In a building at the Pale Church's stronghold, there were numerous cages.

The cages all hold creatures from outside Xinghe City, including beasts that inhabit the surrounding area, demonized monsters, fish people, and demihuman races like dog-headed humans.

and some indigenous people who live deep in the forest.

These indigenous people were numerous, numbering in the hundreds. Most of them were adventurers who were captured by the strong members of the Pale Church and imprisoned here.

From time to time, members of the Pale Congregation would take several indigenous people from their cages.

The indigenous people who were taken away, never returned.

Everyone present knows that the indigenous people who were taken away were used as experimental subjects by the pale-skinned cult. Death, for them, is probably a mercy.

They hadn't thought of escaping, but the cage held powerful Pale Order cultists and undead guards.

That's a level 4 powerhouse of the Imperial template!

With such powerful guardians watching over them, how could they possibly escape?

Therefore, they could only wait for death to come.

But today, things seem to be different.

The roar outside the building continued unabated.

They could feel an incredibly powerful aura, and hear the echoes of battles raging everywhere. The cage even trembled slightly.

All sorts of wild beasts and semi-intelligent beings within the cages now cowered together, shivering.

But the indigenous people showed surprise.

“A fight? In the Pale Church's stronghold, people are fighting?!”

"The battle's so loud, it seems the Pale Order has enemies!"

These indigenous people suddenly thought of something and all turned their gazes to the several figures deep within the cage.

Those were some of the Star River City guards, their breath shallow and faces drained of color.

Yesterday, several Star River City guards were thrown into prison. They weren't too fazed by it.

After all, there have been cases of Xinghe City guards being captured before.

Although Xinghe City is huge, the Pale Order hides in the shadows. It would be too difficult to pose an effective threat to them.

Moreover, the members of the Pale Church and their undead forces are very powerful. If they engage in guerrilla warfare, capturing several Starriver City guards would be incredibly easy.

They never expected that just one day after the Xinghe City guards were captured, someone would establish a stronghold there!

"Several honorable guests, are you here to save yourselves?? "

"Yes, did you perhaps leave a distress signal?"

A throng of indigenous adventurers inquired, eagerly watching several Starhaven City guards.

These Xinghe City guards were now exhausted, bearing numerous wounds, big and small.

Hearing this, the leading guard captain and Fei thought of something.

Before he had intentionally left behind communication crystals...

Could it be the credit goes to that communication crystal?

But when they were first brought to the base, their communication crystals were taken away and destroyed.

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I didn't expect to find it!

Before the communication crystals were confiscated and destroyed, they were kept under guard by members of the Pale Order and the Corrupted Claw. There was no sign of any rescue personnel along the way.

What's going on?

They looked at each other in surprise.

Fei shook his head. "I don't know, maybe some unknown powerful person discovered the base and came to help?"

This answer sank the spirits of the originally excited indigenous adventurers.

They originally thought it was the reinforcements from Star City.

If the Star City sent a large army here, there might still be hope to save them.

But if only a few well-meaning adventurers happened upon this place, then with the Pale Church's strength, it would be a fool's errand to try and save them.

"Oh… I hope that the adventurers here can escape and inform Star River City about this situation, so that Star River City sends a large army to slaughter these cultists!"

"Yeah, those Pale Cult bastards are truly evil. They're profaning life!"

“……”

Just as they were talking, a furious roar erupted: "What are you all yelling about?! If you keep it up, I'll kill you all!"

Their faces changed, and they looked towards the pale acolyte in the shadows.

He is the guardian of this place.

Besides him, there were two more decaying corpses, all templates of the Emperor.

Seeing them silent, the guard sneered: "The strength of our stronghold far exceeds your imagination. Want to suppress the stronghold? You're really joking!"

But seeing the fighting getting increasingly fierce, the guard thought for a moment and left two undead corpses to keep watch, while he himself intended to go out and see what was going on.

After he left, in a short while, the noise of the battle gradually subsided.

Despair etched itself onto the faces of the indigenous people.

"It's gone so quickly, it definitely wasn't reinforcements from Xinghe City."

"Yeah, reinforcements from Starriver City would never fail this quickly. It must be adventurers who wandered in here, hopefully they escaped."

"......"

A buzz of conversation filled the air, but after a while, the cage warden who had left did not return.

This left them puzzled.

Where is the oppressor?

Even going to watch the excitement, I wouldn't want to come back?

They glanced at the two emperor-level corpses beside them and didn't have any thoughts of breaking out of prison.

They couldn't even defeat these two rotting corpses.

However, after a long wait, the suppressor still hadn't returned.

Outside, there was an eerie silence. The entire base seemed like a dead city.

This left all the indigenous people looking at each other in surprise, their hearts feeling somewhat uneasy.

Before, although the cage wasn't very lively, there were still occasional visits from Pale Order disciples who came to take experimental materials.

Now there isn't a single person.

Not only that, the suppressor has been gone for so long and hasn't returned.

Could something have happened?

They waited for a long time, and then footsteps came from outside.

Two figures stood there, like the decaying corpses of guardians turning their heads to look over.

A number of indigenous adventurers also looked on.

At the gate, a tall and handsome human youth in armor walked in.

Seeing this young man, all the indigenous people were taken aback.

This is not a suppressor!

And it doesn't seem to be a member of the Pale Church either?

Members of the Pale Church all wear the robes of the Pale Church.

It seems like this person is not a ghost after all?

Who is this person?

How could this be here?

Just then, the two Emperor-level corpses seemed to sense the threat.

They let out a low growl, and in the next instant, they turned into shadows, charging towards the land and sky.

There it is!

A sword cry rang out, and the indigenous people only saw a scarlet light flash. The young man seemingly made no move.

However, the two rotting corpses that lunged towards the sky froze in place.

Their heads were floating with hundreds of millions, even billions, of high amounts of damage.

And the corpse's health bar was also directly emptied.

Many indigenous people: “???”

Their eyes widened in horror as they watched the Emperor-level corpse slowly fall to the ground.

"What... what just happened?!"

Nobody answered this question.

Because they couldn't see clearly.

At that moment, footsteps sounded, and the indigenous people shuddered, turning to look at the human youth.

At this moment, young people have already come in.

He came to the rotting corpse and picked up the ball of light. At this sight, everyone thought about what it meant.

"Dropping? Is this a player?"

Many indigenous people are left scratching their heads.

Holy crap!

Instant kill two level four Emperor-grade corrupted corpses, this kind of strength should be the top among level four, right?

You're telling me this is a player??

Aren't the players in the Orion newbie continent just a few weeks into the official launch?

Even the strongest land and air force seems to have only just advanced to the third level?

Who are you?

Land, air...and so on, land, air?

Then they thought of something and, one after another, used divination to look at the human youth.

When they saw the news about land and air, their expressions were a mixture of surprise and delight.

To everyone's astonishment, Lu Kong, who was only at level 33, managed to instantly kill two Emperor-level Tier 4 monsters.

This strength simply refreshed their cognition.

And best of all, Lu Kong is a player! Naturally, he's one of their own!

He is here to save them!

Saved!