The Great Arcanist Who Traveled Through the World of American Variety Shows.

Chapter 371 Salary King
The figure rushed up quickly, but before he got close, a golden light instantly pierced his body. His already decayed body was broken into two pieces by this force.

The corpse was scattered on the ground, twitching slightly, and soon there was no life.

Richard did not stop and continued to walk outside. He didn't know how many people were buried here. Everywhere he looked, there were tombs or coffins. The whole mountain seemed to be a huge tomb.

Leaving the barren mountain, Richard soon came to a dilapidated monastery.

And just when he arrived here, in an extremely ancient sacrificial site, a huge throne stood above the site, but unfortunately the throne was empty, without any figure. A weak bonfire was burning in the center of the site, and the flickering flame seemed to be about to go out in the next second.

At this moment, a deep voice sounded in the sacrificial field:

"The new king has arrived!"

“Embers without fire! Go! Find this king and bring him back. He will be the best firewood of this era!”

"His soul is burning and will illuminate the whole world again!"

"And we will enter the Age of Light again!"

Richard didn't know that he had become the best Cinderella King of this era, able to illuminate the entire world. After the system tower spirit analyzed the rules of this world, he already knew what world he had come to.

A world that is about to be destroyed, a world that survives by relying on the burning of the Fire Kings, and it is also a desperate world.

Richard didn't see a normal living person along the way, only those zombies wandering aimlessly. These zombies posed no threat to Richard, and Richard's death power easily killed them.

Walking into the ruined monastery, Richard was ready to see if there were any books or records here. At this moment, Richard suddenly found that a candle light was coming out from the darkness.

Living people? Richard had an angry thought in his mind, and then walked towards the side hall.

Soon, a bright room appeared in front of him. When he got closer, he saw a figure wearing a gray, tattered cloak. The figure was hunched and skinny, and seemed to be a woman. At this moment, she was holding a wooden spoon and constantly stirring a large pot in front of her.

There was a bonfire burning under the cauldron, and some liquid in the cauldron was bubbling. The person stirred the cauldron very attentively, as if the liquid in the cauldron was very important to her. Soon some green foam appeared, and she took out some gray-white powder from the side.

Next to the powder there was a pile of broken bones, which seemed to have been ground into powder.

“It’s finally done!”

“Just add these in!”

The skinny woman kept pouring what looked like ashes into the cauldron.

The cauldron immediately began to boil, with a lot of bubbles rolling and a green light emitting, which looked extremely strange. However, the skinny woman was very excited and immediately took a spoonful of liquid with a wooden spoon and drank it impatiently.

Then, a strange picture appeared.

The skinny woman's originally bony body actually regained vitality, and her shriveled muscles actually became plump. Her body was like a deflated balloon that began to inflate again.

She originally looked as skinny as a skeleton, but in the blink of an eye she turned into the appearance of a middle-aged woman.

But she did not stop, and continued to quickly scoop up the liquid with a spoon and drink it, one spoonful, two spoonfuls, and soon she was no longer satisfied with using the spoon, and directly picked up the pot and poured the liquid into her mouth.

Her body was like a balloon, changing from shriveled to plump and expanding rapidly. Finally, in the blink of an eye, she turned into a fat woman weighing more than 200 pounds like a balloon.

"Bone ash soup?" Richard couldn't help but ask.

"Who is it!" After hearing Richard's voice, the woman was very alert. She immediately put the big pot in her hand behind her and picked up a big iron hammer next to the broken bones.

Richard walked into the room and asked, "Who are you? Is there anyone alive here?"

The woman looked at Richard warily. Soon after seeing Richard's appearance clearly, a hint of surprise flashed across her eyes, followed by greed. She then said respectfully, "Unknown King, please forgive my offense!"

"You didn't offend me." Richard asked again: "Where is this place? What happened here? Is there anyone alive?"

"This is the Dark Church!" The woman looked at Richard, as if she was confirming something, and then said.

"A church that serves the Mother of Rebirth, Rosalia."

"Mother of Rebirth?"

"How can there be a god with this name?" The names and titles of gods have strict rules, not only for righteous gods, but also for evil gods. Their titles must be related to their main duties. They cannot be given arbitrarily.

Just like the Mother of Rebirth, if you use this title, you must master the priesthood of [Rebirth]. If you want to condense rebirth into a priesthood, does that mean everyone here will be reborn after they die?
The dead are reborn, what will happen to the natural rules of this world? Is this going to be a war with the god of death?

Richard was very skeptical about this title of god, and the woman in front of him who had just boiled the bone ash soup did not look like a normal person. But who made her the only aboriginal who could communicate so far?

"Do you have any books that record history and this world?" Richard wanted to understand this world.

The woman's eyes flashed with greed, as if she understood something, and she said quickly: "Yes, yes, we have books left over from the past. There is a library here in the church, and it has what you want!"

The woman spoke enthusiastically, then took a bunch of keys, opened the side door, and walked inside with Richard. In the empty hall of the church, there were also many zombies, but these zombies were all kneeling in front of an altar.

It was unknown how long these zombies had existed. They were all skinny and bony. The altar was empty except for a basin. These zombies had no reaction to Richard's arrival and were still kneeling on the ground.

"We're almost there, just ahead!" came the woman's voice.

Richard followed her through a courtyard. In the courtyard there was a dry tree. On the top of the tree was a skinny human being. He looked very strange, eerie and scary.

This shabby place turned out to be a monastery. They must be practicing a cult.

Soon the two of them came to a closed library. The woman opened the door, then made an inviting gesture to Richard and said, "Dear guest, what you are looking for is inside."

The woman looked at Richard expectantly, and seemed to want Richard to enter the room. Obviously, there was something wrong with this room, not to mention that this woman had bad intentions from the beginning. Richard could sense the corrupt power in the room.

Judging from what she did just now, she doesn't look like a normal person at all.

The tower spirit's scanning light flickered slightly. The next second, the information of the woman in front of him appeared in front of him.

[Name: Human Pus; Level: Extraordinary

Attributes:
Corruption has corrupted the Twisted Sister. 】

"Well, no need to act here, your usefulness has ended!"

Richard did not go in, his eyes coldly looking at the woman in front of him, no, she could no longer be called a human, she had completely become a monster. Seeing that the plan had failed, countless insects suddenly flew out from behind the woman, these black insects were like a dark cloud, flying quickly towards Richard.

"boom!"

A dazzling flame suddenly appeared, and the black bugs were instantly burned to ashes. Then, a lightning flashed from Richard's hand, and then flew out instantly, directly hitting the fat monster.

The powerful force of thunder directly penetrated its body, and the next second countless weird, sticky, disgusting black substances poured out of its body. These substances seemed to have life, but were completely destroyed by the lightning in the next second.

The powerful force of thunder illuminated the entire yard at this moment. A miserable scream was heard, and the black sticky substance was quickly annihilated in the lightning and finally turned into a pool of ashes.

Richard did not hesitate to use his magic power to deal with this disgusting thing. He used several consecutive lightning spears to kill it directly. Even its body was purified by the lightning.

In the end, the monster left only a pile of black ashes. On the ground next to her, a book was scattered on the ground. This was the book she had been carrying. Just now, she seemed to want to use it to cast a spell, but unfortunately, Richard did not give her any chance at all.

Richard waved gently, and the book flew into his hands.

"System Tower Spirit, please identify it!"

A flash of light appeared, and the properties of the book appeared before my eyes.

[Item: Profound Holy Scripture; Level: Extraordinary; Material: Human skin;

Attributes: A book that records some of the mysteries of the Deep and some magic arts. After reading it, you can use some of the mystical magic arts. 】

Richard frowned. This book was actually a book made of human skin.

In the world of Motera, only some evil gods would use human skin to make religious books. And every book of this kind is extremely evil, just touching it can make people corrupt, and if you flip through it, it will cause more serious consequences. I didn't expect to encounter one here.

Richard flipped through the book. His will could easily resist the temptation of the book. The book had no effect on him.

As expected, the content inside records the existence of an evil god who likes to devour humans. However, it was not killed by the evil creatures, but unexpectedly became the king.

That’s right, the king.

These people actually worship it as king.
Richard no longer knew how twisted this world had become. How could this man-eating evil god be worshipped as king?
There is a part missing in the content of the book. It seems that the evil god was able to be called a king because he participated in a ceremony called Fire Transmission. After completing this ceremony, he became a king and obtained the title of a Deep Saint.

Evil creatures can become saints when they reach here. This world is really crazy.

Richard closed the book and purified the evil power in it. A miserable sound seemed to be heard in the air. The power of the profound holy book disappeared and it became an ordinary book.

Just after Richard casually crushed the thing in the book, he sensed a black mass like mud in an unknown space. However, after sensing Richard, this thing was so scared that it curled up and took the initiative to cut off all connections.

But even so, the backlash from Richard's body also caused him to suffer some damage.

Richard put the book away casually. He didn't know what happened in this world that made humans willing to believe in a monster as a king and a saint.

After dealing with this human pus, Richard walked into the library next door. A skinny monster appeared in the library, but Richard killed it directly without waiting for him to attack.

——Light magic!

The soft light illuminated the entire library, and Richard began to look for books here. He ignored the books on poetry and prose, and directly looked at books on history and mythology.

Soon after reading through these books, Richard had a clearer understanding of this world.

Although there were many missing parts in these books and the contents were obscure, he still found what he wanted.

There are indeed gods in this world, or powerful creatures, or demigods. The most powerful one is a guy named Gwyn, but his ending is not very good.

He was burned.

Yes, it was received. This god who claimed to be the Sun King was burned.

This is why Li Jue felt that he was not a god. If he was really the Sun King, how could he be burned? He himself is the sun.

According to the records of this world, Gwyn was a god from the First Fire Age. At first, this world was dark, and in the darkness there existed immortal ancient trees and dragons. At some point, a ball of fire appeared.

Then, light and darkness, life and death, time and space appeared in this world. Richard could understand all these, which was to create the world.

But then something strange happened. The species in the darkness of this world were attracted by the fire, automatically gathered around the flames, and obtained the King's Soul.

Then in the First Fire Age, these gods began to unite to fight against those giant dragons, and eventually destroyed these ancient dragons.

The Age of Fire begins.

Then the world was full of life and seemed very beautiful, and this period lasted for a long time until the flames began to fade.

Seeing the flames weakening and undead beginning to appear in the world, the Sun King Gwyn began to throw his body into the flames to burn, using his own body as firewood to strengthen the power of the flames, in an effort to continue this Age of Fire.

The "King of Salary" was born here.

For thousands and thousands of years thereafter, in order to continue the power of the flame and prevent the world from being engulfed by darkness, generation after generation of kings were thrown into the flames as firewood.

Well, it turns out that the king is the "king of fire", which is used for burning. Richard now understood why the man-eating monster was called the king. It turned out that he was burned.
(End of this chapter)