The villainous young master just wants to live a Buddhist-like life.

　The paladin who was sent out remained extremely vigilant, removing the "Ring of the Holy Spirit" from Dulles's finger and then slowly retreating step by step.

　Things were going very smoothly up to this point.

　The "Scorpio Palace" maid, who had been watching from afar, thought that the matter would be over tonight.

　Ultimately, the necromancer Zoe will be taken away by the Holy Church, while Dulles will be taken back to his hometown by his uncle for re-education.

　But just when everyone's vigilance inevitably relaxed, a dozen or so skeletal arms suddenly emerged from the sides of the paladin's body, densely packed, and grabbed at his head, neck, arms, waist, abdomen, and feet.

　The paladin suddenly drew his sword, its light soaring to the heavens, and fearlessly cleaved the dozen or so skeletal arms into dust.

　But when the sword light disappeared, the "Holy Spirit Ring" he was holding tightly vanished inexplicably.

　Dark smiled and asked, "How did Professor Harvey manage to do that?" The maid pursed her lips slightly and replied, "He must have used some spatial techniques. But at the time, the Holy Church had clearly set up a protective barrier to prevent Dulles from teleporting away. So we don't know exactly how he did it."

　"What about the others?" Dark asked. "Did anyone see the professor do it?" The maid shook her head and said, "Probably not. That professor's methods of concealment are truly remarkable. We didn't see him make a move ourselves; we only identified him based on information analysis and crowd surveys."

　Dark asked, "And what about the Holy Church? What was their reaction?"

　The maid said, "Dulles has been taken away and will likely be interrogated. However, since Edmund Lori is in charge of this matter and his uncle is with him, his safety shouldn't be a problem."

　“Hmm.” Dark nodded. “Now that Edmund has arrived, the Holy Church should be making its move against Sloan soon. This incident against Dulles is just a warm-up. They won’t have much energy to spend on Zoe. Go and erase all traces left by Professor Harvey, and seal up the relevant data.”

　"Yes, young master." The maid nodded in agreement and quickly slipped into the shadows, disappearing from sight.

　After finishing his breakfast, Dak tapped on the table.

　The maid who was waiting outside the door pushed the door open and took away the tableware.

　Immediately afterwards, he called out to the empty balcony, and a flash of lightning appeared, transforming into a small thundercloud.

　"Thor" Raymond emerged from the thunderclouds, eagerly saying, "We can begin." Dark nodded, "Let's begin."

　His original plan was to perform the alchemy last night, but it was postponed to this morning due to a dinner gathering.

　He deliberately got up early; it's only 6:30 now, an hour and a half before the match starts at 8:00.

　According to Raymond, the forging of the "Card of God" requires a very high level of skill from the mage. However, the overall steps are not many, so the required time is actually quite short.

　If all goes well, the process can be completed in as little as half an hour.

　But Dak felt he probably wasn't at that level. So he not only rested up thoroughly, but also allowed himself three times the amount of time.

　This morning, before the start of the second round of the World Cup qualifiers, he was going to forge this "God Card"!

　As for Dulles, Zoe, and Professor Harvey, he would naturally inquire with Professor Harvey if he remained interested. However, he already possessed some knowledge of Zoe's background. Zoe was a necromancer.

　But he was not an ordinary necromancer; he was a necromancer from the Necropolis.

　Speaking of the Necropolis, Dark had heard about it from Professor Harvey. It was said to be the last "holy land" of necromancers at the end of the magical age, and the magic tower owned by the most powerful and evil necromancers.

　The magic tower was the exclusive laboratory of mages in the magical age. All the research and study of a mage was condensed in the magic tower, which could even be called a "magical fortress".

　There was a saying that circulated in that era: "No one can defeat a magician inside his own magic tower."

　For necromancers, the Necropolis is also such a thing.

　However, as the magical era was about to end, the term that should have been defined as "the magic tower of the necromancer" gradually became the exclusive name for that necromancer's magic tower.

　After all, it was the last undead tower that hadn't been destroyed. In fact, there's no record of it ever being destroyed. It just disappeared suddenly after the strongest and most evil necromancer was killed.

　To prevent a resurgence, the Holy Church conducted a brief search of the Tower of the Dead, but found nothing.

　The reason this story is connected to Professor Harvey is because he is also a necromancer from the Necropolis. However, unlike Zoe, who was initially recruited as an "apprentice,"...

　Professor Harvey was sold into slavery to the Tower of the Dead.

　During wartime.

　When the country is not at peace, people cannot live in peace.

　Whether voluntarily or involuntarily, countless children were enslaved and sold off, and Professor Harvey was one of them.

　He was even more unlucky; he was sold to the Tower of the Dead and became one of the necromancer's experimental subjects.

　Human experimentation.

　For necromancers, this is a very common occurrence. Therefore, necromancers cannot have a good reputation.

　Some necromancers will spend money to buy fresh corpses for their experiments.

　However, many necromancers, for convenience, would directly experiment on living people. By using living people for experiments, they could also collect more of the things that necromancers needed.

　For example, "a tormented soul" is a rare find. Professor Harvey was not lucky.

　He could not escape the inevitable fate that awaited him after becoming a test subject.

　But after suffering immense torment, he did not die, nor did his spirit collapse.

　At that time, Zoe, who was still an apprentice, said to the necromancer, "He can still stay conscious like this. Maybe he's a good candidate to become a necromancer."

　That casual remark completely saved Professor Harvey, transforming him from one of the lowest experimental subjects in the Necropolis into a slightly less lowly apprentice.

　The apprentices weren't treated well in that Tower of the Dead, but at least they were considered half-human.

　Professor Harvey thus came into contact with necromancy and gradually distinguished himself, even surpassing the other apprentices, including Zoe, and gaining the favor of the necromancer, becoming a "disciple" above the apprentices, and finally finding his "way out".

　Therefore, despite Zoe's unfriendly attitude and the common flaws of most necromancers, Professor Harvey remembered her and later secretly helped her.

　With his help, Zoe also became his "disciple" and began to compete with him, constantly regarding him as a "threat".

　But Professor Harvey didn't care at all.

　Because he didn't want to be a necromancer at all, nor did he want to stay in the Necropolis and inherit the mantle of the most evil and strongest necromancer.

　Professor Harvey's relationship with Zoe continued until he successfully escaped the Tower of the Dead.

　He was subsequently regarded as a traitor to the Necropolis and was hunted down by the other disciples sent by the necromancer, but Zoe was not among them.

　He killed some of his disciples in retaliation, then vanished without a trace, going into complete seclusion. Only when no one came looking for him did he change his identity and reappear as an elderly necromancer.

　He was still very young at the time, but his magical skills were so high that he didn't seem out of place at all when playing the role of an old magician.

　Later, he heard that the necromancer was dead and the Necropolis had disappeared, so he stopped paying attention to those things altogether.

　For Professor Harvey, that experience has always been a difficult thing to evaluate.

　He certainly couldn't have liked that experience, nor could he have been grateful to the "teacher" who taught him to become a necromancer.

　He was always an outcast in the Tower of the Dead.

　But as for "hatred," with the accumulation of experiences after becoming a necromancer, he inevitably gradually became less attached to those things.

　On the one hand, he didn't want hatred to overwhelm his heart, and on the other hand, he also felt that normal necromancers were just like that.

　Whether you call it magnanimity or escapism, he prefers to focus his attention on research that interests him.

　He was later invited by St. Mary's College, and it was because the college environment was suitable for research that he became a professor.

　I never imagined that so many years would have passed in the blink of an eye.

　"After all these years, you haven't changed a bit, Zoe." "You're not bad either, Steven!"

　"What materials did you bring, Raymond?"

　Dark asked with slight excitement, "Is it dragon teeth, dragon horns, dragon scales, or a dragon pearl?"

　Raymond made a series of crackling sounds as he slowly pulled a very thick and long hair from the small thundercloud.

　Dark's excitement visibly vanished, and he asked, "What is this?" Raymond rolled his eyes and said, "Divine fibers."

　The so-called "divine fiber" is a filamentous substance that condenses divine essence and body cells.

　Dark could even extract the "root divinity" belonging to Thor from it. Raymond was just a god who had only recently awakened and whose soul was not yet complete. All he could provide were some divine substances that his original body had left behind in that temple.

　Over the long years, those divine substances had become "fossils." But after passing through Xiu's hands, they gradually recovered and became usable materials.

　Most of the materials, which are mainly about "dragons," have been lent to Lei Qi.

　There isn't much material left that mainly features "thunder".

　This "divine fiber," though small, is complete in every way. It possesses both divine power and cells, making it the most suitable material for creating a carrier for the "Card of God."

　"Oh."

　After hearing the explanation, Dark began the crafting process according to Raymond's instructions. He was, of course, very serious, as this was a rare opportunity. The crafting method for the "God Card" was based on the crafting method for the Magical Spirit Card. However, many steps were "blurred" out.

　The key and difficulty in creating these "God Cards" lies precisely in this "ambiguity".

　That belongs to "God," something that humans cannot fathom.

　Only after Dark activated his "Eye of Truth" was he able to glimpse a portion of it.

　"Good good."

　Raymond sat on the thundercloud and clapped his hands repeatedly.

　The robe was chosen because of this.

　A mage who can glimpse the face of truth is not someone you can encounter anytime.

Chapter 1551 Darkdemon's Initial God Card - True (4k)

　7:30 a.m., April 16th. Half an hour before the competition starts.

　Dark Dimon's "God Card" forging has entered its final stage. Throughout the process, Raymond only provided an "outline," and the actual practical application still depended on his own understanding and experience.

　However, Raymond can distinguish between "right" and "wrong" during the forging process, telling him how far he is from final success.

　He made real-time adjustments based on the deviation value, added various materials he had prepared, and finally embarked on the "correct" path.

　Now, only the final step remains: to refine Raymond's soul fragments into the magic card.

　But this step is not something that humans can accomplish at present; it must be done by the gods themselves.

　The gods transformed themselves into magic cards, thus also merging into the path of magic.

　This is the key to their resurrection through the magic of the divine.

　But the path of the Magic God is not a trap; it is completely harmless to all gods.

　Whether a deity integrates into the path of magic and divinity is entirely voluntary. If they wish to change their mind midway, they may withdraw at will.

　—Before the resurrection.

　If resurrection is achieved through magical means, then it's not something you can simply back out of whenever you want.

　Because at that time, the path of magic and divinity will become a true path to godhood, becoming part of the world's rules.

　A god who is resurrected through the path of magic will become a "god of magic," contributing to the growth of this path to godhood.

　This is definitely a win-win situation.

　Those gods will not lose anything; on the contrary, they will gain authority over a new lineage of magic.

　Therefore, this entire system is essentially about making the pie bigger. Even if everyone's share is just a small piece, it still makes the pie bigger than the original one—pure "incentive" with only benefits and no drawbacks. That's the brilliance of this system.

　What all the mages are now vying for is the largest slice of this cake that is bound to grow bigger.

　"Boom!"

　A bolt of lightning suddenly struck from a clear blue sky, abruptly waking people from their sleep.

　But when people looked up, they did not see a second bolt of lightning.

　That extraordinary phenomenon was merely a fleeting moment.

　Raymond's soul fragments had already merged into the magic card, causing the magic card to complete its final transformation and become a (God Card).

　At this point, the card art of the "God Card" gradually took shape, and a series of information, including the card name, emerged.

　Dark focused all his attention on the magic card, so he naturally saw the information as soon as it appeared.

　His expression immediately changed.

　Because what appeared on the face of that "God Card" was none other than the Pokémon he was quite familiar with—"Thundercloud"!

　Even though he didn't add any elements related to major sins to this alchemy process, the resulting magical spirit was still influenced by him and transformed into the form he had envisioned.

　Well, it's pretty much in line with expectations.

　When it comes to "Thunder God", the first thing that comes to his mind is the legendary Pokémon Raikou. Although Raikou is a Pokémon that looks like a saber-toothed tiger, its Paradox species "Drum" is also a Dragon-type Pokémon, and it has a thundercloud around its neck.

　Therefore, if Raymond can be refined into "Thunder God", then by collecting ancient power, he can be transformed into the ancient paradoxical species [Thunder Drum], which is "dragon transformation", just like the "fossilized pterosaur".

　This aligns perfectly with Raymond's "wishes to transform into a dragon." Therefore, "Lei Gong" is his primary choice.