Chapter 174 Punishment Mission and Scarecrow Sacrifice

 Chapter 173

  "Finally I'm done..."

  Rosen collapsed in Li Shiqing's arms and didn't want to move at all.

  Although these few months have been difficult, there has been a lot of good news.

  Firstly, the Heaven's Gate was truly born. Secondly, the Angelic Beast absorbed the sincere gratitude of countless patients, which led to a certain evolution of the extraordinary artifact, Angel's Blessing. Although it did not rise from Sequence 4 to Sequence 3, it was only a matter of time before it crossed the level.

  Finally, Li Shiqing returned after completing her studies. Now she is the number one goddess chef in the virtual spiritual world of the Jin Yu Man Tang movie.

  All the recipes in that world have been memorized by her with the help of the extraordinary memory aid.

  Now we just have to wait for him to finish his work, and then we can try to see if we can meet the special genius clauses of the World Government.

  Li Shiqing looked at Rosen, who was so tired that he was drowsy, with heartache. She was about to persuade him to have a good rest but he suddenly pounced on her.

  Under the power of charm, Rosen soon recovered with unlimited energy and full health.

  However, some things cannot be stopped once they have begun, and by the time they stopped, Li Shiqing had already fainted.

  It was only then that Rosen realized that the unlimited energy of the Charming Theocracy seemed to have some significant negative effects.

  While riding, the body may have unlimited energy, but the spiritual consciousness will still feel dizzy.

  Rosen sent Li Shiqing to the master bedroom of the Castle of Ashes, and went to the castle terrace to take out the painting of Heaven's Gate.

  After tearing the painting into pieces, a palm-sized door frame appeared in his hand.

  Heaven's Gate: Extraordinary Architecture

  [Level: Sequence 6]

  [Attribute: After death, the souls of the Lord's devout believers can be reborn in the God's territory through the Gate of Heaven]

  [Divine Characteristics: Life Transformation - Reborn devout believers can be transformed into territory residents]

  This gate of heaven is not of high level and has only one characteristic, but it can give devout believers a chance to live a second life.

  This means that he can gain more faith and more subjects.

  The more subjects a ruler has, the stronger the power of the professional ruler will be.

  Rosen placed the Angel's Gate in a corner of his territory, so there shouldn't be any deaths among the devout believers in the short term.

  This is a territory building with a long time span, and its value increases with time.

  When Li Shiqing woke up, she looked through the window and saw that it was already afternoon outside.

  In the castle hall, Rosen is studying new spiritual runes.

  Seeing Li Shiqing coming down from upstairs, Rosen's surrounding space folded and twisted as he thought about it.

  It was still the castle hall, but it was no longer the castle hall on the surface. Instead, it was the castle hall located in the overlapping space and protected by layers of blockades. There were not many furnishings in this hall because Rosen's sequence ancient tree was here.

  The Sequence Ancient Tree is composed of the origin of spirituality. Damage to this thing is equivalent to fundamental damage to the spirituality.

  The vast majority of extraordinary sequence ancient trees are in the sea of ​​consciousness, so basically attacking the spirituality can destroy the sequence ancient tree at the same time.

  However, the sequence of ancient trees of the Lord of the Divine Realm exists synchronously in the territory of the Divine Realm, so it would be very troublesome to kill the Lord of the Divine Realm under normal circumstances.

  Rosen took out various materials and quickly arranged a spiritual awakening ceremony for Li Shiqing.

  Li Shiqing walked into the ritual formation with anticipation. At the moment the awakening ritual was activated, she began to absorb the power of the spiritual crystals in the ritual, which in turn prompted the birth of a spirituality in her soul that was more original to life than the soul.

  Rosen came in front of Li Shiqing, summoned his magic pen and pointed it at Li Shiqing's brow.

  The creative divine power obtained from drawing spiritual paintings was separated from it and instantly penetrated into Li Shiqing's sea of ​​consciousness.

  Without the transformation of creative divine power, people coming out of the spiritual realm can transfer to the ordinary sequence, but they cannot become nobles recognized by the world government.

  Only by creating divine power can the life in the spiritual realm be given a human identity that is fully recognized by the world government.

  At the moment of spiritual awakening, Li Shiqing naturally used spirituality to communicate with the spirit world.

  In just a few seconds, Rosen could clearly feel that Li Shiqing's spirituality had suddenly increased a little.

  This means that the recipe she submitted to the Gourmet Sequence Ancient Tree was successfully recognized by the Golden Ancient Tree.

  That is why he was able to obtain the noble sequence 9 professional power and bloodline glory, thereby increasing the spiritual growth limit a little.

  Rosen breathed a sigh of relief. There would be no obstacles in his next career change to gourmet.

  As time goes by, Rosen enjoys his present life more and more.

  You can eat the spiritual food cooked by Li Shiqing every day, and learn new spiritual runes every day.

  Until this day, Rosen's peaceful life was broken.

  While his original body was learning spiritual runes, his self-portrait clone was not sitting idle at home.

  Instead, he continued to hunt ash lives in the Principality of Blazing Shadow, and today he has finally accumulated enough merits to no longer have to go to the front lines.

  In fact, a normal Sequence 6 wouldn't have to go to the front line so hard.

  But since he is a hereditary duke, the greater his power and the higher his status, the more responsibilities he needs to bear.

  But after more than a year of endless hunting, I finally got rid of a trouble.

  However, before Rosen had time to be happy, he had already received a mission from the World Government through the Star Emblem.

  In the Dungeon Kingdom he killed Count Fritz, and in the Thunder Empire he killed Marquis Ford.

  The death of the Marquis Ford brought no trouble, because what really killed Ford was the stage of fate he himself had set.

  Moreover, Ford is not a hereditary aristocrat, and the protection provided by the world government itself is not strong.

  But Count Fritz was different, he was a hereditary noble.

  So after killing Count Fritz, Rosen was also given a Sequence 6 punishment mission.

  Since he chose to offset his merits on the front line by hunting down ash lives, the punishment mission given by the World Government was also in the Principality of Blazing Shadow.

  After reading the content of the task, Rosen felt a little worried about it.

  There is an employee of the World Government who stole an important document from the World Government not long ago. He must find this person and retrieve the document. If the mission fails, he will have to go to the front line.

  This task is a bit strange and normally shouldn't fall into his hands.

  Unless someone did it on purpose, I don't know who is behind it and wants to harm him.

  Apart from a photo, there are no other valuable clues left.

  If he didn't have the Death Sentence, how would it be different to find this defected employee like looking for a needle in a haystack?

  Rosen opened the Void Picture Book and quickly drew a portrait of the defector, Gila Hinton.

  The self-portrait clone put on the cloak of death and entered the sea of ​​consciousness located between Jira's eyebrows in the painting.

  However, at the moment when the self-portrait clone used this as a medium to enter Jira's sea of ​​consciousness in reality, the self-portrait clone, along with the death cloak and the death scythe, were instantly shattered. It was forcibly shattered in an instant by the power of the demigod.

  Jira is not a demigod, but his sea of ​​consciousness contains the counterattack power of the demigod level.

  Although the self-portrait clone died almost instantly, Rosen still roughly determined the direction and distance.

  The Jira people are in the Principality of Blazing Shadow, but they seem to be located inside a spiritual realm.

  With the cover of the spiritual realm, one can avoid many tracking methods.

  …

  A coastal fishing village in the Principality of Chiying, this is an unknown and destroyed fishing village.

  Rosen had some impression of this place. It seemed to be one of the coastal fishing villages destroyed by the Black Shark Pirates.

  Because everyone was dead, the fishing village was covered in ashes.

  Moreover, it seemed that the pollution from the ashes had caused some abnormal changes, and the scarecrows in the fishing village seemed to be coming alive.

  Rosen looked at the scarecrow in front of him. If he continued like this, in a few days the scarecrow would turn into ashes.

  These scarecrows were originally used to drive away seabirds, and to be thrown into the water in advance as substitutes when encountering storms at sea. This was a somewhat superstitious custom. How could such a place hide a spiritual realm of at least Sequence 6?

  Rosen's spirituality activated the power of Lazy Foot, and the power of laziness allowed him to perceive hidden spiritual realms.

  As expected, there is a hidden spiritual realm in the abandoned fishing village. The spiritual realm is located inside the only scarecrow carved out of stone in the fishing village.

  Rosen came to the stone scarecrow and it seemed that someone was offering a sacrifice here.

  He walked slowly towards the stone scarecrow, and the power of his lazy feet wrapped him up and enabled him to pass through the barrier of space. He forced his way from the real space into the spiritual realm bound to the stone scarecrow. The moment he passed through the space barrier, he arrived at a bustling and lively fishing village.

  Women gathered in groups of three or five on the roadside, some were weaving nets and some were making scarecrows.

  A few hundred meters away at the fishing village dock, another fishing boat was unloading.

  This is an extraordinary ship, with a quality reaching Sequence 8.

  This should be the most precious treasure of the entire fishing village, because only extraordinary ships can catch sea fish in the sea.

  You know, the shallow sea is infiltrated with ash and there are no sea fish to catch here.

  If you want to catch fish, you can only go deep sea fishing.

  Then there is the area near the sea on the edge of the fishing village. Because the ashes are dispersed by the fishing village, there is a relatively clean sea water without ashes. The coastal fishing villages will carry out coastal aquaculture here.

  The reason why it is a fishing village rather than a town is because there are not many suitable environments for fish farming along the coastline.

  Towns cannot support such a large population, only fishing villages are just right.

  Fishing villages are relatively not as safe as cities, but the income here is actually very good.

  After all, it is difficult to catch sea fish under the ashes, and it is not easy to eat seafood in the Principality of Chiying, which is surrounded by the sea.

  Through spiritual perception, Rosen quickly determined the spiritual value of the surrounding environment.

  The higher the level of the spiritual realm, the higher the spiritual intensity of the internal environment will definitely be.

  Unless it is a place like the Time Dragon's Nest, where the spirituality of the entire spiritual realm has been drained away by the Bronze Dragon, it is possible to make a wrong judgment.

  "Sequence 4…"

  Rosen's pupils contracted sharply.

  How could such a small fishing village form a Sequence 4 spiritual realm two or three years after being destroyed?

  Rosen calmed down and found something wrong.

  There were obviously many villagers around the stone scarecrow, but all of them ignored him.

  Also, he wanted to move his body, but he couldn't control it.

  There was a small puddle not far away. Rosen looked at the puddle and saw that the person reflected in the water was not him at all, but a scarecrow. He turned into a scarecrow after entering the spiritual realm. No wonder people around him ignored him. Rosen transformed his spirituality into golden divinity, and then the ancient god sacrificial vessel in his heart began to shake.

  His spiritual strength instantly increased to 50 points, reaching Sequence 5, and he finally felt that his body could move again.

  However, when he moved his body, the villagers around him looked at him in horror.

  The scarecrow comes to life, and going beyond common sense means danger.

  The surrounding villagers fled in all directions, and the two Sequence 9s responsible for guarding the village quickly arrived.

  There were two people, a knight and a doctor. The doctor used a scalpel to float in the air and cut at Rosen. The knight pulled out several harpoons and threw them through Rosen's heart and head. He had no power to resist and could feel his life slipping away.

  "interesting!"

  Rosen thought to himself.

  With fifty points of golden divinity and the blessing of the Dragon King, he could only barely control his body movements.

  Rosen activated the Star Emblem, and his golden divinity instantly strengthened to Sequence 4.

  This time he finally got rid of the restraints against him. The terrifying spiritual energy rose up like a volcanic eruption. After looking up at the sky, the ash curtain projected a picture of meteorites falling to the ground. With just a thought, these meteorites would fall into the fishing village.

  At this time, the knight and the doctor were so frightened that they were even unable to breathe due to the oppression of spiritual energy.

  "Stop it!"

  A dark-skinned young man, who was covering his chest and looking very weak, walked out of a two-story building on the side of the road.

  "Gira!"

  Rosen said as he looked at the dark young man.

  "I didn't expect that arresting me would alarm a hereditary duke."

  Geela smiled bitterly.

  "I'm not interested in stalling."

  Rosen said this and immediately took action.

  The nightmare shackles broke through the air and directly entangled Jira, and the Dragon King's Wrath, who was originally ready to shoot again at any time, also stopped shooting.

  Jira did not resist, and it seemed that his injuries were indeed serious.

  Under normal circumstances, the power of the Star Emblem would only last for nine seconds at most. Jira should have fought hard no matter what. Now that he had completely given up all resistance, he could not think of any other possibility except that he was seriously injured.

  Rosen stepped forward and pried open Jira's right hand, revealing a thumb-sized scarecrow in his palm.

  "Can you listen to my excuse?"

  Jira pleaded.

  Rosen nodded, and the void gallery that appeared beside him swallowed Jira in one gulp and sent him into the Void Divine Prison.

  It can be seen that Kira may have his reasons for betraying the World Government.

  But what does this have to do with him? He doesn't want to become a scarecrow.

  Through the torture in the Void Prison, the mind reading through the Ash Curtain, and entering Jira's nightmare, Rosen quickly figured out what Jira was trying to argue about.

  Jila was born in this coastal fishing village. He grew up eating at many families' homes and is the pride of the fishing village.

  However, after he completed a mission for the World Government and lost contact for several years, he found that he could no longer contact the fishing village. After investigation, he found that the fishing village had been attacked by pirates and no one survived.

  Gila originally wanted to find those pirates for revenge, but he discovered a secret in the fishing village.

  There is a stone scarecrow that has been worshipped in the fishing village for generations. Legend has it that when the fishing village was established, it was once in danger of being destroyed. At that time, a villager who mastered a special supernatural sequence turned into a scarecrow in desperation and repelled the danger.

  Since then, villagers have carved a stone scarecrow and woven an ordinary scarecrow for psychological comfort.

  Jira discovered that the spirits of all the dead villagers were sealed inside the stone scarecrow, and a special spiritual realm had evolved. He immediately thought of becoming the lord of the divine realm and then controlling this spiritual realm, and then bringing the villagers back to life through the extraordinary houses.

  However, with Jira's power, it is impossible to control a Sequence 4 spirit realm.

  What Jira wanted was for the villagers to come back to life, and he had no greed for the spiritual realm.

  So after considering it, he decided to report it, but at that time he didn't know that human greed is unsatisfactory.

  Jira's boss wanted to keep this spiritual realm for himself, and had no interest in spending the extraordinary residence to transform a group of fishermen.

  He even wanted to kill Jira to silence him, but after being killed, Jira was resurrected in the spiritual realm.

  However, Jira also became extremely weak. Fortunately, after his resurrection, Jira gained partial control over the spiritual realm, so he was able to use the power of the spiritual realm to imprison Rosen who broke in.

  As for the thumb-sized scarecrow in Gila's hand, that was what appeared in his hand after he was resurrected.

  Rosen threw the little scarecrow into the miracle pocket and soon identified the result.

  This is the control core of a sacrificial vessel, and the stone scarecrow not far away is the so-called sacrificial vessel.

  Sacrificial vessels are things that are created out of faith, but not everything can become a sacrificial vessel.

  The stone scarecrow is just a stone sculpture carved by the ancestors of the fishing village using ordinary stones. The faith of later villagers is actually very little and cannot meet the conditions for the birth of a sacrificial vessel, because the core condition for the birth of a sacrificial vessel is the relics of ancient gods.

  Rosen guessed that the fisherman who once turned into a scarecrow should also have the blood of the ancient god in his body.

  And because the ancient god bloodline was activated for uncertain reasons, it was able to repel unknown dangers. After the fisherman died, the power of the ancient god bloodline in his body should have been because of faith, so it was placed on the stone scarecrow.

  This stone scarecrow can be said to be the second thing related to the ancient gods that he has come into contact with.

  Rosen summoned the ancient god's sacrificial vessel from his heart and then tried to contact the stone scarecrow.

  The stone scarecrow suddenly came to life, and a straw on its body pierced his finger. After absorbing a drop of blood, it turned into a motionless stone scarecrow again. However, the suppression of Rosen by the entire spiritual realm disappeared instantly.

  Rosen tried to use his spiritual power to contact the stone scarecrow, and surprisingly refined the sacrificial vessel easily.

  It seems that the ancient god sacrificial vessels are above the sacrificial vessels. After all, the former is likely to be a treasure of the ancient god civilization that has transcended Sequence 0, while the latter is just a sacrificial vessel that was created by chance after the death of an ordinary person with the blood of the ancient god civilization.

  After truly refining the stone scarecrow, Rosen discovered that the level of this spiritual realm was a bit weak.

  It looks like sequence 4, but it's actually just sequence 9.

  The key to being able to display the power of Sequence 4 is that the Stone Scarecrow itself possesses the power of Sequence 4.

  As long as you move one hundred meters away from the stone scarecrow, you will immediately find that the spiritual realm is actually only at Sequence 9.

  The Stone Scarecrow can absorb faith and gradually evolve the Sequence 9 spiritual realm to Sequence 4. The Stone Scarecrow can also seal invaders into scarecrows within a range of 100 meters, and finally protect those who believe in it and allow them to be resurrected in the spiritual realm.

  Finally, the stone scarecrow also has the power of substitution and curse, especially a higher level of counter-ability against curses.

  After Rosen exited the spiritual realm, he moved the body of the stone scarecrow to his own divine territory.

  This is equivalent to having an additional Sequence 9 subsidiary spiritual realm, and it is also a fishing village that can provide some seafood.

  In addition, at critical moments, the Stone Scarecrow can also be transferred to the Void Gallery. Without the strength of Sequence 4, it is almost impossible to break free from the seal of the Stone Scarecrow, but the most valuable is the power of substitution and curse.

  Rosen tried it roughly and found that the fishermen in the Stone Scarecrow Spirit Realm were able to weave scarecrows.

  By consuming a large amount of spiritual energy, you can exchange it for special scapegoats and cursed scarecrows.

  The scapegoat can offset one damage when it receives fatal damage, the cursed scarecrow can strengthen curse abilities, and can also take the backlash if the curse fails. The value of this function is actually very high if you think about it carefully.

  [Fishing Village Spiritual Realm: Spiritual Realm]

  [Level: Sequence 9]

  [Range: 10 miles in radius]

  Population: 560

  [Features: Sequence 4 Sacrificial Vessel (Stone Scarecrow)]

  [Specialties: various seafood, scapegoat, cursed scarecrow]

  Rosen used his spiritual energy to exchange for two different types of scarecrows, and refined the two scarecrows into his sea of ​​consciousness.

  No matter how much life-saving stuff you have, it's never too much, especially when you're facing big troubles ahead.

  Kira did not betray the World Government and steal important documents at all. It was obviously his superiors who framed him.

  But they couldn't find any trace of Kira, so they discovered that there was a Sequence 6 Hereditary Duke nearby who was on a punitive mission, hoping to use him to find Kira. But why did Kira's boss think he could find Kira?

  Rosen's intuition told him that there might be more trouble behind this.

  In the deep web of the spiritual world, Rosen chose to submit the task.

  He waited at the beach for less than half an hour and already sensed that something was entering reality from the spiritual world.

  Outside a fishing village not far away, visible ripples appeared in the air and a masked assassin emerged.

  "I'm responsible for receiving Jira."

  The masked assassin walked calmly towards Rosen and explained.

  "Identification?"

  Rosen asked, sizing up the masked assassin.

  The masked assassin took out an ID card in the form of a metal card, and spiritual perception was able to read the identity information on it.

  Then log in to the spiritual world deep web to verify and you will know whether this identity certificate is true or false.

  Rosen used his spiritual energy to take the ID card from a distance, and it turned out that this ID card belonged to an employee of the World Government.

  "Take it off..."

  Rosen was just about to ask the masked assassin to take off his mask when he suddenly felt dizzy and almost fell down.

  He had been prepared, but he still fell into the trap without realizing it.

  If it was an ordinary Sequence 6, it would have been at the mercy of others by now.

  However, he has the golden divinity and the blessing of the Dragon King, and he also has an extremely huge vitality.

  Whether it is physical or spiritual means, he has unimaginable resistance.

  But after hesitating for a moment, he pretended to be unconscious and fell to the ground.

  If he doesn't fall for his trick at this moment, there will be no loss. If the assassin comes forward to finish him off, he can also launch a sneak attack and kill him. If the assassin plans to capture him alive, he can also follow the assassin to find Jira's boss and solve the problem in one fell swoop.

  The masked assassin took out a palm-sized bag, walked forward, pointed the bag opening at Rosen and sucked him into the pocket.

  Then he retreated back into the spirit world, thinking about how much benefit he could gain by completing this task.

  (End of this chapter)