Gospel of Blood-Chapter 541 : Divine Name

The thunderous roar continued to echo as the rolling clouds were pierced by dazzling light.

In the forest, beneath the undergrowth, birds and beasts curled up, trembling in fear.

In the villages of the northern frontier, the shivering villagers prostrated themselves on the ground, continuously praying and worshipping towards the tumultuous clouds and the radiant light in the sky, begging for the divine wrath not to descend upon them.

Divine wrath…

No, more accurately, it was the might of a divine battle.

Three beams of light—crimson, silver, and purple—moved through the clouds, intertwining and entwining.

One pursued while the other two fled, exuding an aura of world-destroying power and pressure. Wherever they passed, the mere release of divine might made all beings tremble in fear.

Occasionally, divine light penetrated the clouds and struck the earth, instantly severing rivers, collapsing mountains, creating an apocalyptic scene.

This… was the power of myth.

After an unknown duration of pursuit, the crimson light finally caught up with the silver and purple beams. Boundless darkness instantly swallowed the sky, obscuring the sun, replaced by a rising blood moon.

Deafening thunder resounded within the dark clouds, accompanied by an ancient and urgent cry.

“No… how can you possess such power… how can you possess such power!”

“Who are you? No, who are you, really?”

“We surrender, we are willing to cease fighting!”

The cries were filled with terror, confusion, and astonishment.

After the cries, an ethereal and majestic female voice spoke.

“Cease fighting? Sorry, I do not accept a truce.”

The crimson light burst forth, and the red light from the blood moon illuminated the entire sky.

Terrified and agonizing wails echoed in the sky as the silver and purple lights dimmed and weakened under the embrace of the crimson light until they finally disappeared completely.

The rolling clouds gradually calmed, and the turbulent magic also slowly subsided.

The boundless darkness gradually faded, and the blood moon in the sky also disappeared, with sunlight once again illuminating the earth. The world returned to tranquility, as if what had just happened was merely an illusion.

However, the collapsed mountains, cracked earth, severed rivers, and the devastated forest were enough to prove that what had just happened was no illusion but a terrifying divine battle that had truly occurred.

As the terrifying majesty dissipated, birds and beasts regained control of their bodies and fled in panic, still terrified by what had just transpired.

In the dense forest, a red beam descended from the sky. As the light faded, Charlotte appeared.

She remained in her adult form, with a faint crimson blood divine power surrounding her, and two ethereal orbs of silver and purple floating in her hands.

With her silver hair fluttering in the forest wind and her golden-red eyes sweeping over the devastated ground, she showed a hint of annoyance.

“The commotion… seems to have been a bit too big.”

“There’s no helping it. The magic and elements in this era are much more active than in later times, and the extraordinary power in the air is also more easily mobilized. The destructive power during a divine battle is much greater than in later times…”

“Such destructive power… if it were in later times, only a true ‘God’ could achieve it.”

“It seems that in future battles with other myths, I should stay further away from the ground.”

Having decided in her mind to stay as far from the ground as possible during future fights, Charlotte turned her attention to the two orbs in her hands.

No, to be more precise, to her newly acquired “spoils of war”, the divine flames of two Old Gods.

The battle with the Old Gods was far easier than Charlotte had imagined.

It turned out that the gradually perfected Gospel of Blood had an increasingly strong suppressive effect on the “Old Gods.”

Although the ambush by the two Old Gods had caught her off guard, as soon as the battle began, Charlotte was surprised to find that fighting the Old Gods in this era was like a father fighting his sons—it was too easy.

Her blood divine power was simply a natural counter to the Old Gods, constantly devouring their divine power and suppressing their divine power’s outburst. After just a few exchanges, the two ambushing Old Gods sensed something was wrong.

After a few rounds of fighting, the two myths turned and fled in unison, realizing they had met their match.

Of course, the current Charlotte had accumulated considerable divine power, and they didn’t escape her grasp.

After a fierce battle, she easily destroyed their bodies, devoured their divine power, and seized their divine flames.

Unlike her previous battle with Alador, the two Demigods she encountered this time were much weaker, which was another reason she could quickly end the battle.

Moreover, during her battle with the two Demigods, she faintly sensed a familiar aura from them.

Or more precisely, an aura similar to the gray-white mist behind the two eerie stone doors in the depths of her consciousness.

“The bloodborne girl I saved in that village looked exactly like the future Rowena I saw. She is likely the future Rowena.”

“At that time, the Old God priest in front of her also had this familiar aura.”

“Now, these two Demigods have the same aura. Perhaps… I can ‘interrogate’ them to find out what this aura is and whether it is indeed related to the so-called origin.”

Thinking this, Charlotte looked again at the two orbs in her hands.

Divine flame is the essence of a Demigod and the embryonic form of a divine core.

A Demigod’s power comes from the divine flame, and the source of the Demigod’s soul also resides in the divine flame.

It can be said that as long as the divine flame is not extinguished, the Demigod will not perish. Only when the divine flame is extinguished will the Demigod truly die, until someone reignites the extinguished divine flame and the Demigod returns.

In other words, these two Demigods, though they had lost their divine bodies and had their divine power devoured by Charlotte, were not dead yet.

No, even the divine power devoured by Charlotte was merely the divine power from their divine bodies. The divine flame is the source of a Demigod’s divine power, containing 90% of their total divine power.

However, as Charlotte carefully observed the two orbs, she noticed that their divine flames were different from her own.

Her golden-red divine flame burned in her heart, with a faintly visible illusory crystal engraved with thorns and roses within the divine flame, representing her yet-to-form divine core.

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But these two Demigods’ divine flames were much smaller, looking as if they had just been ignited.

Moreover, their divine flames lacked the shadow of a divine core, containing only two broken crystals.

These crystals were not illusions but real entities, continuously rotating within the divine flame, their aura profound. Charlotte quickly realized they must be fragments of true divine cores.

Furthermore, she sensed that familiar gray-white mist aura on these fragments as well.

This made Charlotte very curious about the identities of these two Demigods and the power they possessed.

“I don’t recall seeing any information about you. You seem to be Demigods not recorded in the city-state’s documents. Who are you? Where do you come from?”

Charlotte asked.

Silence.

The two orbs did not respond, even though Charlotte could still sense their souls hiding within.

“Not answering? It seems… I’ll have to ask in a different way.”

Charlotte said indifferently.

As she spoke, crimson light bloomed in her palm, turning into golden-red flames that began to burn the orbs.

Screams quickly echoed, and weak, terrified voices emerged from the orbs.

“Ahhh… I’ll talk… we’ll talk…”

“My name is Catnor!”

“I’m Clyro!”

“We come from the Sun Temple!”

Catnor?

Clyro?

Charlotte frowned slightly.

In the two days since traveling to this era, her main task, besides completing Lilith’s work, had been researching the Old Gods active in the Northern Frontier to prepare for the upcoming “hunt.”

But… she had never heard these names among the Old Gods.

Moreover…

The Sun Temple?

Isn’t that the domain of Helios, one of the two main Gods of the elves?

Are these Demigods subordinate to the Sun God?

But they… don’t seem to be elven Demigods. According to historical records, the Sun God Helios should have already fallen in this era, and the Sun Temple should be part of history.

Even if not, shouldn’t the remnants of the Sun God still be lingering in the shattered Western continent? Why would they appear in the Northern Frontier and serve as “vanguard” for the Old Gods?

Could it be… that the elves and the Old Gods have formed an alliance?

Charlotte was puzzled.

“What are your divine names?”

She continued to ask.

“We… we… we don’t have divine names…”

The orbs stammered.

No divine names?

Charlotte was taken aback.

A myth cannot exist without a divine name.

Even Demigods must have one.

A divine name is a medium for the existence of myths, like the symbol of a God, serving as an anchor for the myth.

Divine names and symbols are the two major anchors for myths. While symbols are not necessary, a divine name is a must.

After all, having a divine name is a prerequisite for igniting the divine flame.

Even a wild Demigod like Charlotte has the name God of the Night (Nyx), and after further awakening her bloodline and “altering” history, she directly gained the names Bloodborne Progenitor and even True Ancestor of Blood.

But these two Demigods claim they have no divine names?

That’s impossible!

Without a divine name, how could they ignite the divine flame and become Demigods?