Cthulhu Gonfalon

Chapter 402: Chapter 112

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“Your enemy?” hearing the last sentence, Sui Xiong asked out of curiosity. “How did he change from your voter to your enemy? Since he is your enemy, why didn’t you bombard him and recommend him to me instead?”

Morani remained silent for a moment before laughing bitterly.

Long, long ago—no, not really that long ago—in the “Lion-men” of the Orcs, there was an excellent soldier named Leonard.

The founders of the Lion-men had been defeated in the battle with human gods, so their beliefs were diverse, and Leonard believed in Morani, “the Iron Lion,” who was the patron saint of armored warriors.

“Alas? Is that your former clergy?” Sui Xiong asked curiously.

“It’s just for this position. At that time, my clergy was armored warriors and forgers,” Morani said. “But my forging level is very low, so my major business is armored warriors.”

“Does a god have a major and minor business?”

“If you work in a large God System, you will know.”

As he answered Sui Xiong’s questions, Morani continued to recall more things.

Leonard was a talented person who had become a master at a young age and even stepped into the Legendary Realm, something that ordinary people could not expect in their whole life. According to the Orc’s tradition, he joined the army, fighting in the front lines of the battle against the Eagle Kingdom. He and Iroqi, “Iron Teeth,” were famous for being great partners. One was good at defending and the other at attacking. When they worked together, they even fought back the King of the Eagle Kingdom who carried the Three Eagle Artifacts.

As a god, Morani also had requirements for his clergymen. One of those requirements was that a clergyman must prepare his armor and weapons by himself. Leonard could not forge, so he turned to a businessman and went to the dangerous world of beasts to hunt the legendary monster, “Nimel Diamond Lion.” With strong power, Leonard strangled the horrible monster with his hands and then brought the whole lion’s body back to the tribe. He asked a shaman to cast a spell to empty the lion’s flesh and blood, turning the lion’s skin into heavy leather armor.

The name “Armored Great Lion” came from this story.

Morani liked Leonard very much; Morani promoted him to be the chosen one and even gave him the eternal life.

Everything seemed to be going well, and the future looked good. Leonard would continue to grow up to be a demigod or even a god.

However, it didn’t take long for the accident to happen.

It was autumn, and the climate was somewhat bad. The grass on the grassland was obviously fewer than that in previous years

This situation was rare. Every time this happened, it would lead to a war.

Generally speaking, in that condition, the Orcs would launch a fierce offensive fight against the humans in the late autumn, not only to plunder food but also to wipe out the population.

These wars were extremely miserable because unlike other wars, a large number of ineffective races would be sent to the front line to consume human combat power with their lives—or, in other words, to commit suicide.

Leonard reacted with anger to this action. He said that he fully agreed with the idea of plundering human’s food, but how could he let the weak races die for lack of food?

“I’m an Armored Warrior. I’m a guardian on the battlefield. I can’t let this happen!”

He roared so loudly that even the Orc emperor heard.

However, nothing would help.

The problem of food shortage could not be solved by just a legendary master. In fact, the food that was taken from human countries was very limited. It was more practical to eradicate the population than to take the food.

The war that year was miserable, and countless were dead. Leonard fought frantically on the battlefield, not knowing how much blood drenched his body. The blood even changed the skin color of the Diamond Lion Amor to scarlet.

He couldn’t change anything at all.

After a long period of depression, Leonard began to doubt the value of his life.

To comfort him, the Orc Emperor had one of his daughters marry Leonard. Soon, a baby was born, and Leonard was cheered up by the warmness of his family.

A few years later, the Orcs got a message that God of Knights and the God of Justice who guarded the Eagle Kingdom began to cooperate, and a war against the Orcs was about to start.

This made the Orc gods anxious. Although the God of Knights was old, he was powerful, and although the God of Justice was unreliable, he was very strong. With the joint efforts of these two powerhouses, together with the power of the Human God System, the Orc God System might be defeated in this battle.

In this case, Lefon, the God of Orcs, found the War God System and asked for a plan from the God of Strategy. It was a very vicious and effective plan, and soon it was put into action.

The specific content of this plan was very complex, and the implementation process was also very complex. It was difficult to tell you all, but the result of this plan could be concluded in one sentence.

The frontier guards of the Eagle Kingdom attacked actively and massacred nearly 100 tribes—more than 100,000 Orcs and civilians, regardless of the gender and age, were all slaughtered.

It shook the whole Pantheon temple and made the God of justice furious. He scolded the Eagle Kingdom and gave up the intention of an alliance.

On the whole, the plan was a great success only by paying a small price to a god. However, when Leonard learned about the plan afterwards, his anger, which had been accumulating at the bottom of his heart, burst completely.

It was a massive scuffle. Leonard, already at his legendary peak, was extremely powerful and was supported by many people. They fought battles against the cruel faction headed by the Orc’s Emperor. Both sides received heavy blows.

This time, Leonard wouldn’t give in, and no one could persuade him, including Morani. His stubbornness irritated the Orc gods, and they punished him. Leonard’s comrades-in-arms and family died as punishment, and he was almost killed.

But at the very moment of life and death, Leonard broke through the limit and stepped into the demi-god realm. Divine punishment could kill legendary masters, but it was meaningless to demi-gods. Only a god clone could kill demi-gods.

Leonard broke out of the encirclement, left the Orc Empire and became a lone ranger.

He abandoned his belief in Morani. In front of Morani’s temple, he threw away the lion’s leather armor which he regarded as a treasure, and then he put on a simple steel armor. He abandoned the name of “Armored Great Lion,” but wandered around with the name of “Paul.”

He believed that God’s tyranny and cruelty were the roots of most disasters in the world. So when he was strong enough to become a “god of a vagrant,” he gave up and became an evil god. His favorite thing was to prevent Gods from expanding their influence, to destroy the activities that powerful gods used to recruit followers and to persuade those who would become a god to abandon the idea and join the evil gods.

And after that war, Morani began to reflect. Eventually, he left the Orc God System and established the Desolation God System, becoming the patron saint of the Orcs, the warriors, and the forgers.

“Sounds like a sad story...” after listening to Morani’s story, Sui Xiong paused for a while and said. “Are you sure he will help me instead of beating me when we meet?”

“I’m sure,” Morani said seriously. “I saw him growing up. I know him well. Although you often do something unreliable, your policies are the ones he appreciates most.”

“Really?”

“Of course!” Morani laughed. ‘I’m looking forward to seeing him become a real god under your guidance!”

So Sui Xiong paid a visit to Leonard.

Leonard’s residence was not a secret. This stubborn and powerful evil god never wanted to resist. When Sui Xiong visited him, he even came to meet Sui Xiong in casual wear without any weapons or armor.

Leonard had no appearance of a lion-man. He looked like a half-breed who was about forty years old, and there were whiskers on his face. He was tall and strong, and people would even feel that he was very flexible at first sight. He stood there calmly, but whoever saw him would realize at the first moment that he was a strong man that could never be underestimated.

“I see.” After listening to Sui Xiong’s explanation, Leonard calmly said, “Okay, I’ll help you.”

Sui Xiong was surprised. He prepared a lot. He planned to spend several days in persuading Leonard, but he didn’t expect that this evil god would be so nice and so quick to agree.

After hesitating for a moment, Sui Xiong couldn’t help but ask, “How come you are so quick to say yes?”

“You’re a good man,” Leonard answered. “I like your policies very much. If Republicanism could be popularized all over the world, it would okay to work for you.”

Sui Xiong understood his point. While complaining about Morani saying that nothing was important, Sui Xiong thanked university political teachers. By the way, he was glad that he didn’t skip class and went out to play online games.

Although a little bit surprised, Sui Xiong was satisfied with this good result.

That was good enough!