My mom is waiting for treatment, and you're summoning me to be a hero?

The White Tower City did not utter a mournful cry when the Soul Corruption Realm descended.

The eerie green meteorite, several miles in diameter, slowly descended from the clouds, its surface churning with the faces of a hundred thousand souls.

When it touched the spire of the Papal Palace, there was no explosion, no roar, only an extremely faint hum, like a sigh.

Then the entire city began to collapse.

City walls, churches, squares, cobblestone streets...

Every inch of matter touched by the eerie green light was silently decomposing, turning into the finest dust particles, which were then swallowed up by the eerie green light.

It also left behind a place of soul corruption covering the entire city, ensuring that no living thing could survive.

Before that, Mag knelt on the ruins outside the city.

He looked up at the all-consuming, eerie green sky above him, his lips moving.

"This...it's all because of me...it's all because of me."

He didn't run away; he simply drew the paladin's sword that had been with him all his life from his waist.

Then, aim the sword tip at your heart, close your eyes, and stab.

The moment the corpse fell forward, a ghostly green light engulfed it.

The same scene was playing out in the other cities of the Holy Tower Kingdom.

One after another, enormous soul-corroding objects fell from the sky.

"I'm just here to do business!"

"Lin Mo! You're too ruthless! You don't even spare ordinary people!"

"You demon! You will be punished by heaven!"

……

Curses echoed throughout the Holy Kingdom of the Tower.

But more often, we hear the voices of believers reciting scriptures before they die.

Innocent people? Of course there are, but the Soul Corruption Realm doesn't care.

As the Soul Corrosion Realm completely collapsed, the entire continent fell silent.

Everyone stared speechlessly at the apocalyptic scene projected onto the overhead light screen.

At that moment, they had only one thought in their minds: was this going too far?

"good!"

In the human empire, a man suddenly shouted.

Those around him then came to their senses.

"Yes! Your Majesty did a great job! That's how it should be done!"

"These are all accomplices in the murder of infants!"

"Your Majesty is cleansing them of their sins!"

……

This may not be their true feeling, but they have to say it.

Because there was also Lin Mo watching their reaction from the palace of the human empire.

……

At this moment, Lin Mo was still standing at the highest point of White Tower City.

A dark green storm raged beneath his feet, but his black robe remained unmoved.

Behind him, the souls of nine giant dragons slowly emerged.

These were the golden dragon warriors that Hong Lü had given to Lin Mo in exchange for the souls of demigods.

Their dragon claws were loosely clenched, and their dragon eyes burned with ghostly blue soul flames.

"As expected, it worked! Now we can be considered immortal, right?"

"That way, we can remain loyal to His Majesty Lin Mo forever."

"Haha, I'm going to die sooner or later anyway, so this death will be worth it!"

……

The nine dragons looked at each other excitedly.

But Ah Jin was nowhere to be seen.

The place where Akin was standing was an open space.

The entire city of White Tower was being decomposed by the corrupted souls, but the ruins beneath his feet remained completely still.

A ghostly green light bypassed him, as if an invisible line separated them from the judgment of national annihilation.

Ajin spread his wings and flew up to the spire, landing behind Lin Mo, then folded his wings and knelt down.

His voice was hoarse and rapid, the deep roar of a mixed-race golden dragon echoing in the dark green storm.

"Your Majesty, why don't you kill me? I also want to serve you forever... just like them."

Lin Mo did not turn around.

His gaze remained fixed on the multicolored crack in the sky, his voice as flat as if he were stating something perfectly natural.

"You are the lord of the dragon race, you cannot die."

Ajin's eyes were lowered, and his golden vertical pupils were filled with complex emotions.

He wanted to say something more, but in the end he just pressed his dragon claws to his chest and lowered his dragon head deeply.

Yin Xue flew down from below, its small wings leaving two dark red afterimages in the eerie green light.

She hovered beside Lin Mo's shoulder, crossed her arms, and resumed her usual matter-of-fact tone.

"So what now? The only way to upgrade is to go inside the rift. Nobody knows what's going on in there, and I don't want you to dive right in."

In Yin Xue's opinion, this statement was actually nonsense.

Knowing Lin Mo as she did, she knew he would plunge headlong into it without hesitation, after all, he had already fainted from exhaustion several times before.

She could understand Lin Mo, but reason told her that she needed to understand the situation inside before going in.

Just as Lin Mo slightly pressed down with his feet, preparing to rush directly into the crevice.

"etc."

A transparent soul-like entity floated over from the direction of the Star Elf race's formation.

The Star Elf King's voice called out to Lin Mo.

He bowed slightly, his voice steady and solemn: "Aize asked me to tell you that the Water of Life has been delivered."

This news stunned Lin Mo.

Yin Xue immediately caught his reaction and flew to his front, flapping her small wings faster than usual, her tone unusually devoid of teasing.

"Yes, let's go back first. The Water of Life is the best healing potion, effective for injuries and illnesses of any living being. Let's see how it works on your mother. The crack is there, it's not going anywhere. No matter how much Gao Yang schemes, it won't make a difference if we don't wait a day or two."

Lin Mo remained silent for a long time.

He looked up at the multicolored crack in the sky, then looked down at the ruins beneath his feet.

Then he nodded.

Yin Xue breathed a sigh of relief and habitually began to work on the table.

"Alright, let's take the teleportation array back. It should be quick, and besides..."

Lin Mo raised his hand to interrupt her.

"We don't need to use the teleportation array; we can just walk back."

Yin Xue's wings paused for a moment, then he remembered Lin Mo's state when he last sat in the teleportation array.

This demon king, who shakes the continent, will get dizzy sitting in the teleportation array.

Thinking of this, Yin Xue burst out laughing.

……

The capital of the human empire.

There were no triumphant military processions, no grand processions led by demigods; only a figure in black robes walked in from outside the city gate.

His black robe with gold trim was stained with the Pope's blood, a black sword hung at his waist, and his steps were neither hurried nor slow.

But the moment the guards at the city gate saw him, they almost dropped their spears.

The alarm bell was not rung because the soldiers on the watchtower were so excited that they forgot to ring it and instead leaned half their bodies out of the watchtower and shouted into the city.

"His Majesty is back—!"

The whole city was in an uproar.

People poured out of shops, ran out of workshops, and rushed out of their homes from both sides of the street.

Among them were living people and ghosts.

The old miner's ghost held his miner's helmet and lamp above his head and waved it vigorously, while the ghostly young woman, holding a ghostly baby, tiptoed to the front of the crowd.

They saw the destruction of White Tower City through the light screen, the death of the Pope, the public beheading of Saint Zefa, and the entire Holy Kingdom of the Tower turning into ruins in a ghostly green light.

And now, the emperor who personally destroyed a country walked in through the city gate wearing a blood-stained imperial robe.

Someone in the crowd was the first to shout "Your Majesty is mighty!", followed by a second, a third, and finally the whole street was shouting it.

But Lin Mo's pace remained unhurried. His gaze passed through the cheering crowd, past the sword and wheat statue at the end of the street, and towards the direction of the palace.

Shi Qin jogged out of the main gate of the palace.

She was still clutching a lab report in her hand, and she almost couldn't stop when she ran up to Lin Mo.

She was panting heavily, her face beaming with barely suppressed joy: "Your Majesty, the Water of Life has arrived! Master Liu said that the Water of Life blends extremely well with the Cleansing Essence. The Cleansing Essence itself is a high-purity restorative medicine, and after the Water of Life is injected, all the indicators are very stable, which means... it can be used directly without adding any other medicine!"