The Shameless Sorcerer
Chapter 173

Collapse! City of Abundance!

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"So, all along, you've been going down the wrong path?"

Inside the dungeon, Du Lin looked at Xu Nan and Vivian with some surprise. "But what I find strange is, why did you two choose to go into the dungeon on your own initiative?"

Vivian held up a slender, delicate finger. "First, as you've said before, while the dungeon guards pay attention to everyone in each cell, they aren't sensitive to numbers, so we're absolutely safe hiding here. The situation outside is too chaotic; the Flawless Church has begun a new round of thorough searches, and the entire City of Abundance has been plunged into immense panic."

"Secondly, we are outnumbered and outgunned. More people mean more strength. Ten-player dungeons should be cleared by cooperation, especially the City of Abundance, which is ranked among the top ten most difficult dungeons. We must do our best to get help from everyone."

"There's no third option. We need to cooperate sincerely now. Will you join us?"

Du Lin shrugged indifferently and pointed at Xu Nan: "I'll listen to him. I'll join in whatever way he tells me to."

Xu Nan gave a dry laugh to cover up his guilty conscience.

"Forget it, I'll just give him another bottle of Hair Growth Serum later, as compensation for his emotional distress," he consoled himself.

"I think we should start from the beginning, from Countess Tess, who has already been exiled..."

Xu Nan also tried to analyze an area she wasn't good at. "Her husband's cause of death may be the key to this mission."

"No, no, no... I think you're probably complicating things." Du Lin said lazily, "I don't like thinking about problems or fighting, which is why I'm willing to pay my way into jail."

"I think this is very simple. The Flawless Church and the Fallen are clearly two opposing camps. Any dungeon-style quest is a battle between these two camps. Either join the Flawless Church and defeat the Fallen, or join the Fallen and completely corrupt the Flawless Church."

"The reason their mission failed was simply because it wasn't thorough enough, and they never made contact with the core figures of the Flawless Church!"

Vivian and Xu Nan looked surprised. They never expected that this lazy guy, who was so lazy that he was prepared to spend his life in jail after taking the money, would have such insight and awareness!

"Why are you all looking at me? Isn't this common sense?" Du Lin somewhat awkwardly.

"The City of Abundance was originally an ideal city conceived by ancient philosophers!"

"You think the big shots who create these dungeons... well, no offense, their strength must be very high... but are you sure their intelligence is as high as their charisma?"

As if struck by lightning, Xu Nan shuddered.

Du Lin isn't stupid; he actually figured out the examiner's intentions!

Despite having received nine years of compulsory education and even having gone through the saga of wits with the exam setters and deciphering the syllabus, I never imagined I'd be no match for a lazy bum from another world!

As Du Lin analyzed, the City of Abundance is an ideal city, and there is no real template that can be directly applied. Therefore, the bigwig who designed this instance had to think about everything himself... For Ron Sorcerer, intellectual reasoning has never seemed to be something he is particularly good at.

Even though they were incredibly powerful, reaching legendary levels, Xu Nan didn't realize that Luo Mang and The Lion King had any potential to become great detectives.

Looking at all the instances Xu Nan has experienced, it seems that unorthodox and unorthodox methods are more popular!

To actually try to reason seriously? That's ridiculous!

"I guess if you had stuck to the reporting route and used these things to earn merit and get a position in the Flawless Church, instead of just being investigators, the second phase of the mission might have ended long ago."

Du Lin yawned. "I'm going to sleep."

Vivian and Xu Nan asked in bewilderment, "It's not bedtime yet! Can you say a few more words?"

They felt as if a wise but seemingly foolish Strategy Guide master was standing in front of them.

Du Lin rubbed his eyes. "Sorry, due to the special nature of my bloodline, I need to sleep for 25 hours at a time..."

"So your trait is [sleepiness]?" Vivian asked thoughtfully.

"No, my trait is [laziness]..." Du Lin looked at the ceiling in the cell with some melancholy. "I used to be a very diligent person, but there's nothing I can do about it."

"Only by constantly doing lazy things and accumulating Laziness Points can you become stronger!"

"Ugh, what a hassle. I don't like sleeping at all. What I actually love most is being busy. Ah, work makes me happy, studying makes me..."

Whoosh whoosh whoosh.

I could hear Du Lin snoring beside me. That guy was really sleeping soundly.

Xu Nan was so envious she was practically bursting with envy.

Why is it that others can become stronger by being lazy, while I'm considered shameful?!

He looked at Vivian and asked curiously, "What are you?"

Vivian was quite frank. "Elegant. The following should be dignified, solemn, and seamless."

"What happened next?" This was the first time Xu Nan had ever heard of such a law.

Vivian asked in surprise, "You didn't know? The elements that Ron Sorcerer need to break through are different at each stage; of course, the initial main element lays the foundation for your subsequent development path, and the changes later won't be particularly extreme."

"My main element in the first stage is elegance, so I must behave in accordance with the elements of elegance and complete some elegant events that exceed normal etiquette standards in order to gain more power."

"I've checked the relevant information. After elegance, my second stage elements should be one of the three: [Dignity], [Solemnity], or [Flawless Clothing]. I don't know what comes after that. Every sorcerer goes through different stages. Some people stick to one main element to the end, like Mr. Luo Mang and Mr. Lion King among the Three Legends. But Ms. Almuses went through three stages: [Strange Laughter], [Mental Illness], and [Neuroticism]. So even now that she's become a legend, she still makes some strange laughs... after all, it's a habit from her past profession."

"With your abilities, I thought you knew all about this stuff. By the way, what's your main element?"

Xu Nan was silent for a moment. "Is it okay if I don't?"

Vivian became interested. "Is it about betraying your teammates?"

Xu Nan was speechless. He thought about it for a long time and finally decided to confess.

This was also the first time he revealed his main element to anyone other than Mr. Luo Mang. It could also be seen as a way of repaying Vivian for saving him in this instance.

Besides, the Ron Sorcerer are actually quite harmonious with each other, except for that one Master Informant...

"Shameful." Xu Nan's face turned slightly red.

Vivian looked surprised. "Wow! What a cool main element!"

"You can only become stronger by doing extremely shameful things? Like suddenly breaking into a hot dance while walking down the street?"

Xu Nan said awkwardly, "More or less..."

Vivian scrutinized Xu Nan carefully, seemingly noticing his embarrassment, and forced a smile as she comforted him, "It's alright, we're all Ron Sorcerer, I understand your predicament."

"I used to be a wild girl, but now I have to learn to speak in a proper official tone."

"Actually, shame seems out of place in this city, doesn't it? I remember that in the Flawless Church, shame is one of the three original sins..."

Upon reaching this point, the two exchanged a glance and suddenly realized something.

Du Lin's words just now flashed through their ears one by one, and for a moment, it was as if the great detective Sherlock Holmes had possessed them!

"I think I know what to do!" Xu Nan said slowly.

Vivian nodded. "Should we ask him to help us?"

Xu Nan looked at the sleeping Du Lin, smiled and shook her head:

"It's alright. One person can do one thing and leave one thing unfinished. Let me alone end the heinous sins committed by the Flawless Church!"

In that instant, Xu Nan shone with brilliance, like a great man.

However, Vivian instantly saw through his thoughts. "Tch, you clearly just want to take this opportunity to openly and legitimately collect Shame Points!"

Xu Nan earnestly corrected her. "Be elegant."

"Don't break it!"

In the next few miles, the City of Abundance was plunged into even greater turmoil!

In the early morning market, a masked man ran naked through the city, causing an uproar. Since the founding of the City of Abundance, no one had ever done such things in broad daylight!

All the soldiers of the Flawless Church were mobilized, but they still couldn't find the culprit.

Nonsense, when they were looking for him, Xu Nan was having hot pot with Du Lin Vivian in the dungeon. To lessen his guilt towards Du Lin, he even added a few extra plates of beef for Du Lin.

Vivian kept glancing sideways at Xu Nan, while Du Lin was so frightened that he kept several steps away from Xu Nan. He even put on a sleeping bag to protect himself from any unforeseen circumstances when he went to sleep. The atmosphere in the cell was rather gay.

The next day, someone began spreading a large number of pornographic pictures in the streets where the incident occurred. The subjects of the pornographic pictures were actually evidence of the absurd pleasures of the big shots in the wealthy district!

These were actually the materials Xu Nan had used to file a report before, but he had carefully made backups of them. It was the perfect opportunity to use them for public relations this time.

Although the guards of the Flawless Church were ready, many more yellow pictures had already become commonplace, like swallows in the mansions of noble families, flying into the homes of ordinary people.

The entire City of Abundance is rife with undercurrents!

The Archbishop of the Flawless Church personally took action and issued a strict order to arrest those who were disrupting the moral order!

Unfortunately, their intelligence was limited, and they ultimately failed to understand the concept of "blind spotting one's own eyes." While they were arguing for mercy, Xu Nan and the others were fiercely debating whether spicy or numbing-spicy tasted better...

Third, Xu Nan felt that he had prepared enough, so he dropped a bombshell!

The Council of Five that governs the City of Abundance, along with all the evidence of their corrupt history, spread it to every corner of the City of Abundance through cheap printing magic.

"It's time to face the truth, residents who have been kept in the dark."

"Meet me at 4 PM in front of the Great Library."

These are the words left by the instigator.

"Are you ready?" In the dungeon, Vivian looked at Xu Nan, a little nervous. "Aren't we going too far with what we're doing?"

Xu Nan shrugged. "At worst, the mission will fail!"

At this moment, his second phase of the mission has quietly changed.

Collapse! City of Abundance!!

...!

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