Chapter 83 Holographic Online Games Are So Cool (Part 4)
The voice seemed to realize that the volume was too loud, and it forcefully suppressed the last few words, but this only made the threat even stronger.
"Evil"? "Pollution"? These two keywords entered Si Yisi's ears, giving him a glimmer of inspiration.
Could it be that the cries for help that a nascent elf could hear were truly unheard by any of the elves in this village?
In Si Yi's opinion, they tacitly approved of this happening.
Because the one who uttered that cry was a sinful being.
[Ding! You have triggered the exploration quest: The Crying in the Elf Village. Note: Each quest may point to a clue. Find these clues to uncover the true main quest. As the pioneer of this quest, you will receive a "Main Quest Explorer Medal" and real-world rewards.]
In holographic online games, every accidentally discovered point may point to an important clue.
It's normal that Si Yisi couldn't find such a mission in Luo Xinxiu's fragmented memories. Missions in the "Stellar" online game are mixed together, and it's impossible for Luo Xinxiu to know what missions everyone has done.
Many more players chose to keep the quest details hidden, not sharing them with anyone else. Who wouldn't want to be the first lucky one to eat the peach? Everyone has that kind of hope.
Si Yisi quickened her pace and walked briskly towards the secluded little house. How should I put it?
It looked quite out of place next to the other elves' houses; it resembled a dilapidated building on the verge of collapse, with weeds growing rampant along the roadside, showing no signs of cleanliness or tidiness.
The elf was agile and his steps were light, making no sound as he walked. Even when he stepped on broken branches and leaves, he did not show any abnormality.
Of course, this doesn't represent the level of all "newborns." Only an elf like Si Yisi, who manipulates all the bones and muscles in her body without any constraints, can do it.
"Click".
[You've stepped into a hunting trap. Your health has decreased by 10. Your location has been discovered.]
Si Yisi's current level is level two, and her health is only a mere one hundred. This directly reduces her health by ten percent!
Beneath the withered branches and fallen leaves lay several ingeniously laid traps, but Si Yisi noticed the abnormality in the decrease in her blood and qi.
During the beginner phase, normal quests would only result in a loss of 1 or 2 HP from attacks, but now...
Doesn't a reduction in health by dozens of times prove anything? Moreover, Si Yisi truly had no idea of the existence of this trap or that anything unusual was affecting him.
This was Si Yisi's immediate guess.
"Who goes there!" A slender elven man flung open the door, holding a long, thin, barbed tree whip, now stained with blood.
“It’s you… the newborn elf.” The elven man, bearing the name Ammana above his head, tossed the tree whip aside. “I’m dealing with family matters. If you interfere, according to elven law, I can apply to have you expelled from the village.”
His smile was gentle and warm, a testament to his mastery of superficiality.
Si Yisi stared at the elf Amanna for a while, then suddenly said, "If you really are an elf, I have no objection."
"But—are you really an elf?"
Amana's walking posture and habitual movements gave him away! The appearance he's showing now is probably not his true face!
Ammana's figure shouldn't be so slender; he should be more robust. His unintentional, beastly, and rude behavior is worlds apart from the elves in the elven villages that Sisi has met and visited!
Compared to the elegant and free-spirited elven darlings, Ammanar was more like an orc. An orc reeking of blood!
"I put on so much disguise and I still got found out. Tsk, I should have known better than to waste my time!"
Ammana the elf, or rather, Ammana the orc, suddenly bulged his muscles, transforming into a burly orc in an instant, yet his face—a typical elf's appearance—remained atop his robust physique.
The seven races are incompatible in the story, and the orcs successfully infiltrated the elven village just to abuse a weak elven girl.
There's definitely something fishy going on here!
"There's no other way, I'll kill you!" Amana suddenly covered himself with a thick, bear-like pelt, and brown fur of varying degrees grew on his face and body!
He brandished his sharp claws and reduced Si Yisi's health by five points with a single gesture!
Amana is a level two elf that cannot be controlled. Si Yisi is in a game, and as a game character, he cannot easily disrupt this balance.
Soon after realizing that force wouldn't work, Si Yisi immediately crushed a small green leaf wrapped around her wrist and began fighting with Ammana!
Just two words—
Dodge, entangle!
Even so, Si Yisi was briefly in danger. He was using a "fight fire with fire" approach, not only was his attack not graceful and agile, but every move was also ruthless and bloody.
As a result, Si Yisi's blood and qi levels quickly plummeted to near zero.
But the guards from the elven village that Si Yisi wanted to lure have not yet arrived!
That green leaf is a kind of alarm, but in the early stages, many Elf players only regarded it as a pretty little decoration.
This is what the previous host kept saying...
Do the police always arrive too late? Their speed is far from satisfactory.
Or perhaps they had encountered some trouble? Si Yisi tried to catch the breathing and walking sounds of the other elves in the elf village, but he found nothing.
The elven village seemed to have become an empty village.
You can only rely on yourself.
Si Yisi dodged the orc Ammana's claws with a somersault and was just about to play it safe—he had no idea what would happen if a game character's health was reduced to zero—when the elf girl's soft sobbing in the corner abruptly stopped.
The elven girl huddled in the corner had short black hair. She was barely clothed, and her body had several thin, bloody welts from being whipped with vines.
"Die...die..." The elven girl repeated this phrase over and over, her round, deer-like eyes fixed on the orc Ammana without blinking.
The next moment, she suddenly straightened up and hugged Amanna from behind, and Amanna was completely unaware and let her touch her back!
Suddenly, a dark color appeared in the elven girl's eyes, and wisps of invisible black mist chuckled as they lunged toward the orc Ammanar!
[Amana (???) has been attacked by an unknown force. Her HP has decreased by 10. Her HP has decreased by 10...]
In just a few seconds, accompanied by a series of overlapping health reduction notifications, the orc Ammanar collapsed to the ground!
His body crashed heavily to the ground, raising a cloud of dust. Then, Si Yisi watched as Amana's body seemed to be slowly swallowed up by some invisible force, his limbs rapidly diminishing!
In the end, only an empty shell remained.
Si Yisi's eyes met those of the elven girl who had looked up. The girl flinched, her long eyelashes fluttering. "I... I think I know you."
After saying this, the elf girl stretched out her hand, which was branded with long, bloody marks, toward Si Yisi, as if she wanted a hug from him.
[You discover the crying is coming from an elven girl. The one whipping her is an orc who has infiltrated the elven village. The orc suddenly dies during a fight with you. Immediately afterward, the bullied elven girl begs you to take her away. What will you choose?]
Si Yisi stretched out her arm to grab the elf girl's hand, but just then, a cacophony of footsteps sounded outside the door.
"Here!"
One torch after another lit up the dim sky, and Si Yisi was surprised to find that the entire elven village had turned out, including the old guide who was also standing in the procession, leaning on his gray vine cane.
"hiss--"
The sight of a large number of young and beautiful elves was pleasing to the eye, but when they saw the empty shell on the ground, their expressions changed instantly.
"It really is this bastard who's causing trouble!" The old guide tapped his cane. "Recently, every few days, we've been finding empty shells, drained of their life force, appearing in various parts of our Spiritwood Village, and the locations of these shells correspond to the markings of fallen elves! This is undoubtedly a heinous incident—"
"But now, we've found the real culprit!"
"How should we deal with this fallen elf and his accomplices? After discussion, we will purify them with the purest and hottest flames, so that the filth on their bodies will vanish into thin air."
Burning at the stake.
This is the meaning of purification.
Si Yisi glanced at the menacing elves, then reached out and grabbed the elf girl's wrist.
The moment Si Yisi's hand touched the girl's wrist, the girl giggled.
She affectionately lowered her head and nuzzled Si Yisi's arm, then pulled him back.
The next moment, Si Yisi and the elf girl were bound together to the execution rack by the elves. Si Yisi did not resist, partly due to his keen perception, and partly due to the influence of the holographic online game's system—
It seems to have completely equated itself with Luo Xinxiu.
Therefore, Siyisi can also receive information sent by the system.
[Rare - Specialized Quest: Dark Glory has been activated. Please make your choices carefully, as every word you utter may cause irreversible deviations from the quest's progress.]
Si Yisi waited quietly. He wasn't without a chance to escape with the elf girl, but the girl had just written "no" in his palm, so he let himself be tied to the stake.
The fire quickly ignited, and Si Yisi smelled the unpleasant odor of his burning clothes. The burning pain clung to his exposed skin, relentlessly searing every inch of his body.
However, it was all worth it.
Si Yisi turned to ashes in the fire, but he didn't feel any pain at all.
Instead, it felt like basking in gentle sunlight, and a joyful feeling of rebirth welled up from my heart, filling my entire being like a wave of heat.
Si Yisi's vision went black for a moment.
When he woke up again, he found that the scene in front of him had changed—the peaceful, clean, and beautiful elf village had completely turned into another unfamiliar place.
If the Elf Village is the territory of the "Daywalkers," then this place is the paradise of revelry that the "Nightwalkers" crave.
Black and red were the dominant colors of this place, which resembled a palace that had been reduced to ruins. Sis's left eye saw the magnificent palace decorations, while his right eye saw only collapsed ruins, with a few scattered stars dotting the deep black night sky.
Si Yisi could feel a kiss branded onto her fingertips.
The elven girl bowed her head and reverently kissed Si Yisi's fingertips, without a hint of profanity. Si Yisi felt a heaviness on the top of his head; he touched a small black crown.
The crown is adorned with an obsidian stone that resembles Sis's eye.
"My king," the elven girl whispered to Sis, "you are the king I have chosen."
At this moment, Si Yisi stood on a black throne amidst ruins, possessing a broken and chaotic beauty. Si Yisi noticed that the instant the elven girl kissed her fingertip, a wisp of black mist playfully lingered on it.
Then the black mist merged into Si Yisi's skin, turning into a small crown.
It looks like a miniature version of the crown on Sissi's head.
[You have become king.]
[All the creatures of darkness are cheering for your coronation! May you return in triumph!]
[Job change successful! You have changed from the "Elf" race to the hidden class "Fallen Elf." You have obtained the title "Dark King," and you have become the first mutated Fallen Elf to be resurrected from the flames.]
[The daylight will not hinder your steps because of your status, and the night will become your greatest asset. You will stand at the summit, overlooking your people.]
[Note: You are king, and also... a heretic!]
"Your Majesty." The elven girl was wrapped in a black robe. The moment she stood up, Si Yisi noticed that she seemed to have grown quite a bit.
The elven girl spoke heavily: "I am Freya, and you are the queen of all dark creatures. My king... I hope you can lead us to shatter the arrogance and powerlessness of those earthly beings, and let us return to the land!"
While listening to the elf girl Freya, Si Yisi also paid some attention to her own attire.
He was also draped in the same black robe, like a messenger of darkness, but beneath the robe was a long black skirt, which, while having a magnificent gothic feel, also had an exceptionally luxurious texture…
But... is he unable to shake off his established persona?
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