T0 Gaming Guild Saves the World.

Chapter 621. The Legendary Resilient King Makes His Reappearance

During the temporary rest, everyone at the boundary between the virtual and real worlds hastily took out some dry rations and ate a few bites to recover their strength.

Jiang Heyi, in particular, appeared unscathed from the two consecutive battles, but in reality, his mental energy was completely drained.

Maintaining the marks that control the two people also requires constant nourishment of spiritual energy, so he dared not be careless.

Fortunately, Nafiel and Lenalya only felt that he was unfathomable and never thought that Jiang Heyi, who was eating, had already entered a period of weakness.

After taking turns to doze off, half a day passed. Jiang Heyi gazed thoughtfully at the hidden mine tunnel that had reached the 8th floor.

"Never mind." He waved his hand.

The 9th floor of the Temple of the Clarity, the Trial Arena.

This is the largest floor of the Clarity, encompassing the arena, ranch, and living area.

If synchronized with the game's storyline, a major clash between the puppets and the eternal night believers will soon erupt here.

At the point when the group arrived at the boundary between the real and the virtual, the chaos here was mainly caused by the remaining followers of the Clarity and the followers of Eternal Night.

Standing on the elevated platform, they could clearly see the distant residential area's continuous buildings engulfed in flames.

Using the residential buildings as cover, the Chinglers fought and retreated, relying on street fighting to inflict casualties.

Because the main force of Eternal Night had gone ahead, the Eternal Night mages responsible for the encirclement and suppression here were unable to effectively quell the aftershocks of the resistance. Instead, the counterattack of the Clarity Ones gained the upper hand for a time.

Nafiel frowned instinctively.

"It's been almost a day since we broke through the Great Archives, why is this place still not pacified... I'm sorry, Master!"

Realizing that he had taken Eternal Night's perspective, Nafiel quickly apologized.

After Lenalya joined, she didn't want to be like a shrimp, hunched over on the ground, clutching her head and convulsing in pain.

I can be laughed at by anyone, but not her!

The magic circle failed, and the platform's lifting mechanism also lost its power supply, just like in the game.

However, just as the platform was slowly descending due to inertia and gradually approaching the ground, an unusually intense clash of metal and an explosion were clearly heard by everyone, sounding like they were nearby.

Fries glanced at Nafiel.

"Why is there still fighting around here?"

Nafiel looked bewildered, even somewhat aggrieved: "Ask me? How...how would I know?"

She couldn't help but grumble to herself that there were plenty of useless people in the Eternal Night Church, yet they were able to stage such a bizarre drama where they had a huge overall advantage on the battlefield, but were in dire straits on the local battlefields.

The scene in the distance came into view.

Several people dressed in the attire of the Clarity Walkers, covered in blood, were leaning against a section of broken wall, panting.

They were all wounded, breathing rapidly, their faces a mixture of exhaustion, despair, and the determination to fight to the last man; they were clearly completely worn out.

Upon seeing the suddenly descending elevator platform and Jiang Heyi and his group stepping down from it, the remaining soldiers of the Clear Ones were startled. They quickly raised their broken weapons, their eyes filled with vigilance and hostility.

But when their gaze swept over the crowd, they did not find the symbol of the Church of Eternal Night, and they looked at each other in bewilderment.

One of the magicians, who seemed to be the leader, clutched his bleeding abdomen and took a difficult step forward, his voice hoarse and urgent.

"You... don't seem to be from Eternal Night?"

Before he could finish speaking, the angry roar of the Night Mage and the approaching footsteps of pursuers came from afar.

Jiang Heyi quickly explained, "We're here to assist Elsa."

The eyes of the wounded and battered soldiers of the Clear Souls shone brightly, and the light of hope was rekindled in their eyes.

The magician glanced at Jiang Heyi and the others, then at the direction of the pursuers behind him. A fierce struggle flashed in his eyes, which ultimately turned into determination.

"In that case, let's hurry up and leave. There are too many of them; we don't want to get entangled with them!"

As they spoke, a dozen or so people began to ascend the spiral staircase.

The jailer instinctively thought of "deserter".

Jiang Heyi, however, did not think so. He recalled a detail from the game.

Players were traveling from the 8th floor to the 9th floor when the direct passage collapsed violently, severing the connection between the two floors.

"So it was their doing."

From the very beginning, this group of people had no intention of surviving.

They practically fought their way through most of the trial grounds to reach the platform connecting the passageways, all to trap and kill everyone in Eternal Night.

For this reason, they don't mind being shattered to pieces.

The fanatical followers of Eternal Night approached, shouting menacingly.

Nafiel, who had just misspoke, stepped forward and, taking advantage of the other person's momentary daze upon seeing his appearance, unhesitatingly revealed the Eternal Night Badge hidden in his clothes.

Then, a slap left the leader with blood seeping from the corner of his mouth, and another stumbled and fell to the ground.

The leader of the Night Chasers dared not get angry and carefully apologized.

“Let them go after them.” Nafiel thought he had misheard.

The stance on the boundary between reality and illusion has always leaned towards those who are clear-headed. How did it suddenly change?

She was glared at and dared not question it, so she vented her anger on the fanatical believers of Eternal Night who had witnessed the scene.

"Useless! They're all useless! They can't even catch up with a bunch of wounded soldiers, giving them a chance to escape!"

She cursed and swore at her "own people" while trying to please Jiang Heyi.

But upon closer inspection of that face, one could not discern even a trace of satisfaction.

"Boom!"

They hadn't gone far when a deafening roar, shaking the earth, came from the high platform behind them.

Jiang Heyi sighed silently.

Perhaps this is why, even though the Clarity Ones have declined a century in the normal timeline, many still want to revive them.

In contrast, Eternal Night, which relied on extreme gatherings of fanatical believers, was replaced by an even more extreme and fanatical group after a century of iterations, and sank into the abyss with the great waves of the times.

At this time, Elsa had not yet collapsed, and the terrifying polyhedron that dominated had not yet descended with its army of puppets.

Therefore, the biggest problem at the boundary between the virtual and the real is still the group of faceless fanatics in Eternal Night.

As you walk along, there will always be people from the eternal night who, without distinguishing right from wrong, suddenly unleash vicious magical attacks from the shadows or around corners.

Fireballs, shadow bolts, and ice spikes rained down, completely disregarding whether the target was friend or foe.

Jiang Heyi was initially quite puzzled. Not all the remnants of the Clear Ones were wearing standard uniforms. Given Yongye's indiscriminate attack mode of "better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free," how high must their own friendly fire rate be?
Now he understands completely.

He was relieved.

Eternal Night's madness is truly consistent both inside and outside the game.

No wonder that when players first entered the ninth-level living area in the game, they saw not only the corpses of the Clarities, but also a large number of remains of the Eternal Night Believers.

The tragedy of being surrounded by friendly forces was largely due to Yongye's own chaotic command and attack patterns.

The key to speedrunning lies in traversing the map as quickly as possible, utilizing the optimal boss strategies, and minimizing unnecessary combat time.

The boundary between reality and illusion is the best creator of the Clarity Temple strategy guide. At this moment, the strategy content, which is regarded as a classic by the player community, is displayed to the fullest extent.

Along the way, apart from a few foolish Eternal Night idiots who were blind and insisted on rushing up to their deaths and were instantly eliminated, all the miscellaneous soldiers they encountered were ignored.

With the "Swift as the Wind" buff from the orange tea, everyone moved like the wind, skillfully utilizing the terrain and blind spots to traverse the area, quickly finding the hidden passage to the tenth floor.

The 9th layer, judging by its capacity alone, is also a monstrous pit of dung heaps, piled up in terms of quantity and intensity.

Jump whenever you can, that's the right way for players!

They were stopped by the guards of the current floor along the way, but when they saw the two heavyweight guests next to Jiang Heyi, their faces turned pale and they retreated.

“Master,” Lenalya said cautiously before stepping onto the path to the tenth floor, her voice filled with obvious apprehension, “the one guarding the tenth floor is named Gorkaron, and he is a… extremely troublesome great lich.”

"He is extremely skilled in stealth, necromancy, and various instant-death spells. The most troublesome thing is his almost unlimited resurrection ability."

“He has taken a completely different path from us and is not known for his mental magic. My master’s methods... are probably unlikely to have a significant effect on him.”

The two mental mages were quite cautious when discussing Gor'kron, which shows how valuable this great lich was.

"I know."

Seeing his reaction, Lenalasia couldn't help but press, "So, Master, you intend to avoid his core area and go around him? If so, please let me and Nafiel communicate with him. As fellow members of the Eternal Night's high command, it shouldn't be too difficult to temporarily deceive him with some excuses and rhetoric..."

Jiang Heyi shook his head slightly.

"He has the materials we need, so we need to kill him this time."

The 10th floor of the Clarity, the Great Library.

Unlike the cramped scenes in the game filled with bookshelves, this place is so vast that it seems to have no boundaries.

Countless ancient bookshelves floated haphazardly in mid-air and on the ground.

The physical books on the bookshelf shimmered and glowed, adorned with magical symbols.

Yongye emptied most of the books in sight, but preserved the main structure relatively intact—if the player didn't set it on fire while playing, there's a high probability that a quarter of it would remain.

Less than ten seconds after they stepped into this area, the darkness in front of them began to writhe as if it were alive.

A thick, grayish-white mist appeared out of nowhere and quickly condensed into a blurry, ever-changing humanoid silhouette.

As the outline gradually solidified, the pale figure of a man slowly emerged.

The great lich Gorkaron glanced at Nafiel and Lenathia, who was supposed to stay on the 8th smelting floor, with a hint of surprise.

“I can understand why you’re back, Nafiel. But what made you abandon the Smelting Layer and come here?”

"And what's going on with this group of people?"

The legendary, durable king, Gor'kron, remains a mystery.

(End of this chapter)