Chapter 103

There were two reasons why Wu Pifu made such a decisive move.

First, the negative effect of his title would affect those who were hostile to him; the greater the hostility, the greater the influence. For example, the little wolf girl was hostile to him, but this hostility was actually not great, so it only influenced the little wolf girl to think he was weak, which is why she wanted to rob his meatballs. The little wolf girl's initial attack on him was aimed at his leather pouch, but she didn't intend to hurt anyone.

This was also the reason why he fed the little wolf girl meatballs.

But these few people in front of him, except for the sub-giant and the priest, all had huge hostility toward him, and the two with the greatest hostility were the man with the felt hat and the one-eyed red-haired woman. Their hostility was even great enough to directly launch an attack.

This was the negative effect of Wu Pifu's title. It wasn't just simply pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger, but it could test whether there was hostility toward him and how great that hostility was.

The second reason was the little wolf girl herself.

From her self-introduction, she was a princess of the White Wolf Clan, so no matter what, she shouldn't be in such a sorry state. That set of clothes was clearly modified from a linen bag for grain, and there were bruises on her body, etc.

All of this indicated that there was a problem with this village. The little wolf girl was likely robbed.

The corroboration was the villagers in the distance who didn't dare to come forward. Almost all of them looked sallow, while these few people at the village entrance seemed to be living quite well.

As Wu Pifu spoke, the sub-giant pulled himself out of the mud and said in a muffled voice, "I am not! I am a blacksmith! I collect food, fur, and minerals, and sell weapons, armor, and repair farm tools!"

The priest also bowed slightly and said, "I am a shepherd of God, collecting faith to reinforce this village so that everyone in it can avoid being swept away by the chaos storm, in exchange for food and a stable place to live. I am not a slave owner."

The man in ancient Greek clothing turned pale. He opened his mouth, but before he could speak, more than a dozen villagers ran over from behind, shouting "slave owner" and "kill him." The man in ancient Greek clothing turned even paler and looked ugly. He only ordered the two granite stone men to guard him, but he didn't dare to move recklessly because of Wu Pifu's deterrence.

Wu Pifu hadn't guessed wrong.

This village was a place where the weak were the prey of the strong.

People from all over the world and all eras randomly entered the Castlevania region, which in itself was a huge chaos. Barbarians from ancient times, weak scholars from modern times, cyberpunk people from the future—their philosophies were vastly different, and it was impossible to convince each other. In the end, what they had to submit to was actually power.

Just now at the village entrance, Wu Pifu saw with his own eyes a mecha with highly developed technology being smashed to pieces by a hammer. The fluctuation of its explosion was not much bigger than a firecracker. Clearly, the technological weapons of this world were severely weakened. According to the little wolf girl Daphne, once objects without spirituality encountered the extraordinary, they would be weakened or even rendered ineffective.

This was really like taking Gaia weapons into the dream world; the lower the baseline reality, the smaller the power.

Therefore, in this Castlevania region, the strongest were definitely not those who possessed technological knowledge or future creations, but extraordinary beings from ancient times, from mystery, and from extraordinary systems. Ordinary people and future people who possessed concepts of equality were weak and pathetic in this world.

Of course, there might be extraordinary beings with concepts of equality, but the probability was too small.

When great power returns to oneself, it is too easy to lead to the concept of the weak being the prey of the strong. Even modern people and future people living in an equal world, once great power returns to themselves, are very likely to be lost in power, let alone in extreme situations like the Castlevania region.

So Wu Pifu confirmed in a very short time that these few people who drove him away were slave owners.

They treated other weak people as slaves to bully!

At this time, the villagers all ran out of the village, surrounding the man in ancient Greek clothing from afar, shouting in indignation.

The man in ancient Greek clothing said with a pale face, "Although I obtained the fruits of your labor, I also protected you, gave you a place to live, and gave you safety. This is in accordance with Athenian law! I have a clear conscience!!"

The villagers were still noisy. Although some of them seemed relatively numb, most of them clearly didn't agree.

Wu Pifu couldn't help but complain, "This is the first time I've heard someone talk about slaves and slave owners so refreshingly and refinedly. Satan would have to tattoo you on his body."

The man in ancient Greek clothing gave Wu Pifu a resentful look, then immediately lowered his head and said, "Let me leave, I am willing to give up all the wealth here."

"What are you thinking?"

Wu Pifu scratched his nostril and walked toward the man in ancient Greek clothing step by step.

The villagers hurriedly made a path. The man in ancient Greek clothing was full of despair and immediately shouted loudly, "This is unfair! They are all mortals. Without our protection, they wouldn't even be able to survive a single chaos storm. Why, why..."

Before the words were finished, the two granite puppets were directly shattered. Wu Pifu didn't attack his main body, but blew up his extraordinary system puppets. Now he was no different from a mortal, unless he was given time to recreate the puppets. Wu Pifu spread his hands and said, "I don't understand what you're saying, but I know that you were the ones who attacked me first, so isn't it normal for me to fight back?"

The next moment, the villagers swarmed up and beat the man in ancient Greek clothing into a pulp...

That night, the villagers sang and danced, moving food they couldn't usually eat or couldn't bear to eat from the rooms and warehouses of the three dead "nobles." Nearly a hundred villagers lit three bonfires, eating and drinking happily, while imagining the future.

The future person who operated the mecha was named Yi Shanjiu. He seemed to be a chatterbox. While drinking sour beer, he pulled Wu Pifu and said, "Fortunately you came, otherwise I guess I would have been forced by them to farm as a serf."

According to Yi Shanjiu's self-description, he had only been in the Castlevania region for a few days. He had finally found this village with people and immediately intended to join it.

But although he entered the village, he was immediately ordered by these few extraordinary beings to farm, and at the same time, he was assigned a very dilapidated thatched cottage.

At first, Yi Shanjiu didn't take action immediately. After talking to the villagers who were farming, he confirmed that except for the blacksmith sub-giant and the priest who were clean and didn't oppress them, the other three extraordinary beings already considered themselves protectors, but in reality, they were slave owners, exploiting all mortals who entered the Castlevania region.

Yi Shanjiu naturally couldn't be content as a slave. He had a mecha parked in the nearby woods, so he took advantage of the daytime farming time to run over and pilot the mecha, intending to let these ancient natives see the power of technology.

But the result was that the mecha was directly smashed flat by the blacksmith with a hammer.

"...Actually, there are records of ancient myths in the library. It is said that some special humans mastered extraordinary power hundreds of years ago. That is a power that transcends technology, but I never believed it before, thinking it was just ancient feudal superstition. One, extraordinary power doesn't exist, and two, how could the power of technology be weak?"

Yi Shanjiu sighed and said, "Now I truly believe that the power of technology will be suppressed by extraordinary power."

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The little wolf girl Daphne was also sitting on the side, eating a skewer of roasted meat. She said while eating, "The power of technology is quite strong against nature or people without extraordinary power, as long as it doesn't encounter the spread of spirituality."

Wu Pifu and Yi Shanjiu said almost in unison, "What exactly is spirituality?"

Daphne shook her head and said, "I can't explain it clearly either. I only know that spirituality is the source of extraordinary power. Without spirituality, there would be no extraordinary power in the world. By the way, the light you just displayed is spirituality, and it is spirituality that is highly condensed and branded with life. If it is raised to another level, it will turn from spirituality into divinity, and that would be incredible."

Wu Pifu and Yi Shanjiu were both confused, completely not knowing what Daphne wanted to express.

At this time, a gentle voice rang out, "Let me explain it."

The two turned their heads and saw the priest sitting beside them with a glass of sour beer. He smiled at the villagers around him, raising his glass to signal to them from time to time.

Wu Pifu said, "It seems the priest takes good care of them on weekdays. Then why doesn't the priest help them get free from being enslaved?"

The priest said helplessly, "I haven't climbed the Saint Name; I'm just a shepherd of God. How could I be the opponent of three extraordinary beings? Don't look at how easily they were killed by you; that's because you are too strong, and your flesh and blood have been tempered to a level close to a Saint. They just had poor judgment and couldn't see it, otherwise, believe it or not, they would have knelt to you directly?"

Wu Pifu didn't speak, just nodded to the priest.

The priest smiled and said, "So-called spirituality is actually just an activated name for chaos."

Daphne immediately shouted, "Liar! Chaos is the enemy of all life in the world, and spirituality is the power to resist chaos. How could it be another name for it?"

The priest spread his hands helplessly and said, "This is what God said. Even if you ask me, I don't know."

At this time, a villager nearby called out, "The priest is lying here. I come from... according to the future people's way of saying, it should be the Renaissance era. Although I am a painter, I graduated from a seminary. God never said that spirituality is another name for chaos."

The priest's expression was even more helpless as he said, "Because this is a forbidden canon, only extraordinary beings with shepherd qualifications like me, or those who have climbed the Saint Name and approached or reached the Saint rank, can read the canon."

"In the canon, chaos is called pollution."

"And spirituality, and even all extraordinary things, are actually the products of life diluting and activating it through its own sentience."

"So... spirituality is chaos, spirituality is pollution!"