Chapter 568: Successor Apostle

Before Leo entered Beastnet for the first time, the Flaming Lion God had already decided on Lionel’s future thanks to Lionel’s potential.

So, he was hoping that Leo would allow him to become Lionel his apostle.

“I know Lionel has good potential; however, if he becomes God’s apostle, it would be wasted.”

Leo could hear Flaming Lion God’s inner thoughts and knew he only had good intentions towards Lionel.

However, he didn’t want Lionel to become a God’s apostle because in Leo’s opinion, becoming a God’s apsotle is no different than killing Lionel’s future path of going against the Gods.

As a God’s apsotle, he should obey his God and the moment he goes against his God’s orders, only death awaits him.

Of course, if it was others who didn’t have any potential, Leo wouldn’t object to him or her becoming the Flaming Lion God’s apsotle because they would become strong and could become the guardians of the world.

However, in Lionel’s case, even without any god’s help, Leo was confident that Lionel would become a terrifying existence in the future who could help him kill those so-called Gods.

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The Flaming Lion God was silent for a moment and looked at Leo before saying,

[Human, I know what you are afraid of; however, fear not, I am not going to turn him into the apostle that you are thinking]

‘Huh?’

Leo raised his brows; however, he didn’t interrupt the Flaming Lion God’s words.

[When I said I am going to make him into my [Permanent Apostle], I was talking about [Successor Apostle]]

[A Successor Apostle as its name suggests, the apostle would become a successor of that God. Of course, becoming a successor won’t be that easy as he had to fight other [Successor Apostles] under me]

[Also, if a [Successor Apostle] wants to leave me before becoming my Successor, he can’t remove my mark]

The Flaming Lion God explained about the [Successor Apostle] as Leo listened with full attention.

“What if he died during the process?”

Even though the Flaming Lion God’s words seemed simple, Leo could tell they were not. The chances of dying during the process of selecting a final successor are very high.

‘I know it would be difficult and the beasts need to go through many cruel trials; however, I don’t think it was necessary for the young Lionel to go through that.’

If it was before, Leo would have stolen his heart and agreed to Flaming Lion God’s [Successor Apostle] thing; however, right now, Leo felt there was still time for Lionel to go through such trials.

[Haha…don’t worry, I have designed this program to be safe but of course, my [Successor Apostles] won’t know about it and I hope you won’t tell the young Lionel about it]

The Flaming Lion God laughed as he explained some major rules of the [Successor Apostle] program, making Leo greatly surprised.

According to what Leo experienced in his life so far, the Gods are heartless beings who could go to any extent to achieve their goals. Moreover, the Flaming Lion God was a beast-type god who could be considered one of the cruelest gods.

Hence, when he heard of such a safe program for the Flaming Lion God’s [Successor Apostles], Leo could not help but look at the Flaming Lion God in a new light.

“What if he becomes your successor by defeating other successor apostles?”

Nodding his head, Leo asked about the benefits of becoming the final successor.

[What else? I would help him become a God]

The Flaming Lion God didn’t wait for Leo to ask any more questions as he ended his explanation by saying, [As I said earlier, I can give out more details about becoming the God to you. So, please don’t ask any more questions relating to this topic]

“Interesting”

Leo was really not expecting such a reward for becoming the final successor of the Flaming Lion God.

‘It looks like Gods have a way to make someone ascend to Godhood.’

Until now, Leo believed that Gods, at least the newly ascended Gods like Flaming Lion God won’t have the ability to help others become Gods. However, after hearing about the Flaming Lion, Leo’s opinion changed.

[The five minutes of the conversation between [World Leader] and [World God] has been completed]

Before Leo could ask about other things, the [Heaven’s Voice] resounded as he was teleported back to the Beastnet.

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Flaming Lion Tribe, Beastnet,

‘Swoosh’

Leo appeared with a flash in front of the excited natives of the Beastnet.

“Greetings, World Leader.”

Seeing Leo, the tribe leaders and their followers bowed to Leo with suppressed excitement and their eyes filled with respect.

“From today onwards, there won’t be any fights or assassinations among the three tribes.”

Leo nodded his head in response to their greetings as he started giving her the basic rules for Beastnet.

“You can kill the monsters in the wilderness and even tame them; however, you should not fight or kill among yourselves as you are all my natives.”

“If you have any problems, fight it out in front of everyone under the supervision of your tribe leaders or high-level members of the tribes.”

“Of course, even in those fights, you should not go overboard and kill your opponent. Defeating is enough and the defeated ones should not hold a grudge against the winner; instead, he could challenge the winner once again after a specified time.”

“Everyone should focus on your cultivation; instead of [Beast Hero Path]. Of course, I am not telling you to solely focus on the Beast Cultivation, you have to simultaneously work on both of them.”

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As Leo said the rules and regulations of the new Beastnet, all the beasts around him listened.

Some beasts were happy but most of them were not satisfied with the rule ‘No Kill’.

Nevertheless, they didn’t voice it out because their tribe leaders didn’t voice it.

‘Even the tribe leaders are dissatisfied with that rule but I can’t allow them to kill themselves as our true enemy is out there enjoying it while we are fighting among ourselves. This has to change.’

Leo heard the inner thoughts of the beasts thanks to [Godly Beast Tamer]; however, he was not going to change that rule at any cost.

“As long as you reach the peak supreme rank in both Beast Cultivation Path and Beast Hero Path, I will take you to other worlds where you can go all out to fight to your heart’s content.”

Leo thought for a moment and promised something that no beast could say no to.

“You must have received the cultivation techniques from the [Heaven’s Voice] as your reward for fighting during the Re: World Assessment. For the next one year, your cultivation speed will be very high. Use it well and increase your beast cultivation as much as possible.”

“You can practice with your fellow tribe members or you can enter the Wilderness to hunt the monsters.”

Leo spoke with the three tribe leaders privately for some time before coming to a house that was specially prepared for him and Ashley.

“How were your gains from the [Heaven’s Voice]?”

After returning, Leo asked Ashley as he took out the Heavenly Cultivation Carpet to check its information.