Green Monster Epic

It took Magna, the hobgoblin girl, quite a while to believe that she wasn't dreaming, but was actually being summoned by the god she worshipped. Instantly, the young girl's face was filled with complex emotions such as pride and overwhelming favor.

If the Food God, in the guise of Allen, hadn't been present, the girl might have jumped up and cheered. Upholding her loyalty to her faith, Magna tried her best to maintain a pious expression, kneeling before Allen.

"Rise, my child!"

Allen had always been very patient with the younger generation of the tribe. With a gentle wave of his hand and a kind expression, Magna was lifted up by a gentle breeze.

Faced with such a miraculous sight, Magna's face showed even more awe and worship. It was said that the Food God could turn the impossible into the possible, and was incredibly powerful. But that was all she had heard from the priests of the Food God Church. Now that she had experienced it firsthand, Magna would no longer have any doubts about it.

Although the girl didn't know it, this was still within her own consciousness. As long as she was willing, she could also accomplish all kinds of miraculous things, just like she had just fabricated her admired object and imagined herself as a powerful warrior.

"Great Food God, have you summoned me here because you need me to dedicate myself?"

The girl looked at the face she had regarded as an idol since childhood, her eyes blurred with fantasy. At this moment, Banner had long been thrown to the back of her mind.

"If you need it, I am willing to become your servant, to obey your orders, even if it means sacrificing myself."

This girl probably read too many novels from the civilized world, and thought that Allen summoned her because he took a fancy to her and needed her to serve him. At this time, she looked calm and even a little eager to try, and asked Allen.

"... My child, blood of the Greenlands, your devout faith has moved me. I shall bestow upon you a gift."

"In the future, there will be many threats and enemies. The goblin race will face many crises and challenges. It is time for your generation of goblins to fight for the survival of the race and the continuation of the tribe."

"I believe that you will not fail my expectations."

Allen's eyes were full of expectation and trust, truly like a loving god caring for his believers, which made the young female hobgoblin moved to tears, feeling unspeakable honor. Only, the young hobgoblin in front of her wouldn't have imagined that this meeting of theirs was just an experiment that Allen had on a whim.

"Great Food God, I will definitely protect our tribe and will not let you down!"

Although she didn't know what Allen's so-called gift was, the simple-minded girl felt that this beautiful dream of being summoned by the Food God tonight was enough to make her go through fire and water.

"Very good, quickly wake up and see the gift I have bestowed upon you!"

Allen was very pleased. How could such a pure and faithful goblin seedling not be worth his efforts!

But what he was more curious about now was that he had sent a divine power to this girl through the origin of faith, and the other party should have absorbed it. But what kind of talent and divine art would be exchanged for her absorbing the great divine power was temporarily beyond Allen's control.

According to the facts of searching for the promotion of divine grace and clerical members of other churches, divine grace is something that can be controlled and bestowed.

Perhaps in the future, when Allen is familiar with bestowing divine grace, he may also be able to, like other gods, bestow corresponding abilities or divine arts to his believers according to their talents and abilities.

"May the glory of the Lord shine on all things!"

Under Magna's pious gaze, Allen's body turned into a warm and holy white light, slowly enveloping her body. Then, she felt that her body was suddenly as comfortable as soaking in warm water, and a holy energy filled her body, and finally turned into a part of her own body.

"Ah!!!"

Magna woke up from her dream with a shocked face, sat up abruptly and kept turning her head to look around. After scanning back and forth in the dim boudoir for a few times, she finally lowered her head in disappointment.

"So everything was just a dream!"

The hobgoblin girl muttered to herself, still unwilling to believe that everything that had happened before was false, just a dream she had.

In the sky outside the glass window, there was already a faint light. After waking up from her sleep, Magna, who had experienced a little excitement, no longer felt sleepy, and then began to prepare to start meditation according to the meditation technique she had learned to temper her mental strength.

"Huh?"

The meditation state, which usually required some effort to enter, was actually easily achieved by Magna today. Just as she was preparing to start mobilizing her mental power to run and exercise, a powerful and pure mental power emerged from her sea of consciousness along with her will, which immediately made her exclaim.

Excited emotions once again filled the young girl's mind, and immediately squeezed her out of the meditation state, but soon the girl re-entered the state of introspection to check her professional level and talent situation.

"Priest Level 8 / Divine Official Level 2, can cast divine arts: Heal Minor Wounds, Blessing, Shield of Light..."

Her profession, which had just reached Level 7 Druid, had now become Level 8 Priest / Level 2 Divine Official, jumping from low-level to mid-level at once. At the same time, there were also more than a dozen kinds of divine arts. Although she had never learned these divine arts before, and didn't know exactly how to release them, when Magna thought of the name of the Level 0 cantrip Light, a prayer automatically appeared in her brain, and a divine art model was constructed stroke by stroke before her eyes.

Excited and happy, Magna began to chant the prayer according to the method of casting Druid divine arts, and built the model frame in front of her in the same way.

As the mental power built the last line on the model, a mass of pure white holy light shone on Magna's chest, illuminating the dim room.

"Ah!!!!"

After all, she was a young person who couldn't hold her breath. Magna screamed excitedly on the spot, then jumped off the bed with a thud, and rushed to the room next door where her parents were sleeping.

"Mom! Dad! I..."

Allen's consciousness was still staying in Magna's belief origin. He originally thought that after the girl discovered the great divine grace he had given her, she would definitely think of praying to him for gratitude first, and then he would be able to subtly ask about her gains.

But after waiting for a while, Allen didn't see the little goblin girl take any action to pray. It seemed that this seemingly pious little goblin was still lacking in awareness when it came to action. A hint of embarrassment and speechlessness welled up in Allen's heart.

"It seems, I still have to wait until her morning prayer to come and see!"

Allen shook his head and muttered helplessly. Then, his consciousness detached from the other party's consciousness sea and was about to return to his own body. However, he immediately had a thought and separated a wisp of divine power, throwing it towards Zerang's point of faith origin.

The same situation happened again. After the origin point corresponding to Zerang absorbed Allen's divine power, Allen's consciousness immediately appeared in Zerang's consciousness sea.

"My Lord!"

Although Zerang was also in a dream, when Allen appeared in his dream, he reacted immediately and respectfully saluted Allen.

"I have made a breakthrough in the aspect of the divine domain. Considering your years of dedication to me, I will grant you divine grace again today, which should help you improve your strength further."

Zerang was actually very old and gradually approaching the average lifespan of goblins. He was not the most suitable existence to be granted divine grace, but Allen still hoped that his first priest could live for a few more years so that he could continue to understand and control what was happening in the Green Field Plain headquarters through him.

Allen even had a plan. If his experiment was indeed divine grace, after figuring out the cost required to do so, as long as he could bear the consequences and as long as he could do it, then he would try to raise Zerang's strength to the legendary level.

It is said that the popes of major churches, no matter what their strength was before they ascended to the position of pope, would basically become saint-level existences after sitting in this position, almost without exception. This shows that among the methods of the gods, there is the ability to use external force to improve the strength of their valued believers and followers.

Since this is the case, then as his first priest, and also with a mental frequency consistent with his own, who can communicate remotely at any time and can also be used as a vessel for his divine descent, Allen felt that it was not a losing deal to spend some price to raise him to the legendary level.

"Thank you, my Lord!"

Zerang was flattered and prostrated on the ground with gratitude.

"You can sense whether your strength has improved."

Allen pretended to be profound.

"I respectfully obey your command."

Zerang quickly calmed down and began to introspect directly in the dream. Soon, he brought full of joy: "My Lord, I am now an 8th-level warrior/7th-level priest, and I have 7 new divine spells, with the highest level reaching the 7th rank."

"Oh?"

Allen frowned slightly, recalling Zerang's previous strength, which seemed to have just reached the high level, with a total level of only 13. Now, he has directly become the peak of the high level, which may prove the power of divine power from the side.

But if you want to promote Zerang from the peak of the high level to the legendary, this is a qualitative leap, and it will not be too easy. Before figuring out the principle and cost of this divine grace, Allen will not easily continue to try.

If divine grace has no price, then the number of strong people in major churches will definitely not be limited to such a small number, and there would have been no possibility for other forces to exist in this world long ago.

"You should remember the existing level and the divine spells that can be used. I will now grant you another divine grace, and see if you have any other changes."

While talking to Zerang, Allen communicated with his divine consciousness. Under the control of the divine consciousness, another ray of divine power slowly merged into Zerang's body.

"Check again, what changes are there now?"

"Yes."

Soon, Zerang completed the introspection again. Gradually calming down his inner excitement, he slowly reported: "My Lord, I now only have one more eighth-order divine spell, and two seventh-order divine spells."

"The eighth-order divine spell is Divine Judgment, and the seventh-order divine spells are…"

As Allen expected, if you want to promote Zerang from the peak of the high level to legendary, it will not be as easy as giving a few rays of divine power. It will definitely require a huge amount of power to help the other party cross this threshold.

Moreover, Allen felt that forcibly using external force to improve the level of believers must have great hidden dangers. For example, the divine spells granted by divine grace will inevitably not be as profound as self-learned and mastered ones. Therefore, when improving the level in the future, it may become a drag instead.

At the same time, without a deep understanding of the mystery of one's own ability, and without mastering and understanding the principles, even if divine spells are cast, the power and effect may not be as good as those of self-learned and grown-up professionals.

"…Well, let's do that."

After communicating for a while, Allen gained something in his heart, and then he was about to end the meeting, but he remembered one more thing at the end.

"I have previously felt that a believer named Magna deserves commendation for her pious service to me. At the same time, she has great talent and good ability, so I also bestowed divine grace on her. You can pay more attention to her in the church and focus on cultivating her."

"Magna? I respectfully obey your command."

Zerang replied thoughtfully, bowing.

Slowly withdrawing his consciousness from the vortex of anger, Allen began to carefully check the changes in his body in order to judge the price brought about by his divine grace.

After Allen's countless experiments, the divine power was consumed a lot. At this time, there was not much divine power left in his body, because it could not be restored through circulation like anger, so Allen could not be sure whether these depleted divine powers would really disappear.

Then, we can only judge from the aspects of anger and mental power that make up the divine power. As Allen autonomously decomposed the divine power in his body, the mental resonance in the sea of consciousness ended, and the return of the divine consciousness to the body made Allen have a further understanding of the illusion he had manipulated before.

Re-entering meditation, Allen's consumed mental power and anger returned to their peak state. After an introspection, Allen finally had his own judgment.

Originally possessing a huge number, but not countless, strands of mental power, after restoring the best state, sure enough, a small part was permanently lost.

The corresponding anger also showed a slight reduction, equivalent to the amount accumulated and improved by Allen's three to five years of long-term seclusion and training.

Although Allen's current scale of anger and mental power is huge, the loss of energy has little impact on his existing combat power, but this is only a simple attempt after all, and he has not tried combat consumption.

If even the divine power consumed in battle is permanently reduced, doesn't that mean that every time Allen uses divine power, he is invisibly weakening his strength? If this is the case, then Allen's goal pursued for countless years has become a burden instead, wouldn't that be very ridiculous?