Chapter 57: The White Silk Knight Cannot Refute

It was none other than Himan.

Hall remembered that Himan had a mission with the White Knight Order today and would be patrolling the Demon God’s Labyrinth.

This patrol mission was also a common one in Himan’s route. If a player was bored, they could take it.

After taking it many times, Himan would gradually discover the secrets of the Demon God’s Labyrinth, which would then trigger a more dangerous mission.

Theoretically, Hall didn’t really want Himan to take this kind of mission, but it should be fine to take it a few times. The probability of triggering the special patrol side quest was very low. Most players would have to do it about fifty times before it triggered.

So he had deliberately come later today. After all, Himan was a workaholic and would usually get up before dawn when she had a mission.

But he never expected to run into Himan even then?

“Hall, I didn’t expect you to come so early today.”

“Early?”

Hall looked at Himan in her formal knight’s uniform and just wanted to say that it wasn’t early at all.

Usually, Himan would set out at six in the morning, but at this time, Himan should have set out at eight in the morning.

Two hours late, and it was still early?

“It’s quite early.”

“What time did you leave home this morning?”

“Six-thirty.”

“You only just got here at six-thirty?”

Hall was even more confused.

Now Himan hesitated for a moment before saying, “There was an accident on the way, so I was late.”

“Oh, so that’s what happened. What happened?”

He found it very suspicious.

It wasn’t just the time difference. He had even calculated the route.

With Himan’s personality, she would definitely take the shortest route to get the mission done quickly, emphasizing efficiency.

And he, on the other hand, had specifically taken some tourist routes from the first floor to the fortieth floor.

When Himan was on a mission, she had special passages.

“Nothing, why are you asking so many questions today?”

Himan glared at Hall fiercely.

She wouldn’t say that it was actually because she was worried about Hall, so she had waited for him here.

After all, it was Hall’s first time adventuring in the Demon God’s Labyrinth. She was worried.

“Then aren’t you going to do your mission?”

Hall saw that Himan wasn’t leaving and was a little anxious.

“I am.”

“Then why aren’t you going?”

“My mission today is to protect the adventurers on the fortieth to forty-fifth floors. Aren’t you going to be in that area too?”

“…”

Hall understood. What Himan meant was, who she protected didn’t matter, she was going the same way as him.

“You’re going to follow me?”

“I’m just responsible for protecting your safety. After all, you’re a newcomer adventurer and don’t know much about the situation in the Demon God’s Labyrinth.”

“…”

Seeing Himan speak so confidently.

Hall was speechless. He knew the Demon God’s Labyrinth very well. At least in many routes of this game, he would come here to level up and get treasures.

Not to mention his highest ninety floors, he could calculate the mechanics and damage of every boss on the first seventy floors with his toes.

He didn’t know the Demon God’s Labyrinth?

In this world, besides the late Demon God himself and the Demon Kings who had seen the Demon God, no one should know this Demon God’s Labyrinth better than him.

But he couldn’t say that.

He could only say, “Himan, you don’t have to worry too much about me. And we are cousins. If you give me special treatment, it will cause others to gossip. We are nobles, and the lives of commoners are what we should protect.”

He continued, “A noble should have a noble’s pride. If you follow me, it won’t be good. Remember what I told you that day? Only by being alone can one prove one’s own ability. I can’t rely on you.”

This set of clear logic stunned Himan.

She felt it made so much sense that she couldn’t refute it.

She could only nod mechanically after a while and then say, “Then remember to carefully check the map I gave you that day. Don’t make any mistakes, and don’t enter the uncleared dangerous areas.”

“I know, don’t worry.”

After a lot of effort, he finally got rid of Himan.

It took Hall more than two hours to finally reach the fortieth area.

The fortieth area was currently the forefront of the adventurers from all countries who had come here. Only fifty percent of the area had been completely cleared.

This, in turn, gave Hall an opportunity.

The location of the Rainbow Sky Sword was in an unconquered area.

He wouldn’t be afraid of making a big commotion when he solved the puzzle and drew the sword.

Anyway, no one would know it was him.

“But it’s still better to be careful.”

He was wearing all black today. After officially leaving the safe area, he even put on a magic black hat he had bought on the first floor in advance.

Now he could completely hide in the shadows.

But to be honest, although the Demon God’s Labyrinth was underground, there were not many shadows.

Each floor had a hub magic circle, which would provide energy for the other small magic circles on each floor, such as the lighting magic circles.

And the construction here was not in ruins. They were basically normal traffic roads, and there were even parks occasionally.

Below the seventy-fifth floor, there would even be some strange landscapes.

Because this used to be the residence of monsters.

In the game, if players searched for easter eggs everywhere in the labyrinth, they could also get some text about the ancient monsters from a thousand years ago.

And learn about the layout of this world a thousand years ago.

A thousand years ago, the only human country in the Western Continent was the Basel Empire, west of the Papal State. At that time, the weak human race could only seek self-preservation.

And the power of the demon race was unimaginably strong.

The eight Demon Kings who guarded the eight directions on behalf of the Demon God were insurmountable chasms for the human race. Each Demon King almost had the power to destroy the Basel Empire.

So the players speculated that thousands of years ago, the human race was only one of the many races under the rule of the Demon God and the Demon Kings, and posed no great threat to their rule.

It was not until the gods of heaven heard the prayers of the saintesses, granted the human race heroes and hero swords, and guided the first Eternal Winter Saintess to the northern frozen sea to obtain the Eternal Winter Holy Sword, that the human race had the strength to resist the Demon God and the Demon Kings, and eventually killed the Demon God.

Hall was also interested in the background history of the game in his spare time.

But in this game’s background setting, there were actually many suspicious points that could be found in the known text.

For example, the war between the human race and the Demon God only lasted for a few years. It took only a few years to go from a state where a single Demon King could lead an army to exterminate them to a state where they could kill the Demon God, who was more powerful than the eight Demon Kings.

It was a bit too fast.

Because the Basel Empire, as the oldest country in the Western Continent, only had a territory of one-tenth of the entire Western Continent. A thousand years ago, it was probably less than one-thirtieth.

To challenge the five Demon Kings and one Demon God of the Western Continent with a territory of one-thirtieth.

One could only say that the hero was invincible.

However, in the game’s plot, even in the late stages of many heroine routes when the world was in chaos and the people of the Western Continent suffered heavy casualties, the hero’s figure never appeared.

Hall knew the reason for this.

The game text described that the hero sword was stored in the past Demon God’s temple, and no one had been able to pull it out for hundreds of years.

“Forget it, I’ll go get the Rainbow Sky Sword first.”

He followed his memory to the location.

After some tedious puzzle-solving preparations, he was suddenly surprised to find.

“Holy crap, has someone already gotten the Rainbow Sky Sword?”

It didn’t make sense. Most of the heroine’s routes hadn’t even started yet.

Author’s Notes :

(Here I’d like to thank everyone for their love, support, and encouragement for this book.

I saw a comment before worrying about the worldview. Don’t worry, I have already set up the Demon Kings and several countries in the Western Continent, and of course, I will gradually improve it. I hope to do it better, and the same goes for the heroines.

Finally, I’d like to thank everyone who has supported this book so far. If you have any thoughts or opinions, you can leave a comment here~)