Dungeon Waiting Hall, Rest Room.
Watching the pollution value of the Peaceful Town decrease steadily, everyone’s expressions grew more and more excited.
Sword Star had been in the dungeon for less than an hour and managed to reduce nearly 80% of the pollution value down to about 50%.
Just as they had anticipated, being able to reduce the pollution value by 10% in such a short ti ant Sword Star had thoroughly mastered the situation and begun the breakthrough phase.
With the rich experience in dungeons shared by those in the room, they all ntally visualized Sword Star solving the critical puzzle and frantically advancing the main line.
As long as he desires, clearing the dungeon, and even a breakthrough, is just a matter of ti.
Not to ntion the Peaceful Town, which within the Managent Bureau has a standard surpassing a typical B-Level. Even for a regular C-Level dungeon, no one in the Managent Bureau clears it this fast.
Not even Cold Mountain can.
What will the final breakthrough ti be?
Three hours, two and a half hours?
Thinking of this, everyone’s breath started to quicken.
Could it really be less than two hours?!
Such a scenario is unprecedented for Lin Jiang and Director Gao, and even for Xu Dejun.
At this mont, they all were witnesses to the birth of a historical genius.
Xu Dejun, known for his composure and calmness, who was said to remain unchanged even when Mount Tai collapsed, showed a trace of anxiety on his face.
Sword Star, though a good candidate, was in a talent-abundant Managent Bureau where many geniuses are trained from birth in specialized paths, making the lack of one sowhat painful but not crippling.
Therefore, upon hearing Sword Star was targeted by Evil God followers, he was only angry but not impatient; when Sword Star accidentally entered the Peaceful Town, he wasn’t impatient either.
Now that it’s confird Sword Star broke through himself, soaring skyward, he got anxious.
If, and he ans if, Sword Star maintains his current montum, achieving a perfect clear is not impossible.
By then, Sword Star will have both a hidden profession and be a title player.
The Managent Bureau will welco its own monstrous newcor.
But the more it is this mont, the more afraid they are of a lost cause.
Xu Dejun asked, "Lin Jiang, where is the Negotiation Master now?"
Lin Jiang replied hesitantly, "She’ll be here in five more minutes, I was wondering if it’s necessary under the current circumstances..."
"It is necessary!" Xu Dejun said firmly.
"Those Evil God followers are like poisonous snakes lurking in the shadows, you never know when they’ll strike, you must be cautious!"
"You don’t need to worry that the presence of the Negotiation Master will diminish Sword Star’s growth breakthrough; if he can gain a title, the benefits for Sword Star will far outweigh that extra bit of gain."
Lin Jiang nodded in agreent, "Understood!"
He, too, had thought before that Sword Star might cut through this dungeon like a hot knife through butter and possibly earn a title, but the target being Peaceful Town seed too slim a chance to be more than wishful thinking.
Now hearing Xu Dejun ntion it reignited his hope instantly.
If Sword Star does get a title, the Evolution Sect’s discourse power will greatly enhance, illuminating not just Sword Star’s future, but his own as well.
People in high spirits welco good news, even the bald head of Director Gao, which he always found unpleasant to see, suddenly seed jubilant.
After all, they used five new assistants provided by others as stepping stones; Sword Star’s achievent today could be credited to 20% of their efforts.
Lin Jiang warmly approached and said, "Director Gao, the events today were our initial fault, but the outco is ultimately good. Although we have different philosophies, we’re all family; there’s no need to hurt our harmony."
"As an apology, if the Peaceful Town is resolved, I will personally offer each surviving assistant in your branch two thousand Rotten Silver Coins each, and further arrange for them one ordinary reward dungeon permission."
"If a perfect clear of the Peaceful Town is achieved, I will give them ten thousand Rotten Silver Coins each as an apology, and not only them, everyone present is included in the joy. Furthermore, I will arrange one interdiate reward dungeon permission for them; how does that sound, Director Gao?"
With Sword Star’s smooth dungeon strategy and Lin Jiang’s sincerity, the assistant survival probability skyrocketed. Even if Director Gao and ng Yawen were discontented before, they couldn’t find fault now.
Having learned from a major loss, Director Gao wised up when Lin Jiang made his statent, secretly activating the record function on the Attribute Panel to prevent future disputes.
After recording everything, he smiled and said, "You’ve laid it out so well that if we still refuse, it would be over the line. So, we await your celebration banquet."
Inside the dungeon, the Burning Town Inner World.
Wu Chang True Self transford into an 11-ter tall Giant Whale man, looking down at the fla-engulfed villagers swarming around his feet like they were rely a bunch of ignited cockroaches.
Besides being visually unsettling, they posed no real threat.
He placed the sleeping Saintess on his shoulder, and like a kaiju from a special-effects movie, rampaged unchecked within the town.
First, he ramd into the Great Cathedral’s bell tower, placing the pointed top, carved from solid rock, on the ground, spun it like a giant top, and flung it out.
The top crashed into the crowd, instantly clearing out a large area, mashing any burning townsfolk in its path into human-shaped black ash on the ground.
A true dinsional drop.
While the burning townsfolk were easy to kill, the power gained from devouring them was far less than that from the fishn.
Devouring the life force of ten burning townsfolk would only grant 5 points of power and an increase in height by half a ter.
Since he almost got tricked into the deep sea, Wu Chang has placed more emphasis on the Will Attribute, using his abilities much more cautiously.
He tried to prolong the fight, and with the postal bag helping to recover will, he only consud the life force of 80 burning villagers before stopping.
This brought his Strength Attribute to 140 points, and his height to 15 ters, as tall as the Great Cathedral.
With 140 points of strength and a 15-ter height, to put it arrogantly, the faceless nun on the Count’s Manor’s main building could co down and give up her position for him to act as this dungeon’s boss.
If his True Self were the boss, he’s confident the Peaceful Town could beco the next Moonlight Sanatorium.
He stamped out the flas on all the burning townsfolk, leaving only the ntally collapsed bishop in front of the faceless Great Saint Mother Statue in the Inner World.
Affected by the Resonance of ntal Images, the bishop was forced into a will-controlled state.
What Wu Chang did not expect was that the collapse caused by the Resonance of ntal Images didn’t just lead to the bishop’s ntal breakdown; it amplified the resonance into a cell-like entrapnt, locking the bishop’s consciousness inside, similar to the Inner World.
The Divine Envoy within the Great Saint Mother Statue attempted to attach to the bishop as before, only to find itself also trapped in the Resonance of ntal Images.
It couldn’t even control the bishop’s body, let alone leave his mind.
Wu Chang picked up the "top" from the ground and hurled it towards the Great Saint Mother Statue.
The top smashed onto the statue, breaking it. The impact also took the bishop with it, reducing him, like the other burning townsfolk, to two-dinsional ash.
With the Divine Envoy trapped within the bishop’s Resonance of ntal Images, it could not be revived this ti and was completely shattered as well with its disappearance.
The death of the Divine Envoy led to the shattering of the Great Saint Mother Statue within the Inner World.
Wu Chang picked up a Black Robe and covered the Saintess with it, carrying her out of the Inner World.
The effect of the "Blessing of the Great Saint Mother" remained strong, successfully allowing the Saintess to revive. When Wu Chang brought her into reality from the Inner World, her presence was stable and not at all dissipating.
Wu Chang couldn’t help but take out the Mortal Poison. If only he had mastered this black tech before, using a simple blessed keepsake and a mory segnt to effortlessly revive a projection, then the Moonlight Sanatorium incident wouldn’t have turned him into a sideshow.
Wu Chang hoisted the Saintess, moving toward a direction away from the town center.
The news of the Saintess’s revival couldn’t be leaked to the townsfolk yet; a place to hide her first was needed.
anwhile, Hamster finished working overti and walked to her accommodations provided by the police station.
Having worked all day, she needed a nap before getting up at dawn to reunite with Sword Star.
What she didn’t notice was the bald-headed Iron Armor Corps mber quietly tailing her from a distance.
His eyes were dazed, staring vacantly ahead.
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