The lord of life and death

After Rain kills the last Dog, one of the guards comes toward him," Glenn, without you we may not be able to kill the monster."

Rain smiled at him and thanked him and noticed everyone who was fighting looking at him with appreciation. 

Another present," Yes, thanks to you we can kill them."

He nods and smiles at him.

" Yes, and it would have been better if you were not a half-tree spirit and an alchemist." hearing this everyone turns to the source and finds a man who spoke. Rain does not know how to reply to him if he is thanking him or insulting him. And before he can reply.

His mother with an angry look," What's wrong my son is a half-tree spirit and an alchemist?" Rain walks beside his mother to calm her down. He does not care about the man and they are still not safe and he does not want to crack from inside the group.

The man argued," There is nothing wrong but if he were a tree spirit and a potionist it would have been better. As you can see many of the cultists are half-tree spirits." Hearing this Rain's face also turns to anger as he wastes his effort calming his mother down. He is a half-tree spirit and he is insulting all half-tree spirits who are highly likely to become a cultist but Rain notices among the cultists there are also many tree spirits.

A guard," You two should not quarrel, and many tree spirits also become followers of an evil god." And stand between them and the man. 

Another guard," Half-tree spirits are also people of the empire. Do not insult them." with a stern look on his face. Other civilians also spoke on behalf of Rain and Half Tree spirits. And before the man can speak.

Glenn's mother," Yes, My son is an elite potionist, who ranked first at today's test and was awarded a life seed by the princess." Rain finds his mother looking at him.

Rain understood the look and took out the identity card given to him by the potion guild and showed his hands. Everyone came near him to see his badge and touch his hands which were covered by life seed. 

The man turns his face in a blink of an eye," Sorry." 

Rain hears people asking 'How beautiful is the princess.' and other questions. As he was answering them, he heard and shout and turned to see a woman," Hey, some guys are seriously injured, they need quick treatment." 

Rain recognized the woman, she was an enthusiastic woman who wanted to fight the monster but was left behind for her being a first realm extraordinary and she was with other first realms looking after the injured.

Some of the guards heard walk toward them and the rest of the group surrounded the altar.

One of the guards," Let me go and destroy the Altar. It's a sub altar only nothing will happen."

Another guard said," Wait, we do not know the altar is part of the formation that powers the barrier surrounding the city. It may even be a cursed altar." 

The rain learned about altars and how the formations of this world are constructed. So, keep quiet and listen to their discussion. And, he is particularly fascinated by the marking on the altar. It is like special language explaining the mystery of the world. 

If he can understand the language, then he can learn what is written in the Altar.

Rain turns his head to face his mother, who like him listening to the discussion of the guards about what to do with the altar, he calls softly for his mother to hear only, "Mother, Mother."

His mother turned her face in his direction, " What Glenn?"

Rain turns to face the altar," Do you know what the marking is on the altar?"

His mother's face also turns toward the altar," Yes, they are called runes."

Rain hearing runes are similar to divine runes of the star immortal world. If it is the same then by comprehending the runes on the altar, he understands the rules of this world.

His daydreaming is broken by a guard standing in front of him," Boy, do not try to learn the runes of the altar."

Rain squinted his eyes at the guard and asked," Why?"

The guard replies," Do you know anything about runes?"

Rain thought for a few seconds how to answer, " I do not know about the runes but from the runes written on the altar, I can conclude they explain the rules of the world in written form."

The guard nods smirk on his face," Then can you guess, who is the source of the runes written on the altar?"

Rain thoughtfully says," The world." Now all the guards paying attention to the conversation, seeing them shake their heads and the smirk on the guard's face who asks him the question, Rain concludes a worse guess," The Evil God of Spores."

All the guards nod and a guard dressed differently from the rest of the guards Rain finds from the guard's aura, that he is a peak second realm Life Spirit Guard. The strongest among their group. Speaks," Every God in the world taught their believer about the world in different languages. Which we call God's language or runes. Each word has magical power. Learning them one can understand the world from the view of the Gods."

"But, It's also from a connection with the God's whose language you learn. The native God of our world is ok but the foreign evil god through the connection established will try to influence you."

"And you are an alchemist, for you except the God of light and fire, you can understand the rest of the godly language. After the attack of the followers of the evil god of spores ends, we get out of here, you can come to me, and I will give you the first volume of our goddess explaining the rules of the world."

Rain nods but his mind thinks if his body in the star immortal world forms a connection with any immortals of that world. So he urgently sent the information to the body in the star's immortal world.

Rain opened his mouth to thank the guard. But a sudden boom in the sky outside shook the cavern as stone from the ceiling started failing.

The enthusiastic woman," Let me destroy the altar, so we can find other altars and destroy them."

" So the fight inside the city can take place outside the city." Rain observed before jumping down the hole, that a battle was taking place in the sky but inside the barrier. And for strong of that level, a city can destroyed by them alone, and now four of them fighting inside the city.

They have to destroy the barrier for them to escape the city or for the strongman to fight outside the city.

Rain watches the strongest guard stop the woman from walking forward," I cannot let a civilian take the risk. I will destroy the altar." Rain watches as he steps forward, he is stopped by another guard who wants to take the risk of destroying the altar. He also finds the strongest guard is also a captain rank in the guard corps.

Rain looked around him and on his back, he found a large stone. With his soul power, he lifted the stone in the air everyone head flew it directly above the altar and dropped it. Then altar is crushed by the stone.

This made everyone stare at the altar for a few seconds and then turn and stare at Rain because among the crowd only he an alchemist is possible to do this.

Rain seeing everyone looking at him," What? I crush the altar. So let's go and find other altars and destroy them. " Rain turned to the direction where he found a passage going further inside. As he took a step toward that direction his stomach growled in hunger.

Rain clutches his stomach as everyone stares at him. From morning, he has not eaten anything and was not unable to eat at noon because of the potion guild test. After the fight for which he consumes his energy in fighting and when he feeds the life seed with his energy. 

Before happiness of getting the first rank, made him forget about hunger and after fighting 'the fungi construct' pulled his attention. Now resting after the fight, made his body aware of hunger.

Hearing Glenn's stomach making a sound of hunger, many civilians also felt hungry, one of them touching his stomach, " I am also hungry, Does anybody have any food."

Another civilian," I am also feeling very hungry and before the commotion, I was buying some fruit but the attack of the cultists derailed my plan."

The guard captain raises his hand and speaks," We have some food pills."

A woman," Food pills taste terrible."

His mother," But we do not have any choice."

Rain also nods, agreeing with his mother," Give me some, I do not think the taste matters for me now." 

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As Rain and his group are filling their stomach before they start to find the next altar to destroy. 

Another place a huge fight is taking place. Narisa standing beside Loreal as she absorb magic stone in the ground. She has to have enough energy before she is able to transform.

A fight is taking place around her but her attention above the sky, where her the three elders are fighting a 10 meter size huge Golden beetle. But as she watch the fight her elders are suppressed by the Golden beetle. So, the fight around the city is not important if her elders fail then they all is lost. Everyone in the city will be sacrificed to a evil god.

She find Mary walking toward. Mary reaching her speak," The perimeter is secured."

Narisa nods," If the elders cannot defeat the Golden beetle, then the secured perimeter does not matter."

Mary," Yeah, But we have to stop them till Loreal completes her transformation."

Narisa," The Golden Beetle must be descendant of the evil god of insect. Without the command of the evil god, the followers cannot command it."

"This situation certain that the evil god of insect is ressurected. Before the barrier form, are you able to communicate with the Saint."

Mary," After you left for the potion test, I sent the information collected by the guard and alchemist to the headquater."

" But, they did not believe a resaoning of an alchemist."

Narisa," Then nobody will come to help us. Looking at the fight, I think the elders are no match against the Golden Beetle. And time passes, our situation will more grave. Every death in the city make it closer for any of the two evil god to descent."

Mary," The headquater did not believe but the saint still deciede to sent ArchBishop Sienna. She is in charge of City of Allister, which is 1000 km distance. She can fly, for her it is a three hour journey."

Mary," But she will not be able to help with the barrier surrounding the city. We have to destroy the barrier."

Narisa thoughtfully, " Then we have to destroy the barrier. The barrier also stops us from escaping. Even we will not escape but the civilians should escape the city."

Mary," Formation from the barrier must be underground from the investigate of the temple guard."

Narisa looking around," Where is the mayor and the commander of the city guard? We have to send to destroy the formation."

Few seconds looking around, Narisa thought something and a determine look came n her eyes," Mary, will you be able to guard the perimeter without my guards."

Mary," I will ask the commander for more city guard, then there will no problem for me to protect Loreal."

Narisa nods with a determined look," I will with my guard destroy the formation."

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