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Chapter 118: I’ll Join the Demons! (Three more - s for monthly tickets!)

Chapter 118: Chapter 118: I’ll Join the Demons! (Three more Chapters for monthly tickets!)

Instructor Ding began the third round of the game.

This time he understood that the best choice regarding Xia Mi was not to involve her in any affairs because once he delegated a task to her, it couldn’t be stopped.

On the other hand, if he didn’t assign her any tasks, she would just keep nagging and losing favorability, but nothing particularly serious would happen in the short term.

So Instructor Ding simply reduced Xia Mi’s standards for food, clothing, shelter, and transportation to the bare minimum, and then had people teach her every day.

However, Xia Mi wasn’t affected by these lowered standards and her favorability didn’t seem to be impacted, as if she didn’t particularly care about these things.

This might seem like good news on the surface, but it’s actually bad news!

Because this also meant that Instructor Ding couldn’t use material conditions to affect Xia Mi’s favorability; it would continue to drop unless he performed actions that she approved of.

Instructor Ding also considered whether the teaching content could be changed?

But the content for teaching-related actions was quite fixed, comprising only regular educational material!

And regular educational content naturally included things like the Bible, Gospels, and knowledge of town management, etc.

As for things like the art of power struggle or the study of treachery? They were completely absent.

Instructor Ding complained, "I’m freaking at the City Forsaken by Gods, and there’s no taboo knowledge I can teach? It’s all just regular general education?!

"She’s originally an incarnation of an Archangel in the Human World, inherently divine, and if I keep feeding her the Bible and God every day, won’t her faith get even stronger?

"Right, the ruins! I need to hurry and get someone to explore those ruins."

Instructor Ding immediately started handling the matter of the ruins, selecting a few soldiers to form a small adventure team for exploration.

During the exploration process, Instructor Ding couldn’t watch or participate. After a while, the adventure team would return—some might have contracted diseases, gone mad, or died, but they would also bring back some Demonic Knowledge depending on the depth they reached in the ruins.

"That’s what I thought; this is the right way to play the game, isn’t it?

"How can I, a mere mortal, oppose an Angel? I definitely need to rely on the power of demons!

"Speaking of which, it’s quite unfair. I would have liked to surrender to Heaven, but Heaven didn’t give me that chance, so I had no other choice but to turn to demons!"

Instructor Ding realized that, according to the game’s background, the City Lord of the City Forsaken by Gods was essentially a scapegoat.

Had the City Forsaken by Gods done anything particularly heinous according to the current plot?

Actually, no.

They were merely mining and by chance unearthed a Demon Ruin, resulting in some people getting contaminated and infected with diseases or acquiring forbidden knowledge.

Heaven immediately branded the place as the "City Forsaken by Gods," prepared to unleash divine punishment and completely erase it from the map.

And the player, acting as the City Lord, couldn’t gain any favor from Heaven, whether doing nothing, sealing the Demonic Knowledge, or continuously indoctrinating the foster daughter with the Bible.

The Crusaders would still attack, and the divine punishment would still come.

Instructor Ding was beginning to understand, "So, the City Forsaken by Gods isn’t about an attitude, but about a situation!

"In fact, the City Forsaken by Gods may not have actually done anything atrocious. It just happens to be frontline cannon fodder in the struggle between Heaven and Hell, so Heaven is eager to find a reason to eliminate it...

"Then what’s there to discuss? Just use the power of demons and be done with it!"

This time, Instructor Ding decided not to play the human role.

He adopted a more aggressive approach in handling matters within the city, no longer overly concerned with satisfaction levels, but instead he used every means possible to stockpile all sorts of materials and resources in preparation for the impending war.

And as for the exploration of the ruins, it was at full throttle!

Soon, this exploration began to pay off.

Instructor Ding discovered that the City Lord could now learn the forbidden knowledge brought from the ruins!

As the City Lord acquired more and more forbidden knowledge, his appearance began to change.

The golden hair beneath his helmet turned grayish-white, and his whole suit of armor turned into a black and fearsome suit of armor. He had been carrying a war hammer in one hand and a greatsword in the other, but after obtaining the skill "Demonic Power," the war hammer was discarded and the greatsword transformed into a demon sword carved with a demon’s skull.

During this process, the City Lord activated five new demon skills.

"Hell’s Vision: Once activated, it allows one to see the attributes of the targeted unit."

"Hell’s Power: Once activated, it grants immense combat strength."

"Demonic Knowledge: Once activated, it allows one to spread demonic knowledge and control thoughts."

"Hell’s Summoning: Summons demons to bolster the army, bringing the undead back to life."

"Hell’s Bounties: Temporarily grants another person any one of the above four abilities."

The conditions for using these skills varied.

"Hell’s Vision" had a long duration and allowed one to view the attributes of all characters, while the duration of "Hell’s Power" was much shorter, sustaining only through a single battle.

Other abilities also came with their respective limitations.

But regardless, having acquired these demon abilities, Instructor Ding felt that the game’s difficulty had finally been lowered to a reasonable level, and he saw hope for clearing the game once more!

Especially "Hell Knowledge," that skill was particularly useful!

On the surface, it seemed like "Hell’s Power" and "Hell’s Summoning" were most helpful as they could quickly grant formidable combat power, but the advantage of "Hell Knowledge" lay in its ability to spread demonic knowledge and control the public’s thoughts!

This was indeed extremely handy.

Instructor Ding had been mainly worried that if he messed around too much and satisfaction dropped significantly, the unruly people would rebel.

But now, with this skill, he could easily lock the satisfaction at a fixed value!

True, it could only be locked for a while, but the skill could be used over and over!

With this skill in hand, he could treat the unruly folks like cattle and gradually transform the City Forsaken by Gods into a powerful demon city-state.

Of course, after activating "Hell’s Vision," Instructor Ding didn’t forget to take a glance at Xiamiel’s attributes.

The sight truly startled him.

[Xia Mi (Archangel Chamuel’s human incarnation)]

[Life: 122]

[Magic: 5900]

[Strength: 16]

[Agility: 22]

[Intelligence: 91]

[Good-Evil Value: 20] (The benchmark is 50, the lower the number, the more good; the higher, the more evil)

[Faith Value: 95]

[Charisma: 93]

[Favorability: Cold]

Instructor Ding could now see the City Lord’s and other characters’ attributes as well, and Xiamiel’s attributes could only be described as outrageous!

Among them, both life and magic attributes were in the four-digit range, with the City Lord’s life value at 3000 points and magic at 1500 points, which in combat were akin to a humanoid Gundam.

But Xia Mi’s life was only 122, while her magic was as high as 5900, almost making her a walking fountain capable of unlimited skill casts!

The rest of the attributes were in the two-digit range at most.

In other words, apart from strength and agility, which clearly had nothing to do with her, her intelligence, faith, and charisma were all above 90.

No wonder she was so fearsome in battle after she led a group of prisoners to escape!

Of course, there was one particularly unusual attribute: "Good-Evil Value."

The benchmark was 50, with lower numbers indicating greater benevolence and higher numbers more cruelty. That is to say, if the value was 1, it would be an Angel’s Descent; if the value was 99, it would be a demon god’s advent.

Instructor Ding noticed that for most people in the city, this value fluctuated between 40 and 60.

Meaning, achieving a status of "Especially Good" or "Especially Evil" was not easy.

Xia Mi’s Good-Evil Value of 20 made her the standard of a saint in the Human World.

"Strange, why is it that the higher the number, the more evil, instead of the more good?"

"Well, that does fit with the usual setting of Nitiandang, after all at this point we are playing a character that could be considered on the side of the demons, so it makes sense."

Instructor Ding didn’t dwell too much on this.

At present, Xiamiel’s attitude towards him had become cold; if it dropped further, it would become neutral, then hatred, and eventually irreconcilable.

If one only considered what was inside the city, it could also be considered flourishing in a certain alternative sense.

After widely spreading demonic knowledge, the citizens dare not be dissatisfied anymore, the church that had been causing trouble in the city also vanished, and refugees dared not come seeking sanctuary either.

As for the mere plague? Cure it with a demon potion; if they live, they live, if the cure kills them, they are directly summoned by the Necromancer.

You must admit the plague has been solved!

At first, the people were somewhat frightened by the spreading demon worship in the city and the powerful demons that often appeared, but as demonic faith spread more and more widely, everyone got used to it and even began to enjoy it here!