Night World Players

Chapter 94: "The Destroyer" Rast and "The Queen of the Underworld" Axia (7K)

The faint and misty night that lingered before my eyes gradually dissipated.

Even the perception of self is recovering little by little.

Rast opened his eyes and saw a small wooden house in front of him. The interior decoration was not luxurious, but it looked quite clean and bright.

The windows were open and the air was fresh.

The moist sea breeze blew in my face, and the curtains swayed slightly.

The sea can be vaguely seen through the window. The sea water hits the rocks and breaks into tiny waves. The sound of the tide seems to echo between heaven and earth.

Rast looked up and saw the eye-catching spire outside the window.

And at the top of the spire, there is a silver wing emblem with two pure white wings that completely covers the coastline.

Last was very familiar with the meaning of this winged emblem.

In the last disaster reverberation of Frozen Water Town, he and Hiltina had fought while wearing such wing emblems.

But compared with the badges he had worn before, the winged emblem on the spire appeared more delicate and majestic... The silver-white wings stretched out, as if blocking out the sunlight.

"The Man Watching the Coast"

This is the symbol of the shore keeper.

Correspondingly, the location where Rast was at the moment, and the name of the spire with the huge wing emblem carved on it, were naturally revealed...

"Watchtower"

It is also the headquarters of the Shore Watchers organization, located on the Broken Coast.

To use Grey's words from the previous historical reverberation...

This is where the most powerful person in the world is stationed, and it is also the safest place in the world.

【Identity Background Introduction:
Rast, a name buried by time and forgotten by the years.

You once walked the Deep Blue Harbor at the end of the Golden Age, among the sadistic beasts known as the Iron Cross.

You also once strolled in an unknown town shrouded in fog, shattering the girl's illusory dream.

At this moment, you are just an ordinary shore watcher in the "Watchtower"... However, it seems that someone has vaguely discovered your past and wants to entrust you with an important task.

This is a turning point in the times, and also the prelude to a grand event that will change the entire course of history.

[The current historical reverberation category is "Epochal reverberation", with no rank restrictions]

[Mission Objective: As a member of the epic, experience this history completely and survive to the end]

[Tip: There is no fixed time limit for completing the mission in this reverberation, and you cannot leave the night world after the time limit ends.]

[Tip: After experiencing this historical event in its entirety, the Night Traveler will be able to freely choose to escape from the historical remnants or continue to stay.]

[Tip: Night World quest rewards will be issued based on the Night Traveler's importance, participation, specific resume, and other comprehensive performance in that period of history]

[Hint: Night Traveler obtains a legitimate identity in the remnants of history and is proficient in the basic common language of this world]

The information reappeared in my mind.

Looking at the lines of azure background information from the night world, Last fell into deep thought.

There is no doubt that compared with the two historical remnants he had experienced before, this era's remnant, both in terms of map scale and the grandeur of the background plot, has leapt several levels.

After all, when Last was in Deep Blue Harbor before, apart from the evil god who was a pure background board and was killed directly as soon as he arrived... the strongest person he encountered was just a mutant like the Iron Cross leader Langley who had awakened special abilities.

According to the current world's classification of the levels of extraordinary people, even if it was a complete form of Langley that devoured other Iron Cross mutants and turned their special abilities into its own, it would at most be at the third or fourth level.

The reason why he and Hiltina were in such a miserable state was simply because the number of the other side was too exaggerated. They were chased by the Iron Cross of an entire city.

Not to mention Dongshui Town, the final enemy is actually just an activated Zhuyue pollutant.

Although the ability to control puppets and weave dreams is a bit strange and difficult... its actual rank is not that high, as can be seen from the fact that the remnant of the disaster restricts night travelers below the third rank from entering.

If not for this, Last would not have been able to defeat the activated pollutant core by himself.

But this time it was completely different.

Previously, it was limited to a city or a town, but this time, the Echo of the Era was his only spawn point, and he was directly spawned at the Watchtower, the headquarters of the Shore Watchers organization.

Last had already heard of the reputation of the leader of the shore guards from various places.

Perhaps he is the strongest person in the order camp in this era.

According to the well-known law that Gou planned when designing the game dungeon: "The stronger the friendly NPC, the stronger the corresponding enemy BOSS will be."

In addition, the name of this epoch is "The Prologue of the Legendary War".

Legendary Battle.

As the name suggests, only if both warring parties are legends are qualified to be named like this.

"It seems that this time I will have the opportunity to see an incredible grand scene."

Luster let out a breath.

Fortunately, what he is in now is just the "prologue".

Since it is just a prelude, it means that we are still only in the stage of planning among all parties and undercurrents are surging. The real war should not break out directly in this historical remnant.

Otherwise, with his small body that is only one step away from the third level, if he was really involved in such a war, even if he was evaporated by the aftermath, no one would know.

Of course, encountering such a big scene was actually within Last's expectations.

After all, this is the characteristic of "Era Reverberation", compared to "Disaster Reverberation" and other ordinary historical reverberations.

According to Professor Barbarossa, the historical background of the Echoes of the Era are all major events that have become turning points in the history of an era.

In the Reverberations of the Era, the Night Traveler is generally no longer able to play the role of the sole protagonist in the background story as he can in other historical Reverbs.

In most cases, the Night Traveler in the Echoes of the Era is just an insignificant supporting role in the epic story, an ordinary member who goes with the flow of the times...

The real protagonists are still the great figures in history.

Of course, changing from the protagonist of the story to a supporting role is not a bad thing for most night travelers.

As the saying goes, when the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up. At least their survival rate is greatly improved.

"Be a part of this epic, experience this history completely, and survive to the end"

This level passing requirement is very difficult to say, but it is also very simple to say.

After all, if you don't care about the rewards for the night world's missions, but simply want to survive... you only need to take advantage of the fierce battles among others, idle away on the edge of the battlefield, and throw two shurikens from a distance of eight hundred miles, which can actually be regarded as "experiencing this history completely."

Of course, compared to these.

What really concerned Rast was the following few lines of text, which contained information about his own identity.

and also--

"Gray"

"According to the conjecture of Starry University, the echoes of the night world experienced by the night travelers are completely independent copies and reflections."

"No matter what is done in it, even if it is changed, it should have nothing to do with the real history."

"But, if that's the case..."

"Why does the name Gray appear?"

The girl in Dongshui Town who possesses the long step of the "Destiny" sequence is a real person in history.

Even if she had not met Rast, according to the original historical trajectory, she might have been rescued by other shore guards, or by chance, she might have walked out of the endless dream of Frozen Water Town on her own.

It would not be surprising if in the future you pass the assessment of the Shore Keeper organization and become a member of the Shore Keeper.

But if so—

Her name should be Xiaohui, not "Gray".

Grey, this is the transliteration of "Grey" by Last based on the language of his previous life... It is the name that Last himself gave to the nameless girl.

It cannot be explained by coincidence.

"That is to say..."

"In the remnants of the era, are my past experiences in the night world still preserved?"

This was something Last had never anticipated.

After all, the relationships between characters are automatically generated by the night world based on my past experiences.

Or……

The night world is not just a copy of past history.

Last couldn't help but think of the inherent skill "Origin of Destiny" in the Fool's Library, whose specific effect he had never figured out.

Tuk-tuk-tuk——

There was a knock on the door, but it soon stopped.

"Laster, there are instructions coming from the watchtower."

As if aware that Rast was in the room, a voice came directly from outside the door.

"The leader said he wanted to see you."

leader?

The leader of the Shore Watchers, the one who is suspected to be a legend?
Last couldn't help but think of the sentence in the background introduction.

[It seems that someone has vaguely noticed your past and wants to entrust you with an important task]

So, the one who wants to entrust me with an important task is him?

Rast's mind raced as he opened the door.

Then, he nodded to the shore guard outside the door who was also wearing a wing emblem.

"I understand. Lead the way."

……

It is different from the Mystery Tower, which is a tall tower with extremely black as its main color.

As the headquarters of the Shore Watchers, the Watchtower is pure white, just like the silver-white wing emblem.

Rast followed the guide and climbed up the pure white tower.

Intelligence library, weapons library, storage library of extraordinary materials...

Training grounds, combat command rooms, offices of top management...

There were a lot of people coming and going in the watchtower. They all had similar looks, wearing white windbreakers and wing emblems, coming and going in the pure white tower.

In a trance, Last felt as if he had returned to the Starry University.

The people coming and going in front of me are either busy with training, or discussing intelligence, or are shore guards who have just received a mission and are preparing to go on a long journey... They overlap with the figures of the night travelers in the academy and are somewhat similar.

The guide paused in front of a heavy wooden door and gestured.

However, just as the guide was about to leave quietly, he heard Rast's voice: "By the way, by the way, what year of the Cataclysm is this year?"

The shore guard was visibly stunned.

Obviously, he did not expect that his colleague in front of him would be so confused that he couldn't even remember what year and month it was.

He glanced at Lust, then turned and went downstairs: "Year 103 of the Cataclysm."

The catastrophe lasted 103 years.

In other words, has it been another seven or eight years since the incident in Dongshui Town?

So, if the Gray mentioned in the background introduction is really the one in my memory.

Then the timid, animal-like little gray-haired girl in Dongshui Town...

Now, it’s time to grow up.

With such thoughts flashing through his mind, Rast pushed open the wooden door in front of him.

The space behind the wooden door looks like a church.

A gray-haired man in a linen shirt stood in the church, looking at the endless blue sea outside the window, with mist wafting from the pipe in his hand.

Time has left deep marks on his face, but the lines are still strong, and the silver-gray eyes staring at the sea are dancing with light.

Cecil, the current leader of the Shore Watchers.

He looked to be in his fifties, with the demeanor of a majestic lion...but Rast could clearly feel that he was very old, much older than what he looked.

This was a judgment made by Rast, who had worn countless personality masks, based on an almost instinctive intuition.

The appearance of a man in his fifties, at the end of his prime, is just a disguise, a mask he wears. Because only with this attitude can he maintain the dignity and stability of an organization leader, while not letting his subordinates feel old-fashioned and still be inspired by his passion and ambition.

But from beneath the mask, one can see the interior that looks like rotten wood, as if one can see the vicissitudes and waves of history, an unprecedented antiquity.

Until this moment, Rast confirmed——

This is a legend.

Beyond the sixth level, an undoubted legend.

"leader."

Luster spoke softly.

He saw Cecil turned around and smiled at him.

"My guess was correct. I sensed the aura of a fellow immortal from you."

"More than a hundred years ago in Deep Blue Harbor, he single-handedly stopped the descent of God, and forcibly delayed the outbreak of the Iron Cross Plague and even the first year of the Cataclysm by half a year."

"In Frozen Water Town, you and your companions destroyed the activated Vermillion Moon Pollutant."

"Such a glorious legacy was left behind in the past..."

"But if it weren't for the new member of the organization, the little girl named Gray who possessed the "Destiny" sequence, who repeatedly asked for your information, I used my prophetic power to investigate you out of curiosity..."

"I really didn't realize before that there is a person like you hidden in the organization."

really.

His past experiences in the night world, including Deep Blue Harbor, have become real history that happened in this world.

It is said that he delayed the outbreak of the Iron Cross Plague by half a year... In other words, half a year later, the Iron Cross Plague, including the evil god, finally arrived.

But this is not difficult to understand.

After all, since the evil god behind the Iron Ten subtitles can create one coincidence, he can definitely create a second and a third coincidence.

He and Hiltina could only delay or change the short-term trend, but could not truly rewrite the course of history.

And since the leader of the shore guards, Cecil, said so.

Does that mean that in his eyes, I am also an immortal who has lived from before the catastrophe to today, and has experienced a hundred years of time?
Thinking of this, Rast sighed helplessly.

"Even so, my sequence level is quite special, and I still can't find a corresponding way to advance."

"Even though I have lived from the golden age before the cataclysm to today, my rank has always been stagnant at the second level, and it is difficult to advance even a little bit."

"With such strength, what one can do in today's chaotic world can only be described as negligible."

This was the excuse he came up with in a flash.

The Sixth Epoch did not have a path of advancement like the current night world. The extraordinary people could only rely on the inheritance of knowledge to awaken their own sequence levels.

And because they cannot find the corresponding knowledge and cannot find a way to advance...it is common in this era for people like Dean Yin to be trapped in a certain level for their entire lives.

"The "Tower" sequence——"

Cecil pondered for a moment, but seemed to understand Rast's sequence in an instant.

"This sequence is indeed extremely rare."

"However, among all the previous shore guards, there happened to be one from the High Tower Sequence."

"If it's just the knowledge to advance from level three to level five... then I can give it to you."

"I will copy it out later, and you can go directly to the library to pick up a copy."

Is it that easy?
Although it was only the advancement knowledge from level three to level five, it meant that Rast no longer had to rely on a promotion mission that only happened once in the Night World.

He only needs to accumulate enough knowledge to meet the corresponding requirements to complete the promotion.

The tower is a long sequence of steps that focuses on the spiritual realm.

When it comes to accumulation in the spiritual realm, Last has already reached an extremely profound level during his three hundred years in Deep Blue Harbor.

After acquiring the extraordinary knowledge of the Tower Sequence, his strength will usher in a period of explosive growth.

but……

After giving out the reward——

Correspondingly, the "entrusted with an important task" in the background description should be coming soon, right?
As soon as such a thought arose.

The next moment, the voice of the shore guardian leader Cecil sounded again.

"Lassiter, have you ever heard of Paradise?"

"paradise"?
Luster thought about it.

Before he entered the Echoes of the Era, he had deliberately reviewed all the information about the Sixth Era in the Mysterious Tower.

Because the Night Travelers are still in the initial stages of exploring the Sixth Age, the specific details of each historical stage are extremely incomplete.

Including the 103rd year of the Cataclysm Calendar where he is now, which is the most cutting-edge timeline of the Mystery Tower's intelligence.

103 years after the Cataclysm, until the end of the Sixth Era, all Night Travelers knew nothing about what happened in between, and everything was in a complete black box state.

However, the word "Paradise" was right there in the information that Last had collected.

"heard about it."

Luster nodded.

"It is said that it is a peaceful and happy kingdom in the northern part of the continent, where the people can live and work in peace and contentment, forming their own world, completely free from interference from the outside world..."

"Whether it's the Iron Cross, the evil god, or the activated pollutants, the beast tide has been blocked outside the borders in some inexplicable way and cannot invade."

"Therefore, countless people who were forced to flee their homes by disasters such as the Beast Tide and the Iron Cross are extremely eager to enter the country called "Paradise". "

However, just repeating the contents of the intelligence made Last frown slightly.

It is because the description of "Paradise" in that record is too beautiful.

To the point that it seems too illusory and unrealistic.

Moreover, if we could really create a pure land on a continent that is now full of disasters, where even the evil gods cannot invade...

Then the civilization of the Sixth Age will probably not come to an end like this.

"Although from the surface, it is indeed an ideal pure land that protects the people from pollution, beast tides, evil gods, and the Iron Cross, isolated from the world."

"But in fact, that is clearly the underworld, the underworld of the dead..."

"And those so-called people who live happily and peacefully in paradise are, in the final analysis, clearly dead bodies that have been beautifully preserved—"

""specimen"."

Cecil's old voice dissipated in the sea breeze by the window.

"More importantly, the core that allowed this underworld to be born... the relic from the 'God of Death', has been targeted by the 'Gravekeeper'."

He turned and looked at Luster.

The old voice became quite solemn, and it sounded more like a sincere plea than an order from a leader to his subordinates.

"Lassiter, I have a request."

"I hope you can lead a group of shore guards into Paradise, and as a destroyer of the nation, kill the mistress of the underworld, the queen of the underworld... collapse Paradise, and free those dead who have become specimens from the underworld."

"And find a way to take away from her the relic of the god of death, the core that sustains the existence of the underworld."

"Ultimately, I used this as leverage to contact the Gravekeepers and infiltrate them as a spy."

……

The Mysterious Tower, next to the Epochal Tombstone that connects to the World of Final Night.

In front of Ophelia, the light curtain that was originally distorted and difficult to see clearly suddenly paused.

Then, ripples spread out in circles.

Finally, it materializes into a clearly visible image.

Dean Yin's spirits were also lifted.

After waiting for so long, is there finally a movie to watch?
certainly--

Even if Axia entered the Echoes of the Era, she still needed to follow the guidance of the doll and find a way to reunite with Last.

In the game's ring-running tasks, this is the most boring and tedious, the running time of the "deliver XX's letter to XXX in XX city" template.

I guess there's nothing fun or interesting to see.

As soon as such a thought arose.

The next moment, Dean Yin's gaze couldn't help but freeze.

Even Ophelia's delicate brows frowned slightly.

What materialized from the light curtain was a magnificent palace.

This palace seems to be located in the center of a royal city. Through the marble columns on all four sides, one can see the endless, rolling scenery of the city.

But there was no sign of life inside this palace with towering marble columns.

The empty hall was shrouded in the deep dusk, looking desolate and gloomy.

In the very center of the hall is a silver-white throne that seems to be made of ice.

Sitting on the ice-blue throne was a woman with waist-length pale blue hair.

She had a slender figure and a delicate, flawless white face, just like Axia's.

At this moment, the graceful figure suddenly opened her eyes.

Those beautiful dark purple eyes drooped slightly and fell on her white fingers.

Then--

Without any warning, a small clay doll appeared silently in her hands.

Looking at the clay doll with black hair, black eyes, and a black windbreaker...

The beautiful figure on the throne, with a pair of dark purple eyes that were originally as indifferent as ice and snow, suddenly a hint of inexplicable curiosity arose.

……

"Throne? King of a country?"

Ophelia looked at the scene on the light screen, and a hint of surprise also flashed in her eyes.

"So it's possible that the Night Traveler had such an outrageous initial identity in the remnants of history?"

The Night World does provide a rationalized initial identity in the remnants of history based on the strength of the Night Traveler.

But that is just an extra feature to make it easier for night travelers to move around in the night world, mainly to prevent them from being caught as illegal residents by the police on the spot just because they do not have an ID card in some prosperous and civilized era.

Even the legendary Night Traveler recorded in history could not have such an exaggerated initial identity.

And Axia is clearly only at level five.

"Do not……"

Dean Yin was staring at the girl with long ice-blue hair on the light screen.

At this moment, she was sitting on the throne, playing with the doll in her hand curiously, sometimes pinching its face, sometimes fiddling with the clothes of the clay doll.

The pair of shoeless feet were swinging freely in the air.

The girl on the throne is exactly the same as Axia in appearance, aura, hair color and eye color.

but--

"She's not Xiao Xia."

“Although they look similar in every way, there are still some differences.”

Dean Yin spoke seriously, making a judgment based on his countless experiences of eating for free.

At the same time, lines of text appeared silently on the light curtain inside the Mystery Tower.

[The current historical reverberation category is "Epochal reverberation", with no rank restrictions]

[Due to the uniqueness of destiny, the night world missions have changed and automatic matching has been performed]

[Mission Objective: As the Lord of Paradise and the Queen of the Underworld, fully experience the epic story of this period of history.]

……

PS: The update is a bit late. I originally wanted to write 8k in one go to make up for the overdue update due to yesterday's leave, but I only wrote 7k. There is still one thousand left to make up tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)