Once upon a time there was a greedy snake.

Chapter 145 The Attributes of the Ancient Serpent

This method alone will not win.

Matt Perry was clear about this from the beginning.

Although there are folk sayings about how many ants can kill an elephant, these are merely the imaginations of ordinary people. In Matt Perry's conquests across numerous planets, he had never seen any weak creature capable of overwhelming a true god simply through sheer numbers.

Even the ancient gods of yesteryear, these species that have been eliminated by the times, are ultimately not something that a group of ordinary people who use divine magic can shake.

But Matt Perri did it anyway, even going so far as to use his divine magic to thoroughly instill the concepts of experience and rank into every Sun God Warrior.

This is because, from the very beginning, this divine art was not intended as a weapon of war.

This divine technique was, from the very beginning, a decoy.

The primordial era was chaotic, ignorant, backward, and outdated... Even if those ancient gods accumulated considerable power in the primordial era, they were ultimately still lagging behind the times.

The old gods who have been eliminated by the times will inevitably want to keep up with the times, after all, advancement means efficiency and further progress.

"Therefore, if we want to defeat them, we should bring them civilization and knowledge instead."

Matt Perry remembered that the sun god had given him such an oracle before his arrival.

"When they embrace civilization, that will be the time of our victory."

Recalling the oracle of the sun god, Matt Perry admired the sun god's foresight even more.

Just like now, the bait is everywhere. That ancient serpent, that former god, will definitely notice this unfamiliar yet more efficient upgrade system—that ancient serpent will definitely be interested in it, and will even try it out.

When that ancient snake began to try to accumulate experience and level up.

That is when the gods will make their move.

An old god who has been eliminated by the times, no matter how glorious he was in the past, will no longer have any status.

The ancient serpent, completely ignorant of this system, could not possibly withstand the gods who had been accumulating experience on this path for an unknown period of time.

Therefore, the war was unimportant from the beginning. All the wars and all the deaths were meaningless. They were merely ways to attract the attention of the ancient serpent, so that the ancient serpent could swallow the bait.

And now...

"Have you already started trying it?"

As if sensing something, the war priest suddenly looked up into the distance.

……

Outside Buto Town, Du Yi, with the assistance of three priests, had already deciphered the divine magic system.

Although this mechanism seems quite simple on the surface, with just a few more terms appearing in the field of vision, in reality, whether it is level, experience, or profession, these all require connection to the consciousness of the person being treated in order to achieve accurate feedback—this alone raises the difficulty level by several levels, since neither Du Yi nor the priests under him have the skills in this area.

However, if they lack skill, they can make up for it with their ideas.

Just like it is now.

The black water, shimmering with golden light, was poured into the pool through bronze pipes. Since he couldn't get much of the "holy water of the sun" that the bird worshippers spoke of, Du Yi could only use his own venom and blood to make up the difference. After mixing a bunch of materials that they thought might be useful, the water turned into this iridescent black.

After that, Du Yi raised the tip of his tail and directed his priests.

The priest, wearing a crown of snake fangs, dipped a large piece of crystal into the pool of golden, black water. Immediately, the crystal also began to glow black.

A massive bronze frame was lifted up, and a black crystal was set into it—then, this jet-black crystal, like a pair of glasses, was placed on Du Yi's face.

Yes, it's on your face.

Because his own venom was mixed in with the black water, Du Yi dared not put it directly into his eyes, so he had no choice but to make a pair of glasses instead.

"I hope it will be useful..."

Thinking this, Du Yi opened his eyes and tried to adjust to the dimness, which was like wearing sunglasses.

Immediately afterwards, text appeared in his field of vision.

【Ansager of the Crown】

[Class: Priest of the Old Gods]

【Level: 58】

[Experience: 450/6570]

"Wait, is that me?"

Du Yi doesn't remember when she changed her name.

However, after scanning the area, Du Yi realized that this was the priest wearing the crown with snake fangs.

Clearly, the device he created was somewhat different from the original divine magic—the original magic was applied directly to the eyes and could directly connect with the consciousness itself, while the device he replicated worked on the crystal lens and could not connect with his consciousness.

But the divine magic still had an effect, or rather, it had a partial effect.

Just like now, when Du Yi took off the divine glasses, the priest wearing the snake fang crown was just an ordinary middle-aged man in a white robe—but when he put the glasses back on, the man's demeanor was completely different.

The figure draped in white robes was at least two people tall, yet as thin as a ghost. His calloused hands had transformed into long, slender claws, and the serpentine crown atop his head was shrouded in a pale purple miasma, clearly indicating that it was highly poisonous.

"This……"

Du Yi then looked at the other priests. This time, he deliberately covered only one eye with his lens. So, in the view that was not covered by the lens, these people still looked normal. But in the eye covered by the lens, the other three priests also looked like monsters.

"However, it seems like something's still missing..."

Du Yi started scratching his head.

Although the divine magic perspective before him resembled the attribute interface he remembered, it was far too crude compared to the attribute panel he was familiar with.

There are only three things: profession, level, and experience. As for things like personal attributes, health points, or magic energy, they are completely absent—how can such crude things be used?
"At least we should be able to see the health bars, right?"

With that in mind, Du Yi began his revisions.

It was just adding one line of content, and with the assistance of four priests, it wasn't too difficult for Du Yi to do it.

So, after a brief period of busy work, the new lenses were produced and then put on Du Yi's head.

Looking at the long red stripe above the heads of the four priests, Du Yi nodded in satisfaction.

(End of this chapter)