Chapter 409 - 215: Reckoning, Harvest
However, everyone in the entire city had seen the commotion.
A cold glint flashed in Lu Cang’s eyes. The city-wide Restriction activated... trapping everyone inside, unable to leave.
The exit channels within the city were also sealed.
Meanwhile, at Lu Cang’s side,
Dome Night’s Undead form had already appeared.
「Dome Night」
「Level 5 Death Priest」
「Constitution: Embrace of Death」
「Talent: Pure Soul (Supreme)」
’So, this guy also had the Supreme Level "Pure Soul" Talent. No wonder he possessed so many refined souls.’
’But unfortunately, even so, he had to kill beings with extremely high Spirituality to obtain souls with a Spirituality greater than his own.’
’Even Dome Night himself only had about a thousand such souls.’
’A thousand is already a lot.’
’And the Embrace of Death allowed him to turn himself into an Undead, being considered both living and dead. In this state, he could use unique Undead Death Spells.’
’Heh...’
’In that case, using his Undead form wouldn’t be strange at all.’
’After all, he could transform into an Undead himself. The appearance of Dome Night with an Undead aura would only make people think he had activated his Constitution.’
"What’s going on!"
"We can’t get out!"
"The Restriction! The Restriction has been activated!"
"What were all those Soul Lights just now? Is this the Death Church’s doing again?!"
"Death Church, what in the world are you trying to do?!"
The entire city, filled with Cults, was now a scene of chaos and clamor!
But Dome Night’s voice floated above the sky!
"Everyone... The Death Church does not need to explain its actions to the likes of you."
"Today, I, Dome Night, have received the inheritance of Death."
"I have become one of the Saints."
"On such a joyous day... why don’t you all... liven things up for me!"
BOOM!
The ground suddenly split apart!
One after another, massive, bloody maws burst from the earth, surging skyward to devour everything!
With a single bite, one consumed an entire, massive building!
Swallowing all the Cultists inside!
「Blood Evil Devouring (Tier Five) (Level 401)」
"Dome Night!"
"Do you really think you can do whatever you want just because you passed Death’s inheritance and became a Death Saint?!"
BOOM!
The sky shattered as millions of strands of deep green, rotting light, like long, thin hairs, rained down endlessly from above, striking at the "Dome Night" floating in the sky!
「Tier Six Disease Magic: Touch of Eternal Malignancy (Tier Six)」
The Level Six experts.
’If they were actually given a chance to fight, they would be quite strong.’
’But...’
At this moment, Lu Cang stood on a rooftop somewhere in the city, looking up at the Level 6 experts who had taken to the sky.
「Date of Death: 1 day >> 0」
"Urgh!"
"AHHHHH—"
"No!"
"Why... What’s happening!"
Countless miserable screams echoed from the sky!
SPLAT!
Before they could even display an offense worthy of Level 6, Lu Cang settled their Dates of Death, one after another.
SPLAT—
High in the sky, the bodies of these experts exploded one after another for seemingly no reason!
One suffered a backlash from an Evil Technique, another had a latent disease that instantly worsened and claimed their life, and the Skin Takers’ bodies rejected their hides...
One Level 6 Reincarnator after another fell inexplicably.
They didn’t even manage to launch a single decent attack.
The only thing that landed on "Dome Night"...
...was the countless strands of deep green light. They ignored all barriers and passed straight through Dome Night’s body.
Instantly, Dome Night’s Undead form was afflicted with all sorts of diseases.
However...
Undead are not afraid of getting sick.
The diseases took hold, but Dome Night showed no reaction whatsoever, merely obeying Lu Cang’s will as he gazed down upon the living creatures below.
The Level 6 Reincarnators were basically all dead.
All that remained were some Low Level Little Karamis...
Lu Cang had no intention of completely destroying the city. Instead, he stepped into the restricted areas.
’"Life Furnace..."’
’"Quite a few Forging Skills. Ai Jin should like these."’
’"Sigh, but is it really a good idea for Uncle Ai Jin to learn so many evil Forging Skills..."’
He felt as if he had let Ai Jin open a terrifying door.
A hint of worry couldn’t help but rise in Lu Cang.
Aside from that, there were also various skins, skeletons, and even products made from eyeballs of different life forms.
Lu Cang opened a book.
’"Using the body as a vessel, forging oneself..."’
’"Refining eyeballs, teeth, skin, hair, nails... all parts of the body into Special equipment."’
’"How perverse."’
’"But... it might be useful in the Future."’
Lu Cang didn’t dismiss this Forging Skill as unusable just because it seemed evil.
’After all, weren’t there similar things in the Cultivation Novels from his past life?’
’Using the body as a weapon, tempering oneself.’
’Engraving some Array Patterns on the body... Isn’t that pretty much the same as applying Enchantments to the body?’
So even though it looked evil and bizarre,
Lu Cang wasn’t particularly repulsed by it.
’The main thing was whether there were side effects. If there weren’t many, it might be worth trying a Dharma Gate like this.’
’But since it was classified as an Evil Technique... it was probably a trap of some kind.’
Lu Cang touched these items.
A dazzling array of clues and connections appeared before his eyes.
There was too much related information, too many people involved.
Some of the items were even connected to the Orthodoxy. It seemed the Cults and the Orthodoxy weren’t in a state of complete mutual exclusion.
He just didn’t know how many Secrets were involved.
At the very least, judging by the Peace Church,
the prosperity of the evil Sects in this Inner World was inextricably linked to the City of Peace.
Many things... all pointed to the master of the City of Peace.
Lu Cang’s ears twitched.
"No!"
"I don’t want to die!"
"Why?! Why is the Death Church being so ruthless? Aren’t you afraid of retaliation from our Rose of Shedding Skin?!"
"Dome Night! Do you intend to make an enemy of all our Sects by yourself?!"
"Spare me! Spare me!"
RUMBLE—
The sounds outside were certainly noisy.
Lu Cang walked along the street, his body flickering from time to time as he collected items that interested him.
These people were chattering away, making quite a racket.
’There might be some among them whose crimes don’t warrant death... but since they joined a Cult, they should have expected a day like this would come.’
’Those who go along with the wicked can just be killed.’
Lu Cang wasn’t some judge who could carefully weigh the good and evil of each and every one of them.
Death was carried out, and lives were erased.
Lu Cang filled his Storage Bag to the brim, having completely emptied the entire city.
The Cults had some impressive resources.
Lu Cang raised his hand, and one piece of loot after another appeared before him.
「Extremely Chaotic Staff: When casting a spell, an additional random spell of the same Tier (Tier Five or lower) will be cast at a random target.」
「Vanishing Hide: The hide of an Assassin with a silent Talent, Refined into a Special outer garment. Wearing this garment will greatly reduce your presence and render all your movements silent.」
「Cylinder Brain Sage: A brain that possesses much forbidden knowledge. Its body was corrupted, so in order to survive and preserve this knowledge, the Sage left only his brain behind.」
「Set of Plague Jars: Contains different types of plagues... difficult to cure with Life Techniques.」
「Book of Suffering: By Sacrificing one’s own pain according to the methods in this book, one can cast Special pain-based Magic.」
’What is this, the Great Thousand Record?’
’It even requires genuine pain. Just taking painkillers and self-harming won’t work.’
’Not learning it. Definitely not.’
’I already know so many awesome Magic spells and Combat Skills. Learning this would be pure self-torture...’
There was a lot of stuff, but not many truly good items.
There were very few things that could catch his eye now. He even looked down on items made from things like Tier Six Submerged Land Level Demons.
’Aren’t things you can farm easily just common goods?’
Only some Special Secret Techniques and strange knowledge were what Lu Cang found interesting.
Right now, as long as there were no Level 7 Reincarnators,
he was invincible.
Even if Aertemi from back then were to appear now, Lu Cang was confident he could defeat her.
Of course, he would still need to use "Divine Level·Destined Death."
As for Level 7 Reincarnators, Lu Cang didn’t know how big the power gap was between himself and them.
If he couldn’t suppress them before they made a move...
Tier Seven Root Magic... just thinking about it was terrifying.
It was truly hard to imagine a Mage reaching Level 7 without having grasped a Root Source.
...
The entire city fell silent.
As for the slaves, they had also died in the aftermath of the battle...
This was their Destiny to begin with.
Lu Cang had no intention of saving them.
Their appearance here already sealed their fate. Even their Dates of Death were set much sooner than others, with only a few days left to live.
At least, he had avenged them, in a way.
Only a complete mess remained. There was no need to linger.
Lu Cang put on the "Vanishing Hide."
He lowered his presence.
Then, the Undead Dome Night, also wearing a robe that concealed its presence, walked ahead, while Lu Cang himself followed behind.
He looked like a mere lackey trailing after Dome Night.
The two of them left one after another through a Teleportation Channel.
The instant they emerged from the channel...
SWISH—
...both of their figures vanished completely.
WHOOSH—
A fierce wind blew.
Dome Night’s inheritance of Death was taken by Lu Cang before he even had a chance to digest it.
The "Death Secret Forbidden." This book recorded an original forbidden art of Death, seemingly something similar to the "Original Forbidden Spell" in Magic.
In addition, there were five thousand Supreme and pure souls.
These souls were trapped in a cage.
Unlike the ones Lu Cang created with his Talent, these were real, Supreme and pure souls.
Unfortunately, before Dome Night could even use these souls, his Storage Bag was snatched by Lu Cang.
But even if he could have used them, it would have only let him live for a few more seconds.
Lu Cang’s prior preparations had left Dome Night with absolutely no room to fight back.
Foretelling the future, seizing the initiative against the enemy.
From Dome Night’s perspective, his death was truly baffling.
「Soul Cage」
This cage was no ordinary item either.
It could store souls for a long time without letting their Spirituality dissipate.
’In that case, I could try taking out the souls and giving them to certain people.’
’I just wonder if the manufacturing process for this cage can be mass-produced?’
’I’ll have Uncle Ai Jin take a look at it later.’
A Level 6 Enchanter could deconstruct the manufacturing process of some items.
...
At 12:00 AM, the number of uses for Future Preview reset, and he could now preview the future twice today.
At the same time, Lu Cang had already appeared in the realm of the Light Church.
He walked effortlessly into the Restriction Hall of the Supreme Divine Hall.
SWISH—
With a wave of his hand, he collected all the treasures within the entire Restriction Hall.
Then, he pointed a finger.
The Restriction on the great doors of the Restriction Hall was reinforced.
At the same time, he erased the access privileges of the other three people who could enter this hall.
He entered at 12:00:02 AM.
12:00:06 AM—
Lu Cang had already vanished from the Restriction Hall.
’"Perhaps I really should switch to a Thief Profession."’
’"I feel like if I follow the code of a Thief, my leveling Speed might be even faster than with other Professions."’
12:35:21 AM.
Lu Cang walked out of the Supreme Divine Hall of the Dark Realm.
He couldn’t help but feel...
’that even with so many High Level storage items, it still wasn’t enough.’