Chapter 460: Spreading Anger

Two days later, Sin City suddenly became lively, because a rumor made those who had just gained hope become uneasy.

"Sister Nun, is it true? Are you going to leave us?"

"Sister Nun, please don't go. What should we do after you leave?"

"Sister Nun, did we do something wrong? Why are you abandoning us?"

"Take me with you, Sister Nun. I am willing to follow the Mechanical Path to the death."

The panicked people spontaneously came to the entrance of the majestic church cast entirely of steel, and they prayed like this.

In the past endless suffering, it was the Mechanical Sect that gave them, these bottom-level people, hope for the future. The past five months of time were the happiest time in the lives of most people here.

There was work to do, food to eat, technology to learn, and children could go to school. They didn't have to live in fear every day, fearing being bullied or even slaughtered by passing villains, nor did they have to be servile, because all of them were workers following the Mechanical Path, and they were colleagues with equal status.

Although the Mechanical Sect had never advertised what they had done, people weren't blind or stupid. No one knew better than them what this city looked like before the Mechanical Sect appeared, and all the changes only started after this mysterious Mechanical Sect appeared. If the masters of the Mechanical Sect hadn't taken action behind this, then there would be ghosts.

People can endure darkness because they have never seen the light.

Most of the people present had grown up since childhood in this hell on earth, the City of Sin. Because their ancestors had always scraped by like this in the past, they were numb to their own miserable lives, yet they had still been able to endure it until now.

But now it's different. Because of the appearance of the Mechanical Sect, they suddenly discovered that it was possible for them to change their way of life. They could also stand upright and be human beings, instead of kneeling on the ground like dogs, begging for the mercy of the strong.

Once they tasted the taste of being a human, their knees became a bit uncooperative, and some were unwilling to continue kneeling and being dogs.

Moreover, many people truly liked being workers. The power of magical machinery was fascinating, and they longed to go further on the Mechanical Path.

Clearly, it was the first time they had the opportunity to stand up, raise their heads, and be proper human beings. Clearly, it was also the first time they encountered a cause they truly liked and were willing to fight for. These two extreme joys intertwined, which should have bred a happier and more beautiful tomorrow. But why, why did things turn out like this? Why did the Mechanical Sect suddenly decide to withdraw?

Everyone couldn't figure it out, and didn't want to think about it at all. They had long been accustomed to the life of the Mechanical Sect, and their daily routines had become the look of the Mechanical Sect's schedule. If they left the Mechanical Sect, how could they live?

Although the news that the Mechanical Sect was leaving was currently just a rumor and hadn't been officially confirmed, those master mechanical cultivators had never said this, and the two highest-ranking nun masters of the church hadn't mentioned it either. But people were still uneasy in their hearts.

After all, this mysterious sect appeared so suddenly in the city, so it didn't seem impossible for it to disappear so suddenly.

In short, everyone spontaneously gathered here, hoping to get a definite answer to put their hearts at ease.

And as time passed, the scale of the crowd became larger and larger.

Many passersby who hadn't heard the rumor saw the church was so lively and thought it was some kind of activity. As a result, they pulled someone to ask, and asked about this bad news.

Immediately, the melon-eating passersby were shocked to the point of dropping the melons in their hands, and directly joined this prayer team.

After all, being able to eat melons was a gift from the Mechanical Sect. Without the Mechanical Sect, they would only be fit to plant melons for the villain masters.

And in the office on the top floor of the church, the Witches were also gathered here.

"Ah, this, Senior Sister, more than half of the people in the city have come now. It's so scary."

Ao Dai Li stood by the window, looking at the black mass of people below who had crowded all the streets around, and was startled.

Although she actually wasn't very afraid of mortals, the number of people was so large that there were almost a hundred thousand people at a glance, so she still couldn't hold it. Her social anxiety was acting up.

At the moment, the little fox shrank her neck, then hugged her fluffy big tail in her chest in fear. The fox puppet that had just been optimized on her shoulder said this.

"I didn't expect that just releasing the news that we were leaving could summon so many people. Clearly, we haven't done anything amazing, it's just been equivalent exchange all along..."

Even Ma De Lin, looking at this battle formation downstairs, couldn't help but sigh.

As the Discipline Committee Chair of the Witch Academy, she thought of the Correction Team 13 under her. Clearly, they as discipline committee members had always been quite responsible, hadn't bullied others, and had always been trying hard to help the weak. But the evaluation of the discipline committee by others had always been low. Those who were harsher would scold them as the running dogs of the Angel Witches, which was quite sigh-worthy.

"My naive Discipline Committee Chair, this isn't the Witch world of later generations. Equivalent exchange has long been commonplace for Witches, but now, for these mortals gathered outside, being able to have equivalent exchange with others is a luxury. After all, why spend money on things that can be snatched by violence?"

Senior Senior Miya was used to this. After all, she was a merchant, what kind of scene hadn't she seen? She understood the humbleness and darkness of human nature much better than the other sisters.

Only little Alice didn't feel anything about these people, and was even a bit thirsty. After all, for a vampire to see a street full of people was no different from ordinary people looking at a street full of bottled happy water.

"Sister, sister, when are those angels coming? I can't wait to start fighting."

The little Witch was rubbing her hands, waiting to have a big fight.

She had just taken the Hero's Blood potion for the fourth time, and now her strength had greatly increased, basically recovering to her peak strength, and even slightly increased compared to reality.

After all, unlike Dorothy's weak human mage apprentice start, Alice's starting point was too high. As the daughter of the Vampire Queen Lilith, she was naturally the highest-level vampire, the so-called Blood Progenitor.

Ordinary vampires were only at the strength of the Silver race, but the Blood Progenitor was like the Moon-Illuminating Lion-Heart Rabbit among the Moon Rabbits—a "super-model card" with the strength of the Golden race.

Don't look at this stepmother Lilith being so "sluggish." Last time, the angels didn't even make a move, just the holy light of the background special effect almost made her burp. But...

Forget it, can't blow it anymore. Lilith is really sluggish. I don't know what that Satan big shot was thinking. He gave Lilith the power of the Blood Progenitor, but it seems he didn't teach her how to use power. Dorothy shook her head at Lilith's blood magic adapted from human magic—it was full of loopholes.

But Alice was a younger sister personally trained by the Home Witch. Now, purely in terms of strength, Alice could beat her mother with one hand.

However, speaking of which, Lilith in history seems to have followed the God King in the end, and even transferred from a vampire to a vampire Witch. She was also the ancestor of the later Blood Clan Witches.

That Lilith achieved great fame, and at her peak, she reached the Sage realm, with the title of Red Moon Sage. But later, it seems she suddenly had no news. Probably she found a place to live in seclusion. After all, a dignified Sage wouldn't burp, right?

Now among the Witches, purely in terms of panel strength, it was Alice, this little Witch, who was the strongest, with 220,000 Total Mana of magic power.

And after that were the Succubus sisters. It's a pity that Ma De Lin and Ao Dai Li were only mixed-blood Succubi now. And their Succubus Queen mother, although she called herself Queen, her bloodline was just an ordinary Succubus. It was truly a case of "no tigers in the mountains, monkeys calling themselves kings" in this small world.

This made the sisters' starting point a bit worse. Ma De Lin had taken the Hero's Blood five times, and her racial potential had been fully developed, but she still couldn't compare to Alice, with only about 150,000 Total Mana of magic power.

Ao Dai Li was also a bit worse, only taking the Hero's Blood four times, with about 130,000 Total Mana of magic power.

And then there was Dorothy. Her starting point was too low to move. She was purely human, with no racial potential to dig. She had taken the Hero's Blood seven times, but her magic power had only just reached 100,000 Total Mana.

As for the last one, Senior Senior Miya, she had also taken the Hero's Blood five times, and was also a mortal start, now with about 60,000 Total Mana of magic power, belonging to the bottom level among everyone.

As for the "out-of-spec" God King Di Di Nisha...

Dorothy looked at this childhood sweetheart beside her, and for a moment, only felt full of security.

Do you know what true King's talent is? Ten evolutions, 300,000 Total Mana of magic power, already touching the ceiling of the world's combat power.

What kind of sacrifice ceremony is this? World consciousness gift? Laughing to death, it's not needed at all...

*Cough cough cough*, forget it, don't inflate. Sacrifice is still necessary. After all, there is a gap between magic powers. Now Di Di Nisha's magic power is only the degraded magic power of a human mage, which cannot compare to the noble universal primordial magic power. A Witch without primordial magic power is an incomplete Witch and can only be considered a powerful Witch.

Such a Di Di Nisha might not lose to ordinary angels, but wanting to confront the Shining Lord later is absolutely impossible.

"Di Di Nisha, I'll leave it to you next."

Dorothy looked at the crowd gathered downstairs, then said to the shepherdess lady.

Releasing the news that they were leaving was originally a part of the plan. They needed to conduct a believer screening next.

The Mechanical Sect believers outside now can only be considered "shallow believers," which is the kind of believer Dorothy was most familiar with in her previous life—the so-called "left eye jumps for wealth, the God of Wealth protects; right eye jumps for disaster, feudal superstition" level.

If you are beneficial to me, I believe in you. If you are useless to me, then go to hell.

It's not that such believers are bad. In fact, most ordinary people have this kind of personality. It's just that what they need next isn't this kind of fake believer who can only share joys, but true believers who can share hardships.

The upcoming oppression of the angels will be a good test. They will use the angels as a mirror to select true comrades. These people will also become the first batch of residents of the Holy City Pandora.

This work was actually something Dorothy wanted to do herself, but she had a soft heart. You can't expect someone who doesn't even like watching tragedies to be very hard. If someone cried and begged her a few times, she might show mercy.

However, just when she was troubled, Di Di Nisha took the initiative to ask for this task to be handed to her. This made the Home Witch breathe a sigh of relief.

"Hmm, rest assured and hand it to me. I won't be soft-hearted to anyone except you."

Di Di Nisha smiled, and she even teased Dorothy. This made the Home Witch's cheeks blush. This God King is also so improper. It's already this time, why are you still saying such cheesy love words?

And the shepherdess lady looked at the shy appearance of her childhood sweetheart with satisfaction, then turned around gracefully and walked downstairs.

It was just a matter of walking down the stairs, but she had already changed her face. She became serious and majestic. The face, which had become more and more beautiful as she became stronger, now radiated a terrifying aura that one dared not look directly at, not angry but majestic.

"Why are you gathered here? The church is a sacred place. Such noise, what kind of system is this?"

She pushed the door open, facing the black mass of people, but didn't show any panic, instead directly speaking and reprimanding the crowd forcefully.

And her toughness was clearly effective. Power comes from prestige. The actions of the Mechanical Sect over the past few months had already possessed enough prestige.

Therefore, faced with her reprimand, the originally noisy crowd suddenly became quiet. They were all as if they had been cast with a silence spell, and for a time, the entire district was silent, falling into deathly stillness.

Even the batch of people at the very front of the crowd, facing the anger of Sister Di Di Nisha, were incomparably panicked and uneasy for a time. After all, although this Sister Di Di Nisha looked like a nun, she was actually the Pope of the Mechanical Sect, a noble and incomparable Crowned One.

They, these lowly people, actually offended a Crowned One. This was such an offense.

Consequently, some people's knees softened subconsciously, almost kneeling on the ground, just like the days of being dogs before, crawling at the feet of the noble, wagging their tails and begging for forgiveness.

It's just that their reaction made Di Di Nisha even more angry. The face that was originally just serious now carried anger.

"Stand up! Have you made no progress at all in these past few months? What is the first article of the Mechanical Sect's doctrine? If you keep doing this, how can we leave with peace of mind?"

She shouted like this, scaring those whose knees were soft into a shiver, and they stood straight immediately.

"It is: Man is the spirit of all things, the master of all machines. We will surely conquer heaven and earth with mechanical power."

However, there were also people in the crowd who stood even straighter. They held their heads high and said this confidently.

And such an answer made the shepherdess lady's expression finally turn from cloudy to sunny. She nodded slightly, expressing approval, and then pointed to the girl who had just shouted the doctrine, letting her come to the crowd.

"Teacher Di Di Nisha, you just said you were leaving. Is that rumor true?"

The girl stepped forward. Although she was still considered calm, she was also a bit uneasy at this time.

"Teacher, did we do something wrong? Is that why you want to abandon us?"

Her eyes even contained tears as she asked this.

And regarding this, Di Di Nisha's eyes became gentle. She reached out and took out a handkerchief to wipe the girl's tears, then smiled and opened her mouth.

"This is not abandonment, it's just that you have graduated.

Seeing that the young girl remained stubborn, Miss Shepherd sighed.

"I know you are reluctant to part with us, but the great enemy of the Machine Church is coming soon. If we remain here, we will bring disaster upon you."

Her eyes contained reluctance, but even more so, they held resolve.

At this moment, the young girl read the look in her teacher's eyes, and she became panicked.

"Teacher, the Machine Church is already so powerful, yet there is still a great enemy?"

In the young girl's heart, the Machine Church, which could drive away the wicked who had once oppressed them and bring them a beautiful life, was already like a god. But now, the god was telling her that there were still enemies of the gods.

However, regarding this, Di Di Nisha did not answer. She just quietly looked at the young girl in front of her and then asked.

"And why did you come to this notorious City of Sin?"

"Naturally, because of the oppression of the church and the nobility..."

The young girl answered subconsciously, then she froze, and immediately realized.

"Teacher, the enemy of the machine is in the church and the empire?"

The young girl's eyes, which had been somewhat moist, were almost spitting fire at this moment. She asked this through gritted teeth.

And to this, Miss Shepherd did not answer, just quietly watching her.

Everything is left unsaid.

However, the words of the two were also heard by the others around them. At this moment, it was as if flames were burning in everyone's eyes.

City of Sin—those who came here were all wicked people, but does this world really have so many heinous villains capable of fleeing thousands of miles?

What is righteous, what is evil, or is it actually just a matter of the winner being king and the loser being the bandit?

... Anger is spreading...