Nightmare Light

Chapter 202 Participating in the Test
Recyclable material found: 12 meters away

Upon hearing this voice, Lin Wang's lips twitched: Could this recyclable item be the thorn headband?
You made me steal someone else's sacred artifact in front of everyone in the temple...

This isn't how you fight a religious war!
Fortunately, after estimating the distance, Lin Wang found that he was only six or seven meters away from the Thorn Headband...

It seems that the recyclable material is not that ring.

Lin Wang breathed a sigh of relief.

But there were so many people in this room… Lin Wang remained calm, pretending to be very curious about the “reward for the test,” and asked Bishop Du, “Brother Bishop, may I ask what the reward is?”

The middle-aged bishop seemed pleased to hear that Lin Wang was interested in the "reward," and with his long eyebrows twitching, he pointed to the wall on the left—a row of cabinets against the wall: "The things in there are all pretty good tools for lay masters or temple tools... You can take one of them at will."

"Can't I take two things?" Lin Wang said casually.

"My mother warned us not to be greedy..."

"I was just saying."

As Lin Wang spoke, he walked towards the wall. He had a vague idea that what he was looking for was in that cabinet.

[Recyclable materials should be kept at a distance of 9 meter]

[Distance: 8 meters]

really……

Lin Wang was anxious, but he deliberately walked slowly to the cabinet, his eyes casually sweeping over it.

[Recyclable materials should be kept at a distance of 1 meter]

Strange bones, shriveled frogs, black rolls of cloth... Lin Wang even saw a dried-up head in one of the compartments, with gold teeth in its mouth.

What bizarre things are these... These are the kinds of mundane magicians they use to perform their arts every day... No wonder they're going crazy...

Lin Wang thought to himself, "This is what I'm complaining about."

At that moment, his gaze stopped on something.

Although it looked completely different from what he had seen before, Lin Wang instantly knew that this was his target for retrieval.

It was a fruit.

A blackened and shriveled tree fern fruit.

"So, aren't the temple's collections of excellent quality?" Bishop Du's voice rang out behind Lin Wang. "Did you take a fancy to anything?"

Lin Wang shook his head without showing any emotion: "No."

“That’s a real shame,” Bishop Du said with regret. “Among these items, there are at least two that would be of great help to lay burial masters, such as that ‘corpse shroud’…”

Lin Wang held up two fingers: "If you can let me pick two things from here, I might be willing to try under the Thorn Ring."

Bishop Du shook his head, his attitude gentle yet firm: "The temple can't possibly treat you so specially... However, if you take one item from this collection cabinet and another from the temple's ordinary collection, I, as the bishop, can grant your request."

"That's okay."

Lin Wang nodded.

Immediately, a priest came over and gestured to Lin Wang: "Mr. Lin Wang, this way please."

She led Lin Wang to the center of the room, where Shi Xiong had been standing: "You can stand here and do nothing. Just wait a moment."

"and many more."

Just as the priestess was about to leave, Lin Wang called out to her, "Could I go somewhere else?"

The priestess was taken aback and looked at Lin Wang with confusion.

"Old Shi just threw up here, and I feel a bit uncomfortable standing here."

Priestess: "..."

The people around: "..."

Shi Xiong shouted, "Hey! I can hear you!"

The priestess looked numb and moved the thorn headdress a meter to the side: "Stand still." As if afraid that Lin Wang would make some strange request again, she scurried back to the control panel.

The priests around them nodded in unison, their hands resting on the control panel.

A stream of light flowed into the thorn headband, and a semi-transparent sphere emerged from the headband, gradually enveloping Lin Wang's body.

The sphere gradually grew larger, expanding to a diameter of about two meters.

Then, Lin Wang was not completely covered.

The translucent sphere twisted violently a few more times, then suddenly "whoosh," it expanded by another half meter, completely enveloping Lin Wang.

The hemisphere begins to rotate.

The priests began to busy themselves.

The screens in front of each group of priests began to glow faintly, and various readings were transmitted back to different screens.

The priests looked tense and solemn as they stared at the data on the screen.

A few seconds later, the expressions on the faces of all the priests changed from initial tension and solemnity to disbelief and shock.

"Your... Your Excellency Bishop?" A priest, unable to hide his surprise, looked up at Bishop Du. "These data..."

"What's wrong with the data?" Bishop Du asked calmly, his long eyebrows twitching. "Speak boldly. Under the Mother's radiance, there is nothing that cannot be said."

“If I hadn’t seen it myself, I would have even suspected that… this data was deliberately falsified,” the priest muttered. “Why don’t you come and take a look for yourself?”

Bishop Du walked up to the priest's control panel, glanced at the data in front of him, and the next second, his long eyebrows twitched violently.

Bishop Du raised his head, his eyes, beneath his long eyebrows, revealing an expression of disbelief as he stared intently at Lin Wang.

Before him, the spherical space, like a planet, was spinning rapidly.

Inside that space, Lin Wang seemed unaffected, rotating with the space around him. His face showed no sign of pain, and even a hint of curiosity.

"...Does he think he's in an amusement park?!"

Even with Bishop Du's composure, he couldn't help but shout out loud at this moment.

He said to all the priests around him, "Tell me all his data!"

The priests ran up to Bishop Du.

"Health level: Excellent, even better than Commander Shi Zhan".

"Mental stability: Unknown."

"Mental stress: unknown."

"Piety: Absolutely no faith."

Bishop Du's eyebrows trembled: "Unknown? Without faith? He clearly saw it with his own eyes... why would he be without faith!"

He looked up again and took a deep look at Lin Wang in the spherical space. His expression was one of shock, and an unusual light seemed to flow through him.

A priest approached him and asked, "Your Excellency, shall the test continue?"

Bishop Du pondered for a moment, then raised his hand: "Let him finish—the temple cannot afford to lose its composure because of this little anomaly."

"My subordinate understands."

The priests returned to their respective control consoles.

At that moment, inside the spherical space, Lin Wang did something that shocked everyone.

He raised his hand and pointed to the thorn headband on the ground.

A blinding light suddenly burst forth from the headband.

The beam of light gradually contracted into a beam, pointing towards Lin Wang's finger, and finally, it connected with Lin Wang's finger.

At that moment, all the lights emanating from the surrounding control panels went out!
The Thorn Headband no longer accepts the temple's control, but begins to obey Lin Wang!
(End of this chapter)