In the name of the true god

"Beep—"

After 21 years of twists and turns, it all came to a straight line: Tang Ping, who had been battling cancer for more than two years, was officially pronounced dead by doctors in a hospice ward.

Tang Ping, who had long accepted this ending, suddenly felt his mind becoming clearer and clearer. A sharp pain, like needles, came from his temples on both sides. Unfamiliar memories poured in like a flood, sweeping through his consciousness.

Fortunately, this pain was nothing compared to the torment he suffered from late-stage cancer. He gritted his teeth and endured the initial shock, after which only certain sounds and images uncontrollably flashed through his mind—

Jude Vieira?

Implicate the wizard?

Telegraph machine?

Why do these things suddenly pop into my head?

The unusual situation made Tang Ping temporarily put aside the fragmented images in his mind. While cursing inwardly, he instinctively sat up and opened his eyes.

This place is completely different from the hospice ward I was in before I closed my eyes last time.

Spacious, bright, warm

No.

It was simple, cramped, dimly lit, and the air was polluted... but the overall layout was fairly square. After looking around completely, the layout was immediately apparent.

On the far right is a bed board that is supported by two bricks, slightly raised above the ground, and covered with only a thin blanket.

Directly in front of you, against the wall, is a long, mottled table piled with miscellaneous items.

The space on the far left is deep, with a staircase leading upwards that can be vaguely seen. Given that there are no doors or windows on any of the four sides, the staircase suggests that this cramped and cluttered space is most likely a basement.

As for what comes next...

Tang Ping turned his head and glanced over, and there was a pale-faced middle-aged male corpse curled up there!

Fortunately, he had faced death before, so when he suddenly came into contact with a corpse, he only felt a jolt in his heart, but did not panic to the point of shouting and losing his composure.

However, as a series of counterintuitive and counter-intuitive situations arose, he could still feel the hairs on his body standing on end.

next moment.

It's as smooth and natural as breathing.

As Tang Ping tried to sort out the current situation and answer the corresponding questions, scenes from his life that did not belong to him began to flash through his mind like a revolving lantern.

Jude Vieira.

He is also twenty-one years old this year, and was born in the year 427 of the Divine Calendar in North Phu City of the Kingdom of Florence. His mother died in childbirth, so he lived with his father and brother from a young age.

While attending a primary charity school at the age of thirteen, her increasingly eccentric father and her newly adult brother broke off their relationship. Her brother then eloped with a nobleman from the capital and was never heard from again.

At the age of eighteen, unable to bear the atmosphere at home any longer, he left his father without saying goodbye and went to the royal capital Montorus to make a living and search for his brother's whereabouts.

Due to his mediocre abilities, for the three years he struggled in the capital, he basically earned a meager wage by doing manual labor such as loading and unloading "Black Stones". He subsisted on bland potatoes or moldy black bread, and shared a cheap apartment with a group of people. He didn't even have a bed that was completely his own. His life was utterly miserable.

Until three days ago, Jude unexpectedly met the short, stout, and thinning-haired middle-aged man at the dock. The man claimed to be a wizard persecuted by the Holy Church, and after only shaking hands with Jude, he made a miraculous assertion that Jude was from North Point City and had an older brother who had been out of contact for eight years.

Thinking that he had never revealed his family's shameful past to anyone since arriving in the capital, and that the fat wizard had personally promised to find his brother, Jude, who was eager to change his situation, finally chose to believe him and agreed to gather 100 gold coins in three days in exchange for his brother's whereabouts.

Then, after three days, Jude, who had not borrowed a single penny, reluctantly came to negotiate with the fat wizard again, but unexpectedly the other party suddenly slapped a ball of golden light into his chest and then died instantly.

etc--

Realizing he might have transmigrated, and while processing his memories in surprise and disbelief, Tang Ping suddenly grasped the key point.

The main point, of course, is not that "his" brother came out as gay.

Instead, based on the memories and the fat wizard's revelations, it turns out that there are actually extraordinary powers in this other world!

First, there are the four holy churches that worship different gods. Their priests can, to some extent, control the power of the four elements: earth, wind, water, and fire, through prayer!

Aside from the 'Priests', there is another group of heretics in this other world who follow evil spirits. They possess two kinds of power of law that are different from those of the 'Priests'. One type is called 'Entanglement Wizards' and the other type is called 'Resonance Sorcerers'!

"Holy crap... Is this for real?" While struggling to process the overwhelming amount of information, Tang Ping looked at his strong, healthy new body in disbelief.

This abrupt turn in his life was even more dramatic than the fact that he was diagnosed with cancer shortly after entering university.

He unconsciously thought of his short life, which was difficult to summarize simply as "happy" or "miserable," and of his parents, whom he was determined to save at all costs.

There is resentment, and even more reluctance, but... if the loved ones who also bear the pain but unconditionally support them knew that they had been reborn in another world, they would probably be genuinely happy for them.

"call……"

Thanks to an indescribable sense of gratitude, Tang Ping was more accepting of the current situation than he had imagined. It only took him a few minutes to calm down and fix his gaze on the long table directly opposite the fat wizard's corpse.

There was a letter and a ring laid out there, seemingly left for the fat wizard himself.

He took two steps forward and placed the letter under the chandelier to examine it carefully.

The letter was very brief:

From today onwards, you will simultaneously be an Entanglement Wizard and a Resonance Sorcerer.

Tang Ping studied this deliberately mysterious last words several times, but he still felt completely confused.

He put down the letter and picked up the ring, which resembled a Möbius strip, to examine it. It was of moderate size, of unknown material, and was predominantly silver and blue, without any other embellishments.

It's probably not an ordinary object.

After studying it for a while without making any progress, Tang Ping had no choice but to put away the letters and ring and start thinking about the most pressing problem at hand.

What should be done with the fat wizard's corpse?

The other party is a wizard wanted by the Holy Church. If it is discovered that you have a close connection with him, you will most likely get into trouble.

Tang Ping hurriedly recalled the details of his two encounters with the fat wizard.

Fortunately, they were both careful during their meetings and were not seen by anyone else.

So... as long as I make a clean getaway now and act as if nothing happened, I should be safe?

Or, to be on the safe side, they could fabricate a cause of death for the fat wizard that might not attract much attention, so that even if his body were discovered, it wouldn't alarm the church at all.

Ah!

Just do it!

Having finally been given a new lease on life, we must proceed with extreme caution!

Tang Ping scanned his surroundings again. After a moment, he took a deep breath, dragged the fat wizard's corpse back to the bed, and piled several bottles of beer from the table into his arms... Finally, he found some matches, lit the candle, and deliberately pushed it over onto the bed.

Drunk, fire... that should be enough to fool people.

After all, we lack the resources and experience, so this is the best we can do.

Tang Ping sighed softly, watching the flames spread and rise rapidly across the flammable bed.

This scene once again stirred up childhood memories for the body of "Jude".

In the not-so-clear and complete footage, he heard the crowd chanting wildly, "Kill all the wizards! Kill all the sorcerers!", and saw flames and heat waves engulfing a domestic pig tied to the center of firewood.

It turns out that he was the owner of a pig farm in Beipu City back then.

It is said that he became a resonance mage and secretly tried to imitate the domestic pigs he was most familiar with, but unexpectedly, after an out-of-control "resonance", he was turned into a pig forever.

To avoid being discovered, the farm owner had no choice but to write his identity on the ground just before being slaughtered. In the end, the terrified butcher exposed him to the church, which then publicly executed him by burning at the stake.

Memories are fading...

In the firelight, Tang Ping looked ashen.

Are you kidding me...?

If you implicate a wizard or a resonance sorcerer, you'll suffer the consequences if you're involved with just one of them. If you're caught by the church, you'll be burned at the stake eight hundred times over!