“Shine!”
The brilliant, holy light from the foxgirl holy maiden shined brighter and brighter, denser and denser. In the end, it turned into a curtain of light spreading out from the foxgirl.
The beastmen around her saw all this and nervously kept guard over her while looking around warily.
It’s because the [Prayer] that the foxgirl holy maiden was using right now was not something that can be casually invoked. Not only would it cause a great deal of damage to her, it may even end up causing all kinds of side effects.
It can’t be helped though. This [Prayer] is borrowing the powers of one the Three Great Goddesses, the Goddess of Life. If the user didn’t have the Goddess of Life’s blessing, then using this [Prayer] was certain to more or less cause some problems.
Although the foxgirl holy maiden is the holy maiden of the beastmen, she herself was unable to gain the blessing of the Goddess of Life.
Blessings on the level of the Three Great Goddess’s are things that only the Heroes of legend are capable of getting. Throughout all of Omnipotlin’s history, the number of individuals capable of gaining the blessing of one of the Three Great Goddesses can be counted on one’s fingers. The foxgirl holy maiden indeed has a special status, and the beastmen race themselves are believers of the Goddess of Life, but even so, only one ancestor of the fox-kin had ever gained the Goddess of Life’s blessing. The current foxgirl holy maiden currently lacked the qualifications to gain a blessing on that level.
Thanks to that, even if the foxgirl holy maiden had the ability to utilize [Prayer] and temporarily borrow the powers of the Goddess of Life, she still lacked the support from the blessing. Thus, every time she uses it, she would be greatly harmed and exhausted and even end up causing side effects. This is why the beastmen were so anxious.
If not for that reason, then the foxgirl holy maiden would have used [Prayer] to find the target that they’ve been searching for a long time ago.
Now though, she had no other choice than to use this method. In the end, that’s just fate.
In this situation, the foxgirl holy maiden did not open her eyes, yet she somehow saw an image from the curtain of light.
That being…
“Dragon?”
Yes, the foxgirl holy maiden saw a dragon.
A very scary and vicious looking black dragon currently flying high up in the air with a majestic aura.
By borrowing the powers of the Goddess of Life, the foxgirl holy maiden as able to sense the terrifying life energy from that dragon. It shows that it was no ordinary dragon at that.
It’s likely one that stood among the top even among the entire dragon race.
Yet, on that dragon’s back was sat several individuals.
Of those individuals, the majority of them were girls. One is a little girl hugging a pillow, one is a very beautiful maid, and one more was the foxgirl holy maiden’s target.
Found her!
The foxgirl holy maiden thought that in her mind, but she felt no joy whatsoever.
It was because, through the power of the goddess of life, she had noticed that there seemed to be something horrifying about that very beautiful maid. She was letting out pitch black life energy. The little girl with the pillow next to her was even scarier, her life energy could be compared to a natural disaster, a volcano about to erupt. Her tiny body hid an incredible amount of power, terrifying the foxgirl holy maiden.
And when the foxgirl holy maiden’s gaze shifted to the last person on the dragon’s back, a completely ordinary looking man, a sound suddenly rang out in her mind.
“Snap!”
At that moment, the curtain of light around the foxgirl holy maiden shattered.
“Ah!”
The fox-kin holy maiden let out a scream of pain. Blood spilled out of her mouth as she collapsed.
“Holy Maiden!”
“Holy Maiden!”
The beastmen around her reacted with alarm.
They had no idea that, due to this event, a small commotion happened in the divine realm.
…
Up in a solemn looking temple in the divine realm, Nien who had been there all alone suddenly raised her head as if she felt something.
“A goddess had used her own authority to peep at Shien, huh?”
Nien seemed to have realized something as she grimaced.
“What hubris.”
Other than herself, how could any other goddess possibly peep on that Hero?
“With that woman’s blessing, Shien not long has the protection of the world itself, he can also nullify all direct effects from all divine authorities. Other than me, who has a direct connection to him from the source, no one can affect him with their authorities.”
Even now, Shien still hasn’t fully understood just what all the effects of the [Blessing of the Highest God] are.
One thing that he was unaware of is that those effects have already been operating without his knowledge.
Gain the protection of the world.
Limited to gods, all condition satisfied.
Limited to gods, all interference can be ignored.
Limited to gods, all positions can be set.
Limited to gods, all effects can be gained.
Those various effects are hard to understand just by looking, to the point where Shien still doesn’t get it at all even now. However, just because he doesn’t understand them, it doesn’t mean that they won’t work.
Right now, one of the effects of Shien’s blessing activated.
Limited to gods, all interference can be ignored.
Just like Nien said, the authority of the gods are unable to affect Shien.
Unless it’s a positive effect that is. In other words, interference that would be of benefit to Shien that is.