This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 1568 - 674: The Imprisoned Divine Archer_2

After reading the stele, Mu You felt a bit of a headache.

There was no record on the stele, and he couldn’t find a herbalist named Scythia, so Mu Luo’s backup plan for him was completely interrupted.

"Do I really have to start collecting favors from scratch?"

Mu You frowned and hesitated for a moment, then decided to take on a couple of tasks to see the situation first.

Next, Mu You began wandering around the Barbarian Tribe, approaching barbarians actively and asking if there was anything they needed him to do.

["Want a favor... arm wrestling... win, and I’ll give it to you..." A barbarian with well-developed upper limbs, clearly a fitness enthusiast, eagerly invited you to an arm wrestling match upon hearing your request. Do you accept?]

"No!"

Mu You chose ’no’ without even thinking, kidding, arm wrestling with a barbarian, he was more worried about how to avoid getting his arm broken than about winning.

[A bruised and battered barbarian stopped you, stammering and gesturing for a long time, finally you understood his meaning: another barbarian borrowed money from him but forgot about the debt. When he went to collect the debt, the other denied it and gave him a thrashing.]

[So this barbarian hopes you can go and collect the debt on his behalf. You choose...]

"Reject."

Mu You thought, what kind of ridiculous task is this, afraid of being beaten up when collecting debts, so you find someone else to take the beating for you, right?

Fortunately, not all tasks were so strange; there were still some that seemed normal.

[A barbarian woman stopped you and expressed that her husband wanted to participate in this year’s Moon Festival, jumping into the Moon Lake as a live sacrifice. She couldn’t bear to lose her husband but, due to her clumsy speech, didn’t know how to persuade him. She hoped you could help convince him to change his mind.]

The Moon Festival was also mentioned in Cammings’ manual. It was held annually by the Barbarian Tribe and lasted for seven days each time.

During the Moon Festival, the ’Moon Eye’ in the center of Moon Lake would open. The ’Moon Eye’ here was actually a cave at the bottom of Moon Lake, said to lead to a deeper part of the lake. Legend has it that if one could enter the Moon Eye and come out alive, they would gain the enlightenment of the Moon Butterfly and become the Son of the Moon Festival.

But so far, apart from the former king, no one had managed to do it.

The Moon Eye is usually closed, only opening for fifteen minutes each night during the full moon on the days of the Moon Festival. Moreover, once a living creature enters the Moon Lake, the Moon Eye would close prematurely.

Therefore, each year, a maximum of seven barbarians could jump into the Moon Lake as live sacrifices to undergo the lake’s trial.

To ordinary barbarians, this was actually courting death, yet the allure of becoming the king of ancients was too great, and even knowing it was a death mission, many young barbarians still rushed to jump into Moon Lake each year to prove themselves.

Mu You couldn’t understand this willingness to abandon family for such an elusive opportunity; it seemed to him like a meaningless sacrifice.

And the reason why the Barbarian Tribe allowed such a trend to flourish was probably because, after the former king’s death, it had been too long since a new ’king’ had emerged, and they were eager for a new Son of the Moon Festival to lead them.

The population of the Barbarian Tribe wasn’t very large, but it still numbered in the millions. Sacrificing only seven young people each year to gain a chance for a Son of the Moon Festival to be born was actually not a loss from a racial standpoint.

Mu You felt very sympathetic to this barbarian woman, but he still didn’t take on the task.

He had already experienced the stubbornness of the barbarians many times, especially these hot-headed young ones, and it was difficult to communicate with them, let alone persuade them to turn back.

Besides, even if successful, the barbarian woman could only give him a little favor, so it was not worth the effort, and he simply didn’t take it.

Mu You was looking for tasks that were convenient, could be completed quickly, and offered high rewards.

After filtering through, he finally found one that seemed good.

[Marcin is a combat instructor at the Barbarian training camp, responsible for teaching barbarian children how to fight. But recently, he’s been troubled by a batch of restless kids in this year’s camp. They kept wanting to leave Jie Lin and explore despite his efforts to persuade them to settle down.]

[Marcin heard that you made it here from outside Jie Lin. Based on his experience, outsiders who can make it here are generally among the best from the outside world, so he hopes you can help by giving these kids some lessons to make them realize the harshness of the outside world.]

[Task: Spar with twenty-three barbarian children. Each time you defeat one, you will receive a token of favor.]

[Do you accept?]

"Yes."

This task seemed decent, not very difficult, with generous rewards, and, crucially, it was time-efficient. Even if each kid took him two minutes, it wouldn’t take more than an hour altogether.

Mu You accepted promptly, and he didn’t even think much about whether he could complete it. After all, he was donned in a suit of armor, with Ava’s assistance, and backed by the Wind Kylin’s four abilities. How could he not handle a few kids?

One hour later.

[... You were flipped onto the ground by a barbarian child with a shoulder throw, leaving you dizzy and your life severely reduced, while the barbarian child was unscathed.]

[You lost to a barbarian child.]

[Unfortunately, you lost twenty-three times in a row and didn’t receive any rewards.] fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com

[Twenty-three kids gathered not far from you, all with strange expressions, looking at you, then looking back at Teacher Marcin, full of doubt: Is this the strong one from the outside world? So weak?]