Chapter 57
If the ancient dragons could be destroyed, what would the divine realm be like now?
"Ahhh!"
The donkey's braying brought Ye Bai back from his lost thoughts.
Ye Bai and the figure both looked towards the donkey, only to see the donkey stride over like a big boss and nod towards Ye Bai.
Ye Bai had developed a habit of skillfully taking out a piece of bread from his backpack and stuffing it into the other person's mouth.
"Slurp, slurp." The donkey finished eating in two bites, wagged its tail contentedly, and gave Ye Bai an appreciative look.
Ye Bai nodded subconsciously, then paused, suddenly looking at the donkey with a suspicious look.
Is this donkey trying to PUA her?
"..." Meeting an innocent look, Ye Bai withdrew his gaze and looked at the strange humanoid again.
The donkey's interruption reminded Ye Bai of the real issue, and he asked, "How could the ancient dragon be destroyed?"
"I don't know the full details," the strange figure replied, his tone speculative. "But... the sky city is shattered, and most of it has fallen. I guess it must have been a brutal war."
"Ah, ah, ah." The donkey brayed slowly twice, as if echoing what he said.
"War? Who can destroy them..." Ye Bai frowned and stopped talking mid-sentence: "God?"
The strong ones among the ancient dragons can reach levels above 100, reaching the divine level. In addition to the characteristics of the dragons, they are also among the strongest among the divine levels. Apart from the strong ones above level 100, Ye Bai can't think of anything else that can destroy the Divine Court.
"Oh? You also understand gods?" The strange humanoid raised his voice when he heard this and asked Ye Bai back.
That's natural... Ye Bai not only understood the gods, but also knew that in addition to the ancient dragons, there were five other tribes in the divine realm that could give birth to god-level powerful beings: the kingdom forces representing order and light, the purgatory creatures representing chaos and magma, the void spirits representing secrecy and intellect, the high elves representing nature and balance, and the deep sea tribes representing all aquatic life.
In addition to these powerful races that naturally have the route to hegemony, there are other flourishing ethnic groups in the world, such as the Luozhi tribe that Ye Bai is looking for and the Dragon Clan just mentioned. They are either derivatives of these ethnic groups or vassals of these ethnic groups.
Some of the six major forces are naturally close, some are naturally hostile, some remain neutral, and some are more powerful than the players and are closer to the "original power" of the divine blood. These forces, together with the other hundreds of races, constitute the picture of all beings in the divine world.
According to the original setting, if the player comes to the God Realm after the third transformation, he can choose to join these forces, transform into a certain race, and then participate in the hegemony of the God Realm. There is no fixed script for the entire line, and the player's behavior will affect the direction of the entire world. This is the fun of the [open world game] that Ye Bai ultimately wants to achieve.
The overall style of the territory infrastructure of Wanjie is more inclined towards strategic management, while "Broken God's Court" is an immersive adventure in another world that is more inclined towards traditional RPG.
But even though she knew it, Ye Bai certainly wouldn't tell it to the strange humanoid, so she started to perfunctorily reply:
"Just a little bit, a little bit."
"Oh..." The strange figure responded, not knowing whether it noticed Ye Bai's perfunctory response, and then said: "In fact, it's not just the ancient dragon that was destroyed... Do you want to know more? If so, you need..."
"Wait, I don't want to know more."
This familiar tone of issuing tasks made Ye Bai interrupt immediately.
The strange figure was about to continue: "...Huh?"
"That's right." Ye Bai said seriously.
Although I wanted to understand the situation in the divine world, the next words from this strange humanoid figure had already begun to lead me to the cause of its destruction. This was the aura of a large-scale mission, and there was also a sense of a main mission that sounded very far-reaching.
Ye Bai didn't want to take on this kind of task when she was only in her 20s, and she also got a piece of information from the other party - 'It's not just the ancient dragon that was destroyed.'
This meant that the other five major tribes had also undergone tremendous changes. In the worst case scenario, the other five tribes might even be destroyed...
The ancient dragon started the trend, and now Ye Bai can accept a few more tribes coming.
Judging from the previous questioning of the dragon clan, the strange humanoid did not know the details, or in other words, he could not get more accurate information before completing the other party's task. In this case, it was nothing more than letting Ye Bai guess among several possibilities, so why bother triggering an unknown task?
Ye Bai still hasn't figured out the origin of this strange humanoid figure. He may not be a good character. He was cursed to disappear and can only be regarded as a "two-dimensional" existence. Who knows what big trap is behind it.
The Divine Realm is not like the other realms. There is no fixed plot line and functional NPCs here, only different camps. Therefore, there is a high probability of opposing two-way tasks in task selection, and players need to make a choice. If you stand on the wrong side at the beginning and do something wrong in the previous tasks, it is very likely that you will not be able to change your position later and can only go down one path to the end.
For example, there are two opposing quest lines. Without knowing the follow-up, an NPC gives the player the task of killing someone. The player happily does it, and then finds out that the task of the opposing line is to protect that person.
In this case, even if the player immediately slides down to show that he wants to be a traitor, will the NPC on that line still pay attention? Of course not, they will just show their health bar and start fighting immediately.
The strange humanoid didn't seem to expect Ye Bai to reject him so decisively. It wasn't even a rejection... he was directly interrupted.
This time, there was a long silence before the strange figure spoke again, returning to his previous relaxed tone:
"I understand. In that case, then what about the dragon clan's treasure trove we mentioned earlier..."
Ye Bai: "I'm not interested either."
Weird humanoid: "Uh..."
The atmosphere fell into silence for a moment. Ye Bai sat there without saying a word. The strange human figure also seemed motionless on the white stone. Only the crackling sound of the campfire and the rhythmic swinging sound of the donkey's tail could be heard.
After a while, perhaps sensing the awkward atmosphere, Ye Bai raised his head and looked at the strange figure. He seemed to have thought of something and suddenly asked:
"By the way, since you don't even remember your own name, how do you know all this?"
The strange figure replied after a moment: "The curse makes me exist in words. Inside and outside the words, as a bystander, I have seen many things happen."
Ye Bai asked, "Have you ever communicated with the ancient dragon?"
"No." The carvings on the strange human-shaped head moved slightly, and it looked like it was shaking its head. However, because the carving style of the stone was very abstract, it looked a bit like a stick figure, and the facial features were not detailed. Only a part representing the head could be seen.
"So I don't know exactly why the dragon clan was destroyed." He explained.
Ye Bai frowned. Judging from this point of view, the existence of the strange human figure in the dragon tomb ruins should have happened after the demise of the ancient dragon clan.
"I see... Then it seems you've been around here for a long time. No wonder you look so familiar with it."
"That's right." The strange humanoid responded.
Ye Bai continued casually, "You said there are dragonborn undead in the south. What kind of dragonborn are they?"
"There are the Dragon Scale Tribe, the Sub-Dragon People..." The strange humanoid figure mentioned two of them, then suddenly paused: "If you are interested, then let's talk about the Dragon Tribe's treasure trove?"
"Forget it." Ye Bai paused and changed the subject: "Let's talk about something else."
"Oh, of course no problem." The strange humanoid agreed briskly.
Next, the two masters of making empty promises started a tug of war.
Ye Bai wanted to ask some questions, and the strange humanoid wanted to issue a task, but neither of them got what they wanted.
Perhaps because Ye Bai was the only creature nearby that could communicate, the strange humanoid answered every question she asked, but he learned to change the subject. Every time he was about to get to the main point of the scene, he would mention the mission to shut Ye Bai up.
In the end, the two of them chatted in a random manner until dawn. It seemed like they had communicated a lot, but after a careful review and analysis, they found that it was basically nonsense and no information was revealed at all.
As soon as the sky brightened, Ye Bai stood up from the fire - it was time to go to the Dragonborn in the south to get some Luozhi tribe fabrics.
Ye Bai turned his gaze to the donkey, which also seemed to have rested well, and fed it a piece of bread. When it was eating happily, he gave it a look:
How do you say? Ride it?
"Ahhh!"
The donkey obviously understood what was said. It swallowed the bread quickly and ran away.
Ye Bai's eyes narrowed, and he immediately ran after him, saying goodbye to the strange humanoid he had been chatting with all night:
"It was a pleasure chatting with you. We hope to see you again!"
Although he shouldn't feel tired in the holographic game, Ye Bai felt a kind of mental exhaustion this night. Before the strange humanoid was cursed, he must have been a difficult and unyielding guy!
"It's already dawn! Time flies. As you said, I look forward to meeting you next time..."
Before the strange humanoid could finish his words, Ye Bai had already disappeared after chasing the donkey.
"goodbye."
The strange humanoid slowly said the last two words, and his figure disappeared from the white boulder. The dragon language text there returned to normal.
On the other side, Ye Bai chased the donkey all the way through the ruins of the dragon tomb and walked to a long downward slope.
There was a dark and ominous fog before my eyes, and the donkey that had been running before stopped here.
Ye Bai caught up and walked next to it: "What's going on?"
The donkey just glanced at Ye Bai without braying.
Ye Bai looked at it, a thoughtful look on her face. She had just tried to ride the donkey, but she hadn't expected it to run away again, and the direction it ran was exactly the south where she was going.
If it's a coincidence, it's too much of a coincidence.
Seeing this, Ye Bai took out another loaf of bread.
As expected, the donkey stretched its head over without thinking and ate the bread in her hand as if it was a matter of course.
Ye Bai leaned forward, got close to the donkey's ear, and suddenly said, "You can understand what we're saying, right? Otherwise, how would you know to come to the south?"
"Baji, baji..."
The donkey ignored Ye Bai and concentrated on chewing the bread.
Ye Bai's voice continued: "But that person said that only those who understand the dragon's language can see him."
"Bah... burp."
The donkey, which was swallowing the bread, suddenly choked.
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