Chapter 304

Good, good, good, everyone worked hard, I'm not the one who worked hard, it's everyone who worked even harder! I only did some small work.

Ji Ming waved, indicating he had arrived at the church gate, shaking hands one by one on behalf of the Holy Light God with the battle heroes standing here.

This is Buluowa, who usually limps around, and if it weren't for beating... educating herself, she wouldn't even bother to step out of her shop.

She just turned into a super-powered old lady, carrying an IV bag onto the battlefield, relying on a heaven-defying martial art that can turn close-combat weapons into anti-air firepower net effects with one hand, she completely plucked the Feather People over there into bald chickens.

Ji Ming, the SpiritGathering Liquid in the jar is almost used up; although I shouldn't be so demanding, but... could you pour in a few more barrels? This healthy feeling is too comfortable; I'm afraid I can't go back to the bitter days.

... Heaven and earth conscience, this isn't a strong potion; where would I get you a whole barrel of SpiritGathering Liquid? Let me draw from the system.

This is even more of a shut-in than Buluowa; after finishing work, she likes to hole up in the office making clothes to relieve stress, but no matter how hard she tries or how she controls her inspiration, she always ends up at the forefront of fashion, developing the innovative two-foot cloth of Bishop Tenisi.

If I may say, they should all be sent to Siberia...... sent to the Underground World to do hard labor, whether human or ghost, eating chaff or meat, it's all up to their fate; they might even manage a good end.

She just, at the toughest moment in the Sheng Guang Jiao Tang, chose to learn the Crooked-mouth War God, Dragon King's Return, took out a holy light lance and was instantly promoted to archbishop, reassembling the holy knights the heretics had painstakingly slain—very shameless.

Well, I have already conveyed the Lord's meaning; everyone go about your own business—tonight is a catastrophe for Sunlight City, and there are still many things we need to do.

If it were the former Underground World, it naturally couldn't be sealed, but now that place is not much different from the so-called Divine Kingdom; as a special creation forged by the world's will, a high-dimensional life transformation, the system's air wall might be able to trap a Zhen Shen.

Player: Oh oh, so that's the official explanation for our origin; I didn't expect the arrangements to be so thorough—let's just say it like that from now on.

???

You little brat who looks under thirty, how can you speak so viciously? Who taught you that!

The three men's faces were originally black, but now they've turned so pale they could walk before the white eagle police with guns in hand; they hurriedly said.

But not everyone likes to hide; those with deep, layered schemes are like mille-feuille; pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger, revealing trump cards one after another like stacking high evil beings—ultimately a minority, and even among battle heroes there are still some relatively sincere, honest people.

It sounds like nothing, just a sunbath? But for the heretics, it's roughly equivalent to slowly dissolving a living person in a strong acid with just the right corrosiveness, and his consciousness will persist until the last inch of his bones disappears.

Although he has a villain's face, he usually speaks gently and kindly, good for teaching, and occasionally personally takes care of minor misdeeds, making him the most popular priest in the church—Priest Stirling.

She refused to shake hands with the Divine Chosen, because she was busy using various water magics to try to wash away the blood-soaked first-generation demon armor; even after exhausting her magic power she still had half left helplessly, ending up instead giving herself a handful of minced flesh and blood plasma.

Ji Ming nodded, deep in thought, and slammed his fist hard on the table.

"Thank you for your kindness, Divine Chosen Sir, but we feel we truly deserve death; we should be executed immediately! Immediately!"

This is AdaiEr, doctor of the Wai Shu Clinic, who inherited Ji Ming's divine doctor reputation, has a good reputation outside, was recently dragged into the pit by Ji Ming, and likes to read comics about giant beings falling in love.

"The Lord just told me that these friends from the Underground World are followers of the Benevolent God, whose honored name is the Master of All Living Things."

Moreover, the death knight who was a holy knight in life was also given a detailed introduction by Te Ni Si; his identity is too special, so he must first go to the Holy Light Church headquarters to thoroughly investigate his background and confirm it before deciding on subsequent punishment.

Ji Ming was pondering and planning, while the spearmen and others lined up to shake hands with JiMiYin, who was using the alias Holy Light Divine Chosen, intending to, before the public test even started, first boost their favorability with this obviously heavyweight NPC, but instead they saw Ji Ming nodding repeatedly—less like a leader inspecting and more like a father's gaze.

Indeed, there's no time to waste here; corpses pose no threat to truly strong individuals, but their most disgusting aspect is this all-pervasive penetrative ability—originally the Inner City had over four hundred thousand residents, yet after this disaster not a single survivor remained, completely turning it into a dead city, truly a hundred things awaiting revival.

As for this still boundless-potential ownerless land, who exactly should save it, manage it, and rule it……

But as a vanguard of the anti-death-penalty faction, the kind-hearted people of Sunlight City who truly care about criminals' lives, merciful Ji Ming immediately raised an objection!

"Archbishop Lady, they merely committed a small crime; anyway those people are already dead, killing them again won't bring them back to life—wielding the knife again would be too much!"

Then the holy light that appeared on his fingertips was quickly extinguished by Te Ni Si; the archbishop pondered that although the Inner City was indeed miserable, it wouldn't drive the Divine Chosen mad with anger, after all we are upright people.

"Ji Ming Divine Chosen, I think we really don't need to be so cruel…… we could just be a bit gentler; doing this is unnecessary, unnecessary."

I had thought their strength was about this much; facing them head-on they could guard the gate between the inner and outer cities, and after helping clear out the city's numerous corpses that would be enough—yet they actually bore the brunt of tonight's greatest battle pressure, easily defeating all strong foes, even charging backward into the Sheng Guang Jiao Tang to completely end the battle!

Given their current combat strength and enthusiasm, a player who has been swinging a sword for two months on that ten-li slope in the Underground World might as well have just left the novice village and fast-forwarded straight into a world of misery, unstoppable.

For example, the one-eyed giant chieftain Ba Di Si Te, the bull-headed chieftain A Ge Si, and also those who immediately grabbed the list and went door to door to register adventurers' homes, thinking saving one is one, achieving today's highest number of rescues Bao Li Si, and also those who indeed have a few hidden cards, but even if they threw everything in they'd surely lose to the evil god, only able to collapse and flee—Ke Li Si Ting and Ai Li Nuo……

"Pioneer friends, I also know everything about you; welcome you to come to the Yangyue World as friends."

"Doctor, do you have any experience cleaning these things? If I had known earlier I should have restrained myself a bit; I got too excited, and many mechanical structures are malfunctioning."

"... Since you've said all that, I won't hide anything either; as an exchange, could you teach me the technique for generating power in a quick punch? I also want to go ora ora against enemies!"

???

The thoughtful little boss placed a fake progress bar in the corner of Ji Ming's field of view, but it disappeared before the bar even moved.

Thus the councilors actually also knew they couldn't escape death this time, so they proactively surrendered and confessed, merely to exchange for a more dignified and comfortable death—at the very least not to suffer the heretics' dreaded mù xíng, that is, the so-called bathing in holy light.

Either it is genuine light, the protagonist's greatest aid…… and otherwise everything is the same, with several female priests, female knights, saintesses, and princesses pasted on, becoming the stepping stones for the protagonist to reach the pinnacle.

111.253.199.252

Ji Ming nearly bulged his eyes seeing this line of text; although he had already prepared himself for encountering a failed savior, he never expected it to happen in this situation, so he quickly composed his expression and asked.

And as one of the energy systems with the highest appearance rate in fantasy-world themes, the churches that use holy light are either the embodiment of hypocrisy, the final boss the protagonist must oppose, or—after pasting on several female priests, female knights, saintesses, and princesses—become the stepping stones for the protagonist to reach the pinnacle.

He clearly has greater unarmed combat ability than weapon skill, yet he insists on waving a hammer around to intimidate people, just to play the pig to eat the tiger at this critical moment, bringing a smile to the Shadow Feather Person who has exhausted all his strength yet still cannot win.

"Divine Chosen Sir, it's an honor to fight alongside you today…… so I have a bold request: could you later share with me what happened when the Lord descended upon you? Sorry, I've always longed for the means of the gods."

According to the Holy Light Church's standard procedure, because of their special status and relationship, after they have completed all statements regarding the attack incident and the heretical council, they will be given a discretionary judgment based on the value of the information provided.

"I didn't expect your ideological awareness to be so high! Simply dying wouldn't be enough to assuage your guilt…… so, as the Divine Chosen, I will personally administer the mù xíng for you and carry it out immediately!"

"Holy knight…… turned into a death knight."

Gui Gui, are you sure this is letting us scrape by with one life, rather than being tortured to death by illness after enduring all kinds of torment?

But Ji Ming's white face had already been spoken; the councilors who were nearly having the ceiling lifted by him naturally immediately agreed to open the window, and were extremely steadfast—no matter what Te Ni Si said, they only looked to the Divine Chosen.

"As the southern kingdom's former pearl, the fortress blocking barbarism and civilization, how could Sunlight City possibly have only a petty bishop holding down the fort? It's merely an excuse to keep all factions from becoming too tense."

... Gee, pointing at a ten-thousand-ton ship and insisting it's a deterrent—I totally get that.

Te Ni Si thought that Ji Ming, a doctor by profession, had suddenly come down with a saintly complex, and was about to launch a systematic rebuttal, but when the other party's next words came out, even she felt a chill down her spine.

Although the Pioneers have already proven their pro-order stance with their actions, but since even their origins are unclear, to the Holy Light Church, which is accustomed to prudence and caution, they still seem somewhat too suspicious; the current little awkwardness may well develop into a major contradiction later.

——Only took one night.

Thus the spider queen and the Shadow Feather Person were handed over to the Underground Prison of the Master of All Living Things, replacing the Rock Dragon Sub-God Leinorz and the lich Rodrigues as the new inmates here, beginning labor reform and learning to live a new life as good people.

"So who is he?"

"I am willing to believe the Master of All Living Things' friendship toward the church, but is the Underground World a qualified prison? If they were to escape, it would likely cause endless trouble."

... My suggestion is for you to directly go find Wei Er Mo, let the dwarf uncle help you swap out this well-seasoned external armor, otherwise later when holy knights see you piloting a mech they'll easily be triggered.

However, the reconstruction work concerning the Inner City is also something the players must do after the open beta; the foremost task now is interrogating those three strange councilors.

So just letting them build infrastructure and expand in that godforsaken Wasteland, and incidentally helping themselves settle personal grudges, would be a bit too cruel, and besides it's not satisfying enough; otherwise, when we go elsewhere later, we could also help them unlock new maps of the civilized world.

But this step still requires caution; don't let a careless High-Dimensional Savior Heavenly Group lose its mind and decide to kill instead of save, thoroughly cleansing Yang Moon Star before Machine Moon, frightening Machine Moon into crouching in the sky and directly burning its CPU……

The three families of the Inner City contended for so long, you as an insider, he as a spy, life and death, costing many lives; who would have thought they'd all end up making wedding clothes for others, and relying on the earth-shaking blast of a hundred cannons, the players thus uncontroversially took over Sunlight City.

These bastards usually like to complain on major forums that the game is too hard, grinding is too exhausting, and they can't finish all these quests; they often launch a Horse Hunting Grand Prix against the game designers.

Besides these local natives, Ji Ming also specially sought out those hardworking players; compared to them, the players are tonight's biggest "old six".

In short, the Holy Light Church is a key presence that players cannot avoid no matter what, and they have various expectations of it; thus at this point, Ji Ming, who holds comparable status and authority on both sides, is needed to endorse both.

This background identity instantly made Ji Ming's DNA stir; he hurriedly had the little boss examine him—though his face is covered in scars, he still bears a bit of demeanor, this handsome uncle might actually be a heavyweight!

【Let me take a look first】

As for how much discretionary amount there might be…… As the executors of all this disaster, although they admit fault well and kowtow quickly, unless they can divulge information of the caliber of a Magic Perpetual Motion Machine or Stable Production of Artificial Life, otherwise facing public execution this outcome is likely unavoidable.

Holy Light God: "When did I…… eh, forget it, you say it is, so it is, I won't object."

The Archbishop had no choice; he could only ask Ji Ming in a low voice after agreeing to this verdict.

【Uh】

【Sorry, if it's just a breath I might not be clear, after all some that fail too miserably or are too weak I won't exterminate, but I'll choose to stop observing and redo the summoning draw; please understand】

"Tsk, you're just……"