Arknights, but the sickly pretty girl starts

Noah immediately made a judgment in her heart. Seeing the tongue that could extend at will, she probably understood how the gold coin disappeared. It was probably that it quietly opened the lid of the box and used its tongue to stick the gold coin back.

Rather... the gold coin itself was the bait it used to lure visitors into opening the treasure chest, much like the small light of an anglerfish. Noah couldn't help but feel a chill at this simple yet clever predatory method. Even if a normal person made it past its defenses, they'd probably die in this creature's jaws. But aren't these things usually found in RPGs? Why was it here?

Noya licked her dry lips, but a monster of this level was no match for her. Unsheathing the Martyr's Sword, Noya casually swung it in a flowery motion. She had already sensed the simplistic nature of the monster before her, or rather... she couldn't perceive its thoughts. It was as if her access was completely blocked by a firewall. If it wasn't too stupid to communicate, then it must be resistant to telepathic Originium techniques...

Since my own perception and emotions are of no use, I have no choice but to use some physical methods to solve the problem——

"Hiss--" Although the monster had been exposed, it seemed that it still had not given up hunting. Its treasure chest-like appearance bounced twice on the spot, and then the long and flexible tongue rolled towards Noah. Noah caught the sound of the other party's tongue breaking through the air through his hearing. The speed of this tongue was actually close to the speed of sound, which was too exaggerated. Fortunately, it was Noah who faced this thing. She used the long sword in her hand to exert force from bottom to top. Before the other party's tongue entangled herself, she cut the tongue in two with a reverse cassock slash. Colorless liquid splashed out from the broken surface of the tongue. I don't know if it was blood, but Noah didn't dare to let this thing touch herself, so she manipulated the gray matter to form a thin wall to block the splashing colorless liquid.

The monster's tongue was cut off, which seemed to have caused great damage. A terrifying scream resounded throughout the tomb - but Noah did not lower his vigilance. As expected, the opponent's blood was also corrosive. The gray shield he had waved out immediately made a hissing sound after absorbing the opponent's colorless blood. This thing was even highly corrosive to gray matter... What kind of monster is this?

Gray matter is a genuine super-technological creation, rated as capable of destroying the world. Although this thing is not completely invincible, there are really only a handful of things that can corrode gray matter.

Noah took a look at her Martyr's Sword. Surprisingly, there were no signs of corrosion on it, which made her feel relieved.

However, since the opponent's saliva and blood are both corrosive, it would be a bit foolish for him to engage in close combat. Noah stretched out his hand. Since the telepathic Originium skills and close combat were not very effective, then he would use some of his other means... The next moment, a shadow suddenly jumped up from under the treasure chest monster and bound the treasure chest monster tightly in place. This was the Originium skill that Viviana taught him, the shadow spell.

Although not very powerful, under Noya's control, these shadows seemed to have life and entwined themselves around the treasure chest monster. In Noya's hands, the shadows transformed into arrows, and the gray matter transformed into a longbow. Shadow Arrows, this move had once injured the Blood Demon Lord. The half-human-high bow was unfurled, and Noya's eyes flickered. Back then, before she acquired the gray matter, her greatest skill was archery.

boom--

The bowstring suddenly retracted, a sound like an explosion that even stung Noah's ears. After all, it was a sealed tomb, and using such a loud move did hurt his ears a bit. However, this level of injury was nothing to Gray Matter—the treasure chest monster in front of him was now pinned to the wall by a shadow arrow about a meter long. As the treasure chest monster's entire body was covered in the color of shadow, the shadow arrow completely devoured the monster's life, transforming it into a massless shadow, which was then torn apart by other shadows.

This is truly a death without a complete body... This is also one of the reasons why Noah rarely uses this trick. To be honest, it is not very humane.

In most cases, Noah would not use Shadow Arrow unless he was facing an unforgivable enemy or a simple monster. However, for a monster like this whose body fluids and blood were highly corrosive, it was better to disappear cleanly.

Ding-dong-

After the shadow was ripped apart, many gold coins were still scattered within it. Although hidden within the body of the Mimic, these coins hadn't corroded. It seemed that either gold was resistant to corrosion, or these coins had been deliberately left as bait for the Mimic. After killing the Mimic, Noah's eyes fell on the pile of treasure chests. Logically... if these were all Mimics, it didn't make sense. After all, Korra had casually taken a chest earlier, and that chest was a normal treasure chest...

No... Could it be a problem with the way it's turned on?

Noah slapped her head. She didn't ask clearly what the correct way to open this treasure chest was. Perhaps this treasure chest monster was just one of the anti-theft mechanisms of these treasure chests.

Noah observed the appearance of the treasure chest and found a groove. The shape of the groove was somewhat familiar, but Noah couldn't remember what the shape of the groove looked like for a while. However, if he was not mistaken, this groove was the real way to open it. His method of letting the gray matter seep into the interior to open it should be considered cheating and was detected. If this is true, then it makes sense that the treasure chest cannot be affected by his own Originium skills.

Because the anti-theft mechanism is a no-brainer...

But... there is still no result for this question... where did the others go?

[Ding Dong—You successfully killed 1 treasure chest monster. Received 1000 EXP and 50 gold coins.]

[Noah Kyrielight has been upgraded and your level is now Brave Level 1]

Just when Noah was at a loss, a clear electronic sound rang out in the tomb. Noah subconsciously raised the bow again, but she unexpectedly found that she could not determine the direction of the sound. The sound seemed to come from all directions and she could not tell the direction at all.

"Brave...brave man?" Noah was stunned. "Who are you?"

Silence. The entire tomb was eerily quiet. Noah even wondered if he was still in a dream. After all, what had just happened felt a bit like a dream.

It looked like the voice wasn't going to respond to Noah, so he put down his bow. Without a target, even the best archer couldn't hit... But, the title of "brave warrior" didn't seem to suit him...

Noah smiled bitterly. The title of hero seemed more like a description of Margaret. Rather than calling herself a hero, she would be more like an archer. A magician would also be acceptable. Anyway, the word "hero" and "hero" really didn't fit in.

Putting that voice aside, after Noah walked out of the treasure room, he was shocked to find that the door was closed. Noah tried to push the door, but it didn't budge at all.

To describe it in one sentence, it is as if it is fixed in space, not moving at all.

Noah was already quite strong. If even she couldn't push the door, then only Jian and Margaret could. Noah speculated, "So, the door opened automatically? Was it meant to lure her in?"

...Shouldn't this be the laboratory of the previous civilization?

The doubts are growing, but Noya has no clues...

No, if I were to ask for clues...

——Treasure Chest Monster x1...

So...if I kill all the treasure chest monsters here, will anything change?

Noah looked at the piles of treasure chests and thought so.

Chapter 81: He

Ding Dong!

As the last gold coin stopped rolling on the floor tiles, Noah finally got rid of all the [Treasure Box Monsters]. If he felt it was a bit tricky before, Noah later realized that these treasure box monsters themselves were not very powerful. As long as he understood their characteristics, let alone Margaret, even Skadi today would not be able to fail. After all, no matter how weak Skadi is, she has the qualities of a guard operator.

Sitting on a small hill of corpses of treasure chest monsters, Noah was thoughtfully holding the gold coins that had just exploded. There were indeed a lot of gold coins here, enough to make the Grand Knights jealous. These were Casimir gold coins. Even if they were all melted down to make gold bars, they would still cause a considerable impact on Casimir's economy. But what puzzled Noah was where these monsters in this treasure room came from.

I have never heard of a treasure chest monster. It can't be another mutated Originium worm, right?

This kind of body fluids and blood contain corrosive substances. It doesn't look like something that can be evolved through normal evolution. It can be called a biological weapon. Although its own strength is a little low, this thing is the nightmare of many adventurers. Noah can fully imagine the scene of ordinary adventurers or bounty hunters seeing these treasure chests after taking great pains to open them, and then being swallowed directly by the big mouth of this thing.

Judging from the corrosiveness... there is most likely no remains left.

Fortunately, the Sword of the Martyr in Noah's hand seemed to have corrosion-resistant properties, and she also believed that the people in her team would not fall into this thing.

After all the treasure chest monsters were cleared, the entire tomb began to shake, as if someone was really evaluating Noah's actions. The wall at the end of the treasure room began to open to both sides, revealing a path. As for the gold coins, Noah did not plan to take them with him. After all, they were quite heavy. He just piled them up first so that they could be transported away later.

Noah had a rough idea of ​​the value of these gold coins. Part of them could be given to the village chief as a reward, and most of them would be handed over to Rhodes Island for distribution.

As for Noah herself, the money she has is enough for her to spend for the rest of her life, and if she is willing, many people will rush to give her money. Noah cares more about the safety of her teammates.

Noah walked into the passage cautiously and looked up and down at the reliefs on the two separate walls. Compared with the previous cave murals, the reliefs here were obviously more delicate and not as primitive as the cave murals. Most of the content on them was a special block text, which was quite different from most of the popular texts on Terra today, and was more similar to the handwriting of the previous civilization. Noah took great effort to decipher it all the way before he roughly understood the content.

At first, Noah thought that these words were engraved by her ancestors, but she soon dismissed the idea.

Because the words recorded above are too absurd...

Terra, speaking of which... why is this planet called Terra?

Many people seem to have ignored this issue at the beginning. In fact, no one knows the origin of the name Terra.

Because even the natives here didn't call this place Terra in the past...

So, how did the name Terra become the name of this land?

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In the beginning, this land was shrouded in chaos, roamed by giant beasts. These mysterious creatures, endowed with omnipotence, were its earliest inhabitants. Within this chaos, a modicum of order emerged thanks to the presence of these beasts.

As a planet, Terra is blessed with unique natural advantages. It boasts a star in its prime, providing light, and two satellites to protect it from the unpredictable impacts of drifting stars from the depths of space. Furthermore, its location is just right, neither too far nor too far. It's a planet where life would be a surprise, a peaceful and pure land seemingly shaped by a god. Behemoths were its first inhabitants, but... their existence wasn't the product of natural evolution.

It's not surprising. After all, natural evolution cannot produce strange creatures like behemoths - these creatures have broken certain rules of life from the very beginning, such as... they will not really die.

And all the giant beasts actually understand that they are not the masters of Terra.

Because, Behemoth was created.

In order to transform the planet Terra from nothing into a paradise, living things were created.

These behemoths had already been created before Tikaz appeared. These behemoths acted according to his thoughts and orders, triggering volcanic eruptions in the midst of chaos. The magma was sprayed high into the sky and gradually turned into the cornerstone of the Terra continent. The crimson behemoth represented the movement of the earth's crust, and it used its body to induce volcanic eruptions. Wherever it went, the land would spread.

Then, a deep blue giant beast also jumped out of the sea - causing heavy rain and triggering lightning. No one knew how long the heavy rain lasted, and no one bothered to calculate it.

Thus, Terra's original appearance was shaped.

Perhaps no one would have guessed that the creation of Terra was actually accomplished by the first two behemoths. These two beasts, known as Yin and Yang, were diametrically opposed, and their power shaped Terra's original form. They could even be called Terra's creators, or even the gods of creation.

However, the one who created the Creator was not satisfied.

He did not wish to create a bonsai for the parade of giant beasts. He wanted to witness the birth of real life, not life created by Him.

So she continued to create more behemoths, behemoths that could lift mountains, behemoths that could blow up wind and snow, behemoths that could make all things grow - He used his almost omnipotent power to create these [gods].

As He wished, these behemoths did not even have emotions at the beginning, but were just like machines controlled by Him. As the Yin-Yang behemoths gradually approached their limits, finally, the creation of Terra began with the death of the Yin-Yang behemoths.

In fact, behemoths originally had no concept of lifespan, but the first two behemoths created were exceptions.

Because He did not intend for the Yin and Yang beasts to continue existing forever. After all, the Yin and Yang beasts were the two most powerful among the giant beasts. They represented almost all of Terra and were Terra's creator gods. However, these two creator gods were not at peace. It could even be said that they were destined to devour each other from birth.

Because the two behemoths are completely opposite in nature, they have the purest [hostility] towards each other, which is not what He wants to see. Almost every time the two behemoths meet, there will be a conflict - the sky is dark and the sun and moon are dim. He witnessed the disaster caused by the two original behemoths.

He knew very well that they could not exist forever like other behemoths.

So, He personally gave the two giant beasts a gift, a gift that she had never thought about or imagined before.

That is the end.

Or, you could call it death.

So after completing their missions, the two behemoths collapsed and turned into the final nourishment for the world they created.

Yin fell into the deep sea, and Yang turned into mountains and rivers.

They fulfilled their purpose—and were then condemned to death by their creator.

When a whale dies, all things come to life. The fall of the Yin-Yang giant beast clears away the last difficulty for the emergence of life.

Originally, things seemed to have come to an end... He only needed to wait, wait for life to sprout on this land, He only needed to witness, witness civilization flourishing before Him.

His desires only went so far... After all, he didn't know how he came to be, or how he ended up on this planet. He simply felt lonely—wanting the company of beings similar to himself. It was out of loneliness that he created the behemoth, and it was also out of loneliness that he killed the behemoth.

His creations are merely tools and puppets in His hands, and they will be destroyed if they do not go according to His will.

What he created did not bring him any novelty, nor could it give him any stimulation. It was precisely because of this that he killed the Yin-Yang beast that had originally accompanied him.

What He desires is a life that is not born according to His will and does not move according to His will.

If everything goes as He expects, He should just have to wait and see.

Of course, whenever this sentence appears, it means that the accident has arrived as expected, and this accident has completely changed His destiny.

…One day, a research vessel appeared in orbit above Terra.

It was a silver-white, gleaming metal object that was completely beyond His knowledge.

He had certainly noticed the research vessel, and the research vessel had also noticed the behemoths on Terra. The power and strength these behemoths possessed fascinated everyone on the research vessel. To them, Terra's existence was infinitely close to a miracle.

He took the initiative to contact these scientists and finally learned that there were life forms similar to himself outside of Terra.

They call themselves - from [Earth], they call themselves [human].

They were similar to her, whether in appearance or something else. At just one glance, she fell in love with these lives that had similar faces to her.

That’s right, love.

This feeling was the first time she had ever experienced it. She had never felt love for her own creations, but she felt novelty and love for a race she had met for the first time.

Originally, He chose to start because He was too lonely, but now... She has another choice.

He did hesitate. There hadn't been a being in Terra's life strong enough to communicate with Him, and now... she had a more convenient choice.

So, He finally chose... He would go to Earth.

——But it was a long, long time later that she realized how stupid her choice was.

Humans are similar to Him, but He is not human.

He will not age or die. During a long voyage, the research vessel got lost. In order to fulfill the agreement, the scientists decided to enter the hibernation chamber. They decided to take a gamble - after all, after being lost in the universe, entering the hibernation chamber and waiting for rescue may be the best effort they can make.

Every scientific research vessel is prepared to go one way or another when heading into deep space.

Before going to bed, they handed all the data and information to Him. Although they had only been together for a few short months, these kind scientists still recognized Him and gave everything to Him.

Thus, He entered what was probably the longest period of His life...

In a research vessel, he waited alone until everyone's life gradually slipped away. He originally thought that he could save them - save these friends he met for the first time.

But He was wrong. After leaving Terra, He also lost His almost omnipotent power.

Without Terra, she was just an ordinary person who would never grow old or die.

He couldn't save their lives, and the research vessel gradually lost power. He began to regret it - perhaps, staying on Terra was the best choice?

-

The story breaks off here...

This seems like a creation myth? But... in the creation myth, the mother planet of the previous civilization, that is, Earth, actually appears?

Then... who is He?

He is the creator of the behemoths, immortal and like an omnipotent god, but there has never been any legend about him in Terra today.

Did He finally reach Earth?

Is He still alive?

More and more questions emerged in Noah's heart.

She originally thought that this was just her family cemetery, but it was obvious that there were more secrets hidden here.

He was drawn to humanity and set foot on the vast sea of ​​stars. He created Terra out of loneliness. He witnessed the death of a friend he had just met on a research vessel and then guarded the lonely ship alone.