Privileging the Insiders First

Performing the Dark Night Praise required quite a few steps, and after sorting out her thoughts, Lola immediately set to work.

By now, the Night Watcher Headquarters already had a large number of Apostle-level powerhouses, and as soon as they joined, the ritual progress advanced by leaps and bounds, completing all preliminary preparations in no time.

At Lola's command, the Dark Night Praise officially began!

More than a dozen Apostles led people to activate ritual magic arrays at different locations, causing pillars of black light to shoot straight into the clouds and plunge into the endless Void.

About a quarter of an hour later, the light pillars completely stabilized, and Apostles no longer needed to continuously input Divine Might; they only needed to dispatch people to stand guard nearby and prevent sabotage.

Meanwhile, the Apostles could head to new locations to open rituals once more, further increasing the number of light pillars.

In theory, if the entire Eternal Night were covered with these black light pillars, Aleisa, Lady of Night could return instantly or even walk directly through the Eternal Night.

Yet achieving this was difficult.

Leaving aside the Church Gods lurking nearby and eyeing them covetously, there were the Aberrant Beasts—even though their numbers had been severely reduced, upon sensing the aura of the Dark Night Praise, they still charged over without the slightest hesitation and engaged in fierce skirmishes with the surrounding Night Watchers.

Coupled with the Church also dispatching its organizational personnel to launch surprise attacks.

The number of light pillars could not be increased without limit.

However, maintaining around fifty was entirely manageable.

As the situation returned to stability once more, Qin Chuan also had Lola initiate another task.

That was the Inheritance Trial of the Night Walker.

Night Walkers were the top combat units among