“Well, that was unexpected,” Su Chen muttered to himself from his vantage point on a faraway mountain.

This had not been a part of his original plan. He had intended to use the curse to torment the Sun Astrals, drag Isabella to Scorched Cliff City, and then have them deal with the curse as a pretext to steal the item that was being stored in Halcyon Earth Forest.

Unexpectedly, however, Amelie had actually descended, and repeatedly at that.

It wasn’t that he hadn’t considered how the gods react. However, the Human Ancestor had told Su Chen that the gods would almost single mindedly focus on destroying the Barrier given the critical juncture they were in. Thus, they likely wouldn’t spend any attention on the small issues of their believers.

Well, it was true that the survival of the Sun Astrals was not a small matter.

But if that was the case, then did the gods actually care about their worshippers?

So if their worshippers were constantly being slaughtered, what would happen then?

Would the gods actually descend and intervene?

Was this yet another way for him to delay the Barrier’s destruction?

A myriad of questions and ideas uncontrollably floated through Su Chen’s mind.

Yes, there were indeed multiple paths to slowing the Barrier’s deterioration.

Countless possibilities flashed through his mind, each designed to decimate the worshippers of these...