Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game
Chapter 585 - 300 The Battlefield of the Solar Hero, Bizarre death_1
[You are now possessing the shell of the ’Mountain Hunter of Yang Guang’!]
[Residues of the hunter’s fragmented memories from his lifetime still linger in the shell...]
[...]
[Your younger brother, living in the royal city, last sent you a letter half a month ago.]
[In the letter, there was unusually no bragging about what beasts he had hunted, valuable furs he had obtained or how many silver coins he made from selling them to nobles.]
[In the letter, there were only a few lines of awkwardly twisted text...]
[He said that the royal city... had undergone a drastic change!]
[In the ’City of Golden Sun’, the eternal ’Golden Sun’ in the sky turned blood-red out of nowhere, the same color as fresh blood!]
[Walking under this scarlet sunlight would even drive the most devoted father of the Church of Divine Light into madness, making him a monster who only knows killing!]
[When you read these sentences, you glance up to the dome of the sky, where the ’Golden Sun’ was hanging perfectly. There was no sign of blood-red.]
[You knew in your heart that this was yet another of your brother’s silly pranks, and while it reminded you of how he stuffed horse dung into your quilt when he was younger, you still couldn’t help but feel very angry.]
[He made the joke too big this time. If the content of the letter was discovered by the ’Church of Divine Light,’ they might accuse him of heresy and impose him with the most severe ’Light Penalty’.]
[The ’Light Penalty’ is terrifying. The ’Law Knight’ of the Church of Divine Light ties the offender to a pillar, and the bishop-level figures in the regional cardinal group further inflict punitive exposure to the scorching sun...]
[To demonstrate the severity of the penalty, bishops ensure that the offender does not die immediately. Instead, they expose him to the blazing sunshine to gradually lose the water from his body. Once the offender is dehydrated to the point of losing consciousness, they force him to drink salt water and order nuns to treat him. This goes on for seven days until the offender turns into a dried corpse.]
[You once had the ’privilege’ of witnessing the ’Light Penalty’ and had imprinted this brutal punishment deep into your memory...]
[After reading the letter, you decided to burn it. Although your brother made a joke that had seemingly blasphemed against the golden sun, it was still only a joke without any malicious intentions.]
[You continued to read your brother’s prank letter with great patience...]
[He said that people in the royal city had gone mad. Under the scarlet light of the sun, people were despairing and crying. If they hadn’t turned into monsters, they had fallen under the claws of monsters.]
[And then... a figure emerged, radiating a golden sun-like aura.]
[His figure was overwhelmingly majestic, seeming as if he could pluck the sun from the sky with a single stretch of his hand!]
[It was one of the ’Four Solar Heroes’ worshipped by the people, who existed only in legends - the ’Titan known as the Protector of the Golden Sun’, Dan!]
[Dan had come to rescue the royal city, he had come to rescue the believers worshipping him!]
[Ruthless and mad monsters seemed so vulnerable under the hero of the sun. The sun hero eradicated most of the corrupted monsters...]
[With the arrival of Dan, more Solar Heroes were also descending.]
[People thought that the panic would soon dissipate, and that the monsters would all perish under the mighty power of the heroes... But to their horror, they found that the three other Solar Heroes, who followed Dan, were emitting a crimson light as red as fresh blood, just like the sun in the sky...]
[The three heroes didn’t come to rescue the royal city... Instead, they wielded their butcher knives against their former colleagues and aimed at the Titan protector of the people.]
[The royal city turned into their battlefield and surviving residents scrambled to flee...]
[Your brother fled along with them, towards the place not yet affected by the Blood Sun, that is, your residence - Saint Lance in Moonlight Town!]
[Your brother urged you to pack all valuable items and most importantly food, and wait for his arrival in Saint Lance, so you could hide from the Blood Sun together...]
[You once heard from a priest in the church that if someone thinks the whole world has gone mad, it’s not the world that’s gone mad, but the person’s mind.]
[Looking at the twisted scrawl in his letter, you felt that the situation was serious and might be more complex than a simple prank.]
[After careful consideration, you deduced that your brother might have been influenced by a heretic, resulting in his abnormal behavior. He needed to consume the sacred water of the Church to cleanse his spirit.]
[You burned the letter while making a secret promise to yourself to hunt a few more fierce beasts, to purchase the valuable sacred water for your brother...]
[...]
[As expected, half a month passed by, and you heard no news about the fall of the royal city. Your brother did not take refuge in Saint Lance. It was all just your brother’s ranting.]
[You were close to gathering the silver coins required to buy the sacred water by hunting a few more beasts...]
[The fragmented memories suddenly stop at this point.]
"Fuck!"
"I was not transported to a peaceful world before the Doomsday..."
"But into a timeline where demigods battled!"
According to the plot that he knew, the half-god Titan ’Dan’ would be defeated by the other three ’Solar Heroes’ in a tough battle, and finally sealed under Saint Lance, sowing the seeds of the profane Blood Sun...
Moonlight Town, ’Saint Lance,’ was the checkpoint town he first entered in the Blood Sun world. Most of the content from Chapter 323 occurred in the town named ’Saint Lance.’
According to the hunter’s memories, his residence was located in Saint Lance.
The area where the hunter often hunted couldn’t be too far from Saint Lance.
So, the forest where Lin Xun was located was likely the ’Ancient Forest,’ home to the Ancient Tree beings, in the southwest of Saint Lance!