WTYTIAAN Chapter 246

Chapter 246

Yan Yunqing withdrew his gaze from the empty yellow sand area, but was stunned when he saw the additional quest reward in his backpack.

When he was trying to cut the threads on Sean, he had tried all the usable weapons, which caused the backpack grid to be a bit messy. However, the newly obtained items would appear in the foremost grid of the backpack, so Yan Yunqing saw the new prop that was shining at a glance.

[Source Stone of Life]

Source Stone of Life…? Isn’t this the term that Scarlet Smoke Squad mentioned before? Something to be found in the Demon King’s Vault?

Yan Yunqing hesitated for a moment and clicked on the item’s description.

The description was short, only six words.

[Source Stone of Life]

Description: Resurrects the dead.

Yan Yunqing: ???

Yan Yunqing was shocked by these short six words for a moment, almost thinking that his eyes were playing tricks on him.

Wait, does this game really have resurrection items?

No, does this world really have a major resurrection technique???

Is this right? Brother, this is not right, right?

From the beginning of playing “Demon King” to the current “Homecoming,” Yan Yunqing had not found any resurrection-related magic or skills in this world. The only element of resurrection was the player himself.

That was because the player himself was not considered to be an existence in this world, but entered the Ermann Continent through the so-called holographic helmet of the game, so he could have the ability to resurrect upon death.

But for the people of the Ermann Continent itself, there was no such thing as resurrection. Even during the God War, the gods had never been able to do it.

Even Yan Yunqing himself did not dare to try to die easily. After all, although he also had a player panel, he was really going into battle himself. If he encountered a bug and died, he would really be dead. Wouldn’t that be the end?

The only thing that was slightly related to resurrection was necromancy. This was not to resurrect the dead, but to summon the souls of the dead. If the deceased still had obsessions and strong willpower before death, they could be transformed into undead after death. However, the undead also had a day of extinction. In fact, most undead were in a state of being mentally unclear and unable to recall their memories before death.

Therefore, necromancy could not be regarded as a true resurrection.

The power left by the Goddess of Life… can resurrect the dead?

Yan Yunqing took out the [Source Stone of Life]. This [Source Stone of Life], which was said to be able to resurrect the dead, was generally rhomboid and emitted a milky white halo. It looked a bit like crystal, and an unknown translucent liquid flowed in the middle.

Yan Yunqing shook the small crystal stone in front of his eyes. The translucent liquid was very viscous, and it only shook slightly with the range of his shaking, without any other changes.

Yan Yunqing stared at the [Source Stone of Life], wanting to try the concept of resurrection, but there was no experimental product on hand, and he didn’t know the specific usage of the [Source Stone of Life].

The most important thing was: was this thing a one-time use or could it be used multiple times?

However, the game system did not provide answers to these questions, but just let him explore on his own.

Finding no breakthrough, Yan Yunqing had to put the [Source Stone of Life] back into his backpack, preparing to show it to Merlin after returning. Maybe the well-informed Merlin could study the usage of this [Source Stone of Life].

After sorting out the backpack that had been messed up by himself, Yan Yunqing finally walked towards the direction of his teammates. On the way, he had received the notification that Arthur’s escort mission was completed. The experience reward was really generous. Coupled with Sean’s mission, the two missions combined made his level directly approach one hundred.

After he cleared the missions received from the Bounty Hunter Association, he would almost be able to reach level one hundred.

He was even more confident to meet Theodore!

Yan Yunqing sighed, amusing himself in his heart.

*

“Ah,Big guy!” [Lonely Fire] saw Yan Yunqing’s figure from a distance and hurriedly waved his hands to attract Yan Yunqing’s attention.

Yan Yunqing glanced at him. To be honest, it should be nice to be friends with [Lonely Fire]. This guy was always an optimist, and it was really pleasant to get along with him.

[Ying Yi] and the others looked fine, only Arthur looked disheveled, with mud and sand on his face, extremely embarrassed.

Yan Yunqing saw Arthur’s miserable appearance, “Did you encounter something?”

Why did they make the mission NPC look like this?

As soon as Yan Yunqing said this, several players looked at each other. Instead, Arthur clarified that it was not the players who had abused him, but—

“That was the only city from the Eternal Era that was so well-preserved, and it just sank!” Arthur said with a bitter face, “I still wanted to come and study it with my teacher next time—it’s all my fault. It must be that I touched the magic circle on the square that caused it…”

[Lonely Fire] translated for him: “When we rushed out, he was thinking about those books—oh, the books we collected in a house when we first went in. Then we turned back to find them, but we almost sank in together.”

“He rushed relatively ahead, so—”

Yan Yunqing suddenly understood, “So that’s what happened.”

He thought for a while and comforted, “It’s not your fault, and that’s not a magic circle. It’s an alchemy array, and it shouldn’t have been triggered by you.”

Arthur raised his head, frowning, “Alchemy array? No, that’s a magic circle.”

Yan Yunqing was stunned.

Arthur lowered his head dejectedly, “I can’t be mistaken. That’s a magic circle. I remember the rune structure in the middle very clearly. Alchemy arrays don’t use that kind of structure.”

Magic circle…?

That’s not right. He could feel that Sean was really confident when he said that he had talent in alchemy, so the surprise and regret of modifying the alchemy array that led to the petrification of the entire city was also very real. Yan Yunqing didn’t think that Sean would deceive him on this point.

But Sean had always said that it was an alchemy array.

“But that structure is really uncommon. I also saw a similar structure in a notebook found in the academy’s library,” Arthur said. “Most magic circles don’t use it. It’s normal for you to mistake it for an alchemy array.”

Arthur became extremely serious when he talked about his profession, “Speaking of which, that notebook seems to have been left in the library by a teacher from our academy…”

Yan Yunqing heard this, and a name suddenly appeared in his mind. He blurted out, “Clayton Gregory?”

Arthur was surprised, “How do you know?”

After he asked, he remembered that Yan Yunqing had previously claimed to have audited at the Sigrid Swordsman Academy for a period of time, and then he suddenly understood, “Oh, I forgot that you had been to the Sigrid Academy before. Yes, it was left by Professor Gregory. Do you also know him?”

“But you’re not from the Swordsman Academy… do you also know the teachers of our magic academy? Or have you also read that *Research on Ancient and Modern Magic Circles*?”

Yan Yunqing fell silent. The fact that this name was blurted out did not mean that Yan Yunqing had also read the notebook that Arthur said. Instead, he remembered that after he had told Merlin about the Eternal God Sect, Merlin had found him once in the academy.

It was also that time that Merlin said that he had also found relevant records of the array used by the Eternal God Sect in the library of the Sigrid Academy. It was left in the academy by a senior teacher named Clayton Gregory.

And Yan Yunqing had also had contact with this teacher, Clayton Gregory.

—When he was studying at the Sigrid Academy, Quinn Gregory, who had a good relationship with him and had repeatedly shown his favor to him, was Clayton Gregory’s son.

Isn’t this a bit too coincidental?

But when Merlin found him, he didn’t say that Clayton Gregory had a problem. Those books and notebooks had indeed been left in the academy library in earlier years. Even Quinn’s enrollment was earlier than his.

After all, his entry into the academy was entirely on his own initiative. There was no guidance from others.

…So it’s still a coincidence?

Yan Yunqing frowned, but he was still a bit concerned about the magic circle that Arthur said, “Do you remember the purpose of that rune structure? What is it generally used for when it’s engraved in a magic circle?”

“Hmm?” Arthur thought for a while, “It seems to be to enhance… magic? Similar to amplifying magic.”

Amplify… magic?

So, the activation of the magic ore energy and the instant petrification of the city of Elantic was not accidental, but inevitable?

However, Sean had no idea about this. He still felt that it was because he had made a mistake when modifying the array that led to this result.

Yan Yunqing remembered the notebook that was thrown in Sean’s house that was also petrified. That was written by Keen, Sean’s strange emotional fluctuations, the calmness and lack of emotion before cutting the threads, most of the emotions were faked, but after cutting the threads, he obviously became more lively…

Yan Yunqing pursed his lips. He recalled what he had heard about Keen during the Demon King period.

At the beginning, when Keen used living beings to create undead, he seemed to have used the same method—forcibly Strippingthe souls of living beings and using magic circles to trap these souls and torture them until they became undead.

It was also because Keen caught some elves who went out when he created the undead, so the original Sylph agreed to leave the forest with the Demon King and eventually joined the Demon King’s team.

From the very beginning, Keen had examples of using emotions to create undead.

So—

Sean’s failure was not accidental, but inevitable.

From the moment that notebook appeared in front of Sean, a hidden plan began.

Step by step, he guided Sean to make the decision to ‘sacrifice himself for the glory of the family and to protect the city’. Finally, he set a trap on that array, leading to the petrification of the entire city in the end.

Sean, who was originally supposed to die directly after self-sacrifice, became an undead, and witnessed the failure of his plan. His family and the city he wanted to protect died in an instant.

He would feel pain, grief, torture… But these emotions were extracted from Sean’s soul through those threads and stored in the array. The array sent another energy into Sean’s soul to maintain his soul from dissipating.

When these emotions accumulated to a certain level and were returned to Sean… what would happen?

Sean would lose his mind… and become extremely powerful at the same time.

The person who made this plan wanted to artificially create a powerful undead.

This could explain why Sean’s father and grandfather were obviously more powerful than him, but died so quickly, while Sean, who was weaker than them, could lead the city of Elantic for three years.

Because the plan itself—was to let Sean walk into the trap himself.

Sean actively walked into the trap, even putting the noose around his own neck, killing himself and still thinking that it was his own problem.

Yan Yunqing felt a chill down his spine for a moment.

He remembered the horror he had felt in those underground altars of the Eternal God Sect.

The person who made this plan was like a cult, coaxing believers step by step toward destruction, and at the moment of self-destruction, still thinking that they would not die, but were about to enter Eden.

Yan Yunqing subconsciously glanced at Arthur, who was still entangled with that ancient city, and took a deep breath.

If that was the case, then Arthur was right, their appearance was the reason for the sinking of the city of Elantic.

According to the plan of the mastermind, it should not be the time for those emotions and powers to return to Sean’s soul, but their intrusion caused the array to start in advance, and he cut off those threads before Sean completely received those emotions, preventing Sean’s ‘blackening’.

And the sinking of the city of Elantic should not have been related to them, but because of the array.

The mastermind wanted Sean to constantly generate strong remorse and grief, so he naturally had to show Sean the ‘results’ of what Sean had done all the time to stimulate Sean’s emotions. Therefore, the array also had a certain maintenance function.

And the array itself was maintained by absorbing Sean’s power. In short, the entire city has still retained the scene of the past, and has not been swallowed by the wind and sand, all maintained by Sean’s power.

So Sean was stimulated in Yan Yunqing’s words, and Arthur accidentally touched the array and activated the array. The barely maintained balance was broken. Under Sean’s will, the entire city began to self-destruct.

What Yan Yunqing said to Sean before: If you do something wrong, if your conscience is uneasy, you will use words to beautify yourself as much as possible, just like Sean’s initial narration.

And the sinking of this city was also the past that Sean wanted to destroy in his subconscious mind.

He was pained that he had made the wrong choice, killing his family and the people of the city of Elantic. As long as the city of Elantic still existed, it would remind him of the wrong choices he had made.

So under Sean’s will, this city, which had been maintained by Sean’s power for thousands of years, was buried deep in the yellow sand according to Sean’s will.

This was the truth of everything.

Not accidental, but inevitable.

From the beginning, Sean did not have the right to choose. All his choices were prepared for him by the person who made the plan.

It’s just that the person had planned everything, but he did not expect that when the plan was about to succeed, a Yan Yunqing would jump out to disrupt his plan.

That person thought very well, even if someone broke into the array by mistake, causing the time point of Sean’s ‘blackening’ to be advanced, they would not be able to stop Sean’s ‘blackening’, because the threads wrapped around Sean’s soul could not be cut off at all.

Yan Yunqing happened to have a dagger that could deal true damage.

That ‘gift’ that he didn’t know who gave to whom.

Yan Yunqing closed his eyes. His mind was quite chaotic now. He was able to figure out that everything that happened to Sean was secretly planned by someone, and finally guided Sean to destruction.

He could not see clearly on himself—whether everything he had encountered was also arranged for him by some existence? Would he also be like Sean, thinking that everything was a choice made under his own will, but in fact, he was stepping into a trap step by step according to the plan?

Just like…

The game.

Yan Yunqing looked at the game system. When this idea popped up in his mind, he had already gone deep into it. His eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of gauze, unable to see whether the road ahead was a train to a happy end or a bottomless cliff.

The ending of the game, is not only HE.

*

After exchanging a few words with Arthur, Yan Yunqing only managed to scare himself.

Knowing too much is not a good thing, because it makes it easy to overthink. If the brain is too smart and turns too fast, it will also bring him a burden.

Yan Yunqing judged that the current situation did not seem to be something he could easily shake, and could only proceed according to the original plan.

At the same time, he comforted himself that the enemies on the surface, after saying it all, came down to only one, that is, Keen, who had been killed by the Demon King once.

Since Keen could be killed, Yan Yunqing only needed to reassemble the team that besieged Keen at that time, and he would not lose too badly against Keen, right?

So he didn’t need to worry about this for the time being. The only thing to consider was whether there were other beings behind Keen.

But Yan Yunqing had no clues in this regard. He didn’t need to think too much. He didn’t even have any clues. Was he fighting with himself here?

Wasn’t that purely sick?

So taking it one step at a time was his only option at the moment.

Arthur’s mission was completed. He told [Ying Yi] something and left early. [Ying Yi] didn’t say much to him before leaving, which surprised Yan Yunqing.

Because he initially thought that [Ying Yi] would take this mission to complete with him, there must be something that he wanted to test out from him, or wanted to cooperate with him. However, they were about to break up, and [Ying Yi] didn’t show it. Yan Yunqing could only attribute it to the fact that the official plan had changed, and they were not going to reveal their cooperation with him for the time being?

Even if Yan Yunqing was curious about what happened on the official side, he did not rashly ask. According to his original plan, after leaving the team, he cleared all the missions he had received from the Bounty Hunter Association. Once again, he created a myth of completing the task in the shortest time within the Bounty Hunter Association, and crossed the one hundred level mark.

Now, he had entered the ranks of the top powerhouses on the Ermann Continent.

Level one hundred was like a watershed. Those below level one hundred were ordinary powerhouses, not an unattainable existence.

And those above level one hundred were all legendary figures.

Before Yan Yunqing, the youngest level one hundred powerhouse on the Ermann Continent was Adrian Sawyer, General Sawyer who had been guarding the Skarn Front of Bato Vita.

And from now on, Yan Yunqing would become the youngest level one hundred powerhouse—now let him go back to break into the Bato Vita’s palace again, and shoot the son of the old Bato King in front of the old Bato King, and the old Bato King would not dare to say a word.

This was the deterrent power of a level one hundred powerhouse.

Yan Yunqing had been comparing his strength to Theodore’s all the time, and always felt that he was too weak. He had almost forgotten that Theodore was not an ordinary person. Now, he was also an existence that could kill most dignitaries if he disagreed with them.

Suddenly, he felt a little different.

Yan Yunqing looked at his panel data and pondered.

…However, such a powerful panel was still a small Karami in front of Theodore.

Not to mention Theodore, even Divic was more than fifty levels higher than him…

Damn.

Yan Yunqing grinded his back molars, thinking about when his Demon King could really show his domineering side.

Everything was ready.

Yan Yunqing looked up at the seemingly endless sea of ​​gold.

The rolling dunes were like golden waves,Entanglement with the sky full of yellow sand, like roaring behemoths,Roar ing at every warrior who dared to set foot on its territory,Reckless venting its tyranny,Showcase ing its comfort.

The gravel was rollby the gale, colliding with each other in the air,Rising ing and falling, wave after wave, until it merged with the blue sky.

There, indeed, lay a once-powerful beast. It had once gone forward and Break opened the cage set by the gods, but it had also Fall downen Yes in the siege of weak ants.

The Eternal Empire.

It was time for him to go to the former Eternal Empire’s royal city and meet Theodore on the floating island above the royal city.

Volume 9 Homecoming: A Winter Night Without Seeing the Light of Day