"Can you affect the entire sea clan by relying on the blood sacrifice of 20,000 crazy believers?" Lina asked in confusion: "This kind of effort is not proportional to the gain, and there should be sacrifices of other things."

"Of course, there is." Catherine nodded, "Dimos sacrificed himself."

"What?" Lina widened her glasses and said in disbelief: "How is it possible, how can the gods sacrifice themselves blood? And even if he really wants to sacrifice himself, there is no recipient."

"You misunderstood that he is not a blood sacrifice himself." Catherine explained: "He used the blood sacrifice of the crazy believers to temporarily raise the divine power to the peak, and then used more than 95% of the divine power to create the nightmare spirit in my hand."

"It turns out... no wonder he became extremely weak soon after the record, and even fell into a deep sleep." Several girls suddenly realized, but their brains were quickly filled with questions. Vivian first raised his own doubts: "People with slightly normal thinking will not weaken their power in war 95%, even in order to create a powerful weapon. After all, someone must use it behind weapons. He himself is asleep, so there are no equivalent users."

"Also, I remember that Dimos is not one of the most powerful gods. He was only at a medium level among the gods back then. Even if he consumed all his power, he was not enough to compete with Kareto, one of the most powerful gods." Lina shook her head and said, "What's more, there are gods under Kareto's seat that belong to him. Dimos himself is just a member of the Death God, and both sides cannot be equal at all."

"You all forgot one thing." The smile on Catherine's face was faint, as if full of worries: "Dimos chose the best opportunity. Even the most visionary god of wisdom, Lord Weston, didn't seize it, I'd better explain in detail."

"Dimos used the blood sacrifice of believers to forcefully divide nearly 95% of his divine power, and then used this power to create the Nightmare Spirit. Because of the nightmare and fear related to the mind, his master's master's mind was very clever. Under his design, the Nightmare Spirit could use the loopholes that were accidentally left by the Ocean God system when creating the Sea Clan to leave a hint in the mind of the Sea Clan, which twisted the Sea Clan's piety to Kareto into piety to the Nightmare Spirit. Behind the Nightmare Spirit is Dimos, which indirectly made the Sea Clan's faith to Dimos. Of course, it is useless to be pious to a divine artifact without its own will. Dimos only needs to receive faith behind the scenes, so the person who truly gets the whole loyalty of the Sea Clan is the holder of the Nightmare Spirit."

"But the gods of the Ocean God are not fools. They can't see someone manipulating their children and ignore them. So it is logical that Dimos' plan cannot be successful. However, after he created the Nightmare Spirit, he did not use it immediately, but kept it sealed it up, and would rather become weaker and weaker by himself until the end of the Third Age, when the earth was broken and the world collapsed. Lord Yara built a barrier after repairing the world and separated the gods from the mortal world. At this time, Dimos's opportunity came."

"Due to the emergence of the barrier of the mortal world, the power of the gods can no longer directly affect the mortal world. Kaletto and his subordinate gods are no exception, and they can only rely on the church to collect faith. However, Dimos is different. The nightmare spirit left by Dimos contains 95% of his power, as long as it can be exerted. No one in this mortal world can compete, and even Caletto can do nothing at that time. He can only watch the holder of the nightmare spirit control the entire sea clan. In Dimos' plan, the holder of the nightmare spirit, that is, his archbishop, after controlling all sea clans, will make all sea clans offer their faith to him, so that he can wake up from his sleep and become the most powerful god."

"At the beginning, everything was carried out according to Dimos' plan. Although he became weaker and weaker and even fell into a deep sleep, the magical nightmare spirit was retained. When Lord Yara repaired the world and everything had settled down, his archbishop led the last remaining high-level combat power of the entire Nightmare Church to sail to the sea, hoping to activate the nightmare spirit at the center of the ocean. In order to prevent the sea clan from being alert in advance, they concealed the nightmare spirit layer by layer, but in the end they were discovered by Kareto in advance."

"Even if Kaletto discovered their intentions, he could not interfere directly. He could only descend oracles to the Storm Church according to the rules. The Storm Priest at that time relied on the Sea King's crown to fight against the control of the Nightmare Spirit in order to destroy the Nightmare Spirit through a surprise attack. We have all inferred what happened later. After a fierce battle, both sides died together. The Archbishop of the Nightmare Church hid the Nightmare Spirit here before his death."

"It's very thrilling, just one last step away." Lina sighed and said, "But, no matter what, we got this thing, why are you not only unhappy, but also looking dazed? I really can't understand."

"Ha, because I suddenly understood something." Katherine's smile was very complicated, and it was hard to see what she was thinking: "And, this nightmare spirit painted a very beautiful picture for me."

"Are you seduced by it?" Freya grabbed the point and said in a deep voice: "Has it made a promise to you?"

"No, on the contrary, he did not tempt me." Catherine smiled bitterly: "Dimos is a god who is good at using spiritual loopholes. His artifacts have also inherited his characteristics. After I got the Nightmare Spirit, it not only did not promise illusory benefits to tempt me, but instead only showed the real possibilities of the future to me. He was actively waiting for me to accept him."

"The real possibility?" Freya repeated in a low voice and asked in confusion: "What about?"

"First of all, I have to admit that when Doris said that I was a God's favor, I was a little confused, but now I understand that she is talking about the future." Catherine smiled bitterly: "Now I am the only favored man of Dimos, and during his sleep, I am the only controller of his divine power and the most powerful existence in the entire Yara Continent. Lina, smash me with your hammer, and you can try it and you will know what happened."

Lina hesitated for a moment, and gently tapped her arm under Catherine's affirmative gaze. The mace did not touch Catherine's body, but instead penetrated through Catherine's body like a cloud of fog. Lina's face changed and she reached out to grab Catherine's shoulder, but this time her hand successfully supported her shoulder.

"The privilege of the gods cannot be harmed by the mortals," said Catherine. "No hostile mortal can touch it. This is the first gift of the Nightmare Spirit."

"Just the first one?" Lina said in surprise: "There are other ones?"

"Of course, and the main one is behind it." Catherine hugged her legs and said blankly: "Do you know that after I picked up the Nightmare Spirit, in just a moment, a quarter of the entire sea had fallen into my hands. Including Doris and her Storm Temple, all the sea tribes in this quarter of the sea are already under my control. They are not controlled as dull as the controlled sea tribes we have seen before, but are sincerely regarded me as the masters, treating me like their gods. As for me, I can sit here to command any sea tribe to do anything without any consumption or delay. And as long as I am willing, I can spend a year or two, I can let the effect of the Nightmare Spirit cover all the oceans. At that time, every sea tribe will be under my control."

"Then, I can land on both the neutral land and the Kingdom of the Sea. The sea race is not weaker than the sum of land races in terms of numbers and top combat power. Under the raid, these two forces will be controlled by me soon. After controlling the Kingdom of the Sea and Real, I attacked the Federation of Neville left and right, controlled Neville, and then integrated the troops of the three forces to annex the Faral Empire. After doing all this, almost the territory of human beings belongs to me. I can freely build a country I dream of, a country where there is no war and killing, no enslavement and oppression, all races coexist equally, and everyone can live happily."

"With this country as the starting point, with human beings and all sea races as their support, it can sweep the entire Yara Continent within a few decades, making me the only king of this continent and the common master of all races. After controlling all races, all races will take me as their faith. Such a huge power of faith can easily transform me from the controller of divine power to a true god. Yes, take me as my faith, because Dimos has fallen, and the worship of the Nightmare Spirit will automatically feed the power of faith to the holder. At that time, I will be the only true god who can walk in the mortal world and the most powerful god in the Yara world."

"Do you understand? The only true God, absolute power, wealth of the whole world, respect from everyone, praise from later generations, these are all things I can get, and it is not very difficult. As long as I truly accept it, I am willing to integrate with it."

"With it, we can change the world as we hope, and make the entire Yara world what we all hope."

"The Nightmare Spirit did not tempt me, but just showed this future in front of me. And I thought about it repeatedly, the possibility of this future is very high." Catherine finally said softly: "If I accept the favor of the Nightmare Spirit and do what I just said, will you support me?"
Chapter completed!