Since Faith Can Be Argued, How Is Decay Not Prosperity

(I had a great day, over 6000 words without splitting it into chapters, so this counts as an extra chapter...)

Hong Lin knew nothing of this; all she knew was that Cheng Shi seemed to be having some mental lapses.

Putting aside all that nonsense, he roared about some kind of offering. Hah, what offering? Even the night sky tonight is painted with Decay. Where in this forest is there any prosperity to offer Him?

Not only Hong Lin was puzzled, but even the Scholar behind those mechanical creations who were constantly watching the Sighing Forest were puzzled.

This kind of Change has never occurred in all these years of Faith Experiment.

The briefcase containing the "Faith Contract" that had been lying in the Eupusca flowerbed for hundreds of years had been rotting in the ground, and this was the first time someone had entered it and picked it up.

In fact, it doesn't matter to the Scholar whether the box is picked up or not, because the Sighing Forest is full of the eyes of "Truth". They can easily sense the contract and then send the mechanical python to retrieve the box.

But this time was different; the box was still there, but the contract was gone.

Fortunately, the Scholar had prepared for this situation. The moment the contract disappeared, they began to analyze the Change in the forest's "prosperity" and tried to find the thief who stole the contract.

But now it seems that the one who stole the contract wasn't a thief, but a... madman!

A complete madman!

This madman, who exudes the aura of a contract, is now letting the giant python devour his body while he still smiles. Not only that, he seems to enjoy this state of declining life, so much so that the Scholar are controlling the mechanical python to attack less and less frequently, fearing that this madman is brewing some grand conspiracy.

Cheng Shi was indeed planning something, but it wasn't a conspiracy; it was an open strategy.

He was deliberately bringing his life state closer to "Decay," a scene that left Hong Lin full of doubt.

She couldn't understand why Cheng Shi would choose to seriously injure himself at this time, and she couldn't understand what his so-called dedication was all about.

How should we offer the offerings, and what should we use to offer them?

We can't offer up Decay to prosperity.

That's utterly absurd...

Wrong!

Wait, he can't!!??

Just as she thought of this, Cheng Shi turned around. She saw this self-proclaimed Fate Weaver, favored by "Destiny," staring at her with a crazed expression, spitting blood and laughing maniacally:

"Did you see that? You saw it, didn't you?"

This is the offering I have prepared for Him, and this is the final gamble we will be playing.

Bald man, think about it, although there's not a shred of "prosperity" tonight, but!

When all that can be seen is Decay, is this not also a form of prosperity?

As soon as he said this, Hong Lin's mind went blank, and his consciousness went completely white!

Is widespread Decay also a form of prosperity?

How blasphemous must someone be to say something like that?

Isn't this sophistry?

Yes, that's true, but the problem is that if sophistry were effective, then back in the days of Isle of Hope, Scholar specializing in the art of language would have already unified the continent using it. No, they might even have used this method to wipe out the "gods".

Because Faith is Faith, and Divine Authority is Divine Authority. This is the foundation of the gods and their bottom line, which cannot be shaken by mere words!

If the foundation of the gods is so fragile, then perhaps Deception has long since become the biggest winner.

After all, He was most skilled in this area.

But!

However, Hong Lin, whose mind had been dulled by "Decay," overlooked one point: tonight was different from other nights.

Because... all Faith has been stolen tonight!

In the Sighing Forest, countless Decay creatures simultaneously Faith a false messenger of Decay on this night, while behind this falsehood lay the retinue of prosperity.

The Believer of "Prosperity," Fungus-Footed People have been deceived until now, have given up resistance and embraced "Decay." However, even after their bodies are transformed into "Decay," they still firmly believe in "Prosperity" because the Divine Envoy told them that embracing "Decay" was just a test, and that "Prosperity" would eventually come to protect them.

Thus, the most wondrous Change occurred in Faith.

Every vestige of Decay has been altered, and every Faith has been distorted!

Decay Faith in prosperity, Decay upholds prosperity, and Decay follows prosperity!

The essence of everything points directly to prosperity.

In this situation, Cheng Shi's words are no longer sophistry, but facts!

Because what they could see before their eyes, the "Decay" truly pointed to "prosperity"!

Since the spark has not been extinguished, the wildfire can be ignited in the blink of an eye, and the prairie fire can spread in the blink of an eye.

Just moments after Cheng Shi finished speaking, Sighing Forest...

Daylight broke.

A beam of warm and Vitality light pierced the dim night sky, pouring down from the top of the forest and shining directly on the heads of the Fungus-Footed People. Then, countless emerald green branches grew wildly along the beam of light, instantly building a bridge of prosperity swaying between heaven and earth, covered with dense new buds.

Then, as the emerald light shone into the sky, cracks began to spread, and in the blink of an eye, the sky, where the dark moon hung high, was completely torn apart like a spider web.

The spatial rift grew larger and larger, and countless vines and branches surged in from beyond the sky, spreading and overflowing in all directions like a tidal wave.

These branches were not only growing longer, but also thickening and growing larger. When the two people in the gambling game were dumbfounded to find that the sky above them had completely turned into a lush canopy of trees, countless drooping branches poured down like a torrential green rain onto the mist-shrouded Sighing Forest.

At the same time, a second beam of light shone on Hong Lin.

Once this Vitality green light healed the Chosen of God of "Prosperity," it transformed into a tide of "Prosperity," just like the Sighing Tide that had swept through the forest before, and swept outwards in all directions!

The Vitality tide had just swept over Cheng Shi, who had fallen to the ground, carrying away his injuries and dejection. Overjoyed, Cheng Shi sprang to his feet and was about to praise the "prosperity" when Cheng Shi surprise froze on his face.

Because he discovered that this healing light wasn't simply bestowing its favor upon their "prosperity," but rather...

A horrific revenge that defies imagination!

The tide of prosperity surged outwards like a giant, man-eating wave. Before Cheng Shi and Hong Lin's eyes, countless Twisted Night Python began to wail and struggle after being swept up by the giant wave, twisting their bodies frantically.

But all struggles were futile. How could such tiny creatures withstand His wrath? So these night serpents, who had just been defending Prosperity, were instantly drawn into the wild call of Prosperity. They abandoned their cold, decaying giant serpent shells and stood still, taking root and sprouting. They became rapidly growing twigs, and after a few breaths, they became shrubs. In the blink of an eye, they grew into Vitality giant trees.

Cheng Shi and Hong Lin stared at the scene before them, their pupils shrinking in shock!

This seems to be more than just a gaze...

At this moment, He actually descended directly!

The will of [Prosperity] broke through the barriers of reality and descended directly into the [Decay] Sighing Forest, transforming the entire treeless forest, filled with decay and decay, into a dense, lush, and verdant underground rainforest!

[Prosperity's Divine Shade] followed, and the shadows cast by the tree canopy enveloped the entire land.

Seeing the gray and white fade away and emerald green emerge in her field of vision, and her body regaining endless Vitality, Hong Lin was almost speechless with astonishment.

This gambler of Destiny has actually offered Decay to prosperity!

Most importantly, He... actually accepted it!

He even accepted it himself!

"You..."

Cheng Shi was also stunned, but the smile on his lips never stopped.

"See, I told you, I have great luck when it comes to gambling."

In hindsight, we won our gamble.

But... bald guy, could you please stop asking so many questions? I'm already...

Ahem, let's deal with these lumps of iron in front of us first.

The Priest finished his part; next, the warrior entered.

Scenes?

What a blatant charade!

Although Hong Lin hadn't recovered from the extreme shock, hearing Cheng Shi's words brought her back to her senses somewhat.

She snorted heavily, thinking to herself that she would cause trouble for them later, and then looked sharply at the mechanical pythons that had once tried to kill her.

These giant pythons are still looking up at the sky, and the Scholar behind them are still deeply immersed in the shock of the arrival of "prosperity".

Just then, a roar came from the Sighing Forest, or rather, from the lush rainforest. When the mechanical python looked down again, it found that there was a Giant Bear in front of it!

A Giant Bear with fire in its eyes!

?

This is...

The Scholar no longer knew what it was, because all the machinery that transmitted the images to them was almost simultaneously crumpled into a ball.

At this moment, the Scholar who had been secretly observing for countless years suddenly lost control of the Faith Experiment.

No, perhaps they had already lost control long ago. When the contract concerning the theft of reputation was discovered by a gambler, the Experiment of the Tower of Reason had probably already begun to fail.

On the other side.

In that tribe that had given up resistance and embraced Decay, when the ray of light representing Vitality and prosperity descended from the sky, the entire tribe of Fungus-Footed People wept uncontrollably.

They shouted, "Praise Lord of Grace! Praise forgiveness! Praise bald man!" and then raised their hands high to the sky, fully embracing their own true prosperity.

Somewhere on the edge of the Sighing Forest, an underground observation station.

Several young Scholar stared at the monitors displaying a wall full of garbled images, as anxious as ants on a hot pan.

They immediately called upon the Grand Scholar of Gasmella, but the Grand Scholar had no way to deal with this Change that was so far underground, so they could only contact the Scholarly Council that had all-knowing knowledge of the world.

When the members of the Scholarly Council appeared in the underground observation station via projection, one of the elderly men with gray hair paused for a moment, then took out the [Truth Ritual] in his hand.

As soon as this model of the Cosmos, resembling countless stars rising and falling, appeared, a complex, obscure, and difficult-to-understand chant of "Truth" resounded around it.

A moment later, a hollow voice, seemingly revealing the laws of the universe, resounded, and its first words were:

"Find the [Desolate Walker], it cannot die."