Translated by: La0o9
Edited by: Dr.Lock
Proofreader: Arya
The Strife Zones.
The Holy Church of Death.
The main church.
“Good morning, sir”
“Sir”
“Honorable deity, is there anything you need?”
The believers bowed one after another.
Black Hound floated in mid-air as he nodded to the believers.
“Is Anna still not back?” he asked.
“Yes sir, she is still training her skills at the Withering Realm”
“I will go take a look”
After saying so, Black Hound disappeared from the church.
A second later, he appeared inside a gloomy dark world.
“The smell of death… over there, I see”
Black Hound quickly determined the direction he was supposed to go to and flew over at unimaginable speed, arriving in just a few minutes.
He landed on the top of a sky-scraper and gazed far away into the ruins of the world.
A gigantic figure was approaching from afar, reflecting the dim light of this place.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
Every step the giant figure took caused the ground to tremble intensely.
Black Hound simply stared at the figure until they reached and stopped in front of the sky-scraper.
——the figure was of similar heights to the sky-scraper itself, their body covered by an ashen-colored armor with a protective helmet so secure that it didn’t even leave a slit for the eyes to see through.
As the figure stood still, the dirt beneath their feet were slowly turning into gravel and sand, even the sky-scraper where Black Hound stood was also gradually becoming ancient and unstable.
Black Hound glared at this giant monster and asked in a stern voice: “Envoy of Wither, are you willing to pledge your allegiance to the Holy Church of Death?”
Behind the armor, a heavy breathing voice came out, as if this monster was going through some sort of intense hesitation and struggle.
At this point, a person suddenly appeared on the top of the monster’s helmet.
It was Anna
The same Anna who had been busy training herself.
She didn’t appear to be much different, still, the same alluring and beautiful girl as she always was, a female was at the peak of her youth.
However, her crimson red hair had changed.
Her long hair was now jet black, but not the normal shade of black, but rather the black of darkness that couldn’t be grasped.
Anna raised her black scythe in irritation and tapped it on the monster’s hard helmet.
“Stop giving me more trouble, or did you already forget what I just told you?” she said.
The monster stopped breathing heavily and slowly knelt down in front of Black Hound.
「 I swear my allegiance to the Holy Church of Death 」
The monster spoke with a thunderous, booming voice.
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After receiving that answer, an intense black flame began to rise from Black Hound’s body.
This black flame manifested as a series of runes that went into the monster’s body.
The monster trembled in pain for a while before calming down again.
Black Hound spoke: “The Divine contract is formed, come, before the end of all things, you will return to the embrace of the God of Death, this itself is unimaginable honor”
Boom—-
Two large black gates suddenly opened on either side of the Envoy of Wither.
Before the Envoy could do anything, its body had already disappeared inside the gates.
Anna was unharmed.
She lightly landed on the sky-scraper, propped the scythe on her shoulder, and yawned.
“So tired, I want to go back to sleep—— ah right, what are you here for?”
After a bit of silence Black Hound told her: “To be able to tame even the Envoy of Wither, I really must say, your growth has been surprisingly fast”
“Skip the chatter, get to the point”
“I’m afraid you won’t have time to sleep”
“Why not? I’ve already spent so much effort on that damn troublemaker, don’t even think of getting me to do anything else——– I want my beauty sleep now!”
“…I’ll invite you to a drink”
“So generous? Don’t tell me I’m paying again?”
“No, of course I’ll be paying, if you don’t believe me, you can pick the liquor first, I’ll pay for it before we drink”
“Eh heh, so sincere——- alright then, I’ll oblige and join you for a drink, then return to sleep”
“Before that, you need to represent the Holy Church of Death and greet a few guests”
“So you’re still making me work, humph! I don’t need your liquor, I can buy it for myself!”
“Anna, listen to me, this is a very simple job, just exchange a few pleasantries with those people, then you can return and I’ll treat you to a drink” Black Hound persuaded her.
“Really?” Anna was unconvinced.
“Of course! I’ve left the other hardest jobs for everyone else, but you’re different, since we’re so close, I’m here specifically to give this easiest simple job to you” Black Hound sincerely spoke.
“…If it really is just exchanging a few pleasantries and won’t take a lot of time, then maybe” Anna mumbled.
“Of course it is! I will wait for you at the Holy Church; when you return we’ll go to the bar!” Black Hound replied.
“Fine, fine, seeing how sincere you are, I’ll take the job——– but at least tell me who they are first and what I need to say to them”
“They’re from various allies of the Church, also core members of their own organizations. In fact, it would be correct to assume that they have the same status as you do”
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“What am I meeting them for?”
“To get acquainted and get to know each other, mainly to prevent any possible friendly fire in the future”
“That should be simple. Well then, let’s go! I’ll finish the job quickly and get back to drinking”
The girl and the dog quickly made their deal and disappeared from this gloomy world.
A few moments later.
Anna hurriedly came into a secret guest room of the Holy Church.
There were already about 7 or 8 people, both male, and female, waiting there.
They were all powerful members of various forces, specifically, the other Holy Churches.
“My apologies, I was a bit late”
Anna was wearing a long black dress as she gracefully greeted them.
“Cheh, so you can be late even for such a crucial matter huh” a girl fully equipped in armor with a tense expression grunted.
“Hm? I’m sure I came when I needed to, or perhaps you wish that Death would arrive earlier?” Anna smiled as she spoke.
The girl saw her relaxed expression, recalled her status in the Church of Death, and stopped herself from saying anything else.
Anna glanced at everyone standing around and asked in confusion: “Take a seat, why is everyone standing around when there are so many empty places to sit?”
A man took a look at his pocket watch and answered: “I’m afraid we don’t have time to sit down and slowly chat”
“That’s right, now that the Church of Death’s representative has also arrived, we can begin” another person spoke.
Everyone looked at a girl whose figure was illusive and faint as a fog.
As she noticed everyone looking at her, she spoke: “Then let us go, but to travel across World Layers inside the Strife Zones, we will need some protection”
“I’ll handle that” another person spoke up.
He was holding a frost orb that gave off a chilling air.
“My Ice technique can trap all of our presence to the greatest possible degree, allowing perfect concealment from any clairvoyance——– of course, during this process, everyone will enter a completely frozen state for about 30 breaths, temporarily unable to act”
Someone praised: “It’s only being frozen, not having to endure any pain is already good enough”
“Indeed, we shouldn’t dawdle around any longer, let’s move” one of them urged.
Hearing everyone’s conversations, Anna was stunned.
This seems to be a lot different from what Black Hound told me.
“Excuse me, I want to ask——”
She wanted to ask something.
But it was too late.
The frost orb had already been crushed.
In the blink of an eye, everyone and everything in the room was covered in a layer of frost.
Anna couldn’t move!
No one could move at all!
At the same time, the illusion-like girl had activated her magic.
A large mouth appeared beneath everyone’s feet.
The mouth rose up and swallowed everyone whole.
Following that, a transparent monster crawled out from the ground.
This monster looked very similar to a type of giant fish from the Age of Old.
It lightly shook and dipped into the void of space at an unimaginable speed, dashing towards a certain predetermined World Layer.
On another side.
The top of the Holy Church.
A private conversation was being held.
“Are you going to be ok deceiving her like that?” Black Crow asked.
“There is no way she would agree to do such a troublesome thing willingly, I have no other choice” Black Hound answered.
“But after she returns, the Holy Church will be wrecked by her once again” Black Crow sighed.
“Let her be. That reminds me, I need to leave for some arduous missionary work for the Church, so I won’t be able to return for a while” Black Hound said.
Then it suddenly disappeared.
The only one left on top of the Church building was Black Crow.
He was speechless for a while.
“To be so scared of a mortal’s rage that you even prepared an escape route beforehand, this is… so disgraceful”
Black Crow shook his head.
