Heroes' Prison

Chapter 251 - 246 The Key to Guild Challenge

Huang Yi left Thornbush City.

He couldn’t possibly go looking for that girl; they were strangers, after all, bound by neither kinship nor obligation. Perhaps he would never see that silhouette again, and it would become an insignificant trifle in his life.

That rose was just a whim of his, left on the windowsill, regardless of whether it could be seen or not.

"Hmm? A rose?" As he walked, Huang Yi paused, suddenly reminded of another matter!

A few days ago, during a guild challenge, he had encountered a minor boss who was a woman; she too was in a garden, demanding a rose from a man.

When the man said he had no roses, the woman killed him and even took out his heart.

The bizarre scene had puzzled Huang Yi, but now, the pieces of the puzzle seemed to click into place.

Huang Yi seemed to remember something and looked up at the night sky.

The bright moon was silently shining, its pure moonlight spilling down.

A smile appeared at the corner of Huang Yi’s mouth, and he thought of a brand new quest approach; he wanted to try this completely new method.

At the moment, his main body was still inside the stronghold. He immediately teleported to Tiantai City and quickly walked to the Guild Hall.

"May I help you with anything?" A waiter immediately greeted him with enthusiasm.

"Launch a solo mode guild challenge for me!" Huang Yi said and promptly took out a diamond coin and handed it over.

"Certainly!" The waiter joyously accepted the diamond coin, led Huang Yi to the room where the Teleportation Circle was located, and activated the mysterious teleport.

Next, Huang Yi once again teleported to the guild challenge secret realm and arrived at the gates of the small town’s secret realm, identical to last time.

Huang Yi quickly took out the guards at the entrance, summoned the Hunting Dog and Falcon, and strode into town.

"Hand over your life!" As soon as he walked in, an old man sitting at his doorstep, dozing off, suddenly jumped up, lively as a dragon and powerful as a tiger, swinging his fists and hunching his back as he charged forward.

This scene was exactly the same as last time, when Huang Yi had simply smashed him to death with a hammer, but this time he couldn’t do that.

"Fine, I’ll give you a life!" Huang Yi said, commanding the Hunting Dog to rush forward.

But the Hunting Dog didn’t attack. It just stood there dumbly, waiting to die.

The next moment, the old man charged up, attacking the Hunting Dog frantically, like a madman.

Soon, the old man killed the Hunting Dog. He took a deep breath, his face full of satisfaction, and looked at Huang Yi amiably, saying, "Ah! Killing indeed brings relief! Young man, you truly are a good person, showing respect for the elderly and love for the young! I wish you a smooth journey!" After speaking, he extended his withered palm and waved it toward the starry sky.

A beam of moonlight was pulled down by his gesture, which he tossed at Huang Yi. That moonlight, like a ribbon of fine silk, draped over Huang Yi.

Subsequently, Huang Yi gained a [Moonlight] BUFF—enhancing 10% of All Attributes for 1 hour.

Indeed! It was as he had thought!

Seeing this, Huang Yi’s heart eased slightly; the method for the quest was correct!

The key to this guild challenge was to act according to the NPCs’ lines!

Just now, the old man’s line had been "Hand over your life!" It seemed like an ordinary phrase, and he hadn’t given it much thought last time, simply killing the old man. As a result, the challenge became harder and harder, because he hadn’t used the right method.

But now, Huang Yi had indeed given him a life—the Hunting Dog was the sacrifice. With the old man’s wish fulfilled, he gave Huang Yi a [Moonlight] BUFF, a 10% increase in all attributes, which was a significant boost to his strength.

Huang Yi continued on his way, no longer taking any damage as he went.

Last time, after he killed the old man, he was attacked by a swarm of his friends and relatives, as if he had stirred up a hornet’s nest. Since Huang Yi hadn’t killed the old man this time, these people naturally didn’t come after him.

After a while, Huang Yi arrived at the next location.

"Moonlight is the Poet’s longing, wandering in search of the way back home..." On one side of a flowerbed, a Poet was reciting poetry. Upon noticing Huang Yi, he let out a strange cry and charged forward.

Last time, Huang Yi had resolved the situation with violence, killing the Poet with a single swing of his broadaxe. But this time, he didn’t make a move and instead said slowly, "Isn’t there moonlight now?"

The Poet rushed in front of Huang Yi and came to a halt, looking up at the Bright Moon in the sky, then down at the silk-like Moonlight draping over Huang Yi. With a gentle nod of acknowledgment, he continued his recitation, "You are a child of the Moonlight, dancing in the dark night as an Angel."

Afterward, he extended his hand, and a blue glow descended upon Huang Yi, granting him a buff called "Poetic," which further increased his All Attributes by 10%.

A small smile appeared on Huang Yi’s lips once again, everything was interconnected; that old man had just gifted him a beam of moonlight, and now it had become useful, allowing him to smoothly pass the Poet’s test. If he guessed correctly, the Poet was about to give him something as well.

Indeed, the Poet immediately spread open his palm, and said to Huang Yi, "Dear friend, walking beneath the Moonlight is so lonely, please pick a gift to accompany you on your journey!"

At the moment, his left hand held a collection of poems, while his right offered a Rose, prompting Huang Yi to choose one.

Without any hesitation, Huang Yi picked up the Rose and continued on his way, bathed in the moonlight.

After walking for a while, he arrived at the entrance to that same garden from last time and promptly stopped. Based on his previous experience, a murder plot was about to ensue.

"Do you love me? If you love me, give me a rose!" Soon enough, a girl’s delicate voice echoed from within the garden, identical to the last time.

"I love you, but I have no roses," a man’s voice answered.

"Then, you can go die!" The girl’s voice turned icy and murderous.

"Ahh!" Soon after, the man’s scream inevitably followed, and his body flew out of the garden, crashing to the ground in front of Huang Yi, his chest featuring a massive hole, from which blood steadily flowed.

Huang Yi’s face remained expressionless, holding the rose, he waited in silence.

"Click-clack, click-clack!" The sound of high heels emerged chillingly, as the woman, drenched in blood, clutching the man’s heart, walked gracefully out of the garden, fixing her cold, bloodthirsty gaze on Huang Yi.

"Beautiful miss, this rose is for you!" Huang Yi, holding the rose, walked towards the woman.

"Oh! How touching!" The woman immediately dropped the heart, blushing and becoming shy all of a sudden, resembling a girl in her first love, starkly contrasting with the bloodstains all over her.

Huang Yi quickly reached the woman and handed her the rose.

"Thank you!" The woman bashfully accepted the rose, seeming somewhat embarrassed.

"Mwah!" The woman tiptoed to plant a kiss on Huang Yi’s face, then ran off, her cheeks flushed with red.

At the same time, a lipstick mark appeared on Huang Yi’s face, which was a buff named "Love," providing him with another 10% increase to his All Attributes.

By now, Huang Yi had passed three story NPCs, accumulating buffs named "Moonlight," "Poetic," and "Love," temporarily boosting his All Attributes by 30%, an increase in strength he had never even considered before.

Huang Yi continued forward, still employing a non-violent approach by satisfying NPCs with dialogue, carrying out his mission. Each story NPC would grant him a buff, each with the same effect, increasing his Attributes by 10%.

Gradually, he moved farther and farther away, drawing ever closer to that towering building at the edge of the town. With every step, his buffs accumulated, and his attribute bonuses soared higher and higher.

Half an hour later, Huang Yi finally succeeded in reaching the massive building at the outskirts of the town. He had not resorted to violence even once and had already stacked up 10 buffs, effectively doubling his overall attributes and reaching an extreme level of strength.

But what was to come now was the real battle!

Huang Yi took a deep breath, pulled out his hammer, and entered the building.

"Bang!" As soon as he entered, the door behind him closed shut, now Huang Yi could only move forward, there was no turning back.

Ahead lay a spacious hall, empty like a warehouse, with a spiral staircase leading to the upper floors, about a dozen stories high. Huang Yi looked up at the top, the winding stairs stretching upwards, making him seem utterly insignificant.

"What ant dares invade my territory!" Just then, a cold snort echoed throughout, reverberating off the walls repeatedly and with an overwhelming force.

"Scorched Earth!" Huang Yi immediately activated the Scorched Earth Effect from the Legendary Boots, and in an instant, the entire first floor was engulfed in Magma. Any enemy stepping on it would be continuously damaged.

"Whoosh!" It was at that moment, from above Huang Yi’s head, a sound pierced the air!

A man with a broad back and a large waist dove down from above. Wielding two fierce-looking Broadaxes, he exuded an air of ferocity. With the force of his descent like a mountain collapsing, he targeted Huang Yi.

"Pursuit!" Huang Yi swiftly dodged to the side, in nearly the blink of an eye, he reached a distant spot, then immediately charged back!

While the man was still in the air, Huang Yi’s hammer had already met its mark, striking him hard.