Pretending To Be A Boss
Chapter 930 - 72: Entering the Mining Area Again with the Orderly Army_2

The tone of this statement is identical to that of the deity Qi Yuan was familiar with many years ago.

Even across the vast distance of time and space, the Lord of Eden can still transmit those messages.

For the first time in her life, Qi Yuan felt a trace of anxiety. But she quickly drove such emotions away with her willpower.

The two beings who understand the Lord of Eden the most in this world are Qi Yuan and Tang Xian.

Qi Yuan vaguely guessed where Tang Xian had gone.

She was even clearer on why the Lord of Eden had summoned her to the mining area.

What started as a four-way battle no longer was, as far as Qi Yuan could tell. The Judge was out, and Tang Xian was enduring a deadly tribulation.

The game had nearly reached its end, with fewer and fewer players remaining.

All the Judgment Knights began heading systematically toward the largest teleportation platform.

The northern teleport gates built on the Amara Continent were not abandoned. Centuries of human enslavement had ensured the Pyramid retained significant energy reserves.

As the teleportation station roared back to life, it was as though time rewound six months.

The lower-class people busily moved back and forth, heading to the mines to labor or returning from the mines to rest.

Only now, all of them had become Judgment Knights.

Four Angel Envoys emerged from their nutrient pods.

They exchanged glances. The four of them, sealed away for varying lengths of decades to centuries, found their memories gradually resurfacing, only to abruptly halt. Their expressions froze.

Marching in perfect unison, they approached Qi Yuan.

"Apologies. The current me cannot grant you independent thought. Tang Jing was merely a special protocol. Such a protocol cannot be replicated. You'd best resign yourselves to being weapons." Qi Yuan turned around, gazing at the four Angel Envoys as she spoke.

Her expression was devoid of any emotion. At that moment, Qi Yuan appeared more machine than human.

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Baichuan City.

Tang Jing and Ju Mang gazed up at the night sky.

Ju Mang's lab had seen a considerable influx of new equipment.

Courtesy of Li Xiaoyu. Since Song Que's experiment had already commenced, ensuring Ju Mang had access to the best resources was also a matter of responsibility toward Song Que.

Ju Mang had previously been researching Duck's serum, but when Tang Jing came to visit, Tang Jing tugged her away for a walk.

The two wandered to the outskirts of Baichuan City. Overhead, the night sky glittered with countless stars.

In the early summer night, beneath the twinkling constellations, Ju Mang remarked:

"You've been to the Divine Realm. Did you see the Steward there? Does she resemble Qi Yuan?"

Tang Jing shook his head.

The Divine Realm was filled with individuals he paid little mind to—elderly folk, women, children—seemingly existing only as part of the backdrop.

Tang Jing had never bothered to delve into the pasts of those insignificant figures.

The image of Qi Yuan bore some resemblance to Tang Xian. If she had truly appeared in his Divine Realm, he would certainly have remembered.

"I have no impression of Qi Yuan, nor do I hold any fondness for her."

"So you're not worried she might lose? I always felt like you've got Stockholm syndrome," Ju Mang stated bluntly.

Tang Jing simply shook his head. Explaining would only make things worse.

Changing the subject, he said:

"If Qi Yuan were to lose, that would mean whatever the Lord of Eden is plotting is on the verge of success. The ultimate right to control external forces lies in power. Qi Yuan and the Lord of Eden are the strongest entities in this world, which is why they pose such a threat to us."

Ju Mang said, "But hasn't Qi Yuan said it herself? If the barrier dissolves, she'll head to the mining area for a battle—or perhaps invite the Lord of Eden to the mortal world for a duel."

Tang Jing furrowed his brows slightly:

"That's precisely the part of the plan that feels least convincing. Qi Yuan is someone who defeated all the Beast Gods, while the Lord of Eden, even though the Judge is no longer at their peak, still couldn't eliminate the Judge, allowing them to escape. This suggests the Lord of Eden is far from invincible in combat."

"Since they're not invincible, and Qi Yuan is so immensely powerful, then what gives the Lord of Eden the confidence to challenge Qi Yuan?"

This question from Tang Jing made Ju Mang sense something amiss as well.

Ju Mang said, "Could it be that they're secretly working together?"

Tang Jing shook his head and replied:

"That possibility is even lower. If that were the case, there'd be no need to put on this performance for us. Comparatively speaking, we're far too insignificant next to the Steward and the Eden Tribe. The Lord of Eden may have some sort of trump card—one that might reveal the mystery behind its motives."

"Motives?"

"Yes, what is the Lord of Eden's motive? Why grant all Myriad Beasts the ability to transform into humans?"

"And why would the Lord of Eden create a supreme weapon like Qi Yuan? If the goal was to observe humanity, wouldn't trapping people in the Pyramid suffice to reveal the rawest facets of human nature? On the contrary, the utopia of the Divine Realm masks those darker depths. The true ugliness at the heart of humanity is obscured."

Never having been to the Divine Realm, Ju Mang couldn't grasp such subtleties. But Tang Jing's reasoning was compelling.

"The Lord of Eden transforms all Beasts into humans, and the Steward, in some sense, governs all humanity. If a few months ago, my brother hadn't led everyone out of the fortress, the current situation would be entirely different. So, what is its goal?"

Tang Jing couldn't think it through. He believed the Lord of Eden and the Steward stood opposed to humanity, but they were not allies.

Once Qi Yuan awakened her consciousness, she was no longer a pawn of the Lord of Eden but a player equal to it in the game.

Ju Mang said, "So you think this battle is a conspiracy against the Steward?"

Tang Jing shook his head and said:

"This is a conspiracy by the victor against the loser. No matter what, after this battle, the enemy left standing will be the only one we'll need to worry about."

"This is a clash between kings. Regardless of Qi Yuan's plans or the Lord of Eden's motives, by the end of this battle, everything will be laid bare."

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The next day, Akasi, Yuanwu, Song Que, Tang Jing, and Tang Suoye formed the human squad, led by Song Que.

Qing Jiuyu, Bai Mansheng, Tang Xiaojiu, Tang, and Tang Feiji composed the Myriad Beasts squad, with Tang Feiji as the titular leader.

This greatly inflated Tang Feiji's ego, even though Li Xiaoyu had clarified that while Tang Feiji held the title, Bai Mansheng was responsible for making decisions.

Still, given Tang Feiji's formidable combat abilities, Li Xiaoyu had bestowed the role upon him.

The human squad was tasked with contacting the Shadow Ravens, identifying their location, and initiating a stealth mission at the outskirts of the Sacred Mountain at the earliest opportunity.

Meanwhile, the Myriad Beasts squad, under Tang Feiji's command, was to locate Junlin.

This would be the most powerful consolidation of forces under Tang Xian's command, with all hopes hinging on the imminent clash between Qi Yuan and the Lord of Eden.

And on this day, the mining area experienced a momentous upheaval.

The centuries-old dread seemed to return to the mines as Judgment Knights began landing en masse.

Millions of Judgement troops emerged from the northern Amara Continent, marching with apocalyptic precision as they descended upon the Sacred Mountain.

In the aftermath of Ragnarök, the dwindling Beast Gods had joined forces with the Lord of Eden to create the most formidable seal.

This seal incapacitated all technological artifacts, stagnating human civilization for centuries to come.

Before the seal was dissolved, only the Bronze Judgment Knights could operate within the mines.

But with the lifting of the gods' seal, Golden Judgment Knights, Angel Envoys, and even the once-feared Stewards of the Myriad Beasts Realm resurged onto the stage of the earth.

Most of the Beasts who participated in the Ragnarök of old had perished, but the legends of that battle endured relentlessly.

Messenger birds carried the tidings: A vast swarm of destroyers was arriving from the distant south, plunging the northern continent into chaos and fear.

The march of the orderly legions was swift. It might not be long before they reached the Sacred Mountain.

Gazing at the terrified and devout worshippers outside Forbidden Land's gates, the Lord of Eden calmly declared:

[These are the sins left behind by the Judge of old. Rejoice, my servants. I shall cleanse the evils and return light to this world.]

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