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Chapter 260 - 227: Clearing the Stage!

Chapter 260: Chapter 227: Clearing the Stage!

"The Priest is leaving?"

After learning this news, several nuns’ bodies shook once again.

"Father, you were just joking with us, weren’t you?"

"You’ve established so many exorcism pilot projects for us in Lunte City, and you’ve personally taught us to study the Bible; you also promised us..."

"Enough, enough, enough! Shut your mouths."

The Priest interrupted the nuns’ ramblings, speaking righteously.

"Don’t you understand such a simple truth? I raise pigs to eat their meat, not to ensure they live a happy life."

Raise pigs?

Damn, how ruthless!

It appears the Priest really intends to cast aside all his pretenses; otherwise, he wouldn’t say such things to nuns.

Two nuns have already collapsed on the ground, feeling that their many years of faith have been nothing but a complete joke...

At the same time, the Priest’s words did not make the nuns angry; instead, they felt an unprecedented sadness and despair.

"Father, are you going to leave us, leave Lunte City?"

Steel Egg had been so heartless in what he said that, surprisingly, there were still nuns who wanted him to stay.

Was it all for that last unrealistic glimmer of hope?

The Priest turned his gaze to Jiang Xiao.

In fact, whether or not he left was mainly up to what this man thought.

If Jiang Xiao was not in a hurry to send him away, it wouldn’t be a problem for him to stay in Lunte City a little longer to deal with this mess.

In the end, the Priest felt he was not such an atrocious person.

At least that’s how he saw himself.

The Priest drank the last sip of brandy and laughed at himself with a mocking smile.

In fact, he had long anticipated leaving this place.

Or rather.

He never thought that this flawed "pact" could last for an extended period.

Originally, his plan was for the city’s people to rise up against the oppression of the "demonic pact."

But what he hadn’t anticipated was that the people in the city...

Not only did they not resist him, but they even relished the existence of the demonic pact.

They had comically and pitifully referred to him as "Priest."

"You two, father and daughter, have ruined the foundation I’ve built for decades. And even the vestments and scepter full of the power of faith have been taken by you. You’ve really outdone yourselves, making a fortune."

Jiang Xiao was trying to arrange some caviar into a pentagram with chopsticks, speaking casually.

"How you settle accounts is your business; all this is unimportant to me, and I don’t covet it."

Not covet it?

The Priest looked at the incredibly luxurious cathedral before him, recalling the massive warehouse underground accumulating countless riches.

All this is unimportant?

"You know, the accumulated wealth here could even buy half the city."

Jiang Xiao shook his head, indicating that he didn’t know, nor wanted to know. As long as he had enough money, more would only be cumbersome.

"Since all this is insignificant to you, then may I stay in Lunte City for a while?"

Jiang Xiao stopped fiddling with the caviar, staring directly at the Priest, who had a hopeful look on his face.

"But for me, your not being in this city is very important."

The Priest was startled. My absence is important to him?

So, in the end, he still wanted to drive me away.

"Father! You can’t leave, you just can’t!"

"Without you, how can we go on living, wuwuwu..."

"I don’t care what kind of person you are, as long as you stay, you’ll forever be my God in my heart!"

"It’s because of the Father that we are here; you invaders are the bad ones, it’s you who are driving the Priest away!"

"It must be so! The Father must have been threatened by them; that’s why he says things that chill our hearts!"

"Exactly! The Father deliberately said these things because he doesn’t want to make us sad when leaving! Oh Father, were you even thinking of us when being forced to leave? You really are too kind, wuwuwu..."

The crowd: ...

Have these nuns lost their minds?

Someone just called you pigs, whose only purpose is to provide him with a constant stream of demonic energy for his research.

And you’re still speaking up for him?

Unbearable to watch, the three bearded men argued with the nuns, hoping they’d come to their senses.

But after some persuasion, things only got worse!

In their hearts.

Anything adverse to the Priest was seen as fabricated by the bearded fellows.

Any fact that the Priest himself admitted to must have been under the coercion by the bearded ones.

In conclusion, the Priest could do no wrong; everyone else was to blame.

Some nuns even planned to turn into demons on the spot and kill the bearded men!

"I’ll kill you all! It’s all your fault! If it weren’t for your coercion, the Priest wouldn’t be leaving!"

"Be still!"

Ultimately, it was the Priest’s rebuke that interrupted these crazed nuns.

Seeing how mad the nuns were, Steel Egg also felt a headache coming on.

Do these people not have brains?

Sold by me, yet you still help me count the money?

"Oh Lord, please grant these foolish people a glimmer of wisdom, Amen."

Mu Xitang held up the scepter, making the sign of the cross on his chest.

Uh, the cream and vegetable juice smeared on his face were somewhat distracting.

"Be realistic for once, the world isn’t filled with so many good people. Everyone is drawn by their own interests; if the Priest were as perfect as you envision, he’d be a saint. Take a look; does he resemble a saint to you?"

Hearing Xi Tang’s words, the Priest also spread his hands in agreement.

He really was innocent; the halo above his head had been forcibly put there by others.

The matter was actually quite simple.

He wanted to make a pact, to sign some agreements with demons seeking death or willing to perish with their enemies.

Just so he could harvest some demonic power for research.

But he never expected so many followers, who had pushed him onto the pedestal of Priesthood against his will.

As for the exorcism pilot projects and such.

They were simply a means for him to capture demons like Mu Xitang that were more orthodox, since he was the city’s Priest—an opportunity too good not to exploit!

After all, the demons incarnated from the pacts were too disappointing, always with a sense of missing a cerebral cortex.

Beyond that, he had done nothing!

Oh.

There was also Romia Cathedral, and so many nuns inside the church.

This was merely because he wanted to find some people to do some cleaning and cooking, and incidentally perform daily prayers so that he wouldn’t be infected by the power of demons.

It all indicated that he was indeed a refined egoist at heart.

Why he had been elevated to the status of a Priest, he really didn’t understand either.

"I just said, I’m not as familiar with the Bible as this little pink-haired girl, I was blathering nonsense before, and now you still think I have faith in God?"

The Priest’s last sentence was like a final blow.

Regarding the Priest’s muttered "Oh Lord" and such, the nuns often couldn’t find the original words in the Bible.

They had thought before that the Priest had reached the realm of "word follows the method."

Turned out it was all blather...

And with that.

The perfect image of the Priest completely collapsed in the hearts of these nuns.

"So, are we leaving now, or can I finish this dinner?"

The Priest nudged toward the delicacies on the table that were almost untouched.

Besides Mu Xitang and Jiang Xiao, almost no one else had eaten.

"Let’s eat before we leave, we roam the world, we can’t let people go hungry on the road!"

The righteousness-exuding Mu Xitang agreed to the Priest’s request for dinner.

[Ding, (Jiang Xiao says it’s a deal) successfully cleared (Sin City), reward for all: additional ten free attribute points]

[Team leader receives an additional chance at drawing, award of five free attribute points]

Only Jiang Xiao heard the latter sentence.

[Ding, Sin City instance ends, remaining chosen ones default to clear, reward of five free attribute points]

They had cleared it.

It seemed that the Priest was at least a man of his word; he said he would go, and he went.

"Father, when you leave, how should we announce it to the outside?"

Steel Egg originally wanted to say what does it matter to me.

But thinking that these people had indeed served him for so long, the words ended up not coming out when they reached his lips.

"Well..."

"Why don’t you just say the Priest has been taken away by God, isn’t that enough?" Jiang Xiao solved the problem with a single sentence.

Indeed, no matter how absurd the reason might seem, given the devoutness of the Priest’s followers, they would likely believe it!

The issue was resolved perfectly, and only then did both sides put aside the unease in their hearts and start eating and chatting together.

"Towns?"

Hearing the question from the bearded men, Steel Egg immediately shook his head vigorously.

"Which good person runs to the countryside? No matter what, the city can guarantee at least the basic rules and order, towns have always been the strangest places since ancient times, you can find all kinds of people there!"

"We may have demons roaming in our nine continents, but their strength is no match for those in the towns, there’s even a rumor that the source of demonic power is in the towns! Speaking of which, I plan to visit the towns after leaving Lunte City."

Ah?

What does that mean?

Aren’t the people of Morro Town saying that the city is the most dangerous place?

"Morro Town? Never heard of it, where is it?"

The Priest’s bewildered expression was not a lie.

What exactly was going on?

Now, thinking back carefully about the people and events in the small town, they indeed seemed very mysterious...

In the end, before the Priest left, he took a map of Morro Town from Black Sis, planning to go see it for himself.

...

Nine continents?

The different perspectives of the city and town on each other...

People vaguely seemed to have caught onto something, but couldn’t quite articulate it.

Soon after the Priest had left, many chosen ones felt the call of the real world.

"Let’s go too."

Jiang Xiao put down his knife and fork, having eaten his fill; staying any longer was meaningless.

"Wait wait wait! Give me five minutes!"

Mu Xitang hurriedly interrupted Jiang Xiao, saying she still had things to deal with, and then she led the bearded trio out of the kitchen.

Soon.

The four of them came over, each carrying two large sacks.

"What’s this?"

"Hehehe, secret, you’ll understand once we get out."

What mischief was this, can things from the world of Kaidan really be so easily taken out?

Jiang Xiao shook his head, not intending to linger any longer.

He was directly drawn away by the call of that space.

When he opened his eyes, it was still the pure white barrier.

What surprised him was.

Mu Xitang had actually come in with him?

"Uh, Daddy, I feel like I’ve gotten a bit stronger~"

The little pink-haired girl looked around in astonishment, occasionally clenching her little fists, feeling a great increase in strength.

It seemed that Kaidan had defaulted Mu Xitang as a "Spirit" so Jiang Xiao could carry her with him.

The fifteen attribute points were still dumped into strength.

[Strength: 65]

[Agility: 25]

[Endurance: 15]

[Spirit: ?]

[Charm: 10]

Eh?

If he remembered correctly, his agility and endurance were previously 19 and 7.

How had they increased so much?

It must be because of the milk and those two shards rewarded from crossing the iron chain bridge.

The most important thing.

Besides the shards, the rod and ceremonial dress were also brought in with him!

Even the ancient sword that Grave Robber David had dug up was still on Jiang Xiao’s body!

Hmm?

Mu Xitang, carrying those two bulging sacks of gold keratin urea, was also brought in?!

However, Loki’s gloves and Compass, as well as various other odds and ends, were left behind in the world of Kaidan.