Fool's Society's Invitation

In the following days, Cheng Shi's life suddenly became very busy.

As for the reason for being busy, it's naturally for the sake of food.

After two months of only spending and not buying, his food reserves had fallen below the warning line, so he had to stockpile food before the next Special Trial to prepare for any eventuality.

So he started frantically running solo dungeons, planning to fill both warehouses this week so that he wouldn't have to waste energy on food before the year-end Audience Assembly.

The time saved can then be used to study how to effectively rank up and become Chosen of God.

Cheng Shi's current Ladder of Audience score is 172, ranking 47th in [Deception], 42 points behind the current Chosen of God Li Jingming in [Deception]; and ranking 39th in [Destiny], 34 points behind the Chosen of God Blind Man in [Destiny].

He is a clear-headed and cautious person. He knows that even if he wants to rank up, it doesn't mean he has to keep matching with different Trials. That would be too risky and too tiring. That's why he studies how to rank up "effectively".

Based on his past performance and the points he has earned, he can basically guarantee 2-3 points per game. In this way, in the four months leading up to the end of the year, he only needs to steadily increase his points by 12 points each month to ensure that he is close enough to the position before the Audience Assembly.

Of course, everyone's score is Change. Even though the highest score of the Chosen of God has been stuck around 210 for a while, no one can say for sure what Change will occur in the next few months. So the score-up plan is not so crude.

He plans to assess the point difference progress in the middle and last week of each month, and conduct some additional Prayer Trial based on the actual gap to make up the point difference needed for stable point gain.

This way, you can progress steadily and gradually get closer to that position, without encountering a lot of high-scoring players in the early stages of ranking up.

The claim of Chosen of God is based solely on the ranking on the Ladder of Audience; Cheng Shi doesn't care at all about the ranking on the Path to Godhood.

After all, his Path to Godhood score is flexible and variable, and the exact score depends entirely on his mood.

In addition, judging from the information in various chat channels in the past few days, apart from a few individuals who are still stuck at the bottom, the other Chosen of God have probably really returned to their respective tiers, and even "True Heart" has returned to the top 10.

The game is finally back to normal.

Although many more people died, the chat in the channel remained lively, and even the usually quiet streets would occasionally be filled with laughter.

This situation even reminded Cheng Shi of when everyone was first assigned to different areas.

However... it was precisely because everything was too normal that Cheng Shi felt something was amiss.

He always believed in the saying: Madness often breeds from calm.

Especially considering whether the current calm is a false, superficial calm.

Because one of them has fallen.

[Prosperity] has fallen. [He], who signed the [Covenant] and brought down the [Faith Game], has fallen silently. Apart from Hong Lin and himself, no other players have noticed this.

Even though he had made some efforts to spread the news of [Prosperity]'s death, he still did not receive any related feedback in the chat channel, which meant that his little scheme had failed.

Of course, the fact that outsiders are unaware of this matter is also related to the fact that Hong Lin inherited some of His [Covenant] powers and Proxy on His "work," but this still terrified Cheng Shi.

The essence of the "Faith Game" is to allow players to get closer to the one at the end of different Faith paths. But when the guide at the end of the path disappears, leaving only an empty Divine Throne, what is the point of this approach?

After all, His death was the greatest negation of the followers who blindly forged ahead on this path.

Furthermore, since the presence or absence of "He" on the Divine Throne at the end of the road does not affect the approach to Faith, then who can guarantee that the one standing at the end of other Faith paths is necessarily the "He" of the original Faith?

To take it even further, does "He," or "them," really exist?

Cheng Shi had pondered this question more than once. Ever since witnessing the fall of [Prosperity], he began to think about the meaning of [Faith Game]. If Faith has become so fanatical that it requires the self-destruction of gods to fulfill their will, then what exactly are these players who constantly participate in the Trials of the gods in their eyes?

This incident rendered all the "conspiracy theories of the gods" circulating among players meaningless, because [Prosperity] had no intention of doing anything to the players it "chosen"; instead, it self-destructed for the sake of so-called Cosmic Prosperity.

Cheng Shi thought and thought but couldn't come up with a logic that could even convince himself, so he could only put the idea aside for now and proceed with caution, observing and reflecting as he went.

He told himself that perhaps it was because there was still too little information about them, and he needed to gather more information before he could come up with new ideas.

Recently, he had an opportunity to exchange information with other players.

Fool's Society!

The gold card retrieved from the ranger has recently undergone a Change. When Cheng Shi glanced at it casually one day, he noticed a countdown and an invitation on the back of the card.

The countdown started in days, the First 3 days, but today it has become 1.

The invitation, written in delicate strokes, was even more straightforward: Welcome to the Stage of mediocre people.

This was undoubtedly a mysterious gathering organized by a player who considered himself mediocre. He had never been interested in such Cheng Shi outside of Trials because he disliked the extra risks.

But now, this new thing also excites him. After all, he is eager to improve. He is eager to expand his intelligence and network, and wants to learn more about the essence of the [Faith Game].

Cheng Shi could vaguely sense that this was a kind of summoning method, and this card was more like a key to another space. In other words, if he held this card until the countdown ended, he would very likely appear on the Stage of this so-called Fool's Society.

As for what was on that Stage, he wasn't sure, but the only thing he was certain of was that there would definitely be a Clown there—no, Fate Weaver.

In a phone call a few days ago, he asked Hong Lin about this organization, but the other party didn't know much about it either. He even mocked him, saying that the Fated is indeed not an ordinary person and there is no need for him to attend these gatherings of people who call themselves ordinary. Instead, he should bring all the Fated together for a sharing and exchange meeting.

Cheng Shi thought that his call with Hong Lin was already a sharing session between the Fated, after all, this great organization blessed by "Destiny" only had two people in total.

No, to be precise, it's one person plus one Emissary.

This is perhaps the most prestigious organization formed by players since the advent of the [Faith Game]. Regardless of their actual combat strength, at least there is one of Him in this organization.

Thinking of all this, Cheng Shi couldn't help but curl the corners of his lips into a smile. Holding the card whose countdown was about to end, he thought to himself:

I hope tomorrow's performance won't disappoint me.