Chapter 144 We Originally Had a Chance

The scent of blood was overpowering.

The holy light illuminated the ground strewn with shattered flesh and bone.

Who could have imagined that just a second ago, this very place was filled with people bathing in glorious light, kneeling in worship to a deity, their faces brimming with happiness?

Right now, calling this a living hell would be an understatement!

"As you wished, I grant you the honor of becoming my devotees in body and soul." The deity, draped in radiant light, slowly extended a hand. "I shall bestow power upon you and forge stronger bodies for your souls."

"You shall forever bathe in my glory."

The holy light cascaded down.

Countless ethereal souls rose from the mangled flesh, resembling floating orbs of nothingness drifting toward the palm of the deity.

"Ah!!!"

"No!!"

The souls emitted miserable shrieks, as if enduring excruciating agony, yet they were swept up by the holy light and pulled directly into the deity's palm.

"What, you are unwilling?" The deity frowned. "Yet, a moment ago, you all claimed you were my most pious devotees."

"You were willing to... worship me with your entire body and soul."

"The moment you knelt, should not your souls, your faith, your bodies, your culture, your land... everything about you, belong to your supreme god?"

"If you must blame something, blame your bodies for being too weak to bear the power I bestowed upon you. But rest assured..."

Holding the glowing orb formed by countless condensed souls, within which countless faces of agony could still be glimpsed, the deity said indifferently, "I will use your souls to forge new believers."

"And you, in brand new bodies, shall become my most devout followers, fighting for me."

"As for your land and homeland... they shall also become my divine domain."

Behind him, the divine domain unfolded!

It was an entirely new world, a realm belonging exclusively to the gods!

Countless wailing souls were forcefully crammed into the divine domain.

At this moment.

The entire West Coast, stained crimson with blood and shredded flesh, fell into a dead silence.

The survivors stared blankly at the deity standing tall within the divine radiance. In this instant, they seemed to understand something!

The descent of the gods had begun, starting right now!

Everything Da Xia had said about the descent of the gods was true!

They... had come to invade!

"Now," the deity standing atop the surging waves, radiant and dazzling, lowered his head once more to look at the humans on the West Coast who had yet to kneel, and spoke indifferently, "Kneel!"

"Kneel!"

The single word, imbued with divine might like a peal of thunder, rolled relentlessly across the boundless ocean surface, echoing in endless booms!

The ocean churned, as if the entire sea were roaring in rage!

Kneel!

This was the command of a god!

Looking at the deity standing upon the rolling waves, looking at the churning, boiling sea, and looking at that dazzling, radiant glory.

Another batch of people felt terror grip their eyes, and under that thunderous pressure pressing down from all directions, they blankly dropped to their knees!

"Boom!"

The very instant they knelt, they shattered into pieces once again!

Some regained consciousness just a fraction of a second before shattering, trying to stand up, but it was already too late.

"No..."

"I don't want to yet..."

"Bang!"

Blood burst forth once more.

Soul after soul shrieked as they were gathered into the deity's hand and tossed into the divine domain.

And this time, the remaining seven million living citizens of the Freedom Federation finally snapped to reality. Looking at the beach stained and paved with blood and gore like a human hell, the terror in their hearts overwhelmed their reason, and they screamed like madmen, scattering in all directions as they tried to flee.

"What?"

"Are you not my most pious devotees?"

"Did you not wish to bathe in my glory and receive my grace?"

"Were you not going to take me as your faith?"

The deity standing proudly upon the waves looked down at the frantically fleeing mortals as if they were mere ants, and said indifferently, "Why do you not kneel?"

It was a very strange question.

It was as if, in his eyes, for these fragile ants not to kneel before him was the abnormal reaction.

As if.

Humans ought to kneel before gods.

"No, we don't want to..."

"Please let us go, I beg you, god, spare us..."

"We don't want to be your believers, we want to live! I have a wife and children, I... I don't want to be your follower!"

"Great god, we were wrong before. We... we don't want to leave just like this! Please allow us to stay on this land! I beg you, merciful deity!"

"Please leave! I still have a car loan and a mortgage, I just bought my house and I was getting ready to get married... God, we don't want your grace anymore!"

The frantic citizens of the Freedom Federation scattering across the beach shrieked wildly, desperately seeking the deity's pity.

"In other words, you have broken your promise to me."

The deity standing upon the waves watched the fleeing ants with cold, indifferent eyes and spoke calmly, "You bathed in my glory, loudly proclaiming your willingness to be my followers, yet you have broken faith with a god."

"You have committed the sin of blasphemy."

"Humans, prepare to face the wrath of a god!"

He slowly opened his hands, and massive tidal waves surged up behind him.

"You shall eventually become my followers, bathing in my glory."

"Your land shall become my divine domain."

The words of the deity echoed word by word.

Continuous massive waves rose layer upon layer from the ocean, resembling towering blue walls.

Fully a hundred meters high!

With apocalyptic might!

The calm ocean revealed its murderous intent at this moment; howling winds and dark clouds gathered, as if announcing the arrival of human doom.

At this moment, every single citizen of the Freedom Federation who witnessed this scene froze in place, staring blankly with dull eyes at the rolling waves.

A divine miracle!

This was a miracle!

Yet at this moment, they no longer possessed any inclination to sing praises.

The white live-streamer who had been running wildly stared blankly at the scene, slowly collapsing to the ground as a crushing sense of insignificance engulfed him.

He even forgot how to feel fear, left only with the microscopic insignificance of an ant gazing at a giant elephant for the very first time.

Staring at the boundless giant waves and the deity standing atop them radiating divine light, he slowly raised his phone to record the scene.

Wiping the blood and shredded flesh from his face, he swallowed hard, his voice dry as he spoke: "Viewers, this will be my final live stream."

"We were wrong."

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"We were all wrong."

"What Da Xia said was true."

"The gods have arrived bearing malice, descending upon the Blue Planet not to help us, but to... invade."

"They possess terrifying power; they can conjure towering waves... yet we, unlike Da Xia, did not build a Great Steel Wall."

"We didn't even make any preparations. When Da Xia was conscripting troops, we mocked them; when Da Xia warned us, we were arrogant and self-righteous... Now, the gods have descended, and we have no walls, no guns..."

"We once had a chance."

All the viewers watching the broadcast fell into absolute silence. Even through their screens, they could feel the sheer might of the ocean, the breathtaking, suffocating pressure emitted by those hundred-meter waves!

They could even see, amidst the sea and the towering waves, massive and ferocious sea beasts roaring!

Roaring with joy and eager anticipation toward the coastline, toward the land!

This terrifying oppressive force made them forget even how to type bullet comments; their hands trembled uncontrollably at that moment!

"Everyone," the white live-streamer said softly, "we refuse to admit it, but our doom has begun."

"Give your loved ones a final hug. I hope... all of you can survive."

"BOOM!!!"

The rolling giant waves crashed down with deafening fury.