As soon as Lan, Melida, Kureia and Akanali stepped into the city gate, all the numbers on the puzzle game squares at the door changed.
Ignoring whether they had to pay another 8,000 koels when leaving the city, they entered the city and were surprised to find that the doors related to various public service facilities on the street, including those of restaurants, hotels, and shops, all had educational games.
Lan walked up to a passerby and asked, "Excuse me, what happened in this city?"
Then the man talked for more than an hour as if to vent his stress.
However, because they heard clues that might be related to the task, everyone listened patiently.
To sum up, some adventurers' excessive hunting of the Tower of Heavenly Pillar aroused the dissatisfaction of the guardians, which led to them being implicated and retaliated. One day, a huge golden cube suddenly descended, continuously emitting beams and waving its tentacles to sweep the city.
Although the adventurers and the guards ordered by the lord to fight also wanted to kill the block, they were unable to do any damage at all.
Hundreds of adventurers who could not escape died, which was simply too tragic.
Finally, the block fell on the central square where the transfer door was located, crushing the transfer door. Centered there, a certain curse began to spread throughout the city, and everything turned into the current square composition, with many places to enter and exit.
They were all locked by the curse of the puzzle game, and a similar maze appeared outside the city.
They still have ways to deal with the current puzzle games, and the lords are also recruiting talents who are good at this to keep the town running, but if the curse deepens - if the difficulty of the maze outside the city and the difficulty of the puzzle games are to be improved and increased, they will also
It's hard to survive.
"Then, why do you still live here?"
The man showed a sarcastic expression and looked in the direction of the maze outside the city gate: "How do we leave? Even if we leave, our property is cursed by the puzzle game - as long as these blocks are still there, we cannot take them away. We left.
How should we live here?"
Then, their taskbar updated.
"It's an atonement mission. So it's OK if Lan comes to take over the mission." Merida said as she looked at the mission that asked to solve the curse of the puzzle game.
"If you think about it carefully, if criminal players are easily attacked by guards, then the one who takes the mission must be a green one, right?" Lan said.
Kurea patted his head: "Sorry, I didn't think carefully. It's great that Lan Sang didn't change his name."
"I'm hungry, Kureya, where can I get something to eat? I'll get some buffs by the way." Akanali asked, touching her stomach.
Kureia glanced at the restaurant with another puzzle game on the door, and said: "Let's deal with the roadside stalls. Since it is the boss on the sixth floor, we should be able to buy some information from the 'rat'."
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Aincrad, fifth floor, Karuruin——
In an underground chapel that looked similar to an abandoned one but was lit by candles, the door was pushed open with a creak by Kirito. He had just accepted a mission similar to that of saving ghosts.
"Wow, it's obviously daytime, but it's actually dark like this." said Fei, who was coming from behind.
"It probably has something to do with the fact that this place is haunted. Those candles are also used by the monks here to ward off evil spirits. As long as there is this level of light, ghosts will not appear." Kirito said familiarly, "When the sun sets or rises, you can still touch it.
The person who came up to replace the candle got a reminder, but I know how to do it so there is no need. Fei, can you help me blow out the candle over there first? It's a one-time use."
"no problem."
There were a lot of candles, so usually it would be best to form a team with more people for this task, but Fei just flapped her wings and activated the skill [Storm Attack] to extinguish all the candles.
By the way, some chairs and other equipment were also smashed.
"Oh! I want to sue the teacher!" Kirito shouted strangely.
As a result, Fei was so frightened that she shook her head and said, "Don't be ridiculous."
Kirito secretly thought that this jk-looking humanoid must be Fei's real skin, and he felt a little tentatively guilty in his heart.
But the original fallen fairy goddess and her other subordinates and companions did not show any trace of modern people. Is it a coincidence, or...
At this time, supernatural phenomena began to appear in the chapel, with various things flying everywhere, and a gloomy cold air coming from under the floor, mixed with the screams of female voices.
After a while, a translucent girl with pale skin, glowing with phosphorescence all over her body and floating phosphorus fire around her body, crawled out from the floor and floated in the air less than half a meter away from Kirito. In fact, it was not far from where she was stuck.
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Then he backed away for several meters with a look of fear.
"Um. Fei, could it be that you scared her?"
"No, her appearance is obviously scarier than my beautiful appearance, right?"
"Well, you have divine attributes."
"...Yes."
Fei retreated outside the door, and the female ghost approached Kirito boldly. I really didn't know who was the scary factor.
"Miss Ghost, why are you making trouble here?" Kirito asked.
"I...can't leave here...I'm locked up here...Help, me." The female ghost said in a tone that seemed to suppress resentment and sadness.
"Are you left here due to obsession or other reasons? How can I help you?"
According to the female ghost, she was brought here by her lover more than 30 years ago and killed. There was no quarrel, and he didn’t take anything from her. She died inexplicably. Before she died, she pulled off her lover’s pendant.
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Following the tips from the female ghost, Kirito found the bones that fell in the basement and were still clutching the pendant. The pendant seemed to be a magic item, and the girl's soul was attached to it.
He took the pendant and left the chapel, went to an appraiser for appraisal, and learned that it was the coat of arms of the city's large chamber of commerce. The female ghost also said that his lover was the young man who was designated as the heir to the chamber of commerce.
Logically speaking, it is not difficult to find the current president of the chamber of commerce. Thirty years will not be enough to kill him. However, the tasks in the task bar are stuck at this point. There is only one sentence left in the task bar that I want to punch someone.
hint--
"The president of the Chamber of Commerce was killed by a murderer belonging to a huge organization. Let's find a way to take the ghost on his way."
Kirito knew, however, that this was not part of the original mission plot of the system. The president was probably killed by a famous player. Killing him would indeed be enough to get enough money to squander even if he stayed in a neutral city for several years.
After learning about this incident in advance, he still accepted the task related to the female ghost.
However, in fact, there is not much difference for the president. The ending of this mission, the female ghost learned that the reason for being killed was that she would hinder the development of the chamber of commerce, and the president's ending was so horrific and miserable that it would scare a primary school student to tears before ascending to heaven, which is in line with the restricted level.
Horror movie ending.
Kirito knew that "taking the ghost on the road" was a literal meaning, and made an invitation to form a team.
