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Chapter 414 The Sword of Order
Chapter 414 The Sword of Order
Wu Chang looked at the white wolf's corpse. The blood-red last words on the white wolf's corpse burst out with red light. With a flash of light, his consciousness entered the white wolf's resentment.
This time, Wu Chang did not experience the White Wolf's story in the first person, but rather observed everything from a third-person, bystander perspective.
The entry point for resentment is before the qualification instance.
White Wolf is not a member of the four major organizations. The organization he belongs to is called "Totem," and its strength ranks in the middle of the first tier in the Wilderness Realm.
The so-called top-tier extraordinary organizations are not only linked to the number of members and high-end combat power, but also need to have a certain influence in reality.
This means becoming a protective shield for one or more small countries in reality, helping them avoid extraordinary disasters.
In reality, the distribution of extraordinary powers is neither even nor fair.
To some extent, the birth of extraordinary individuals also conforms to the first law of mysticism.
The vast majority of extraordinary individuals will appear within the territories of the four major organizations. The more extraordinary individuals there are in a region, the greater the probability of extraordinary individuals appearing in that region, and the greater the probability of extraordinary geniuses emerging.
Countries that are close to the four major organizations can guarantee the awakening of a certain number of superhumans; however, if the countries are further away, the emergence of superhumans will become rare.
There are over 200 countries on Earth. According to statistics, no more than 150 countries have superhumans, and no more than 40 countries have enough superhumans to support independent superhuman organizations.
In other words, most of the 160 countries without their own supernatural organizations will need to seek help from outside when faced with supernatural disasters.
Some would choose to seek help from neighboring countries, while others would seek help from independent supernatural organizations.
Organizations capable of resolving national-level disasters and helping the four major organizations maintain existing order are recognized as top-tier extraordinary organizations.
The extraordinary individuals at the forefront of the organization hold a status equivalent to local tyrants within their protected small countries.
To ensure national security and the stability of their rule, they made arbitrary demands on smaller countries.
Some of these are top-tier organizations that can exploit wealthy small countries. The resources possessed by their leaders are even greater than those of the core members of the four major organizations.
The "Totem" to which White Wolf belongs is such an organization.
The headquarters of Totem is located in the state of Coffee, with more than two thousand extraordinary individuals within the organization, and it protects seven small countries.
In the areas they control, superhumans are regarded as gods.
Each of these countries, taken individually, has a population of only ten to twenty million, but the regions are rich in gold, diamonds, and various minerals, accumulating a great deal of wealth, enough to support the totem's high-ranking members to become pay-to-win players.
By staying away from the four major organizations and having strong enough combat power at the top, "Totem" was chosen by the Light Society to become an external organization like the Ironclad Regiment and the Deepwater Society.
The status of the totem is far superior to that of the other two, and it receives more assistance than the other two. Naturally, the requirements of the Guangming Society for the totem have also increased accordingly.
For the top five players within the Totem Organization, the Light Society not only requires them to qualify for world dungeons, but also requires them to be ranked within the top 1,000.
If they fail to complete the task, they will lose their status as peripheral members of the Light Society and will not be able to receive any support from the Light Society in the future.
White Wolf is the third-in-command of the Totem Organization and ranks 165th on the combat power list. According to the data, he is a master, but it is unlikely that he is a master.
Much of his combat power comes from spending real money, resulting in a severely inflated statistic. The actual strength he can unleash is far less than his ranking on the combat power leaderboard.
How did Wu Chang know this?
Because he was in a third-person perspective, hovering behind the White Wolf, he witnessed the White Wolf's disastrous performance in the qualification instance.
White Wolf was very lucky; the qualifying instance he entered was only a highly polluted A-level instance.
However, he was very unlucky. Because he lacked the talent for salvation, he was unable to learn from the players' blood and basically stepped on all the traps in the dungeons, causing three crises that could have wiped out the entire party by himself.
Of the thirty-five players, only six survived and completed the game. All six of them only completed the most basic main quest.
By stepping on enough landmines, White Wolf achieved a good result of 42% completion and a D rating in the dungeon at the end of the dungeon.
This was the first time Wu Chang had seen other players' results, and also the first time he had seen the results of a dungeon run with a low score.
A D-rank completion only grants 80% of the basic dungeon rewards, resulting in White Wolf receiving 4000 experience points and 8000 decayed silver coins at the end of the dungeon.
In contrast, Wu Chang also suffered misfortune in the A-level real dungeon, and at the end of the dungeon, he received 48750 experience and 97500 decaying silver coins.
Wu Chang checked several times before he dared to believe that the meager reward White Wolf received came from a Grade A real dungeon.
After the basic rewards, D-rank dungeons also offer corresponding stage rewards.
However, unlike the S-level rating, the D-level rating does not allow you to choose items at will; you can only randomly obtain one low-level item.
The item White Wolf obtains is a set of exquisite porcelain teaware, which can be sold to the official recycler of Crimson Garden for 5000 Decaying Silver Coins.
Although the D-rank rating granted White Wolf the qualification to participate in the world instance, his invitation number was only 8192, far from meeting the Light Society's requirement of being among the top 1,000.
After the world instance, White Wolf will definitely be promoted to the Realm of Reason, at which point he will be unable to obtain any resources from the real world.
Losing his status as an outer member of the Light Society before entering the Realm of Reason was something he found completely unacceptable.
Just as White Wolf was filled with unease and pondering how to regain the Light Society's trust in him, the Light Society gave him a second chance.
A player from the Realm of Reason came to the Totem and handed him a piece of Imagination Divinity.
The imagined deity is named Hati the Demon Wolf, a giant wolf in mythology that devoured the moon and was one of the participants in Ragnarok.
Although its rank among the gods is not high, its combat power is not low, and its divine characteristics are extremely useful.
The white wolf's divine nature perfectly matched Hati's, which is why he was chosen by the Light Society and given a second chance.
The Light Society had two requirements for him: first, to activate and fuse the Imaginary Divinity before the world instance began.
Secondly, through the channel provided by the Church of Tranquility, enter a duplicate dimension to investigate the background of a church called the Church of Eternal Light.
According to the messenger of the Light Society, in the recently concluded qualification instance, Peace displayed great power. In addition to Peace, there was another entity that attracted much attention in the qualification instance, namely the Church of Eternal Light.
According to information obtained from the Church of Tranquility, the Church of Eternal Light first appeared in a dungeon called Midnight Graveyard, and the one who broke the deadlock in that dungeon was also Peace.
This led the Light Society to suspect that the Church of Eternal Light was connected to peace, prompting them to send him to the Midnight Graveyard instance to investigate.
If he accomplishes these two things, he will become a formal member of the Light Society when he enters the Realm of Reason.
If he messes things up, he will die.
Upon hearing the first half of the message from the messenger of the Light Society, White Wolf was already overjoyed and accepted the mission without hesitation.
White Wolf never expected that his failure in the qualification instance would not only have no impact on him, but would also grant him the opportunity to possess divinity and become a formal member of the Light Society.
This time, we cannot afford to fail.
Even though he already knew that the Church of Tranquility had designed a divine awakening ritual for him, he still performed a blood sacrifice in reality before entering the Midnight Graveyard instance in order to increase the chances of success.
The totem organization selected 30,000 people in several countries under their control as sacrifices, feeding all their life force to Hati's divinity.
Once White Wolf enters the Midnight Graveyard instance, his divinity nears maturity, thanks to a blood sacrifice in reality.
Having completed the initial preparations, the White Wolf met the Holy Son of the Tranquility Church, who was also one of the designers of this divine awakening ceremony.
Regarding the awakening of Hatti's divinity, the Society of Light and the Church of Tranquility designed the most suitable awakening ritual for the Midnight Graveyard plane.
The awakening ceremony is divided into two parts. One part is the initial awakening of Hati's divinity, centered on the white wolf; the other part is the completion of the moon mending, centered on Wick.
Hati's divinity awakens, and by devouring the complete full moon, Hati's divinity will reach full maturity.
Of course, White Wolf did not tell Wick the latter part of this plan.
According to the plan, once Hatti's divinity is fully mature, the next step for the White Wolf is to determine the relationship between the Church of Everlight and Peace.
However, the priority is to preserve Hati's divinity. If peace is found during the operation, the mission is considered complete, and they will immediately leave the plane.
Wu Chang didn't need to rely on resentment to understand what the White Wolf experienced in the midnight graveyard.
In the end, amidst his resentment, Wu Chang saw the white wolf's blood-red last words.
[He salvaged the situation in the qualifying instance, astonished everyone in the world instance, and became one of the most dazzling figures in the instance.]
Good last words, he liked them.
Given White Wolf's ambition, he will also launch a heavy attack on the Light Society in the world instance to fulfill White Wolf's bloody last words.
Freed from the white wolf's resentment, Wu Chang's expression turned somewhat strange.
He had previously thought that the Tranquility Cult had some backup plan in the Midnight Graveyard instance, which would allow them to monitor his appearance and send people in to cause trouble once they discovered he had entered the instance.
In retrospect, it all seems to be a coincidence.
White Wolf entered the instance simply on behalf of the Light Society to investigate information related to the Eternal Light Cult. The Light Society considered Wu Chang an important target, so naturally they wanted to investigate all intelligence surrounding Wu Chang. By comparing their intelligence with that of the Tranquil Cult, they discovered that the Eternal Light Cult was problematic.
When discussing the exposure of the Eternal Light Sect, one must mention Da Congming.
When Wu Chang appears as a peaceful figure during the dungeon raid, he rarely appears in the same frame as the Eternal Light Cult.
Moreover, the dungeons he conquered basically became his private dungeons. Without his permission, other players could not enter, and therefore had no way to investigate them.
The only three remaining clues are: firstly, the Steam Phantom instance, which was frequented by many players, and among the survivors were informants from the Light Society or the Evolutionist faction, who spotted the Eternal Light Cult within the instance.
Secondly, in the Silent Route instance, he collaborated with Revelation to sabotage the Church of Tranquility, seizing their earthly kingdom. Eileen even personally appeared, chasing after Lyman's projection hammer.
The last weakness is the Midnight Graveyard instance.
Lyman was, after all, a great evil god renowned throughout the abyss, and he had his pride. He would never take the initiative to make a fuss about his divine kingdom being invaded by Wu Chang and being chased and beaten by Eileen; he would only try to get revenge himself.
Based solely on the Steam Phantom dungeon, it would be difficult for the Light Society to discover the connection between the Eternal Light Cult and Wu Chang, and they would need to obtain information from the Tranquil Cult.
The problem is that in the Steam Phantom dungeon, there is a player named Priest who temporarily borrowed divine power from Eileen through a divine pact.
The contents of the divine covenant are simple: Eileen will temporarily lend a portion of her divine power to the priest in exchange for the priest preaching on Eileen's behalf in the subsequent three planes, helping the Church of Eternal Light to take root in the instance planes.
The High Priest of Wisdom treated the real world as a plane, and once the instance ended, he began large-scale missionary work throughout the Western Union.
His actions were large-scale and his missionary work was extremely efficient. On the very first day of his missionary work, his unusual behavior was noticed by the spies of the Light Society.
The presence of the Eternal Light Cult in Steampunk was so strong that the Light Society could not ignore it. They followed the clues and discovered the Midnight Graveyard instance, which led to the White Wolf's journey.
No wonder Wu Chang always felt that the timeline didn't match when guessing Bai Lang's purpose.
Given the time difference between the Midnight Graveyard plane and reality, the Church of Tranquility shouldn't be able to hold out for so long; they should have time to send people into the instance temporarily.
According to information obtained from Haner, the Church of Tranquility and Wick had made contact even before he entered the Midnight Graveyard plane.
If it's a coincidence, then it matches up.
Putting aside the coincidental nature of White Wolf's actions, his resentment reveals a great deal of information.
First, there's the illusory divinity within the White Wolf. The original plan of the Light Society was for the White Wolf to hatch this divinity in the Desolate Realm, becoming a hidden pawn with the power of a lower god, to play a role in the world dungeon.
Divinity is extremely valuable to ordinary players in the Realm of Reason, but in the eyes of the Society of Light, only high-ranking ideal divinity has any practical value.
A fantastical divinity of Hati's caliber is usually a scrap from a failed attempt to create a high-ranking fantastical divinity, and its abilities are not even comparable to the Famine Seeds born in the Wilderness.
This level of utopian divinity is beneath the notice of the higher-ups at the Light Society; it is not considered precious.
In order to complete the world dungeon plan, the Light Society may have prepared more than one idealized divinity like Hati.
These hidden pawns who have awakened into lower-level gods are unlikely to pose a direct threat to Wu Chang, but their destructive power over the dungeon planes is enormous, so we must be wary of them.
Beyond the Guangming Society's plans, another matter that Bai Lang harbored resentment about also left a deep impression on Wu Chang.
That is what the "Totem" organization did when it controlled the country.
It is no exaggeration to say that in those countries, totem organizations are the true rulers, and the kind of rulers that existed during the feudal period.
They could plunder wealth at will, experiment with skills on ordinary people, and even select 30,000 people as sacrifices in order to initially awaken Hathi's divinity.
In the Steampunk instance, Wu Chang once thought that Eileen had always been protected and had not seen the rules of how the world worked, which is why she was so shocked when she saw the lives of the lower classes in Grimland.
But now it seems that he was actually well protected by the four major organizations, and overestimated the moral bottom line of superhumans.
When the painter was causing trouble in Wanghai City and creating a large number of wild superhumans, he already felt that the public order was chaotic enough.
In areas outside the control of the four major organizations, especially in places where news reports cannot reach, the rules in many places have long since collapsed, returning to the feudal period or even the era of slavery.
However, this is understandable, since many things are cheaper to do in the real world.
In a real-world instance, organizing a large-scale sacrifice involving 30,000 people could easily attract the attention of hidden bosses or evil gods by taking over the instance boss's job. The sacrifice might not be completed, and you might even lose your own life.
But in reality, even evil gods cannot enter reality. As long as they don't provoke the four major organizations, the cost of sacrifice is almost non-existent.
In the corners that Wu Chang cannot see and will never look at, the influence of the extraordinary on reality goes far beyond the erosion of the abyss.
He sighed. Although the frontline organizations had gone too far, there was nothing he could do about it.
The fundamental reason why those countries tolerate the actions of superhuman organizations is that these organizations can provide them with protection and help them eliminate supernatural disasters.
If we eliminate them, who will work for these countries?
Will he do it himself?
Ensuring the safety of Wanghai City has already distracted him a lot; he doesn't have time to deal with other trivial matters.
Wu Chang turned his gaze away from the white wolf, just as Han Er returned, having changed his pants.
It's time to bring this miraculous guiding ritual initiated by the White Wolf and Wick to a close.
Han first thanked Wu Chang and Eileen for their help, and then returned the Light of Steadfastness to Wu Chang.
As the effects of the miracle faded, his will could no longer bear the weight of the unwavering light.
Smashing the moon with his own hands to prevent the formation of the divine guidance ritual had almost exhausted all of Han's strength. Now, he could barely move the warhammer.
Setting aside the light of steadfastness, Hanl walked to the church entrance where the ceremony was taking place, sat on the top step, and looked down at the believers.
The destruction of the two central nodes freed the believers from their suffering, preventing the draining of their life force and faith. They all collapsed and fainted.
Wu Chang approached Han Er from behind and slowly asked, "Have you decided what you're going to do?"
Becoming an extraordinary gravedigger is not something you can just talk about.
From the perspective of both White Wolf obtaining the complete Hati divinity and Wick sacrificing himself to mend the moon, they both failed.
However, if we consider the original purpose of the miracle-guiding ritual, "to trigger miracles," then they were successful.
Forced by White Wolf and Wick, the believers who entered Serena witnessed the restoration of the damaged moon and Han's smashing of the moon again. For ordinary people, how could this not be considered a miracle?
In this situation, if Hanl wanted to completely sever the miracle, he only had one option: to silence them.
Eliminate all believers who have witnessed miracles.
Han'er understood Wu Chang's meaning. He looked at the believers collapsed on the ground, shook his head slightly, and said:
"It is I who should enter the Kingdom's Great Cemetery, not them. They still have a future."
"It's enough to have come this far. Let time take the rest."
Since he could not erase the traces of this miracle, he could only hope that history would repeat itself, and that in the next twenty or thirty years, people would once again cause the supernatural to decline because no miracles would occur.
Whatever the outcome, it's no longer his concern.
Wu Chang said, "I believe this is a wise decision."
The miracle guidance ritual was destroyed quickly enough that at least 80% of the believers are still alive. Putting aside whether Hanl's choice to silence them is truly effective, and whether silencing them will truly sever the supernatural, the question remains.
Even if he could actually do it, he would probably have to get past Eileen first before he could take action.
"While I can't help you silence them, I can help you solve a problem so that this scene won't repeat itself in the future."
Hanl looked puzzled. Before he could ask a question, he felt the light and shadows shift before his eyes. When he came to his senses, he had already arrived at the ruins of the Cathedral of Soul Light from an unknown ritual point.
At the central point of the ritual in the ruins, there was a huge brazier.
The brazier in front of them was once a sacred object of the Soullight Cult, and it was through the brazier that the White Wolf entered the Midnight Graveyard plane.
Eileen approached the brazier, drew the Eternal Lake, and as the Sword of Honor and Order was activated, the lake's light soared into the sky, illuminating the entire night.
Then Eileen slashed downwards, the blade splitting the brazier in two, severing the connection between the Midnight Graveyard and the Tranquil Kingdom along with it.
In the Midnight Graveyard plane, all the remaining Soullight Churches, and the statues inside, were split in two like braziers.
The believers who were praying to the statue of God all looked up at the broken statue, their eyes filled with confusion.
Strange, what is this eye formed by flames, and why am I praying to it?
(End of this chapter)
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