Chapter 17 - Chapter 17: Chapter 16 Night Raid (2/2)

Byrne adjusted his glasses and donned many layers of clothes before he dared to step from the house into the courtyard, even after seizing the Power of Consecution, his physique was barely on par with an ordinary person.

“Father, why are we recruiting new guards again this month?”

Ever since the jungle natives’ unrest was confirmed a year ago, the Fischer family had reduced their number of guards down to five, improving their financial situation considerably.

But now Lucius had once again recruited five veterans, and the burden of paying their salaries had increased once more.

“It’s because those jungle natives might appear again, so we must take precautions in advance.”

Lucius replied calmly, but Byrne couldn’t understand, because for two whole years, those jungle natives had only made one appearance in Nasir Town, and his father had easily dealt with them; moreover, that was all over a year ago.

“Father, do we really need to bear this extra expense?”

Lucius shook his head, his tone leaving no room for doubt, “Byrne, you just don’t understand. There’s no chance for regret if something goes wrong.”

Byrne sighed, saying, “Then it will be a long wait again before we can purchase Class 2 Extraordinary Material.”

Lucius looked silently at his own hands. Now, the 1st Rank Magic Potion had been fully assimilated.

As long as he got enough Extraordinary materials to reach the second stage of Spirituality, he could ask the Lord of the Lost for even stronger power.

By then, his foundational strength would be on par with that of the traditional Extraordinary Exponents at the high-level Beginning, unquestionably a very important goal.

The family’s resources were never enough. The choice between short-term investment and long-term investment was always difficult.

He still asserted firmly, “Our Fischer family is far from strong enough. Caution and secrecy are the most important principles.”

“Byrne, your problem is that you always look too far ahead, but often overlook the immediate crises.”

“Alright, alright, stop. I understand.”

Byrne didn’t think of arguing with his father anymore, but instead returned to his room and took out a thick black-leather book from his bookcase.

Written on the black-leather book was information about the True Gods Church of the Ouden Continent.

The Five Great True Gods Churches, which are the Salvation Church, Sun Church, World Order Church, Tempest Church, and Silver Moon Church, have been inherited for thousands of years and are an undeniable powerful force on the Ouden Continent.

Byrne mumbled to himself, “Doctrine, scriptures, positions, if we really want to establish a religious group, there’s so much we’ll need to learn.”

Both his father and Irene had lamented the lack of trustworthy and capable people in the Fischer family.

They had also thought about what to do if they had surplus blessings to deal with later on.

Byrne vaguely felt that maybe they could emulate the jungle natives’ Blood Cult, establishing a secret religious group that worshipped the Lord of the Lost.

But how to ensure the loyalty of the faithful and how to avoid detection by the True Gods Church? What specific rules and regulations should be? He found the complexity headache-inducing just thinking about it.

Whether it was Irene or Lucius, reading would make them doze off, but the more Byrne read, the more energized he became, not wanting to sleep late into the night.

“I still have too few books. I’ve read many over several times. Sigh, and that ability that greatly improves my memory is, in some ways, an annoying curse.”

Byrne had heard that the Emperor of the Empire had collected a vast number of books to establish a place called “library,” exclusively for the empire’s nobles and senior citizens to read, and he was determined to visit the empire in his lifetime to see it for himself.

Suddenly, he felt an idea arising from the depths of his heart.

As if his body had plunged into the depths of the ocean, an almost suffocating sense of oppression made Byrne instinctively stand up, unable to stop shivering all over!

It was a warning from the Lord of the Lost!

Some terrible danger was approaching!

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Karl’s consciousness, with a god-like perspective, overlooked the town, detecting dozens of people sneaking towards the Fischer family’s direction.

Zooming in, he immediately noticed that these people disguised as merchants all had black facial markings, evidently jungle natives who worship the Mighty Bloody Demon!

So many jungle natives sneaking into the town at night was an incredible event, and Karl quickly realized that there were no signs of any patrol teams in the town.

Something was wrong. It seemed there was a traitor in Nasir Town who had meddled, and the person capable of relocating the town’s patrol meant that the traitor’s position must be quite high.

While thinking, Karl quickly sent a warning to the people of the Fischer family.

Lucius awoke from his sleep, his agile body shooting out of bed to quickly grab a white whistle from beside his pillow and blew it fiercely!

“Whoo!!!!”

The piercing whistle sliced the air, echoing through the streets!