I ascend to the throne of God with arcane magic.

Chapter 652: Claws of the Tool Man Again
Originally, this was an opportunity for the Dawn Church to expand its influence, but now it seems that Morris seems a little uneasy because of the news that Li Si suddenly brought.

It's not his fault. Even though he is a legendary priest and the archbishop of the Church of Dawn, it must have been difficult for him to accept such a thing when he first heard about the Endless Abyss and the demon prince Demogorgon's years-long plan.

After all, the emergence of such hidden dangers means that Demogorgon still has so many backup plans despite the attacks of the Church of the Gods for countless years. It is really unbelievable for a while.

If Li Si's identity was not that of a World Tree Blessed One, Morris would not believe what Li Si said at all.

But now, Morris must believe Li Si. As long as there is any possibility, the Church of the Gods cannot miss this opportunity to make up for its losses.

Li Si guessed the mentality of the Church of the Gods, so he handed over his previous experiences and the information he had obtained in his previous life to Morris.

Even though the Church of the Gods and Li Si are not necessarily the closest allies, when facing the threat of the Endless Abyss and the Demon Prince Demogorgon, the common enemy allows the two sides to trust each other even more.

"Morris, since you are here, it means that the time for the mutation to begin is not far away."

Li Si stood up and walked to the window, looking at the prosperous Danluo Port below the castle, and said softly:
"In that case, there is no need to rush."

"As for the Church of the Goddess of the Sea and the Church of the Lord of Storms, you can communicate with them, but don't cause too much conflict at this time."

Li Si knew very well that he had witnessed too many "ghost" scenes in his previous life.

The Church of the Gods may still maintain decency and harmony on the surface, but in private, the competition for believers is so fierce that even pigs’ brains are about to burst out.

In fact, the situation is better for powerful divine churches like the Dawn Church and the Earth Church. The most intense and violent competition is actually with the Church of the Goddess of the Sea and the Church of the Lord of Storms.

Now that the [Crystal of Phillips] is about to come into the world, Li Si doesn't want these churches to fight on his territory.

Morris listened to Li Si's words and naturally understood the implicit warning in Li Si's words.

But they didn't care, because Li Si was no longer the unknown viscount of the court of the Kingdom of Fez.

Legendary wizard, Lord of Cain's floating city, Favored by the World Tree. Each of these identities is worthy of Morris's attention.

Moreover, although the target of his behavior of leading the Dawn Church team to "parade through the city" in Danluo Port just now was not Li Si, there was indeed nothing wrong with Li Si giving him a few warnings.

After all, this is on Li Si's territory. Not to mention the legendary auras that Morris had sensed before, the azure floating city above his head alone is enough to make the Archbishop of the Church of Dawn in trouble.

Therefore, Morris had no opinion when facing Li Si's warning. Instead, he planned to let the Dawn Church give Li Si more support later.

At present, Li Si has begun to show his value in the fight against the Endless Abyss and is worthy of continued investment from the Church of the Gods.

Seeing that Morris agreed to his request, Li Si didn't say much.

The Church of the Gods is still the party he wants to win over. After all, in the next version 3.0, Li Si still needs the support of the Church of the Gods.

Li Si did not continue speaking. His eyes swept across the street below Kane Castle. Suddenly, he noticed that Zhua Zhua and others were waiting there, looking at the castle curiously, as if waiting for something.

Judging from the looks of it, they must have followed the Dawn Church team from before.

Noticed Morris?
Or is it due to other reasons?
Li Si looked at Zhua Zhua and others who were waiting, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

To be honest, the performance of [Xinhuo Yujin] and others in the first professional league of the Huaxia region some time ago was a good advertisement for Li Si and Danerluo Port.

Together with the first-place team [Kunlun], whose headquarters is in Port Danerlo, all the attention of the players in the Chinese region was attracted.

It just so happens that there is the only floating city on the continent of Fanor here, and many players have come from far away to Port Danero.

This is a great opportunity for Li Si's leek farm to develop rapidly, and he doesn't want to make no preparations.

Originally, Li Si was still considering how to start preparations, but Morris's arrival also gave Li Si a reminder.

Version 2.0 is about to end. What can attract more attention and curiosity from players than the information about version 3.0?
Just do it!

Li Si glanced at Morris beside him, thought for a moment, and then walked back from the window.

Zhua Zhua, Mo Yun and others were waiting outside the castle of Grand Duke Kane, watching to see if the Dawn Church team came out of the castle while chatting.

"What do you think about the next version? It's only a few days away from being updated, and there's not even a piece of expansion pack released yet."

Si Lu asked with some confusion while throwing pebbles at the opposite wall.

"To be honest, I'm curious too."

Frozen Valley thought about it, and said in a confused tone:

"Divine Revelation said that the next version will be a world server. Now, except for a few players who have come to other continents via ocean-going merchant ships, the vast majority of players are staying in the continent where they were born."

"What circumstances will allow us to meet players from other continents?"

"You can't just move the continents together, right?"

"probably not."

Claw's eyes never left the entrance of Kane Castle, and he said:
“I heard that the plot development of the game “Shenqi” is completely generated by intelligent AI, which is completely consistent with the development of a normal world.”

"Things like the world changing suddenly and all the continents merging together simply won't happen."

"So what do you think will happen in the 3.0 version of the world server?"

".I don't know either. Maybe it could be a special map like the Endless Abyss or the Star Realm?"

Claw thought about it and said uncertainly.

Words like Endless Abyss, Astral Realm, Elemental Plane, and Underworld, which sound very cool, often appear in the game's plot background introduction, but so far no player has been able to reach these special areas.

So players are also quite curious about these places.

"I think it might be exploring the sea!"

Mo Yun looked at his companions and said with certainty:

"Think about it, besides the six continents, isn't there an endless ocean?"

"Version 3.0 will definitely involve exploring the ocean, and then the national war will take place in the depths of the ocean!"

"Oh~ my sea!"

Looking at Mo Yun's expression lost in fantasy, Zhua Zhua curled his lips but did not interrupt.

There is also a national war in the deep sea. Don’t you have any idea how big the endless ocean is?

If all players were scattered, they might not even meet a few people in the next version, not to mention the national war. Just when the people in [Xinhuo Yuem] were discussing enthusiastically, suddenly the figures of Zhua Zhua and Mo Yun disappeared from the spot.

"Huh? What about people?"

Si Lu, Frozen Valley and others on the side were all surprised. They looked around but didn't find any figure.

But after a while, a few people seemed to realize something. They looked at Kane Castle not far away, and carefully ran to a slightly farther place to continue waiting.

Zhua Zhua and Mo Yun only felt a flash before their eyes, and then they felt solid ground under their feet, and then they opened their eyes.

Looking at Li Si in front of them, their brains almost went into a state of shutdown for a moment.

No, what is this situation?
Wasn't I outside Cain Castle? How did I suddenly appear here?

Li Si looked at the two of them and said with a smile:

"Don't be nervous. As the guards of Kane's floating city, this isn't the first time you've seen me, right?"

"Lord Li Si!"

Mo Yun and Zhua Zhua finally reacted and quickly saluted Li Si.

There are no fixed restrictions on communicating with NPCs in the game. Of course, being polite and thorough will gain more recognition from NPCs. This is something that game strategy masters like Zhua Zhua know well.

"All right."

Li Si nodded, and then said to Zhua Zhua and Mo Yun:

"I've noticed that a lot of new people have appeared in Port Danlo recently, many of whom are undead as tall as you."

"Yes."

Claw Claw said this with his head slightly lowered, without any hesitation.

Mo Yun took a step back and left the communication work entirely to Zhua Zhua.

This was the division of responsibilities when they were conquering the secret realm and completing the mission. With the tacit understanding between the two, there was no need to explain it explicitly.

As for Li Si's question, Zhua Zhua did not find it strange.

In the 2.0 main storyline, many forces have noticed the uniqueness of the players, the two most obvious of which are [undead trait] and [uncontrollable trait].

[Undead Characteristics] means that the undead will reappear shortly after death, which has attracted the attention of many supernatural forces.

In the main world of Gaia, resurrection is not a rare thing, but the situation of the players is quite special.

General resurrection abilities require the body, soul, and other media of the person being resurrected. The better the resurrection effect, the more stringent the resurrection conditions.

But the appearance of the undead completely shattered this perception.

Even if the bodies of the undead are completely destroyed, burned, or chopped into pulp, it will not affect the player's resurrection at all, as if his body has nothing to do with it at all.

However, even if some powerful professionals tried to study the souls of the players, they did not gain anything. It was as if there was no soul in the body of the undead, it was just an empty shell.

Legendary or even god-level resurrection abilities can also achieve such an effect, but the number of undead is too large, and even gods cannot bear such horrific consumption.

Also because of their [undead characteristics], the undead are simply dedicated and fearless when completing mission commissions, and often die together with the enemy. Therefore, in version 2.0, many human kingdoms will hire undead to carry out war commissions.

If that were the case, even if we couldn't figure out why the undead could be resurrected unconditionally, they would still be an excellent tool.

But apart from that, what worries those supernatural forces is the [uncontrollable characteristics] displayed by the undead.

As for [uncontrollable characteristics].
Um.
This is also the normal performance of the players.
These include but are not limited to searching the palace at night to find the king's underwear, performing a striptease on the altar during church services, and having a sudden whim on the battlefield to compete with your companions to see who can pee the farthest.
In the eyes of the supernatural forces that recruited the players, every one of the undead is a lunatic. If they had not completed the commissioned tasks honestly, the supernatural forces would have been in a lot of trouble.

Previously on player forums, there were many records of players being captured by plot NPCs for research, and the players also realized that the plot NPCs would react differently due to the influence of the players.

As the protagonist of the story and one of the top NPCs, Li Si must have noticed the players' abnormalities long ago and may have been observing them silently.

Moreover, Zhua Zhua felt that the reason why these professional players were able to pass the assessment and become the guards of Kane's floating city was that they were stronger than ordinary players, but it was more likely that Li Si did it intentionally.

Otherwise, so many silver-level professionals would be eliminated, while the bronze-level professionals who passed the assessment were all players.

I remember that when I first met Li Si, he was still a silver-level professional. Could it be that Li Si noticed the differences among the players at that time?

Claw took a deep breath at the thought, contributing to Gaia's world warming cause.

Li Si, so terrifying!
Li Si didn't pay attention to the claws that were changing, and continued:

"I brought you and Mo Yun here because there is something I need you to do."

"Please give me your orders!"

Zhua Zhua's eyes lit up, he was very familiar with this development, it was the taste of a hidden mission!
"This is Archbishop Morris of the Morning Light Church."

Li Si pointed at Morris beside him and said to Claw Claw.

Maurice?!

Isn’t this the legendary pastor of the Dawn Cathedral?
Claw was startled, then noticed the old man sitting next to Li Si.

Morris is now just an ordinary, frail old man, but one can still feel a little warmth from him.

Isn't this the old man from the Dawn Church team?
The legendary pastor made a special trip to visit Li Si, something big must be happening!
Zhua Zhua felt as if he had thought of something and quickly looked at Li Si.

"The great God of Dawn sensed that a huge change affecting the entire Gaia world was about to happen, and Port Danlo was one of the key points."

"But we don't know what will happen right now. In order to concentrate our forces, I need you to inform all the undead in Port Danero of this situation and have them be prepared to protect Port Danero at any time."

As soon as Li Si finished speaking, a new task appeared on the system panel in front of Zhua Zhua and Mo Yun.

Zhua Zhua was not in a hurry to check the task, but his brain was working rapidly.

He had received similar tasks from Li Si before, such as when the server was first launched and when he went to Port Danluo. It went without saying that they were the kind of tasks that were both easy and rewarding.

After all, as a plot NPC, Li Si could not have imagined that the undead had such a convenient information channel as the player forum.

But Claw paid more attention to another point.

A huge change affecting the entire Gaia world?
Is this the main quest of version 3.0?
(End of this chapter)