"The Butcher is an indispensable Useful God in Dreamfold Town. Every kind of sacrificial rite requires livestock, but I never imagined that the one person in this town who truly cared about those animals would be the Butcher responsible for slaughtering them."
The large stone at the entrance to town was covered entirely in human names. The Old Night Watchman only cared about protecting the townspeople, too. Slaughtered livestock were simply forgotten; only the Butcher kept any records of them.
Gao Ming recalled his first encounter with the Butcher. He had been in Shopkeeper Wang's butcher shop, where that old bastard was tormenting a black donkey. Later, the Butcher had shoved Shopkeeper Wang into the millstone and saved the donkey, who had been transformed from a Tester.
"Fu Shu might have been right. The town's Butcher really was the most honest, straightforward person he could find."
Gao Ming put away the Pig-Faced Mask and thought back. Although the Butcher had pursued him for a while, he had never actually hurt him, and had even inadvertently helped him resolve a great deal of trouble. "Death settles all debts. Still, Dreamfold Town turned an honest, straightforward townsman into a bloodthirsty lunatic. This damned place really is sinister."
Gao Ming genuinely could not understand how Dreamfold Town, which Fu Shu had modeled after a healing game, had ended up like this.
Ever since learning that the Heavenly Gate truly existed, the various ghost gods had seemed to go mad. They no longer bothered undermining one another and instead pulled out all the stops to prepare for ascension to immortality.
"Many spirit shrines appeared in Dreamfold Town in the past. Later, ghost gods occupied them all and turned them into their own residences. This Nine-Story Spirit Shrine worked with the Water Dragon King, building