Xi Wei was enjoying the show in his Divine Kingdom.
Compared to the Rotten Bones Church, he was actually less worried about the Society of the Secret Eye.
The reason was simple: the Rotten Bones Church believed in a deity, and they had a true god behind them.
This meant that the main locations of the Rotten Bones Church were shrouded in their divine power, and unless Xi Wei was a rank or two higher than them, it would be very difficult to see through their divine power and observe their movements.
But the Society of the Secret Eye was different.
They were just a smuggling organization, and their members came from all over the world with different beliefs. That was why the Society of the Secret Eye's stronghold couldn't be shrouded in the divine power of another god.
This meant that no matter how tight their organization was, or how strong their defense and anti-detection abilities were, it was all meaningless to a god like Xi Wei. As long as Xi Wei's believers had invaded a place, he would be able to see it clearly!
To Xi Wei, these guys were really just appetizers.
It was the same this time. After discovering that the Society of the Secret Eye had made a move, he issued a mission to the players in the Frogmen Village as a warning.
As for the consequences, he didn't really care. Even if the players died, they would just respawn in the newbie village.
With the Lancaster Hideout as an escape route, the newbie village wouldn't have any problem taking on the Society of the Secret Eye branch head-on. It wouldn't matter even if the Players didn't put in enough effort and were defeated by the Society of the Secret Eye. If there was no other way, he could just wait for the Players to group up and descend to the mortal realm to finish them off. After all, as long as they weren't believers of a particular god, and were just a ragtag army, no god would come looking for trouble …
In fact, Xi Wei had kept his attention on the mortal realm to a minimum after setting up the new version of the System and dungeons.
Compared to that, he had a more troublesome problem to deal with.
The connection between the same pantheon was much tighter than he had thought. Although the Rotten Bones God's divinity had yet to be destroyed, and the Necromancy pantheon had yet to realize that their disappointing little brother had been killed by Xi Wei, it was only a matter of time before that happened.
Xi Wei was trying hard to find a way to cut off the connection between pantheons. If he couldn't do it, he had to at least make preparations before the enemy came knocking. This time, the enemy wouldn't be as weak as the Rotten Bones God.
For this, he needed to come up with a way to harvest more leeks … I mean, the power of faith.
All in all, being able to watch the show while he was busy was already his limit. It was impossible for him to waste the power of faith to help his believers beat up little kids in the Lower Realm for such a small matter.
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Frogmen Village, Conch Room.
The Society of the Secret Eye's attack came a little later than Edward and the others had expected. After retrieving the weapons they had left with the frogmen, the outside world was still as peaceful as ever.
Could it be that the system made a mistake? Or did it change its nature? For a moment, even Edward began to have doubts.
It was fortunate that his faith in the God of Games was firm and had already reached the level of a devout believer, just one step away from becoming a fanatic. That was why he quickly dispelled the wavering in his heart and steeled his faith as he continued to wait for the Secret Eye Society bandits who could come at any moment.
"I just thought of a problem." Eggface pulled Jorah, who was half-drowned, onto a huge pebble. This seemed to be something the frogmen used as a bed.
Just as he was about to dry Jorah, Eggface whispered to the others around him, "If the Society of the Secret Eye attacks the Frogmen Village, how will they do it?"
"What do you mean how? Isn't it just charging into the village and killing and looting … "At this point, Vela also fell silent.
She realized that she had made a mistake. When she knew that the Society of the Secret Eye was going to attack the Frogmen Village, she had subconsciously equated the Society of the Secret Eye with ordinary bandits.
To be honest, even if there were seventy or eighty ordinary bandits, they still wouldn't be a match for the six players present. After all, other than Vela, who had become a player relatively late, the other five were all veterans among veterans.
However, an enemy that the system specifically issued a quest for was clearly not an ordinary bandit!
In other words, the experience of the town being robbed by bandits couldn't be used as a reference.
"Speaking of which," Edward, one of the only three people who had entered the Society of the Secret Eye's base, had a dark expression on his face, "There seems to be a mage among the Society of the Secret Eye …"
Mages with long-range attacks and extremely destructive power were obviously the best characters to start an attack on a village.
As if to verify his words, the ground beneath everyone's feet began to shake. Even the water in the house, which was slightly shallower than the water outside, began to ripple.
The players hurried out.
The Frogmen Village was built in an inconspicuous corner of the beach, probably for the sake of concealment. On one side of the beach was the sea, and on the other side was a towering cliff. On the other side of the cliff was a boundless desert.
At this moment, what Edward and the others saw was a terrifying mudslide that seemed to be able to break through everything in its path!
The momentum of the mudslide was so great that most of the frogmen's minds went blank when they saw it, unable to think straight.
"Holy shit … Edward, you never told me that the Society of the Secret Eye's mages were this strong!" Eggface was also a little lost as he watched the terrifying mudslide.
"How is that possible, I've never met a mage of this level … It's most likely the work of several mages!"
Edward immediately retorted.
After all, when he infiltrated the Society of the Secret Eye's base in this area, apart from a few strong ones, the rest were no match for him.
"Shouldn't we be running first?!" Vela shouted, cold sweat dripping down her forehead.
Even if they had become Players who could resurrect and could disregard their own life and death in the face of a powerful foe to create an inconsequential opportunity for their teammates, the common sense of the first half of their lives still made them subconsciously want to run when faced with such a calamitous situation.
"We can't run, that thing is much faster than us on foot!"
Edward was a little dejected.
If he could reach the max level (Level 45) and learn a series of the most powerful skills available to Mages, he might be able to fight back. However, even though he was only Level 28 as a player, he was still too powerless against this kind of attack.
"Hold this for me."
At that moment, Eleena, who had been quietly eating her lollipop, suddenly tightened the bag and stuffed it into Vela's hands.
"Eh?" Vela stared at the silver-haired girl in bewilderment, feeling that the girl's brain was a little different from normal people. They were about to be buried alive in a landslide, and yet she was still concerned about candy … Wasn't that a little too much?
Eleena didn't know what Vela was thinking, and simply took out her own weapon.
As a superior class of clerics, the Saintess-in-training should be using a cleric's weapon as well — something like a war hammer, tower shield, flail, or a large cross.
Before this, Eleena was either healing the players or simply throwing the Spear of Victory that was condensed from Holy Light. She hadn't been holding a weapon since the start, which was why Vela thought that the girl was empty-handed because she didn't have a suitable weapon.
But the truth was that Eleena had a weapon.
It was a large hardcover book that she had hung over her hip. After locking it tightly with a lock and attaching a silver chain that resembled a priest's robe that hung over her waist, the book, which was called the Game Bible and had white metal plates wrapped around its edges, had completely turned into a square flail with eight sharp horns …
Although this thing does seem to have considerable lethality, it doesn't seem to be of any help in blocking the ferocious mudslide …
"Sacred Barrier of Light!"
Eleena tugged on the chain and swung the large book with all her might, before using centrifugal force to throw it far away.
In the next split second, a huge sky-blue barrier abruptly rose where the book had fallen!
In the center of the barrier was the image of a white cross, and the four sections of the cross were respectively filled with images of swords, wands, bows, and scriptures. At the center of the cross was the emblem of the God of Games.
The barrier was so huge that its width far exceeded that of the frogmen's village, and its height was so high that it pierced through the clouds. The majestic avalanche crashed into the barrier of light, but it was forcibly stopped. The barrier didn't even budge an inch, not even a ripple!
"You're joking, right …" Vela was dumbstruck.
It was not as if she did not know about the Sacred Aura Shield. In fact, it was a defensive skill that Clerics could learn at Level 15, and could summon a shield of light to block attacks. However, those shields were usually only as tall as a person and not more than two meters wide. The shield in front of her, on the other hand, could be described as' beyond common sense '!
At that moment, she suddenly remembered what Edward had said before — 'In terms of strength, Eleena might be the strongest among us.'
At the time, she had thought that it was just a joke, but now it seemed that he wasn't joking at all!
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