Strange Voyage: Summoning the Fourth Disaster.

Chapter 823 Return, The Box in the House

The exploration of Chang'an in August has come to a temporary end, and the morning in the real world has gradually arrived.

The events that occurred on Coral Atoll were revealed to more players upon their return.

Among them, the one most valued by players is naturally the "Oath of Gullad" on Coral Atoll.

"Holy crap... so I need to use Carlos's Eyes? No wonder I sailed alone at sea all night without seeing a single hair... I thought I'd run into a ghost wall..."

"There's actually a high-level fire seed?!"

"Finally, finally! This time, it wasn't the flame of the Gulad Knights that appeared first; it was actually our Lord Prayer's flame that appeared first! Our Lord Prayer has risen! Hahaha! (Laughs wildly)"

"I'm speechless. What incredible luck! Not only did they run into the Oath of Gulad, but they were also able to directly use fire to enhance their flame? There's something fishy going on, there's definitely something fishy going on!"

"Brothers, I just went to ask in the prayer circle, and they didn't say anything, they just covered their butts and laughed at me."

"Case solved, the player who was praying in the ditch just got off the planner's bed."

Players of the other two Goulard Fireseed sequences expressed their envy and sour comments about plasmolysis.

The appearance of the Gulad Oath Flame this time is clearly a coincidence. Knight and mage players will have to wait for the other two high-level Gulad Oath Flames to appear, and who knows when that will be.

"To be honest, it's really easy to get the high-level prayer fire of the Oath of Gulad. You just need to kill that sea serpent to be directly upgraded by the fire, and you also get overall attribute points, enhanced fire power, and you can even learn two prayers directly. It's like killing two birds with one stone."

"Being promoted by sacrificial fire, what does that mean? Could it be... (a bad feeling)"

"Yes, you guessed right. Don't kill with the Oath of Gulad. There will be a surprise if you use your persuasion."

"Another traitor to the empire has been caught!"

Yes, the diversity of the player base is always a mystery; you never know what decisions some players will make when faced with choices.

Take the Coral Atoll as an example. Although it's not a major island in the ocean, finding it in the vast sea is a watershed moment.

In addition, from the moment players see the Oath of Gulad and the Lord of the Coronet, they are once again faced with choices, and each choice will naturally bring different results.

The first choice is to help the Oath of Gulad.

Many players made this choice.

After all, the Gulad Empire is a fairly decent faction in the lore.

Even from a purely pragmatic and rational perspective, a normal person would definitely choose to ally with the weak to attack the strong, rather than ally with the strong to attack the weak.

Therefore, most players will not choose to attack both Gulad's Oath and the Lord of the Coral at the same time.

Leaving aside some players who lacked the skill and failed or crashed along the way.

So, after helping the Oath of Gulad resolve the issue with the Lord, players naturally have two choices: either talk them out or discard them after they've served their purpose.

Those who succeed in using verbal persuasion, like August Chang'an, naturally reap rich rewards.

Of course, if a player doesn't have enough ignition points, they will receive a fire seed instead of a fire offering, but they will still receive attribute points.

As for those who fail to succeed with their words, it depends on the degree of failure.

Players who don't receive recognition are considered to have a milder problem; the Oath of Gulad will either drive them away or remain silent.

In this situation, the only options are to attack or leave.

If you defeat the Oath of Gulad, you'll have to rely on luck to obtain the Fire Seed, just like always.

For players who fail miserably at verbal sparring, the Oath of Gulad will immediately launch a counterattack, displaying a desperate stance of bringing the villains to justice even at the cost of their own lives.

This is why some players are completely confused when they see words like "fire sacrifice" or "power transfer," because they haven't mastered the art of persuasion, or rather, they haven't mastered it at all.

The other option, helping the Lord, also yielded an interesting result.

This choice is much easier than killing the Lord of the Hu, since the Oath of Gulad is already in a dying state.

After helping the serpent out of its predicament, the sea serpent immediately became aware of its own situation and the state of the world.

Then, things got interesting.

After a series of monologues and insults against the Oath of Gulad, the Lord will teeter on the brink of madness and then question the player.

At this point, if the player's persuasive skills are successful, and they cleverly use the tiger skin of Candlefire Island as a banner, then the Lord of the Sea will calm down.

Then, it will give the player an epic-quality item called "Serpent Blood Coral," which has a good survival effect and is one of its drops, with a relatively low drop rate from kills.

However, the Lord of the Coral was not giving it away for nothing. In exchange, it wanted a verbal promise from the player, hoping that if there was an opportunity in the future, Candlefire Island could save it. It was willing to serve Candlefire Island wholeheartedly.

It's easy to see from this that the owner of the hu (a mythical creature) has an extremely strong will to survive; she really wants to live...

If the player attacks again after this, the Lord of the Coral will go berserk.

But if you can't talk your way out of things and you can't think straight, then the result is quite simple.

The fight begins.

If you can't beat them, just quit.

Even when severely injured in its berserk state, the Hu Zhu's strength should not be underestimated. After all, it is a powerful life form ignited by the blazing furnace, and its survival and recovery abilities are also top-notch.

Without the restraint of the Oath of Gulad, players who are not strong enough can easily be defeated.

Besides.

Some players, in order to experience the storyline, have made various attempts, such as fighting two at the same time, and have also discovered quite a few "hidden lines"...

……

With a large player base, many players with ample time are still tirelessly exploring the various "illuminated areas" provided by the Lighthouse on the Other Shore, uncovering the mysteries hidden within them one by one.

The Lighthouse on the Other Shore can open portals in every direction within the anchored area.

But Rogge did not allow the lighthouse on the other side to do so.

Because not every illuminated area near the anchored zone is as worth exploring as the area near the Exile Island.

Rogge would love to get all the high-level fire seeds from the three sequences of Gurad for the players, but that's clearly not realistic.

After all, they are the high-level combatants and management of the Gulad Empire. It would be quite ironic if they were just casually seen on the roadside.

The Oath of Gullad in Coral Atoll is just a coincidence.

Therefore, some areas that are not worth exploring were naturally omitted by Rogue, otherwise it would only dampen the players' enthusiasm for exploration.

Of course, the Burning Land and the Endless Sea are vast and boundless, with many areas that are not worth exploring.

Even though Roger had conducted an initial screening, it wasn't available in every place.

Places like seaside towns, Casablanca, and battlefield ruins offer limited exploration value for the area.

As for places like the Corpse Forest, they are surrounded by a desolate sea, offering almost no value for exploration.

Even so, Rogue still selected and opened up a portion of the space to players, letting them have fun. Otherwise, these little players would probably say that the Lighthouse on the Other Shore was all show and no substance.

And in many areas where Candlelight Island is anchored.

While most of it is not worth exploring, there are some places that even Rogge found quite interesting.

For example... a box inside a house.

"...So it's this dungeon? You know what, I even watched your commentary video before I went into this dungeon."

After recalling for a moment, Li Miao looked at the storyteller beside him.

"By the way, when was this place anchored? There's no water here, so how come there's a Spiritfire Harbor and a Lighthouse on the other side?"

The storyteller chuckled and said, "You've been too busy conquering those high-level dungeons."

"Anchored areas were introduced here some time after the Burning Spirit version, but there was nothing special about them, so there wasn't much discussion about them on the forums..."

"Nothing special?" Li Miao asked in surprise. "That can't be right. I remember those two giants were ridiculously strong. People have tried to beat them again in both the Feng Huo and Ran Ling versions, but they still couldn't. How could there be nothing special about them?"

The storyteller shrugged and pointed outside: "That's the problem. After Candlefire Island was anchored in the designated area, those two giants disappeared."

"At the time, some people did explore the giant's house carefully, but they found nothing."

As he spoke, he came to the holding plate, where the chess pieces were still there, but the petrifying power was gone.

"They searched such a huge place one by one? They really have the perseverance..."

Li Miao followed in his footsteps while complaining.

Soon, their gazes fell simultaneously on a corner of the giant's house, where the lighthouse on the other side was located.

"There really is one..."

Li Miao's lips twitched, and then he led the storyteller and jumped down from the high platform.

As they approached the ground, the Wings of Radiance spread out and flapped, allowing the two to land smoothly.

At this moment, from their perspective, everything around them appeared enormous; what looked like a leaning tower was actually just a stool leg.

Of course, they weren't there to admire this wondrous sight.

After gathering at the lighthouse on the other side, the lighthouse's light quickly turned towards the dark boundary outside the house door.

"Interesting. I wonder what the surrounding area will be like in this peculiar instance, the Box in the House..."

Li Miao was quite interested.

"Let's go," the storyteller said jokingly. "I hope you can do your job as a bodyguard well."

"Bodyguard? You haven't even paid me."

"It can only be said that I brought along a burden."

The two were familiar with each other and naturally joked around. While chatting, they stepped into the portal at the edge of the box in the room.

"Fuck!"

As soon as he entered the portal, Li Miao was shocked to find that his feet had slipped. He reacted quickly and immediately spread his Wings of Radiance and grabbed the storyteller next to him.

All around was emptiness and deathly silence, and what was even more shocking was that solidified white bones were floating in this emptiness and deathly silence.

They are numerous, resembling specimens, yet also seeming to have become part of this space.

Moreover, every skeleton was human-shaped, with all sorts of postures and enormous size, without exception!

These... all appear to be the remains of giants?

Li Miao and the storyteller exchanged a glance, and without saying much, they quickly flew to one of the skeletons, intending to use it as a foothold.

Li Miao landed on top of the skull with a rather elegant posture, but the storyteller next to him was in a rather disheveled state, landing on all fours.

"How strange, the postures of this row of skeletons are somewhat similar..."

After muttering to himself, Li Miao noticed that the storyteller beside him hadn't moved yet. He frowned slightly, thinking something was wrong, and quickly went forward to ask.

"I'm fine." The storyteller waved his hand, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes: "Touch the skeletons below with your hand."

"what's the situation?"

Li Miao looked down in confusion, hesitated for a moment, and then reached out to touch the ground as well.

The next moment, a series of first-person scenes flooded into his mind like a tidal wave.

"This……"

"These two giants are actually related to the Twilight Giants of the Twilight Age?"

Li Miao muttered to himself.

The moment he touched the skeleton, he understood everything.

It turns out that at the end of the Twilight Age, after the Twilight Giant had committed a grave mistake, the furnace overturned and fragments of the sun were swallowed up and fell into the world, causing numerous disasters.

Although most of it was later recovered and repaired, the damage caused by the broken sun was not limited to that.

Below the box inside the house is a "deep pit from which land and life have been uprooted".

This is already a loophole in the world.

These two giant brothers came with the power of the Twilight Giant to atone for their mistakes.

Ultimately, they succeeded, patching the hole and building the House of Giants above it to warn outsiders.

As time goes by, the House of Giants will turn into land to mend the missing parts of the world, while the two giants will fill in a part of "life".

But this is an extremely long process.

That's why they've been confined here.

The loopholes here make them powerful, even allowing them to wield forces similar to "rules," but this also limits them, preventing them from even considering leaving.

In a sense, they can also be considered dead.

Because... whether it's the skeletons beneath Li Miao and the storyteller's feet, or the other skeletons around them, strictly speaking, they all belong to these two giants.

The only difference is the manner or timing of death.

To put it more simply, the moment the two giants stepped into this place, they triggered countless "what ifs," and their fates branched into countless tributaries...

Those who fail become bones, while those who succeed gather in the House of Giants.

This is probably why the two giants seem to be in a somewhat abnormal mental state.

"I see. I initially thought these two giants were some kind of villains... I didn't expect them to be carrying out such a mission."

"Most of this giant's house has already turned into land..."

Li Miao's gaze fell on the lower part of the giant's house, where soft soil filled the missing void.

"I suspect that the reason they keep playing chess is because of this," the storyteller said.

...By constantly playing chess to distract themselves, they can avoid having wild thoughts and causing trouble.

After all, this power is truly terrifying; a slight misstep could lead to disaster.

As for explorers and kingdoms... well, they're out of luck; neither of the two giants invited them in.

……

(End of this chapter)