Their commission was suspicious.

"Everyone, get moving! We need to present our best selves... to entice warriors from another world to join our familia!" Loki enthusiastically addressed the crowd at the familia booth behind him.

Because the Loki Familia paid a higher fee for the stall, their stall was slightly larger, but only slightly larger.

Now that Chen Luo has resolved the issues of inscribing the God's grace and updating ability values, it would be impolite for Loki not to make an effort to recruit warriors.

Chapter 1622 The Bound Goddess of Justice, Astrea

"Liuli, how are the preparations going?"

"...Lord River God, I would be very grateful if you could pronounce my name correctly even once."

"But isn't your name Liuli Ang? Isn't my name Liuli?"

"..." Liu shook her head as she looked at Chen Luo, who was pretending to be stupid.

You can never wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.

"The preparations are going quite well, the only problem is that Lady Astrea doesn't seem to have arrived yet," Ryu said with some concern.

If the recruitment period begins but the main goddess Astrea does not appear, then Liu should consider whether to remove the stall.

After all, Ryu was just someone abandoned by the Astrea Familia, and it was already presumptuous enough for her to set up a stall on behalf of Lady Astrea.

"Ah, speaking of which, I haven't informed your chief deity yet."

"Huh?" Liu's eyes widened.

What did you say? You haven't notified us yet?

“After all, Astraea is in Swordcraft City right now, which is a bit far, but don’t worry, I’ll definitely get notified within a minute. And Astraea won’t refuse.” Chen Luo made a reassuring gesture to Liu before standing in the open space in the center of the player plaza.

Draw the bow and nock the arrow.

Chen Luo planned to use the same method he used to find the Black Tower Space Station to find Astrea.

The bow is an elven bow, and the arrows are swords transformed from Gungnir.

As the streak of light streaked across the sky, Loki, standing beside him, suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.

God the hell Gungnir.

[Question: When Astraea is enjoying hotpot and singing in the sword-made city, and suddenly finds an arrow powerful enough to kill a god flying towards her from above, how much psychological trauma will she experience?]

"It's alright, I'm not going to die anyway. Besides, this is called sending a message by flying arrow; didn't the ancients have this kind of method of communication?"

So you know they were from ancient times?

[Besides, the ancients didn't have bows like yours, where the arrow's power increases with distance. Why are you using an elven bow? Wouldn't a regular bow have sufficed? The distance isn't even more than one Earth.]

The user-friendly plugin is puzzling.

Or rather, this distance could be covered simply by Gungnir's own strength.

The Elf Bow paired with Gungnir is a guaranteed nuclear strike.

The sum of the two is not a simple 1+1, but 1×1!

"Huh? You're... serious about that monologue?"

[Of course I'm not serious, just take it with a grain of salt. Anyway, these two items combined will create a qualitative change.]

"Your bow..." After seeing Chen Luo walk back, Liu looked at the bow in Chen Luo's hand and had an extremely strange feeling.

"It's green, long, and tender. Do you want to touch it?" Chen Luo handed the bow to Liu, who looked very curious.

"Then I won't stand on ceremony." Ryu took the bow and gently stroked it.

In Ryu's hands, the originally unremarkable elven bow suddenly emitted a faint green light, surrounded by a gentle breeze.

Chen Luo admitted that he felt a little jealous when he saw it, but what could he do when Liu was an elf?

The Elf Bow has stackable buffs; the more buffs you stack, the stronger it becomes, and elves are naturally one of those buffs.

Otherwise, why do you think the Elf Bow is called the Elf Bow?

Liu Tiansheng had an extra layer of Elf Bow buff compared to Chen Luo, but Chen Luo wasn't too worried. After all, if needed, Chen Luo could transform into an elf.

The transformation Imperial Arm called Gaia Foundation that Chen Luo brought back from the world of Akame ga Kill! allows him to transform into an elf; the golden version can even temporarily deceive the Elf Bow.

Therefore, Chen Luo always believed that the most amazing thing in Akame ga Kill! was not the spatial Teigu Shangri-La, but the Teigu Gaia Foundation that could transform.

"This bow..." Liu was about to ask a question when Chen Luo raised his hand to stop him.

"Don't bother me yet, I'm counting down. If you miss the countdown, your god might have to return to the heavens."

"Oh." Liu nodded, puzzled, then lovingly stroked the elven bow in her hand.

[...54321!]

"Snap!" Chen Luo snapped his fingers, canceling the summoning of Silver Gungnir.

This time limit is based on the humanized plugin's prediction that it will not cause harm to anyone. However, if it is even one second longer, someone may be injured by Gungnir.

However, because Gungnir's attack range is indeed quite large, the teleportation anchor point has not yet been delivered to Astraea.

However, Chen Luo had already adjusted the distance according to the trajectory when he shot the arrow, so if nothing unexpected happened, the chess piece-shaped teleportation anchor point that had lost its carrier would crash directly in front of Astraea.

Countdown 10 second.

Liu, who was standing to the side, didn't know what Chen Luo was counting down to, but she had a feeling that it was something very important, so she didn't disturb him. After 10 seconds, Liu watched as Chen Luo suddenly disappeared and then suddenly reappeared.

After Chen Luo reappeared, there was someone else by his side who felt very familiar to Liu.

"Lady Astraea." Seeing Astraea standing next to Chen Luo, looking somewhat bewildered, Ryu was both excited and at a loss.

"Ryu, long time no see." Although Astraea was a little confused about what had happened, she still smiled when she saw Ryu and opened her arms.

Looking at Astraea, who was as righteous and magnanimous as a parent, Ryu, who had not seen Astraea for five years, embraced her tightly.

[By the way, did you know that elves generally live very long lives? Ruri is only 22 years old, so within the elf race, she's still considered a loli.]

"real or fake?"

Why would I lie to you? This is a legal loli, at least legal outside of the Elf race!

"I see..." Chen Luo was greatly shocked.

Chen Luo originally thought Liu was mature enough, but he didn't expect that people would say she was still a loli.

"Lady Astraea, this is the stall that the River God asked me to prepare for you." After catching up for a while, Ryu released Astraea and pointed to the stall behind him.

"Speaking of which, do you know anything about Lord River God?"

"Oh, that? I've heard about it. In fact, news of Chen Luo's arrival in the lower realm reached me yesterday, along with rumors of a hero from another world. I just didn't expect Chen Luo to have you prepare a stall for me." At this point, Astraea finally looked at Chen Luo properly.

"You were the one who shot me with the sword just now, right? Although you canceled it quickly, I could feel the sense of impending death," Astraea said to Chen Luo, one hand on her hip.

After hundreds of years apart, Astraea never expected that their reunion would be like this.

"That's called flying sword message delivery. Tell me, has the message been delivered?"

"No." Astraea really hadn't received any news, because just as a chess piece landed in front of her, Chen Luo grabbed her and dragged her to Orario.

So Astraea really doesn't know anything right now.

"Alright, now you know," Chen Luo said, pointing to the stall next to him.

"So...can you explain?" Astraea looked at Ryu gently.

After feeling Astraea's unwavering gentleness towards her, Ruri gradually let go of the slight guilt and unease she had been harboring.

"Here's what happened: This is the player plaza, the place where the warriors will descend from the sky. The official explanation is that these warriors were summoned by the gods. These warriors claim to be players who have the ability to resurrect after death and that they grow faster."

"The first batch of warriors will number around 100,000. They will be welcomed by the gods of Orario, and the warriors will be free to choose their preferred kin to join." Ryu recited his prepared speech to Astraea.

"You did it, didn't you?" Astraea looked at Chen Luo.

“Yes, I did it.” Chen Luo nodded.

"You really are someone who often surprises people. But choosing a familiar requires careful consideration, especially my familiars, who are all people with a sense of justice." Astraea saw the stall that Chen Luo had arranged for Ryu to prepare for her and understood Chen Luo's thoughts.

As a friend, Chen Luo probably wanted Astraea to reopen the gates in Orari. Astraea appreciated Chen Luo's intentions, but the Astraea Familia was very strict in recruiting members.

Otherwise, there wouldn't have been only 20 people when their clan was wiped out.

"I can't guarantee anything else, but these warriors will definitely pass the test of the Soul Flame. They all have very sound values... those that aren't have already been thrown into the Soul Lamp."

"Is that so...? Well, we could give it a try." Hearing Chen Luo say that, Astraea became somewhat interested.

Astraea still believed in the quality control of the Soul Lamp.

"Furthermore, after joining a clan, these warriors will enter a one-month probationary period. If they are not satisfied with the clan or do not conform to its ideals, they will retain their ability points, leave the clan, and join another clan," Chen Luo said.

"Then it's settled. Thank you for your help, Chen Luo."

"No need for thanks. If you really want to thank me, then give me the glass."

"Oh? Converting to another religion? That requires voluntariness." Astraea looked at Ryu.

"Lady Astraea, you don't mind?" Ryu was somewhat surprised by Astraea's composed attitude.

“What’s there to mind? I know Chen Luo’s personality. You can’t stand hardship following him. Besides, I can tell from your eyes that Chen Luo has probably helped you a lot, right?” Astraea said confidently.

“Indeed… there are many.” Ryu nodded.

"Alright then. After a month, these clan members will have completed their probationary period. If any promising individuals are able to officially join a clan, I can allow Ryu to switch sects. But until then, these newcomers need a mentor to learn from," Astraea said to Ryu and Chen Luo.

“Sure.” Chen Luo didn’t seem to care.

“But I haven’t agreed yet,” Ryu suddenly said.

"Hmm?" Astraea glanced at Ryu.

Didn't you agree to the conversion?

"Lord River God, regarding my name... could you please pronounce it correctly a few more times?" Liu hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

Liu no longer wanted Chen Luoneng to keep calling her name correctly.

"...Let's try a different request. How about I kill a god from a dark faction for you? I mean really kill him," Chen Luo suggested.

"???" by Liu.

"Alright, let's stop arguing. By the way, when are the players arriving?" Astraea asked.

"The original time was 10 a.m., but it's only 9 a.m. now. But all the gods have already arrived... I'm wondering if I should give them a little surprise by opening the server early." Chen Luo thought, stroking his chin.

Chapter 1623 gives players a little early server launch surprise!

“Ruri… no, Ruri, you haven’t updated your stats in 5 years. How many levels do you think you can reach in one go?” Chen Luo asked, sitting on a chair next to the recruitment office of the Goddess of Justice, Astrea’s Familia.

The player plaza is now packed with people, but they're all concentrated on the edge of the plaza.

Because when the player actually arrives, they will appear in the center, and the player can choose which clan to go to.

Although there are huge crowds now, they are all the chief gods of the clans and their subordinates.

Do you know why some people hate having a cat in the office? Because once you have a cat, there are meows everywhere all day long, and not a single one of them is actually the cat meowing.

It's pretty much the same now. Everyone's waiting to recruit players, so this place is packed with people, but there isn't a single player in the player square!

"What's there to think about? The highest level is LV5, right?" Liu looked at Chen Luo with some confusion.

I've never heard of a genius who skipped two levels after updating their abilities.

In any case, such a genius has never appeared in Orario's thousand-year history.

"Oh, really? Let's make a bet. If you can jump directly to LV6 after updating your stats, then you can become a member of my familia. If you're only LV5, I'll call you by a fake name, okay?" Chen Luo leaned his upper body on the table in front of the recruitment booth, looking quite languid.

"I don't gamble, and besides, that's my real name." Ryu shook her head.

"Why not gamble?" Chen Luo ignored the second half of Liu's sentence.

"Why gamble if it's impossible?"

Why is it impossible?

"Because this situation has never occurred in the past thousand years."

"That's a lie... In the past thousand years, there has never been a case where someone didn't update their stats for five years and then went on a rampage in the dungeon," Chen Luo said.

"Then I definitely can't gamble. What if you succeed?" Liu glanced at Chen Luo.

Honestly, Liu is really grateful to Chen Luo.