The copy has 0 error tolerance, and the last words on the ground are all wrong for me.

Chapter 427 The Knight of Apocalypse
Mercury was caught off guard by Hela's sneak attack, and was unable to defend against it.

The underground shelter copy is located in the middle layer and has not entered the realm of reason; it is also restricted by the dimensional barrier.

The body Mercury appeared in the secret research institute was merely a projection of a god, not his true form.

His projected body, relying on its divinity, was able to chase the painter away, but it was no match for Hela, who had completely mastered the divinity of death, and could only be unilaterally ravaged by Hela.

He wanted to preserve his strength and escape with the projection, but within Hela's nascent divine kingdom, he couldn't even leave.

It only held out for a few minutes before its head was chopped off and its projection dissipated.

Before gaining divinity, Hela was just an ordinary surface girl who didn't know much about the gods.

She was only puzzled as to why Mercury's spirit hadn't appeared after his death, unaware that Mercury was still alive.

This prevented her from fleeing immediately after winning; instead, she used her divine power to connect with the underworld ritual, attempting to become the master of the ritual.

She remembered Mercury saying that if she didn't want everything she knew to disappear, she should take control of the divinity of death and the underworld.

It must be said that Mercury has a keen eye for people. Hela is indeed a promising candidate when it comes to mastering the divinity of death, and she has successfully taken over the rituals of the underworld.

Through the rituals of the underworld, she sensed the souls of her deceased clansmen, as well as the souls of other test subjects who had been devoured by the underworld.

Through the divinity of death, she sealed these souls within their original bodies, thus "resurrecting" them.

The resurrected dead have the same bodies as when they were alive, and can still grow, move freely, and feel the world.

For example, in the experimental subject, there was a surface human who had a very good relationship with her; the two had known each other since childhood.

The other party fused with the fantastical divinity of the hellhound Gam, but unfortunately the progress was not good, which led to him being used as a sacrifice in the Underworld Project.

After waking him, Hela, through her mastery of the divinity of death, helped him awaken the divinity within him and merge with Gam.

Perhaps because they had died once, those who were resurrected by her abilities all broke free from the control of the Light Society.

However, they had died once, and resurrection always comes at a price.

Those resurrected by Hela pay the price of mental confusion and impaired reasoning.

They can follow their instincts to accomplish most things in life, such as eating, drinking, defecating, hunting, and sleeping, but when it comes to thinking and conversing, they find it extremely difficult.

Memories of the past have become hazy and unclear; they can only vaguely recall each other's identities.

Often, she needs to give detailed instructions to complete complex tasks.

While she was trying to stop the underworld ritual from triggering the death energy on the surface and turning the entire planet into the underworld, she was also trying to improve the resurrection methods and make the resurrected intelligent.

We've arrived at Guangming Society.

The leader of the team was none other than Mercury, the head of the secret research institute.

The projection was almost chopped into mincemeat by Hela with her twin swords, and his head was cut off. He deeply felt Hela's power and also discovered the good deed done by the painter.

With Hela blocking his way, he had lost control of the painter's aura, and the other party had probably already escaped back to the Desolate Realm.

All they can do now is eliminate Hela, reclaim the unreal divinity of the Goddess of Death, and minimize their losses.

In order to deal with Hela, he summoned other official members of the Light Society this time.

Although they were all restricted by the middle layer and could only send projections to the scene, making them no match for Hela, they still had the advantage of sheer numbers.

Including Mercury himself, he brought a total of fifteen official members of the Light Society this time, including many familiar faces that Wu had seen before, such as Peren and Akso who had appeared at the Anthem Company, as well as Hercules, whom he had killed.

Besides the fighting force needed to confront the four major organizations, Mercury pulled in all the other available personnel from the Light Society.

Hela, who can unleash the full power of a lower-level god in the middle level, is certainly powerful, but her control over divinity only exists in the most basic instincts and she lacks practical experience.

The members of the Light Society are not individually strong, but their application of divinity far surpasses that of Hela, and all the Light Society members selected have been screened by Mercury.

They either have a strong immunity to death or a certain degree of restraint in the face of death.

Relying on their numbers, teamwork, and combat experience, they managed to kill Gam and Hela at the cost of six divine projections.

As Hela lay dying, she remembered what she had done for Gam and her people. With her last strength, she cast her soul into the underworld and was resurrected.

Even Mercury and the others were dumbfounded when faced with Hela, who had returned from the underworld and whose aura had become even stronger.

Defeating a fully-formed god in the middle level is an extremely difficult task, even for the Komyo Society.

If Hela could be resurrected, and even become stronger with each death, then let alone reclaiming the Goddess of Death's divine essence, even if the entire Light Society were to come out in force, they might not be able to defeat Hela in the middle level.

Just when Mercury and the others thought that all the projections that had descended this time would be destroyed, they discovered that the reborn Hela seemed to have lost her self-awareness and had become extremely quiet.

She and the reborn Gam remained inside the secret research facility and did not rush out to attack them.

After sacrificing two more divine projections, Mercury and the others discovered that Hela simply wouldn't leave the secret research facility on her own initiative. Once they dared to step inside, they would still attract "hatred" and trigger an attack from her.

Seeing that things were beyond saving, Mercury and the others could only seal off the secret research institute from the outside to prevent others from discovering the anomaly there, and wait for an opportunity to retrieve Hela's divine status in the future.

With the secret research facility sealed off from the outside, Hela's resentment came to an end.

Hela, or rather all the experimental subjects who died in the secret research institute, harbored a common resentment directed at the Light Society. When Hela received the help of the painter and broke free from the Mercury Contract, she had already eliminated all the other staff members in the secret research institute.

Mercury was the only one who had not died.

The resentment was ultimately directed at Mercury.

[Slay Mercury completely, and let the souls of the dead rest in peace.]

The latter part of the resentment's final, blood-red testament was quite simple: he had already used the Soul Cleansing Banner to deliver all the souls within Hela's body.

As for the first half, he cannot finish killing Mercury in a short time. He needs to wait until he enters the Realm of Reason before he can find an opportunity to do so.

Wu Chang's consciousness left Hela's resentment, and he had a general understanding of everything that had happened in the underground shelter dimension.

Judging from the visions in Hela's resentment, the establishment of the secret research institute occurred after Mercury transformed Underground Shelter No. 88 into the Pillar of the Present World.

The appearance of the Pillar of the Present World brought the entire plane into the intermediate layer, fulfilling the conditions for the Light Society to establish a secret research institute.

While Mercury was hiding around He Yun and his sister, he also set his sights on this place due to the unique conditions of this plane.

They then used this place as a pillar of the present world, and outside of it, they established a secret research institute, using the death energy and souls in the plane to build the Temple of Death.

The underground people initially used to lure the surface dwellers into a trap should be the same Bliss Cult members who massacred the No. 87 underground shelter, as mentioned by He Yun and his sister.

They weren't as lucky as He Yun and his sister. As their plane entered the middle layer, the suppression on the Mercury projection decreased, which was a devastating blow to the Bliss Cult followers who were still at the level of the Desolate Realm.

This made Mercury tired of his act halfway through, so he took action and violently took control of the Elysium followers.

Wu Chang curled his lip. Once a person's fist is big enough, they don't like to use their brain. Not only him, but also Mercury and others are the same.

Under Mercury's overwhelming power, the secret research institute was successfully established, and a large number of qualified surface people were sent into it as experimental subjects.

Hela, as the most successful target, received Mercury's special attention, and he designed the Underworld Project for her, attempting to use the entire planet as a sacrifice to outline the mythical Underworld, thereby helping the goddess of death within Hela to mature and even ascend to godhood.

Unfortunately, during the Underworld Project, the painter broke into the secret research institute and stole the tools for creating the imagined divinity.

In order to deal with the painter, Mercury, who is skilled in pursuit, had no choice but to abandon Hela and go after the painter.

Who would have thought that when the painter stole the Imaginary Divine Tablet, he also peeked into the files inside the secret research institute and identified Hela.

He seized the opportunity to find Hela, using her help to break free of her restraints as leverage to get her to remove Mercury's mark, allowing him to escape back to the Wasteland. Freed from control, Hela, fueled by her resentment, behaved less like a goddess of death and more like a war goddess, single-handedly defeating numerous members of the Light Society, sending them fleeing in terror.

Unfortunately, having only numerical values ​​without skill and awareness led to their demise under siege.

Although Hela was resurrected through the divinity of death, she did not have time to find a way to restore the mind of the resurrected before her resurrection. As a result, although she was alive, she was like a living dead, with only simple attack instincts remaining.

The Light Society is currently unable to deal with Hela, so they can only seal her away for now. If all goes well, they will wait until after the World Dungeon is over, when the middle layer is supported by the World Dungeon and can accommodate higher-level power, before they can reclaim Hela's divinity.

Unfortunately, the underground shelter instance was taken as a private instance by Wu Chang, so they had no way to enter.

Wu Chang sighed. If Hela had a slightly higher level of control over her divinity and had been able to remain conscious during her resurrection, once her divinity had fully matured, she might have truly surpassed Amber's Gaia status.

When he confronts the Light Society in the realm of reason, he will have another powerful ally.

Unfortunately, Hela had too little time to finish all of this.

With Hela's death, the Underworld Project completely spiraled out of control, triggering the death energy on the planet's surface and plunging the entire surface into a deathly gray.

After briefly recounting the events, Wu Chang told Eileen and He Yun about everything that had happened on the planet.

Upon hearing this information, He Yi felt isolated once again. Why was he the only one curious about how Wu Chang knew all this?
He asked a question, but before Wu Chang could answer, He Yun deflected the question for him.

“It’s psychic ability. Wu Chang has psychic abilities. He used this ability when he saved you, brother.”

He Yi was highly skeptical that his sister could communicate in such detail, but since she had already told him, he couldn't ask any further questions.

Once the cause and effect are clarified by understanding the resentment, the next step is to resolve the troubles from back then.

But before that, he must first reclaim the divinity that Mercury so desperately desired.

Wu Chang came to Hela's body and took out a ball of light formed from gray mist from between her eyebrows.

Item Name: Seed of Death (Unripe)

Item Type: Special

"Item Description: A divine seed containing the power of death and soul manipulation. The seed contains powerful death energy. Activating it through the right method will grant powerful death divinity. If the divine seed is allowed to fully mature, the effect will be further enhanced."

"Note: Death is the final destination that even the gods cannot escape. You do not have to walk towards twilight; twilight will come to you naturally."

Wu Chang took out the plague seed that had burst from the Fly King's body and the famine seed that had burst from Xavier's body from his personal space.

With the addition of the Divine Power of Strife inherent in him as a Knight of Strife, he has now gathered the four divine powers of plague, war, famine and death. These four powers together inevitably remind people of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse who would bring about the end of the world.

When he obtained the Plague Seed, he had a vague premonition, but divine seeds are rare and hard to come by. Even in the Realm of Reason, it is extremely difficult to find a powerful divine seed. So he just thought about it and didn't think about it too much.

Who knew that by sheer coincidence, he would actually manage to collect a complete set of divinity.

He hadn't specifically sought them out, yet these divine beings popped up one by one, crowding around him, as if there were some kind of bond between the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, drawing them to each other.

Now he had to consider whether the next job advancement for the Strife Knight should be to align himself with the Apocalypse Knight.

He felt the four divinities he possessed, among which the death divinity belonging to Hela was out of place with the other three.

Because Hela had not completed the underworld ritual before falling into a half-dead state, and because there was no one to restrain her, when the surface of the underground sanctuary fell into a state of death, she had already lost her mind and was sealed in a secret research institute, which prevented the Hela divinity within her from truly maturing.

Even so, the Death Seed in its semi-mature state was still far superior to the other divine seeds in Wu Chang's possession.

Moreover, from the perspective of mythological setting, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are just four henchmen, and their status is not as high as Hela's.

His strife divinity, having stolen Lyman's chaotic power, is reasonably rankable, but his plague and famine divinities are far from adequate.

Forcing them together is unacceptable; we can't just wait until death and strife erupt in chaos before the other two divinities declare, "The four of us are truly powerful!"

To get them to debut as a group and complete the divinity of death, we also need to find a way to improve the divinity of plague and famine.

Wu Chang put the three divine seeds back into his personal space and continued with his business.

Following Hela's resentment, he led Eileen and the others to the core area behind the research department, which was originally the resonance laboratory where experimental subjects fused with the imagined divinity.

Inside the Resonance Laboratory, the Resonance Platform that fused with the idealized divinity has disappeared and been transformed into a massive stitching ritual.

Inside the ceremony, you can see futuristic high-tech devices, mystical rituals with various props and runes, and primitive sacrificial offerings such as stone carvings.

This is the center of the underworld rituals.

At the very center of the ceremony stood a statue of a woman, half beautiful and half ferocious, clearly resembling Hela.

Wu Chang pointed to Hela's statue and said to Eileen:
"It is the source of the anomaly in this entire plane. All we need to do is sever it to restore everything."

He Yi was completely confused after hearing this. He looked at He Yun, waiting for his sister's explanation.

However, He Yun didn't understand Wu Chang's meaning this time either. She could only give He Yi a look and let him figure it out himself. But she forgot that she was a drone now and couldn't give a look.

While the two were staring at each other, Eileen already knew Wu Chang's meaning and drew out the Eternal Lake.

As the Sword of Order was activated, the lake light on its blade shot into the sky, forcibly drawing the attention of He Yun and his sister.

He Yi said enviously, "Xiaoyun, I want this."

Before He Yun could reply, Eileen had already wielded the Light of Eternity and slashed vertically at Hela's statue.

The statue split in two from the middle, separating beauty and grotesqueness, before dissipating into two clumps of ashes.

Click.

A subtle but clear sound of shattering rang in their ears simultaneously. The next moment, the powerful restorative force of the Sword of Order reversed the underworld ritual.

Wu Chang entered the perspective of the temporary administrator and could see that the grayish-white color of the ground, centered on the secret research institute, was gradually fading away.

The rate of decline was not as fast as the evolution of the surface purification generator, but although the decline was slow, it was very thorough, and all the areas that had returned to normal were revitalized.

To ensure the operation of the underground shelter, He Yun remained by the surface purification generator on the third underground floor, observing the purification status of the surface.

Almost at the same time that Wu Chang noticed the changes on the ground, He Yun also noticed the changes in Colette City and exclaimed in surprise.

He Yi asked, "Xiao Yun, what happened?"

He Yun said, "The anomalies on the surface have begun to reverse. I'm afraid I can't create the function you want for the time being."

Wu Chang took out the Omniscient Crystal and inquired about its surface purification process.

The Omniscient Crystal told him that the surface purification would be faster than the Underworld Project, but restoring the planet to normal would be an extremely long process, taking at least ten months to a year.

But one thing is certain: Eileen's sword strike did indeed reverse the deathly stillness of the plane, bringing life back to the surface.

As the Omniscient Crystal gave a definite answer, Wu Chang's title "Luck Stealer" was activated, and a prompt appeared before his eyes.

"Players save the desolate wasteland of plane 9876, bringing it back to life and completely altering its course, allowing the survivors of that plane to return to the surface. Players gain a large amount of luck from this change."

"Player in the Wasteland - Dimensional Luck +100".

"Player's permanent luck +10".

"When a player's permanent luck reaches 30, the player will be more likely to obtain high-value items during exploration in any plane, and all non-hostile intelligent beings will subconsciously show friendliness towards you."

(End of this chapter)