Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Within the rainy night, the streets that were still empty not long ago had been filled with knife-holding thugs who were killing each other and turning the streets of New York City into an ancient cruel Colosseum. What was more incredible was, if one took a closer look at these seemingly disorderly two warring parties, they were actually arranged in a rough battle formations.
Lining at the front were men with great physical strength and courage. Most of them were wearing thick denim clothes and helmets of a wide variety, and even iron pots, on their heads. As they hacked at each other, fresh blood splattered all over and was washed to the ground by the rain, turning the water puddle into a bloody red lake. Behind this first line were weak men and strong women who were holding a variety of strange ‘shields’, such as long wooden sticks, trash can cover, light wooden tables and so on. These people had two roles: one, to harass the hackers of the other party and to distract them so as their own strong men could kill their enemies in one shot; second, to provide protection for the women who tossed the combustion bottle from behind their troops. Under their death-defying protection, glass bottles filled with alcohol or spirits with its bottle opening tied with a burning cloth strip drew a dangerous arc under the rain curtain in the sky flying everywhere, igniting the people into torch that would struggle and shriek hysterical occasionally, causing them to roll around in the bloody water in vain unable to extinguish the blazing flames on their bodies that were full of flame retardants …
“Am I really in New York now?” staring out from a small old wooden window, Zhang Lisheng still muttered with a stunned expression and his mouth agape despite being mentally prepared.
“Have you lived in New York before?” The instant the young man’s words left his mouth, the tall girl who had a surprisingly amazing good hearing next to him seized this opportunity to ask.
This woman was a white-collar beauty and a devout Christian who lived in the metropolis leading an ordinary life a year and a half ago. To her, the appearance of the alien civilization and thousands of spatial door leading to the foreign worlds were nothing but some thriller titles that kept appearing in news programs, and the additions of those fair-skinned beautiful men and women who flew around on her way to work. The impact on her was basically negligible.
It was only until one day when a horrible incident suddenly occurred at work that caused a compartment in the business building where the girl worked collapsed without any prior signs. The ceiling above crashed down on her and severely injured her.
Amidst her despair, she prayed for God’s salvation but it was entirely in vain. At that time, the girl was already waiting for her death but at the moment before her death and because of her kindness, she was saved by a mysterious and powerful ‘existence’.
Then, the illusion that appeared constantly during her unconscious state and rescue led to her faith in the Lord collapsing overnight, prompting her to transfer her piety to the devil who saved her instead.
The psychological trauma after the recovery made the girl unable to continue her previous job. Fortunately, the generous amount of money paid by the occupational injury insurance allowed her to have no worries. With nothing to do, she began to seek new spiritual sustenance and found the ‘Glorious Wizard Li Sect’.
Creating a sect out of nothing might seem to be an inconvenient trouble, in the eyes of the civilians of many countries on planet earth but in the United States, one would only have to pay a small amount of registration money to set up a religious corporation.
Of course, the next step of attracting donations to maintain the operation of the sect and to attract believers to join would have to depend on the ability of the sect founder. The amount of offering received by a successful sect could even match a multinational company and the influence of the founder in the nation could be so powerful that it was absolutely incredible, to the point where he could become a prominent figure in the upper society.
A failed sect, on the other hand, would have very few believers. Some would not even have the most basic fixed missionary place at all. It was just simply a joke.
Even though the girl was the director of the human resources department of a promising New York real estate management company before she left her job, and had a great experience in human organization, she was too young and did not have sufficient financial support after all. In the first few months, only three to four lucky survivors who experienced the collapse of the building joined in the Glorious Wizard Li Sect with her.
However, even though the gain was not great, the girl’s own faith had become more and more religious in her continuous preach. Gradually, she started to become infatuated.
When the four great hostile worlds started to invade the Earth, she accidentally stumbled upon the fact that the faith of the people in the bottom layer of New York, that had become a desolate island, had started to lose their bearings in the cataclysmic disaster due to their low education degree. The number of people joining various eccentric religious groups increased rapidly and so she resolutely decided to sell off the house she bought with her hard-earned money in a noble community to break away from an easier, but still relatively safe, life.
She began to actively preach at the bottom of society.
After going through a lot of hardships and a hairbreadth escape, it actually allowed her to make a breakthrough with great difficulty and managed to gather 100 believers on the day Zhang Lisheng returned to Earth, reaching the bottom line of being sensed by the young man.
When the Wizard Li God heard the question of this founder of the Earth’s sect at this moment, he smiled and said, “I lived in Brooklyn before and I came into contact with the great Wizard Li’s incarnation a few years earlier than you. Unfortunately, I did not have your ability at all to create a denomination for His Majesty.”
“You’re God’s messenger who is closer to the Lord’s glory. Oh, can I call the God by the name ‘Lord’?”
“As long as you have a pious faith, His Majesty Wizard Li doesn’t care how the believers call him.” Zhang Lisheng replied softly. Pointing to the bloody scene reflected by the human candles outside the window, he asked, “Does such a massacre occur every day? Don’t tell me that the police cars and soldiers patrolling the city do not care at all? This is just too unbelievable!”
“There were still people who attempted to stop them a few months ago, but these cult lunatics dare to attack anybody when they become crazy. They’re not afraid of death at all. At that time, we could still get enough ammunition from the gun shop so they went lunatic and even started some shootouts with the police. After a few rounds of senseless deaths and casualties, nobody ever bothers to concern themselves with these matters anymore. Now, in the eyes of police and federal soldiers, such slaughter is nothing but a mutual attack between scums. The more people who die, the more the nation can save up on their valuable rations. Anyway, there are often many corpses that cannot be identified that could be found in the trash bins in a violent community like this in peacetime so it doesn’t really matter if there’s several times, or more than ten times more, of such incident.” The girl replied coldly.
“Why are these cults attacking each other?” Zhang Lisheng nodded and asked again.
“To fight for territory sometimes, but mostly to get more believers, or to offer sacrificial goods to the evil gods they believe in, so as to beg for some weird supernatural powers.” The girl shrugged as she stared out the window absent-mindedly and replied, “These cultists have too many weird reasons to slaughter each other. Sometimes, they would even slice their own throats to commit suicide in the excitement after killing their enemies. It’s said that this can please the gods and get eternal life after the Doomsday. Nobody can really understand the minds of these lunatics.”
The ‘war’ outside was nearing its end at this moment, and the thugs attacking from the west to east had now gained an absolute upper hand. However, all of a sudden, the situation changed without warning, as a series of dense gun shooting sound resonated from the other battle line.
“F*ck! These sly devil believers actually hid their bullets just now! Don’t be scared! Lord Luwa will protect us and kill them! Let’s kill them! They are nothing but just a few gunmen …”
“I want to die together with these mongrels! Hahaha… Since we’ll rise to the Heaven Kingdom and they’ll fall into Hell anyway…”
“Charge forward! Let’s charge forward and hack off their necks! Chop off their necks…”
Noisy roar of rage could vaguely be heard from the rain curtain. The party that had taken the upper hand just now braced themselves against the glaring shootouts flickering in the darks and launched their assaults.
Unfortunately, the human bodies of the courageous madmen could never compete with the bullets. Before they could even reach their enemies who kept retreating, they were already either hurt or killed.
When Zhang Lisheng, who was watching behind the old wooden window, thought that the situation had been reversed, the situation suddenly changed again.
Smoke that was far darker than the night that could be perceived by the naked eyes rose out incessantly from a dark alley. After passing across the streets in a flash, it was the thugs who were shot lying in the pool of blood first, which followed by the cult followers who were wounded with fatal gash, that started to climb up one by one in a staggering manner. Like zombies, they began to charge forward with their drenched bodies.
“Look, the priests of those evil gods have started to use their black magic. So the one initiating the battle is actually the Eternal Undead! They already have great influence and have already occupied five neighborhoods.” Upon seeing this scene, the girl commented in a nonchalant tone.
“Have we now reached an era where power is greatly liberated now…” Zhang Lisheng began to have a mixed expression on his face after clearly sensing the fluctuation of the divine power in the air. He muttered under his breath and asked, “Believer, do you often see such supernatural power of the evil gods?”
“Sir God’s Messenger, my name is Katherine Panna, you can call me Katherine.” The girl’s anxious mood gradually relaxed when she realized that the black-haired young man beside her was indeed not malicious after spending some time with him. “Such black magic was very rare last time but it would appear in almost every massacre in the recent two to three months.”
“And the federal police and the Atlanteans just remain indifferent to the emergence of this magic?” The young man asked again eagerly with his eyes lit up.
“Most of them don’t care at all. But there are also some sects who have been cleaned up because of the usage of black magic by their devotees.” Katherine gave an unsatisfactory answer. “It is said that the reason is that those cults worship the gods from the foreign world so the believers are considered as betraying the Earth.”
Upon hearing this, Zhang Lisheng’s originally clenched fists slowly relaxed as he muttered, “Then, this means that the federal government or the Atlanteans really have some instrument that can detect divine power. Not only that, these instruments can even distinguish the source of the divine power, whether it originates from the Earth or not…”
The original source of the young man’s extraordinary power was the bloodline of the Chinese Ancient Goddess Nuwa on Earth. After becoming a god, he should be considered as an earth god, but at the same time, he also inherited the power of the ancient god of the Shrimp World No. 2. Not only that, most of his believers who helped him in his transformation were mostly from the foreign worlds and he only had 100 believers on Earth, so one could basically say that he was a foreign world’s god.
After pondering about it but still unable to identify his divine power attributes, Zhang Lisheng frowned even more. It was only until there were a few stiff bodies that were charging out being ignited by flaming bottles under the rain outside the window that his eyes finally lit up, causing him to blurt out at once. “My brain really got stuck just now! Don’t I have my test subjects here in front of me…”
“What are you saying, Sir?” The girl beside him was stunned and asked.
“Nothing, Katherine, I intend to invite you to a good show.” The young man answered with a shrug and smiled.
