Chapter 315

Struggling to maintain his sinister family member persona, Leon stood with crossed hands and a faint gaze as he waited for the Dream Realm to close. Not until over twenty thousand Goddesses of Wealth completely disappeared did Leon let out a heartfelt sigh of relief.

The work at the Clearing Bureau really wasn’t meant for humans. Even someone as skilled as Senior Emma got into trouble, and when he pulled Senior Tom, who was also Level One, to help rescue her, they almost got eliminated by the descending Goddesses of Wealth.

Hmmm…

Or maybe it wasn’t supposed to be this dangerous initially, but since both himself and Senior Tom were disliked by the world’s will, their bad luck supercharged, summoning the Goddesses of Wealth that shouldn’t have come.

After silently warning himself to avoid being near Senior Tom in the future, Leon quickly walked to the unconscious Senior Emma, unbuttoned the top button of her collar to help her breathe more smoothly, then carried her and struggled to climb toward the top of the valley.

…

“Hey! Wake up!”

“Slap slap!”

“Senior Tom! Wake up!”

“Slap slap slap!”

“Mmm…”

Awoken by the intense pain on his cheeks, the pale lazy youth blinked his eyes and said with a stunned expression: “I…”

“You fainted.”

After saying something obvious, Leon, who had powerfully slapped Senior Tom awake, pointed to the half-buried trident stuck in the snake tail in the valley and somewhat muffled replied: “The Goddess of Wealth seems to have run into some issues and suddenly rushed into the Dream Realm… Let’s not worry about her for now. We need to run quick! Are your bones back? Can you move?”

To avoid any unfortunate situations where the Goddess of Wealth hadn’t fully left and hearing his explanation and confession decided to make a comeback, Leon didn’t disclose what just happened.

The reawakened lazy youth tried hard to lift his neck to raise his head, but soon fell back, shaking his head with some disappointment:

“Not yet… Your bandages are too slow. The bones in my legs haven’t moved; only a bit of my coccyx has grown back.”

“…”

“Ugh… why does my face hurt so much? And above my lips…”

“That… I called you for a long time without any response, so I had no choice but to use force. Sorry…”

Looking at the lazy youth with swollen cheeks and several nail marks on his philtrum, Leon apologized: “Senior Emma is injured too severely this time. She probably won’t wake up anytime soon. All the curse-silver and amulets with killing power in my possession have been confiscated by the Goddess of Wealth. My current defensive means aren’t sufficient.

And outside, besides the congregation of the Scale Gold Religion, there should still be around eighty to ninety clerical personnel, as well as at least two bishops. If we take you both out directly, I feel it wouldn’t be very stable. So I thought of waking you first, asking if you have any methods.”

Do I have any methods? Looking at himself who lost all his bones and joints, the lazy youth said with a headache: “All my bones and joints are gone. Only my mouth and neck can move. Oh yeah, now I’ve got an extra butt… Anyway, with my current state, what method could I possibly have? By the way, didn’t you pick up those shell coins? Why don’t you try saving Senior Emma like you saved me before?”

“I’ve already tried. It didn’t work.”

Hearing this, Leon shook his head helplessly and explained: “Senior Emma’s situation is more complicated. The sword in her heart is a soul wound. Her arms have turned emerald green due to [Emerald Green Dream]. Moreover, Snake Spirit bought over three hundred lives from her. These three injuries mixed together can’t be purchased individually. The number of shell coins isn’t enough.

Besides, buying ‘injuries’ is different from buying bones. Injuries cannot exist separately from the body. To buy Senior Emma’s injuries, someone needs to bear these wounds.”

Lifting his right hand, showing Senior Tom the emerald-green nails, Leon added nervously:

“For her, it’s just serious injuries, but for me, they’re fatal wounds. I estimate that even buying less than one-tenth of her injuries would cause the wound in her heart to shatter my soul, turning me into a motionless jade statue forever.”

“So we shouldn’t buy them…”

Looking at Leon’s emerald-green fingernails, the lazy youth pondered and realized the situation was indeed tricky.

Although the most deadly Goddess of Wealth mysteriously ran away, giving the three of them an unexpected reprieve, the congregation of the Scale Gold Religion is still outside [Emerald Green Dream].

According to the gathering process of the Scale Gold Religion, each branch usually has one bishop present. After killing one, there should still be two bishops outside, along with dozens of baptized core congregants with certain special abilities.

Though the Scale Gold Religion, known for its underground sect, has bishops whose combat skills are quite poor—only equivalent to regular Level Two Cleaners, even worse than Jerry-type reconnaissance cleaners—it’s not difficult to deal with them.

If either myself or Emma were normal, eliminating those two bishops would be ridiculously easy, probably taking less than thirty seconds. But now, with Emma unconscious, myself unable to move, and Leon, our only intact person, having lost his main combat Anomalous Item, we might not be able to handle these followers of the Scale Gold Religion.

If I managed to survive after escaping from the True God, only to die at the hands of some trash bishops, I’d die without closing my eyes…

…

“Or… you could just stab me to death.”

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“Huh?”

“Relax, it’s my trump card.”

In Leon’s bewildered expression, the lazy youth explained:

“When we entered, didn’t I set up three rituals beforehand?

The first two rituals have already triggered. The ritual made with five kinds of metals stole money from the Scale Gold Religion’s cat spirit, while the other ritual using mercury, sulfur, and salt canceled the influence of the Snake Spirit Secret Shrine. The last ritual is for resurrection.”

“Resurrection?!”

“Yes, the effect of that ritual is resurrection… Or it automatically activates when I’m killed, restoring me to the moment I set up the ritual.”

Looking at Leon’s shocked face, the lazy youth couldn’t help but proudly explain:

“The six materials of the return ritual are paired opposites. Matches and amber represent solid eternity and fleeting destruction; children’s nails and the elderly’s wills refer to the growth and end of the flesh, horns and tails symbolize beginning and ending, achieving three perfect balances between each other.

If I get killed, it means the match of the flesh has gone out, the old man of the soul has passed away, and life has reached its end. This breaks the single-side balance. At that point, the remaining opposite symbols will activate, starting to recreate everything about me.

Afterward, my body will become eternal like amber, my soul will grow vigorously like a child, and life that has reached its end will start anew. Thus, I will be resurrected.”

“Let me tell you, this is my proudest ritual. I survived fighting the True God thanks to it, so go ahead and stab me. With just one sword strike, I’ll be lively… uh… wait a second!”

Seeing the blood-red wolf-tooth club full of inverted nails in Leon’s hand, the lazy youth couldn’t help but instinctively shrink his newly grown coccyx bone in fear.

“Not… it’s true that I asked you to stab me, but are you really going to use THAT?”

(End of Chapter)