The atmosphere in the hall was so tense it could almost be cut with a knife.

Kaius sat on the high main seat, coldly watching the candidates in the distance.

The deep grey heavy-armored priest beside him held his breath, as if the air in the entire hall had been frozen.

In less than a minute, a villain was the first to submit a disrespectful work against the Goddess of Fate to High Priest Kaius.

"High Priest Kaius, I have completed it."

The submitter presented a shattered statue of the Goddess of Fate, a confident smile on his face.

However.

Kaius merely glanced at it coldly.

Then shook his head.

"Mere destruction is too low a level of insult."

The villain's face changed drastically, and he wanted to say something to defend himself.

But Kaius made a gesture, and the deep grey heavy-armored priest next to him immediately stepped forward, firmly grabbed his arm, and dragged him towards a deep passage in the hall.

The villain's face was full of fear and disbelief, and he shouted, "I am loyal to the Rebirth Church! I have not betrayed you!"

No one responded, and his cries echoed in the empty hall until they disappeared.

The other candidates felt a chill when they saw this scene.

"This kind of perfunctory work cannot prove your loyalty to me well, and if there is not enough loyalty, there will be serious suspicion of the Church of the Goddess of Fate, and we will detain you for observation."

After Kaius finished speaking, he rested his chin in one hand and stopped talking.

Some villains immediately began to nervously revise their works, fearing that they would also be deemed unqualified.

At this time, some people under the stage understood.

Kaius didn't care whether the candidates really had suspicion of being members of the Church of the Goddess of Fate, and he would not easily let anyone who passed the written test go to the Batian Branch.

Swallowing everyone present was his real purpose.

It was originally thought that no one would submit their work immediately.

But in less than ten seconds.

A tall woman in silver skirt armor stood up and walked straight to Kaius on the high platform.

She placed a cube of stone with six clear edges and corners on the table.

"..."

This made Kaius slightly stunned for a moment.

He didn't expect Sid, the most suspicious one, to be so straightforward.

She merely restored the statue of the Goddess of Fate to the most ordinary stone.

A stone cube, he didn't know if she used unique magic or simple skill to knead it out.

"Decisive and swift, I'll count you as passed."

After thinking for a while, Kaius placed the stone cube on the left side of the table.

Not discarding the candidate's work like before, but accepting it, was proof of passing.

Kaius's original suspicion that she might be an undercover agent of the Church of the Goddess of Fate had actually deepened.

But if she was really an undercover agent, he would be even more interested in recruiting her to play with her, so that she could experience what it was like to have no way to escape and utter despair.

Many people under the stage looked up slightly to observe.

In their opinion, the work of this woman in silver skirt armor was on the verge of being qualified or unqualified.

But perhaps it was because of her tough and decisive attitude that Kaius made the decision to let her pass.

Immediately, Sid returned to her original seat, her expression as always indifferent, arms crossed, closing her eyes to rest, waiting for the final review content to be announced in more than twenty minutes.

Time passed minute by minute.

Next, villains gradually completed their works and stepped forward to submit them.

Lei Duoer, the [Fire Tongue], who was quite famous among this group of people, slowly walked forward. His red hair fluttered in the wind, looking like a burning flame. He placed the statue of the Goddess of Fate that he had completed in front of Kaius. He burned the statue with flames, scorching it black, turning it into an ugly charred corpse that was about to lose its human form and had been ravaged.

Kaius watched for a while, nodded, and placed the work on the table, signaling that he could step down.

Lei Duoer, the imitator of the Bishop of Destruction, smiled confidently and turned his head back, obviously feeling that his work was very satisfactory.

However, the next few submitters were not so lucky.

Their works were deemed unqualified by Kaius and were thrown directly into the scrap heap, and the people were escorted down by the deep grey heavy-armored priests, each time causing a lot of panic among the candidates under the stage.

Almost every submitter kept shouting, "I am loyal to the Rebirth Church! Why?" when they were caught by the deep grey heavy-armored priests.

But Kaius didn't seem to care, he just looked at the next submitter indifferently.

Until [Meat Scraps] Graf walked up solemnly, his huge body seemed to make the entire high platform look small.

He put down the dismembered statue of the Goddess of Fate, just like he usually dealt with humans. Kaius could even see subtle traces of blood on it.

Kaius was silent for a moment, "This work... is very good."

And next.

Several villains whom he favored in the written test review submitted good papers. [Poison Thorn] Walter carved the statue of the Goddess of Fate into a tragically dead human figure that had become because of forbidden living body modification, while [Blood Throat] Gia added musical magic to the statue of the Goddess of Fate, turning her into an evil deity struggling and wailing in hell.

After them, [Eyeball Collector] Tors slowly approached and handed the modified statue of the Goddess of Fate to Kaius.

The eyes of the statue had been removed, and many small holes had been dug in its body, filled with alien beast eyes that seemed to be living tissue from nowhere. He didn't know what kind of magic had been added, but when Kaius looked at the statue, all the eyeballs would turn together and meet Kaius's eyes.

Even Kaius felt a little disgusted and placed it on the table as a qualified work.

As the candidates' works were gradually submitted, some candidates who had not yet completed their work felt even more nervous because of the "artworks" of these submitters.

The sound of the gears of the large clock above the door kept ringing, and each turn represented the passage of the remaining time.

"There are ten minutes left."

Kaius's voice sounded, cold and without emotion,

"Failure to complete on time will be directly regarded as a believer of the Church of the Goddess of Fate."

His words were like a cold wind blowing through, lowering the temperature in the hall.

This kind of punishment and intimidation undoubtedly had a great deterrent effect on the other candidates who had not yet submitted their work, making them bury their heads in their work even more.

Some of the candidates looked back at the clock, their eyes began to show tension and anxiety, while some were still calm, as if they were very sure that their works would be recognized by Kaius.

The final review candidates who had already passed sat in place, their faces without any expression.

They were just waiting for the end of the final time and the arrival of the final assessment.

There were fewer and fewer candidates still working, and the tools and statues made crisp sounds, gradually unable to drown out the sound of the clock gears.

Kaius sat on the main seat, leaning slightly, propping up his chin.

Although he did not focus his attention on any candidate.

But among the remaining candidates, the only one he was still concerned about was the young man named Loki.

He felt that a person who could produce such a written test paper would hardly be suspected of being a member of the Church of the Goddess of Fate.

But this re-examination was necessary, and the composition of each person had to be identified.

Even if his written test scores were excellent, if his position and loyalty were not firm enough, then he must be destroyed and not allowed to be used by anyone else.

Finally.

In Kaius's waiting.

Loki completed his work, his eyes with a hint of satisfaction, but also a little tired, stood up and walked towards Kaius.

He placed the work in front of Kaius.

It was a reshaped statue of the Goddess of Fate.

Kaius raised his head slightly, looked at Loki, and then turned to his work.

Immediately, his gaze seemed to freeze on the statue of the Goddess of Fate, and he was silent for a while.

At the same time, the unusually quietness caused by Kaius's failure to give an evaluation for a long time gradually made the candidates look towards the direction of Loki's work.

The young man who submitted the work reacted very calmly.

On the contrary, his work confused Kaius.

The statue of the Goddess of Fate after being carved by him had slightly changed its posture, been reshaped into a new action, and was extremely refined.

As if from the hands of a peerless craftsman, the goddess's figure was lifelike, full of warmth, as if she would move in the next second.

When the other candidates saw Loki's work, they couldn't help but be surprised by its artistry.

If they were all amateur players, this guy was definitely a professional among professionals. They had never even seen a sculptor of this level. Some people even showed greed in their eyes, trying to restrain the urge to snatch the statue. No matter what, it must be a priceless masterpiece!

But they soon noticed the problem with this remodeled statue.

Their expressions also became similar to Kaius's.

The always divine and quiet goddess statue had a hint of arrogant smile on the corner of her mouth, and her posture became raising her hand and raising her index finger and middle finger, making a V-shaped gesture with her palm facing inward.

It had a bit of a meaning of despising all the villains present.

Logically speaking, shaping the Goddess of Fate so radiant and beautiful should be directly judged as unqualified.

But Kaius found that this guy had a kind of dichotomy——

He couldn't tell whether Loki was praising the goddess or smearing the goddess?

(End of this chapter)