God's Forsaken Land,
Adal, Sin, and Russ heard the High Priest's voice resound throughout the entire city and became incredibly excited.
They stood up almost simultaneously and slung the bundles of animal hide they had prepared long ago onto their backs.
Inside were mushroom powder, dried mushrooms, monster hides, and various Beyonder characteristics in different quantities and states that had been allocated to them.
For them, although they were excited now and full of hope for the future, the suffering they had endured in the past made them dare not be the slightest bit careless. They had brought as much food as possible.
—Before the lightning alternated several times, the priests of Moon City had received a divine revelation from Mr. Fool, no longer sending out hunting teams and instructing every resident to pack up their important belongings and be ready to leave at any moment.
In just a few dozen seconds, Adal and the others, carrying lanterns, walked out of their homes and onto the streets.
When their eyes met, their faces, either ugly or bearing various deformities, were brimming with undisguised joy. They had no negative feelings about abandoning Moon City and leaving their homeland.
This was the source of their nightmares. Countless generations had lost their happiness in childhood.
After gathering at the plaza with the high platform, they suppressed their inner excitement, lined up orderly according to their residential areas, and checked if all their neighbors had arrived.
It wasn't long before all the residents of Moon City had gathered. The High Priest
"'Mr. Fool is about to help us leave this cursed land and be reborn.
"'Praise Mr. Fool!'"
He took the lead by pressing his right palm to his left chest.
This was a gesture they had invented to praise Mr. Fool, and Mr. Fool had not objected.
"Praise Mr. Fool!" The residents of Moon City all pressed their right palms to their left chests, loudly expressing their gratitude and piety.
As the sound echoed, Nim, his hair gray and his face lined, raised his hand and pressed down, saying: "We will first go to the
"Do not worry. Mr. Fool will protect us.
"Alright, close your eyes and begin to pray."
With that, the High Priest clasped his hands together, brought them to his lips, and piously prayed to Mr. Fool, hoping that this great existence would fulfill the greatest wish accumulated by Moon City over the past two or three thousand years, generation after generation.
The next second, this demigod of the Darkness pathway keenly sensed a change in his surroundings. He opened his eyes and looked around, finding stone pillars becoming clear, lanterns hanging from them, and tall figures rapidly taking shape.
"This is the City of Silver? We are already in the City of Silver... This is the might of a deity... Praise Mr. Fool!" Adal, Xin, and the others closely observed their surroundings.
They subconsciously held a certain fondness for the City of Silver because the divine missionary, the respected Mr. Gehrman Sparrow, had once mentioned that after entering this cursed and forsaken land, the first place he arrived at was the City of Silver.
This was the beginning of the divine radiance spreading in the eternal darkness, the starting point of all hope.
The figures soon fully materialized. Most of them were over two meters tall, with normal features and bodies, without any deformities. They looked at the residents of Moon City with a mixture of curiosity and wariness.
Their intimidating height and enviable normality immediately made Xin, Russ, and the others tense up, feeling both inferior and anxious.
However, as their gazes swept across the crowd, they saw many City of Silver residents gnawing on mushrooms with golden-brown surfaces, occasionally sucking hot liquid from the plump white mushrooms.
This familiar scene gradually relaxed the people of Moon City, causing them to view these "half-giants" as their own kind.
Waite Hillmon, the Chief of the Six-man Council, nodded to the leader of Moon City, the High Priest named Nim: "Are you ready?"
His gaze was calm and natural, without a hint of discrimination due to the "horrifying" appearance of most of the Moon City residents.
Nim, worried about unexpected trouble, immediately replied: "We are ready."
Waite Hillmon then turned his gaze to the residents of the City of Silver: "Finish your meal in three minutes and begin praying."
In less than a minute, the residents of the City of Silver had finished their "milk", put away their remaining food, and piously began to pray to Mr. Fool.
--- The ancient inhabitants of Moon City had miraculously appeared before them, greatly strengthening their confidence in leaving the God-forsaken Land and causing them to truly believe in Mr. Fool.
A few seconds later, everyone on the training ground of the City of Silver disappeared.
The city fell completely silent. Before long, contaminated weeds would sprout up, and monsters would roam the streets and houses.
In the blink of an eye, the residents of the City of Silver and Moon City arrived in front of the
This was done intentionally by Klein, a "ritual" for these ancient inhabitants of the God-forsaken Land to say goodbye to the past.
While the people of Moon City were awestruck by the grandeur, epic feel, and mythical sense of the "