Chapter 2404: Not As It Seems.
The god of justice’s behavior bewildered everyone watching him. They expected him to lose his mind and begin killing everything in sight, but he was just laughing.
After laughing for a long time, he shook his head and said, "What a ride. Now I’m free. Freedom is so good. I have to thank you guys for that."
The god of death asked him in confusion, "What are you talking about?"
He replied, "Do you think that I wanted to seal the Ocean of Blood all of this time? Do you think I wanted to spend all of my time and effort preventing the god of killing from resurrecting?"
"If you think so, then what was I supposed to gain from doing so? Even if I hated the god of killing and wanted to prevent another one from appearing, I could have just waited for the god of killing to appear and then killed him."
"After all, if I could kill the god of killing at its peak, why can’t I do it to a new god of killing? You should know that of all the pathways that are vulnerable to the power of justice, the pathway of killing is the most vulnerable, so it would have been easy to kill the new god of killing."
"Even if I am wrong about that, I could have spent all of this time trying to grow stronger. Instead, I spent my time trying to prevent the appearance of a new god of killing."
He shook his head again and said, "I bet you guys didn’t think that. You didn’t think that I know that the best way to enforce justice is to acquire strength. You took me for a fool. Now you have been fooled."
Then his voice became stern as he said to them, "I have been held back all of these years, which gave you room to jump around. Now that I am free, it is your turn to run and hide."
He looked around and said to the entire world, "From today onwards, justice is free. Let evil run and ride. Run and hide now when you have the chance because you won’t be able to when I arrive."
With that said, he made his move.
His two eyes flared at the flying golden serpent. He had used the Eyes of Fire on the serpent. This caused the serpent to begin to burn.
The flying golden serpent was shaken by what he just said, but he still fought back. He opened his maw and spewed forth a black corrosive liquid at the god of justice.
The god of justice waved his hand, and the third eye on his forehead blazed into life. Wherever the light of the third eye reached, everything was purified, and everything evil disappeared.
This was just a minor attack, but it was still deadly. It was so deadly that the golden flying serpent disappeared slowly.
Just like that, a god had died. This left the watching gods shaken. They realized that the god of justice was more powerful than they gave him credit for.
The death of the god of death made the god of justice feel relaxed. The anger he felt for spending all of this time sealing the Ocean of Blood disappeared with the disappearance of the god of death.
He felt free and exhilarated. He felt as if he could do anything in the world. He felt all-powerful and omnipotent.
However, he knew that his feeling of omnipotence was an illusion. This is because he was sure that he wasn’t the strongest god in existence.
He is not sure about how many gods in existence are more powerful than him, but he is sure that the god that cursed him to guard the Ocean of Blood and prevent the appearance of a new god of killing for thousands of years must be very strong too.
But this knowledge didn’t make him feel gloomy. Now that he is free, he can now pursue power wholeheartedly. So very soon, he will be very strong too.
He looked past the dimensional barrier into the physical world and said to himself with a smile, "Now, where shall I start?"
His gaze lingered on the Wessex kingdom because it is the territory of the god of disaster. As the god of justice, if he is to grow stronger, he needs to subdue the pathway of disaster and the pathway of error.
There is also another way, but he won’t do that anymore. It is the same method that the god of killing had used, and it caused him to go mad.
The god of justice used to use that method because he had no choice. He couldn’t go to subdue the other pathways because he couldn’t leave the seal.
Both he and the Ocean of Blood were restricted all this time. In order not to die a slow death, he used the only method available to him to grow stronger.
The only reason he had survived this long was because the faith of the mortals in him was strong. Their faith in him helped anchor his sanity. This was something that the god of killing lacked.
But now that he is free and can move around, he doesn’t have to watch his believers die without being able to do much. He also doesn’t have to continue going down the footsteps of the god of killing.
He wants to go through a less dangerous route that will increase the kind of power he will have at his disposal. This route is to subdue the pathways that are adjacent to his pathway and lead to the same destination.
Those pathways are the pathways of disaster and the pathways of error. His preferred target is the god of the pathway of disaster since he is the weaker god of the two.
There is also the matter of revenge. He would like to get revenge on the god of disaster for the part he played in the death of his angel.