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Taking a deep breath to calm my nerves, I activated the recording mode. Yingning and I stepped into the portal one after the other.
A slight dizziness, and before us the scene had completely transformed.
This must be what they call a world of extremes—leaving the freezing ice cellar only to plunge into a blazing world of fire. It was deeply disorienting.
As far as the eye could see, everything was burning: trees made of flame, strange houses woven from fire, and enormous eyeballs composed entirely of conflagration.
The air was thick with the scent of inferno and destruction. This overwhelming sensation pressed down on us, making it hard to breathe.
“You should not have come here.” A thunderous voice nearly knocked Yingning and me off our feet.
“Indeed,” I said with a bitter smile.
What idiot designed the teleport coordinates? The moment we arrived, we were surrounded!
All around us were massive fiery eyeballs!
[Quest log updated: You appear to have arrived at a settlement of a strange race. They seem hostile and highly aggressive.]
I randomly selected a target.
[??? Level: 40 Quality: Blue tinged with Purple]
Red-named monsters, aggressive by nature, and all of them Blue-Purple quality.
Fiery eyeballs were everywhere—at least a few hundred—and there was a level 50 Purple-named Boss!
That Boss had been the one to speak just now.
“It’s been decades since we last saw Aldels as foolish as you… Attack! Kill them! Render their corpses into lamp oil!”
At the Boss’s command, the lesser monsters surged forward, launching an assault.
“Want to give it a try?” I asked with a wry smile, pressing my back against Yingning’s to form a two-sided defense.
“Do we have a choice?” Yingning replied with a similarly bitter smile.
Indeed, we hadn’t expected to land right in the middle of a tough battle.
“Bring it on…” I raised my staff, buffing both of us to the max. The moon was already hanging in the sky as usual, so all skills were unsealed.
“Z—” I shielded Yingning.
“—Frenzied Earth, Ten Thousand Miles of Ice!”
Ice pillars erupted from the ground! Though the spectacle was far less grand than last time when the Zimu River’s boost had overcharged me, it should still be enough to deal with these level 40 monsters!
No hesitation—I had to go all out! We were surrounded, and the only way to break free was with a large-scale lethal skill!
A beam of extreme cold, utterly out of place in this scorching world, descended from the sky, bringing a touch of frost to the land while freezing and extinguishing the fiery eyeballs in waves.
[-5000 -5000 -5000 -5000]
Rows upon rows of -5000 numbers—too many to count. I watched from above with great satisfaction.
Indeed, full INT build is the true romance of a priest!
Along with the damage numbers, experience skyrocketed. These monsters gave insane experience—each one provided about 0.3% of our experience bar. With that one Z ultimate, Yingning and I leveled up by more than one!
Unfortunately, the surrounding monsters were almost wiped out in one go, and my skill went into a 24-hour cooldown. Getting such a satisfying experience grind again wouldn’t be easy.
A skill of the Ancient Gods?! Impossible! How could an Aldel possess such power? We are the strongest race in this world! Foolish Aldels, let me show you my power!
[Warning! The Boss has entered a berserk state! Attack power and attack frequency greatly increased!]
This guy’s got quite a temper—we hadn’t even touched it, and it already went berserk.
The giant eyeball Boss fought similarly to the giant eyeballs in the Hell-difficulty Spider Nest. Its attack patterns were very monotonous, mostly ranged bullet hell.
Since I had inherited the Moon Goddess’s power and equipped the necklace [Luji’s Light], which provided mana regeneration, theoretically we could just whittle down this Boss.
Even if something unexpected happened, I had already advanced and gained several new mid-level priest skills, giving me more options than before.
This must be the first major challenge of the quest… Let’s take it down!” I charged forward with my priest staff.
Seeing me obsessed with dealing damage and even face-tanking skills, Yingning could only let me do my thing. “…Watch your step.”
“Hey… I’ve soloed this thing before…”
Even though I had beaten this kind of monster before, I didn’t underestimate it.
As it turned out, our decision not to bring Huo Jinjin and the others in was absolutely correct! Because this Boss’s stats scaled with the number of nearby creatures! I knew because a flaming bird had flown past the battlefield, and when it passed the Boss, its health jumped up significantly. Fortunately, after the bird flew away, the Boss’s health dropped back down.
But what grudge did this thing have against birds? Even in the middle of battle, it was thinking about attacking birds? Did it treat all birds as enemies? Such a short fuse—no wonder it was covered in flames…
Since the Boss’s attacks were so monotonous, we handled them with ease. With no pressure, I started multitasking, browsing the forums while fighting.
On the forums, one post was pinned to the top, highlighted and starred. I clicked in and found it was a live stream video.
[Hello everyone, I’m the host, Lu Ban. First of all, thank you for following this channel’s live coverage of the Chronicle Quest.]
[Although the officials pre-announced at the Carnival that the Starlight Line would inevitably fail, as the first major SSS-level plot that officially kicked off the Chronicle of the Aldel Continent, our channel is still going to provide full live coverage and, from a technical perspective, deeply analyze the possible scenarios and hidden implications of this plot. We hope that after watching our channel’s video, you’ll continue to strive and discover even more grand chronicle plots.]
[As everyone knows, this chronicle plot is the first chapter of the entire server, “Heroes—Starlight Blossom!” It’s the “hardest difficulty,” “most extensive route,” “grandest scale,” and “most exciting plot line” mentioned by the officials at the Carnival. Unfortunately, because the plot was triggered too early, it’s almost impossible to complete, so the officials declared it a failure in advance.]
[This channel will use the available information to speculate on the hidden quests that this chronicle plot “Starlight Blossom” might bring, personally take risks, and publicly reveal the conditions for accepting them.]
[At the same time, we will also deeply analyze the possible route conflicts arising from this chronicle plot and the possibility of completing the Starlight Line.]
To this end, we have invited the original of the million-strong Internet army leader, Jianghu Baixiaosheng, who is also the strategic mission analyst for Zhaoge, Mr. Huang Bozhong! Let’s welcome Mr. Huang!
Huang Bozhong: Hello everyone.
I heard that Mr. Huang once participated in the system development of Pursuit II. Is that true or false?
Huang Bozhong: It’s true. There’s nothing secret about it. Pursuit II was very friendly to the staff; there weren’t many confidentiality clauses because we didn’t know anything.
So, regarding this chronicle quest, “Starlight Blossom,” what are your thoughts?
Huang Bozhong: To be honest, I never imagined this quest could progress to this point. Although the quest was set by the mainframe and we don’t know the process, the mainframe does feedback the quest difficulty.
Quest difficulty? So what is the difficulty of this quest?
Huang Bozhong: Let me put it this way: for a quest to destroy an S-rank main city, the mainframe feedback gave a difficulty of ten stars, equivalent to facing a Saint-level opponent. This quest faces five Saint-level opponents, but the difficulty isn’t fifty stars—it’s an unbelievable 160 stars! It even exceeded the known upper limit of SSS-rank quests. So, everyone in the know had no hope for this chronicle quest… Honestly, the chronicle shouldn’t have started this way. It seems that by some coincidence, even the mainframe didn’t anticipate certain events.
So what determines the difficulty coefficient? The enemy’s strength?
Huang Bozhong: The number of stars only represents the likelihood of completing the quest. There are many influencing factors, including luck, combat strength, and intelligence. The most important and easiest factor to increase the stars is actually luck. For example, you might need to trigger multiple quests simultaneously to get completion clues. If another quest’s trigger conditions are also extremely stringent, it results in an extremely low completion rate…
For this Starlight Line quest, the mainframe’s feedback originally expected it to cooperate with other lines. But the Starlight Line was triggered too early, and those cooperative lines hadn’t even reached the designated stage or no one had triggered them there. So… hmm… unfortunately… we were originally looking forward to it too… After all, the mainframe set the importance level of the Starlight Blossom line very high…
As expected of the knowledgeable Master Baixiao. So, after answering questions about the quest system, let’s move on to some issues regarding the current chronicle progress… What do you think about “Saint-level Aksiya and Arthur City”? Will this respected female Saint-level NPC really massacre Minos City?
Huang Bozhong: This question is meaningless because many players have recorded the process of Aksiya versus “Save Minos City.” We players know the truth, but the Alliance is unclear—or deliberately unclear.
Barring accidents, Aksiya represents the Starlight Line. Some people have witnessed those five players helping Aksiya subdue Minos City… What enviable lucky ones…
Huang Bozhong: Nothing to envy. Opportunities only come to the wise. Instead of envying their luck, envy their brains. That team’s progress has completely exceeded the expectations of the entire game strategy team! If I didn’t know that Pursuit II can’t have cheats, I’d suspect they were hacking… Not just your server—we’re all impressed!
So do you think they can continue to be lucky this time? For example, making a comeback and winning this lawsuit?
Huang Bozhong: Impossible. The gap is too wide…
But what if…
No ifs! If they can win, I’ll livestream myself crossdressing and eating shit!
Mr. Huang is really witty and humorous.
Let’s pause here. Next, we go to our Santa Cruz city field reporter… Hello, reporter.
[Reporter: Hello, host.]
[What’s the situation or atmosphere in Santa Cruz City right now?]
[Reporter: The atmosphere is tense. After all, this is the first time in the continent’s history that a Saint-level will fall, and in such an inglorious manner. For NPCs, this is not a good thing…]
[What about the players?]
[Reporter: From what we can see, among the top ten guilds, Sword Sweeping the World, Berserker’s Association, Arcane Radiance, and Lingyun Pavilion have entered combat readiness and are gathering forces. Rumor has it that several of them have issued kill-on-sight orders against Gunfire Rose—any member spotted in the city will be killed without mercy!]
Hearing this, the corner of my mouth twitched.
Kill-on-sight orders? These big guilds have too much free time! They have to cause trouble for us at such a critical moment!
Good thing I had anticipated this and temporarily transferred the core investigators to the Ten Thousand Souls Hall. The ones left in the guild were all newbies.
Sorry, you’ll be cannon fodder this time. I’ll make it up to you later.
Those big guilds indeed issued kill-on-sight orders against us. We had already made them feel threatened, and now that threat was imminent… Fairy Sister, be careful. If you die, the loss would be too great.
[Fairy Sister: Don’t worry. We’ve masked our faces and hidden our IDs. We’re lying low… (Come hit me, idiot! Ha… You can’t hit me! You can’t! Take this! Om Roar!)]
Really lying low? It sounds like I can hear Huo Jinjin arguing with someone in the background…
[Fairy Sister: Ahem… Except for Second Fool Gold. But he’s drawing aggro. He stays near the safe zone by the respawn point. If someone attacks, he retreats into safety; if no one attacks, he goes out and taunts them. Thanks to him, Qingyu and I haven’t been exposed.]
Tell him not to get himself killed doing that. He might get kicked out of the respawn point.
[Fairy Sister: Er… already got kicked… Gotta go, we need to get him out of here! See you!]
Looks like things aren’t great in Santa Cruz City either. But intelligence gathering doesn’t depend on combat power—anyone can do it. It’s not necessary for Fairy Sister and the others to do it themselves; they just need to manage and organize the intelligence.
Browsing the analysis video of this chronicle quest, I skillfully toyed with the Boss alongside Yingning, like walking a dog.
About twenty minutes later, with a bang, the Purple-named Boss was defeated, dropping a pile of materials and a purple chest.
“It’s been a while since I last opened a chest…”
I cracked my knuckles, producing a series of pops.
An otherworld special boss chest! I can’t wait!
[Obtained quest item—Sherry’s Tracking Surveillance Mirror]
[Obtained quest item—Aksiya’s Amplification Antenna]
[Obtained Priest Skill: Soul Sealing Urn—Resurrection W]
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