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Chapter 139: It Wasn’t an Evil God’s Descent into a Vessel · Oct 18, 2026

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101 Chapter 101: Hughes and Hughes and Hughes 2026-10-18
102 Chapter 102: Don’t Answer! Don’t Answer! Don’t Answer! 2026-10-18
103 Chapter 103: The Steam Engine is Cursing Again 2026-10-18
104 Chapter 104: Steel Is Forever Loyal 2026-10-18
105 Chapter 105: The Banquet Begins 2026-10-18
106 Chapter 106: 2026-10-18
107 Chapter 107: Is He Crazy? 2026-10-18
108 Chapter 108: 2026-10-18
109 Chapter 109: Something in the Sea 2026-10-18
110 Chapter 110: Gunpowder 2026-10-18
111 Chapter 111: The Yield Is Still Not Enough 2026-10-18
112 Chapter 112: The Expelled Church of the Sea God 2026-10-18
113 Chapter 113: The Truth in the Sea 2026-10-18
114 Chapter 114: I Have Extensive Experience Being Descended Upon by an Evil God 2026-10-18
115 Chapter 115: There Is a Traitor Among Us 2026-10-18
116 Chapter 116: The Studious Nun and the Unstudious Merchant 2026-10-18
117 Chapter 117: What Do You Think Pirates Are? 2026-10-18
118 Chapter 118: The Steam Factory 2026-10-18
119 Chapter 119: How Can Knowledge Be Considered Stolen? 2026-10-18
120 Chapter 120: The Evil God Summoned Earlier Hasn’t Left 2026-10-18
121 Chapter 121: Can It Pollute History in Reverse?! 2026-10-18
122 Chapter 122: The Authorization Letter and the Options Contract 2026-10-18
123 Chapter 123: Overproduction? Time to Dump It 2026-10-18
124 Chapter 124: I Am the Chief 2026-10-18
125 Chapter 125: Are You Competing with Monica in Innovation? 2026-10-18
126 Chapter 126: Digging All the Way Down to the Earth’s Core 2026-10-18
127 Chapter 127: The Empress Knows, But She Doesn’t Care 2026-10-18
128 Chapter 128: Can Extraordinary Paths Be Stacked? 2026-10-18
129 Chapter 129: Nice Ship You Have, It’s Mine Now 2026-10-18
130 Chapter 130: The Goods Are on Credit, the Ship Is on Credit, Why Can’t People Be on Credit? 2026-10-18
131 Chapter 131: Can’t an Evil God Be Used as a Receiver? 2026-10-18
132 Chapter 132: Storm Heavy Industries 2026-10-18
133 Chapter 133: Subway 2026-10-18
134 Chapter 134: Interlude – To Uncle Yule 2026-10-18
135 Chapter 135: They’re Back!? 2026-10-18
136 Chapter 136: Farewell 2026-10-18
137 Chapter 137: Atonement, Sinners 2026-10-18
138 Chapter 138: I Am Actually a Member of the Candlelight Church 2026-10-18
139 Chapter 139: It Wasn’t an Evil God’s Descent into a Vessel 2026-10-18
140 Chapter 140: Rather Than an Evil God Descending Into a Vessel, It Is the Vessel That Gives Birth to the Evil God 2026-10-18
141 Chapter 141: Creating an Evil God 2026-10-18
142 Chapter 142: Swallow My Flesh and Blood 2026-10-18
143 Chapter 143: The Curse of Immortality 2026-10-18
144 Chapter 144: Did the Symbiotic Contract Go Wrong? 2026-10-18
145 Chapter 145: Amnesia 2026-10-18
146 Chapter 146: Surrounding the Church 2026-10-18
147 Chapter 147: The Eerie Shell 2026-10-18
148 Chapter 148: Taming Pollution? 2026-10-18
149 Chapter 149: Are Fishmen Slaves Too? 2026-10-18
150 Chapter 150: Sunken Memory 2026-10-18

”On the island? What do you mean? Was she sent here too?”

”No.” Chloe paused. ”She joined the Moths Chasing Fire and came here with us.”

Hughes blinked. ”That’s a good thing. Tell her to come over and see me.”

”No, it’s not that simple.” Chloe’s tone was somewhat heavy. She looked up at Hughes.

”Probably after the banquet, I realized you knew a lot about our Cult, so I wanted to check where the leak came from.”

Knew a lot?

Hughes did know a lot, such as Chloe’s true identity.

But this wasn’t because Moths Chasing Fire leaked information, it was because he could descend into the body of Worker Hughes.

That wasn’t something he could easily explain.

Hughes showed a subtle expression. ”No one leaked anything. I have other channels, other supernatural means.””Is that so? I thought that body leaked the information.”

Hughes felt an explosion go off in his mind.

Body?!

What was she talking about? Did she discover that I could descend into Worker Hughes’ body?

Impossible! How did she connect me to that body?!

Hughes used all his strength to barely keep his expression in check. His deepest secret had just been exposed like that?

No, not necessarily. He had to probe first and see how much she actually knew.

Calming himself, Hughes asked with a hint of confusion, ”What body?”

”Come with me.”

Chloe shook her head and walked straight toward the church.

Hughes hesitated for a moment before following, secretly using Mind Link to connect with the Siren.

Ash and Nini had taken people out, so Hughes could only reach Feniel, who was in the perfume workshop.

『So, you’re saying you might be in danger, Lord?』

『Just reporting in. It’s probably safe. If they really wanted to take me down, I wouldn’t even have the chance to contact you. This group seems to have the ability to block perception.』

He recalled Worker Hughes’ body, Moths Chasing Fire had almost completely silenced his prayers.

『Alright, I understand. If you don’t check in with me regularly, I’ll notify Ash and the others.』

Hughes felt slightly reassured.

This group had too many hidden tricks, not only could they summon an evil god to cleanse pollution, but they could also block the Lord of Moths’ perception.

They seemed adept at dealing with all sorts of deities, even mistaking Hughes for an Outer God.

Following Chloe, he entered the church and saw Brother Kaeski sitting silently in a chair, completely motionless.

Hughes wasn’t in the mood to ask anything. He glanced at him briefly and moved on, following Chloe to a trapdoor.

Chloe lifted the wooden panel and climbed down the ladder. Hughes leaned over and looked below.

It was just a simple cellar, with a few baskets of potatoes piled in the corner.

Taking a deep breath, Hughes climbed down the ladder.

As he passed through the trapdoor, he suddenly felt something stir within him, a strange sensation, as if he had plunged into water and crossed some kind of boundary.

When he looked around, he found himself in a corridor lined with different rooms. This was clearly not the cellar he had just seen.

So, this was Moths Chasing Fire’s hideout.

Chloe led him familiarly into a room.

Hughes saw cages hanging everywhere.

Most were empty, but a few contained wild animals.

In one of the cages in the back, Hughes saw a human figure.

She was about five feet tall, with brown hair, brown eyebrows, and brown eyes. She was very thin.

”This is her, Lina. A few days ago, she was still one of us, but now she’s become like this.”

Chloe leaned against the wall.

”That day, we were searching for a traitor and caught her eavesdropping, so we planned to examine her.”

”But before we could do anything, she became this… shell.”

Shell?

Hughes’ eyes narrowed as he carefully observed Lina inside the cage.

She looked like someone lost in thought, her gaze empty, her expression vacant.

Other than that, she seemed no different from a normal person. Her complexion was rosy, as if she were simply spacing out.

But Hughes was very familiar with this state.

On the Golden Throne, he had stared at Shells like this countless times, until they suddenly came to life, as if injected with a soul.

Instinctively, Hughes looked into her eyes.

A flicker of spirit suddenly appeared within them.

Her eyelids twitched.

A wave of shock hit Hughes, and he jumped back several steps.

”Hm? What’s wrong?”

Chloe heard the commotion and frowned as she approached.

Hughes swallowed hard and looked at Lina again.

She was still motionless, like a lifeless doll.

An illusion?

He tried looking into her eyes once more, but nothing happened.

Now, they were just dull and lifeless.

”What just happened?” Chloe checked Lina thoroughly before turning back.

”Ahem, nothing. I just got startled. Her eyes were really eerie.”

Hughes took a few steady breaths, his stiff mind beginning to work again.

Then he suddenly realized something.

”You were talking about a Shell before, were you referring to her?”

”Yes. She’s become nothing more than an empty Shell. Her soul is gone, and we don’t know where it went. This is the kind of Shell we use to summon an evil god.”

So it wasn’t Worker Hughes that had been exposed.

Hughes secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

But now that he thought about it, these Shells did resemble the ones he had seen on the Throne.

Could there be a connection?

”What exactly causes someone to become a Shell?”

”We don’t know.”

Chloe shrugged. ”The ones we use to summon an evil god are freshly dead corpses, preserved through certain rituals.

But she was alive and well, and then suddenly became like this. So, it seems she really was a traitor.”

”Could it be that someone else’s soul left their body and entered hers?”

”Impossible. A soul can only reside in its own body. The soul and flesh are one. I use the term ‘Shell’ just for convenience.”

The soul and flesh are one?

Wait… then how does my descent work?

Does this mean I really am a god?

—That alone was absolutely impossible.

Hughes instinctively dismissed the thought.

Then, a new idea struck him, and he asked, ”You use Shells to summon an evil god, right? That means an evil god can descend into them?”

”That’s completely different.”

Chloe explained, ”It’s like my boots, if I take them off, you can’t wear them, but if I pour water into them, they can hold it.”

”So-called summoning doesn’t provide a body for the god, it simply calls a soul into the flesh.”

Hughes’ eyes widened.

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