Chapter 135: Chapter 106: Power Comparison Across Factions, The Sacrificial Ceremony Begins (Part 2)

“But what truly decides the outcome is the struggle between Late Tier One and Tier Two Evolvers.”

Shen Yue swallowed hard; after listening to Lin Feng’s analysis, she felt both tense and excited.

The achievements she had accumulated over these years were enough to exchange for a Mid-stage Evolution Surgery, promoting her to Mid-Tier One Senior Assistant Priest, but doing so would indefinitely delay her return to the Holy City.

Unless she advances to Tier Two or achieves a significant accomplishment, it would take hundreds of years to return to the Holy City.

Should she gamble on it…

Shen Yue found herself in a dilemma.

Until she saw the man before her maintaining a calm smile, prompting a sudden flash of insight:

“Mr. Lin refuses to join the Oasis and become Upper Class; could it be that he doubts the Church’s ability to handle this crisis?”

Lin Feng squinted slightly, staring at Shen Yue:

“I have great faith in the Church, more accurately, I am confident in Priest Su An and myself.”

He went on to speak eloquently:

“You don’t need to probe further. I’ve already mentioned before, chaos is the ladder to progress; this is your only chance, but for me, besides participating in this battle, there’s a better choice.”

“Currently, the reward offered by the Church isn’t substantial enough to make me take such a huge risk to challenge three major families, thousands of people, and centuries of accumulated foundations.”

“That’s all there is to it.”

Shen Yue nodded, understanding that no matter how extravagant her persuasion was, she could not sway Lin Feng’s decision.

He, like herself, harbors no ambition for Oasis Town.

Just wants to escape this tiny, impoverished place and venture onto a more expansive world stage.

But Lin Feng has more and better choices, while all she has left is a desperate gamble, offering her life for the Oaths of her master.

In the flickering light of the candle’s reflection, Shen Yue’s gaze gradually transformed from confusion to determination, whispering in reply:

“Thank you!”

Time swiftly passed; after their night-long discussion, it was now twelve o’clock, also once known as midnight.

At this moment, a long peal of a bell resonated.

“Dong~”

Lin Feng slowly opened his eyes to see Shen Yue beside him, already up and wearing the hood of her cloak again, covering most of her face.

“Let’s go and see Oasis Town’s most magnificent ceremony.”

Shen Yue slowly invited.

Lin Feng looked towards her:

“Can an outsider like me watch?”

The woman nodded:

“It’s a great sacrifice to save countless humans. Lord Su An asked me to take you on a tour of the Oasis Battleship, how can we miss such an important event?”

“Put on your hood and follow me, keep your head down and stay silent throughout.”

Lin Feng smiled and then got up to follow her.

Turning off the oil lamp, they quietly walked out of the study room and through the chapel’s corridor.

Soon, they reached outside the crowded chapel hall.

The chapel’s prayer room was quite large, measuring thirty meters long and twenty meters wide, nearly an acre of space.

Yet, only two hundred seats were set in the spacious hall, all filled at this moment.

It was the black-robed people seen along the way back.

They were also about to become the sacrificial “elderly” Upper Class members.

Lin Feng squinted, calculating based on the total number of over two thousand First and Second Class Upper Class members, with the oldest being around ninety years old and a stage every ten years, each stage numbered more than two hundred.

This stabilized the number of sacrificers over ninety years old to around two hundred, with an addition of more than twenty each year.

One year had twelve months, twenty-four Holy Spring Days, requiring the sacrifice of twenty-four sacrificers.

In and out, it fitted perfectly.

This was also the limit Oasis Town could sustain.

When Lin Feng initially learned the truth of the Upper District, he was both scared and indignant, but after Shen Yue’s explanation and a change of perspective, he realized the actions of the Holy Spring Sect could actually be understood.

Placed on the man-eat-man wasteland wilderness, it was just a sacrifice, not appearing particularly dark or evil.

Moreover, the Upper Class enjoyed a life of privilege for up to ninety years, which many outside envied and pursued.

Knowing that Deserters had an average lifespan of under twenty years, 30% who had just awoken couldn’t survive the first year, even the stabilized Permanent Residents in the Five Major Villages, aside from Holy Spring Village, averaged only forty to fifty years.

Under the harsh environment and scarce resources of the wasteland, 90% of people found merely having enough to eat a luxury.

Even the Permanent Residents only managed a modest living, yet in other aspects of life quality, they couldn’t even reach the minimum threshold of the Oasis Upper Class.

Furthermore, for the new generation of Oasis Upper Class, ninety wasn’t a certain death; if they could strive to evolve to Late Tier One and become part of the Oasis management, they could avoid becoming sacrificers and live peacefully thereafter.

But what made Lin Feng accept the truth of Oasis was not the favorable conditions mentioned above, but rather the ultimate purpose of cultivating Upper Class members in the Upper District…

It wasn’t to satisfy the selfish desires of an individual or organization but to save the vast majority of humanity.

On this basis alone, the specific means employed became unimportant.

This was a necessary sacrifice to become a partner of justice.

At this moment, with the echo of the bell fading away, the two hundred ninety-year-old “elderly” Upper Class members present ceased their low chants and looked towards the stage.

Standing by the podium were four people in dark robes.

Three men and one woman.

They were all Late Tier One Church Cultivators.

Among them, the man and woman in the middle exuded a strong aura, their deep eyes seemed to hold a certain magic, an alluring plunge.

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