"Killing Other Races? Now that sounds good!"
Alice was brimming with enthusiasm. With her monster template, she already gained more experience from killing dungeon challengers than from killing dungeon monsters.
That was especially true of the naturally powerful Other Races. When she had lacked strength, she had avoided confronting them, but now that she had a hidden class, hunting them would surely let her grow rapidly.
But then another problem occurred to her:
"It's just that I've always been inside dungeons. I have no idea where the Other Races are, and I can't find their dungeons!"
The Void Walker's ability, Void Traversal, let her travel freely between dungeons, but without coordinates to guide her, it was like walking blind.
In fact, because Alice lived inside dungeons and couldn't determine directions in the outside world, every trip between dungeons was a gamble.
But Yi Tian happened to have a solution. "You should be able to sense my location now, right?"
Alice closed her eyes and briefly reached out with her mind, then nodded in delight.
After Recruitment succeeded, Yi Tian and Alice had automatically formed a relationship as Boss and employee.
Just as Yi Tian could view his employees' panels, the recruited Alice could also sense her Boss's presence through an invisible connection.
He was the source of her abilities.
To Alice, it felt as though she had been adrift in a pitch-black, boundless sea when a lighthouse's glow suddenly enveloped her.
"I'll find the Other Races' dungeons for you. Then you can just teleport to my side."
Alice's face lit up at Yi Tian's words.
At last, her days of wandering through dungeons like a blind person were over!
She bowed gracefully to Yi Tian. "Alice will follow your guidance!"
He left the dungeon.
Yi Tian was quite satisfied with this trip. He had gained a special talent and an extraordinary ability to travel between dungeons.
"'Special' potential really is something!"
As Yi Tian was marveling at this, he suddenly noticed that there were far fewer class holders in the Dungeon Center.
After some hushed discussions, several teams of class holders hurried out of the city.
"What happened?"
The young receptionist beside him at the Dungeon Center remembered Yi Tian vividly for clearing the Unsealed Dungeon and the secret realm. Hearing his question, she explained:
"For some reason, the medium secret realm outside the city has undergone a mutation and sealed itself off completely."
The medium secret realm outside the city?
Wasn't that the Sky Isle Realm that Yi Tian and the others had taken not long ago?
Yi Tian frowned slightly. A mutation and a complete lockdown undoubtedly meant that the resources inside the secret realm could no longer be harvested.
If they couldn't enter a perfectly good medium secret realm to harvest its resources, all they could do was stare at it without gaining anything.
That would make their earlier struggle for it a complete waste.
"Strange!"
With that thought, Yi Tian hurried to the secret realm outside the city to investigate.
As soon as he arrived, he discovered that the Garrison Army had cordoned off the entrance.
Over a hundred class holders who had come to watch were being held behind the cordon, forbidden from approaching the entrance. The situation looked quite serious.
"Everyone, step back! No approaching the entrance!" the Garrison Army shouted.
Seeing this, Yi Tian approached and took out his identification document-[Make It Big and Strong Office].
One soldier frowned slightly at the sight. "What is this thing you've... wait, no!"
"Apologies, sir. I didn't recognize you!"
His expression went from indignation to confusion, then finally to solemn respect as he raised a hand to signal that Yi Tian could pass through the cordon.
The document's name was bizarre, but it certainly worked.
According to Wei Yuan, it granted authority on par with a city lord's, allowing him to pass unhindered through most places in Great Xia.
"Why does he get to go in?" "Who is he?"
The onlookers barred from entering voiced their indignation.
The soldier snapped, "He's from a special agency! He can solve the problem! What would you go in for? To die with them?"
At those words, the watching class holders' indignant voices gradually faded.
Yi Tian approached the secret realm's entrance and discovered a dark purple vortex swirling where the entrance had originally been, radiating danger.
Wei Yuan wasn't there at the entrance. Instead, Bai Qiu Li and another woman, beautiful and dignified, stood nearby!
"Boss! I was just about to message you!"
Bai Qiu Li spoke in delight when she saw Yi Tian arrive.
Hearing this, the other beautiful woman, who held a sword, couldn't help looking toward Yi Tian. He returned her gaze with curiosity.
Bai Qiu Li briefly introduced the two of them.
"So you're Senior Jiang Yuan Shuang..."
"Ah, Qiu Li's young Boss."
Jiang Yuan Shuang looked Yi Tian over. She hadn't expected the Boss who had helped Bai Qiu Li advance to a god-tier class to be such a handsome young man.
Yi Tian felt puzzled. If the situation had brought Jiang Yuan Shuang, a top-tier level 74 class holder, here, it had to be serious.
Bai Qiu Li explained the situation to Yi Tian:
"The secret realm suddenly mutated this morning. Its entrance sealed shut, trapping all the resource workers inside."
"We suspected Evil Demons had appeared in the secret realm and needed to send in a team to deal with them."
"Then the pioneering team formed by Ye Xiu, Jiang Che, and the others went in... it's been four hours, and they still haven't come out!"
"Ever since they went in, the entrance has been completely sealed. No one can enter."
Ye Xiu and Jiang Che had gone in too!
Yi Tian frowned slightly. He knew what Ye Xiu and Jiang Che were capable of. If it were Evil Demons, they wouldn't have been trapped for so long.
Unless they were Evil Demons at the demon lord or demon heavenly king level. But if something of that caliber had appeared, its target wouldn't have been a single secret realm-it would probably have been all of Qingcheng.
Jiang Yuan Shuang looked at the dark purple entrance, her expression grave. "This method was most likely the work of some Other Race."
Bai Qiu Li spoke urgently. "Boss, could you try using Hold a Meeting to contact them?"
"Otherwise, no one knows what's happening inside..."
Hearing this, Yi Tian opened his employee panel and checked Ye Xiu's and Jiang Che's statuses.
He discovered that both were continuously engaged in combat, with their health remaining above half. Their lives weren't in danger for now, but that might change if this dragged on.
"No need. I'll go save them."
Bai Qiu Li froze briefly at Yi Tian's words, while Jiang Yuan Shuang beside her shook her head helplessly.
"The entrance is sealed. No one can get in..."
"I'm afraid this Other Race has more than a simple objective."
Despite her words, Yi Tian still walked up to the secret realm's entrance.
[The secret realm is sealed. Entry unavailable!]
That notification stopped Yi Tian in his tracks.
Jiang Yuan Shuang and Bai Qiu Li, the older woman and the younger, both looked at Yi Tian in confusion.
At that moment, Yi Tian raised his hand and gripped the secret realm's entrance. Unstable energy flickered in his palm, nearly tearing the dark purple vortex apart!
"Void Traversal."
In the next instant, Yi Tian stepped into the rift he had torn open and passed straight through the secret realm's entrance!
Jiang Yuan Shuang and Bai Qiu Li were both dumbstruck by the sight.
"What kind of ability is that?!"
Jiang Yuan Shuang's gentle, elegant composure began to unravel. She murmured, "When did someone this terrifying appear in Great Xia?"
Then she turned to Bai Qiu Li. "Just how powerful is this Boss of yours?"
Bai Qiu Li's delicate, lovely face looked a little blank. She carefully searched her memories, but even she sounded uncertain as she answered:
"Boss... should be really powerful, I guess?"
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