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Join the Server“We can’t trust anyone anymore, so we have to entrust this information to you,” Aksiya said.
“These are the relics of the gods we discovered while investigating the demonic creations—what you call class artifacts. But those things are of no use to Sherly and me anymore, so we didn’t retrieve them…”
Aksiya handed each of us a small note. Every note had a different address on it, likely corresponding to the class artifact for each of our professions.
“If you can pass the gods’ trials there, you can take one artifact equipment of your choice. The clues to the other equipment will only be revealed after you obtain the first one,” Aksiya explained.
Unfortunately, those places were all remote and couldn’t be reached in a day or two. There was no way we could bring artifacts to the guild elite tournament, but they could serve as our next goal after the tournament.
Mission complete. A few matters and questions had been resolved, and we had learned a huge secret. But what about the next quest chain? Was it over? Was the main quest really done just like that?
“Is there anything else we need to do?” Ning asked cautiously, frowning. In previous quest chains, the next one would be automatically accepted. Why not this time?
“Not for now. Next, we have to face the Alliance Tribunal. We’ll probably set off after you finish giving birth,” Aksiya replied. “Besides, this trip will take at least a month before we can return.”
A month later?! Was it really over? Or did we have to wait that long?
Don’t let it end! The rewards from this quest were far too generous. If we lost these two overpowered allies, we would become nothing but salted fish!
Why wasn’t it triggered? Did we really have to wait? Or… had we missed something?
A flash of insight struck me as I recalled all the anomalies during the prison break in Minos City. I spoke up to Aksiya and Sherly, “By the way, when we broke into the prison, we didn’t encounter a single guard. Was that your doing?”
“No!” Aksiya was taken aback. “We have no influence in Minos City. Besides, Minos is a major border city—it’s impossible for it to be undefended…”
“So at least one other party anticipated our actions?” I said.
Aksiya and Sherly both looked curious, eyeing me with confusion. “Another party?”
I recounted our entire operation to them—they said they only knew what happened above ground, not what occurred in the dungeon.
For instance, the red-name player (Bai Li Mie Tian) disguising himself as a city guard, and the fact that another group of players (Sword Sweeping the World) knew our whereabouts.
“Well, we caused such a big commotion outside the city, so it’s only natural that relevant parties predicted our movements. You don’t need to worry about which factions—I’ll investigate and let you know,” Aksiya nodded calmly. “But is there anything else you noticed?”
Seeing Aksiya’s calm demeanor, I was deeply disappointed. Why hadn’t it triggered yet? Had we truly reached the end of the quest? Or were we simply not strong enough?
“Yes!” Seeing that the two women weren’t buying it, I quickly spoke up again. “When we were leaving, we used the crystal you provided to block magic. At that time, strange phenomena appeared in the area covered by the crystal.”
“If it’s about fireballs and ice spikes disappearing and stuff like that, then you don’t need to tell us,” Sherly said teasingly.
“Of course not,” I shook my head in surprise.
Did they not know? Didn’t they say they knew everything that happened on the surface? Could even Saint-level masters have faulty eyesight?
I had assumed they observed from afar, so I didn’t mention it.
“Every time we used the crystal, the ground would become rotten, revealing withered bones and some terrifying-looking insects…” I recounted.
I clearly saw both Saint-level experts’ bodies suddenly stiffen. Their eyes widened, and they became unprecedentedly serious. “Are you sure you didn’t see things? That it wasn’t an illusion?”
“I’m sure!” Seeing how serious they were, I grew excited. It seemed the next quest chain was in sight!
“Do you know what you’re saying?” Aksiya suddenly raised her voice, looking at me with anger and disbelief. Even this powerful, aloof female Saint’s eyes were red with urgency. Finally, her voice carried hope and pleading. “Tell me you’re joking for the sake of the quest!”
I knew. I also knew why she was so angry.
Aksiya abruptly placed both hands on my shoulders, her Saint-level aura crushing down on me like a tidal wave.
“I’ll ask you one last time! Are you sure?”
“I’m sure.”
“That’s right, I saw it too.” Yingning stood by my side without hesitation.
“That’s right, we all saw it. Everyone present at that time should have seen it.”
Huo Jinjin and the others also stood beside me.
After repeated confirmations, Aksiya’s body trembled violently. She collapsed onto the bed and said not another word.
Sherly let out a long sigh. “Don’t be angry with her. Minos City was her hometown…”
Aksiya and Sherly fell silent.
I understood them well, because if the news we brought was as I suspected, its horror was no less than a shocking secret.
“What are you talking about? I don’t get it,” Huo Jinjin said, puzzled. “Don’t speak in riddles! Why are they like this? I haven’t understood much since earlier. What are demonic creations supposed to be used against? And what were those things revealed by the crystal? Can you explain clearly?”
“Huo Jinjin,” I took a deep breath, also struggling to calm my mind due to the craziness of the main quest, “The crystal’s effect is to nullify magic. So after the magic was nullified, what did we see?”
Huo Jinjin tilted his head, thought for a moment, then said matter-of-factly, “I don’t know!”
“A scene from which magic had been dispelled,” Yingning answered for me.
“So what?” Huo Jinjin pouted defiantly.
“What kind of magic could affect what we see?” I asked.
“This I know! Illusion magic… Holy shit!” Huo Jinjin suddenly realized. “You mean those rotten grounds, insects, and human bones we saw weren’t side effects of the crystal… but…”
“It’s the true appearance of Minos City revealed after an incredibly powerful super illusion was dispelled,” Yingning also took a deep breath.
Everyone had been deceived! Players, NPCs, and even the all-powerful Saint-level experts.
I finally understood why we saw no prison guards and why no city guards stopped us… It wasn’t because no one in the surveillance room pressed the alarm, but because pressing the alarm was useless.
They had long been dead.
Why could even a red-name player pass the city guards’ inspection? Because all the original city guards had been replaced.
Since those withered bones and rotten ground were the real scene, then… At this moment, Minos City was no longer the major border city in the impression of the Jiuhua Alliance. It had long been secretly replaced, and without anyone noticing, it had become a completely annihilated dead city!
“Minos City, I’m afraid, has already fallen.”
All along, whether it was us, or Jiangu, or Bai Li Mie Tian, or Dongjun, we had all been moving through areas filled with hostile monsters of unknown levels! We were hanging by a thread!
All along, the ground we stood on was not the snow-covered border town! It was a horrifying mountain of corpses and a sea of blood! When we strolled through the snow, we might have been stepping on pale white bones, with all kinds of insects crawling over our feet!
[Automatically accepted main quest – Monster Siege]
[Note: You are the monster.]
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