Chapter 616: Saints, Monsters, and Ordinary People



"have no idea."

The Fire Buff Sanctuary has completely calmed down. "We are all trapped in the Dead City. Do we have to follow the orders of Mercury Trojan and fight to the death with Silver Lantern? Silver Lantern is probably trying to leave the Dead City just like us."

Igula laughed and said, "The title has been changed from 'Honorable Throne' to 'Mercury Horse'. It seems that the Four Pillars Cult's beliefs are not very strict. A mere death threat makes you disrespect the leader?"

"Bullshit leader." The Fire Arts Sanctuary disagreed: "She is just the mouthpiece of the Four Pillar Gods. We respect the Four Pillar Gods, not her."

Ash and the others looked at each other.

In fact, this was the first time they heard the inner thoughts of the Four Pillars God followers. After all, any of the Four Pillars God followers could be attacked remotely by the Mercury Trojan outside, and no matter how stupid they were, they would not talk to the followers.

But now, the Mercury Trojan Horse is unable to penetrate the Dead City, and the three people from the Fire Sanctuary are full of resentment because of the crisis of death. This is the best opportunity for them to enter the inner world of the Four Pillar Gods.

"There's no point in dawdling here any longer," Igula suggested, "Why don't we go search the city to see if there are any other anomalies?"

Invisibly, Igula even referred to everyone as "we", including the Fire Sanctuary. However, the latter did not object. First, the dead city was dangerous, and acting together would at least give them an early warning. Second, everyone had a sanctuary, so they were not afraid of being backstabbed.

But if you give up a little bit of the right to speak, you won't mind giving up a little more. And for a fraudster, things like pushing for more, influencing people subtly, and confusing right and wrong are no more complicated than breathing.

They flew over the dead city, using various lighting capabilities to patrol the ruins of the city.

"It is said that most of the bodies that died in the Dead City had no wounds," Igula took the initiative to bring up the topic: "Perhaps it was some kind of mental attack."

"The magic power is also abnormal." Ash suddenly said: "It has not recovered at all."

Some time had passed since the battle, and the Sanctuary Magician naturally found that the magic power he had consumed had hardly recovered.

The magic spirit can be used, the magic power is not blocked, but the recovery of the magic power is prevented, and the magic spirit is sealed?

This situation made everyone feel a little baffled, but Ash and his team took the initiative to express their willingness to exchange information, and the Wind Arts Sanctuary also reciprocated, saying calmly: "It's dark, but Jiao Lu didn't show up."

Ash and the others were startled, only to find that there was no green rope around their necks.

When they camped outdoors, as soon as it got dark, a green noose would wrap around their necks. If they were not strong-willed enough, they would be strangled by the green noose and turned into beasts.

Ash and the others didn't have many opportunities to camp outdoors, so they didn't react for a while. Compared to the abnormality of the magic power and the magic, the lack of the green twist was actually more bizarre - this almost violated the natural law of Senluo.

"Didn't Mercury Trojan tell you about the Dead City before the operation?" Igula grabbed Gwen and said, "Compared to this two-winged magician, you, as a sanctuary, will only be more valued by Mercury Trojan."

The Fire Buff Saint and the others understood this truth, but they were too emotional to think about it. After a moment of silence, the Fire Buff Saint said, "She just told us to trap the Silver Lamp and wait until the last 30 minutes before we can retreat. She has other plans."

"There are indeed other arrangements." There was not much mockery in Ash's tone, just some emotion.

"You don't have to listen to her when it comes to something as dangerous as fighting against Silver Lantern and entering the Dead City. Since you are Sanctuary magicians, do you have to risk your life for her? There will be many sects willing to accept you in the Qinri Alliance, right?" Igula said a few words and began to steer the topic in another direction.

"But aren't other sects the same?" Gun Art Sanctuary couldn't help but say, "Equally great, equally noble, equally unattainable..."

Ash said, "Isn't this what ideals are all about?"

"Yes, that's what ideals are all like." Gun Art Saint said, "So we stay in the Four Pillars Divine Religion. We don't need to fill ourselves with empty ideals anymore, we just need to live honestly."

"The Four Pillars of God destroyed their sect and broke their backbone." Black Crow said calmly while lying on Ash's back, "The destruction of the Great Law made them feel that they could never get close to their ideals, so they simply escaped into reality and willingly became mediocre, incompetent, and degenerate. They also denounced other people's ideals as 'meaningless', which was the only way to barely comfort their pitiful self-esteem."

"They, even if they are the most powerful magicians in Senluo, have lost the qualifications to become great magicians."

Igula's heart moved, but he did not say anything to stop Black Crow's insults.

However, the Gunnery Sanctuary did not provoke a fight. He just looked at Black Crow coldly and said, "I know you, the remnant of the Crow Killings. After the Crow Killings were destroyed, you still adhere to the teachings of the Crow Killings... just like countless saints who founded sects in the past."

"But in my opinion, you are the most pathetic person."

"Do you know what the meaning of the existence of the sect Dafa is? Do you know what the truth of the Age of Gods is?" He said, "Do you know that other countries are completely different from Senluo, there is no Dafa, and there are not so many sects?"

"The reason why Senluo has the God Age Competition and the Great Law Ascension is just to give birth to powerful gods!"

"Senluo Zhan Lord treats this country as an arena. Only the fiercest and strongest beasts who survive to the end can become the gods he needs! The ideals you shed blood for are nothing but a piece of rotten meat he uses to provoke the beasts to fight!"

"You just said that I have no chance to become a great master. Do I want to become a wild beast after death, participate in this endless beast fight, and strive to become a god who is lucky enough to be used by the Lord of Senluo?" Spear Art Saint Domain shook his head, his face cold: "No, I don't want it at all."

"Moreover, if there weren't so many great laws and countless sects, Senluo would have long since returned to the civilized era, instead of still being in a war paradise where countless sects are fighting each other."

"So, the remnants of the crows who were killed," he stared at the black crow and said, "The reason why Senluo has not been unified for two hundred years is because there are too many people like you who are devout in faith."

Ash and the others looked at each other.

The Four Pillars of God could spread rapidly in the Senluo Land like a virus, and there was indeed enough soil. What the Gun Art Sanctuary said was not a secret, but a consensus of the wasteland, and it was all correct.

The wasteland can continue to this day because the poison left by Lord Senluo is endless.

"Because pursuing ideals is harmful, so give up ideals, is that what you mean?" Black Crow's distorted voice was full of mockery: "Then you shouldn't live, because living will cause pain, so you should commit suicide immediately."

"Have you forgotten that the food you eat is derived from the technology of the Gray Fox God Age? The techniques you learned are also derived from the fragments of the Gray Fox God Age? Even you yourself crawled out of the Gray Fox legacy 'Incubator'."

"Other countries are not as special as the Senluo Kingdom, but the level of civilization of the Senluo Kingdom is beyond other countries, right?" At this point, Black Crow was a little uncertain and looked down at Ash, who expressed affirmation.

"Your life is the crystallization of the ideals of countless people in the past. You only need to lower your head to see the glory paved by the Age of Gods. But you look up and see a little bit of the dark side of the night, and then you feel that everything is not worth it, but you forget that you are still walking on the glorious road."

"Of course I know that Dafa will become a god after ascending, and I also know that the root cause of the chaos in the wasteland is Dafa itself." Black Crow said, "But things in the world have their pros and cons. As a magician, you are not as sensible as a child - children are not so shameless as to only want the good and not the bad."

"Not to mention that the Fire Cat God Era has already designed the Divine Fire System. As long as we restore civilization and restart the Divine Fire System, we can avoid the emergence of the next Wasteland Era."

This series of words made Gunjutsu Sanctuary hesitate, but he quickly counterattacked: "But your Dafa is dead."

"So what?" Black Crow said, "Faith may not give me anything, but it allows me to walk through the night without fear."

Snap. Snap. Snap.

The grumpy Fire Buff Sanctuary actually clapped his hands softly, "Well said, very well said."

"I used to think so too." He said, "When the Silver Lantern destroyed our sect, I did not immediately join the Four Pillars. I also wanted to follow the footsteps of the predecessors and build another Holy Fire Temple."

Although Ash had vaguely anticipated this, he didn't expect that this man was actually a member of the Holy Land of the Fire Temple. No wonder he had such a bad temper. He must have been an active looter in the past.

"But I found that I can't hold on." Fire Buff looked at Black Crow: "Does a person without ideals have no right to live? Can he only be strangled to death and turned into a fallen monster?"

Black Crow was startled.

"Before the Four Pillars of God appeared, there were only saints and monsters in Senluo." Fire Magic Saint said: "Now, I can at least be a selfish ordinary person and feel at ease in the dark night."

It is a bit shameless for a Saint Realm magician to say that he is an ordinary person, but everyone understands what he means.

In silence, Ash and the others returned to the area where Silver Lantern had been imprisoned. He took a look and suggested, "Why don't we see if Silver Lantern has left any clues."

No one objected, and everyone landed on the ground to look for traces of the silver lamp.

Igula took two steps and found that the prisoner who was pulling his sleeve did not catch up. He turned around and saw Gwen staying there. He wondered if she was finally going to escape. But when he looked carefully, he saw that she was tearing her clothes to bandage her wound.

Those wounds were caused by Harvey and Igula. Although they were targeting the Mercury Trojan Horse at the time, the consequences were borne by this female sorceress... However, Gwen should have known the consequences, and judging from the attitude of the Sanctuary Sorcerers towards her, she was very respected in the Four Pillars Cult by virtue of her position as an agent, and was not worthy of sympathy at all.

But Igula still walked back and asked, "Don't you have a healing spirit?"

Gwen nodded, then shook her head.

"Just sew up your mouth if it's useless."

"My previous healing miracle required the use of astrology spirits." She whispered, "The spirits disappeared two months ago."

Igula remembered that the reason why Mercury Trojan sent her to carry out a fatal mission was because she, as an astrologer, was useless.

What a hassle... But Igula himself didn't have a healing spirit, so he turned around and shouted, "Ash, heal her."

"What?" Ash deliberately said in an angry tone: "Why treat a prisoner? It's good enough that you don't break her limbs! But since you asked——"

"Hurry up." Igula was not interested in playing this role-playing game with Ash.

Gwen stood up quickly: "No need, the wound is not bleeding anymore. I have the foundation of the weak faction, and I will recover automatically soon-"

When she stood up, she got hurt again and fell to the ground with a bang. Her forehead hit a stone and started bleeding.

Igula kicked the stone away and then pulled her up.

But soon, Igula looked away from Gwen and shouted, "Ash!"

"Here I come, I didn't expect you to be so anxious..." Ash hurried over and patted Gwen with a "Music Sword". "You'll be back soon."

"Look at that."

Following Igula's finger, Ash saw a stone suspended in mid-air.

Yes, it stopped in mid-air, as if it was frozen.

The two looked at each other, then Ash reached out and touched it. No problem, take it, no problem.

Ash threw the stone out.

After flying about one meter away, the stone stopped in mid-air again.

Igula threw out a pile of stones, but they all froze in mid-air.

It's like it's still.

The whole city seemed to have stopped except for those few people.

"Time stands still?" Igula immediately thought of the most desirable miracle of the time faction.

"No, it's not still. If time stood still, then our vision should be completely dark. After all, light would also stand still and could not be reflected on our retinas to form an image." Ash murmured, "This is not still."

“It’s slowing down.”

"The Shelter is not ineffective," he said. "It's just slowed down and magnified to infinity."


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