Five Frozen Centuries

Just as Wei Huo was about to use the Black Bomb, he heard Wei Sha’s trembling voice coming from behind his back.

“Big... Divine Man!”

Wei Huo was shocked. He turned around to find Wei Sha and the Mimic trembling under the altar.

“What’s going on?” Wei Huo asked.

Wei Sha said in a shaky voice, “Big Divine Man... I’m sensing a strong threatening aura!”

The Mimic was shaking as well. It seemed as if it was extremely afraid of the altar. Wei Huo understood it at that moment that they were both afraid of the coffin on this altar.

As he had activated Massacre Mode, the threatening aura from it canceled out the aura coming from the coffin. That was why Wei Huo did not feel anything.

Wei Huo scrunched his brows. He used the bone to knock his own palm while he began thinking about it. Could there be an incredibly terrifying creature hiding inside this coffin? A Legendary creature? An Ancient Danger?

Wei Huo was now a little hesitant about detonating this Black Bomb.

If it was a Superboss [1] hiding in that coffin, would it not be embarrassing to blow the coffin open and be defeated by it?

‘I should probably search through the ruins and grab all collectable treasures before anything.’

Wei Huo left the altar and explored the ruins while drawing a map for himself. Wei Sha and the Mimic evidently felt better after leaving the altar. They were no longer trembling. As for the Mimic, it started trailing behind Wei Huo happily as if nothing had happened.

However, the Mimic did not learn its lesson. At times, it still tried to jump and bite Wei Huo. Nonetheless with the help of God View, it ended up getting kicked aside by Wei Huo every time. After every kick, the Mimic would get up, shake its head, and happily trail behind Wei Huo again.

Wei Huo was a little puzzled. ‘Does this Mimic like being abused?’

Wei Huo concluded that it was a weird Mimic.

Wei Huo walked around with Wei Sha and the Mimic. Three hours later, they were nearly done with exploring this floor of the ruins. This floor was not huge, but Wei Huo still found some things. For example, Wei Huo came across some Ancient Technology. After scanning it with his scanner, Wei Huo realized that it was a battery about the size of a water bottle made from bronze.

The battery’s efficiency was not high, and it was disposable as well. However, it was the first time Wei Huo came across a battery made from bronze.

‘Don’t tell me there’s a bronze robot as well!’

Apart from Ancient Technology, Wei Huo found a giant bronze dragon statue as well. The dragon statue was huge, and it coiled around a white jade pillar.

This was probably the Legendary creature mentioned in the update. It could be a robot dragon too, but unfortunately Wei Huo could not find any switch to it.

Apart from those things, Wei Huo also found an entrance in a corner that led to the underground. However, it was sealed and protected by the rules. It could not be destroyed at all.

The entrance was a metal gate with runes carved on it. Every time Wei Huo threw a punch at it, the runes would glow in blue light.

It seemed like he had no choice but to destroy that coffin!

Generally, a sealed gate like that would require keys to unlock it. Wei Huo was already done with exploring this floor, and the only thing left untouched was the coffin on the altar. It would be normal for a Superboss to be guarding it since that was probably the key to the next floor.

When Wei Huo went back to the altar, Wei Sha and the Mimic began trembling again. They were shivering and did not dare to take another step forward. Meanwhile, Wei Huo walked over and placed four Black Bombs at each corner of the coffin.

Just as he was about to light them up, Wei Sha said, “Big Divine Man... I don’t feel good about this.”

Wei Huo hesitated for a moment but decided to go on with his plan anyway. A few seconds after Wei Huo lit up the fuses Wei Sha said, “If I get out of this alive, I will work hard at training and improve my own capabilities!”

Wei Huo was confused. “???”

‘Why are you setting unrealistic goals at this moment?’

In contrast to Wei Sha, Wei Huo chose to give himself a dose of reality and said, “I’ll always be alone. I’ll never get married in this life. Even if I get out of here alive, I could never get married!”

Wei Sha was confused. “???”

‘What are you talking about?’

The bombs’ fuses were already lit up. There was no way they could back out of this, at least Wei Huo did not plan to. He said to Wei Sha, “Leave the ruins, I’ll contact you when I’m done dealing with matters here.”

Wei Sha shook her head stubbornly. “No, I’m following wherever Big Diving Man goes!”

Wei Huo thought about it and said, “Fine, go and hide yourself. No matter what happens, don’t come out. I’ll handle this!”

Wei Huo was not afraid of the boss in the coffin as he had an invincible weapon, the Shadow Blade. With this baby of his, there was no need to fear any type of boss.

The items obtained from quests were pretty impressive. However, Wei Huo was puzzled at the same time. He had barely been assigned any quest lately. Could it be that he had detoured from the usual player’s progress and gone on a strange route?

Quests were triggered with regularity. Generally, a quest would only be triggered when a few specific conditions were met. It could be arriving at a certain location at a certain time, or encountering a special event. For example, the conditions could be coming in contact with a certain beast, or sailing by boat. 𝑓𝔯𝑒e𝘸e𝘣𝓷𝘰ѵe𝚕.c૦𝙢

Those quests probably had their own limitations as well. For instance, one’s attack and intelligence bars had to be within a certain range or one would have to kill a specific number of beasts in order to trigger the quest. It was like how Wei Huo was assigned a tough quest before this, ‘To Kill An Epic-Ranked Creature’.

That quest was tough to complete as Wei Huo had yet to come across any Epic-ranked creatures.

Wei Huo felt that Epic-ranked creatures could probably remain rare until mankind’s time halt came to an end. If Epic-ranked creatures were running everywhere after the time halt ends, the game would be a tough one to play.

Nonetheless, although Epic-ranked creatures were harder to battle than normal ones, they could still be killed with guns.

Epic-ranked creatures were extremely rare. Over the past few centuries, Wei Huo had yet to come across one of them. That was why this quest of his had to be delayed indefinitely.

However, it might be different today as there could be an Epic-ranked creature in the coffin.

Wei Huo made sure Wei Sha hid herself at a safe distance while he hid under a wooden wall while watching the altar closely. The Mimic did not understand what was going on and ran towards Wei Huo as usual.

At that moment, the extremely powerful Black Bombs detonated. The explosion released terrifying flames and lit up the entire ruins while the shockwaves crushed the nearby wooden walls.

With God View, Wei Huo saw that the golden-framed coffin exploded into pieces. The altar was instantly covered in dust, and gravels were falling from above.

It was impossible to see anything clearly with a human’s eye but as Wei Huo was in Massacre Mode, he could see what was on the altar.

Wei Huo’s brows scrunched. It was a skeleton. Its upper body was human, while the lower body resembled a snake’s.

Wei Huo finally understood what the dagger-like hieroglyph meant. It was referring to a Lillend[2]!

[1] A Superboss is a type of boss generally much more powerful than the other bosses encountered as part of a game’s plot or quest.

[2] Lillends are celestials with arms, head, and torso of a humanoid, but from the waist down, their body was that of a serpent. They are found in Forgotten Realms, a campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons.