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Chapter 337

Following that, a few people were hired by the White Heart mining company to search for a suitable location to establish a food processing factory. At the same time, a few people were sent to investigate the growth environment of the dirt-infused moss, as well as the situation of the black horn rock distribution.

All of this collected data would be gathered in Negri's hands, and he finally obtained some preliminary data.

Negri analyzed this data, from which he managed to glean a few clues. There were several places in this city that had an abnormal life force.

An entity that had manifested a Pathway would instinctively radiate outwards, just like how Negri had manifested this characteristic after he had completed most of his Pathway.

And the one that was related to life was naturally the Life Bearer of the seven Gods. Of course, the other Eulogy of the Deep Sea was also related to life, but that entity's appearance would always be accompanied by the nauseating stench of the sea. This was that entity's nature, so it wasn't easy to hide, nor was it very difficult to hide.

God Offering Day would soon arrive, at which point the Source Fruits of this world would ripen. Just like how humans competed for resources, these so-called Gods were also competing for resources.

According to Dim Silence, the seven Gods most likely came from a higher-level world. They had a certain relationship of interest in a higher-level world, which was why they were able to form this loose alliance of interests, and the Moon Tree world was their high-grade breeding farm.

At the beginning, the Moon Tree world relied on its mobile nature to quickly expand with the help of the elven race. If they had continued to expand like this, the Moon Tree world might have broken through its limits and become a higher-level world, which they called a 'Bed World'.

Unfortunately, this process didn't last for too long before the seven Gods invaded. Although the Moon Tree world was still quite a distance away from a higher-level world, the world itself was already different from a normal Sand World. The rate of Source Force production here far surpassed that of a normal Sand World, making it an excellent breeding farm.

The reason why the power of this world didn't seem to be that high was because the seven Gods had taken over 90% of this world's authority. These authorities had all been shut down, leaving only a small portion of the world's Source Force flowing out through the cursed authority of the elves, causing the awakening of evil souls among the populace.

The competition for this high-quality farm had always been ongoing, and it was normal for the Seven Gods to fight each other openly and covertly. Now that Negri had gained a foothold in this world with Eternal Heat's help, on the surface, Negri was standing on Eternal Heat's side.

Eternal Heat had always been one of the most powerful entities among the Seven Gods, with only Life Bearer and Dark Death being able to match him in terms of combat prowess. However, Dark Death walked a different path from Eternal Heat and the other Gods. While he was powerful, his rationality was often absent, so most of the Seven Gods were wary of Dark Death, but not too hostile towards him.

For that reason, according to normal logic and the preliminary clues, the one who caused the Great Mage to mutate this time was most likely this Life Bearer worshipped by the Half Life Church.

"Has Stim Allenz sided with Life Bearer?" Negri was thinking about the possibility of this. The Great Magus had taken advantage of the strange balance between the seven Gods in order to survive in the Moon Tree world, and if he leaned towards any one of them, the balance might be broken and crushed.

"If that's the case, I'm not in a good situation either." Negri was sitting in his office. His appearance had broken a certain balance, but no matter what, various schemes and plots against him would still come one after another. The only way to stop all of this was to create a new balance, which was why Negri had taken the initiative to join the game after accepting the Great Mage's invitation, trying to make this balance work in his favor.

"The other probe should have arrived as well." Negri had such a thought. This probe wasn't someone else probing him, but rather the Hermit Order probing the Academic City.

Sure enough, a vicious incident occurred in the Academic City that very afternoon. A Mystic had attacked an Institute, killing three professors and over a dozen students, with even more injured.

Even Negri, who was sitting in his office at the outskirts of the city, could hear the resounding explosion.

"Such a commotion, it must be two members, don't disappoint me." Negri recalled a certain experiment from the past. At the time, when he was researching the 'Error' property and the power of Impurity, he had some ideas, so he conducted an experiment. Only a single pair of test subjects survived.

At the same time, a pair of identical blonde, shoulder-length hair were quickly moving through the streets and alleys of the Academic City. The two of them stopped at the same time, the telepathic connection brought by being twins allowed them to constantly share their senses.

The older sister, Lucy, whose hair was on the left side, swung her hand and shot a sharp spike that contained ominous power. The sharp spike pierced through the disguise, twisting the mana to form a transparent, twisted barrier around a person wearing a mage robe. The spike was instantly shattered by that power.

However, before the mage could say anything, the younger sister, Wendy, whose hair was on the right side, tucked her hair behind her ear. An invisible force stirred and shattered the spike into pieces, causing everything within a 5-meter radius to instantly vanish without a trace.

The air flow brought about a violent gale, causing the blonde hair of the two sisters to sway. Meanwhile, the mage from before had already been swept away by this violent gale, scattering every inch of the ground around him in an extremely even manner, because he had already been shattered to the point where he couldn't be any more shattered.

The two twin sisters didn't stop. Power surged from their bodies to disrupt the presence of certain traces, making divination and other types of magic useless against them. However, they were still one step too late.

The manhole cover in the alleyway was violently lifted, and a stinky hand wrapped in dirty water slapped the ground. The skin of the hand seemed to be wriggling, but upon closer inspection, one would realize the truth of the hand that made one's entire body go numb.

The entire hand was made of tiny white maggots. Tens of thousands of maggots made up this single hand, they were constantly wriggling and secreting mucus, some of the maggots on the surface of the hand were even pulling the mucus off as the hand moved.

"You won't be able to escape" A low and terrifying voice resounded from the sewers, following which, the hand made of maggots forcefully pushed itself up, causing a white, bloated body to slide out of the sewers.

This was a humanoid fellow, just like the hand, his entire body was made of maggots. With a single shake of his body, a large number of maggots would fall to the ground. Wherever he walked, a thick mucus would be left behind, giving off an indelible stench.

This was also what the twin sisters had discovered. After destroying the academy earlier today, they had discovered some traces of abnormal mana. According to their investigations, these abnormalities only occurred after the Dean made a trip to the Grand Library.

As members of the Hermit Order, their goal in coming to the Academic City was naturally to complete the mission that Negri had assigned to them, to investigate the abnormalities in the Academic City so that they could receive Negri's help.