Chapter 37 - C37 Shrine

Three days had passed since they were attacked and their building was still in ruins.

This day was the day of Plague's appointment with the architect.

Plague was wearing a black suit along with a black hat and a confident smile was plastered on his face.

During the days after they were attacked, Plague spread the fighting techniques that Allen rewarded them, which made everyone in the church busy.

The technique led them to the discovery of the usage of the faint divine energy which was generated from the seed of faithfulness.

They also noticed that the faint divine energy will become thicker along with their determination.

The faint divine energy was called faith energy, which would become divine energy when they uttered praise to Allen or when they prayed to him.

The faith energy, if not used, will become a supplement for the seed of faithfulness, which will make it grow.

Faith energy was used in the same way as spiritual energy.

Those that have a seed of faithfulness have more advantage compared to those that didn't. They could not only use spiritual energy but also faith energy for the attack.

Plague took out his hovercar and went to the agreed restaurant for their meeting with the architect.

Plague did not bother about the name of the restaurant and simply followed the navigation that Dexter provided him.

After driving for a while, Olague and Dexter restaurant.

…

Meanwhile, Allen was facing a tree in the wilderness as he was punching it bare-handed.

*punch*

He was topless with his finely toned muscles on display looking shiny because of the sweat.

He was sweating because his mortal body is yet to be altered completely. But he did not care as he was not punching the tree for no reason. He was looking for an effective way to speed up the alteration.

*punch*

He had been doing this for a whole afternoon now, but his body was still not 'sore.' Instead, he felt good. With every damage or stress to his muscles, it will be fixed by his divine energy.

*punch*

He kept punching. But strangely enough, the tree was not taking damage with every punch. It's not that he was not punching strong enough, but he was using the 'life' part of his authority.

*punch*

He was injecting life energy into the tree to compensate for the damage the three had gotten and to make it thrive vigorously.

After a while, Allen stopped and climbed the tree to admire the setting sun.

Then, he looked for a waterfall and took a bath. Allen, then, released some of his divine energy, which made the waterfall possess a sacred aura and made the beasts left the periphery of the waterfall without causing a commotion.

Although the divine energy scared them, they were not threatened by it.

Unlike demonic energy, divine energy was not destructive by nature. Unless, the divine spirit willed it to be destructive.

After Allen finished bathing, he created a barrier and isolated the waterfall from the rest of the wilderness.

Then, using his divine energy, he manipulated some of the water of the lake and formed it into pillars, which looked soft and cool.

After that, Allen also created a circular altar not too far away from the pillar and the cascading waters of the waterfall.

Then, he placed his commander's divine mark in the center of the altar. After which, he entered his inner world and collected divine energy from the divine marks, and poured it into the altar as he engraved his authority on it.

Thus, Allen created his first shrine in this era.

Shrines are usually the place where Divine Spirits reside.

Temples and shrines are usually different.

Temples are for praise while shrines are for the divine spirits. Most of the time, mortals are forbidden to enter it.

Allen looked at the shrine that he created. Although it looked beautiful, he was not satisfied. This was barely passable.

Allen took a deep breath and no longer cared about the quality of the shrine.

The shrine can gather divine energy and use it to improve itself, over time.

He stayed there till morning and left after sunset.

After he left, most of the colonel-ranked beasts that Allen controlled went to the shrine to protect it.

Supposedly, a shrine could protect itself, but since this shrine is barely passable, it couldn't.

…

Meanwhile, Thomas, Drew, and Elioenai kept going to the arena. Every time they go, they can see a vast amount of divine energy flooding towards the divine marks in their body.

But when they go back to the camp, the divine energy will flood out of their divine mark and go forth to Allen.

This put a smile on their face for they could help their Lord. They knew that divine energy was very crucial for Allen, which could help him to get strong.

Thus, they were doing all that they could to gather more divine energy. This simple action delighted Allen. And he was planning to reward the three of them.

Thomas walked towards the corner and said, "I would like to challenge the defender in ring number nine."

There were a total of one hundred rings in the arena and each of which was a deathmatch.

Besides the killings, there were other rules in the ring.

There are two roles in the ring, the challenger and the defender.

Anyone could challenge a defender, and the defender could not decline unless he had fought for five rounds. After five rounds or more, the defender could either claim the price or rest for a while before going for another round.

Whoever defeated the defender will get the prize. Usually, the defender with many wins will receive many challenges.

Then finally, a challenger could only challenge a defender with the same strength as him. For example, since Thomas' strength was below a captain, he could only challenge a defender with the strength below a captain.

"Sir, is it your first time here?" A female attendant asked.

Thomas nodded.

"Sir, please fill this out," the lady said as she showed a holographic screen.

Thomas did not waste any second and filled it up.

After a while, Thomas is already in queue and was simply waiting for the challenger to accept or not.