WTYTIAAN Chapter 262

Chaotic guesses ran through his mind, but Yan Yunqing realized he still didn’t understand the reason for his transmigration.

It seemed the most likely culprit, Sylvia, who caused his transmigration, had died more than a thousand years ago, and who knows how many times she’s been reincarnated since.

He originally thought some mysteries would naturally be solved when he met Theodore… Solving them did solve them, but more mysteries arose.

Like Sylvia’s prophecy, the disappeared Divinity…

Sorting through the information Theodore revealed, Yan Yunqing felt this disappeared Divinity was key. According to Theodore, Sylvia made the prophecy to compensate for losing the Divinity, but the result of the prophecy had nothing to do with the Divinity.

Generally speaking, if you lose something and want to find it, the first thing you need to know is where it went. However, Sylvia’s prophecy was about the destruction of the world and a ‘Descender’ saving everything.

On the surface, the two were completely unrelated, like asking a donkey and getting a horse’s answer, a completely irrelevant response.

But Yan Yunqing believed in Sylvia’s ability. Her innate skill was ‘Prophecy,’ and she could predict the fall of gods when she was young. Her ability was evident.

So Sylvia’s prophecy must be related to the whereabouts of the Divinity.

…Descender?

Yan Yunqing was silent for a moment, his gaze slowly falling on the game’s system panel.

No way?

A few unbelievable thoughts arose in him.

Could this lost Divinity… have turned into the game system?

Yan Yunqing’s pupils trembled, shocked by his bold idea, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt this possibility was quite high. After all, the Descender was the main subject in Sylvia’s prophecy, and what she wanted to predict was the Divinity’s whereabouts.

And the Descender currently had only two targets, one was the players Yan Yunqing considered, and the other was the King Theodore recognized… which was Yan Yunqing himself.

Yan Yunqing was certain he wasn’t transformed from some Divinity… and even more certain that these players from Blue Star weren’t transformed from the Divinity, but genuine people.

Then the only thing related to both of them was the game… connecting the two worlds.

Once one guess was established, more questions emerged.

The Divinity turned into a game? Why? Who did it? The Divinity didn’t seem like something with independent intelligence? It also didn’t seem like the kind of thing that could become a spirit.

Yan Yunqing’s mind was a bit of a mess.

But then he remembered a few times when he was complaining about the game’s writing, and he suddenly felt emotions that seemed to come from the void above.

Yan Yunqing: …

It’s hard to say whether this thing became a spirit or not.

Yan Yunqing had a bit of a headache, and couldn’t think of any other questions to ask Theodore for the time being. He opened the game system panel, his fingers unconsciously swiping around as if he were thinking about something, but his mind was blank.

However, as he casually flipped through the game panel, his gaze accidentally swept across the still-ongoing tasks on the task panel.

He had many tasks on his task panel, and he didn’t clear all of them in time after accepting them. There were also some long-term tasks, or tasks he didn’t know where to start with, placed there, sorted according to importance.

For example, the task of investigating Demetrius’s identity that he received during the external training at the Sigret Academy had never been completed because he didn’t know where to start.

And at the very top of these tasks, marked with a key star, was a protection task.

[Protect the Little Girl Yulia]

This task was issued by him using the Mysterious Man – Nolan persona, specifically assigning the task to the official team, and even asking for a nominal position because he was worried, so he could check the task progress and observe little Yulia’s safety at any time.

It wasn’t that little Yulia was so important, but because little Yulia and her grandfather Jason were the people who showed him kindness when he first transmigrated into this world.

And when Yan Yunqing was just starting out and completed the Sunset Village task, he learned that Karena and Henry, as well as the Sunset Village youth of that year, chose to die for the sake of protection, which touched Yan Yunqing’s heart, and this emotion was somewhat transferred to little Yulia and Jason.

With all sorts of buffs stacked together, Yan Yunqing would also subconsciously pay more attention to the two of them, and the fact that they appeared in the war zone made him worried.

That’s why Yan Yunqing went to the trouble of creating a pre-task that looked like some hidden mission and gave it to [Ying Yi], so that the official people could pay attention to little Yulia for him and protect them from being harmed in the war…

However, just now, Yan Yunqing saw that the task [Protect the Little Girl Yulia] on his task list had changed.

[Protect the Little Girl Yulia] → [Find Yulia]

Yan Yunqing frowned and clicked on the task details, immediately seeing the changed task description.

[Find Yulia]

Description: A riot occurred in Loresul City. You, who finally quelled the riot, discovered that the little girl Yulia was missing, and her grandfather was heartbroken. Please help Jason find news of his granddaughter.

He was a nominal participant in this task, so he could only receive task progress prompts and didn’t participate in the task, so the main perspective in the task description referred not to him, but to the people sent by the officials to do this task.

Yulia is missing?

Yan Yunqing’s eyes narrowed, and his originally lazy sitting posture became serious. The changed task details didn’t reveal much information, so he simply opened the chat panel and found [Ying Yi].

[Ri An]: The task has changed? What happened? Why is the task NPC missing?

A few minutes passed, and [Ying Yi] didn’t reply to him. Yan Yunqing couldn’t help but frown, opened the friend list, and realized that [Ying Yi] was still offline and hadn’t logged in.

Yan Yunqing didn’t dwell on [Ying Yi] and directly contacted the player who accepted this task. Since he wanted to be a nominal participant, he naturally needed to add the player who accepted the task as a friend, and this player who was recommended by [Ying Yi] also fit Yan Yunqing’s stereotype of official warriors.

Silent, reliable, and responsible.

Although they had added each other as friends, the other party only said a few words to him in a reporting tone when they first added each other as friends, and had never contacted him again. Unlike [Lonely Flame], who would send him a bunch of nonsense literature even when there was nothing to do.

Yan Yunqing copied and sent the questions he had just asked [Ying Yi] to this task leader, [War Wolf].

The reply from this person was very fast, almost as soon as Yan Yunqing sent the message, [War Wolf]’s explanation came, most likely prepared in advance.

[War Wolf]: Some accidents happened on the battlefield yesterday. A group of necromancers sneaked into Loresul City at night and cast several large-scale magic spells, causing a large-scale riot.

[War Wolf]: The riot has just been officially suppressed. At the time, the people we had in Loresul City were all transferred to suppress the necromancers and did not take care of the area near the task NPC’s home. By the time we finished and rushed over, the task NPC was already missing.

[War Wolf]: When we went out to search, we found that other young children were also missing in Loresul City, with ages basically within 5-12 years old. Current speculation: The disappearance of the task NPC and the disappearance of other young children are likely related to the necromancer attack last night.

Yan Yunqing’s expression became somewhat unsightly.

Looking at the details after the task change, it was difficult to realize the danger, but after [War Wolf] said this, he realized what Yulia’s disappearance represented.

Necromancers.

Not many mages research and choose necromancy, because mainstream opinion considers necromancy evil. Therefore, most necromancers live a life of hiding and rarely move collectively, let alone sneak into Loresul City at night in such a premeditated manner to create chaos.

This could only mean that this group of necromancers was instructed by someone. Without thinking, the Eternal Divine Church was related to necromancers.

Beross had told him before that the Augreir Family of Bato Vita had been very close to the people of the Eternal Divine Church in the days before the sudden declaration of war, and it was suspected that they had reached some kind of cooperation.

And when the war situation between the two countries was tense, a group of necromancers suddenly attacked Loresul City. Without thinking, this was the work of the Eternal Divine Church and the Augreir. The Augreir Family wanted to use the necromancers sent by the Eternal Divine Church to attack Loresul City, to influence the war and achieve victory.

This made sense, but what were they suddenly taking so many children for?

The Augreir Family… No, they didn’t need to do this kind of thing. It wouldn’t do them any good, but the Eternal Divine Church…

[Ri An]: Go and count how many of those children are NPCs with ‘Talent Skills.’ If there are no accidents, the disappearance of the NPCs should be related to the Eternal Divine Church. You can investigate based on this clue.

[Ri An]: I’ll go back right away. Tell me any new clues at any time.

After speaking, Yan Yunqing neatly closed the chat panel, ignoring the messages that [War Wolf] sent next, and instead rummaged through his backpack for the long-unused communicator [Carrier Pigeon], telling Merlin all the information he had learned.

Merlin replied after a while.

‘Is that so? I know, I’ll arrange for someone to investigate.’

Yan Yunqing was not at ease and continued to send messages: ‘I will be back soon. I think you need to go and see for yourself. If there are no accidents, those children all have ‘Talents.’ They are stealing children so openly, it is not like they were hiding before. There must be something big going on.’

‘It is very likely that they will perform sacrifices again.’

Merlin: ‘…Nolan, please understand one thing.’

Yan Yunqing:?

Yan Yunqing was stunned. He was still in the urgent anxiety of little Yulia’s disappearance and couldn’t figure out Merlin’s meaning for a while.

Merlin: ‘I am just one person, I can’t be in two places at once. Do you know how terrifying the sudden increase of 40,000 Descenders is? They are simply monsters in another sense, energetic and tireless, causing trouble everywhere!’

Merlin actually used three adjectives in a row to describe the Descenders, revealing a strong sense of collapse between the lines.

Yan Yunqing: …

Yan Yunqing slowly oozed a drop of cold sweat.

He had forgotten that just as he came to find Theodore, the Closed Beta 3.0 update had been released, and the number of players had increased from 10,000 to 50,000, a full increase of 40,000.

Facing such a realistic and completely open game, it would be strange if the players could resist.

Before, their manpower was still sufficient, and 10,000 players entered in batches. The manpower of ‘Flame’ could still take care of them, but now there were 40,000 more players in one go…

Cough, Merlin’s collapse was traceable.

After all, those were players! Players known as the Fourth Natural Disaster!

Yan Yunqing felt a little guilty because he was the culprit who left a pile of mess for Merlin.

Fortunately, Merlin’s collapse was only temporary. He seemed to have been tempered in this short period of time. He quickly sorted out his emotions and sent Yan Yunqing a message again.

Merlin: ‘Indeed, the new actions of the Eternal Divine Church are very problematic. I will arrange everything as soon as possible and take the time to investigate.’

Merlin: ‘What about you? How is it going? Did you meet that Archangel?’

Yan Yunqing looked at Merlin’s question, turned his head and glanced at Theodore, who was very well-behaved but not at all well-behaved in temperament.

‘Yes, everything is going well. Our previous guesses were wrong. It has nothing to do with Theodore. I’ll explain the rest to you when I get back.’

After a long time, Merlin sent a short sentence.

‘Understood.’