My Goddess is Good at Pretending-Chapter 678: Assert Dominance

As the Elysion Church fortified its dominance over the once-conflicting factions, aided by the Sacred Sakura’s affiliated forces, Elysia returned to her family members to catch up on the surface event.

"Thank you for your hard work, everyone. With this, no one will dare to offend or even touch the Elysion Church." Elysia put her hands together, beaming with a radiant smile.

"We barely did anything, master. The heretics can’t put up any resistance and the remaining hell demons are just like fish out of water." Yuuki felt they were undeserved for such appreciation. Her master and the word law in the sky were the ones who resolved almost everything.

*Rumble* *Rumble*

A sand dune not far from the gathering site rumbled from within as if to tell that something was about to burst into the surface.

The Elysium girls immediately fell silent and turned to the source of the sound, wondering if they missed some hell demons.

"That... that doesn’t look like hell demons. We scanned the entire desert, and ensured no demons escaped." Vanessa peered closer to the trembling sand dune, but she sensed no demonic energy from it.

"Hmm, what would that be?" Luna rested her cheek on her palm. She tried to use her premonition skill, but someone had already moved ahead of her.

"No, don’t approach it. Some big death worms will pop out." Elysia immediately pulled back the curious Vanessa and beckoned everyone to get away from the shaking sand dunes.

The moon hung low over the desolate desert as the Elysium Pantheon stood amidst the Sacred Sakura’s united holy forces. The air of victory from their recent purge filled the gathering.

However, a low rumble shook the earth beneath them, and it soon turned into an earthquake. The sound grew louder, accompanied by cracks in the dry desert. From the shifting sands erupted massive, writhing creatures, the death worms.

Their gargantuan forms were covered in jagged chitinous plates that gleamed under the moonlight. Their eyeless faces and circular maws exuded primal menace, and their presence sent tremors across the deserts.

However, Elysia and those around her remained undisturbed despite knowing the monsters were 7th Rank and above. She raised her hand to calm the murmurs among her crusaders.

She then flew forward to address the beasts in a voice imbued with divine authority. "Creatures of the sand. Depart and return to your domain."

But the gargantuan death worms, being unintelligent creatures of pure instinct, couldn’t even hear her words. Instead, the largest of the worms lunged forward. Its immense bulk burrowed rapidly toward the assembled knights.

"Hm!" Gio leaped high into the air and fell back to the ground with a mighty blow.

*Boom!*

Gio caused a violent earthquake, shaking the vast desert area. He moved his hand up, forcibly pulling out the approaching big worm with a death grip.

Earth served as his domain, and no earth-type creatures could do as they pleased before him. Moreover, no beasts were allowed to defy his master’s authority. However, these unintelligent beasts ignored her words, and they deserved punishment!

"Grrr..." Gio exuded his primal beast aura, gripping the death worm’s massive head tightly.

"..." The death worm got terrified instantly even though the creature before it was just a small armored human. It was considered an attack, but the sheer aura of the predator was too much.

The worm tried to curl up, and Gio simply roared. He pulled the gargantuan death worm completely out of the ground and threw it far away into the hordes of death worms watching from afar.

Not done with that, he leaped forward and delivered a crushing blow to those monsters, knocking them back into the hole they emerged from.

After sealing the hole, Gio brushed his arms and gave a thumbs up to the Goddesses in the air.

"Thank you for your quick move, Gio." Elysia flew down, expressing her gratitude to her reliable aide.

However, she wondered why her words, the voice imbued by nature’s divinity, got ignored by those death worms. Even though they didn’t have intelligence, they should still understand what she said.

"Why did that happen? So far, your nature divinity has never been resisted by non-demonic beasts." Elena nudged Rhea, confused about why it didn’t work now.

"Hmm, that’s strange. Maybe, those monsters are not so smart and can’t hear anything." Rhea pondered about it. Elysia used her shared divinity, but the beasts chose to ignore the warning.

"Well, they’re probably the demonic hybrids who rely on nothing but instinct. Gio showed them fear with his dragon aura, and yes, he controlled them as the apex predator." Lifa shrugged her shoulders, explaining from experience.

"Mm, sometimes peace talk won’t work. Only after they feel a strong blow do they understand." Nell crossed her arms, nodding in agreement.

"I see. Would they immediately return to their nest if I used my aura and asked them to scram? Asserting dominance upfront is important..." Elysia held her chin, wondering about it.

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"If it’s your aura, if you showed no killing intent, they might submit like how those calamity monsters chose to submit rather than flee in fear." Elena covered her mouth, chuckling lightly.

Shiina, Agent Brown, looked up as she could sense the Lord of Heaven and several fellow heavenly agents were watching from the Divine World.

However, she could not understand why Lady Elysia took the trouble to such an extent. "Milady, why didn’t you wipe out those heretics to tie the loose end altogether? Why bother to humiliate and punish them?"

"We never humiliate them, though? The Elysion Church will handle the rest. They need to show everyone who’s boss. I wonder if there’s anyone who will be courting death after this incident." Elysia faintly smiled.

Since the matter had been concluded, she left the rest to the Sacred Sakura’s crusaders, led by Miko, to help the Elysion Church. She brought her Elysium Pantheon to the flagship parked at the camp.

"Hm-mm~" Elysia opened her Sacred Heaven Grimoire to catch up with the Divine World’s news, wondering about the recent things that occurred among the Gods and Immortals in the Heaven Channel.

Apparently, the Gods and Immortals of the Heaven Channel were in an uproar over transactions related to anti-curse materials. It was either the exchange between goods of equal value or purchase at a fantastic price, the anti-curse materials were in high demand.

They also helped each other, including sharing information when they found mines or dungeons where the materials they needed were found and then making arrangements to raid the dungeons in groups.

Everything was done for the Nirvana Great War, and apparently, the Heavenly Palace did not handle everything alone. The affiliates contributed greatly to the preparation for the large-scale war.

"Xen, do you think we could become a merchant to supply anti-curse materials to the Gods of Heaven?" Elysia closed her grimoire, considering Xentia’s interstellar merchant identity would do well with Gods and Immortals as their customers.

"It’s feasible, master. However, we can only supply four tons of anti-curse raw metals at most." Xentia calculated the resources she could spend, but considering how valuable anti-curse materials were to ensure their family’s livelihood and safety, 10% of her reserve was the most she could invest.

"Four tons, that’s a lot. They even turned the dungeons upside down to get a few kilograms of anti-curse raw materials. If you want, you may join the Heaven Network as a divine merchant, Xen." Elysia made a kind suggestion.

"Mm, Xen listens to master." Xentia nodded in understanding.

She understood her master meant well, but it would also make her more valuable in the eyes of the Heavenly Palace. After all, the day after tomorrow would be the day she ascended into the true immortal path and divinity.

However, the thing she was looking forward to the most was not that, but the day after tomorrow. She would secure a whole day with her master. There were myriad of things she wished to spend with her master and savior.

Elysia was about to join her sisters as they gathered over something interesting, but He-Dao suddenly spoke privately into her mind.

’You’re the big boss, but why did you step in so early? Your people haven’t even gotten a chance to shine. You ended the battle so quickly...’

’If we don’t end it quickly, my people will be exhausted from handling the aftermath. I’m not sure if I can attend the weekly class if it got prolonged into days or even weeks.’

’Ending it quickly is always the right decision. See you at the Heavenly Palace the day after tomorrow. We need you, Divine Teacher.’

’Glad you understand...’

Elysia closed the telepathic connection as she wished to join her sisters as they were planning something interesting.

Meanwhile, Miko as the supreme leader of the Sacred Sakura’s crusaders let out a sigh of relief as she saw the aftermath handled pretty well.

The super-dangerous bad guys were executed, the remaining heretics were captured with no rights as living beings, the troublemakers got beaten, the demons were wiped out, and the Elysion Church fortified its position as the untouchable major force.

It was no longer the sick tiger with only two fangs, but a fierce tiger with a flock of beasts at their beck and call. Other factions would not dare to try to offend the Elysion Church from now on.

"Phew..." Miko wiped her sweat, smiling happily as she looked at the horizon of the rising sun.

"Haha, I couldn’t be more alive than I am now. I express my deepest gratitude for your generosity, Sacred Sakura Saintess. I don’t know how to repay your kindness, but allow me to serve you for the rest of my life." Old Sage Guam expressed his gratitude with great joy.

"Mmhm, raise your head, Sage Guam. I only did what I should. But, you should have expressed your gratitude to my mama. You served the Supreme Goddess, right?" Miko raised her palm.

"You’re the daughter of the Supreme Goddess, so serving you is akin to being loyal to the almighty. The divine won’t stay long in the mortal world, so your presence is truly meaningful to many of us." Old Sage Guam shook his head.

"Mm, I hope you can share the burden that Myra, Saint Daemyx, and Saintess Bhae bear to build the Elysion Church better. It covers three worlds now, so we need more reliable people at our disposal." Miko nodded in reply.

"Ugh, my back is hurt! Sacred Sakura Goddess literally obliterated countless demons with just a sweep of her hand, but why is the surviving demon still so troublesome?" Mingyue held her back, in pain as she had just been blown away by the desperate dying hell demon’s blast.

"Those demons got weakened a lot. It’s your carelessness to blame." Meiying remained as cold as ice, but she still helped her friend. She pressed a healing paper talisman to Mingyue’s back but applied a little pressure to give the pain exactly where it hurt.

"Ouch, you psycho!" Mingyue flinched, slapping Meiying’s hand reflexively.