Life Dungeon Game

Based on this, I started to make connections, and naturally I thought that the old foreman might have been acting against his will, and sometimes his words were loaded with hidden meanings. Then I thought that the old foreman might have given me a hint on the night he gave me the pickaxe.

As the old foreman left, he said one last thing.

'Remember to collect my body, don't let it end up like Yaz's, taken away by the municipal garbage collectors.'

Ilya could only sense the more obvious emotions on the surface of the old foreman's emotions, but not the deeper ones. That's why the old foreman had to take several roundabout ways to deliver the message to Heo.

First, when it came to collecting the body, the old foreman had a premonition of possible death, which is why he brought it up.

However, after he was attacked and seriously injured, it was the pharmacist who took him away, so he may have arranged for the pharmacist to 'collect his body' beforehand.

Since he had already made arrangements for the funeral, why did he mention collecting the body?

An unusual point is often used to emphasize a specific content.

The old foreman wanted to emphasize that 'Yaz was taken away by the municipal garbage collectors.'

When Heo killed Yaz, the old foreman wasn't present. If he wanted to know about Yaz, he would have had to use the intelligence network. But if he only cared about Yaz's life or death, he could have just inquired about his life or death; there was no need to emphasize that the municipal government collected garbage.

What is the background to Yaz's body being recovered?

The confrontation between Ilyan and Albert: Albert may have looked down on Yaz and didn't want his body, but after Albert left, Ilyan shouldn't have given the body to the city government, because giving it to the city government is equivalent to giving it to the mayor.

This is not something the mayor's enemies would do.

Of course, this matter can be explained by various reasons on its own, but the old foreman emphasized this point in particular, which was to give He Ao a hint.

There might be a problem with Ilya.

After figuring this out, He Ao naturally connected it to the mayor's posture, which was almost identical to Ilya's posture while she was in her wheelchair.

kind.

That's the sitting posture of someone who sits in a wheelchair for a long time.

Ilya Ann has no connection with the mining consortium.

The mayor's series of actions against miners, which were aligned with the mining conglomerate, can be explained from the perspective of the mayor, the actual controller of the mining conglomerate. However, from the perspective of someone behind the scenes who has no connection with the mining conglomerate, it is difficult to understand.

If Ilya Ann were to covet the power of the mining conglomerate, she could simply step out of retirement and take control of it. As a B-rank, achieving this would be far easier for her than supporting the mayor.

Moreover, she did not seek personal gain during her time as mayor, and even lost her position as speaker of the council because she helped the mayor get elected.

If you don't seek small profits, you must have big plans.

Combined with the attack on the old foreman, He quickly deduced that Ilya Ann might be trying to incite chaos among the miners and mining conglomerates.

Including her efforts to control the mayor and support the miners' mutual aid association, she intentionally exacerbated the conflict between the two.

This is also why the miners' mutual aid group that attacked Vincent that night happened to fall into the city guards' trap.

Because she had people on both sides, she not only wanted to get rid of Vincent that time, but also Ivo, who had superb mecha piloting skills.

Ivo, piloting a C-class mech, is an overwhelming asset to the Miners' Mutual Aid Association.

It's hard to understand why someone would escalate a conflict without gaining anything in return, so He Ao guessed that Ilya's actions might be related to mystery.

He then deduced that the mayor would inevitably be abandoned in order to escalate the final conflict, therefore the mayor must 'die'.

At the same time, he asked Christos for information about the Eye of Truth.

Of course, the derivation process was complex, and Heo neither needed nor had the time to explain it to Ilya. He shrugged and continued with his previous statement, "There was a bit of luck involved."

"I could tell at a glance that you're not a good person."

That's absolutely true. Back in the underground library, Heo didn't initially think Ilya was a good person.

Ilya: ?

Her white feet disappeared into the bright red water.

For the first time, a look of surprise appeared on the face of this aloof and sexy woman.

Throughout her long life, she had heard many compliments about her appearance, but this was the first time she had heard someone describe her as "not looking like a good person."

The maid next to him was also clearly confused, unsure whether He Ao was joking or giving a serious explanation.

The key point is that He Ao was unusually serious when he said this.

While the two were bewildered by this answer, He Ao was also simultaneously mobilizing his divine sense to carefully analyze the energy flow of the magic array in front of him.

The complexity of the energy flow and the power involved in this magic array far exceeded those of the objects he had analyzed before, and it also consumed an exceptionally large amount of his divine sense.

Ilya was wary of his ability to resist corruption and the power he had just displayed in battle, so she was stalling for time, waiting for the moment when the ritual would be completed. Wasn't Heo also stalling for time, analyzing the ritual array?

After a moment, Ilya's gentle voice rang out again, "Even if you've guessed who I am, you should go to the church to find me, not come here."

He Ao glanced at her, and this time he didn't give a general answer, but instead explained seriously.

Let me explain.

In fact, the core of the confirmation ceremony actually starts with those monsters corrupted by the God of War.

The thirty-odd locations where monsters appeared did not form any pattern.

However, upon learning that Ilyaan had nothing to do with the God of War, Heo decided not to start with the monster itself, but rather with the impact it had caused.

If you were to draw the areas where these monsters caused the carnage, you would get more than thirty irregular shapes.

These irregular shapes all have a relatively obvious, off-center position. Connecting these centers can form a huge, regular circle that includes most of the city of Rock.

At this point, if you embed the Eye of Truth pattern into this circle and adjust the angle, you will find that at a certain angle, the Eye of Truth pattern will completely overlap with some of the points the mayor has visited.

The mayor's career trajectory is extremely complex and chaotic, likely involving deliberate misguidance and deceptive tactics.

He Ao couldn't be sure if this method of overlap was correct; it was also possible that the mayor's random route just happened to constitute an eye of truth.

But the mayor's death gave Heo a clue.

All the previous masterminds pointed to the mayor, so under normal circumstances, it would be reasonable to assume that the final location might be the mayor's mansion or the mining conglomerate building. This is the first layer.

But with the mayor dead, Heo also confirmed that Ilya Ann was the mastermind behind it all.

Under normal circumstances, we would deduce that the core location is in the church where Elijah often stays, which is the second level.

At this moment, He Ao, standing in Ilya's shoes, thought about it seriously and realized that, given Ilya's meticulous way of doing things, she might have set up a third layer of reversal.

The core issue is actually in the mining conglomerate or the mayor's office; the most dangerous place is the safest.

And at the pupil of the Eye of Truth, which coincides with the mayor's trajectory, lies the Mining Corporation Building.

Therefore, He Ao guessed that the core point was the mining conglomerate building.

Hearing Heo's earnest explanation, Ilya was stunned again.

The fact that He Ao explained himself so earnestly and meticulously here only reinforces the fact that his earlier statement that "he doesn't seem like a good person" seems to be genuine.

He looked at Ilya, but he had other judgments he didn't voice.

Outside, a massive ritual array, constructed through the killing of monsters and the mayor's arrangements, covered most of the city; that was the true form of the ritual array.

According to the records of the Church of Death in Dawn City, it is highly likely that everyone under the influence of this magic circle will be affected by it, their thinking will become increasingly extreme, leading them to slaughter and ultimately becoming souls sacrificed to the God of Death.

The ritual array inside the mining conglomerate building should be the core of the outer array.

Those faint purple glows are the energy lines connecting the core and the main body of the magic array.

By observing the flow of these energies, after half of his second divine sense was consumed, He Ao had figured out the core of the energy circuits of these magic arrays.

The stronger the ritual array, the higher the requirements for its arrangement.

Destroying these cores could cause the giant outer magic array to collapse instantly.

He leaped forward suddenly.

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Almost at the same time that Heo set off, the maid standing behind Ilya also leaped up.

A slender knight's sword had appeared in her hand at some point. It seemed to have been placed behind Ilya's back all along. She had just retreated, not only to heal her wounds but also to retrieve the sword.

The silver knight's sword, enveloped in orange light, slashed towards Heo.

He Ao raised his hands, forming an X shape with his two swords, and caught the sword.

He was now very close to the first energy point.

Within this core ritual array, He Ao identified five special energy points: three at the midpoints of the three sides of the triangle, one at the center of the triangle, and one at the center of the pupil of the eye embedded within the triangle.

These energy points form an array, with energy flowing between them, creating the energy core of the entire ritual array.

The formation formed by these five points is very stable. He Ao estimates that even if one point is destroyed, the entire formation can still maintain its operation. The specific circumstances under which it will collapse can only be determined by destroying them one by one.

We cannot allow the ritual array to continue to fuel conflict and emotions; once large-scale killing begins, things will be beyond repair.

He Ao glanced at the gleam on the maid's sword and said softly, "This is the first time I've encountered a talent sequence that's almost as powerful as a 'warrior'."

"Talent Sequence 122: Knight of Honor".

The maid smiled slightly and replied.

Then, taking advantage of the moment when He Ao's attention was diverted from listening to her, she lashed out at He Ao with another roundhouse kick.

He Ao couldn't dodge in time. He blocked the knight's sword with one sword and spun the other halfway to block the whip kick.

The short sword flashing red collided with the long, muscular leg full of explosive power. He Ao's body froze, and he was sent flying to the side by the impact.

It became.

He Ao, who had been sent flying, tumbled once and landed on the edge of a ditch flowing with bright red liquid. The red sword light instantly pierced into the ditch beside him.

A violent purple light exploded instantly, carrying an eerie and chilling aura that swept over He'ao's soul.

The purple glow covering the entire ditch seemed to have dimmed somewhat at this moment.

At this moment, Ilya, who had been sitting quietly at the top of the ritual circle, suddenly changed her expression. She looked up at Heo, her beautiful face filled with astonishment and anger.

"You deserve to die!"

She had no idea that there was a way to break this ritual circle. In her experience, the entire ritual circle that summons the Grim Reaper could only collapse if most of its core was damaged.