Chapter 675: The Lava Ritual Begins, Disguising as a Deity

At Johnck Zoo.

Mona knelt at the core node of the lava ritual.

A mysterious and solemn aura spread across the Altar of Life.

The Dark Sanctum descended.

Spirituality perception range +300%, blocking external prophecies or spiritual detection effects.

Yu Yuan stood behind Mona, with the aura of "Molten Believer" surging through him.

At this moment, in the eyes of others, he was a genuine "Molten Believer," his faith pure and unwavering.

Beside Yu Yuan stood Knight.

As an orthodox Silver-tier Bishop of the Orthodox Church, he used his authority to initiate the lava ritual.

Crimson magma patterns surfaced across his body, and the sulfur smell spread across the Altar of Life.

Knight cast out a handful of ashes.

"Ashes record the truth, lava forges the contract. With this as sacrifice, I offer my flesh..."

As the words rang out.

The lava ritual rippled in resonance with the molten bloodline within Knight, resonating with a certain spiritual trait.

This resonance was like a password, and a matching wave of faith began to descend.

Just as the faith wave descended, Mona, who had been kneeling at the center of the ritual, suddenly lifted her head.

Her eyes turned into complete darkness, and her deep purple hair flew wildly behind her.

The witch had arrived.

The Dark High Priestess talent activated.

Mona used the effects of the Dark Sanctum and the Altar of Life to connect and amplify Yu Yuan's lava faith with the just-descended faith wave.

A faith link.

Yu Yuan's title, Blessed of the Gods, activated.

In an instant, the lava faith channel descended.

Working in tandem, Mona and Yu Yuan seized control of the lava faith channel and intercepted its flow.

Their lava ritual was like a trojan horse smuggled into the lava faith channel.

Without arousing any suspicion, they invaded the administrative authority of the lava faith.

Tens of thousands of faith points of light fell under Yu Yuan's control.

Each faith point was the faith coordinate of a world.

These points varied in size.

Whenever Yu Yuan focused his attention on a point, its brief information would surface.

Yu Yuan quickly scanned several of the larger points.

He found that every single one belonged to players, and their strength had already reached Silver-tier. Clearly, they were all Silver-rank players.

Among the smaller points, players and native believers were mixed together.

Many were similar to Molten Kobolds, molten creatures carrying a trace of Molten Demon bloodline within them.

Among them, Yu Yuan also spotted a familiar name: the Destroyer Dragon Train.

"It's him!"

Yu Yuan remembered this person.

But now was not the time to observe him.

Although the points were numerous, the faith administrative authority clearly possessed a filtering function.

As Yu Yuan input the keywords of machinery, garbage, and planet.

The other points vanished, leaving only three points still shining brightly.

After a quick inspection, Yu Yuan's attention settled on one of them.

Location: Bronze Star Track.

Scale: 1 Silver-tier, 15 Bronze-tier, 231 believers.

Resources: Mechanical metal scrap, fuel waste, radioactive materials, electronic waste.

Enemies: Cult remnants (Polar Night Technology Company), Shadow Vulture...

This was the one.

Target confirmed. Yu Yuan directly selected the connection and activated Deity Disguise.

Target: the Molten Demon King.

His image within the faith channel began to shift, gradually taking on the form of a Molten Demon. The aura of a great existence radiated from him.

Though the aura was somewhat ethereal, it was already more than enough.

Mona also exerted her power simultaneously, shielding the faith link between Yu Yuan and the Orthodox Church on the Mechanical Scrapyard Planet.

"My faithful follower..."

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Mechanical Scrapyard Planet.

110 kilometers from the Ten Thousand Nations Pact Civilization military camp.

In a settlement built from various mechanical garbage, inside a dim room.

A meeting was underway.

"All the cult's supplies are being delivered to that military camp. This is all far too strange."

"But we can clearly sense the presence of our Lord's Divine Attendant there..."

"I still recommend contacting our Lord's Divine Attendant. Whatever the situation, a High Divine Attendant would never betray our Lord. Perhaps there are circumstances we are unaware of."

As soon as he spoke, another person rebutted him.

"Not advisable. We never sensed any other Divine Attendant's presence before. He appeared so suddenly and inexplicably. No one knows what the real situation is."

"That's exactly what I think. He appeared together with that army. What exactly is their relationship? All of this must be clarified."

Just then, the Molten Demon idol in the back compartment suddenly radiated light.

A scorching aura instantly flooded the entire room.

Everyone was interrupted mid-discussion by the sudden change, staring in shock at the idol.

Then, as if struck by lightning, they sprang up, rushed to kneel before the idol, and let molten aura surface from their bodies, resonating with the lava fluctuations emanating from the idol.

Hum.

The next moment, lava descended.

"Scalding blood bears witness to sulfur tearing the sky asunder, the eternal Lord of Lava..."

Praise rang out through the room, and fervent light flickered in everyone's eyes.

"My faithful follower..."

A figure both illusory and real suddenly appeared, and all of them wore expressions of utter disbelief.

"We welcome our Lord's descent... we welcome..."

The Silver-tier Archpriest kneeling at the very front, his charred face alight with excitement.

"Your most loyal follower answers the call of the Lord of Lava..."

He looked up at the idol, only to see an illusory figure hovering above the Molten Demon King idol.

A scorching, raging, destructive aura pressed down upon the Archpriest.

Despite his strength having already reached Silver-tier, under this aura, he felt as insignificant as an ant.

"My Lord has descended!"

This was the Archpriest's only thought.

"My faithful follower, this planet has reached the moment of its return. My divine envoy has already descended into this world. I require you to assist him unconditionally in conquering this world."

Everyone's eyes blazed with fanatical light.

Conquer... the entire world...

"We shall use the flames of lava to burn our enemies' bones to ash and boil their blood..."

"Go. You know the divine envoy's location. Support him with everything you have. Obey him unconditionally. For he is me..."

As these words faded, the molten aura upon the Molten Demon idol dispersed into the air with a pop.

The suffocating, destruction-laden pressure in the room began to dissipate as well.

The group remained kneeling, not daring to rise for a long time.

Several minutes passed before the Archpriest slowly lifted his head.

Gazing at the idol that had returned to stillness, he let out a long, turbid breath, yet his gaze became more resolute and fanatical than ever before.

It was the look of one who had received divine guidance and found clarity within.

He turned to his subordinates, who had also risen behind him, and issued an unassailable command.

"You have all heard the words of our Lord. Gather our resources immediately and go pledge ourselves to the divine envoy..."

His gaze swept across each of their faces.

"I will lead the way personally... and then... let lava cover the world!"

"Yes!"