Great! I'm surrounded by villains!-Chapter 445 - 364: Angel Envoy

Before dawn, the people of the Holy City received joyous news.

The colleagues responsible for patrolling the church district brought an Angel Envoy to the temporary medical point—a holy and gentle Goddess. Even the most ghastly wounds, including missing arms and legs, miraculously healed under the Goddess’s baptism.

No one knew where the Goddess came from, and in the midst of such chaos, they were too preoccupied to ponder much about it.

All people knew was that the Goddess was like a timely rain, descending equally upon every single one of them.

The Goddess had only one purpose.

That was to sow the seeds of Life Energy into this land.

Meanwhile, in another secluded land enveloped in darkness, the last glimmer of influence was extinguished.

A hunchbacked werewolf over two meters tall shattered the Crystal Ball with a slap, clearly showing that its anger had soared to an unappeasable height.

This was not the show it wanted to see.

"Bring that human captive to me!"

A roar echoed.

Its kin brought in the human who had suddenly appeared from the summoning ceremony, tiptoeing into the tent.

Whenever the Warlord was in a rage, bad things happened.

They had no doubt that the human would be skinned and desiccated by the Warlord, but before that, the Warlord would force out what the human had done to tamper with the summoning ceremony.

The werewolf’s insight was very acute; many of its kin had noticed that when the ceremony tore open the rift between reality and the Land of Eternal Night, it was this human who had jumped in voluntarily.

This inevitably made them suspect that the human was plotting some unspeakable conspiracy.

No human would dare enter this Domain ruled by the Void Demon, where they would face the most brutal death.

After his kin brought Duan Mingyuan into the tent, they quickly fled, lest they get caught in the sweep of the Warlord’s spells.

Duan Mingyuan first looked at the werewolf towering over him—a coat of white fur distinguished it from the underlings outside.

He had to admit that he was quite fond of these werewolves.

Theoretically, they belonged to the same family as Jiuyue, and both had fluffy tails.

It was a pity that the Warlord did not seem to groom his tail much, as the fur on it was neither fluffy nor soft, but rather dry and split.

The moment he crossed the rift into the Land of Eternal Night, he was surrounded by werewolves.

A multitude of werewolves, dense enough to rival a small town, gathered, seemingly ready for war.

"Hello, hello, I am Duan Mingyuan."

Duan Mingyuan took the initiative to reach out and shake hands with the werewolf Warlord.

The Warlord was stunned by the human’s behavior and subconsciously grasped Duan Mingyuan’s hand with its paw, only to find a paste-like substance appearing in its palm.

"This is a top-brand conditioner. Just squeeze a little into the water every day, soak your tail in it for half an hour, then blow dry with a hairdryer to keep the fur fluffy," said Duan Mingyuan, offering a last-minute crafted gift.

Luckily, he had thoroughly researched the formula for conditioner. This was to prevent situations where Jiuyue might forget their conditioner on some interstellar travels, allowing him to create some at any time—though he hadn’t expected it to come in handy here.

"Don’t get cozy with me!"

The Warlord roared, slamming the conditioner onto the table, its crimson pupils filled with murderous intent, as it wished it could tear the human before it to shreds.

But before it figured out what this human had messed with in the summoning ritual, it had to restrain the anger in its heart.

The Warlord was their vanguard sent to the reality plane, with strength enough to destroy half of the Holy City in an instant, yet now, the Warlord had not only become a woman but had also run off to help heal the wounded.

Is this what a high-ranking demon should be doing!?

If there were a scoreboard, in just these ten short minutes, the Warlord’s kill count would have astonishingly reached -137.

Not a single human had been killed, but instead, over a hundred people had been saved.

As the commander of the first battlefield, it bore tremendous shame.

"If you honestly explain what tampering you’ve done to the summoning ritual, I might consider giving you a quick end."

"That involves the core mechanism of the summoning ritual."

Duan Mingyuan tiptoed to pat the werewolf’s shoulder, trying to calm it down, "Don’t be anxious. If you’re interested in these principles, I can explain them to you slowly."

"Get to the point!"

"Before discussing the core mechanism of the ritual, you first need to understand some concepts. What do you think is the way humans and demons exist?"

"Don’t answer a question with a question!"

The commander was so angry it almost jumped up, its claws balled into fists several times but ultimately didn’t manage to slap Duan Mingyuan across the face.

Because this human seemed too feeble, one slap might very likely kill him, and then it would never be able to find out what had happened to the Warlord.

"Sorry, sorry, you just reminded me of a friend." frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓

This was the way Duan Mingyuan communicated with Jiuyue. Whenever he had to explain some principles to Jiuyue, he would first try to spark the little fox’s enthusiasm, otherwise, Jiuyue’s attention would quickly drift off to something else.

When Jiuyue’s ears atop her head quivered slightly, it meant she was seriously thinking.

Unfortunately, the observations of the fox didn’t seem to apply to the werewolf. The white wolf’s pointed ears on top of its head didn’t quiver, but instead, the paws propped on the table had scratched three holes in it.

"The answer is energy. In my view, both humans and Void Demons are composed of energy, which is also a crucial mechanism of how the summoning ritual operates. Its essence is to disassemble and reassemble the target that’s going to be transmitted. A solid form can’t exist in the cracks of planes."

"And then?"

The commander kept pressing.

"Once you understand such a mechanism, all you need to do during reassembly is to tamper a bit, cleverly replacing the way the energy persists."

Duan Mingyuan believed he had not kept any secrets. In the presence of the Warlord and a host of Void Demons, he had infused Life Energy into the summoning ritual, "After the reassembly is completed, the Warlord’s energy was purified. Its body surged with Life Energy, and that’s the secret behind its rebirth."

And now, the reborn Warlord was using Life Energy to help even more people.

In Duan Mingyuan’s view, this was a virtuous cycle.

"You dare—!"

The commander’s fangs nearly snapped, but then it realized what being able to reconstruct energy meant.

That was a Domain only high-ranking demons could touch.

"Just who are you?"

"I am Duan Mingyuan."

"I fucking know you’re Duan Mingyuan, I’m not asking that!"

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