Chapter 375 - worship me

While the days passed by in relative happiness in the family, the general mood of the universe - henceforth referred to as universe Hosana - is the loaded quiet before the storm, all gods began shoring up their worshipper bases, trying to spread their own religious education or hijack the believers of lesser gods, it was a renaissance era for the religious beliefs across the whole universe, but since each planet and their gods were isolated as of this moment, there were no alien gods intruding on Burkan. It has been a month since the prophecy incident, the Twilight Pearl was preparing to receive the two Awakened tribes, for this occasion, the whole family dressed magnificently and flew to receive them on top of the cloud falcons in a show of wealth, ability and power. At the port where the iceberg carrying both the Yuki tribe and the scaly tail tribe would dock, there were three camps of people, those from the Pearl who came to witness the arrival of the new citizens, those from outside who wished to lay eyes on the Awakened, especially knowing that the famously beautiful snow-daughters were among the arrivals, finally the third camp of haters and deniers who flocked to jeer on and bad mouth the Awakened, simply because they could not do anything about it. There were protests and demonstration against the inclusion of the Awakened in the lands of the sentient races, unfortunately, neither the locals nor the king paid any attention to these discontent voices. Today, there were many religious and pseudo-religious groups, they were calling the arrival of the Awakened an affront to the gods, their voices reached the heavens as they tried to spread the beliefs of their gods to any who will listen. When Yunan descended majestically on the pier with his family, the iceberg was about to dock in the harbour, they let the cloud falcons play and frolic in the sky with Catelyn's chirp-like laughter ringing all over the harbour. It didn't take long before Yunan and the leaders of the Yuki and the lizardmen made the official greetings, exchanged gifts and walked the pathway for them to come inside the kingdom. Among the many voices either cheering or jeering, came a sonorous one that drowned the hubbub of the masses. "King Yunan, you have brought evil to the peaceful land of Burkan, what say you in your defence!", Since the use of magic was forbidden, it was obvious that the man used faith to play on the technicality, unbeknownst to him, he was not the only user of the power of faith in the location. Ever since Yunan used his body as a conduit for the divination ritual, his mastery of faith peaked for some reason, Apophis called it the effect of touching fate, but Yunan chose to not believe him, it was just that he became more in tune with his divinities. Yunan stood still and answered "who's the god that dares to call my act evil, name your god so that I can bring him to beg for forgiveness" using the same power to make his voice reach everyone without drowning any of the noise of the public caused everyone present to quiet down, when kings spoke, they did not raise their voices yet they made sure they were heard loud and clear. The man who challenged Yunan came forward with a smile on his face, thinking that he trapped the king, "what do you call a king who doesn't respect the power of God, are you so righteous that God has to explain their infinite wisdom to you?". Yunan scratched his head then answered as if in doubt "you mean the creator god or the ascended gods, if we are talking about the creator, you should not be able to call on him, if we are talking about the ascended, which one, there are so many of them, and the number of those who actually dare to go against me are very few". Arrogance, pride, grandness, holiness. That was what the impression Yunan gave as he spoke, it wasn't empty boasting or mere bravado, it was genuine confidence born from true strength, the man frowned, calling anyone who ascended by anything other than gods was not something that you dare to do, either you could or couldn't, but the man still thought he was the one winning, " I bask in the service of Idan, the god of holy justice, and you have just incurred the wrath of my god, you will be smitten unless you repent and send away the spawn of monsters, back to whatever hell you fished them from" Laughter, unrestrained laughter resounded, Fae, Dustan and Balin were rolling on the floor, Leader and Lucian were chuckling as they leaned against each other, meanwhile, Bai was supporting both to keep them from falling, the wives were trying hard to pacify the Awakened along with Sapphira and Ignis, all the while trying to hold back from smiling or snickering too hard. As for Yunan he just smiled and looked at his family. "Excuse them, they have yet to hear such a joke, me, getting smitten by a lower god without even a realm, heh, that was a funny one, I admire your sense of humour, however, in return to making my family laugh, I grant you the right to kneel and worship instead of your weak ass god, if you refuse, I will smite you and lets see if your god dares protect you from my rage" As someone who has so many divinity shards, a complete divinity as well as a realm in Dreamscape, Yunan was stronger than many ascended when it came to raw faith power, him delaying his ascension was mostly due to him trying to find his own original divinity, add in his sensitivity to the energy of emotions thanks to both dreamscape and Apophis' teachings, Yunan was certain that he could take away this presumptuous preacher from his god. The man had his face darken and was about to spout something when the sky darkened and clouds filled the sky, clouds burning with rage and lightning raging like dragons within, Yunan held up a finger and the rumbling heavens turned silent, but still as menacing as ever " worship me as your god and live, refuse and burn in fire and lightning, this is how you threaten to smite someone".