Cthulhu Gonfalon - Chapter 63

With a swift glance, Stelle’s wounds were not also extraordinarily troublesome. She simply lost too much blood and was seriously poisoned. Only an advanced restoration magic could bring her back from the edge of the death.
But when Sui Xiong started doing the therapy magic, he discovered an eccentric matter.
The spirit of this woman was having some odd transformation.
Being injured, losing too much blood, being serious poisoned, these things were nothing to him, he just simply needed to treat the wounds, transfuse blood and detoxify. According to Sui Xiong’s thinking, this matter was originally easy to solve.
An abundant dark power flowed along the tentacles into Stelle’s body, following by plenty of nutrient. Under Sui Xiong’s control, the wounded part on her body started to get treated. The amount of lost blood was reproduced. The poison being spread over her body was decomposed. Her entire body quickly recovered.
But Stelle didn’t wake up. On the contrary, her spirit was shaking intensely. An objectionable energy slowly emerged. Sui Xiong carefully observed as he discovered that there was a resonance between her spirit and some extremely distant existence.
In the material of the God of Salvation, he had encountered same situation.
Reforming after death, the Holy Spirit transformation.
There were different levels of religion among the people in this world. The most popular one was not those who didn’t worship their God wholeheartedly nor devoted themselves like Mad Believers. Instead, it was the level on which people understood of the God Doctrine, then applied them into life, lived like their God in the mortal world ----even if he basically didn’t know what the existence of a God was.
This kind of people were called saint. And this kind of religion was called the Pure and Holy Religion.
When a saint died, his spirit would have a resonance with the origin of the God, then transform into a bizarre existence called "Holy Spirit". A Holy Spirit possessed a life of a Semi-God, and owned almost all the God power. Their fighting power was just below a God.
It was not only that. When something unexpected happened to a God, as long as that God had a Holy Spirit, this Holy Spirit would temporarily replace his God Position, maintain the God Power flow to keep his God Kingdom from collapsing. Just like that, after a period of time, the God could rely on the God Kingdom or directly borrow this Holy Spirit’s body to resurrect.
In other words, to a God, the Holy Spirit was pretty like the "resurrection coin" or "resurrection point", a precious resource in a game.
... But! Sui Xiong would never expect this Stelle, the woman who would marry to any man, the exotic flower who still flirted with a Giant Dragon when the death was near at hand, would be a Holy Spirit!
Dang it! How can this world have an exotic flower god? Those righteous God would ask the same question like above.
On one hand, Sui Xiong was angry. On the other hand, he searched through his documents to see who on earth this exotic flower god was to have this kind of Holy Spirit!
Strangely, no matter how hard he looked, he surprisingly couldn’t find any information about this God.
He saw with his own eyes that the spirit of Stelle was shaking to transform. Due to the suspicion, he directly prayed to the God of Salvation, who could be taken as the senior elder God among all the Gods, to ask for more information.
The God of Salvation quickly responded to Sui Xiong’s pray. He sent out an invisible beam of God Power between both sides to check Stelle’s situation. After that, his face showed a little bit of shock as well as hatred.
"Really make people nauseous!" The God of Salvation said, "It is from the heart of that mad man, the Evil God who is "the King of Lust"! Strictly speaking, this mortal is also a Holy Spirit. But she is not our Holy Spirit but of an Evil God."
This God obviously really hated the thick energy inside Stelle’s spirit. He straightly retreated, just left behind an information, and informed Sui Xiong that was an Evil God who was "the King of Lust".
In short, that was the big version of Stelle.
This explanation was too precise, no need any more words.
"Highness, how’s things?" Lei was a witty man. As soon as he saw Sui Xiong suddenly stopped and another God Power flow left. He knew that something unexpected must have happened!
"The matter is a little bit... out of expectation." Sui Xiong explained the situation a little bit, "... As a Holy Spirit, when Stelle dies, her spirit starts to transform. Although right now I have already fixed her body, it is not easy to deal with a transformed spirit. It seems that I have to go back on my words."
"What? ! An Evil God? !"!" Lei was startled, hurriedly saying, "Why don’t you hurriedly stop her!"
This time, it was Sui Xiong’s turn to be startled, "She is a Holy Spirit, why do I have to stop her?"
"This is an evil Holy Spirit! We can’t let this world have another Evil God!"
Sui Xiong had just understood the problem now, he smilingly explained, "The King of Lust is in fact not an evil existence. He just proclaims this pure "desire", agrees that all the happiness, joys and arts are all from the "desire", and that "desire" is pure, holy and different from "love". This is some kind of things that any existences all chase after. This kind of theory is universally shocking but it doesn’t go against Heaven or nature principle."
"But... but..." Lei said ‘but’ many times, from the beginning till the end he could not speak out a reasonable explanation. He instinctively found this thing not right. No matter how he looked at it, becoming an evil Holy Spirit had a huge problem. But he could not be able to figure out the problem yet.
As time slowly passed by, Stelle’s spirit stopped shaking. But at this moment, her spirit also completely changed its form.

On the outside, she looked like someone had just come back from the death. Her adventure leather armor had turned into clothes that stuck to her skin. It was still black and half-translucent. Except for some key parts, other parts were all vaguely see-through. Hence the outline of the key parts could be generally seen, which was even more attractive than wearing clothes.
Behind her back was a pair of lovely wings, which had a black frame and red membrane. With the swift glance, she looked like a bat. At this moment, the wings had been folded up, didn’t have the slightest hint of fierceness.
If looking closely, one could see an elegant black tail behind her. On the tip of the tail was a heart-shaped cone. It didn’t had any brutal feeling but was very cute instead.
In short, Stelle now didn’t appear vicious at all. Her original seductive base just got more attractive, her sexy level increased tremendously. But it was only that much.
She slowly stepped up from her corpse, didn’t seem completely sober yet. There was a little bit of perplexity on her face. She gloomily looked back at the corpse under her feet, didn’t understand what on earth had happened.
Right at this moment, the resonating spirit walked out. A violent attack struck down from the sky, mercilessly hit on her.
"Who? !"!" Sui Xiong was startled, distinctively reached out his hand to block, then discovered the power of this attack. If this attack really hit its target, it would absolutely turn this Holy Spirit into ashes, didn’t even spare a small powder on its body.
But strangely, he could clearly feel the source of this attack, which was the so-called Evil God "King of Lust"!
"What are you doing? Why do you kill your own Holy Spirit?" Along the open channel, he shot out his thought.
A light flashed up, brought along voice full of charisma, answering, "I don’t need a Holy Spirit!"
"Why?"
The King of Lust still didn’t answer, once again launched another violent attack.
The power of this time attack was much more intense than the last time. Sui Xiong had to put much power into preventing it.
Therefore, he couldn’t help but get angry, cursed loudly, "You immediately kill her once you don’t need her? Are you crazy! Let me help you wake up!"
His words were left hanging as the original King of Lust brought up a surging dark power, turned it into a blue ice lightning, cutting through the sky, back to that channel.
Due to the far distance, he was also not clear how effective this strike could be. But by the look of the result, he could still estimate the effect.
After this strike, the King of Lust immediately stopped. A while after that, this God sent out a message and then cut off the channel.
That message explained thoroughly why he didn’t want a Holy Spirit, The original King of Lust could rely on the ‘desire’ clergy to become a God but he didn’t want to follow the principle ‘Personal desire must compile with the God’, gave up the clergy and became an Evil God. A Holy Spirit was like a kind of ’resurrection coin’ existence to a God. But to this kind of Evil God, the existence of a Holy Spirit would restrict him from using his own means to resurrect after falling down, only allow him to resurrect his identity.
The King of Lust could obviously not let thing like this happen. To an arrogant and strong-headed God like him, it was like ‘give me liberty or give me death’!
Hence, his choice was killing the Holy Spirit to end the suffering!
At the end of that message, he bluntly warned Sui Xiong, "If you dare to put your hand into hindering me, then this bastard will return to find you. If her future affects me, then I will take it as you provoking a fight with me. If later she makes thing worse, then it is all because of your poor control!"
"If you don’t want to, just kill her. Death ends all troubles!"
Sui Xiong was shocked by these unreasonable explanations, didn’t know what to do, and was completely clueless. Even in his dream, he would never imagine of saving this kind of witch moth who originally was recovering her consciousness, but due to the disconnection of spirit, she rapidly weakened. He couldn’t help but feel distressed as he saw this spirit of Stelle’s was about to turn to ashes and fall into the dark river.
What should I do now?
The urgent situation didn’t allow him to think over carefully. With a little bit of consideration, he turned his spirit power into tentacles, wrapped Stelle’s spirit, then stuffed back into the body.
"No matter what, I have to put this spirit back into the body! I can’t stand still and watch someone dying!"
However, the form of Stelle’s spirit had soon changed. A mortal body basically was not capable of accommodating a spirit of a Holy Spirit. As soon as the spirit entered that body, the body, who had not completely lost all of its breaths, started shaking intensely, spitting out blood. A frantic power burst out from that body. That body looked as if it was about to explode into a pool of fuzzy flesh a second later.
At this moment, which where there was life, there was still hope, Sui Xiong didn’t have time to think, instantly stimulated his dark power, started to renovate her body.
A body is no longer suitable for a spirit? Then I have to renovate it until it is suitable!
About half an hour later, the resurrection finally finished. Stelle opened her eyes, stroked her new bat wings. As the tail behind her back swayed from left to right, she staggeringly stood up.
Except for her different clothes, she now looked completely alike with that Holy Spirit.