Chapter 341 Canaanite Deities - Baal, Moloch and Yarikh

Chapter 341 Canaanite Deities - Baal, Moloch and Yarikh

Moonstone, a mysterious stone with no detailed description in the novel. Sometimes the moonstone was termed as a part of a dead moon's core. While somewhere it was mentioned that every moonstone once held the essence of a moon God. While some believed moonstones were used to store their God's faith, prayers and powers, to be given as a blessing to his most devout followers in their time of need.

The truth never clarified as the author clearly didn't put so much focus on an artifact when he had to write a shit ton of others too.

But one thing that the author highlighted every time was that the moonstone could attract the light of the moon and was best to be used by those who had moon gods as their backing.

In the novel, this same frighenart forest was used for the exam ground for the protagonist and his classmates too.

During this exam, Warzy had attacked the academy and many students were killed, but just when the situation was most desperate, this moonstone, which was wrapped around Rebecca's hands, played a crucial role and saved Leon and everyone else.

As this particular moonstone held the last essence of Yarikh, the moon god of Canaanite pantheon, who was seriously injured during the war of gods thousand year ago, and died a couple hundred years later since his power of faith couldn't heal his injuries.

The day of the tournament when the event of the crisis happened, and everyone was about to be killed by Warzy villains, Rebecca used this moonstone after her goddess Selene taught her how, and it teleported everyone away from that place.

Sending them all to the nearest temple of Yarikh.

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Obviously Rebecca felt grateful for Leon and gave him all the credit since he was the one who gave her the moonstone, causing the protagonist's prestige to rise even more. And the distance between them to decrease again.

Why she as a princess who had thousands of accessories and received millions of gifts, kept this one on her all these years, but also remembered about it's origins - can only be explained by the protagonist halo, simply meaning author's laziness.

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Rio planned to do something similar with this stone too. Obviously not to save anyone, but to kill all his classmates who could grow in future and play a role in the crusade against the Blake family.

His team of Eclipse was already waiting at the temple of Yarikh, and all he had to do now was to teleport everyone he wanted dead into the trap.

He couldn't kill students here in the open or at the duwhen the academy was watching, that's why he made sure to save as many of his targets from getting eliminated these days and then lured them all here into this cave for the final showdown.

Obviously after his many experiments he knew fate would surely pop up, trying to save them, or sending them help faster than possible, so as Shiva, he also made a deal with another deity of demons, promising on giving them a show worth watching and shit ton of sacrifices, in return for their help in killing as many students as soon as possible.

And that's where the Banshee and her army of abominations came from.

A help from the deity of sacrifices, Moloch.

Seeing her ferocity and heart of vengeance, Moloch, the bull headed Canaanite deity of Sacrifice, who always had an enmity with Baal, made her an offer.

"Pray to him, sacrifice to him, and he will fulfill all her wishes."

The poor priestess, who had no other choice, chose to agree and finally became the nightmarish monster she is today.

She made a clay statue of Moloch at the very place where Baal's temple used to be, and started sacrificing everyone who entered the forest ever since then.

With each 100 people she sacrifices, Moloch would bring back one spirit of the deceased for her.

Obviously the god of sacrifices also only lied and tricked her. As he didn't bring back shit. The spirits he talked about were just the abominations born out of mutation, with little intelligence..

Due to her dark magic and curse of Baal, all these newly mutated monsters liked to stay around her and followed her will. Giving the Banshee an illusion that every monster was her fellow tribesman, as they liked to listen to her similarly to before when she was a priestess.

lightsΝοvεl ƈοm But the priestess now was too far gone to know or notice this obvious difference, and could only keep killing people and sacrificing their blood, bones and souls to Moloch, in exchange for these monsters.

A truly pitiful existence through and through.

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She was supposed to keep on doing this until obviously our protagonist leon learned the truth of this forest and freed her from the curse and gave her the freedom of death. Promising her soul that he'll get justice for her one day.

Thus the dude earned himself another enmity from two gods. Baal and Moloch - both who felt leon went against their wishes, and ruined their good deeds.

But Rio obviously wasn't that generous. Though he felt pity for the creature, he also felt the feeling that she'd make an amazing pawn , one which he could use perfectly in a few situations.

After all, he needed a scapegoat for all the deaths he was gonna cause very soon. And who's better to take the blame, than a crazy cursed Banshee who's also believer of a demonic god.

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Everything was just going smoothly and perfectly, with all the planning, preparations, people - all of them under Rio's control.

Yet one thing he failed to take into account was - 'No matter what knowledge he had of the future and the past, how could the mind of a mortal comprehend what a God's gonna do.'

And dear Lord, did he pay a hefty price for this mistake..