Defying the Fate of Beheading-Chapter 472 - 265 Mad King

"As long as it can save him, what’s the difference if I become someone else?"

Louis felt a chill in his heart.

This was a scene he could never have imagined.

He had many speculations.

He speculated that the dark side of the Love God was the mastermind behind Rudelson’s plight.

He speculated that during this period, the dark side of the Love God had already gained a clear faith and concrete form, and plotted their deaths.

But he never expected to witness the origin of the dark side of the Love God here.

"How strange... Why is this happening?"

"The dark side of the Love God was born like this."

"But why does the dark side of the Love God possess the power of the Lust?"

"I don’t understand, I really don’t understand!" 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

This completely contradicted his judgment of deities.

If a deity could be born so easily, there would have been a whole bunch of deities on the continent long ago.

But the scene before him was an undeniable reality.

Suddenly, a rift opened in the void.

The stumbling and painful Pope Tut appeared before them.

"Damn it, why is this happening? Why is this happening?"

"Oh God!"

He wept bitterly.

"What kind of desecration is this."

Pope Tut looked at the now utterly dim-eyed Xilin with a face full of sadness.

"Jianqi, I curse you, you’ve plotted another conspiracy."

He placed his trembling hands on the maid’s head, and a divine light flickered, extracting a twisted black mist.

Louis’ eyes widened.

He knew what this thing was.

It was the Abyssal Pus.

The highest-grade offering of the Abyssal Church.

In this instant, everything Xilin experienced closed a loop in his mind.

If he had to choose one god among the abyssal four deities that he loathed the most, it would be Jianqi.

This was not just his opinion.

The majority of countries on the continent loathed Jianqi far more than the other three gods.

Because Jianqi loved using schemes and plots to cause personal ruin, national turmoil, and even ethnic extinction.

The number of people who hate Jianqi is countless.

But one must also admit that Jianqi’s power is more covert compared to the other four gods.

Or rather, Jianqi’s followers are the hardest to discover.

There are even cases where they infiltrate the upper echelons of other sects.

The ability to conceal one’s power is also why Jianqi could harm so many people.

But no one expected that this time there would be two gods among the Abyssal Four working together.

A single god from the abyssal four requires a tremendous effort from any True God Church to counter.

And this is despite Star Continent not being the abyssal four’s main domain.

If two deities were to act, the God of Love Church would surely rally other churches to initiate warfare.

But this time, Jianqi’s followers concealed their power very well.

They never appeared on the battlefield between the God of Love Church and Lust.

So no one knew they had joined the battle.

Louis also had enough understanding of the Abyssal Church.

He could basically confirm one thing, which is that the Half-Demon Little Maid was most likely deliberately placed before Xilin by Jianqi’s followers.

Of course, the little maid surely wasn’t an abyssal cultist.

Jianqi never engages in such lowly schemes.

Not to mention, if the little maid was an abyssal cultist, she wouldn’t even have been able to enter the Ense Royal Family.

Recalling Jianqi’s methods, he roughly guessed something.

"I see, did they target the nobility?"

After Xilin became famous, she was harassed by many nobles.

One must know that an art master of Xilin’s beauty and top-tier influence is a prized asset even for the great nobles.

Whether as a retainer or a wife, she would move many hearts.

Out of gratitude, the little maid would certainly choose to help her master block many troubles.

And this behavior would inevitably draw the ire of some nobles.

So the maid being secretly taken away by nobles for "punishment" was something he expected.

But the issue lay here.

It’s well known that among Jianqi’s followers, quite a few come from nobility and the upper ranks of various countries.

Previously, when the little maid was driven half-mad, he and Xilin thought something unspeakable had happened.

But now it seems she was likely taken by Jianqi’s followers and forcibly infused with a large amount of Abyssal Pus, turned into a vessel for holding Jianqi’s divine power.

He had seen a similar situation.

The Hero’s Sword was polluted this way, as was the Demon King in the Underground City.

And Jianqi’s power is inherently concealed.

Without sufficient means, finding it isn’t easy.

Moreover, Jianqi’s scheme this time wasn’t just about hiding.

He was hiding the final hand of Lust.

He just didn’t know what that hand was that could turn an ordinary maid into a container for the dark side of the Love God’s power.

Wait!

It seems he’s remembered something.

He started feeling a toothache.

It was clear, the faith in the dark side of the Love God was fabricated.

It might not have even existed prior to this.

One must know that the Queen of Shadow Country, who took part of the Black Swan’s existence, could use part of the Dark Night Goddess’ faith. That came about only after the Dark Night Goddess’s death, the Shadow Country twisted its own beliefs, and inherited remnants of the Dark Night Goddess’s legacy, gaining this power purely by chance.

What makes the dark side of the Love God deserve the same?

Without the intervention of divine power, it is exceedingly difficult to naturally generate a power of belief.

Well, that is unless no deity is involved.