Chapter 59: The Beginner's Village
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Chapter 59: The Beginner's Village
Before Justin could even feel a hint of panic, his vision suddenly brightened.
The scene before him left him utterly stunned!
In the blink of an eye, he found himself standing in a cramped room. The room appeared to be entirely constructed from Earth Magic, seamless and perfectly integrated.
Directly in front of him was a crystal mirror.
From the reflection, he was shocked to discover that he had transformed into a humanoid earth puppet.
The puppet’s body was crude, resembling a child’s mud creation. Though it had limbs, they were rough and unfinished, with faintly visible magic runes etched across its surface.
As Justin examined his "new" body, an inexplicable stream of information abruptly flooded his consciousness.
It was just like the first time he had accessed the internet—a user manual pouring into his mind.
The sheer volume of information left him dumbfounded!
The content displayed was so novel, so unimaginable, that it nearly overturned decades of his life experience and magical knowledge.
"Attribute panel!" he whispered tentatively.
Instantly, a Virtual Scroll unfurled before him, displaying lines of text that laid out the details of his earth puppet form in clear terms.
It included data such as height, weight, mana, health, money, merit points… and more.
Justin skimmed through his personal attributes, his heart pounding uncontrollably.
His mana level was astonishingly higher than his original body’s. This meant that many spells he had struggled to cast before might now be within his grasp.
[Stress training will begin shortly. Please prepare!]
A crisp female voice interrupted Justin’s experimentation.
He immediately recalled the information that had just flooded his mind and quickly adjusted his stance.
Bzzzt—a deep, mechanical sound echoed through the room.
The crystal mirror in front of him slid into the wall, and a grotesque earth puppet emerged from the darkness, dragging a massive two-handed sword behind it.
Before Justin could even process what "stress training" entailed, the puppet suddenly swung its sword, thrusting forward with lightning speed!
Caught off guard, Justin could only watch helplessly as the blade pierced his chest, pinning him firmly against the wall.
Terror flooded his entire being, his mind going blank.
At that moment, the scene before him began to fade, and the familiar sight of his cheap slum inn room gradually materialized.
[Brave adventurer, remember this: no matter what blows you suffer, you will not die, nor will your soul be harmed. Keep this in mind! Shout "domain exit," and your senses will return to reality.]
The crisp female voice echoed in Justin’s ears.
"Haah… haah…"
Justin gasped heavily, his eyes wide as he frantically felt the hard bed beneath him and his own body. It took him a long moment to process what had happened.
"This is… this is unbelievable!"
Justin muttered to himself, his voice trembling with excitement.
"Enter the Conquest of Subdomains!" he eagerly called out.
[Confirmed.]
"Confirmed!"
Justin’s vision darkened once more, and when it brightened again, he was back in that cramped room.
However, this time, Justin felt no fear—only a wild, eager thrill.
The grotesque earth puppet pulled out its greatsword and retreated into the darkness behind the crystal mirror.
[Elevator arriving in 258 seconds. Please prepare at the door!]
As the prompt sounded, a section of the wall beside Justin slid open, revealing a doorway.
Still shaken by the stress training, Justin took a deep breath, steadied himself, and stepped toward the exit.
Yet even so, the world beyond the door left him utterly stunned.
The abyss resembles a well, its walls like a honeycomb.
It was an unfathomably deep chasm, its walls densely lined with rooms like the cells of a beehive. The room he stood in was just one of countless such openings.
Looking up, he saw a circular exit glowing faintly with white light.
Looking down, the depths were bottomless, a distant rumble echoing from below.
After a moment, Justin spotted a circular stone platform ascending along the well’s wall.
It was already crowded with earth puppets.
As the platform rose, more earth puppets leaped onto it from the rooms along the walls.
Seeing this, Justin mimicked them, jumping aboard as the platform drew near.
"Anyone from Willis City? Let’s team up!"
"Me! I’m from Willis City!"
"Damn it, did everyone get stabbed during stress training? Nearly scared me to death!"
"Same here! I dodged for ages but still got a sword through the chest—almost pissed myself!"
On the platform, a group of comically shaped earth puppets chattered excitedly.
Some, forward-thinking, were already recruiting teammates with shared tags.
Others, carefree, eagerly relived their recent ordeals.
Amid the chatter, the platform gradually ascended out of the abyss.
Blinding sunlight poured in as Justin and the countless earth puppets eagerly scanned the world beyond the well.
It was a massive city!
They had emerged atop a pyramid-shaped altar, surrounded by endless stretches of architecture.
[Brave adventurers, the beastmen army is besieging Duofei City. You may join the city’s defenders, standing firm against the beastmen’s assault as the unyielding pillar!]
[Or, you may venture behind enemy lines, walking in darkness yet serving the light. Death rides the wind at your side—you shall become the lone hero sung of by thousands!]
A clear, melodious female voice echoed in Justin’s ears once more.
Before them, a mission panel materialized silently.
It was a dual-choice mission:
- The first option granted 50 merit points per beastman slain.
- The second awarded 200 merit points per kill.
Through the information flowing into his consciousness, Justin already knew what merit points were.
They functioned like internet Points, usable to purchase weapons, magic artifacts, or even upgrade to higher-tier elemental puppets—
Such as fire elemental puppets, wind elemental puppets, composite puppets... and more.
"I’m taking the second mission! Who’s with me?" someone on the platform shouted, raising a fist.
"Me!"
"Count me in!"
"With rewards that high, of course we’re picking the second one!"
"Hmph, for the same kills, the latter reward is four times the former. Clearly, the difficulty is extremely high. Don’t forget, if the puppet dies, you’ll have to spend money to redeem it again."
"Tch, coward."
"You don’t know squat! This is called planning before acting!"
"It’s not like anyone’s really dying. Why be so cautious?"
The players on the platform immediately erupted into arguments.
Listening to the quarrels, Justin clenched his teeth on impulse and accepted the second mission, pushing through the crowd while shouting, "Count me in!"
...
In the central temple of Duofei City, Aphnora watched the noisy players on the altar with undisguised disdain and bluntly questioned:
"They don’t look anything like the so-called 'Fourth Calamity' you described. More like a bunch of rabble!"
Her tone was laced not just with mockery but also with seething anger.
She didn’t know what had come over her—how she had impulsively agreed to Yu Sheng’an’s "Fourth Calamity" plan.
For this, she had diverted decades’ worth of accumulated mana from Duofei City to construct a massive "beginner’s village" beneath the city.
Yet, after wasting so much mana, what had been created was this rowdy, unruly mob. How could she not be furious?
Facing her scorn, Yu Sheng’an grinned and said, "How about we make a bet?"
"You still have the mood to gamble?"
"Gaming is all about mindset. If your mentality collapses, everything’s over."
"What’s the bet?" Aphnora gritted her teeth, eyeing Yu Sheng’an’s frivolous demeanor.
"Let’s bet on their destructive power! If they can force the beastmen to retreat within a month, I win. Otherwise, I lose."
"Fine!"
"Just betting isn’t enough. There needs to be stakes."
"Stakes?" Aphnora narrowed her eyes, her anger suddenly receding.
She realized Yu Sheng’an’s true intentions were finally showing.
What did he want? Believers? Domain territory? Or the right to proselytize?
"If I win, I get to kiss you. If I lose, you get to kiss me. Fair enough, right?"
Aphnora’s eyes widened in shock... How could there be a god so shameless?
Before Justin could even feel a hint of panic, his vision suddenly brightened.
The scene before him left him utterly stunned!
In the blink of an eye, he found himself standing in a cramped room. The room appeared to be entirely constructed from Earth Magic, seamless and perfectly integrated.
Directly in front of him was a crystal mirror.
From the reflection, he was shocked to discover that he had transformed into a humanoid earth puppet.
The puppet’s body was crude, resembling a child’s mud creation. Though it had limbs, they were rough and unfinished, with faintly visible magic runes etched across its surface.
As Justin examined his "new" body, an inexplicable stream of information abruptly flooded his consciousness.
It was just like the first time he had accessed the internet—a user manual pouring into his mind.
The sheer volume of information left him dumbfounded!
The content displayed was so novel, so unimaginable, that it nearly overturned decades of his life experience and magical knowledge.
"Attribute panel!" he whispered tentatively.
Instantly, a Virtual Scroll unfurled before him, displaying lines of text that laid out the details of his earth puppet form in clear terms.
It included data such as height, weight, mana, health, money, merit points… and more.
Justin skimmed through his personal attributes, his heart pounding uncontrollably.
His mana level was astonishingly higher than his original body’s. This meant that many spells he had struggled to cast before might now be within his grasp.
[Stress training will begin shortly. Please prepare!]
A crisp female voice interrupted Justin’s experimentation.
He immediately recalled the information that had just flooded his mind and quickly adjusted his stance.
Bzzzt—a deep, mechanical sound echoed through the room.
The crystal mirror in front of him slid into the wall, and a grotesque earth puppet emerged from the darkness, dragging a massive two-handed sword behind it.
Before Justin could even process what "stress training" entailed, the puppet suddenly swung its sword, thrusting forward with lightning speed!
Caught off guard, Justin could only watch helplessly as the blade pierced his chest, pinning him firmly against the wall.
Terror flooded his entire being, his mind going blank.
At that moment, the scene before him began to fade, and the familiar sight of his cheap slum inn room gradually materialized.
[Brave adventurer, remember this: no matter what blows you suffer, you will not die, nor will your soul be harmed. Keep this in mind! Shout "domain exit," and your senses will return to reality.]
The crisp female voice echoed in Justin’s ears.
"Haah… haah…"
Justin gasped heavily, his eyes wide as he frantically felt the hard bed beneath him and his own body. It took him a long moment to process what had happened.
"This is… this is unbelievable!"
Justin muttered to himself, his voice trembling with excitement.
"Enter the Conquest of Subdomains!" he eagerly called out.
[Confirmed.]
"Confirmed!"
Justin’s vision darkened once more, and when it brightened again, he was back in that cramped room.
However, this time, Justin felt no fear—only a wild, eager thrill.
The grotesque earth puppet pulled out its greatsword and retreated into the darkness behind the crystal mirror.
[Elevator arriving in 258 seconds. Please prepare at the door!]
As the prompt sounded, a section of the wall beside Justin slid open, revealing a doorway.
Still shaken by the stress training, Justin took a deep breath, steadied himself, and stepped toward the exit.
Yet even so, the world beyond the door left him utterly stunned.
The abyss resembles a well, its walls like a honeycomb.
It was an unfathomably deep chasm, its walls densely lined with rooms like the cells of a beehive. The room he stood in was just one of countless such openings.
Looking up, he saw a circular exit glowing faintly with white light.
Looking down, the depths were bottomless, a distant rumble echoing from below.
After a moment, Justin spotted a circular stone platform ascending along the well’s wall.
It was already crowded with earth puppets.
As the platform rose, more earth puppets leaped onto it from the rooms along the walls.
Seeing this, Justin mimicked them, jumping aboard as the platform drew near.
"Anyone from Willis City? Let’s team up!"
"Me! I’m from Willis City!"
"Damn it, did everyone get stabbed during stress training? Nearly scared me to death!"
"Same here! I dodged for ages but still got a sword through the chest—almost pissed myself!"
On the platform, a group of comically shaped earth puppets chattered excitedly.
Some, forward-thinking, were already recruiting teammates with shared tags.
Others, carefree, eagerly relived their recent ordeals.
Amid the chatter, the platform gradually ascended out of the abyss.
Blinding sunlight poured in as Justin and the countless earth puppets eagerly scanned the world beyond the well.
It was a massive city!
They had emerged atop a pyramid-shaped altar, surrounded by endless stretches of architecture.
[Brave adventurers, the beastmen army is besieging Duofei City. You may join the city’s defenders, standing firm against the beastmen’s assault as the unyielding pillar!]
[Or, you may venture behind enemy lines, walking in darkness yet serving the light. Death rides the wind at your side—you shall become the lone hero sung of by thousands!]
A clear, melodious female voice echoed in Justin’s ears once more.
Before them, a mission panel materialized silently.
It was a dual-choice mission:
- The first option granted 50 merit points per beastman slain.
- The second awarded 200 merit points per kill.
Through the information flowing into his consciousness, Justin already knew what merit points were.
They functioned like internet Points, usable to purchase weapons, magic artifacts, or even upgrade to higher-tier elemental puppets—
Such as fire elemental puppets, wind elemental puppets, composite puppets... and more.
"I’m taking the second mission! Who’s with me?" someone on the platform shouted, raising a fist.
"Me!"
"Count me in!"
"With rewards that high, of course we’re picking the second one!"
"Hmph, for the same kills, the latter reward is four times the former. Clearly, the difficulty is extremely high. Don’t forget, if the puppet dies, you’ll have to spend money to redeem it again."
"Tch, coward."
"You don’t know squat! This is called planning before acting!"
"It’s not like anyone’s really dying. Why be so cautious?"
The players on the platform immediately erupted into arguments.
Listening to the quarrels, Justin clenched his teeth on impulse and accepted the second mission, pushing through the crowd while shouting, "Count me in!"
...
In the central temple of Duofei City, Aphnora watched the noisy players on the altar with undisguised disdain and bluntly questioned:
"They don’t look anything like the so-called 'Fourth Calamity' you described. More like a bunch of rabble!"
Her tone was laced not just with mockery but also with seething anger.
She didn’t know what had come over her—how she had impulsively agreed to Yu Sheng’an’s "Fourth Calamity" plan.
For this, she had diverted decades’ worth of accumulated mana from Duofei City to construct a massive "beginner’s village" beneath the city.
Yet, after wasting so much mana, what had been created was this rowdy, unruly mob. How could she not be furious?
Facing her scorn, Yu Sheng’an grinned and said, "How about we make a bet?"
"You still have the mood to gamble?"
"Gaming is all about mindset. If your mentality collapses, everything’s over."
"What’s the bet?" Aphnora gritted her teeth, eyeing Yu Sheng’an’s frivolous demeanor.
"Let’s bet on their destructive power! If they can force the beastmen to retreat within a month, I win. Otherwise, I lose."
"Fine!"
"Just betting isn’t enough. There needs to be stakes."
"Stakes?" Aphnora narrowed her eyes, her anger suddenly receding.
She realized Yu Sheng’an’s true intentions were finally showing.
What did he want? Believers? Domain territory? Or the right to proselytize?
"If I win, I get to kiss you. If I lose, you get to kiss me. Fair enough, right?"
Aphnora’s eyes widened in shock... How could there be a god so shameless?
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