Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 50 - 53 Golden Sun Guardian_1

Chapter 50: Chapter 53: Golden Sun Guardian_1

Chapter 50 -53: Golden Sun Guardian_1

[It speaks in deep, thunderous tones, asking why you seek its audience. The sheer volume of its voice jars you to your core.]

[You, already faint, are shocked right out of your shell, trembling in the towering presence of the giant in your spirit form.]

[Weak spirit, how will you respond?]

[1. Turn and run, leaping off the cliff. If you die first, no one else can kill you.]

[2. Tell the demigod Titan – Dan, that you’re a follower of the ‘Profane Blood Sun’. Maybe it’ll reward you?]

[3. Tell the demigod Titan – Dan, that you’re a follower of the ‘Bright New Moon’. Maybe it will slap you?]

[Warning! When you take fatal damage in your spirit form, your spiritual strength will permanently decrease by 1 point!]

“What the hell!” Lin Xun exclaimed in shock.

He only had two points of spiritual strength, if he loses one, he would no longer be able to reshape his shell.

Not being able to reshape his shell would be no different than being permanently blocked from the game!

He took a careful look at the three options in front of him. Option one was out of the question. Jumping off the cliff equated to committing suicide, and suicide meant getting banned from the game!

Options two and three were essentially making a choice between the Blood Sun and White Moon factions. If he chose wrong, he’d probably be doomed.

Choosing the Blood Sun faction might lead to a reward according to the option. However, knowing the game’s dark style, that clearly seemed like a trap.

Choosing the Blood Sun faction would most likely be a death sentence.

No! Maybe the options are deliberately misleading, tricking him into thinking it’s a trap, coercing him to choose the White Moon faction, only to be slapped to death.

He thought the game was playing tricks on just the first level, but in reality, it was on the third level. However, when he chose the fourth level, a bizarre text might show up saying “You’re Dead!”.

It would then tell Lin Xun that it was actually on the fifth level.

Damn! It’s like a galactic-scale cake filled with countless layers of trickery.

[The demigod Titan ‘Dan’ sees you hesitating for a long time without answering the question and its gaze gradually turns crazed…]

The three options in front of him began to tremble, signaling that Lin Xun’s time was running out.

It was a do-or-die moment, his brain went into overdrive.

Lin Xun took a deep breath and selected the third option!

[Fearless apostle, you do not flinch from the Blood Sun’s radiance emanating from the giant, you look directly into its golden eyes, loudly praising the ‘Bright New Moon’!]

[The bloody light surrounding the demigod Titan suddenly intensifies, as though a true ‘Profane Blood Sun’ has descended upon the world!]

[You lose yourself beneath the endless red light of the Blood Sun and start to disintegrate…]

It’s over… I’m doomed…

It seems he lost within the layers of this convoluted game.

[Just when you believe your end is near, a shred of sanity remains in ‘Dan’s’ eyes. Eventually, reason overcomes madness.]

[The light of the Blood Sun around ‘Dan’ gradually fades out, from it radiates the golden light akin to the noon sun.]

[Basking in the golden light, you feel an indescribable warmth, any damage you took under the Blood Sun’s rays is rapidly healing.]

[The ‘Shell of the Fallen White Moon Church Yellow Bishop’ is also bathed in the golden light, all of its injuries and fatigue are healed.]

[Like a grand sun, the golden giant greatly appreciates your courage and sincerity.]

[The giant ‘Dan’ begins to recount a fragment of long-forgotten history…]

Lin Xun heaved a huge sigh of relief, his back drenched in cold sweat.

He swung his fist, thrilled that he had gambled correctly!

The reason Lin Xun carefully chose the White Moon faction wasn’t particularly complicated.

From the memories of his acquired shell, he knew that the sun was referred to as the ‘Profane Blood Sun’ only after it was polluted, implying that the ‘Golden Sun’ could potentially be the sun’s original form.

Even though the giant was radiating the light of the Blood Sun, the glow of the Golden Sun still lingered in its eyes.

Moreover, this demigod giant was located deep beneath the sewer of Saint Lance which hinted to it being hidden or imprisoned, perhaps suppressed, or even exiled here.

Saint Lance had already fallen, if the Titan demigod was from the Blood Sun faction, it would’ve left to wage wars for its faith in the outside world and wouldn’t have stayed in the abyss.

Lin Xun wasn’t sure how correct his speculation was, but with time running out and without any time left to elaborate his decision process, he chose the White Moon faction, which like the ‘Golden Sun’, was also a part of the Church of Divine Light based on his intuition.

Thankfully, he gambled correctly!

[As ‘Dan’ tells his tale, you slowly uncover the long hidden history…]

[One of the three Titan heroes, ‘Dan’, has since birth worshipped the ‘Golden Sun’ that bestows warmth to the world. Yet for unknown reasons, the eternally unchanging sun got tainted by a mysterious unclean power, turning into the ‘Profane Blood Sun’.]

[The Church of Divine Light thus split, the Sun Church succumbed to the temptations of the fallen power and became the Blood Sun Church. Only the White Moon Church still worships the ‘Bright New Moon’, resisting the spread of the tainted power.]

[Being crowned as ‘Golden Sun Guardian’, the Titan giant ‘Dan’, possesses near god-like power. While all other Sun Heroes were corrupted by the power of the Blood Sun, ‘Dan’ resisted this fallen invasion. He still worshipped the ‘Golden Sun’, not the ‘Profane Blood Sun’]

[Although the sun no longer favored him, the once comrades who fought shoulder to shoulder now unleashed their weapons upon him. ‘Dan’, though powerful, couldn’t ward off all the attacks after losing the favor of the sun.]

[After his defeat, the infected seed was embedded within ‘Dan’, and he was imprisoned in the Underworld Abyss. The rest of the Sun Heroes believed ‘Dan’ wouldn’t withstand the Blood Sun’s corruption. One day, this Titan demigod would return to the embrace of the sun – even if the Golden Sun had become the Profane Blood Sun…]

Lin Xun was deeply engrossed in the unfolding plot, feeling as if he had just devoured a juicy melon.

[After ‘Dan’ completed recounting the history, the golden light surrounding it dimmed slightly, and the bloody glow seemed to reignite.]

[‘Dan’ will soon fall back into slumber to resist the invasion of the Blood Sun.]

[It took this opportunity to ask if you would be willing to take an oath while it was still lucid.]

[Would you like to swear the special oath of the ‘Golden Sun’?]

Hissing in surprise, Lin Xun took a sharp intake of breath.

He had learned about the oath system from the forums.

In short, an oath stands for allegiance, not explicitly to a shell’s faction, but to the apostle themselves.

In the game, there was a high probability of encountering some NPCs who would ask whether the apostle would like to swear an oath – that is, join a faction.

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There were only two conventional oath factions in the world of Blood Sun – Blood Sun and White Moon.

The main function of an oath is for oath invasions and oath tasks.

Even after joining the Blood Sun faction, the Blood Sun monsters would still attack the apostles.

The ‘Golden Sun’ oath that popped up was a special one, unlike anything Lin Xun had heard of.

After going through all the trouble to find the hidden map and the hidden NPC.

Such a special oath triggered with such a convoluted process is surely rewarding if he dared to swear it. The giant would definitely provide a reward.

And he had a hunch that the reward would be beyond his wildest imagination!