This time I chose Paladin

Sure enough, the old Taoist priest completely ignored the fact that they were entering the artist's market and subconsciously asked, "What fortune is being told?"

"The lives of all people in the world." Nie Weiyang said.

The old Taoist priest was stunned: "...Huh?"

"The number one in the world counts the lives of everyone in the world. It makes sense, doesn't it?" Nie Weiyang smiled, and his fangs, which were longer and sharper than those of ordinary people, flashed. "You could also say... the greater the power, the greater the responsibility? Hmm? You see, as an official, we are responsible for the stability of the area under our jurisdiction..."

When he said this, a flash of inspiration suddenly exploded in Nie Weiyang's mind.

He suddenly realized that he could ask for help in this matter.

The task of Administrator No. 2 is heavy, and yes, it is not something that can be done by one person.

So...what if there's more than 'one person' establishing the link?

Just like feeling pain and crying, seeking help is a human instinct. Nie Weiyang has always considered himself a human being, and he has never strayed from the path of being a human. He has kept his bloodline at the highest level of purity, but in twenty years of fighting, he has forgotten the original instinct of being a human being.

Seeking help, helping, driven by emotions and beliefs, they have formed the foundation of human civilization.

As a member of a collective, fighting for the collective, if you can't do it, you should seek others to "do it together".

Walking side by side, just like when facing the blood moon in Langcheng.

This is the most basic connection between people.

Chapter 98 Let’s Walk with the Light

Zhongzhou, Langcheng.

Xiang Feng was working at his desk when suddenly a light flashed in his mind.

He suddenly stopped writing and looked up, his brows furrowed: "......?"

A ray of light flowed over him. He didn't feel anything unusual, but saw a status label silently appearing in his personal status bar.

[[Pioneer's Calling·All Souls Know]-

I trust and righteousness, and I reciprocate with courtesy.

When you truly and completely identify with someone, you will gain a 10% bonus to the recovery speed of any one of their combat resources, effective during combat.

The combat resource is locked as: [Health]

Xiang Feng's eyes widened, and for a moment he couldn't react where this came from. After a while, there was a sudden knock on the door.

"Captain Xiang! Just now, we suddenly had..."

"'Pioneer's Calling', huh?" Xiang Feng asked back.

"Yes...wait, you too?"

"Yes, me too." Xiang Feng smiled.

He listened to the noise outside and opened the window.

"—and I kind of know where it came from," he said.

……

--No wonder.

A flash of enlightenment flashed through Nie Weiyang's mind.

After the blood moon rises, he gains a passive skill, 'Pioneer's Inspiration'.

【[Pioneer Inspiration]-

You have become a pioneer. -

Charm value permanently +10%

Improve persuasiveness

Improve charisma

Significantly increases the chances of others executing the holder's orders/obeying the holder's guidance

Significantly improve charm-related skills and judgment success rate

When others sincerely and completely identify with the holder, they will receive a 10% bonus to the recovery speed of any combat resource of the holder. At the same time, the holder will receive a 10% bonus to the recovery of that combat resource, and the combat status will take effect.

This was a magical skill, but for some reason, the persuasiveness and affinity had never really taken effect, and the option to link the health recovery speed hadn't worked properly either - otherwise, his health recovery per second in battle shouldn't have been only 65.

While the average person's health regeneration rate in combat is... not just marginal, it's practically nonexistent, at least at this stage: the average person can't regenerate even a single health point per second in combat, as recovery is conditional: people need to rest in a safe environment with adequate nutrition to recover. Even after being injured in combat, fragile classes will bleed at the slightest break in the skin. Only a very small number of T-class characters and some Mythical/Legendary races can continuously regenerate health during combat.

Nie Weiyang believed that his blood recovery ability was strong enough. He chose the health value option in order to increase the survival probability of the people in Langcheng.

While not all the people of Langcheng agreed with him, let alone completely, as long as some of them did, this buff could reduce their survival risk. Over the past month, this effect had barely taken effect. He initially pondered why, but then, with so much else going on, he temporarily put it aside.

Now, everything is clear.

——That’s because he himself has never opened up the idea of ​​communication and mutual assistance.

Nie Weiyang opened the map function, and now many tiny points of light appeared on the map. These were the people he had helped along the way. Because they believed in him, they were providing him with mutual benefits. At the location of Langcheng, there was even a small white light!

A skill called [Living Mastery] appeared in his status bar, existing as a separate effect description. Combined with those buffs, and the life recovery that seemed almost nonexistent to Nie Weiyang on its own, Nie Weiyang's health regeneration rate in battle reached a staggering 115.0109 HP per second.

Nie Weiyang's current health was 1, double that of a typical tank class, triple that of a melee class, and four to five times that of a ranged class. He also regenerated % of his health per second during combat, effectively granting him a high-recovery, continuous healing skill that lasted throughout combat.

Combining his combat power and other panel values, which were also extreme due to his experience and extreme beliefs, he thought about it from another perspective. If he had encountered such an enemy at this time in his previous life, the first thing he would have done was to run away!

Nie Weiyang breathed a sigh of relief from the bottom of his heart. Now he could feel that no matter where he was, the trust of those who had walked with him would always be with him.

So... help each other and reciprocate?

Yes, Nie Weiyang couldn’t ask for help on some other things, because to do those things, he had to have deep interaction with the corresponding information, which was simply a conspiracy against all mankind.

But what about the shelter?

——Really not necessary!

As long as he finds a way to allow others to use his badge to replace [Artificial Destiny], others don't need to know the origin of the shelter, the operating logic of the shelter, or even what the replacement badge is doing!

Very good. To achieve this goal, starting now, he needs to know how to get others to carry out the replacement and seize power on his behalf, and ensure the safety of the executors in the process.

Also, artificial destiny cannot fall into the hands of others, he must find a way to make it fall into his own hands when it is replaced.

Technology for seizing authority and teleporting small items to a specific location, or a tool that can do that...

Nie Weiyang was thinking, he took out a candy from Langcheng and put it in his mouth, feeling the sweet taste, and suddenly a small skull appeared in his mind.

——'Beacon'. The Return Sect, or rather, the Sky-crossing Demon's beacon, was used to seize power.

The pre-civilization cities and refuges are parallel systems of the same level. If the Sky-crossing Demon can seize the right to the voice of the city, it is likely that he can seize the right to the refuge.

Moreover, it can travel through space, it can be summoned, it can be teleported across time and space...why can't it also teleport small objects within the new world?

Not to mention small objects. In the battle in Nie Weiyang's previous life, when he nearly killed the Moon Lord, the Moon Lord had seemingly summoned a mansion from nowhere, and then the thing stirred, flesh and blood crawling out from within. A moment later, it actually stood up and leaped into the sky, amplifying Nie Weiyang with sevenfold demonic magic. A punch from the sky reduced the mountain to a small basin, and the damage figures floating out looked like someone's phone number.

If he hadn't dodged quickly, Nie Weiyang would have died on the spot.

Moreover, the terrain editor Dream Eater teleported its clone, which didn't have any spatial technology in it. Nie Weiyang had the same surname as it. Furthermore, in his previous life, even Nie Weiyang himself could perform short-range spatial teleportation, even quickly transferring through the fuzzy area between the material world and the netherworld - otherwise, how could he be an assassin?

He was an expert in applying supernatural space technology. If the space environment had not completely changed twenty years later, he would not have been trapped in the city by the pressure of the siege.

Well, teleporting is not a difficult task, the difficult part is replacing the badge.

Maybe he could find some way... He needed to think of a way...

Nie Weiyang touched his chin and suddenly asked the old Taoist priest: "Aren't you going home yet?"

The sky and earth were dark, the time of another sun-moon transition approaching. The setting sun was almost identical to the previous day, its light gradually sinking into the horizon as people headed home. Men, women, young and old, all kinds of people passed by Nie Weiyang and his companions, drifting down the street like water flowing along a river. At the next tide, they would return.

"Right away." The old Taoist priest smiled. "What about you? You're not going back?"

"No." Nie Weiyang smiled, the sweetness of the candy flowing in his chest. "I have replied." He said.

"Okay." The old Taoist sighed and looked up at Nie Weiyang: "What did you figure out?"

"I've figured out some things, but I still have to look forward." Nie Weiyang's smile was still gentle.

"You are fine the way you are now. When I first saw you this afternoon, you looked like a statue, like a stone, like a mountain." The old Taoist shook his head slightly.

"It doesn't look like a human anyway?" Nie Weiyang raised his eyebrows and asked back.

The old Taoist smiled guiltily, waved his hand, and turned to leave. Behind him, Nie Weiyang suddenly asked mischievously, "Master, do you think I look like a human now?"

"What?! No, no, no, this isn't something you can answer easily!" The old Taoist priest waved his hands as if he were wiping a wall. He dragged the old pastor, who had been reading the scriptures, past him. The latter looked as if he didn't care about what was happening outside. The two of them quickly fled the street. "Ah, don't ask me to answer this life-threatening question!"

Put it on him? Shorten his life?

Nie Weiyang was a little confused. He looked at the two old men, whose combined ages were almost ten times his size, running away and opened his mouth: "..."

No, it's not like his fate is to be predicted by others. It's a joke like whether he is human or not...

Wait, he's half-vampire, he's not really human—but everyone isn't human now, so why single him out?

Nie Weiyang was silent for a long time, still not understanding what these two were afraid of. But since they were afraid, it would be better for him not to ask any more questions.

"I have to go do what I have to do." He tilted his head and gestured to the two guards beside him, "Do you want to go back?"

"No return."

"Our orders are to follow. If you need anything, you can always send us a message."

"Okay." Nie Weiyang nodded. "Then, you guys stay away from me. If I enter the building, find a place to hide nearby."

They both replied in a deep voice, nodding simultaneously. Nie Weiyang, hands in his pockets, strolled down the street as if taking a leisurely stroll. As the sun set, the crowds around him dwindled, and the gazes fixed on him grew clearer and clearer.

He had never concealed the color of his hair, so when he entered the city with great fanfare today, regardless of whether the news spread or not, he would definitely be targeted by the Return Sect in the city.

The old Taoist priest obviously recognized him the moment he saw him, which proved that during the time he was in Zhengyang District, news about him had probably spread throughout the city.

If the Returning Sect wants to "accomplish great things," its intelligence network must be sensitive enough.

They must know who walked into the sunlit city gate.

At the moment when the twilight went out, Nie Weiyang walked into the small door with a wooden sign that read "Artists' Market". It was a narrow and complicated market with watercolors, ink paintings, oil paintings, sculptures, ironwork... each stall had its own unique style of decoration.

The stall owners who are packing up their goods always have their own unique dressing styles.

Although most of them were concentrating on packing up their stalls, he could clearly feel some vigilant, panicked, sharp, cautious eyes growing out of the darkness, staring at him. Staring at his black clothes, his silver armor, his black and white hair, and his sunglasses that he still hadn't taken off.

Nie Weiyang gave an almost harmless smile.

He turned his head, his eyes seemingly unconsciously sweeping across the corner door of a small apartment.