Reunion After a Long Separation

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Da Yi didn't understand why the adult did this, but he knew he didn't need to understand, so he casually tossed the unlucky fellow a bottle of healing potion.

Doom Herald was stunned. He never thought that the other party would actually let him go. He looked at the potion in his hand in disbelief, then looked up at Cheng Shi, wanting to say something, but he couldn't open his mouth.

Cheng Shi chuckled and said:

"You didn't lie, so from now on you are free."

Go find your teammates, or find a place to hide and wait for the Trials to end, or go witness the [Annihilation] feat you want to witness.

Kannaal City; you'll have plenty of time to explore it.

Doom Herald's heart tightened for a moment. He realized that the other party really wanted to let him go. However, after witnessing the power of these two people, especially the mysterious and powerful demeanor of the person in charge, a bold idea suddenly arose in his mind.

He didn't want to leave.

The other side is obviously a player as well. Since both sides are players, why go looking for a bunch of low-scoring players instead of clinging to the coattails of high-scoring pros?

So he shook his head firmly, then nodded vigorously, and spoke to Cheng Shi with an attitude of wanting to expose his own heart as proof:

"Big brother, I want to... join your group, is that okay?"

"..."

"..."

Cheng Shi blinked, then almost burst out laughing again.

The young man has some sense, but the problem is, if you stay by my side and don't leave, where am I supposed to find the "Gift of Scars"?

Da Yi scoffed and began to look at people sideways, his disdainful gaze clearly saying: Damn it, what kind of status do you have to follow the adults with me?

Doom Herald sensed the other party's rejection, but he still wanted to try. However, Cheng Shi didn't waste any more time. He pointed to the window and said:

"Throw him out, and we'll leave too."

With that, he lifted his foot and walked outside.

Da Yi accepted the order and threw the man out of the window. He then followed Cheng Shi into the Storm, but soon his figure disappeared again.

As for the Doom Herald that was thrown out of the window, he was now lying in the alley, staring blankly at the long, narrow sky filled with wind and snow.

He felt he had experienced too much in the past two days. One after another, high-level players he had never seen before appeared. Their world was so wonderful that they could even fight against famous historical figures. They even had the strength to covet items related to them.

Looking back at myself...

Aside from looting, arson, and vandalism during this Apocalypse, venting his destructive desires on a bunch of lifeless things, he has never accomplished anything. To be a person like this is truly a failure.

In the past, his teammates were all players of the same skill level, so the sense of defeat wasn't too strong. But today, after repeatedly suppressing his destructive nature and acting like a coward, the intense emotional impact and frustration broke him down.

"No, I can't continue living like this. I have to do something big to prove myself!"

Thinking it over, he shouted a couple of times at the snow-covered sky, then quickly got up and walked out of the alley.

"I need to know what happened here first, and then leave a big story in history!"

Doom Herald was gone, and after he left, on a rooftop by the alley, Da Yi spat impatiently.

"Damn it, so slow and indecisive. If it weren't for the adults' orders to keep an eye on him, we might as well just kill him."

After saying that, he moved swiftly and followed after them again.

Now, the three "original players" in this Trials split into three groups: the [Silent] Hunter tracked three variables, the [Chaotic] Assassin stalked another variable, and the third variable died in the square. Cheng Shi's task at this moment was to revive him and then make this immobile variable move again.

At this point in the Trials, he didn't want to gamble that the only chance wouldn't fall on that Disciple of Silence, so for the sake of caution, he decided to let this reckless fellow work a little longer.

So he rushed to the square, found the pile of frozen meat scraps, gently pricked it with the iron spikes he got from Da Yi, then hid outside the square, put on his horned crown to conceal himself, and cast a Healing Art with a revitalizing aura on the scraps of meat.

The Disciple of Silence quickly reassembled the corpse and came back to life. The moment he opened his eyes, his clothes were soaked with cold sweat.

It's cold, the Frigid Wind!

But compared to his physical sensations, his heart was even colder.

He suddenly came to his senses and realized that this Trials was not simple either, and that the legendary Daggers [Gift of Scars] was not something he could covet at all.

Fortunately, although the other party killed him, they also resurrected him. It seems that the other party had no ill intentions and was just warning him not to touch the Daggers.

Having figured this out, He Zu immediately took advantage of the wind and snow to escape. He dared not linger for a moment, only wanting to leave the place that had once Annihilation him.

Cheng Shi smiled as he watched the other party leave, thinking to himself that all he needed to do now was keep an eye on the whereabouts of these five people. Da Yi could find the scent of his iron spikes, so Cheng Shi the tracking himself.

Of course, as the one in control of the situation, he couldn't place all his hopes on these five variables. What clues were still hidden in this vast Kannaal City? What was the current state of the teleportation array? Was it possible for the Grand Marshal and the others who hadn't caught up to make it back? These were all things he needed to confirm.

So Cheng Shi once again disappeared into the snow and wind to search for more clues.

After a day of chaos, the Kannaal City fell silent once more. The panicked citizens either gathered in groups or went home, hiding in their houses and afraid to come out. The warriors who had spontaneously rallied blocked the gates of the royal court, petitioning to go to war. The Rosna Royal Family had not reappeared since the arrival of the Divine Envoy that day. Although many people believed that the Divine Envoy's Thunderbolt had swept away the disloyal Royal Family, they still hoped that someone would step forward, or at least someone who knew how to lead troops into battle, to lead them in defending their homeland.

They didn't know it was a pipe dream, but like the history of Faith in the Rosna Empire, these warriors were still trying in obscurity.

Old Galen's body lay on the high walls of the Imperial Court. A large piece of skin was missing from his chest and abdomen, and his flesh, which should have been crimson, was now frozen pale. This historian, who wanted to die with his child, ultimately failed to fulfill his wish, but at least in death, his body witnessed the last courage of the Rosna Empire.

In this eerie atmosphere, Cheng Shi once again entered the Imperial Court and headed straight for the former residence of the First Prince.

He had never been to that secret room he had heard about countless times from others. Now, he needed to see it for himself and see if there were any other clues there.

But just as he arrived at the entrance to the First Prince's bedroom, he heard a rustling sound coming from inside.

Cheng Shi's gaze sharpened, and he quietly stopped in his tracks. He tilted his head slightly, wanting to listen carefully, but just then he noticed a weak arrow falling from the distant sky, gently "drifting" towards him.

This was the method of communication agreed upon by the Silent Hunter. Cheng Shi carefully removed the arrow, then ran his fingers along the shaft and found two lines of small characters.

The first line describes the situation of the surveillance. "The three tried to hide in a house, Priest took the opportunity to escape. The target was not lost in the direction of the Royal Court."

The second line reads a name: "The Decay Priest, Nangong".

"?"

Cheng Shi was taken aback for a moment, then a smile crept onto his lips.

Why does this name suddenly remind me of an old friend?