Chapter 276: Goddess Descends

Creak—

The heavy stone Gate emitted a teeth-grinding friction sound. After pushing the stone Gate open, a Treasure Chest with a silvery-white surface, as if crafted from platinum, appeared before Yun Mu.

"A platinum chest?"

Seeing the Treasure Chest, Yun Mu raised an eyebrow. Although opening a Treasure Chest was the standard procedure after clearing a Dungeon, this was her first time seeing a chest of this style.

Could it be that items opened from a platinum chest are stronger than those from a normal Treasure Chest? Or are they actually all the same, and the appearance of the chest just changes depending on the Dungeon?

It couldn't possibly be a mimic, haha.

Yun Mu took out the Scarlet Cross Sword and, keeping the maximum distance, used the tip of the sword to flip open the lid of the platinum chest.

Thankfully, it was not a mimic.

The opened platinum chest lay there quietly, without any reaction.

【You have obtained 【Gold Coin】*3078】 (Pickpocketing +8%)

【You have obtained the item 【Planting Box (Purple)】】 【Plant growth speed +350%】

【Automatic watering / Simulated planting environment】

【A magical planting box capable of growing nine types of plants simultaneously, requires no charging, saves space, and accelerates plant growth. Essential for home and travel!!】

"A Planting Box?"

Yun Mu looked with some surprise at the wooden box she had fished out from the Treasure Chest.

Its length and width were about thirty-eight centimeters, the bottom was rectangular, and the height was only about eighteen centimeters.

The top of the wooden box was covered with a layer of glass, and inside the glass were nine blocks made of soil, looking just like farmland.

Good news: a Ziyue Pinzhi item was opened from a platinum chest, which was suspected to be a rare Treasure Chest.

Bad news: it seems useless—no, wait, it should be useful!

Yun Mu suddenly remembered that she was about to take a ship to the Orc Federation with Brenna, and besides that, Lucy still had to teach her Alchemy.

Alchemy, Alchemy... it should require growing herbs, right? If so, this thing should come in handy.

Also, when sailing on the sea, one needs to store food. In this era, ah, she remembered, there were canned goods, so it seemed there was no need to worry too much about nutrition.

However, growing some vegetables and fruits to improve the diet would also be nice.

Thinking this, Yun Mu tossed the Planting Box into her earring.

Come to think of it, the storage space inside the earring was truly large. Giving such a thing to her was somewhat of a waste, because Yun Mu simply didn't have that many things to store.

Moreover, to fill up a space five hundred meters in length, width, and height, one would probably have to empty out an entire mountain to do it.

It was worthy of being an Epic-grade piece of equipment; the effect was so absurdly exaggerated that it was as if the game designers had filled it in with their feet.

Of course, there were still some limitations.

For example, every time she threw something inside or took an item out, it required consuming Spirituality... very little, very little.

It was related to the size of the space opened, yet even so, it consumed much less than when Yun Mu used cards to seal items away.

For items like the Scarlet Cross Sword, the Spirituality consumed by taking it out and putting it back in could be recovered in just half a second.

But if she wanted to open a Gate several hundred meters high, that probably wasn't very realistic.

However, actually, she had long thought about how to utilize the space inside the earring... Question: what kind of thing could she easily obtain, fill the space inside the earring with, and at a critical moment, even if the opened Gate wasn't large, still cause an impact on the enemy? The answer is... water! To be precise, seawater!

As long as she opened a small hole on the seabed, the seawater would pour into the space inside the earring continuously due to water pressure, until the space inside the earring was filled!

And when Yun Mu's enemies faced the impact of tens of thousands of tons of seawater falling from the sky, even a Champion should be unable to withstand it.

Hmm... she actually didn't have much of a concept of that kind of mass attack.

She wasn't very clear on the strength of a Champion-level Transcendental either, but she figured it should be effective.

"Ah, I'm out."

The world before her suddenly twisted, the walls inside the Dungeon corridor gradually overlapped with the houses of the real world, and when Yun Mu came to her senses, she was already standing in her own room.

【Congratulations on clearing the Dungeon 【Painting Spirit lv20 (Elite)】】 【Your understanding of 【Oil Painting/Manga】 has deepened. 【Oil Painting/Manga】 Destiny Points +20.】 【Your Path 【Oil Painting/Manga lv2】 has upgraded to 【Oil Painting/Manga lv3】】 【Your Maximum HP +5, Attack +2, Spell Strength +5, Defense +2, Resilience +1, Dodge +5, Speed +1, Precision Correction +5, Critical Hit +1%】 【You have obtained the trait 【Picture Harmonization】】 【You can easily perceive and erase all discordant sounds in a painting; even if, in terms of feeling, a scene is no matter how out of place, in your hands, it will perfectly harmonize together. Of course, the choice is yours; after all, the brush is in your hands.】

"Phew, the advancement requirements are almost finished now."

Looking at the message notification popping up on the Game Panel, Yun Mu clicked on her advancement quest.

1, 2, 3, and 6 above were already completed, and she was confident she could finish the remaining 4 and 5 within these few days.

As for the trait obtained after the Path level increased? She didn't feel anything for the moment; perhaps she would be able to experience the effect the next time she practiced Painting? Yun Mu looked at the sky outside, then looked twice more at Lucy sitting on her bed... forget it, better to just sleep.

Practicing Painting is not something to rush.

Anyway, there was no Scarlet chasing behind her right now.

"Miss Lucy, shall we sleep together!"

She excitedly came before the adult-form Lucy and said, holding the other's palms with both hands.

"Ah?"

Lucy was startled by her sudden enthusiasm, a look of slight bewilderment appearing on her exquisite face.

It had to be said, Lucy's original body, which was her appearance after growing up, was truly beautiful, and unlike her previous flat-chested self, her figure was curvaceous, the type that any woman would be jealous of upon seeing.

As for Yun Mu's thoughts... she simply wanted to sleep with a beautiful older sister and chat about some secrets in the pitch-black room.

This is a very normal thought, right! Being able to chat with someone before bed is a very pleasant thing.

This was something Yun Mu realized only after she had graduated in her previous life and stayed at home every day, without even a single person to talk to.

One must cherish the interaction between people!

"I, I don't mind, it's just that this body can only be controlled for two hours..."

"Then what are we waiting for, there's no time like the present, let's hurry up and sleep!" Yun Mu said solemnly.

She pushed Lucy down onto the bed, tucked her in, then turned off the light and lay down.

"Phew."

Yun Mu exhaled softly, and just as she was about to say something, she turned her head to look, only to find that Lucy's breathing was very even; she had clearly already fallen asleep.

Ah, this—the series of movements she just made couldn't have taken more than five seconds, so how is she already asleep? She couldn't be faking it, could she?

Yun Mu felt a bit suspicious, but she had no evidence.

Forget it, she should sleep too. *Yawn*—the lights went out, and as soon as her head hit the pillow, she did indeed feel a bit sleepy.

Yun Mu closed her eyes and slowly drifted into dreamland.

Heral Calendar, year 4243, October 22nd, Monday, the 22nd day since Yun Mu transmigrated.

Inside the massive church, Bishop Muse's dignified voice spoke slowly and steadily, while below, a large crowd of men and women stood together, with Yun Mu and Brenna standing at the very front of the line.

This was the Purification Ceremony that Bishop Muse had mentioned earlier, capable of restoring everyone infected by the Scarlet Curse to normal.

Of course, it could only clear the Scarlet Curse; those who had already become Bloodline could not turn back into humans.

As for why Brenna had to stand with her, Yun Mu herself was not very clear.

She looked at Brenna, and the latter, noticing her gaze, turned her head and smiled at her, an expression that seemed to say, "It's okay, I'm here."

Yun Mu suspected she might be worried that she was afraid the Church would want to kill the donkey once it had finished turning the mill, eliminating everyone related to Scarlet.

Although that was completely impossible, after all, as a Chuanzhezhe, she had a thing—no, she had some connection with the Lady of the Dark Night.

Bishop Muse wouldn't dare do such a thing even if he had the guts of ten bears and leopards.

Of course, that was just an exaggeration.

"Great Lady of the Dark Night, please save these lost children!"

As Bishop Muse's final words fell, a figure whose face could not be seen, as if shrouded in the night, descended upon the church's statue.

It was as if a gentle breeze of the night had brushed past, and all the various emotions in Yun Mu's heart were completely calmed.

"I look forward to your performance~"

A familiar voice reached her ears; in a daze, Yun Mu felt someone gently stroking her cheek, and a warm, moist breath blew softly across her earlobe.

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The hand Bishop Muse used to hold the Codex trembled imperceptibly; he shifted his gaze away from Yun Mu.

It was truly hard to watch; this Goddess was harassing her believers again.

Fortunately, he was old now and had completely turned into the appearance of an Old Man, otherwise, he might have been entangled by this Goddess—that Goddess with a wicked sense of humor, from young boys to young girls, from youths to mature women, from handsome men to beauties, she would let none of them go, acting recklessly by relying on her status and Charm as a deity.

Hmph, back in the day, he too had been infatuated, his mind filled with thoughts of loyalty to the Goddess; now, though, while he still had to be loyal to the Goddess, he wasn't as easy to fool as before.

Besides, that Goddess only liked to tease young people. "The Ritual has ended, everyone may go home."

Bishop Muse pretended not to see anything and said to the crowd in the church hall.

Now that Scarlet had been beaten back, its ability to interfere with Xianshi had weakened, and this level of Scarlet Curse was just a minor matter that the Lady of the Dark Night could solve by blowing a breeze.

So, despite the large number of infected people, it was still very quick to resolve.

Originally, the Lady of the Dark Night should have used some flashy, hollow special effects to display a miracle or something.

But her attention was entirely on Yun Mu now, and after solving the curse, she didn't care anymore, with no intention at all of taking the opportunity to develop potential believers.

It was the same when she dragged the entire city into a dream earlier... if she had let everyone in the city retain their memories clearly.

The public would have realized the preciousness of life even more and thus thanked the great Lady of the Dark Night.

Even if that would have caused many people to fall into psychological trauma—forget it, the Dark Night Church was already developing quite well in the Frost Kingdom anyway, so a few more or fewer believers didn't really matter.

Those who were purified should have felt the aura of the Goddess to some extent; converting them into believers probably wouldn't be a problem.

After today passes, she could also promote the Goddess's mercy, saying she couldn't bear to see the world tormented by painful memories... I really worry myself to death for the Church.

Bishop Muse planned the Church's future development in his heart, while on the other side.

"As a Goddess, do you have nothing to do?"

Yun Mu followed Brenna out of the church and looked at the Lady of the Dark Night floating beside her, asking in her heart.

"Of course I do," the Lady of the Dark Night looked at her with a chuckle: "So didn't I come here to purify the curse for you all after responding to the believers' call?"

Uh, that seemed to be correct.

What she said made so much sense that Yun Mu couldn't think of any flaws for a moment.

"Then, now that you've finished the purification, can you go back?" After thinking for a moment, Yun Mu said in her heart.

"What's the harm in staying a while longer? Could it be that you really don't want to see me?" The Lady of the Dark Night pretended to pout with some dissatisfaction and put her hands on her hips.

". No, you being like this gives me a headache." Yun Mu glanced at Brenna beside her, and the latter tilted her head in confusion after noticing her gaze.

"Is something the matter, Miss Yun?"

"Ah, no, not for now." Yun Mu opened her mouth.

"Oh." Seeing her strange expression, Brenna said with concern: "If there is anything, you must tell me."

Finally, she thought of the Purification Ceremony just now, thinking that as a Bloodline, Yun Mu was not just an ordinary person infected with the Scarlet Curse and might experience some discomfort, so she added:

"If you feel uncomfortable anywhere, we can find a place to rest for a while."

"I'm fine, really!" Yun Mu emphasized.

"It's just, how should I put it, that..." After a brief pause, Yun Mu thought of a good excuse.

"The Scarlet Curse that had been clinging to me has finally been lifted, and I have a feeling of my tense nerves suddenly relaxing; you should understand what I mean, right?"

"I see." Looking at the expression on Brenna's face, she probably believed Yun Mu's excuse.

"Then Miss Yun should have a good rest today; leave the matters of the Xiangyang to me." She took two quick steps and waved at Yun Mu.

"Enjoy a peaceful day, I won't disturb you."

After she finished speaking, she turned and disappeared from Yun Mu's sight.

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"You have a very good relationship with that princess." After Brenna left, the Lady of the Dark Night floated beside Yun Mu and sighed: "Youth is truly wonderful."

What are you sighing for?

Yun Mu gave her a speechless glance.

According to the records in the books, Lady Dark Night was born from humanity's Fear of the night and nature worship, at a time when there was no Moon in the sky yet.

How could a deity born out of thin air possess something like youth?

(End of chapter)