Global Evolution: I Became A Zombie!-Chapter 206 - 202: Your Body Will Do
When Kais had nothing, he found his faith. Even when he had everything, his faith didn’t waver. So how did Blaze expect someone like him to abandon everything when he had finally been acknowledged by the gods?
As he stood there, Kais’s entire life flashed before his eyes. From the time he spent as an orphan scavenging for food on a battlefield, to the time he was given his name and became the leader of the Hell Raisers.
From that day onward, his faith turned absolute. It was much like how the Deca people had absolute faith in Blaze. They’d readily die if Blaze just mentioned it, and Kais was now doing the same for his own belief.
Despite all that, Kais knew the blessing had arrived too late. He knew the state of his body. Even with the blessings, he was barely holding on. His death was inevitable, but even so, he wanted to drag the heretic god to hell with him.
Although my calculations were off, with the newfound blessings, I can take him down!
Kais thought, clenching his fists before shooting towards Blaze. Blaze grabbed his fist before hitting it with his elbow. The bones in Kais’s arm visibly cracked, yet he didn’t let out a single word in pain.
It was just as Blaze thought. The Collective had merely numbed Kais’s pain receptors, but the fool thought he was invincible.
"It seems you need to be taught a lesson."
"What can a fake god like you even do to me?" Kais shot back.
Blaze didn’t bother responding. He just grabbed the arm of his nearest devotee and yanked it away. The man clutched the stump on his remaining shoulder, but didn’t object to Blaze, nor did he feel any pain.
Kais saw it and was stunned at the brutality. But before he could voice his disgust, something even stranger happened... the man’s hand grew back!
"How is this possible?" Kais questioned in bewilderment.
The arm that had been severed was still in Blaze’s possession, but a new arm had grown just like that. But the surprises weren’t over yet as Blaze created a sort of rapier from the severed arm.
If Kais had not seen it happen with his own eyes, he wouldn’t have believed it either. But it was all true. As bizarre as the scene was, the mortal was stunned because not even the saints of Solia could create such miracles.
"Look at this," Blaze scoffed, pointing the bony rapier at Kais’s crushed arm. "And then look at your arm. I gifted my devotee with a new arm without fretting over it. Your thousand gods can’t even repair your broken bones, yet I’m called the heretic god?"
Kais looked at the shattered bones in his arm, then at the arm Blaze had reconstructed out of nothing. For a moment, the question did rise in his mind about the strength of the so-called gods he followed.
But just like that, he threw those thoughts out of his mind.
Their temples had been razed, and at the same time, the God of Decay’s influence had grown a hundred times over. It was natural for his gods to be weaker than the heretic.
Blaze could feel the Kais’s mind coming up with absurd excuses, and, honestly, it was the only thing off-putting about him. His faith was so irrational that it had blinded him to everything else. Reality included.
"How foolish can you be?" he mumbled, pointing the rapier at him. "No, let me correct myself, how blind can you be? Your gods are weak. Hell, they aren’t even gods anymore, and yet you blindly believe in them? Why?"
He continued, "I promised you power, resources, unparalleled abilities. Yet you stick to your false gods like they are a part of your being."
"You want to know why?" Kais sneered. "Isn’t it straightforward? Why would I follow a soon-to-be-dead being? I will kill you and cleanse this world of your accursed presence once and for all."
Blaze swung the rapier at Kais, but he didn’t back down. Instead, he sacrificed his broken arm to take the hit. The rapier pierced through his arm, but as it did, Kais clamped onto its blade with his other hand.
Before Blaze could react, he snapped the sword in half. As the tip fell to the ground, Kais kicked it towards Blaze. The latter instinctively dodged the broken tip of the sword, but it was just what Kais wanted.
Blaze turned around, only for Kais to grab his throat and slam him into the ground. The mortal’s grip tightened around Blaze’s neck, threatening to crush him.
The devotees took a step towards Kais, only for Xilo to stop them.
He knew their god the best. If they then intervened, their god would kill them first, before targeting the non-believer.
Blaze’s mouth fell open, his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets, and even his ’breathing’ grew ragged. The reaction egged Kais on to put more strength in his grip and choke the heretic god to death.
Just when victory seemed to be within his reach, Blaze smiled at him.
"Really? This was the best you could do?" He scoffed, effortlessly pulling Kais’s arms off his neck. "I am a god, you stupid bitch."
Kais kept struggling, but Blaze’s tendrils wrapped around him before holding him up with his limbs pulled apart. Kais couldn’t believe that the one he was on the verge of defeating had been hiding his true strength all this time.
"Enough fighting like a mortal," Blaze mumbled as more tendrils shot out of his body, forming a throne under him. "If I wanted to take you forcefully, I would have done so from the beginning. Alas, you left me no other choice—"
Kais spat on his face before Blaze was done speaking.
"You’ll never have my loyalty! NEVER!"
Blaze wiped the spit off his face, looked straight into Kais’s eyes, and smirked.
"Very well. Then I shall have your body."
