Chapter 903: Is There Any Difference Between These Two Choices?

Having slain three Divine Hunters in succession, that beam of light broke through the encirclement and flew toward the Mass Grave.

However, this was only the beginning; more Divine Hunters closed in from all directions, and streams of illumination fireballs shot into the sky, lighting up the nearby heavens as bright as day.

Four airships descended from the sky; these airships had clearly been on high alert at high altitude for a long time, only descending once the situation arose, quickly sealing off the four directions of front, back, left, and right.

Except for landing on the ground, this beam of light had nowhere else to go.

Seeing this formation, the King was the first to grow troubled: "Trouble. A great fire burns the mountain, the graves suffer; it seems we are blocked in as well."

"Yes, yes, we are surrounded too. Why not run quickly!" The rabbit kicked its feet with all its might.

"It's a bit difficult; people are everywhere in all directions. We can only force our way through." The King glanced over and said, "I can only take Seeing Ange with me."

Silver Coin understood the King's meaning and immediately said, "Take my lord away. I will sever the soul connection; at most, I will lose one body."

Lord Nai Ge Li Si finally reacted: "Yes, yes, take Seeing Ange away. Just bury me somewhere random. I don't believe they can dig a mud book out of the mud."

Silver Coin asked, "Should I bury it in the compost pit? They are guaranteed not to look there."

"Hah—spit!" Lord Nai Ge Li Si made a gesture as if spitting in your face.

The rabbit was about to cry: "What time is this? Do you still have the leisure to joke? Run! Can you please run faster?"

Lord Nai Ge Li Si said indifferently, "What's there to fear? At worst, we retreat. We won't die."

Here, apart from the King and the God of Gale, everyone else was a projection. The King himself had said he could take Seeing Ange away; if they didn't take Seeing Ange to run, their chances would be greater.

So the worst outcome would simply be Seeing Ange's consciousness returning to his original body.

As for Silver Coin and Lord Nai Ge Li Si, Silver Coin only needed to cut the soul connection, losing one body, while Lord Nai Ge Li Si's Yellow Mud Book, once buried in the ground, would surely not be dug out by these people from the mud; this wasn't archaeology.

The worst off was the God of Gale; this rabbit would most likely be made into roasted rabbit.

However, this was the worst outcome; there was no need for such trouble. Seeing Ange led everyone toward the densest part of the forest, drilled into the woods, wound left and right, and easily slipped out of the encirclement.

The rabbit, having been held in the King's hand, stared with mouth agape as a path inexplicably opened in the forest where there was none before; after they passed through, the forest returned to its original state, making it impossible to tell anyone had walked there.

Then, inexplicably, Seeing Ange made everyone squat down again; the surrounding forest closed over them. Although they clearly heard several voices drifting past, no one glanced in their direction.

Thus, they walked out of the encirclement without a hitch, but a huge firework suddenly exploded behind them, illuminating the entire night sky.

Everyone stared blankly back at that firework. Lord Nai Ge Li Si murmured, "A god has fallen."

The King said somewhat dejectedly, "Yes, a god has fallen. The gods of this world are too weak; they were slain by a group of humans just like that."

"Weak? They don't look weak. Those few strikes where he blew up the Divine Hunters were full of momentum. What god is that? Rabbit, do you know him?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si turned to the God of Gale and asked.

The rabbit shook its head: "I don't know. Don't call me Rabbit; I am the God of Gale."

Lord Nai Ge Li Si rolled his eyes and pretended to shout, "Then I'll call out: God of Gale, over here!"

The rabbit immediately waved its hands and said humbly, "No, no, no. Call me Rabbit. If possible, please add 'Gale'."

"Alright, Rabbit. How do you not even know your own kind? Are there many gods in this world?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked.

The Gale Rabbit sighed: "Quite a lot. Not just a normal amount. There are too many inexplicable sects. A single tree, a single stone; as long as someone draws a few lines on it and bows there, immediately a bunch of idle people will run over to bow. I heard those mages say that, according to incomplete statistics, there are at least three hundred million religions worldwide."

"Pfft—how much? Thirty? Hundred million?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si thought he had misheard the unit.

Even Seeing Ange and the King couldn't help but look over.

"Hundred million. Every blade of grass, every tree, every plant can be worshipped. Even rats have believers. Of course, not many ignite the divine fire, but with such a huge base, even if one in a million ignites the divine fire, there would be three hundred gods. How could I possibly know them all?" the Gale Rabbit said.

The King sighed: "I suddenly understand a bit why they wanted to cleanse the pantheon. Three hundred million gods? What a joke. That's almost more than the souls under my command."

The King was referring to the time in the Prime Material Plane; back then, he could not summon three hundred million corpses. The Skeleton Sea, at most, reached only tens of millions at one time.

Silver Coin couldn't help but say: "Yes. Setting aside everything else, just giving them names would consume massive resources. No wonder mages say they waste resources and produce nothing. If it were me, I would cleanse them too."

From questioning the mages, to understanding them, to becoming them, it was separated by only one number—three hundred million.

One in a million yields three hundred gods. Are there really this many gods in this world?

With such doubts, Seeing Ange's group hid in the forest for a night. After the ghost sentries finished their detection and confirmed that all the Divine Hunters had left, everyone returned.

The Mass Grave had not changed much. Except for dozens of trees felled, large areas of graves flattened, massive amounts of bones scattered on the ground, and the stone-block cemetery blasted down, there were no other changes.

"The battle was fierce. That god was forced to the ground. Some swordsmen attacked him, while mages controlled and restricted his movements. These battle traces are very neat and coordinated; they are elites." The King analyzed the traces on the ground.

True masters of combat can see many things from battle traces.

The Gale Rabbit immediately agreed: "Yes, they coordinated very well. Although they had a very strong magic commander holding the rear, those who actually fought were mostly ordinary swordsmen and mages. They coordinated extremely well, like an army. Only when I was fleeing did that commander take action."

The King couldn't help but rub his hands together, saying excitedly: "No way. This fighting style is too interesting. Can ordinary swordsmen and mages exert such powerful combat power just through coordination? I must find an opportunity to study this in depth."

The blasting down of the stone-block cemetery brought another benefit: those Divine Hunters had not entered and had not discovered the Dead Man's Fruit Trees inside the cemetery.

After checking the situation and finding it did not affect their ability to stay there, Silver Coin took out a scroll of parchment and said, "My lord, I forgot to mention: I have purchased this valley."

It wasn't that he forgot; he hadn't dared to say it. As soon as they arrived, they found the Divine Hunters and were forced to flee. If he had produced the parchment deed then, would Seeing Ange have run or not?

Silver Coin would not be so stupid as to put Seeing Ange in such a dilemma. Seeing Ange wouldn't think too much, but Lord Nai Ge Li Si would definitely nag him about it.

Now that the decision was made not to leave, bringing it out at this moment was perfectly timed. Even Lord Nai Ge Li Si couldn't help but ask, "How did you think to buy this place? How much did it cost?"

Silver Coin said, "Operating expenses: two hundred mana crystals. The land was free. It is planned as a cemetery. Nagi is the night watchman."

If it were before, the pure Lord Nai Ge Li Si would not have understood what "operating expenses" meant, but now, being corrupted, he understood immediately: "It's a bribe, just call it a bribe. 'Operating expenses'."

Although Silver Coin disagreed, he did not refute it, but said, "This is what I thought: if my lord intends to live here long-term, we should buy more planting constructs to serve as the cemetery's labor force. One construct here would be too conspicuous; a pile of constructs here, and my lord won't stand out."

"Great idea. Also, bury the corpses. The more corpses, the more death aura. Plant more Dead Man's Fruit Trees. Production, conversion, absorption—all in one line." Lord Nai Ge Li Si clapped his hands in admiration.

"Then I will go first." Silver Coin mounted a construct bird and left.

After Silver Coin left, there was finally time to deal with this Gale Rabbit. The King, unfamiliar with the divine power system, twisted the rabbit's neck to face Seeing Ange and asked, "Alright, you have two choices: surrender or pledge loyalty?"

The Gale Rabbit tilted its head and asked innocently, "Is there any difference between these two choices?"

There wasn't. So the rabbit had only one choice: surrender and pledge loyalty.

When its divine mark was held in Seeing Ange's right hand, Seeing Ange tilted his head, made a grasping motion toward the ground, and threads of divine power from all around converged, forming another mark in his left hand.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si suddenly remembered the Godfall Town in the Starburst Plane back in the day; Seeing Ange had grabbed the mark of the Goddess of War and Peace in exactly this way. He immediately said, "This can't be the mark of the god who was blown up, can it? Quick, quick, quick, put the blank divine mark on it. Uh, you don't have a blank divine mark?"