I just wanted to cultivate immortality, but I was forced to open a harem

"You can find another cheaper painter."

Aki Tomoya flatly refused: "I don't think highly of their abilities."

Eriri said earnestly, "Ryouya, I don't want to make money from you. I mainly want to teach you, a newbie in the industry, the right work attitude. If you get used to taking favors for free, who will work for you when the favors are used up?"

Aki Tomoya's face was stiff: "Eri, are you willing to play games with me just for the sake of favors?"

"What else?" Ying Lili asked back.

Aki Tomoya said excitedly: "Isn't it my passion, ideals and passion for planning that moved you and made you voluntarily devote yourself to the pure two-dimensional fan creation activities?"

Ying Lili said coldly: "What is an ideal? Can it be eaten? You don't even pay them, but you trick others into working for you for free with just your mouth. You are worse than a slave owner. At least the slave owner provides food and lodging."

Aki Tomoya looked disappointed: "Eri, how could you become so mercenary? Can our game be measured by money?"

"Lun Ye, you have to understand the principle of handling public affairs in a public manner and private affairs in a private manner. Those who mix public affairs and private affairs together often find it difficult to manage a team and fail to get things done."

Amano Tomoya pursed his lips and said, "In short, all interests must be calculated clearly, right? Eriri, you disappoint me so much. You have become such a petty person."

"Sigh——" Ying Lili held her forehead with her hand and didn't want to pay any more attention to him.

Sayuri Sawamura squatted on the ground, tapped the floor tiles with her fingers, and listened carefully to the vibration sound coming from the floor.

There is one place that is obviously different from the surrounding areas, the floor tiles are hollow underneath.

"Eri, Tomoya, please help me move this floor tile away." She said excitedly.

The three of them worked together to move the floor tile, revealing a button underneath.

After Sayuri Sawamura pressed the button, all the floor tiles slowly opened to the left and right, revealing a large stone chamber underneath.

"come on in."

Sayuri Sawamura jumped down first, followed by Eriri and Tomoya Aki.

The air in the stone chamber was obviously quite turbid, but Sayuri Sawamura couldn't care less at this moment.

She turned on the lights and exhaust fans on the wall, revealing a huge engraved magic circle on the ground.

"This is?"

Ying Lili looked at the magic circle full of mysterious symbols and strange runes and felt curious.

Sayuri Sawamura explained succinctly: "This is the medium-distance random transfer magic circle."

"So mom and dad can actually do magic?" Eriri was surprised.

"No, your father might know a little, but I'm just an ordinary person." Sayuri Sawamura showed a bitter expression.

"So how do we use this magic circle now?"

Tomoya Aki boldly reached out and touched it, only to find that it was cold and hard, with no reaction at all.

"The magic circle needs magic power to be charged before it can be activated. Stand further away."

Sayuri Sawamura took out two brightly colored gems from the password box in the corner. The gems were engraved with densely packed magic runes.

She placed a sapphire in the groove in the center of the magic circle, which immediately emitted circles of soft and gorgeous blue light.

Then, the sapphire was melted into liquid and merged into the magic circle along the engraved patterns.

Finally, the entire magic circle lit up with a brilliant blue light, and the formation began to operate on its own.

"Great, the magic circle still works. Eriri, Tomoya, quickly stand in the center of the magic circle."

Sayuri Sawamura invited the two of them to go in.

"Mom, what about you and Dad?" Ying Lili frowned and asked worriedly.

Sayuri Sawamura forced a smile.

"It's okay. We still have a magic gem. The magic circle can only teleport two people at a time. You go first. Your father and I will be here soon."

"Well, you must come." Ying Lili said anxiously.

"Of course." Sayuri Sawamura nodded repeatedly.

She turned to Aki Tomoya and said, "Tomoya, I'm leaving Eriri in your hands. When you get out, you must go to the Sawamura family and tell my father everything that happened here."

"Aunt Sayuri, don't worry, I will definitely get Eriri to her safely." Aki Tomoya said confidently.

"Thank you very much." Sayuri breathed a sigh of relief.

As he spoke, the light of the magic circle became brighter and brighter, illuminating the entire room like daylight.

Just then, accompanied by a loud "bang", a group of uninvited guests broke in.

"Your Holiness, they are trying to use the transfer magic circle to escape!" The red-robed high priest Smith recognized the magic circle at a glance.

Behind him, an old white man wearing a pure white robe, gorgeous clothes, a crown on his head, with a serious face, was surrounded by the crowd. It was obvious that he was in a high position of power.

Sayuri Sawamura was secretly shocked. From what he said, it seemed that this person was actually the number one figure of the "Church of All Things" - Pope Andre!

This man single-handedly founded the "Church of All Things" and developed an unknown church into a huge organization that swept across Blue Star.

Even though Sayuri Sawamura is in an island country, her name is well-known to her.

"The Spencer family has repeatedly opposed our religion. I have already issued an order that all members of the Spencer family shall be killed without mercy!" Pope Andre said coldly.

"George Spencer has been killed. His wife Sayuri Spencer and daughter Eriri Spencer must also die!"

Sayuri screamed, "What? My husband is dead?"

High Priest Smith grinned smugly.

"His Holiness the Pope has personally taken action. How can a mere trainee wizard be his opponent? Our Holiness the Pope is at the Saint level. According to the standards of the Celestial Empire's immortal cultivation system, he is at the Nascent Soul stage."

"What?!" Sayuri Sawamura's face was full of despair.

As a member of an island nation's aristocratic family, she had naturally heard of some common sense about the Celestial Empire's cultivation world.

A cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage can be regarded as a deity on earth, able to move mountains, fill the sea, fly into the sky and hide underground... he is omnipotent.

Nascent Soul cultivators have been extinct on Blue Star for thousands of years, but unexpectedly, the Western "Church of All Things" has produced a "saint" comparable to the Nascent Soul stage.

No wonder they dream of combining politics and religion and ruling the entire blue planet.

Sayuri Sawamura is not sure how powerful the "Saint" is, but she thinks that it should not be weaker than the monster that caused the "ghost disaster" in East City before.

When Sayuri thought of the giant statue that stood tall and proud like a god, she felt powerless.

Sayuri Sawamura had to face the horrible fact that her husband was probably in danger.

In an instant, scenes of the couple's deep love over the years flooded into their minds like a tide.

The images of those good times flashed before my eyes like slides and then broke into pieces.

A happy family was destroyed just like that, which made her almost unable to breathe, as if someone was strangling her throat and suffocating her to the point of shaking all over.

"Dad is dead?!" Yinglili screamed in horror, tears rolling down her face like beads from a broken string.

Sayuri Sawamura looked at her daughter and suddenly found courage from the desperate situation.

No matter what, at least her daughter must escape safely, she thought to herself.

With a "whoosh" sound, Sayuri Sawamura leaped forward like a female leopard.

She slammed the only remaining gem in her hand into the groove of the magic circle.

With the injection of this energy, the speed of the magic circle immediately increased several times.

A blinding white light spread out, so bright that even the low-level priests of the "Church of All Things" could not open their eyes.

"Oh no, they are trying to run away!" High Priest Smith shouted.

"Don't think about it!"

Pope Andre waved his hand and cast a spell towards the magic circle.

"what!"

With a scream, Eriri was hit by his black magic and black smoke came out of her body.

At the same time, countless tiny arcs of electricity appeared on the magic circle, as if it was affected by this spell.

Amaki Tomoya was so frightened that he lost his balance, stood unsteadily, fell backwards, and fell out of the range of the magic circle.

"Don't hurt my daughter!"

Sayuri Sawamura's eyes were red, like a mad female beast, she roared and pounced on Pope Andre.

Without Andre's help, Smith waved his hand to summon a frost spear, which pierced Sayuri's heart mercilessly.

"puff!"

Blood splattered as the frost spear easily pierced her body and then nailed it deeply into the ground.

Sayuri Sawamura's body fell limply.

"Mom, don't!" a heart-wrenching scream rang out.

At the same time, the transfer magic circle finally opened the space channel before it collapsed, and Ying Lili's somewhat distorted figure disappeared in the center of the magic circle.

"This is just a medium-range random transfer magic circle. She must still be within a thousand meters nearby. Find her immediately and eliminate the root of the problem!" Pope Andre ordered.

"Yes, sir!" Smith hurried away with a group of people.

As soon as they left, the basement suddenly became much emptier.

Andre's pair of gray eyes, as cold as steel, were fixed on Tomoya Aki who was sitting on the ground.

"Alas!"

Aki Tomoya was like a little white rabbit being stared at by a viper. His whole body stiffened and even breathing became extremely difficult.

"Don't, don't kill me, I'm not from the Spencer family..." he explained tremblingly.

Looking at Sayuri Sawamura's body lying in a pool of blood, Tomoya Aki, a otaku immersed in the second dimension, was finally forced to step out of his fantasy and face reality.

However, this reality was too cold and cruel, and it was beyond his endurance.

Aki Tomoya's legs were trembling, his stomach was churning, and he almost vomited.

The muscles in his body were spasming uncontrollably, and his crotch was wet without him noticing.

There are no games or anime in my mind anymore. I only have one thought - to survive.

Pope Andre walked up to Aki Tomoya, looked him up and down with his sharp hawk-like eyes, and asked, "Isn't he from the Spencer family?"

A priest stepped forward quickly and said, "Your Majesty, according to the intelligence, this person is Eriri Spencer's friend, Tomoya Aki. He was born in an ordinary family in the eastern city of the island country and has never been exposed to supernatural powers before."

"I, I don't know anything. I was just unlucky to be dragged into this... It's all Eriri's fault. She never told me that her father had offended such a powerful organization!" Aki Tomoya said incoherently.

He pleaded in a pitiful voice: "I am just an ordinary person. Please, let me go. I will remember your kindness for the rest of my life and do my best to repay you!"

Andre frowned. "Our religion has been classified as a cult by the island government. In order to prevent the news from leaking out, all witnesses should be executed on the spot."

Aki Tomoya looked as pale as death.

Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and he knelt on the ground.

He shouted: "Your Holiness, I am willing to join the Church of All Things and dedicate my all to you and the great God. Please give me a chance!"

"Bang!" He kowtowed so hard that his forehead turned red, and tears flowed uncontrollably.

After a long while, Andre finally spoke: "Raise your head."

Aki Tomoya raised his face tremblingly.

Andre reached out and took off his glasses, pinched his chin, and looked carefully at the handsome boy.

"You are willing to believe in the 'Lord of All Things', which is great. My religion will not abandon any of our brothers and sisters. However, in doing so, you will have to sever ties with your family and even go to war with your former relatives and friends. Are you willing to do all this?"

"I...I do." Under the threat of death, Akitomo chose to surrender.

Andre smiled.

"Very good. I see that you have a talent for cultivation. I will give you a 'witch' potion in the future."

"Magic potion? If I take it, will I become a superhuman?" Akitomo's eyes lit up.

Andre's smile became brighter and brighter. "Of course, the 'Witch' is the beginning of the 'Plague' path of the 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' that I taught. It is very powerful, far superior to ordinary extraordinary people."

"Oh, that's wonderful."

Tomoya Aki escaped the crisis of death and began to imagine a bright future of becoming a superhuman.

The other priests felt a chill in their hearts.