Chapter 589: Chapter 506: Father!
In the royal court’s large tent, the atmosphere turned somewhat eerie.
All the Half-Beasts looked at the Sorren Commerce envoy, the elderly human mage seated above, with eyes that ranged from odd to confused, angry to bewildered.
Whispers gradually arose, but because Half-Beasts were naturally loud, even their hushed discussions were clearly audible inside the tent.
“Is it actually the Divine Punishment of the God of Darkness and Shadow? In the oracle, didn’t Her Majesty state that she was our ally?”
“Could there be some misunderstanding?”
“Hey! What misunderstanding? I knew it! Any True God associated with an Evil God can’t be trusted so easily!”
“Hmph, this surely has something to do with Sorren Commerce too, you know… Our tribe got hugely scammed during our trade with them recently!”
“They were built on smuggling! I heard they secretly trafficked our people!”
“Humans… not a single good one among them!”
The discussions among the Half-Beasts grew bolder, and as they listened to the overt and covert ridicule, the face of the old mage from Sorren Commerce, sitting above, grew increasingly grim.
He widened his eyes, his white beard blowing wildly with his exhaled breaths.
His anger was palpable.
Although a mage, having become the envoy who interacted with the Half-Beasts, he himself was a clansman of the God of Darkness and Shadow.
At this moment, hearing the Half-Beast’s denouncements, whether against the commerce or the True God, he was infuriated.
“Impossible! Her Majesty, the True God, would never betray her allies! Nor would she place Divine Punishment upon them!”
The old mage said with a darkened face.
Collaborating with the Half-Beasts was crucial to Her Majesty, the True God’s plans, crucial to the expansion of the Dark Church and Sorren Commerce in the Underworld, and naturally could not be allowed to fail.
Thus, even though he was deeply angered by the Half-Beasts’ sarcastic words, he patiently retorted back.
“But… I saw it with my own eyes! I saw the sky and earth change color, space torn apart, those streams of purple-black lightning, and the corrosive aura left in its wake directly transforming many of our clansmen into terrifying dark creatures! That certainly was the Divine Punishment of the God of Darkness and Shadow!”
Seeing the envoy from Sorren Commerce becoming the target of everyone’s criticism, the Half-Beast kneeling on one knee grew emboldened. He quickly described the scene he witnessed.
The Divine Punishment of the God of Darkness and Shadow was indeed quite distinctive.
Even ordinary Half-Beasts had heard of it.
This was because, unlike the Divine Punishments of other True Gods, Hers was not just delivered in the form of lightning; it was accompanied by shadow powers originating from the Land of Darkness, capable of corrupting punished areas.
It’s fair to say that such corruptive power was only possessed by Her and those Evil Gods.
In fact, due to this, some extreme True Gods stubbornly believed that the God of Darkness and Shadow had fallen, no longer a righteous god but an Evil God.
Thus, in the Segis World, many uproars over this issue almost sparked divine wars.
Also, though a deity with only mid-tier divine strength and relatively weak influence in the Segis World, the God of Darkness and Shadow’s name remained well-remembered by many.
After hearing the Half-Beast’s description, the mage from Sorren Commerce found his mouth agape, not knowing how to refute…
The affected region’s creatures would all be shadowed…
He recognized from the other’s description that this was indeed the hallmark of their True God’s Divine Punishment!
Around him, the Half-Beasts discussed vigorously, their discussions growing louder.
“Hmph! Corruption, dark creatures, yet you say it’s not Her Majesty, the God of Darkness and Shadow?”
“Why would Her Majesty do this? Aren’t we allies?!”
“Hmph… what allies, merely using us to deal with the Life Goddess of the Elf Forest, who, as rumored, is an ally of the Netherworld Death God!”
“What Life Goddess? Just a Fake God, moreover, a subordinate god of the Death God, not an ally!”
“Hmph… all the same, they’re all our enemies! They’ve stolen what rightfully belonged to Her Reverence, Father God!”
The Half-Beasts grew indignant.
Meanwhile, the old mage from Sorren Commerce reddened with anger.
The continued sarcastic remarks, the underlying dissatisfaction with Sorren Commerce, and the disrespect toward the God of Darkness and Shadow left him enraged.
*These damn, foolish, shortsighted Half-Beasts!*
*No wonder, after so many years surviving in the Death Desert, they still couldn’t unify it, and in the end, needed a True God to intervene!*
*Why don’t they use their adorably limited brains and think, how could Her Majesty, the True God, possibly act against her allies?*
*There must be some misunderstanding!*
The old mage thought bitterly.
Taking a deep breath, he suppressed his internal fury and explained:
“No, Her Majesty, the True God, would not do such a thing without reason. There must be some misunderstanding! Let us not fall into the traps of those cunning elves!”
Yet his words still failed to convince the Half-Beasts.
“Hmph! Divine Punishment is the will of the True God, how do we explain Divine Punishment?”
“Could the True God truly be deceived by elves?!”
For the old mage’s explanation, the Half-Beasts did not agree and became even more furious.
However, even in their anger, everyone had no disagreement with the description of “cunning elves” from the other side.
In the past, such a term as cunning could never have been associated with the naive, pure-hearted, and kind Elf Clan…