Magic, Evil Gods, and the Fourth Calamity

"hehe!"

Upon hearing this, Caesar smiled noncommittally, a smile that didn't seem like something a child should have.

Huang Tian knew that the other party did not believe his explanation, so he did not say anything, but turned to look at Lao Li with curiosity.

"Old Li, how did you know about this game's background? Did you do some research on it beforehand?"

"No, I just looked it up online while fixing the bug reported by the tech team! Wait, boss, the tech department has uploaded another bug!"

Old Li pointed to the air in front of him, looking very busy.

"..."

Huang Tian was speechless for a moment, not knowing where to begin his rant.

Suddenly, he thought of something, then summoned the game panel and displayed it in front of him.

Huang Tian connected directly to Blue Star Network through the game panel and quickly found the official website of his game "Under the Stars" and clicked to download the game.

Because it is a fully immersive virtual reality game, although the game itself is not very large, it would still take more than ten minutes to download in real life using a gigabit network.

Because of the accelerated thinking, it took Huang Tian an hour to download "Under the Stars".

Looking at the login screen for "Under the Stars" that popped up in the game panel, Huang Tian's expression turned somewhat strange.

As he clicked to log in to the game, his mind was instantly caught between two worlds.

While traveling in the game world of "Otherworld Online", one is also piloting a spaceship in the game world of "Under the Stars".

And it seems that because of the accelerated thinking in "Otherworld Online", everything in "Under the Stars" appears to him in slow motion.

"..."

Enduring the slow motion of "Under the Stars," Huang Tian fell into a long silence after starting a random battle.

The five-fold acceleration of his thinking made him move like an uninhabited place in the battle of "Under the Stars," and those game players were no different from bots playing at a slow speed in his eyes.

"Old Li, I've discovered a bug under our starry sky that's seriously affecting the balance of battles."

"Exiting 'Under the Stars'," Huang Tian said to Lao Li, who was focused on fixing bugs beside him.

Old Li cast a questioning look at him.

"What bug?"

"You can open our game in Another World Online, and your accelerated thinking can continue."

"..."

This left Old Li speechless. After a long silence, he finally uttered four words.

"This is unreasonable."

Old Li ultimately couldn't figure out what was going on, nor could he fix this "bug".

Strictly speaking, this doesn't really qualify as a bug.

I logged into the game through "Otherworld Online" without using any external plugins or modifying any data in "Starry Sky".

The other party simply modified their thinking speed through the game "Otherworld Online".

"Boss, how about we contact the official team of 'Another World Online' and report this bug? Let them fix it?"

This is the only method that Lao Li proposed that has any hope of solving this "bug".

"..."

Huang Tian was unsure how to answer, so he remained silent, once again worrying about the future of his game.

After a day and a night, Huang Tian and his two companions finally brought Caesar back to Blackwater City.

Looking at the dilapidated Blackwater City, which seemed to have only recently been built, Caesar's small face showed great disappointment.

Throughout that day and night, he actually harbored a sliver of hope that the God of Light would reappear in the world, and that Huang Tian was a hero from another world who would never die.

But this hope was extinguished when they saw the desolate Blackwater City.

Just when he thought those words were merely words of comfort from the heavens above, Zhang Houtu's lively appearance shocked him greatly.

"Boss, you're finally back! We've been waiting for you for so long!"

Upon seeing Huang Tianzai in the distance, Zhang Houtu shouted and charged towards him, crashing into Huang Tianzai's arms like a wild bull.

Immediately, Huang Tian saw that he had a "rib fracture" debuff, and even his health bar had been reduced by a third.

Healing through holy light.

Huang Tian used a healing spell to erase the injury. Looking at the heartless guy in front of him, Huang Tian couldn't help but smile helplessly.

"He's alive! He's really alive!"

Caesar looked at the lively Zhang Houtu and immediately recognized him as the Valkyrie who had perished alongside the Bronze-level orc.

His brown eyes widened in surprise, then he belatedly looked up at Huang Tian.

Has the God of Light truly returned to the world?

Huang Tian nodded. He didn't actually know the situation either, but that's what the game's background said.

"Then, can you take me to see Him?"

"Well……"

Huang Tian didn't know how to answer, because with this kind of game background, it was hard to say whether the game developers would even create a physical model of it.

"You can try going to the Church of Light and praying to Him."

Just then, a clear and melodious voice, as refreshing as a spring breeze, rang out, causing everyone to turn around and look in the direction of the sound.

She was a blonde girl with blue eyes, wearing a silver-blue dress, like a holy angel descended from heaven, elegant, beautiful and otherworldly.

What a nice view!

Huang Tian was momentarily stunned, then noticed that the other party did not have an ID above their head, realizing that the other party must be an NPC.

However, Huang Tian felt inexplicably familiar with this handsome NPC.

"Where is the Church of Light? Please take me there! Thank you!"

Caesar's tone carried a hint of anxiety, as if meeting the God of Light was a task he had to complete.

"Okay, child, please come with me!"

The young knight spoke and then led Caesar away. Suddenly, however, she remembered something and turned to look at Huang Tian and the others.

Then, with a light tap of her slender finger in the air, Huang Tian received a notification that the contribution points had been credited to his account.

"Warriors, please entrust this child to me. Here's a small token of my gratitude; please accept it!"

[You have received Saintess Irene's gratitude - 1000 contribution points]

"Saintess Irene? Who is this NPC?"

Huang Tian looked bewildered, while the leveling team leader was filled with excitement and couldn't help but exclaim.

"Holy crap, it's the mascot!"

He quickly brought up the favorability system to try and check how much the other person liked him.

[Would you like to consume 10000 contribution points to check this NPC's favorability rating?]

How many?

Ten thousand?

What a fuss!

Is this the status of the mascot girl?

The leveling team leader looked helpless; at this moment, even with all his assets combined, he didn't have enough for 10,000 contribution points!

The waitress...

Oh, Huang Tian suddenly remembered that he had seen this NPC in the promotional CG for the game "Otherworld Online".

Then I thought of my own game, "Under the Stars," and the shipborne AI mascot...

I always feel that my own mascot, apart from having a better figure, can't compare to this one in any way!

What if I can't beat them?

Let's go back and discuss with the design team to see if we can make some improvements to our mascot.