Heroes' Prison

Chapter 645 - 620 Mysterious Hijacking Incident

At this moment, Huang Yi was in the morgue of the Heroes’ Prison.

He had begun making a new incarnation a while back. The material used for this incarnation all came from the Celestial Realm Experts, each and every type of material was from the mighty Dragon Clan, making the creation quite troublesome. Only today did this incarnation finally get refined completely.

Lying before Huang Yi was a brand-new incarnate body. At a glance, the body was visibly linked to the Dragon Clan, filled with their aura.

The head and body of this incarnation belonged to a Dragon Person, with a pair of deep space-grey Nyx Dragon pupils, providing extraordinarily strong vision as if capable of penetrating all the mysteries of this world; atop the head sat a Dragon Horn of an Electric Dragon, flickering with electricity and containing a terrifying Thunder Element; the body was covered in the sturdy Scales of the Silver Dragon, shining brightly as if donning a suit of silver Armor; behind were the Feather wings of an Elf Dragon, thin and extremely light, swirling with a faint green Wind Element; underneath the wings lay a long and strong Green Dragon tail...

The entire incarnation, just by appearance, was mighty and awe-inspiring. Such a combination of various powerful parts from the Dragon Clan had never been seen before in history. This was Huang Yi’s meticulously designed Third Generation Incarnation, and its actual combat power was greatly superior to the previous incarnations!

"Thump, thump, thump!" Just then, Huang Yi heard the powerful beating of a heart. It was the heart of an Azure Dragon, known for its prolonged vitality, and the great life energy began to manifest, like a powerful engine starting up. With each beat, it pumped massive amounts of Dragon Blood into the extremities and the four limbs! Gradually, the incarnation’s aura of life grew stronger and was getting activated!

Finally, the brand-new incarnation suddenly opened its eyes!

At that moment, Huang Yi’s own body felt as if it was being seen through by that gaze. The incarnation’s eye was like a scanner; when its gaze fell upon him, it felt as though it had penetrating power!

This was the eye of the Nyx Dragon, the only Dragon Clan capable of absorbing the aura from the Underworld and held a status second only to the Three Great Top Dragon Clans. Their sharp eyes could even see the spatial cracks between the Underworld and this world. Throughout their lives, they sought these cracks to absorb the essence seeping out from the Underworld. Now, although Huang Yi’s incarnation could not fully utilize the Nyx Dragon’s abilities, its visual capabilities were already greatly enhanced.

Huang Yi immediately tried out the full body of the incarnation and immediately felt much stronger than the previous one. The wings of the Elf Dragon on his back lived up to their reputation as the lightest Dragon Clan wings; a slight flap was enough to fly far. If flapped quickly, an elusive sense pervaded, making the flight path unpredictable and impossible for anyone to anticipate.

And surely enough, the Attributes of this incarnation were also significantly better than the previous one. One of the main reasons Huang Yi created a Dragon Clan incarnation was to enjoy the bonuses exclusive to a Dragon Clan state. One was the permanent Blessing given by the Little Dragon’s mother during his exploration of the Dragon Tomb—while in Dragon Clan state, All Attributes increased by 10%. The other was after his Evolution into the Golden Holy Dragon, a Dragon Clan state Expertise emerged—the supreme bloodline could disdain all creatures, granting Immunity to 20% of all damage! Additionally, Physical Defense, Magic Defense, and Resistance, among other Defense Attributes, were slightly increased.

Now, his brand-new Dragon Clan incarnation was enjoying both of these bonuses. Originally, an incarnation could only inherit 50% of his Attributes, but now it had slightly surpassed this value! Not only that, but this new incarnation was much more resilient than the previous one, not as easily killed!

With this new incarnation, Huang Yi’s overall strength had increased once more, and now, anyone who dared to offend him would be akin to running headfirst into the barrel of a gun.

...

Days went by.

Players on the Hero’s Continent went about their daily activities, life moving along its preordained track. But nobody knew what kind of conspiracy lay hidden behind this veil of tranquility.

These past few days, Huang Yi had been adjusting to the new incarnation. Its combat power was indeed formidable; he was getting more proficient with it by the day and was continuously looking for an opportunity to use the new incarnation in a fight with a master to test its power in actual combat.

That day, as usual, he logged in and went to the forum to check on the major events that had happened that day.

No sooner had he entered the forum than he was surrounded by explosive news; almost the entire page was discussing the same thing—

"The Finance Minister of Dragon Nation, a Ferocious God, has been mysteriously kidnapped! The suspect is from Japan."

"Breaking news! The Head of Life Department of the Sun Guild, Huang Yelou, has encountered a mysterious kidnapping, with the perpetrator’s name appearing as a strange expert from Japan."

"I am the Head of Internal Affairs of the Eternal Road Guild. I’ve been kidnapped. The perpetrator’s name appeared as ’Undead Invasion,’ a player from Japan, but there’s no further information available. I hope the senior officials of different Guilds take extra precautions!"

"The mysterious kidnapping incidents have now affected 22 victims! A shadowy Japanese organization is executing a plot against the Guilds of the Hero’s Continent!"

Huang Yi skimmed through the information, finally understanding the shocking event that had rocked the world. In just the scant hours since he had gone offline the previous night, many important figures from China’s great guilds had been kidnapped!

So far, more than 20 guilds’ key upper echelons were exposed as being kidnapped! This didn’t include other victims who hadn’t been exposed yet. Among these known victims were several from the top super guilds of the China region. For example, there was Zhuhong Zhiyue, the Head of Public Relations Department of the Xuanyuan Guild, Dongfeng Chuixue, one of the logistics officers of the Styx Sect Guild, and Wang Busan, a lead informant from the Hall of Famous Generals. The Hero Guild also had a high-ranking official kidnapped, and that was the Head of Intelligence Department, Mysterious (Aomiao)!

All these victims shared one common feature—they weren’t very strong in combat, but they were all important management executives of their respective guilds! As for those with strong combat capabilities, not a single one was affected, showing that the enemy had a clear target in mind and automatically gave up on those they weren’t sure they could capture.

According to messages leaked by some victims, they were attacked out of the blue by strangers, lost the ability to move, were blindfolded, and then swiftly taken to a strange place.

Usually, after players were kidnapped, they could choose to commit suicide to escape the kidnapping state and respawn in the city. However, these victims were all affected by the same strange potion—after death, there was a high 30% chance of reincarnation! This made them too afraid to commit suicide, leaving them at the mercy of their kidnappers!

As for the exposed assailants, not one was recognized, only that they were all from Japan. Besides this, no additional information could be found about them; not even any forum posts could be traced. It was as if they had appeared out of thin air. This only indicated that these individuals had always been hidden and had now struck simultaneously, clearly an organized and planned conspiracy.

This series of kidnappings immediately caused panic across Hero’s Continent, and all the guilds were in fear for their own safety. This group of enemies left no tracks and couldn’t be traced, leaving everyone unsure when they might suddenly strike.

Upon reading this message, Huang Yi instinctively thought of Miyamoto Musashi. Just a few days ago, Qin Shiyu had said Musashi had been missing for several days, his whereabouts unknown. Now, there was a group of Japanese experts causing chaos, which seemed too much of a coincidence.

Huang Yi quickly logged in, immediately entering The Second World!

As soon as he went online, he received several urgent messages, all sent by Qin Shiyu—

"Brother Yi, our Head of Intelligence Department, Mysterious, was kidnapped by a mysterious expert outside Wind Capital City! From the message he sent us, the culprit is a Japanese player named Ye Yueming. We searched for information on the perpetrator, but found nothing about him. I think this might be a secret top player trained by Miyamoto Musashi and never exposed before."

"I am currently headed to the scene with the leader of Hunter Hall, Qianye Fengwu, and the master of Assassins’ Hall, Nameless, to investigate. I miss you so much, and if you get online and it’s safe, come over and help us look for clues."

"We’ve been ambushed! The culprit is indeed Miyamoto Musashi. He was actually targeting us! His strength is far beyond our expectations, and the three of us were no match for him, not even with the use of religious skills to summon your clone. Now, Qianye Fengwu, Nameless, and I have all been kidnapped, and the rest of our people brought along have all been killed by him! He administered a potion on each of us that increases the chance of reincarnation by 30%, so we can’t commit suicide. You need to be careful; he might use us to threaten you."

With these messages, Huang Yi’s heart sank; their speculation a few days ago had come true—Miyamoto Musashi’s target was indeed the Hero’s Continent!

Even though they had been cautious, they were still unable to withstand Musashi’s schemes. Huang Yi had been using the Continent Guardian’s skill—Eye Of Supervision—to search for Musashi, ready to detect him as soon as he entered Hero’s Continent. However, this skill had been ineffective; Musashi arrived undetected, likely using some anti-reconnaissance technique!

Ambushes are tough to defend against, and Qin Shiyu had already been kidnapped before. With a super-first-class master like Miyamoto Musashi making a move, it was an unforeseeable attack, one that not even Huang Yi, the world’s number one, could defend against!

In fact, in all the times his friends and relatives had been kidnapped, the enemy always had the strength to kill them but chose not to. Instead, they used it to lure Huang Yi into action, which was extremely troublesome. However, this also gave him hope; as long as they were alive, he had the chance to rescue them. His greatest fear was Miyamoto Musashi opting not to take hostages but to kill Qin Shiyu instead and let her reincarnate, which would be irremediable.

For Miyamoto Musashi, taking hostages was also a riskier move.

With Musashi’s strength, he could easily kill Qin Shiyu. If he did so, at least he would have succeeded in weakening Huang Yi’s side, ensuring no further complications.

However, by choosing to take her hostage, Musashi opened up the possibility of a rescue by Huang Yi, introducing uncertainty and the chance the hostages could be saved. In the end, all his efforts could come to naught, gaining nothing, and he might as well have killed Qin Shiyu in the first place.

In other words, Musashi was also taking a gamble, just as at risk as Huang Yi, living in constant fear, vigilant against Huang Yi’s tactics.

Huang Yi immediately sent a message to Qin Shiyu, "I’m activating the teleportation skill of the Hero’s Ring and coming to rescue you right away."

Without delay, he targeted Qin Shiyu for teleportation, employing the Hero’s Ring’s teleportation skill!