Chapter 77

The other side fell silent instantly. If the teleportation array wasn't still operating, one would think the communication had been interrupted.

After a long while, Anthony's voice sounded: "You captured Polk, so it's not strange to know the name Piero, but there is only one who hasn't seen me for a long time and would talk to me in such a cheap tone. God of Knowledge?"

"Sigh." Negris sighed long: "You could guess it was me as soon as I spoke, but you didn't know my divine name. It was in vain that I taught you so much knowledge."

Anthony said with an embarrassed tone: "Aren't you called the God of Knowledge? Every time I entered the Huang Tong Book Tower, I could only ask one question. If I asked your name, I couldn't ask anything else. Hehe, I won't be fooled."

Negris curled his lips—the caution of an intellectual. If he let him know that he could ask anything after asking the divine name, he wondered if he would vomit blood?

"How did you become a Cardinal Archbishop of the human Light Church?" Negris asked curiously.

Speaking of this question, Anthony got angry. Because Negris was an old acquaintance, he was rarely a bit uncomposed:

"Where else could I go? The World Transit Station suddenly closed, and everyone disappeared without a trace. I called the Monarch, but the Monarch didn't respond. I called Jian Gu, but Jian Gu ignored me. I couldn't return to the Palace of Rest, and everything was chaotic everywhere, and strange winds blew again."

"It really didn't work, so I brought everyone to the main material plane. I originally wanted to hide for a while and wait for the Monarch to return, but I didn't expect the people of the Light Church to keep eyeing the World Transit Station, trying every means to invade the Abyss of Rest, but they were all blown back by the strange wind."

"Anyway, I had nothing to do, so I simply reincarnated as a human, tried every means to join the Light Church, and tried every means to cover up the situation in the Abyss of Rest. I burned their archives, causing them to lose most of their written records. After a few generations of the previous people died, the situation in the Abyss of Rest was gradually forgotten."

"I kept reincarnating, using the connections and relationships accumulated time after time, and kept climbing up. The higher the status, the more secrets I could come into contact with. Now, in the entire human diocese, there are no written records about the Abyss of Rest."

"But I didn't expect that a playboy knight in a remote corner of my diocese inexplicably sent a team into the Abyss of Rest, and then they all folded there, and even he himself died there. I need to find a reasonable reason for their failure, and at the same time, make people not investigate the Abyss of Rest and the World Transit Station, and also erase the exposed points."

"I had been wondering when the Abyss of Rest had people who could easily wipe them out. I didn't expect it was the God of Knowledge, the Huang Tong Dragon. By the way, why are you in the Abyss of Rest? Has the World Transit Station reopened? Has the Palace of Rest restarted? Has the Monarch returned? If he doesn't return, I'm going to become Pope."

Negris almost sprayed a mouthful of blood: "Pope? The authority of God in the world, the supreme person, the spokesperson of God for the Light Church?"

"Yes, it scared me to death. Last time I was about to be elected, forcing me to fake my death, give up the identity I had managed so hard, and change to a new identity to climb up again. Otherwise, you should be calling me His Holiness Saint Anthony now."

Anthony's tone was full of complaints, making the Black Knight on the side dumbfounded. When had he ever heard the Black Knight Emperor speak in this tone? It was like acting spoiled. What is the background of this little brass dragon?

Negris bumped his head into the ground: "You even gave it up? Why not be it? The supreme person, the authority of God in the world."

"Am I crazy? It's not like I haven't seen a god. Go be a substitute for someone else? Am I sick? What if I'm discovered? The old Light dog could point me out on the spot." Anthony said with disgust.

Negris covered his face. The 'god' he mentioned that he 'hadn't seen' should refer to himself.

That's right, the spokesperson of God, isn't it just a substitute? What if God descends on the body and is discovered? It's really not as free as being a Cardinal Archbishop.

Negris and Anthony chatted until the teleportation array had no energy. Finally, Anthony teleported a bag of magic crystals over so they could continue chatting.

"Unexpectedly, so many things happened later." Negris sighed.

"Yes, by the way, you haven't said how you got to the Abyss of Rest. Has the World Transit Station opened?" Anthony asked.

Negris's eyes turned, and he said: "No, the World Transit Station is being dug, and it has been dug to the control room, but it hasn't opened. Or rather, the door to the Palace of Rest couldn't be opened. I am here because someone called my divine name."

"Called your divine name? What does that mean?" Anthony was surprised.

"Calling my divine name allows one to get my projection and ask me questions at any time." Negris said.

"At any time? Projection? You mean, if someone learns your divine name, they can call you anytime, anywhere, and get your guidance?" Anthony's tone had an urge to vomit blood.

"Yes."

"When I entered the Huang Tong Book Tower before, I had a chance for a question every time. Could I have used this chance to ask your divine name?" Anthony asked tentatively.

Hehehe, just waiting for you to ask this. Negris responded quite affirmatively: "Yes."

"Pfft! I lost so much..." Anthony vomited blood, especially since he had just said 'won't be fooled' not long ago. Now he realized how stupid he was.

Negris's bad taste was greatly satisfied. This was a scene he had looked forward to for I don't know how many years, and it was finally realized on the Black Knight Emperor. This sense of pleasure was even stronger.

"Lord God of Knowledge, can I still ask your divine name now?" Anthony asked.

"No." Of course not. If he could, how could Negris's bad taste be satisfied? Let him vomit blood.

"Alright, God of Knowledge, let's talk about the Holy Remains and Polk. I hope you can release Polk and return the Holy Remains for the sake of our past relationship." Anthony lost the interest in chatting.

"I can't make the decision on this. I'm just projecting on someone else to catch up with you. You have to... uh, he ran away again, and your subordinates ran away too. Really clever." Negris turned his head and saw that he was the only one left in the cave, and even Polk was gone.

Ever since hearing Anthony speak to Negris in the tone of an acquaintance, Polk had sensibly exited. Never eavesdrop on the boss's conversation with an acquaintance, not even the former boss's. If you hear something private, the relationship between the two will be difficult to handle.

"You can say first what you are willing to exchange for the Holy Remains. Ang follows the principle of equivalent exchange." Negris said.

"Ang is the one who called your divine name? A gray skeleton?" Anthony asked.

"Not a gray skeleton. Didn't you see his Death Scythe? A golden skeleton, but for some special reason, the body is not metalized." Negris curled his lips and added in his heart: If I say it, it will scare you to death.

"So it's a golden skeleton..." Anthony muttered, realizing in his heart that it was probably impossible to get the Holy Remains back without bleeding a bit.

Anthony was once the Black Knight Emperor, the first Black Knight in history, the inventor of the Reincarnation Altar, but no matter how loud the name was, his soul only had a Soul Heart at most.

In the classification of undead creatures, he was at the same level as a golden skeleton, iron-skinned zombie, Lich King, and undead saint. The one in charge on the other side was a golden skeleton, and the level was not lower than his, so it was not easy to fool.

But what equivalent thing should be used to redeem the Holy Remains? That thing was priceless. Anthony had a headache.

Thinking back and forth, Anthony said: "The valuable things I have are holy mushroom powder, mainly for external injuries and internal bleeding..."

Negris responded with a strange expression: "Useless."

"I think so too. We undead creatures can't use it. Holy essence can make severed limbs regenerate, but we can't use it either. What about magic crystals? I can mobilize about two hundred thousand magic crystals. Any more, and it will go through the public account, which is very troublesome." Anthony said.

It's not that we can't use it; it's mainly that we have it too. We just used more than a liter of essence liquid to plant things. As for magic crystals, with essence liquid, are we afraid of not having magic crystals?

"By the way, you said you are digging the World Transit Station. Even if you can't connect to the Palace of Rest, it can still operate purely as a teleportation array, right? Doesn't that require a large number of magic crystals? I happen to have a new product here that can continuously convert fire elements into magic crystals. I remember there is a lava river in the River of the Dead, which has abundant fire elements, just suitable for you. Safe, efficient, energy-saving, environmentally friendly, blah blah blah..."

Negris frowned and said: "There is such a thing? Why don't I know?"

"Oh, this is the latest invention by goblin engineers and human mages in the last thousand years. Don't you know? God of Knowledge, you need to update your knowledge. It's called an element converter. I have a small one, about half a person high. Throw it in a place where fire elements are dense, and it can produce more than one hundred fire-type magic crystals a day." Anthony said.

Negris curled his lips and responded: "I updated it. My vegetable planting knowledge is very new now, and I am researching how to plant the World Tree. Is it really as easy to use as you say? I'll ask Ang."

Flying out, he saw Ang squatting in the soil slope beside the lava river from afar. In front of him were more than a dozen green seedlings.

"You're planting vegetables again, can't be idle for a moment, really. What vegetables are you planting this time? Is it beets again? Can beets be planted in such a hot place?" Negris muttered while flying over. As he flew, he felt something was wrong; the temperature around was too high.

Although it didn't feel very real, it was at least one hundred degrees. Beets couldn't sprout at such a high temperature, and there were only a dozen, the quantity was too small.

Suddenly thinking of a possibility: "Kuba Da! You really sprouted the World Tree!?"

In the Elven Empire, in the exquisite and magnificent Elven Palace, Elven Queen Galadriel was worrying while looking at the huge World Tree that looked like a mountain in the distance. Having exhausted all methods, she still couldn't find any possibility of saving the World Tree.

The World Tree comforted her: "That is the rotation of nature, no need to be sad. The passing of old life is for the sprouting of new life."

But as the king of the Elven race, Galadriel couldn't just consider nature; she also had to consider rise and fall and survival...

A white dot suddenly flashed in the direction of the World Tree. Elven High Priestess Kaelandail flew straight to the platform where the Elven Queen was located under the blowing of a gust of wind. If her identity hadn't been identified, the defensive magic array would have already shot her down.

Before she arrived, Kaelandail had already shouted excitedly: "Your Majesty, the God of Life says it senses that a new World Tree has sprouted!"

PS: Launching tomorrow, striving to update two more chapters, but no matter how many chapters, they will all be updated together to avoid everyone waiting.