Chapter 337: Our Main Character Finally Showed Up (1/2)

Unlike the Players who were caught off-guard, Xi Wei had identified the undead high elf at once.

Yes. It is another First Eight undead like the Red Dead Dragon and the Nightstalker before.

However, even as Xi Wei tried to retrace its trail, he realized that it was different from the other undead encountered before this.

It had actually awakened in the Tegrono Federation, which was quite far from former Tierra lands, and then run all the way here to Crookes-a territory of Valla even before they invaded Tierra.

Its behavior was different from the other undead as well. The Red Dead Dragon, the Nightstalker, and the True Ancestor had maintained some extent of self-awareness, with a latter even conducting a ritual to revive itself.

The undead high elf, however, wasn’t self-aware at all. Its movement was purely driven by strong obsession and survival instincts. “It actually sensed my eyes? Ancient high elves are so OP… no wonder you’re extinct!” Xi Wei wasn’t really peeking seriously, but the high elf still managed to sense the gaze of his Divine Eyes. It turned its head by 360 degrees which no living being could have done, and aimed its own hollow gaze straight back into Xi Wei’s Divine Eyes.

The movement was so sudden that Xi Wei jumped in shock, even though his mind was now different from a human’s.

Even so, that was all there was to it.

Although the high elf had sensed Xi Wei’s eyes and turned to look back, it didn’t react too much. But if it had been alive, it would most likely have casted some mysterious concussion to temporarily stop him from peeking. Therfore, aside from undead orks which had been wiped out by the Players without making much of an appearance, the high elf was the worst of the undead thus far.

“That said, its obsession had driven it back here to activate the ruins… looks like my Divine Eyes aren’t going to see through it this time around. As expected of the backup the high elves left before their demise.”

Xi Wei stroked his chin with a tentacle.

The Mystery which the high elves exercised was certainly a miraculous force, with their creations still maintaining the power they were imbued with from the very start.

Since the source of Mystery was a divine power, almost all of their creations could be hidden from the gods’ prying eyes. If a god were to spy their creations, they would either have to put in more divine power to directly see through the divine powers shrouding it, or break unravel the source of the opposing divine power (by breaking down the Mystery system) to bypass its protection.

It was worth mentioning that the high elves’ contract with the gods in the past had been kept secret that no one knows which gods had come to an agreement with them. Moreover, Xi Wei was a newbie god whose divinity had no such records, just as there were no clues after he scrounged through the divinity fragments of the Aquatic Lord and the Rainforest Guardian-meaning that the second solution was not available for him.

‘The source and application of Mystery has to be stored in this ruin…’ Xi Wei thought.

While it was quite awkward to say it, it was quite obvious what was the last resort kept within the high elven ruins if one really thought about it.

“The true form of the contract, made between the high elves and the gods in the age of myths…”

If that proved to be the case, Xi Wei’s spying past their divine power and instruction of his Players to stick to their plan and steal the true contract would break the rules, and definitely catch the attention of those involved in the contract.