Chapter 1095 - 641: Totem Avatar and New Specialty
Pearl Clan,
After Berion prepared the faith altars for each of Claus’ tribes, Lis spent several days touring the various tribes of the Treasure Pearl Fishmen.
One aspect was to showcase the legendary power of Fishman Claus and plant the seed of awe in the hearts of the fishmen.
The other aspect was to infuse Lis’ elven imprint into the prepared faith altars, connecting each altar to Lis.
Faith altars are places where the Fishman tribe prays and worships, similar in function to the human churches.
Among the entire Fishman tribe, only the Coral Tribe has a Church of the Ocean Goddess, and the act of Fishman Claus establishing faith altars hasn’t been opposed by the Church of the Ocean Goddess.
For the Church of the Ocean Goddess, they don’t intervene in the internal faith of the fishmen unless there is something unusual.
As long as no other church tries to encroach upon the Fishman tribe’s faith, it’s fine.
Lis even made a special trip to the Church of the Ocean Goddess to meet the bishop there.
To Lis’ surprise, the bishop arranged for the Fishman tribe by the Church of the Ocean Goddess was a Fishman Priest.
However, Lis quickly understood why this situation occurred.
Other Churches of the Gods have similar situations, where competition among followers of faith is quite intense even among churches.
The human gods also develop believers from other races and recruit people from other races to join churches to become divine officers, to more smoothly spread faith.
At the same time, divine officers from other races can propagate faith more smoothly among their own kind.
While touring the Church of the Ocean Goddess’ chapel, Lis also noticed some peculiar Fishman statues.
According to the introduction by the Fishman Bishop, Lis learned that these statues were gods of the Fishman Clan, who, after ascending to godhood, joined the Ocean Goddess Divine System, becoming subordinate gods of the Ocean Goddess.
However, these Fishman gods possessed weak divine power, and their divine domains weren’t strong, so Lis was previously unaware of these circumstances.
In the later stages of the previous version, many gods emerged, and countless weak, small-leveled gods fell.
But now Lis understands why the Church of the Ocean Goddess supports the journey towards divine ascension by the Fishman Legend and doesn’t mind the division of faith from the Fishman tribe.
If one truly successfully becomes a god, the Fishman deities would likely join the Ocean Goddess Divine System, which is also beneficial for the Ocean Goddess.
After dealing with the matters of other tribes, Lis met O’Neill, gave a hint, and then returned to the Pearl Clan.
Lis is now officially attempting to cultivate his own Totem Spirit.
Totem Spirits primarily embody the power of faith of the tribe, manifested according to the tribe members’ wills. They usually lack obvious wisdom, acting on instinct to protect the group offering them worship.
Due to the unique nature of Totem Spirits, their external appearance is related to the tribe that worships them but doesn’t have a fixed shape, and their powers are varied, generally related to the tribe members’ wishes.
If the power of faith collected from the Fishman tribe is used directly to cultivate a Totem Spirit, it would resemble the Totem Spirit previously controlled by O’Neill, likely taking the form of a sea beast.
Similarly, because the power of faith is directed towards Claus, the generated Totem Spirit would relate to him.
However, for Lis, that offers no particular significance.
Even a legendary level Totem Spirit provides little help to Lis, not to mention its cultivation would consume considerable energy and time from him.
Lis isn’t aiming to cultivate a Totem Spirit for the Fishman tribe but rather to nurture one that can embody a Virtual Elemental Divine Status, exploring the Path to Divinity for Lis and completely under his control as a special avatar.
The varied manifestations of Totem Spirits result from impurities in the power of faith generated by followers’ prayers to Lis.
These impurities might be the followers’ wishes or worries, impacting Lis’ use of the power of faith.
From Lis’ understanding, originally purifying the impurities in the power of faith requires at least condensing a divine status and using it to refine, to eliminate the impurities.
Even then, impurities might linger unless the divine fire is used to refine and convert the power of faith into divine power.
But that’s far beyond Lis’ current capabilities.
However, after mastering the basic specialty of the priest profession, [Chaos Faith Convergence], Lis no longer has such concerns.
[Chaos Faith Convergence] helps Lis refine the collected power of faith into chaotic faith power, becoming an entirely featureless, absolutely pure force.
Through this period of exploration, Lis discovered that chaotic faith power possesses exceptional inclusivity, able to transform according to his will into various power expressions.
Lis attempted to use chaotic faith power to nourish the Totem Spirit cultivated by O’Neill, finding the results quite promising, he could even sense the Totem Spirit’s yearning for chaotic faith power.
Especially when Lis used the Totem Possession Skill, this longing almost impinged upon Lis himself.
However, despite his curiosity, the power of faith holds too many mysteries now for Lis to comprehend.