novelraw #205 - Section 205
#205 - Section 205
But looking at the people around her, they didn't seem to see these words. She tentatively whispered, "Open?"
[Dragon Vein Sorcerer LV10 Trial Card x1]
[Small Healing Potion x3]
[100 Gold Coins]
"Small Healing Potion?" The girl looked at this scene with surprise. With a slight thought, a small bottle emitting a warm glow appeared in her hand.
After she gave it to her sister, the girl's condition did not worsen. The girl also stood up, clutching a card, and staggered towards the hatch:
"I don't care what this system is, as long as it can save my sister, I'll kill not just the captain, but even the king for you!"
With each step, many changes occurred in her body. Dragon horns and scales appeared on her. Without even casting magic, she shattered the heavy wooden door with a single punch and headed towards the upper deck under the cover of the raging waves.
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...
The scorching sun hung in the sky, making the whole town feel lazy.
An old woman sleeping on a deck chair slipped and fell to the ground. A young man rushed over, helped her up, and a blood-colored light lit up in his hand, healing the bruise on her knee.
"Thank you, Cyri, where are you going on this hot day?" The old woman woke up groggily, looking at the handsome young man, feeling an inexplicable fondness for him.
Cyri hesitated for a moment, then gave a warm smile: "I'm going out of town to take care of some things. You don't have to worry."
He put the old woman's fan back in her hand, his upright figure heading out of town, his silhouette somewhat distorted and blurred in the hot air.
The old woman didn't know why, but her gaze fell on Cyri, and she always felt like something was about to happen.
"Such a good child, I hope nothing happens to him..."
The young people in the village were getting fewer and fewer, and the remaining lazybones would also嫌弃 (xián qì - dislike) them old people for wasting food.
Only Cyri, who had just moved here, greeted every old person warmly and always helped them with whatever they needed.
They were all small things, but you could feel that he loved this ordinary and somewhat humble life.
Outside the town, a line of knights in bright armor waited for Cyri, their blood-red cloaks indicating their identity:
The Inquisition, church assassins who exist to judge heretics.
The arrogant Inquisitor sighed: "It's really unbelievable that the villain who assassinated Earl Edward is playing the role of a model citizen in such a small town. Is this the great hidden in the city?"
Cyri stretched out his hand, his face without the warm smile from before, but without any expression: "What I did has nothing to do with the people in this town."
Clang.
Shackles locked Cyri's hands. The Inquisitor's lips curled up in contempt: "That's not necessarily true. They have sheltered you, which is suspected of blasphemy and they must be judged."
"I told you they don't know anything—"
"A heretic's words cannot be taken as testimony. I only believe in divine magic."
The Inquisitor was about to order his Inquisitors to enter the town when Cyri suddenly and violently knocked him off his horse, and at the same time, a pair of hideous bat wings grew from his back, his eyes showing a blood-colored light.
"I knew it, demon spawn, no good intentions!" The Inquisitor and his men immediately surrounded Cyri, and soon beat him bloody and powerless on the ground.
Cyri's strength was originally above these people, but the Inquisitor used the release of the townspeople as a condition, tricking Cyri into actively surrendering, and the shackles on his hands could suppress his demonic power.
But they lied to him.
Even if they caught him, they still had to arrange crimes for these innocent townspeople who sheltered him.
"Sheltering a demon spawn, burn them all at the stake as a punishment," the Inquisitor ruthlessly declared.
Cyri glared fiercely at the Inquisitor, spitting out a mouthful of blood:
"Foster father was right, you Inquisitors are all brainwashed lunatics! How could those ordinary people know my identity?"
"That's because you have never seen the glory of our Lord," the Inquisitor said indifferently, "Besides, you personally killed your foster father, the villain who killed more than a hundred devout believers. Of course, you were his assistant at that time."
Cyri laughed mockingly, laughing hoarsely, coughing up a lot of blood.
Yes, he killed his foster father.
Because he was tired of killing, looking at the eyes of those believers who yearned to live, he felt that his foster father was a demon.
The man who implanted demon blood in his body was, as the church advertised, a violent man who brought nightmares and ominousness.
He was tired of endless killing, killed his foster father, and then conveniently solved a nobleman who had done many evils, and then lived in seclusion in this small town for a while as an ordinary person.
But he was born with sin, a heretic who blasphemed the gods, unworthy of an ordinary life. Death was his only end. This ordinariness was just a very short happiness...
Cyri spat at these people: "But you are just violent thugs who do all kinds of evil in order to please the gods. Why do you act arbitrarily in the open?"
[Ding! Sensing that the host has recognized the reality of the world, My Fate is Up to Me, Not the Gods System is unlocked!]
[Task: Kill the Inquisitor. Reward: Demon Soul Inheritance.]
Suddenly, a light bathed him, and the wounds on his body disappeared strangely.
The shackles also melted into molten iron, and the divine power contained in them was polluted, corrupted, and turned into two strange crescent-shaped scimitars.
"I like this task... You who claim to judge sins, now count your own sins!"
Cyri grasped the scimitars, and in the Inquisitor's panicked eyes, he had already flashed behind him.
A lifeless head rolled to the ground, and to the death, he didn't understand what that suddenly appeared power was, and where it came from...
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Chapter 182 The Empress's Prestige Rises Against the Market
Similar scenes are constantly appearing in the multiverse.
You thought the weak and deceiving young boy/girl in front of you suddenly has the ability to counterattack in desperation.
As for why not uncles and aunts, it can only be said that a certain empress is obsessed with appearance.
Roger originally wanted to persuade, but the Eternal Night Empress immediately described such a scene to him:
You are busy for a day, habitually log in to the game before going to bed to check the character's growth status, open the warehouse, and all you see are middle-aged women with fancy headscarves and middle-aged men with potbellies wearing checkered shirts, and they are crying for you to invest more materials...
Isn't it like a rural non-mainstream elderly streamer asking for rewards?
Roger instantly agreed with the Eternal Night Empress's idea that the children of the system must start from childhood.
How strong you are is a matter of version, but being handsome is a lifetime!
Under the leadership of Galire, Tianhai Tower quickly established a super-large anti-god scanner, constantly scanning various planes to find individuals who have great hatred for gods.
Regardless of race, as long as the soul is pure and not truly evil, and the willpower and talent meet certain conditions, Afu will actively establish contact with them.
Then, he opens the system and helps them find a way to get out of their current predicament.
With the support of the Green Vine Empire and 100 million believers, Afu, although only a nascent weak divine power, is still a god after all. Helping those poor people struggling in the quagmire at the bottom, the power he bestows is enough to help them turn the tables.
By the standards of this universe, these people favored by the gods can be called the chosen ones.
Because they are close to divinity, they will have higher growth potential than ordinary people, and they will be more important to master many specialties and understand skills.
Recently, relying on virtual space players starting to enter the national war stage, Afu, with Roger's permission, dabbled in the Slaughter Godhead, and added the "experience" attribute to the system's children's panel.
From now on, the children of the system extract experience from practicing skills, completing tasks, and direct killing to achieve upgrading, strengthening attributes, and comprehending specialties and skills.
And they can also view more detailed professional information.
This is not the game information of the virtual space, but the professional level system that the Secret Law Association has improved by combining the experience of the Seven Gods camp after discovering the inadequacy of the ninth-level magic system.
From the children of the system to the enemies they have to face, the system will give a more detailed level.
Under the current system, lv1 to lv5 are elementary magicians, lv6 to lv10 are intermediate magicians, and so on, every 5 levels are a rank, with more detailed divisions.
Lv21 and above are the legendary realm, and lv31 and above are called senior legends. With such standards for division, the originally extremely large span of legends also has the most intuitive comparison method.
Not only magicians, the empire has incorporated all professional systems into the new, detailed level system, and has also implemented data-based management models for their own attributes, skills, etc.
This is also an additional function of the Soul-Simulating Bracelet. The screen made of flexible crystal is ultimately not wasted and can only be used as a watch face.
Of course, the current new set of professions still has problems such as insufficient data and lack of reference for judging high-level characters above level 30, which requires the Secret Law Association to slowly improve the database of powerful existences.
For example, the Eternal Night Empress, according to this professional level evaluation, goes straight to lv50 or higher, which is quite supermodel. Lydia, who is responsible for designating the entire system, directly sealed the Eternal Night Empress's relevant information.
In order to avoid hitting the confidence of other magicians in the empire, after all, legends are everywhere, but there are not many senior legends...
Suddenly, someone above the legend directly evaluated to be above level 50, and the style of the entire world became incompatible with her.
The growth of the children of the system, fighting and traveling in different planes, is actually helping to expand the empire's database.
Knowing yourself and your enemy, you can win every battle. Through these selected alien players, it is also a good opportunity to侦察 (zhēn chá - scout) the empire's enemies.
With an increasingly data-oriented perspective, various tasks and reward mechanisms are guiding the reality in which the children of the system are located, and it has slowly become a hell-level difficulty game with only one life to pass.
It is still extremely difficult, full of thorns, but compared to the inevitable death ending, there are always some more hopes.
They are also always active on the stage, trying to continue their miracles.
These souls that will be scanned by the empire originally have more resilient willpower than ordinary people.
As long as such people do not die, remember the deep-seated hatred for the Seven Gods, and give them a little opportunity, they can create unlimited possibilities.
Now there is the growth bonus brought by the Slaughter Godhead, coupled with the inheritance, resources, and equipment provided by the empire, and the use of intelligence advantages, they can access the fastest way to obtain growth resources, at least personal success is readily available.
As for how far they can go in the cause of resisting the Seven Gods after they grow up, it depends on luck and their own character.
Even Roger, the guy who opened the real system, has several times wanted to jump to the Seven Gods camp to gain victory more easily...
He can only be glad that he didn't jump at that time. Judging from the Seven Gods' arrangements for the Eternal Night World, it is easy to enter the Seven Gods camp in the early stage, but after really winning, they cannot escape the fate of being buried with this world.
When there is no way to go, the Seven Gods will not raise the guides in vain.
So from the beginning, Roger never had a so-called choice. Those were all wonderful misunderstandings born from insufficient information. He was destined to follow the plot's big villain all the way to the dark...
"But if everything I did in the Eternal Night World is presented, will the players think that I am the hidden boss, the one who must be killed after defeating the Eternal Night Empress?"
Roger couldn't help but fall into deep thought, and found that his current position is really quite subtle.
With the Eternal Night Empress's crazy plagiarism attitude, it is not an exaggeration to say that I am the mastermind behind creating the changes in the empire and the initiator of hindering the Seven Gods' actions!
But no matter what, the Children of the System plan was finally successfully implemented, burying these rebellious seeds in the multiverse, which is a very crucial step for the empire's road to self-rescue.
In order for the children of the system to go further, the empire must also work hard to provide them with enough firepower support.
In the later missions of the system, how can you be embarrassed if you don't wholesale artifacts?
The good news is that the empire is operating quite smoothly in all aspects at this time.
After a failed retaliation against the Kingdom of Terra, the empire's public opinion was chaotic for a while, and the people's emotions also had a considerable rebound. In the early stage, the calls to continue retaliating against Terra never stopped.
However, because of the Eternal Night Empress's strong suppression, she did indeed push the reflection down. At least on the surface, you can't hear the sound of continuing to fight.
As various propaganda followed, "The Empire Spring and Autumn" was also officially incorporated and became a media that must accept the censorship of the Empire's Propaganda Department. More detailed management was formulated for disseminating information to the public such as the Fearless Space, agitating the emotions of the people of the empire, and wanting to earn traffic has also become a work that must be carried out carefully.
You can earn money, but the eating posture must be good-looking, and you must not proactively cause conflicts and arouse confrontational emotions. You must promote positive energy things as much as possible, and the stability and sustainable development of the user empire.
The empire does not restrict entertainment media, but even entertainment should be within a certain limit.
The Fearless Space is completely controllable, and the age review system has always existed. You only need to do a good job of sub-collection, and the adults of the empire will not see a screen full of holy light when watching a cartoon, and even the key plots can be cut off.
Roger remembered that he had previously clicked on a horror movie with a supernatural theme on a certain website, and watched it with a confused look the whole time:
The review cut out all the shots with ghosts!
If it's done like this, it's better not to watch it, rnm refund!
Because of this, although the empire has also put shackles on its media for review, the scale of these shackles is legally based and can be flexibly adjusted at any time based on feedback from below, letting the empire's internal entertainment methods create.
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Because the Empire is confident enough, it always has a heart for cultural exports.
Of course, this export doesn't mean fooling its own people into crippling themselves.
A failure, coupled with the rectification of the media and entertainment industries, and the Empress taking the lead in self-reflection, finally dragged the Empire's people back from their previous state of fanaticism.
A consensus has been reached within the Empire: war is not the only means of solving problems, and the Empire cannot become a reckless brute that only knows war.
With the development of the times and the changes in their position, they should also use more means to resolve problems.
Economy, diplomacy, culture, trade, special operations—there are many choices standing before them.
Even if war is unavoidable, they should also pay attention to how the form of war should also progress accordingly with the times.
The past tactics of warriors and mages pressing forward with all their forces are outdated, and they must be vigilant against the enemy constantly bringing out new equipment.