He furrowed his brow, sensing that something was vaguely amiss.

After pondering for a long time, he still couldn’t pinpoint what exactly was wrong.

He felt an unfamiliar and eerie atmosphere emanating from this Easter Egg Chapter, but couldn’t clearly articulate what exactly was eerie.

Once the power of the church was far away, Lin Xun stayed invisible, lingering at the city gate entrance, quietly fishing.

Because it was ’Slaughter Mode’, as long as an Apostle did not activate the invisibility skill, an eye-catching ’Invader’s Shadow’ would appear around their body.

If the person entering the city was flashing red light, it meant they were an enemy Apostle.

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Shang Xiaoyuan was one of the few Apostles of the fourth difficulty level amongst the candidates for the Twelfth Apostle.

It wasn’t that he lacked the ability to escalate to the fifth difficulty, but due to his late entry into the game, passing the fourth difficulty before the Apostle election was already his limit.

If he was given another month or two, Shang Xiaoyuan believed that with his talent, he would definitely be able to conquer the fifth difficulty.

His talent was called ’Absolute Luck’, a borderline game-breaking talent that not only affected monster drop rates but also the random opening of loot boxes, and even influenced the options given in the game!

With the generous support from Big Brother ’Fisherman’ and Lord ’Bashir’, his soul talent level had already been elevated to +5.

Each time he defeated a monster, it would drop the highest quality items and equipment that the monster could drop.

Only when fighting the BOSS would the drop rate decrease slightly since his talent was not yet fully upgraded.

However, this didn’t impact Shang Xiaoyuan’s rocket-like leveling speed!

Since ’Absolute Luck’ also influenced the game’s options, he was always able to choose the most suitable option through methods like flipping a coin or rolling a dice.

He could even accidentally trigger many hidden plots and discover hidden maps, thus receiving extraordinary rewards.

In the previously cleared Chapter, which was the nightmare Chapter of the fourth difficulty, he achieved a double S rating thanks to his ’Absolute Luck’ soul talent!

According to Big Brother Fisherman, even Lord Bashir has difficulty achieving a double S rating in the nightmare Chapter...

Being able to achieve a double S rating in the nightmare Chapter of the fourth difficulty shows that his strength surpassed the average Apostle at the fifth difficulty by a large margin.

Big Brother Fisherman told him to be very cautious about a few Apostles at the sixth difficulty in the Easter Egg Chapter of the Apostle election.

Among those Apostles, two already had the strength to advance to the seventh difficulty, but they chose to stay at the sixth difficulty and did not join the Elder Council, all for the contention of the last Apostle slot.

Big Brother Fisherman treated him better than his own brother, as such, Shang Xiaoyuan obeyed Fisherman’s instructions dutifully.

Therefore, after he entered the Easter Egg Chapter, he was extremely cautious and spent a long time exploring an area called ’Gloomy Forest’. During this time, he even successfully defeated an Apostle at the fifth difficulty.

However, there seemed to be some issues with this Easter Egg Chapter.

Apostles whose ’Shell’ died would continuously die due to death punishment, resulting in the annihilation of their souls.

Shang Xiaoyuan immediately reported this situation to Lord Bashir.

As a result, he saw Lord Bashir losing control for the first time.

Lord Bashir said that the original plan was for Shang Xiaoyuan to secure the position of Apostle, which would be ideal.

Even if he didn’t obtain the highest kill count, and even if his Shell died a few times, as long as he survived till the end of the Easter Egg Chapter, he could safely withdraw and join the Elder Council early.

However, there seemed to be a problem with the Easter Egg Bookmark provided by his Lord. Once an Apostle participating in the election has their Shell killed, their soul would be annihilated indiscriminately.

Lord Bashir had already reported the situation to his Lord, but there was no response yet.

Under such circumstances, Lord Bashir could only contact various parties to seek the rare ’Escape Bookmark’.

With the ’Escape Bookmark’, he could leave the Easter Egg Chapter and save his life the moment his Shell dies.

However, there were many Apostle candidates, and most of them had the support of the Elder Council or other Apostles.

With so many candidates needing the rare ’Escape Bookmark’, where could Lord Bashir find one for him?

Shang Xiaoyuan was flipping the coin for the third time.

On the front of the coin, the word ’Yes’ was written with a black marker, and ’No’ was written on the back.

The result of three consecutive coin flips was ’No’.

The option he was facing was [Do you want to enter Moonlight Town’s ’Saint Lance’?]

Watching the dwindling number of candidates, Shang Xiaoyuan knew that if he didn’t enter ’Saint Lance’ now, his chances of becoming the Twelfth Apostle would be zero.

Lord Bashir said that it didn’t matter much if he didn’t become the Twelfth Apostle. As long as he could join the Elder Council, he would have his moment of glory, given his talent.

But, but if he didn’t strive for the position of Apostle, how could he live up to Big Brother Fisherman’s hopeful gaze...

Shang Xiaoyuan took a deep breath, and for the first time, he went against his talent’s choice - he pressed the ’Yes’ option, entering ’Saint Lance’.

He believed that the Goddess of Luck was still on his side!