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Light, endless light, the vast and boundless light of the sky, flooded her vision and dyed it all into pure white...

When the burning pain surged into her eyes again, Seele (Freya) immediately realized what had happened through the experience accumulated over a long period of time as a god.

"...This is insane! Why would someone use magic to become invisible while walking down the street in broad daylight?!"

As a LV4 adventurer, Liu's eyesight is indeed not bad, but the prerequisite is that he can really see the person in person.

However, if someone was invisible, Liu would be helpless, because no one would have expected that there would be an 'invisible person' on the street where the crowds were almost shoulder to shoulder.

It just so happens that the special ability to see the light at the soul level cannot be blocked by simple invisibility at the naked eye level, and now the source of this A1 high flash is just on the same street.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--!"

Xier (Freya) covered her eyes with her hands, uttered a wail, tears of blood streamed down her cheeks, and she fell directly on Liu.

"Xier, Xier, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me!"

"..."

Soon, in the chaos, Liu ran back to the 'Hostes of Bounty' tavern, holding Freya, who had lost her sight again and whose eyes had suffered a fatal blow. Passersby on the street cast puzzled glances at him.

And in this.

Xia Yan used illusion to distort the surrounding light, creating an optical camouflage effect that covered himself and those around him. He watched as the blonde elf hurriedly disappeared around the corner, holding a gray-haired girl who had covered her eyes. He said speechlessly to Asthesia, who was hugging his right arm and leaning against him intimately like a couple, "I'm so lucky!"

"Should this be considered bad luck for her?"

"Of course."

Asthesia replied with a smile:

"She just happened to be on this street, unwilling to control her sexual desire and use her special ability, and got blinded by the light. Chunchun, she deserved it."

"Besides, we're planning to confront Uranus, and we used preemptive magic to cover up our tracks in order to avoid causing too much noise. If she wants to blame someone, she can blame herself for being clumsy!"

"Don't worry about that unlucky goddess just now."

On Xia Yan's left, Irena withdrew her gaze from the direction where Liu and Xi'er (Freya) left, and urged them repeatedly:

"Hurry up and get some magic stones from that great god. Once I gather enough magic power, I'll have to carefully study the ancient Egyptian magic rituals in the Golden Scripture of the Sun and the Black Scripture of the Dead. It will take quite a while to figure out how to set up that 'Ascension Ritual'. Don't waste time."

"Let's go then!"

After saying that, the three of them ignored Freya who was unlucky because of them again, maintained the optical camouflage invisibility cast by the illusion, and continued to walk towards the temple where the Adventurer's Guild headquarters was located.

(PS: Well, the sun hadn't set when I uploaded the chapter, so it was still daytime - then, after two days of thinking and sorting out my thoughts, I will reduce the habit of wanting to add magical modifications and secondary creations at every turn (＞人＜；)......)

Fourth instance: 129. Disease Name: Love (4k+/Survived~)

As an alternative clan, it is also the only force in the entire maze city that is generally recognized by the public as neutral. Although the Adventurer's Guild is the actual and nominal administrative body of Orario, it has not established an independent armed force of its own.

In other words, the guild is a clan of adventurers in name only. The clan's main god, Uranus, has been sitting in the guild's headquarters temple for many years, but has never granted [God's grace]. Perhaps Uranus had granted grace hundreds or thousands of years ago, but now the entire guild, from top to bottom, is basically composed of ordinary people.

At first glance, this is no different from a child carrying gold through a busy market. While he has disabled himself, he is sitting on wealth accumulated for thousands of years and occupies the core of the entire underworld's international trade network. He is simply a fat sheep.

However, all those who thought so and planned to make a fortune have almost disappeared. On the contrary, the Adventurer's Guild, the "fat sheep", still exists today and is still the unshakable pillar of the entire maze city. It has witnessed the rise and fall of one clan after another, as well as countless high-level adventurers of LV5 and above, entering and leaving the big stage of Orario.

Obviously, the Adventurer's Guild is not really "powerless", nor is it a "fat sheep" like a child carrying gold through the busy market as it appears to be.

In Xia Yan's impression, he remembered that in the legend of the Sword Princess, the top leaders of the Adventurer's Guild even dared to step forward to stop Loki, who controlled one of the strongest families in Orario, from forcibly breaking into the underground altar of the headquarters temple.

You know, although in the plot Loki came to the temple of the guild headquarters alone and planned to break in and confront Uranus one-on-one without any explanation, it was obvious that there was no high-end combat power at all. A LV5 could kill the entire guild headquarters, and its top leaders seemed scared to death, but dared to come forward to stop it, which was very intriguing.

Considering that the Adventurer's Guild is actually the followers of Uranus, the predecessor of the city of Orario was the war fortress built by Uranus after he went down to the mortal world, blocking the largest entrance connecting the dungeon maze with the ground.

Moreover, Uranus is likely to be the only "great god" among the first group of gods in the underworld who is still staying in the underworld.

So, if he doesn't grant [God's Grace], yet he is not afraid of powerful individual enemies, nor is he afraid that his guild will be disbanded as an illegal organization like the Knights Templar, and he is not worried about being sidelined... What is Uranus's confidence?

"Oh, that's exactly what happened."

Maintaining the optical camouflage created by the illusion, Xia Yan, Irena, and Asthesia re-entered the temple of the Adventurer's Guild headquarters. They continued deeper and finally stopped in front of a staircase that clearly led downwards. They looked at the seemingly ordinary staircase for a moment. Asthesia spoke first, smiling and saying,

"There is another 'temple' beneath the temple, a 'temple' that truly belongs to Uranus."

"The one in front is a 'magic workshop' the size of a temple..."

Irena raised her wand and tapped the empty staircase in front of her a few times. After randomly casting a few detection spells, she added:

"...Furthermore, it has become a 'different world'. Regardless of whether you use invisibility or other means, as soon as you step onto this staircase, you will be immediately noticed by the temple master. If the master doesn't want to, you will never be able to reach the temple master unless you violently destroy the entire temple from outside."

"Are you saying that Uranus tampers with the space ahead at any time?"

Xia Yan raised his eyebrows.

"So, He can exert His divine power to a limited extent here?"

"My dear, didn't I tell you before? The one inside is the real 'temple', the 'temple' belonging to Uranus."

Asthesia said:

"Compared to his own 'temple' in the [Heavenly Realm], the specifications are a bit too shabby, but the essence is the same."

"I see."

Xia Yan nodded.

To put it simply, it is similar to Hestia's collaboration with Hermes in the plot to distribute firewood dripping with her divine blood to every household in Orario, and then standing on the top of the Tower of Babel to perform god-level rituals, by igniting those firewood stained with divine blood, and finally forming the "Pseudo-Manifestation of the Holy Fire Temple of the Hearth", using the holy fire to purify Freya's enchantment that covered Orario and even many gods could not be exempted.

The difference is that the 'Pseudo-Manifestation of the Holy Fire Temple of the Hearth' performed by Hestia in the plot is a one-time event. Limited by its temporary structure, its scale cannot allow Hestia to use more divine power and authority.

However, the 'temple' that Uranus hid beneath the temple at the guild headquarters was permanent and much larger than Hestia's 'pseudo-temple of the sacred fire of the hearth', allowing him to exert his divine power to a limited extent.

This meant that if one entered the underground of the Guild Headquarters Temple with hostility and headed for the altar where Uranus was located, they would have to face a ritually enhanced Hestia with a permanently enhanced version of the 'Pseudo-Manifestation of the Sacred Fire Temple of the Hearth'.

In this situation, even if all the adventurers from the entire Orario clan were brought in to attack one after another, for Uranus sitting inside the temple, no matter how many came, they would all die.

It's probably like a yellow-skinned guy who has already sat on the golden toilet and completely blocked the gap in the webway with his own grooves. Even if the warp demons know that as long as they pass through that gap, they can directly enter the real universe and bloom in the center of Terra to destroy the human empire, but that gap, together with the entire golden toilet, has become an alternative "Chaos Demon Realm" in the warp. The price of forcing it is to be blasted to pieces by the yellow-skinned guy's projection in the warp and the cursed legion.

"Then there's no need for us to be invisible."

Xia Yan removed the optical camouflage generated by the illusion.

"It's a little risky, but if we just walk in openly, shouldn't He do anything to us?"

"Don't worry, I'm here!"

Asthesia shrugged.

"Uranus will give the 'Meteor Goddess' face... After all, if I unlock my divine power at all costs, I will definitely give her a good beating before being driven back to the [Heaven]."

Then, the three of them stepped onto the stairs in front of them together. The moment they crossed the invisible and intangible dividing line, Xia Yan, Irena and Asthesia could all feel a gaze coming towards them from somewhere, ignoring the barriers of space and distance.

But apart from staring at them, the owner of that gaze did not make any extra movements. He neither showed up to drive them away nor questioned them why they broke in.

Instead, he quietly watched Xia Yan, Irena, and Asthesia walk down the stairs deeper into the underground until they entered a dark, empty hall. He saw an altar and, illuminated by the bonfires burning on both sides, an old man in a hooded cloak sitting on the throne at the highest point of the altar.

The owner of that gaze spoke slowly from the throne of the altar in an old voice:

"Although you seem a little different now...it's been a while, Meteor Goddess Astesia."

"It's been a long time since I last met you, Great God Uranus."

Asthesia responded politely.

"Well, I remember that the day before yesterday, you and your clan..."

The old man on the throne glanced at Xia Yan and Irena.

"...After officially arriving in Orario and registering your clan's name in the guild's records, what made you choose to sneak into this room?"

"Hmm? You don't think I'm part of the dark faction family?"

"Before, I still had some doubts, but now I can be sure that you, Astesia, are definitely not a member of the dark faction."

As he spoke, Uranus focused his gaze on Xia Yan and Irena, and his wrinkled old face revealed an expression mixed with surprise and astonishment.

"I have a friend who has been with me for hundreds of years. He's my personal mercenary. For some personal reasons, I haven't granted him [God's Favor], but he's still grown over the past few hundred years... But even so, without updating his ability values, he hasn't reached... well, this level."

"Level 10 Adventurer, or rather, the Tenth Essence called 'God's Path'!?"

Xia Yan interrupted.

"It seems that Asthesia has told you a lot of things. Sigh..."

Ouranos sighed.

"...But you're not a Level 10 adventurer. Even compared to the Level 10 that has only existed in theory for the past millennia, yet no one has ever reached it, your existence is actually even more incredible... What a pity."

"What's a pity?"

Asthesia gave a dangerous smile.

"Isn't it a shame I can't serve as a 'human stake' to hold down the other half of the dungeon maze, helping you to eliminate the divine corpse that's been out of control and transformed since three thousand years ago?"

"..."

Uranus' pupils shrank slightly.

"From your expression, it seems we have indeed guessed the secret you wanted to hide, Great God Uranus."

Asthesia chuckled.

"Well, would you mind listening to our...reasoning?"

"I am glad to."

Uranus said:

"Come on! Whatever you want to say or ask, I'm all ears..."

Then, Asthesia recounted Xia Yan's previous series of speculations in detail.

After saying that the dungeon maze was the "remains of gods" and that one of the corpses was likely related to a "goddess" symbolizing the "earth", Asthesia turned around and gave Xia Yan a look.

Seeing this, Xia Yan summoned and sacrificed the [Great Holy Grail], which grew into a nine-story stone tower more than ten meters high in the dark hall. Then he opened the inner space of the [Great Holy Grail] at the bottom of the stone tower and threw out a black giant without limbs and a half-human, half-scorpion monster with most of its body missing.

After being released, the two monsters of the "God's Assassin" series immediately roared at Xia Yan, and green smoke began to emerge from the damaged parts of their bodies. Under the influence of their own huge magic power and vitality, the flesh and blood at the wounds immediately began to deform and increase in size.

But just as the Black Goliath and Scorpio Andaris were regenerating their bodies.

The roars of the two monsters stopped abruptly.

Then, the head of the Black Goliath giant and the human head of Scorpio Andaris simultaneously shifted their gaze away from Xia Yan and turned to Uranus sitting on the throne of the altar.

then.

“Roar!” x2

Howls and roars louder than before came out of the mouths of the Black Goliath Giant and Scorpio Andaris. The two monsters of the "God's Assassin" series did not even care that their bodies had not yet fully regenerated, and they dragged their broken bodies to attack Uranus.

At the same time, Asthesia's eyes lit up, and her body was covered with a layer of brilliant fluorescence, activating the divinity and divine power that had been sealed away.

But facing the 'goddess' who was so close and had actively activated her divinity and divine power, the Black Goliath Giant and Scorpio Andaris seemed not to see it. They just stared at Uranus who did not move at all, and their scarlet eyes revealed endless madness and murderous intent, driving their bodies to pounce forward.

"Certainly--"

The next second, as Xia Yan raised his hand and pointed, the highly viscous space-time bubble formed by [Magical Power: Immobilization Technique] enveloped the two 'God's Assassin' series monsters, restricting the movement of particles around them, making them "glued" by the force between particles and unable to move, and all their movements stopped in place.

Facing the hostility and murderous intent of the two 'God's Assassin' series monsters, Uranus sat on the throne unmoved. Only when he saw Xia Yan use the [Immobilization Technique] did a hint of surprise and regret appear on his face.

Then, Astesia's voice rang out faintly in the dark throne room.

"Great God Uranus, can you explain why the monsters of the 'God's Assassin' series ignored me, who was actively releasing my divinity and divine power, and instead immediately focused all their hostility on you?"

Maintaining her posture of releasing divinity and divine power, Asthesia's face changed to a serious expression, and she said in a deep voice:

"They hate you, but the hatred of the 'God's Assassin' monsters for the gods all comes from the will of the dungeon maze. Why do they, or rather, why do they, hate you?"

"Besides Gaia, who symbolizes the Earth, there's another 'remains of a god' that symbolizes Life. Which 'old friend' in the Heavens who has no news?"

"And in the years even longer than three thousand years before the dungeon maze first appeared in the Netherworld, did you and those two 'goddesses' secretly descend to the Netherworld? What did you do in that time?"

"You... killed them, didn't you?"

"..."

Uranus remained silent.

a long time.

"One of them is Gaia, and the other is... Tiamat."

The old man on the throne replied in a low voice:

"Just as you said, the goddess of meteors... I killed them—with their consent, I killed them with my own hands in the netherworld and buried their bodies beneath this land."