The Great Worm Lich

Zhang Lisheng’s words made Katherine’s perplexed expression deepened. Just as she was about to ask again, he saw the black-haired young man raised his right hand and gently placed it on the wooden window glass.

At the moment when the young man’s finger touched the glass, the raindrops trickled promptly on the old wooden window which seemed to be slightly shaken by some mysterious fluctuations, before finally being spread out.

However, everything returned to its original state right away, the peculiarity that had taken place just now seemed to be just like a hallucination. However, the ripples began to gush and appear on the bloody red water puddle on the street.

As time flowed by, the water ripples became more and more turbulent, before finally breaking the thick concrete ground to form a gushing spring together with gravels and stones.

A few more seconds later, the muddy spiring spouting more fiercely into the sky suddenly erupted. Several dozens of ferocious creatures that looked like Cyclops in Western myths were born out of it.

“W-What’s that?” Discerningly felt that the appearance of these pale red mud giants should have something to do with this black-haired young man beside her who claimed to be the ‘God’s messenger’, Katherine asked with a slight tremor in her voice.

Zhang Lisheng did not immediately answer the girl’s question but continued to stare out of the window watching his mud and water creation to charge fiercely into the swaying undead zombies, smashing them into puddles of meat or tearing them in half directly. After massacring them cleanly, he began to wantonly attack all the creatures in the one-eyed giants’ sight, as a relaxed smiled appeared on his face.

“So many people have been killed but nobody has come to interfere at all after so long. Good! Very good!” He muttered and turned to the girl next to him. “Katherine, the one-eyed dirt giants are summoned by me using the divine power bestowed by His Majesty Wizard Li. Those pseudo gods can already grant their believers with black magic so how is it possible for a true god to not have such an ability? You must know that spreading faith is not only about grasping the grace of kindness, but to also hold on to the sharp ‘war sword’ in your hand even more tightly. And right now, I’ll give you this ‘war sword’ of yours.”

As the young man was speaking, he slowly and sacredly placed his hands that were revolving with four brilliance of khaki, aqua blue, crimson red, and light green color onto the head of the stunned girl. Caressing her beautiful hair, he sang loudly, “Oh Katherine Panna, shepherd of Wizard Li God in the mortal world. I came because of your piety and is here to bestow you with the favor of God. The God grants you this ability. From now on, water will flow and gush according to your wish…”

As Zhang Lisheng’s soothing chanting fluttered in the house, all sorts of images of the vast ground, raging ocean, monsters that were constantly changing their appearances, and sky tumbling with wind began to slowly appear around Katherine.

The reason such a magnificent phenomenon could appear during the bestowal of the high priest’s ability to cast divine power was partially because of a small trick used by the young man, with the intention to strengthen the belief of his small number of poor Earth believers.

However, the main reason was because it was impossible for Zhang Lisheng to always rely on the power of faith in Shrimp World No. 2 to cross the world’s barrier to grant his believers the ability of spellcasting so he could only rely on the faith offered by his 100 of believers and his own divine power.

Even so, the young man did not want to split too much of his own power to bestow his believer in this crisis-ridden Earth. Not only that, but he also planned to leave the Earth to go to Noah World so after some repeated contemplation, he decided to bestow Katherine the ability of spellcasting not dully according to the priest rank in the Shrimp World No. 1. Instead, he granted her the strongest possible magic ability he could bestow without using his own divine power.

Originally, with the power of faith provided by just 100 believers, it would have been impossible for Zhang Lisheng to create a powerful high priest even if he did not use it discreetly. However, to his surprise, when he was bestowing Katherine the ability of spellcasting, he suddenly realized that the power of faith that he could use was actually ten million times more than he had expected, causing the deliberately created phenomenon to be magnified as well.

“H-How is this possible? There’s obviously no tear in the space so how can I use the power of faith fathered in the Green Leaf Mainland?” Under the stare of horror and awe of the believers in the house, Zhang Lisheng suppressed his surprise with force and soon, he noticed that the extra power of faith actually came from the Leather World tied at his own waist.

The opportunity had arrived. When the young man’s eyes fell on the Leather World, a lightbulb went off in his head as he remembered the legends of the ancient gods, who innately rose above the ordinary without relying on the worshipping of believers and that would not have their power weakened by any ‘world’.

Abruptly, Zhang Lisheng realized that he, who could be said as having inherited the legacy of three ancient gods, and the Leather World tied at his waist, that was a complete natural space constituted by four elements of earth, water, wind, and fire after gathering them with great difficulty and could accommodate ordinary creatures with indomitable lives, were completely poles apart from the ordinary gods that could only accept the soul of dead devout believers in their divine kingdom.

“Maybe this is not a divine kingdom but a ‘world’ just like its name. A ‘world’ that was born from nothing by me that can be used as a ‘transit station’ to fuse all the land of faith shrouded by my belief…” Zhang Lisheng untied and unfolded the Leather World. Looking at the miniature map patterns that were getting more and more vivid on the scales, he no longer could suppress the ecstasy in his heart and growled in a low voice.

That unwitting voice that was filled with profound power was intimidating, causing all of the Wizard Li believers, except for Katherine who was still in a confused state of mind for having just bestowed with the high priest’s spellcasting ability, to feel weak in their knees and prompting them to kneel on the floor at once.

When the power of faith was not being drawn out, the Leather World was just like a scroll of strange leather painting without any abnormality and would never attract the attention of Zhang Lisheng, who had gone through countless of great sorrows and joys, for too long.

Very soon, the young man snapped back to his senses and rolled it up again before tying it to his waist. Meanwhile, Katherine also woke up from her daze.

Glancing at the girl who was still in an absent-minded state, Zhang Lisheng smiled and said, “Congratulations, Katherine, you’ve become the high priest of His Majesty Wizard Li, from a mortal person to becoming a ‘superhero’ who masters supernatural power.”

“I-I can feel a powerful energy flowing in my body! B-But this is just too incredible! Sir God’s Messenger, t-this is impossible. It’s not scientific at all…” Katherine’s eyes were wide as she blurted out.

Due to the reason that the Leather World had accidentally acted as a transit point for the Wizard Li God’s power of faith from the foreign world, the girl managed to obtain the spellcasting ability of the sixth rank, which was also the highest priesthood rank of the Wizard Li priest. There were only more than ten people among the millions of priests in the Shrimp World No. 2’s Green Leaf Mainland who could stand shoulder by shoulder with her.

At this moment, she could already manipulate water, earth, wind and the power of distorting evolution with great ease. She could also use a mixture of water and earth power, with a power sufficient enough to control a war with a scale of 10,000 people. Not only that, the amount of fatty protein she could produce using divine power with her entire strength would be enough to fill the tummy of hundreds of thousands of people.

Unfortunately, due to the lack of real awareness, she still looked as weak as an ordinary girl.

This was because although Katherine had witnessed the outbreak of many supernatural forces with her own eyes after the war, and also imagined that one day the god would bestow this power to herself, the systematic science education that she received since young made her subconsciously repel strange supernatural power and gods, despite the fact that she used to be a devout Christian before this. Because of this, she instinctively did not recognize the superhuman ability she had acquired.

“Unscientific…” Upon seeing the daze in the girl’s eyes, Zhang Lisheng pondered in silence for a moment before flashing a gentle smile, “Katherine, did you know that Newton was also a religious man?”

Isaac Newton, the most famous and great physicist, in the 17th-century England, or the entire world to be more exact, had many nicknames, such as the person who defined gravity and three laws of motions, the founder of modern engineering, the discoverer of calculus, and so on, still had a fame greater than that of any living celebrity even 300 years later.

Upon hearing the young man bringing up this widely known scientific great master, the girl was stunned for a while. Greatly confounded, she replied, “How is that possible for a great scientist like her to believe in gods too?”

“Let me tell you an interesting story, Katherine,” The young man maintained his gentle expression and began to talk eloquently as he gave guidance in a skillful and systematic manner, “Many people had the same doubts as you had when Newton was still alive, especially his scientist friends who advocated science and spurned theology even felt that a great physicist like Newtown having a religion was a stain that cannot be ignored in the entire ‘academic community’. For this reason, they always tried to wake him and talk senses into him. One day, one of Sir Newton’s best friends, astronomer Dudley, suddenly had an inspiration and made an exquisite model of the universe. He was extremely satisfied with this masterpiece of his life, so one day, he could not help but bring it to show it off at a dinner party. All the guests at the dinner expressed their admiration for this exquisite model, even Newton was no exception. So, Dudley persuaded Newton in front of everyone and said, ‘My good friend, Isaac, look how big this vast universe is. Earth is only one of the negligible dots right here. Stop holding superstitious beliefs about gods. You’re a great scientist and you should know that only science can unlock the mysteries of the universe, isn’t it?’ And, can you guess what Newton answered him?”

“I don’t know.” The girl became unknowingly absorbed by the story and shook her head.

“Newton pointed to the model and said, ‘Dear Dudley, of course, I know that for humans, only science can explain the mysteries of the universe but even this exquisite model was made by you, so how is it possible for the universe composed of billions of stars above us that are affecting and drawing upon each other running in endless complex orbits be formed naturally?’”

When Katherine heard this answer, she was immediately startled. Falling into a deep contemplation, she was rendered speechless for a long time.

Zhang Lisheng continued to say in a bewitching voice, “There are a thousand of Hamlet in the eyes of a thousand people. Katherine, you can find a thousand reasons to believe in God, and you can also find a thousand reasons to not believe in Him. The so-called ‘piety’ is to throw away all foreign interference and ask yourself, deep in your heart, whether you’re sincerely willing to be blessed by the God and offer your own faith?”

Katherine lowered her head concealing her expressions and became silent for a few minutes. Finally, she gradually replied, “Yes, I’m willing to do so.”

The instant her words left her mouth, the young man could sense that faith in herself had become flawless and extremely pure.