Chapter 535: Please Heed My Command
“Divine treasure?”
The Mercury Trojan Horse suddenly pulled out a small knife. As Tamashi looked over, she cut off her own hand and tossed it into the bonfire. Her flesh melted like snow in the flames, and as the tongues of fire rose, the night seemed to halt its advance.
“It’s the treasure of the deity,” she said calmly. “You’ve been here for just a day. What impressions do you have of Senlo?”
Harvey replied, “Maggots emerging from decaying corpses. To put it nicely, it’s as if new buds sprout from old, withered branches.”
Igor added, “The environment here is extremely harsh, with external threats like the Choking Green of the night, as well as internal strife from clashes between different Demi-God ideologies.”
“A chaotic Kingdom of wasteland,” Ashe said. “You once seemed to have a glorious era. I can’t understand how you ended up like this. It’s already 1668, yet you’re still stuck in an era of war.”
“A very accurate assessment,” the Mercury Trojan Horse remarked. “For Senlo, cult holy wars are inevitable, as the ideals of the Demi-Gods are often vast, targeting even the entire Senlo populace. For instance, the Fire Cat’s ideal of ‘allowing ordinary people to wield spirits’ requires unifying Senlo first to gather everyone’s strength to tackle obstacles.”
“Senlo once had four divine eras. Starting with the Fire Cat Divine Era, sorcerers realized that holy wars were a brutal and inefficient method of competition. To address this, they created a new system of competition using the Silent Spiral: the divine fire system.”
“Through the divine fire system, they could select the Demi-God of the next era with minimal intensity, allowing the smooth transition from the Fire Cat Divine Era to the Gray Fox Divine Era. However, when the Gray Fox Divine Era encountered the ‘cataclysm,’ the divine fire system was scattered, causing Senlo to regress to the era of cult holy wars.”