CHAPTER 605: CHAPTER 405: HOLY LIGHT CHURCH, YOU SHOULD HAVE CONFIDENCE (PART 2)

Disappointment, so much disappointment, this time Sain didn’t surprise me, sigh.

How long have they been inside here? The Priest in charge of timing just went [Brutality], anyone who dared approach him got a torrent of curses, making it impossible to know the time.

Aside from the Priest and nun who fell into torment at the beginning, with the extension of time spent in darkness, three more couldn’t withstand the pressure, and now these five problem children are all being watched by Albud.

"The money I earned in my lifetime at the Church isn’t even close to what people earn in the Royal City in a month. What’s the point of living?"

"Useless! You’re all useless! If you want money, go steal it! The Royal City is full of money!"

"You want to steal money? Steal my money? Stay back, I’m warning you, stay away!"

One [Brutality], one [Despair], one [Paranoid], the three of them started talking "comedy" right under Albud’s nose.

"...Ah."

He heaved a deep sigh, looking around at the air, trying to understand why that Invisibility expert suddenly became silent again, why not even a Magic for relieving mental stress was cast, seemingly entirely devoted to being a photographer.

But the person still did actual work, every time a powerful Monster appeared, she would take action.

Though she only acted when everyone was utterly disheveled...

It’s almost like she’s intentionally embarrassing them.

At this moment, the Monster being purified suddenly moved, and Lica was so frightened she retreated repeatedly until she fell to the ground.

Hade walked over and loudly scolded, forcibly lifted her up and took a photo again, after much trouble he finally took a half-decent photo.

He couldn’t understand, clearly the Church had successful missions previously, why were there so many accidents this time?

If this footage is released, it will probably cause big trouble.

"Worked hard all day for this little output, damn it!"

He finally couldn’t bear it, waved to the exhausted people, saying: "Alright, let’s go, time to leave, not staying here another minute!"

Upon hearing the order to clock out, the still clear-minded people breathed a sigh of relief and hastily walked back.

Though they didn’t know the way forward for exit, they knew the way back!

"I don’t want to stay here anymore, I want to commit suicide to leave, is that okay?" The person saying this hinted at an emotional breakdown.

Turning around, Hade was seriously considering this suggestion, his mouth opened, just about to speak, but the next second, an eerie Horror aura suddenly appeared beside him!

By the time people noticed, they were already wrapped in Invisible Flesh, and the already mentally fragile people upon seeing this thing nearly had a heart attack.

No aid from the Brain-sucking Monster was needed, those [Frightened] automatically felt stressed.

Already at their last gasp, the appearance of Invisible Flesh directly shattered the last boundary of sanity.

[Lica’s faith is being tested]

[Fear]!

[Hade’s faith is being tested]

[Brutality]!

[Albud...]

"Don’t come near, I won’t believe in Holy Light anymore, let me go home, please!" Lica wailed and screamed.

"You dare betray Holy Light? All apostates must be executed!" Hade’s face twisted as he slapped Lica several times.

Everyone else spiraled into madness, someone annoyed by Lica’s loud cries pounced to beat him, accidentally hit Hade, and the two immediately fought.

Lica ran to huddle with others in [Fear] and [Despair], shivering together, even though someone was thinking of resisting Monsters, seeing teammates in such a state they gave up fighting.

Albud’s expression was painful, under the test of stress, he didn’t want to give up easily, the image of family flashed in his mind, the next second—

[Fearless]!

It was a virtue, he endured the test!

His eyes instantly glowed as if he were a fearless War God, rushing to separate the fighters, lifting lazy teammates, barely gathering the team, launching an attack against the Invisible Flesh!

Despite not believing in Holy Light in his heart, at this moment he seemed the most resolute warrior of Holy Light, leading the charge!

At least that’s how the Image Stone portrayed it.

He charged at the twisted Monster, fighting alongside teammates, until all were consumed by the Monster.

Just before being devoured, he was still swinging his weapon, shouting to attack.

After some unknown time, Albud woke up.

"A strange ceiling..."

He lay inside a strange room, sensing the environment’s ample Magic Power and moisture, realizing this was Lake Lienia.

"You finally woke up, I thought we’d have to carry you back like a dead pig."

A mocking voice came from beside, naturally, it was Hade.

The guy had changed clothes, at once looking decent again, nothing like his panicked self in No Light Area.

"What time is it, why are we still in the Dungeon?" Albud frowned and asked.

"We’re at Lake Lienia, it’s the second day now, we’re about to leave."

Hade nonchalantly said: "This time it’s all thanks to a skilled person’s help."

"Help?"

"Yeah, seeing us poorly complete the task, fearing the bishop’s blame, they took the Image Stone and went to report first."

"Also left us money to relax here, pity you didn’t enjoy it."

"Are you saying she took both Image Stones?"

Albud vaguely felt something was wrong.

Hade sneered "I hate your expression of thinking you notice things others don’t, put away that expression, none of us are inferior here, hurry back to Church."

"But..."

"No buts, everything is under my control, if anything goes wrong, I’ll take the blame!"

Both walked outside, other personnel were already gathered, without anyone mentioning the previous day’s events in No Light Area.

Though tortures and pressures vanished, memories still persisted.

Walking towards the Teleportation bonfire, Albud frowned, feeling something was off, like why did that skilled person bother to help them?

At this moment, he felt peering eyes around, quickly turning his head—

Not some schemer spying, but unrelated passersby.

Yet the passersby’s expressions were odd.

Some pointed at the Church group, whispering and laughing.

Some had complex expressions, shaking heads and sighing, deeply disappointed.

Some showed anger, about to question but held back by companions.

Not only Albud, Hade was confused too, what’s happening, their actions were secret, why are these people watching them?

"What are you looking at!" He glared at the crowd, just about to touch the bonfire.

But at this moment, the bonfire flickered, a figure appeared, it was a Church staff with a panicked face.

Upon seeing Hade, he didn’t care about his heavy breathing, urgently shouting:

"Captain Hade, this time you’re in big trouble!"