'Sacrifice' or 'redemption'?

"It seems that I can't choose 'I want them all'..." Ren Suo muttered, and at this time the game finally popped up a prompt:

"Sacrifice: Use your right hand to extract the sins and souls from the monster's heart, leaving it without any support for survival. The magician will also take on 'grudges and memories' and increase the magic power of the right arm (enhancing the attack effect of the offering), increasing the upper limit of magic power, but what will happen if the resentful souls in the right arm exceed the limit..."

"Redemption: Use your left hand to activate the humanity and kindness in the hearts of monsters, turning them back into humans. The magician can also restore their physical strength and magic power through a moment of 'thank you and pray', increase their physical strength limit, and increase the holy power of their left arm (enhancing the healing and protection effects of offerings). However, humans who have already fallen can only live for one or two days at most, and even in such a short time, they will almost always be polluted and fallen again..."

"Destiny: Leave the fate of the monster to fate. Holy power, magic power, life, and mana will all increase evenly."

"To put it simply, sacrifice adds attributes and mana, and redemption restores physical strength, mana, and increases physical strength..."

If we only measure the cost-effectiveness, in the long run, "sacrifice" is far better than "redemption" - the stronger the magic power, the stronger the effect of the offering, and the offering is the magician's means of combat; although the increase in holy power can enhance the recovery effect and protection effect, the most important thing to fight monsters is attack power.

And in terms of consequences, "sacrifice" is far better than "redemption" - the sacrificed monsters will definitely die, and the redeemed monsters will live for a day or two at most, and during this time, they may turn into monsters again.

"Sacrifice" is the cannibalism flow, "Redemption" is the Madonna flow, and "Destiny" is the balance flow.

"Let's try redemption first." Ren Suo chose "Redemption". The magician then pointed his left hand at the skinny man, grabbed his left hand with his right hand, and shot out balls of green light with a gesture that said 'I can't control my hands anymore'.

At this time, Ren Suo discovered that a left-hand icon appeared on the left side of the screen, indicating that "Holy Hand Level 0" was promoted to "Holy Hand Level 1".

The magician's left hand became stronger and stronger!

Red Hood shook his head slightly but said nothing.

After a moment, the hungry man got up from the ground, looked at the magician and the Red Hood, and wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing and sat on the wasteland in a daze.

Red Hood said at this time: "Why are you being merciful? Do you think you saved a good man? Think about his previous monster form, can't you think of any sins he has committed?"

"Humanoid monsters tortured by hunger are the most likely powerful monsters to appear in each hall besides demons. Do you plan to redeem them in the future?"

"Or are you just like those cowards in the temple, and don't even have the awareness to bear the sin of killing a sinner?"

"I just wanted to test the game settings..." Ren Suo curled his lips and asked back: "Then why don't you sacrifice him yourself? Aren't you also a mage?"

Red Hood was silent for a moment: "...I can't do it, and this is exactly the meaning of your appearance."

After saying that, Red Hood continued to go into the monastery to kill monsters. Ren Suo glanced at the man on the wasteland and found that he was lowering his head and scratching the ground with a stone.

Ren Suo took a look and found that he seemed to be writing, but even Ren Suo, who was proficient in multiple languages ​​(Lianjiang dialect and Mandarin), could not understand what he was writing. It should be the language of another world.

Don’t think that Ren Suo and Red Hood were chatting happily just now. That’s because there were subtitles when Red Hood spoke, otherwise Ren Suo wouldn’t understand what she said.

An hour later, there were several more skinny men and women on the grass. There was no communication between them, as if they were all real NPCs, just staying on the grass, some in a daze, some lying down, and some crying.

Of course, the magician and Red Hood's achievements in one hour were not limited to this. In this hour, they had cleared out one third of the monsters in the monastery - almost seventy or so.

Among these monsters, only a few are transformed from humans. Many of the others are small animals: giant rats, crows with skull ears, bees with the upper body in the form of women, rabbits with extremely large ears...

It doesn't matter if the critters are "sacrificed" or "redeemed". According to Red Hood, they are just monsters that have been polluted by humans. They are 'lower-level monsters' and are much weaker than humanoid monsters.

Even if they all die, as long as the demons in the temple are still there, they will appear again after a while.

Therefore, Ren Suo chose to "redeem" all of them - since this is a game that can be loaded with save files, Ren Suo tried to go with the Madonna style in this save file to see what the result would be.

There is no doubt that Redemption, Sacrifice, and Destiny are the three routes, corresponding to Holy Arm, Demonic Arm, and Balance. This is Ren Suo's first time playing, so naturally he wants to see what effect the Du Zun route will have.

Every time a monster is defeated, it will randomly drop offerings. Red Hood naturally doesn't want any of them and lets the magician deal with them.

There are many offerings of the same type, which can be upgraded into stronger offerings through magical fusion. When upgraded to a certain level, there will even be a qualitative change - for example, the "Sword Fragment" has been upgraded to the "Fire Broadsword Fragment", which is made by combining several "Sword Fragments" and "Fire Sword Fragments".

Well, the magician is still in melee mode.

However, Ren Suo was very careful and saved the game after defeating each monster. He felt that a 3-star+ game would definitely not be that easy.

Sure enough, after two hours, the magician and Red Hood had dealt with half of the monsters. When they were dealing with a humanoid monster, several roars suddenly broke out outside the hall.

Those humans that were outside in the wasteland suddenly transform back into humanoid monsters at the same time and enter the monastery to attack Red Hood and the magician!

"Hungry!"

"Hungry!"

The Stitched Monsters shouted out in confusion, instantly drowning out Red Hood and the magician!

The two of them had to fight for several minutes to deal with a humanoid monster. When faced with the attack of seven or eight stitched monsters, Ren Suo knew what the result would be just by thinking with his toes. He quickly completed the three steps of "system interface", "system", and "load save file" in one go and returned to three minutes ago!

At this time, Red Hood was about to attack the monster, and Ren Suo quickly called her: "Wait."

Then Ren Suo controlled the magician to return to the outside of the monastery and saw that the humans he had saved were still lying in a daze on the wasteland, with no signs of turning into monsters.

"Why, have you finally come to your senses? But it's not too late now."

Red Hood said: "Rather than letting them linger in regret for another day or two, it is better to give them a relief now."

Ren Suo looked at the alien humans in front of him who were waiting to be killed. With his intuition as a level 3 player, he felt that this should not be just a trap.

This is a game that can be reloaded. If the humanoid monsters redeemed by the players will eventually transform into monsters to attack the players, then the players must be really stupid to redeem themselves.

Therefore, there must be some mechanism that makes the act of "redemption" and "sacrifice" have equal value.

Ren Suo asked, "Is there really no way to stop them from degenerating into monsters?"

Red Hood sneered: "A solution? Yes, satisfy their hidden desires in their hearts, and then their souls will be completely purified and will never be polluted by the Holy Grail again. Even though they seem calm now, they are so hungry that they want to tear you into pieces and swallow you into their mouths!"

"Cut off your flesh and feed it to them!"

At this time, the game popped up a prompt: "Do you choose to cut off your own flesh (permanently reduce the upper limit of life) to satisfy the hunger of the hungry monster?"

Ren Suo asked, "Is there no food here?"

Red Hood: "How can there be food? Besides you and me, there are only monsters, dirt, and rocks here! This world has long ceased to produce any life!"

Ren Suo was keenly aware that this must be the difference between sacrifice and redemption.

If the magician chooses to cut off his flesh, he will definitely get something good, the value of which should be greater than the lost life limit. However, in this case, the magician's life limit increased through "redemption" will be returned.

It seems that this is the only way to follow the Madonna style...

Just as Ren Suo was thinking, his cell phone rang. He picked it up immediately and answered: "Hello?"

"The meal is ready. Xiaoyan is here too. Come and eat." Dong Chengling's voice came from the other end of the phone: "I made curry potato chicken nuggets today. I wonder if it can compare to the taste in the cafeteria."

"It's definitely better than the cafeteria... Um, chicken nuggets?"