Cthulhu Gonfalon

Chapter 485: Chapter 25

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Damwade was a very practical person, and he was not bashful at all when he encountered issues of vital interests. Compared with those who said “no” but actually wanted to pursue interests, he may not be so coy; he was more realistic and reliable than them.

For example, now, when he heard of the opportunity to become a god, he immediately said, “I would like to.” He could hardly wait to prove that he was very willing to become a god without any falsehood.

Sui Xiong had to cast a spell on him to calm him down before talking to him in detail because he was too excited.

The clergy of “Agriculture” had never appeared before because there had never been a concept of agriculture in the world. But there had been a patron saint of farmers—later, he was killed by the Goddess of Harvest.

In the past few years, the Goddess of Harvest and the Goddess of Wealth were antagonistic, and both sides continued to attack each other. The Goddess of Harvest fell probably because of her low intelligence. Finally, she made a dangerous attempt to promote a god follower, but she failed. As a result, she not only lost the only powerful semi-god of her church, but also her kingdom was attacked by a large group of evil gods. Although the God of Justice and the Void Mask had helped her, she did not escape in the end. She had abandoned her kingdom to escape, but she did not know that the God of Marsh who had hated her for thousands of years would ambush her in the dark. When she was about to escape successfully, she was attacked and killed by the God of Marsh.

After the death of the Goddess of Harvest, the clergy of “harvest” was open, and all gods fought for it. Yorgaardman, the God of Justice, was very angry with those guys who were dragging and dawdling in the prior rescue but rushed like mad dogs when they saw the benefits. So in a great rage, he used his great Divine Powers to smash the clergy of “harvest” to pieces.

Since then, the clergy of “harvest” and others clergies related to it had been in a state of chaos. According to all the gods, it would take two or three hundred years before those clergies could be reunited and reshaped by human faith.

At that time, there would be fierce battles in order to gain those clergies.

But Sui Xiong did not think so. He thought that the breaking of the clergy of “harvest” was just an opportunity for him to occupy its content and condense other clergies.

If the clergy of harvest was still here, the clergy of agriculture would not appear because the faith of the farmers must first point to the concept of “harvest.” As for agriculture—farmers could not understand such distant things! They only cared about the most direct thing, and that was harvest!

Therefore, if the clergy of harvest hadn’t collapsed and broken, it would have been inconvenient for Damwade to unite the clergy of agriculture.

“What shall I do, my Majesty, the Void Mask?” Damwade calmed down under Sui Xiong’s magic, but he was still very anxious and asked Sui Xiong in a hurry.

Sui Xiong thought for a moment and said, “First of all, you have to put fertilizer, farming and farming tools together and write an agricultural guidebook as a clear sign of your faith.”

Damwade nodded, but then he was suddenly shocked and said, “This… actually, many things were designed by Baron Keane.”

“Crick’s situation is different from yours.” Sui Xiong laughed. “He won’t seek to be a god or pursue a clergy or anything. It doesn’t mean anything to him.”

Damwade looked at Crick in surprise and then looked at Sui Xiong. He seemed to guess something and asked tentatively, “Is it possible that… Crick has become your Holy Spirit?”

This was exactly what Sui Xiong had arranged for Crick’s status—noble status, outstanding contributions, but rarely appearing in front of people. Sui Xiong nodded with a smile and admitted to this matter.

“So it is!” Damwade nodded. The Holy Spirit was both the incarnation of a god and the successor of the god after his death, and its status was equivalent to that of a country’s crown prince. Except for a few gods, most gods would protect and hide their Holy Spirits tightly so as not to make them be exposed and killed by their enemies.

Since Crick Keane was the Holy Spirit of the Void Mask, it was no wonder that he had made such great achievements. It was also no wonder that he shone brilliantly when he was alive, but his soul disappeared without any trace after his death.

“Hmm? Since Crick is your Holy Spirit, why does he come out again this time?” He thought about it and asked doubtfully.

“It just happened,” Crick laughed and said. “My current job is mainly to train and manage Oracles. This time, when your Majesty saw your achievements and remembered that we were acquaintances, he asked me if I would like to see you. Of course, I wanted like to, so that’s why I’m here.”

“I will keep it a secret for sure!” Damwade said firmly. “No one will know where you’ve gone from me! I will destroy this memory with magic later!”

His method was so resolute and reliable. If he really used magic to destroy this memory, nobody would know where Crick was.

But… Sui Xiong did not want this result.

You don’t need to be so troublesome,” Sui Xiong smiled and said. “I’m glad that you are so thoughtful, but your plan is wrong.”

He said mysteriously, “When you return to the mortal world this time, you don’t have to keep it a secret. Instead, you need to tell others that Crick is here with me and your reward beyond your own contribution is mainly due to his special care. You should also tell others that he is training troops for me.”

“Ah!?” Damwade stared at Sui Xiong and felt that his mind could not catch up.

Weren’t other god’s Holy Spirits supposed to be hidden? Didn’t the Void Mask hide his Holy Spirit before? Why did he change his mind suddenly? And it was a big turn of 180 degrees.

Sui Xiong saw that he was still confused, smiled and said, “I’ll ask you a question. If you want to do something that is not a secret and it’s easy to attract people’s attention, but you don’t want others to notice you, what would you do?”

Damwade thought for a moment and answered, “Cover it up with magic?”

Sui Xiong shook his head.

“Find a hidden place as far as possible, such as a half plane?”

Sui Xiong shook his head again.

“Then I don’t know.”

“Of course, there is no good way, but there is a way you can try,” Sui Xiong said. “You can find another person who has some relations with you and who is much more noticeable than you. You can ask him to do something that is much more noticeable than you and attract people’s attention on what he is doing.”

Damwade opened his eyes wide and understood Sui Xiong’s meaning suddenly. But he was more surprised.

“This… this means that Crick will cover for me?!” His voice trembled a little because of the excitement. “This… this… I’m not really worth this treatment!”

“You deserve it.” Crick laughed and patted him on the shoulder. “Helping you to become a god is the most important thing for us at present. In order to accomplish this matter, I would like to become bait to attract people’s attention.”

“This… it really scares me…”

“Don’t be scared. You should be proud.” Crick laughed. “You are the first and probably the last person in the world who deserves me being bait to provide cover for.”

“So you have to work hard in order to become a god successfully,” Sui Xiong said. “I will contact you often with the details, or perhaps I will send Crick to contact you. In short, your goal is as follows: The first is to define the concept of agriculture in the mortal world. The second is to make people think of you, Damwade, when they talk about agriculture. As long as you can do these two things, just leave the rest to me.” He clapped his body with his tentacles and spoke with a deep and powerful voice. “Besides fighting, I like to help people become gods. And so far, those who have accepted my help have all become gods successfully. None of them have failed!”