Arc 22The Glory Secret Realm

Anvis joined Prince Lanno’s expedition into the Glory Secret Realm, where the Star Praise Sect’s ritual threatened the explorers and the Empire. After discovering a Silver Obelisk tied to a spacetime anchor, Anvis alerted the outside world while Aranis tried to reach him inside the besieged Tower of Oblivion.

  • Prince Lanno invited Anvis to explore the Glory Secret Realm, and Duke Carlot granted Anvis a family exploration slot and permission to choose three companions.
  • Anvis chose Xia Ye Ying Huo, the Last Dragonborn, and Olbins, then brought them into the Radiant Ruins, where the Last Dragonborn began livestreaming their expedition.
  • Anvis rescued the Last Dragonborn from rock monsters, reunited with Olbins, and learned that cultists were disguising themselves as explorers and attacking nobles throughout the realm.
  • Anvis and Lanno’s group discovered a Mithril Key tied to the Tower of Oblivion, but a disguised attacker named Anvis as the Godblasphemer before disintegrating into ash.
  • The Star Praise Sect’s ritual began contracting the realm’s sky, and Anvis’s group entered the Tower of Oblivion while other explorers formed an alliance against the cultists.
  • Anvis reached the tower’s summit with Lanno and Olbins, where Hill’s projection gave him a Silver Obelisk that merged with him and warned that others were seeking it.
  • Anvis revealed the cultists’ infiltration on the Last Dragonborn’s livestream and asked viewers to alert the Empire, while the Empire began locating the secret realm.
  • Anvis learned that the Obelisk could enable time reversal at a price, as Aranis infiltrated the tower seeking him and the cultists attacked it with a massive meteor.
Chapters 529–553 Vol. 6 Read

Ch. 529Prince Lanno's News

Prince Lanno secretly visited Anvis and invited him to join his faction for the upcoming opening of the Glory Secret Realm. Anvis questioned the timing after Lanno revealed the realm would open in five days.

  • Lanno arrived at Anvis's residence and discussed how his brothers' forces monitored his movements.
  • Lanno argued that he and Anvis were alike in hiding their ambitions amid noble struggles.
  • Lanno placed a gray-black Stone Tablet Fragment on the table and invited Anvis to join his faction's exploration of the Glory Secret Realm.
  • Anvis questioned Lanno's claim that the realm would open in five days, since it was not yet Icy Moon Month.

Ch. 530Glory Secret Realm

Anvis learned that the Glory Secret Realm would open in five days and asked Duke Carlot for permission to explore it. Duke Carlot granted him a slot, and Anvis was left with four days to choose three companions, while pursuing the secret realm's connection to the Civilization of Stars.

  • Prince Lanno gave Anvis a Stone Tablet Fragment that would let them appear near each other in the Glory Secret Realm.
  • Anvis contacted Duke Carlot and asked whether the family knew the secret realm would open in five days.
  • Duke Carlot confirmed the news and granted Anvis one of the family's exploration slots.
  • Duke Carlot gave Anvis four days to choose three companions from his subordinates.
  • Anvis considered that the Civilization of Stars had created the Glory Secret Realm.

Ch. 531Invitation

Anvis prepared for the upcoming opening of the Glory Secret Realm and invited Xia Ye Ying Huo to join his expedition without taking a share of her spoils. As the other families learned of the opening, they began rushing to recruit their own companions.

  • Anvis found that the Stellar Disk had accumulated enough power of fate and decided to bring it to the Glory Secret Realm.
  • Anvis chose Xia Ye Ying Huo, the Last Dragonborn, and Olbins as his planned companions for the expedition.
  • Anvis invited Xia Ye Ying Huo to explore the Secret Realm with him, and she eagerly accepted.
  • Xia Ye Ying Huo realized she had lost track of the cat she had been chasing, and Lona returned with it.
  • Prince Lanno informed Anvis of the impending opening, and the other families hurried to invite talented companions once they learned the news.

Ch. 532System Livestream

Prince Lanno recruited allies while Anvis prepared to enter the Glory Secret Realm with the Last Dragonborn and Xia Ye Ying Huo. Anvis agreed to let the Last Dragonborn livestream the expedition, intending to use the broadcast to attract Players and test whether it could influence the Continental Web of Fate.

  • Prince Lanno recruited several obscure academy talents as his royal brothers competed to draw promising students away from him.
  • Anvis discovered that three members of Prince Lanno's group belonged to the emerging Magic Construct school.
  • Prince Lanno questioned Anvis's decision to give two Outsiders precious exploration slots, but stopped trying to guess Anvis's motives.
  • The academy transported the qualified students and their companions to the Glory Secret Realm aboard a Floating Ship, where Anvis gave the Last Dragonborn and Xia Ye Ying Huo their team Stone Tablet and temporary Identity Plates.
  • The Last Dragonborn asked Anvis for permission to livestream the expedition, and Anvis agreed so he could promote himself among Players and test the broadcast's effect on the Continental Web of Fate.

Ch. 533Illusion

The Last Dragonborn sought the White Light Club’s help in joining the Glory Secret Realm expedition while Anvis and the others reached the Radiant Ruins. As the entrance opened into a strange vortex, Olbins warned that the space beyond might have completely different coordinates.

  • The Last Dragonborn contacted Nyarlathotep, who agreed to approach the White Light Club’s senior members but warned that they would want high-level storyline information.
  • The Last Dragonborn explored the Floating Ship while waiting for it to reach the Radiant Ruins.
  • Xia Ye Ying Huo admired the glittering entrance and misread the change in others’ hostile looks after Anvis appeared as a sign that he cared for her.
  • Anvis surveyed the assembled imperial descendants and their companions, including his siblings Evan and Aranis and the Third Princess’s Seventh Rank Prophet.
  • At noon, the entrance’s lights converged into a gray, multicolored vortex, and Olbins said its spacetime coordinates might differ completely from their world’s.

Ch. 534Long Live the Planners!

Anvis entered the Radiant Ruins and headed toward Last Dragonborn after locating him with a Stone Tablet Fragment. Last Dragonborn paid to livestream the secret realm, drawing a large audience eager to study the ruins.

  • Anvis explained that the Glory Secret Realm opened because of a rare Space-Time Change, then waited for Prince Lanno to enter before following with his attendants.
  • Anvis emerged in the Radiant Ruins, spotted an ancient city with a towering Giant Spire, and set out toward it.
  • Anvis used the Stone Tablet Fragments to locate Olbins and Last Dragonborn, then flew toward Last Dragonborn.
  • Last Dragonborn discovered that activating the livestream in the Special Map cost 6,480 yuan and paid the fee.
  • Last Dragonborn began livestreaming his exploration, and viewers and club members gathered to watch and record the footage.

Ch. 535Ambush and Spoils

The Last Dragonborn entered the Radiant Ruins, where two rock monsters ambushed him and drained his life force until Anvis rescued him. Anvis then found Olbins, who had defeated a Sixth Rank monstrous bird and recovered a Mithril plate and crystals.

  • The Last Dragonborn noticed the wasteland was unusually quiet and discovered that two of the five ruin fragments behind him had vanished.
  • Two enormous rock monsters burst from the desert, restrained the Last Dragonborn, and began draining his Mana and life force.
  • Anvis arrived in his Alchemy Flying Shuttle and struck one monster with a Disintegrate spell, forcing the other to flee underground.
  • Anvis healed the Last Dragonborn and took him aboard the shuttle so they could find their other companions.
  • Anvis located Olbins, who had killed a monstrous bird and recovered a Mithril plate and sparkling crystals from its nest.
  • Olbins tossed the Mithril plate to Anvis, who examined its engravings.

Ch. 536Gathering Storm Clouds

Anvis investigated a Titan-language Mithril plate, then flew toward the city ruins with Olbins and the Last Dragonborn. As Anvis sensed an approaching threat, a cult began replacing Gamon and others with agents serving a god.

  • Anvis concluded that the Mithril plate was probably inscribed by a later civilization and that the ruins contained ancient Magical Beasts.
  • Anvis, Olbins, and the Last Dragonborn boarded the Alchemy Flying Shuttle and headed for the city, where its defenses destroyed attacking avian Magical Beasts.
  • Anvis sensed that an unfavorable event would draw him in, and wondered whether someone was targeting the Ninth Prince.
  • Krad pierced Gamon Aslaide's chest and covered him with a black substance that transformed him into a double.
  • The disguised Gamon questioned whether a Prophet could detect them, and Krad said the god's power would conceal their plans as similar attacks began throughout the Glory Secret Realm.

Ch. 537Conspiracy

Marquis Vent and other conspirators prepared to help a mysterious cult undermine the Empire and the Four Great Families. Anvis, Olbins, and the Last Dragonborn reached the Radiant Ruins, where Anvis and Olbins equipped themselves for separate explorations.

  • A noble questioned the cult's plan, but its members assured him that the gods' return was drawing near and the first targets would only lose control of their bodies.
  • Two gray-robed figures affirmed the plan's guidance by Fate, and the conspirators ended their meeting and returned to their identities.
  • Marquis Vent revealed himself in his study and accepted the risk of cooperating with the cult because his family's power had stagnated under the Four Great Families.
  • Anvis and his companions landed beside a giant Titan statue in the Radiant Ruins and discovered crystal clusters that interfered with the nearby Spacetime Constant.
  • Anvis agreed to explore separately from Olbins and arranged to meet beneath the city's High Tower the next day.
  • Olbins donned armor that brought his aura close to the Seventh Rank, while Anvis linked his Magic Raiment to the shuttle; the Last Dragonborn felt pressured by both of them.

Ch. 538Red Name?!

Anvis brought the Last Dragonborn through the Ruins, outfitting him with powerful armor so he could survive while livestreaming their expedition. After finding Prince Lanno’s group, Anvis sensed something wrong about one member, and the Last Dragonborn’s inspection revealed that person had a blood-red name.

  • Anvis confirmed that the Last Dragonborn’s broadcast worked in the Ruins and gave him Sixth Rank Magic Construct armor to keep him alive.
  • Anvis and the Last Dragonborn looted artifacts as they traveled through the ruined city toward Prince Lanno’s group.
  • Anvis found Prince Lanno and four surviving companions in an underground palace, where Lanno explained that a mysterious Magical Beast had attacked him and one subordinate had vanished.
  • Anvis sensed that the second-to-last member of Lanno’s group felt out of place, and the Old Days Secret Scripture flickered at his waist.
  • Anvis asked the Last Dragonborn to inspect the suspicious person, whose name appeared bright crimson on the elf’s Panel.

Ch. 539Property Trusteeship

Anvis detected a disguised enemy among Prince Lanno’s companions but chose to wait for the enemy to act, then joined Lanno in exploring the city ruins. They reached a hidden chamber in the western district, where they found Xia Ye Ying Huo.

  • Rivers spotted an apparent enemy in Lanno’s party, and Anvis told him to keep quiet and wait for the enemy to make a move.
  • Anvis asked Lanno about private assets and proposed exploring the city together, but Lanno said he had already made arrangements and chose to search the western district.
  • Anvis and Lanno’s group traveled through the ruins and followed Lanno’s clues into an underground labyrinth.
  • Lanno opened a secret chamber with a moon symbol, and Xia Ye Ying Huo greeted Anvis while Lanno stared in surprise.

Ch. 540Attack and the Key

Xia Ye Ying Huo had reached the treasure vault ahead of Anvis and Lanno, where a hidden attacker tried to kill Lanno before vanishing. Anvis learned that Xia had the Key to the Tower of Oblivion’s top floor and rewarded her with powerful equipment.

  • Lanno and the Last Dragonborn were shocked to find Xia Ye Ying Huo waiting in the treasure vault, while viewers teased the Last Dragonborn for mistaking her for a casual player.
  • A Red Name party member attacked Lanno from behind with a strange substance, but Anvis stopped the strike with God's Eggshell.
  • The attacker called Anvis the Godblasphemer from the Oracle, threatened to sacrifice the group, and disintegrated into dark green ash.
  • Lanno thanked Anvis and described the Key as a Mithril sphere held by a Silver Titan statue, which Xia revealed she had stored in her backpack.
  • Anvis took the Key, learned from Lanno that it opened the Tower of Oblivion's top floor, and gave Xia a powerful Crystal Dress as a quest reward.

Ch. 541Tower of Oblivion

Xia Ye Ying Huo received a glittering dress and completed the maze quest with Last Dragonborn, while Lanno revealed that the ruins were the ancient city of Bohemianis and that the Tower of Oblivion held the Legendary Silver Titan Kassenos. As the group entered the tower, attackers’ rituals began shrinking the Glory Secret Realm and driving possessed youths toward the city.

  • Xia Ye Ying Huo received the Magic Crystal Dance dress and completed the Explore the Maze quest with Last Dragonborn, while concealing her identity behind a duck mask.
  • Lanno led the group back to the surface and explained that the Key was connected to Bohemianis and the Tower of Oblivion, where the Legendary Silver Titan Kassenos was said to reside.
  • Anvis shared what he knew about the Cultists and Priest who had attacked them, and the group prepared to explore the tower.
  • Attackers across the Glory Secret Realm completed dark green symbols that caused the Gray-White Sky to contract, erasing anything it touched into the Space-Time Turbulence.
  • Possessed noble youths gathered toward Bohemianis as Anvis and the others reached the Tower of Oblivion, met Olbins, and entered.

Ch. 542Threat

Anvis and Lanno opened the hidden spiral staircase beneath the throne in the Tower of Oblivion, but Anvis sensed danger approaching. Meanwhile, Aranis headed for the Ruins to protect Anvis, unaware that the Secret Realm was shrinking and that a secret ritual was being prepared there.

  • Lanno warned the group to stay alert as they entered the Tower of Oblivion’s vast Rock Hall and activated their defenses.
  • Anvis’s Key opened the throne, revealing a spiral staircase that Lanno identified as the route to the tower’s summit.
  • Anvis sensed a powerful threat approaching and tossed his Fate Gold Coin into a corner, claiming he was guarding against hidden enemies.
  • Aranis escaped an ambush in which an Eighth Rank Spellcaster attacked her and Evan, then set out to find and protect Anvis.
  • Aranis noticed unusually frequent encounters with other travelers but avoided them, missing signs that the Secret Realm’s sky was contracting.
  • A group led by the Third Princess allied against the suspected Heretic God Cult enemies, while those enemies secretly regrouped in the Ruins to prepare a Ritual Magic Circle.

Ch. 543Hidden Achievement

Landon, Luo Qi, and Ailisha infiltrated the Tower of Oblivion with Dark Raven’s help, while Anvis’s trap revealed that the intruders belonged to the Star Praise Sect. As Anvis’s group searched the tower for a route upward, Xia Ye Ying Huo described her exceptionally lucky hidden achievements.

  • Landon, Luo Qi, and Ailisha waited with the cultists at the tower entrance as Dark Raven reassured Landon and urged them to continue the mission.
  • A light orb struck the Green-Robed Priest as he entered the tower, triggering Anvis’s secret art and letting him identify the enemy as the Star Praise Sect.
  • Anvis and his companions emerged in the Transit Hall, where Lanno explained that they needed to find their own path to the higher floors.
  • Lanno’s group split up to search for a passage while the Last Dragonborn livestreamed with Xia Ye Ying Huo and discussed hidden achievements.
  • Xia Ye Ying Huo revealed that she had drawn all six legendary set components in the first ten-pull of several banners, stunning the Last Dragonborn.

Ch. 544Tower of Oblivion

Anvis and his companions discovered a hidden passage in the tower, which led into the dangerous Tower of Oblivion. He sent Xia Ye Ying Huo and the Last Dragonborn to explore it so he could follow them to the legendary Silver Titan Kassenos.

  • The Last Dragonborn discussed the tower’s likely difficulty on his livestream and showed Anvis and Lanno inspecting an ancient temple.
  • Lona detected a hidden entrance in a Thunder-marked pillar, and she activated it with her anomalous aura.
  • Lanno realized the pillar concealed a tiny Anomalous Zone, while Anvis explained that the passage beyond it caused those below Legendary Rank to forget themselves.
  • Anvis tested the passage with an Avatar, then asked Xia Ye Ying Huo and the Last Dragonborn to explore it under a quest and gave them the Key.
  • Anvis planted a Twisted Seed in each player so he could track their locations and follow them to the passage’s destination.

Ch. 545The Attacking Enemy

Anvis, Lanno, and Olbins prepared for the dangers in the Tower of Oblivion while Xia Ye Ying Huo, the Last Dragonborn, and one of Lanno’s attendants entered its hidden dungeon. As Anvis and Lanno made plans to resist the Star Praise Sect, an enemy appeared in the Rock Temple and accused Lanno of being despised by the gods.

  • Anvis explained the Tower of Oblivion’s effects to Xia Ye Ying Huo and the Last Dragonborn, and Olbins gave them Arcane Artifacts to study the Force Field.
  • Prince Lanno equipped a young attendant with a special Hexahedron Shield from the Magic Council, and the attendant entered the stone pillars with the two Players.
  • Xia Ye Ying Huo and the Last Dragonborn discovered the Oblivion status in a gray, misty wilderness and began exploring the Blackstone Path while Lanno’s attendant went ahead alone.
  • Anvis and Lanno prepared defenses in the Tower of Oblivion and discussed the Star Praise Sect’s likely attack and how to alert the Empire’s high-ranking officials.
  • A dark green hooded figure appeared above the Rock Temple, addressed Prince Lanno, and accused him of taking part in something the gods despised.

Ch. 546Disappearance

Anvis repeatedly destroyed the Priest’s fragile spatial projections while the enemy deciphered their location, then prepared to move his group elsewhere and protect Lanno. Meanwhile, the Priest’s cultists completed their ritual, and explorers entering the city argued over whether to attack the High Tower or defend a stronghold.

  • Anvis shattered the Priest’s Space Mirage projections, and Olbins warned that each one still advanced the enemy’s deciphering of their coordinates.
  • Anvis told Lanno that he had protected him during their earlier predicament and added a sustained barrier using half an eggshell.
  • The Priest and the Star-Praising Cultists saw Lanno’s pale light and declared him the Godblasphemer named in their Oracle.
  • Anvis and his companions vanished from the Priest’s spatial image, while the Heretic Cultists completed their citywide ritual.
  • The explorers’ temporary alliance entered the city, hunted several cultists, and debated whether to attack the High Tower or defend a building for seven days.

Ch. 547Differences of Opinion

Veller and Starlight Augustine settled the alliance’s dispute by sending Brownso to investigate the Central High Tower while the others prepared a defensive base. Aranis infiltrated the tower searching for Anvis, unaware that he and Lanno had already reached its core through Mirror Realm Traverse.

  • Brownso urged the alliance to attack the enemy, but Veller argued they should avoid unnecessary risks and warned that Conservatives might have been deliberately targeted by collaborators.
  • Starlight proposed that Brownso lead volunteers to scout the Central High Tower while the remaining alliance members established a base in a nearby clock tower.
  • Aranis followed the Bloodline Pointer into the city and used the distraction of Brownso’s attack to slip into the tower, where she found its first floor transformed into a nest of flesh and blood.
  • Aranis pressed on toward the tower’s top, determined to rescue Anvis, while cultists fought the attackers outside.
  • Anvis and Lanno arrived at the Tower of Oblivion’s core through Mirror Realm Traverse, leaving Lanno, Olbins, and two attendants nauseated.

Ch. 548Titan Secret Realm

Anvis, Lanno, and Olbins entered a storm-wracked secret realm atop the Tower of Oblivion and reached the former residence of the Legendary Titan. There, a projection named Hill appeared and revealed that he had left the obelisk after seeing Anvis in the distant past.

  • Anvis explained that the Mirror World was an uncertain space reached through a Mystic-type Spell-like Ability.
  • Lanno and Olbins surveyed the rocky secret realm, where Silver-White Thunder battered a stone house atop a mountain.
  • Anvis gave Lanno a Key that lowered the danger of the ascent, and the group reached the summit and entered the house.
  • Anvis noticed a silver obelisk, and everyone around him froze as a silver-haired High Elf projection appeared.
  • The projection identified himself as Hill and said he had seen Anvis in the distant past, left the obelisk for their meeting, and been discovered by the Silver Titan Kassenos.

Ch. 549Dazzling

Anvis met Hill’s projection, learned that the silver Obelisk held Transcendent Essence, and received it before time resumed. While Lanno’s group searched the Legendary Titan’s stone house and uncovered a trove of rare materials, Anvis unexpectedly gave the Last Dragonborn a brilliant gemstone.

  • Hill explained to Anvis that his projection was prearranged and that their meeting was a spacetime anchor point.
  • Hill warned Anvis that others were after the Obelisk, then gifted it to him; it dissolved into silver particles and merged with Anvis.
  • Lanno and the other explorers saw a flash of silver light but found nothing, then searched the stone house for valuables.
  • Lanno’s group opened a cabinet filled with rare materials, astonishing the Last Dragonborn’s livestream viewers with its orange-grade items.
  • The Last Dragonborn told Lanno and the others that the cabinet’s contents were Plot Items and could not be obtained through his quest reward.
  • Anvis placed a brilliant Starlight-like gemstone in the Last Dragonborn’s palm, leaving the elf stunned.

Ch. 550A Mission Beyond Time and Space

Anvis used the Last Dragonborn’s livestream to warn players that the Star Praise Sect had infiltrated the Glory Secret Realm and to offer rewards for notifying the Empire’s high-level forces. Players rushed to pursue the quest while Anvis returned to dividing resources with Lanno and the others.

  • Elf bound the Legendary gemstone he had received and introduced Anvis to the livestream audience as his generous Boss.
  • Anvis confirmed that viewers could hear him and revealed that disguised Star Praise Sect enemies had infiltrated the Glory Secret Realm, where nearly half the Explorers had fallen victim to them.
  • Anvis asked viewers to alert the Empire’s high-level forces and promised Gold Coins, high-tier Magic Equipment, and Ninth Rank Materials as rewards.
  • The system issued viewers an A-rank temporary quest to report the enemy activity, prompting players and major guilds to contact powerful Natives.
  • Anvis resumed discussing the division of resources with Lanno and the others, having offered the rewards partly to cultivate his reputation among players.

Ch. 551Shift in the Situation

Anvis and the others alerted the Gloria Empire that the Glory Secret Realm was in crisis, prompting a rescue effort while a hidden faction accelerated its plan to welcome the gods' return. Inside the realm, Anvis and Lanno finished dividing the stone house’s treasures and found a way to make the house fall from the cliff.

  • Outlanders reported Anvis Olyvendi’s warning to the Empire, and the Eye of Destiny revealed that one-third of the Explorers were in critical condition, most of them Conservatives.
  • Gloria III ended the nobles’ argument, and several Ninth Rank Peak Professionals began locating the Glory Secret Realm, a process expected to take at least six Magic Hours.
  • Marquis Vent learned that the secret realm’s location had been exposed and told the Green-Robed Priest, who insisted the plan would continue on an accelerated schedule.
  • Anvis and Lanno divided the stone house’s collection, Silver Thunder pillars, and floor tiles, leaving the house itself as the last prize.
  • Anvis used Mystic Art to make the stone house jump off the cliff and shatter, while Xia Ye Ying Huo wondered why the sight seemed familiar.

Ch. 552The Enemy's Objective

After the stone house shattered, Anvis learned from Pigeon that the Silver Obelisk in his Sea of Spirit could serve as a fulcrum for reversing time, making it a likely part of the enemy's ritual. With help from outside still delayed and the enemy potentially closing in, the group prepared to use the mountain's Silver Lightning against them.

  • Anvis and Lanno salvaged the valuable remains of the stone house while their companions collected the smaller fragments.
  • Anvis concluded that the Heretic Cultists were targeting the Silver Obelisk and could not be trusted to stay away from the Miniature Secret Realm.
  • Anvis summoned Pigeon, who explained that the Obelisk was a point independent of space and time that could enable time reversal at a price.
  • Olbins proposed using the black stone's Force Field to build a Magic Array that would attract Silver Lightning and strike the enemy.
  • Anvis noted that the enemy could learn about his livestream plea for help in roughly three Magic Hours.

Ch. 553Meteor Burst

Aranis was trapped inside the Tower of Oblivion until Landon, Luo Qi, and Ailisha agreed to help her after learning she was Anvis’s sister. Outside, Spellcasters unleashed the Eighth Rank spell Meteor Burst against the tower, threatening everyone inside.

  • Aranis infiltrated the Tower of Oblivion to find Anvis but was discovered and chased by high-rank Heretic Cultists.
  • A concealed ally guided Aranis to a protected corridor where the cultists could not see her.
  • Landon rejected Aranis’s offer of a Seventh Rank Magic Curio, but Luo Qi and Ailisha recognized her as the sister of their friends and persuaded him to meet her.
  • The Tower of Oblivion shook as the black flying dragon was hurled against its outer wall.
  • Several Spellcasters cast Meteor Burst, sending a massive fiery meteor crashing toward the tower.
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