Heroes' Prison

Chapter 704 - 675: Birthplace of the Ascender

Leaving the Tower of Pantheons, Huang Yi rode Little Dragon towards the Warrior Hall in Northern Sea City.

Along the way, he could basically only see one deserted street after another. As long as he remained in Northern Sea City, the city was no different than a city of death, a desolate place. Miyamoto Musashi could do nothing to him; the longer he was trapped here, the more wasted the city became. Moreover, the Heavenly Curtain Barrier was burning money every second and was doomed not to last long.

At that moment, midnight arrived!

Huang Yi immediately allowed his deceased incarnation to use Resurrection and came to the Warrior Hall from another direction.

There were no players here, only a few NPCs standing around.

"Sir, may I help you with anything?" a server asked as he saw Huang Yi approach, immediately coming forward and asking politely.

"I want to undergo my Second Transformation," Huang Yi said calmly.

The server was slightly surprised, "Have you already reached Level 150? You are the first Heaven-Sent Man we’ve met who is undergoing the Second Transformation!" After finishing, he pursed his lips and said, "The Second Transformation requires a fee of 10,000 Gold Coins."

Now, money to Huang Yi was just a string of numbers, the really valuable things couldn’t be bought with Gold Coins. He immediately took out a Diamond Coin from his storage ring, equivalent to 10,000 Gold Coins, and handed it to the server.

"Sir, I will take you there now, please follow me." The server, having taken the Diamond Coin, immediately went inside the Warrior Hall to a room.

There was a gigantic Teleportation Circle inside this room, the patterns were concentric circles, unlike any Magic Circle, with several sockets on it.

The server took out some Magic Stones and inserted them into the slots on the Magic Circle one by one, activating the Magic Circle. It emitted a dazzling blue light and gained the ability to teleport.

Afterward, the server looked at Huang Yi and said, "This Teleportation Circle can transfer you into the Class Transfer Secret Realm. Each person’s Class Transfer Secret Realm is different, but the difficulty of the Secret Realm can be chosen by yourself. The higher the difficulty, the more Attributes you will be rewarded after the transformation. The difficulties of the Secret Realm, from easy to hard, are divided into D, C, B, A four ranks; except for the D-rank Secret Realm which can be entered unlimited times, the other ranks’ Secret Realms can only be entered once per person."

"I understand!" Huang Yi nodded his head. This was actually similar to the First Transformation process; basically, every player would start by challenging the highest difficulty A-rank Secret Realm, and if they failed, they would choose B-rank, trying each level of difficulty one by one, only settling for the lowest D-rank Secret Realm if really necessary.

Last time, because of the Name Bestowing, Huang Yi obtained a precious opportunity to challenge S-rank difficulty. This time, he similarly craved for an S-rank challenge because the bonuses after the transformation would be a bit higher than the other difficulties.

He took a deep breath, stepped forward, and stepped onto the Teleportation Circle.

System Prompt: As a Name Bestower, you have the opportunity to open a Class Transfer Secret Realm of S-rank difficulty once. Do you accept the challenge?

As expected, Huang Yi received the same System Prompt! As a Name Bestower in the Second Transformation challenge, he, too, held a special privilege.

However, this was a one-time opportunity. If he failed, he would not be able to enter the S-rank Secret Realm again and would have to, like others, enter the A-rank Secret Realm to challenge.

Huang Yi immediately chose yes!

Suddenly, a pulling force came, and it sucked in both Huang Yi and his incarnation, transporting them into a brand new Secret Realm.

This was a town with a dusky sky, as if it was on the verge of raining at any moment. The buildings of the town were shrouded in darkness, with faint sounds of people coming from within, much like an ordinary small town.

At this time, Huang Yi was standing at the entrance of this town. There were no walls, no guards, only a stone stele with a line of words engraved on it—Blood Town.

"This place is the town from the Ancient Times where the Ascender, Bloodhoof, resided."

Ascender. Bloodhoof!

Upon seeing this name, a thought flashed through Huang Yi’s mind. This was a name known throughout the world!

After going through the eras of Eternal, Primordial, Remote Ancient, Ancient, and Recent Ancients, all creatures in The Second World had significantly weakened. Like Hero’s Continent and the Land of Dongying, these peripheral continents, the strongest were merely at the Holy Domain Rank. As for Divine Enthronement, it became a distant legend; even the current dean of the Oskan Royal Academy was perpetually stuck at the Demigod rank and could not ascend to divine status.

In the history of The Second World, the last God Sealer was Bloodhoof the Ascender from the Ancient Times!

But at the moment of his divine enthronement, he met with a mysterious catastrophe and died tragically, his head flying into the vast starry sky, becoming a star. His body fell into the oceans of The Second World and turned into a vast and dangerous continent known as the Fallen God Continent.

Later, countless powerful beings went to the Fallen God Continent to investigate the mystery of Bloodhoof the Ascender’s death but never found any valuable clues. After the Heaven-Sent Man descended into The Second World, the Oskan Royal Academy issued a world public quest. Whichever Heaven-Sent Man first broke through Level 100 could take on this quest and lead the most outstanding group of Heaven’s Chosen to the Fallen God Continent to investigate the cause of Bloodhoof’s tragic demise!

Currently, this super quest was on Huang Yi! From the moment he was the first to break through Level 100, he and Ascender. Bloodhoof had begun to share a fateful connection.

Now, in the Secret Realm of this Class Transfer, Blood Town turned out to be the town from the Ancient Times where Ascender. Bloodhoof was born. Huang Yi could learn much more about the character Bloodhoof here, which would help when later investigating his cause of death in the Fallen God Continent.

Huang Yi immediately took strides and walked into the town.

After entering the town, he walked on a stone slab road that had been smoothed by the passage of years, walking on it felt like walking through history. Many townspeople brushed past him, paying little attention to the stranger among them.

Huang Yi was still confused; he didn’t know what his job change challenge was. The system had not provided a clear mission objective, and he didn’t know if he had to kill a certain creature or complete a specific task. He had to explore this on his own.

He carefully observed his surroundings, his gaze sweeping over each NPC.

There were rows of shops on both sides of the stone slab road.

In a pharmacy nearby, the owner was dozing off on the counter, and the business seemed bleak with no customers in sight.

In the tavern, two townspeople were slumped over the table, apparently drunk, with empty bottles strewn about.

In the vegetable market, sellers and buyers were present with little haggling; however, the vegetables on the stalls were no longer fresh, and some had even turned yellow.

On both sides of the stone slab road, there were pharmacies, hostels, teahouses, taverns, and the like, each NPC living their daily lives, nothing out of the ordinary. Still, as Huang Yi looked around, he felt something was off; it seemed like the town was missing something, but he couldn’t quite put his finger on it.

"Hello!" Just then, unable to restrain himself any longer, Huang Yi stopped a young man brushing past him and politely asked.

"What’s the matter?" The young man paused, turning to look at Huang Yi. Under the gloomy sky, his gaze seemed to lack luster, devoid of any sparkle.

"Excuse me, do you know of Bloodhoof?" Huang Yi asked the youngster. Faced with no clear indication of the challenge’s rules, he ultimately chose to start with Bloodhoof.

The young man thought for a moment, then shook his head, saying, "I don’t know him." After that, he left without another word to Huang Yi.

Huang Yi continued to ask several passersby but no one seemed to know of Bloodhoof the Ascendant.

He couldn’t help feeling puzzled; Blood Town wasn’t large, the townspeople should know each other, it was unusual to ask several people in a row who didn’t know Bloodhoof. There indeed was something odd about this town.

At this moment, Huang Yi arrived at a tavern and, after pondering for a while, he entered.

The tavern was very quiet at this time, with a handful of people sitting quietly at their tables, sipping on their drinks. In Huang Yi’s experience, taverns were usually noisy and bustling, never this hushed.

Huang Yi found a seat by the window and sat down.

Normally, in any other tavern, a waiter would have approached him by now to take his order. But after sitting there for a long while, no one came up to him.

He frowned, stood up, and went to the tavern’s counter to order directly from the bartender, "I’ll have a bottle of hawthorn wine and a pound of cooked beef."

"Hmm," the bartender nodded indifferently without even glancing at him; his attitude was very cold.

Huang Yi’s frown deepened; the strangeness of the town was becoming more pronounced. He returned to his seat and waited in silence.

After half an hour passed, a waiter finally brought over a plate of beef and a bottle of hawthorn wine.

"Huh?" Huang Yi saw the plate of beef and immediately covered his nose.

The beef was covered in flies, the meat had turned dark as if it were a piece of rotting flesh, emitting a foul stench and clearly inedible.

"Hey, this beef has spoiled." Huang Yi called out to the waiter who had already walked away.

The waiter turned around with a very calm gaze and remarked indifferently, "This is the only kind of meat we have here," and then continued to walk away.

Huang Yi stroked his chin, turned to look at the other people in the tavern, and then out the window at the passersby. He suddenly felt as if he were the only sober person in a world full of drunkenness—as if everyone in Blood Town was sick, and only he was normal.

At last, he pinpointed what was amiss with the town—it lacked vitality, it felt like every person was lethargic and listless, almost devoid of any human warmth.

"Boom!" Just then, thunder rumbled in the overcast sky outside, and the much-anticipated rain began to fall.

"Drip!" The first raindrop fell onto the windowsill beside Huang Yi.

Huang Yi turned to look, and the raindrop was blood-red. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it with Recommendation Tickets and Monthly Tickets at Starting Point (qidian.com). Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to continue reading.)