Kanako felt that sothing was starting to go wrong...
Simply put, it was like Seeing Ghosts.
Clearly earlier, she was the one who had the obvious advantage, but just as she was waiting for the final showdown, the situation suddenly underwent a subtle change. She fell into a slightly awkward predicant and had no choice but to retreat, trying to return to regroup and reorganize her forces.
However, the opponent also seized this opportunity and began to chase her relentlessly.
The situation suddenly reversed and took a turn for the worse.
Not being able to easily take down the opponent as expected, but instead being forced to retreat, had already shaken her faith to a certain degree. After all, for the army of believers she brought along, witnessing such developnts was undoubtedly a blow.
They wouldn’t imdiately abandon their faith, showing no loyalty at all.
They wouldn’t just because their own God lost once imdiately beco distrustful, unfaithful, and start blaming or doubting their choice of faith... it wouldn’t reach such a level imdiately, otherwise they wouldn’t be "believers," but rather "opportunists."
In reality, they were still very devout, instinctively trying to defend their own God, castigating the opponent as the problem, and trying every possible way using their worldview to rationalize the situation, trying to patch things up... But the shaking of faith refers to sothing on a deeper subconscious level.
They wouldn’t imdiately jump ship, discarding their previously clung-to faith at the drop of a hat.
But unless they’re completely brainwashed fans, a seed would be planted in their hearts to so extent. And once this seed is planted, things beco very troubleso.
Trying to clear it from the hearts of the believers is ti-consuming, labor-intensive, and thankless. After all, it’s a troubleso seed that could accelerate growth and take root and sprout at any ti, like a ti bomb that could explode unexpectedly and cause substantial harm.
Therefore, upon noticing similar occurrences among her own believers, Kanako decisively chose to retreat.
But the opposing side also knew her predicant, choosing to pursue her fiercely.
In response, Kanako did not give up fighting back, just like how Suwako did not completely yield or surrender her territory upon her invasion, but instead engaged in a prolonged tug-of-war... until recently, when she finally prepared to concede.
The sa was true for Kanako, only this ti, it was her turn to experience the struggles of the defender.
Especially during the previous tug-of-war, she had already successfully annexed the majority of Suwako’s surrounding areas, establishing a basic faith foundation. This was understandable; normally, it was one of her achievents and a strategic choice to apply pressure on Suwako.
There was nothing to criticize about this, and the original strategy couldn’t be said to be wrong.
However, now these established faith foundations have instead beco a shackle holding her in place—
Unless she could decisively abandon these territories and the believers who worship her and gracefully retreat... Suwako, being an indigenous god, fundantally couldn’t easily abandon her land or stray far from her faith areas, but Kanako wasn’t. If she wanted to, she could leave.
But.
She couldn’t do it; she had her own dignity. It wasn’t about whether she could accept such a retreat, going back with her tail between her legs, but simply about abandoning the nurous believers who faithfully worshipped her, escaping in disgrace, leaving them to fend for themselves...
That, she couldn’t do.
Since Gods rule over people’s faith, they should bear corresponding duties and responsibilities. This was the belief of this graceful and dignified purple-haired goddess, so she could only grit her teeth and bear it.
After another three to five months of tug-of-war, accompanied by the Steel Giant’s repeated displays of Divine Power, with its awe-inspiring divine image, it shook the sky, trembled the earth, and unleashed destructive storms and released deadly rays, Kanako’s faith was gradually and severely shaken.
Finally, the tables turned, and it beca clear that defeat was inevitable—
She reluctantly chose to et with Suwako, revealing a willingness to concede.
......
The eting place was beside Suwa Lake.
This was also an expression of Kanako’s sincerity.
During the few upgrades of the giant Steel Puppet during this ti, its height reached as much as fifty ters, like a giant tower gleaming under the sunlight, reflecting a tallic luster. It quietly stood at the edge of Suwa Lake, with the Power of Earth blessing, preventing its mass from having too much impact on the land.
At this mont, this steel-cast giant’s arms were hanging low, its head slightly bowed.
Its eyes no longer emitted electronic red light, clearly in a standby state.
However, even so, this has beco a magnificent and beautiful sight in the eyes of the nearby tribal inhabitants, self-boosting morale, increasing happiness, stability, and productivity, and so on, all sorts of buffs.
Every day, seeing the towering Giant Divine Weapon standing there from afar, everyone’s faces are glowing, spirits uplifted, starting the day’s work with full energy. The sense of reassurance this brings is undeniably effective. The self-motivation from faith is even more effective than any stimulant...
Finding that even the efficiency of gaining Power of Faith has greatly increased, Suwako naturally placed this mobile wonder here, hoping its attribute benefits would continue to take effect. This was the setup for this period; it wasn’t even intentionally flaunting to impress Kanako on the negotiation table.
Even though the latter seed a bit unnatural seeing this thing placed next to her.
She glanced at the young man in the moon-white Daoist Robe behind the blonde loli, vaguely sensing the Power of Faith gathering and dispersing on him, guessing his identity.
At the sa ti, Gu Mo also calmly smiled at this purple-haired shrine maiden-like God, his gaze slightly pausing on the straw rope circle behind her, carefully examining this item.
Kanako took a deep breath and faced the blonde loli standing proudly in front of her. This Goddess, who months ago felt she was about to unify these lands and spread Yamato Mythology, was now sowhat displeased, yet a bit helpless and frustrated.
However, she did not pretend to be mysterious but straightforwardly expressed her demand: "I lost, let’s end this here... with just one condition: I hope you will spare those believers and not make them pay."
"Hmph, naturally, I promised..."
The blonde loli was in a very good mood; she wrinkled her dainty little nose, softly humming twice but agreed imdiately.
She didn’t have the temperant of ruling people in a too harsh manner. Even when opposing Kanako, she remained restrained. Now, naturally, after the opponent expressed her intention to surrender, she wouldn’t insist on wiping them out so domineeringly.
However, such a swift agreent made Kanako sowhat skeptical. She hesitated, scrutinizing the 1.2-ter figure in front of her, appearing really suspicious of the latter’s words, considering whether such a straightforward agreent was credible or not, and if it might be deceiving her?
"Hey! What kind of look is that!!"
Suwako was imdiately displeased; the skeptical look was too apparent.
"You... agreed too quickly, I’m not quite convinced..." Kanako pulled at the corner of her mouth, her gaze sowhat evasive, speaking in a subtle tone.
"What kind of reason is that?" The blonde loli’s eyes filled with doubt, "Do you want to see disagreeing, refusing every condition before you feel at ease?"
Isn’t this surrender with negotiating conditions? Naturally, the smoother, the better, right?
Could it be that this woman didn’t really intend to surrender, just wanted the negotiations to fail, and then by my hand, help her obtain a respectable result?
Thinking this way, the blonde loli stared at Kanako with an even stranger gaze.
"That’s not it, mainly because I heard your reputation isn’t too good, being the type who quickly imposes divine punishnt at any slight disrespect."
Kanako hesitated, scrutinizing the 1.2-ter figure before her: "So I worry you won’t spare those... outer residents who converted to believe in ."
After all, any slight disrespect, or even the tiniest negligence, prompts imdiate divine punishnt.
Facing those who, around the outskirts of this primal kingdom, were sowhat influenced by her and leaned towards faith, but in this period due to her efforts converted... what would happen to them?
Precisely because of the fear that her believers would suffer harsh and relentless punishnt, Kanako couldn’t just leave, leading her to co over, admit defeat, and negotiate terms, trying to strive for lenient treatnt for those poor people, to avoid directly bringing down divine punishnt to kill them.
"..."
"..."
Squinting, staring at the purple-haired shrine maiden for a while, as if confirming her words, the blonde loli reluctantly sighed: "That wasn’t , it’s a curse god I oversee, with just such a violent temper, I’ve been trying hard to suppress it..."
She governs various curse gods on this land, among which is the Shrine Priest God, possessing an astonishing devotion, handling birthing, agriculture, military, and other matters, yet indeed, it is very violent.
As Kanako ntioned, it’s a terrifying God who quickly punishes with just a slight disrespect, killing the other party.
Because she can control this terrifying Shrine Priest God, Suwako beca the leader of this land, the pinnacle of native gods, gaining even stronger belief and support from the people. Yet seemingly because of this, sotis even the deeds of this curse god are attributed to her.
Such is mythology.
Truth and falsehood mingle, and in the spreading process, confusion and tamorphosis occur.
Behind the blonde loli, the young man in a moon-white Daoist robe rested his chin in contemplation.
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