novelraw Chapter 154-2: Direct Vision Association, Overlord in the Mist! (2)
Chapter 154-2: Direct Vision Association, Overlord in the Mist! (2)
[Please select your next destination…]
[1. Dis Academy of the Multivision School]
[…]
[5. Direct Vision Association]
[6. Cave Leading to the Underground Abyss]
The Abyss Cave was likely even more difficult than the Direct Vision Association.
Lin Xun pressed the fifth option, heading to the Direct Vision Association to farm monsters and level up.
[You gave the Brass Carriage the command to go to the Direct Vision Association.]
[As the carriage door closed, the vehicle slowly moved off into the mist.]
[…]About ten minutes later, new game text appeared.
[You faintly hear heavy footsteps in the mist outside the carriage…]
[The footsteps draw closer and the sounds grow louder…]
[With each booming step, the entire carriage trembles slightly, its wheels briefly lifting off the ground!]
He encountered another Veiled Aberration.
This time, he had the Grand Scholar Shell, and the legendary skills Falling Starlight and a Scroll of Speed Reading in his inventory were ready to be learned.
Once he learned Falling Starlight, he could have the Valkyrie hold off the behemoth up front while he unleashed two instant-cast legendary spells using the two Stored Spell Treasure Rings. Even if the monster survived, it would be badly crippled.
He now had a fair chance against the Veiled Aberration!
However, Lin Xun didn’t have the Grand Scholar learn the legendary skills. Naturally, the strongest skills were reserved for the strongest Shell.
The President’s Shell would be the best home for both legendary skills.
Suppressing the urge to farm divine items, he let the carriage continue forward as the Veiled Aberration slowly faded into the distance.
Another ten minutes passed before he finally reached his destination, the Direct Vision Association!
[The carriage came to a gentle stop, the door opened automatically, and you stepped down…]
[In the pale mist, the Refined Copper fence gate was twisted and collapsed, rubble and shattered bricks littering the ground. The grand structures that once stood within the walls were now enormous ruins looming faintly in the mist.]
[Above the ruins, a colossal behemoth revealed a sliver of its massive body through the mist, its full form completely beyond your sight.]
[Yet even its giant foot standing upon the ruins was several times larger than any behemoth you had previously encountered!]
[Do you wish to step across the rubble and enter the Direct Vision Association Ruins?]
???
The supposed monster-grinding paradise, the Direct Vision Association, had turned into ruins?
Lin Xun didn’t even know what expression to make.
Judging from the text, it was this enormous creature before him that had reduced the association’s building to rubble.
This aberration was many times larger than any he had encountered before.
There was no sign of any resisting force from the Direct Vision Association, which meant its members were either dead or had fled.
This behemoth was powerful enough to wipe out the entire Direct Vision Association!
He couldn’t even handle ordinary aberrations right now, let alone this towering monstrosity.
Plans never keep up with change.
Without wasting time, Lin Xun hurriedly climbed back into the carriage, ordering the brass horses to gallop away before the giant noticed him.
[Please select your next destination…]
“At a time like this, pick what destination?!”
Clenching his teeth, Lin Xun selected the Multivision Association.
He needed to inform Rona that the Direct Vision Association had already been destroyed by the behemoth… Would the Multivision Association be next?
[As the brass carriage prepared to move into the endless mist, a flurry of knocking and cries for help came from outside the carriage.]
[Do you wish to open the carriage door?]
The person outside was most likely a survivor from the Direct Vision Association.
Lin Xun’s mind spun quickly. When a bear comes, you don’t have to outrun the bear, just the slowest person.
Letting the survivor draw the giant’s firepower was clearly the best choice.
Following the rule of ‘better you than me,’ he decisively pressed ‘No.’
[The brass carriage began moving slowly into the mist…]
[Footsteps followed closely behind the carriage as someone shouted threats, saying if you didn’t open the door, they would destroy the carriage so that everyone would die together inside the Veiled Aberration Overlord!]
[Do you wish to open the carriage door?]
A cold glint flashed in Lin Xun’s eyes.
He hadn’t expected the survivor to resort to a mutual destruction threat.
He couldn’t refuse now. If the survivor truly lost hope and smashed the carriage, without the carriage’s protective barrier, he would be doomed.
“Fine. But once you’re inside, you’re dead.”
[The carriage door opened mid-run…]
[An elderly scholar, panting heavily, chased after the carriage, rushing forward with all his might once he saw the open door. Grabbing the handle, he scrambled aboard.]
[The door slowly closed as rhythmic booming footsteps echoed behind you, some massive creature was approaching!]
[The deafening footsteps grew closer!]
“Damn! He lured the monster here!”
The behemoth must have seen the survivor board the carriage, rendering the cabin’s concealment function useless.
The carriage would never outrun the giant; at this pace, it was only a matter of time before they were caught and destroyed.
[The Knowledge-Seeking Direct Vision Association Grand Scholar saw that you were also a Grand Scholar, though from the Multivision Association, and forced a smile while urging you to speed up the carriage, hoping they might escape in the mist.]
[Unfortunately, he didn’t know your carriage was purchased from the black-hearted merchant Bennett and ran at barely half the speed of a normal carriage.]
“…” Lin Xun’s face darkened. Through gritted teeth he spat. “Damn it, Bennett, truly just like you!”
[Seeing your silence, the Grand Scholar realized something was wrong with the carriage. His face flushed with anger as he demanded to know why, as a Grand Scholar fully aware of the dangers in the mist, you would purchase such a defective carriage?!]
“What nerve, you dare to lecture me when I haven’t even killed you yet?”
Lin Xun was just about to deal with this man when the game text suddenly sped up.
[The deafening footsteps drew nearer and nearer…]
[The Knowledge-Seeking Direct Vision Association Grand Scholar fell into despair, muttering that as a commoner, he had struggled from the bottom to become an academy dean, taking thirty-six years to climb the ranks!]
[After becoming dean, he continued striving and finally obtained the precious Oceanic Monster’s eyeball.]
[He had originally planned to enter the Multivision Association but learned that their Grand Scholars were being sent into dangerous caves to face the Abyss…]
[Not wanting to risk his life, he switched to the Direct Vision Association instead.]
[Relying on the Oceanic Monster’s eyeball, he climbed his way up to finally become a highly respected Grand Scholar, only to find that Sophia City had spawned a Veiled Aberration Overlord.]
[The supposedly unbreakable defensive barriers of the association were smashed like children’s building blocks beneath the overlord’s feet.]
[Even mighty figures like the Direct Vision Association President had perished without a word inside the overlord’s belly.]
[In order to evade the overlord, he hid all night within the cracks of the rubble, believing his end had come, until he stumbled upon this brass carriage in his moment of despair!]
[Unwilling to give up any chance of survival, he abandoned all dignity, chasing after the carriage like a mad dog, and finally boarded this glimmer of hope.]
[Who would have thought… the carriage was a damned defective one!]