Chapter 87: Before the Battle of Momona Village

Having settled the compensation issue for Jier, Jier also released the three Church Hunters he had captured.

In truth, these three had not been bound hand and foot; after retrieving their other personal belongings, the three men stood with their heads lowered beside the other hunters behind Priest Clark, attempting to make themselves as inconspicuous as possible.

Glancing at his three incompetent subordinates, Priest Clark walked alongside Jier, and the group followed Jier's team to join forces and move together.

"Tell me about the cooperation you want, Knight Jier." Priest Clark saw the team of seven priests from four churches accompanying Jier's group, but he showed no reaction; priests of the Hunting God Church were different from those of other deities—they were not keen on spreading the faith of their god, and whether believers chose to believe in the God of Hunting depended entirely on the believers' own self-awakening and their initiative to embrace the Hunting God Church.

Priests of the Hunting God Church were less like clergy and more like commanders, logistics officers, and spiritual mentors of an elite combat unit. Unlike other priests who had no subordinates, he had an armed unit under his command from the moment he began serving in the church, and in the several hunter villages directly under him, he could even muster a team of hundreds of hunters using bows and arrows.

Whether it was small, elite squads chasing and hunting, or large-scale hunting operations involving hundreds of people, these were the primary duties of the Hunting God Church priests.

Therefore, although he looked similar to priests of other churches in appearance, anyone with eyes could see the significant difference between a Hunting God Church priest and those of other divine churches.

"I would like to first understand the situation at the monster nest in Momona Village, and how you plan to deal with the Alien Evil God?" Jier's eyes sparkled, looking extremely curious.

Priest Clark raised his eyebrows: "The monster nest? Rather than asking me, you might as well go see for yourself."

After speaking, the priest raised his hand and pointed in a direction within the mountain forest: "There, not far away, is Momona Village; we are already very close to the monster's nest."

Jier looked in the direction Priest Clark pointed, but he still could not see anything on the forest floor; in all directions, there were identical forest trees. However, Jier noticed that the trees here were much sparser than those in the mountain forest of the previous two days.

He raised his hand to signal the team to stop, then leaped upward from where he stood, jumping directly over ten meters high to grab the treetop of a large tree nearby. After shaking vigorously on the treetop for a while, he looked toward the direction the priest had just pointed.

Sure enough, several hundred meters away in that direction, there was a small village located in a gentle mountain hollow.

The large trees for some distance around that village had been felled by the original villagers, and following the slope of the hollow, many rare terraced fields had been cultivated in the lower-lying areas of the village.

As Jier's gaze continued forward along those fields, he could see a large group of humans active further away, as well as black smoke rising from the encampment in the rear.

Jier carefully recited the prayer taught to him by the Great Bird Deity, released a small divine art to enhance his vision, and carefully examined the way the tiny, ant-like humans were fighting over there.

Priest Clark below seemed to sense something and looked up at Knight Jier clinging to the treetop, but because he was influenced by the items gifted by the Sun God Church and the Sun God Divine Power on Jier's body, he did not see anything more.

In fact, even if Jier used the Great Bird Deity's methods and Shadow Divine Power in front of Priest Clark, the other party might not necessarily see anything, as Priest Clark was still only a Pastor. Jier not only possessed the Great Bird Deity's Shadow Divine Power, but also two blessing abilities and one Nongshen Divine Power Seed given by the Agricultural God and the Agricultural God Church, the Divine Power of Strength forcibly gifted by the Dwarf God of Strength, a complete set of full strength from a Sun God Priest, as well as the Magic Beast Magic sealed within his own body, his own Knight life force, and the Elf Lady's Bloodline Ring hidden deepest of all.

With these messy things mixed together, if someone with truly great strength were to see through it, they would likely sigh that Jier could be fine in such a situation, which could only be said to mean that the deity behind each power only wanted to utilize Jier himself, rather than treating Jier as something belonging to them.

Otherwise, these powers from different origins would have long since started fighting.

After Jier used the means to enhance his vision, his eyes became like a telescope, seeing the scene several kilometers away clearly in an instant.

Jier saw that on the farmland built according to the terrain below Momona Village in the distance, Bell's team was fighting against a significant number of parasitic monsters. It seemed that because the wild boars blocking the way had been wiped out by Magic Arrows, there was suddenly no major means left to stop Bell's team.

Although the parasitic monster group was mixed with many non-human-parasitized wild beasts and animals, merely having a small number of physically strong beasts parasitized could not stop Bell's team.

The nearly one hundred Armed Civilians held several-meter-long Long Spears prepared in advance by Bell, and each weapon was also blessed with the 【Radiant Weapon】 divine art by the accompanying Sun God Priests, which allowed the Armed Civilians, even without much combat experience, to easily cause high temperatures to ignite at the spot where they stabbed the parasitic monsters, as long as they poked them from a distance with the long spears in their hands.

This was a terrifying effect for the parasitic monsters.

And whenever the Armed Civilians became exhausted, the accompanying Agricultural God priests would scatter grain seeds and cast battle divine arts to restore everyone's physical strength, allowing the Armed Civilians, who served as the main force, to continue fighting and push the front line without needing to rest.

Section by section, layer by layer, the farmland built along the mountain slope was captured, and the parasitic monsters had to retreat again and again.

It was not that the monsters did not resist; they would occasionally send out one or two disgusting monsters from the village that were tall in stature, or were fierce wild beasts from the mountain forest, or were several humans tangled and fused together.

At this time, the Knight Family youths, blessed with divine arts by the Church of the God of Wealth priests, would take action one after another. They were each clad in Steel Armor, either holding two-handed greatswords, or wielding long-handled battle axes, or holding a Large Bow, firing Arrow projectiles blessed with 【Radiant Weapon】 from a distance of over a hundred meters. Bell also rode a sturdy horse to charge up and engage these monsters in battle.

"It's a lively fight. It's just that I don't know why a small village could be packed with so many parasitic monsters?" Jier was somewhat puzzled; when he approached from the mountain forest side over the past two days, parasitic monsters had been approaching Momona Village the whole time, and combined with the even more parasitic monsters encountered in the battle on the main road near Bell's side, this number of parasitic monsters did not seem right.

He jumped down from the large tree and told everyone his doubts.

Because this troublemaking Alien Evil God was not attacking and destroying human society for the first time, other divine churches also had some understanding of the methods related to It.

"Warrior Jier, if there is an altar of an evil god in Momona Village, then It can completely use divine means to continuously send the power It controls in other places through the altar from a distance." An Agricultural God priest accompanying the team had a lot of knowledge about related matters, so he gave an answer.

"Spatial teleportation? Through an evil god's altar?" Jier was exceptionally surprised; although he used the dreams gifted to him by the Lady to travel back and forth through space all day, this was the first time he had seen spatial means other than that.

Priest Clark had previously sent hunters to scout Momona Village at close range: "Yes, to a god, as long as It wants, through a fixed altar of Its own that has undergone relevant rituals, It can teleport items and personnel from afar after consuming a large amount of power. This is more like a summoning technique. It can only teleport personnel and power highly relevant to this Alien Evil God."

He curled his lips: "But this is very dangerous. Items are one thing, but when personnel are summoned through such an altar, often half of them are lost during the summoning process for various reasons."

"Half the people! Only these evil gods and the monsters under them, or insane fanatics, could accept at least a fifty percent loss."

"This is Its final madness; even for an alien god, this intensity of summoning personnel will rapidly consume Its power," Priest Clark said.

He said directly to Jier: "To guard against the Alien Evil God abandoning this place and leaving because of power loss or seeing that the situation is bad, we must launch an attack on It as soon as possible."

Jier nodded: "I see, but you haven't said how you plan to deal with It? By relying on everyone to go up and swing swords and blades at an Alien Evil God?"

Priest Clark laughed disdainfully: "How is that possible? The Baron Heir and your team, Knight Jier, only have the main role of pinning down the monsters emerging from the altar. The main combat force for hunting the evil god is naturally our Hunting God Church. However, you, that Baron Heir, and the people from other divine churches are qualified to participate."

A look of excitement appeared on his face: "This is a great honor for you all. Today, right today, you will witness the fall of a god! This grand hunt will be the best sacrifice offered to my God who is watching here!"

The other priests present did not express much opinion on this.

The priests of the Sun God Church were too lazy to even watch the Hunting God Church priest go mad; the Sun God was the only powerful god of humanity at this time, and other gods were merely some weak existences.

The priests of the Church of the God of Wealth were deeply involved in all aspects of human society, and they did not feel that dealing with a troublemaking Alien Evil God required your Hunting God Church to be able to do it. Everything in the world was just an item whose value needed to be weighed on the two ends of a scale, even an Alien Evil God was no exception.

As long as the value was appropriate, the Church of the God of Wealth could use some means to call over an entire Holy Crusade from the Holy Land of the God of Wealth, invite several teams of Imperial Border Knights stationed on the borders of the Saint Hors Kingdom, or an entire organized Knight Order from the upper echelons of the Kingdom, or invite Astrologers from the Astrologers Guild, or several Magic Masters, and they could also deal with this Alien Evil God causing trouble in remote little places throughout human society.

As long as the Alien Evil God did not run away.

As for the Agricultural God Church priests, they were somewhat worried in their hearts. Hearing Jier recount the battle situation he saw ahead, they were afraid that Young Master Bell's side would suffer too severe a loss of personnel due to the intensity of the battle, wiping out all the young men from the villages in Northern Sasi County. One had to know that when Sasi Baron was summoned to lead troops away from Sasi County, he had already conscripted a round of the most excellent young men of military age from the villages of Northern Sasi County.

Because of fighting the parasitic monsters, if another batch of the most essential young male laborers from each village died, how would the agricultural affairs of each village be handled in the future? How many years would it take to recover?

But no matter how worried the Agricultural God priest was, he could not directly influence the battle situation.

A priest from the Church of the God of the Dead accompanying the team had a rather curious expression. Obviously, if this Hunting God Church priest was not bragging, the fall of an alien god was also a very curious and very rare event for a priest who believed in the God of the Dead.

It was not everyone who could witness the death and fall of a god with their own eyes. Moreover, he was also very curious: humans left behind corpses and Death Aura after death, but what would a god leave behind after death?

At the same time, this priest felt it was quite a pity that his other companions left in Yemei Town did not have the opportunity to witness this.

It was truly rare that a small Sasi County could witness such an event worthy of being recorded in major history books.

Jier had not yet realized how amazing this matter would be if a god were truly hunted successfully today, and how many people would be shocked by being able to participate in it.

He only felt that the weather was too hot today; if he were to fight with abandon, the heat generated by his body during activity would only make him quite uncomfortable.

The team accelerated their movement speed; the warriors in the front row no longer felled trees to mark the route they came from, but only used axes to cut some obvious slashing marks on the trees they passed. Everyone began to prepare for battle; more than a dozen of Jier's most capable warriors checked their respective armor to see if they were prepared properly. The accompanying priests said nothing, only watching the Hunting God priest walking in front spout nonsense.

"It is almost noon now; about a few hours after we join the battle, High Priest Mardo will lead others to raid the enemy's altar nest. At that time, we must also rush up immediately upon seeing it and join the battle. Otherwise, we will have to stay here and fight the remaining monsters in the village."

Priest Clark said loudly.

"Those who intend to join this grand hunt, please follow our footsteps closely and don't fall behind. But those who don't want to participate, or aren't qualified, just honestly clear out the parasitic monsters in the village. By then, the monsters in the village without reinforcements shouldn't be your match either."

Listening to the words of Priest Clark, Jier noticed a key point: "According to you, the battlefield seems to be divided into two parts; one side is the clearing of parasitic Monster in the Cunzi, and the other side is the charge toward the Altar of the Evil God to crusade against the Hunting Evil God. Is that so?"

Priest Clark looked at Jier and smiled: "You are very sharp, Knight Jier. Yes, that is the case. The Grand One, Dean Mardo, has the confidence to lead a team to hunt the Evil God, so naturally, he has his own special abilities. A powerful Magic Arrow, the Duel Arrow! This is the prerequisite for everything."

"A single Magic Arrow can hunt a god? Even an Evil God?" Jier looked at the other party skeptically; if the Hunting God Church was just exaggerating and boasting, then it would be an exceptionally ridiculous affair when everyone rushed up to fight.

Not to mention whether they could beat the Evil God, the Evil God would not just obediently stay in place; if it could win, it would fight, and if it could not, it would just retreat. Who could stop an Evil God that did not even have a physical form?

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