“Holy Maiden is amazing…”
Yu Cheng looked up at the sky in a daze, gazing at the lifelike statue of Dawn Goddess Pakesi, and whispered, “Can one person really achieve this much?”
The Dawn filled with divine power illuminated the land, bathing Hofur City in a golden glow. Gentle holy radiance spread to every corner, melting even the shadows between buildings like ice and snow. The omnipresent warmth cleansed everyone, regardless of status or wealth.
At this moment, every living being in the city instinctively looked up at the sky. For most, this was the closest they had ever been to a ‘God’ in their lives. Some devout Dawn Sect followers even shed tears as they gazed at the divine statue high in the sky, feeling the truly divine power, prostrating themselves on the ground, and praying loudly.
“Praise our Lord…”
“Goddess, have you finally decided to pity us…”
“God heard our voices! God answered our prayers! Even if I were to die right now, it would be worth it…”
“Is that real or fake?”
“Cough, cough, I’ll keep my useful body to continue serving the Goddess.”
“Mom, I don’t hurt anymore… I don’t hurt anymore!”
“Goddess bless! Goddess bless!”
Under the Dawn, the Plague on many infected people was receding. Hideous wounds slowly healed at a visible speed, foul-smelling black pus gradually stopped flowing, omnipresent itching slowly subsided, and the bone-deep pain quickly calmed. Even many elderly people’s twenty-year-old chronic leg pain… well, that didn’t seem to change much.
One by one, the Plague insects that had been hidden in various corners of Hofur City quickly turned to ashes amid silent wails, and the Plague bacteria growing in the shadows had long since dissipated into nothingness.
Three minutes after the divine spell was cast, the Dawn had already purified everything.
In a corner of the city, a dying Orc man opened his eyes, which had been unable to see just minutes before. He clenched his emaciated hands, which were gradually regaining sensation, and looked devoutly at the statue of Dawn Goddess Pakesi, in mid-air: “Is this the power of the Goddess… Black Vatican Sir…”
At the same time,
“This is not the power of the Goddess.”
Yu Cheng shook her head slightly at Mo Tan, whispering, “This is Holy Maiden’s power, a feedback she received through divine favor. The divine emblem in the sky is formed by her converting her faith into pure Dawn divine power through a resonance array.”
Mo Tan also felt the vast divine power in the boundless Dawn in the sky, but his understanding of this power was far less profound than Yu Cheng’s, who was also a Holy Maiden alongside Xia Lian. He simply thought it was very powerful.
“Can the power of mere mortals reach this level? How unreasonable is this Innocent World?”
Mo Tan, who no longer considered the Innocent World a pure game, couldn’t help but think this. Then he looked up at the solemn ‘Dawn Goddess Pakesi’ in mid-air, unable to equate her with the deity he had spoken with briefly before.
If it wasn’t that the true immortal sister’s acting was too superb, then it could only be said that the believers had overly imagined the object of their longing.
He felt that the latter possibility was more likely.
“Thank you for the explanation.” Mo Tan smiled at Yu Cheng and shrugged, “It’s hard to imagine that all of this was done by Xia Lian…”
The young girl playfully stuck out her tongue, covering her mouth with a light chuckle: “Holy Maiden’s personality is indeed a bit lively, but in terms of strength, she is truly the second strongest expert in the church. Even a High Paladin would find it difficult to lift the Star-Gold Cross she carries with her, and her divine spell level is second only to the Pope. Hmm, compared to her, I’m far behind.”
“You’re already very strong, okay?” Mo Tan thought about the average strength of his three characters. He looked at Yu Cheng in front of him and sighed with extreme sadness, “Give casual players a chance to live.”
Yu Cheng smiled faintly: “I’m a casual player too.”
“My nature is a bit different from yours…”
Mo Tan’s words were cut short by a sudden bright light. Golden Law Decrees simultaneously rose from the east, south, and north directions, and the golden halo under Yu Cheng’s feet began to flicker at a slow frequency.
“The Plague and filth of the entire Hofur City have been purified by me. Now it’s your turn, Wang Yu.”
Xia Lian’s solemn voice echoed in their ears. She had completed the first stage of this grand purification spell. The several Plagues within the city had been completely dispelled, and all infected civilians had fully recovered. The next step was the ritual to temporarily transform Hofur City into a God-blessed one land.
This was the most crucial step, and only this way could the evil Plague that swept through the entire Misha County be stopped before Hofur City. Otherwise, if even a tiny bit of Plague reappeared here through some medium, this gradually growing city would be highly likely to turn into a living hell a second time.
And people’s nerves could no longer withstand another similar disaster…
“Go for it.” Mo Tan nodded at Yu Cheng and said seriously, “If the situation is really as Xia Lian said, then feel free to attack me.”
The young girl smiled, then clutched the scripture in her hands tightly to her chest and slowly closed her eyes.
She silently recited the name of Dawn Goddess Pakesi, trying hard to communicate with her. This process didn't last too long. Yu Cheng quickly faintly felt the subtle feedback from the deity, and at the same time, a golden Law Decree, identical to the other three in the city, gradually formed in front of her, continuously releasing gentle Dawn divine power.
“It succeeded so easily?”
Mo Tan, witnessing this scene, couldn't help but be surprised. After all, in his mind, communicating with a God shouldn't be an easy task, but Yu Cheng did it effortlessly. The slowly rising Law Decree was silently flickering, its aura identical to the Goddess he had ‘seen’ in the Dieyan City church in the past.
Holy, majestic, and a little bit roguish.
But on second thought, this was also reasonable.
After all, Yu Cheng was one of the only two Holy Maidens of the Dawn Sect, and also one of the only five God-blessed ones of Dawn Goddess Pakesi, in this Innocent World. Even if the Goddess was incredibly busy, 'her own people' of this level could clearly cut in line when praying. The enormous consumption required to maintain the resonance array and the statue of Dawn Goddess Pakesi, was entirely borne by the unfathomably powerful Xia Lian. In such circumstances, it was indeed difficult to find a reason for communication failure.
Of course, this ‘communication’ did not mean directly conversing with the Goddess. As Xia Lian had explained to them earlier, it merely attracted a tiny, tiny bit of the Goddess’s attention. In layman’s terms, it was like the level of attention we often feel from other people’s gazes in our daily lives.
But that was already enough…
“Well done, keep it up, Wang Yu!”
Xia Lian’s relieved voice sounded again, and then Mo Tan saw the four unexplained Law Decrees in mid-air simultaneously teleport around the statue of Dawn Goddess Pakesi. The latter’s eyes, hidden in a haze, gently blinked.
“I am watching you…”
A gentle and ethereal voice suddenly resounded above Hofur City, and also in everyone’s hearts.
An indescribable invisible force gently brushed by, and countless visible specks of starlight emerged from the air, then silently merged into this land illuminated by the holy radiance.
“Where the Dawn echoes, there extends My Divine Kingdom…”
The voice sounded again, and then the omnipresent, silent, and invisible light gained a sound, a gentle and soothing hum like a hymn echoing in every corner of Hofur City. The ethereal lingering sound lingered for a long time until the ethereal divine words sounded again.
“I will bless this…”
A chill that seemed to freeze the soul swept over, and the voice in the sky, identical to the Dawn Goddess Pakesi, in Mo Tan’s impression, abruptly stopped.
“This… um… poof!”
At the same time, Xia Lian, who was half-kneeling in Hofur City’s central square, presiding over the divine spell, suddenly widened her eyes, then abruptly spat out a mouthful of fresh blood. She stared in horror at the ‘Dawn’ above her head, whose temperature was rapidly dropping, and forcefully raised the long, staff-like cross in her hand: “God said, to…”
“God said, shut up!”
A cold voice exploded in Xia Lian’s ear, and then the first Holy Maiden of the Dawn Sect couldn’t utter another word.
!?
Xia Lian froze in place as if struck by lightning, her body trembling uncontrollably, blood continuously oozing from her nose and mouth. But the cross in her hand remained held high above her head, maintaining the operation of the divine spell with all her might, yet one of the Law Decrees was irreversibly stained black.
At the same time,
The Dawn scripture in Yu Cheng’s hand was rapidly burning, but Mo Tan could only stand outside the resonance array, watching her anxiously. A thin black light curtain surrounded the young girl, continuously emitting bone-chilling cold.
Mo Tan stood outside the light curtain, and his HP was rapidly dropping at a rate of 3%/s. This was the limit of how close he could get; if he took even one more step, he would run out of life within a few seconds.
Yu Cheng frantically tried to throw away the scripture that was being gradually consumed by black flames, but it seemed to stick to her hand and she couldn’t shake it off. However, no pain appeared on her face; she just turned to Mo Tan nervously and exclaimed, “Mo… Mo Tan Tong Xue, do you hear a woman’s voice?”
“No.” Mo Tan gritted his teeth, cast a Holy Healing on himself, then immediately released a Healing Prayer on Yu Cheng with the cross in his hand, asking loudly, “How are you?”
Yu Cheng shook her head vigorously: “I’m fine, but it seems like a woman keeps saying something in my ear!”
The Dawn scripture had already been burned to ashes, and a distorted black halo was rapidly contracting in front of Yu Cheng, like a bizarre heart.
The faint glow was instantly swallowed by darkness. Mo Tan’s Healing Prayer was forcibly dispelled in the very first second it began to take effect!
However, Yu Cheng's previous 'I'm fine' reassured him quite a bit, so Mo Tan didn't try anything else. He just kept healing himself, timing his skill cooldowns, and asked, “What is that voice saying?”
“I can’t hear clearly, it seems like there’s some interference.” Yu Cheng covered her head with her hands and took two steps back, trying to distance herself from the twisted black light as much as possible: “It’s so cold.”
As expected, something went wrong…
Mo Tan gritted his teeth, then cast a Healing Prayer on himself that provided continuous HP recovery, and said to Yu Cheng in a deep voice, “Just use any skill on me, what if that scatterbrained Holy Maiden guessed right!”
“No!” Yu Cheng shrank back and answered as loudly as possible, “My skill bar is empty! I only have one newly unlocked active talent I can use now!”
“What talent?”
“Darkness Finger…”
“What’s the effect?”
“Check your friend message!”
Mo Tan cast another Law Decree Shield on himself, then opened his message bar, and saw a new message from Yu Cheng.
‘【Temporary Darkness Finger】
Darkness-type active talent
Mastery requirements: ???
Cost/Restriction: None
Usage: Launches a dark shock at the target with a 30% instant death rate, dealing a large amount of damage.
【Note: Actually, we think ‘Deals 99999 Dark damage to the target and their ancestral lineage, and blows up their ancestral grave’ sounds cooler, don’t you think?】
This is the skill description! You might die if I use this finger on you QAQ!’
Mo Tan: “…”
Yu Cheng timidly shrank her neck: “Um… it’s better not to use it, right?”
Mo Tan sighed, chugging a healing potion while muttering, “Things are getting serious, I knew it wouldn’t be that sim—”
“I knew that bitch would definitely come to mess things up!”
A rather familiar female voice echoed in Mo Tan’s mind.
Mo Tan: “???”
Yu Cheng, who was unharmed except for being trapped in the light curtain, saw his strange expression and couldn't help but ask softly, “What’s wrong?”
Mo Tan let out a dry laugh: “I also heard someone talking in my head.”
“Nonsense, my connection with that girl was cut off, and you’re the only one breathing next to me. Who else would I look for?!”
Dawn Goddess Pakesi, spoke with full vigor.
Yu Cheng blinked: “Is that voice particularly ethereal, and also mixed with some kind of static, so it’s very unclear?”
“No, my situation here is a bit different…” Mo Tan sighed, cast another Law Decree Shield on himself, and shrugged, “Not only is it very clear, but it’s also worldview-shattering.”
“You high-dimensional beings are far more worldview-shattering than I am. Instead of wasting time blabbering, why not do something serious?!”
“Such as?”
“Do you want power?”
“What power?”
“The power to prevent you from completely screwing up on the spot, and, by the way, to bring this mess to a perfect end.”
“Yes.”
“Then quickly kneel down, raise your hands, and shout, ‘Goddess, grant me power!’”
“…”
Chapter 172: End
