Chapter 309: Nightmares secret (1/2)
( consider this chapter in third person narration , the author's POV)
What was nightmare's secret ? Was he a reincarnator like Rudra? Was he a transmigrator? Was he a wandering supreme magician whose soul was floating in the river of time , before making home in nightmare's body? What happened that altered the timeline Rudra knew soo much that such a player was present as his opponent?
Well let me tell you the secrets of this very question , it will be interesting if you are a long- time reader , as refferances from the previous chapters of the book will be made .
Let's take a moment and go back to chapter 138 , where SMG and Karna raid the royal treasury and obtain this item .
[ Seal of Draconia ] ( Epic ) : a seal of the dragon kingdom of draconia , grants a party of 20 to enter the forbidden Kingdom.
Before going into details about how this item is linked to nightmare's abnormality , let us talk about the distribution of light and dark faction in the game.The game whole world is divided into four continents , nothern continent , southern continent , eastern continent and western continent. On each continent , there are dark faction countries , there are light faction countries and there are also NPC ( dark or light faction allied ) countries , and finally neutral countries and ancient lands.
Only after the second system update , did the travel between different countries of same faction become possible. Whereas travel between countries of different factions is still not possible.
Light faction players can visit countries like the Elven kingdom , which is a NPC kingdom aligned with the light faction. However they cannot set foot in the NPC kingdoms of other factions. The same is true for dark faction players who cannot come to light faction allied nations.
One such dark faction NPC nation , is the kingdom of the Dark Elves , whose spy Rudra killed in the lead up to saving princess Ruby in the royal court of the Elves. This was an event that was not supposed to initially happen , as it prompted a change in the storyline of the Dark Elves!
( If you are following the storyline soo far , please hold this connection in mind , and focus on another isolated event , I'm about to explain )
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The main storyline of the game , the one involving the archangels and the gods , whose progression was supposed to happen continuously overtime , with difficult quests at every stage of players levelling up.
It was a series of intricately linked quests , where the dark and light faction both worked for their respective aligned archangels in a progressive manner.
However Rudra disrupted the main storyline , by saving the son of archangel sariel and stopping the blood ritual meant to strengthen Lucifer.
This caused a complete disruption of the events that were supposed to happen after that particular event.
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( Cut scene to , dark faction , VR world , kingdom of the undead , Lucifer's church )
Nightmare was just another blood warlock who had came to Lucifer's church to offer a blood sacrifice in exchange for a little buff spell from the priest.
However on that day , there was chaos in the church , as the church issued a emergency quest to get the blood of dragons , thereby sending every possible adventurer to the neutral kingdom of the dragons.
The church provided a map , with the location of the lost kingdom of draconia , and a one person entry tailsman, that expired in 24 hours , to every dark faction player present. Hence unexpectedly nightmare gained an opportunity at a big gain.
Fast forward to the quest , and although the church gave about 700 people the access tailsman , only 3 were able to make their way into the dragon kingdom. This was because the terrain leading to the dragon kingdom of draconia , was a level 200 monster zone , which was impossible to traverse by majority of the players , it was only by sheer luck , that nightmare and two others were able to get into draconia.
Even inside the majestic dragon kingdom , they were treated as beggars and peasants , no dragon would even talk with them , they were lowly humans who would die at even a slightest breath , and that is what happened to the two players except nightmare that went into the city.