An invincible journey starting from a different race

"Before our Lord appeared, there was only one orthodox faith in this world," Luna said. "But after our Lord appeared, people discovered his greatness and learned what kind of gifts they could receive by praying to Patrick. These gifts cannot be obtained from the Goddess or the church."

Gan Qiu subconsciously asked, "What kind of gift?"

"For example, firm and..."

"OK OK."

Ganqiu raised his hand, stopping Luna. He regretted the moment he'd asked. After all, wasn't the answer obvious? What other blessings could Aesop possibly bestow? Wasn't that all? And yet the Church labeled Aesop an enemy simply for this, even stripping the entire sex industry... oh no, stripping every individual of their sexual desire. Wasn't that outrageous?

"Master Sandan," Livlu said, "You have witnessed the power of our Lord Patrick, so you should be able to understand why the church does this, right?"

Of course I understand... what the hell!

I don’t understand why it’s good or not!

Just like I don’t understand why you guys treat this B guy Aesop as a god-like existence. It’s obvious that the guy is just a slut, a whore and a cheapskate, and he doesn’t have...hiss, eh?

Gan Qiu carefully recalled what Aesop had done, and then his expression gradually became strange.

If you think about it carefully, it seems that everything Aesop did was indeed extraordinary. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been so many people who became loyal readers of Aesop's Fables in the past.

"The Church has always promoted the Goddess as omniscient and omnipotent." Livlu looked at Ganqiu's expression, thinking that Ganqiu understood, so she continued, "But the existence of my Lord Patrick proves that the Goddess is not omniscient and omnipotent. Therefore, the Church has always regarded my Lord Patrick as the Goddess's greatest enemy. At the same time, the existence of my Lord Patrick has also made the Church aware of another problem."

"What's the problem?" Gan Qiu asked subconsciously.

"That's because there's a force in this world that the Church can't control...that's desire, specifically sexual desire," Livlu said. "Our Lord Patrick is able to satisfy the sexual desires of his followers, which is why he has such a huge number of followers. The Church sees this as extremely dangerous. As long as this uncontrollable factor exists, even if our Lord Patrick passes away, there's a high probability that another Lord will appear. This is absolutely unacceptable to the Church. That's why the Church immediately issued that decree after our Lord's passing."

"Because they are afraid of my Lord."

"In their eyes, as long as there is a desire, anyone can become..."

"The next Patrick."

Come on, 444, save the world!

As long as there is a desire, everyone can become... the next Patrick Star?

Well, how to say it?

This sentence structure sounds quite shocking, but why Patrick? And why desire, even lust?

Originally, Gan Qiu didn't think there was anything wrong with them, but now it sounds like they are villains! And the lowest kind of villains at that!

However, while this viewpoint seemed far-fetched at first glance, it did make sense upon closer inspection. Considering what he had learned from the church before his time travel, the goddess had long since fallen into a deep sleep, and it was very likely she hadn't awakened in all those years. In her absence, the church must have harbored resentment towards a powerful and restless being like Aesop.

In particular, Aesop also touched the power of faith, which was something that no previous arcanists had ever come into contact with.

With all this in mind, it makes perfect sense that the church would be wary and fearful of Aesop.

Once a person falls into fear, he or she is prone to psychological abnormality, and it is not difficult to understand what a psychologically abnormal person does.

So the explanation was still quite far-fetched, but at least it was explainable. It was very likely that the decree was issued by the church itself, not the will of the goddess.

The reason why Gan Qiu thought so was because he was still a believer in the goddess. He was really unwilling to believe that the goddess would give such an order. It must be the bad intentions of his subordinates.

But there was one thing Gan Qiu still didn't quite understand. He asked, "Even if the church really wanted to do this, would the believers obey? After all, depriving desires is no small matter. And judging by their methods just now, it even seemed like some physical deprivation."

Gan Qiu couldn't help but shudder when he thought of the scissors in the sheriff's hand.

"He wants to sterilize everyone. Can that really succeed? Will no one resist?"

Hearing Gan Qiu's question, Livlu couldn't help but sigh: "When the church issued this decree, it had already been secretly implemented for a long time, without anyone noticing."

"Unknowingly?" Gan Qiu was even more surprised. "How did they do that?"

"It's simple. All they have to do is target those within the church and complete their rituals first," Livlu said. "For example, priests and nuns. Then they can target the believers and spread the rituals during prayers and worship... I know what you're asking, but no one resisted. This is because people's purification rituals are usually completed unknowingly, and those who complete the rituals will never tell anyone about it."

"Why is this again?"

"Because all those who undergo the purification ritual will become absolutely rational and absolutely loyal to the church," Livlu said. "The church preaches to them that desire makes people backward and weak. As long as they abandon desire, all alien races will become powerful. Because there will be no factors to interfere with them, they can focus on pursuing...progressive things."

After listening to Livlu's description, Ganqiu couldn't help but think of a race, that is Fenrir.

Fenrir's ascetic sect pursues martial arts by abandoning desires in order to gain an absolute increase in strength.

However, even the Fenrir ascetics were not completely abstinent, and they still needed to vent their desires through some means. And the church's actions now were indeed more extreme than those of the Fenrir clan in the past.

The Fenrir tribe was the most loyal tribe to the church and the goddess. It is conceivable that it is normal for other alien races to become more loyal than the Fenrir tribe after undergoing the purification ceremony.

"In other words..." Gan Qiu had already guessed what was going to happen next, but he still asked, "When that decree was issued, quite a few people in this world had already been purified?"

Livlu shook her head. "It's not 'quite a few,' it's the majority. This is the horror of the ritual. Most of the world's population has been purified, but no one imagined this would happen before the church officially announced the decree. Although some people have noticed something unusual, like us, the Dream Demon Clan, who have noticed that our business is becoming increasingly difficult, with fewer and fewer customers... But even we couldn't imagine the church would go this far."

"But..." Gan Qiu still didn't understand. "Desire is the driving force behind the reproduction of all races. If the Church not only removes the desires of the alien races, but also removes their ability to do so, how can the alien races reproduce? The Church won't just destroy the world and prevent new births just to control all the alien races, right?"

"No, the church controls life magic," Livlu said. "All you need to do is provide your genes to the church, and the church can use life magic to create offspring of various alien races."

Gan Qiu: “…”

startled.

Gan Qiu didn't know what words to use to describe his feelings at the moment. He was stunned for a long time, and then suddenly exploded: "Life magic creates life?! Isn't this strictly prohibited by the goddess?! How dare they do this?!"

Yes, although Life Magic is called Life Magic, its original purpose was to preserve life, not to create it. Using magic to create life would always be considered a blasphemy against life.

Therefore, this has always been strictly prohibited by the goddess and the former church.

But now, in order to better control the world, the church is willing to ignore this iron rule. It can be said that it is completely unscrupulous.

"Who says it's not?" Livlu sighed, then said, "Besides, other alien races might be able to undergo the purification ritual, but us nightmares can't. We nightmares are born with needs, which are determined by our bodies. And the purification ritual can't effectively help our bodies overcome those obstacles. So... if we undergo the purification ritual, we will either die on the spot or go crazy. The worst that can happen is that our bodies will become tattered and we won't even be able to take care of ourselves."

Hearing Livlu say this, Gan Qiu couldn't help feeling a little sad. When he was about to say something, Livlu suddenly grabbed his hand, and then spoke in a tone that was desperate but also a little hopeful.

"Please, Sandan Knight! Come and save us, come and save this world!" Livlu said excitedly, "Let this world return to the way it was before, where everyone has a nightmare dart, every nightmare can take on customers, and there's no need to kill each other. Let's do whatever we want in this perfect world!"

445 People who have had X experience have their combat effectiveness weakened by 5%!

Save the world...

To be honest, this word does not sound unfamiliar to Ganqiu. After all, before he traveled through time, he was also an adventurer as famous as Stank, Jer and others... Of course, he was not the so-called Four Horsemen, but a real Sadistic S, oh, no, he was an S-level adventurer.

In order to earn money, he also took on many extremely difficult commissions that were described in the introduction as "capable of destroying the world". Although there is definitely an element of exaggeration in it, it is not wrong to say that he saved the world several times.

So, logically speaking, Gan Qiu should not feel uncomfortable with these four words, but for some reason, why does it feel so strange when such a great thing comes out of Livlu's mouth?

It's like, "Let's create a world called... ahem, love."

Weird, very weird, really weird.

Although Gan Qiu had already known from Livlu's explanation what a serious situation the world was facing, and he really wanted to help them, but...

"What should I do?" Gan Qiu asked.

Originally, Gan Qiu thought that these people would tell him the answer, just like those missions in the Adventurer's Guild that were described as capable of destroying the world. They would also tell you exactly what to do, such as where to go and what kind of monster to fight. Basically, you just had to defeat the monster.

But the problems facing this future world now seem not to be solved simply by going somewhere to defeat some monsters.

So Gan Qiu had a bad feeling that these guys didn't know what to do, so he asked that question.

And then... the premonition came true.

When Gan Qiu asked, Livlu and others looked confused.

"Um...are you asking us?" Livlu asked cautiously.

"What else?" Gan Qiu spread his hands and said, "Am I asking myself?"

"But how would we know?" Livlu said, "You are the Three-Egg Knight. Aren't you here to help us solve this problem? Why don't you know what to do?"

Livlu silenced Gan Qiu with just one sentence.

To be honest, a sentence like "You are XXX" does make people feel that their value has increased greatly, but the Three-Egg Knight really makes him a little unbearable.

"Even if you praise me like this... I'll just take it as a compliment," Gan Qiu said helplessly. "But I really don't know what to do. I didn't come here for any reason, nor did I carry any mission. My appearance here was completely accidental."

Gan Qiu really wanted to curse.

Originally, he was not particularly interested in coming to find the Lord of Storms and Time. After all, he was not like Stank and Bruce who had a past that they were eager to change, nor was he like Aesop who wanted to see the most perfect breasts in the world... Well, he still wanted this.

But if he had known the price would be so heavy, he would never have followed Aesop.

Please, he lives in this world to dart, and goes out to work to make money to dart.

Now, he has come directly to a world where he cannot dart out, which is completely denying the meaning of his life.

When everyone learned that Gan Qiu was also helpless, they couldn't help but show expressions of great loss.

Livlu forced a smile and said, "So... you can't do it either?"

Gan Qiu nodded and subconsciously wanted to say "I really can't do it", but when the words came to his lips, he became alert again.

Why does it feel like this isn't a good thing to say?

It seems that once you admit it, your dignity is gone.

Thinking of this, Gan Qiu couldn't help but rack his brains frantically, just to avoid saying that sentence.

After some thought, Gan Qiu snapped his fingers and said, "I have a solution."

The dejected eyes of the crowd instantly lit up with hope again: "Do you have a solution? What is it?"

"Well, to be precise, it's not that I have a solution," Gan Qiu said, "but I know who to look for in this situation."

Who are you looking for?

Who can I turn to at a time like this?

Facing everyone's puzzled gazes, Gan Qiu slowly raised his hand and pointed at the Aesop's Fables in Luna's hand: "Why not just ask him for help?"

After hearing Gan Qiu's words, everyone was stunned at first and did not understand what Gan Qiu meant at first.

But they were not fools. As time went by, coupled with Gan Qiu's expression, they seemed to have guessed something, and their expressions gradually became surprised.

"You mean...my Lord Patrick?!" Livlu became excited. "Can you use my Lord Patrick's power?"

"Uh, this probably won't work."

"Then you mean..."

"I mean, let him figure it out on his own."

"But my Lord has already..."

"That guy came with me from the past... ahem, I mean, I'm alive again, so that guy must be alive too." Gan Qiu didn't quite know how to explain the time travel to them, so he decided to use the resurrection from the dead as an example. "So that guy must be somewhere in this world. If there's anyone who can solve this problem, it's him."

Although the people here had already imagined in their hearts whether Aesop had "woken up" from the moment Gan Qiu's identity was confirmed, they were never sure. After all, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

Seeing the Three Eggs of Color, one of the legendary Four Horsemen, was already surprising enough for them, and now they learned that Aesop might have "woken up" as well. That was a real treat.

"Do you know where my master Patrick is?!" Livlu asked excitedly.

"Uh, I don't know about that."

"Then can you contact him?" Livlu asked immediately, "You are his knight, so you must have a way to contact him, right? Maybe even the four of you can contact each other, right?"

Gan Qiu thought about it, but still didn't say out loud what he was thinking: "The way we usually communicate with each other is through the small cards from the Dream Demon Shop. As long as a new unique Dream Demon Shop opens nearby, all of us will appear there tacitly." After all, saying it out loud would be too uncool.

"I really don't have a way to contact him," Gan Qiu replied, "but he should be able to find me, as long as he... prays!"

As he spoke, Gan Qiu took the "Aesop's Fables" from Luna's hand. Looking at the book in front of him that made him not know whether to love or hate it, Gan Qiu opened the pages with a complicated expression, then closed his eyes and began to pray.

As his short gray hair was blown up in the windless state, Gan Qiu looked like the most devout believer in the church, receiving the gift from the goddess.

This is the Ticket-Snatching Knight under the command of my Lord Patrick!

Looking at the scene in front of them, everyone's heart was filled with strong hope, and their eyes were full of anticipation, as if Patrick would appear here in the next second.

only……

Gan Qiu's hair fluttered for nearly ten minutes, but nothing happened.

It was as if he prayed to Aesop, only to make his hair smoother and silkier.

After a while, he opened his eyes. Facing the expectant gazes of the crowd, he scratched his head awkwardly. "Strange, why don't I feel anything?"

"What, didn't feel anything?"

"Yeah." Gan Qiu said puzzledly, "In the past, when I prayed to Aesop... even Patrick, I could quickly gain strength. But why is there nothing this time? Not even a silver pattern. This doesn't make sense."

Gan Qiu was very puzzled.

Could it be that Aesop never came to this world at all and was still stuck in the past?

Or is it not Aesop who is alone, but himself?