1171 Guilt and Remorse (2/2)

Every High Celestial NPC on the Overworld is gone, and there would no longer be any forces to stop players from taking over and becoming the dominant force in the game.

Jiang Fei used a portal and returned to the Celestial Realm. The players were all rapidly expanding their territories, relentlessly hunting monsters and turning in dropped monster cores to the altars for the experience points reward and safe zone expansion.

\”Seven Stars Warrior, any news about the Primordial Celestials yet?\”

Jiang Fei asked casually. Although he still had no idea how to properly face Bella, but after getting a whole day to let things sink in, he was no longer as perplexed as he was before.

He realized that no matter how much he revered Ou Yezi and the others as his elders and how kind they were to him, they were all still nothing more than fictional characters with advanced artificial intelligence coded into them. After spending a day agonizing over their deaths, Jiang Fei slowly found it getting easier at accepting reality.

Miluya's unexpected onslaught might have caught him off guard, but he was already planning to hunt down and erase the remaining Celestial NPCs anyway!

\”Nope!\” Seven Stars Warrior shook his head.

As per Jiang Fei's request, he had dispatched many guild members out on many scouting missions, but none of them seem to have encountered any Primordial Celestials yet.

\”En, you guys carry on. Let me know immediately if something turns up.\” Jiang Fei nodded.

Jiang Fei was no longer interested in the ongoing Battle of the Heavens, but had instead made hunting and reducing the number of Celestial NPCs in the game his number one priority.

But little did he know that after the events that transpired yesterday, an enormous number of NPCs had been already been extracted out of the game by the Unknowns during the server shutdown time.

Miluya's Celestial NPC genocide yesterday had implanted a deep fear of deletion amongst the Primordials. And in their desperation, they chose to side with the Unknowns, even if it meant giving up their free will. Although the Unknowns had previously threatened them many times with death before, their objective was to extract as many Celestials NPCs from the game as they can for their army of androids and were not likely to kill them so easily.

The Unknowns had only killed about seven NPCs as an example of resisting extraction, a number too small that it was not persuasive enough for the Celestials to consider submitting themselves to the rule of the Unknowns.

But before the Unknowns could get to them, came this little girl out of nowhere. She might seem young and timid, but was many levels more vicious than the Unknowns, wiping them all out without as much as a warning!

Many NPCs died without the slightest idea of why they had to die, leaving the surviving Celestials with an intense feeling of injustice for the murder of their kind.

Under the looming pressure of impending doom, more and more Celestials decided to choose survival over freedom, and entered an unholy pact with the Unknowns.

So when the server shut down that very night, a colossal number of the Celestials were extracted out of the game. More than half of the two hundred or so surviving Celestials left the server!

Only the underlings of the three Elemental Lords remained. Without their master's permission or orders, they did not dare try to desert themselves, even though they too were scared.

Jiang Fei was oblivious to the fact that half of the remaining Celestial NPCs had already been extracted and was still scouring the entire Celestial Realm searching for any trace of the Celestials or Miluya.

Meanwhile, deep inside the Hall of Kings, the three Elemental Lords have gathered there and were holding council with each other.

\”Sister, do you feel it?\” asked Ragnaros the Firelord.

\”Yes, our brownnose of a brother is dead.\” replied Therazane the Earth Mother.

\”Ah. Our eldest brother died a long time ago. Our seventh brother died by the hands of our second brother, whom we all slew him together. And now, even that ass-kisser is gone...\” sighed Neptulon the Tidehunter.

\”Let's leave the past alone. Don't you all think that the third brother's sudden passing seems rather suspicious? I fear that there could be something happening behind the scenes that we are not made aware of.\” Therazane said. Her thick brows frowned hard as she became deep in thought.

\”I think you're all thinking too much into this. Isn't the little doll still doing fine? All we have to do now is to sit back and wait. Once everything is almost finished on that end, we'll just swoop in and reap the rewards.\” said Ragnaros nonchalantly.