Heroes' Prison

Chapter 968 - 914 Copy

At this moment, Huang Yi received another system prompt—

"[System Prompt]: You have passed the Third-tier Trial."

He actually passed the Third-tier Trial!

Huang Yi felt utterly baffled!

He was teleported to this Chenzhou City, staying in this internet cafe for several days, but never knew how to complete this Third-tier Trial. So he joined this private server of The Second World, intending to level up to 250, to see what the Third-tier Trial was all about.

But he didn’t expect that after he killed Bloodhoof, he directly passed this Third-tier Trial.

To him, these seemed to have no connection at all!

They were completely unrelated matters!

At that moment, a sudden transformation occurred before his eyes. The computers in the internet cafe, and the players gaming online, all vanished into thin air as if they’d never been there.

In front of him appeared a courtyard in full bloom, with a middle-aged man standing by the pond, feeding the fish with bait.

This was the Courtyard of the Pantheons, and the middle-aged man was Mr. Huang Sha, the President of the Era of Corporation.

"God of Slaughter, congratulations on completing the Third-tier Trial," Mr. Huang Sha congratulated without turning around.

Huang Yi gathered his thoughts, full of questions, and walked to Mr. Huang Sha’s side, saying, "But I don’t understand. Why did I suddenly complete the Third-tier Trial after killing Bloodhoof?"

Mr. Huang Sha didn’t hurry to answer but asked about another matter: "Do you remember your Hero Trial?"

"Hero Trial?" Huang Yi immediately recalled the Hero Trial he had undergone at the Oskan Royal Academy some time ago.

During that trial, he witnessed some grudges between the three God Sealers of the Dragon Clan: Holy Giant Dragon Georgia, Golden Holy Dragon, Jin Shenglin, and Dark Demon Dragon, Mo Li.

Mr. Huang Sha glanced at Huang Yi and said, "This trial is quite similar to that Hero Trial! In that Hero Trial, you sent Mo Li’s child, Gibit, to the side of Holy Giant Dragon Georgia, but later you killed Gibit. It’s the same now, in your previous Second Transformation Trial, you escorted Bloodhoof to the Minotaur Tribe, but now, you’ve killed Bloodhoof, and you really did it!"

"But I still don’t understand," Huang Yi frowned and said. "The Third-tier Secret Realm I experienced seems to have no inevitable connection with me killing Bloodhoof; they should be two unrelated matters!"

Mr. Huang Sha nodded noncommittally: "Indeed they’re unrelated. Like the Hero Trial, whether you pass this trial is not determined inside the Secret Realm but depends entirely on another person’s decision. Previously, when you completed the Hero Trial, you didn’t immediately get the notification of passing. Instead, you left the Secret Realm to see Divine Marksman Ica, who then decided whether you passed."

Mr. Huang Sha paused for a moment, then continued, "Whether you pass this Hero Trial depends on Divine Marksman Ica’s whim, based on the outcome of your actions in the Secret Realm and whether it suited his taste. It is a trial with great subjectivity and no hard standards. If Divine Marksman Ica appreciates your actions, you can pass the trial, even if your actions in the Secret Realm were wrong. But if he could say you made the right choice. If your actions did not suit his taste, like your competitor’s soul, even if all three of his actions in the Hero Trial were correct, he still didn’t win Divine Marksman Ica’s favor."

Huang Yi heard this and suddenly understood, saying, "So, for this Third-tier Trial, there’s no fixed standard, no fixed goal, and one can do anything. Whether I pass this Third-tier Trial depends on if my actions in the Secret Realm suit your taste. If you think what I did in the Secret Realm met your taste, then you can make me pass this trial anytime, just like when Divine Marksman Ica agreed I completed the Hero Trial, right?"

Mr. Huang Sha nodded and said, "Exactly!"

He tossed a handful of fish food into the pond and continued, "The theme of this Secret Realm is, in fact, replication! It replicates your previous experiences, every detail the same, the NPCs say the same things as before, everything replicates what you’ve been through. The completion condition of this Secret Realm is seeing if you can do something that surprises me. Generally, when people replicate their experiences, nine times out of ten, they follow the old path, perfectly replicating their previous experiences. You probably thought the same way before; if you’d followed your previous experiences, fully replicated them up to level 250, you’d have failed this trial, as it wouldn’t suit my taste. I thought you’d be caught in this routine, but unexpectedly, during the Second Transformation Trial, you didn’t follow your previous path and instead did such an outrageous thing as killing Bloodhoof, which greatly exceeded my expectations! More importantly, your act of killing Bloodhoof can make the future of The Second World even better, and the essence of this action is good. Based on these two reasons, I decided to let you pass this trial immediately!"

After listening to Mr. Huang Sha’s words, Huang Yi felt a sense of dread. His previous plan was to completely replicate his past experiences, level up to 250 and see what the Third-tier Trial was about!

Luckily, he didn’t do that, or he would have failed this trial!

"God of Slaughter, when did you start suspecting Bloodhoof?" Mr. Huang Sha looked at Huang Yi with interest and asked.

"During my Reincarnation," Huang Yi briefly explained. "At that time, when I reincarnated to the Singapore continent, I inadvertently learned about the Overview of the First World. I knew the author of this book traveled in the First World for three years and witnessed the birth of the Barbarian God, so the book couldn’t possibly contain the news of the Barbarian God’s Divine Enthronement, as it took the Barbarian God six years to reach Divine Enthronement. And I clearly remember, in the Secret Realm, Bloodhoof said he saw records of the Barbarian God’s Divine Enthronement in the Overview of the First World. This discrepancy made me start to suspect Bloodhoof."

Mr. Huang Sha nodded: "Indeed, often, a casual comment, an unintentional remark, might hold some secret. Some events you’ve been through, things that seemed unrelated at the time, may later connect and form a whole. I can tell you in advance, the Hero Trial you went through, in the future, you’ll recognize its larger role. In short, don’t underestimate anything you’ve gone through; in the future, when you can see the full picture of The Second World, you’ll understand that everything you’ve experienced pointed to the same thing."

Huang Yi asked with puzzlement, "Why isn’t this trial conducted directly in The Second World, but instead I was sent more than a hundred years back, to an internet cafe to complete it?"

"Didn’t you request to integrate some Sharp Sword information?" Mr. Huang Sha asked, then smiled slightly: "Originally, this trial was directly conducted in The Second World, but you asked to incorporate some Sharp Sword information to demonstrate his abilities. So I had to change the Secret Realm, sending you to a place completely unrelated to The Second World. I even reminded you that this trial had nothing to do with The Second World, which you personally agreed to. Of course, Sharp Sword is also a player, and I can’t reveal his secrets directly to you, which would be unfair to him. So I had to use this obscure method to indirectly hint at some of his techniques; whether you can understand this hint depends on your own abilities."

"I understand," Huang Yi nodded. By interacting with the games of more than a hundred years ago, like Legendary and World of Warcraft, he found some ideas and roughly inferred some of Sharp Sword’s techniques. Sharp Sword’s techniques should be like a place similar to the Emerald Dream in World of Warcraft, like another server where one can replicate the experiences of others.

"I have one more major question, would you be able to answer it?" At this moment, Huang Yi asked his biggest question, "Why does the system feel the future of The Second World will be better after I killed Bloodhoof? What secret does this person, Bloodhoof, hold? No matter how I pressured him, he wouldn’t say; can you tell me?" After finishing, he looked at Mr. Huang Sha expectantly.

"That question isn’t within my scope to answer." Mr. Huang Sha shook his head with a smile, "That belongs to the core secrets of The Second World, something you players need to explore for yourselves. However, now your understanding of Bloodhoof is more than anyone else’s. At least you know that Bloodhoof is not good for The Second World, and he’s not worth people’s reverence and admiration. Without him, The Second World would be a better place now. Of course, your act of killing him was just an action in the Secret Realm and won’t affect the history that has already occurred in The Second World."

"Alright then, I’ll explore it on my own," Huang Yi said helplessly.

In fact, he had anticipated that Mr. Huang Sha wouldn’t give him the answer because this pertained to the core secrets of The Second World. If Mr. Huang Sha revealed such things, it would be akin to helping him cheat.