“Hehe! I’m only being polite for a while, and you thought that was real? I wouldn’t stand on ceremony with you!”
Ol’ Amos chuckled, then he stared at Meng Lei suddenly. “Oh yeah, how powerful are you exactly? Have you become a deity? You should be a deity now, right?”
Meng Lei shook his head and replied honestly, “No, I’m not a deity yet.”
Had he become a deity?
Not really!
He had neither ignited the divine fire nor had he formed divinity yet, much less establishing a divine nation.
Thus, he really wasn’t a deity.
He only had the divine spirit and physique of an intermediate deity.
“Not a deity yet?” Ol’ Amos stopped for a moment. “You could kill pinnacle-level half-deities like Chicas instantly. How are you not a deity yet? This can’t be!”
“Ol’ Amos, why would I lie to you?” Meng Lei said helplessly, “I’m indeed not a deity, just that my physique is slightly stronger.”
“You’re really not a deity?”
Ol’ Amos frowned and stared at Meng Lei.
“I’m really not!” Meng Lei answered seriously.
“Freak! You’re such a freak possessing such strength without being a deity yet!” Ol’ Amos’ brows drew together tightly. “But, since you’re not a deity yet, that spells trouble!”
“Trouble?”
Meng Lei raised an eyebrow.
“You’ve killed four Red-Cloaked Archbishops. Given the Light Church’s style of avenging the dead, they will not let you off easily! We can only await the Light Church’s savage retaliation!”
Meng Lei smiled faintly. “They’re just the Light Church. You don’t have to be worried, Ol’ Amos. If they dare to come, I’ll just destroy them with a snap of fingers.”
“Destroy them with a snap of a finger?” Ol’ Amos let out a wry laugh and continued. “You must be ignorant to be fearless. The Light Church is far more powerful than what you could imagine. They’re not something we can compete with!”
“...”
Chapter 286: The God of Magical Beasts, The Graveyard of Gods And Demons
The Light Church’s headquarters was located on the Holy Mountain of Light. The whole mountain was made of light-elemental elemental crystals and gave off a pure and tranquil sacred glow.
The Shrine of Light stood towering atop the sacred mountain.
Currently at the Shrine of Light...
Dressed in a pope’s cassock, Pope Hayes stood in front of an enormous Goddess of Light statue as he prayed piously.
“Your Holiness!”
Four Red-Cloaked Archbishops wearing looks of immense fury on their faces suddenly entered the hall.
The pope paid them no attention and continued to pray piously instead. At the sight, the four Red-Cloaked Archbishops refrained from interrupting him any further and waited quietly.
It was only when the pope finished his prayers a moment later that he finally spoke. He asked, “Didn’t you go to the Kroc Kingdom? Why are you back so quickly?”
As it turned out, the four Red-Cloaked Archbishops were actually Archbishop Chicas and the other three that Meng Lei had just killed. However, the ones currently in the shrine were their alternate divine incarnations instead.
“Something terrible has happened, Your Holiness!”
Archbishop Chicas gnashed his teeth, trying to suppress his fury as he recounted what had happened.
In the end, he even added, “Not only has that wicked heretic dishonored our great Lord, but he has also shown no respect for the Light Church. We must punish him severely for that, Your Holiness!”
“That’s right, Your Holiness! That heretic is deeply mired in sin and wicked beyond redemption. We must burn him alive at the stake so as to serve a warning to the world!”
“There’s that bastard Amos, too. He’s hidden his cultivation prowess too deeply. To think he’s already actually secretly established a divine nation and stepped into the realm of a true god. His intentions should be punishable by death!”
The other three Red-Cloaked Archbishops also spoke up one after another, their speech filled with fury and hate. They practically hated Meng Lei with every fiber of their being for destroying their half-deity divine incarnations, causing their many years of painstaking cultivation to go up in smoke.
Pope Hayes listened to them quietly. Only when the four Red-Cloaked Archbishops were done did he slowly ask, “Do any of you know that young man?”
“No, we’ve never seen him before.”
Chicas and the others shook their heads repeatedly. “We’re well aware of all the experts on the whole continent who are half-deities or stronger. However, that young man is the only one whom we’ve never heard of or seen before. Had he not been acquainted with Amos, I’d even have thought that he had popped out of thin air!”
“Not only have you not seen him before, but he’s also acquainted with Amos...”
Pope Hayes said leisurely, “If my guess is right, that expert that appeared out of the blue likely also comes from Heaven’s Vault Continent like Amos himself.”
“Heaven’s Vault Continent?”
The four Red-Cloaked Archbishops were taken aback for a moment.
“You may not know this, but there are a total of three continents in the material plane that we’re on. They are the Light Continent that we’re in, Heaven’s Vault Continent in the east, and the Gods-Demons Continent in the southeast.”
Pope Hayes said softly, “The three continents form a triangle in the Endless Oceans. Dozens of millions of kilometers separate one continent from another, and they rarely interact with one another.”
His words stunned the four Red-Cloaked Archbishops, and they stared at Pope Hayes in disbelief.
“There are actually three continents on this existential plane? That’s simply too shocking a piece of news!”
“Heaven’s Vault Continent! Gods-Demons Continent!”
“How unbelievable!”
“How incredible!”
“This information is top secret in the Light Church. Only the Popes, the Holy Sons, and the Holy Maidens of each generation qualify to be privy to it.”
“In that case, isn’t it quite
