On my second playthrough, they were full of malice towards me.

Less than five seconds after drinking the potion, the four afflicted beings lay dead at Sthija's feet. Their life force vanished rapidly, and before they died, they stared at the nun with wide eyes, filled with disbelief and incredulity.

But the only response they received was a pair of eyes from Styutia that they had never seen before, eyes devoid of any emotion.

Chapter 240 An Old Married Couple

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Liao Ji now understands why, despite it being a simple dispatch mission that should have been safe, the system showed that most of the team members were dead or injured when they returned.

Liao Ji still remembers himself at the time. When he saw the assignment result, he immediately cursed the family members of the game planner of "The Fall" for who knows how many generations.

I don't know if it's too late to apologize now.

Thinking of this, Liao Ji couldn't help but turn his head to look at Styutia, who was watching the witch's illusion with him.

In response, the nun blinked her clear, bright sea-blue eyes and asked Liao Ji innocently:

"How strange, Lord Ash. Why are they all lying on the ground after drinking Tia's healing potion?"

"It must be because your medicine is too effective, Tia, causing them to generate too much heat in their bodies. That's why they need to lie on the ground, since it's cooler there and they can absorb the medicine better," Liao Ji replied without hesitation.

The nun clapped her hands after hearing this, her eyes sparkling with admiration as she looked at Liao Ji: "Lord Ash knows so much!"

"So-so."

There were still many phantoms left behind by the witch. Styutia quickly seemed to have discovered something and pulled Liao Ji to look at another phantom image.

Here stood an abandoned church. A tall man, shrouded in the shadows of a cloak, had just led the settlement's troops in clearing out the monstrous creatures from the abandoned church and was now counting the spoils of war.

Behind the church, Ash pulled a nun's habit from a storage box. At that moment, the little girl next to Ash immediately showed great interest in the nun's habit, her eyes sparkling.

Ash seemed to have sensed something, and before the little girl could speak, he handed her the nun's habit. The little girl excitedly took it, and seemed unable to wait to return to the settlement, so she went to an empty room next door.

A short while later, Sthija, now a little nun in her nun's habit, excitedly ran up to Ash, seemingly hoping for praise for her new clothes. Unfortunately, Ash remained silent, only nodding before turning and leaving. Although the little girl was a bit disappointed, she quickly rallied, secretly raising her little fist, and then ran after Ash with small, quick steps.

Liao Ji remembers this scene. At the time, he just had a sudden idea that the nun's habit would go well with St. Suttia, so he tried giving the clothes as a gift. Unexpectedly, it actually worked.

As for the little girl in her nun's habit who longs for his praise, Liao Ji really wanted to explain that when he saw Tia's new character design, he was already full of praise. Unfortunately, there was no such option in the game, so the protagonist he controlled could only be a cold and ruthless mute.

"Wait, Tia, you didn't start wearing the same clothes from here on out, did you?"

Liao Ji suddenly thought of a possibility: Could it be that Tia's path to becoming a nun and joining the church was due to his unintentional act?

"After all, this is the first time Lord Ash has given Tia clothes. Tia could wear them for a lifetime and still not have enough. No other clothes can compare to this one! She doesn't even want to take them off to sleep."

Seeing Liao Ji's hesitant expression, Si Xiutiya seemed to understand something and quickly explained, "But Tiya washes them every day! Including her socks, they're very clean! Not dirty at all, and there's no odor!"

"Uh, actually, you don't have to wash it."

"Oh really? So Lord Ash likes this kind of thing?" Styutia looked regretful after hearing this.

"No, what I mean is that you yourself smell sweet and are pure and without filth. Don't misunderstand."

While feeling helpless, Liao Ji also felt a little emotional. If she couldn't even bear to take off her clothes, then there was no need to ask what happened next. At that time, Styutia must have thought that she liked nuns, so she resolutely pursued that path.

Thinking of this, Liao Ji was no longer satisfied with just holding St. Sciutia's small hand, but instead pulled the nun's entire body into his arms.

The next scene between Liao Ji and Si Xiutiya resembled an old married couple looking at an old photo album.

They watched as the Ash Gathering rose from an unknown, obscure force struggling to survive and feed itself, to a rising star gathering community with some renown, and finally to a war with the Lanno Gathering, where it was successfully defeated, annexed, and became the new overlord of the region, the only super-large gathering community.

During this time, the Evil Ones gathered around the leader of the "Cloaked People" changed batch after batch, but the only one who remained unchanged was the little girl in a nun's habit who was always by his side.

Oh no, to be precise, it has changed.

As the settlement developed, food was no longer a problem. With various forms of nutrition, the little girl who once only reached Ash's waist had now grown to Ash's chest.

Besides his height, his development in all aspects is becoming more and more mature, which can be seen from another phantom scene.

In this scene, Styutia already has her own room, and judging from the various small pieces of furniture and decorations inside, it's clear that the settlement has developed to the point where they can start building brick houses.

Styutia was in the room trying to put on her nun's habit, but even though her waist was still within the acceptable range, her hips and bust were clearly way too big.

In the video, the young nun struggled for a long time before finally managing to put on her nun's habit. But as soon as she stood up, several of the openings in her chest burst open as if they couldn't bear the weight.

Judging from the repair marks on the buttons, this was probably not the first time the buttons had popped off. Each time, Sthiuthia tried to sew the buttons back on, but there was a limit. It seemed that the nun's habit she had worn had reached its limit and could no longer accommodate Sthiuthia as she grew from a "little girl" to a "big sister".

In the scene, the nun is seen sitting blankly on the bed, holding the torn clothes. After a while, tears begin to fall. Styutia looks both angry and annoyed, filled with grievance and sadness as she looks at the clothes she can no longer wear.

Seeing this, especially since Sciutia cried because of it, Liao Ji couldn't help but say with heartache, "I'm sorry, Sciutia. It's my fault. I didn't notice these things at the time. I should have had someone make another one for you sooner."

"No, it's different. This dress means something to Tia that no one else could make a hundred of, which is why Tia is so sad."

The nun nestled in Liao Ji's arms shook her head, but soon she seemed to remember something, suddenly raised her head, looked at Liao Ji, and then blinked.

"But fortunately, after you, Lord Ash, advanced to the Calamity rank, you gave Tia a brand new nun's robe. Tia remembers that day very clearly."

Another item was given as a gift.

Oh, indeed, you mean the new character art after the upgrade?

Liao Jigang nodded in agreement, but seeing Styutia blinking and with a strange expression, he realized something was wrong.

What's wrong with sending clothes?

Or did something else happen that day?

What else happened? Uh...

Hey!

Liao Ji pondered his game memories and suddenly realized what was happening. He became a little flustered and tried to quickly change the subject, but it was too late.

Styutia gently found the scene that had happened that day in the illusion and watched it with Liao Ji.

The gathering place was very lively that day because they had just won a great victory. It was the battle with the Lanno gathering place for the position of leader in the Black Hole region, and the Ash gathering place ended in an absolute victory.

It was through this battle that Styutia accumulated enough experience points to officially join the ranks of "Disaster-level".

At night, the huge settlement was brightly lit and filled with a festive atmosphere. In one of the leaders' rooms, there was a little girl—no, she was no longer little and should be called a "girl."

As a "disaster-level" reward, the girl received a new nun's habit, which is more mature and intellectual than before. The design of the nun's habit itself may indeed be a little avant-garde. For example, the skirt is replaced with a high slit on the lower body, the lining is changed to white lace, and there are more hollow designs on the chest. The overall shape is more fitted and can show off a lot of the contour curves.

When worn formally, it complements the girl's temperament, and no one would ever think of anything inappropriate; it is utterly pure and holy.

The problem is that once a girl's temperament and mindset change, the charm of this nun's habit will also change drastically, with purity and lust separated by a fine line.

Chapter 241 Tia's Revenge: It's Never Too Late

The girl sitting on the bed of ashes now seemed a little uneasy, as if after hesitating and struggling for a while, she finally mustered up the courage to make a decision.

The girl then took off her boots, and with her white silk-clad feet, climbed onto the bed of ashes. Then, she gritted her teeth and began to unbutton a few buttons on the front of her nun's habit. She didn't unbutton them completely, but rather half-unbuttoned them, maintaining the purity of the nun's habit while revealing her snow-white cleavage when she lowered her head slightly.

The girl on the bed kept adjusting her position, sometimes kneeling, sometimes lying diagonally, and sometimes prone, as if she was thinking about which position to use to seduce the next person to enter the room.

After trying many different poses, the girl seemed to feel that none of them were quite right. Kneeling was too proper, lying on her side with her legs exposed under her high splits was a bit too seductive, and lying on her stomach pretending to be cute and wiggling her toes was too childish.

In the end, the girl chose what she was most familiar with: sitting on the bed with her legs in an M-shape, turning the lower half of her nun's habit into a curtain that barely covered her crotch. She adjusted the angle of this "cloak cover" several times, and only after confirming that it was the most alluring angle was she satisfied.

Next, the girl waited expectantly for the room's owner, while placing a prepared fruit platter on the bed, laden with cherries, grapes, and the like, waiting for the settlement leader to return and ask the classic question, "Will you eat the fruit first or me first?"

Liao Ji, who lives here, moved to Bengbu.

"Tia, you..."

"It's all the fault of that leader of the Lanno settlement. He collected a lot of frivolous books, many of which were directed at Tia. That's why Tia wondered if Lord Ash might also like these things, and so, so..."

Tia seemed to be speaking in a weak and shy tone, but in reality, the nun was very straightforward and not afraid at all that the video would be shown to Liao Ji. Rather, it was Tia who deliberately wanted Liao Ji to see it.

Because the real focus is in the next moment.

Liao Ji had already sighed by this point, somewhat reluctant to watch anymore, but under Tia's kind gaze, Liao Ji had no choice but to relive the scene from back then.

If Liao Ji remembered correctly, that day was also the day he extracted "zero" from the abandoned garbage dump of the Lanno settlement.

That's why what happened next happened.

Cheers erupted from the gathering place, and the girl in the room immediately became both excited and nervous, because only one person could cause such a frenzy: Lord Ash.

Just as she had arranged, as soon as Lord Ash returned, his subordinates immediately came forward and told Ash Tia that he was waiting for her in the house, as there was something important to discuss.

Footsteps soon sounded from outside the door, and the girl on the bed's heart pounded. She seemed to be thinking about what to say next, how to create the right atmosphere, how to seduce him, and what to do if Lord Ash didn't take the bait—should she force him?

The girl had only thought halfway through when the door opened. The first thing she saw was Ash, draped in a cloak. Then, her second glance revealed a figure standing next to Ash.

Domestic service android.

At the same time, the housekeeper saw the girl on the bed doing the digging and then turning her nun's habit into lingerie.

"Master, is the Sthija you speak of the same fallen nun who is currently in heat and filled with sexual desire, lying on the bed?"

The phantom imagery abruptly ended there.

Sciutia remembers that moment very clearly. She wished she could disappear into a crack in the ground. She never expected that Ash Lord, who always had only her by his side, would bring a new Evil One into the room.

The plan for that night naturally fell through, and for a long time, it made Styutia afraid to have any such thoughts again, becoming a shadow over her for a long period of time.

Furthermore, all the witch phantoms ended there.

After all, further on

Previously, the nun took care of Ash's daily life, making the bed, doing laundry and cooking. But now, all the housework is taken care of by Zero. Even Ash's training focus has been placed on Zero, and all the good things have been given to Zero first. The cloak leader who once belonged only to the nun will never come back.

With the appearance of "Zero", in the subsequent story, Styutia is no longer the protagonist and gradually becomes a background character, so naturally there is no more phantom.

"Um..." Liao Ji was a little unsure what to say.

The atmosphere was set up really well before, so why does it suddenly feel so sad?

"Lord Ash, are you in a hurry?"

Styutia, who was drawing circles on Liao Ji's chest, suddenly asked.

Are you in a hurry?

There's really no rush for this.

In reality, Dream City is probably in complete chaos, District 13 has probably been turned upside down by Kyle Technology, and all sorts of media outlets are probably frantically searching for him.