Garvin had dealt with so many followers of the Goddess of Torture in one stroke that it was only natural he might draw the gaze of the deity behind them.
But Li Wei and Garvin had long prepared contingencies for this, so Garvin immediately dragged them into the illusionary Heaven he had woven and directly mapped Heaven's "coordinates" onto a layer of the Bottomless Abyss.
That way, even if the Goddess of Torture performed a divine descent at once, the misaligned guidance of the Divine Power channel would send her straight into the Bottomless Abyss.
Besides, whether the Goddess of Torture would even dare to truly descend into the Bottomless Abyss was another question altogether.
Once these believers' "minds" had split several times over, their shattered spirits and souls would no longer be able to bear a deity's "descent."
What Garvin had not expected was that, after "witnessing" this unprecedented performance of torture, the Goddess of Torture was not angered in the slightest. Instead, it was as though she had watched an unparalleled spectacle, one that made both body and soul tremble with pleasure.
She even wanted to gain their faith, just as Tiamat had once wanted Li Wei's.
But Garvin firmly remembered Li Wei's warning: no matter how furiously the other party's "phone" rang, simply refuse the call.
So long as the channel of faith could not be built from its starting end to its terminal end, there was nothing the other party could do without resorting to extreme measures at great cost.
At this moment, through the hazy "field of vision" between her Divine Kingdom and the planes, Loviatar probably still believed, eight times out of ten, that Garvin was a demon lord well-versed in the "way of torture."
And very soon, she truly would believe it.
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