Sorcerer’s Handbook

Chapter 185: Internal strife among the Four Pillar Gods?

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The underground hall was so quiet that the only sound was the sound of the flames.

The children stopped crying and stared at him blankly. Igula seemed to be a dozen years younger at this moment, as confused and cute as the children next to him. Only Harvey looked funny, wanting to laugh but not daring to, and gave Ash a thumbs up with his bound right hand.

Everyone seemed to hold their breath, quietly waiting for the outcome of this sacrificial duel.

One second passed, two seconds passed, three seconds passed, and nothing happened.

The children all showed disappointed expressions, and Igula sighed secretly.

However, the black-robed people around them gradually began to become agitated.

"How can it be… "

“Have we been abandoned?”

"Why is this happening, Four Pillar Gods, are you punishing us?!"

Even Yongjie's cute face, which could show both anger and joy, frowned slightly at this moment, like a child who saw his toy being taken away.

Yes, nothing happened.

But nothing happened, and that’s the biggest problem!

The Four Pillars Gods have always responded very quickly to sacrifices, and have never been arrogant or procrastinated. In terms of being close to the people, the Four Pillars Gods are indeed at the top of their peers. They have accurately grasped the pain points of believers, laid out new tracks in many places, formed an ecological closed loop of sacrifices and oracles, improved people's perception, and ensured end-to-end short, flat and fast processing from sacrifices to the Four Pillars Gods. The sect is flat and decentralized, and has achieved simple reuse and rapid response of sacrificial rituals, which is the most solid moat of the Four Pillars Gods...

However, this time the Four Pillar Gods did not respond to the believers' call and did not come out to collect the sacrifices. It was just like when netizens discovered that a web page was unresponsive, so it was understandable that the men in black robes would be so panicked - they suspected that the Four Pillar Gods had disconnected from them!

Who wouldn’t be afraid of an Internet outage

Boom!

Suddenly, there was a strange sound from the sky. The man in black robe looked up in surprise, only to see a crack in the ceiling of the hall.

boom!

With a loud bang, the ceiling exploded!

As Ash watched this scene, he felt as if he had seen this plot development somewhere before.

"I finally found you, Serena Bright."

A tall elf with grey hair and long ears fell from the dust of the collapse, and landed gently in front of Ash and the others. She was wearing a red hooded cloak, her grey ponytail was raised high, and she held a hand cannon engraved with rune circuits in each hand.

When she landed, the fire ring around her suddenly went out, and the ground cracked into layers of earth walls, perfectly surrounding the children!

With a whooshing sound like electric current, more than a dozen rescuers, also wearing red cloaks, rushed in from the ceiling and mercilessly shot at the black-robed people in the underground hall, showing no sign of caring about human rights.

But the cultists in black robes here are much stronger than Yaxiu’s cheerleaders. They are not afraid of the sudden attack and even draw their weapons to perform miracles to rush back and try to drown out the smaller number of rescuers!

Suddenly, a young man among the rescuers roared in surprise: "Job, great, you're okay—die, cult leader!"

The tall elf's expression changed drastically: "Kusuo, don't—"

call out!

The young man fired an electromagnetic bullet at Yongjie Changzai, but the bullet happened to collide with the bullet of another rescuer. The two bullets made a crisp sound in the air, and the flight trajectory was forcibly distorted, and then -

Snapped!

Ash heard a sound like a watermelon bursting behind him, followed by a heat on his back, as if some warm liquid had splashed on it, and then the children let out hysterical screams of panic.

He didn't even dare look back.

“Job… Job!?” the young man yelled in panic, “Impossible, this is impossible—”

The tall elf stared at Yongjie Changzai and shouted, "Kusuo, you are on the battlefield now!"

The elf's worries soon became a reality. The young man named Kuso let out a scream as soon as she finished speaking, as if the man in black robe had seized the opportunity to kill him.

During the entire process, the tall elf didn't even turn his head, always standing in front of Ash and the other sacrifices, keeping his eyes locked on Eternal Calamity, allowing the others to deal with the other black-robed cultists.

"Cleos Baimu."

Although his home was raided, Yongjie Changzai didn't seem to care. There was no trace of worry on his face. He looked at the tall elf with interest and said, "The watcher 'Crying Sand' Cleos, who ranked first on the Red Hat Azula list and tenth on the Red Hat list, actually came to arrest a disabled person like me in person. Selina is really flattered."

"You are not just disabled, you are cruel."

The female elf named Cleos said coldly: "No. 1 on the Sinner List - Azura, No. 6 on the Killing List - Azura, and No. 8 on the Disaster Messenger List. In recent years, the crime rate in Azura has been rising year by year. Serial murders, kidnappings, drug smuggling, and the resurgence of cults are all related to you."

"Sister Cleos, I was actually wronged." Yongjie Changzai suddenly started to cry, "Look at me, I can't even move without a wheelchair, and I would even starve to death if no one serves me. I'm just a puppet placed on a stand, and at some point, I'll even become a toy of the mastermind behind the scenes... Sister Cleos, can I trust you? Can you free me from the control of the Four Pillars?"

Harvey and Igulla looked at Yaxiu at the same time, with strong doubts in their eyes again - Brother, do the whitewashing lines of your cult leaders are exactly the same? Did you attend the same training class before taking office

Ash knew that they were judging him by his own standards, so he whispered in defense, "I was really wronged! If you change the subject of her words to me, it will be true!"

"So have you also been used as a toy by the mastermind?" Harvey asked.

Facing Eternal Tribulation's defense, Cleos felt no wavering in his heart, and even felt like laughing: "Selena, you are doomed tonight, and it's useless for you to say anything. The Gospel is not wrong."

Yongjie Changzai's expression changed quickly, and he snorted coldly: "Blind faith is a dead end. The most foolish thing a person can do is to be so selfish as to think that God is selfless. Cleos, your blindness will bring you despair sooner or later."

"Are you, a cult leader, qualified to say such things?"

"Because I know that God loves the world." Yongjie always smiled and said, "But God loves himself more."

Cleos shut up, seemingly not interested in continuing to talk nonsense with Yongjie Chang.

Yongjie Changzai leaned lazily on the silver throne. "Well, since you, Cleos, believe that I am the criminal, why don't you come up and arrest me? You don't expect a disabled little girl like me to come down and surrender, do you?"

"I'm waiting."

The female elf said coldly: "When all other cultists are dealt with, when all external factors are eliminated, and when there is no one to exploit your destiny miracle, I will personally ring the death knell for you."

A miracle of fate!

Upon hearing about this most mysterious school of magic, the three migrant workers couldn't help but prick up their ears.

Fate, truth, prophecy, these three factions are what every magician does not want to learn, but no magician knows how to learn them - even the most popular faction of prophecy has no systematic learning method in the Blood Moon Kingdom. All the professors who study the faction of prophecy in Kaimen University are defrauding funds.

Although the Prophecy Faction is a fantasy, at least the magicians still consider it a serious faction. However, the Truth and Destiny Faction has been denounced by many magicians as feudal superstition - there is not even a shadow of the faction's magic spirit, and the deeds of the magicians of destiny and truth only exist in ancient mythology. What is the difference between this and the settings of fantasy novels!

A faction of magic that even magicians who believe in miracles think is feudal and superstitious actually appeared before our eyes

"Before the action, I used up all my points and gospels, and learned the method to defeat you from the Gospel - 'I can't hurt you.'" Chloris said: "If I'm not mistaken, your miracle of fate is to use various accidents to distort all attacks on you, and even turn around and attack those who want to kill you."

"Just now, Kuso wanted to shoot you, but the bullet happened to hit his own brother, and he lost his mind and was killed by your men... It's a terrible miracle of fate."

"So the action plan I made is to kill your subordinates first, eliminate all the unstable factors that can help you, and then slowly deal with you." The female elf sneered: "How does it feel to watch yourself step into a dead end? Are you nurturing fear under this lovely human skin of yours?"

"As expected of you, you are the respected Crying Sand Red Hat Cleos, but you are wrong about one thing."

Yongjie Changzai smiled and said, "The ability you describe is not a miracle of destiny, and I am not proficient in this legendary school of magic."

"It's not a miracle, it's not a magic, it's not a secret poison, it's not a blessing."

"It's my... 'tactile sense'."

“Nonsense!” Cleos looked around and found that the black-robed men were basically suppressed, so he stopped waiting and aimed his gun at—

ceiling!

whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Cleos's bullets seemed to have some kind of miracle, and with just a few shots, the rocks on the ceiling melted and disintegrated. With a loud rumbling sound, a huge rock formation was about to fall, smashing the Eternal Calamity on the Silver Throne into a puddle of meat paste!

Ash immediately understood Cleos's idea - although I can't attack you, if I attack the rocks and let them fall and kill you, wouldn't that be a way to avoid that strange miracle of fate

This does seem to be a wise move, at least Ash can't see any loopholes. The Black Robe Cultists are suppressed and can't save Yongjie Changzai, and Yongjie Changzai has no ability to move. If she wants to leave the Silver Throne, she must rely on magic spirits or miracles.

But for some reason, Ash had a strong premonition—Selena was not a magician!

She didn't master any magic or miracles except what she called 'sense of touch'!

Just like Heath back then!

Click.

Amid the rumbling, a strange cracking sound caught everyone's attention. They looked up and saw a strange crack in the middle of the ceiling rock, with a few drops of water seeping out.

Cleos' pupils suddenly shrank, and he fired a shot backwards. The ground quickly rolled into a fortress to protect the children.

Snapped!

The rock collapsed completely, but with it came a torrent of water!

Other parts of the ceiling also quickly collapsed, and the roaring underground river rushed into the underground hall like a waterfall!

"How could there just happen to be an underground river there—"

Cleos was stunned. They, the Red Hats, dug open the ceiling and rushed in, but they didn't find the underground river

Her eyes became wet with anger, and she bit her lip as she shot rapidly at the floor. Layers of earth walls rumbled up to try to hold back the river water.

However, not only the front wall, but also the walls on the side began to crack, and the raging river water rushed in like an army, as if the entire underground hall was built in an underground sea, and it would be quickly submerged as long as a small hole was opened!

The red-hatted and black-robed men were swept away by the river, and Cleos could only rely on earth magic miracles to protect herself and could not take care of others for the time being - so Ash was also washed away.

Perhaps Ash and the others were too close to Cleos, or perhaps she felt that adults did not need special protection, so her earth magic miracle only covered the children, just exposing Ash and the other two.

Ash's hands and feet were still tied by the miracle chains. Unless he could turn his tongue like a propeller, he couldn't swim at all, so he could only hold his breath and accept being drifted by the waves until he hit a soft body and then stopped.

"You bumped into me."

"Oh, oh... sorry."

Ash quickly took a deep breath and looked down to find himself lying on the armrest of the Silver Throne.

The former cult leader turned his head slightly and saw his young companion with wet clothes, looking like a drowned cat.

He now looked like a perverted adult lying on the little loli's thighs - if the latter had thighs.

"You just said that you are the Doomsday Observer?" She whispered in Ash's ear in a low voice.

Ash nodded and shook his head, squirming to get away from the current cult leader: "Actually, I have turned over a new leaf..."

"Let me introduce myself again. I am Yongjie Changzai, the one who is entangled in eternal calamity, and the one who is always in the end." Yongjie Changzai smiled and said, "Nice to meet you, the observer of the end. You can call me Changzai."

Ash was a little stunned: "(⊙o⊙)...You can call me the Observer."

"Then, viewer, please die."

Selina raised her head high, then knocked it down heavily—

Hit Ash's forehead with your own!