Your Lord Has A Screw Loose?

Chapter 195: 197: Deceased Villagers, Surviving Skeletons

Chapter 195: Chapter 197: Deceased Villagers, Surviving Skeletons

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“Drive all the villagers out of the Ancient God Relics and deal with all the corpses,” Qin Muye ordered.

“Can’t leave? Interesting, is it because they can’t adapt to the environment?” Qin Muye immediately thought of environmental reasons.

“Stop searching, just capture everyone and bring them back; it seems like there’s nothing of value left here,” he ordered.

“Exactly, the probability is significant, or else such a coincidence wouldn’t occur, but we’ll have to wait for the comparison to confirm the specifics,” Tian Qi commented.

“No problem? Then it seems like the issue must be with the Ancient God Relics themselves, which again brings us to the question of what the Ancient God Relics are really about…”

“Are you suggesting that the villagers of Orange Village had already died?” Qin Muye frowned.

“Try taking this flesh orange out of the Ancient God Relics,” Qin Muye handed over the core of the Village Chief, which was a flesh orange, to Tian Qi.

“We’ve found the source, and it’s truly not an easy difficulty,” he noted.

“Find the core of the Ancient God Relics; I really want to see what this thing’s transformation process is all about,” Qin Muye ordered immediately.

“Why does this feel like a troop building déjà vu?”

“Master, we can’t send them away; these villagers will turn into a pool of orange juice and orange pulp once they leave the Ancient God Relics,” Dove hurriedly came over to report, and the remaining villagers’ deportation plan was also temporarily halted.

“Master, I have discovered something—the number of skeletons dug up under the square matches the number of Orange Village villagers; we are currently comparing to see if they are the same,” Tian Qi came over to report.

“Master, the flesh orange is intact and hasn’t turned into orange juice,” Tian Qi said.

“Transformation ritual, so that’s how it is,” Qin Muye reviewed the numerous villagers’ statements.

[Instance mission: Stop Orange Village from conducting the Ancient God Sacrifice and kill all of the Ancient God’s Minions. Failure]

[Note: Instance mission unfinished, if you leave the instance now, this round will result in a failure with no rewards]

Comparing isn’t difficult, but the number of Spirit Monsters isn’t small.

And as the ceremony is conducted more often and the number of villagers transformed increases, these Ancient God’s Minions become stronger.

After handling the situation, Qin Muye deported all the Spirit Monsters and prepared to return to the Ancient God Relics through the Super Space-Time Transmission Channel.

But precisely because of this, the villagers didn’t know much.

By the time that comes, the Ancient God Relics will fully activate and transform into an armory.

About this, Qin Muye felt relieved; such tasks are indeed best left to his subordinates.

Then all the Spirit Monsters started their operation, even if it meant digging three meters deep to scrounge up something.

And he didn’t just want the Ancient God’s Minions, he wanted that group of villagers too.

Meanwhile, Tian Qi hurried over, “Master, it’s confirmed, these villagers have long been dead and buried under the square; the skeletons there are theirs.”

What’s more, the time within the entire relic is fixed, always remaining on the day of the Orange Banquet. Once today’s ceremony is over, it will occur again tomorrow, and this cycle will repeat, until all the villagers are transformed into orange beings.

The Ancient God Relics are like a safe, and the sacrifice ritual like the safe’s combination. While Qin Muye controls both the safe and the combination, he lacks the corresponding executive power, basically rendering him helpless.

Circling around, even the ground was dug nearly ten meters, turning the entire village into ruins, yet even so, no problem was found.

Rewards and such will have their opportunities later, but such special Ancient God’s Minions are a first.

The Spirit Monsters did not ask why but simply began the task.

Just like what had just been created, Qin Muye had reasons to suspect that this technology was somewhat linked to troop buildings.

As if it had decayed in an instant.

Observing the dissolution of the Orange Village Ancient God Relics, resolving this matter indeed seemed straightforward—mostly handled by defeating the Ancient God’s Minions. However, if delayed too long, until all villagers were transformed into Ancient God’s Minions, it likely would end up a massive disaster.

The relationship between the two was like a snail and its shell; without the snail, the shell is just an outer casing, posing no threat at all.

Every time a villager could be turned into an Ancient God’s Minion, they transformed into a form similar to the Village Chief, such as the Crimson Apes.

By then, there wouldn’t be just a few Crimson Apes, but a sky-covering and powerful troop of Ancient God’s Minions.

The rest were dead. He had thought that today was the second day, but it was actually not right, as today was only the first day.

Qin Muye squinted his eyes. He seemed to have realized something.

Qin Muye murmured to himself. Everything seemed normal, but that was what was abnormal—a living person had been transformed into a Crimson Ape, undergoing a drastic change from a humanoid to a vegetative state.

Qin Muye also activated his Crimson Pupil to survey the entire Orange Village.

Qin Muye understood one thing, that this transformation was very likely inherent to the Ancient God Relics, and the so-called sacrifice ritual was probably something akin to a key or a password.

Qin Muye truly had to leave, and a message from “Lord Era” appeared before his eyes. He ignored it, stepped forward, and left the Ancient God Relics.

The mission had failed, but the fruit flesh of the orange in his hand was still intact. Conversely, the Ancient God Relics had suffered a mishap.

Killing a newborn, unopened-eyed tiger was easy, but killing a peak-aged adult tiger was not that simple.

Even the flesh orange in Qin Muye’s hand showed signs of withering, but it quickly recovered.

After thinking it over, Qin Muye decided not to take the mission reward; instead, he was more tempted by the technology of the Ancient God’s Minions.

The so-called Orange Feast or Ancient God Sacrifice actually had another meaning—it was a transformation ceremony.

He had disposed of all the villagers and the remains, effectively dismantling all the load-bearing walls and main pillars of the Ancient God Relics, even taking the source and consequently causing its collapse.

He had thought the sacrifice ceremony was tonight’s Orange Feast, but it actually wasn’t. It extended to the transformation process of all villagers; today was only the first day.

Tian Qi, holding the flesh orange, passed through the Super Space-Time Transmission Channel. It took him about a minute before he returned.

Tian Qi’s strength was just slightly weaker than Qin Muye’s, so handling this was no problem.

The only difference was in facing a higher or lower number of Ancient God’s Minions. As of now, the Orange Feast had already taken place once, and the first to be transformed was naturally the Village Chief.

The efficiency was indeed fast. As the villagers and the remains were dealt with, mysterious changes occurred in the entire Orange Village.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t possibly be like this.

The later they dealt with the Ancient God Relics, the more difficult it would become subsequently because the Ancient God Relics itself fed on the world to gain energy. Even if the Crimson Ape seemed absurd, its strength would not be underestimated once fully developed.

Lucky that these weren’t normal oranges, or they would certainly have exploded by now.

Which meant he couldn’t use them.

Therefore, no matter which day he came, he would encounter the Orange Feast because there was only this day.

With this as evidence, Qin Muye understood that it was a passive transformation meant to adapt to the external environment.

The previously shriveled flesh orange, upon sensing the change of person, began preparing to invade the body again. However, Tian Qi was not an easy opponent either. He directly squeezed it in his palm with strong force, almost deforming it.

The Ancient God Relics, originally like a giant void, began to collapse as if they had lost their support, vanishing in an instant.

The reason was simple. He had dealt with the Ancient God Relics by removing the base of the cauldron.

He had only seen this situation with three deities in the Sea God’s Temple; one was the Lotus Man from the Vegetable People, and the other was the Crimson Ape from the fruits.

The real core was the flesh orange in his hand, not the Ancient God Relics itself.

Normally, as long as the instance mission was not completed, even if it was a one-time instance, it would exist, but now it had disappeared.

Normally, just killing the Village Chief who had been transformed into an Ancient God’s Minion would actually stop the ritual because all the Ancient God’s Minions were copies of the Village Chief’s Crimson Ape.

It started from at least level 5, but for now, it’s quite weak, just level 1, and the strongest being the Village Chief transformed into an Ancient God’s Minion, currently at level 2, since it had just begun and the strength was weak.

In terms of the villagers’ testimonies, they actually didn’t know much. Or rather, they barely had any memories, only having memories of yesterday and some common knowledge about the Orange Feast, nothing more.