Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 649 - 37 Heresy

The battle in the Kawa Great Forest years ago, which directly faced the Beastman Royal Court, was entangled with an extraordinary amount of intrigue, and the secret forces behind the Legendary Thief were among them.

Furthermore, manipulating everything from behind the scenes were the hidden divine beings who had vanished from the Seta Continent thirty thousand years ago!

This is quite strange,

because in the memories of the Legendary Thief, he perhaps believed in some divine beings, but in this era where the divine are not evident, this thief who achieved the status of legend was merely a nominal believer.

Not like those fervent followers for whom the divine are everything, executing any command unto death.

At the same time, the powerful organization behind him was not under the sway of The Vatican.

However,

when the divine oracles, hidden in the depths of the dark starry sky, were handed down, this mysterious organization, not of the Church, frantically acted, risking their lives for certain purposes of these divine beings.

The degree of their efforts was even more "enthusiastic" than that of The Vatican under the divine beings.

This might be related to the divine beings' absence for thirty thousand years and the significant weakening of The Vatican's influence on the Seta Continent, but such enthusiasm indeed went a bit overboard.

This is quite unusual.

Unfortunately, perhaps because certain magical imprints deeply sealed related memories in his soul, the information Austin could glean from the Legendary Thief's mind was only marginal details about this secret organization. To break through the soul seal's obstruction for more, even with Austin's current power, obtaining complete information without harming the mental soul had its challenges, and there was even a significant chance of learning nothing.

For Austin, this thief still had some use.

Even though the information about that secret organization was precious, there might be opportunities to acquire it later, so Austin gave up on the idea of tearing apart the seal in his soul.

But,

although he gave up forcefully searching the thief's soul for intelligence, Austin still deduced the entire cause and effect process during this probing from the information in his mind.

He also deduced the source of the unknown forces targeted at the Dragon Nest Beastman faction.

From the memories of the Legendary Thief, after inferring all this, Austin couldn't help but sigh.

"What a calamity!"

Back then, during the battle within the Kawa Great Forest, he nearly perished, having a grudge with the mysterious Beast God who was hidden behind the scenes at the Beastman Royal Court.

However,

just because he quickly rose to prominence after the Beastman Royal Court was utterly defeated and the Beast God "fell," dominating the Kawa Great Forest, he was instead feared and suspected by the opponent, guessed as possibly being the puppet force recreated by the Beast God, who faked his death to escape.

Within the Dragon Nest Beastman Tribe, including government officials and even civilians,

uniformly stand up every morning and sing praises to the greatness of that Blue Dragon Lord, participate in thank-you ceremonies before meals that spontaneously spread, and gather in the city squares on rest days to worship the massive statue towering in the squares....

Such actions resemble the ways by which some divine beings gather believers and collect faith.

And on the Seta Continent, nowadays in the Kawa Forest, that past war with the Fallen Beast God had not been so many years ago, and when it comes to matters related to the divine, naturally, it immediately brings to mind this perplexing conclusion from the war back then.

Such a Beastman force, if it were oneself, would also harbor similar suspicions and send someone to investigate.

Austin did not know what those mysterious divine beings hidden in the background were thinking,

but if it were him, he would certainly not stand idly by.

"But so what?"

Since discovering that the broken world could not bear powers beyond a certain scope, Austin's last trace of worry had already dissipated.

Since this world cannot bear overly strong powers, unless the other party could locate Austin's hidden embodiment somewhere in the Endless Void, even the mightiest divine being posed no threat to him.

Even if they wished to mobilize forces targeting his Dragon Nest Beastman faction,

not to mention other matters, after so many years of prolific development, his Dragon Nest Tribe's force was not inferior to any kingdom force on the Central Earth Continent, perhaps even surpassing them.

Possessing various modern elements magically modified in this world, as well as hidden half-legendary dark sentinels that have integrated powers of Law Origin stolen from others,

whether it be high-level combat power or low-level combat power, the Dragon Nest Beastman Tribe or the Blue Dragon Kingdom on this continent feared no one.

Though unknown why,

but according to the Ancient King's words regarding the Frost Giants,

the time has not yet come, and the great era has not truly arrived.

Unless those divine beings sleeping on the starry sky ignore everything, even at the cost of the entire Kawa Great Forest collapsing, to descend and bring destruction upon the Blue Dragon Kingdom, there is no means to contend with Austin. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

But this, obviously, is impossible.

It was precisely for this reason, knowing everything behind the scenes, speculating that after the exploratory team was entirely annihilated, the hidden divine being might employ some means to cross worlds and descend before Austin, he showed no fear, instead waiting quietly on the side.

The above-legendary three can be considered quite a number even within the hidden organization in the Central Earth World.

Annihilated in one battle here,

the hidden one, wanting to truly obtain intelligence, the best method would be to employ some means to descend, coming here personally to observe the intricacies.

And indeed, the result was as Austin had anticipated.

The opponent truly descended!

The only surprise for Austin was that the opponent's fallback was Edward. How Edward eventually connected with that presence was unknown.

Initially, he thought it would be someone from this exploratory squad.

The figure of "Edward," like losing gravity, floated into the air, hovering high above.

The vast divine might transformed into a golden Great Sun Wheel, illuminating half the sky, turning the whole sky into a golden vast sea.

Within a radius of ten thousand miles,

all creatures raised their heads toward the sky, feeling that immense divine might.

"Edward," from his high vantage point, gazed indifferently without a trace of emotion, akin to an exalted divine being.

His golden dazzling gaze pierced through layered voids, locking eyes with Austin on the other side of the void passage, and with a furrowed brow, he seemed to have thought of something severe. His majestic voice resounded in the void:

[Heretic!]