There's a skeleton dungeon connected to my basement.

Chapter 246, The Silver Branch
The important and continuous information ends here; there are some other fragmented paragraphs to follow.

[Ms. Ryana is truly voluptuous!]

[A sacred artifact has been forged. After so many years, the great Silver Tree has once again produced sacred silver, and the longsword forged from it is truly beautiful.]

I'm going to duel that damned Chief Judge, all for Lady Ryana's sake!

The young men were truly fighting tooth and nail for this Silver Sword, but unfortunately, Chief Monroe refused to bestow it upon them and instead enshrined it in the Silver Chapel.

[Ms. Ryana complains about my speed. Isn't being fast a good thing?]

[Ms. Ryana, without you, my world has become so dark!]

After reading through the content that wasn't deliberately obscured or hidden, Xiao Yang used his expertise as a gamer.

They were very skilled at thoroughly searching through boxes and cabinets.

A letter, hidden in a secret compartment of the desk, appeared before me.

You are like my sun, like my goddess. Without you, I am like the clock tower city that has lost its silver goddess. Ah! How I admire you! If the wind could hear the words of my heart, please let it tell you my feelings! Riana! My Riana!

At first, Xiao Yang thought this would be some important content, after all, it was hidden so well.

It wasn't until Xiao Yang finished reading the contents of the letter that he understood.

He closed the book in silence.

"It's nothing important, just an old man's poetic courtship."

Xiao Yang offered this sharp comment on the letter.

I never expected that you, a rotten commander with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would do this kind of thing in private.

It's a bit too much for my eyes.

Xiao Yang gleaned a great deal of useful information from these words and snippets.

One of the most important questions is whether the longsword forged from a sacred object will be a good means for Xiao Yang to deal with those corrupted roots.
I don't know, but I can give it a try.

"The longsword forged from holy silver was placed in the Silver Church."

Now, a problem arises.

Where is the Silver Church?

As he pondered this question, Xiao Yang's gaze fell on the long table in front of him, and he pushed aside the messy things on the table.

found it!
A map appeared in front of Xiao Yang: a map of Zhongta City.

The hand landed on the map, on its current location.

"The guard tower at the main gate of the clock tower city."

This is Xiao Yang's current location, while the Silver Church is located in the center of the city.

Besides the Silver Church, there are a few other places worth noting in Bell Tower City.

Industrial zone, magic workshop, city library, governor's building, sewer management committee.

The Governor's Building is located almost next to the Silver Church.

With this map, it becomes immediately clear what to do.

The first step is to try to obtain the holy sword.

Given its prestigious name, "Holy Sword," its quality must be quite high, whether it's legendary or mythical.

Although Xiao Yang had become quite adept at using the rusty giant axe recently, it didn't stop him from taking the powerful weapon that had appeared before him into his hands.

Moreover, it is very likely that it has a restraining effect on those corrupted roots.

Dealing with those corrupt roots is a very important thing.

On the surface, these guys were just aimlessly wandering among the corrupt residents, but in reality, they were acting as guardians, controlling Xiao Yang from obtaining the huge sum of wealth that should have belonged to him.

The vast number of corrupted inhabitants and the mushrooms that grow from them are all followers of the evil god. Although they are bland, they are quite worth eating when accumulated.

Xiao Yang's biggest problem in facing this massive dungeon city, Clock Tower City, is that his own strength is insufficient.

Perhaps after devouring all these countless corrupt residents, Xiao Yang will be able to take that step.

As a player, what else is the most important thing to do when you can't beat a monster?

"That's definitely grinding monsters!"

At level 20-something, with the rank of Lord, he indeed had no way to deal with those proper epic enemies.

The problem is easy to solve.

"I'll just become an epic!"

In this situation, obtaining the Holy Sword from the Silver Church becomes very important and should be a priority.

Whatever you want to do, it is necessary to get rid of those roots that are lurking among the densely packed, corrupt inhabitants and hindering your activities.

Put away the Clock Tower City map on the desktop.

Having determined his goal, Xiao Yang had some new ideas about the holy sword, or more precisely, about the materials used to forge it.

"Holy Silver?"

He also had a piece of silver, a piece of pure silver.

Thinking this, Xiao Yang took out the silver he had obtained from the advance rewards from his personal backpack.

A piece of silver appeared in Xiao Yang's hand.

Not much, but it has some weight to it. It's bright silver, rectangular, like a silver brick, and looks rather ordinary.

just.

A piece of silver
Quality: Mythical

Introduction: This is a piece of silver, a piece of ordinary and pure silver.

If it's truly ordinary, then could it be a mythical item?

Could this be the sacred silver?

Xiao Yang is inclined to believe that it is the sacred silver, but he is not certain about this.

But if that's the case, then Xiao Yang felt that he might have already gotten his hands on the key to open the treasure chest.

You don't need to go to the Silver Church; you can start grinding monsters right away. Unfortunately, this isn't certain and some testing is still needed.

He took back the silver ingot.

A bold idea emerged.

He has more than one piece of silver in his hand.

Below the spiral staircase, there is an epic-rank tree blocking the doorway.

For this thorn bush that has only gone mad but has not yet completely decayed, the sacred silver may not have much effect.

But it's not a big problem. It's hard to say whether the silver ingot in his hand is sacred silver, but he has more than one piece of silver.

He also has a piece of corrupted silver here.

With a flick of his wrist, a dull, black silver ingot appeared in his hand. Its shape was almost identical to the previous one, resembling a rectangular brick, only a bit darker.

Contaminated Silver
Quality: Mythical

Introduction: A piece of silver that a certain evil god has gone to great lengths to contaminate. Perhaps this is inextricably linked to its grand plan.

A question arises: would striking the rampaging silver thorns with it be effective?

I held the corroded silver brick in my hand and weighed it. The weight was just right. I swung it around and it felt okay.

"You can try it."

Xiao Yang made this decision.

However, before officially setting off to break the Silver Thorn bricks, there is one last thing to take care of.

"It's time to open the box!"

The box in Commander Vitas's rotting office was an exquisite little wooden box with a silver tree pattern on its surface.

After studying the stone slab hanging high in the room, Xiao Yang determined what the silver tree patterns depicted.

I rubbed my hands together, pushed open the box, and the first thing that caught my eye was a purple light.

There is only one thing.

City Guardian Medal

Quality: Epic

Type: Treasure

Effect: When defending friendly territory, attack is increased by 20.

Introduction: My power comes from what I protect.

The effect is simple, with no additional negative effects, so it's acceptable and worth keeping.

This kind of equipment with no negative effects or bonus attributes is still pretty good, although the City Guardian Medal is limited to friendly territory and only takes effect there.

If you accumulate more of this equipment, you'll see a dense array of constantly lit-up buff names when the battle begins.

If there are enough of them, it can be quite pleasing to the eye.

After opening the box, Xiao Yang looked around the office.

By now, there's nothing of value left here.

Now we can continue with our plan and try to give the Silver Thorns below a good whack.

Doing this is risky; if it doesn't work out, we'll have to start a life-or-death sprint right there.

I can't let this silver thorn actually catch me; I have a feeling that this guy's methods are extremely cruel.

With that in mind, Xiao Yang prepared to turn back.

He had just left the office when suddenly he stopped in his tracks.

He suddenly remembered something that had been overlooked.

He paused, turned around, and his gaze fell on the stone slab in the center of the office room behind him.

Why is the Silver Thorn afraid of this stone slab?

Yes, that point was overlooked. Xiao Yang only found what the Silver Thorn feared, but didn't go any further to think about why it was afraid.

Surely the reason for their fear couldn't be the silver tree pattern depicted on the stone slab.

I have a feeling there might be something hidden in this.

Standing on tiptoe, Xiao Yang reached out his hand towards the stone slab in front of him.

This is a very blasphemous act, reaching out to grab the emblem of the gods.

If the Silver Tree acknowledges the emblem and remains active, then Xiao Yang's action could directly trigger some punishments that appear out of nowhere.

But now, even though Xiao Yang made such a move, nothing happened.

The stone slab was fixed in the center of the room by a metal frame, and it wasn't too troublesome for Xiao Yang to remove it.

He certainly doesn't have much respect for gods, whether they are evil gods or gods.

There's absolutely no pressure doing this. That's true; he's even handled the head of the statue of the Dolorosa. This is nothing compared to what he's done so far.

After removing the stone slab, Xiao Yang did indeed find some unusual discoveries on it.

There was a groove on its back, a groove that looked somewhat familiar.

The item he had just obtained from the box immediately came in handy. Xiao Yang stuck the City Guardian Medal onto the groove on the back of the stone slab.

The mechanism was activated, and the stone slab slowly unfolded, revealing something hidden inside.

A silver splinter, a bare, sharp silver splinter.

This is what Silver Thorns fears.

Even without using the Detection Technique, Xiao Yang had a general idea of ​​what it was, but to be on the safe side, he still cast a Detection Technique.

Such a name appeared.

Silver Branch

(End of this chapter)