Witch, Fireball and the Evil God of Steam-Chapter 964 - 211: Wish

Even Ethan couldn't help but marvel at Mary's extraordinary talent, mastering the reverse transformation ability in just half an hour. Her compatibility with Bazatous's power was so high it seemed as if she was a born follower of the Evil God, which explained why Old Ba once desperately wanted Mary under his command. Mary felt like she was back in the Crimson Epoch, with a whole city of fleshly creations waiting for her healing.

Bazatous changed his view of Mary because of this.

Old Ba couldn't bear to watch, so he and Little Dark returned to the hotel and stayed behind closed doors.

The only solace for him was that Mary didn't have the extra magic power and energy to transform the city corrupted by the reverse Goddess of Life, and there were more important missions awaiting them.

Not everything was going smoothly aside from the healing.

For instance, each citizen of the Holy City returning to human form would look at the remnants of the Crown of Dawn Cathedral still floating in the air and ask Mary that soul-searching question—who on earth destroyed the cathedral? And who devastated half of the city? Where is His Majesty Carlo now?

It was terrifying!

Facing the tricky questions posed by the Holy City citizens, Mary could only nervously evade them.

Fortunately, in the eyes of the residents, this was simply the result of her exhausting much magic power to cure and save people. The masked woman who had recently appeared in the confession room had become their prime suspect in the destruction—after all, from a logical perspective, it's hard to think that the truth about the cathedral's destruction was simply someone wielding a sword without handling the power well.

That's a bit too amateur.

When the last fleshly creation transformed completely, the sky had turned dark.

Mary wiped the sweat she instinctively didn't have as a spiritual body; even for her, a whole day of healing was mentally exhausting, yet she enjoyed it thoroughly. This was her past unfulfilled wish, unexpectedly realized at the most critical moment.

Beyond the achievement of curing the plague, she relished the joy of exploration that she hadn't felt for a while.

It was as if she had returned to her childhood when she had just joined the Life Divine Teachings, and the spells in the library were like a wild, untamed land.

After the last grateful resident left, Mary stretched lazily and relaxed completely, watching Ethan who was flipping through the Holy Scripture not far away, "You actually knew all along."

She felt Ethan was more like a true prophet compared to Pope Carlo.

Because he foresaw a much more distant future, he remained calm and composed no matter what changes occurred.

"What?"

Ethan looked up in her direction.

"Carlo was deceived, and there's the relationship between the Goddess and Bazatous."

The free exploration ended, and now Mary had to face a more thorny issue—after spending the whole day returning the transformed citizens of the Holy City to normal, the woman bearing an exact resemblance to the Goddess was nowhere to be found. Perhaps while she was healing and saving the Holy City, several more cities had been transformed by the woman.

If this were in the past, Mary felt she would have been frantic as an ant on a hot pan.

But not now.

She accepted Ethan's "humans turned into dogs after eating magic potion" theory. As long as the fleshly creations were seen as another form of life continuation, there was no need to race against time anymore—unless they faced physical destruction, their lives would span far longer than humans.

This meant she could entirely plan the healing and saving mission as a "decade-long plan," giving them ample time, allowing them to even tour while conveniently rescuing people.

Ethan closed the book and shook his head, "Don't confuse me with the prophet. I can't see the distant future like Mr. Carlo; I only draw conclusions based on my experiences and some simple reasoning."

"Reasoning?"

"All these years, Carlo has been collecting remains of the Goddess of Life, but even as the pope, his plan's execution seems surprisingly smooth."

So smooth it was unbelievable to Ethan, who used to be a fan of tomb-raiding novels.

Carlo didn't encounter the mythical zombies in the Goddess of Life's "tombs," nor did he face anything matching the Life Divine Teachings theme—like mad plant guardians, forest spirits, or other legendary guardians. He simply found the scattered areas where various remains were located, then sent people to set up excavation sites, using "Salvation Contribution Points" as a reward to lure local residents to work for the Church Court for free.

"I think this is more like someone selectively showed him parts of the future, then coaxed him step-by-step to unearth the sealed remains."

"...The woman exactly like the Goddess."

Mary immediately thought of the culprit behind transforming the Holy City, refusing to link the extremely evil being to the Goddess of Life.

It was merely an upgraded version of the Red King, with no resemblance to the Goddess.

Despite continuously trying to hypnotize herself into believing this, rationality forced Mary to repeatedly connect the two—just as Carlo's dying delusional utterance suggested that the Goddess of Life and even other True Gods had once removed parts of their souls from their bodies, leading to the noble faith in future generations.

So the question arises, does the part that was removed still count as the Goddess of Life?