Chapter 607 - 606 – Mystery Trial – Part 5.

"Hm…"

"Forfeit." – said Sengen.

"What?" – asked the Book Maker.

"Nothing… Just making sure this isn't yet another fake test once again." – said Sengen.

"Meh. Makes sense." – said the Book Maker as they snapped their fingers, causing the book shelves to just move away, revealing a hidden path.

"Huh… So, it wasn't there?" – asked Sengen as she looked at the middle of the room.

"Of course not." – replied the Book Maker.

"Despise how simple this place may look at the first glace, it is a freaking labyrinth that I control."

"It obviously needs some mechanisms and what not to protect the whole temple." – said the Book Maker as they started leading way forward.

The two walked through the long path, before then arriving at their destination.

An altar, surrounded by the sea of pages.

As for the altar itself? It represented one thing.

A book.

"Well then, let us commence." – said the Book Maker as they stood in front of the altar.

"Your name?"

"…"

"Sengen." – replied the player.

"Sengen." – said the Book Maker.

"You have proven yourself to have ability to see truth in the lies."

"You have proven your ability to read."

"And now, let me ask Thea."

"Does one thou want to inherit the divinity and write thy their own novel?"

"…"

"Yes!" – said Sengen.

In that moment, what was on Sengen's face?

The answer will be probably obvious.

Joy.

However… What kind of?

A wicked one.

The smile on her face wasn't exactly pure.

It was pure.

Inhuman Smile

(FINALY!)

Why was her smile like "this"?

It is simple.

She just got repaired.

Explanation.

The betrayal that destroyed her guild and eventual downfall of her entire guild had straight up broke her.

But, bit by bit, she was getting repaired.

First was Thanatos appearing.

Her debt getting paid instantly.

Then it was her proposal.

A proposition of "fun".

Her accepting the deal.

Then it hit her with something that truly shock her.

A power that could make her once again one of the strongest players in the game.

And.

The direct support from one of the most powerful and dangerous players in the whole game whose presence alone bears power.

A devil's hand.

…

A hand that she took.

However! There was a 2 conditions for her to have "fun".

First was loyalty, meaning selling herself for power.

And second was finishing the trial.

Now, she had fulfilled both of these conditions, what would happened?

It is simple.

She was repaired.

But not exactly in the way she was when the Amethyst guild was at its peak.

She was repaired in a wrong way… Or more exactly.

She was remade.

(FINALY! I HAVE IT!)

(THE ABILITY!)

(THE POSSIBLITY TO OBTAIN "FUN" ONCE AGAIN!)

Her transformation was finished at this point.

4 out 5 members of the Purple Hyena guild had obtained the divinities.

However, that doesn't mean that things were looking great for them.

The players suspected something was off for some time… But now? They grew way too impatient.

The players stared picking a fight with the major factions all on their own.

Not only that, but the players who were part of the investigation forced of specific faction had also started shooting "questions".

And there was another problem.

The major faction realized that THEY weren't the only ones that knew about the existence of the elder gods' divinities.

The blood is already flowing… But soon? It will be straight up pouring.

The question is, will people adapt to the upcoming chaos or not?

[Meanwhile: Ice Mountain]

"Oh! Sengen managed to obtain her divinity?!" – asked Phantasia as he was using {Chat – Video Call} to communicate with Thanatos.

"Yes. She managed to obtain it on her third trial." – replied Thanatos.

"She straight up couldn't contain her excitement at all after leaving the temple." – said Thanatos as she remembered Sengen screaming 'FUCK YEA!' over and over again on top of her lungs like maniac after leaving the temple.

"It is fair to say that she is happy."

"By the way, the rarity of the class she obtained was legendary."

"And as we suspected, it is a mage-oriented class."

"Which is also broken like hell."

"By the way, how are the things with Orion? Is she doing any good?"

"Well… No." – said Phantasia.

"She logged off instantly after failing the trial."

"But from what I've saw before that was straight up pure anger."

"…Hm… Wouldn't you be?" – asked Thanatos.

"She is dealing with a lot of pressure right now."

"Honestly, both Orion and Sengen are problematic."

"Sengen was straight up broken after what happened to her guild."

"While Orion was nobody, not even a ranker or anybody important."

"And now? She heading straight towards the top out of blue."

"Honestly speaking, making Orion take on the trial right now was a bad decision."

"What she needed the most wasn't the time to grow stronger, but adjust to the heights she is slowly reaching."

"But what can we do about this?" – asked Phantasia.

"The mister fucking shadow master mind left us with no choice."

"Not only that, but if you look around on the internet, things are quiet chaotic recently."

"By now good number of people should know about divinities and in the game, the major factions must had realized that they got played."

"…"

"I know that you just finished the whole protecting Sengen thing, but I will need you now here."

"I wouldn't be surprised-"

"If other major factions beside spirits or just massive amounts of players show up, yeah. I completely understand the situation." – said Thanatos.

"Still, we will need to quickly go back to the base and get some cold resistant equipment."

"Some of the homunculuses that you had also given us are too tired and injured, so we need to sent them back home, since at this point, they are deadweight."

"…"

*Sigh*

"Thanks." – said Phantasia before then ending the call.

"…"

(Welp, now what?) – thought Phantasia in annoyance.

(The time is our main problem.)

(That Shadow Mastermind truly fucked up every single faction and player in the whole game with what they just did.)

(And worst part? We don't have any fucking idea where they-))

"…"

"Wait."

"WAIT!"

"FUCKING WAIT!" – shouted Phantasia in panic as he tried calling Maparapara instantly in pure panic.

"…"

"…"

[Player Maparapara answered your call.]

"Yeah? What is it? Weren't you just-"

"Maparapara! Quick question!" – said Phantasia before the slime woman could finish speaking.

"The temple! What was the state when you found it!?"

"?"

"What do you mean?" – asked confused Maparapara.

"Just answer the question!" – said impatient Phantasia.

"Well… It was in the game? Like in the cave, just like I've told you before." – said Maparapara.

"Was it hidden in special way?" – asked Phantasia.

"It was." – replied Maparapara.

"With earth."

"…"

"Can you give me the detailed explanation? Or can you give me Eve?" – asked Phantasia.

"Hm… Wait a moment." – said Maparapara.

"…"

(Eve has excellent memory, so she should be able to give me somewhat detailed explanation!) – thought Phantasia.

However, she didn't mention anything weird or special.

"We concluded that the cave was never touched in the first place." – said Maparapara.

"That is what Eve is saying."

"Honestly, I don't get it. I mean, we confirmed it that the mister shadow guy was here, right? So how could he had entered the temple without digging?"

"Yeah, and that is a problem." – said Phantasia.

"Construction with the elemental skills, such as [Stone Wall] or [Earth Wall] is way too neat."

"The [Stone Wall] is just giant slab of stone while [Earth Wall] is just well made wall that was made using earth."

"There are skills that can be used for creation and what not, meaning they wouldn't disappear after being used. Like some sort of automatic building or manipulation of terrain."

"In other words, the mister shadow guy couldn't possible enter the fucking temple and use skills to cover up his tracks, since you would had discovered that something was odd the moment you started digging!"

(I fucking forgotten about that shit!) – thought Phantasia while smiling.

(I fucking was too focused on the Ice Mountain to fucking focus ask this stupid ask question!)

(HOW DID HE FOUND THE CAVE UNDERGROUND TEMPLE!?)

(From what I know, the environment there is somewhat "normal"! It doesn't have the fucking self-repair function like the Ice Mountain!)

(So how the hell did they found the temple AND managed to leave no tracks behind, expect for them entering the temple!?)

(Finding the temple is easy. Use the pattern.)

(However, hiding your tracks? Oh, no, no, no. Even fucking stealth skills wouldn't be able to do that.)

"…"

"I think I fucking get it." – said Phantasia.

"Enemy used the same method as ours to find the temple."

"And the way they did it is by digging."

"?"

"What are you talking about? There is no way it is true." – said Maparapara.

"Yes. Normally it would leave traces behind." – said Phantasia.

"But there are two ways of doing that without leaving any traces."

"The culprit could have a skill or item that allows them to walk through solid object like a ghost."

"However, that theory cannot be right, since how would they know WHERE to walk while being in the ground? Remember, none of our ability to detect stuff is working with those fucking temples."

"They have some kind of protection jammers in place."

"Meaning, they would need something."

"An ability to see through objects. Meaning, they could see right through the ground and see the temple."

"The jammer wouldn't allow the vision skill to look inside, but the fact alone that it blocked something would straight up reveal it!"

"!"

"Oh… Yeah. That could work." – said Maparapara.

"Or there is another possibility." – said Phantasia.

"The shadow guy had straight up turned back time."