Chapter 542: Finding The Masterminds Behind It

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After the massacre was done, all the monsters quickly rushed back to the split soul's Divine Realm,  the split souls were given offerings by their tamed and summoned monsters, large fragments of the Heroic Gods souls, which were still somewhat alive, twitching in agony, so they quickly finished them off and ate them.

The two already knew that the monsters had gained the power to eat Gods to an extent, although it wasn't the same as their Soul Devour, as the core of the soul within the Heroic Gods remained, what they ate was the outer layer of the soul, which formed naturally by soul-only entities such as Divine Beings like Heroic Gods.

The core of their soul resembled twitching pieces of soul, with a glowing crystal-like substance of the concentrated power of the Gods. Although some of the monsters gained some skills related to the Gods they ate, which was due to their growing divinities assimilating part of the Heroic Gods divinities, it wasn't as if they ate the gods completely, as most of them ended regurgitating them, or some only ate little chunks around their cores, which they were not able to digest.

The split souls fused and gobbled the Heroic Gods core areas of their divine souls, gaining a little boost of power, nothing really big, to be honest, but it was better than nothing.

(Veronica & Ervas)

Ding!

[You acquired [Divinity: Heroic God]

[Divinity: Heroic God] has been integrated into the [Goddess]/[God] Skills!]

[You gained 1.200.000 System Points!]

[You gained +2.000.000 Divine Energy, +1.000.000 Aether, +800.000 Ki, and +500.000 Fate!]

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Ervas and Veronica received a nice little boost to their stats after eating this dozen of Heroic Gods, who perhaps used to be some important figures of the past, Heroes praised by the people or whatever, although they were all also sick genocides…

This was because when the two browsed through their memories, they easily realized that most of their great achievements involved slaughtering countless innocent beast-kin and demon-kin, and even villages of elves ad dwarves… So they had it well-deserved at the end.

After all, they were "heroes" for the humans in Bestellen Empire, not for the rest of the world.

Ervas and Veronica cleansed their hands as they quickly decided to move on to other things. Now that the Bestellen Empire had found them living here… unless they wanted the people here to ultimately suffer, they would need to do something over it.

However, the Empire was incredibly far away, they would usually take days to come, so perhaps these paladins came here after weeks, which was enough time for the two to prepare themselves and quite possibly slaughter any army they could possibly send anyways. They had grown too attached to this please to leave it as it is, and they were going to protect it.

Ervas quickly used Panoptic Vision to detect the surroundings, and seeing that there wasn't anything odd, the two split souls decided to move into Allan's house to do some little things…

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Meanwhile, within a large residence, an old man and a young-looking elf boy spoke the current events.

"To think that Vladimir and the Vampires would be defeated so easily… But now that the Bestellen's Empire reinforcements had finally arrived, they should be able one way or another to deal with the demon boy and that… whatever that woman is," said Allan, as he drank some tea.

"Hm… I suppose you must be right, Allan-sama. However, I am still insecure, those beings… Ervas and Veronica, their power surpasses even a Pure-Blooded Vampire… Could the Battle Popes stand a chance? Maybe if all of them came… But it was said that they killed one of them, and only two came here…" said the elf, with emerald-colored eyes, short blonde hair, and the appearance of a young boy on his 15 to 16, his name was Sylph Emeraldwind and was one of Allan's assistants and secretaries.

"Even as strong as they are, last night they had a big fight, even if their family is filled with monsters that could all be comparable to A-Rank or even S-Rank, they will eventually get tired, right? Also, the Battle Popes and Bestellen's church possesses special magic and artifacts infused with the power of gods, they can even use special weapons that deal extra damage against non-human races," said Allan, confident on their victory, mostly because he had no other hope, and he had already done it, the best he could do is hope for their victory.

"I see… I suppose there is no other hope, those two have really been changing the market of the town… Leaving them to do as they please would end up in our inevitable doom," sighed Sylph, understanding his master.

"Instead of that, why wouldn't you simply negotiate with us and join us instead of seeing us as enemies?"

Suddenly, the voice of Veronica resonated through the room.

"Eh?!"

Allan and Sylph were taken aback, as Veronica and Ervas emerged out of thin air as if they had been there this whole time and were merely taking away invisible mantles that were coating them.

"H-How?! Since when were you here?!" asked Allan.

"We had been here for around half an hour…" said Ervas.

"What?!" asked Sylph, falling over his butt.

"Illusion Magic is pretty useful, not gonna lie," said Veronica.

Through the use of her Illusion Attribute Magic, Veronica created mantles using this attribute of magic, infusing it with her Conceal Presence Skill as well, effectively making the two completely invisible before these two people! Even more, as they were weaklings, comparable to D-Rank at most… while they were already above most Gods in terms of power, they were just playing around at this point!

"Yeah, it wasn't particularly hard to do… Now, let's get to it," said Ervas.

"Get to… what?!" asked Sylph.

"What do you think we'll do, dummy? We just killed your glorified army of Bestellen and you're next," said Veronica.

"W-What?! You can't… possibly kill an aristocrat like me!" cried Allan, trembling in fear.

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