Night World Players

Chapter 56: Last: Now it’s a professional match

After the first page of records, there is a long blank, with only the date marked, and even if there are occasional characters, they are scribbled nonsense.

It looked just like the scribbles that Laster made up just to get by when his primary school teacher asked him to hand in a diary.

Hiltina just kept turning the pages.

Until the perfunctory text came to an abrupt end on a certain page.

[July 94, 6th year of the Cataclysm Calendar]

[The heavy fog in Dongshui Town has lasted for two months. Although fog is not uncommon at the seaside, this is the first time I have encountered such a strong fog that lasted for such a long time.]

[In this thick fog, visibility is only a hundred meters at most... The lighthouse has completely lost its effectiveness. I only need to use the foghorn occasionally, which makes me feel much more relaxed.]

[Anyway, the supplies will arrive in four days, and I will also be changing shifts. I will let the brothers who are changing shifts take care of the rest.]

……

[July 94, 6th year of the Cataclysm Calendar]

[The fog is still going on. It has been four days since the agreed date for supply. Did the supply team encounter an accident on the way? ]

[Fortunately, I have nearly a month's worth of supplies left, which should be enough to last until the new supply team arrives.]

……

[July 94, 7th year of the Cataclysm Calendar]

[Damn it, it’s been a month since the agreed date for the supply. Even if we set out again, three batches of supplies should have arrived!]

【Given the importance of the Broken Coast to the civilized waterway, as long as the "shore keepers" exist, they will never abandon the lighthouses along the coast.】

[Did something happen at the headquarters? No, the leader's rank has reached an unprecedented level of 6. Even the Iron Cross King or the cult's favored ones can fight. If not, the Broken Coast would not have been able to resist their erosion for so long. I am worrying about nothing.]

……

[July 94, 7th year of the Cataclysm Calendar]

[My food and water have run out, and the fog still hasn't dissipated.]

[During this period, not only was the connection with the outside world cut off, but even the sound of ship whistles that were often heard on the sea disappeared, and the lighthouse was eerily silent.]

[I activated my special ability "Origami Magic" and used the discarded metal parts from the lighthouse to piece together two mechanical messengers in the shape of carrier pigeons. I controlled them to fly in different directions outside the fog to investigate the situation outside.]

[This method consumes a lot of mental energy, but I can't care about that now. ]

……

When he read this, Rast couldn't help but look up at Hiltina beside him.

"Ability?"

In Star University, information about the Sixth Epoch is already quite scarce.

However, his authority in the Mystical Tower was insufficient to query the information about the Sixth Epoch, so he could only count on the big white legs next to him.

"Ah."

Hiltina nodded slightly, as if she was not surprised by the description of "superpowers" in the diary.

"Since there are traces of races such as gods, dragons, and elves in every era." "Then in the lost history, there must be extraordinary powers that can be mastered by humans... These powers are of various types, some are mysterious, and some are even technological."

"For example, I once participated in a Raid on the Echo of the Disaster, and the location was an abandoned alchemical machinery research institute."

"The target we were attacking at the time was a giant killing alchemical robot that was created as a war weapon but somehow lost control. It was over ten meters tall. We paid a huge price to complete the attack."

"As for the Sixth Epoch..."

Hiltina's gaze paused slightly on the diary.

"Perhaps it is because the Sixth Era is the closest to our era on the timeline, and the supernatural system of this era is very similar to that of the present world."

"Since the Iron Cross Plague broke out, the old order was destroyed, and the Cataclysm began... perhaps some world laws have loosened, and sequence systems similar to ours have begun to appear on a large scale in the Sixth Epoch. From the perspective of the timeline, perhaps they are the pioneers."

"However, compared to the present world where civilization is developing rapidly and knowledge is being passed down steadily, you are also aware of the situation in the late Sixth Epoch. Order no longer exists, and the development of the extraordinary people is completely in a stage of struggle and exploration."

"Under such circumstances, a sixth-level expert was born... This secret organization called the Shore Keepers is quite extraordinary. Perhaps they already had extraordinary knowledge before the catastrophe."

Hiltina explained:
"As for the so-called "superpowers" in the Sixth Epoch, they are actually our "Night Blades."

"Although the Night Blades that travelers obtain are gifts from the Night World... this is actually the embodiment of our mental images, the power that comes from our hearts. What the Night World does is just to fully stimulate it and help us quickly control it."

"And the Night World does not exist in the Sixth Epoch, so it is undoubtedly much more difficult to stimulate the power deep in the heart. These extraordinary people with supernatural powers can only appear by chance, and they are one in a million special cases."

As she spoke, she reached out and turned to the next page of her diary.

[July 94, 7th year of the Cataclysm Calendar]

【Thick fog, thick fog, all thick fog! 】

[The mechanical messenger I created with my supernatural power flew in different directions for a day and a night until my mental strength was completely exhausted. Before the mechanical messenger fell to the ground and was scrapped, all I saw was still endless fog! ]

[I vaguely remember that the nearest town is only a few dozen miles away from Dongshui Town. The mechanical messenger should have arrived after flying for a day and a night. They are machines and will not lose their sense of direction and circle in place like living things.]

[There is something wrong with this fog! Once you enter it, you will be lost in it forever. ]

[It's pointless to stay on the lighthouse. I have to take action.]

[I will take a rest today and recover my spirit. Tomorrow I will go to Dongshui Town to check the situation and ask for some food and fresh water.]

……

[No date]

[Crazy! I don’t know if I’m crazy or if everyone in Dongshui Town is crazy! ]

[When I arrived at Dongshui Town a few miles away along the path, everything seemed normal. The townspeople were self-sufficient, and the fog outside the town did not seem to affect their lives.]

[However, when I asked the mayor, the townspeople, the old farmer, the butcher, the tailor... why the fog lasted so long. ]

[They all looked surprised and said that the fog only lasted for two days.]

[When I asked them about the date, their answers all pointed to the same date without exception——]

[5 month 11 day]

【That was the date two months ago! 】

(End of this chapter)