I Save The World In A Doomsday Text Game

Chapter 176-2: The Dark Dragon Knight (2)

[You possess the Corrupted Earth Giant shell!]

[With your robust physique, you only feel a faint tingling in your soles, no other discomfort.]

[You stride forward into the lake. The cold water quickly passes over your head, and a bone-chilling cold envelops you.]

[Thanks to the Subspecies Sea Dragon Pearl you carry, you can breathe freely underwater.]

[The pitch-black lake water continues to corrode your body. You feel a slight numbing sensation on your skin, but it still cannot inflict damage.]

[Will you dive beneath the lake surface?]

[You plunge headfirst into the frigid, black water, diving downward…]

[The water was as thick as ink, preventing you from seeing anything. The cold liquid slowly sapped your body heat.]

[Your vision was pitch-black, and you quickly lost all sense of direction…]

[You could only rely on the buoyancy of the water to judge whether you were still descending.][…]

[As you continued your descent, you began to feel the pressure of the deep water pressing upon you. You sensed countless hands around you, squeezing your flesh.]

[Gradually, the stifling pressure in your chest made you feel a trace of anxiety.]

[Will you keep diving deeper?]

Lin Xun had been underwater for over ten minutes already, far past any human depth limit. If he were in the Mage shell, he would have died long ago, only the Earth Giant could keep going.

[You continue diving deeper into the lake…]

[…]

[As you went deeper, the surrounding pressure grew ever greater. You gradually felt your limbs no longer moved with the same ease as before.]

[It was as if you were buried under a mountain, struggling alone beneath the crushing weight.]

[Will you still keep diving?]

Lin Xun drew in a long breath.

The more dangerous the place, the greater the rewards. This underground lake was bottomless, who knew what treasures lay hidden on the lakebed?

The more the hellish game tried to push him to turn back, the more he was determined to dive further.

“At worst, I’ll just waste some soul strength!”

With this thought, he pressed ‘Yes’ again.

[You continue diving deeper into the lake…]

[…]

[You felt pain begin to radiate from your internal organs. The pain grew steadily more intense, and you knew that you had reached your absolute depth limit.]

[You were just about to rise back to the surface when your outstretched hand brushing through the water touched something solid!]

[Feeling around carefully, you realized you had finally reached the very bottom of the lake and were touching the muddy lakebed.]

[Will you ascend back to the surface, or keep exploring?]

[You, not yet having found any treasure, were clearly unwilling to leave just yet. You began to grope through the lakebed silt, trying to locate anything of value.]

[…]

[Suddenly, your hand touched something hard. Unlike the relatively soft mud of the lakebed, this object felt extremely solid.]

[Judging by your touch, this object’s size… or rather, its thickness, it was enormous… it seemed to be a giant iron chain!]

[The chain was so thick that it would take more than a dozen people linking arms to encircle it. Running your fingers along its surface, you felt countless mysterious runes deeply engraved into the metal.]

[Will you follow the Unknown Metal Chain forward?]

An iron chain on the lakebed?

Lin Xun felt that he had probably stumbled upon something extraordinary.

This place was obviously beyond what that Grand Scholar Maguire under the Multivision President had ever reached.

In other words, the Ancient Abyss Demon was certainly not here at the lake’s bottom.

[Enduring the immense water pressure, you felt along the giant chain, moving in one direction…]

[…]

Lin Xun waited in silence as the text displayed.

This wait lasted another ten minutes.

Though the cavern overhead was large, he’d circled the underground lake in only a few minutes.

Clearly, the lakebed’s area was far larger than the surface above…

[You continued feeling your way along the chain… and suddenly, everything brightened. The crushing pressure around your body vanished all at once.]

[The sudden light made your eyes, accustomed to darkness, instinctively snap shut.]

[You were astonished to realize, you were no longer underwater.]

[You slowly open your eyes, and before you unfolds a vast underground space.]

[Beside you lies an incomparably massive refined copper chain. Looking back along the chain, you see behind you a pitch-black curtain of water, shaped like a great waterfall.]

[Strangely, beyond that curtain lies the dark lake water, while on this side is a dry underground cavern you can walk through freely.]

[You look forward along the refined copper chain, and at the end of it rests the terrifying colossal remains of a creature!]

[The pitch-black, gigantic skeleton stretches beyond sight. Jagged spines stand menacingly along its back, and even though its vast bone wings have long lost all flesh, you can still imagine the horror of them spread wide, eclipsing the sky.]

[The ferocious skull is covered in countless small pits, which at a glance look like a palace-sized honeycomb.]

[Gazing upon the innumerable hollow pits, you can’t help but think of eyes as numerous as the stars.]

[At the far end of your vision, you see that the refined copper chain is affixed to the hind leg of the skeleton.]

[You have discovered the remains of the Ancient Hermit Dark Dragon.]

Lin Xun’s eyes widened.

The Ancient Hermit Dark Dragon…

The Eyeball of the Pale Dragon of Ancient Sages and the Eyeball of the Ancient Crimson Dragon King on his person were each but a single eye among the countless eyes this dragon possessed.

If even a single eye alone reached Epic+ grade, it was hard to imagine how powerful this creature had been when alive.

Thankfully, in this hidden map, he had encountered only the dragon’s remains, otherwise, he probably would have seen the bright red word ‘trash’ again.

[You step forward to the skeleton’s feet to observe carefully…]

[The bones are as pitch-black as the lake water you saw earlier. The Ancient Hermit Dark Dragon has been dead for untold ages. Its remains have endured countless years in the damp environment and are no longer indestructible.]

[You try to touch one of the dragon’s toes, still the size of a mountain even as bare bone, and a sharp pain instantly sears your palm.]

[Dense blisters rise across your palm, and a layer of skin is corroded away.]

[In that moment, you realize that the skeleton before you harbors unimaginably potent toxins, toxins that likely seeped into and polluted the entire lake.]

[You cautiously withdraw from the pitch-black remains and continue forward.]

[Before long, you spot a human skeleton leaning against the dragon’s bones.]

[Yet this skeleton is astonishingly large. Though not as gigantic as your own body when in giant form, it still stands as tall as a two-story building.]

[Most surprising of all, the human bones are the same pitch-black as the dragon’s remains.]

[You have discovered the remains of the Dark Dragon Knight!]

[Beside the Dark Dragon Knight’s corpse lies the equipment he once wielded in life.]

[You hurry over to inspect them. The massive dragon lance is already mottled with rust, and the once-glittering giant armor crumbles like paper at the slightest touch, falling to the ground in heaps of dust.]

[You heave a long sigh and shake your head in disappointment. Just as you were about to resign yourself to leaving empty-handed, you notice a tall stone stele behind the Dark Dragon Knight’s remains.]

[The stele is densely carved with text, recording what seems to be the story of his life.]

[You step closer and begin reading line by line, word by word…]