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"Thank the Lord for giving us food."

"Thank the Lord for giving us a drink."

Bamboo baskets were placed on the spread out of the cloth, as well as simple slices of white bread and jam, and a few low-to-medium order extraordinaires with silver crosses on their chests found a clean and unpolluted place in the nearby city to have lunch like a picnic.

Aside from the dim sky, the surrounding area is full of polluted and distorted land, incessant whispering in the ears, and suspicious dark marks everywhere, including the complex tired expressions of the diners, which can barely be considered a picnic.

Because there is not a single living person in the nearest town, it has been abandoned for nearly half a month, and even a clean dining table cannot be found.

In the distance was a black world, a black earth, a dark sky, blood-red waters from the sea, and countless demonic dependents mutated from wild animals and sea creatures lurking in the shadows.

In order to prevent more water from being polluted, the red river has been blocked, converging at the end into a terrifying lake of blood, which will make you feel the urge to jump if you get close. It has devoured many lives, but the Church is helpless against it at the moment.

"How's the state of Seal 1-087?" The man who appeared to be the captain asked as he ate.

The member of the team who was in charge of keeping the seal immediately opened his arms and his face was filled with joy: "Praise the Lord! Praise the sun! ”

After saying that, the team member glanced at his companion with a frenzied look of disbelief, and the others put down the food in their hands one after another, and followed the seal with a few perfunctory praises of the sun and the Lord, one of the team members said:

"Looks like the seal is in good shape."

“…… Hold it for another person. The captain rubbed his eyebrows painfully, "It's just that this kind of seal, which needs to be responded to every hour of use, will continue to affect the mental state of the extraordinary, and our team's purification progress has fallen a lot." ”

The other team members nodded approvingly, and in the few days they had been involved in the Land Purification Mission, with the help of this seal, everyone's devotion had increased or decreased to varying degrees. They exchanged glances, and suddenly burst out, and together they held down their companions, who were praying to the Lord once as they ate a bite of bread, and snatched a small lamp-like thing from each other's wolf howls. After the lamp was snatched away, the fanatical praying team member suddenly calmed down, sat upright, straightened his clothes, lit a cross on his body, and then complained to the captain:

"I've been holding it for five hours, captain, give me overtime, the pants I wore yesterday are praising the sun!"

"I've also been holding it for seven hours, and you're the Sequence 6 'Notary', and until I recover, you're the most suitable person to hold 1-087."

"But Captain, if we participate in this mission, we can apply for allowances and subsidies ourselves!" The notary did not comply.

"Then we have to wait until we complete today's purification task before we can write the application."

The notary had no choice but to continue to eat angrily, and halfway through the meal, the "priest of light" next to him chatted: "Let's purify these lands, I heard that the next step of the church is to arrange extraordinary people who are good at cultivating to develop the land, and the price of food in the city has risen very much recently." ”

"Recently, there has been propaganda in the church to encourage the families of the clergy to become low-order extraordinary people to contribute to the church, and now the most popular in the church is the 'cultivator', and if you become a 'cultivator' and actively participate in agricultural activities, the family can also get a subsidy of about 2 filkin." The Priest of Light said as he slipped the pork sausage into the bread slices, "Before I came, I heard from the Aurora Priest in the church that they were considering whether to hire someone to guide the work, called Frank, a wild 'cultivator' who does not belong to the Church of Mother Earth God. ”

"Frank? I haven't heard of it, but there are only a few scholars and bishops in the Mother Earth Church who are more famous. ”

The notary asked curiously, "Who is this?" Isn't it amazing? ”

"It should be amazing, right?" The Priest of Light was also not sure, and scratched his head, "It's just that the Priestess of Montmar had a somewhat unpleasant expression when he heard the name......"

The deacon of Montemar in his mouth is the most popular deatriator of the Cathedral of Light in Intis, Lady Irena Albert Montmar, who is said to have been inspired by the Lord at the age of ten to foresee the future glory and greatness of the Lord, and became an oracle of the Aurora Society. Her faith is pure, her eyes are as bright as the sun, and she has an angelic heart that is pure and benevolent, and she is willing to give some help to the distant and savage people of the southern continent, to build factories and provide employment.

The attitude of the Church of the Creator towards the aristocracy is currently somewhat ambiguous, but through the treatment and rhetoric of Ms. Montmar, most of the nobles are temporarily relieved, believing that the Church of the Creator still needs them.

They increased their donations to the Church of the Creator and invested large sums of gold and possessions in the offering boxes to save their lives, which allowed the church's low-income people to receive subsidies and the construction of several church schools.

It is worth mentioning that the Church of Steam, which has received new technology, is actively shining in the construction industry, and it only takes a team of extraordinary people led by demigods to build a three-story building with complete furniture and gas pipes like building blocks in one day.

After lunch, a group of people packed up the napkins and bamboo baskets and stood up. They were close to the outskirts of the town—the erosion was so strong that after a few days, they hadn't even completely purified the town. One of the priests of light held up the lamp-like thing.

"The Lord says, Let there be light, and use it to cast out the demons of the earth!"

With his shout, bursts of bright light emanated from the lamp in his hand, and the light was like a small sun at its peak, and the surrounding land was covered with black gas, and the almost maddening whispers and malice were blocked out by the light, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

After a round of purification, the black on the ground became a little lighter.

But ahead of them, there are entire plains, and even distant coasts and seas that need to be purified, almost on an annual cycle.

At the same time, a smile appeared on the priest of light's face, and his arms were raised, pointing to the sky: "Praise the Lord!" ”

"You do ten more purifications, and then give it to me." The captain of Sequence 5 speaks, "Succession......

In an instant, the lamp in the hand of the priest of light was extinguished, the wind and clouds surged in the sky, and the gloomy clouds suddenly dispersed, and in an instant, there were no clouds, as if the golden sunlight of essence was falling from the sky, and a warm and holy breath enveloped the entire mountain.

At the moment when this breath fell, the extraordinary beings of the Sun Path all trembled slightly with excitement, bathed in the light, feeling the vitality of their own spirituality and the mighty divine power of their great existence, gaining knowledge, and forgetting to kneel for a while.

The light shone on the polluted and eroded mountains and fields, the black soil and the red water faded away little by little, and countless relatives and creatures hidden in the shadows howled miserably and dissipated into the sunlight. The earth gradually turned back to its normal brown, and even gradually rejuvenated under the light, and the water slowly became clear, but there was no living thing in it, only the clear water as far as the eye could see, and the sand, gravel and soil at the bottom of the river.

It was as if the eyes of God were sprinkled and the world in front of them was completely renewed.

The god's gaze continued to move forward, and on the polluted sand and coastline, countless wandering hideous and twisted low-level demonic creatures collapsed like sand castles in the waves, and countless monsters in the blood-red water were following the waves to the shore, but as soon as the pure light was swept away, all of them were disintegrated into the most basic spirituality, and even the rushing sea water gradually faded its blood color and slapped against the sand.

The purification task, which was expected to take at least five years, was completed within a few breaths.

Countless extraordinary beings who were carrying seals or leading by the demigod priest himself saw the miracle coming, and they were fascinated by the breath of the gods, witnessing the power of the gods to change the world, and then knelt down reverently to praise the name of the Creator.

The gloom lifted, the sun shone brightly, the land was filled with golden light, and the silence was broken by the first passing bird in the fields, rivers and peaks.

……

"I arranged everything before I left."

While walking with the real creator in the kingdom of God, Edward looked through the dossier from the office desk before leaving, and commented with great interest:

"Are you going to go solar? The premise of solar energy is also to get some electricity first, and electricity needs to cooperate with the steam church, but how do you teach them to use it? Do you give instructions for use to subconscious ocean groups? Now it seems that the demand for food is still the highest, and if there are no supporting facilities, the only use of your solar energy is to provide hot water to the Intis people. ”

"The Steam Church has first come into contact with the concept of electricity, and it is still a little constrained, and I don't expect to study anything."

"Normal, after all, they've been preaching in Rune for so long."

Edward flipped through the pages and found the report on the nobility, and there was also a divine envoy named Ms. D handed in the aristocratic information, and his expression became active again: "Your attitude towards the nobility is very interesting, do you want to give favor and reward to the family that took the lead in converting, and then put pressure on others, do you want them to do their best to please you and your church, and slowly strip them of their money and status?" ”

"It's not good for me to take over their business."

The True Creator said calmly: "If you give a strong medicine to these people who control most of the wealth of the country, it is very likely that during the time I have been away from Intis, it is very likely that I will secretly betray the country, for the sake of the stability of the country and a stable income, it is better to be moderate now." ”

"Montmartre, Lefère, Bernard...... It's all the surnames of acquaintances. ”

Edward finished flipping through the dossier and casually placed it in a corner of the real Creator God's kingdom: "These big noble families don't seem to have changed much, but only the Sauron family has completely fallen?" It's pathetic. ”

He looked at the back of the real Creator's head and casually asked, "By the way, you already know about the Highland Kingdom, right?" ”

The true Creator did not speak at the first time, and substituted silence for answering:

"The Highland rebels have sent back all the seals of the local solar pathway and the characteristics of the church members stationed there."

"I'm thinking that if the highlands become independent, the domestic economy of Indis will be hit hard again, so I will arrange everything as much as possible before leaving."

Probably because of the uncertainty and danger ahead, the true creator said a little more. He looked at the purified earth beneath his feet, and instead of answering the prayerful believers, he crossed the northern continent and the ocean through the kingdom of God and went straight to the sea.

“…… Although there are still very few 'cultivators', if they are used properly, Intis will be able to survive the famine caused by the economic crisis. The rest is up to the church to regulate the market and actively help the people. ”

"This is a good opportunity for the gods of steam and machines." Edward glanced back, though he couldn't see Intis.

"That's right." The True Creator looked into the distance, "I hope He will seize this opportunity." ”

Edward smiled, "Maybe what's going to happen next is exactly what you expected." ”

"Do you see anything possible?"

"If you're looking for my advice, then ......," Edward Demon whispered, "I'd suggest you turn back now and kill the Storm Lord, so as to avoid some of the troubles I find to be very ornamental." Of course, you'll also get closer to the original. ”

As they spoke, they happened to pass over the sea, looking at the beautiful blue beneath their feet, at the islands dotted with islands, and at the pirates and sailors who were active on the sea. War brings chaos, and chaos is the norm on the sea, both an opportunity and a disaster. The pirates are thriving, and countless people are rushing to the ocean of dreams one after another, which is more lively than ever.

The True Creator was silent for a second and shook his head.

"Leodro is not one to sit still, but, in the beginning, I don't care what means he will struggle." The True Creator stepped forward, across the sea and the islands, and said in a soft tone, "If He really had any thoughts...... For His sake, as God has protected mankind for thousands of years, I am willing to give Him some dignity. ”

"I like your attitude."

Edward stopped the temptation, and he followed the true Creator across the sea into the ruins of the divine war, which remained in countless divine powers. The forces that cut off the Eastern Continent from the outside world have begun to weaken, and through the darkness and the tides of the sea, the waves of abundance and knowledge, as if through a barrier invisible to the naked eye, they have left the kingdom of God, left the astral plane, and fallen into a new land.

At first glance, it doesn't seem much different from the outside world, just a barren wilderness.

The field was bare, made of barren gravel. The land is a strange black color, with foul water scattered around. Such a wasteland with nothing feels very eerie, there are no plants, no animals, not even monsters to be seen.

However, the sun in the sky is shining here in a good way—probably because there are spiritual things everywhere in this land, and because the sun is here now, the Eastern Continent is spiritually active, and even warmer than outside.

The True Creator looked at the mountain peaks in the distance, and everything was hidden in the sun, and there was nothing on the mountain peaks, but there was a strange gloom. Only a strange giant inverted cross remained, as high as a mountain, and a low murmur sounded like rolling thunder in the darkness, not even the sun illuminated it.

It was His remains...... Or the remnants of the ontology of the past.

When he, a sane doppelganger, ascended to the divine throne in the outside world, all the extraordinary characteristics of this body left in the Eastern Continent were naturally transferred to him, and this body lost its consciousness and extraordinary characteristics, and became a relic.

Originally, the existence of the true creator was quite dangerous to the survivors of the Eastern Continent. The hanged man became a god here, and this earth is where he was born, his kingdom. Where is the kingdom of God, full of the mad whispers of the gods and the mad spirits, where can the living live? As a madman, he could only watch them die gradually, and there was nothing he could do. And after he left, the environment in the Eastern Continent finally became a little more livable than before.

But — He could feel it.

In the midst of the sins He bore, the souls of the people of the Eastern Continent who died because of Him were weeping.

Weeping that their loved ones have died, crying that their descendants have to survive in such a harsh environment, crying that everything in the past has been ruined, and weeping that it is their Lord himself who has destroyed all this.

"I love this place."

It's a place of despair, barren for millennia, where hope has been swallowed up by time, and where it should have waited in endless despair for the end to come......

I love the lifeless and hopeless world here, and as a sign of respect, the joy of this decline to the extreme, and then its destruction.

Unlike the complicated and heavy thoughts of the real creator, the outer god is as if he has arrived at a place where he has been planning a trip for a long time, and his whole body exudes a pleasant aura, but he has a high emotional intelligence and does not say what is in his heart.

Edward stretched, walked a few steps around the neighborhood in a good mood, and then crouched down and purposefully searched the gravel and earth and rocks to find something oddly shaped.

"An amulet made of some kind of monster's teeth."

Edward said in a tone of discovery that interested in the souvenir, "I see, it's a mutated feline creature, polished from the second tooth on the front...... The maker died in battle 830 years ago, and the purpose of making it was to give it to his son...... The item has been passed down for five generations, with the last owner leaving because he was old and unwilling to be a burden to others, walked here alone, and starved to death. Well, he was lucky that he didn't encounter an extraordinary creature before he died, and he was eaten after he died, dying six hundred and twelve years ago. ”

He reached for a handkerchief, wiped the strange ornament, then looked up and smiled and asked:

"If you're not in a hurry, how about we go for a walk first?"

"According to his memory, he walked east for three days and nights to reach the town where he lived."

"Aren't you going to take a look?"

TBC

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After writing the update and writing homework, haha!

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