Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 728 - 359 The Only Way to Save the World_1

[You intensify the pressure under your feet. The ’Mask Maker’ clenches his teeth and refuses to speak.]

[You sneer cruelly, clamping onto the ’Mask Specialist’s’ head, ignoring its terrified struggles, preparing to exert more force...]

[Finally, the ’Mask Maker’ collapses, tearfully begging you. He tells you that he knows a secret of vital importance. If he reveals it, you must spare them.]

[Fear flits across his face as he recalls his story...]

[Some days ago, he received a forging commission from the Holy Nest Centre, issued by ’Assad,’ a sidereal scion of the Wet Nurse.]

[’Assad’, an offshoot of his lineage, has a decent relationship with him. They could begrudgingly be considered old friends.]

[He immediately drops his research to head to the Holy Nest Centre.]

[Through ’Assad’, he learns that the Wet Nurse has recently been nurturing a new offspring, preparing for birth.]

[’Assad’ requested him to create a mask of the highest standard to gift to his new brother or sister.]

[Of course, he couldn’t create an extraordinary-grade mask armor; all previously crafted offspring masks were semi-finished prototypes. He wasn’t responsible for their subsequent advancement to extraordinary-grade, and couldn’t manage it anyway.]

[Manufacturing a prototype mask capable of advancing to the extraordinary level required numerous and extremely precious materials. ’Assad’ reassured him not to worry about the materials and instructed him to prepare some auxiliary materials. They would grab the core mask material from the Holy Nest in a couple of days.]

[Following his orders, he returned to his cave to gather auxiliary materials. Within two days, he returned to the Holy Nest Centre to retrieve materials from ’Assad’s chambers.’]

[But he was stopped at the door to the bedroom and given some very unexpected news...]

[A maid informed him that ’Assad’ had bravely sacrificed his life on the battlefield.]

[His first reaction was disbelief. He had seen ’Assad’ at the Holy Nest two days before, how could he have died on the battlefield?]

[Moreover, the Wet Nurse has withdrawn her forces from the battlefield completely, all offspring and angels returned to the Holy Nest. How could ’Assad’ have rushed to the battlefield and sacrificed himself?]

[Knowing this must be a conspiracy, he found himself locked out, unable to contact ’Assad’, even if he was inside the bedroom.]

[Analyzing pros and cons, he decided to seek the truth. Even if ’Assad’ really had died, he wouldn’t accept such a preposterous claim, that he died on the battlefield.]

[He lingered in the Holy Nest Centre, waiting till late into the night to stealthily invade ’Assad’s bedroom’ with his new armor...]

[There he saw something he could never forget...]

[At the deepest part of the room was a plant resembling a huge, dark fungus.]

[A head protruded from the sinister tendrils of the plant. It stared at him, a grotesque smile plastered on its face. The head’s appearance was etched in his memory forever.]

[It turned out, this bizarre object was none other than his old friend, ’Assad’.]

[Terrified, he ran from the bedroom, far away from the Holy Nest Centre, and back to his cavern...]

[Upon returning to his cavern, he sat, restless, enveloped by debilitating fear.]

[Why did they claim ’Assad’ was sacrificed? Who could transform ’Assad’ into that horrific shape? He could not think of any other explanation. Only one person could do this, the ’benevolent and generous’ Wet Nurse!]

[But the most terrifying thing was that he couldn’t remember at all who commissioned him, had no recollection of an old friend called ’Assad’ in the Holy Nest, and in fact nobody knew of an sidereal offspring named ’Assad’ among the Wet Nurse’s offspring.]

[His apprentice knew of ’Assad’s’ commission when he went to the Holy Nest Centre, but later she could only recall the fact of the commission, not who commissioned it.]

[Had extra auxiliary materials for creating an extraordinary-grade mask prototype not appeared in the warehouse, and if he didn’t have a habit of writing in a diary, he would have completely forgotten ’Assad’.]

[The ’Mask Maker’ shuddered as he narrated this, took out a diary and handed it to you...]

[You flipped open the diary carefully. Its contents were indeed as he described them.]

[You asked for the exact location of ’Assad’s Chambers’ within the Holy Nest. Though he racked his brain to remember, he had to shake his head to indicate that he’d forgotten...]

Lin Xun frowned, sensing that things weren’t as simple as they seemed.

The Holy Nest Centre hadn’t yet been subjected to the brush of the ’White Fleece Snow Season’; so how had ’Assad’, a sidereal offspring, fallen into extreme evil?]

If it was a deliberate move by the Wet Nurse to gather all her offspring and angels in one place, to uniformly inject them with the gene of extreme evil, how had the ’Mask Maker’ found out...

In fact, even if he did discover it, was the ant-like ’Mask Maker’ significant enough from the Wet Nurse’s perspective to lie and tamper with everyone’s memories?

[Suddenly, the cavern shook violently, and thunderous rumbling resonated from above...]

[You exchange a glance with ’Jinmu’, understanding that the ruckus came from the mine above.]

[Your heart races, and you prepare to leave the room, to return to the mine and check if ’Flandre’ is in danger.]

[The rumbling above subsides, and the ground stops shaking. Soon after, a young girl steps into the stone chamber, followed by your two Shikigami, ’Nine-tailed Fox’, and ’Sly Ghost’.]

[’Flandre,’ looking apologetic, said, "Oath-keeper, please don’t worry. I’ve completed the gene fusion. The noise just now came from me breaking free from my cocoon. I’m grateful that you and ’Jinmu’ stayed by my side..."]