Chapter 1775: Liberation Of The Mortals.
The few seconds they spent possessing her already took a few months away from her lifespan, so it is a good idea to choose an oracle that can last a long while.
They want a child that has been raised with their doctrine and is in perfect synchronization with them to be their next Oracle. This way the burden won't be so much and the new Oracle will last longer.
It will take a while to create such a child. In the meantime, they plan to take over every tribe around them. The first thing they have to do is gather information about the gods in their surroundings. The second most important thing is to eliminate those gods if they can.
That's why he went to the tribe nearby with two god seeds who haven't ascended yet. He discovered that one of the god seeds had been eliminated in the struggle. He had died, and since he hadn't ascended yet, he couldn't resurrect.
"Fighting before ascending is truly inefficient. But I guess they didn't have much of a choice."
He felt pity for the two god seeds, but that didn't stop him from killing the remaining one and her Oracle. Then he sent a message to Warshaw to come and assimilate the tribe too.
Next, he went beyond the three tribes close by. The first tribe he encountered was occupied by a god seed who hadn't ascended yet. However, he couldn't see the god seed around.
Besides, they don't have a Pantheon yet. So they won't even be able to accept a true god that wants to submit to them. He simply killed them and continued looking for more god seeds or Oracles to kill.
He moved around in a progressively larger circle around the Bull Horn's tribe. This way, he didn't miss any tribe. Eventually, dispelled the avatar divine spell after an hour of work.
By that time, the single avatar had cost them 4,160 DE for the time they spent using the spell. 100 DE for the cost of its initial activation, 1 DE for each of the 3,600 seconds they used it, and 460 DE for the 46 divine strikes they used to kill Oracles and god seeds.
It is their largest expense of divine energy, but they believe it is worth it. They were able to liberate 27 tribes from the control of false gods with this sacrifice of divine energy. It will take time for them to reap the benefits of their good deed, but it will come, and it should be quite substantial.
The nine of them sat around their altar watching the affairs of the mortal world. The map of the area around their tribe and everywhere they had explored was projected by the altar into the surroundings so that they could see it.
It is not a real-time map, but it shows the area they have subjugated, the tribes under their control, and the other hostile territories. The actions of Legion-1's avatar in the mortal realm caused the map to expand and for missing details to be updated. That ended when he dispelled the avatar.
He commented idly, "This avatar spell is not so bad."
Legion-2 agreed, "It is not bad as long as we have divine energy."
Legion-9 said with jest, "If we don't have divine energy, then we are dead. An avatar will be the last of our concerns."n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om