Hyper-Dimensional Player

Chapter 956: Chapter 16: Stirring the Winds and Clouds! Pantheon War!

Joyful Divine Hall.

Now, of the main group of the Crimson Performer, only two rogue experts survived — a clown and a shadow dancer named Kevin. They are both advanced systems that are quite difficult to kill, and if they ascend to the legendary level, they have a chance to master the legendary ability ’Nine Deaths, One Life’.

However, even though Shadow Dancer Kevin didn’t die, he was severely injured. If it weren’t for the shadow jump teleportation ability, he would have died in the last action.

Even the clown returned with three fingers lost, but fortunately, a priest performed regeneration, so the impact wasn’t too severe.

On this day as well.

The long-absent Mother of Great Bliss paid an unsolicited visit to Duncan.

During this time, although Duncan remained within the Joyful Divine Hall, he had essentially distanced himself from the core of power. His authority was originally granted by the Mother of Great Bliss, and he had no foundation within the Joyful Sect. So, as soon as the Mother of Great Bliss stopped trusting him, Duncan would immediately be marginalized by other Joyful Priests.

Inside the room.

The only one serving by Duncan’s side was the Joyful Priestess Vera. As for the other person, Alicia-Smile, after Duncan had a fallout with the Mother of Great Bliss, she hadn’t appeared for a long time. Despite being very diligent when serving Duncan and willing to do anything, once Duncan was marginalized, she immediately reverted to being a loyal lapdog of the Mother of Great Bliss.

Vera, having been promoted to a Joyful Priestess through her service to Duncan, was deeply tied to him without any other place to go, hence her loyalty seemed quite strong.

As long as Duncan has the Divine Grace of Lady Joy-Lierla, the Mother of Great Bliss couldn’t oppress him too much.

At this moment, Duncan was sitting at a desk, flipping through the "Scripture of Joy" in front of him.

—"Each day of life is a step in the ’Dance of Joy,’ a dance composed of lives filled with joy and carefree.

Strive to find joy, and share it with others.

The feast of life is shared by all, including the lost, the lonely, the exiled, the lawbreakers, and even your enemies.

Let everyone act according to their inner desires — including yourself."

This is the core doctrine of Lady Joy-Lierla.

Over the past couple of days, Duncan had been idly browsing through the Scripture of Joy and could only comment, what on earth is this?

The entire church is chaotic good.

The Goddess of Joy-Lierla is also chaotic good.

On the dimension level.

Duncan had already marked the information related to the Goddess of Joy-Lierla.

—"Goddess of Joy-Lierla (Weak Divine Power)."

—"Holy symbol: A regular triangle composed of hexagrams in three different colors (yellow, orange, red)."

—"Domain of residence: Bright Water Realm."

—"Alignment: Chaotic Good."

—"Divine positions: Joy, happiness, dance, festive celebration, freedom."

—"Composition of believers: Minstrels, dancers, performers, revelers, singers, etc."

—"Domains: Chaos, goodness, charm, family, travel, etc."

Not a single combat-oriented divine position.

Not even a single combat-oriented domain law.

"What is the connection between charm, family, and travel?"

Duncan rested his chin on his hand, placing a question mark on Lady Joy’s mark. Joy, happiness, and dance are her core divine positions, but Duncan couldn’t figure out how this related to hedonism. Are the good aspects completely neglected, with everything leaning towards the negative?

Duncan had seen what the Joyful Sect pursued in terms of joy, happiness, and freedom during this time.

Footsteps came from outside the door.

The Mother of Great Bliss, surrounded by several Joyful Envoys, arrived at Duncan’s residence. She no longer had the radiant appearance of a few days ago; instead, she looked very fatigued, and even her entire being seemed a bit dull, with the Divine Grace on her body dimmed considerably.

During this time, the Joyful Sect had suffered heavy losses throughout the entire region of Sergont.

As the church’s main enemy.

The divine position of the Goddess of Torture-Lavita is — ’pain, harm, suffering, torment, agony, torture’, with believers composed of ’deceivers, executioners, evil warriors, the fallen, etc.’, and the core domains are — ’evil, order, retribution, power, torment.’

Comparing this to the data Duncan marked above, it’s clear how vast the combat power gap is between the two sides.

Minstrels, dancers, performers, revelers against deceivers, executioners, the fallen, etc.

Divine positions and domains can be temporarily disregarded.

After all, in the secular realm, the power gap between divine spirits often means that believers do not necessarily enjoy much augmentation from divine positions or domains.

During this period, it can’t be said that they were being beaten to a pulp.

But it wasn’t far from it.

Once the church powers clash, it’s not the top experts of the church that matter but the overall strength and composition structure of the church.

Who your believers are determines your combat power strength in the secular realm.

Undoubtedly, the Joyful Sect was nearly defeated.

Even due to the failure of Master of Revels Korver, the Wealth Church believers who had initially intended to lean towards the Goddess of Joy hesitated.

So weak?

They can’t even defeat their enemies.

Joining them, can they really protect my wealth?

During this time, the clown secretly sent quite a bit of intelligence to Duncan. The backers behind Joyful Priestess Vera and Alicia-Starfall, the Joyous High Priestess, were also quietly active. Their faction was considered the reformist within the church, advocating abandoning personal pleasure-seeking enjoyment and shifting the doctrine towards spreading joy.