1393: Chapter 179 Divine Punishnt 1393: Chapter 179 Divine Punishnt “Uh, could you put your finger down first?” Pannis gulped down a mouthful of saliva, t eyes with Vivian, and watched with a cold sweat as her finger almost reached his face.
He forced an uglier-than-crying smile and said in panic, “It’s a bit hot here, haha, right, a bit hot.
It’s not yet ti to light a fire for warmth.
I think it’s better to put out the fire now.
Otherwise, it’s easy to get a heatstroke.
Even if that doesn’t happen, it would be so awkward if we accidentally burned down soone’s room.”
“This is the first ti I’ve heard that stone houses and stone furniture can catch fire,” Vivian said, but she still lowered her finger.
Although the girls seed vicious, they didn’t actually feel that angry.
It was more about making a point.
Since the point had been made, there was no need to continue, so Vivian just snorted heavily, extinguished the flickering fla at her fingertip, and said looking straight at Pannis, “We’re short on ti now, so I’ll allow you to continue the story from where you left off last ti.
But don’t think you can just muddle through it.
When we have more ti in the future, you will have to tell us the rest of the story personally.”
“Ha, ha, ha, of course,” Pannis wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with relief, “Definitely, I’ll tell it.”
The forrly tense and serious atmosphere, which had been due to Catherine’s deanor, had silently vanished with the girls’ intentional or unintentional commotion.
Everyone, including Pannis and Catherine, relaxed their posture.
Catherine picked up the sweet wine Pannis had passed her, took a sip, gently swirled the glass, and looked at her sisters reflectively, with a faint smile on her lips.
Feeling the gaze, Lina suddenly turned her head and, at an angle where Pannis couldn’t see, made a playful face at her and winked mysteriously.
Their eyes t briefly in the air, and in that short mont, they clearly understood each other’s thoughts.
“Actually, the rest of the story isn’t complicated,” Pannis paused for a mont, pushed the sweet wine bottle aside, and grabbed his preferred strong liquor instead.
Downing a big gulp, he slumped into the chair, propped his chin, and slowly said, “When we converted physical attacks into energy attacks and assaulted the Soul of Danacus with high-intensity energy, we triggered Divine Punishnt.”
“Wait a mont,” Catherine raised her hand to interrupt Pannis’s narrative, “Didn’t the previous attacks trigger Divine Punishnt?”
“No, they didn’t,” Pannis shook his head, “Previous attacks were mostly physical and went right through his soul without really hitting him, hence they couldn’t trigger Divine Punishnt.
As for the few energy attacks, being only probes, they were of very low intensity.
To a Deity, such intensity doesn’t even count as an attack, so no Divine Punishnt was triggered.
Of course, nobody told us this; it was just our guess at the ti, but I believe our guess was very close to the truth.”
“Alright then,” Catherine thought for a mont and nodded in agreent, “So, what exactly is Divine Punishnt?”
“Heh, each Deity governs different rules, so Divine Punishnt varies accordingly,” Pannis said with a wry smile, “Danacus governs the Power of Death, so naturally, his Divine Punishnt is related to death.”
“I see,” Catherine also showed a similar wry smile, looking at Pannis with a hint of pity, “It seems you had already experienced the sensation of death even before you were hit by the Reversed Death Curse.
No wonder every ti the Death Curse took effect, after you ca back to life, you seed completely unfazed.
You truly had gotten used to it, heh.
But considering the fear and pain when passing through Death’s Gate, it’s sothing you could never get used to, no matter how many tis you try.”
“It seems you’ve already guessed it, the Divine Punishnt from Danacus is death, a spiritual death,” Pannis sighed and said softly, “Every attempt at an action that could be considered an attack on Danacus is followed, within the next few seconds, by a ntal journey from life to death.
Every imaginable thod of dying—being burned, drowned, poisoned, crushed, flattened, starved—you have the chance to experience each distinctly.
Of course, there is no physical harm at all, but the agony of dying and the fear of death itself are fully imparted onto the mind, making the attacker unable even to distinguish between consciousness and reality.”
“Blessings of Denia,” Lina whispered as she traced a square in front of her chest, “just passing through Death’s Gate once, I nearly fell apart, and you’ve gone through this…
many tis?
Blessings of Denia, and it lasted only a few seconds each ti; otherwise, one would surely break down completely.”
“A few seconds?
Yes, just a few seconds,” Pannis said with a self-mocking smile, “But each of those seconds during the experience of death felt as if they were stretched to infinity in the mind.
Towards the last few tis, each experience of death felt longer than a lifeti.”
“That must have been…
very hard on you,” Catherine said in distress, “Perhaps I shouldn’t have forced you to recall such painful mories.”
“Perhaps for most people, after experiencing it a few tis, they would ntally admit to their own death, and then their bodies would truly follow suit and die,” Pannis shook his head, “Fortunately, our wills are strong, and we wouldn’t easily accept our own death, so we managed to endure each experience of dying.
However, we have no way of combating the Divine Punishnt; we can only attack the enemy ti and again, then bear the burden with our willpower.”
“How…
how many tis?” Vivian’s face had also turned ashen.
The mage girl had co close to death several tis—though she had never truly died, she could faintly sense the pain and fear of death’s approach.
Hence, she was the one who could best understand what Pannis was feeling and visibly the one who looked the worst.
“I don’t know, it’s countless,” Pannis said with a wry smile, “Everyone was very strong.
After initially understanding the horror of the Divine Punishnt, it took less than a minute of discussion before we decided to continue our attacks because it seed like they were having so effect.”
“Seed like?” Catherine asked softly, “I have a bad feeling about this.”
“Hah, indeed, it was just ‘seed like.’ Later we found out that Danacus was just toying with us,” Pannis said through clenched teeth, “Indeed, the Divine Punishnt is terrifying, for there is nothing more fearful to any creature than to die over and over again.
But for us, as frightful as the Divine Punishnt is, it wasn’t enough to drive us to despair.
What truly drove us to despair was the discovery of another problem.”
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