Vol 23 Chapter 4 (1/2)
Act 4: Swirl of Intrigue
Thick pillars lined up in the corridor like a tee stone room was located at the end of the corridor The walls of the stone chas and had a black aura around thes of defore nu under the claws of the beasts The torch flickered weirdly and s were alive
Dukong, dukong, dukong!
A steady pounding sound was heard throughout the stone roo sound came from the object placed on the altar in the centre of the stone hut A heart……that’s right It was the mysterious heart Alan had taken fro of the 10 er And the black aura spread along the ground of the stone room like dry ice
“It’s been hundreds of years…wonderful”
An olda hood murmured in a cheerful voice And he stretched out his hand to touch the heart Just as the wrinkled finger was about to touch the rising heart……
“Maseutyu!”
A rough voice shook the stone chamber The old man’s eyes beca around slowly and taking off his hood With the face covered in so e, Maseutyu was the archbishop of the Ankh church
“…You came?”
The person who approached was ablack armour and covered in blood It was Alan who had escaped frolared at Maseutyu and declared sharply
“I want an explanation”
“Explanation? For what?”
Maseutyu asked
“The quantum transmitter receiver!”
“What’s the problem?”
Maseutyu tilted his head to one side like he didn’t understand the words Then Alan shouted angrily
“If the receiver worked as planned then Nagaran would’ve been subed by the hell River now But it didn’t work Thanks to that, I was almost wiped out and the hell River resealed How can you explain this situation?”
“Did you try checking the quantum receiver?”
“Of course I checked it It was broken”
“I know that That’s why the receiver didn’t work properly”
“……I want to knohy it is broken”
Alan asked in a harsh voice Once again, Alan had two reasons to invade Silvana One was to obtain the heart inside the stone rooe Nagaran with the hell River But it was ioals at the same time It was impossible to leave with the heart if he made the hell River flood Then he accidentally stumbled on the quantum transmitter at Pabiun Canyon and discovered a oals at once It was possible to immediately move the heart with spatial movement And Alan’s plan to transfer the heart was a success But it didn’t hen Alan and the Avenger members tried to use it
‘Why didn’t it catch the quantum receiver’s frequency?’
Alan had been thinking that question the whole time However, the reason was simple once he reached this place
The quantum receiver placed here had been destroyed
“The expedition arns of a surprise attack when I got here Yet why is the quantum receiver broken? Besides, it worked properly when it had to transmit the heart”
Alan couldn’t accept the situation And there was so else he couldn’t understand
“Furtherot here……”
Alan opened hissilently finally laughed and muttered
“……I was the one who destroyed the quantum receiver”
“W-what?”
Alan flinched and closed his mouth Maseutyu was the one who broke the receiver? What was he saying? Alan looked at him with a foolish look
“Why would you do that?”
“Calm down”
“Cal me to calm down?”
“There is a reason for it”
Maseutyu waved his hands
“Reason? You have a reason?”
“Yes”
Maseutyu answered in a light tone He slowly moved around the heart and said
“It isn’t necessary to explain but this heart is the eration to say that all of our plans were for finding this object The value of destroying Nagaran is nothing compared to the heart And the person who found this heart is the Ruin Knight Your achievement really deserves admiration”
“Then why did you do so……?”
“Well, well! Just wait a bit more The reason you could transmit the heart here is because of the quantue of the transmitter then you could come here safely But what next?”
“Next?”
“If those guys got a hold on the quantum transmitter then wouldn’t they obtain the frequency to this place?”
Maseutyu shook his head
“It is better not to risk it If they got the quantuht to this place? Of course, those guys would die one they reach here but the concern is that they ners who can track mana so they could also discover this place”
Alan frowned as he thought about Maseutyu’s explanation If he thought about it like that then Maseutyu’s action was understandable While the MG had disappeared after Ark used the quantuuarantee that Worer If Ark came here with the quantum transmitter then the expedition army would know about this location Therefore Maseutyu reduced the risk by destroying the receiver Alan understood But just because he understood didn’t mean the problem was solved
“Then shouldn’t you have explained it to me before?”
“I couldn’t say it”
“You couldn’t?”
“In fact, I had another reason to break the receiver”
“Another reason?”
“Now……”
Maseutyu licked his lips and narrowed his eyes
“Your help has become unnecessary No, that’s not it To be exact, you can only help one last tiners……that is needed It is the last ingredient to resurrect the Dark Lord”
“Our lives…?”
Alan felt an o
-Grrrrrrr
An eerie roar echoed frolossy red pupils appeared all around his all opened their eyes simultaneously And they rose and crawled off the wall The room instantly filled with the thousands of anis ht they were alive The atmosphere around them were different from the demons controlled by Alan The thousands of eyes that were thirsty for blood all focused on Alan
“T-this is…!”
Confusion appeared on Alan’s face Then Maseutyu bowed gracefully and said
“Ruin Knight, we’ve spent a lot of tiether But our relationshi+p will end here”
“Y-you…then everything you said so far……”
“It was true You will rise to the ultimate seat in this world As the Dark Lord’s flesh and blood Forever……”
“This bastard!”
Alan growled and took out his sword The beasts drooled and simultaneously ran up to Alan
-Kuwaaaaaaaah!
“D-da!”
Alan roared with fury and twisted his sword But Alan’s roar became a screae to the wave of beasts It meant they were elite monsters Thousands of elite creatures!
“Ugh, ra spirits!”
In the end, Alan turned away from Maseutyu He used the skill which increased his movement speed and ran away This place was the hidden base of the demons And those demons were Alan’s subordinates Now that he was betrayed by Maseutyu, the demons didn’t listen to Alan any to sacrifice Alan to restore the Dark Lord
‘No I can’t die in a place like his!’
-Kuwaaaaaaaah!
He did his best to run away but the beasts caught up with tre their claws Alan’s health was sucked out with every attack
“Ugh, boundaries of the dead! Ra spirits!”
Alan rolled on the ground and persistently fired his skills while running away And he finally reached the corridor near the entrance
‘The Avengeroutside this time so if I join them I can escape It isn’t too late Maseutyu…I dare him to come out! I’ll do whatever it takes to make him pay!’
Alan pledged when he tried to escape the temple Suddenly a red shape quickly ran from behind a pillar towards the entrance
“Heok! What, what the?”
Alan swung his sword reflexively But the shadow moved like a snake and hit Alan
Ka kwang, jjejejejeok!
So sound The eappeared when the noise finished
-You have been hit by a ‘Chakra Wave’
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Defense is ignored and you have received 800 dae The shock wave also ruined the balance of mana inside your body and you have lost 1000 , your attack speed and movement speed is reduced by 10 for 5 minutes
Your body is also rigid and you will be unable to move for 3 seconds>
‘Chakra wave!’
Alan vomited blood and looked around anxiously Alan knew of only one person who could use Chakra wave
“The Red Man!”
That’s right The person who hit Alan had red hair while wearing a white mask Alan was in a critical condition from the beasts’ attacks and now the Red ManAlan looked at the Red Man who appeared and shouted
“Are you and Maseutyu working together?”
The Red Man just drew the tords hanging on his waist instead of answering Then a flash headed towards Alan as rigid for 3 seconds But the ie that appeared in Alan’s eyes wasn’t the Red Man An Asura with a frightening face attacked hiht that the Asura wielded passed through Alan……
Cha cha!
Alan lost 5 health and he had almost no more left as his blood drained out
“You, you bastard……!”
Alan stared at the Red Man with red eyes The fore but he had no e that surfaced in front of Alan
-A special iteered
All of the character’s data has been absorbed by the ‘Token of Darkness’ All the data absorbed by the Token of Darkness has been deleted from New World
‘Oh er talked about…!’
Alan felt his heart fall It had what Alan had previously tried to ask Maseutyu When Alan had escaped froer members who did had called him The contents hat Alan witnessed in the informationjust now
“Alan-nie!”
“When we died, we received thesucked in by the necklace!”
“What on earth is going on?”
The Avenger e as Alan when they died And when the Avenger ed back into New World, there appeared in a new character creation screen It meant all of their character data had been completely deleted from New World’s server
‘Did Global Exos take soainst us?’
Alan had thought this at first Alan knew that this situation was a threat to Global Exos If it was possible then Global Exos would’ve immediately deleted their characters and seized their accounts But Alan are that Global Exos had lost control of New World Alan had participated in the plan because he knew that Global Exos couldn’t take action to suspend hi sucked into the necklace Alan looked at the necklace pulsing on his chest
-Token of Darkness (Rare)
Item Type: Necklace
Durability: 60/60
Weight: 10
User Restrictions: Level 300 more, chaotic value of more than 300
The ancient power of darkness is lodged in this necklace This necklace contains a wickedtio The person ears this necklace with receive the effect of Demonic Sphere of Influence However, only a corrupted person can wear this necklace
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<special option:=”” unidentified=””>
This was the necklace that the Red Man gave Alan and the Avenger meave chaotic users a bonus equal to the demonic monsters when the entered the Deuessed in the secret dungeon, this was the artifact which increased their abilities beyond their level But other secrets were hidden in the artifact When the wearer died, it absorbed the data and sent it somewhere else! That was the unidentified special option of the ‘Token of Darkness’
‘This is ridiculous! An item which erases the information of the character!’
It was incomprehensible But Alan encountered it so he couldn’t deny its existence At the sah Alan’s head
‘This had been planned fro Maseutyu said…the immortal life of the users…it means the users’ data It is a sacrifice to resurrect the Dark Lord…… What is this? And the person trying to restore the Dark Lord…’
Alan looked at the Red Man with confused eyes At the same time, his body died and collapsed towards the Red Man
Then Alan confir about the Red Man as he fell Perhaps Alan’s sword that he shen hit by Chakra Wave hadn’t missed In New World, when a equipment’s durability ended then it would disappear Alan’s eyes concentrated on the mask as he fell The moment he checked the mask, surprise and disbelief entered his eyes The face of the Red Man hidden behind the mask……
‘T-this…huck! Ah ah ah, wahhhhh!’
Alan suddenly felt a tremendous pain in his head The pain felt like his head was exploding It wasn’t pain fro down in the unit in reality was in pain Alan screamed from the pain The next moment, a weird phenomenon occurred to Alan’s body A deep black lump rose from the stone room and fleards his body Maseutyu also walked out from the stone room
“Huhuhu, the Ruin Knight has absorbed the heart”
Maseutyu looked at Alan’s dead body before saying towards the Red Man
“The necessary souls have already been collected”