Chapter 241
"All living beings are like lambs. Naturally, gods must protect the pen that keeps those lambs."
Li Mu murmured to himself, his heart cold with anger.
The gods who enslaved humanity would eventually die at humanity's hands.
Day soon broke over Mountain City. In the end, no wolf-like evil creatures breached the city.
The two four-headed creatures had possessed both the strength and opportunity to do so, but Li Mu noticed that they seemed intelligent. They merely commanded the evil creatures from the rear and provided support, never entering the battle themselves. This showed that some high-level evil creatures possessed considerable intelligence.
The instant the sun rose above the horizon, golden radiance shone upon the earth.
The black mist silently receded like a falling tide. All surviving evil creatures vanished with it, leaving only corpses strewn across the ground. Many steam-belching metal giants immediately emerged from Mountain City and began clearing away the bodies outside the city.
Once the corpses had been gathered, several priests in golden robes emerged from the city.
Li Mu had read about them in a book. They were priests of the Lord of the Sun.
These priests held Sun Holy Emblems. At the center of each round black emblem was a golden sun, which radiated golden rays outward. Within that golden sun was a faint, indistinct figure—the Lord of the Sun.
Like tiny suns, the Sun Holy Emblems released endless radiance across the battlefield.
Beneath that radiance, the evil creatures' blood, shattered flesh, bone fragments, and other remains all turned into black mist and were purified. With that, the last traces of environmental pollution left behind by the evil creatures vanished without a trace. The entire Mountain City became warm from the cleansing radiance.
At last, the Wizards within the city appeared. Together,