In the dream, all his devout believers and heroic people were transformed into filthy, rotten and abominable forms one by one.
Together with Him and this world, they turned into a dim nightmare.
When he woke up from the dream, the Patron Saint announced that he would help Lu Li and if necessary, he would come to Midnight City in person.
A dream brought unexpected success, so the next few towns of gods that maintained trade gave them dreams one after another. Some were pessimistic and some were angry, but without exception, they decided to take action.
Helping hand——
Good news also came from Midnight City, they had recruited a strange force.
At this time, Lu Li set off to return to Midnight City, filled up his humanity with his soul, put on a black robe, and appeared in the old sewer.
He came to the Maiden's Grace Church, but there were only empty shacks left here, and all the weird but friendly nuns were missing.
According to the merchant, they suddenly disappeared not long ago - about the day before Lu Li returned from the farm.
"Did they sense the danger and run away?" Claire, who insisted on following, asked.
"It's possible."
Lu Li opened his hood, and the elder sister's head emerged like a second head on his shoulders, occupying the hood and hair respectively with Claire.
Those nuns gave Lu Li not only strange behavior, but also keen perception.
Lu Li walked in the church that was not yet occupied by weird things, checked the rooms, and found a note on a bench in the church.
[Come to the third floor to find us~]
"Could it be a trap?"
Lu Li didn't answer, put on his hood again, and left Girls' Grace Church.
After a few months, Lu Li came to the Spiral Hall again.
The place is still prosperous, and the tragic scars caused by the steam contour have long since recovered. The only change is that Lu Li is no longer lonely and weak.
Following the spiral stairs to the third floor, Lu Li quickly learned the location of the Girl's Grace Church through questioning - they had opened a hidden line.
When Lu Li arrived, the nuns had already settled down in the secret area and had taken in many "girls" who were homeless and in need of treatment.
The forces allied with the Land of Light have all been given the opportunity to develop rapidly, and the Maiden's Grace Church is no exception. From the thirty nuns at the beginning to nearly a hundred nuns now, their strength has expanded a lot.
It was the same three strange nuns who received Lu Li. The lively nuns said that they sensed danger was coming, so they left the Midnight City Main Station. There were many similar forces evacuating the old sewers.
But there is still a problem that cannot be explained.
"Why did you cut off the connection with the Land of Light?" Claire checked for Lu Li and filled in the gaps.
The nuns also had a logical answer: This was the revelation they received from the gods.
The oracle ordered them to leave without informing anyone or contacting anyone.
So the note left on the pew actually disobeyed the gods - but the nuns didn't care.
"Why did He let you go?"
"have no idea."
The existence of the nuns' faith did not send down overly specific oracles.
Lu Li hoped that the Maiden's Grace Church could help. He thought it would take a lot of words or dreams to make these nuns who left because of the oracle change their minds. But they agreed directly and agreed to help the Land of Light lobby other forces who left.
"Aren't you afraid that the gods will be angry?" Claire asked.
"He didn't ask us not to help you." The nuns responded confidently.
Obviously their gods have limited restraint on their believers. After all, these nuns are inherently free-spirited beings.
The swamp is like death, there is no escape. All you can do is overcome it.
They didn't want to escape, but they just didn't have enough ability. The three nuns who promised to help Lu Li win over allies in the old sewer first led Lu Li out of the church.
“We like your products very much~”
Lu Li was led by them to the next door to the hidden line and visited his neighbor - an amorphous existence made of rough mycelium.
More than their appearance, the books they held caught Lu Li's attention more.
Among the books that belong to human civilization, stories and biographies are the majority.
No matter what kind of intelligent race, beings composed of stories will also like stories.
The nun led Lu Li deep into the shadows and visited the strange leader of the amorphous mycelium. Lu Li told him: The spreading swamp has awakened, eating away at the ghoul king, and will invade the old sewers.
Weird, who has sensed the danger and hid in the third floor, is of course aware of the danger, so the focus is on the subsequent invitation: the land of light prepares to fight against the swamp.
The Swamp may have a lot of potential, but it's not powerful enough to ignore Midnight City and the Old Sewers.
Otherwise, it doesn't need to set up a conspiracy to lure the Ghoul King into taking the bait.
Based on the nun's persuasion, the weird amorphous mycelium agreed to help - they would ask some tribesmen to help.
Then came the second neighbor. These weirdos who had been favored or facilitated by the Land of Light also agreed, but only half of the agreement - they wanted Lu Li to find their ancestral gods, Yu Entan.
If Lu Li can do it, all of their tribe will help Lu Li.
These are like polyps with lizard limbs, which are taken from the slate images of ancestral gods. They are vague polyps with bat wings, and some bubble-like elliptical spheres are floating around.
But Lu Li could tell from their unique outlines that they were continents...each bubble was a planet.
If the depiction on the stone tablet is true, the ancestors of the race that looks like close relatives of worms are from the great race above the stars.
This reminded Lu Li that not long ago, he proposed to the Mother of the Swamp whether he should try to use dreams to simulate the gaze deep in the starry sky and solve the swamp quickly.
Swamp Mother didn't want Lu Li to do this.
"We can dismantle furniture for heating, but we should not dismantle houses..."
But if it is going to disappear in the severe cold... there is no point in keeping the house.
"Can you still feel Him?" Lu Li asked them.
The answer is no. Because they have transformed into a weak and slave-like group.
Finding ancestors for them will take time, and may never be found.
Leaving this group, news came back from the Land of Light - the ghoul warlock raised the divine fire on the Allen Peninsula.
Compared with the news that the new Ghoul King will become a resident of the Land of Light, what attracted more attention was the news he subsequently revealed: the ghoul tribe is dying out at a terrifying speed.
"Stop him," the Swamp Mother ordered, "but don't let the swamps become aware of our presence."
But here's the problem: the new ghoul king cannot prevent the demise of his people.
He can only do the same thing as the swamp - absorb the power of the tribe to support himself.
The Land of Light provides help for the new ghoul king to fight against the swamp. At the same time, Lu Li heads to the third strange group.
