Choose to return to Astra with different truths and receive different tasks and rewards
Please note that the mission branch will only appear once and will not be opened again, so players should choose carefully.
For Ye Qing, there seems to be only one option for such a task~
"Sister Jasmine, Kai, please check again to see if your mission is complete. If not, you won't have to take any more risks for my last mission."
"Eh? What are you talking about..."
In the private chat channel, the two people who saw Ye Qing's words couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, but before they could react, Ye Qing had already spoken.
"I want to know the real truth. It's not the stuff that can fool the empire, but the real truth under the mine."
If you accept this option, there will probably be no way out, right?
If you fail, you will lose a lot of experience points, and it is still unknown whether the Sword of Justice will be a reward, after all, you already have the Sword of Loyalty.
Ahh, it would be better if you were more cautious...
Although he thought so in his mind, Ye Qing did not regret it at all.
"I understand. Then follow me, adventurer."
Knight Sandro nodded, and there seemed to be no change in expression on his resolute face. He turned around and walked slowly towards the group of tombstones.
Seeing that Knight Sandro had already walked over, Ye Qing followed him without hesitation. At this time, Fili and Yue Liang finally made a decision after checking their task panels.
"These people who sacrificed their lives for the Empire should be remembered by the Empire."
In front of those broken tombstones, Knight Sandro sighed deeply. He slowly bent down and placed his hand on the tombstone in the center.
A silvery-white light was released from Knight Sandro's palm, and the tombstone shattered, revealing the real thing hidden inside.
It was a box, a box tightly locked by chains made of several rays of holy light.
The moment he saw the box, Knight Sandro's expression changed. This knight who had suffered from justice also showed disgust on his face, as if the box was something disgusting.
"Since you are here to seek the truth, you should have done some research in advance and know that there are ghosts under this desolate mountain, right?"
As Knight Sandro lifted the box, a downward-extending passage suddenly appeared in the original tomb group.
For some reason, the blood-red light emanating from the passage made Ye Qing instinctively feel a little uncomfortable.
"Yes, I heard that the Empire discovered the Undead tribe underneath when mining, but there has been no official explanation."
Ye Qing nodded. When she saw the diary before, she had some guesses in her mind. Now she was just waiting for Knight Sandro to prove her guesses.
Knight Sandro, carrying the box, was like holding a lantern. The moment he entered the dark red passage, the holy light on the box dispelled the dark red light.
"Come with me, here is the truth you want to know."
Knight Sandro turned around, and his heavy expression made Ye Qing feel something was not right.
Until now, Ye Qing had to admit that this exclusive mission was far beyond any mission she had experienced in the past.
The 20% of the task that had not been completed could actually lead to such a hidden clue. Ye Qing had already thrown away the things he remembered in the past. Apart from some clues to verify, he was afraid that the things in the past were useless.
Although Ye Qing instinctively wanted to refuse, for the sake of the mission, Ye Qing still followed Sandro and moved forward slowly.
"The reason why the Empire wants to detonate the entire mine is that the Undead are just a trivial factor."
Here it is: the truth behind the mine disaster in the barren mountains.
In this seemingly endless dark red passage, only the holy light emitted by the box could bring warmth to people. Ye Qing also followed closely behind Knight Sandro, not leaving the range of the holy light.
"why?"
"Twenty years ago, a mining team from the empire came to the barren mountain. They discovered a large area of mineral veins at the foot of the mountain, as well as a group of undead lurking inside the mineral veins."
Along with the heavy voice of Knight Sandro, Ye Qing seemed to have returned to that era.
For the most powerful empire in the world, the undead are not a problem. The empire has many ways to destroy a group of undead, whether it is through magic technology or asking the church for help. The undead are not a thorn in the empire's side.
But the real problem was that the Empire only discovered the problem after it sent out the Knights and Mage Corps to conduct an in-depth investigation.
That group of undead was driven by some kind of force, but there was no large-scale outbreak of corpses because there were not many corpses. The source of that power was what drove the empire to bury the entire mining team along with the barren mountain eighteen years ago.
"Wait, if that's the case, why don't we unite the church to eliminate that power?"
Isn’t this even more unreasonable?
Ye Qing couldn't help but think so. Since the source of power would continuously transform corpses into undead, and destroy so many lives, wouldn't that just be providing materials to others?
Knight Sandro nodded in appreciation of Ye Qing's sharpness.
"That's the problem. The church has no way to truly eliminate that power. It can only seal it with difficulty and delay the explosion of that power as much as possible."
Nineteen years ago, after the Imperial Knights reported the results of their investigation, the Empire immediately sent the Church to conduct another secret investigation. Out of consideration for national stability, the Empire classified this information as extremely confidential.
The church also attaches great importance to it, and even has bishop-level figures accompanying it.
But the result this time was even more tragic.
The team sent by the Imperial Special Mage Force was completely wiped out. Only a small number of people from the Imperial Knights and the Church managed to escape at the last moment and brought back some terrifying information to the Empire.
"Terrible information... What could it be that even the bishop can't solve?"
Ye Qing, who understood the entire background of the fantasy world of the gods, knew very well that in the entire fantasy world of the gods, except for the war between gods in the later period, the empire was almost the most powerful force among the human forces in the early and middle periods.
The church is considered to be the spokesperson of God and the embodiment of God's will on earth.
What on earth could be able to devour the elite of both?
Before they knew it, they had reached the bottom of the passage.
“That’s the thing.”
Knight Sandro slowly moved aside, and everything at the bottom of the passage finally appeared in front of Ye Qing.
Even though Ye Qing had such a strong will, he almost vomited after seeing the scene before him.
It was a huge mass of rotten meat. No, it was more like a mass of flesh with life than rotten meat. Countless human figures were wriggling madly in it, tearing at the skin of the flesh, trying to break free from it.
Surrounding the meat ball, there was a complete set of holy light seals. Even in front of the meat ball, there was a withered skeleton in a red robe, which was tightly connected to those holy light seals, restraining the disgusting meat ball.
"What is this...?"
Resisting the urge to vomit, Ye Qing bit her lower lip tightly as she looked at the scene before her which had a more visual impact than any R-rated movie.
Knight Sandro seemed to have long been accustomed to the scene before him. He walked to the side of the skeleton and placed the box in front of the skeleton.
In an instant, an endless stream of holy light gushed out from the box, replenishing the surrounding holy light chains and suppressing the rotten meat.
"The Lord of Hell, the former Seraph..."
As if it heard someone chanting its name, the flesh mass trembled violently again.
The irritating hum and the crazy shout
Those negative states increased again at this moment, causing Ye Qing to subconsciously move closer to the holy light.
But Knight Sandro stared directly at the suddenly crazy mass of flesh, and suddenly drew out the sword in his hand and slashed it through the air. There seemed to be some kind of sound flashing in the air.
The meat ball finally calmed down, and Knight Sandro finally said its name.
"Beelzebub."
How can it be? !
what happened? !
At this moment, Ye Qing's heart was already shocked by this news.
Why does the world boss, who is supposed to appear in the later stages of the war of gods, appear in the missions of this period?
Chapter 18 Pale Justice (1)
ps: Thank you very much for the rewards, I will update three times tomorrow, I will keep my promise
The devil of hell, the lord of evil spirits
As one of the three big bosses in the "God War" expansion pack of Divine Fantasy, this boss initially left even the top strategy teams at a loss as to where to start.
There is neither any intelligence nor any weakening tasks. The only chance to weaken is to defeat the Hell Camp in the camp battle and exchange for camp point props for weakening.
But Ye Qing never expected that this boss had already been involved in a mission so early.
Wasn’t it Huanmeng’s design error, but was it that I didn’t notice it at the time?
Thinking of this, Ye Qing felt like crying but had no tears.
The boss strategy in the previous life was so difficult. I am responsible for this. I have to take the blame.
"Beelzebub, isn't that the Lord of Hell?! Why is it here?"
After Ye Qing calmed down a little, he spoke to Sandro with a slightly shocked expression.
After all, what one does must still be in line with the background of the times. In the current context of the fantasy of the divine world, mankind is in the pioneering period and has not yet encountered the conflict between the camps of the divine world and hell.
Naturally, apart from the gods believed in by the church, most existences are just "myths" to people.
"We asked this question nineteen years ago, but unfortunately, we didn't get any results."
Knight Sandro shook his head. He stopped when he approached the skeleton and just looked at the mass of flesh that could not move under the holy light, and spoke calmly.
Nineteen years ago, after the failure of the empire's expedition, although the losses were heavy, it did not mean that the empire gained nothing. After losing a large number of manpower, the empire also realized that this was an existence that could not be eliminated and could only be sealed.
But if ordinary sealing techniques could be effective against this thing, there would not have been the subsequent bombing of the mine, burying alive countless miners who had traveled far to mine under the desolate mountains.
"But if that's the case, why did they blow up the mine in the barren mountain and bury so many people under the barren mountain? Isn't this just sending corpses and souls to the devil for no reason?"
This is the biggest question and the crux of the problem.
The reason why Knight Sandro was charged with treason and incompetent knight was precisely because of that explosion.
Of course, Sandro quickly explained this question.
"Indeed, the body was sent, but the soul was not."
Use your body to feed the devil and use your soul to seal the devil.
This could almost be called a heresy, but it was a solution that was unanimously recognized by the empire and the church.
"The King of Hell cannot be sealed by human power, but fortunately this is not Beelzebub's true self. This is just a projection of him left in this world."
Just as the gods choose their spokespersons in the human world, the demons of hell also have their own way of existing in the human world.
However, in the fantasy context of the divine world, the gods ultimately won a tragic victory in the war at the beginning of the world, blocking the way for the devil to continue to move toward the human world, but at the same time also left many problems for the human world.
These problems are the traces that the devil once left in the human world. Due to the devil's powerful strength, these traces eventually became the devil's "projection" in the human world.
Knight Sandro took Ye Qing to the side. On both sides of the meat mass, there were two completely symmetrical stone altars, on which were placed church scriptures and imitation holy grails, which were obviously part of the sealing ceremony.
Even though the Holy Grail had long since dried up, the stone slab was already covered with thick dust, and one could even see a bit of blood on the ancient stone slab and the seal, as if silently recounting the tragedy that had occurred nineteen years earlier.
"All of our names are written on it. It is everyone's autograph before the mine disaster. It allows us to remember our sacrificed companions."
Ye Qing took the old holy book from Knight Sandro and opened the cover. On the yellowed paper, several names were densely written.
They may be written in illegible or beautiful handwriting, but no matter which name it is, it speaks of their will.
Perhaps before this plan, the people who wrote down these names had some fear and anxiety, and might even back off. But when they actually wrote down these names and died to show their determination, these names became a hymn to human courage.
There was a glimmer of nostalgia in Knight Sandro's eyes. His gaze did not stay on the scripture for too long, and returned to the mass of flesh in front of him.
In that brief moment, Ye Qing seemed to see the sadness revealed by Knight Sandro.
"After that disastrous defeat, the Empire and the Church urgently worked out this plan."
Volunteers who served as representatives were secretly selected within the empire, and together with exiled death row prisoners and unsuspecting civilians, they were sent to the deserted mountains, and their lives were offered as sacrifices to the monarch of hell, using their bodies in exchange for a moment of "confusion" on the other side.
The most inhumane part of this plan is that the soul that dies in extreme pain will be absorbed by the sealing array and used as energy to seal the projection.
The truth is cruel. In the fantasy world of the gods, the souls of the unjustly killed have great power, and can even catch up with the souls of saints. However, saints only appear once every thousand years, and the souls of the unjustly killed only need a torturous death.
"At that time, saints from the church came to observe. The projection was less than a year away from eruption. Where can we find so many saints in a year? Even the church only has five saints."
Knight Sandro seemed to be in great pain. As a pioneer knight, he was different from the old-school so-called noble knights. Before abiding by the rigid knight's law, he was more concerned about whether he could solve the problem.
But even for a knight like Sandro, it was hard for him to accept letting the people die, or even let them die in such pain and torture. Protecting the people should be the responsibility of knights like them, and this is their justice.
However, in front of the seal built with lives, the knight's justice seems so pale.
Choose right or choose life?
Ye Qing couldn't judge whether this matter was right or wrong.
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