I Save The World In A Doomsday Text Game

Chapter 256-1: The Ninja Master’s Skill Showcase, Mountain of Gold and Silver Treasures (1)

The chief priest also dropped a skill book of the offensive type, likewise a skill augmented by Karmic Fire.

This type of skill had slightly lower initial damage compared to skills of the same level, but once the relevant attributes were improved, the damage would skyrocket, far exceeding other skills at the same level.

Lin Xun stowed the skill book away and looked at the map item.

According to the map’s indication, the secret passage leading to the mountain’s interior was hidden inside the Offering Hall behind the Worship Hall.

That was the place where worshippers would donate incense offerings after paying respects to the gods.

Lin Xun ordered the Valkyrie to stay here and protect his senior sister, who was still unconscious, then set out alone to plunder the treasure.

[You arrive before the Main Hall’s gate, slowly pulling the doors open…]

[Squeak, the door opens without any resistance. After the deaths of Nurarihyon and the Shrine Chief Priest, the sealing power over the Main Hall has vanished.]

[At night, the shrine no longer has the daytime bustle. Under the pale moonlight, it appears deathly silent.]

[You look around. No one is in sight. The massive building called the Offering Hall is in the distance straight ahead.][You open a pair of dim eyes, turn lightly, and conceal your presence…]

[Even though divine domain power covers this place, it cannot directly dispel the enhanced Heavenly Concealment Escape Art. Under the moonlight, one can only vaguely glimpse a transparent silhouette. Without focusing intently, it is impossible to discover.]

[You hurry all the way to the Offering Hall’s front doors. The red-lacquered hall doors, tiled in black, are tightly shut with a brass lock. Looking through the paper windows, no lamplight can be seen inside.]

[You press your ear to the door in silence. The Qi within you gathers at your ear, and you hear no breathing within the Offering Hall.]

[The brass lock on the door is hardly any obstacle to you, a Ninja Master. You fiddle with it casually twice, and it easily comes undone.]

[You gently push open the doors and step inside…]

[Three bright red bell ropes hang from the hall’s beam, dangling straight before your eyes. Beyond the ropes stands a pitch-black offertory chest.]

[Ordinary worshippers’ method of offering is to shake the ropes hanging from the beam, throw their initial offering into the chest, then bow twice, clap twice, and bow once more.]

[If worshippers are having a wedding, coming-of-age ceremony, or similar, they must apply to the shrine for a formal ascension offering ceremony, of course, the required initial offering will increase greatly.]

[You circle around the three ropes and arrive in front of the offertory chest.]

[Because the shrine has thrived on incense offerings, the offertory chest is made enormous. On its side, you can see the flowing character reading ‘Dedication.’]

[Through the slot for offerings, you can clearly see the inside is completely empty. The valuables seem to have been cleared out long ago.]

[According to the map’s mark, you head to the deepest part of the Offering Hall.]

[Following the instructions, you rotate several candlesticks at the corner to the proper position…]

[A faint mechanical sound rises from below the floor. A well-like shaft appears before you.]

[You lean over to look. The pitch-dark shaft seems bottomless, and only at the far end can you faintly make out a pinpoint of light.]

[Do you wish to jump into the shaft?]

Lin Xun was no longer some ignorant novice. For this kind of basic ‘suicide pitfall trap,’ he could easily resolve it.

So long as he summoned the Valkyrie to fly him down, he could effortlessly reach the destination.

Actually, the Little Dragonkin transformation could fly too, but the draconic form was too massive, such a narrow shaft clearly couldn’t contain it.

He was about to summon the Valkyrie when the game text continued displaying.

[A faint howling comes from within the shaft. It seems something is ascending rapidly.]

[Your heart tightens. You quickly grip your sword hilt and enter full vigilance.]

“Don’t tell me there’s still some giant boss sealed under here?”

Lin Xun narrowed his eyes, ready to trigger the shell’s ninja kill skill at any moment.

[…]

[Before long, you see a strange object emerging from the shaft…]

[It is a stone disk engraved with countless runes, nearly the size of the shaft’s opening. In the center are traces of human footprints…]

[Do you wish to step onto the disk and ride this peculiar device down into the mountain’s interior?]

“…”

“So it’s an elevator. This damn game is always scaring me for nothing.”

[You step onto the disk device. The footing feels almost no different from solid ground.]

[The runes on the disk gradually begin to glow as if about to activate…]

[Suddenly, the runes flash a dangerous red. You feel the ground vanish beneath your feet as you plummet straight down…]

[The wind howls past your ears. Your falling speed keeps increasing. In just a few seconds, you may be smashed to pieces!]

[…]

“Hell! This elevator has a friend-or-foe identification system?!”

Lin Xun didn’t have time to curse. Flustered, he tried to summon the Valkyrie.

[But you remain utterly calm. You draw the Dragon Sword Masamune from your waist in one smooth motion and stab it into the shaft’s wall.]

[Sparks fly in all directions. As you descend, the keen blade carves a long gash along the rock face.]

[Your falling speed gradually slows, then stops altogether.]

[Clutching the Dragon Sword Masamune, you hang suspended in midair. Looking down, you see that pinpoint of light has become fist-sized, and you can faintly make out the scene within the mountain.]

[You draw a deep breath. Qi surges through your body. You wrench out the Dragon Sword Masamune, plant your foot firmly against the rock, and spring diagonally downward!]

[As you fall, you kick off again, launching yourself from the opposite wall.]

[…Leaping back and forth, your compact figure darts through the shaft with lightning speed, rapidly approaching your destination.]

Lin Xun watched, dumbstruck. He nearly shouted to the heavens, someone come see God descend upon this place.

[…]

[The shaft has reached its end. The view of the mountain interior below is now clear.]

[You circulate your Qi once more and leap into the open air…]

[…]

[You leap down a drop of several dozen meters, land, and roll smoothly to disperse the powerful impact.]

[When you stand, you find yourself entirely unhurt!]

Lin Xun was speechless, forced to quietly watch the Ninja Master’s solo performance.

To land safely without flying, if it were any other shell, it probably couldn’t be done. Most likely, only a technique grandmaster like the Ninja Master, who put every point into Agility, could pull this off.

[You look around. The mountain’s interior has been carved into a vast chamber. In the central area, there are traces of a giant barrier’s remnants. You can still vaguely see many fragments of shattered barrier materials scattered everywhere.]

[The damage on the materials varies in age but is extremely dense. The barrier must have been gradually worn away by some immensely strong force, broken from the inside out.]

[The time it took to breach the barrier is impossible to verify, but it must be measured in at least decades, perhaps even centuries.]

[In your mind, you picture the Celestial Demon Nurarihyon here, day after day, grinding away at the barrier, hoping that one day he would shatter it and escape alive.]

[You look toward a corner where a spacious stone chamber has been constructed. According to the map, this is the place where the initial offering funds were stored, all the offertory donations the shrine had accumulated over the years.]

[You stride forward and push open the heavy stone door…]