They can actually communicate!
Edward, who was just a dead horse as a living horse doctor, couldn't help being a little surprised.
For some reason, the other party's head was no different from ordinary rotten maggots, but he could see traces of human beings on the other party's face.
"Are you a believer in Vulcan?" Edward swallowed, and asked the rotten maggot in a low voice
The monster nodded slightly, and the sound of gurgling slime sounded a bit disgusting.
Everyone showed unacceptable expressions - not at the monsters, but at the situation where they would become like this!
The rot maggot moved quite slowly, as if there was a delay in the process from hearing Edward's words to starting to act.
"Vulcan... Igniz Dragog had some kind of accident, right?"
Edward continued to ask it.
The monster nodded again.
Edward hesitated for a moment, then asked in a deep voice, "Has Vulcan already fallen?"
"Hey, isn't that a good question?" Teshrop said.
Asking a believer if the other's god has fallen is a little too much.
Sure enough, this time the monster was silent for a long time.
After a long time, it nodded its head vigorously.
Then, as if very sad, the whole body lay on the ground and became deflated, as if it would melt away at any time.
Everyone looked at it in shock. Although they had guessed that there was something wrong with Vulcan, they did not expect that Igniz Dorag, one of the upper gods, would fall so suddenly.
No wonder the God of Games took a laissez-faire attitude towards this matter and didn't want to get involved.
This can also be explained.
After being silent for a long time, Edward regained his energy and asked the monster, "Then why did you become like this? Are you cursed?"
The monster shook his head.
Not a curse word...
"Could it be related to Vulcan?" Edward guessed.
The rotten maggot was silent for a while, then nodded reluctantly.
"Could it be that this is God's punishment?" Goudan asked in amazement: "I've heard that some gods will send divine punishment to believers who don't obey their oracle, turning them into pigs and dogs to be enslaved and slaughtered..."
"But you also said that it was a case of disobedience to the oracle. Why would the gods punish their followers for no reason? It doesn't make sense."
Big Joe scratched his head and said in a puzzled way.
"Not everyone is as benevolent and generous as the god of games. Don't you know how other gods behave?"
Goudan sneered at the side indifferently.
"Gods don't fall suddenly without warning. Is it more likely that Igniz Dorag will be killed by other gods instead of dying?" At this time, Jessica put forward her own opinion: "If If this is the case, then it is not incomprehensible that the god who killed Vulcan and took away his godhead sent divine punishment to the original believers of Vulcan."
"Cut the weeds and eradicate the roots?" Goudan also nodded, thinking it made sense.
"No," Edward shook his head: "If that's the case, the method adopted by the new god is too ink-stained! Since he has mastered the original Godhead of Vulcan, he will directly destroy the entire foundation of Vulcan. Inheriting it, is it not good to harvest the beliefs of the original Vulcan believers? Taking a step back, even if he can’t believe the original Vulcan believers, then there is no need to spend so much trouble. According to the tunnel of belief, all the original Vulcan believers will be cursed. Isn't it good to kill? Turning your followers into monsters like this is completely superfluous!"
If it is a situation where the gods dominate, this kind of thing is not incomprehensible. After all, it is not impossible for gods to treat their believers as playthings and torture them at will.
But after seizing the godhead of Igniz Dorag, the unidentified godslayer will definitely be hostile by other gods. Under such circumstances, playing with the original believers of Vulcan and turning them into monsters will undoubtedly intensify the hostility of other gods, which is wrong no matter how you think about it.
"Can you feel the general reason why you and your people have become like this?"
Edward, who was puzzled, asked the rotten maggot.
The latter nodded.
Edward was overjoyed, so he started asking questions.
"The reason is related to the newly promoted Vulcan?"
Shake your head.
"Could it be related to the original Vulcan?"
nod.
"Is it the original Vulcan who made you become like this?"
Shake your head.
"After the fall of Igniz Dorag, for some reason, you became like this?"
nod.
"I see."
Edward, who pondered for a moment, felt that he was about to come into contact with the truth that things had become like this.
"What exactly do you mean?" Goudan and the others were still confused.
"In fact, the answer to the question is not far away, and it can even be said that it has always been in front of us."
Edward replied.
"Could it be..." Jessica seemed to realize something.
The others were still bewildered.
"Think carefully about the name of this monster." Edward reminded Goudan.
"The rotten maggot... ah!"
After being reminded to this step, Goudan finally showed a look of enlightenment.
"So what's going on?"
Joe, who may be full of muscles in his head, was still full of doubts. He looked around, looking for a companion who was as ignorant as himself, but found that Alisa had already eaten a lollipop at some point. The truth is not at all interested.
"Isn't the answer obvious! Maggots!"
Goudan explained to him: "Isn't it normal for rotten corpses to produce maggots?"
"You mean... the reason why these people became like this is caused by the maggots born on the corpse of Igniz Dorag?"
Big Joe still couldn't believe it: would there be such things as maggots in the world of gods
After all, the maggots in the lower realm are the larvae of flies, and because there are creatures like flies, maggots exist.
Could it be that there are flies in the world where the gods live
"So it's just a guess. Whether it's the answer depends on it."
Edward replied.
He looked at the rotten maggots, and asked, "Did those maggots descend on you in some way through the channel of faith and occupy your body, so that made you look good?"
So everyone else looked at the rotten maggot subdued by Teshurop.
And it nodded vigorously under the gaze of the players.