Public executions started with King Adonai

Now these problems can be left to the officials of various countries and those extraordinary operators to solve. What Su Yun needs to do is to continue to produce new light screen images in order to collect more imagination and faith.

In fact, Su Yun has completed the "update preview" that he told Altria and Tokisaki Kurumi, allowing the Promotion Sanctuary (training space) to undergo a new round of upgrades.

Because of this, hundreds of thousands of faith powers were once again almost exhausted, and could only be upgraded by relying on new light screen images.

Just like that, on the sixth day after the last light screen image ended, the new function of the Promotion to Sanctuary was launched.

The operators who were pulled into the Ascension Sanctuary through their dreams all discovered this new function.

Its name is——Soul Ring.

[Introduction: Every life has a soul, and in the soul are engraved stories belonging to this soul, regardless of past lives or present lives.

Open the records of your own soul, and witness with your own eyes, your own senses, and your own cognition the engraved soul ring!

After silently reading the introduction of this new feature, Altria pondered for a moment and then opened it directly.

Although I don’t know what this function is, since it is a new function for advancing to the Holy Land, it is obviously what Su Yun said before, something that can bring them huge improvements, and they must strike hard!

Then, Artoria found herself in an ancient castle.

It was night outside, so no light could shine in. However, there were some braziers and torches inside the castle, which served as lighting tools to bring some light to the dark hall.

The entire castle is full of historical charm and is definitely not from the modern period. Artoria recognized it at a glance. It should be an ancient British-style castle.

Artoria was sitting on the throne of the castle.

This made Artoria stunned, and then she subconsciously stood up and looked at her body.

It was discovered that the Knight King had entered the 'transformed' state, and the holy sword in his hand was in a posture of releasing the Wind King's barrier.

After a moment of hesitation, Altria began to walk forward, preparing to leave the hall to see what was happening outside.

Then, an ancient and vicissitudes voice, obviously the narration of an old woman, sounded.

"This is a hopeless world, with no future in sight. The power of the abyss has invaded this world since the Age of Gods. Even now, even if the Knight King holds high the torch of hope and gathers warriors struggling in despair, he can only keep the doomed flame burning for a little longer."

"King Arthur, the king who was crowned with hope, but failed to live up to that hope."

"Your kingdom has come to an end. The power of the abyss is unstoppable."

"Your knights burned their last ounces of strength to protect you, allowing you to return to your own royal city, your own throne."

"How can you, who are barely surviving, bring about the future of this world in this dark age?"

"Continue to struggle?"

"Or..."

"Give up and let the world return to the darkness of the abyss?"

After listening to the narration, Artoria frowned deeply, and the bad feeling in her heart became even stronger.

Moreover, as a modern girl who plays a lot of games and often plays various games with Su Yun, Altria heard the background of the world here from the narration.

A feeling of playing a game came over her, and considering that the various functions of Ascension to the Sanctuary were indeed very good gaming experiences, it was like a perfect virtual reality game, so she naturally accepted this setting and then carefully analyzed the background of the game.

Obviously, this should be a 'parallel world' constructed based on the real world, and the background of the world is that since the Age of Gods, the world has been invaded by a dark force called 'Abyss', which has brought darkness and doomsday to the world.

King Arthur of this world established his own country as in history, and held high the torch, trying to build a country of hope in this dark world, just like Camelot in the past.

Unfortunately, the world was too dark, and King Arthur ultimately failed and was defeated by the power of the abyss. The knights under his command paid the price of sacrificing everything and sent King Arthur back to the royal city.

Then, Altria came, and the role she played was that of the desperate Knight King.

"What a hopeless background! It really makes me uncomfortable..."

Altria complained, instinctively averse to this 'game background'.

It’s not that she can’t accept this kind of desperate gaming world. Although she hasn’t played many similar games, she has played some, and she doesn’t feel too much emotion about it.

The key point is that what she is experiencing now is a background story that is directly modified from her "previous life", and it is a completely real experience, so the sense of immersion is maximized. How could she possibly like it?

I can only say that it is worthy of being a new function of promotion to the Holy Land. The extremely difficult and harsh experience of promotion to the Holy Land has indeed been inherited and super doubled.

The feeling was even stronger when Artoria pushed open the door of the throne hall with a heavy heart and prepared to go out to take a look.

Because there are ten people outside.

There were ten warriors wearing armor, who looked like knights or guards.

However, the armor on these people was tattered, and their bodies were almost mummified, with blood-red tentacles growing on them, constantly wriggling, which was very terrifying.

A dark red ominous aura emanated from his body, as if he was cursed.

That distorted posture reminded Artoria of mysterious creatures. Some of those who were infected and distorted by mysterious things would become similar things.

Of course, having seen similar ones before, the appearance alone would not scare Artoria.

What really broke Artoria's defense was that when those people saw her, they made hoarse sounds and used words to launch a "mental attack" on her.

"King...we have failed..."

"My king, the country we protected... has been destroyed..."

"Didn't you say you would lead us to defeat the darkness and protect the country?"

"Why? Why did this happen? King, why didn't you fulfill your promise? Why did we lose everything?"

"Ah ...

"Everyone is dead! Everyone is dead! King, why are you still alive? Why???"

Yes, this is the painful and sad questioning of the king by the subjects who trusted the king with all their heart, the result of a complete collapse of trust.

Such a terrible situation made Artoria feel depressed. Suddenly, she seemed to overlap with the sad mood of King Arthur in the first timeline for some unknown reason, and she also had an intuitive understanding of the physical feelings of King Arthur who had just experienced the Battle of Camlann.

Then, with this heavy heart, Artoria decided to give these knights relief.

then……

【you are dead. 】

When Artoria was executed and stabbed to death by the mutated knights, she felt severe pain, blood-red words appeared, and then she returned to the throne room and was resurrected.

"..."

Silence, silence, silence.

Silence is the theme tonight.

Finally, Artoria let out a sigh of 'as expected', filled with emotion.

This difficulty is extremely high.

Facing the ten mutated knights, when Artoria decided to free these people, the ten mutated knights showed extremely terrifying strength, and each of them was slightly weaker than her in physical attributes.

They were slightly weaker in strength and speed, but there were ten of them, and right from the start they showed a level of coordination and tacit understanding that could be described as having been precisely calculated by AI.

Ten people surrounded Artoria, and while continuing to attack her with words and spirits, they launched a perfect coordination with some attacking from a distance, some fighting in close combat, some restraining, some defending, and some attacking first.

This completely stunned Artoria. She had an all-round advantage and the power of the holy sword was strong and powerful, but the enemy finally seized the opportunity and first cut her feet, then her wrists and back, and then weakened her with a chain attack, and finally came up together to execute her by piercing her.

Basically, he pinned Altria to the ground and beat her, not giving her any chance to use her invincibility.

To be honest, Artoria felt that with the level of cooperation between the ten knights, if they were placed in the other functions of the previous promotion to the sanctuary, no matter what kind of enemy they faced, they could work together to defeat the opponent.

Where did this cheating player come from?

Most importantly, after executing her, the knights cried out in pain and sorrow, constantly calling out "King", and while attacking her physically, they also launched a mental attack on Artoria.

It is really……

The difficulty is insane.

Even Hidetaka Miyazaki would exclaim, "You are too extreme" after seeing this.

However, Artoria has gotten used to it. The main feature of this promotion to the Sanctuary has been "reality" and difficulty from the very beginning.

The difficulty used to be ridiculously high. Even in a team battle, the team would be wiped out by novice monsters.

Now, it's just a repetition of that process, except that the background story is really difficult to sustain, and it comes with a mental attack template.

So, Altria cheered up and started to try to challenge again, but failed again and again.

During this period, Artoria also tried to release the Noble Phantasm, but then found that the power of the Noble Phantasm was sealed, and even various skills were sealed. She could only use the sharpness of the holy sword to chop people.

Then, the narration prompt popped up again, indicating that King Arthur lost his power in various places because of his failure to fight against the abyss, and it was controlled by the apostles of the abyss. Only after defeating those apostles of the abyss can he gradually regain his former power.

Well, it’s the classic game setting again, the process of losing power + regaining power.

Altria said she understood, and then once again brought up a guess that she and her fellow superhumans had had a long time ago.

"The creator of this Sanctuary Ascension must be someone who enjoys playing games, or perhaps even someone who works in the gaming industry."

Well, this guess is not wrong. After all, Su Yun is a game planner, and everything he creates has the feeling of a game system.

There was no other way. Who told Su Yun not to be thorough in other research, but to be an expert in games? Of course he had to bring out his professionalism in everything he did.

After thirty-seven attempts, Altria finally dealt with the ten novice monsters.

Then, just as Altria breathed a sigh of relief and was about to continue on to the next section of the journey, something happened again that slightly upset her.

At this moment, the dark red ominous aura on the ten killed knights dissipated, and then one by one, dark blue souls emerged from them.

Then, they all knelt on one knee in front of Artoria, and apologized to her sincerely with grief and guilt, saying that what they said before was not from the heart, and their true sincerity was that even now, they deeply trusted the king, and even though the country had been destroyed, they still hoped that the king could survive.

What is displayed is the blessing and expectation for the king. Everything is done to protect the king.

Then, after these people died, some props could be picked up from their corpses. Some broken text on them revealed that these knights were actually the loyal knights who escorted King Arthur back to the royal city at the last moment. However, after completing their mission, they were eroded by the abyss and turned into abyss zombies.

One of the text captions directly states their expectations of King Arthur.

My king, may your glory last forever.

At that moment, Altria felt her nose sore and her eyes became moist.

At the same time, an irrepressible resentment arose. After all, the guy who created this new function of advancing to the Sanctuary was so disgusting. It was simply an ultimate double blow of physical and mental damage.

This guy behind the scenes is the ultimate torturer, right?

It's so nasty!

However, even though she was full of resentment, all Altria could do was to act honestly and continue to conquer this dark and desperate world.

After all, although she didn't know what the reward would be after passing the level, based on what Su Yun had said a few days ago, Altria was still full of expectations.

Moreover, although Artoria herself did not realize it, she actually put herself into the story, longing to free her cursed subjects, and also longing to defeat the abyss and bring light back to this dark world.

At the same time, the same thing happened to other operators who entered the new Soul Ring function.

Everyone experienced a similar background, a terrible start with the abyss invading and destroying the world.

The difference is that the role played by each person is the "self" in the parallel world. For various reasons, they face those who are eroded by the abyss and give them relief through fighting.

In terms of difficulty, they are actually about the same. The enemies all start out as novice monsters that are slightly weaker than the operators themselves, and there will be no invincible enemies.

However, not everyone is like Altria, who 'only' took more than thirty times to deal with the novice monster at the door. Most people need to spend more time to resolve the battle, and a few can be faster than Altria.

For example, Yuichiro Tsugikuni, who had a BUG-level talent, took "only" 28 times to deal with the novice monster at the door, which was the first among all operators.

To be honest, if the upper limit of Yuichiro Tsuchiya's template was not visible to the naked eye, Su Yun really wouldn't mind training Yuichiro Tsuchiya further.

However, the upper limit of strength is there, and it is not worth spending more resources to cultivate it.

This is also the reason why Tsugakuin Yuichiro's template is so powerful, because before reaching the upper limit, he is at the T0 level among the top extraordinary people, but once he reaches the upper limit, his strength will become difficult to improve.

Even if Su Yun spent more imagination to upgrade it, it would still be a case of getting half the result with twice the effort.

So, let’s share our imagination with other people!

Fair distribution allows all operators under your command to be promoted.

Of course, since Altria is his girlfriend, Su Yun will definitely take good care of her. Kurumi Tokisaki will also receive preferential treatment.

However, the preferential treatment given to Tokisaki Kurumi is to increase the rewards she gets in the 'game'.

Altria's words were combined with another thing Su Yun was doing -

After passing the interception of the novice monsters and coming to the outside of the castle, in front of the gate leading to the ruined city, Artoria encountered an obstacle, and it should be the first BOSS.

Although it was very awkward to encounter the BOSS right after defeating the Novice Village, since it had already happened, there was nothing I could do but try my best to defeat it.

Then, in this situation, when a golden teleportation light fell on Artoria, which surprised Artoria very much, a young girl knight wearing red and white knight armor appeared beside Artoria.

He looks almost exactly like Altria. He carries the knight's broadsword on his shoulder and looks around curiously, as if he is also curious about why he came to this place.

Then, the knight girl's pupils shrank, and she blurted out, "You are... my father!?"