The wrong transmigrator assigned by the system

Too many people have died searching for these guys who only want to attack them. And then, the old man who brought them here, speaking so confidently, has vanished without a trace. This is absolutely infuriating!

So Lu Ming gave Xie Yi a chance—a chance to kill the old man and avenge his comrades. As long as he was willing to work for him, Lu Ming, as the lord, could pardon Xie Yi and spare his life!

Faced with this situation, Shay had no choice but to agree. Driven by a desire for revenge for his comrade, he agreed to Lu Ming's request, but with one condition: that no one be allowed to interfere when he challenged Pastor Wilson in the future.

Before Lu Ming could speak, Pastor Wilson readily agreed to Shay's request.

Therefore, Lu Ming said nothing more, and instead led the group to carry their companion's body out of Irithyll and back to Odyssey City through the portal. He then devised a plan to shut down the two triangular boxes, instantly disabling the portal and restoring the room to its original state...

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Late at night, Lu Ming sat in his study, looking at the two triangular boxes on the table, as if deep in thought.

Just then, Miral entered carrying a cup of hot milk, placed it on the table, and looked at the two triangular boxes. One of the boxes had already been forcibly opened by Lu Ming using magic. Inside, powering the box was a ring—a ring with powerful soul energy.

"Has Lily distributed the compensation money intended for the families of the knights who died in battle?" Lu Ming asked Miral after taking a small sip of hot milk from his cup.

"It's already been sent out. But she and Sham used money from Philner's private stash, so hopefully Philner won't be angry when he comes back and finds the coins are missing."

"Those three are really mischievous! Oh well, I'll just say I used them later. That'll save me the trouble."

Lu Ming smiled helplessly, then took out the ring from the box and said to Miral, "This is Princess Gavivia's ring, and this box was made using the ashes and souls of the undead, combined with the secret techniques of the Evil Spirit Church. Utilizing a certain obsession, it opens a spatial portal to the source of that obsession. It can also create a special space, using that obsession to create a unique soul and give it a physical form. For example, Smo, whom you encountered, had the obsession of guarding the temple and protecting Princess Gavivia, so we could use Princess Gavivia's ring to bestow a soul upon him."

As he spoke, Lu Ming gently tapped another unopened box with his finger, saying, "And what's inside this box, I think, is either Gwyndolin's ring or simply a part of his body, which is why we encountered Aldridge. Because Aldridge wanted to survive the Deep Sea Age, he was obsessed with him and wanted to devour him. That's why a part of Aldridge's soul was summoned back to the Sanctum Sanctum to fight us. However, it's also possible that Gwyndolin wanted us to kill Aldridge and avenge him, which is why Aldridge appeared..."

"You're scared, aren't you? Scared that you'll end up like Gwyndolin, eaten by him..."

"Yes, I am afraid. But I will fight back and find a way to kill him. Even if it means using the power of the blood of the Old Gods, I will send him back into the furnace!"

Listening to Lu Ming's self-encouraging words, Miral smiled and sat in his lap, saying, "No matter what decision you make, I will always be behind you and support you."

Upon hearing this, Lu Ming immediately picked up Miral and carried her step by step toward his bedroom, laughing, "I will definitely defeat him alive! Then, I can stay with you all forever."

“…” Miral didn’t speak, only smiled slightly, enjoying the moment in her husband’s arms, enjoying this happiness that she didn’t know when she would completely forget… (To be continued.)

Chapter Seventy - The Conspiracy and Disaster of the Evil Church

Following the portal incident, Lu Ming, as the lord of the Odysseus Territory, launched a full-scale crackdown on the Evil Spirit Church.

In just two or three days, his nobles and soldiers destroyed all the hideouts of the evil cult scattered throughout various small villages. They captured more than ten cultists responsible for proselytizing in Odysseus territory, as well as twenty-seven others who worked for them, and executed them all. It could be said that this was the first time since Lu Ming took control of Odysseus territory that he had sent people to the execution platform.

This also made many people realize that Lu Ming can kill people when he gets angry!

Many members of the Evil Spirit Church were terrified by Lu Ming's ruthlessness towards them and secretly left Odysseus's territory to avoid being sent to the execution platform and eaten by the shadow demons raised by Lu Ming.

Yes, Lu Ming had no pity for the members of the Evil Spirit Church. The punishment he inflicted on them was not the hanging that nobles usually used, but rather summoning a shadow demon dwelling in the shadow world of Odyssey City to devour them alive.

The reason for doing this is that having clergy as executioners is disrespectful to the gods, so Lu Ming had no choice but to use this method to prevent the cultists of these evil spirits from returning to the embrace of their evil gods after death.

Under such intense pressure, the few remaining members of the Evil Spirit Church in Odysseus territory had no choice but to abandon their past arrogance and instead obediently disguise themselves as farmers, tilling the land in a newly established village in Odysseus territory, waiting for Lu Ming's anger towards the Evil Spirit Church to subside before making any further plans.

But they wanted to stay in their nest and wait for the storm to pass. The one who had caused the storm, however, dug open the entrance to the nest, intending to stay inside with them and wait for the storm to end.

On this day, the old bishop of Irithyll, who had once led a large number of people from the evil cult, arrived at a small village on the westernmost edge of Odysseus's territory through a portal that appeared from the box taken from Count Hemphis's body.

Using the Shadow Magic of the Evil Church, he evaded the pursuit of Shay and the Odysseus Territory authorities. Although he suffered from hunger and cold along the way, and was repeatedly targeted by shadow demons in the Shadow World, nearly being devoured alive, he still survived and arrived here.

Standing in front of a house that looked quite nice, even better than the villages in other noble territories, the old bishop of the Church of Evil Spirits glanced around and, seeing that no one was watching, unhesitatingly used Shadow Step to slip into the house through the crack in the door.

At this moment, there are three men and two women in the house having dinner.

They all looked ordinary, and were around fifty or sixty years old. Each of them had thorn-covered tattoos on their arms to identify themselves.

While they ate, they also chatted about the bishop and Shay.

"Now that the bishop's fate is unknown, Shay Constarch has also betrayed our Church of Evil Spirits, and many believers have been forced to flee Odysseus, the future of us is truly unsettling."

"The attack by the lord of Odysseus is not the worst thing. The worst thing is that the bishop of our Odysseus territory is now missing, and the high priests in other viscount territories have also chosen to protect themselves and ignore our pleas for help."

“If this continues, I’m really afraid that I’ll become just an ordinary farmer and completely forget the doctrines of our evil spirit church.”

“Yes, we can’t interact with other believers, and we can’t do anything that might reveal our identities. If this goes on for too long, we’ll really become villagers. We’ll never be able to return to the embrace of the God of Pain and Torment and the other gods in the church!”

Listening to the conversation of the believers, the bishop of the evil cult, who had been hiding in the shadows, suddenly chuckled and emerged from the shadows not far from them, appearing in front of them.

Upon seeing the bishop of the evil cult appear from the shadows, the people immediately stood up from their stools, bowed respectfully to the bishop, and said, "Your Excellency Bishop Stone!"

Step by step, the old man, Ston, who looked like a dried corpse, walked up to them and swept his sinister gaze over them before saying, "Now, I'm back. You don't need to worry that our Evil Spirit Church's influence in Odysseus Territory will be wiped out by Lu Ming, this lackey of the Church of Light. Know that suffering endures forever!"

Upon hearing this, the men quickly agreed, not daring to contradict old man Ston. One of them even hurriedly went to get old man Ston some bread and the only few pieces of dried meat.

Watching old man Ston devour their treasured jerky, these people felt no resentment, only immense joy. This was because they now had a bishop among them, a high-ranking figure within the evil cult, the Church of the Evil Spirits. Ston's arrival had given them a pillar of support, someone to lead them in their fight against the Odysseus Territory's government, plunging the entire territory into anguish and lamentation.

After an unknown amount of time, once old man Ston had eaten and drunk his fill, one of the men suddenly mustered the courage to ask him, "Your Excellency, I wonder if your mission this time was successful?"

Upon seeing this, the other four were immediately startled and hurriedly looked at the old man Ston with some fear, afraid that he would suddenly attack and kill them.

However, to everyone's surprise, old man Ston laughed.

He pulled a triangular box from his pocket, grinning sinisterly, and said, "Heh heh, this time, I, the protagonist, have certainly succeeded. This is the key to ashes. Through it, I have found the one who can change the world! The giant Yom! His sinful flames can allow us to change the world, plunging everything into suffering, leaving only the power of humanity in the world!"

Hearing Ston's crazed words, the members of the Evil Spirit Church were instantly excited, unable to resist imagining a world where everything had ceased to exist, leaving only humans tormented by suffering. The thought of this vibrant world becoming so pathetic filled them and old Ston with uncontrollable joy and excitement. They couldn't wait to enter that world—

Sitting in his lord's manor, Lu Ming, through a pact with certain beings in the Shadow World, used the vision of those shadow creatures to search the entire territory of Odysseus. Whenever he discovered cultists of the Evil Spirit Church, he would immediately dispatch troops to capture them.

While Ston and his ilk were fantasizing about their wicked plans in the small village, he had already located their position through the eyes of a shadow cat. To be honest, if it weren't for Ston's feigned death, he wouldn't have known that there were five cult members of the evil spirit church in this newly established village.

Now that those people had been found, Lu Ming did not hesitate to call his personal guards into the room and order them to take Xie Yi and the pursuit team that had been temporarily formed to wipe out the cultists of the evil spirit church to capture those members of the evil spirit church.

In order to succeed, he also used a contract to bring a large number of shadow creatures to support them, so that the cultists would not be able to hide in the shadow world using shadow magic and escape Shay and his group's pursuit.

Standing up from his chair, Lu Ming walked to the window, gazing at the brightly lit city of Odyssey, and said expressionlessly, "This is the price you pay for running wild on my territory!"

Upon receiving the notification, Shay and the others immediately mounted their horses and, led by the shadow creatures, headed towards the location of Ston and the remaining members of the Church of Evil Spirits.

Their weapons were all longswords engraved with the holy script of the god Fuya, which could prevent the souls of the evil spirit cult members from returning to the embrace of their god after death when fighting against them.

After all, if you're going to do something, you should do it thoroughly, especially with these evil villains. You should beat them so badly that they won't dare to run wild in Odysseus' territory again, or even dare to take a step closer to Odysseus' territory!

Under the cover of night and guided by the moonlight, the group arrived at the outskirts of the small village where the cultists lived in less than four hours.

To avoid alerting the enemy, Shay and his men did not ride their horses into the village. Instead, they dismounted outside the village and walked in.

Specially made boots and unseen armor allowed the group to enter the village completely silently. Combined with the distinctive scent of the shadow creatures, even the village dogs dared not bark. Thus, no one in the village knew they had arrived. Furthermore, at this time, everyone in the village was asleep, so when they arrived at the house where Ston and the others were, the village was still completely silent.

Standing outside, Shay and the others pressed their ears against the door, listening intently for any sounds inside. Once they confirmed that everyone inside was asleep, one of the team members who knew how to pick locks quietly unlocked the door.

Because all the houses in the newly established village were built with funds from the lord, the door locks were not the kind of wooden planks that would easily fall to the ground and make a sound, but the kind of locks used in the city that required a key to open.

This lock is more effective at preventing theft than a wooden board, but if someone knows how to open it, it makes absolutely no sound. Unless the person is sleeping right behind the door, they won't hear the slight noise at all!

They entered the house without any trouble, and Shay and the others immediately took out a small copper magic circle from their pockets.

One of the mage apprentices in the group gently placed the bronze magic circle model on the ground. The magic circle model then automatically overflowed with magical energy, summoning several shadow pythons.

Without Shay and the others having to do anything, the shadowy pythons automatically crawled towards the rooms of the cultists in the evil spirit church, preparing to execute them while they were still immersed in their dreams.

Compared to the members of the evil cult, these shadow creatures are truly ruthless, devoid of any mercy. They spare not even the souls of their prey. Even if they cannot digest it, they will seal the soul of their food eternally within their own bodies, until their god becomes a new servant.

Following the Shadow Serpent, Shay and his companions quickly found the unfortunate souls who had been harmed by Ston. Seeing them fast asleep, entwined by the Shadow Serpent, completely unaware of their predicament, Shay felt a pang of unease. But at that moment, his only thought was to find Ston, the bastard who had caused the deaths of dozens of people at Irithyll's haunts. So he decided to ignore the sight of those people being knocked unconscious by his companions using special techniques and dragged into the Shadow World by the Shadow Serpent. Instead, he began searching the house for Ston.

However, after searching the entire house, he couldn't find Stone anywhere. He searched both upstairs and in the basement, but couldn't find the bastard. This led Shay and the others to mistakenly believe that Stone had already escaped.

The missed opportunity greatly displeased Shay, but he couldn't find Stone anymore. His tirade was futile. So, like the others, he sighed in anger and helplessness, then left to search the neighborhood again, just in case Stone was hiding nearby.

After Shay and the others left and carefully locked the door again, a faint orange-red glow suddenly appeared in one of the windowless rooms in the house. Instantly, the room changed its appearance, transforming from an ordinary room into an underground dungeon.

Meanwhile, the bishop of the evil cult, Ston, emerged from the dungeon carrying a triangular box. He then gently tapped the top of the box, and the space behind the portal returned to the previous room.

Looking at the now empty house except for himself, the villain who had dug up his companions' nest to feed the snakes in exchange for avoiding further pursuit by wolves and venomous snakes revealed a smug smile.

He took off the clothes of the Evil Spirit Church and put on the clothes of one of the unlucky guys, disguising himself as an ordinary old man. He waited for Shay and the others to leave in disappointment, and then left with the triangular box to go to the Principality of Yaru to complete the Evil Spirit Church's evil plan.

About half an hour later, Shay left.

Hiding behind the window, watching them leave the small village in a huff, Ston smiled as he approached the gate. Opening it, he chuckled, "You little brats think you can catch this bishop? You're dreaming! Don't you even know what's going on?"

But when he was halfway through his sentence and pushed open the door of the house, he was horrified to find that outside the door was a swamp in the twilight!

Upon seeing this, Ston was terrified and instinctively ran out to see if it was an illusion.

Unfortunately, he had barely escaped when he discovered that this was not an illusion. Moreover, the mud beneath his feet was poisonous!

Out of a sense of safety and self-preservation, he turned back without hesitation, wanting to go back into the house. But as soon as he turned around, he found that the house was gone! Moreover, where the house had been, now stood a man dressed in noble clothes, holding a greatsword.

"Bishop Ston of the Evil Spirit Church, right? I am Lu Ming, the lord of Odysseus Territory." The nobleman looked at him, a dangerous smile slowly creeping onto his lips as he introduced himself. (To be continued.)

Chapter 71 - The Degenerate Dragon

Early in the morning, Lu Ming stood in his study, watching the sun slowly rise outside the window, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

Using one of the triangular boxes he found in Anor Londo, he easily located and captured Ston, who had used the same box to evade Shay and his men. Ston is now imprisoned in Odyssey City, his limbs bound by specially made shackles, preventing him from entering the shadows even if his body does. This completely eliminates any possibility of him escaping using Shadow Cloak!

The three triangular boxes whose origins were completely unknown had been destroyed by Lu Ming.

Although that thing was useful, the price was quite high. He only used it once, and the box consumed 20% of his maximum magic power!

Moreover, who knows if that thing has any other side effects? Even if it accidentally falls into the hands of someone with malicious intent, that would be a very bad thing. So only by completely destroying it can Lu Ming feel at ease.

However, even though his magic power limit was eroded, being able to capture one of the cult leaders, Ston, was still a pretty good thing. After all, it meant that his family and the people in his territory wouldn't have to live in fear of those evil people.

Just then, Sham walked in and said to him, "Darling, I'm going out for a bit, I'll be back this afternoon."

Seeing that she had taken Priscilla's short sword, Lu Ming couldn't help but laugh and pulled her aside, asking with a smile, "What's wrong? Who upset you?"

“…” Sham paused for a moment before saying, “Muk has come to Odyssey and has been playing in the city for several days now.”

"Hasn't Mom always been in charge of Muka's territory? It's not a big deal for him to come out and play."

"But this time, he came without telling me, and he even brought a girl from a rival family to our Hatu family! I can't tolerate this!"

Seeing Sham's angry expression, Lu Ming couldn't help but kiss her, then said with a smile, "Mukka is all grown up now and has his own ideas. Besides, he's a viscount now, so he should handle some things himself."

"But......"

"I think you came to Odyssey because you were angry with him, without telling you, right? My lovely Sham~" Lu Ming couldn't help but tease, reaching out to flick Sham's nose with a smile.

Immediately, Sham became so angry that he pressed Lu Ming down onto the small bed in the study and began tearing at Lu Ming's clothes.

Meanwhile, a female knight guard standing outside the door completely ignored her lord's cries for help. With a grin, she slammed the study door shut and went to the lord's kitchen, intending to freeload a breakfast and, incidentally, have a good chat with Wang Na about the lord's gossip...

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At noon, Muka and his girlfriend walked through the industrial district of Odyssey City, asking some workers and mage apprentices about the price of renovating the city's commoner and noble districts and installing the sewer network.

Although Muka, who was almost nine years old, was the third wealthiest nobleman in Erebus after Lu Ming and Grand Duke Raels, the prices these people quoted were simply too frightening. Every price made Muka's young heart skip a beat!

It can be said that each of these workers quoted a price that was no less than 70 percent of his total assets!