Hunter's Ascent: Starting in the Hunter x Hunter World
Chapter 1258

Desecration

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"What?!!!"

"My gods! What exactly is that mad Troll doing?"

As they watched the Dragonhawk God merge with the High Priest, the two High Elves standing atop the City Wall both revealed expressions of shock and disbelief.

This was no longer a simple sacrifice or summoning. He was sealing a Loa God's incarnation and powers within his own body.

Although the Troll faith was a pantheistic belief system in which all things possessed spirits, for a priest to do something like this was no different from openly and unabashedly desecrating a god.

What was even more baffling, however, was that Gayle, the Dragonhawk God, showed not the slightest resistance from beginning to end, as if it had tacitly accepted the act.

"Controlling the power of a Wild God with a mortal body? Did the Amani Troll already possess this kind of technique at this point?" Allen narrowed his eyes and muttered quietly, too softly for anyone else to hear.

After all, the Zul'Aman Dungeon in the game had featured four bosses: Ekilson, the Eagle God; Narulak, the Bear God; Gayle, the Dragonhawk God; and Halraz, the Lynx God.

Those four bosses had likely used some sort of witchcraft to seal a portion of their respective gods' power inside Troll bodies, producing effects similar to incarnations and avatars.

Allen had always believed that this technique was developed only after Zul'jin had been defeated by the Allied Forces of Humans and High Elves, when he fled back to seek revenge and wash away his humiliation.

But now, it seemed that a prototype had existed much earlier.

Furthermore, the relationship between the Loa Gods and the Trolls appeared far more complex than outsiders imagined. There was some unknown interest exchange between them, rather than mere worship and faith.

"Your Grace! What should we

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