MTL - This Text Adventure Game is Absolutely Toxic-Chapter 426 king's invitation

  Chapter 426 The King's Invitation

  Denghen?

   Mu You was taken aback.

   The first two options triggered by the troubadour are understandable, and they are options for him. What the **** is the third one?

  Curiosity, Mu You first tried to choose [Ask the Genie].

   What surprised him was: the third option was free of charge, and the text popped up directly!

【"The lamp **** is one of the greatest gods! The lamp **** who lives in a bottle or pot, occasionally appears in the desert area to help travelers who are in trouble. He is a loving **** who deserves everyone's respect !” When the troubadour talked about the lamp god, his eyes were full of worship and fanaticism: “In addition, it is said that the artifact of the lamp god, the ‘miracle lamp’, is hidden in the lair of the manticore on the Gobi Plateau in the northern part of the Scarlet Desert. As long as you find the manticore Lair, and defeat the manticore entrenched in it, find the miracle magic lamp, and you will have a chance to meet the lamp god!"]

   "So this guy is a loyal follower of the Djinn?"

   Mu You recalled the explanation when he met this troubadour just now, and specifically described him as 'an oil lamp hanging on his waist'.

  Now the other party's words sound like they are preaching to him.

  The question is, if there is really a 'miracle lamp', why doesn't the faithful believer in front of him take it, but instead fools him as an outsider?

   Mu You keenly felt that there was something tricky in it.

   Besides, as for the manticore, he has just met it not long ago. It is the boss on the 30th floor of the Tower of the Brave, a 5-star god-type creature, let him take the lead?

  In short, what kind of Djinn and Manticore, even if they really exist, will be considered after he gets the magic brush and the skin of the god. Now he is busy looking for the magic brush, but he has no time to provoke these things.

   Mu You shook his head, backtracked decisively, and chose the first item.

  【You asked the troubadour if there was a quick way to travel to the Crimson Desert. 】

  【"Going to the Crimson Desert, of course there is a way." The troubadour played the accordion and nodded with a smile, and said that as a friend meeting for the first time, he can answer the first question for free. 】

[The Almare Empire is a country located in the east of the Qingyan Desert, and it is also the only large country in the desert area at present. Because of the long-term survival experience in the desert, a kind of "sand land ship" was born in this country Carriers can travel in the desert like walking on flat ground, and are often used for the transportation of personnel and goods of various caravans. If you can take a land ship, you can reach the Scarlet Desert in only half a day, and you can save money. Dangerous and hard to go on long treks. 】

   "Edromal Empire..."

Mu You of this country knows it, and it is also marked on the map given by Solomon. It is docked at the edge of this empire to facilitate communication with the aborigines here and trigger various tasks.

   Mu You nodded, this news is quite valuable, and the troubadour is also quite honest, the first question is free, so Mu You didn't go back to prostitution, but directly chose the second one.

  【You rewarded the troubadour with five years of life, expressing that you want to hear him sing another troubadour story. 】

  【"Thank you for your patronage!" The troubadour was overjoyed, accepted your reward, took you to sit in the shade, then plucked the strings, and sang a wild story about "Caesar the Great" along with the accompaniment...]

   What follows is a long text of bardic stories, with thousands of words.

But it’s not complicated to sum it up, it’s just a simple unofficial history gossip: It is said that after Radars Caesar unified the desert and proclaimed himself emperor, he summoned civil and military officials and held a grand celebration banquet to discuss the meritorious deeds of his opponents Reward.

It was originally a banquet where the guests and the host enjoyed themselves, but in the end, because of a cat brought into the banquet by a maid, the drunken Caesar seemed to have seen something horrible, so frightened that he lost his sense of control, fell under the table, and screamed. screamed like a woman...

  Although the guests who participated at the time pretended not to see it due to Caesar’s identity and kept tight-lipped about it, it still became an indelible stain on the glamorous and brave Caesar.

Caesar, who was embarrassed, then ordered to hunt down all sand cats in the whole territory and destroy all sand cat nests, which indirectly led to the extinction of the cat species in the desert. This is Caesar's sand cat butcher 'The origin of this nickname...

  Sand cat butcher... This is the first time Mu You has heard of this story.

  It’s just a piece of unofficial history. It’s hard to say whether it’s true or not, but from this story alone, the information that can be extracted seems to be that Caesar is afraid of cats?

  【You thanked the troubadour for the story, and then you have to take your leave. 】

  【The troubadour noticed that you were leaving, so he hurriedly stopped you and asked if you want to hear another legend of the great lamp god? Also a free gift! 】

  【You shook your head and declined the troubadour's invitation, and then, under the bitter eyes of the troubadour, you rode a camel and continued your journey. 】

  After that, it’s time to rush on the road. It will take about two hours to ride a camel to Adromal.

   During this period, Mu You saw all kinds of desert creatures.

  【You encountered an armored armadillo (level 17): attack power 54-64, defense power 540, abilities: ground burrowing, defensive form, fire immunity...】

  【Iron Armored Armadillo: A pangolin-like creature covered with layers of scales on its back. It has extremely strong defense and the ability to travel through sand. When it encounters an attack, it will shrink into a ball and rely on the scales on its back to resist the attack. 】

  【You easily penetrated the defense of the armadillo with the power of God. You killed the armored armadillo, experience +17, lifespan +1, you got 'armadillo scales'*17...]

  …

【You see a wave of movement in the sand in front of you, a withered hand covered with cloth strips suddenly protrudes from the sand, followed by a desert mummy crawling out from under the sand, staggering towards you... 】

  【...The desert mummy was turned into powder by your holy light technique...】

  …

[...Walking to a sand dune, you suddenly heard a rustling sound in the sand, a 'Mother of the Scarab' (level 19) suddenly emerged from the ground, and quickly summoned several monsters from the surrounding sand. Ten scarabs. 】

  【The scarabs crawled fast, rushed up to you and the drought camel, and drilled through your skin, and began to bite your internal organs...】

  【Drought camel howled, was bitten to death by scarabs...】

   "Backtracking..."

  The pangolin mummies I met before are easy to talk about, but this bug is a bit difficult to deal with. It burrows into the human body when it meets it, and it can't be beaten.

   Mu You had no choice but to resort to the big killer: mecha skin!

  【Time flies, before you encountered the scarab, you jumped off the camel in advance and switched to the mecha skin. 】

  【Attention, the power supply of the mech skin's current power furnace is insufficient, the output power is greatly reduced, and various accessories above the epic level such as the charged cannon and the self-aiming circuit cannot take effect. Do you want to switch skins? 】

  【You ignored the warning and took the initiative to set foot on the sand dunes. 】

  【A large number of scarabs emerged again, rushing towards you, and surrounded your feet, but there was nothing they could do about your steel body. 】

  【The spiral barrels on your arms emerge, and the two shotguns spray out a string of flames, and the scarabs on the ground explode and die one after another amidst a burst of chirping...】

  The ancient power furnaces were left to Eugene and the others to build Eternal Night City. Now Muyou only has some ordinary power furnaces available, and the combat power of the mecha skin is greatly reduced, but it is still easy to deal with a few bugs.

  【You searched around and picked up the ‘Scarab Shell’*36. 】

  The shells dropped by these scarabs are good potion materials, and they are only produced in the desert. They are usually relatively rare, but now you have the opportunity to collect more.

  In addition, Mu You found that due to the excessive drought and the scarcity of water elements in the desert, all water-based magics could not be cast, but the power of fire-based magic could almost double.

However, don't think that fire magic can shine here because of this. On the contrary, almost all creatures in the desert are resistant to fire, and many creatures are even directly immune to fire, let alone those monsters. Even the drought-affected camel he was riding was naturally immune to fire damage.

  So ordinary water and fire magicians will not run into the desert without authorization, and their situation here will be extremely embarrassing.

   Next, Mu You stepped on the corpses of mummies and bugs all the way. It took about two hours and finally arrived at the place.

  【You have come to the city of Adramer. This is the capital of the Almare Empire, located on a rare oasis in the Qingyan Desert, and it is also the only large city on the entire desert continent. 】

[When you enter the city of Almare, you will see a golden world. All the buildings in the city are made of blue-yellow sandstone. Square temples and towers can be seen everywhere. All the aborigines on the streets are all Wear sand-proof clothing and head scarves...]

  【You lead the camel into the city, the skin color is obviously different from that of the residents here, and it immediately attracts the attention of countless aborigines. 】

  【You ignore these lines of sight, look around, there are many local specialty shops waiting for your patronage, you choose to go to...】

  This desert city is more prosperous than imagined. As soon as you enter the city, there are many options to go to, including various shops, local travel agencies, restaurants and so on.

  Mu You was just about to find someone to ask where he could rent land ships, but a text popped up in the game that surprised him.

  【You have just entered the city, and you are stopping and wandering near the city gate, when two men dressed as soldiers suddenly stopped in front of you. 】

  【These two men are wearing the unified army armor of the Eldromal Empire and holding halberds. They are obviously the regular army here. 】

  【You looked at the two with a little vigilance, and touched the wand in your sleeve with one hand, but heard one of them politely say: "Excuse me, is this Mr. Ghost Captain?"]

   Mu You was taken aback.

   He would not be surprised to be stopped by the locals and even recognize him as a fool. What shocked him was that the other party actually called out his identity?

   You must know that he is hiding his ID now, and he is wearing an ordinary skin of a slasher, and he is wearing a thousand-faced face. How did the other party recognize him?

   Mu You frowned, and did not reply in a hurry, but first sent a private message to Solomon on the forum to ask if he had disclosed his itinerary to others.

   Except for a few people around him, only Solomon knew about his coming to the desert.

   "Disclose the itinerary? No, what's the matter, my God, what happened?" Solomon's reply seemed quite confused.

   "Oh, it's nothing, just ask casually, don't worry about it." Mu You replied casually. From Solomon's tone, he had preliminarily determined that the other party should not have revealed it, and the other party had no reason to do so.

   This is weird...

   Mu You had no choice but to return to the game.

  【You nodded and admitted your identity, and asked the two of you what they wanted from you? 】

  【"The king invites you to visit the palace!" One of the soldiers replied humbly. 】

  King…

  Mu You was even more surprised. He just entered the city, and the news reached the king of this country?

  Although he was puzzled, Mu You decided to follow the two of them to have a look. Since the other party could reveal his identity, and openly invited him to be a guest, it shouldn't be a bad thing.

  【You follow two soldiers and enter the royal palace in the center of the city, and in a luxurious reception room, you meet Gunta Adam, the king of the Eldromal Empire. 】

  【"Captain Ghost, the most powerful warrior among the Fools, on behalf of the Atramari Empire, I welcome you!" The old king wearing a crown warmly received you. 】

  【"I'm curious, how did you know my identity?" After entering the reception room, you straight to the point asked this confusion. 】

【"Haha, half an hour ago, a troubadour passing by here told me that he was an old friend of yours. If it wasn't for his reminder, I wouldn't have known that a warrior as powerful as you would pass by My country." King Adan did not hide anything, and told you the truth with a smile. 】

   Troubadour…

   Mu You's face is weird, no way...

  The guy I met just now had already seen through his identity? You know that person is not a player, how did he do it?

[The king seemed to see doubts flashing across your face, and said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, Mr. Ghost Captain, I invite you here without any malice. According to the troubadour, the goal of your trip is to go to the Scarlet Desert. Looking for those members of the 'Caesar Cult', and hoping to find out the whereabouts of the legendary 'Pen of Order' from them, right?"]

   "..."

   Mu You was even more shocked, and even felt a little creepy.

He suddenly realized that he had underestimated the bard from before. Who the **** is this guy? He just said that he was going to the Scarlet Desert. Can you guess the pen of order?

etc…

  At this time, Mu You suddenly realized another thing: the information about the "Caesar Cult" provided by Solomon before seemed to be learned by a Dawn City player from a minstrel population...

   The troubadour this player met, shouldn't it be the same person he met?

  The connection of these two events made Mu You suddenly feel as if he had fallen into some kind of man-made conspiracy...

  【You look at the king and ask the troubadour's whereabouts with a smile. It doesn't mean anything else, you just want to say hello and have a heart-to-heart talk with him. 】

  【But the king shook his head: "The troubadour said he had something important to do, and he came to tell me the news just now, and left the city in a hurry."】

  Gan, this guy is still running away, more like a conspiracy...

  【Seeing your uncertain expression, the king said with relief: "Don't worry, Mr. Ghost Captain, I invite you this time to discuss a cooperation with you, and there is absolutely no malice!"]

  【"What cooperation?" You ask. 】

   Mu You breathed out, no matter who the troubadour was, it was already like this anyway, so he simply decided to listen to it before talking.

【"You are looking for the legendary 'lost magic pen', and I have no feeling for the magic pen. My goal is to prevent the resurrection of Caesar, the war lunatic, so as to ensure the stability of my empire and rule, so there is no conflict between us !" The king looked at you seriously and said, "I can help you find the 'Caesar Religion' group, and you need to help me confirm whether this group is really capable of resurrecting Caesar and his Army, if there is one, please stop them and destroy their plans! I will send my army to assist you secretly throughout the whole process."]

  【You have triggered a hidden mission: prevent the Caesar Empire from being revived. 】

  【Mission description: If the Caesar Empire is revived, the desert legion he leads will have the ability to destroy any human country on the continent, and the only desert country that bears the brunt is the Aldromal Empire. 】

  【Task Content: Go to the Scarlet Desert, infiltrate into the Caesar Cult, and confirm whether they really have the ability and plan to revive Caesar, and if so, destroy their plan. 】

  【Mission Reward: Obtain the support of the King of Almare, obtain the right to temporarily call the army of Almare, and obtain a 'sand land ship' presented by the king. 】

  (end of this chapter)