Chapter 864: Hidden Player attacks (1/2)
”Do you know what is inside?”
Sam asked the noble kid who followed him. But the latter only shook his head. Sam thought for a second and activated fire elemental fusion to a complete state and walked into the flames.
The flames toned down a bit compared to the first time they are here.
But still, they are extremely intense and it is still trying to devour Sam. He felt like some foreign body like a parasite is trying to infect him and eat him up from inside and there is a prickling sensation in his body.
He walked to the center of the flaming inferno to see what the person who is responsible for this is burning.
He found out that there are two corpses inside and he brought them out.
By now the corpses are completely unrecognizable. It is impossible to recognize who it is just from looking. The bodies are that damaged and there is barely any flesh left on those withered bones.
But they managed to find out something that could give them some clues. The spatial rings.
Even though it is damaged a lot and space inside was almost collapsed because of the damage, it is still accessible.
When they took the belongings of both the victims from inside, Sam was surprised. There are two very familiar tokens inside the spatial rings.
The access tokens for the Palace of inheritance.
The Palace of inheritance this time also turned out to be an open one and in fact, there are a lot more people entering than the previous open ones.
At first, Sam just suspected the motives of the attacker when she attacked Arkiv, but now that he saw these two people, he is sure that whoever it is that made the attack is trying to thin the numbers that enter the Palace of inheritance.
If Sam didn't retrieve the corpses, the tokens would have been destroyed along with the spatial rings and the number of tokens is limited. It would have been perfect.
He looked at the corpses and the forest fire intently, before he took a deep breath and said to the noble kid.
”Tell, the king about this news one way or the other. The people who are going to enter the Palace of inheritance are being attacked by someone. Tell him to do as he sees fit.”
He doesn't know who the other party is nor the clear motives on why that person is killing the candidates for Palace of inheritance.
Maybe that person is also someone who managed to qualify for the Palace of inheritance and wanted to reduce her competition, but as far as Sam knew there is no one with black flames in the candidates selected by the winged race.
He was there for the tournament and he is sure of it. This reminded him of another possibility, the mysterious hidden player.
The hidden player that didn't show their face until now.
Maybe that player is responsible for this. After all, this Palace of inheritance is that player's and it would be advantageous for that person to thin down the numbers properly.
But still, he cannot be sure until he confirmed it by himself.
After the forest patch completely burned down and making sure it didn't spread everywhere randomly, Sam returned to the city with the rest of the people following him.
While they are moving in the city all of a sudden, they heard an explosion nearby and a faint trace of the black flames could be seen.
Sam immediately made his move, the area is where most inns are present and that is also where some players are living. When he reached the place, he could see Donner fighting with a woman who is covered completely in black.
If not for her chest, it would have been impossible to find out her gender.
Donner is clearly on losing side and she is dancing around daggers as he dealt with him easily.
There are already several scars on his body with the black flame burning on them.
Sam quickly made his way towards her to get a look at her. He couldn't care less about the life and death of Donner, after all, if the situation arises, he might kill that guy himself, but he has to see who she is so that he could be prepared. Two of the players are his friends or companions after all. He couldn't let them be killed by someone like this.