Chapter 395: Chapter 313: The True God Stranded in the Human World
However, the good news is that since a divine-level power will be promptly sent away by the world rules as soon as it emerges in the Lower Realm, even if the Miracle Saint Emperor has this heaven-sent opportunity, at most he can choose a demon for a single attack.
If he greedily attempts a full extermination operation, when he invokes divine power on a large scale, he will be directly taken away.
Therefore, with Victor and the Seven Great Demon Kings present at the ascension site, it’s up to the Miracle Saint Emperor to decide if he’s interested in choosing one lucky demon from among them to take away before he departs.
The chosen demon is basically destined to die, after all, a Demon Artifact capable of saving one’s life or taking the fall cannot function under a direct divine strike, otherwise wouldn’t the emperors who reign over the entire Lower Realm just gleefully dance on a Deity’s statue head, and the Deity would be powerless against him?
For this reason, the Seven Great Demon Kings don’t feel there’s any problem, but Victor is genuinely quite nervous.
After all, in terms of threat to the Miracle World, her status as a Near God is evidently the highest.
Although in the Demon Realm there is a more powerful Demon Emperor, Illidan, he isn’t here right now, leaving the Miracle Saint Emperor with only her as a choice.
However, Victor is currently just feeling exceedingly nervous, but not to the point of despair.
After all, there still exists the invincible Illidan the Demon Emperor in the Demon Realm; even if the Miracle Saint Emperor kills her here, it wouldn’t eliminate the threat the Demon Race poses to the Miracle World. On the contrary, making a move would signify ripping facades with the Demon Realm and provide the Demon Race with a reason to invade the Miracle World again.
While the Demon Race’s nature suggests a 99% probability they’d violate the agreement when faced with unclaimed benefits, even if the Miracle Saint Emperor doesn’t actively break it, after comprehensive consideration, there’s still a pretty significant likelihood that the Miracle Saint Emperor would choose not to make a move.
Because he cares about reputation...
Not simply about the reputation of keeping one’s word, but about not being able to withstand the infamy of breaking it first.
Whether a promise is kept depends solely on the scale of the benefits, but should the Miracle Saint Emperor breach the agreement first, giving the Demon Race a legitimate reason to mobilize, the subsequent conflicts ignited by the Demon Race in the Miracle World would surely find accountability.
Under the ravages of war, people wouldn’t praise a newly ascended Deity for removing a threat to the Miracle World; they would only blame that Deity for killing a Near God of the Demon Race and tearing apart the peace treaty between the two realms, thereby prompting another invasion by the Demon Race.
In practical terms, with as many past achievements as the Miracle Saint Emperor has, there would likely not be so many fools falling for the Demon Race’s lies, but an undeniable fact is that not everyone is smart, nor are all eyes so discerning.
The initial number of followers for a new god is inherently small and needs to be gradually accumulated. It’s unnecessary to completely crush them, but as long as their reputation is tarnished, and their Power of Faith is insufficient from the start, their growth will undoubtedly be painfully slow.
Therefore, considering his future, the Miracle Saint Emperor would certainly hesitate about whether to take action.
Choosing to take action means reducing a Near God-level strong enemy for the Miracle World, but failing to handle Illidan the Demon Emperor, all efforts would be in vain, and he’d bear the blame for ruining his reputation.
Choosing not to take action leaves the Miracle World under greater pressure, causing it to collapse faster, but the ultimate outcome for the Miracle World doesn’t actually change, except that the time it takes to fall might differ slightly. Most importantly, if he doesn’t make a move, he won’t bear the blame.
Under the threat of death, Victor’s mind spun rapidly. Although the Ancient Demon Dragon Race isn’t known for intelligence, and she herself isn’t particularly clever, these obvious conclusions were still apparent to her.
So in a state of being on edge but not frightened to death, Victor, along with the Seven Great Demon Kings, patiently awaited the Miracle Saint Emperor completing the ascension to divinity.
Uh, not that they had any choice but to wait quietly; they couldn’t speak, nor could they move...
At this crucial moment, when the eight demons were under intense scrutiny, the Power of Heaven and Earth in the surrounding space suddenly began to recede. Since they couldn’t use this exclusive power, they didn’t feel like it was a loss. On the contrary, the pressure on their bodies decreased sharply as the Power of Heaven and Earth withdrew.
Gradually, as the Power of Heaven and Earth in the void grew increasingly thin, Victor and the Seven Great Demon Kings gradually regained their ability to move.
Although they couldn’t communicate verbally, the moment they regained freedom they didn’t need any words; all the demons made a unanimous decision, which was... to run!
If not run now, when should they?
Although the Miracle Saint Emperor hadn’t shown any intent to kill, and was most likely abandoning the choice where gaining little would lose much, standing there stupidly in front of an ascendant enemy would just expose everything, wouldn’t it?
Being the leaders of the Demon Race in the Lower Realm, if they weren’t even afraid of a True God, demons would start doubting if there was some dirty clandestine deal going on with that Deity.
Just as Victor and the Seven Great Demon Kings fled in disarray, up above, an endless ornate ceiling in the void descended with a Divine Attraction Light, marking the path for the one ascending to divinity to enter the Divine Realm.
In this regard, the Demon Race and various other races in the Miracle World are essentially the same. When they achieve the status of Demon God, what’s descended is actually also a Divine Attraction Light. However, due to official race names, like with the Demon’s Gift or Divine Gift, they divide it into distinctions, calling it a Light of Demon Attraction instead.
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