The more they oppose, the more it shows that I am doing the right thing

It has been mentioned before that all types of magic creation can be both ghostly and divine at times.

However, the ghosts in An Su's system are brutal, and the gods are made of pure gold.

"An, this could be given to the Healing Church, and who knows, it might get an official blessing from the goddess," said Bone.

After some thought, Bone gave a fair assessment, "It might even catch fire, no... it will definitely catch fire, right?"

That X-ray illumination spell, An Su had used it on Bone Priest.

It clearly penetrated his outer clothing and captured the structure of his bones, displaying them before An Su's eyes.

"You have a bit of osteoporosis," An Su commented, "Your bone density is low."

"..."

The Priest of saintly rank with osteoporosis sensed this never-before-seen 'Holy Light' had the ability to penetrate bodily structures.

Patients with illnesses, once illuminated by this light, could be roughly diagnosed for serious diseases.

If it were just that, it would not have been enough for the holy Priest to give such an evaluation.

The most miraculous part about An Su's magic was that since it wasn't classified under any attribute, it passed through the Priest's magic resistance and clearly captured the internal structures.

This light could not be blocked by magic resistance!

The more powerful the rank, the higher the magic resistance, making it harder for this type of magic to successfully detect diseases within the body. But An Su's illumination spell was unaffected.

Therefore, it was not only effective for ordinary people but also very useful for the extraordinary.

Moreover, it consumed only a minuscule amount of magic power.

The cost-effectiveness was very high.

There would definitely be a long line of initial-stage healing Magicians queuing to exchange faith points for the [X-ray Illumination Skill].

Although this thing was now completely unrelated to 'illumination skills'.

The more Bone looked at An Su, the more it doubted its existence,

It wondered whether it, a former Demigod Witch and now of Saintly Rank, had somehow gone wrong in its teachings, leading An Su astray?

It now wanted to use the X-ray illumination spell to take a good look at An Su's brain and see just how many huge voids were in there.

There was only one explanation for such novel magic: there were many unknown and novel pieces of knowledge in An Su's head,

Of course, this was also related to his brutal yet golden magical talents.

Thinking of this, Bone's gaze became even more gentle and clear.

It had a yearning for unknown knowledge that rivaled a taboo.

Even after death, it was deeply enamored with knowledge, and An Su was a veritable embodiment of it.

For the sake of that knowledge, enduring the illumination by the Holy Light was tolerable.

An Su was quite satisfied, too.

They could form a long-term collaboration,

By afflicting saints—and Bone Priests provided plenty of pain—it was possible to accumulate pain points, then use those points to summon Bone,

Bone would help dismantle various magic circuits, teaching him higher-ranked magic creation knowledge,

And An Su, in turn, would use the magic he created to inflict pain more effectively,

Forming a perpetual pain machine.

At the thought, An Su couldn't help but reveal a radiant smile.

The summoning time was nearly over, and the magic power in the Pain Array was almost depleted.

"An, is there anything else I can do for you?" Bone asked An Su.

"There's something else I want to ask you." An Su took an envelope from his pocket, which contained a telegram.

[Prepare new pain materials, supply the frontlines, and battle with it]

It was a telegram An Su received before leaving Seden Town, which he had hidden in the closet before leaving.

This was an unknown intelligence.

In his previous life as a multiple-playthrough player, he had never heard of this, indicating just one possibility: this was a background story not mentioned in the main storyline, possibly even a hidden plot.

After all, the setting of the Nether fragments is that they are spatial-temporal alternates different from the main world,

parts of the world have been destroyed, fallen into eternal destruction, and incessantly repeat this destruction, which is then known as the Nether.

There are many unknown events.

"This is a directive from the Painful Esoteric Sect headquarters,"

An Su explained, "In your life, you were a demigod-level life Priest, do you know who the Esoteric Religion fights against?"

"I've been dead for over two thousand years... Except for knowledge, I've forgotten many things. I can only offer my advice."

The Bone shyly said, "Since this has happened in the Nether World, I suggest you could start by investigating this town."

"If the town was to be destroyed, then there would be a reason for that destruction. Including the era it belonged to—it might have been destroyed thousands of years ago... or even earlier, its location, and the composition of its people."

"And another most important point: if the Nether's Esoteric Religion has sent you this telegram, it would send you a second one, or even a third."

"These are all clues—since you've become the Nether Bishop, you now have the right to investigate these."

An Su pondered for a moment, "What do you think is the most likely scenario?"

"Seden Town's destruction might be the work of the Painful Esoteric Sect, but the extinction of this town may only be the beginning, possibly hiding an even greater factor of ruin,"

the Bone Priest paused, a blazing soul fire flickering in his eyes, "It could even be the destruction of an epoch."n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"If it is the extinction of an era, then there would be more frontier fragments unknown to the Church and even to the Esoteric Religion, as it would take more than one to compose an era."

An Su appeared thoughtful.

"But this is just my guess."

The magic power on the Pain Array was completely depleted, and the figure of the Bone started to slowly fade. He waved to An Su, "Boss, do you want to add more time?"

...An Su felt that the dignity of this Saintly Rank Priest was getting worse.

Priest of life?

Fertility technician.

Truly turned into a nationally recognized flying technician.

"No magic power left." An Su spread his hands towards it and secretly thought, it was necessary to assign more homework to the saints.

The more homework students did, the more resources the principal would have to pay the technicians.

"Then please call upon me next time, Boss An~" The Bone completely dissipated into the void.

An Su stretched his limbs and walked outside; the sky had already dimmed, with dusk nearly spent, and a few flames of cloud still hung on the horizon.

The saints should be attending evening self-study by now.

He decided, notify them of a test during evening self-study.

A faint smile lingered on the corner of An Su's mouth as he couldn't help but sigh to himself, he truly was a perfect teacher.

The next thing to do,

was to take a trip to the town's library to investigate Seden Town.

He thought to himself.

For the next half month, life became routine.

Routinely causing the students pain, routinely offering sacrifices to pain, routinely summoning the Bone, routinely crafting magic,

Initially, An Su could only mimic two magic circuits, but with guidance from the Bone, he slowly began to progress toward a third.

The investigation into the town was also proceeding methodically.

The investigation results were beyond An Su's expectation.

A rough estimate,

the town must have been destroyed thirty thousand years ago.

The era was so distant that there was almost no record of it.

All that was known was that it was in the Third Epoch.

That epoch was also known as:

[Era of Chaos]