He became the White-Haired Evil God after wearing the Seven Curses Rings.

"Really?"

Edward was somewhat surprised.

He never expected that Cecilia's seemingly joking deduction would actually be correct.

Seeing Cecilia's affirmative look, Edward also came to the well.

"There's a buffer formation below; you can jump down without worry."

As Cecilia jumped, Edward followed.

After they jumped, the cushioning array at the bottom quickly and gently caught the two as they were about to land.

After regaining their footing, the two successfully reached the bottom of the well.

Inside the cramped space was a rusty iron door.

"Click"

As Cecilia used the key to open the iron gate, the two saw the scene inside.

A bedroom filled with the smell of decay.

It looks like it has been abandoned for a long time.

Bypassing the dusty clutter and cobwebs, Edward arrived at a bookshelf.

"Hmm, a diary?"

Edward saw the pile of diaries on top.

……

Step Two: Open the hidden door under the well. Inside is a bedroom where you can find a bookshelf filled with the protagonist's diary from the story.

Once you read it all, you'll understand the whole truth and directly gain all twenty-eight achievements. How about that? Isn't it simple?

[Step 3: Finally, according to the diary, find the protagonist's grave, then dig up the tombstone used to suppress it. This will release the protagonist's raging resentment, which is the dungeon boss. Defeat it to clear the level.]

[Alternative Solution: If you don't like this ending, there's actually a way to unlock a better ending.]

That is, to defeat the twenty-eight mini-bosses hidden in the dungeon in a specified order, learn the truth from each of them, and at the same time obtain twenty-eight achievements.

These mini-bosses are powerful undead who were once persecuted by the protagonist. If you defeat them all, you can release your resentment, achieve a good ending, and clear the game directly.

However, this method is extremely troublesome and will not increase the benefits, so I don't really recommend it, unless you are really much kinder than I think and like to take a long way for nothing, then I have nothing to say.

Here is a guide on how to find the twenty-eight mini-bosses.

1. Place thirteen yellow leaves in the center of any intersection, then...

If we disregard the backup plans, this is indeed an extremely simple dungeon guide.

However, after reading it, Xie Bai felt that something was not quite right.

According to the guide, the entire dungeon was created by an extremely strong resentment and has absolutely nothing to do with the Soul Guardian.

The Soul Guardian is more like an outsider who has come to the abandoned village that has become a dungeon and taken on the role of the dungeon guardian.

This parchment, which is referred to as a guide, is also riddled with doubts.

No matter how you look at it, it was written by a player who repeatedly runs the game.

After all, only players can regard a dungeon as an entity with game-like characteristics.

If an NPC in the game is allowed to "clear" the dungeon, then the dungeon is resolved directly at the story level.

It's simply impossible to play it repeatedly.

Thinking about this, Xie Bai couldn't help but start complaining about his own "characteristics".

Originally, if I were to directly transmigrate into the game, I should be considered a native of the game and belong to the NPC category.

However, she also has a player panel, making her a hybrid type that is half player and half NPC.

This unique identity made Xie Bai feel that this world was both a game and reality.

The problem is that this identity determination is really hard to explain.

For example, when entering a dungeon, she is identified as a player and must manually click the entry option.

Then, when clearing a dungeon, the NPCs drive the plot, which makes the dungeon truly and completely cleared.

In short, I encountered a lot of trouble, but didn't enjoy many benefits.

Putting aside the issues of strategy guides and his own characteristics, Xie Bai still decided to follow the strategy guide carefully.

When it came to choosing a strategy, Xie Bai lingered on the word "ending" for a while.

For her, this is also a real, living world.

A world whose ending cannot be changed.

"A happy ending...that's a bit troublesome..."

……

After reading through all the diaries, Edward and Cecilia learned some truths but found no further clues.

Instead, we wasted a lot of time here.

Finally, they found a stack of well-preserved alchemical research manuscripts behind the bookshelf.

That's what makes it worthwhile.

After climbing out of the well, Cecilia was the first to ask a question.

"Do you think we've gone in the wrong direction? The most dangerous thing here is just a stack of failed research manuscripts; it doesn't pose any real danger."

Edward sensed something was wrong after hearing Cecilia's question.

"This village certainly doesn't possess the power to destroy an empire. Could it be that something beyond its control exists within this village?"

With that thought in mind, Edward looked back at the research manuscript in his hand.

[Singularity Technology Research]

By compressing energy to its extreme through specific methods, a qualitative change is achieved, thus forming a special energy body.

That is, the singularity.

The singularity is indestructible. If it is incorporated into alchemy, the original alchemical products can also possess indestructibility.

However, the indestructible nature of the singularity involves the realm of God.

Based on Edward's speculation about the diary, the story takes place at least 30 million years ago.

At that time, the mainland had not yet escaped the rule of the gods, and churches were everywhere.

This alchemist who studied the singularity was also a member of the resistance.

During one of their escapes from the church, they fled into this village.

This alchemist had helped the village survive the church's massacre and led the village on the path of resistance.

Unfortunately, tempted by the church's profits, the alchemist was eventually betrayed by the village and fell into the church's hands.

The consequences were self-evident.

The last entry in the diary is somewhat vague, but it seems to say that the alchemist was tempted by an evil god.

They cursed the village and all the church troops stationed around it to death, forbidding even their souls from leaving the village.

After thinking for a long time, Edward still couldn't find anything he had overlooked.

Just as Edward was about to pick up the manuscript and study what this singularity technology was all about.

Cecilia, who was lying on the ground, suddenly raised her head.

"Perhaps there are other people who shouldn't have come, who have come to this village to cause trouble, maybe even members of the Chaos Cult."

Edward was somewhat puzzled when he heard Cecilia's guess.

"How did you suddenly guess in such detail?"

Cecilia pointed to the distance.

"Hey, don't you think that big, charcoal-faced guy fighting looks a lot like a Chaos cultist?"

Edward: "Huh?"

Suddenly, a huge figure crashed down.

Cecilia reacted quickly, getting up and kicking Edward away before leaping to a distance.

"Bang--!"

As the smoke and dust cleared, the two were able to see the enormous figure clearly.

He was a gray horse rider who was five meters tall, including his horse.

Edward was somewhat surprised to see the other person's presence.

"Is this definitely located within this village?"

The art style is rather abrupt.

Before Edward could even confirm the situation, an even more surprised figure emerged from the scattered dust.

"It seems you're not as scary as I thought."

Edward recognized who it was.

It was the "big black charcoal" that Cecilia mentioned.

Alternatively, you can address the other person by their first name.

Julius.

After the gray horse knight got up again, he looked angrily at Julius.

"You despicable intruder, the souls here are not for you to tamper with. To punish you, I will cast you into a prison of eternal restlessness!"

Having said that, the gray horse knight was engulfed in gray flames and raised his giant spear at Julius.

In the face of the Gray Horse Knight's threat, Julius spoke calmly.

"You are clearly an outsider as well, yet you insist on staying here, suppressing so many souls. This is not the job you should be doing."

Julius's words were very clear.

It means accusing the other party of doing everything in vain and meaningless.

Then Julius looked at the giant spear in the gray horse knight's hand.

"However, I didn't expect you to have a divine artifact. It's a pity that beings below the demigod level cannot use such powerful energy."

As he spoke, Julius raised the heavy black sword in his hand.

Beneath the black mask, a faint sense of oppression emanated.

"Soul Guardian... no... Grey Horse Knight, you are not yet qualified to use this power that does not belong to you."

Julius pointed his black greatsword at his opponent.

"You are not worthy to mention death in my presence."