Chapter 45: Sudden Change and Hatred

"Ding-dong"—
Prompt: Flame Knight Mary has cast [Aid Mark] on you.
[Aid Mark]: When you encounter danger, the caster can rush to your side at 500% speed to assist you, lasting for 10 minutes (this mark can only be cast once per battle, with a 10-minute cooldown).
......
Lich slighted paused.
Boss Mary was already prepared to shield him from any danger at a moment's notice.
Well,
to be honest, apart from the time she reported Lich's anomalies to MI6, Boss Mary was a pretty good person.
As for whether this included any favorability boosted by Mary feeding him with kisses, Lich figured there wasn't much.
Freya served as Lich's pillow every day, yet facing Freya, Lich's thoughts were still about finding the woman's weakness and paying her back twofold.

On the other side,
Old Shock's arms were sore from showing off. Looking back and seeing that everyone had rested enough, he called out to prepare for the final battle.
Mary got up and stood at the very front, reaching out her hands to push the stone doors wide open.
Falken the musketeer said, "Step aside."
Then he raised his long-barreled hunting rifle, "Bang, bang, bang," firing several flare shells imbued with a faint divine attribute!
Illuminated by the holy light of the divine-attributed flares, all darkness was suppressed.
"Let's go!"
The five of them charged in together.
Inside the stone doors lay bare stone walls, covered in moss and filth.
Right at the end of the stone chamber, a large bronze treasure chest lay quietly.
The lid of the bronze chest had already been pried open, and a weird wood carving wreathed in black mist slowly floated up.
"!!!"
"!!!"
"No, this Saint's Relic is wrong, retreat first!"
Mary shouted first.
Her shout was correct; the fact that the Saint's Relic possessed independent consciousness was enough reason for them to reconsider their strategy.
Yet Mary could not move.
Not just her, all five members of the team were hard-crowd-controlled on the spot.
"Lich, Lich, why is the Saint's Relic moving on its own?!"
Old Shock shouted.
Lich: "I don't know either, wait for me a second, let me try!..."
Before he could finish his sentence, he was blasted flying with a single punch.

The person who struck was Harden the Bearded!
Harden said, "Don't listen to him, guys, this person has a problem!
I felt something was wrong with him from the moment I met him. I suspect today's setup was a trap laid by Lich!"
Harden turned his back to the treasure chest: "I'm fine for now, Shock, give me the containment item. I'll secure the Saint's Relic first, and we can interrogate this bastard after we escape!"
Hearing this, Old Shock remained silent.
Harden: "What's wrong with you, don't you trust me?"
The bearded man pointed at Lich, who was unconscious on the ground: "You'd rather believe this pretty boy than believe me?"
This time, Old Shock gave an answer, but unfortunately, the answer wasn't what he wanted.
Shock the dwarf ice mage said, "Harden, you're moving too fast."
Harden: "What do you mean? Don't you know how bizarre Lich's abilities are? If we really let him pray to the Saint's Relic, heaven knows what he might summon?"
"So, you were afraid."
At this moment, Mary, Shock, and Falken were all staring at Harden.
"You were afraid Lich would ruin your plan, so you struck first."
Harden: "......"
The bearded man lowered the hands he had been gesturing with and let his head drop.
"I truly didn't expect this Lich's ability to be so abnormal..."
"!!!"
"!!!"
"!!!"
What this sentence meant was that Harden was admitting it!
Lifting his head again, Harden looked at his three teammates with bloodshot eyes: "This item comes from the Black Fog Church, I was merely returning it to its rightful owner. Is there anything wrong with that?!"
Falken the dwarf: "The deaths of Huedon and Mirage were your doing!"
Harden said, "They were captured by you; returning to the embrace of the Black Fog God is the greatest blessing for them."
"......"
Two men and one woman, three angry faces.
Harden sneered hideously: "Catgot your tongue already? Haha, congratulations to you all, you are now undergoing the baptism of the gods."
With that,
Three consecutive thuds of "thud," and the three of them collapsed.
Then, not a minute later, Old Shock was the first to get up, crawling on the ground, writing and drawing.
"I am a mathematician, I am smarter than anyone else. I brew potions relying on my brilliant brain; the engineering blueprints I draw also rely on my mind.
One day, I will become the greatest person on the Lorenz continent. Wait for me a moment, I am calculating the area of the continent. Once I calculate it, I will be the Father of Area!"
Old Shock spoke very seriously, yet his tone carried a tremble and a trace of madness.

Then came his kneeling posture; far from looking like a great mathematician, he looked more like a dog.
Not long after, Falken woke up as well.
He looked around, found nothing, and immediately lay back down.
"Damn it, I'm getting old, lying down is still the most comfortable."
"Who knows how long I have to grind before I can retire."
"I want to retire so badly, go back to the countryside, and live a happy little life with my three wives and five children."
Falken lit a cigarette, puffing out smoke.
The ultimate destination of life, after all, was lying flat!
At that moment, a silver figure rushed toward Lich.
It was Mary.
Discarding her helmet, Mary's long hair had transformed into nearly burning flames.
With an anxious expression, she said, "Lich, Lich, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me!"
Looking closer, she saw that the blow that sent Lich flying wasn't just a punch; there was also a wound on his abdomen that was currently oozing blood.
Mary raged, "Harden, what did you do to Lich?"
Harden the bearded man spread his hands: "What? Nothing at all. I hate goddesses the most in my life, and this guy actually claimed to be a believer of the Goddess and could receive her favor. Bah! ... Asshole!"
Harden's entire family were devout believers of the Goddess of Light.
Back when their family was still relatively well-off, they never hesitated to donate to the Goddess Church, and Harden's family had always been active on the front lines of church activities.
As a result, a plague took everything away.
The priests, nuns, and bishops of the Goddess Church ran faster than dogs.
From that moment on, a deep-seated hatred for the Goddess of Light Church was buried in the bottom of Harden's heart.
"I've killed clerics of the Goddess Church, haha!
I abducted a nun of the Goddess Church, locked her in a cage, humiliated her, tormented her, drugged her, and made her bear a pair of twins for me.
I told her I was going to kill those two spawn.
She actually begged me.
You know what? No matter how violent I was, she firmly believed she would be saved by Her Majesty the Goddess.
Until that day, she begged me, haha, hahaha! ... She said as long as I let the children go, she was willing to do anything, including betraying the Goddess Majesty she revered so deeply!"
"I killed those two spawn,哈哈哈!..."
"She committed suicide, committed suicide haha, she committed suicide!!!"
At this moment, Harden danced wildly, looking very much like a madman.