Chapter 448

"You remembered it?" Negris leaned its head over to look, and after a glance, it sneered: "What kind of ghost is this? How can it be so simple? I can see at least two thousand independent arrays with a glance, and yours doesn't even have two hundred."

Ang ignored it and fiddled with it by himself, enlarging, flipping, and inserting from time to time.

Du Luo Ken watched with heart-pounding fear. As an alchemist, he knew too well the horror of this exquisite control. Although he could also do it, it was a bit difficult to be as relaxed as Ang.

And this was obviously not Ang's limit. While recalling, he kept inserting new arrays, and the number of arrays continued to climb, but Ang's magic reaction remained stable, which is to say, it was not strenuous at all, making people unable to figure out where his control limit was.

Ang played by himself on the side, Negris continued to talk about the situation in the Warlock Ladder, and then everyone analyzed it together.

Anthony said: "Undoubtedly, this Church of Light of the Warlock Alliance is fake, or it is an organization of false gods. The words spoken by these classical priests have subverted the entire theological system, creating a paradox in faith—God is omnipotent, yet he cannot create a stone he cannot lift."

"The light illuminates the earth, but it cannot shine upon the kingdom of the undead, and it still needs the God of Truth to create a divine kingdom. This, in essence, puts the God of Truth in a higher position than the light. When their priests say such things, don't they feel strange?"

"An ugly handsome man? A fat thin person? A diligent lazy person? Such a claim full of logical loopholes is believed and spoken by a high priestess. It is simply too absurd," Anthony complained.

Negris asked curiously: "Is there no such saying on the main plane? God, omnipotent, and so on?"

Anthony looked at it with a strange expression and said: "Yes, if your faith is firm, God is omnipotent. If God cannot show his power, it must be that your faith is wavering, and God's power cannot be projected onto you."

"Ku Ba Da, can it be explained like this? I understand. You didn't do well on the exam, not because I'm not good, but because your faith in knowledge is not firm enough. You wavered, got distracted, and didn't seriously receive knowledge, so the God of Knowledge cannot protect you. Oh my, why didn't I think of explaining it like this before? Careless, careless." Negris patted its waist and sighed.

No wonder Anthony's expression was so strange; it turns out there is a living negative example here.

"Because the doctrine was distorted, this is just a false god sect wearing the coat of the Church of Light, so all faith is dedicated to the God of Truth. But, what is going on with this heroic spirit?" Anthony asked puzzled.

Negris said depressedly: "A heroic spirit is a collection of collective beliefs. The reason for the birth of a heroic spirit is that a large group of people has an imagined community, such as ancestors, heroes, totems."

"What is the difference between it and a god?" Anthony asked. He didn't know much about things like heroic spirits.

Negris pondered for a while and said hesitantly: "If you want to say there is a difference, they are both the power of faith. The difference might be whether the chicken or the egg came first. A heroic spirit is born only after there is a unified imagined community. A god is one where there is a god first, and then the thoughts of the believers are unified."

Speaking of this, Negris fell into deep thought. It hadn't thought deeply about the difference between heroic spirits and gods before, but now analyzing it according to this line of thought, aren't heroic spirits and gods the same?

The main God of Light can actually be considered a kind of heroic spirit, or a totem.

First, there was the worship of the totem of the sun, and then there was the concept of light. But the sun is a physical object hanging in the sky, lacking mystery and distance, not very suitable for pretending to be a god.

So after it developed and grew, the Church of Light was born. It is something defined based on the yearning for light, the future, and beauty.

With the Church of Light, there would be a bunch of strong people, and then there would be the later gods of light. This has been confirmed by the God of Life.

Then, let's talk about Red Star. He is a heroic spirit, but is he considered a god? First, there was a person named Red Star, and then there was a common imagination of Red Star, thus giving birth to a heroic spirit.

But is a heroic spirit equal to Red Star? No.

Just when it was struggling, Ang suddenly raised his head and said: "Stupid."

This sentence penetrated Negris's thoughts like a flash of inspiration, making it slap its waist fiercely: "Yes, stupid, this is the biggest difference between a heroic spirit and a god. Because it is born from the collection of collective ideas, it has no wisdom and only acts according to collective beliefs."

"But a god is not. A god has wisdom, strategies, schemes, and selfishness. It can be as cute as Redemption, or as insidious as the God of Arbitration."

"However, the biggest difference should be the way they present their power. A heroic spirit is formed based on common imagination, and it only has power if it conforms to common imagination."

"If it is a hero, then its power comes from everyone's imagination of a hero. Once it runs away, it will lose the imagination of a hero, thus losing all power. But a god will not. A god will tell you that he ran away because your faith is not firm enough."

Everyone listened and nodded in realization. Silver Coin even praised: "As expected of the God of Knowledge, the analysis is reasonable and well-founded, easy to understand, and convincing."

Anthony also praised: "Only Lord Negris can analyze the difference between the two from this height. Doesn't this mean that this heroic spirit is really the designer of the Starburst Array?"

Negris's tail went up, and it said affirmatively: "Definitely, otherwise it couldn't possess common imagination."

Anthony said: "It seems we need to add this Starburst heroic spirit to the target of intelligence collection. It's best to figure out the structure of the Starburst Array."

"By the way." Negris suddenly remembered one thing: "When you saw the seeds of the Heaven-Reaching Divine Tree, why did you suddenly shake your head? Are those seeds fake?"

Ang shook his head without raising his head: "Not pollinated."

"Pfft—not pollinated? That seed can't sprout?" Negris was shocked.

Ang tilted his head and said: "Different strain, I can."

Negris was slightly stunned: "You mean, either find a second different strain of the Heaven-Reaching Divine Tree to pollinate it? Or you leave it to you to sprout?"

Ang shook his head and repeated the sentence just now: "Different strain, I can."

"Uh, finding a different strain won't work either? Even if there is a different strain, you still have to be the one to pollinate it?" Negris guessed.

Ang then nodded.

Negris understood. Ang never brags, but now he emphasizes that only he can pollinate it. It is probably a method similar to inserting a diseased branch of the World Tree into essence liquid and using the speed-death halo to urge the fruit to grow, which indeed only Ang can do.

Turning to Silver Coin, Negris asked: "Is there a second Heaven-Reaching Divine Tree?"

Silver Coin shook his head: "Don't talk about a second Heaven-Reaching Divine Tree, even for seeds, there is only one."

Ang raised his head and said: "Fruit."

"Oh? That one is a fruit, not a seed?" Silver Coin realized.

Even the fruit is only one, no need to think about it, it must be extinct.

Everyone quickly threw the Heaven-Reaching Divine Tree aside. Anthony said: "Next, let's analyze the Warlock Ladder. Lord Du Luo Ken, you are more familiar with this aspect. According to your experience, this Warlock Ladder..."

The arrival of the Warlock Alliance had an immediate effect on stabilizing the order of the entire plane. To a certain extent, they replaced the Undead Empire, allowing various regions of the entire plane to flow.

Distributing instant rice cakes for free, stabilizing grain prices, sending airships to clear out bandits on the road, opening up trade routes, arbitrating disputes between major city forces, and reducing the risk of war.

The Warlock Alliance didn't need to do too much, and didn't even need to send people to manage it, and the plane quickly stabilized.

The entire plane was basically in a state of city-state autonomy. Each city had its own autonomy ability, and grain was also in stock. It was only because the trade routes were cut off and some people were hoarding it that led to uneven distribution.

Now the trade routes are open, and there are instant rice cakes to stabilize grain prices. Hoarding grain cannot make money, so unscrupulous profiteers have to cut their losses and sell them off.

The price of grain is falling, the trade routes are smooth, and selling grain has profits, so honest merchants will transport and sell grain to make money to support their families.

After being full, other needs also came up, various consumption upgrades, and many forces also began to organize manpower for agricultural production.

If this continues, the plane's return to calm is just around the corner. However, how could the Undead Council let them take away the legitimacy so safely?

Silver Coin extracted his will from the Home of the Departed and reported to everyone with a horrified face: "The Warlock Ladder that landed on the Dongnai Peninsula has been captured by undead creatures."

"What? Warlock Ladder? Captured? How is that possible?" Anthony was shocked.

If it were before, Anthony wouldn't be so surprised, but since Ang sneaked into the Warlock Ladder for a round and figured out the structure of the Warlock Ladder, he didn't think the Warlock Ladder could be captured so easily.

The 'umbrella' surface of the ladder is a protective shield, which can be extended to the ground at any time to protect the entire ladder. To attack, one must first break the protective shield.

Secondly, all the airships and flying car constructs of the Warlock Alliance are designed for undead creatures, and the materials used cannot be penetrated by souls.

That is to say, the soul and spiritual attacks that undead creatures are best at cannot harm the creatures in the airships, flying cars, and ladders.

Finally, they also have annihilation balls aimed at undead creatures, and destruction relying on quantity like the Undead Flood has no advantage.

And the place where they landed is also very particular, all of which are places that are easy to defend and difficult to attack. This so-called Dongnai Peninsula sounds like a peninsula, surrounded by the sea on three sides, and undead creatures cannot exert their numerical advantage at all.

Taking a step back, if you can't beat them, just run. Can't the Warlock Ladder rise? If the Warlock Ladder can't rise in time, the three rings and the independent cabins on the chain can also separate from the main pillar and escape alone. How could it be captured?

Silver Coin said: "Last night, there was a cold wave on the Dongnai Peninsula. The Undead Council dispatched twenty Lich Kings and Undead Saints, pushing up the power of the cold wave, freezing the Warlock Ladder, and the sea surface was also frozen."

"After the cold wave stopped, millions of undead creatures poured onto the Dongnai Peninsula through the frozen sea surface. The Warlock Alliance threw away all the annihilation balls and was then submerged."

"The three rings disintegrated and wanted to escape, but most of them were shot down by Spirit Dragon Knights, and the main pillar of the ladder was occupied by undead creatures."

Du Luo Ken was shocked: "Spirit Dragon Knights? The knight order of the text?"

Silver Coin spread his hands. The information he collected in the Home of the Departed did not have the identity of those Spirit Dragon Knights.

Anthony muttered: "It seems that the Undead Empire is not to be trifled with. Although most of their high-level officials followed His Majesty and were trapped in the Annihilation Barrier, those who stayed behind are not easy to deal with. Using celestial phenomena to launch an attack is truly a genius plan."

Just then, light suddenly lit up outside the house. Everyone walked out to see, only to see several beams of light shining from the Warlock Ladder outside the city, waving wildly.

Seeing these beams of light, flying cars and airships flew up from all over the city and flew toward the Warlock Ladder.

"They seem to be recalling personnel. Are they leaving?" Silver Coin said.

"Should be." As soon as Anthony finished speaking, Du Luo Ken suddenly wiped in front of him, and a 'mirror' appeared in front of him.

In the mirror, it was a block outside the City Lord's Mansion, where the home address of Ang's 'vegetable farmer father and daughter' was.

Ang stayed in the City Lord's Mansion all day, which did not match his identity, so Anthony carefully arranged a fake address, an ordinary house, connected to the City Lord's Mansion by a secret passage.

The task of monitoring was handed over to Du Luo Ken, who obviously discovered something now.

From the 'mirror', one could see a figure in a cloak walking into the alley leading to the 'vegetable farmer father and daughter's' house. That curvy figure could not be covered even by the loose cloak.

"Mo Mo Nika?" Negris was startled and said hurriedly: "Ang, hurry, hurry, go back."

Ang led the little angel and quickly returned to the fake address house through the secret passage. Mo Mo Nika was already knocking on the door.

Opening the door, Mo Mo Nika saw the two of them and immediately smiled: "Great, I didn't find the wrong place. I'm really sorry to visit so late, but there's no way, we are leaving. We are leaving here now. Little child, are you willing to go with me?"

The little angel widened her eyes with an inexplicable expression.

Seeing this, Mo Mo Nika smiled again: "I knew it would be like this. Just pretend to be stupid. I'm not asking you to leave anyone. Mr. Ang, are you willing to go to our Warlock Alliance with the little child?"

Ang shook his head.

Mo Mo Nika was not disappointed. She had been mentally prepared for a long time and said with a smile: "I knew you wouldn't be willing. I won't force it either. Take it, take good care of the little child, and take care of yourself. I hope there will be a chance to meet again in the future."

Mo Mo Nika said, stuffing a small pocket into Ang's hand. With that feel, one touch knew it was magic crystals.

She ran over so late just to say goodbye and give money. The bag was stuffed to Ang. She took two steps back and waved to the little angel with a smile: "Little child, I'm leaving. See you when you have time."

Ang looked at the birthmark on her face, itching to move.

The light beams outside the city suddenly interrupted, and the entire night sky dimmed. Immediately, the Warlock Ladder emitted a fluorescent light and slowly rose...

Mo Mo Nika widened her eyes, looked at the flying Warlock Ladder, and then looked at Ang, a little panicked: "I... I haven't gotten on the car yet."