Dimensional Descent

Across the Milky Way, in a religious building that had turned quite silent to this point, Aderlard appeared, gasping for breath.

This location was none other than the abandoned Shrine of the Evergreen Religion and had once been their main base of operations. Ieme, in all his ambitions, had chosen to uproot them completely and move everything to EarthX1.

If the bet worked out, there was no doubt that there would be a great boon to take advantage of. However, even Arderlard couldn't have imagined that the Earthlings would be so powerful. At first, he thought that the only anomaly was Leonel, but he realized that without showing his hidden trump cards, he had no chance to defeat Arnold either.

He realized then that he had made a grave mistake. He had been so worried about the other religions come to encroach of the Evergreen Goddess' territory that he hadn't even considered the idea that Earth would fight back.

It was beyond just the idea of them having the strength to do so or not, though. Usually, lower level worlds were hesitant to fight back against religions because of the power their Gods and Goddesses represented. There was a reason why Aderlard was scared of the clergymen of other religions, but not of the other families and organizations aiming for Earth.

But, it was either that Earth was ignorant to what it meant to offend a God, or they simply didn't care. And, Aderlard was afraid that it was the latter.

The perfect counter to religious Force was World Force.

When Leonel fought his first clergymen at Valiant Heart Mountain, he had analyzed Evergreen Force to feel like a cross between Universal Force and World Force. In truth, he wasn't entirely incorrect as it had aspects of both.

Without getting lost in the details of it all, a powerful World Spirit was able to counter the advantages religions could usually create for themselves, this was why many religions targeted weaker galaxies to spread their religion.

With Earth's talent, Aderlard was sure that Earth's World Spirit was also powerful. He had originally thought that it would still take time to mature, but if they were actually so bold in killing clergymen without thought for the consequences…

deep breath

idea that his decisiveness had actually bought Earth valuable time to grow, while Aderlard had no idea that the wielder of the World Spirit, Leonel's mother, was nowhere near Earth's Fold of Reality

can make a trip to another branch and slowly replenish my

he froze. Up ahead, there was what could only be described as a Goddess descended from on high. She wore a white and fluttering dress and the small bits of skin she revealed were enticing

immediately

appeared without even alerting him. He even had a feeling that had she not allowed it, he

been uprooted?" She said

times as refreshing. She seemed to sing with her words despite the fact she was

Four-Layered Hand made a gamble

see, so you chose to try to plant a seed on

but didn't say anything. He couldn't understand why but his entire back was drenched with cold sweat. This young woman didn't seem to be

young woman shifted. It looked as though she might have smiled, or maybe she

"You're scared."

whether she was asking a question or stating something. She might

mostly only does when I'm in the presence of other clergymen. I think that's why he was so fascinating to me… He could definitely feel

when you're so dangerous yourself, why should you