Chapter 1225 - 103: Work Earnestly, Live Earnestly

Chapter 1225: Chapter 103: Work Earnestly, Live Earnestly

Bright Water Realm.

Inside a resplendent, gold-and-jade palace, the many members of the Bright Water Realm Goddess Alliance had already arrived one after another.

Seated at the main position was the Goddess of Love Shunni, who had descended in the guise of a peerless beauty in the Human Form; at this moment she was the very incarnation of beauty and passion. The Spiritual Light of the Eternal Gold Pool shimmered across her body, and her skin was so smooth and delicately fair that even the other goddesses envied it, unconsciously drawn in by her beauty.

Shunni’s Charm made no distinction between men and women, and in recent years, there had been no small number of same-sex loves emerging in this land.

On the right side of the Goddess of Love Shunni sat the Lady of Wealth Vorkin, dressed in an unimaginably luxurious golden gown. She seemed to have recovered quite a bit of her vitality, her entire being faintly radiating a golden glow; beneath her stately, bewitching beauty, there was an extreme aura of opulence.

Directly opposite her sat the Goddess of Joy Lierla. Lierla liked to appear in the form of a beautiful girl brimming with vitality, and today was no exception. She wore one of her most commonly used faces and was dressed in a flamboyant outfit—a tight-fitting suit of red, yellow, and blue—like a young dancer at a carnival.

The long-absent Goddess of Fortune Taimola was also present. She had chosen the most common aspect of the Lady Luck, the very image printed on the Lucky Gold Coins.

"Velen is dead."

"He took part in the operation to slay the Drow’s God of Theft—Velen."

The first to speak was the Goddess of Joy Lierla. Her expression was quite complicated as she looked at the Goddess of Love Shunni before her, then at her close friend, the Goddess of Wealth Vorkin, to the side.

Vorkin sighed softly and said slowly, "I did not expect he truly had the ability of a Godslayer."

Although Velen possessed only Weak Divine Power, among the goddesses present, there was also one with Weak Divine Power—the Goddess of Joy Lierla.

"I didn’t expect that after contacting the Harpists, he would actually become entangled in the conflicts of the Dark Realm."

The Goddess of Love Shunni now felt a faint twinge of regret.

This man’s potential was simply too astonishing.

What surprised Shunni even more was that Duncan had needed only a few days to win over the three Gods of Justice—especially the God of Justice Tyr.

Had she misjudged him?

Was his heart truly aligned with justice?

If not, why would Tyr favor him so much?

The goddesses present all seemed to have realized this. At that moment, the Goddess of Joy Lierla suddenly said, "He hasn’t visited the Mother of Great Bliss in a long time."

On the side of his demonic incarnation, it was still a scene of wine ponds and meat forests.

But on the side of his Human Form, he truly hadn’t been indulging in feasting and revelry for quite some time.

At this, the Goddess of Love Shunni said softly, "I can feel his desires and passions as a Mortal fading away."

Shunni held the Domain of passion and carnal desire; she was the best at sensing the changes within a person.

The Goddess of Wealth Vorkin spoke then: "His Divinity is growing ever stronger, and in its place, his Mortal side is gradually fading away."

Across from the three goddesses.

The Goddess of Fortune Taimola looked slightly amused as she gazed at her three close sisters, and said with a light chuckle, "So, does that mean we’ll soon be able to see the true nature of his soul?"

"The truest side of him."

Mortals are bound by their bodies and driven by their desires.

Lust, carnal desire, greed, and the like form the fundamental motives behind a person’s actions. Yet as Divinity ascends—especially once these desires have all been fulfilled—the truest self within, the most genuine essence of the soul, gradually surfaces.

Take the Goddess of Love Shunni, for instance: her essence is the pursuit of love and the yearning for passion; that is why she could merge with the Divine Position of love.

Likewise, Lierla’s truest self is that of a young girl who longs for joy and goes in search of it.

The ascension of Divinity is the gradual stripping away of humanity—especially when many desires have already been satisfied, the shedding of one’s humanity only accelerates.

At first, lust was one of Duncan’s few needs, so he had a multitude of lovers and almost never refused beautiful women, even if they were goddesses.

But now, as his Divinity begins to ascend and his humanity falls away, his Mortal desires are slowly fading; even a temptress like the Mother of Great Bliss can no longer ignite in him the same fervent passion and impulse as at the beginning.

It is at such a time that one can see a person’s—especially an Ascender’s—truest self.

What he is doing now reflects his most genuine thoughts.

"What is he doing?" the Goddess of Fortune Taimola suddenly asked.

The Goddess of Love Shunni shook her head and said softly, "I don’t know. I can no longer perceive him."

Once one attains Divine-like Power, one slips beyond the Divine Spirits’ sight.

Even the divine eye cannot reach.

At this moment, the Goddess of Joy Lierla said softly, "The Mother of Great Bliss is serving him; she seems to want to become his Priest."

"I’m planning to let her go."

To her, the Mother of Great Bliss was no more than a plaything, a diversion for when she was bored in the mortal world. Though a Legendary Priest, her strength was mediocre, and she lacked the ability to lead a Church.

From time to time, the Goddess of Joy Lierla would experience Mortal pleasures through the Mother of Great Bliss.

"The Mother of Great Bliss is resettling refugees."

A faintly complicated look crossed the Goddess of Joy Lierla’s face as she said slowly, "He hasn’t focused too much on those powerful professionals. He and his followers have taken in many refugees fleeing from around Tifanton."