Chapter 136 Triggering Missions (2/2)

This time, the corpse started to vibrate vigorously, and at the same time, there were snake-like movements underneath the skin as if there were dozens of vile snakes slithering. Many marks started to exudate from the corpse with shock and agitation. Rhode clenched his teeth together as he continued pinning the corpse against the wall. After a while, the corpse slowly returned to its peaceful state and Rhode finally let out a breath of relief. Rhode then began to withdraw his sword from the body again. This time, however, instead of the usual red human blood, disgusting green slimy fluid seeped out of the wound.

Rhode frowned as he observed the blood stains on his sword.

This meant trouble.

In fact, Rhode did not drop his guard even after he hacked his sword into the mercenary's skull. One major reason was that he did not receive any experience points in his system prompt. Just this abnormally itself warned Rhode to remain vigilant. Although this was the reality, Rhode knew that as long he killed anything, he would receive experience points regardless whether they are monsters, alchemy creatures, or humans.

And previously, after he made a move that would have killed the mercenary, Rhode did not receive any prompt which could only mean that the man wasn't dead!

But based on the situation, this shouldn't have happened..?

Rhode's expression turned gloomy at this though. He considered himself to be a ”walking library” since he was once the best player in the game, so he knew what was coming up as much as he refused to believe it. Only one factor could lead to this situation. Within this mining tunnel, only that goddamn mission would carry such an unusual feature.

And this was the mission that he was most unwilling to even touch.

”This is big trouble….”

Rhode let out a low sigh as he sliced open the corpse's clothes with his sword. Underneath the skin of the body were disturbing, deep scars that were squeezed to form a shape of a roaring mouth.

”Ding—!”

At this moment, suddenly a crisp voice sounded in Rhode's brain, followed by a prompt that appeared before him.

[You have discovered an evil being. They breathe darkness and are struggling within the shadows, trying to return to this world — Mission triggered >]

Rhode was dumbfounded.

Ever since he came to this world, this was the first time he received a mission via the system prompt. Originally, Rhode thought that the system missions did not exist in this world. Previously, he led his mercenary group to complete so many tasks, but the system had never displayed any prompts like [You have received this mission] or [You have completed this mission]. This was why Rhode thought that this world and the game had distinct differences — But what does this even mean? He had already decided to assume that there were indeed differences between game and reality, but what was this? It was as if the system just wanted to mess with him.

However, Rhode didn't feel pissed. He was actually very familiar with >. This wasn't a mission that he could receive from an NPC, but could only be triggered by a series of coincidences. Of course, one would not be able to receive any rewards or equipment from any NPC after completing, but rather, one would be able to receive special rewards such as dynamic skills, experience points or even skill points. So far, as it seems, the system did not change anything related to the rewards. After opening the > mission, Rhode saw that the rewards are identical to what he remembered from the game. Completion of this mission will allocate 5000 experience points, 3 skill points and an undisclosed special random reward to Rhode.

Is this a game or reality?

Rhode felt confused and irritated.

As a player, naturally, he had completed this mission. Therefore, Rhode obviously knew how troublesome this mission was. As a matter of fact, there was a point where he just wanted to drop everything and just escape to the surface. Although he accepted this mission, he could choose not to finish it. At most, he could just cancel this mission since there was no penalty for canceling missions.But Rhode couldn't do it.

If it was really the Jade Tears Mercenary Group who caused the activation of >, then this spells catastrophe for the Starlight Mercenary Group and Deep Stone City. Considering his relationship with Jade Tears Mercenary Group, Rhode doesn't believe that those guys would be kind-hearted enough to not put himself and the Starlight Mercenary Group in their number one rank of their ”to destroy” list.

A dangerous bud must be nipped before it was allowed to grow.

Once the > advances into its next phase > or >, then it would be too late for regrets.

Once he made his decision, Rhode stretched out his right hand.

Almost immediately, a white card spun and appeared on his palm.