The undead have descended upon the world? I possess a sword that can cleave the heavens once more!

Through that blurry barrier, Wu You could see a familiar humanoid figure standing in the middle of the gray-green stone house.

It was his cheap follower, Erin.

In front of him were several tall, human-shaped figures wearing some kind of leather armor, sitting on rough stone chairs.

The leather armor worn by those tall, humanoid figures did not appear to be mass-produced standard equipment; each piece had different signs of wear, and the armor plates were stained with dark, dried blood.

The leather-armored humanoid figure sitting in the middle was the tallest, and its shoulder armor had an extra dark trim, probably a mark of some kind of identity.

At this moment, the seated figures in leather armor seemed to be saying something to the familiar figure in the middle of the stone house.

Wu You slightly focused her attention.

Those strangely accented languages ​​then pierced through that blurry barrier and were understood by Wu You.

"Aelin, once again you have defied the fortress's prohibitions and prayed with a fabricated name. We should sentence you to death." The speaker was the tall, leather-armored figure sitting in the middle, his voice rough and deep.

At this point, the rough and deep voice paused, as if giving Erin a chance to explain.

But Erin didn't speak; he just stood there in silence.

Seeing this, the leather-armored figure in the middle sighed before continuing, "But considering that your father made many contributions to the fortress..."

"This time, we still will not execute you."

"Instead, I'll just reduce your food rations for three days as punishment."

"But if there is a next time, we will not tolerate it."

"you."

"Do you understand?"

In the middle of the stone house, the human-shaped figure who had heard the final verdict did not nod, did not shake his head, and did not even show any emotion in his eyes.

He simply turned around numbly and walked out of the gray-green stone house without saying a word.

Looking at that numb figure, the leather-armored figures sitting on the rough stone chair also fell silent.

Their eyes followed Erin's retreating figure until he disappeared from sight.

A moment later, the leather-armored humanoid figure sitting in the middle sighed deeply: "If only Ike were still here."

The leather-armored figures sitting on either side also sighed:

"Now, the mystery lock set up by His Highness Dawn is gradually losing its effectiveness, the attacks of the alien corpses are becoming more and more frequent, and the casualties in the fortress are getting heavier and heavier."

"How much longer can we... hold on...?"

Strange corpses? Could it refer to a type of corpse?

Wu You's consciousness flickered slightly behind that blurry barrier.

Wu You originally thought that only corpse species existed in the Corpse Realm.

However, after receiving a prayer from the figure named Erin and confirming with the God of Beasts that this place was indeed located in the Corpse Realm, he overturned his previous view.

Besides the corpse species, there are still some normal life forms in the Corpse Realm.

Moreover, judging from what we've heard so far, these humanoid beings are clearly not zombies, and seem to be hostile to them.

In addition, Wu You also glimpsed a corner of the extraordinary power of this world from words such as "fortress" and "mystery lock".

Behind these words lies a unique system and set of rules that belong to this world.

This greatly piqued his curiosity.

Then, Wu You, feeling the increasingly strong repulsive force acting on him, realized that his time was running out.

He immediately snapped out of his reverie and focused his gaze on the figure that emerged from the gray-green stone house.

His consciousness silently passed through the wall of the stone house and landed above Erin, who was walking with his head down.

Upon exiting the stone house, Wu You saw the surrounding environment.

The stone houses are scattered throughout the area, not in neat rows, but rather scattered here and there. They are all different in shape, some tall and some short, some built with gray-green stones, and some built with darker, almost pure black stones.

The streets between the stone houses are paved with irregularly shaped stone slabs and are fairly smooth.

At this moment, apart from that figure walking with his head down, there were no other figures on the street.

Without having time to observe the environment of the other world, Wu You immediately began his own experiment.

The detailed procedures of the bestowal ceremony flashed through Wu You's mind.

He confirmed that he had not misremembered any details, and then began to invoke the power originating from divinity.

The golden divinity that had settled deep within his consciousness began to flow slowly under his will, converging from the depths of his consciousness toward the pale golden thread.

The next moment, with the blessing of sufficient divinity, the pale golden thread that connected him and the believer suddenly brightened.

The moment the pale gold threads brightened, Wu You felt a strange sensation: he was able to bestow gifts!

At that moment, Erin, who was walking home, suddenly stopped in her tracks.

He suddenly raised his head, his eyes shifting from numbness to shock.

His gaze was fixed on the seemingly empty space in mid-air, and he unconsciously murmured, "God..."

If anyone else were here, they would notice that although the place Erin was looking at was empty, his eyes reflected a dazzling silver-white light!

The radiance swirled slowly deep within his pupils, like a miniature, newly formed nebula.

Then, before Erin could react, tiny but bright silver specks of light began to seep out of the air around him, dripping into the rough, blurry world.

The points of light converged before him, then gathered, compressed, and condensed towards the same center.

A moment later, a tiny, silver-white sword, shimmering with light, slowly took shape in the air in front of him.

But at that moment, Erin had no time to notice the strange scene unfolding around him!

His entire attention, all his senses, his very being, were swallowed up in that instant by the pair of silver eyes he saw.

Or rather, now his entire world consists only of those two enormous silver eyes that hang high in the clouds, so large they blot out the sky and completely occupy his entire field of vision!

He could even see countless stars twinkling in those eyes, forming an endless galaxy, with silvery starlight constantly shining as the galaxy flowed.

He was so immersed in the breathtaking scene that his knees bent unconsciously, his body sank, and he knelt down.

His whole body was trembling involuntarily:

"It's Him..."

"So He's always been there..."

But this is not the end.

In Erin's mind, words kept appearing out of thin air, as if an invisible pen was carving them stroke by stroke deep within his consciousness.

The strokes of those characters were strange; they were not any kind of script he recognized, yet he could directly understand their meaning: "Basic Sword Techniques of Martial Arts (Part 1)".

Clearly aware of what this situation meant, a kind of fanaticism, burning from within and seemingly capable of burning all hesitation and fear to ashes, also emerged in Erin's eyes.

"Divine revelation!"

"This is divine revelation...!"

After an unknown amount of time, the pair of eyes that had filled Erin's entire field of vision finally disappeared, as if they had never appeared at all.

Those stars, that galaxy, that silvery radiance, like the receding tide, slowly faded from Erin's vision, growing fainter and farther away, until only a faint silvery afterglow remained deep in his pupils.

At this moment, Erin finally came to his senses and noticed the tiny silver sword beside him.

It lay quietly on the rough stone road, its silver-white blade standing out against the dark ground, the starlight on its blade still swirling slightly, as if it were breathing.

He reached out and picked up the small silver sword, placing it close to his chest, near where his heart was beating.

Then he looked up at the now empty, gray sky, his eyes filled with fervor:

"As I expected..."

"Being watched by the gods!!!"