Chapter 693: Becoming a Plague

After returning to the Divine Kingdom of Fate, Li Mochen once again entered a state of seclusion, barely even attending to the internal affairs of his divine kingdom.

Like the 'Gungnir Holy Spear,' the 'Law Tablet,' 'Judgment Hammer,' and 'Creation Earrings' all required refinement to remove the imprints of their previous owners.

These three mythical armaments were even more troublesome than the 'Gungnir Holy Spear'; the latter only needed to refine away Odin's imprint, but these were also tainted by the chaotic power of Slaanesh.

Thus, Li Mochen dared not yet hand the 'Creation Earrings' to Angela. His wife's mental fortitude was extremely strong, not inferior to the ancient gods, and perhaps even surpassing them.

But Slaanesh's corruption was ever-changing, penetrating every crevice, using every means possible, making it impossible to guard against. Li Mochen could not take that risk.

He had to completely purify this mythical armament before he could safely give it to Angela.

This was no small difficulty. Other gods might have no solution at all; Li Mochen could only rely on the threads of fate to identify them one by one, and observe the river of time to view possible future historical trajectories.

Slaanesh's power was very insidious, and could only be worn away bit by bit, with no shortcuts.

Refining just these four mythical armaments simultaneously required at least a third of each day. Besides that, he had to conquer territory within the World Source, quickly achieving complete mastery over it. His study of fate could not be neglected either; Li Mochen had to master the true truth 'Fate' as quickly as possible, stepping into the threshold of Divine Rank 20. Additionally, he had to study some mental divine powers to strengthen his mental defenses.

Traveling back to the future itself did not take time; Li Mochen had tested it, and from starting the journey to returning to the present, the time interval was only 0.00003 seconds. But after each journey back, Li Mochen needed a long period of rest to recover the expended divine power and divinity. Especially divinity; after each journey, he felt utterly exhausted.

These numerous affairs left Li Mochen unable to spare enough energy to focus on his divine kingdom or the changing situation within the Bright World. He had to rely on his angels and subordinate gods.

Fortunately, Li Mochen's momentum was now established; the combined power of the gods under his command was equivalent to the sum of all pantheons, and even exceeded it. As long as those in charge did not become careless, the overall situation would still tilt in their favor.

After the Arctic Ice Cap War, Li Mochen also reorganized his divine kingdom's cabinet, adding five members: Consulius, Constantine, Merlin, Loki, and Athena.

Except for Athena, who represented the angels under Li Mochen's command in the cabinet, the other cabinet members each represented one or two races and factions within the pantheon. For instance, Constantine was closely tied to the Hebrews, who had become one of his most important support bases in America and Australia.

Then there was Merlin, who had become the spiritual leader of the Anglo-Saxon race; Li Mochen could not turn a deaf ear or pretend not to know. After all, this ethnic group was the main demographic component of America.

Li Mochen detested factions, but he could not stop them and had to compromise.

If these people had no voice in his cabinet, it would likely cause some gods in the pantheon to become disaffected. The struggle for the God of Gods was not yet over; it was far from the time to kill the donkey after it had done its work.

Of course, Li Mochen would not sit idly by and let these cabinet members become the natural leaders of the gods and their respective groups. He also planned to establish a Divine Council, stuffing in gods with prestige to check the cabinet on one hand, and to accommodate small groups that lacked the strength to secure a seat in the cabinet on the other.

Of course, the number of councilors would not be too many. After all, the current gods of Fate, even including the giants and dragons that had defected, totaled only over 1,400. Li Mochen had tentatively set the number at twenty-four, and was deliberating on the candidates.

The Fate Pantheon was different from civil political systems; once the cabinet ministers and councilors were decided, they could not be changed for thousands to tens of thousands of years. Thus, the choices had to be made with extreme caution.

Additionally, Li Mochen strengthened the authority of Prime Minister Bismarck, granting him the 'Fate Sword' to prevent the gods from losing reverence for the cabinet and the prime minister due to the latter's insufficient divine rank and power, and to avoid inefficiency and bureaucratic stagnation caused by power dispersion.

In the following half year, the entire Bright World was very calm. Especially the Pacific region, which had become the internal lake of the Fate Pantheon, was remarkably tranquil. Commerce, which had almost ceased, flourished once again.

This was because, in the Alaska War, the sea beasts and giants of the major pantheons had been severely crippled, and the Fate Alliance had launched many large warships in recent years, increasing their grand fleet to twenty-three.

At this time, it was Western Europe and the Middle East that were chaotic. Athena, who held the truth 'Wisdom' and the pseudo-truth 'Strategy,' took full charge of affairs in the Old Continent and the Middle East. With the 'Free Angel' Delfinia as her assistant, she stirred up discord between the Church of Light and the Olympian Pantheon, making the alliance of these two ancient gods fragile.

The same situation occurred in the Middle East. After the Fate Church voluntarily ceased its offensive, the struggle between the Lord of Radiance and the Lord of Truth had become white-hot.

Perhaps those two lords were not willing to see this, but their contradictions were deep-rooted, and their followers at the grassroots regarded each other as heretics, irreconcilable and incompatible. Arabs, Persians, and Turks, due to their respective ethnic interests, ultimately chose different Lords of Truth. And the Truth Church itself had two sects: the Black Robe and the White Robe.

Athena stirred up trouble, causing the Lord of Truth's plot to usurp the entire Truth Church to collapse. The Lord of Radiance went along with the current and accepted Athena's covert aid, but this effectively broke the alliance of the gods.

The 'Spy Angel' Reinhardt had more than once discovered the Lord of Radiance and the Lord of Truth fighting in the outer void, and there were frequent conflicts between the Radiant Heaven and Mount Olympus, though Zeus was more restrained, and the conflicts were limited to the main god level.

Also plagued by war was India. The remnants of the Beast Empire resisted tenaciously in India, spanning a year and a half until March of the Bright Calendar year 4006, when the last organized Beast warriors were completely defeated by the allied forces in Hyderabad.

This was not due to a lack of effort by the allied forces, but because India's terrain and social conditions were very complex.

First, the Aesir Pantheon had indeed won many followers during their years in India. The caste system of Hinduism, while making many low-caste Dalits numb to their fate, still left some discontented people harboring resentment toward Indian society and their gods. Thus, after the Aesir Pantheon was defeated and their missionary style leaned toward cult-like, their influence within India actually expanded rapidly.

This dealt a heavy blow and posed a great threat to the security and supply lines of the allied forces. The 35 million allied troops in India had to devote most of their efforts to local security and logistics, advancing step by step. They had no choice; previous rash advances had cost them dearly.

Perhaps aware of the dire situation in India, the Indian war god Kartikeya never expressed any dissatisfaction with the snail's pace of the allied advance.

Even after the remnants of the Beast Empire were completely scattered, peace did not return to India. Numerous guerrilla groups and cult organizations remained active on this land.

As a result, after the war, the Fate Alliance had to accept an invitation from the legitimate Indian government to station five million troops in India to maintain public order.

Of course, this was not without compensation; the Sindhu government had to bear the vast majority of the expenses for these troops. Meanwhile, the Sindhu pantheon would dispatch seven major deities into the material plane to cooperate with the Fate Pantheon in combat.

After the Sindhu War came to a temporary halt, the Fate Alliance's massive demobilization also began. According to the planned schedule, they would reduce from a peak of 150 million troops and 9,500 divisions to 3,000 fully organized divisions, totaling about 62 million men.

This brought joy and excitement to the people of all nations within the Fate Alliance system, and also led to another expansion of the Fate Pantheon's churches, with faith energy surging and rising.

The vast majority of mortals developed great goodwill toward the Lord of Fate and the gods under his command. The Fate Alliance declared to their followers through visible facts that their deities were indeed compassionate toward the world and were striving to maintain its peace and security.

On that very day, at least thirty gods of the Fate Pantheon had their divine ranks elevated. This also proved just how severe the war-weariness among the people had become after several years of world war.

Yet beneath the facade of peace, the Fate Alliance's military expansion and preparations never ceased. After demobilizing nearly a hundred million troops, they raised the average magical energy professional level of each nation's armies to Level 10, nearly at the Outlaw level, and equipped all personnel with 'Knight' series bio-armor and various models of magical power armor.

In terms of individual combat power alone, even the Beast Empire at its peak could not reach this level.

Among the demobilized soldiers, a considerable number who had experienced war and possessed considerable strength were rehired at high cost by private enterprises and governments, entering the Dark World as civilian armed forces. Under the call of the Fate Sovereign, all nations sounded the horn to restart exploration and ignited warfare in various regions of the Dark World.

This was both to expand sources of magical energy materials and as part of the Fate Pantheon's strategy against the Aesir Pantheon.

Prometheus and Loki jointly made a prophecy: when the remnants of the Aesir Pantheon, adhering to the will of those two beings from the previous era, emerged from the Dark Abyss of Sin, the Aesir Pantheon would inevitably possess an immensely powerful appeal to the races of the Dark World.

Thus, to weaken the strength of future adversaries, it was imperative to strike and purge the dark creatures and forces of the Dark World.

This was undoubtedly welcomed by the various interest groups within the Fate system. Nations led by America did not hesitate to plunge into this new war, causing the source power of war to surge once again in both worlds.

At the same time, nations used the military expenditures saved from demobilization to build elite forces equivalent to fifty Skywing Knight Legions, to cope with the ever-changing forms of warfare in the future.

The Skywing Knight Legion itself had been continuously expanding; two years after the Alaska War, it had already grown to twenty-two legions. The number of Divine Will Corps had surged to twenty-seven, but their personnel had drastically shrunk from an initial 26 million to 12 million, averaging only 450,000 per corps, close to the size of the Radiant Lord's angelic legions. This was all thanks to the vast base of believers in the Fate Pantheon and the high-quality souls harvested during the war, which led to a significant improvement in the quality of the Divine Will Corps, no longer requiring low-level angels and petitioners to participate in combat.

Only the number of Angel Kings was insufficient. At this time, the Divine Will Corps directly under Li Mochen's command numbered as many as fifteen, but he could not produce enough corps leaders.

Although Li Mochen possessed numerous immensely powerful angels including Heracles, Athena, and Apollo, he did not have the foundation of over three hundred former popes and more than two hundred saints like the Radiant Lord. Adhering to the principle of preferring quality over quantity, he currently had only twelve qualified corps leaders: 'War Angel' Robert, 'Disaster Dragon Angel' Hailor Wiltonstein, 'Eternal Angel' Atlas, 'Wrath Angel' Menoetius, 'Guardian Angel' Achilles, 'Strength Angel' Fenrir, 'Divine Power Angel' Heracles, 'Freedom Angel' Delfinia Eldridge, 'Mystery-Seeking Angel' Reinhard Heydrich, 'Wisdom Angel' Athena, 'Dawn Angel' Apollo, and 'Truth Angel' Einstein.

The remaining three corps could only be temporarily led by Garcia Ferren and others.

By the end of April in the year 4007 of the Light Calendar, Li Mochen finally obtained complete root authority. Eighteen thousand Root Thorns, along with the initially purified 'Law Tablet,' allowed him to expel the imprints of the Radiant Lord and others from the roots two years ahead of schedule, completing the 'privatization' of the world's roots.

At this point, if it were any one of Gaia, Zeus, or the Radiant Lord, they could directly become a God Above Gods of the Light World. But Li Mochen could not yet do so; he first had to raise his divine rank to 20, then stabilize it until it was fully polished.

Li Mochen estimated that this would take him at least thirty years or more, and during this period, there would still be numerous variables such as Chaos, Thor, and the Lord of Lust.

Li Mochen had to secure his control over the roots before he could truly take the step toward becoming a God Above Gods.

In the past, Gaia had once held more than seventy percent of the root share, only one step away from being a God Above Gods, but ultimately fell short.

Fortunately, at this time, Li Mochen had already gained some authority that only a God Above Gods could possess through his control over the world's roots.

In addition, he also held a weighty bargaining chip.

On the very day Li Mochen fully mastered the roots, he unhesitatingly cast the large World Nucleus obtained from Isis into the roots.

This action caused a tremendous upheaval throughout the world, with spiritual energy concentrations in various regions surging several times over afterward. If not for Diana's magical net, which had been continuously strengthened under the support of the Fate Pantheon, this change would inevitably have triggered countless magical disasters.

Li Mochen felt a complete merging with the entire world, a feeling of near oneness, as if the Light World were a part of his body.

This even gave him the illusion that the birth and death of all matter and living beings in the world were within his single thought. In fact, in the vast majority of cases, he could indeed achieve this—an authority nearly that of a creator god.

At this moment, if fighting within the Light World, even if five Radiant Lords joined forces, Li Mochen was confident he could defeat them. Moreover, his subordinate gods and Angel Kings would also benefit from this.

At the same time, the merit power on the 'Divine Sky Luck Purple Gold Pagoda' once again surged dramatically, jumping from the previous 12 billion strands directly to 108 billion, condensing the seventh strand of purple merit energy. It then continued to climb until it finally stopped at 30 billion strands.

This was only the beginning; it was expected that in the future, Li Mochen would gain an additional 37 million strands of merit daily, with the total amount surging to 600 billion strands.

This would rapidly accelerate Li Mochen's progress in studying the 'Fate' divine authority and allow him to extend the scope of merit support to all core members of the pantheon.

The first to be included were Heracles, Prometheus, Fenrir, Einstein, Achilles, and Athena. The former few already had the potential to quickly enter the God King rank and had accumulated sufficient merits. Athena not only had the prospect of reaching the God King rank but also her contributions to the pantheon made Li Mochen overjoyed and highly appreciative.

Although she joined the pantheon relatively late, in the five years after the Alaska War, Athena successfully caused his opponents to fall into internal strife, leaving them no time to launch any threatening actions against the Fate Pantheon. This allowed the Fate Pantheon to enjoy a full four years of peace and gave Li Mochen five years to refine divine artifacts and focus on improving his personal cultivation.

The Lord of Fate never stinted on rewards for those with merit, and for someone like Athena, who could become his most powerful right hand, he was even less sparing with resources.

Additionally, it is worth mentioning that on the day he merged the World Nucleus, several disciples of the Divine Sky Sect, led by Situ Jingyu and Wei Jianyi, also entered the Light World.

At this point, with Li Mochen's authority, he could easily resolve the issue of them being outsiders from another realm, allowing them to integrate into the world without any obstacles.

This was just a minor episode. Although both Situ Jingyu and Wei Jianyi were strong candidates for the future 'King of Angels' that Li Mochen had predetermined, their arrival at present brought no benefit to the Mandate Pantheon; both still needed a long time to accumulate strength.

In comparison, Athena's brother, 'the God of Opportunity and Creation' Poros, was more worthy of Li Mochen's expectations. This prophesied fourth-generation Olympian king possessed talent surpassing even Heracles.

From the day of his birth, his power had grown like a balloon being inflated. Poros also possessed astonishing wisdom; any divine authority he laid eyes on could be elevated to a high level within three to five days. In particular, his own divine offices of 'Opportunity' and 'Creation' had approached pseudo-truth within three years.

After a period of observation and reflection, Li Mochen also granted Poros some merit assistance, enhancing the effect of Poros's wish magic.

The current peace in the Bright World was only temporary; beneath this peace lurked countless raging waves and storms, merely awaiting the moment of eruption. The future Mandate Pantheon would still face many enemies, and he needed more powerful allies.

However, correspondingly, Poros began to be frequently dispatched into the Dark World to participate in battles. This was somewhat akin to child labor, but Li Mochen's rewards and punishments were always fair. Except for Angela and a select few, everyone had to earn his favor through meritorious service; no one could gain without effort.

One month after Li Mochen fully grasped the Source, the 'Mystery-Spying Angel' Reinhard Heydrich hurriedly entered the forty-sixth floor of his secluded Mandate Homeland.

In five years, this magic tower had been expanded to an unprecedented—and would be unsurpassed—forty-eight floors. Reinhard was one of the very few in the Mandate Pantheon permitted to enter the forty-sixth floor at any time to request an audience with Li Mochen's original body.

"Is there a new development?"

When Reinhard arrived, Li Mochen was refining the 'Creation Life Earring.' The ritual of refining this artifact was in its final stage; it was estimated that within three days at most, Li Mochen would completely cleanse the chaotic pollution from the 'Creation Life Earring.' He was sprinting toward this goal, temporarily setting aside all affairs and focusing solely on purifying this mythical armament.

Yet when the 'Mystery-Spying Angel' arrived, Li Mochen immediately shut down the 'Stellar Secret Core Divine Furnace' and flashed before Reinhard.

The current Mandate Pantheon had a mature system. The cabinet and parliament presided over by Bismarck could handle all governmental and war affairs of the pantheon. Only matters of great importance or those that the gods could not resolve through debate were brought before Li Mochen.

The gods of the Mandate also had an unspoken agreement to avoid disturbing Li Mochen's cultivation as much as possible. The current supreme divine throne was the most important matter in the pantheon; everything else was secondary.

Once their Lord of Mandate took this step, nothing in the Bright World could shake the Mandate Pantheon.

In recent years, the 'Mystery-Spying Angel' Reinhard had met with Li Mochen fewer than three times, aside from submitting a daily summary of intelligence from various fronts.

"Your Majesty! Our people have discovered that creatures of the Dark World are gathering on a large scale in various places."

Reinhard's expression was solemn. "The scale this time is enormous, incomparable to previous dark beast tides. You may find it hard to believe, but even the giant beasts living on the ocean floor have crawled ashore. I suspect the Aesir Pantheon is preparing to exert force; these dark creatures are likely responding to their call."

Li Mochen raised his hand and took the magic crystal recording the intelligence from Reinhard. He focused his mind to sense it and found a map inside, marking the gathering points of those dark creatures, along with specific numbers.

This showed how excellent Reinhard's abilities were; his work was flawless.

Li Mochen glanced at it and narrowed his eyes. "Your judgment is correct. The remnants of the Black Demon Empire and the Moroga Empire don't have such influence. What's the situation in Sindh?"

The Black Demon Empire had been destroyed two years ago. Under the relentless campaign of the American Federal Army and the Mandate Pantheon, this empire that spanned hundreds of millions of miles in the Dark World collapsed and split into more than twenty duchies in just a year and a half. It hadn't been completely annihilated only because the Mandate Pantheon lacked the troops and manpower to occupy those regions.

The Moroga Empire, which had dominated the Dark World corresponding to Australia for over ten thousand years, was destroyed even earlier than the Black Demon Empire, swept away by the armed forces of numerous enterprises and interest groups under the Mandate Pantheon.

Although it was still those enterprises and families pioneering the Dark World, their combat power was now vastly different.

Numerous deities, powerful and technologically advanced war machines, and the coordination of the Mandate Pantheon—these far exceeded what the two dark nations could contend with.

Based on the intelligence Reinhard had provided, this indeed exceeded the capabilities of the remnants of the Black Demon and Moroga Empires.

"Everything is as usual; disasters still occur frequently. Although the Sindh gods have tried very hard, those godly abominations always manage to manifest and cause large-scale casualties everywhere."

Reinhard spoke without inflection. "However, I noticed that starting two months ago, they have been secretly purchasing large quantities of 'Ash Stone.' They must be preparing some major move. Considering that the Aesir Pantheon has collected enough 'Philosopher's Stone' in recent years, their purpose is obvious."

"Ash Stone and Philosopher's Stone?"

Li Mochen pondered. "So they're really planning a big move. Are they preparing bodies for those godly abominations to descend? Or directly resurrect them as evil gods? But they only started buying Ash Stone two months ago; they can't have collected much, can they?"

Philosopher's Stone—one of Paracelsus's inventions. A mythical substance, the long-sought Holy Grail of Western alchemists, capable of distorting reality, transmuting anything, and granting immortality. Its essence derived from the souls of humans and intelligent beings.

Intelligent beings possessed infinite potential. Since one gram of matter-antimatter annihilation could equal the explosion of 21,608 tons of TNT, the potential of a human soul was similarly immense.

The priests of the Aesir Pantheon had already conducted no fewer than three hundred blood sacrifices in Sindh, resulting in over 27 million deaths.

These tragedies shocked the world and caused the Mandate Alliance's expeditionary force in Sindh to increase to 12 million in recent years, placing a heavy burden on various governments. Yet, surprisingly, there was little opposition from politicians and the public; many even felt that governments had neglected the suffering of Sindh and had not taken it seriously enough.

The Aesir Pantheon's brutal methods horrified all normal people.

"So I believe the Aesir Pantheon isn't fully prepared yet."

Reinhard spoke with certainty. "This is good news, Your Majesty. The speed of your advancement has frightened them, forcing them to act prematurely."

Li Mochen's lips curled slightly. He had anticipated that his enemies would not sit idly by.

"I must mention that the funds for their purchase of Ash Stone likely come from the Church of Desire; they don't have such financial resources themselves."

Reinhard continued. "Our enemies have united once again, and they are even more fearsome."

The Church of Desire—a new force in the Bright World. Not only did it possess immense wealth, but its members were spread across all levels of society, including many high-ranking military and political officials from various countries. Although the Mandate Pantheon had repeatedly launched internal purges, the results were limited. The Lord of Excess's ability to conceal himself gave Li Mochen a severe headache.

Estandin had previously collaborated with Chiron to develop a magic array capable of identifying intelligent beings with deeper contamination. It was immediately deployed by the Mandate Alliance nations in their parliaments and government centers.

This had some effect, helping them eliminate a large number of followers of Excess and ensuring the purity of the governments.

However, this magic array had limited effect on those with only mild contamination. The Lord of Excess was exerting an increasingly powerful influence over all political systems, enterprises, and even society as a whole.

"Excess?"

Li Mochen murmured, then waved his right hand, manifesting two projections. The images showed two laboratories, with the centaur Chiron, the 'Angel of Truth' Estandin, the 'First Source' Paracelsus, Consulius, and many other archmages appearing in the projections. They all sensed the connection, first looking toward the image, then bowing respectfully.

After greeting, Estandin said with a helpless look, "I guess Your Majesty has come to demand an accounting, right?"

"Exactly, I'm here to trouble you all."

Li Mochen got straight to the point. "It's been five years. The pantheon has invested 120 billion golden shields, enough to equip most of the Paladin Knights, yet we still have no promising results, correct?"

Estandin spread his hands helplessly. "As you can see, our research has hit a dead end. I haven't found the right direction yet."

Chiron defended Estandin. "Your Majesty, Professor Estandin's achievements are already remarkable. The Lord of Excess wields a creation-level authority; He can change the laws at any time. If His contamination could be easily identified, then thousands of worlds in the cosmos would not have fallen into His clutches, and my original body and the numerous pantheon kings would not have failed to find a way to resist Him until now."

"The laws that Excess controls change every moment. I need to find patterns and those parts that cannot change, much like studying the genetic structure of viruses and bacteria."

Estandin smiled bitterly again. "So I've recently changed my research direction, focusing on reducing the cost of the magic array to make it popular among the populace. At least this can prevent His power from influencing society more deeply and ensure that the gods do not fall."

"My research has also hit a dead end."

Paracelsus said expressionlessly. "Since we can't accurately identify, we can't eliminate the contamination of Excess. Our research has failed. Like Estandin, I've been forced to change my research direction recently."

As he spoke, he pointed to a blue potion beside him.

"This is one of our research results—a potion that can temporarily enhance divinity and mental power. My idea is, since we can't produce targeted drugs or vaccines, can we solve the problem by improving our own resistance?"

"Improving our own resistance?"

Li Mochen glanced at the blue potion, then understood the 'First Source's' intention. "Increasing the mental power of deities to enhance their ability to resist chaotic contamination, right? But these potions of yours can only provide a temporary boost, can't they?"

"But the degree of enhancement is significant."

Paracelsus's eyes flickered. "I've also developed a potion that enhances introspective ability. Used together, all deities can, to some extent, expel foreign elements from their own divinity. If the effect is good enough, they could even help their followers."

Li Mochen became interested. "Have you succeeded, Lord Paracelsus?"

"I need more time!"

Paracelsus spread his hands. "There have been some results, but it's not the optimal formula, and the cost remains high. You'd best give me about a year or so to complete this final part of the experiment."

Consulius Wiltonstein, Paracelsus's assistant, also spoke up for him. "Lord Paracelsus's research is revolutionary. It can not only effectively resist contamination but also help deities cultivate their divinity and divine authority. However, neither potion can be completed in a short time. At this stage, Your Majesty, instead of relying on us, you might as well intensify the crackdown on the 'Ecstasy' series of drugs and those evil discs."

"The problem is, Bismarck has already deployed at least two hundred deities, seventy divine knights, and seven hundred chosen knights to pursue drugs. Five of my Angel Kings are working on this, not to mention the Paladin Knights stationed everywhere. In fact, this is the most urgent matter for the Mandate Pantheon."

Li Mochen rubbed his forehead in extreme distress. If he had a way to completely cut off the source of the 'Ecstasy' series of drugs, why would he be so anxious?

Currently, the Narcotics Bureau was also the most important department in every country, receiving the most resources. The American Federation had allocated 0.3% of its annual fiscal revenue to the pursuit of the 'Ecstasy' series of drugs and art discs.

Yet the number of addicts was still expanding step by step. Some addicts who had been cut off from drug sources turned to more fanatical worship of the Lord of Excess, hoping to find comfort from Him and alleviate the pain of forced withdrawal.

In short, no matter what, the Lord of Excess always benefited.

Just half a year ago, even a divine knight was contaminated. Now, there were even voices in society calling for the legalization of the 'Ecstasy' series of drugs, claiming that 'Ecstasy' was only as harmful as marijuana.

Of course, some people believed that the faith in the Lord of Desire should be legalized.

Li Mochen thought that if this situation continued to develop, it might not even take twenty years for the Lord of Excess's power to spread throughout this world.