Ancient God in the Modern World

"…We, the elves, will follow the Divine Spirit of Life and Death to ease the burden on the Tree of Life."

Queen Alinar gathered most of the Druids and the high-ranking officials of the elves to hear her speech.

She talked about the things that the moon Goddess did for them in immemorial times. She rejuvenated the dormant faith of the elves.

Then, as she successfully did it, she proceeded on the burden of the Tree of Life since it bore them alone. As a result, the elves were touched. Some did not even hold back and cried out loud.

After that, she introduced the Divine Spirit of Life and Death.

"The Divine Spirit of Life and Death is an ancient God that has been with our Goddess in the immemorial times. He was once the patron that protected the elves along with our Goddess and the Tree of Life."

"I'm not saying that we'll forget our Goddess, what I'm saying is that we will relieve the burden of the great Tree of Life by clinging into the Divine Spirit of Life and Death."

"I know, there will be possible complications with these, but as of now, that is the problem in the future. We should let tomorrow think for itself."

"You are not oblivious of the fact that we are inside a shrine. A ruined shrine that absorbed the authority of the Gods and Demons alike. We are not safe in here. If not for the Tree of Life, we would have been obliterated long ago."

…

Alinar's speech was a success. She managed to persuade the higher-ups of the elven race to have faith in the Divine Spirit of Life and Death.

All that remains now, is to wait until the whole elven community would be fully assimilated by the God of Life and Death.

Meanwhile, Allen, atop the branches of the Tree of Life, could feel an increase in the number of followers. Slowly and steadily, the elves are changing their faith in him. Although now entirely, this is already enough for him to be called the elven God.

However, as he was waiting to fully assimilate the race, he did not stay idle.

The threat of the Demon on him is rather big. Thus, he was absorbing Divine energies from the Divine crystals. He is altering his mortal body and strengthening his inner body.

Technically, his mortal body is just a shell to contain his inner body. However, since his possession of Allen Godfre, the mortal, his inner body was tied to the mortal body that he was currently using.

Unlike the Demons, the cold leave their shell whenever they want. But the Divine Spirits can't. The reason for this is the chaos and order affinity of the Demons and the Divine Spirits respectively.

The order affinity of the Divine Spirit prevents them from doing so.

However, Allen did not need to leave his mortal shell. All he needed to do is to alter it and turn it a hundred percent Divine energy. But that is better said than done because it requires lots of Divine energy.

However, in Allen's case, that is not a problem since he has tons of Divine crystals. All that's worrying now is time.

"I don't have much time. The Demons had already found me."

"Furthermore, I can't stay here for long. Who knows what harm does the Asgardian realm has for me?"

With that in mind, Allen bid his farewell to the Tree of Life.

"Life, I will leave the realm. I look for a place to build my Divine Kingdom."

"It's good that you're about to build your Divine Kingdom," the Tree of Life commented.

If the Divine followers of the Divine Spirits are their foundation, the Divine Kingdom is their home. Then, the shrine is the place where they will reside when they leave their Divine Kingdom. It is akin to a rest house.

Meanwhile, the Divine Kingdom has the function of harvesting the soul of the dead followers. The faithful ones will live in the Divine Kingdom and would continue to generate Divine energies.

It might look bad, but that is the best thing that could ever happen for the faithful ones of the Divine Spirits.

"I wonder what happened to my Divine Kingdom." Allen thought.

As a powerful Divine Spirit in ancient times, he would be a joke if he did not have his own Divine Kingdom. However, Allen knew that the Divine Kingdom without a Divine Spirit would crumble over time.

"I don't have a choice; a Demon had already found me. They will be coming after me soon."

With that said, Allen grew two pairs of wings on his back and began flying away.

One last time, he looked back at the elven forest.

Before leaving, he did not forget to give the king his Divine Mark and some of the saints that had pledged their faith to him.

At the same time, he also used his small authority over the shrine to turn his Divine repository into a storage tool.

Meanwhile, Allen headed to the center of the shrine. He is planning to reunite with the friend that was separated from him a while ago.

Meanwhile, Allen doubts that the members of the Dark Coalition, the Warbringer Auction House, and the King's Manor have left the shrine. However, that is not Allen's problem.

They were not his followers. However, Allen was rather curious about what are they doing. But that's all.

…

A week after, Allen was finally back in the real world along with Stripes.

As of now, the faint Divine energy inside the Asgardian realm brought too many benefits on Stripes.

His rather long stay in the Asgardian realm made him miss the Divine energy in the surroundings.

"Stripes, you've grown."

Stripes is now about seven meters tall and ten meters long. Aside from that, he now has a pair of angelic white wings. On his head, there are also two horns atop his head.

Even Allen was unsure what had Stripes become; however, Allen did not think much of it.

"Hahahaha! Stripes, let's test those wings."