The Black Pot Boiling Meat Squad was completely wiped out.
Alma the Spear stood beside the tombstones of the five holy spirits, but the gaze she sensed was directed towards... another figure that followed her.
Rosh.
"They seem to have the ability to resurrect. Just like you said, their attitude towards death is...playful."
Sharpshooter Alma looked at the tombstones of the five members of the Black Pot Boiled Meat Team, two pure gold tombstones of seals surfing, and a tombstone of Popeye and a cat playing with a ball of string and a panda chewing bamboo.
People who don’t know might think these tombstones are sculptures placed in a petting zoo.
"It was a wrong decision for you to kill them!" Roche half-knelt in front of a tombstone where a cat was playing with a ball of yarn, and said while rubbing the surface of the tombstone with his hand.
"These holy spirits are not what I'm looking for..." Alma, the sharpshooter, carried the spear in his hand on his shoulder, and the quintuplets walked out from the shadow of the wall.
They were like a group of groundhogs living in a cave, huddled together in fear, trembling as they looked at the sharpshooter Alma and Roche.
"You are the second-term students? The Grota people... inherited the hunter qualification from your mother?" Alma, the sharpshooter, saw the identities of these five lolis at a glance. "Although the Sanctuary does not have laws to punish those on the path to ascension... to find someone to lead a fight, this matter will not be so simple."
"S-sorry."
"We don't dare!"
"I'm really sorry."
"Forgive us!"
"Anyway, I don't want to stay in this damn place called the Sanctuary of Creation any longer!"
When the quintuplets were apologizing to Alma the Sharpshooter one by one, the youngest one suddenly shouted at Alma the Sharpshooter angrily, which scared the other four sisters so much that they quickly covered the youngest sister's mouth.
"Don't want to stay? You second-term students are really of no use to the sanctuary." said Alma, the sharpshooter.
Second-generation students are a name given to useless offspring in the Sanctuary of Creation. Breeding offspring is not popular in the Sanctuary of Creation, at least the Hunter class and classes below them are not allowed to have offspring.
Because the population expansion of the Sanctuary of Creation comes from the talents of the original planes, the civilian class is a talent pool in the Sanctuary of Creation, but the babies born there do not have any talent.
Unless they are from an extremely rare race and bloodline, but these quintuplets are obviously not among them. They inherited their mother's qualifications as hunters, but did not receive adequate education.
"Teacher, you promised me to at least let them go." Roche said as he stood in front of the quintuplets.
Leaping Nucleus helped Rosh obtain the qualification of supervisor, which temporarily exempted Rosh from the previous punishment, but Rosh's situation did not get much better.
Alma the Spear's status in the Sanctuary of Eternity is far inferior to that of the other ruler, mainly because she is too aloof from the world, so aloof that her only confidant is Rosh.
"What if I'm lying? Rosh, before you learn to lie, you should first learn to judge whether others are lying." Alma the Spear said, "What the Holy Spirit is doing now may subvert the order of the Eternal Sanctuary."
"..." Roche pursed her lips tightly together.
She is now in a dilemma. On the one hand, Rosh must find a way to repay the kindness of the Leaping Atomic, but on the other hand, the Holy Spirits intend to subvert the order of the Eternal Sanctuary, which is the "country" where she lives.
"It all comes down to you wanting to use us as weapons."
A voice sounded on the tombstone of the black pot boiling meat, and a ball of deep blue flame burned up to form a figure in a robe.
Jiang Qiao has been watching the live broadcast for a long time since it started. What the sharpshooter Alma is looking for is not the quintuplets, but the existence behind the Holy Spirit.
She invaded the Quintuplets' Trial this time, on the one hand to kill the Annihilation Legion forces that also invaded, and the other real reason was to talk to Jiang Qiao.
"Are you this year's God Eater?" Alma the Spearman was not surprised to see Jiang Qiao's incarnation. She even reached her hand into Jiang Qiao's incarnation made of fire.
This action made Jiang Qiao subconsciously step back, but when Jiang Qiao realized that he was not a physical incarnation, he just floated on the tombstone of the black pot boiling meat without moving.
"Warm flames." Alma the God of Guns muttered to himself as he looked at the deep blue flames that filled his hands. "This is much warmer than the previous God Devourer. Even if it was any other god in the Alliance of Gods, the soul fire wouldn't be this comfortable."
"What do you... want?"
This was not the first time that Jiang Qiao heard others comment on his "Fire of Contract" or "Fire of Soul". The mistress had said the same thing before.
This flame is a symbol of the consciousness of the entire Holy Spirit. Any god or even any living being has it. God's words will take different forms depending on the personality tendencies of the believers. Their only function is to sign all kinds of strange contracts, and they will no longer be of much use.
"Cooperation, God Eater, I think we can work together to drive out the Annihilation Legion that invaded the Ascension Road." Alma the God Spear said, "Compared to you, I hate those Annihilation Legion more."
"If you want to cooperate, then stop advancing into the plane we are in," Jiang Qiao said.
"This is not a decision I can make. I am not the true ruler of the Eternal Sanctuary." Alma the Divine Spear said with some regret, but she set her eyes on the quintuplets hiding behind Jiang Qiao. "But I can condone some of your actions, such as... you allowing our civilians to cheat on the road to ascension and earn divine power crystals."
"Can't you guys drive away the Annihilation Legion by yourselves?" Jiang Qiao always felt that it was a bit strange that the Annihilation Legion could freely enter and exit the Ascension Road. Even if the ruler had certain privileges, this ability was too buggy.
"How many people in the Sanctuary of Creation do you think... have been bribed by the Annihilation Legion?" asked Alma the Sharp Gunner.
"How would I know this?"
"I don't know either. I can mobilize the hunters to intercept those guys, but only the power of the God Eater can cause substantial damage to them on the road to ascension. Otherwise, all the interceptions will be in vain." Alma said.
Why does Jiang Qiao feel that Hai Lan is just like Tang Monk now? Whenever he meets a monster on the road, he wants to eat a bite of Tang Monk's flesh. The power of the God Devourer is really too popular on the star map. Every force is trying to possess the power of the God Devourer.
Either they try to win over the Holy Spirit under Jiang Qiao, or they try to win over Jiang Qiao directly. The most extreme case is to turn the Holy Spirit into a weapon.
“You don’t have to tell me. If the Holy Spirits under my command encounter the Annihilation Legion, they will all be slaughtered,” Jiang Qiao said.
"I'm afraid you need a little assistance. Take it." Alma, the sharpshooter, took out a special badge, and Jiang Qiao's flaming incarnation held the badge.
"Ruler Alma's Invasion Badge—This badge is a certificate of strength granted by the Ascension Path. It has the ability to slightly change the rules of the Ascension Path. The most commonly used function is to invade other people's trials."
"Thorne never mentioned this to me." Jiang Qiao said as he looked at the emblem that was imprinted with special powers.
"Thorne? He won't give such a precious thing to others casually. The Holy Spirits under your command should be able to share the power of this emblem. The time is up, I should leave here... Finally, I remind you to be careful of that guy Thorne."
After leaving these words, Alma the Sharpshooter disappeared in the trial of the Road to Ascension. Rosh, who wanted to say something to Jiang Qiao, also disappeared with her.
This trial also ended in failure.
(End of this chapter)