Just became an evil god and was summoned by the saint.

Chapter 740 What a tragic woman!
Inside the streetlight, Celia and the others sat in a circle with Amo.

This place seemed to be the only pure land in the ruins. After they entered, the menacing demons outside disappeared, and the surroundings fell into silence.

Meanwhile, the blood that was slowly covering the entire city was also slowly receding.

"Now you can tell me, what happened to you that day?"

The girls looked at Aimo.

Aimo looked much older than Celia and the others, at least in her thirties. Although she didn't have wrinkles yet, since supernatural power could extend a sorcerer's lifespan and improve their physique, her face was full of vicissitudes, as if she had seen through the world's splendor.

She sighed and said, "A few days ago, just like you, after entering the second stage, facing countless monsters and distant horses, we chose to step onto the chains and charge over there to see what was on the other side."

“We also encountered a situation similar to yours, but instead of blood, the entire ruins were decaying, and the decaying power was slowly spreading throughout the ruins along with the number of monsters we killed.”

"The speed of the spread will accelerate as we get closer to the three horses. By the time we reach the three horses, the decaying power will have enveloped the entire ruins. The moment we step onto the saddle, the ruins behind us will immediately collapse, and all the cities and the three chains will be destroyed."

"The three horses, which seemed to be just statues, also awoke as their chains broke. They ran wild like untamed horses on a sea filled with mist."

“We thought we had found a way to enter the third stage, but in fact, we hadn’t. After galloping for a while, the three horses turned around and crashed into the collapsing ruins, throwing us all onto the ruins.”

"Then, the three horses suddenly shrank to only a few dozen meters tall. They started attacking us. They were very powerful. Even though everyone in our team was a fourth-tier mage, it was difficult for us to resist them."

“We decided to retreat. However, just when I thought we would work together to hold off the three horses and use our teleportation badges to leave during the lull in the attack, the captain suddenly pushed me into the path of the charging horses. I was hit head-on by one of the horses and could only watch them leave.”

Celia and Benovia exchanged glances.

To be honest, they were a little surprised by Aimo's experience, but they also felt it made sense.

I have a question.

“Miss Aimo, I remember that no matter how varied the trials were in the first stage, the ironclad rule of the team being of one mind could not be escaped. You passed the first stage with one mind, so why did such an incomprehensible thing happen in the second stage?” Doris asked directly.

Aimo gave a wry smile: "Actually... I didn't go through the first stage."

"what?"

The girls paused for a moment, then immediately realized what was going on.

"That's right. This ruin is very peculiar. As long as one person in the team enters the second stage, and the other teammates who come in the second time have not entered the ruin before, the rest of them will skip the first stage. Therefore, our team is not composed of the five people who work together to pass the first stage, but rather the five people who each lead five teams in to explore at the same time."

Celia and the others nodded, indicating that they understood.

There are three types of expeditions to this ruin. The first type consists of those still working through the first stage; the second type consists of the original team from the first stage who continue to work through the second stage; and the third type, like Aimo, is led by someone who has completed the first stage and skips directly to explore the second stage. Of course, if the person who completed the first stage is not present when they return next time, the remaining members will start from the first stage again.

This exploration method is not unreasonable. It can skip the first stage, which has a very low success rate, and allow more people to explore the way to pass the second stage, thereby unlocking the secrets of this ruin.

However, no one has completed the game yet.

As for Aimo, he is the only variable so far.

Her teammates abandoned her there and left, telling others that she had died while fighting the boss.

"And then? Miss Aymo, how did you escape from the attack of those three horses, and why did the ruins return to their original state?" Benovia asked.

"After they left, I thought I was really going to die here, but for some reason, the three horses suddenly stopped attacking me, and the entire ruins changed. Everything began to be reshaped and eventually returned to its original state."

Aimo clearly didn't know what had happened either. She looked outside and said, "I thought that I had survived a disaster and that good fortune would surely follow, and that I could leave smoothly. But after I activated the teleportation badge, I found that I couldn't leave. The teleportation badge had no effect, and I'm trapped here."

"Can you see any other expeditions that have come in?" Doris asked.

Aimo said, "You are the first expedition team I have seen in the past few days. At first, I was just observing you from the shadows and did not intend to interfere, as I was worried that you would be of harm to me. But when I saw that you wanted to follow our old path, I... couldn't help but remind you."

She sighed and shook her head. "Maybe that's why I was pushed out by the others to stop the monsters."

Doris asked, "Why is Miss Amore here? And how did you discover that this streetlight can prevent monsters from attacking?"

"This is where I stood after the ruins world was restored. I left, but I found that after I left, those monsters would emerge, and the stench of decay would appear with the death of the monsters. Only by returning here will the stench of decay subside, just like you see the blood recede."

Celia looked down at the viewing plaza, where the bloodstains had mostly faded, revealing the original massive stone pavement.

This ruin is like shrinking them by dozens of times, or rather, enlarging everything by dozens of times. If it were in normal proportion, it would be an ordinary human city, only its shape is different from the style of cities in other countries.

"So you've been staying here these past few days?"

"Of course not. I'm trapped here and don't have much food. I have to find a way to get out of here no matter what. As an explorer, I'm not one to sit and wait to die. I've done some exploration these past few days, but I haven't found anything."

Isn't that no different from sitting and waiting to die?
Celia muttered to herself.

Doris continued to question Aymo, while she looked at Ross and asked, "Lord Ross, was the reconstruction of ruins that Miss Aymo encountered a mirror world in the warp, or something else? Like a dream world or something?"

"This is a dream world."

(End of this chapter)