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Chapter 784 A Small Shock

Lu Kui was furious.

Thus, a new round of operations against Milo began to be rapidly prepared.

Hastings' faction, under his strict orders, maintained restraint, and the previous mindless thinking of "killing Milo first to prevent him from being killed by the snake people" was no longer allowed to reappear.

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Hastings personally went to the Moonlit Bell Tower, where he offered his utmost respect to the Eye of Thought, which was mired in chaos, and asked for help. He did not ask for the location of his enemy Milo, but rather to find the traces of the gods before they left the Dreamland, the traces of the Golden Tree.

He could be called a conservative or an idealist. In Hastings's mind, all suffering would disappear as long as the Golden Tree could be brought back to its original form.

So wherever the golden tree went, he would follow in its footsteps.

Just like when the golden tree first descended upon the barren golden land millions of years ago, he was still an ignorant child.

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And the long-dormant, confused eye of thought actually provided guidance.

Moonlight streamed down from the broken clock tower windowsill, casting a blurry pattern on the steps. In the pattern, a desolate and barren world was destroyed by some strange and terrifying rule. The gods who lived in that world survived thanks to their immortal order, but inevitably fell into another plane—the truth behind their loss.

The Golden Tree did not participate; it did not follow the gods into that broken world.

But when the gods fell, the Golden Tree still decided to salvage something. Although the catastrophe and turmoil had no direct connection to Him, He resolutely chose to step into the abyss of chaos and darkness, attempting to use holy light and vines to save those gods who had not yet completely fallen into the abyss.

Just as He was about to succeed, a strange flute melody rang out from the chaos, and then a surprise attack from the outer realms completely interrupted this self-redemption of the deity.

The external deity severely damaged the Golden Tree, causing it to fall into the endless abyss along with the other gods.

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This is the earth-shattering secret that the Eye of Thinking provided to Hastings.

After all these images ended, it began to examine Hastings. After the eerie abyss and bizarre otherworldly scenes dissipated, it examined Hastings's soul until it was certain that the believer's heart had not wavered.

Thus, the following instructions were given.

That is a path leading to a world of clarity.

"The entrance to the abyss lies in the world of sanity..."

"But that was already the domain of evil and chaos..."

"You will be far from the golden light, you will no longer hear the hymns, and all that lies ahead is death and malice."

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"I will definitely find the golden tree, because I have no other choice."

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From this moment on, the Golden Clan was completely divided into two factions.

Or rather, in this era, pure faith no longer exists; it has split into two different perceptions and attitudes.

But at least, there are traces to the reason why gods are immortal. Both Hastings and Luque are the source of that immortal power.

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The fate of the Golden Lineage is as uncertain as that of Joan Byrne, who now lies nestled in the embrace of the Roots.

In any case, for Milo, a new round of attacks is already on its way, but it will take some time for now, since the Southern Territory is separated from the Golden Kingdom by more than just a sea.

After leaving the underground grotesque shrieks, the group entered a completely new realm: the island-strewn Southern Territory. Just a few days prior, the snake ship's route had finally begun to make contact with the native civilization settlements of the Southern Territory. However, these settlements were all very small in scale and extremely wary of outsiders. Most of them lived on larger islands. Although they wouldn't immediately turn on each other with swords, many settlement residents would flee into the deep mountains with their families as soon as they saw a giant ship appear on the horizon, leaving their settlement camps deserted.

Milo and his men didn't stand on ceremony. Once they arrived at their destination, they took over the settlement immediately and filled their stomachs without any further ado.

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As night deepened, a group of people sat around a campfire by the sea, each holding a bowl of a stew that defied description.

This is the fifth day since we left the Underground Specter. Apart from the increased number of watchers on Oriba Island, nothing else has happened along the way.

"Why haven't you two done anything about AI for so long?"

They were all eating peacefully when Xiao Yan suddenly said something that almost made Milo choke.

"puff……"

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"Who told you about the two of us..." Milo really couldn't understand what was going on in this little fire demon girl's head.

"Isn't that right?" Yan asked, a spoon still in his mouth, before adding, "Don't worry, I definitely won't tell Emma."

"It says in this 'Manual of Taming Humans' that once humans are completely tamed, they are meant to reproduce." Xiao Yan pulled out the little notebook that Freya always carried with her from her pocket; heaven knows when she took it.

Freya snatched the "manual" back and glared fiercely at Xiao Yan.

"Wasn't it said to be kept as pets?" Milo knew about the manual and had glanced at it, but he didn't know that the Xi people would have that kind of relationship with domesticated human pets...

"Isn't it the same thing?" Freya's retort was quite shocking.

It seems that the concept of "pet" among the Greeks is quite different from the concept of pet in human civilization.

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"So you guys must be good at AI, right?" Xiao Yan was even more excited for some unknown reason.

Freya calmly nodded and said, "Mhm."

The latter became even more excited, almost jumping up and flipping the table: "Can I watch from the side?!"

"Stop messing around." This time, Yan finally managed to calm her down.

Just when everyone thought Yan was finally acting normal, he turned to Milo and asked, "Will it be in dragon mode...? If so, I'd like to see it too."

"You fucking bastard." Milo looked completely bewildered.

After thinking about it for a moment, he turned to Freya and asked, "Why don't you give it a try?"

"what?"

This time, Freya was speechless.

This served as a small shock to the native inhabitants of the Dreamland, bringing them a glimpse into the real world.

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And from that meal onward, similar topics were always inevitable in our daily conversations, as if stepping into this lost ancient southern land had inevitably brought people's personalities into that primitive and unrestrained atmosphere.

But soon, the native people of the South taught them a lesson, showing them what true primitivism and wildness really meant.

That was when the snake ship arrived at the next large island in the early hours of the following day...

(End of this chapter)