Chapter 44: What Kind of Move Is This?
The Sun Church was a rather ferocious faction. Generally speaking, when "Sun" and "Church" were separated, the former likely represented the good camp, or at least neutral, while the Church was mostly lawful or neutral, at least on the surface. But when Sun + Church were combined, it became an extremely evil camp. In most cases, when Sun Church believers encountered other transcendents, they would first size them up. If they felt the target needed purification or elimination, they would bow and say, "Sorry, you're about to die."
It could be said that the Sun Church was very polite—they even bowed before killing someone. As for the reason? Purification of the unclean!
Wearing the helmet, Su Xiao found that the surrounding Sun believers weren't talking. It could be estimated that the Sun Church had quite a few members; otherwise, just wearing the [Church Knight Helmet] wouldn't fool these people.
"You're injured. Who hurt you?"
A hoarse voice came from beside him. It was a burly believer.
"The enemy is dead."
Su Xiao's voice was a bit muffled due to the helmet.
"Hmm, that's good. We don't bully the weak, but no one can bully us either—not even the Blazing Sun Lord."
The burly believer patted Su Xiao on the shoulder. Su Xiao nodded his helmeted head, meaning that if any transcendent had provoked Su Xiao, he just had to speak up. The Sun Church had plenty of strong members. Even if it was the ruler of the Sand World, the Blazing Sun Lord, they wouldn't let it go easily.
The Blazing Sun Lord was very wary of the Sun Church. These madmen were not only numerous but also united, protective of their own, and vengeful. Once, the Blazing Sun Lord killed a Sun Church member without knowing their identity.
At that time, the Sun believer wasn't wearing the distinctive Church helmet. After learning of this, other Sun believers confronted the Blazing Sun Lord. Their general meaning was to let the Blazing Sun Lord express his grief, since both sides were at fault—the Sun believer hadn't worn the helmet, and the Blazing Sun Lord had killed someone.
The Blazing Sun Lord immediately asked, "Do you people have brain problems?"
This was the most regrettable thing the Blazing Sun Lord had said in recent centuries. Two days after he said it, a swarm of Sun believers rushed in and besieged the Blazing Sun Lord.
Of course, the Blazing Sun Lord wasn't a pushover. He led his subordinates to kill many Sun believers and repelled the Sun Church's first wave of attacks.
In the following month, the Blazing Sun Lord suffered 476 assassination attempts and 69 sieges. The Sun believers were constantly in battle mode, trying to kill him.
The Blazing Sun Lord was a bit stunned. He never understood what kind of grudge this was to warrant such treatment. At that point, his mentality was starting to crack.
This conflict—no, this war—lasted for half a year. In total, the Blazing Sun Lord suffered 2,947 assassination attempts and 85 sieges. On average, less than an hour passed before he faced another assassination attempt. After half a year, the once powerful, handsome, and masculine Sun Lord had become haggard.
Then, one day at noon, a Sun believer walked alone into the Blazing Sun Lord's palace, holding a jar of ashes. He demanded that the Blazing Sun Lord apologize to the ashes—the ashes of the Sun Church believer he had killed half a year ago.
The Blazing Sun Lord might have been helpless or speechless. He offered a few tired words of apology. Then, something astonishing happened: two bishops of the Sun Church came to announce a ceasefire.
The Blazing Sun Lord immediately agreed. No one wanted to fight a bunch of madmen to the death. But he always felt the Sun Church had other motives.
After asking, the Blazing Sun Lord was so angry his liver ached. The Sun Church had been so crazily trying to kill him—not for profit, not for reputation—but just to make him apologize to the Sun believer he had accidentally killed. Both sides were at fault, but the Blazing Sun Lord bore more blame. Debts had to be repaid.
According to the Sun Church's creed, dying in disgrace meant the soul couldn't ascend to the sun. For Sun believers, this was a matter of utmost importance.
From then on, the Blazing Sun Lord ordered his subordinates not to provoke those Sun madmen, or better yet, to stay far away from them. Those Sun madmen weren't greedy for money, lustful, or interested in fame. They were devoted solely to the sun. In the Blazing Sun Lord's view, that was the scariest thing.
"Go back and wash up. Those blood scabs are itchy, and you reek of blood."
The burly believer laughed heartily and turned to walk out of the ruins.
Su Xiao didn't fully understand the situation yet, but he had already joined the Sun Church with an initial reputation of nearly 5,000 points. Under normal circumstances, joining the Sun Church with the helmet's boost only gave 120 initial reputation points.
Following the direction the burly believer was heading, Su Xiao closed the faction list. Before entering the Sand World, he had been assigned to the evil camp. At the time, he didn't understand how that assignment worked.
Now it seemed that if his initial camp was evil, entering the Sand World and joining evil, chaotic, wicked, or extremely evil camps would grant a reputation gain bonus.
Molei and the others had an initial good camp, which worked similarly.
"Ugh... help..."
A muffled cry came from nearby. Su Xiao looked toward the source and saw two Sun believers carrying a large iron cage. Inside was a weak-looking Molei, with a rag stuffed in her mouth and a cloth strip tied around it to keep her from spitting it out.
From Molei's appearance, she wasn't too badly injured. Earlier, when the dark wave hit, Su Xiao was already heavily wounded, while Molei was at full strength. Plus, this Battle Angel was so rich it made people want to kidnap her. With all sorts of equipment and items boosting her, her survivability was naturally high.
"What did she do wrong? I'll take it as a warning."
Su Xiao spoke. Hearing this, the burly believer ahead slowed his pace to walk alongside Su Xiao.
"There's evil in her heart. She needs to be purified by sunlight. Three days of exposure, let her admit her mistakes, experience the beauty of the sun, and be fully cleansed."
The burly believer looked at Molei with a pained expression. Such a good child, yet walking down the wrong path.
"I... was... wrong..."
Molei immediately admitted her fault. The burly believer shook his head; the exposure process couldn't be skipped.
Su Xiao roughly understood what was happening. Molei's initial camp was good. After being caught by the Sun Church believers, they naturally looked down on her. But Molei had good character. After weighing things, the Sun believers decided to use the sun's radiance to reform her. The child wasn't inherently bad; she just couldn't stay on the wrong path. She had to praise the sun.
"Bai Ye... save me..."
Molei recognized Su Xiao's voice. Hearing this, Su Xiao narrowed his eyes.
"Her heart is more evil than you think. Cremate her."
Su Xiao's suggestion made the burly believer pause. He replied, "That... wouldn't be good."
"I was wrong! Spare me, boss!"
Molei lay limp in the iron cage, not daring to speak anymore.
Following a group of Sun believers, Su Xiao walked for about half an hour before reaching a well-arranged cluster of buildings. These multi-story pointed-roof structures were quite old. The tallest among them was the Sun Church's Grand Cathedral.
The entire Grand Cathedral was over sixty meters tall, built in Gothic architectural style, evident from its spires, flying buttresses, and stained-glass windows.
The Grand Cathedral covered a large area with a complex interior. As Su Xiao entered the first floor with the Sun believers, he quietly asked the burly believer beside him, "I'm going to restock supplies."
"Go quickly and come back."
The burly believer tilted his chin in a certain direction, indicating the logistics supply area was over there. The gesture meant the burly believer had realized Su Xiao wasn't a Sun Church member—at least not before—but he didn't say it outright. Joining the Sun Church had requirements, but they were rather unique.
Su Xiao walked toward the logistics supply area. The burly believer had already noticed his unknown origins, but that could be ignored for now. The Sun Church had many aspects that defied common sense.
The logistics supply area was a separate room. After pushing open the wooden door, a few meters away was a wooden counter, behind which sat a small old man.
Seeing this person, Su Xiao stopped in his tracks. Behind the wooden counter was actually Kaisa.
Earlier, when he encountered Kaisa, he was still trapped in Room 7. Now, appearing here meant Kaisa had already obtained the treasure in Room 7 and had free time to come to the Sand World to reap benefits.
"My dear friend, Kaisa is now the logistics administrator. Maybe I can help you with something."
Kaisa rubbed his hands together with a sly grin. The treasure in Room 7 had been taken by him alone. It wasn't exactly a monopoly; at most, it was Su Xiao's failed investment. Originally, that treasure was discovered by Kaisa himself, but since he hadn't figured out its characteristics, he pulled off a confusing move.
"What kind of help?"
Su Xiao lit a cigarette, regretting that Bubu Wang wasn't around. Otherwise, he would definitely have dealt with Kaisa.
"For example, Kaisa can sell you items not on the reputation list, including scroll fragments, steel boxes, Sun Flame Explosion technology, and so on."
Kaisa's expression grew more lecherous and cunning. Then, Su Xiao received a series of notifications.
[Notification: Your favorability with Logistics Administrator Kaisa has increased by 372 points.]
[Your favorability with Logistics Administrator Kaisa has increased by 109 points.]
[Your favorability with Logistics Administrator Kaisa has increased by 39 points...]
[Your favorability with Logistics Administrator Kaisa has increased by 888 points.]
[Notification: Favorability cap is 100 points. Judgment error.]
[Your favorability with Logistics Administrator Kaisa has reached ??? points.]
[Current Kaisa favorability: ???]
[Notification: Due to unilateral reasons from Kaisa, favorability has been reset to zero.]
[Notification: Your favorability with Logistics Administrator Kaisa has increased by ??? points.]
[Warning: It has been discovered that Arbiter Kaisa is suspected of violating Paradise regulations, Article 152,675. Kaisa's Arbiter status has been temporarily revoked. Kaisa's current status is: Probationary Arbiter.]
[Kaisa has used 'War Medal' (This is an exclusive reward for outstanding Arbiters after winning a World War).]
[Due to using the 'War Medal', Kaisa has been reinstated as an Arbiter (Official).]
[Kaisa's favorability is increasing...]
[Judgment stabilizing...]
[Stabilization complete. Your personal favorability with Kaisa will be digitized through other means.]
[Current Kaisa favorability: X.]
[Favorability has reached X. You have obtained the following faction privileges.]
[You have obtained faction privilege: Cost Price Procurement (When exchanging items on the reputation list, reputation consumption is reduced by 25%).]
[You have obtained faction privilege: Return (By colluding with the profiteer Kaisa, after purchasing an item from the reputation list, if the item hasn't been used multiple times, you can return to the logistics supply area and find Kaisa to return it. Kaisa will refund your reputation based on the item's listed price, not the discounted price you paid).]
[Notification: Faction privilege Return can only be used twice per natural day. There is a small chance of being detected by the Sun Church.]
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[You have obtained faction privilege: Profiteer (Due to the recommendation of the profiteer Kaisa, you can ignore the reputation level prerequisites for item exchanges in the faction shop).]
[You have obtained faction privilege: Internal Procurement (You can use faction reputation to purchase precious collectibles not on the reputation list but stored in the Sun Church's inventory).]
[Notification: The above three faction privileges will disappear after leaving this world.]
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Recommending a book by my friend Lan Xiong, titled: "Qin Shi Ming Yue: Dominating the World"
It's been a long time since someone urgently asked Fei Wen to recommend a book. I'm happy. I hope he can hold on and not be killed by my recommendation. Hope he's okay (hands clasped together).
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