WTYTIAAN Chapter 172

Chapter 172

“[Destin]” exclaimed, “I didn’t expect there to be an underground space here… Speaking of which, the smell of blood is too strong.”

[Shrimp Xiami] squatted down and poked at the soil on the ground, casually replying, “How can it not be strong? This soil has been soaked in blood all year round… Well, at least for more than three years.”

“[Rin]” was surprised. “Teacher Xiami, do you mean that the people in this village have been dead for more than three years?”

[Shrimp Xiami] turned back helplessly, “I’ve told you not to call me teacher… Also, that’s not what I meant. What I meant was…”

[Shrimp Xiami]’s unfinished words were snatched by [Butcher Chasing Pig]. He looked up at the patterns carved on the stone pillars, then at the round platform in the very center of the underground space. “What Teacher Xiami means is that people have been dying here from time to time for the past three years.”

“Huh?”

“Based on my many years of gaming experience, there’s a high probability they were bled to death?” [Butcher Chasing Pig] stroked his chin. “Don’t you think this place looks like a secret cult altar that appears in some film and television works?”

“Huh???”

[Big A Bro] heard [Butcher Chasing Pig]’s words and noticed the high platform. With his rich gaming experience, he immediately understood what the other party meant. “That’s right. Secret cults are indispensable in most Western fantasy works. This underground space has the feel of an altar. Look at that high platform, doesn’t it look like it’s used for sacrifices?”

[Computer Sleepy Cat] quickly climbed onto the high platform and saw the patterns carved on the shattered platform. “These runes… do they look like a magic formation?”

“Formation?” [Kunlun Headmaster] also came over and observed for a few moments. “No, this should be an alchemy formation, not a magic formation.”

“You can even recognize this?”

[Kunlun Headmaster] pretended to be indifferent and said, “I encountered a small hidden quest before and learned a little bit from an alchemist.”

“Damn!” Everyone looked at him with envy and jealousy.

How long has the internal test been going on, and someone has already explored gameplay other than mage and swordsman?

No wonder this [Kunlun Headmaster] is the third on the game’s overall level leaderboard. He really has some skills.

“What’s the difference between an alchemy formation and a magic formation?”

“Um…” [Kunlun Headmaster] thought for a while and explained to them, “Magic formations are mostly used for elemental amplification or to release some spells. Only mages can set them up. Alchemy formations have a wider range of uses. Ordinary people who can’t use magic can also become alchemists and set up alchemy formations.”

Everyone fell into contemplation. This explanation didn’t seem to have much relevance to the scene they were in.

“The game’s setting for alchemy is quite complex, but I think it can be summed up in one sentence,” [Kunlun Headmaster] thought for a while and said, “Ordinary people can also master the world through alchemy.”

“[Ho Mouth King] said, “Generally speaking, secret cults are never good things in Western fantasy settings. This place has an altar and an alchemy formation, it looks like they’re doing some kind of terrible sacrificial activity. Teacher Xiami also said just now that people have been dying here for three years. They wouldn’t be using people for sacrifices, would they?”

This guess was reliable. Almost as soon as these clues came out, these players thought of it together.

[Big A Bro] thought even deeper. “Then the reason for the destruction of Hawthorne Village is complicated. Are you saying that this village has such an underground altar, and people have been used here for a long time… no, to be more precise, something resembling humans or livestock have been used for sacrifices. Do the people in the village above know about this?”

Everyone looked at each other, and only [Shrimp Xiami], the psychology teacher, spoke up. “They know.”

“[Shrimp Xiami] said, “In residential areas like this village, most of the villagers have some kind of relationship with each other, and news is difficult to hide, especially such a large-scale underground altar. If this is a secret cult’s altar that has been carrying out sacrificial activities for many years, then it is very likely that the entire village has participated.”

“I also discovered before that the traces of life in the village above are too ‘fake’. I was initially wondering why the details of this crucial plot were omitted in such a realistic world. Thinking about it now, this village may not be an ordinary village in the first place.”

[Shrimp Xiami] said with certainty, “Perhaps this village was composed of the secret cult that built this underground altar from the very beginning.”

With their discovery, the exploration task progress also increased by a small amount.

The several players who were exploring Hawthorne Village together looked at each other. It seemed that they had found the right direction.

*

The game’s internal beta has been going on for nearly a month, and only three thousand players have already added hundreds of pages to the Return home special area of the forum.

Dozens of posts emerge every day, and not only are the three thousand internal beta players active, but also some water friends who didn’t get an internal beta spot but are skeptical, disdainful, and fully expectant of the world described by the internal beta players are also frantically refreshing the posts in the special area.

One by one, game-related posts were pushed up, but it’s a pity that the game helmet doesn’t have a built-in recording function for the time being, so that the vast majority of water friends still don’t believe that Return is a real full-immersion game.

[Broken Bridge Remaining Snow], as a well-known game plot UP master, because there is no built-in recording function, he has temporarily stopped updating his videos and turned to using text to record his internal beta experience, which has also been welcomed by countless players and water friends.

[Live broadcast of my experiences on the Ermann Continent – Broken Bridge Remaining Snow]

0L: The main building is dedicated to the beautiful Ermann Continent

I will describe my fantastic experiences on the Ermann Continent from a first-person perspective. This is a real and grand world. If you are lucky enough to experience it with me, you will definitely marvel at this great miracle.

1L: Sofa

2L: Broken Bridge Remaining Snow? Is it the Broken Bridge Remaining Snow I’m thinking of? Was Broken Bridge Remaining Snow also bought? Didn’t they say this guy never takes money for promotion?

3L: Upstairs, do you really believe that these million-fan bloggers won’t take ads?

4L: Snow Bro’s die-hard fans are here to report. I didn’t get an internal beta spot, so I’m squatting for Snow Bro’s feedback.

…

21L:

When the internal beta went online with 10 minutes left on the countdown, I put on the helmet.

What appeared in front of me was a pitch-black starry sky. I felt like I was in the real universe, and the starlight was within reach.

I am very sure that in this void universe, my five senses are very real.

A huge countdown timer appeared in the center of my vision, synchronized with the countdown on the game’s official website.

I reached out and touched the countdown timer, and a quicksand-like texture flowed through my fingers, as if time had turned into a real hourglass, and I couldn’t grasp the passing time.

After enduring the difficult ten minutes, an ethereal voice rang in my ears.

It asked me to enter my name. I still named myself Broken Bridge Remaining Snow.

“You have successfully entered your character name. Now, let’s set off together to the unknown world and uncover the mysterious veil of the Ermann Continent.”

“The adventure is about to begin. We wish you a pleasant journey in “Return” and may the stars guide you forward.”

Accompanied by these two sentences, a white light engulfed me, wrapping me like a cosmic explosion. The soul-shaking roar resounded in my mind. In the blink of an eye, the white light faded, and I was standing under a azure sky.

I can’t describe that feeling. It was like a real crossing through time and space. My soul was shattered and reorganized in another world. I landed.

I was in a deep forest. The trees towered into the clouds, and small beasts in the low bushes curiously looked at me. The breeze rustled the forest, and a leaf fell on my shoulder.

I can smell the forest!

This is an incredibly real and grand world.

22L: Is it really that magical? Can current technology do this? Was it really bought?

23L: As expected of Snow Bro, who graduated from a prestigious school, his writing is good. When I logged into the game, I only kept saying “f*ck”, and my mind was blank. I didn’t have time to remember what happened.

ps Upstairs, Return is really full-immersion. What Snow Bro said is not an exaggeration at all. It’s really exactly like crossing over!

24L: Yes, as soon as I entered the game, I jumped and jumped and almost went crazy. The Ermann Continent is so real that I thought this game was letting us cross over into the world under the name of a full-immersion game! I immediately went offline to confirm, but the number of times for the day was used up and they wouldn’t let me continue to go online QAQ I lost eight hours of leveling time compared to others for nothing.

…

43L:

The place where I landed is called Norman Forest, which is the largest forest in the Ermann Continent, connecting the two great empires, the Sea of ​​Death, Dragon Valley, and the elven territory of Serinval.

I only knew these things in the newbie village, but these are all stories for later.

Let me talk about what happened after I landed.

I and a group of players were born here. After everyone gradually became familiar with their new bodies (actually, I think it was after everyone calmed down from their excitement), a man named Lloyd appeared. He was wearing leather armor and had a bow and arrows on his back. He looked like a hunter.

As a matter of fact, Lloyd claimed to be a hunter from Norman Autumn Leaf Village. He heard the noise while hunting nearby and came to investigate. When he saw us, he guessed that we were Descenders and warmly invited us to stay in his village temporarily.

Norman Autumn Leaf Village is the newbie village for our group of players. We affectionately call it Norman 02 because there are a total of three newbie villages in Norman Forest, and we are ranked in the middle.

We stayed in this village.

People who know me should know that I really like to explore the background stories of a game, especially those hidden and unknown background stories.

I was curious about the hunter’s calling the players Descenders, so I started inquiring about news in the village. I have to once again marvel at the reality of this world. No matter what I ask, the NPCs can have different reactions and can even ask counter-questions about my questions. This is really incredible.

After a few days of inquiries and corroborating multiple sources, I summarized all the information I know.

There is only one vast continent in this world, and no other continents have been discovered yet. This continent is called the Ermann Continent, and it used to be a continent ruled by gods.

However, three thousand years ago, more than one thousand years before the Eternal Calendar (also known as the Years of Light), for unknown reasons, the God of Darkness, one of the six Upper Gods, launched a war against the God of War, another Upper God. The God War, which lasted for more than a thousand years, was kicked off.

The gods killed each other, vying for power, and the continent ruled by the gods fell into war. Humans and other races were displaced, but only a few powerful races were temporarily spared from disaster.

Until more than one hundred years before the Eternal Calendar, a human hero appeared. His name is untraceable, but he has a widely circulated name [Demon King].

The Demon King subdued the major alien races, including the elven race, the beastmen race, the dragon race, the dwarves race, the sea race, etc., integrated them into one, and led the various races to sound the horn of counterattack against the gods.

After the Angel clan, the followers of the God of Light, defected and joined the Demon King’s team, the Demon King’s army was unstoppable. While the gods were still killing each other, the Demon King had already led the alien races to defeat them one by one.

Finally, he ended the most powerful God of Light above the Light Empire, ending the thousand-year-long God War.

Speaking of which, do you think the history of Ermann is a clichéd story of a hero fighting a dragon?

Actually, the story has just begun…

[To be continued]

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