Elden Clergyman

Three consecutive golden fragments burst out from the eyes of the demi-human queen and hit the shield that Lord raised.

There are many new moves and the desire to attack is good, but because of the foundation, the values are a bit poor.

Lord held the shield for a while to familiarize himself with the situation. After he roughly understood the situation, he took out the hound's fangs and chopped her to the ground.

The health bar emptied, the power faded, and a system prompt popped up.

【ENEMY FELLED】

[Obtain War Ash 'Smash the Ground']

[Obtain the item 'Ego Fragment']

War Ash is a hammer weapon that can be used on hammers, causing small area damage by smashing the ground.

You can increase the range and damage by charging, which is a useful, but not common, war ash.

As for the other one...

【Ego Fragments】

[Fragments that can give a doll a soul]

[When applied to the flesh, distortion occurs]

[The nameless doll opens its eyes]

[Without a past, there is no future]

Only painful questions

Where do we come from?

【Why was I given life and then irresponsibly abandoned? 】

It was an important prop that could not be used. Lord fiddled with it for a while, and after confirming that it was temporarily useless, he ignored it.

While he was studying his harvest, Burke and the subhuman queen finished their communication.

At Burke's signal, the subhuman queen walked up to Lord, lowered her head, and then, along with her people, was teleported to the city of Morn by Lord.

"Master, I..."

"Well done."

Lord smiled and gave Burke a thumbs up. After chatting for a while, he teleported back to the Yatan Plateau.

After being teleported back, Lord walked around the ruins again and saw a familiar face.

'Recruiter' Laya.

This was the strange girl whom Lord had met before at Lake Lienia, who ate the rogue shrimp but didn't pay for it.

The other party seemed to be waiting for him. After seeing him, he greeted him from a distance.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time."

After Lord passed by, she spoke with a smile.

"Just as I said, you are a hero."

"I would like to formally invite you to the Volcano Residence."

"Please take my hand and meet my master."

Just send it.

Because he was a little confused about the terrain of this place and was still wondering how to get to the Volcano Residence, Lord did not refuse Raya's invitation. He nodded and held her hand.

"...I sincerely hope that you will walk on the same path as Lady Tanis."

　Along with the gentle words, Lord's surroundings darkened for a moment.

When it lit up again, it appeared in a mansion shrouded in red light.

A masked woman was sitting on a chair not far away, and a Crucible Knight was standing next to her.

Seeing Lord appear, the woman nodded slightly and then spoke.

"Faded One, welcome to the Volcano Residence."

"My name is Tanis, and I am the owner of this mansion."

"Laya once mentioned you. I heard that you are a person with great potential."

"Then please allow me to ask, to reaffirm your intention: Are you willing to join the Volcano Residence and fight alongside us?"

"Blessed guidance, the arrogant empty words of the finger - we do not intend to obey anything that is imposed..."

"We will raise our swords against the Golden Tree."

As she spoke, the woman raised her hand to Lord.

Lord blinked and said sincerely.

"Well, what did you just say?"

"I didn't quite understand."

Tanis was slightly stunned, but didn't care. She repeated what she had just said and added some explanations.

Then......

"Can you be more specific?"

Lord said sincerely.

"I still don't quite understand."

Tanis: “…”

Considering the other party's good attitude, Tanis took a deep breath and patiently explained it to Lord again.

but......

"Why don't you just tell me what to do."

After hearing what Lord said, Tanis fell silent.

Because the other party was recruited by Laya and seemed sincere, Tanis was silent for a while, but finally chose to be patient.

"Simply put, after joining us, you need to hunt down your compatriots and seize their power."

Tanis spoke again.

"We will issue a hunting mission for them via letter. If you complete it, in addition to the power you seized from them, the Volcano Residence will also provide a certain amount of reward."

"But if you still have any hesitation about hunting your fellow hunters, that's fine. Just leave this mansion immediately."

"We must raise our swords against the Golden Tree. We do not need weaklings as our allies. Everyone must be prepared to dirty their hands."

I get it, it’s the side quest about the badass dark spirit.

Lord nodded, probably understanding what she meant.

However, although he roughly understood the meaning of this branch line, Lord did not agree to her immediately.

On the one hand, based on his past experience, this kind of bad side quest is likely to conflict with other side quests.

On the other hand, he still had doubts about certain things in Tanis's painting.

"Two fingers... arrogant?"

"Isn't that arrogant?"

Tanis asked back.

"That condescending attitude, that silent, cold-blooded guidance, drew everyone together to fight each other, while he himself remained on the sidelines, as if watching a fight between beasts..."

"If this isn't arrogance, then there's probably nothing else like it in the world."

After listening to Tanis's words, Lord was silent for a while.

"So, is there a possibility that this situation occurs because you can't understand what it's saying?"

"Is it possible that Zhitou actually likes chatting, but he usually has to go to work and doesn't have time to chat with others, so he acts a little aloof."

"As for the blessed guidance, is it possible that it's just a simple map navigation, telling you where to go to complete the task, but not restricting how you do it?"

After hearing what Lord said, Tanis was directly amused by him.

"Interesting conjecture, but...that's impossible."

Tanis shook her head.

"If the Two Fingers were truly as gentle as you claim, then why would they direct the demigods to fight over the Great Rune and cause them to kill each other?"

"The gods are mistreating us, controlling us like puppets, driving us like fighting beasts, watching us fight each other, watching us make a fool of ourselves..."

"It is for this reason that the Volcano Residence must embark on a path of rebellion. Even if it is filled with impurity and defilement, we must resist and thus embark on the path of heroism..."

Faced with Tanis's remarks, Lord didn't know how to refute them for a moment.

After all, he wasn't very good at this.

But it doesn't matter. Although he is not good at verbal arguments, Lord has his own way.

"Just wait a moment."

As he spoke, Lord touched the blessing and disappeared in front of Tanis.

Then, just when Tanis was still wondering what was going on, Lord's figure slowly emerged again.

In his hands, he was holding something.

"Come on, make room for me, buddy, to sit down."

After poking his two fingers in front of Tanis and making them stare at each other, Lord let out a sigh.

"I'm a bit tongue-tied, I don't know how to explain it to you."

"But it's okay, I brought it here."

"You two can just talk face to face."

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Chapter 96: Quality Double Fingers

"Why aren't you talking?"

Lord waited there for a while.

He really wanted Tanis to talk to Two Fingers.

After all, from what I just heard from the other party, it seems that there are many misunderstandings about double fingers. So even if the conflict cannot be resolved, at least we can talk it out first.

As for translation...I mean interpretation.

Lord planned to do this himself.

Although his attempt to help Reina with her fingering failed last time, he did not give up.

The road must be walked step by step, and the food must be eaten bite by bite. Who doesn’t go through a process when learning a foreign language?

And last time, he was able to understand what Shuangzhi said without relying on the finger-unraveling grandma.

So if I can figure out one more sentence this time, then I can figure out another sentence next time, and the next time...

Lord firmly believed that as long as he could persist, sooner or later he would become a master of the art of dismantling fingers.

But what he didn't expect was that he was so excited to be a translator, but Tanis was silent and didn't even fart after holding it in for a long time.

This made Lord very disappointed.

But it doesn’t matter.

If Tanis didn't say anything, Lord would just chat with Two Fingers on his own.

Thinking of this, Lord put Tanis aside, stretched out two fingers, and started gesturing with two fingers.

Then......

"You curse so filthy!"