Chapter 336: Mission: Impossible

"You big busybody, how do you have time to come find me?"

Laughing and talking, Victoria placed a cup of coffee and freshly baked Bear Bear cookies in front of Li En.

"Of course I wanted to... well, finding you is part of my job."

He originally thought of just flirting casually, but remembering the Dark Elves' reputation for being "too casual" in this regard, Li En felt it was better not to give friendship a chance to deteriorate.

"Heh, is there something you need? I'm quite busy here."

"Busy? It's not you who's busy."

Li En glanced at the trading area outside the shop; indeed, there were quite a few customers. But those brooms and cabinets with hands, feet, and faces not only traded and handled cash registers, they even went out proactively to solicit customers.

That hopping and jumping "bunny girl" seemed to be a cross-dressing model doll? Now holding a sign and dancing wildly, she was very attractive to passersby.

"You're awake?" After some thought, Li En still used this term.

Previously, Victoria had been in a state of cognitive impairment and schizophrenia; although the surroundings were full of abnormalities that made everyone else's scalps crawl, she herself felt nothing.

And now, although she showed no change on the surface, not only did she not run the shop herself, leaving the work to her creations, but her speech and actions also seemed more clear-cut.

"Mm." The female elf touched her head; she had only fully awakened these past two days.

To be precise, it was the complete awakening of her Soul Ability that rendered her original self-protective cognitive impairment completely ineffective, allowing her to finally see the abnormalities around her clearly.

Li En did not ask her about the specifics, nor did he probe the details of her ability; even for a friend, such life-and-death level information was safer with fewer people knowing it.

"Speak, what is it? Let's get one thing straight first: I'm weak, I'm not good at fighting, and I have no money."

Li En turned his head, looking at the commotion inside the shop; two trash cans had stood up and were beating a group of adventurers to death.

Mm, not good at fighting? If you say so, then so be it.

Looking at Victoria's exhausted face, Li En fell into thought; if Kukku's Heroic Soul inheritance was currently in progress, the ultimate winner would most likely be the person before his eyes.

Others who obtained the "inheritance" either used it as a supplement to their own abilities or mechanically utilized the "multi-tasking" ability; only she used it as a core, hatching a seemingly boundless Soul Ability.

The key point is always "compatibility," that ethereal thing; the near-perfect inheritor of the Heroic Soul's potential, Victoria, who can mass-produce life, is the true inheritor of the Heroic Soul who shattered "common sense."

On this path, there is only her; as long as she persists, she is destined to reach the peak of the world.

Li En was not in a hurry; he would patiently wait for these Heroic Soul candidates to grow, but now, he probably needed Victoria's "knowledge."

"Look at this holy symbol... this belongs to the next Heroic Soul. He can fake being alive for a short time; I plan to use this opportunity to set up a church."

Li En did not use lies; he laid his cards on the table directly.

Though the words were short, they amounted to an earth-shattering conspiracy.

"Pfft!"

The other person took a mouthful of coffee and almost spat it directly onto Li En's face.

"Cough, cough, cough."

Li En hurriedly helped her wipe it, but the other person looked at him with terrified eyes.

"What blasphemy! You intend to steal the power of a deity... no, you intend to steal everything of a deity..."

"Uh, if you're not interested, then forget it."

"No, I am! Very much! The secrets of deities! The secrets of faith! I can even steal the structure of divine arts to form a domain; how could I possibly refuse!"

The female alchemist was more excited than Li En; she stood up directly and grabbed Li En's hand in return.

For researchers who pursue truth and knowledge, how could they possibly have no interest in the greatest "miracle" of deities?

However, any research into their essence easily angers deities; what Li En did was equivalent to directly making a dead deity fake being alive and discussing borrowing their corpse with them... although it was very blasphemous, after thinking it over, the danger didn't seem very high.

If the deity refused, then so be it, but if there was no refusal, a "divine corpse" that would not resist or go berserk, no alchemist could refuse this research opportunity.