"Teacher, when will you return?"
"Teacher, I can't hold on much longer!"
The resentment in Wayne's heart was like the seawater An Kai had summoned from the sky while torturing Dong Lin to death.
With An Kai absent, the burden of the entire Goodness Home fell on Wayne's shoulders.
He had to deal with outside threats and reassure everyone within.
And now, the [sixth-rank divinities] outside had come again...
These [sixth-rank divinities] had a peculiar hobby: collecting the right ears of the beings they killed and stringing them together to display as trophies.
Some [sixth-rank divinities] already had strings of trophy ears over a hundred thousand meters long...
They included ears from humans, other races, and even some members of the Abyss races who had wandered in by mistake.
These trophies hung outside the barrier Chris maintained.
They were a blatant threat to everyone, including Chris herself.
"You ants in there, hide all you want! Once the [fifth-rank divinities] descend, let's see where you can hide!"
"Oh, right. I have some good news to share. The Divine Realm's recovery has accelerated dramatically. It won't be long before the [fifth-rank divinities] can descend."
"When that happens, I'll slice your ears off, bit by bit!"
The arrogant threats of the [sixth-rank divinities]-no, perhaps they were simply statements-carried into the barrier Chris had erected.
These [sixth-rank divinities] now behaved little differently from fiends.
However...
Other people had no say in defining a divinity's conduct.
Although clear hierarchies existed among divinities, those were matters between divinities alone.
Whenever other races were involved, divinities presented a single, lofty image.
These [sixth-rank divinities] of the Divine Realm did not consider their actions fiendish.
To them, the Divine Realm was their home.
Wasn't it perfectly normal to drive intruders out of their home?
Their methods did not