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!!!?
Divinity?
So it wasn’t that… but divinity?
Shiallia felt her face rapidly heating up. She now wished she could find a hole to crawl into. Especially when she saw Siamorphe’s confused gaze, she felt even more like an idiot…
“What was I thinking just now?”
Help.
Shiallia now just wanted to quickly leave this place, this embarrassing place. If possible, she even wanted to move to another place… and run away overnight.
The determined Shiallia jumped up from the ground, covered her face, and ran toward her room.
“I’m leaving.”
Siamorphe reached out to stop her, and then she just stared blankly as she quickly disappeared…
By the time Shiallia had completely disappeared from the palace, Siamorphe’s expression suddenly changed, from confusion to shyness and helplessness.
Squatting down, Siamorphe covered her flushed face and didn’t say a word for a long time.
A muttering sound came from between her fingers. She whispered, “Shiallia, you idiot…”
…
[Hahahaha!]
[This is so much fun!]
[Hahaha!]
Shelley’s figure had never completely left this place from beginning to end. He had enjoyed this very wonderful scene with satisfaction…
The kiss between the goddesses, the misunderstanding and the shame, the acting of pretending to be calm to not be embarrassed…
“It’s so happy.”
“I’m satisfied.”
Shelley and Chelsea, these two bad people, laughed and disappeared into the night.
When they appeared again, Shelley had come to the room where Salier was placed.
Although he had already obtained enough faith, this old man still had not woken up. But what was different was that this time, his chest was rising and falling, as if he were just sleeping quietly.
He lay quietly in the crystal coffin, as if he were waiting for someone to shake him awake.
Shelley sat down by the crystal coffin. He looked at him for a long time, then leaned his back against the side of the coffin and said to himself, “You’re not some Sleeping Beauty…”
“Wake up soon, old man.”
“If there’s no elder when I get married, how can that be?”
[I’m sorry.]
“It’s nothing. It’s not your fault.”
Although Shelley wanted Salier to wake up soon, he did not have the habit of blaming others.
“It’s not a mistake that should be admitted. There’s no need to take it on to comfort others.”
Salier’s soul was now complete and had recovered as before. But the problem was not in his soul itself, but in his own spirit.
Salier himself had given up the hope of living… he still maintained the thought of self-destruction, and he did not want to wake up at all. He refused to wake up.
“How long do you want me to wait?”
Leaning against Salier, Shelley gradually closed his eyes and reached out to extinguish the magic lamp in the room.
In the dark secret room, no one could see Shelley’s expression.
Perhaps… even he himself did not know.
…
For a long time after that, Shelley and their forces were gradually expanding.
The Southern Kingdoms Alliance had become a thing of the past and had completely become the Republic of Fente. And those original kings were serving as temporary grand dukes in the various provinces.
That’s right, temporary grand dukes.
Shelley had told them frankly that he would take back their power in the future. Of course, it wasn’t that no one had tried to resist, but all the people who had resisted had already become corpses…
The construction of Ir was also improving day by day. Later, even the apprentice witches of the Witches’ Coven began to feel that living in Ir was particularly comfortable and convenient.
A clean city, a neat sewer system, good public security, and also a civilized atmosphere.
The entire kingdom also gradually had no voice other than Shelley’s. Any noble who dared to resist was severely suppressed. And these remaining nobles were all sensible children who were very clear about when to speak and when not to.
During that period of time, Shelley had also kept his promise to Nadia and the others and had not gone on an adventure. He was gradually changing his identity from a pawn who ran around everywhere to a player behind the scenes.
Because he had entered the saint form, he could create three extra divine avatars. To distinguish the existence of these three, each avatar had its own distinct personality.
But Nadia and the others had only seen two avatars. One was a gentle and refined Shelley who looked elegant and easy-going. The other was a bone-chilling Shelley who always looked high and mighty.
As for the last avatar, no one had seen it, and no one knew where he had gone.
Shelley’s daily routine was to accompany the various ladies on the one hand, and on the other hand, to constantly collect all kinds of information related to the gods on the Material Plane.
In fact, in the later stages, he had already been able to determine the specific location of several gods… but he had not taken the initiative to attack.
He was like a venomous snake lurking on the Material Plane. He looked at this group of gods gradually recovering their strength with a calm gaze. He looked at them gradually walking out of their own lairs with a sarcastic gaze and beginning to show their miracles on the Material Plane.
He also just watched as many places on the Prime Material Plane began to have riots every day because of them. He just paid more attention in secret and did not take the initiative to stop them.
Because he knew… the time was not yet right.
On a certain morning, half a year after Shelley had passed his twenty-third birthday, a strange phenomenon had appeared on the Prime Material Plane.
The morning of that day had not welcomed the rising sun. Although it was already the time for the sun to rise, the sky was still a brilliant expanse of stars.
Just as the people of the material world were beginning to panic, most of the stars in the sky had dimmed for a moment, and then all the strange phenomena had disappeared in an instant, and the sky had returned to normal.
And it was on that day that Shelley, who was looking at the sky in his room, had revealed a somewhat savage smile. He had drawn the divine sword that had not been unsheathed for more than two years and had pointed it at the disappearing stars in the sky.
He said softly, “When the stars are dim, it is the day the gods descend.”
The Time of Troubles was getting closer and closer.
And this wave was the simultaneous fall of the weak and intermediate divine powers to the mortal realm.
The disaster of the material world was about to descend.
The weak gods who had recovered a certain amount of strength, compared to the weak and intermediate gods who had no divine power, were almost on the same starting line.
The chaotic situation of them competing for faith and fighting was about to begin.
“I’m going to take the initiative to attack.”
This time, Shelley planned to show his fangs. He was going to personally pull open the curtain of the Time of Troubles this time. He was going to let these gods, who regarded mortals as ants, clearly understand one thing…
Mortals can also slay gods.
He, Shelley, was a living example.
