16 Could I Become a Believer of the Internet Deity?

Fear seemed to have a life of its own, spreading crazily as the youths breathed!

Rushed panting, fearful screams, shocked murmurs; all came together in chaos.

"No, no, no… Don't kill me…"

"Mama… save me, mama…"

Some were so scared that their faces were pale—

Some even peed and pooped on the spot—

Some were slumped on the floor.

Puth the youth was also scared out of his mind.

However, he suddenly thought of something at this crucial point; his gaze turned toward the purple-robed mage and cried like a drowning person, "Instructor Raymond, you will save us, right?"

Puth's cries woke the youths up.

All the youths' gazes turned toward the purple-robed mage and they cried as if he was their lifeline.

"Instructor Raymond. Please, save me!"

"Help us out, Instructor Raymond!"

"Instructor Raymond…"

However, Instructor Raymond, whom they had pinned their hopes on, was trembling like a leaf in the wind. He and his companions looked at one another, and then suddenly rushed toward the back door.

In the midst of their dash, Raymond's signature move—"Flaming Hands" —made him look like he was waving two torches in his hands.

The youths' eyes lit up immediately and many of them clenched their fists instinctively!

Pfft!

The horned demon guarding the back door flicked his hand lightly; Raymond and his companions were sent flying straight away.

It was fortunate that the basement was rather spacious, or else many youths would have been crushed by them.

Bang!

The basement was plunged into dead silence after the crashing sound.

The youths were dumbfounded.

They didn't expect to see that the mysterious and powerful Instructor Raymond himself couldn't even deal with that demon.

Yu Sheng'an took two steps to enter, and those two steps made the youths back out together. All of them were huddled close.

Some even cried and started to beg, "Don't kill me, don't kill me. I-I-I didn't mean to learn magic intentionally. I was wrong…"

Yu Sheng'an looked at the youths who were terrified and sighed. "Don't be afraid. They're just my servants."

Then, Yu Sheng'an waved his hand and the two scary-looking demons disappeared with a teleportation beam.

The youths felt much better after seeing that.

Of course, they merely recovered from being on the verge of break down. They were still looking at Yu Sheng'an with fear in their eyes.

He was trying to do a good deed but instead he was being mistaken?

Yu Sheng'an laughed at himself. He looked at Raymond and the duo; the shadow fiend who was hiding in the dark lifted them up straight away.

In the eyes of the youths, it looked as if Yu Sheng'an had used some mysterious magic on the trio.

Raymond, who was lifted up in the air, thrashed his limbs and struggled violently with fear written all over his face.

"Tell them properly about what you have done? If you do well, I may spare your lives since I am in a good mood. If you don't, I happen to be short of a few phantom servants; the three of you look just right for me."

"No, no, no. My lord, I was wrong. I will never spread magic again!" one of them begged for mercy in fear. His levitated body looked quite ridiculous, just like a levitating toad.

"Is this about the spread of magical skills?" Yu Sheng'an said coldly and the shadow fiend tightened its hold on the trio. It held them so tightly that their eyes began to roll back as they struggled to breathe.

"Don't kill me. I'll tell you everything. W-we just wanted to earn some money so we copied the magical knowledge from the Internet and pretended to be mages to sell the courses…"

Raymond seemed to understand what was going on and came clean about their scams.

The youths were stunned by his confession.

They all looked at Raymond in disbelief. They simply couldn't believe it… The mysterious and powerful Instructor Raymond was actually a scammer?

A few bold ones began to chant the prayers on the spot to summon the Internet interface and saw the free part of the magical knowledge in the library. All of them were utterly shocked, as if struck by thunder!

"Raymond… is actually a scammer?"

"Damn. That is our hard-earned money that we have saved up!"

"Woah. Take a look, guys. Besides magic, there are also combat skills and divine skills!"

"It even has an Internet School of Magic. By looking at the introduction, it seems like we could also listen to classes there. Doesn't this mean that… we could continue to cultivate magic?"

The youths were shocked and awed by the sudden onslaught of information.

They were torn between scolding Raymond and his gang, and being astonished by the wonders of the Internet.

Of course, some of them began to look at Yu Sheng'an differently.

They were no longer terrified.

They began to realize that Yu Sheng'an, who seemed to be the scariest, was actually the good guy.

Those terrifying demons seemed to be his servants, just like in the storybooks and novels—powerful mages alway had demons as servants.

Yu Sheng'an didn't pay any heed to the youths' complex emotions.

He asked Raymond, "Do you know why I came?"

"I don't know… don't… know. I know we have been cheating!" Raymond said incoherently. His face was covered with sweat.

"No. A mere scam isn't worth the trouble for me to come."

"W-w-we shouldn't be spreading magical knowledge that we got from the Internet," Raymond said again.

"The knowledge on the Internet has alway been open."

Raymond was almost going to cry, "My lord, my lord, I really don't know what we've done wrong. Could you please tell me and I promise I will never… never do it again."

Yu Sheng'an said with a chilling voice, "You were wrong to be using the Internet's resources without spreading the Internet Divine Skill after using it."

Yu Sheng'an didn't really care if anyone used the lapse in information to earn money during the process of spreading the Internet Divine Skill!

That would be his talent if he could profit from it.

Speaking from another point of view, he would also allow that kind of profiting, because only the gain of benefits could drive people to spread the Internet Divine Skill.

However, Yu Sheng'an couldn't fu*king tolerate seeing them selling his resources without spreading the Internet Divine Skill!

If Raymond and the gang had said a phrase of the prayers, Yu Sheng'an wouldn't have interferred. But they took all the benefits and just left, pretending to be good guys.

Fu*k. Do they think I, the Internet Deity, am easy to take advantage of?

Raymond and the gang were cursing in their hearts at this moment.

If you want to kill us, just kill us. What kind of reason is this?

But, Raymond suddenly asked, "My lord, are you a believer of the Internet Deity?"

Yu Sheng'an looked at Raymond in surprise, "I didn't realize you are rather smart."

Raymond, who had been praised, suddenly turned pale. He cried out in his heart, oh sh*t, oh sh*t!

"Since you're so smart, tell me, how should I punish you?" Yu Sheng'an asked with a smile.

"Don't kill me, I-I-I am willing to do anything!"

"Are you sure?"

"Sure."

"All right, my Lord is short of missionaries right now. I see you're rather smart, why don't you join… the evangelizing group and spread the glory of my Lord? What do you think?" Yu Sheng'an asked smilingly.

Of course, he came up with this idea at the very last minute.

Raymond and the gang didn't deserve to die, but he would not let them off easily.

Since he found Raymond to be rather smart, why not send him to the Five Main Righteous Deities' turf to spread his divine skills and irritate the hell out of them?

If it worked, everyone would be happy;

If it didn't, there would be no loss.

"It would be my honor to be the servant of the Deity of the Internet. I, Raymond, swear that from today onward…"

"Wait! Forget about the swearing, just sign this contract!" Yu Sheng'an stopped him casually. He waved his hand and an illusory contract appeared, hovering in front of him.

Raymond was dazed.

At first, he was still thinking whether he could cheat his way through.

But then, wouldn't he be unable to resist for the rest of his life after he signed this contract?

But he was at his mercy. What else could he have done? It was at least better than dying right on the spot, right?

Cold sweat began to fall from Raymond's forehead. Eventually, he still bit his finger and dripped a drop of his blood onto the contract.

In an instant, the contract became three beams of light.

One went into Raymond's body—

One went into Yu Sheng'an's body…

And the last one dashed into the void and went into the divinity.

"What about the two of you? Oh yes, there's one more person."

Yu Sheng'an slapped on his forehead as he ordered a shadow fiend to grab their accomplice, who was on guard outside.

"I'm willing!"

"Me too."

The accomplice who was on guard outside was stunned. He had no idea what was going on; he could only follow his companion's lead and agree.

After the three of them signed the contracts, Yu Sheng'an said smilingly, "Congratulations, you guys have been reborn. All right, that's all for today. Let's all go home."

After speaking, Yu Sheng'an turned and prepared to leave.

"Wait a minute!" Puth suddenly shouted at this moment.

Yu Sheng'an halted his footsteps.

Puth ran to where he was and said nervously, "Could I-I-I become a believer of the Internet Deity?"