I Ascend to the Divine Throne through Arcane Means

Lis led Mo Yun and Zhao Zhao away from the White Dove Shop, but there were still many players who were not willing to give up. They followed behind Lis, hoping to pick up a bargain.

Lis glanced at these players and didn't mind.

If they wanted to follow, let them follow; after all, it was beneficial for expanding his own influence.

Mo Yun and Zhao Zhao followed behind Lis, exchanging glances with a tacit understanding.

"Shall we add each other as friends and communicate more when we have useful information?"

Zhao Zhao suggested since Lis had chosen them, it was most important that they help each other and cooperate to complete the mission.

"No problem."

Mo Yun agreed readily. She always enjoyed playing games and was quite interested in the unfolding hidden storylines. Not to mention that the game NPC in front of her was quite handsome, which meant he must be no simple character!

Lis overheard the conversation of the two behind him and smiled slightly.

As long as it wasn't vocabulary related to the real world, the natives of Gaia World could understand it.

Right now, players hadn't changed their mindset and subconsciously treated all NPCs as if they were fixed in their patterns, speaking without any reservations. It would only be after they suffered setback that they would learn their lesson.

Pretending not to hear them, Lis led the two to Langai Street, preparing to find Old Jack.

At this time, Mo Yun also turned on the screen recording function, prompted by the audience's reminders, since following an NPC to complete a mission for the first time in the game was likely to attract attention.

Mo Yun wasn't doing it for the money, she simply wanted to share the fun of gaming. Otherwise, as a rich second generation, she wouldn't be working as a game streamer.

Arriving at the front of Old Jack's small store, Lis didn't knock this time and just walked in.

Inside, Old Jack was tidying up his shop, having just returned yesterday.

Lis had made a special effort to file a record with the Kingdom and the Church, after which they only briefly interrogated Old Jack before letting the matter go.

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However, being noticed by the City Guard Army had its benefits, nothing Old Jack hadn't taken with him had been lost during this time.

Mo Yun and Zhao Zhao naturally followed Lis into Old Jack's small store. As soon as they entered, their eyes were dazzled by the various weapons and armors that filled the place.

With just a rough use of the "appraisal" magic, they found that all the weapons and equipment present were at least Bronze Level to start with, and those arranged more neatly had already reached Silver Rank.

"Are you interested in these pieces of equipment?"

Lis seemed to notice their gaze and said with a smile,

"You can also buy equipment directly from Old Jack here. Members of the White Dove Chamber of Commerce get a discount, right?"

Huh? Is this a subsidiary of the White Dove Chamber of Commerce or a partner?

The power of the White Dove Chamber of Commerce seems very strong.

Zhao Zhao keenly picked up on the information revealed in Lis's words, pondering quietly to himself.

After speaking, Lis turned his head to Old Jack and asked:

"Old Jack, do you have any news about the matter I asked you to inquire about last time?"

Old Jack had someone repair the damaged roof of the shop yesterday, and now he was cleaning the shop. With Ashley not around, he had no choice but to do these things himself.

Seeing Lis come in, Old Jack wiped his hands and stood up straight to say,

"I asked around, and those people you mentioned seem to have suddenly kept a low profile lately, but I still found where they often hung out before. It's all written down on this piece of paper."

With that, Old Jack took out a slip of paper from his valuable cupboard and handed it to Lis.

Lis looked over the slip and was familiar with the places listed, all of which were the main sites of the Blood Sacrifice incidents in Bright City in a previous life.

It seemed that the haunts of those people were indeed at those locations!

In a past life, following the ceremonial assassination incident during the Sacrificial Festival in Bright City, the next major incident was the Blood Sacrifice Chaos.

An Evil God Church had been conspiring to hold a Blood Sacrifice Ceremony in the Lower City District of Bright City, releasing numerous magic beasts to engage in wild slaughter, with the three main locations being Mingzhu Street, Faise Street, and Golden Lily Lane.

There were hundreds of magic beasts at each of these three Blood Sacrifice sites, most of them possessing Silver and Bronze Level strengths, with even a few reaching Gold Level.

At that time, the state of these beasts was very strange; regardless of the type of magic beast, their eyes were blood red, and they attacked the residents of the Lower City District, as well as fought each other.

At that time, no one knew who had managed to bring so many magic beasts into Bright City or what their purpose was, so after the powerful individuals who arrived in Bright City killed all the beasts, they discovered that the blood of the magic beasts and the fresh blood of the slain residents had mixed together, forming Blood Sacrifice Ceremonies in those three districts.

Only then did the shadowy figures behind the scenes—the All Beast Church—appear. They used the power gathered from the Blood Sacrifice Ceremony to summon the Divine Incarnation of the Master of Ten Thousand Beasts, Maler, and initiated a bloody slaughter in the Lower City District.

In the end, Maler's incarnation was repelled by the joint efforts of three Legendary Strongmen, and by the time the battle had started, the members of the All Beast Church had long since fled the scene.

However, as a result, their identities were disclosed to outsiders; several of them were leaders from the Grey area of Bright City, which indicated that they had been planning this Blood Sacrifice Ceremony for a long time in Bright City.

The identified members of the All Beast Church were Blood Hand Angelo, Death Eagle Tash, and the vampire, Kutena.

Yes, that's right!

It was the Golden-level Vampire who was killed by Marion.

At the time, Lis felt that the vampire seemed familiar, and after learning about the unrest in the Grey area of the Lower City District from Old Jack, he remembered this individual.

However, this vampire was rather unlucky, in a sense also a victim of the butterfly effect caused by Lis.

Speaking of which, the Blood Sacrifice Chaos in the Lower City District of Bright City resulted in over ten thousand casualties according to the kingdom's tally. Initially, not many residents died during the magic beast attack, but when the Incarnation of the Master of Ten Thousand Beasts appeared, even though the Church of the Gods in Bright City responded swiftly and immediately sealed off the affected area, thousands of ordinary people died from exploding bodies just by looking directly at the divine body.

After all, Maler was no benevolent god!

The Master of Ten Thousand Beasts, Maler, was just a deity with Weak Divine Power, but his Divine Domain included the areas of "All Beasts", "Fear", and "Hunting". Although Maler's core Divine Position was not "Fear" but "All Beasts", it was clear that Maler aspired to control the more powerful Divine Domain of "Fear" and advance to greater Divine Power.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

The purpose of the Blood Sacrifice Ceremony plotted by the All Beast Church in Bright City was the same; Maler had already mastered part of the "Fear" Divine Domain so he could spread fear among ordinary people, accumulate more Fear Divine Power, and help him take better control of the "Fear" Divine Position.

This was the modus operandi of those from the Evil God Church, as evil deities relied on spreading fear to command awe and faith from mortals.

For Maler, who held the "Fear" Divine Position, it was even more so.