Chapter 2095

Dark clouds hung over Heru City. Behind a few fire-red clouds was the sunlight people longed for. Only with sunlight could crops grow, but unfortunately, this was a luxury for the commoners of Heru City.

Even in the morning, there were few pedestrians on the street. After all, everyone was busy; laziness was equivalent to hunger. The burning sensation of stomach acid eroding the stomach lining would make people gradually go crazy and do very irrational things.

*Snap! *

A piece of wet firewood was split in two. The woodcutter panted for a moment before setting up the second log, gripping the axe handle wrapped in dirty cloth strips.

Su Xiao stopped in front of the Wizard Society headquarters. This towering building seemed to want to pierce into the dark clouds. Vaguely, one could see something lurking above the building, but shrouded in thin mist, it was impossible to see the full picture of that thing.

The front door on the first floor of the Wizard Society was open all day. Su Xiao walked at the very front, Bubu Wang and Amu followed closely behind, Baha habitually perched on Amu's shoulder, and Caesar followed sneakily at the very back, with a unique temperament.

After Su Xiao entered the first floor of the Wizard Society, he headed straight for the stairs inside. These stairs went upward in a Z-shape. Because no one had taken care of them for a long time, and the environment was humid, there was a layer of pitch-black grime on the steps, which felt hard when stepped on.

Following the stairs upward, Su Xiao stopped at the tenth floor. An object resembling tree roots blocked the stairwell.

Su Xiao pressed one hand on the root layer. The root layer made a crisp *click* sound and finally retracted into the walls on both sides.

"Don't go any higher. Knowing too much is also a sin."

A woman with rough skin, carrying a long gun with a black wooden handle on her back, sat on the steps. Her two eye sockets were sunken downward, clearly having had her eyeballs dug out alive.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, just walked past the witch and continued upward.

"A piece of advice: those people are just cowards."

The witch tilted her head to face Su Xiao, her messy hair hanging to one side. She grinned, revealing a mouth full of metal teeth.

"Cowards?"

Su Xiao's footsteps stopped. Being able to appear above the tenth floor of the Wizard Society, she was certainly no small fry.

"They are cowards, then what do you count as?"

Su Xiao left this sentence behind and continued to step up the stairs.

"Me? Hmm~, a poor worm that has struggled, not even as good as a coward."

The witch's shoulders shrugged, laughing in a way that made one's hair stand on end. Caesar, at the very back of the team, chose to stay away from her.

Continuing upward, Su Xiao didn't see any other wizards until he reached the thirtieth floor. The stairs ended here, and a long corridor appeared in front.

This corridor was about five meters wide. On the walls on both sides, there was a candlestick every few meters. Arm-thick grey candles burned slowly, and wax oil piled up high along the walls.

Clearly, the tenth to thirtieth floors of the Wizard Society were taken care of by someone, most likely that blind witch. The likes of Morn Di could not compare to this witch's combat power at all. Such a person was just a chore-doer.

Walking deep into the corridor, the surroundings were so quiet that only footsteps could be heard. After walking more than twenty meters, Su Xiao arrived in front of the stone door he had seen through the video footage earlier.

The stone door was uneven and looked very old. On the brownish stone, mottled red marks could be seen, some looking like bloody handprints, others like faces.

Su Xiao took out the iron plate he had obtained from Caesar. This thing was originally issued by the Wizard Society but had been modified by Caesar.

"My generous friend, absolutely not, let Caesar do it."

Caesar stepped forward quickly, signaling Su Xiao to give him the iron plate. Su Xiao didn't pay much attention and threw the iron plate to Caesar.

Taking the iron plate, Caesar reached his hand into his pants pocket, digging and digging...

Seeing this scene, Su Xiao decided he didn't want that broken dog tag anymore.

Caesar finally took out a ball of light green gelatinous substance, pressed the iron plate into it, and stuck it onto the stone door.

The iron plate decayed at a speed visible to the naked eye and finally turned into ashes.

*Click, click... *

A difficult sound of gear friction came from under the stone door. Caesar pressed his ear against the stone door, knocked, and signaled that the door could be opened. For safety's sake, he ran to the back of the team with small, quick steps.

Su Xiao's hand pushed against the stone door. It was very heavy.

*Rumble... *

Dust scattered from the door cracks. This place, sealed for a long time, was opened today.

【Prompt: You have entered the Old God Church.】

Pushing open the stone door, Su Xiao waved his hand in front of his face to disperse the choking dust.

Looking forward, this was a church about three hundred square meters in size. The entire church looked very old. In the center, there were circular stepped stone stairs, sunken about ten meters deep. At the very bottom, there was a stone sculpture. The sculpture had no specific features, not even a face; one could only judge from the figure that it was the image of a young woman.

Su Xiao looked toward the edge of the church. There were three stone chairs at the edge, arranged diagonally.

All three stone chairs were over two meters wide, embedded in the walls. Two of them were empty, and mottled bloodstains could be seen on them. A figure sat on the last stone chair.

"Another one here to die."

A somewhat hoarse voice came. Su Xiao tilted his head to look. In the open space inside the church, a figure was hung upside down, chains piercing through his ankles, hanging him two meters above the ground. Ragged burlap was wrapped around his feet, legs, and torso, all the way to his neck. Through the gaps, one could see burns, which were shocking.

Su Xiao stepped forward. Although the church was dilapidated, it didn't look dark. He saw the appearance of this figure. This was an old man whose age could not be determined. He was too old, his face full of wrinkles, looking like a skeleton wrapped in skin.

"This is an Immortal Wizard? Caesar, hurry up and close the stone door. This old guy shouldn't be exposed to the wind. If he dies, it will be troublesome."

Baha began its daily snarky remarks. After all, this old guy's opening line was "Another one here to die."

"I don't die that easily. If I could die, I would have been liberated long ago."

The old man hanging upside down opened one eye. It was a completely pale eye.

"Dawn?"

Su Xiao was not surprised by the appearance of the Immortal Wizard. Or rather, being able to communicate normally was already considered not bad.

"I am not. The paranoid one over there is. I am..."

The old man hanging upside down stopped here, thinking for nearly half a minute before saying:

"I am Gus, a loser struggling on the verge of death."

The attitude shown by the old man hanging upside down, Gus, seemed to be that he didn't care about anything anymore.

"Immortal Wizard Gus?"

Caesar looked at the old man hanging upside down in disbelief, looking him up and down. Su Xiao looked at Caesar with some confusion.

"It is said that Holy Silver was provided by him. Of course, this is a rumor, and the credibility is not high..."

"Holy Silver."

Gus opened both eyes completely, staring straight at Caesar, startling Caesar into taking two steps back.

"How long has it been since someone mentioned this thing? I was really stupid back then, actually willing to burn myself to refine Holy Silver. If I were still an Old God, I wouldn't be in this state. I shouldn't have believed in Dawn, and I shouldn't have believed in the Light of Hope, Nia. In the final analysis, their kindness is not enough to overcome those evils."

Gus inadvertently revealed an important piece of information: he was once an Old God, but after burning himself, he was no longer one, becoming an old man hanging upside down.

"Don't look at me like that. Old Gods are nothing special. In front of true gods, they are simply vulnerable. Lost, huh? Lost to the point of even losing the sunlight, hahahaha..."

Amidst a burst of self-mocking laughter, Gus closed his eyes. The second important piece of information: true gods.