The Hunter Group was summoning its members to Nova Scotia, the city closest to Death God Island.
The Z Church, which had found the Spirit Conduit Committee's dedicated communication earpiece in the ancient castle ruins, was also rushing over under the leadership of the Pope.
Not just the Hunter Group and the Z Church.
Horus also received information from his divine envoy, 'Muslim,' the moment he was informed. Muslim's secretly cultivated organization had been destroyed, and the Hettley Castle had also turned into ruins.
Just after receiving the news that they had found the Eye of the Death God, Muslim, overjoyed, rushed to Victoria to personally retrieve the Eye of the Death God and present it to Horus. However, when he arrived, he was stunned. The entire Hettley Castle had become a pile of ruins, and the few people he had cultivated were crushed beneath the rubble, reduced to pulp.
Who else could be suspected?
It was naturally the Z Church. Because there was no body of Helsen in the ruins, and the room where Helsen was imprisoned was the only part of the castle that remained undamaged, it meant that Helsen was not dead. He had been rescued, along with the Eye of the Death God, and had fallen into the hands of the Z Church.
Therefore, Muslim closely watched the two organizations that possessed the Eye of the Death God: the Z Church and the Hunter Group.
As expected, the Hunter Group was summoning its members to Nova Scotia.
The Z Church was also rushing to Nova Scotia in a hurry.
What did this mean?
It meant that these two organizations had shamelessly colluded and were preparing to open Death God Island!
Muslim, enraged, hurried to Horus to report the situation.
Horus looked at Muslim with some confusion and asked, "Are you sure the Hunter Group and the Z Church have reached an agreement?"
Muslim nodded with great certainty, his emotions urgent. "My Lord, I swear to you, if it weren't for these two shameless organizations colluding, I would never have lost the Eye of the Death God. Instead, I would have already presented it before you for your disposal."
Horus chuckled. He knew Muslim was trying to defend himself, but it didn't matter. He didn't care whether the Hunter Group and the Z Church were colluding or not. He only cared about the Death God Egfen.
"It's alright, Muslim. You've done very well. There's a saying in China that I find very fitting: 'Effort determines success.' You are not a god, after all, and cannot be perfect, can you?"
Muslim looked at Horus excitedly, knelt on one knee, and said piously, "Thank you for your forgiveness, my Lord. I will always follow you."
Horus smiled enigmatically. "Very well, Muslim. I can clearly feel your sincerity. Go and prepare. We will also go to Death God Island to welcome the awakening of an old friend."
"Yes, your subordinate will prepare immediately." Muslim lowered his head and slowly exited the study.
Watching Muslim leave, Horus turned to Nefita, who was sitting on the sofa, and said with a smile, "My servant is indeed a good-for-nothing, but he is a very obedient one. He also knows very well that he is a good-for-nothing. Given this, he understands his position perfectly; he is not arrogant, not reckless, and does not do foolish things."
Nefita glanced at Horus and snorted coldly. "Horus, their lives are of no consequence. I only hope they do something valuable before they die."
Horus raised his hand and pouted, indicating his helplessness. He raised an eyebrow and said, "Nefita, we cannot forget the companions who fought alongside us. In every cycle, they have never betrayed us. Tens of thousands of years have passed, and their descendants have not violated their oaths and have continued to follow us. And yet, you speak of them like this now. Your cold-bloodedness shocks me."
"This forces me to seriously consider whether to cooperate with you."
Nefita looked up at Horus. After a moment, she said sternly, "Horus, before you make such jokes, I hope you see your own strength clearly. With your strength ranked only in the middle tier, you will be the one who gets killed."
Horus shrugged noncommittally, not refuting Nefita. For victory and survival, they felt no shame in using dirty and despicable means. The process was not important to them; victory was.
Even if the two of them were the last to laugh and then killed each other to determine the sole victor, before that, they had to kill all the other eleven gods, because their strength was only ranked in the middle tier among the thirteen gods. They were in an awkward position, neither strong nor weak, and they craved victory more than any other god.
Horus smiled and said, "Then let us go to welcome Egfen's awakening, and then kill him."
Nefita said, "Bai Luokui was the first to awaken. He welcomed me, I welcomed you, you welcomed Heli, who is Xia Peishu, and Xia Peishu welcomed Ji Bing. Ji Bing had an arm destroyed by him."
"According to the ritual of divine descent, Ji Bing should have welcomed Egfen. This battle can only begin between them."
Horus frowned and shook his head. "Nefita, such rules no longer exist. My welcoming of Heli's awakening was an accident. With Heli's strength, it was not my turn to welcome him, just as Heli welcomed Ji Bing's awakening. With Ji Bing's strength and status, he was not worthy of Heli's welcome, so losing an arm was a stroke of luck; he should have been killed."
"And I was also lucky. I met Heli just as he was waking up, so it seemed like a draw, but in reality, I used my full strength, and he had just woken up."
"Ji Bing is no match for Egfen. He will be killed by the newly awakened Egfen in an instant, which goes against our plan. Let Ji Bing, that kind of fellow, live in his self-inflicted delusional madness. Let the two of us welcome Egfen, and then kill him."
Nefita pondered seriously for a moment but still expressed concern. "Bai Luokui also made a move against Heli. I'm worried he'll cause trouble. He didn't make a move when he welcomed my awakening. His attitude towards the war of gods is ambiguous."
Horus said decisively, "Don't worry about him. Middle-tier gods are always tragic, just like us. He won't cause trouble; he's just observing. Let's go. We should go and see an old friend."
Nefita suddenly stood up and walked out of the office with Horus.
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"Beautiful lady, thank you for the hamburger." Heli said to the little fan girl staring at him next to him while eating the hamburger.
Heli had finally managed to eat by relying on his looks, trading his WeChat ID for a hamburger, and the person he traded with was this 17-year-old Canadian girl.
"You're welcome, little brother. I never believed that a handsome young man like you would be a homeless person," the girl said to Heli with a smile.
"Of course, I'm not a homeless person. I'm just waiting for someone, and I happened to run out of money," Heli said.
"Are the hamburgers in our country delicious?"
"Well, for a hungry person, anything edible is delicious."
"I like eating hamburgers too."
"Do you know where hamburgers came from?" Heli asked.
"Oh? Where did hamburgers come from? It seems they were invented by the people of Hamburg, Germany, in the mid-19th century," the girl replied.
"No, no, no," Heli shook his head. "There was an emperor in our country named Qianlong. One day, he went to a Han Chinese family's home. That Han Chinese person took out a flatbread with meat inside and said, 'This is our family's treasure.' Emperor Qianlong suddenly realized, 'Oh... so that's how it is,' and thus bestowed the name: Han Bao!"
The Canadian girl looked at Heli, completely bewildered. What Han's treasure was just Han Bao.
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