Apocalypse Lord-Chapter 42 - 40: Mining, Mining!

Priest Sean was completely unable to comprehend the strange scene before him.

Why did the Sun Blessing undergo changes in Lord’s hand?

Sean carefully examined the wondrous and unsettling glow, and unconsciously, his expression grew increasingly captivated.

So sacredly perfect... so brilliant and dazzling... so pure and flawless...

Sean’s heart beat faster and faster, and in the next moment, a fervor unlike anything before overwhelmed his reason.

To worship...

He wanted to worship that glow, no! He must devoutly worship it! And then offer it everything he had!

"Wendy, Sean, we’ve got a lot of work ahead of us! Wait... what’s wrong with you guys?"

Lin Lan stared at the tool Sun Brother had given him, his thoughts racing, and then he noticed something awry with the crowd.

Wendy was breathing rapidly, Sean wore a somewhat peculiar smile, and the townsfolk in the camp were all staring at him intently, bending over as if in a pilgrimage, clustering toward him.

Lin Lan realized what was going on.

The promise from the God was indeed a bit too stimulating for the minds of ordinary people...

How was one supposed to put this thing away?

He stared at the pure orb of light in his hand, slightly troubled, since the Divine Promise indiscriminately affected the minds of ordinary people, ignoring the blockage from any containers.

In the worldview of those novels from his previous life, this thing would be a hidden divine artifact sealed layer by layer by the Pope’s relic, only to be taken out at the brink of the world’s destruction.

He couldn’t just casually put it in his pocket and wander around, could he?

Just as Lin Lan was lost in thought, he suddenly felt a warmth in his chest, and the orb of light in his hand disappeared.

[The ’Promise of the Eternal Fierce Sun’ has been contained by the administrator]

[The promise is now officially in effect! From this day forth, your territory will carry the will of the sun!]

[Effect details: Within the territorial region, the decay rate of Ash Soil ore is significantly prolonged, and the miners you appoint will establish a soul link with the Divine Kingdom mine, increasing Ash Soil ore mining efficiency by 1000%]

Luckily, the system intervened in time.

Lin Lan touched his warm chest, inexplicably feeling as if his heart had undergone a change...

The faint strange sensation quickly disappeared, and he looked again at the crowd: "Everyone, calm down!"

Lord’s voice snapped people out of their fervent, dazed state.

Wendy came back to her senses.

The young girl blinked and found herself almost pressing against the Lord, her cheeks reddening as she instinctively began to analyze her previous psychological state.

"Lord, what did you do just now?"

Sean, on the other hand, was still visibly shaken.

"It was just a small mishap."

Lin Lan glanced over the system prompts, his expression serious as he said, "Next, I need you guys to help me conduct some tests regarding the sun."

Upon hearing this, Wendy’s face lit up with interest: "Lord Roland, was that mental interference phenomenon just now also related to the sun?"

"You’ll gradually come into contact with that in the future."

Lin Lan bypassed the topic and started sharing the most novel and unconventional knowledge points with the only university student in the territory:

"I learned from the Priest’s Prayer Book that the sun is actually an energy mine left to us by ancient civilization."

He intentionally omitted the part about the God: "The ’language’ of the ancient civilization is the ’tool’ for collecting mine resources, and Priest Sean’s prayer just now was essentially a basic mining operation."

Wendy slightly widened her eyes.

Then, a surge of even more intense curiosity and amazement appeared in the girl’s gem-like azure eyes.

"You can understand the language of the ancient civilization? How did you manage that?"

Her soft voice rose several decibels: "Even the archaeology professors at White Tower Academy can’t accurately decipher the culture of the ancient civilization!

Wendy’s eyes were bright with excitement, and her speech rate started to quicken: "Lord Roland, may I ask you for your knowledge? I promise to repay you with this knowledge!"

"Don’t be hasty."

Lin Lan raised his index finger, placing it against the girl’s lips as she nearly leaned over, blinking his eyes: "This is my little secret."

The system would automatically translate the languages of various races and civilizations for him, a fact Lin Lan didn’t intend to explain to anyone.

Wendy nodded obediently, but the thirst for knowledge in her gaze showed not the slightest diminishment.

Sean was somewhat bewildered.

What were Lord and Miss Wendy talking about?

"Let’s get back to the Sun Mine."

Lin Lan looked towards the Sun Praise priest: "I’ve optimized the mining process a bit, now it becomes easier to mine, Sean, you can try praying again."

"Oh... I fully understand, Lord."

Sean’s smooth brain had clearly caught only the ’prayer’ part twice.

He opened the Prayer Book and began reciting the words as usual, but this time, magical changes occurred.

The obscure words seemed to come alive in Sean’s mind, and his language became more fluent and powerful than before.

Sean realized his will was no longer groggy and hard to drive, the chaos and meaningless vast visions he used to see during prayer gradually became clear.

In a trance, his soul was drawn by the words to a grand kingdom exhausted by flames.

Sean concentrated, striving to observe the vision world before him, his expression growing increasingly astounded.

He saw a vast ship carrying an oversized city piercing deeply into the earth.

Sean could not use his meager words to describe the size of the city and ship; the scene before him seemed as if the ancient civilization had steered the world vertically into another world, everything appearing resolute yet tragic.

Yet the world embraced the ship, and the flames capable of destroying everything no longer roared angrily, instead becoming peaceful and warm.

The sun was dead.

Its kingdom left only with embers.

A faint sense of heaviness spread in Sean’s heart, and he bent down, scooping up the dust from the ground with his hands.

In the next moment, Sean woke up in reality, only to see a bright, warm glow appear, slowly descending before the priest.

He instinctively reached out, cradling the heavy sunlight.

Sean was dumbfounded.

Could this blessing have been conjured by me?

Lin Lan’s eyes glimmered, and he nodded in satisfaction.

The fact proven, the Eternal Fierce Sun had practically gifted him almost limitless energy, and what he needed to do next was much simpler.

Which was—mining! Mining! Mining! And then dig hard!

"You try too, Wendy."

Lin Lan gazed at the young girl enthusiastically, as well as the townsfolk in the camp: "I’ll teach you the pronunciations of those words..."

Amidst the people’s exchanges, nightfall gradually covered the land.

·

Outside Seagull Town.

Several torches flickered in the wind, brand-new leather boots snapped twigs, and the Guard Captain of the patrol in the Lord’s territory stopped, watching the tree stump at the forest edge with an icy gaze.

"Someone dared to chop down the Lord’s Black Pine Forest?"

Another Lord’s Guard let out a shrill shout.

He drew his sharp sword with a grim voice: "I think these lowly peasants really are tired of living! They have no idea what sin they’ve committed!"