Chapter 535: Noah's Choice

In this underground cathedral, which could only be reached by one passage, there shouldn't have been any wind, but now Noah clearly perceived the bone-chilling cold carried in that biting cold wind.

That was not a cold of temperature, but a severe cold of the life level; it was the natural fear of living things toward death.

This wind was not the wind that a natural world should have; this was the breath of death blowing from the world of the dead.

"This"

The Loli Pope widened her eyes. She just foolishly looked at the teacher in front of her and the pitch-black door behind the teacher that was already half-open.

There were three characters on that door that she didn't recognize, but the moment she saw these three characters, Noah understood their meaning.

Ghost Gate Pass.

This was the gate leading to the world after death.

But didn't this world not have a world after death? Shouldn't life after death be the decomposition of the soul and its convergence into the River of Souls?

Noah was both shocked and confused at this time. This was quite different from the education she had received in the past. As the Pope of the Radiance Sect, she was very clear about the occult knowledge of this world. Since ancient times, this world had never had any records of a Netherworld or similar world after death; the concept of a world after death did not exist in this world.

Teacher Sophie Liya had also told her this personally. This world was still too low-level, and the Netherworld was a high-level rule that only a complete Great World would possess.

When a world possesses a Netherworld, it also means that they have to a certain extent gotten rid of the influence of death on life. This is an important feature of world transition and civilization evolution.

But hearing is believing, seeing is believing. Now that she had witnessed the gate to the world after death with her own eyes, the so-called common sense of the past was no longer accurate.

This process of having one's worldview crushed and then corrected made the Loli Pope look a bit sluggish for a while.

But soon she was ecstatic again, because since the world after death truly existed, did that mean that those comrades who had just sacrificed also had a destination?

However, when Noah's gaze shifted from the Ghost Gate Pass to the lewd girl wearing a nun's habit with a very obscene figure in front of the door, she became worried again.

Even if the world after death truly existed, it was clear that the world had an owner, and a territory with an owner must have an entry threshold.

Teacher Dorothy was the Prime Minister of the Magitech Republic, so was this world after death only allowed for the souls of the Magitech Republic to enter?

Thinking of this possibility, Noah became a bit uneasy.

Moreover, she also thought of other things related to this world after death in an instant, such as the Eternal Jingtu that was still making people panic in the Magitech Republic.

The expansion speed of this terrifying cult was outrageous. A week ago, this cult was just an underground sect with less than ten thousand people, but now, the scale of this sect's members was approaching one million. The cult that should have been sneaky now dared to walk into the light openly.

For a time, even the Armed Heroic Spirits and Magitech Knights of the Magitech Republic could do nothing about them. After all, there were too many people; it was impossible to kill them all.

The news of the cult raging in the Magitech Republic had already reached the Radiance God Kingdom, and it was also a hot news topic on the Ark these past two days. Many people in the God Kingdom ridiculed the Magitech Republic for being weak and a paper tiger, that such a large country could be made into a mess by a cult, which was truly pathetic.

Well, what's wrong with this country? It must be the problem of the system; it's the disaster left by their lack of faith.

Many people in the God Kingdom thought so.

Of course, as a Pope who knew more, Noah naturally couldn't be so ignorant. She knew that the chaos in the Magitech Republic was caused by Teacher Sophie Liya sending her divine envoys to spread it, so she didn't feel that the Magitech Republic was weak, just simply feeling that the divine envoys were truly too strong.

Although Teacher Dorothy was also very powerful, she was after all just a mortal. It was natural for a mortal to lose when facing a divine envoy.

The Loli Pope had thought so before.

She had grown up in the God Kingdom, and in the worldview shaped by the faith in the Lord of Radiance from childhood, the bottom-most logic was that the gods were great, and mortals needed to bow their heads to the gods, and even looking directly at them was a great blasphemy.

Even though the "Genesis" taught by Teacher Sophie Liya had sparked thoughts of resistance in her heart, those were just thoughts, not even seeds. The change she had hoped for before was just to let the bottom-layer people get rid of being oppressed by the powerful, as for the oppression of the church and the gods...

This could really only be thought about; it didn't possess the possibility of success at all. How could mortals possibly resist the gods?

But now, she suddenly thought deeply and felt terrified.

If the world after death truly existed, then could the ideas promoted by the Eternal Jingtu still be considered an evil cult?

The Magitech Republic couldn't do anything about the Eternal Jingtu. Was this really because they couldn't, or did they not want to manage it at all? Those failed "arrests" were probably all acting for the Radiance God Kingdom to see.

Also, were those proselytizing divine envoys sent by Teacher Sophie Liya okay? Did they know about the existence of the world after death, or were they used as guns while being completely ignorant?

Of course, there was also the most important point.

Mom, is this kind of secret really something I, an enemy soldier, should know? Is Teacher Dorothy not afraid that I will report it? It's over, she's probably going to kill me to silence me.

But if I die, does that mean I can enter this world after death?

Thinking about it this way, it actually doesn't seem that bad.

Anyway, for a time, the Loli Pope's thoughts were very chaotic.

And on the opposite side, Dorothy didn't speak either. The Home Witch withdrew the hand that had just performed the head-patting kill on this cheap disciple. Not to mention, although Noah was a fake Loli, full of technology and hard work, she didn't know what material her hair was made of, but it felt unexpectedly smooth, and it felt no different from real hair when touched.

Moreover, this child was also a white-haired one, and her hair color was almost exactly the same as Sophie Liya's. Dorothy had actually long wanted to stroke her roommate's hair, but unfortunately, witches took their hair very seriously. If it wasn't for special scenes like fighting, generally only relatives and partners could touch it.

For witches, the consequences of touching someone else's hair casually were even more serious than attacking the chest. This could also be considered a strange xp of witches.

But having said that, the Moon God body she was using now should also be a white-haired one, but it was a pity that the white hair was a characteristic of the Moon God's power, not natural. Therefore, in the case of not using the Moon God's power, her hair color was directly beaten back to its original shape, still black hair.

Although black and straight was also quite good, people were like this; things they didn't have seemed tempting. Dorothy herself was a black and straight, so naturally, white hair poked her xp more.

Well, after I win this Witch Night, should I add a condition to let me touch her hair on the basis of letting Sophie Liya wear a maid outfit?

emmmm well, this sounds like it really is a bit perverted. Wanting to play with someone's hair or something, so lewd, it's really a bit of sexual harassment.

Cough cough

The Home Witch used her powerful willpower to pull back the thoughts that had gone astray. This could also be considered a sequela of multiple thinking. Even if she couldn't split her thinking in this Witch Night, she was always prone to multitasking.

Clearly, this was a very serious occasion, so why did she think of lewd things? This was truly perverted.

Although male... well, now she was a witch, but what was wrong with a witch being perverted?

Dorothy tried hard to straighten her face and make a serious appearance, and then seriously looked at Noah, who had been performing the face-changing stunt in front of her.

En, in the short tens of seconds just now, this Loli Pope had performed a series of facial expressions from shock to doubt to ecstasy to worry to fear, etc. This couldn't help but make the Home Witch curious again about who made her face mold. This expression function was sensitive enough, and it was also very natural, just like a real face, not stiff at all like other prosthetic faces.

However, it was clear that the expression system being too sensitive was actually not good, as it was easy to expose one's thoughts. For example, now Dorothy didn't need to use mind reading to guess the thoughts of this cheap disciple directly by reading her face.

Seeing that if Noah continued to change her face like this, the expression module of the face mold would overload and lose control, the Home Witch spoke.

"First, there was no Netherworld in this world originally. The one behind me was created by myself. Therefore, this is indeed a private Netherworld, and theoretically, it is not open to the public."

"Second, regarding the Eternal Jingtu, you didn't guess wrong. Except for that cute angel Patriarch sent by your teacher, everyone else in this cult is my person. It expanded so fast, that was entirely because I was pushing it behind the scenes."

"Third, you really know a bit too much. You say, how should I deal with you next?"

The Home Witch stretched out three fingers, then narrowed her eyes, looking at the disciple shivering in front of her like a snake. And seeing that Noah was really scared, she then smiled.

"Hahaha, look at your cowardly appearance, I was just teasing you."

Noah: "."

The Loli Pope, who had almost had her prosthetic heart malfunction just now, was angry and trembling, but weak, pitiful, and helpless, she dared not be angry, let alone speak, so she had to laugh dryly with the teacher.

"Alright, stop laughing falsely here. Rest assured, if I really wanted to silence you, you would already be a dead person now. But whether you can keep this memory next depends on your choice."

Dorothy became serious again, and then looked at the disciple in front of her.

"Although this Netherworld is indeed a private Netherworld, I don't want to have any national boundaries in the world of the dead. Therefore, this Netherworld will be open to all local creatures of this world."

The Home Witch said the truth. Although she could indeed weaponize the Netherworld, which would be very easy to use, because most living people could not refuse the condition of being able to get the protection of the Netherworld after death.

Mortals will eventually die, but if there is no protection from the Netherworld, then the soul of the dead will lose the protection of the flesh. Once it leaves the body, it will be exposed to the sun and blown by the breeze, and its form will immediately become unstable, just like being tortured.

The days of lonely ghosts are very hard to endure. Things that you were accustomed to when you were alive are now torture for you. Most lonely ghosts will eventually be tortured until their humanity is lost, and finally, the spiritual body will dissipate, and the soul power will be reduced to the most original spiritual particles and return to the River of Souls.

And the small number of powerful souls who have survived the wind and sun generally become evil spirits because of the serious loss of humanity, which is directly worse than death.

But once you get the protection of the Netherworld, then in the Netherworld, you are almost no different from when you were alive. You can live another life in the Netherworld until your soul power is exhausted, that is, your yin life ends, and only then will you return to the River of Souls.

Even if you perform well and have some opportunities, you can gradually strengthen your soul body and become a civil servant of the Netherworld, achieving the achievement of being muddled when alive and reaching the peak of ghost life after death.

Even more, returning to life or reincarnation or something is not impossible to look forward to.

Can those lonely ghosts compare to such treatment?

Therefore, managing the Netherworld is a very large right. Dorothy could completely control all mortals by relying on this right.

For example, the most classic one, this Loli Pope, you also don't want those subordinates who died for you to become lonely ghosts, right?

The Home Witch was very sure that if she really threatened like this, Noah would definitely take the bait in the end, and then thoroughly become her toy.

But Dorothy hadn't reached such a low level yet. Just kidding, she was an old pure love party, a pure love war god. For example, for that kind of toy that is unwilling and eventually falls, she wants sincerity more.

Therefore, she gave Noah a chance to choose.

"I will collect the souls of those comrades of yours who sacrificed outside into the Netherworld. You don't need to worry about this. Your choice next will only affect whether you can walk out of this underground cathedral with this memory."

Dorothy said openly.

And hearing such words, Noah was indeed relieved.

It was her using a villain's heart to measure a gentleman's belly. Just now, she was indeed very worried that Teacher Dorothy would use this to threaten her to be an undercover agent and spy on the Radiance God Kingdom's intelligence.

But now the teacher's frankness made her particularly ashamed. It could only be said that she was worthy of being the author of "Genesis". How could a sage who could write such great ideas be so low?

"Then, Teacher, what is the choice?"

She also straightened her attitude, and then asked with some curiosity and even more trepidation.

"Don't be so nervous, it's not a difficult thing. I just want to ask you, Noah, are you loyal to people or gods?"

Dorothy first appeased this disciple who was overly serious, and then asked.

"Eh?"

Noah, who was still quite nervous, heard this question and was also stunned. What kind of choice was this? She was a person, so of course, she was loyal to people.

But to prevent answering too quickly, she still thought seriously for a long time, and then thought thoughtfully.

Well, she thought she understood a little bit about what this choice meant.

"Teacher, before the identity of the Pope of the Radiance Church, I am first a person, and will only ever be a person. The one loyal to the gods is on the opposite side, and that is also my enemy."

The Loli Pope pointed to the chess piece representing the powerful side in the sand table in front of her and answered like this.

"Good."

Hearing such an answer, Dorothy applauded and praised. She showed a very gratified smile.

Although she had blocked the surroundings before summoning the Netherworld Gate just now, theoretically, no one would be able to perceive the abnormality, but doing things under the nose of angels was still very risky.

But now her adventure was worth it.

"Then we are truly comrades now, Noah. Go and liberate your compatriots from the hands of the powerful, and then wait for me. I will liberate you from the hands of the gods."

The Home Witch promised like this.

"Good."

Noah also learned from the teacher in front of her and applauded and praised.

"I look forward to it."

In the dark underground small cathedral, the master and disciple looked at each other and smiled. This time it was truly a benevolent master and filial disciple.

And in the Central Cathedral high in the sky, the Pure White Angel frowned. She felt uneasy again, and this time the unease was even more serious than before.

"Did I calculate any step wrong?"

The Pure White Angel was in doubt.

py, recommending a friend's new book "Girl, Don't Be Anxious First"

I am a Luck Suppressor of the Luck Suppression Division.

You ask me what I am doing?

I am helping an old lady cross the road.

Why do this?

Because the system says I won't live past three days.

Oh right, there is one more thing.

I found that my house actually has a tunnel leading directly to the neighbor's.

Then a Princess moved in next door.

New author, multiple heroines, the writing style is relaxed and humorous, it looks very comfortable, and it's a bit sweet. Those interested should not miss it.

(End of chapter)