102: Chapter 102 A Choice of Faith!

[Ding, congratulations on clearing Act 3 of the Divine Play!]

Stepping into the portal.

Lu Chen and the others arrived at a massive triangular battle platform. At each of the three corners of the platform stood a statue of a strange-looking deity, with a name above each statue's head:

[War Mother Goddess]: A giant sword in her hand was plunged into the scorched earth, erupting with magma!

[Goddess of Wisdom]: The flipping pages of the grimoire in her hand stirred up a storm of runes!

[Goddess of Fortune]: As the dice in her hand turned, the world flickered between light and shadow!

Their pupils swept across the battle platform like blood-colored moons, and a blood-red pop-up window suddenly burst forth in front of Lu Chen and the others: [Faith Is a Shackle]!

[Ding, the fourth act of the Divine Play — Faith Choice, begins!]

[The rules for this act of the Divine Play are as follows:

① Each person can freely choose one deity statue to worship.

Worshipping the War Mother Goddess grants the [Blood Slaughter] BUFF!

Buff: Physical damage +100%, critical hits add the [Laceration] effect (wounds gush with magma).

Curse: All healing skills are converted into self-harm, and magic damage skills are permanently grayed out (even potions evaporate due to the repulsion of Divine Power).

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Worshipping the Goddess of Wisdom grants the [Omniscience] BUFF!

Buff: Magic skills have no cooldown and are instantaneous; gain [Eye of Truth] (can predict enemy movements 0.5 seconds in advance).

Curse: Movement speed -70% and feet are rooted to the ground (rune chains extend from the ground to entangle the legs), being hit by melee attacks results in a guaranteed critical hit.

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Worshipping the Goddess of Fortune grants the [Gambling Wheel] BUFF!

Buff: Before each attack, a golden wheel appears in the air; 50% chance to trigger [Divine Favor] (damage x4).

Curse: 50% chance to suffer [Divine Disdain] (damage -3x, and equipment durability plummets), triggering the penalty 3 times in a row will summon a Doom Meteor.

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② Faith Counter:

After the choice of faith is completed, a crack will open in the sky, and Invading Monsters of faith will descend every ten minutes. Every three waves, there will definitely be a BOSS, and the BOSS level is random!

War Apostle (countered by Wisdom Invading Monsters):

Comes with [Super Armor] to resist flinching, but will be immobilized by the Wisdom Invading Monster BOSS [Rune Imprisonment].

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Wisdom Apostle (countered by Fortune Invading Monsters):

All skills hit with 100% accuracy, but the Fortune Invading Monster BOSS [Probability Distortion] can cause their skills to backfire.

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Fortune Apostle (countered by War Invading Monsters):

Attacks split into 7 illusions, but the War Invading Monster BOSS [Blood Qi Lock] can ignore the illusions and strike the main body directly.

④ Betrayal of Faith: If you kill a teammate of the same faith during battle, you can seize their faith BUFF to advance: War type gains lifesteal, Wisdom type unlocks Forbidden Spell, Fortune type probability increases to 75%.

⑤ When the number of people in a faith faction is less than 10%, the corresponding statue will suddenly come to life and start indiscriminate slaughter.

⑥ This act of the Divine Play cannot use any insight-type skills or abilities, nor can the deities provide hints or intervention.

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"Cannot use insight? What are we supposed to do?" Chen Rou asked with concern.

Lu Sen patted her hand, a gleam of wisdom flashing in his eyes. "Although the Divine Play rules state that insight cannot be used, the rules also didn't mention a time limit for clearing the act. This means this act of the Divine Play has no time limit. As such, we have enough time to explore the conditions for clearing it!"

Lu Sen had once been the captain of an epic-tier team; both his combat talent and wisdom were top-notch.

Even in this Gods Game filled with death at every turn, he could find a glimmer of survival.

"Son, your mother and I have no combat capability. Even if we choose to worship a statue, we have no combat power."

"Since that's the case, we might as well become your support. We will all worship the same statue. If there is any mortal danger in this act of the Divine Play, you can then acquire our faith BUFF to strengthen yourself!"

Lu Sen analyzed. "Additionally, if we each worship a different statue, it's hard to say if the appearing BOSS will master multiple faith BUFFs."

"Son, your dad is right!"

Chen Rou knew her husband's capabilities well. With her husband's analysis and her son's strength, the father-son combination would definitely be able to clear the act!

Lu Chen carefully analyzed the three faiths and finally chose the Goddess of Wisdom.

Because the [Omniscience] BUFF of this faith was the most suitable for him!

Among the attack Forbidden Spells he possessed, there was the strongest magic attack Forbidden Spell, [Thunder Punishment World Destroyer]. With no cooldown and instant casting, he could destroy everything in seconds!

Not to mention the [Eye of Truth]!

As for the curse of this BUFF, for Lu Chen, it was a negligible negative effect.

[Ding, you have all worshipped the Goddess of Wisdom. In 10 minutes, the Invading Monsters of faith will descend!]

Lu Chen had already summoned his beast pets and was fully prepared for defense.

He only needed to guard against the Fortune Invading Monsters, because they would cause the Wisdom Apostle's skills to backfire. When that happened, he wouldn't be able to cast skills, and he could just let his beast pets kill the monsters with basic attacks.

As for the other two types of Invading Monsters of faith, Lu Chen could kill them easily!

At this moment.

A crack appeared above the three of them, similar to a spatial rift in a secret realm.

10 minutes later.

30 Invading Monsters of faith dropped down. The first batch of monsters were all War Invading Monsters, all Tier 5 elite monsters, which were instantly killed and turned to ash by Lu Chen's Thunder Punishment World Destroyer Forbidden Spell.

After that.

The second wave of Invading Monsters of faith dropped; the number was still 30, but they were replaced by Wisdom Invading Monsters. Their skills also had no cooldown, but they were still instantly killed by Lu Chen.

The third wave featured a BOSS, a Fortune Invading Monster BOSS, of Commander rank. The Ice Horn Ant army devoured it in a single bite!

Thus.

Lu Chen continuously killed the appearing Invading Monsters of faith, while Lu Sen was fully focused on analyzing the clearing rules of this act of the Divine Play, and Chen Rou was recuperating her weak body.

The father and son had a clear division of labor!

But!

Several days passed, and Lu Sen still had nothing to show for it.

"Something is wrong! If killing a certain number of Invading Monsters of faith was the requirement, logically, we should have received a clearance prompt by now. But the Invading Monsters of faith remain the same, descending every ten minutes!"

"If it weren't for Xiao Chen's strength being powerful enough to instantly kill all the Invading Monsters of faith, I'm afraid we would have been worn down to death by these monsters long ago!"

Lu Sen suspected that the [Faith Choice] Divine Play might not be cleared by killing the Invading Monsters of faith.

At this time.

Lu Chen stared at the three deity statues. "Dad, do you think the clearance condition might have something to do with the deity statues?"

"Xiao Chen, give it a try!"

Lu Sen nodded.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

The Shadow Soul Mouse, Ice Horn Ant, and Red Falcon each attacked one of the deity statues!

[Ding, attack immune!]

[Ding, attack immune!]

[Ding, attack immune!]

All three deity statues gave the same prompt simultaneously.

"This..."

Lu Chen and the other two were dumbfounded.

Can't attack?

It has nothing to do with the deity statues?

Could it be that they can only keep hunting the Invading Monsters of faith?

Or do they need to sacrifice something?

Just like the second act of the Divine Play?

Lu Chen tried one by one, but there was still no reaction.

At this moment, another wave of Invading Monsters of faith descended.

Lu Chen had to deal with this group of Invading Monsters of faith first.

"Xiao Chen, wait, don't kill this group of Invading Monsters of faith yet. These are War Invading Monsters, attack the War Mother Goddess statue first!"

Lu Sen guessed, could it be that the Invading Monsters of the corresponding faith need to appear before the deity statue can be attacked?

But!

[Ding, attack immune!]

Still didn't work!

Several more days passed.

At this time, Lu Chen recalled the blood-red pop-up prompt from the beginning of the Divine Play: [Faith Is a Shackle]!

Could this contain the condition for clearing?

Could the initial choice of faith be wrong?

Do they need to not choose a faith to trigger the clearance condition?

To cancel the faith, there is only one way—

And Lu Sen put his thoughts into the fifth rule prompt of the Divine Play: When the number of people in a faith faction is less than 10%, the corresponding statue will suddenly come to life and start indiscriminate slaughter.

He analyzed, could it be that they need to make the statue come to life in order to attack and kill it, thereby obtaining the clearance condition?

Immediately.

And to make the statue come to life, there is only one way—

The father and son gave a method of trial simultaneously: "Suicide!"