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Chapter 12

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Chapter 12: 4 Halls 1 Court

Posted on 2016-08-09by StarveCleric

All along, the options in the system’s quest page were a gray and inactive state, thus I inferred that it would only be activated when the events in the game walkthrough begins.

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I have been waiting for the main storyline to start for a long time but I didn’t expect it to offer me two choices.

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But after giving it some thought, it was something to be expected.

 

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In this world named Eich which was made of countless worlds combined together, the species on it are innumerable.

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This world and its greatest piece of land are named after the creator of the world, Goddess Eich but there are no traces of her in this world. It was said, due to exhaustion from creating this world, she fell into a state of eternal sleep. However, before she went to sleep, she left all the responsibilities of the world to her two daughters.

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Goddess Astrya, the guardian goddess of order and daybreak, she created the High Elves, Metal Dragon tribes, Angels, Titans and similar Golden races.

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Goddess Cynthia, the dictator of chaos and night, she created Demons, Elemental Dragons, Yellow tribe (黄族(?)) Blood tribe, the Elemental tribes and other Sulfur races.

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The two goddess represents the two main factions the gods belong to and countless other races. The big sister, Astrya, hopes for all races to be bathed under the warm sunlight and believes that each race should be attributed a certain role by the gods and walk the path decided for them. She believes in hierarchy and her creations tend towards order and kindness.

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As for Cynthia, she hopes that her creation could metamorphose through competition. As the creator, she tries not to interfere excessively and does not enforce her own rules upon her people.

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For mortals, the difference in beliefs may only be an verbal argument but for the true gods who are the incarnation of those concepts, a clash in beliefs means questioning the meaning behind the other’s existence, thus both parties would naturally explode into a battle.

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The two goddesses, equally strong, fought each other to the point of exhaustion and went into long rest. Their creations then continued their endless war for them. After the Golden tribes and Sulfur tribes went extinct due to war, the Moon Elves, representing the Silver tribe, and the fallen Giants, representing the Mercury tribe, continued their battle.

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The war, ever since the inception of the war, has never stopped.

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When the Order managed to suppress the Chaos, the onset of a relatively stable Order era starts while if the Chaos managed to claim superiority, an orderless and chaotic era begins. A change in era represents the rise and fall of countless races.

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In current times, it is the Iron era belonging to the Order faction, otherwise known as the age of the mortals. The previous dominant species, the Great Demons of the chaotic faction gave up their positions and passed the baton to the current dominant species, the Humans of the Iron tribe.

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Order and Chaos are fighting and taking over each other’s position have always been the main movements of Eich continent. My Codex of Law, be recognised by the Origin of Order, have became a part of it, and thus, many other different Holy Knights who belong to the same Order faction have came forward to learn it.

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From my view, there is nothing incredible about it. Within order exists chaos and even for the leading races of the Chaos faction, the Devils and Undead, the strict power hierarchy and the superior and underling relationship, isn’t it also a special kind of order.

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In my eyes, it is just which side you choose. It is a question of whether you decide to mingle the gods of Order or the gods or Chaos.

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Choosing to let Ann inaugurate as the City Lord, I will take on the role as a senior and teacher and as planned, I would gain a new physical body and gain the opportunity to start from scratch. Such a decision is sided towards the Order faction.

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After all, living humans are the backbones of the Order faction no matter how you look at it.

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On the other hand, if I were to choose to become the City Lord myself, the system would restore my powers back to when I was at my peak. However, a SemiGod Lich, no matter how you look at it, is a King of the Undeads, a leader of the Chaos faction.

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This may look like a normal choosing process, but it is the choice that determines the road I would walk on from now.

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“Aiyo, what is there to hesitate about. Walking on a road that I walked on before? I choose… Epic mission, Revival of the Phoenix. I want to come back to life!”

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That’s right, my previous experiences have proven that simply brute power won’t resolve the problem. The bunch of idiots in the Chaos faction lack order and live as they please. The internal conflicts would never end as long as they live and they are destined to never accomplish great things. If so, why would I still commit the same mistakes. Besides, without a proper body, a Lich can only reach the level of a SemiGod.

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Yup, yup, it definitely isn’t because undeads can’t taste delicious food, can’t date, can’t enjoy the pleasures of the physical body. I don’t want to be an undead.

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“Fine, let Ann become the City Lord, I will give her a hand. Right, her full name is Annie right? I thought you called her Ann in the past?”

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“Ann is after all, just a nickname, and furthermore, it could be used for both sexes. Magaret helped to come up with it. Actually, I have always thought that Annie.Han have a nice ring to it but somehow she ended up with Magaret’s surname.”

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“Annie.Layde huh?”

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Somehow, I felt that this name was somehow familiar.

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“Da!” With a snap of a finger, a large book with black cover opens and the pages flip continuously until it finally stops on a colorful page.

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That is a picture of a mature woman with a heroic aura looking at the distant with a sword in her hands. Her entire body screams of fiery red. Her scarlet battle robe was has an embroidery of a phoenix on it and her vermilion sword generates a field of inferno. It was obvious that it was the Blessing of the Phoenix that belongs to the idiot in front of me.

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“The Fire Phoenix of the East Annie.Layde, the Great Commander of the Alliance against demons on the East defense line. The hero who personally killed the Dark Warrior EmperorRoland.Mist.”

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You teacher and student must have a grudge against me! How deep is your hatred.

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The student is going to kill me in the future and how difficult it was for me to change the future. Furthermore, the father have already killed me once! Am I really going to get chopped the Blessing of the Phoenix once again?

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Killing me once wasn’t enough and just when I finally changed the future, I am going to be killed once more?

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No wonder, I thought it was weird how Ann was my nemesis. So the one which fate chose to get rid of me is you rascal!

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“Don’t dream of it! You bunch of bastards, get out! Incantation of Law: Expel!”

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Unable to suppress the howling in my heart, I used all my power in the spell.

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After the sacred light of the Order scatters, somehow the SemiGod Adam got ejected out of the room, confused.

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“Pah!”

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He lands heavily on his butt. Immediately afterwards, a book strikes him squarely on his face.

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The words on the book have been translated and Adam, who have received secret martial arts manual from Roland in the past, reads out slowly.

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“Sunflower Bible? What is this. ‘To practice this sacred art, direct your knife to castrate’?”
(Refer to chp 3)

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“Go and learn this, I think it is suitable for a ball-less person like you!”

 

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It isn’t the first time that lad got me angry. He is probably used to getting thrown out. After rubbing his bottom, he walks away.

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After he leaves, I fall into a state of confusion. What is fate? Just what kind of a life did he plan out for me? Am I really destined to become a Demon King from birth, and furthermore, a Demon King with a tendency for suicide? After grooming Adam into a hero who killed me, do I have to groom another hero who ‘used’ to kill me?

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“If I didn’t came here, Annie wouldn’t have met Adam and thus, wouldn’t receive Adam’s inheritance, the Blessing of the Phoenix. So, I am the reason for their meeting? Is the crusade against me long decided? Or, am I fated to be hunted down by the wielder of the Blessing of the Phoenix, whether it is Adam or Annie.”

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A pity that my study of the patterns of cause and effects are a mess and I didn’t even try to learn divination. But then once again, such a deep philosophical question of cause and effect, it would be weird if I can make sense out of it.

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“Forget it, I will stop thinking about it. Since I have already decided on my goal, so let me think about it after finishing my quest.”

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Since this problem can’t be resolved by thinking, then I shan’t think about it. This has always been one of my strong points. The most important thing now is to finish my current quest and come back to life!

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Thus, after thinking over it for a moment, I pressed the bell on my table.

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“Call the head of the 4 Halls to come to meet me.”

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Initially, I created the court to judge sinners and earn those Evil Points. Wouldn’t I be abandoning to primary objective if I were to tire myself over this,

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Thus, I built an organization whose system and mechanism allows it to be self-sufficient, thus I can spare the effort on other pursuits.

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Liu Huang Mountain City’s judicial system was created by me personally and I followed the other world’s model of splitting up the authority of the judicial system using the principles of checks and balances, I divided the judicial system into 4 independent blocs.

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Firstly, it would be the Supreme Court, the dominant bloc of the judicial system. I am the head of this bloc, giving me the power to approval for the passing of new laws and the final say in the judging of criminals, making me the big boss of the entire judicial system.

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The 4 subsidiaries under the Supreme Court is the organs and backbone of the entire judicial system.

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The Hall of Enforcement, responsible for the enforcement of criminals and maintaining order. Yup, it plays the role as the villain, maintaining discipline through patrols,managing those street peddlers and such, all of the troublesome jobs are under them.

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As for the Town Order Security Army, shortened as Town Security, it is one of their subsidiaries and different from the security team whose main targets are street peddlers in the other world, the Dark Elf Knights targets all sort of criminals. Their jobs are similar to the responsibilities of a police.

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Their head would be the tall and buff masked man in front of me — Tauren Xueti.Edta.

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Yes, it is that perverted Tauren Xieti who likes to go nude running…

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Name: Xueti.Edta/ Race:Tauren
Job:LV60Warrior/ LV20Justice Knight/ LV7Guard of Order (Total LV87, Fighting Power Evaluation: Legend, 2nd Job Advanced Great Warrior)
Title: Guardian of Steel

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Fortunately, perhaps it is to imitate the silver-masked Wumianzhe, in order to show that they have given up individualism to deliver the law impartially, my judicial team all decided to wear masks. Otherwise, I really don’t know how to face this ‘despite being the head of the Hall of Enforcement, but land in jail for soiling social values’ underling of mine.

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Luckily… Everytime he goes to enjoy his ‘hobby’, he consciously tries to hide his identity. Even when he is surrounded and bashed up by the Town Security due to nude running, even when he is thrown into the dark prison, he never used his Power of Law and expose his identity as a law enforcer.

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The second subsidiary would be the rarely seen Hall of Law.

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Hall of Law, they are a department that specially analyses the law and the legislation, but at the same time, they are the location for job advancement for Law Incantationer, Justice Knights and Judgementor. The weakest of those who managed to job advance are at least a gold rank and although it is not well-known to outsider, this hall is actually the strongest among the 4.

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But these strong people are the rookie judge mainly responsible for the primary hearing. Through encountering more cases and judging them, they are refining their understanding towards the Power of Law.

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Under my system, only those who earned the recognition of the Origin of Codex and succeeded in the job advancement to become part of the judiciary can have the authority to judge other individually. Thus, not many people know even the weakest of those seemingly gentle scholars are at least a gold-rank.

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Their leader is the old scholar who is on the verge of sleeping in front me, the High ElfKale.Diya, one of the politicians in the country of Huanfa, who is also the strongest Mage in Liu Huang Mountain City other than the Great Saint.
TL: Huanfa (环法) means circular magic

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Name: Kale.Diya/ Race: High Elf
Job: LV60 Mage/ LV30 Guardian of Knowledge/ LV10 Guardian of Law/ LV5 Law Incantationer (Total LV115, Fighting Power Evaluation: Worldly Saint, 3rd Job Advanced Mage)

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Hall of Legislator, its name may seem awe-inspiring but once the role of writing new laws and governing it is thrown to the other departments, what it needs to do is mainly doing logistics and help keep the subordinates of other departments in check. For example, for a meeting for the approval of a new law, it would gather the other departments together and help to gather the proposals for the law and such.

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As a logistics department, the Hall of Legislator doesn’t need much strong people. What it needs is the flexibility and attentiveness in getting things done and thus, a large portion of its members are those rookies in probation or female law enforcers who are unwilling to get on the frontlines.

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Their head — Lily.Milan… Yes, that Frenzied Wild Lily, the Moving Obscenity…

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I can’t help but feel glad repeatedly that our judicial team have to put on mask and give up their individuality otherwise I really don’t know how to face these two comrades of the Gentlemen Alliance and the endless despise from the citizens.

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I even questioned myself countless time where exactly did things go wrong for these two perverts to climb up to become the top brass of the judicial system…

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Alright, let’s not talk about these depressing matters.

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Last but not least, the Hall of Judgement. It may sound very mighty but as the responsibility for the primary hearing is left to the Hall of Law and the final verdict is dependent on the Supreme Court, what is left is probably all kinds of appeals. Once the Town Security finds someone they are unable to deal with, that is when they strike.

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Responding to complaints, defending the defendant, finding the true culprit and capturing the criminal are part of their job scope and as this is the kind of troublesome job that gets on people’s nerves, and somehow their nerves are especially easy to get on, the hall if also known as the Hall of Quarreling and Hall of Fighting.

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One thing worth mentioning is that the Liu Huang Mountain City’s prison is under their jurisdiction and before the Town Security was built up, they are the only fighting power of the judicial system on the surface and of course… If we were to measure the internal battle power, they can be safely said to be the second from the back, just slightly stronger than the Hall of Legislator which is in charge of logistics.

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Their head, Kelvin, is ideal role model for Holy Knights. Middle-class power, a stable personality, average looks, what is unique about him is how ordinary he is, his strength is how ordinary he is, and his weakness is still how ordinary he is, but in the judicial system’s top brass, he is the rare to come by normal person…

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I don’t know why, at this point, sadness seems to well up… Why don’t I have more normal people in the midst of my judicial system, why do I have so much perverts! Is it because I am a pervert myself?!

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Cough cough, back to the topic…

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This 4 Halls and 1 Court became the outline of the entire Liu Huang Mountain City’s judicial system, and is also the cornerstone to its stability. Once everything is put in place, what I have to do it only to go to court everyday to earn some points.

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Since, I have decided to help Annie to become the next City Lord and stabilize her position, then the 4 Halls and 1 Court under my possession must start moving.

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“The reason why I gathered you all today is to prepare for the future.”





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