Heroes' Prison-Chapter 125: Nominated for Best Newcomer Award

Huang Yi closed the Eye of Time and ran towards that small area.

Upon reaching the area, he could feel that the ground was slightly harder than other places, as if there was something underneath.

Huang Yi took out a spear from his storage ring that had dropped while fighting monsters in the past and stabbed it into the ground. After about twenty or thirty centimeters, the spear could no longer penetrate, touching something hard.

There really was something underneath!

Huang Yi quickly squatted down and started to dig up the soil. It didn’t take much effort to unearth a small hole, revealing a piece of stone!

This stone seemed quite large; what was exposed was only a small part of it. To reveal the whole stone, all the soil on top had to be dug away.

Huang Yi immediately took out a magic item from his storage ring—a "Mud Explosion Technique" scroll, a junior magic of an Earth Mage that could cause the earth at the targeted spot to burst open.

He stepped out of the area and opened the magic scroll, pointing towards the section of ground where the stone slab was located.

Instantly, a yellowish-brown light flew towards it, sinking beneath the surface of that area.

"Boom!" A burst of energy suddenly surged from underneath, blowing off the layer of soil on top. The soil was blasted into the sky as if surrounding the area like a volcanic eruption.

Now, the area was cleared, no soil remained, revealing the entire stone.

Huang Yi looked over and saw a circular stone, about 30 square meters in size, with some complex fine lines engraved on it. These lines ended in five hubs, each with a socket containing five dull, lightless magic stones, their magic power long depleted.

A Teleportation Circle!

Upon seeing the appearance of this stone, Huang Yi almost instantly recognized it!

He had never imagined that, in this desolate desert, such a teleportation circle would be hidden! It was really difficult for ordinary people to find it; had he not activated the Eye of Time, he would certainly not have seen this teleportation circle.

Huang Yi squatted down to take a closer look at the teleportation circle. It was crudely made, with shallow lines that were barely visible and likely to be damaged after a few uses. The person who built it must have only intended it for temporary use. The marks on the stone also looked quite fresh, seeming only several decades old.

The images seen by the Eye of Time also showed that 30 years ago this little area did not have any dandelions growing, indicating that the teleportation circle was constructed around that time!

"Could it be the teleportation circle built by the traveler named Sunset·Curtain Call?" Huang Yi speculated. Travelers often travel in dangerous places and know much, so building a temporary teleportation circle would naturally be within their capability. Combining this with what he wrote in his diary, it’s likely that after discovering something strange about this oasis, he built a teleportation circle to leave quickly.

Huang Yi decided to activate the teleportation circle!

He pried out the five dull and magic-drained stones and took out five new magic stones from his storage ring. He had bought these in Thornbush City for future use.

Soon, he had inserted all five magic stones into the circle.

However, the teleportation circle did not light up! It seemed it was truly damaged!

This dashed Huang Yi’s hopes once more.

Since he had entered this desert, a series of strange events had occurred. First, he went to the relics of the Sand Thief King, then he discovered the footprints of a dense skeleton army on the march, followed by the discovery of the Mirage Illusion, and then he got lost and entered an Illusionary Realm, finally arriving at Dandelion Oasis!

All of these events seemed to be vaguely connected, as if a drastic change was happening within the desert, but he couldn’t figure out the connection. What he had seen was only some scattered parts and had not glimpsed the whole picture.

Huang Yi looked up at the dandelions in the sky. Although the place was beautiful, he had no mood to appreciate it. Even the most beautiful Heaven, if one could not leave, was just a beautiful prison.

At the moment, there seemed to be only two ways to leave this place. One was to commit suicide and resurrect at the nearest Respawn Point, which, with bad luck, could mean Reincarnation. The other was to repair the teleportation circle.

Huang Yi decided to log off and search the forums for ways to repair the teleportation circle. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Just then, he suddenly received a system notification.

This message was related to the "Annual Festival of The Second World"!

[System Notification]: As you have performed outstandingly in The Second World, you have been shortlisted for this year’s "Best Newcomer Award at the Annual Festival of The Second World." Your most exciting moments in The Second World will be made into a promotional video to be released worldwide. As some of these moments have never been public and are your private secrets, would you like to disclose these private videos?

Upon hearing this message, Huang Yi quickly understood the meaning behind the system’s words.

For an award to shortlist candidates, there must be some justification, and the audience needs to know about the achievements of these shortlisted individuals, so the system would put together some highlights of his actions in The Second World into a promotional video for viewers to know him better. However, some of his accomplishments were never made public, such as how he killed the Hydra Death Scales or what powerful treasure he obtained after killing it? These were his personal secrets, never witnessed by other players, which is why the system sought his opinion. Of course, some public footage, like his defeat of the Barbaric Hammer at Wind Forest Stronghold, which many people already knew about, would not need his consent and would be used directly.

"Do not disclose!" The next moment, Huang Yi directly refused the system. Naturally, the more secrets he had, the better. It was best to keep secrets to avoid revealing all his strategies to potential enemies.

At the same time, in over two hundred continents across The Second World, all nominees for the various awards received the same system notification, and an invisible competition slowly began to unfold.

For each award, 100 people were shortlisted, but in the end, only one could be the winner!

Now, Huang Yi was one of the 100 nominees for the Best Newcomer Award, and next, he would compete with 99 other newcomers who had performed exceptionally well in the past year!