Otherworldly Skeleton Evolution

Celestial Assembly.

The headquarters of the Celestial Assembly was established next to the four major cities.

Compared to the Holy Light Church, the Celestial Assembly was more secretive.

Their development principles differed from those of the Holy Light Church. While the Holy Light Church aimed to win through numbers, the Celestial Assembly adopted a strategy of quality over quantity.

In the two thousand years since its establishment, the Celestial Assembly had recruited only a little over a thousand angels.

Compared to the millions of followers in the Holy Light Church, this number was extremely small.

However, compared to the Holy Light Church, the angels were much stronger in combat, while the strength of the Holy Light Church’s followers varied greatly.

A single ordinary angel could defeat thousands of believers in battle.

Before the arrival of the rangers, the Celestial Assembly had always been suppressing the Holy Light Church.

It wasn’t until the appearance of rangers who could resurrect infinitely that the previous overwhelming advantage changed to the current stalemate.

The Celestial Assembly didn’t want the situation to continue developing this way.

The Archangel of the Celestial Assembly was currently pondering countermeasures.

If they allowed the Holy Light Church to continue developing, the Celestial Assembly would eventually be surpassed by the Holy Light Church.

“Lord Archangel, there’s movement from the Holy Light Church. It’s said that the mount of the Demon Lord of Greed has appeared in the mortal realm.”

“The mount of the Demon Lord of Greed? Heh, have they confirmed which one it is?”

The twelve-winged Archangel’s expression changed slightly.

“It should be the Hell’s Three-Headed Dog.”

“Oh? It’s actually the Hell’s Three-Headed Dog?”

The Hell’s Three-Headed Dog was supposed to be the Demon Lord of Greed’s favorite mount.

The Archangel’s expression turned serious, “If the Hell’s Three-Headed Dog dies in the mortal realm, that fool Greed will probably lose his composure.”

“These fools are truly laughable, thinking their clumsy methods could deceive the holy angels?”

The Archangel sneered, “I can smell that disgusting odor emanating from their bodies from millions of miles away.”

“We’ve been fighting for so many years, do they really take us for fools?”

“The Archangel is wise. Those hell fools are no match for the Archangel.”

The Archangel shook his head, “The appearance of the Hell’s Three-Headed Dog will surely draw the attention of the Holy Light Church. What actions are they taking now?”

“It seems they’ve issued a task for rangers to kill each other.”

“Rangers killing each other? Ha.” A muffled laugh escaped the Archangel’s lips,

“Has that fool in yellow forgotten what kind of people those rangers he recruited are? Does he expect those rangers to kill the Azure Dragon City with holy light?”

“Pfft…”

The Black-winged Angel couldn’t hold back his laughter, suddenly grinning from ear to ear.

The Holy Light Church fought under the banner of the Celestial Temple, naturally inheriting holy light.

Most of the Celestial Temple’s spells were for dispelling evil and healing body and mind.

They had almost no offensive spells.

The Holy Light Church’s actions were as ridiculous as asking a healing angel to spar with a combat angel.

And insisting that the healing angel must heal the combat angel to death.

“It’s truly ironic that the temple representing the sacred heavens and the church representing light are being used by those hell fools to deceive the world while wearing their skins.”

The Archangel said with a hint of self-mockery.

“Clang!”

Just as he finished speaking, the Archangel’s Sword, completely bathed in the holy pool behind the Archangel, suddenly burst with golden light and flew out of the pool.

Instantly, the Celestial Temple was filled with dazzling light!

“This… Lord Archangel, are you going to deploy the holy sword for the three-headed dog?”

The corners of the Archangel’s mouth turned up slightly as he grasped the Archangel’s Sword that flew towards him, “The current situation is very unfavorable for the Celestial Assembly.”

“Black Wing, take the holy sword and cut down the Hell’s Three-Headed Dog. You must force that fool Greed to appear in the mortal realm!”

“Yes, sir!”

Black Wing knelt on one knee, his wings spreading behind him as he reverently accepted the holy sword.

His voice was firm as he said, “Black Wing will definitely bring back the dog head of the Hell’s Three-Headed Dog! As an offering to the Archangel!”

……

Three hours later.

Luoyun City.

Luoyun City was now much busier than before the server opened.

Perhaps due to the approaching city siege, Jiang Cheng seemed to sense the excitement of the players all along the way.

However, Jiang Cheng had been hiding behind A Silly Cutie, so other players hadn’t noticed him.

“Did you hear? The Holy Light Church issued a hilarious task, asking priests to kill players in Azure Dragon City. Haha, you have no idea how funny that task is.”

“What’s so special about that? Priests are divided into Purifiers and Holy Light Priests. Compared to Holy Light Priests, Purifiers do have some attack power. Maybe they really can poke someone to death with their staff, haha!”

“Damn, can you guys stop being so funny? Don’t make me laugh to death, okay? If I die laughing, who’s going to inherit my level 40 blue staff?”

“The Holy Light Church issued a task for players to kill each other?” Jiang Cheng’s mind stirred as he listened to the players’ discussion.

“Skeleton Big Brother, isn’t the Holy Light Church the headquarters for the priest class? Aren’t priests mainly focused on healing and saving lives? How could they issue such a task?”

A Silly Cutie also frowned slightly.

“The Holy Light Church isn’t as simple as you imagine.”

Jiang Cheng knew A Silly Cutie didn’t understand, so he explained, “Behind it, it’s actually hell.”

“Ah…” A Silly Cutie covered her mouth, looking very surprised.

Of course, she hadn’t really understood the true meaning of Jiang Cheng’s words, it was just an instinctive reaction.

Seeing her like this, Jiang Cheng knew she hadn’t understood, but he didn’t say much more.

There were too many dark aspects of the world.

If possible, Jiang Cheng would rather preserve her innocence.

An innocent and naive A Silly Cutie was the most adorable.

“The Celestial Assembly should make a move too, I guess.” Jiang Cheng speculated.

Jiang Cheng didn’t believe that the Celestial Assembly, having stood in the mortal realm for so many years, wouldn’t know about the Holy Light Church’s little tricks.

“The storm is coming, things are about to change.”

Jiang Cheng gazed at the sky.

“Ah, what, is it going to rain soon? Then let’s quickly go to the tavern to take shelter.”

Seeing that they had arrived at the Luoyun Tavern, A Silly Cutie suggested.

“Rain?” Jiang Cheng looked at the cloudless, clear sky and shook his head helplessly,

“Yeah, it’s about to rain. Let’s go inside to take shelter. I need to evolve a bit anyway.”

They rented a high-class room and went in together.

Although it was a high-class room and the sunlight outside was strong, the room was tightly closed, and the lighting was a bit dim, with only an oil lamp.

The oil lamp couldn’t illuminate many areas.

The dim light cast on A Silly Cutie’s face, making her look enchantingly beautiful.

Once again alone with A Silly Cutie in a room, but this time their relationship was completely different.

However, Jiang Cheng noticed that A Silly Cutie seemed a bit nervous, yet a bit happy, her expression complex.

During the half year Jiang Cheng spent recuperating, he had studied a lot of microexpression psychology. Looking at her face, he could roughly guess what she was thinking.

She probably wasn’t used to the atmosphere here, or rather, she was afraid that when alone with him, he might discover some embarrassing habits of hers.

Jiang Cheng watched her deliberately keeping her distance, sitting on a soft bed, fiddling with the bedsheet with her back to him, and found it quite amusing.

This girl, while her personality was resilient, she was a bit timid, not even having the courage to be alone with him.

“Hug.”

A Silly Cutie suddenly turned around, stretching out her arms towards Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng: “……”

It seems what the books say isn’t always entirely correct.