Embrace the Goddess (2)

Although the Little Goddess of Holy Light was a little dissatisfied, there was nothing she could do about it, so she had to swallow it.

"Well, Goddess... cough cough, sir, can you tell me what's going on with you?" Compared to that, Qin Chu was more interested in why the Goddess of Holy Light had turned into such a tiny little thing.

Recalling the fluctuations he had felt from the vortex earlier, Qin Chu had already roughly guessed what was going on.

"I fought with those seven ugly freaks."

The Little Goddess of Holy Light answered somewhat sullenly, clearly very unhappy. It seemed that she had been standing for a long time and was a little tired, so she simply followed Qin Chu's example and sat down on the ground, hugging her knees with her lotus root-like arms, her long silver hair spread out on both sides of her body.

The Goddess of Holy Light has not only shrunk in size, but has also degenerated in every way. Even her personality has become more childlike, and her emotions are more varied than before.

Although Qin Chu felt that this kind of Goddess of Holy Light was easier to approach.

Then the Little Goddess of Holy Light glared at Qin Chu fiercely. "Isn't it all because of you..."

"For me?" Qin Chu pointed to his nose.

"Nonsense, who else could it be but you? You are my only companion now." The Little Goddess of Holy Light bit her lip lightly. "Just a while ago, while I was trapped in the cage, I sensed an unusually high frequency of communication between the seven ugly monsters, and suspected that they were plotting something."

"As deities, they naturally have their own responses."

"Although I don't know exactly what they want to do, one thing is certain: their target is you."

"So, I deliberately stirred up a fight in the cage, drawing all the attention of those seven ugly monsters here... You being here means you've successfully weathered this crisis?"

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Chapter 474 Embracing the Goddess (2)

Listening to the words of the Goddess of Holy Light, Qin Chu roughly understood what had happened in the Void.

The Goddess of Holy Light sensed that the Seven Uglies of the Void were plotting something. With her divine power, she foresaw that this plan might be aimed at her, so she launched a rebellion in the cage to attract the attention of the Seven Uglies of the Void.

However, the Goddess of Holy Light is not in her complete form and is currently in a phase of power depletion.

While Qin Chu's efforts could bring some recovery, it was clearly insufficient.

The final result of the battle was that the Goddess of Holy Light failed, unable to break free of the restraints, and even shrunk to her current size due to the exhaustion of her own energy.

However, it seems that the situation on the side of the Seven Uglies of the Void is not good either. Although they won a seven-on-one battle, it can only be described as a pyrrhic victory. At least they no longer have the ability to completely eliminate the Goddess of Holy Light while she is extremely weak. Otherwise, they would not be able to see the Goddess of Holy Light at all right now.

Recalling the strange, mysterious threads within Sylph's body, and the divine statue that formed a trap within Athena's Soul World, Qin Chu was filled with dread.

At that time, the Seven Uglies of the Void should have been suppressing the Goddess of Holy Light.

If it weren't for the conflict here, I would probably be facing not only five statues within Athena's soul, but also the will of five gods descending upon her.

Previously, just fighting against the will of the Blood God had already left him half-dead. If he were to face the wills of five gods at the same time, he wouldn't even know how he died.

Qin Chu felt a wave of fear wash over him, and cold sweat beaded on his forehead.

"Those seven ugly monsters..." Qin Chu asked cautiously.

"Ugly monster?" The Goddess of Holy Light laughed; that was quite a fitting title.

"There are seven of them after all, so their situation is much better than mine. However, they probably won't have much energy to interfere with the Lower Realm for the foreseeable future. That should be good news for you, right?"

That's definitely good news.

"However, don't be too happy yet." Glancing at Qin Chu, the Goddess of Holy Light said again, "After all, their losses were much better than mine, and their recovery speed is much faster. Do you understand what I mean?"

Qin Chu's smile gradually faded. He understood, of course, that this was good news, but also a crisis.

The Goddess of Holy Light had been imprisoned for far too long. In order to restrain the Seven Uglies of the Void and prevent her only Goddess of Holy Light from being killed by Seven Uglies of the Void, she had no time to consider the depletion of her power and was almost completely exhausted.

Once the Seven Uglies of the Void recover before the Goddess of Holy Light, the weakened Goddess of Holy Light will not need to expend much power to suppress them, allowing them to focus more on the Skyvault Continent, and their own crisis will return.

Worse still, the Seven Uglies of the Void might seize this opportunity to gain the ability to completely destroy the Goddess of Holy Light.

Once the Goddess of Holy Light dies, Qin Chu might as well give up and surrender, even though the other side probably won't accept his surrender.

In contrast to the Goddess of Holy Light, who can only recover energy through Qin Chu, the Seven Uglies of the Void obviously have more ways to recover.

After realizing this, Qin Chu frowned deeply.

"In short, there is very little help I can offer you in the coming period of time. You need to be careful. I don't want my only family member to die without knowing why."

"However, what exactly did you do? When I was fighting those seven guys, I could clearly feel that the power of faith was much more abundant than before, even more concentrated than when the Evil God had not yet corrupted us?" The Goddess of Holy Light asked curiously.

Qin Chu felt somewhat helpless at the words of the Goddess of Holy Light. It seemed that even without the invasion of the Evil God, the faith on the Skyvault Continent was still just so-so.

You are the most powerful native god, how could you possibly make the faith so thin?

Qin Chu gave a brief explanation, but the expression on the Little Goddess of Holy Light's face was so strange that Qin Chu didn't even know how to describe it.

Eggs, milk, bread?

The Little Goddess of Holy Light suddenly felt weak all over. What was this?

It was as if all the hard work of the gods over the past thousands or tens of thousands of years had been in vain.

As a deity, she did not want to interfere too much in this world. She gave humanity full autonomy, allowing people to develop according to their own will.

But seeing the weak humans struggling to survive under the attacks of savage beasts, she couldn't bear it. So she taught humans to master the power of the elements, so that they would have the means to fight against the savage beasts.

She guides humanity to learn to think.

Step by step, we have progressed from eating raw meat and drinking blood to civilization.

She did not directly give anything to humanity; she hoped that humanity, under the guidance of the gods, could become an independent and self-reliant race, so that even if one day they lost the protection of the gods, they could still live peacefully in this world.

The gods thus gained the faith of humankind.

However, all of this seemed to pale in comparison to the gratitude garnered by Qin Chu's direct distribution of eggs, milk, and bread.

It's truly ironic.

Perhaps it is because her physical form has shrunk and her personality has become more human that the Goddess of Holy Light has developed such severe self-doubt.

Qin Chu understood the reasoning behind this very well.

The saying goes, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." This saying sounds reasonable, but it doesn't apply to everyone, at least not to the vast majority of people on the Skyvault Continent.

Giving someone a fish directly will at least earn their sincere gratitude in this situation.

Church someone how to fish may seem like giving them a means of making a living, but this means won't yield immediate results. They'll still suffer from hunger until they can fish themselves, and they might not be very grateful to you.

Even if you do manage to catch a fish someday, there are two possible outcomes: first, the fisherman will genuinely appreciate your help and guidance; second, the fisherman might feel that it's the result of his own hard work and has little to do with you.

Judging from Qin Chu, the people on the Skyvault Continent are significantly more likely to have the second idea.

Perhaps the first generation of people who learned to fish were grateful for the guidance of the Goddess of Holy Light, but what about the second, third, and fourth generations? As people passed down through generations, they no longer learned the means of making a living under the guidance of the Goddess of Holy Light, but inherited it from their fathers and grandfathers. Naturally, their faith in the Goddess of Holy Light would gradually diminish.

Church someone how to cultivate power will never earn as much gratitude as directly bestowing power upon them.

Church someone how to hunt will never be as effective in gaining their faith as simply giving them food.

This is the Skyvault Continent.

"But, by doing this, aren't you treating those humans like livestock to be kept in captivity?" The Little Goddess of Holy Light pursed her lips and muttered softly.

"Is there a problem? I provide them with food, and they provide me with faith. Both sides get what they want; it's a win-win situation," Qin Chu explained.

"Livestock kept in captivity?"

"To put it bluntly, even at this level, countless people would love to be there but have no chance."

The Goddess of Holy Light frowned. "But won't this cause problems? Over time, people will take free food for granted..."

"If you provide insufficient or substandard food, it could cause chaos."

"Faith can also fade."

"It doesn't matter." Qin Chu shrugged, completely unconcerned about the issue.

"As long as these people are struggling to survive below the poverty line, then these free foods are essential to them."

"At the same time, as long as we select some typical cases every now and then and kick them out on the grounds that their faith is not devout enough, so that the remaining believers can see how miserable these people's lives are, they will naturally become more devout out of fear."

"As for chaos and unrest? When you have the power to kill them at any time, chaos is never a problem."

"Gods must not only demonstrate their mercy, but also their power."

"Kindness may not necessarily earn faith, but fear certainly can."

The Little Goddess of Holy Light stared blankly at the man in front of her.

Are these really my family members?

Although she had long understood that this man was definitely not a good person, his ruthless nature still made the Little Goddess of Holy Light feel somewhat strange.

Qin Chu could see what the Little Goddess of Holy Light was thinking, but he simply shrugged indifferently. "Goddess, times have changed."

Your approach is no longer working.

"Besides, you know better than I do what kind of situation we're in right now."

"At your rate, how long do you think it will take you to regain the strength to fight those seven ugly monsters? Will those seven monsters give you that much time?"

Although her benevolent nature made it difficult for the Little Goddess of Holy Light to accept Qin Chu's explanation, reason told her that Qin Chu's methods were definitely the most effective.

She didn't want the humans she had guided to end up being domesticated like livestock, but she also understood that once she couldn't regain her power, eternal destruction awaited the Skyvault Continent.

The Little Goddess of Holy Light tacitly approved of Qin Chu's approach.

"Do it your way."

Then a pair of big eyes looked at Qin Chu, Qin Chu realized that it was time for him to become a "power bank" (a device used to power up one's energy).

However, when the Goddess of Holy Light absorbed power from him, she directly enveloped her entire body with her hands. Her thousand-meter-tall body meant that her hands were larger than a blanket to Qin Chu.

But the current Little Goddess of Holy Light can probably only barely cover a small portion.

Just as Qin Chu was wondering how the Goddess of Holy Light of Goddess of Holy Light was going to draw power from him, she suddenly stood up, turned around, and faced away from Qin Chu.

Then she sat directly in Qin Chu's lap.

Hold me tight.

A cool, clear voice came from the Little Goddess of Holy Light.

Huh?

Eh?

Qin Chu was shocked. What was going on?

Hugging the Goddess of Holy Light directly? That's not right, isn't it? That's blasphemy!

He's a very devout believer.

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Chapter 475 You don't want to stay in the Void forever, do you?

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After all, this is the Goddess of Holy Light, even if she's shrunk.

Even with Qin Chu's temperament, he dared not harbor too much blasphemy.

Moreover, I felt inexplicably guilty; if this happened on Earth, I might have been arrested.

For a moment, his arms were stiff, and he didn't know what to do.

The Goddess of Holy Light didn't care about all that. After all, although he was small in size and his personality seemed to have changed somewhat, he was still an existence that had lived for thousands or tens of thousands of years. To the Goddess of Holy Light, Qin Chu was nothing more than a wisp of smoke in her long life.

Seeing that Qin Chu remained motionless, the Goddess of Holy Light glared at Qin Chu irritably, then grabbed Qin Chu stiff arm and forcibly encircled her body.

"To absorb energy, the body needs as much contact as possible."

"The more contact you have, the faster you absorb it. I don't even have the strength to send you back right now, and you don't want to stay in the Void forever, do you?"

As she explained, the Goddess of Holy Light curled up in Qin Chu's arms, looking obedient and adorable.

Well, even the Goddess of Holy Light is like this, why should I worry so much?

If this delay continues, it would be disobeying the Divine Oracle.

As a devout believer, Qin Chu would never disobey Divine Oracle.