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"Goddess, how long have you been playing games?"

Outside the residence of the Goddess of Magic, the Pope asked nervously.

As the Pope, he should have unwavering faith in the Goddess, believe that Her power is omnipotent, and that all Her actions have their reasons.

But no matter what, staying in the game from morning till dark is not a normal thing, and it is hard not to make some associations.

"Almost ten hours."

Saint Astrid replied.

As the person closest to the goddess, my only job now is to take care of her daily life.

In fact, Lindsay's life doesn't require any care, and the saint's main role here is to entertain people.

"Ten hours..."

How can you play a game for ten hours straight?

Based on the Pope's understanding of games, he never thought there was any reason for a game to be worth playing for such a long time.

Even though he had to play games for quite a long time every day in order to provide faith for the goddess, he didn't feel any joy.

On the contrary, I feel dizzy.

He would rather go back to the original prayer space where there was nothing in it.

It is much easier for him to stay focused for a few hours than to experience dizziness for a few hours in the virtual world.

He also believed that the magic goddess who possessed supreme power would not have much interest in games. The classics recorded that the goddess never indulged in pleasure.

Therefore, faced with the goddess's sudden behavior of playing games for ten hours in a row, a very disrespectful idea popped up in the Pope's mind.

Could it be that the goddess is about to die?

Although this idea sounded ridiculous, the more the Pope thought about it, the more he felt that this absurd idea made some sense.

First of all, the goddess does not look to be in good condition. She is a very old lady, but she still has extremely powerful magical powers. But this does not mean that her body is in good condition.

For thousands of years, he has relied on magic to prolong his life. Although magic is powerful, it always has a limit. Perhaps the end is coming soon.

That is why He is so eager to pursue eternal life and command the church to take such extreme actions.

Although the church was once a powerful force, its oppression of the people was not as exaggerated as it is today.

The more the Pope thought about it, the more it made sense.

Maybe it looks like you are still playing the game, but in fact you have been gone for a while.

No one dared to go forward and check the goddess's breathing.

It's getting bad.

The Pope began to get anxious. What if, just what if, the goddess really came to the end of her life? Based on what the church had done, none of them, the Pope, bishops, and crusaders, would be able to escape. They would all be severely punished.

Nothing can happen to the goddess now, at least not before she dies.

"Go and fetch Bishop Drogo!"

……

Bishop Drogo is just called a bishop. In fact, he has no position in the church, and he does not want a position in the church.

Therefore, his current status should be considered as "Honorary Bishop".

However, since this honor was bestowed by the Magic Goddess herself, her status in the church is quite high.

Therefore, the person sent by the Pope was very respectful to Drogo.

"What's up? It's the first day of Lord of the Rings, and there's a lot to do here."

Drogo was not very willing to go to the Holy City of the Church.

It's always stressful when you're too close to the Magic Goddess.

Besides, wasn’t the response to the launch of The Lord of the Rings quite good? Some players even played for longer than the required time. So why would he need to go?

"It's like this. The goddess has been connected to the virtual mask for more than ten hours. His Holiness the Pope urgently needs your help to confirm the goddess' current condition."

"More than ten hours?"

Drogo was also a little surprised.

This thousand-year-old witch is addicted to the Internet.

"But what does it mean to confirm the status? Why should we care about how many hours the goddess plays games?"

"We want to know the situation of the goddess in the game so that we can better serve her in it."

The priest who came to inform answered.

Of course the Pope could not directly ask the goddess whether she was dead or alive, as that would be extremely disrespectful to everyone.

So I can only be tactful and ask the goddess about her situation in the game. If she is AFK in the game and has no response at all, it means that something must have happened to the goddess.

Drogo understood what he meant.

The church should also build a church in the game and continue to be the goddess's follower.

Don’t understand, but respect.

So, Drogo came to the Holy City with a host that had the authority to view and modify background data.

Of course he couldn't just give the authority to the church, because who knew what they would do.

Soon, Drogo saw the Pope, who was pacing back and forth outside the Goddess's residence in extreme anxiety.

Only when he saw Drogo did he finally manage to smile.

"Bishop Drogo, you are finally here. As a devout servant of the goddess, I have not been able to follow her steps for the past ten hours. I am really ashamed. As the most devout believer, I should also spread the glory of the goddess in the virtual world."

As the Pope spoke, tears welled up in his eyes, as if not playing games with the goddess was a huge dereliction of duty.

Drogo directly called up the goddess's background data.

This system for viewing player information can not only check the retained data, but also synchronize the actual scenes in real time. In other words, if you want, you can secretly monitor what any player is doing.

However, Drogo only took a few glances and said to the Pope: "I think the goddess may not really need to be followed in the game. She is having a lot of fun as an ordinary player now."

"what?"

The Pope breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the goddess was still playing. She was fine, she just played crazily for ten hours.

What he himself had not expected was that when he learned that the goddess was fine, in addition to relief, he also felt a little lost. His belief in the goddess had made him a little tired, and his thoughts quietly turned to disrespect.

He hid this dissatisfaction very well.

At the same time he noticed another problem.

"What does it mean to play as an ordinary player?"

"look by youself."

Drogo turned the console monitor around and captured the perspective of the player's screen from the height of the picture on the screen. This was done by NONO, who was disguised as an intelligent assistant.

The picture shows a slightly dark cave, with light magic and torches providing lighting.

A team of four adventurers, all wearing tattered equipment that had been pieced together, were advancing cautiously.

From the weapons they used, one could roughly tell that this was a team composed of warriors, mages, druids, and rangers, and they were visibly poor and of low level.

There's no way to get high. I've been online for less than a day. Even if I've been playing, how high can my proficiency be?

The Pope was confused.

"Who is this person..."

"It's just the mage in the team. Our great goddess is experiencing the life of an ordinary mage."

"Ah?" The Pope racked his brains but couldn't figure out what was so good about this experience.

If ordinary wizards were asked to experience what it's like to be a god of magic, I guess all wizards would want to try it.

While he was wondering, the team on the screen encountered the enemy.

Several goblins came out of the shadows holding bone clubs. It was very obvious that none of the players in the team were professionals in real life. They panicked when they met the enemy. Not to mention the problem of proficiency, the movements of using weapons alone did not seem like they had real-life experience.

The other three are understandable. After all, this game provides ordinary people with a fantasy platform to become professionals and experience exciting adventure stories.

But why can't the wizard that Lindsay incarnate use even the freeze ray properly?

You can't even hit a goblin five meters away.

"Are you sure this is a goddess?" The Pope still couldn't believe it.

"very sure."

Drogo directly grabbed the mask number used by Lindsay. Every device logged in will have a unique number.

Unless the one lying on the recliner is not Lindsay, then this crappy wizard in the game is the goddess.

The game's shoddy combat continues.

The ranger fired several arrows into the air and the druid's staff almost hit him on the forehead.

The only one who looks like a human being is the warrior in the team, mainly because this profession is indeed easy to learn, wielding a long sword to fight against three goblins.

The "hard" battle lasted for five minutes. All members of the team were out of breath and slightly injured, but the victory was hard-won.

Looking at their appearance after the battle, if you didn’t know them, you would think they had fought against some very powerful monster.

However, even within this team where all the members are so incompetent, there is still internal discord.

The absolute main force of this battle, the warrior, took a breath and said, "Sterling."

It was Lindsay's name in the game.

"Why is your spell's hit rate so low?"

Before Lindsay could do anything, the Pope outside the screen got excited first.

"Disrespectful! Disrespectful! Bishop Drogo, we must find out who this warrior is!"

"Why are you in such a hurry? Can't the great goddess handle it herself?"

At this point in the game, the warriors are still exerting pressure.

"Check the output!"

A must-see aspect of MMO games is the team output statistics and rankings.

The warrior directly expands the data panel.

He was far ahead after killing three goblins alone, followed by the ranger. Although his shooting was not accurate, he had a fast shooting speed and was hit by several arrows in the end. As for the last two, the druid was ahead of Lindsay with a slight advantage.

Lindsay was a little embarrassed about being at the bottom of the output, and explained, "These low-level spells are too complicated to use, and I'm not used to them."

What she said was actually the truth. For the sake of playability, the game has greatly simplified the spellcasting process.

However, even with the simplified process, it is still much more troublesome than the magic goddess's habit of casting spells by just raising her hand.

This kind of spellcasting, which seriously violated her original habits, made her play worse than a novice with no spell foundation at all.

"whispering sound--"

The warrior didn't believe Lindsay's statement at all and just thought she was making excuses to save face.

"I think your gaming skills are preventing our team from challenging more difficult enemies, so please leave our team."

Drogo outside the screen couldn't hold it anymore.

The flow of quitting the team, it’s actually the flow of quitting the team!

Who would have thought that the wizard played by the magic goddess would be kicked out of the adventure team, eliminated at the last rank, and ruthlessly abandoned by the team leader.

Drogo has already begun to mourn for these unfortunate guys.

I have no idea how to save these people.

The Pope was still shouting: "This is disobedience to God! This is disobedience to God!"

At this time, Lindsay stood up.

Her ferocious eyes seemed to want to eat people. The other three people in the team were also frightened by her and did not dare to speak for a while.

At this super tense moment, Lindsay suddenly smiled.

"Sorry to trouble you. Goodbye."

Then exit the game directly.

Now neither Drogo nor the Pope can do anything about it.

What’s going on? It’s impossible that the goddess really turned into a tolerant god all of a sudden.

Soon, Lindsay took off her mask and walked out of the room. It turned out that disgusting teammates are the most effective way to quit Internet addiction.

Lindsay noticed Drogo.

"You just happened to be here."

Drogo didn't know what was going to happen to him next, and he was very annoyed.

Lindsay said calmly, "I feel that an immortal body will be born soon. The moment I move toward immortality must be witnessed by all Felin."

“I’ll be ready for a simulcast.”

"No, it's not just live broadcasting. Faith is gathered in the space of consciousness, so I want to achieve immortality in consciousness and move from consciousness to reality."

"What do you mean?" Drogo still didn't understand what Lindsay wanted to do.

"I will hold a sacrifice in the Lord of the Rings, where all the faith will be gathered. At that time, I will appear as an ordinary wizard, and then all the players will witness my ascension to godhood together."

Lindsay also arranged a script for himself to become a god.

"Um, we are currently unable to support all players online at the same time."

"Really? Then a few players must be online. I'll give you their accounts."

Drogo understood now. The reason why he didn't attack his former teammates in the game just now was that he was waiting to show his power in front of everyone during the sacrifice.

how old are you?
Lindsay continued, "Drogo, I now appoint you as Cardinal. You will be solely responsible for the design of the online sacrifice."

Not long after becoming a bishop, Drogo was promoted to a higher rank.

The cardinal is second only to the pope in the church.

Without waiting for Lindsay to give a time limit, Drogo spoke directly.

"I have a preliminary design for the activities of powerful enemies around the world."

"A powerful enemy in the world?"

"Yes, it's a large-scale event that all online players can participate in. Players unite to fight against the powerful Sauron, but Sauron's strength is beyond the players' ability. At this time, you appear, and all players gather their faith to help you defeat the devil Sauron."

"Oh, that sounds good. Let's follow this plan."

Lindsay spoke in a calm tone, but the smile on her face, which was difficult to hide, betrayed her thoughts.

It fits her imagination of the true process of becoming a god.

It reminded her of her most glorious days, when she defeated other gods in the war of gods.

I couldn't help but feel overwhelmed.

"If you do it well, you will be the next Pope."

As soon as these words were spoken, the current Pope, who had been keeping his head down, visibly shook his wide robe, but dared not say anything.

"Your expectations will be fully met," Drogo replied.

Afterwards, he left the Holy City and began to arrange matters related to the opening of the World Boss event.

However, in his imagination, the boss to be defeated in the end was not the devil Sauron.

And it is the Magic Goddess. (End of this chapter)