John nodded and said,

"The Undead here are indeed different from those outside, whether it's their minds or otherwise."

"Wait..." As Phinis suddenly realized something, his face instantly changed, "Where did you buy this roasted sweet potato?!"

John and his companion looked at each other.

"Didn't I tell you?"

"From the skeleton with the stall, of course..."

Before the words of the two had fallen, Phinis gagged and, clutching his throat, dashed into the restroom like a whirlwind to induce vomiting...

...

Although Phinis was mentally prepared for the quality of the mercenaries, he was still severely shocked by this group of people who had not an ounce of reverence.

They not only readily believed rumors from Hell but even dared to try food from the Undead!

Thankfully this wasn't the empire, lacking a Judgement Court of the Church, otherwise, their heads would have been hanging on crosses!

That day, Phinis took the day off and went directly to the nearest Silver Pine Town, where he found a local church's priest and prayed for a long time to calm his emotions.

As he passed by the adventurer guild in the small town, he casually checked the commission list, looking for any feasible tasks on the fourth floor of the labyrinth.

However, as he was scouring the notice board, he heard whispering behind him.

"I heard something big happened at Mist Town."

"Mist Town? You mean the outpost on the fourth floor of the labyrinth?"

"Yes, that's the place! Some days ago, a group from the Knight's order went there to investigate, and they say there's a traitor in the order who somehow freed the evil spirits from Chaos."

"Chaos?!"

"Is that true?!"

The crowd burst into exclamations, utterly astonished by the news.

The speaker, wearing a serious demeanor, swore and continued,

"It's true! My buddy's buddy saw it with his own eyes! He even said that to clean up this mess, both the knights and the Demon King's men tacitly stopped fighting and united their forces against the evil spirits that emerged from the fissure!"

Speaking, he recounted it as if he had been there, with a dreamlike voice,

"The living and the dead stood side by side, together fighting against the evil spirits from Chaos... just like a story out of legend!"

The crowd was also amazed after hearing this.

"Saint Sis above..."

"How incredible, simply inconceivable!"

Phinis's lips curled up slightly; he hadn't expected to hear "How inconceivable" instead of "What blasphemy."

It seemed that different individuals viewed the same problem with different initial reactions.

Being accustomed to dealing with the dead, the mercenaries could accept food eaten by the dead... Phinis thought to himself.

But what surprised him even more was yet to come—

From the rumors being passed around, he unexpectedly heard his own name!

"I heard when the battle was at its most chaotic, a group of people ran out from the town not knowing what to do; even the Demon King hesitated about whether to deal with these troublesome fellows first... But then, a guy named Alex stood out and united those clueless mercenaries and adventurers."

"Alex?! I know that guy! Isn't he called... Brave Sword?"

"That's the name of their adventurer team."

"I remember besides him, there were another two, one named Xiu Wen and a mage..."

"Apparently named Phinis!"

...

The corruption of Chaos had faded, but the corruption of Hell had just begun, and all of this was merely the dusk before nightfall.

The shock that players from Earth brought to the people of the Otherworld was far more than just a mere roasted sweet potato, there was much more that they never even dared to imagine deeply about.

Not far from the bell tower, in a small alley.

A skeleton and a ghost were huddled together, their sneaky demeanor as if they were performing some unspeakable ritual.

With a flash of emerald light, a chunk of orange-yellow metal gradually appeared in front of the two Undead.

Seeing the metal that appeared out of nowhere on the ground, the slender skeleton framework suddenly let out an excited creak.

"Oh, oh, oh!! It worked! It worked!"

Unlike the excited dancing, Miranda's form swayed, her cloudy body seeming to become more translucent than before.

"What's next?"

After regaining his composure, he coughed mysteriously.

"Next, try to imagine gold—"

The Translation Crystal had just translated his words when it was interrupted by a scream.

"Impossible! With my Magic Power, that's simply not feasible! Copper is already my limit, and even that can't last long!"

Miranda screamed, interrupting her brother's words and rapidly continued,

"You've made me do what you asked for, now you have to tell me what this 'flame reaction' really is!"

Meanwhile, the copper that fell onto the ground began to become ethereal, just like a sandcastle by the beach, shaky as if a wave could crumble it.

Finally, it couldn't hold any longer, and with a slight 'pang' sound, it turned into bronze-colored light particles that scattered into the air, vanishing from sight.

Watching the light particles disperse into the air, the soul fire inside his skull gently flickered.

After a long contemplation, he slowly began,

"All things are composed of elements... have you understood?"

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