WTYTIAAN Chapter 247

Chapter 247

Eternal Ruins, central area.

The environment here is harsh, coupled with the frequent appearance of magical creatures and the depletion of resources, basically no mercenary teams would venture into such deep areas to ‘treasure hunt’. Yan Yunqing hadn’t come across any traces of humans for a long time.

He did encounter many high-level magical creatures.

It wasn’t until he approached the royal city area that he finally saw traces of human activity—

Left behind by the mercenary team called Crimson Smoke.

There were signs of fire and camping, but the Crimson Smoke team seemed to have deliberately cleaned up these traces before leaving, so Yan Yunqing almost missed them when he arrived.

If Yan Yunqing didn’t remember that the Crimson Smoke team’s destination was also the royal city, supposedly to find the [Life Source Stone] in the Demon King’s treasury, he would have really missed them.

The traces were fresh. Yan Yunqing estimated that the Crimson Smoke team had left no more than three days ago. Any longer, and the Crimson Smoke team wouldn’t have needed to clean up themselves; the wind and sand of the Eternal Ruins would have completely buried them.

The Crimson Smoke team probably cleaned up these traces to guard against the little tails secretly following them, like the ones they encountered that day.

Of course, it was also possible that they were guarding against him.

After all, they had bumped into each other in the Old Ruins before. Who knew if Captain Fiora was wary of them because of that?

Yan Yunqing glanced at the minimap and estimated the time it would take him to reach the royal city. If he rested here for one night, he would reach the city gates of the royal city around noon tomorrow.

The royal city of the Eternal Empire was very large, about ten times the size of Bato Vita’s royal city. It would take him some time to find the royal palace and, by the way, the way to get to the Floating Island.

The Floating Island, as the name suggests, was an island floating above the royal city, not connected to the land. It was a spectacle of the Eternal Empire—

Of course, this was drawn by the Demon King’s card draw.

An SSR building card, which he got after hundreds of pulls of gold light… Of course, that was impossible, because the game “Demon King” had no pity mechanism.

He could just keep failing and failing and failing…

Yan Yunqing thought of his previous card-drawing experiences and felt his vision darken again and again.

Of course, in his few moments of being lucky, the Floating Island could rank in the top few.

This SSR-level building card was both beautiful, practical, and sturdy.

The beauty was easy to understand. Since it could be rated as an SSR-level building card, there was no need to say more about the beautiful scenery of the Floating Island. The entire island wasn’t large, about seven or eight soccer fields in size. The climate within the Floating Island wasn’t affected by the outside world. It was spring all year round, full of flowers, and could also be called Spring Island.

The practicality lay in the fact that since the island was drawn by the Demon King, it was bound to the Demon King. It could be said that within the Floating Island, the Demon King was the master—everything on the Floating Island was changed by the Demon King’s will.

As for being sturdy… of course, it referred to the defensive power of the Floating Island.

Because of its special floating mechanism, the Floating Island never landed. The way to enter was also quite special, making it difficult to invade, and its defensive power was extremely high. Even if a god came, it was hard to say whether a full-strength attack could break a crack in the Floating Island’s turtle shell.

The three advantages combined laid the foundation for this SSR building card to become one of the top ten moments of the Demon King’s luck.

To some extent, no matter how powerful an enemy came to the door, as long as the Demon King hid inside the Floating Island, he was absolutely safe. Even if the God of Light was resurrected to attack the Demon King, he would only be angered to death again by the Demon King’s turtle shell.

Of course, this SSR building card also had a shortcoming, which was that the capacity was limited, with a limited number of people allowed to enter. At the same time, it couldn’t float around everywhere, but could only randomly float above the Demon King’s bound main city.

The range of activity depended on how large the Demon King’s main city’s aerial domain was.

Otherwise, Yan Yunqing could really do something like wear a turtle shell and fight everywhere, hiding in the Floating Island whenever he encountered a strong enemy and stubbornly holding out against them.

So this SSR-level building card had been kept in the warehouse after being drawn, until the Eternal Empire was officially established, when the Demon King took it out from the bottom of the box and placed it above the royal city.

According to Divick and the others, not long after the Eternal Empire officially announced its demise, Theodore led the angel tribe to the Floating Island, along with some guards who were willing to follow Theodore.

So if Yan Yunqing wanted to see Theodore, he had to find a way to get to the Floating Island.

But it was also because of the special nature of this building card that Yan Yunqing wasn’t sure how many routes to the Floating Island were still preserved.

Considering that most of the routes were likely closed by Theodore, the only one that could be left behind should be the passage in the Demon King’s bedroom in the royal palace.

After all, that passage was a back door left by the Demon King himself, and he hadn’t told anyone about it. Naturally, it wouldn’t be closed if no one knew about it.

Yan Yunqing thought for a while and decided to rest here for one night, recharge his energy, and confront Theodore tomorrow.

*

The next day.

Yan Yunqing didn’t dare to sleep soundly all night. After all, he was traveling alone, and this was still a wilderness where magical creatures could pop up at any time. It wouldn’t be good if he fell asleep and was eaten in one bite by a magical creature.

After a hard night’s rest, Yan Yunqing set off early the next day.

He encountered another group of magical creatures on the way. This group of magical creatures was difficult to deal with. They were a type of avian magical creature. The greatsword could cause powerful damage to enemies on the ground, but it was much weaker against the sentinels in the sky.

Yan Yunqing took away the greatsword for a long time and took out the Cuiying he had obtained before, pulling the bow and aiming one by one to shoot them down.

The magical creatures looked up and screamed, and a melee was started.

By the time he reached the gate of the royal city, it was already afternoon.

The city gate of the royal city had been somewhat dilapidated after thousands of years, but the city wall was still intact. At least compared to other ruins, this place seemed to be well preserved.

Perhaps because angels lived in the sky above, the pressure from the angels prevented low-level magical creatures from approaching and destroying this place.

Yan Yunqing looked down and, unsurprisingly, saw traces of the Crimson Smoke team again.

He wondered how the Crimson Smoke team was progressing?

Yan Yunqing didn’t think that the Crimson Smoke team could open the Demon King’s treasury. Even if they did, they wouldn’t get anything—because since the Demon King had placed the Floating Island, the treasury on the ground only contained some daily necessities, and the slightly better things were placed in the Floating Island.

Of course, the best batch was placed in his backpack.

So the Crimson Smoke team’s idea of finding the [Life Source Stone] left by the Goddess of Life was likely to fail.

Oh no, considering that he really had an additional [Life Source Stone] in his backpack, the Crimson Smoke team’s goal would definitely fail, unless there was more than one [Life Source Stone].

But resurrection props sounded like very rare things, and Yan Yunqing didn’t think there would be a second one.

Thinking like this, Yan Yunqing pulled down his hood, revealing the black hair and red eyes underneath. He strode forward and officially entered the main city of the Eternal Empire, which once unified the entire continent.

——High above, inside the Floating Island.

The man with long pale golden hair, who had been keeping his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes.

*

“Damn it, how many of these things are there?!” Fiora swung her sword to split open a strangely shaped mechanical puppet that was lunging at her. At the same time, seeing another mechanical puppet rushing towards her teammate, she quickly blocked the attack.

Evelyn held a magic wand and chanted a healing spell from Light Magic. Streaks of milky white light fell on her teammates and also struck the mechanical puppets watching them covetously.

However, it didn’t produce much effect. At least compared to magical creatures, these mechanical puppets weren’t afraid of Light Magic at all.

Mild Light Magic was less threatening to them than more lethal Fire Magic.

Ella pulled up her bow and shot another arrow. Prolonged high-intensity combat had exhausted her. This arrow couldn’t break through the mechanical puppet’s defense, only leaving a shallow mark on their surface.

Immediately afterwards, she was hit in the shoulder by a magical creature that got close. A pain spread from her shoulder to her whole body, and she couldn’t help but cry out in pain.

Evelyn’s healing spell quickly landed on Ella, but it only stopped the gushing blood. Any more would require more magic power, and since they had entered this royal city, they hadn’t stopped fighting. Recklessly consuming too much magic power would only trap them here to die.

Another person was attacked and seriously injured. Yali’s face was pale, scars covered her whole body, and beads of sweat constantly slid down her forehead due to the pain, inevitably slowing her movements.

Just as the claws of a mechanical puppet were about to swing towards her, a green vine arrow flew past her side, piercing fiercely into the center of the mechanical puppet. Lacking power supply, the mechanical puppet’s eyes immediately lost their luster and collapsed to the ground.

Yali quickly used the sword in her hand to continue blocking, taking the time to thank her companion, “Thanks, Ella.”

Ella turned her head in confusion, “What?”

Yali: “I’m talking about the arrow, thank you for saving me just now.”

Ella was confused. None of the arrows she shot fell on her teammates. She didn’t know why her teammate would suddenly thank her.

Immediately afterwards, Ella knew why.

One green vine-wrapped arrow after another fell in front of them, repelling or knocking down the mechanical puppets in front of them, almost without missing a shot.

Their eyes couldn’t help but follow the direction of the arrows, and saw a figure draped in a cloak pulling a bow towards their direction. With a release, an arrow pierced a mechanical puppet with watery spirit.

Someone.

Almost instantly, the entire Crimson Smoke team became vigilant. They didn’t relax their minds because of the other party’s assistance. This was no ordinary ruins; this was the Eternal Empire’s royal city ruins—the people who could appear here were by no means ordinary.

A question popped up in the minds of the Crimson Smoke team at the same time: who is this person?

How did he appear here? Did he come with them? Or was he another bounty hunter who broke in here to ‘treasure hunt’?

Yan Yunqing dealt with the last mechanical puppet before putting away Cuiying.

He was very familiar with these mechanical puppets. They were all R-level character cards [Mechanical Guard] that he had obtained before. They were very ordinary blank characters, without thinking, without judgment, and only blindly followed the programs set by their master.

[Mechanical Guards] came in different forms. According to Yan Yunqing’s preferences, the appearance of most [Mechanical Guards] was set to look like dogs, thrown into the city to be patrol teams, and to protect ordinary people in the city, so they were also called patrol dogs.

He just didn’t know what program Theodore had set for these patrol dogs after the fall of the Eternal Empire. Why were they fiercely attacking the Crimson Smoke team?

With a temporary teammate, the Crimson Smoke team, though still wary in their hearts, didn’t prevent them from cooperating with the newcomer’s actions to solve the group of mechanical puppets that besieged them.

Finally, as the saying goes, hard work pays off. They temporarily escaped the fate of being besieged to death by mechanical puppets.

Fiora looked around, confirming that there was no one else except the one ‘unknown ally’ standing on the tree, and saluted in Yan Yunqing’s direction.

“Thank you very much for your help.”

Since the other party greeted him with a smile, Yan Yunqing wouldn’t be cold-faced. He jumped down from the treetop. Just as he was about to approach them, he felt a gust of wind coming from his side—