NOVEL NEXT Chapter 127: Completely Crushed
What kind of elixir could have such a powerful effect?
No one questioned it.
The previous Silver-Rank Blood Clan had been able to produce things like Holy Blood — because they were an old, established Blood Clan that had survived from the Battle of Exorcism era.
In that era a thousand years ago, the Divines from both sides had worked hard to enhance their factions, creating countless magical items.
During the war, they had probably only used up a third of their stock, and the remaining resources had been left scattered throughout the entire world of Gandanyir.
Sivis's previous life in a game company had set this backstory up just to explain why players could find precious items in all sorts of strange places, why there were so many dungeons all over the world to run, and why you could get gear from them after clearing them.
It was all left behind by the Divines!
That made sense!
It also gave Sivis the perfect excuse.
After Sivis finished speaking,
Every civilian on the scene showed a deeply moved expression: "Lord Sivis!"
"Lord Sivis!"
Their voices carried a bit of warmth and purity.
No need for Sivis to say more — these people could already imagine a whole series of stories about "Sivis going through a lot to control the monsters."
"Lord Sivis, we didn't expect you to sacrifice so much for us!"
"Mr. Sivis, we truly don't know how to repay you..."
"Did your family's power also get used for us? We're not worth it..."
...
The townspeople were extremely excited, finally letting out all the emotions in their hearts.
With a reasonable explanation, they stopped overthinking, and looked at Sivis, the hero who had saved everything, with deep emotion.
They couldn't help but admire what he had done.
This debt could never be repaid!
We could never repay it in a lifetime!
As for the elixir, the civilians didn't understand — they just thought it must be worth more than all of their lives combined.
Even the two members of the Knight Order who had always looked down on Sivis looked quite solemn, a bit surprised — they hadn't expected Sivis to be able to do something like this.
In their worldview, it was absolutely not something normal people could do — controlling monsters was no easy feat.
Sivis must have really gone to great lengths and put in an incredible amount of effort just for these "worthless commoners," which is why he arrived so late!
It must have been because the monsters were just too tough!
Thinking back to how they and their colleagues in the Knight Order had once mocked Sivis, cowered in fear, or even died in the disaster —
The two of them felt extremely ashamed!
They even wished they could slap themselves — am I even a human?!
As for whether what Sivis had said was a lie?
They didn't even consider it for a second.
If someone else had said that, the Knight Order members would have doubted it.
After all, Sivis had pure holy light power, and his moral standards naturally made people believe him.
Plus, what would Sivis gain by lying?
He had no real benefit from saving these civilians!
The only explanation was...
Everything was true!
Could it really be that the guy was actually a Monster Lord, using this opportunity to cover up the origin of his monsters?
That kind of ridiculous idea was something neither of the Knight Order members could have possibly come up with — even if they had hated Sivis before.
They just stepped forward a few steps, and solemnly approached Sivis.
"Mr. Sivis."
"We apologize for our previous rudeness."
"You are truly a person of high virtue. You deserve the power of holy light, and you deserve Vikalina."
"Please forgive us."
...
After saying that, the two of them bowed deeply, their heads down, not moving for a long time.
They were arrogant members of noble families, with low moral standards.
But even bad people could respect the ultimate light of goodness, and they hoped there would be more people like Sivis around them.
Seeing this, Sivis gave a slight nod.
To be honest...
It felt pretty good for two members of the Knight Order to bow to him.
Since he had come to this world, his two life goals had been to be a person on top and to show off.
Even the knights who had once given him so much trouble had now been completely subdued.
This made Sivis feel extremely happy.
At this moment, the monsters he had summoned were still fighting — or rather, in a one-sided massacre.
More bloodthirsty Blood Servants, driven mad by their desire for living flesh, kept pouring toward the factory, driven by the Blood Clan's bounty hunt and the command from Syra as she was dying.
It was completely useless: just those few Stone Demons standing in front were already enough to block all attacks.
And in the midst of the monsters' screams.
Sivis said in a magnanimous tone,
"It's okay, we just had some misunderstandings."
Then he helped the two of them aside.
He continued to enjoy the gaze of admiration from the civilians, and the respectful posture of the two knights.
Meanwhile, at the front of the previous line of defense, it was a one-sided massacre.
The powerful beings Sivis had summoned were freely taking the lives of Blood Servants.
They also provided him with even more emotional value —
Each individual Blood Servant only gave a small amount of soul points, but with the accumulation, it added up — every monster under Sivis's command that killed a monster gave him some points!
He could only see his "soul point balance" skyrocketing.
It quickly went from over a thousand to over two thousand, three thousand, four thousand...
Sivis knew that once the shop reached Silver-Rank or higher, the various materials classified as Extraordinary would be extremely expensive —
For example, upgrading a Goblin from Bronze-Rank to Silver-Rank might cost 500 to 1,000 points.
And to upgrade them to the Bronze-Ten stage, it would only cost 100 points if using materials to offset.
But the price jumps at this level were nothing compared to the massive point increase he was currently experiencing.
Sivis's eyes started to turn red. He felt that this wave of killing would give him at least ten thousand points, maybe even more!
"I'm rich! I'm really rich!" He was extremely happy in his heart.
Upgrading the territory into a monsters' settlement would involve a huge expenditure of points.
Various special buildings, wonders that could be built, and various monster technologies.
Normal players had to slowly develop after upgrading, first building the most important wonder, then gradually adding in the technology and buildings one by one.
Slowly growing the settlement.
But Sivis had been getting such a great point boost, and just by buying a little more building materials and research resources, he could cause a massive explosion in the territory's strength!
"Now I just have to wait for the Blood Servants to be cleared out."
"Then I can reach level 5 and draw out a key talent."
"If this talent gives a benefit to the territory's development, I can plan what wonders to build based on that talent."
Sivis was thinking, but he had a bit of a problem.
Building wonders required some very rare materials. These materials could only be obtained by defeating a large monster territory of a certain rank.
In real terms, that meant Sivis would have to go and take over the territories that had excellent geographical conditions and resources.
It wasn't that he didn't want to hurt his peers.
But he didn't know where those large monster territories were.
Even if he found one, it might not have the strange materials he wanted to build.
These special materials were only produced by the Evil God's factions, and the True God's faction couldn't use them. Therefore, they couldn't be bought in the human world.
Sivis felt...
Being a lord was really hard — just when one problem was solved, a new one was coming up!
Looking at him frowning, Vikalina stood beside Sivis.
She quickly sensed the emptiness in Sivis's divine power caused by releasing "Summon Guardian," and she supported his left arm, saying seriously, "You've worked hard."
Sivis found it kind of funny — on one side was Vikalina showing such concern, and on the other, his own little maid Reina was standing nearby, looking a bit pouty at the female knight.
It seemed she was upset that her clothes were too messy and didn't want to come over.
But Vikalina wasn't in much better shape than him, was she?
Reina…
You don't take the opportunity, don't blame me.
Sivis thought it was funny in his heart.
At this moment, Vikalina was supporting her companion, despite the weak feeling coming from her body. Her armor was covered in blood, but she felt her heart gradually being filled with something.
Her eyes sparkled with all kinds of colors.
Vikalina felt her wish had come true.
Just like in the fantasy novels the church provided — the protagonist finally achieved their wish.
The way was that a Divine figure from the high heavens sent a messenger, who wiped out all the evil.
Sivis was that god!
And she was the heroine in the story.
Vikalina didn't know that in the original historical path, she had realized there was no such god.
She had decided to draw her weapon and change the world with her own human identity.
Now… she didn't need to change her mind anymore.
Sivis didn't know any of this.
He was being cared for by a pretty girl, but he didn't feel any romantic feelings at all — in such a terrible battlefield, everyone was in a messy state, and there was absolutely no sense of romance.
Sivis just looked ahead at the battlefield.
...
The monsters were still efficiently killing the Blood Servants: at first, they were blocking the tide of Blood Servant attacks and breaking it apart.
The crystal Stone Demon threw out more "spear"-like projectiles once again.
This time, it wasn't throwing them far away, but rather densely throwing them toward where the Blood Servants were coming from.
Another series of massive pits were created.
Countless monsters were blown into the air.
Sivis watched as his system page was flooded with dense kill notifications:
[Your servant, Crystal Stone Demon, killed a low-level unit, Blood Servant. You gained 3 soul points.]
[Your servant, Silver Goblin, killed…]
As the screen kept flashing, Sivis's mood became increasingly bright.
Everyone on the field was shocked to realize that these monsters were too strong — so strong that they were no longer just helping people block the attacks of Blood Servants, but were now chasing them out and killing them directly!