvest them however I want. Would a farmer wait for the crops to ripen before harvesting them, or would they let them wither and die on their own?”
“.........”
Similar answers, Violet had already heard once in the illusion on the Abyssal Island. She had thought there might be some hidden agenda, that Sethlin, this Goddess of Withering, was doing this for some more specific purpose, just like Rebecca did in the beginning.
But in reality, on Seth’s face, she couldn’t see any traces of lies or deceit. This was the opponent’s true thoughts, the true purpose.
Harvesting life, using the special connection between Abyssal Beasts – the created beasts, and the divine beings, to make up for the deficit caused by Seth’s thousand-year-long seal. Perhaps it was also because of Sethlin’s mention of “the world’s malice” that she didn’t act recklessly before reaching the divine rank.
She truly saw all life in the world as harvestable food.
This wasn’t simply good or evil. In the eyes of mortals, this Goddess of Withering was a heinous criminal, but perhaps from her own perspective, it was just a reasonable use, much like how people store emergency food at home and only eat it when necessary.
Perhaps Seth didn’t even consider it as “harming.”
However, even with divinity and a divine realm, as a member of the pantheon recognized by the world, Violet still couldn’t condone this behavior. Divinity was never a reason for slaughter.
“Well... at least the world rejecting you seems quite appropriate. This world is not your sandbox, Seth. You’re too arrogant, and it’s this arrogance that makes you enemies everywhere you look, just like it did a thousand years ago, and still does today.”
“So, it’s better to stop deceiving yourself, and stop blaming everything on the world. That will only make you look weak.”