Night World Players

Chapter 87 The Secret of Canaan (5k)

"Well, I received the news in advance."

Professor Barbarossa, who looked like a gorilla, glanced at Ingrid through his gold-rimmed glasses. He was obviously familiar with this senior military official. "Since you also have the authority to search the Level 9 archives, I will not interfere."

As he spoke, he turned sideways to clear the passage to the archives behind.

Ingrid saluted him again with a standard military salute, and then brought Rast in.

As Rast followed Ingrid and passed by her.

He noticed a change in the aura around him. Professor Barbarossa lowered his eyes, and his beastly eyes were fixed on him.

"The newcomer chosen by that ferret?"

Perhaps because of his huge size, Professor Barbarossa's voice was like thunder: "The fact that the ferret took a fancy to you shows that you have a good character and talent."

"But seeing that your aura is so weak, you are at most not at the third level, and you probably haven't been to the night world many times."

"The academy's ideals are noble... but before you truly enter Reverberation, you must not be swayed by the will and expectations of others, but make decisions based on your own will."

"You only have one life, and once you enter the night world, there is no turning back."

"It is not shameful to avoid risks appropriately and choose to escape before you have the awareness."

Professor Barbarossa's words became more serious: "In the past few years of watching over the Mystery Tower, I have seen too many cases."

"It's still good for someone like me to become a half-human, half-ghost. Many other high-spirited night travelers are sleeping in the night world, and even their corpses cannot be brought back."

"What's more, although the rewards of the Last Night World of the Arcana Tower are greater, the danger is far beyond comparison... Not only can we not form a team to enter, but even the historical background nodes are uncertain, so we can't collect intelligence in a targeted manner."

He changed the subject and spoke earnestly, "So, little Last, if you want to explore the world of Last Night... you can come to me more often, and I will provide you with practical training."

"I have been guarding the Arcana Tower for so many years. No one knows the world of the Last Night better than me."

The professor's gold-rimmed lenses flashed with wisdom: "If I give you special training, your chances of surviving the night world will definitely increase significantly."

"Don't bother with this big fool."

Dean Yin jumped onto Rust's shoulder and rolled his eyes at the boasting giant ape.

"When he was a professor at Lionheart College, he was a restless fighter. He always made the students suffer in every practical class."

"He became what he is now, and was transferred to the Mystery Tower as a security guard... There are only a few Night Travelers who have the authority to enter the Mystery Tower and the World of the Last Night, and they all have missions to complete, so they don't have time to chat with him."

"After so many years, he must have been bored to death. Every time he catches a newcomer, he uses this practical training as an excuse. To put it bluntly, he just wants someone to keep him company and relieve his boredom."

"Just pretend you didn't hear it."

It turned out to be like this...

Last looked at the huge body emitting a visible aura, and Professor Barbarossa, who was looking down at him with gold-rimmed glasses. He actually read a hint of eager anticipation in the beast's eyes.

It’s like the empty-nest elderly people in the countryside, who watch their younger generations who come back to visit leave after just a few days, and want to keep them but can’t because of face.

"Professor Barbarossa, can I ask you a question?"

Rast thought about it and asked.

"What are the specific uses of your Night Blade?"

"My Nightblade?"

Barbarossa was visibly stunned.

"As a freshman of your level, you are not authorized to ask for information about my Night Blade."

"But after all, he is an outstanding freshman in the academy, so it's normal for him to be a little curious. Let's give that ferret some face."

Barbarossa's voice was majestic, as befitted his status, but his answer was unusually quick, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

"My Night Blade is called "Silent Disqualification". I have developed two abilities so far. The most basic effect is "Withering Stone", which makes all the "supernatural" things that my body touches invalid."

"Of course, this kind of nullification of extraordinary people also has certain limitations. For example, it cannot affect the mind and soul. Another example is that it can only completely nullify and immunize extraordinary people of lower status than oneself."

"But once I face an enemy of my equal or higher rank, I can only disqualify the opponent's extraordinary abilities to a certain extent, reducing their effectiveness."

As if afraid that Last would lose interest, Barbarossa quickly added.

"The second level of ability I developed is the "Lake of Silence". As the name suggests, it can form an external field, making the extraordinary people in the field disqualified and in a state of silence."

"Of course, the external Silence Field will be subject to greater restrictions, and generally it can only be used to bully small fry."

"So, little Rust, you don't have to worry about my level being too high and unable to teach you practical combat skills."

"When I was in Lionheart Academy, the course I was in charge of was military combat techniques. I could also apply the field of silence to myself, suppressing my level to the same level as yours, and serve as your sparring partner."

As if worried that Last didn't believe it, Barbarossa's figure shrank rapidly with a distorted light.

Soon, he changed from his original giant ape appearance of nearly ten meters to his current size that is only slightly taller than a normal person.

But it still looks like a gorilla.

Laster noticed that as Professor Barbarossa shrank, the pair of gold-rimmed glasses he was wearing also shrank along with him.

There is no doubt that this pair of gold-rimmed glasses is also a heraldic ceremonial item.

I just don't know what the effect is.

"Is Professor Barbarossa's Night Blade so special that it disqualifies all the extraordinary ones?"

Listening to the professor's explanation, Rast's heart couldn't help but be moved, and he asked in a moonlit whisper.

"That's right. This reckless man is obviously from the Forest sequence. The long stages of this sequence are mainly for support and logistics. The druid's beast transformation is just a means of saving his life when he is desperate... But Barbarossa's fighting style is no different from that of the Chariot."

"Every time we fought, he would use his druid to transform into a giant beast and go straight into the fight. Anyway, everyone else's extraordinary abilities were "disqualified", and they would most likely not be able to defeat this reckless man with their physical bodies and physical skills."

Having said this, Dean Yin couldn't help but glance at Last suspiciously.

Given this kid's character of never coming to someone for no reason, he is asking so seriously at this moment.

If nothing unexpected happens...

On the other side, looking at his shrunken body, Barbarossa couldn't help feeling a little dejected.

"Silence Disqualified", this Night Blade that can invalidate supernatural powers seems powerful, but it has no effect at all on the distortion of its own soul.

If I go out into the outside world in this state, I will definitely scare a group of people. If I don't find a way to get rid of this, I will probably have to stay in the Secret Tower for the rest of my life.

There was news from the academy that this year's round table leader possessed some kind of rule-based instant-death night blade... When she breaks through the sixth level, perhaps she can use the night blade to "kill" the curse on her soul.

However, Barbarossa did not hold out much hope for this. After all, he had a hunch... that his soul was not simply cursed, but had been completely twisted into an inhuman state.

By then, even if the Round Table leader named Axia really broke through to the sixth level, what she could do would be quite limited. Would she let that little girl directly kill her transformed soul?

In fact, he had already prepared himself mentally to live in this way, but this Mysterious Tower was too boring. Occasionally, people came to visit, but they were in a hurry to look up information or go to the World of the End of Night. There was not even a single person with whom he could chat.

As a professor at Star University, Barbarossa has no students to teach here.

For the sake of confidentiality, all network signals are blocked inside the Secret Tower, and there is not even the opportunity to surf the Internet.

Just then, he heard Rast's words.

"Professor Barbarossa, I am very interested in what you said about practical training."

"Next time before I enter the End Night World, I will come to visit you again and ask you for some practical experience."

The boy's words were sincere, which warmed Barbarossa's heart, who looked like a lonely old man.

Only a certain ferret rolled his eyes at the harmonious and heartwarming scene between the teacher and the student. Judging from the character of Rast, he was probably like Xiao Xia in the past, and fell in love with the Night Blade.

This Night Blade is destined to be with me x2.

……

After a brief conversation with Professor Barbarossa, the two men and one beast entered the archives of the Mystery Tower.

What comes into view are thousands of huge bookshelves made of metal, densely packed together.

The bookshelves are filled with a vast number of ancient books, volumes, as well as confidential files, archives and evidence.

According to the specifications of the Mystery Tower Archives, if one were to search along the bookshelves one by one, one might not be able to find the corresponding files or documents even after three days and three nights of searching.

However, as the Chief Inspector of the Military Department, Ingrid was obviously no stranger to the archives.

She stared at the deep and dark archives in front of her, took off her black silk gloves, and pointed her dark silver prosthetic limbs at the archives.
The next moment, the ethereal ancient Aramaic language came out of Ingrid's mouth, echoing in the air.

This is an ancient language that is not popular in the human world but is widely used in the night world. It is also a compulsory course for every night traveler in the Starry University.

Because of what Dean Yin had reminded him before, Last took extra classes in Ancient Aramaic on his sickbed.

With Rast's control over his mind and memory attic, he managed to memorize the ancient Aramaic vocabulary by cramming in just a few days.

Although he was still quite unfamiliar with grammar and spoken English, by relying on forced memorization, Last still understood the meaning of that long string of syllables that were as elegant as an aria.

[Full database search: all archives and files related to "Canaan"]

[Restricted search conditions: Confidentiality level 9]

In order to prevent the secrets from being leaked, the secret tower blocks all network signals and even has electromagnetic interference specially set up to prevent the use of technological means to copy them.

but--

The extraordinary person who created the Mystery Tower bypassed the computer program and directly wrote and created the corresponding retrieval rules for the archives within the space of the Mystery Tower.

As a result, the search rules established in the space are triggered.

The magic power began to flow slowly, searching, querying, and generating the entire database according to the preset conditions.

The search was completed until the flow of magic power in the archives gradually stagnated.

On the wooden table in front of the three people, two black suitcases with silver metal edging had appeared.

Inside the suitcase, of course, was everything related to Canaan.

Ingrid pointed to the two suitcases on the table and put on the black silk gloves on her right prosthesis again.

Even Dean Yin was tactful enough to find a corner and eat some dried fish.

Dean Yin had listened to Hiltina's account of their entire experience in Deep Blue Harbor, so he naturally knew how much weight the word "Canaan" held in Last's heart.

Last took a deep breath and suppressed his fluctuating emotions.

Then he opened the first portable safe.

Then he saw a brief file.

[At 813:5 a.m. on May 30, 800 in the Xiahua calendar, an extremely huge and violent explosion occurred near the Three Sages Snow Mountain in the northern border of the Western Continent, kilometers away from the main peak of the mountain range.]

[According to a brief account by an eyewitness hundreds of kilometers away, a very large fireball streaked across the sky, as bright as the sun. A few minutes later, a strong light illuminated the sky. Later, all the window glass within 700 kilometers was shattered.]

[According to the confirmation of the dispatched personnel afterwards, the center of the explosion was a border town called "Canaan", which completely disappeared in this extraordinary event.]

[Because the abnormal explosion occurred in the Fares Province of the Holy Kingdom of Farnese, it was also called the "Farewell Explosion" by the authorities. ]

[After the "Fares Explosion", the disaster occurred without any signs and was unexpected, so the authorities of the Holy Kingdom of Faran initially determined it to be the "Dusk Disaster" manifested by the remnants of the disaster in the night world. ]

[However, after sending several night travelers to confirm, this conjecture was rejected. ]

[Before the Fares explosion, there were no unconquered remnants of the disaster in the Western Continent. At the same time, after the subsequent conquest of the Fifth Epoch's Final Remnant, it was confirmed that all twelve Fifth Epoch Night Worlds had been completely conquered, and no undiscovered Fifth Epoch Night Worlds had appeared.]

[Afterwards, after the Holy Kingdom of Faran sent a sixth-order expert to the scene to investigate, the confidentiality of the incident was quickly raised, and the Holy Kingdom of Faran began to implement compulsory secrecy measures, and carried out post-processing and intelligence cleaning.]

[Because the communication technology was not well developed at that time and the communication network had not yet been created, information could only be transmitted through paper media. In addition, the location of the small town of Canaan was extremely remote, with no human habitation within a thousand miles around it, and very few people witnessed it... The impact of the incident was quickly suppressed by the French authorities. ]

[The Granville Empire Military Intelligence Bureau, relying only on spies within the Holy Kingdom of Fran, was able to successfully preserve the information recorded in the file, and thus exposed several Fran informants including a Viscount]

The file ends here.

Luster closed the suitcase.

It is now the 994th year of the Xiahua calendar.

In other words, the "Farewell Explosion" recorded in the archives happened nearly two hundred years ago.

At that time, in the Western Continent, even the prototype of the communication network had not yet sprouted, and the speed of information transmission was extremely slow.

In addition, local officials quickly handled the intelligence and suppressed public opinion.

No wonder even Fanxing University was completely unaware of it. Only an organization specializing in espionage like the Granville Intelligence Agency could obtain clues from its internal informants.

Thinking of this, Rast opened the second suitcase.

The first thing that catches your eye is an old black-and-white photo, which, even though it has been carefully preserved in the archives, is obviously faded.

This is the trace left by nearly two hundred years.

But even so, Last still recognized the scenery depicted by the black and white blocks in the photo——

The rolling mountains, the peaks of which are covered with snow...

That was exactly the scenery he had seen in Canaan. As long as he looked up from anywhere in that town, he could see the mountains with snow-white peaks looming in the distance.

however.

In the layout of the photo, the place that was supposed to be Canaan—

A hillside covered with soft green shades, a lake like a silver mirror at the foot of the hillside, and a quiet town beside the lake...

Everything in this memory no longer exists in that photo.

Instead, there was an extremely huge hole that covered the entire Canaan town in Rast's memory.

The huge hole was bottomless and looked hideous and terrifying.

It was as if someone was holding an eraser and descended from a higher dimension onto the map of the world.

Then, the small town called Canaan and the surrounding world were completely wiped clean with an eraser.

The huge hole and the snow-capped mountains in the distance were both imprinted in the black and white world, filled with an extreme sense of division and disharmony.

Rast just stared blankly at the black and white photo in front of him.

After a long moment, he silently took out the remaining things from the suitcase.

The first thing came from a jar of dust sample that looked like lunar soil and was contained in a glass container wrapped in foam.

There is also a test report issued in conjunction with it.

【After testing the soil samples from the suspected origin of the "Canaan" file, the following conclusions were drawn:】

[The space-time laws of this area were forcibly rewritten and invaded, which in turn caused the space rules to break... and eventually caused the "space-time erosion" and "space-time annihilation" phenomena. ]

[Preliminary judgment, the source of this phenomenon is the end-of-era level dusk disaster, the descent of a true god, or a legend above level 7 using the space-time night blade with all its strength]

(End of this chapter)