Chapter 115: Theology

Chapter 115: Theology

You still follow? Then, Gods are in their respective planes, and are an indirect byproduct of peoples emotions. The things that are loved become Gods

And things that are hated become the Recessed! Sofia completed. Thats something I had been thinking about, its nice to know I was right.

Its not that hard to find out when you get to know a lot of Gods names. Since it works like this, their power is also directly related to how loved or hated their concept is.

Does that mean if everyone starts hating Scriptures he will get weaker or even become a Recessed? Thats a way! Still quite the ordeal but if I can use that to weaken Scriptures I cant only rely on that but it could be a way for the quest. If Astelia is right.

Supposedly, yes. And Scriptures is already among the weaker Gods anyway. But I havent heard of a God ever switching sides.

Can you not ask Moon?

I can only receive visions when She sends them, there is no real agency on my part, and it should be the same for every Oracle. But I think she does listen to me from time to t-

Astelia stopped mid sentence, completely still, her eyes shone white for just a second before she regained control. Sofia could see the girls cheeks turn bright red before she hid her face inside of her robe by pulling up her collar. Are you alright? Was this a vision? Turns out Moon was listening all this time? I wonder if Scriptures is listening too, can he do that? I'm his Saintess after all. If so, then fuck you, god.

Yes the girl whispered from inside her white robe. It I had a vision, where we were taking a bath together And I was cutting your hair with a huge pair of scissors

... Sofia couldnt help but touch her hair. Does your God

Lets forget about it! I dont have to follow Her instructions! So the girl strengthened her resolve to come out of her hiding place and she was surprisingly fast to get back in her serious mode. Though her cheeks were still red. Can we change subjects, this is most of what you need to know about Gods Ill tell you about Scripture afterwards if you want, but, I would like to fight first!

Fight?

Yes! Rather than spend forever asking about our skills, and also because I really want to see how your skeletons work. That would be faster and more interesting.

Wont it be bad if I hurt you?

Have you seen how much health I have? I would be impressed if you can really hurt me! The vampire declared, standing up with her hands on her hips. And, well I'm... Tired of only training with Agran...

Sure then, be ready to face the strongest skeletons youve ever seen.

I look forward to it! Let's go, the arena is on a lower floor.

Astelia guided Sofia through more rooms and corridors, but the real spectacle was when they stepped outside on the exterior parts of the castle. Seeing it from a foggy window wasnt the same. This was, without a doubt, the largest structure Sofia had ever seen. Her head was spinning just trying to understand how high they were. It wasnt quite as high as Valeures floating ruins of course, but this was a structure that used up all of that space from the sea to the clouds. The base was so huge she couldnt see half of it at the same time despite being at the top.

How could anyone build that? How long did that take? Did they have an army of Orvods to make and cut all these stones?! And why make it so gigantic in the first place?! This could house all of Skyreachs population!

Sofia had no idea how large exactly the population of Skyreach was, but she failed to see how they couldnt fit here. In fact she had an inkling that it might not be impossible to fit every single human in the world right here, in this castle.

As they strolled to their destination, they exchanged more on the subject of the castle. Astelia had lived there all her life but even she still found it daunting and inspiring how massive it was.Ñ00v€l--ß1n hosted the premiere release of this chapter.

I can tell where this is going.

Or we go all out! Sofia finished with a smile.

A fancy black and gold light plate armor appeared on the vampire girls body, it had plenty of openings and mainly protected her head and torso.

The arena instantly became bathed in strong moonlight. Sofias health was ticking down, losing around ten health points per second. While Astelia was busy channeling this, which was in all likelihood [Lunar Realm], the spine sword appeared in Sofias right hand and the bone book in her left as her armor covered her.

Your time to shine, Templars, you better be worth half of my mana!

Tearing a page from the book, the fog coalesced into three large Templars. It was essentially impossible to tell these were skeletons with how complete their armor sets were.

[Solar Templar - Lv. 142]

Health : 28380/28400

Stamina : 14200/14200

Mana : 14200/14200

Lifetime : 8518s/8520s

Totally worth it. They had less total stats than the Paladins, but three powerhouses were better than countless pawns.

First to be teleported out loses! the little girl shouted with a smirk as she started floating up a few meters, observing the forming Templars.

Bring it on! Sofia flew up as well. The arena allowed for about fifty meters of verticality and she would take advantage of it.

Two Templars spread out to encircle Astelia while the third went for a [Light Severance], it would take a few seconds to charge up. The book disappeared from Sofias left hand and she started preparing an [Angels bolt], the skill version. She has thirty five times my health

Astelia slammed down with her left hand. The two Templars that were running fell to their knees, Sofia almost crashed down to the ground, pushed down by a massive wave of mana, but Pareth appeared under to catch her and help her land on her feet. Couldnt hide him any longer, no matter then, get the [Sanctified grounds] running quick! Despite the disturbance Sofia managed to keep her channeling going.

Nine seconds.

Astelia made a grabbing motion toward the kneeling Templar skeleton at her left, which was helplessly sent flying toward her. As the Templar was about to impact the vampire, she punched the air in front of him. The Templars armor caved in and with a loud bang, he got ejected at an incredible speed, hitting the arenas wall like a cannonball.

Health : 28340/28400

Health : 7550/28400

Holy shit!