Chapter 261: Chapter 261: Exterminate?! You’re Teaching Me How to Do My Job?

That scholar and all the miners on site, one by one, their expressions froze. Even their fear had solidified.

If they were targeted by this monster, they might be eaten, or they might possibly escape. But either way, at least their families would get a pitiful death benefit. But if outsiders saw them praying to the "Foster Iron Mine God," their fate...

At best, they’d be burned to death.

After all, it was a "heretical god" without a church, especially under the circumstances where they’d summoned such a terrifying monster during their prayers... They seemed to already see their futures.

The next moment.

Before they could react, balls of light bombarded toward the giant monster’s mouth...

The familiar flame vortex, but with much more power than regular magic bombs.

Facing a monster like this, throwing more destructive magic bombs was better than using rays.

Watching the massive "worm" monster’s tooth-filled mouth erupt with flames, constantly twisting and screeching, the miners around turned pale one by one, but stayed in place, not daring to make a sound.

The expressions of the mine supervisor and others had long since frozen.

They’d already given these miners the death sentence in their hearts.

In their view, these miners seemed to be the ones who deserved to die most, even more terrifying than that monster.

Usually secretly worshipping this so-called "Foster Iron Mine God" was one thing—they could turn a blind eye. After all, they only worshipped in the mining area, and no church officials would enter the mine.

Having the miners have some spiritual support was definitely good for the mine’s stability.

But now?

Important people came from above and you still pulled this?

Looking to die?!

And summoned a monster like this too?!

Now not only would they die, but people like them probably couldn’t escape disaster either.

A heretical god appearing in their mining area—if other churches found out... wait, Lava General seemed to be from the Church of Technology.

In fact, they’d recently taken down the Church of the God of War.

Just thinking about how churches dealt with these heretics made these supervisors tremble.

Under their jurisdiction, something like this happened...

"Lava General, I believe these guys dared to privately worship such a heretical god—they should all be burned to death as a warning to others!"

The mine supervisor, sweating profusely, took a deep breath, worked hard to suppress his emotions, then turned to look at Lava General nearby and made the suggestion.

"You’re teaching me how to do my job?"

Lava General snorted coldly. "They worship this heretical god only to stay alive, don’t they? Let me destroy this heretical god first."

"I was presumptuous." The mine supervisor quickly wiped the fine sweat from his forehead, not daring to continue saying anything.

Watching the continuous explosions, countless attacks bombarding the so-called "Foster Iron Mine God’s" body without any effect, Lava General couldn’t help but furrow his brow slightly and began chanting in a low voice.

The surrounding magic power suddenly seemed to be drawn over. Countless energies quickly gathered before him. The surrounding rock caves vaguely began turning crimson, as if showing signs of melting.

At this moment, people finally remembered why the man before them was called Lava General!

The magic conductor mechanical exoskeleton on his body seemed to start transforming.

This was the manifestation of him simultaneously operating the advanced tech combat divine arts system. When the tech combat divine arts system was cultivated to the fifth sequence, one’s own power would perfectly merge with the magic conductor’s power, even further strengthening it.

Legendary magician + fifth sequence tech combat divine arts + strongest magic conductor exoskeleton—the three stacked together. Just standing nearby, people felt incredibly hot. Except for the exoskeleton clerics who were also part of the tech combat force, everyone else retreated to the sides.

Even those numb miners instinctively retreated to the surroundings.

BOOM—

With a massive roar, countless lava rushed toward that giant worm like dragons. The screeching made everyone couldn’t help covering their ears. The moment the magma entered the worm’s body, sizzling sounds rang out.

Countless white mist emerged from the monster’s mouth.

A cold smile appeared at the corner of Lava General’s mouth. If this were outside, he’d have already had artillery bombard this thing. But in the mine tunnel, he could only handle it himself.

A mere half-formed false god that hadn’t even developed consciousness, not even comparable to illusory gods like the Master of Depravity—you could only say it was a powerful monster, a fusion of faith and worm. Under the attack of legendary + super magic, its body size began rapidly shrinking.

The worm that was originally about the size of the tunnel entrance had shrunk to the size of an adult’s arm in just over ten seconds. Under the lava coverage, it had almost become a dried corpse. If not for those last wisps of faith, it would probably disappear instantly.

"Heh, didn’t even need to pray to the god—perfectly solved this guy. Sure enough, just a piece of trash."

Lava General’s voice had become calm again, as if exterminating a false god wasn’t any big deal to him.

The instant his words fell, the worm completely disappeared. The surrounding heat began rapidly dissipating. Soon, it returned to its original color. If not for the mess all over the ground, you probably wouldn’t believe a battle had just occurred here... a battle to exterminate a false god.

The entire body of the mine supervisor was trembling.

He knew Lava General was strong, but he never imagined he’d be this powerful!

No wonder he betrayed the Church of the God of War and still lived well. No wonder he could completely exterminate the Church of the God of War. So this was the strength of a top-tier powerhouse!

"Is it... eliminated?"

Finally, he still asked the doubt in his heart.

"Without anyone praying, even without me, this thing would disappear on its own. It’s just an object of faith."

Lava General said flatly. "If I let you handle them, what would you do?"

"Kill! All who prayed should be purified by fire... Of course, I’m just an ordinary person. I’ve only seen the Church of the God of War... those heretics take action, and they all purified through fire. I don’t know what the Church of Technology... In any case, they must be thoroughly purified. But their wives, children, and families should be spared..."

Hearing the mine supervisor’s words, the miners looked at him with expressions that vaguely even held some gratitude.

But Lava General snorted coldly. "If you ask me, the main reason they needed to worship this so-called ’Foster Iron Mine God’ lies with you, with the Nation of Mutuns’ management of the iron mining industry. Starting today, I’ll take full charge of Foster Iron Mine until the reforms are complete, so these miners here never need to pray to these inexplicable heretical gods again."

"Of course, the mine’s output is still yours. I’m just taking over management and reform."