Xi Wei was naturally paying attention to what was happening in the Trinia Forests as well.
At first, he had assumed that the Players had dug out some monster from some random corner and wasn't too concerned. After all, even if the devil was a supernatural race, its ability had dropped considerably after being sealed for a thousand years, and it would at best be on par with the young Barren Giant, let alone the Drakuran of the Seira Marshes.
On the other hand, the Players were no longer helpless against the Barren Giant. After experiencing so many battles, their level and equipment had improved greatly, and they only needed around fifty people to surround and kill the Barren Giant.
Therefore, from Xi Wei's perspective, even if there were less than a hundred Players rushing to Trinia for the devil crusade, victory was almost assured as long as they didn't let the Players slip away.
However, who would have thought that something like this would still happen?
"What the hell? What's going on? An otherworld version of Resident Evil? "
Xi Wei frowned as he stared at the mortal realm with his Divine Eye, feeling that something was wrong.
In fact, Xi Wei had already noticed that something was wrong when the Players killed the devil but didn't send it to the Divine Kingdom as a sacrifice according to the rules he had set.
After retrieving the sacrificial records from the divinity, he realized that the sacrificial effect of the devil's death had indeed activated once, but it was forcibly stopped due to a violation of a higher-level rule.
And the reason for the conflict was that 'no living deity's kin or apostles can be sacrificed'.
That rule had been set by several gods before the last Divine War, and in terms of precedence alone, it was much higher than the System that Xi Wei had made himself.
The reason for it was unknown, but from the vague records in the Aquatic Lord's broken divinity, it could be that the rule that the gods couldn't transcend the World Barrier had yet to be established before the Third Divine War, and there were powerful demigods, deity's kin, and apostles everywhere.
Believers of normal mortal races simply couldn't stand against them. Divine beings ran amok, almost destroying their homes.
That was when a wise theologian came up with an idea.
He began to greatly modify the sacrificial ritual according to the requirements, moving most of the tactics and conditions of the ritual process to the preparation of the ritual.
That way, the ritual that had been purely about offering sacrifices to the gods to express one's piety became a 'trap' that consumed a lot of manpower and resources!
After everything was prepared, all they had to do was lure the rampaging foes into the ritual and directly sacrifice them to the gods they worshipped!
That theologian was not stingy with his knowledge and the method to modify the ritual. He taught it to his apprentice and let the apprentice travel the continent to teach these methods to the mortal races in other places.
Hence, the mortals relied on that method to wipe out many of their deity's kin and apostles in a brief hundred years, restoring peace to the world.
That being said, the gods definitely didn't like such a situation, not to mention that the believers of some weaker gods would sometimes sacrifice super powerful dependents who were equivalent to the current Seven Divine Fathers to their own god's divine kingdom.
In the end, that god used up the power of nine Behemoths and two Dragons to subdue that sacrificed follower, but in the blink of an eye, his own follower had sacrificed a bunch of equally powerful apostles …
F * ck, I'm not doing this anymore. You can believe whoever you want!
Either way, for their own interests and the dignity of the divine, the best deities of the time led by quite a few other deities acted together to establish the rule that 'living deity kin or apostles' could not be sacrificed '.
Anyway, the reason the devil's corpse could not be sacrificed to Xi Wei's divine kingdom was because there seemed to be some divine power lingering in its body, which was why the rule determined that it was a living god's follower, ultimately leading to the failure of the sacrifice.
"The power of resurrection … Is it Lord Hades? No, that doesn't feel the same … "
Xi Wei carefully sensed Nightcry's condition through the Players who were fighting it.
"Lord Hades wields the power of death, a type that is immeasurably close to the origin of the world's rules. Right now, this thing is like a mutton kebab without cumin — it has no soul and is simply a zombie. "
If Xi Wei could only get a general idea of Nightcry's condition, he could clearly see the condition of the Players.
The Players who were infected by the zombie plague and turned into zombies only had their bodies mutated, their souls unaffected. Therefore, they were sent to Xi Wei's little black hut to be locked up as per the rules of the game. (, Domain (Please remember _ 3)
If there was anything different, the Players who had turned into zombies would lose the period of time they could be resurrected after death due to the mutation of their corpses. Even Cleric Players' Raise the Dead would not work on them.
On the other hand, items like the Resurrection Ankh that could be used directly on Lifestone could be used normally.
"Right now, the Players are in chaos because of the unexpected situation." Keeping a close eye on the situation in the mortal realm, Xi Wei could not help feeling pleased when he saw that the Players were able to regain their footing after their initial panic. "While zombified Players would retain their physical strength, their greatest advantages — skills and resurrection — are gone, and they would be much weaker than Players of the same level in actual combat ability."
"Although I can't start an event, I could still assign a quest to the Players who participated in the battle."
After learning that the resurrection mechanism was still working, the Players immediately regained their confidence and could fight their enemies with their usual strength. Moreover, motivated by the quest, the Players naturally became even more fervent. Their morale was greatly boosted when they realized that the zombified Players were absolutely noobs when they fought them. * * * [Computer:/]
According to the System's quest notification, all they had to do was kill Nightcry, who was now the main host of the zombie plague, and they could have barbecue tonight.
After all, the zombie plague itself was a mutated divine power, and any creature that died from it would mutate into its kin. But at the same time, the mutated divine power would naturally dissipate once the kin was killed, and there was no unlimited resurrection.
Compared to the Players who were optimistic, Xi Wei was thinking further ahead.
"Such divine power … Even if it isn't Lord Hades, it definitely belongs to the god of the undead. For the divine power to mutate to such a degree and seek to quickly spread infection and turn all living beings into its kin … what is the Mastermind trying to do? "
Xi Wei checked the corpse of the Player who had mutated into a zombie, and found that there were even more wrinkles on the ball. "These zombies wouldn't provide faith to normal gods at all, and wouldn't they be a burden as minions instead? Moreover, what deeper meaning could there be in purposely choosing a devil sealed in the Trinia Forests … "
Xi Wei suddenly shuddered at the very thought.
If the Mastermind didn't have any deeper meaning, and the devil was just a pawn he randomly chose … what would become of the world?
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Chapter 218:
An otherworld version of Resident Evil?
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