Chapter 00289: The Perfect Opportunity
# The Perfect Opportunity
Chapter 289
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 289: The Perfect Opportunity
According to the game's mythology, the Ring of the Demon King was supposed to be the seat of the Demon God's authority, a part of his scattered divine office.
Only by gathering all ten Rings of the Demon King would the Demon God's power be considered complete.
Whatever the reason, since it had been placed on the altar, Li Chengxi reached out and picked up the Ring of the Demon King.
The ring in the box was the same as ever.
The main body of the ring still looked like gold of not very high purity, and its design was hollowed out.
This shape reminded Li Chengxi of the bamboo fungus in the bamboo fungus and goose soup he had eaten before…
Perhaps he was craving that dish again.
Set into the ring was a teardrop-shaped moonstone.
When held up to the sunlight, a line of bright bluish-green light could be seen in the center of the gemstone.
Even though Li Chengxi knew nothing about gems, he felt this thing was very beautiful.
When he slipped it onto his finger, the ring automatically rotated and locked itself in place.
At the same time, Li Chengxi had a very strange feeling.
It was like suddenly forgetting what you were about to say, that anxious feeling of being just short of fulfillment.
However, this feeling only lasted for a moment before he quickly returned to normal.
Name: Ring of the Demon King (Tenth: Ring of Authority)
Grade: Legendary Magic Item (Divine Artifact)
Effect: Grants the wearer the ability to use the powers of a Divine Office.
Description: A divine artifact belonging only to the Demon God.
Legend says there are ten in total.
Only the Demon God can unleash its effects, and all of them must be gathered to activate its full capabilities.
Li Chengxi had already seen the attributes of this ring back when Audel rushed in and opened the box, but he had to admit that compared to the first two Rings of the Demon King, its attributes were even more cryptic.
What did "powers of a Divine Office" mean?
How on earth was he supposed to use this thing?
He was full of questions when he first saw the attributes, and now, holding it in his hand, he was still full of questions.
It was not like the Ring of Sight, which activated a special vision with a twist, nor was it like the Ring of Strength, which gave a very obvious feeling the moment you put it on.
Li Chengxi was in dire need of a deity onboarding guide…
Although the ring's ability left him baffled, the changes that appeared in the game after he put it on were visible.
First was the Faith Points cap.
It was originally two hundred thousand, but now it had become four hundred thousand, a direct doubling.
Immediately after, Li Chengxi noticed a glowing plus sign appear on the 'Miracles' list.
Clicking it open, he saw three new miracles.
Fire Rain, Foul Rain, and Poison Rain…
Their area of effect was similar to the Precipitation Technique, but one look at their names told him that all three miracles were disaster types, meant to be smashed down on the heads of enemies.
Although they seemed a bit simple and brutal, considering Viola was about to launch a counterattack soon, one could say they had arrived at a very timely moment.
As far as he could tell, these were the only changes from gaining another Ring of the Demon King.
Li Chengxi even found a secluded spot to check his own attributes.
The most important Divine Office category still showed 'Lost', and he still only had the Kingship divine office.
Perhaps the number of Demon King's Rings was still far from enough, so the divine office had not been recovered.
Just as he was about to check if there were any changes to the list of grantable divine arts, his phone rang with a jingle.
The caller ID displayed 'Qian Sen'.
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Going downstairs to open the door, he found Qian Sen waiting right at the back door of the convenience store.
"What's up? You actually came in person?"
"We'll have to trouble you for a day or two. The lost revenue will be compensated just like last time."
The last time, Li Chengxi had just said it casually and didn't take it seriously at all.
Who would have thought that a couple of days later, Qian Sen had actually transferred the money for the temporary closure's lost revenue.
At that moment, the door of the minivan outside opened, and Aidas, wrapped in a down jacket, jumped out of the vehicle.
"Again?"
"Miss Aidas's power is draining too quickly. She said she can replenish it here, so we have to come over every so often."
Li Chengxi didn't mind.
He greeted Aidas and told her to go upstairs first.
Perhaps afraid of the cold, Aidas had wrapped herself up very tightly and scurried into the house with small, quick steps.
"Alright then, I'll come pick her up tomorrow or the day after."
Just as Qian Sen was about to leave, Li Chengxi quickly asked:
"Has there been any progress? Why did all these gods fall to Earth?"
"No progress whatsoever. But we've basically contained all the deities that landed in our country. As long as they don't cause any trouble, we can take our time investigating the cause."
"So… the alert is lifted?"
"Temporarily. And it's a blessing in disguise for me. The higher-ups approved a two-day vacation for me."
No wonder Qian Sen, despite his weary face, seemed to be in high spirits.
He could finally take a break and get some good rest.
Speaking of which, regarding the matter of the gods falling to Earth, Audel had not provided any reliable answers either.
Because not only did Section Nine say there was no precedent for this, but even on Audel's side, there were absolutely no records of all the gods falling at once.
Aidas had also mentioned that before she was shot down, she had faintly seen a golden rod-like object.
Li Chengxi had also relayed this clue to Audel, asking her to check if there were any similar magical artifacts.
In the end, Audel's response was basically that her humble self could not do it…
The only clue was a "golden rod-like object," and there were countless magical artifacts that fit such a description.
Moreover, Audel had never heard of any magical artifact powerful enough to shoot down gods.
However, Audel did provide some clues.
She said that in the multiverse world, there were extremely special magical artifacts.
These magical artifacts were unreasonably powerful, and their very existence was the stuff of legend, which was why they were called Legendary Magic Items.
And among Legendary Magic Items, there was another category.
The items in this category held a great malice towards deities.
From the moment of their creation, their purpose was to eliminate deities, hence they were called God-Slaying Armaments.
Audel suspected that a God-Slaying Armament might be behind this incident, but what it was, where it was, and how to resolve it, was a bit beyond her pay grade…
That was also true.
Audel being a high-ranking mage was already a remarkable achievement.
But on second thought, even though Audel was the highest-level NPC Li Chengxi had ever seen, she was only level 45.
He had heard that the max level was one hundred, and anything above that was the domain of the gods.
The multiverse world was too vast, and there were countless extraordinary individuals.
Level 45 was merely stepping onto the threshold of the powerful, only considered to have escaped the minion category.
Power was one thing, and Audel was not some omniscient being.
Being knowledgeable did not mean she knew everything.
It was indeed a bit ridiculous to expect her to be like a search engine, spitting out information directly after typing in keywords.
Besides, Li Chengxi was not very concerned about whether this issue could be resolved.
He was asking purely out of curiosity.
In fact, objectively speaking, it was very favorable for him.
A week had passed since the gods fell.
Prayers would go unanswered, and divine arts would become unusable.
The priests of the various deities should have already discovered that something was wrong with their bosses.
It would not pose a threat to their respective faith systems in the short term, and the long-established churches would not collapse just because they hadn't received a reply from their boss for a few days.
But if their churches wanted to expand, it probably would not be so easy.
Trying to increase the number of followers with just words was far less effective than using divine arts with their impressive sound and light effects.
And as quite possibly the only deity who could control a church on Earth, this might be the perfect opportunity for the Demon King Divine Cult to expand…
(End of this chapter)