The Era of Gods-Chapter 582 -

Chapter 582: 582

The ancient city walls were tall and massive, and the city itself was very vast. At the city gate, he found a carriage that took him to the nearest inn in the eastern part of the city.

After stepping off the carriage and paying the fare, Lin Xiao didn’t look at the inn but turned to look at the other side, where there was a seven or eight-story building that was considered tall for that era. The entrance bore the large characters of “Duolun Evening News.”

In the eyes of ordinary people, this was just a newspaper office, but in Lin Xiao’s eyes, the building seemed somewhat odd, although he couldn’t quite put his finger on what was strange about it.

At that moment, a crisp female voice spoke from behind him:

“Excuse me, sir, you’re blocking the way.”

He turned to see a group of three men and one woman ready to leave the inn. When the man leading the group, a middle-aged man with a full beard and a sword on his back, saw the mark on Lin Xiao’s arm, he asked:

“Are you also a Demon Hunter?”

Lin Xiao noticed a similar mark on the man’s arm and nodded, saying,

“I come from Holly Town.”

The middle-aged man laughed and said,

“I’ve heard that Holly Town once had a Demon Hunter training camp, and it’s said that a master Demon Hunter known as ‘Shadow’ once emerged from there. Have you heard of him?”

“I haven’t heard of him.”

Lin Xiao shook his head, as he had been away for over a hundred years. This ‘Shadow’ must have been a master who rose to prominence after he left.

“That’s a pity!”

The middle-aged man shifted the conversation and continued,

“My name is Leon, and these are my companions and disciples. We are preparing to go to the City Lord’s Mansion for a bounty quest. Would you care to join us?”

“I’ll reserve a room first and then go.”

“Alright then.”

After bidding the group farewell, Lin Xiao checked into the inn and spent some money to get a rough understanding of the city’s situation from the staff.

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Just as the knight had said, a Large Strange Fragment had indeed appeared over Duolun City, right above it, and a large amount of strangeness had leaked into the city with the energy, causing a significant impact on the city’s safety.

According to the inn staff, many people died in the beginning, and later, Count Dolan offered large rewards to bring in many professionals to clean up the strangeness. Now there weren’t many left in the city, and if there were, they had either extremely strong concealment abilities or were very powerful entities. The bounties were very high.

Of course, Lin Xiao didn’t come for the bounty, but for the Large Strange Fragments.

If he could completely purify it, he could obtain a segment of the fundamental rules’ Fragments, which could even be effective against True Gods. His True Body was now divinely enthroned, and of course, he needed such precious items.

Although the main mission of this descent was to resolve past entanglements, it did not prevent him from taking the opportunity to obtain some good items.

The next day he arrived at the City Lord’s Mansion in the center of the city. Just as he entered, he paused, sensing the presence of three Children of Divine Realm within the mansion.

Instinctively he thought to retreat, but then he remembered that in this world, children of the Divine Realm didn’t need to fight to the death, except for the scramble for Strange Fragments.

Composing himself, he strode into the City Lord’s Mansion, and inside the surrounding wall was a not-so-small square with a row of stone tablets by the wall, on which many plaques hung. About twenty people were scattered in front of the tablets examining them, including the three Divine Realm Children – an old man, a knight in thick plate armor, and a young girl whose Race could not be determined at the moment, though certainly none were Humans, as children from the same Divine Realm could usually sense each other.

In this world dominated by Humans, most children from other Races of Divine Realms would adapt to the local ways and behave in human form.

As he entered, the three Divine Realm Children all looked over, but they turned their gazes away when he approached the stone tablets with an impassive face.

No matter which Divine Realm civilization they came from, any non-Human was an enemy.

Most of the tasks on the stone tablets were for exterminating the strangeness within the city, but on the central tablet, there were a series of tasks requiring entry into the giant Strange Fragment hovering above, with very generous rewards.

These rewards were generally for the world’s native professionals. The Divine Realm Children wouldn’t care for these rewards since if they successfully explored, they would take the Fragments themselves.

Lin Xiao casually accepted a task, took a small plaque, and gained the right to board an airship into the Strange Fragment.

Many lower and mid-tier professionals lacked the ability to fly and could only rely on airships provided by the City Lord’s Mansion.

With the plaque in hand, he made his way to the slightly demolished plaza in the southern part of Duolun City, where a large airship and five small ones were docked. Presenting his token, a staff member led him to a small airship. There were six others with him, three of whom turned out to be Children from other Divine Realms.

These three seemed to come from different civilizations and had arrived alone, eyeing each other with suspicion.

As the airship slowly ascended, at about five or six hundred meters above the ground, he could distinctly sense the distortion in the space around them and a peculiar Strength beginning to affect them. Lin Xiao felt his connection to the Divine Realm weakening under this force, and a magical artifact imbued with his True Body’s Divine Power became unusable – the Strange Fragment had the ability to block their access to Divine Power from the Divine Realm and their True Bodies.

The other Divine Realm Children seated in different corners also stood up, their faces showing recognition of the phenomenon—their reaction was just an instinctive response.

In other words, once they entered the Strange Fragment, they would not be able to use their Divine Realm’s or True Bodies’ powers but would have to rely on their own Strength.

“No wonder it’s so dangerous!”

But fortune favors the bold, and had it not been dangerous, the Fragments would not have awaited his arrival but would have been snatched away by others already.

The airship directly entered the massive vortex. Streaks of red Lightning exploded outside the airship windows, space grew increasingly twisted, and the connection to his Divine Realm gradually faded until it finally disappeared completely.

Lin Xiao tried to communicate with the Creation Rubik’s Cube, and it worked.

He wanted to try if he could transfer something through the Creation Rubik’s Cube, but considering he had not yet entered the Strange Fragment space and to avoid any issues, he restrained himself from attempting it.

As the Void in front of him twisted to the extreme, everything became blurred. Lin Xiao, following the prompts he had seen in the City Lord’s Mansion, remained motionless.

He didn’t know how long had passed before the blur gradually cleared, and he was surprised to find a streak of sunlight appearing outside the window. Looking along the sunlight downward, he saw a lush jungle that seemed to have no end at first glance.

The airship was slowly descending, landing on the edge of a stone building. From the window, he could see that it was a camp built within the jungle, surrounded by a tall stone wall that kept the dense jungle outside.

There were many figures moving about in the camp, with squads of soldiers on patrol.

The girl nearest to the door was the first one to walk out, the other two followed immediately after, and Lin Xiao was the last to exit.

Standing on top of the stone platform and looking down, the camp wasn’t very big, but there was a sizable crowd, each dressed in odd clothing and carrying weapons, appearing to all be professionals.

Due to the space shielding, he couldn’t sense their auras and thus did not know how many Children of the Divine Realm from different divine civilizations were there. Lin Xiao felt somewhat bewildered and stood still without moving for a while.

Looking up into the sky, it was a brilliantly clear blue with nothing but clear skies all around, and gentle breezes swayed the treetops in every direction. No anomalies in sight.

“Where is the strangeness? How am I supposed to purify this Large Strange Fragment?”

He was completely at a loss.

Just as he was considering whether to find other Human Divine Realm Children, the sky suddenly darkened. He quickly looked up and saw the once clear blue sky turning dark as ominous clouds started forming and rapidly came together into large swaths. What shocked him most was the endless sea of trees around him withering at a visible rate, turning to ash, as if the entire world was undergoing destruction.

Apart from the base, the whole world was disappearing rapidly before his very eyes, as blood-red lightning struck incessantly. Lin Xiao, with his keen eyesight, saw something enormous and ferocious looming within the endless cloud mass in the sky.

It was then that he heard someone shouting in the camp:

“All from the Human Main World, come this way.”

Lin Xiao’s spirits lifted as he saw many people converging in that direction, and he quickly jumped down from the platform and ran over.

However, as he approached, a man dressed in Leather Armour eyed him coming closer and stopped him, asking:

“What’s the name of the third-biggest city in Nanyunxing Province?”

Lin Xiao was startled for a moment and shook his head:

“I know the capital of Nanyunxing Province, but who would remember the third-biggest city if they’re not a local?”

“Who is the director of the Canaan Academy?”

“I don’t know….”

“Please name the twenty-four solar terms of the ancient Main World.”

“Ah, this….”

He could name many, like the Spring Equinox, Start of Autumn, Winter Solstice, Minor Snow, etc., but he really couldn’t recall all of them.

“Who was ranked tenth in the 145th Super Newcomer Summer Camp?”

“…. Hell!”

Lin Xiao quickly tried to recall who was ranked tenth in the Super Newcomer Summer Camp he had attended, but he genuinely had no recollection; nobody remembered the second place, let alone who was tenth.

That’s right, he was asking about the exact edition of the Summer Camp Lin Xiao had attended.

“Who is known as the number one Welfare Princess of the Main World?”

“Qing Wuyue!”

The man looked at him with a knowing look and patted him on the shoulder, saying:

“That will do, come on.”

Lin Xiao was speechless, the more he thought about it, the less he understood. After a few steps, he couldn’t help but ask in a low voice:

“So, answering just one question correctly is enough to confirm he’s not a Child of the Divine Realm from another civilization in disguise?”

The man shook his head and said:

“No, if you had answered all the questions correctly, I would have been more suspicious. After all, these questions cover too wide a range of levels. The upper-class elites usually don’t concern themselves with trivial matters like the ancient twenty-four solar terms of the Main World, and they wouldn’t know the name of a small city in Nanyunxing Province.”

“And an ordinary adventurer wouldn’t be inclined to know about the Super Newcomer Summer Camp that only the elite can participate in, nor would they know who the director of Canaan Academy is.”

“If a Child of the Divine Realm from another civilization wanted to impersonate, they might specifically research these things but would generally not know what a ‘Welfare Princess’ is—only LSPs are interested in that.”

Lin Xiao was astonished.