Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 854 - 405: Ancestor of the Six Clans, World within the Painting_2

Chapter 854: Chapter 405: Ancestor of the Six Clans, World within the Painting_2

[You couldn’t help but wonder how the Saint’s Jungle dwellers were captured when they secluded themselves in the forests and mountains, and it seemed the Polar Star Association had captured quite a number of pureblood descendants of the Saints.]

[The Green Half-Dragon expressed intense hatred in its eyes as it spoke through gritted teeth, explaining that not only did the Hermit Clan align with the Stars evil god, but the Law Enforcers were traitors too, selling out the coordinates of their territories to the Stars evil god in exchange for rewards.]

[Now the fate of the ’Saint Ancestors’ was unknown, and the entirety of the ’Saint’s Jungle’ no longer existed after the great war. It was not only the Saints who perished, aside from the traitors who sided with the Stars, all the clans couldn’t escape the calamity...]

[Dragon Clan members of high bloodline were imprisoned within paintings, suffering torments worse than death.]

[The bloodline powers of the ’Descendants of Saints’ all contained a talent for healing spells, which the heretical humans extracted to fuse with their own.]

[The Polar Star Association thus created many beings like ’Star Priests’, with the Star Priest being among those who infused the least amount of bloodline power.]

[It had devolved from a pureblood descendant into a ’mixed-blood Half-Dragon’ after its bloodline was extensively drawn out.]

[Deemed useless, it was reduced to a slave and traded like pigs and dogs.]

[Yet the Saints’ descendants were not the ones to suffer the most harrowing fate; the descendants of the ’Pale Wise One’ were...]

[The heretical humans discovered that consuming the flesh and blood of the Wise Ones could give them knowledge, and so they farmed—or rather, force-fed—the Wise Ones’ descendants until they were grotesquely overweight, and then they slaughtered and dissected their bodies to feast upon at revolting banquets.]

[What did you think the dragon eyes circulating on the market came from? They were all from deceased members of the Dragon Clan...]

[The Green Half-Dragon was no longer able to speak through its tears.]

Lin Xun fell into silence; when he first entered the fourth Chapter, he had wondered where the ’Ancient Sage – Pale Dragon’s’ eyeball in Bennett’s clinic came from.

It turned out that aside from the ’Hermits’ and ’Law Enforcers’, the other Dragons’ fate was extremely tragic.

"Superior Dragon Race imprisoned in the paintings... Could it be similar to the starry space paintings we just saw?"

"Is there a unique space within the painting, or does the painting act as an entrance to a certain space?"

"The Stars evil god really hides like a rat... No, the loyal Dragons of the ’Almighty True Knowledge’ have fallen to such a state, why doesn’t the Knowledge god servant help them?"

If the Knowledge god servant was as he claimed, a faithful servant of the ’Almighty True Knowledge’, it would be impossible for them to stand by while the heroes of the old god wars perished.

Unless the Knowledge god servant was a usurper of authority, aiming to become the Main God themselves.

With a new king comes new subjects, whether they are devout believers of the ’Almighty True Knowledge’ or defectors who have betrayed the True God, dead or alive, it made no difference to it.

Lin Xun wasn’t sure how accurate his guess was, but it was indeed the most plausible explanation at the moment.

[The time for the auction is approaching soon; will you leave this place directly or rescue the ’Knowledge-seeking Green Half-Dragon’?]

Lin Xun took a deep breath and summoned the Valkyrie and Nine-tailed Fox in the real world.

He instructed the two, "Clear out the entire manor apart from the slaves in the warehouse; don’t leave a single survivor. Bring me that so-called Viscount, limbs broken."]

After some thought, he also summoned the Snow Woman and continued, "You follow behind them and gather the spirituality and dropped items. Don’t miss any and don’t rush ahead on your own, or else I’ll have to waste soul strength to revive you..."]

After receiving their orders, Lin Xun waved his hand, returning them to the game.

Within the manor that served as a temporary base, the highest combatant was the Legendary Grade ’Star Favored’.

The rest were mere small fries compared to the ’Star Favored’; even the ’Star Singer’ was only at the Epic+ Level, not to mention those even lower-ranked ’Star Knowers’.

For the Valkyrie and Nine-tailed Fox to clear the map together was indeed effortless.

[...]

[The ’Nine-tailed Fox’ held an electric orb surrounded by crackling purple lightning, with electric serpents howling and surging around her; she floated off the ground and was the first to leave the warehouse, followed closely by the ’Snow Woman’...]

[The ’Valkyrie’ shook her Refined Copper wings, breaking through the stone ceiling overhead, and breached the rooftop before reaching the outside, towering above and drawing her bow to prevent any escaping fish slipping through the net.]

[On the sideline, the ’Sly Ghost,’ under your command, spread its arms in an embracing gesture, extending the illusion to cover the entire manor...]

[Soon, the booming of thunder and the sharp whistling of arrows, along with sporadic screams, echoed within the manor.]

[You possessed the shell of the ’Son of the Initial Fire of Desire’!]

[You swing the Crimson Greatsword, severing the chains and shackles binding the ’Half-Dragon Man’s’ limbs...]

[It sees you’ve changed your appearance again and stares at you blankly.]

[The many slave girls around are still trapped in the illusion, unable to extricate themselves, unaware of any abnormalities.]

"To save one is to save, to save a group is still to save, a good deed done to the end, send the Buddha to the west..."

Lin Xun manoeuvres Shell, liberating each of these slave girls one by one.

However, these people still can’t leave the manor for the time being, at least not until the news of the manor’s conquest has spread.

[You lead the ’Green Half-Dragon’ out of the warehouse, past the charred corpses of guards in the corridor, back to the office of the ’Star Favored’ on the first floor of the mansion...]

[...]

[You point to the huge painting that takes up the whole wall and ask the ’Green Half-Dragon’ if the Superior Dragon Race is imprisoned in similar paintings?]

[It nods to tell you that the paintings imprisoning the Superior Dragon Race are enormous too, but the patterns on them are different.]

[It describes a painting depicting the Underworld Abyss, its dark and grim imagery so terrifying that one glance and you would never forget it.]

[But it doesn’t know where that painting is now...]

[As you talk, the ’Valkyrie’ and ’Nine-tailed Fox’ have knocked on the door and entered, the ’Valkyrie’ carrying a flabby noble middle-aged man with soft, floppy limbs.]

[Following them, the ’Snow Woman’ wears only her skin lingerie, having removed her overclothes and kimono, which are now bundled up, containing numerous sparkling and glowing items.]

[She spreads open the kimono like presenting treasures, handing all the spirituality and items within to ’Dragonkin, sir’.]

[You have obtained ’Unyielding Large Chunks of Spirituality’ *18]

[You have obtained ’Enlightening Faint Spirituality’ *9]

[You have obtained...]

Lin Xun skims through the loot and, finding the drop rates unimpressive and the loot unremarkable, begins to entertain the manor’s owner, ’Viscount Dexter’.

Unexpectedly, this guy proves to be a tough nut to crack, his faith unwavering, resistant to both carrots and sticks, refusing to speak a word.

Lin Xun has no choice but to pull out the ’Time Prison’ and grant him a few days of solitary confinement.

The ’Time Prison’ indeed proves to be an interrogation artifact.

After just a few seconds inside, upon being released, ’Viscount Dexter’ bursts into tears and snot, ready to reveal even the color of his underwear.

’Star Favored’ controls the temporary stronghold, overseeing the military aspect, while the viscount ostensibly runs the operations of the auction house, but in reality, he’s responsible for gathering intelligence.

He knows a lot of information, mostly gleaned from the mouths of other nobles, but there isn’t much key information regarding the subsequent plot.

After a lengthy interrogation, all that’s known is that there are many paintings like the ’Polar Star Association branch’ scattered across the empire’s smaller cities, each one leading into a ’Polar Star Association branch’.

As for the whereabouts of the painting imprisoning the Superior Dragon Race, there might be some clues in the ’branch’.

Lin Xun decisively kills ’Viscount Dexter’, possessing Shell to verify the accuracy of the intelligence.

[...]

[You have the ’Teleportation Badge’. Would you like to approach and touch the starry great painting to teleport into the ’Polar Star Association branch’?]

Lin Xun knows that a temporary stronghold is less significant than a branch, which is sure to have powerful followers of the Stars within.

After pondering for a moment, he decides to leave the ’Green Half-Dragon’ and a few summoned creatures behind in the manor.

The summoned creatures are not a concern; he mainly fears that the Half-Dragon Man might accidentally perish if he tags along.

If he can find the painting imprisoning the ’Saint’s Jungle’ clan, this Half-Dragon Man could become a guide.