"Longevity, what's wrong? You've seemed distracted since the day before yesterday. Has something happened?" Beside Su Longevity, who was known as the Scholar, a woman with a sultry figure, long, wavy blonde hair, and soft bandeau armor that left her navel exposed looked at him with a hint of concern. She was Zhou Qingqing, of mixed Misha descent, known as the Beauty God among the Twelve War Gods.
"I'm fine. I've just been having strange dreams lately for no apparent reason. In those dreams, something keeps chasing me, trying to kill me," Su Longevity told Beauty Goddess Zhou Qingqing with a smile.
Beside them, the burly Wang Yueshan, known as the Mountain War God, burst into laughter. "Longevity, could it be that Qingqing's been pursuing you so relentlessly that she's giving you nightmares?"
At his words, the other members of the Twelve War Gods of the Xia Kingdom present began laughing and teasing him too.
Beauty Goddess Zhou Qingqing blushed and shot Mountain Wang Yueshan a fierce glare. "All you ever do is bully a weak woman like me! I'm not playing with you anymore. Longevity, wait here. I'll get us some drinking water."
But just as Beauty Goddess Zhou Qingqing left to prepare it, Mountain Wang Yueshan's pupils suddenly contracted as he looked at the system log on his retina. "Quick, look at the information about Sakast in the System Log! The Empire's nine Great Houses have been slaughtered. Only the ten million Great House NPCs in our Secret Realm, Ethereal's Empty Realm and Empty Time, are left!"
At Mountain Wang Yueshan's prompting, everyone present, including Scholar Su Longevity, opened their System Logs to check the changes in Sakast's storyline.
"Imperial Edict Envoy Zhou Heng? Who's that? Why have I never heard of an expert player like him in