Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 724 - 357: The Judge and the Mask Making Expert_2

Chapter 724: Chapter 357: The Judge and the Mask Making Expert_2

[After undergoing the baptism, they would return to the battlefield and eliminate the demons in one fell swoop...]

[The ’Holy Nest Judge’ paused, as if suddenly coming to a realization. His eyes widened in horror as he looked at you.]

[He began to struggle fiercely, shouting loudly, "You, you are not an angel warrior of the Wet Nurse, who exactly are you?!"]

[With a sharp crack, your hand exerted a sudden force. The ’Holy Nest Judge’s head shattered like a squeezed watermelon, oozing out sticky fluids.]

[You threw aside the corpse and turned to the trembling Feathered figure on the ground.]

[Facing such a weak creature, you didn’t even bother to lift a hand. Your wing bones thrust out sharply, piercing its limbs and lifting it in front of you.]

[The ’Mask Forging Expert of the Feathered’ gritted through the pain and before you even opened your mouth, he quickly spoke, "You are here pretending to be the ’Hatching Pond Lord’, aren’t you trying to make a deal with me?"]

[If you kill him, you won’t know where the Master Mask Maker is hiding!]

[But if you spare his life, he will tell you everything he knows.]

[After speaking, he stared at you fiercely, trying to put on a brave front. But the slight fear in his eyes did not escape your scrutiny.]

"The Mask Forging Expert? Sounds like the apprentice of the Master Mask Maker..."

Lin Xun conjectured a series of possible scenarios.

[You smiled lightly and claimed that you are an angel warrior who deserted the frontlines. If the judge found out and reported you to the Wet Nurse, you would be doomed. So you had no choice but to kill him.]

[And he himself dared to trade the ’Divine Kingdom Flying Dragon’ secretly. Compared with your deserter status, his position wasn’t any better.]

[Since both parties had actions they wanted to hide, why not collaborate?]

[You would give him the ’Divine Kingdom Flying Dragon’ he wanted, and in return, he needed to truthfully provide you with some information.]

[The ’Mask Forging Expert’ shook his head without hesitation, declaring that he didn’t want the ’Divine Kingdom Flying Dragon’.]

[Originally, he might have been able to save his life, but if he accepted the ’Divine Kingdom Flying Dragon’, once you obtained the information you wanted, you would undoubtedly kill him.]

[He would reveal information to you. He didn’t need the ’Divine Kingdom Flying Dragon’. He just needed you to swear an oath to the gods you worshipped — an oath to spare his life!]

"Hmm... this guy is not simple."

But Lin Xun didn’t mind. For him, breaking an oath was as easy as eating and drinking.

As a secret operative, if he could be restrained by promises and oaths, he would have been killed several times already.

He remembered once a scholar made him swear a similar oath to the Almighty True Knowledge, but the final result was still that scholar being sent away by him.

This ’Mask Forging Expert’ didn’t ask him to swear to the Wet Nurse, but to ’the gods you worship’. This indicates that this expert knew that he was a ’demon’ from the Firefly faction.

"Knowing that I’m a heretical demon, yet still daring to make me swear..."

[You swore to the ’Initial Firefly’ in front of the ’Mask Forging Expert’, promising not to harm him after he disclosed the information he knew.]

[Upon seeing you swear to the Firefly, the ’Mask Forging Expert’ exhaled a sigh of relief, an expression of ’I knew it’ on his face.]

[He then asked, "What do you want to know? As a craftsman who forges masks at the heart of the Holy Nest, I interact with many important people, so I know many secrets."]

[What information would you like to ask the ’Mask Forging Expert’?]

[1. About the exact location of the ’Holy Nest Centre’.]

[2. About the hiding place of the ’Master Mask Maker’.]

[3. About the information on ’Belatu’.]

Lin Xun immediately chose the third option.

[The ’Mask Forging Expert’ didn’t hesitate and promptly began to explain...]

[As for ’Belatu’, news has already spread in the Holy Nest Centre. It’s not a secret.]

[The Wet Nurse, ’Kind and Generous’, couldn’t bear to punish her own apostate offspring too severely. She planned to use Divine Power to start the cycle of life, to resurrect ’Belatu’.]

[Of course, this information is only given to the ignorant masses.]

[In reality, there is no such thing as the cycle of life. It’s just a creation made from nutrients. Even if it looks exactly the same, the resurrected being will not be the same person.]

[Essentially, the ’Belatu’ revived through the cycle of life is no different from the ’Divine Kingdom Flying Dragon’ you acquired.] 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

"Only a true sage could discern these pieces of information."

"What it has learned not only includes these, although it doesn’t know from which hatching ground-type place ’Belatu’ will resurrect, it is aware that the resurrected ’Belatu’ will be subjected to the Wet Nurse’s severe punishment."

"Are you familiar with the Wet Nurse’s favorite daughter, "Flandre"?"

"It doesn’t wait for your response, it continued: Flandre, being the most pampered daughter of the Wet Nurse, was given a similar appearance to the Wet Nurse, which is the lowest form of a Maggot Man."

"Even though many Feathered ones fail to understand why returning to the form of a Maggot Man would be considered the greatest humiliation, this peculiar gesture is a sign of affection and commendation for Flandre, at least, in the eyes of the Wet Nurse and its offspring... Odd, isn’t it?"

"The defiant Belatu, as punishment, will be transformed into the ultimate Feathered form."

"I’ve heard that it’s a more perfect form of a Feathered than the angelic form..."

"’The Mask Forging Specialist’ hinted that this was all he knew about ’Belatu’."

"Feathered creature more perfect than Angels..."

Lin Xun frowned.

The Mask Forging Specialist probably wasn’t lying, but it’s unfortunate that he didn’t know the location of the Wet Nurse’s lab which is used for cloning offspring.

However, it’s normal, since the Wet Nurse’s lab is pretty secretive. Outside of the Wet Nurse and a few of its loyal offspring, no one knows the lab’s exact location.

"You, then, enquired about the precise location of the ’Holy Nest Centre’"

"Without hesitation, ’The Mask Forging Specialist’ revealed the location to you."

"You’ve discovered the exact location of the ’Holy Nest Centre’!"

"Without your prompting, once it disclosed to you the location of the ’Holy Nest Center,’ it divulged information about the ’Master of Masks’."

"The ’Master of Masks’ is his mentor, whose crafting abilities are among the best in the Divine Kingdom..."

"His mentor, having retreated from society, no longer makes masks. Nobody knows where the mentor hides, nor can anyone persuade him to return to his craft."

"But there’s always an exception, and he is that exception."

"As he said this, ’The Mask Forging Specialist’ drew out a small piece of pale carapace to give to you, and continued to share that as long as you carry the aforementioned piece to his mentor’s hiding place, his mentor will craft you a mask."

"This piece of carapace contains the greatest secret of his mentor, who would, in order to keep his secret, agree to anything that you ask."

"You’ve obtained the ’Shattered Small Carapace’ (Junk)."

"The ’Shattered Small Carapace’ (Junk) is only the size of a thumb and appears as an irregular fragment. Nothing about it looks particularly unusual."

"You examined the carapace carefully and failed to notice anything unusual about it...Suddenly, you detected a familiar scent emanating from the carapace that resembles the scent of the ’Milk Mushroom’."

"A thought passed through your mind, and using a claw, you scraped off the surface of the carapace, revealing a cinnabar-like black hue beneath the white exterior."

"’The Mask Forging Specialist’ grinned ear to ear, and clapped in admiration, saying, ’you’re indeed clever, that is my mentor’s greatest secret.’"

"Had he not established your identity as a demon devotee, he would not have shared this secret with you."

"He has never revealed his mentor’s secret to anyone else, nor would he disclose your identity."

"Sharing this secret with you, along with the constraint of oath, presumably you, who originally planned to kill him, give up the thought by now, haven’t you?"

"So, the Master of Masks is a devotee of the Firefly!"

Lin Xun was utterly surprised that he stumbled upon a kindred spirit.

"’The Mask Forging Specialist’ is now utterly convinced that you won’t kill him and is ready to disclose the hiding place of the ’Master of Masks’..."

"Your Watcher ’Combat Angel - Valkyrie’ has been slain!"

Lin Xun felt a jolt in his heart.

Valkyrie had been guarding the sleeping Flandre alongside Jinmu.

Despite Valkyrie being a fragile archer and her shell being only of the Epic+ Level, her level has always been maintained in sync with him. She is not only equipped with a high-level weapon and armor, but she also possesses the rapid movement capability of flight evasion.

If Valkyrie has suddenly fallen, it depicts that great danger has befallen the mine, which is undoubtedly not caused by a minor threat.

Given that Flandre is defenseless and Jinmu is alone, it’s essentially a foregone conclusion that something awful is bound to happen!