Inside the Lost City.

An empty room.

A flash of white light, Bai Pu’s figure appears.

However, the figures of the four Bishop’s Servants did not appear.

Through the perception of the bloodline, Bai Pu can sense the approximate locations of the four Bishop’s Servants. They have also entered the Lost City, but due to the randomness of spatial transmission, they have been sent to other rooms.

Bai Pu glanced around the empty room.

Similar to the last visit, the interior is desolate.

In the center of the room, there is a stone tablet.

Following the usual procedure, Bai Pu needs to activate the stone tablet, challenge the monsters in this room, and eliminate them all.

The problem is, last time when monsters were exterminated, there’s a chance to drop Rune Characters, which can be combined into a "Rune Language" to be transmitted to the Holy Artifact Platform and receive the corresponding Holy Artifact.

But this time, the Lost City did not "generate" new Holy Artifacts.

Where then, do the mottled words on the stone tablet point?

"Gaia, I need guidance."

With a backer, Bai Pu doesn’t want to think too hard.

Directly calling "Gaia" instead of "Great Gaia’s Will" is because Bai Pu thinks Gaia’s Will is just an emotionless super large program.

It is not a Divine, won’t offer extra benefits just because Bai Pu speaks respectfully; nor will it punish if Bai Pu speaks casually.

Anyway, during the scramble for the Matrix, Gaia’s Will’s "eyes" are focused on Bai Pu, even calling "Little Gai" or "Ah Gai," it will respond.

[Please explore on your own.]

Seeing the cold words appear on the retina, Bai Pu felt a chill and said, "Is being so indifferent really okay? I’m supposed to help you scramble for the Matrix, shouldn’t elite performance underlings be treated differently?"

Gaia’s Will seemingly recognized the rigidity in its formulaic response and provided an explanation:

[According to the Origin Oath, during the Spirit Realm war, Spirit Realm Will or Divines cannot provide any additional assistance to Awakened, everything must be explored independently.]

"Isn’t this binding oneself... Now I understand why Awakened all want to become Voters."

Bai Pu muttered.

Both Divines and Spirit Realm Will are bound by the Oath, it seems fair.

But Divines differ from Spirit Realm Will, they are more like living people, knowing how to exploit loopholes.

—For instance, Divine Envoys.

Of course, Divine Envoys should also face certain restrictions, but Bai Pu is not yet aware.

"Forget it, relying on heaven and earth is not as good as relying on oneself."

Bai Pu reached out and pressed the stone tablet.

Divine Rune flowed, Energy surged, insect-like monsters came into being.

Perhaps due to being located in the Earth Vein Corridor, where Earth Vein Energy is abundant, the strength of the monsters born this time has significantly increased compared to the last time.

Before him appeared hundreds of insect-like monsters! Each one emitting a strong aura equivalent to Advanced Elite.

And this is just the outer room! If he reaches the inner Core Area of the room, wouldn’t he face Advanced Lords gathered?

Bai Pu is not afraid, given his Talent’s damage reduction and equipment damage reduction, the harm these Advanced Elite insects can cause is minimal.

After activating the Melt Gold Armor, the insects cannot even break through the defense, instead, they suffer continuous burn damage from the Melt Gold Fire Force.

Before long, Bai Pu wiped out this insect swarm.

A Rune Character hovered in mid-air.

Bai Pu examined it for a while, shook his head, and sighed: "Ah, didn’t expect I also have things I can’t remember."

Though he’s encountered Rune Characters quite a few times, and last time even had a scroll of Rune Language, Bai Pu always fails to remember Rune Characters, it seems this knowledge has a nature of "self-forgetting."

Bai Pu put away the Rune Character.

[Rank Advancing Task (Golden Branch) activated, Task Step 1 Objective: Collect Divine Rune.]

[Task Progress Update: 3rd Divine Rune Acquired. Current Divine Rune Collection Progress: 2%]

[Upon reaching 100% collection progress, the next stage task will be initiated.]

The sudden task notification left Bai Pu startled.

Soon, Bai Pu realized.

"Seems even Spirit Realm Will can adapt!"

Bai Pu chuckled, "Though bound by the Origin Oath, it can’t directly provide hints, yet it will offer the fullest possible information within the bounds of the Oath!"

"As long as I do the right thing, I’ll receive positive feedback from the task notifications."

Consider it, receiving a hint at 2% task progress, thoughtfully providing the 3rd Divine Rune’s information...

This is a privilege hard to come by for average Awakened.

Bai Pu, delighted, stepped directly into the next Light Gate. He had already sensed the positions of the nearest two Bishop’s Servants and ordered them to stay put, awaiting his arrival for assembly.

"Boss Gaia, I’ve pondered, and I still have some concerns. Helping you seize the Matrix this time completely offends the Master of Suffering, what if he plants me down when you’re not looking?"

"I know Divines can’t act, but if Divine Envoy acts, I can’t resist either! You have to help, how do you guarantee my safety..."

Gaia’s Will: [...]

...

Another room.

Rosen’s figure flickered like a shadow, weaving through the encircling wolves. Where he passed, patches of black wilted flowers’ phantoms appeared.

One by one, Touch of Death basic magic floated out from Rosen’s fingertips, bouncing among the wolves. This is the advanced special effect of Touch of Death after being trained to Level 7: Death Diffusion, upon killing the Touch of Death’s target, it expands the Touch of Death to up to five surrounding targets (cannot spread twice).

This way, the basic magic transforms from single target to a group magic for up to five targets.

Soon, Rosen finished clearing the wolf pack.

He stored the Rune Character, stretching his finger, and a small white thorny vine wrapped around his fingertip.

The thorny vine spiraled, actually forming a mouth-like pattern, opening and closing with the Bound’s voice sounding:

"I have already gathered two teams of believers... The remaining Divine Power in Lady Holy Mother’s Mind-Attracting Vine is sparse, you must use it sparingly."

"I need to know the next step. I acquired a Rune Character." Rosen said calmly.

The Bound’s voice sounded again:

"Continue collecting Rune Characters, we aim to create a very powerful Rune Language, then cross the Land of Rogues, engraving it on the Creator Spirit’s Obelisk."

"Just like that?"

"This is not a simple task, you’ve seen how strong the Energy Monsters in the Land of Rogues are... The key is, engraving the Rune Language requires considerable time, during which we will be besieged by monsters summoned by the Creator Spirit! It’s similar to a biological immune mechanism."