Quadruple split.

Chapter 2302 Breaking the Wind

The year 1928 of the Holy Calendar is the closest to the first year of the Holy Calendar since the start of this [Guilt Debate], which is the starting point of the history of the Realm of Innocence in people's minds. The official history of this period is in most cases impossible to verify. Even institutions such as the Wanderer's Inn or the Thieves' Guild rarely record that chaotic period.

In other words, except for the core of the Elf Forest, the Eternal Glade [Shaledrassil] and [Between the Annual Rings] of Mount Tianzhu, most of the records before 3000 years of the Holy Calendar are very fragmented and unreliable. The official history recorded by various forces is not official at all, and the unofficial history is so wild that there are even remarks that orcs and ogres were originally the same race, which seems outrageous and ridiculous at the moment.

As for the "Disaster of Terrible Beasts" that occurred in the middle reaches of the Jinhui River in the year 1928 of the Holy Calendar, up to now, no serious player knows the ins and outs and the whole story.

However, from a God's perspective, this matter is actually not difficult to explain. To put it simply, the Centaur tribe [Red Mane] living in the middle reaches of the Jinhui River, where the Principality of Scarlan is located, was met with severe challenges more than 7,000 years later. The source of the threat was not the human city [Gaoling], whose relationship with it has become increasingly strained in recent years, but a large number of monsters with fins and scales that suddenly appeared in the Jinhui River.

Of course, given that these creatures also have wisdom, culture, language, history and heritage, they are not monsters in an objective sense. In 9571 of the Holy Calendar, they had already obtained the civilized definition of "People of the Sea" or "Sea Tribe". But in the eyes of the Red Mane Tribe at that time, those things that could only make mumbling sounds like "Ggmmmlmrmrgmr" and "Gagagaga" were simply monsters!

However, through the advanced perspective of the year 9571 of the Holy Calendar, we can see that these monsters are basically composed of "fishmen" and "sea orcs", among which the latter seem to be distant relatives of the "half-orcs" on land. From the player's perspective, they are humanoid creatures with seafood elements in their bodies, such as the cold and violent shark man, the gloomy starfish man, or the "shrimp man, crab man, and turtle man" who seem to have come from the set of Journey to the West.

As for the more numerous murlocs, they are a type of humanoid creature, but their bodies are covered with scales that are much denser than those of half-dragons, almost as dense as those of lizardmen. They also have fins and gills. Due to their large numbers, they are not rare even in the player's timeline.

For example, the Mud Fishman is a low-level subspecies of the Murlocs. Like the Sand Goblins among the Goblins, although they have basic intelligence, they generally do not seem to be very smart. They prefer to act on instinct rather than thinking. In most cases, they are not taken care of by their clans and can only huddle together for warmth. The first batch of 'monsters' that Mo Tan encountered under the 'Lawful Good' personality was a combination of Sand Goblins and Mud Fishmen.

Coincidentally, in addition to the inferior subspecies of mud fishmen, Mo in the [Realm of Innocence] also encountered another group of fishmen. Although a group of people who were not tolerated by the tribes living in the shallow sea, they had a considerable degree of intelligence...Super Saiyan fishmen.

It's just that these so-called Super Saiyan Murlocs cannot explode or turn their fins into gold. In fact, the reason they were given this strange name is because a player who passively jumped back and forth on the timeline saved them hundreds of years ago. He not only taught the common language to the elder of their tribe, Mrga-Mrga Benbolba, but also gave this exiled group a name.

In short, in the year 9571 of the Holy Calendar, the sea people, led by the fishmen and sea beastmen, have been classified as intelligent civilizations. Although the relationship with the land races is relatively stiff, due to the different living environments, they basically do not interfere with each other. The Scarlan Principality, the Savin Empire, the Port of Palmyra, the Furnace City and other waterfront forces have joined forces with the Holy Church and like to do business or preach with the sea people. The reason is...

Naturally, there are huge trade profits and millions of potential believers.

Therefore, in the past twenty centuries, the communication between the sea people and the land races has become increasingly frequent. Now people can not only frequently see the sea people in places such as Anka Market, Free City, Academy City, etc., but there are even more than one hundred underwater churches in the coastal areas of the northeastern continent. Mo Tan heard from Xia Lian that the Dawn Sect alone has developed tens of thousands of shallow believers among the sea people. Although this number is only a tiny drop in the ocean in a macro sense, considering that the number of potential believers on land is becoming increasingly scarce, all major sects have put a lot of effort on those guys who mostly like to breathe with gills.

All of this has nothing to do with the Realm of Innocence in the year 1928 of the Holy Calendar. That is why, although the alchemist of the Wind-Breaking Bird and the Mo Tan of the Haunted Church are both knowledgeable, their understanding of the background of the current game is very equal.

Not only that, perhaps in order to limit the intelligence of both teams as much as possible, the system only gave the basic task of the guilt-calling battle in the initial stage, namely - [annihilate all members of the enemy team].

So, what is their positioning in this game?

Here we can cheat again and observe from a God's perspective——

First of all, the role of [Wind-Breaking Bird] in the middle reaches of the Jinhui River in 1928 of the Holy Calendar is the white gloves used by the chieftain [Red Mane] of the Centaur tribe to exclude dissidents. It is worth mentioning that although the time is relatively long, the chieftain's ideas are very avant-garde. For example, although he will maintain the "purity" of the tribe, he does not mind letting outsiders become his "tools". Therefore, the composition of the secret force where the five members of the [Wind-Breaking Bird] team are located is quite complex. Although the number of people is small, it almost includes members of most races.

Their mission in this battle was simple, which was to sneak into the human city [Gaoling] which had been eerily quiet during this period, and investigate whether it was those humans with ulterior motives who lured the "demon beasts", or what later generations called the "sea people", here.

On the other hand, the five people from the Haunted Church took a different stance. Unlike the Wind-Breaking Bird, Mo Tan and his men were affiliated with the Lord of Gaoling, Mera, in this game. The goal of these people in 1928 in history was to find a way to tear a gap in the territory of Red Mane and create an opportunity for the "Terrible Beast" to directly destroy those savage beasts of burden.

According to common sense, both sides will definitely receive a mission the moment the game map is loaded. For example, the mission for [Wind-Breaking Bird] should be 'Sneak into Gaoling City + specific mission objectives', and the mission for [Haunted Church] should be 'Invade Redmane Territory + specific mission objectives'. After completing the mission, you will receive XX reward, and the other party will receive XX punishment.

Unfortunately, perhaps the system was not satisfied with the difficulty of the current background and believed that both teams should face some additional challenges, so the tasks of both parties were not made clear at the beginning of the game.

This situation has already had a clear definition when the penultimate game of this [Crime Debate] has been going on, and that is the "hidden task" that has spread far and wide on the forum.

That's right, it's 'hidden tasks' rather than 'no tasks'.

The reason is simple. According to the feedback from a large number of players who have deeply experienced the [Guilt War], people have confirmed that there must be a [Basic Task] and an [Independent Task] in the game. In most cases, these two tasks will appear at the same time or be combined into one. However, there are also a few times when the system will not issue the [Independent Task] at the beginning, but will hide it until the player meets certain conditions in the task.

Well, based on this we can see that if [Haunted Church] and [Wind-Breaking Bird] want to unlock their own 'independent missions', they must collect intelligence intensively in the initial stage and arrive at the corresponding area when they can at least figure out their identity and goals. In this way, independent missions with higher returns will naturally be unlocked immediately.

This level of thinking didn't take even a second for people like Hei Fan, the alchemist, and Lussel, so the moment they noticed that they only had basic tasks, they had already sorted out all of the above content.

Not only that, the reactions of both parties were very similar, namely——

“We don’t care about independent missions.”

Almost at the moment of regaining his ability to move, the Taoist priest who had already completed the task check immediately completed the situation review, and then turned to Shiyin, who had not played in the recent rounds of the game, and said in an unquestionable tone: "Check."

"1."

Shiyin, who was clearly speaking with her mouth but still retained the habit of communicating by typing, gave an immediate answer, then pulled off the beautiful aqua-blue prism from her neck. Her beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, and she actually used her mental power to make it float in front of her and slowly rotate.

Although most people didn't figure out what she was doing at the first time, it didn't stop people from being surprised by this scene. You know, whether in individual competitions or team competitions, Shiyin always gave everyone the impression of a powerful mage who was slightly familiar with illusions, much like a lighter and weaker version of the Fenghuaxueyue player from [Pai Lao]. But now it seems that this girl who is both a "2.5-dimensional idol" and a "professional player" and has not delayed any of them was probably hiding something before, because her current actions are not like what a mage can do. As for the illusionist system abilities of Fenghuaxueyue and Yu Shang, they are of no use in the preparation stage.

  Unfortunately, even the professional players could not immediately figure out what Shiyin was doing. However, five seconds later, when a blurry starlight projection flashed in front of the girl, many generalists or people with deep knowledge of mysticism suddenly realized it!

Astrologer!

Shion is actually an astrologer!

The first astrologer in this year's [Guilt Debate]!

"Northwest... Woo..."

The next moment, Shiyin's face turned pale, and she fell backwards uncontrollably as if she had lost her balance. Then, after Youming pressed the hilt of the sword against her shoulder, she bit her silver teeth and said with difficulty, "Northwest, something ominous is going on."

"Thanks for your hard work."

The Taoist nodded slightly, and did not ask any unnecessary questions such as "what unknown", "how many unknown", "how far northwest", etc. Instead, he immediately pressed down his right hand to signal Shiyin to stop reflecting the [Star Map], and said lightly: "I think there should be nothing more ominous than a haunted church here, right?"

"Just do as we said before, try to shorten their preparation time as much as possible and rush over together."

Lusel yawned, and slowly walked to the front of the team, carrying his unsubtle-looking weapon, Tombstone of the Undertaker. The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and he asked again without looking back, "Are you sure it's the northwest?"

After releasing the Star Map, Shiyin's face immediately regained its rosy complexion. She nodded vigorously, pointed at the direction where Lusail was facing, and said loudly, "That's over there, Captain."

"Captain received it."

Lusail licked the corner of his mouth, then leaned down slightly, and said lightly when there were only three seconds left to prepare: "March formation."

Except for the Taoist priest who raised his eyebrows and shrugged his shoulders, no one else made any move, because as early as in the conversation just now, the Taoist priest, Xizhao, Youming and Shiyin had already formed the so-called "marching formation" with Lusail as the spearhead, and Lusail himself actually knew this very well. The reason why he mentioned it briefly was entirely because -

“There has to be some sense of ceremony.”

The captain of the Wind-Breaking Bird smiled casually, then narrowed his eyes, and slowly took the first step at the moment when the invisible barrier disappeared.

[Field Expansion·Prisoner Bird——Breaking the Wind]

……

"Tsk tsk, you are really worthy of being Grandpa Lu."

In the commentary booth, Guo Shi Wushuang, who was invited to come, smacked his lips and sighed leisurely, "He can make friendly units centered on him gain at least a 300% movement speed bonus in an instant. Now I suspect that he is the first player in our game to master the field."

Xue Yin, who was still acting as the super cute atmosphere group, raised her hand super cutely and asked super cutely: "Why?"

"Because I mastered the inherent barrier quite early, Teacher Xue Yin."

Guo Shi Wushuang replied in a not very subtle way in front of his idol, and smiled: "So I can guess some unexpected contents. For example, I guess his [Domain] when facing Xing Long before was the 'genuine' one, and the current form that can mobilize the whole team is the 'expanded' one. For another example, I can also guess that what Master Lu has been tempering is actually the current expanded form, and he has not been too focused on individual combat power."

Xiao Xiaobai nodded slightly and said curiously: "What you said makes sense. It's a pity that we didn't make it to the finals."

"Thank you for your affirmation. I feel very sorry for it myself."

"So who do you think will be the most regrettable in this match?"

"I hope for the Wind-Breaking Bird."

"How to say?"

"On the one hand, I think they have relaxed a little. After all, in the battle with the Red Constellation, Master Lu didn't mention anything like 'sense of ceremony'. More importantly, ..."

"Is it the last club team to be eliminated that makes you feel more balanced?"

"exactly!"

Chapter 2293: End