Chapter 614 - 613 – The first phase is over.

"Still, the spirit dragons?" – said Maparapara.

"Are we really sure that they are not connected with the necromancer dragons?"

"Well, that is actually the annoying question I've been struggling with." – said Phantasia.

"I mean, the sheer timing!"

"But again, necromancy and spirits are like water and oil!"

"…"

"Hm… I mean… How can we not be sure that the spirits are trying to adapt to one of their main weaknesses?" – said Thanatos.

"…"

"Oh… Well, that would be fucked then, wouldn't it?" - said Maparapara as the trio of the players continued discussing the current state of the world.

"!"

"Master." – said one of the homunculuses as she approached the trio.

"It seems Orion and the others are climbing out."

"…"

"Be right back." – said Phantasia as he walked towards the hole in the middle of the camp, waiting… And then helping out the two homunculuses and Orion to get out.

"…" – Phantasia didn't said anything at all… But Orion looked him straight in his eyes.

"I did it." – said Orion.

"The legendary rarity. Divinity of Goodness Of Winter – Kmin."

"I have it."

"…"

"Heh…"

"Proud?" – asked Phantasia with a smirk on his face.

"…"

"You know… I fucking struggled a living hell with the bullshit I've had never had any interested in before or knew shit about." – said Orion as she looked up.

"I was so pissed that when I've logged off, I ended up screaming like fucking animal to the point my neighbors came and asked me if everything was alright."

"It was… Suffering… Pure motherfucking suffering."

"I was exhausted…."

"…"

"Tell me."

"That divinity."

"You said that no matter if it is a combat or non-combat type class, the power up I will get will already turn me into somebody."

"And that it won't be over, since I could become a demi-god and in theory, a proper god."

"Right?"

"Yes." – replied Phantasia with a smile.

"…"

"THEN IT WAS FUCKING WORTH IT! BABY!" – shouted Orion on top of her lungs that the entire camp heard her.

"…"

"Ha…"

"So… What now?" – asked Orion as she looked directly at Phantasia with a big grin on her face.

"Now?" – replied Phantasia.

"We prepare for the next step of our operation."

"Come."

"Now the real work will begin."

<<Honestly speaking? I wasn't expecting that to happened.>>

<<After her last fuck up I thought that she may really take long amount of time to finish… But okay?>>

<<Huh… Maybe she took my advice and rested up? Maybe she was way too nervous before?>>

<<…>>

<<I won't ask.>>

<<Or maybe, I shouldn't.>>

<<Either way, the current objective had been completed.>>

<<We had increased our group size to 5 members.>>

<<And not only that.>>

<<Each one of us now possess the divinity.>>

<<And with that, the recruitment phase and divinity phase is over!>>

<<However, we are still nowhere near finished.>>

<<After packing up our stuff, we returned back to the Abaddon are regrouped.>>

"Well then, first thing first." – said Phantasia.

"You are Sengen, is that correct?" – said Phantasia who met for the very first time Sengen face to face.

"…Yes." – replied bit nervous Sengen.

(That guy is Phantasia? The Doctor?) – thought Sengen.

(Honestly, I'm bit scared regarding why he gathered us all up here.)

"…"

"Orion. She is fully aware of the dangerous of being with us." – said Phantasia.

"But what about you? Are you scared?"

"…"

"Yeah. I'm a bit." – replied Sengen.

"But there is no fucking way I can back away now, can I?"

"…"

"Heh."

"Nice response." – said Phantasia as he patted Sengen on the shoulder.

"Welcome to this hell of ours." – said Phantasia as he walked away.

"And now, let's congratulate these two idiots for joining our little group of ours and proving themselves."

"Orion and Sengen."

"Welcome." – said Phantasia as he clapped his hands while smiling.

After Phantasia said his welcome, the group began talking with each other for some time, trying to understand one another even a little bit.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait… You… You fucking infected the entire beginner village not because of a quest… But just for fun?" – asked Orion.

"Yeb." – replied Phantasia with straight face.

"Huh… That is fucked up mate." – said Orion.

"Honestly I'm more surprised regarding that whole class of yours." – said Sengen.

"A class that allows you to create different classes?"

"Forget divinities! That is the real cheating!"

"I agree with on that." – said Phantasia.

"…"

"Just asking, but you two don't have cheating type classes like him?" – asked Sengen.

"Nope. We don't have anything like what he has." – said Thanatos.

"Well, had. Since now we have divinities."

"But the fact remains that these two were still monsters even without any special bullshit cheating classes." – said Phantasia.

"Which just shows you how big of a monsters these two are."

"…"

"Yeah… No doubt about it." – said Sengen as she and Orion fully understood that Thanatos nor Maparapara is to be messed with.

"…"

"Anyway, I get that you want to talk bit more and all, but there is another reason why I've had gathered you all beside getting to know each other better." – said Phantasia.

"Congratulation."

"All 5 members of our group have now in possession their divinities."

"Divinity Of The Goodness Of Oasis And Beauty."

"Divinity Of The God Of Beast And Ferality."

"Divinity Of The God Of Pure Destruction."

"Divinity Of The Goodness Of Library And Magecraft."

"Divinity Of The Goodness Of The Winter."

"All of us are now in the possession of divinity."

"It was definitely not easy."

"Let's not beat around the bush."

"Each of the motherfucking trials we had to deal with were hellish."

"But all of us had won."

"And now, every one of us have now in possession the power that can influence this world."

"Congratulation you all."

"Now nobody will be allowed to ever ignore you."

"…"

"Still, you can probably guess that the situation is annoying right now."

"If not, then let me explain." – said Phantasia as he explained in the details the current situation with divinities, the movement of the major factions as well as many other things.

"The original plan was for us five to be the only ones in possession of the divinity and we would go around destroying the other divinities in order to prevent as many people as possible from obtaining such influential power."

"However, with how things are going, especially with new enemy who we still don't have any FUCKING idea about… We are skipping the entire hunt part, since we even can't do it anymore."

"And instead, we are going straight for the next phase."

"The preparation."

"And I know you have some questions, but let me say something."

"Sengen. Orion. Both of you have already unlocked your legendary classes, right?"

"Yes." – replied both new divinity holders.

"Then you must had noticed that you had obtained 2 new extra stats, didn't you?"

"Actually, I've been wondering about this." – said Sengen.

"[Faith] and [Divinity] extra stats."

"What exactly are they? Are they related to what the religions in this world are doing?"

"Not only that, I've noticed that in my skill calculation the [Divinity] stat plays some role."

"Let me explain." – said Phantasia.

[Faith: 0]

[A special stat that can be used by a beings of divine origin.]

[This stats provide special resources that can be used to perform miracles.]

[{Faith} resource is gathered by the believers or the special structures that worship the user.]

[Divinity: 0]

[Divinity type: Oasis And Beauty]

[A special stat that represents one's divinity status, allowing the user influence and power of the divinity to have much more powerful impact on the world.]

[Divinity grants the user empowerment to their skills and the miracles that they can do.]

[To increase [Divinity] stat, the user needs to gather set amount of [Faith] to obtain a point.]

"This thing popped up when you checked these extra stats."

"Let's go over few things."

"First is the [Faith]."

"As you know the heaven and hell relies on the resource called {Faith} that the believers or their special places of worship provides."

"And with the {Faith} resource is used by the gods to perform miracles."

"But, that is our [Faith]. The [Faith] stat the gods of hell and heaven may have different version or function."

"?"

"What do you mean?" – asked Sengen.

"Penalty, so to speak." – said Thanatos.

"In the past, the remaining elder gods banished the invaders from this world and created a seal barrier that keeps the invaders at bay."

"The demons, angels and spirits cannot really function here properly."

"In other words, they need anchors and what not."

"If there was no restriction, the entire hell realm, heaven realm and the spirt realm could easily go into this world, including the gods themselves."

"For the invading gods the {Faith} resource is something they need." – said Maparapara.

"Think of them as taxes."

"If they don't have anymore {faith} coming from this place and it runs out, they can't do anything at all."

"However, we are not invaders, are we?"

"!"

"Oh! So, our divinity is stronger than theirs?!" – said excited Orion.

"Pretty much." – said Thanatos.

"We don't have any sort of penalty applied to us."

"…"

"Wait, what about spirits?" – asked Sengen.

"How do they function?"

"Oh, the World Trees." – replied Phantasia.

"They are a giant parasite structures that are destroying this entire world and with the destruction of this world they plan to use the destroyed world as a sacrifice to create a new spirit realm."

"When it comes to the spirits, their connection is land and mutation."

"They need to have as much land as possible and mutate it."

"Oh… I've heard the organization telling that the World Trees are nothing more than massive parasites… Are they real?" – asked Sengen.

"Yeb. I've helped once in cutting down the World Tree and gotten the materials from it." – replied Phantasia.

"And I've checked the materials… All of them were parasites."

"Oh… Huh… Okay." – said Sengen.

"Continue."

"…"

"As we were saying. We don't suffer from penalty, since we are not the invaders." – said Phantasia.

"However, we are still nobodies in religions world and we don't even know what miracles we can even do… Since, nothing is popping up."

"HOWEVER! We may have something."

"Arthur."

"The motherfucking main protagonist wanabe who is suspected to have obtained first divinity." – said Phantasia as he dragged out a board with several different confirmed divinity users on in, including then sketch of the female knight that is working for Apple.

"From what we had seen and checked, it didn't looked like Arthur did any MIRACLES."

"All we had seen him was using his divinity oriented class skills."

"We looked into him and he was acting like a hero."

"…However, that is what exactly had struck me."

"Hero."

"People had been looking up to him and worshiping him like a hero."

"In other words, by acting like a hero, he was able to gather up {faith} resource without any problems."

"And that brings us to two things we suspected related to miracles." – said Phantasia as he put on the photos of the two members of the Arthur's guild.

The saint player – Morina.

The spearwoman – Mara.

"These two players have ability to wield the same flames as Arthur."

"The flames that are made with his divine power."

"!"

"Wait, but you said that there is only one divinity of each god and no duplicates!" – said shocked Orion.

"How is-"

"Fallowers." – said Sengen with shocked expression.

"?"

"What?" – asked Orion.

"Each of the churches. Be it hell or heaven, they each offer special class of their own religion."

"…."

"Oh…. OHHHHHHHHH!"

"OH SHIT!"

"Wait! Are you by any chance saying-"

"Yes." – said Phantasia.

"One of the miracles that the divine being can do is this."

"A miracle to bestow the power to the believers."