Chapter 663 – 663. Ruins of the Ancients
Time to hunt the emperor.
You must track down the Golden Fleet that has run away, catch the Emperor, and kill him. If you catch and kill him within 500 years, you win.
“The emperor will appear in all events that occur from now on.”
“Why? Didn’t the emperor have to run away?”
“One of the two reasons they want to run away is the emperor’s ascension.”
“Ascension of the Emperor?”
If the Emperor is on the run for 500 years, the remaining time until the end of the universe, he automatically wins. However, there is no way to escape from me for 500 years.
That’s why he will quickly aim for ascension.
“The event created by the management team is the best opportunity for ascension. He will try to increase his power somehow through events. “There is no way for him to defeat me other than ascending to heaven.”
Therefore, all we have to do is kill the Emperor’s clones that will appear in the upcoming events and take away all the opportunities they will gain.
“Furthermore, all you have to do is find the home planet of the Golden Armada and the hidden Eldar people and destroy it. It would probably be faster to find their home planet and destroy it.”
If they destroy the difficult-to-move home planet, all they have left is the Golden Fleet. You become a space wanderer.
I think they’ll probably run away from us, land on various planets, gather resources, and then run away again. It would be a very miserable situation. Just by destroying the home planet, you will be able to completely shatter your mentality.
“Most of the gods in the pantheon have lost their power. From now on, some of the neutral gods who are followers of the prophet and other things from the Mangwijeon will interfere with us. But there is nothing to be afraid of.”
Because I plan to actively pursue Shinsal.
“Okay then, from now on we will participate in the Hero Festival.”
A notification came to mind yesterday.
The Transcendents were a kind of invitation to participate in the Heroes’ Festival.
A being related to Enkidu. A place where there are traces of the King of Heroes.
In fact, the King of Heroes has no meaning to me anymore. Because I have already gained greater power than that.
But it’s probably still the power the emperor needs.
“The Emperor will think that if he obtains the Hero King’s legacy and obtains the Prophet’s documents from Mimir’s treasury, he will at least be able to compete with Zeke.”
Basically, if you roll a snowball of strength, you will become exponentially stronger like me. If the Hero King’s legacy and the prophet’s documents are taken away by the emperor, the game board may tilt in that direction again.
So, you should not give such an excuse at all.
“The first thing we must do when participating in the Heroes’ Festival is hunt down the Emperor and annihilate the Transcendants.”
Kill all transcendents from camps other than ours.
And they will also hunt down the emperor who may be hiding among them. Since we can’t specify the emperor, we’ll have to assume he just kills them all.
“It is annihilation.”
Killing everything without leaving anything behind. That’s our goal.
I am no longer interested in the legacy of the King of Heroes. I just don’t want someone else to take it.
“Then let’s go in.”
I decided to bring only three people to this festival.
First of all, Hilde got stronger. And Cheshire awakens to its origins. Lastly, Merda is on the verge of reaching the state of semi-immortality.
I decided to take three tall women with me.
“Then let’s meet later.”
“What if I fall?”
“Come up there by killing other participants until you meet them.”
“I understand.”
According to Enkidu, hundreds of thousands of transcendental people will participate in the Heroes’ Festival and try to eat the King of Heroes’ treasures and legacy.
Therefore, no one knows how the preliminary round will be held. There was no rule that we had to start in the same place just because we entered together.
“Hoo.”
When I opened my eyes after the transfer was over, what unfolded was a world of forests and collapsed buildings.
Where am I? A language not native to Earth was written on the remains of the collapsed building.
Tiring!
As I was trying to infer where this place was by checking the language written on the remains of the building, a notification window immediately appeared in front of my eyes.
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[You have entered the first stage of proof of heroism.]
[Ruins of the Ancients]
-Survive from the ancients and advance to the next level.
-If you do not proceed to the next step within 10 days, you will disappear along with the forest.
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Ruins of the ancient people.
Is escaping this city the way to take the next step? Is not it? I don’t know.
The most important thing about this notification window is that it does not specify exactly how to proceed to the next step.
In short, if you don’t figure out a way to get out of here or move on to the next level within 10 days, you will die.
“Omoshiroi…”
Indeed, this is a game where the winner is the one who first finds a way to advance to the next level rather than survive.
“Then..”
I’ll have to check this city out first.
I spread my wings and flew into the sky. First of all, I couldn’t feel the energy of Hilde, Mer, and Cheshire.
I guess everyone has moved to a different stage. Roughly speaking, the number of Transcendants who fell on this map is probably around 90,000, including me?
The energy of the ancient people is a bit foreign, so even if you count it, about 70,000 people have crash-landed in this vast city.
‘A barrier surrounds the city.’
After detecting those inside the city, we began to observe the ruins of ancient people in earnest.
First of all, a translucent dome covered the city, and it seemed like it would take a lot of force to get out of the dome.
And several important-looking facilities inside the city caught my eye.
‘Ancient people and ancient monsters guard the transmission camp created in the middle of the collapsed city and its surroundings. Very suspicious.’
Also, the sinkhole visible on one side is suspicious.
Three ways to get out of the first step came to mind.
First, break through this round barrier that covers the city and go outside.
Next is to activate that suspicious transmission line guarded by the ancients.
The last thing is to recklessly dive into a sinkhole over there that looks very suspicious.
All three may not be correct. However, as a result of checking from the sky above the city, those three seem to be the most likely ways to escape the first stage.
“Hmm?”
As I was checking the panoramic view of the city, I noticed signs of presence around me.
I see people who had the same thoughts as me and flew up into the sky to check out the city.
There were some with wings, and there were also Yi people who looked like martial people just walking in the air.
Everyone is flying in their own way. They must have also come up to the sky to find out what the Crucible is like.
Hwiyung-!!!!
“Oh my. It’s so damned.”
As I was up in the sky looking down at the ground, a projectile flew in from below.
Spears, arrows, and bullets thrown to hunt those who came up to check out the view of the city rain down.
They’re probably attacking blindly to eliminate their competitors. Are these idiots crazy because they want to die?
-Kaaaaa!!!!
At that time, a transcendental person flying nearby was hit by a flying projectile and fell to the ground.
“Getting hit by that? Can’t you avoid it? No. Even if it’s true…”
No, it may be true, but is it really that painful?
“It doesn’t hurt..?”
I also have a spear and arrows stuck in my body, but that’s it. Most of the time, it doesn’t penetrate the skin, so it feels like it just falls off with a tap.
“Hmm.”
There are too many miscellaneous things. There are insects crawling on the ground and in the sky.
I think we need to organize things a bit.
“Spread.”
He stretched out both hands and released putrid gas.
Green gas spewing out in all directions.
“Uh? Bigaaaaa!!!!”
In an instant, the green-yellow clouds that covered the sky made all the transcendents who had soared into the sky rotted and fell to the ground.
“This is the insecticide for transcendents.”
As their flesh rotted away, even their lungs melted as they inhaled the gas, and as they struggled at the crossroads of life and death, their entire bodies became a nest of parasites and began to be eaten.
From the corpses of the dead Transcendents, space parasites crawled out, eating the blood and flesh of the Transcendents and becoming dozens of times stronger.
It will soon spread into the forest. Since I can control the power of corruption, I can control those parasites at will. Parasites like that are no longer a threat to me.
I no longer suffered from parasites in the black market Susu-dong. Now even those things are bound under my power.
“Well then, eat as much as you want.”
Parasites that came out eating the transcendental. They became stronger as they ate the body of the transcendent. He will probably become a pretty annoying enemy and harass the participants in this city to death.
“Then. Relax.”
Let’s find a way to get out of step 1.
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“This is crazy.”
Sasaro, the emperor’s great warrior, woke up in the same place as Jang Jojun.
He was on the verge of death from the green rain that was created when the putrid gases and the putrid gases met the clouds falling from the sky.
“Ugh..!”
The gas and green rain that touched his arms tried to melt the skin, and for some reason, parasites grew like crazy in the places where the skin melted, burning holes in his arms and legs.
“Go away! “Get out of here!”
Sasaro frantically unleashed his magic power and shook off the parasite larvae that were eating his flesh and boring holes in his arms and legs.
Things like mango worms fell out of Sasaro’s body. However, even this will not last long.
Because the same thing will keep happening over and over again. Continue until you die. If you do that, your magic power will eventually drop.
That will be Sasaro’s last time.
“There! You!”
“Huh?”
While he was wondering how to overcome this difficult challenge, a woman wearing a raincoat appeared in front of Sasaro.
“What are you..”
Sasaro immediately tried to take out his axe, but the woman raised both hands and stopped him.
“For a moment. I don’t want to fight with you. It would be a loss if we fight among ourselves. Hey, did you see the monster floating in the sky? That guy is our enemy?”
That is correct. In order to survive in the ruins of the ancient people, something had to be done, whether it was dealing with Jang Jo-jun or sealing it.
“So, are we going to cooperate now?”
“The idea is to find a way to live. “I can’t die from that monstrous man before I can move on to the next step.”
“…”
Sasaro nodded his head. He thought he was doomed since he started on the same stage as the Apostle of Ten Thousand Demons, but he thought that there might be hope if he cooperated with other transcendents.
Driven to the limit, he eventually decided to follow the woman’s words.
“Just follow me. Because I know the way to the underground of this city.”
The ground is dangerous. The Apostle of Ten Thousand Demons was flying through the sky, hunting down any transcendental beings that caught his eye.
So, when the woman told him to go underground, Sasaro suppressed her doubtful feelings and followed her down to the basement of the ruined city, where her green rain and her corrupting gas could not reach.
“Did there ever exist a space like this…”
“Isn’t it amazing? “There is a space like this underground.”
“It’s definitely… Surprising.”
The underground space was a futuristic form of civilization. A scenery that seems to show how prosperous the ancient people were as a civilization.
In an underground space filled with blue lights, Sasaro thought that perhaps if he made good use of the items in this facility, he might be able to move on to the next level.
“Okay, rest here for now.”
“Uh oh. Thank you.”
The woman gives Sasaro a blanket and a drink and then leaves to rescue the transcendental.
Sasaro saw numerous transcendental people gathered underground, savoring the scent of the drink.
They were all transcendents who escaped from the green curse that covered the earth.
They must also be people who, like him, are trying to resist the apostle of Manma.
She felt hopeful that Sasaro had many more people to fight with than she expected.
And around that time, someone came into the underground shelter.
“Festival. It’s a festival.”
Naked man.
The leader of the ancient people appeared to prey on the transcendent.
