Right before her very eyes, Nkechi watched with horror as her husband gnashed his teeth in pain and slowly died. The great god of destruction was nowhere to be found.
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While he was still in his inner chamber, the chief priest could sense that Chika had left the shrine. He didn’t know what else to do; he had been deserted by the great god who had called him to worship him. He had nowhere else to go now that the god had gone to sleep. His life had suddenly become meaningless and for the first time since he started to serve the great god, he reminisced on all what he had done in the past as the god’s messenger. The evil and atrocity he and other worshippers had committed in the name of the god of destruction and the weight of the guilt he felt was too much for him to bear. Death
