Chapter 165: Breakup.

Callisto stared outside the door, and after a while said: “Simply betraying teammates would not incur such a heavy punishment from Yggdrasil. Unless, in the previous Trial World, you made the wrong choice and actively abandoned Yggdrasil to join the enemy of the Trialists. This can only mean that you were completely blinded by Skills and forgot what kind of environment you were in.”

There was no sound of speaking outside, but Xiao Fen faintly heard some rustling sounds, as if something was shaking its body. If it really was a creature shaking its body, that creature must be huge in size.

“Before this, I never knew where the Hell Watchdog actually came from, or how such a group of absolutely fair creatures could exist. You know, even Yggdrasil cannot guarantee its own absolute fairness. Now, seeing you, I finally understand the origin of these fair creatures.”

“Hell Watchdog? Hey, Hell Watchdog? You can actually see these? It’s incredible. How can you see these? Impossible. The existence of the Hell Watchdog is more complicated, terrible, and detestable than you imagine. I must make you forget all this, must make you forget!”

Callisto looked outside and continued: “Because of having an equal degree of hatred and greed towards Hell and living beings, the absolutely fair Watchdog between Hell and living beings is produced. Pal, you have ultimately embarked on this path.”

Xiao Fen’s mind had never been impacted repeatedly like it was at this moment.

Although a Trialist transforming into a Hell Watchdog didn’t sound very real, on the other hand, it was indeed as Callisto said: only an existence that had equal hatred for both Hell and living beings could become a truly fair creature.

Isn’t the so-called Hell Watchdog exactly this kind of creature?

“You saw wrong, dear Sally. There are no Watchdogs in this Trial World. Do you mean the Xiezhi? That creature no longer exists. Really, from the time I came to this Trial World, I received no news about the Xiezhi. Listen, this city has been abandoned by the Xiezhi and by Yggdrasil. This city is destined to be destroyed. If you want to survive, why not be like me? Look, we can only truly survive if we are all like me.”

Callisto shook her head slightly and said: “Yggdrasil will not abandon any city. The disappearance of the Xiezhi is not Yggdrasil’s fault, nor is it this city’s fault. Yggdrasil reconstructed this Trial World to let us change that history, not to escape in this world. Pal, you betrayed everything for the Skill Book. Although you haven’t been punished by Yggdrasil, your soul has already changed. You and I, from now on, are no longer the same kind.”

Xiao Fen let out a long breath. Now, he realized why this world always gave him the feeling that something was missing. When Callisto spoke to the person outside, his thoughts also became clear.

Lycaon had asked before where exactly the Xiezhi was. At that time, Xiao Fen thought that the Xiezhi hadn’t had time to rush to the Capital City.

But thinking carefully, the White Lotus Sect had been deploying in the Capital City for as long as 10 years. In such a long time, there had surprisingly been no existence of the Xiezhi. This was not a normal thing.

But what if the Xiezhi didn’t exist from the beginning, or in other words, what if the Xiezhi had been hunted and killed from the beginning by the White Lotus Sect and certain lives behind the White Lotus Sect?

Just like Farrah could easily deal with those Garms, a relatively high-level life form would have no problem dealing with these Xiezhi. If so, what this life form needed to consider was not just this one place, the Capital City. The entire territory of the Ming Empire, or perhaps the entire Asia, was within this life form’s consideration.

It killed all the Xiezhi in the Asia Tribunal and let Hell Creatures appear everywhere within the scope of Asia.

How this matter was handled in history, Xiao Fen was not clear, but one thing was certain: the Capital City Great Explosion was just a beginning.

Starting from this Great Explosion, the entire Asia fell into turmoil and chaos one after another. A large number of humans died, and Disaster constantly descended upon Asia.

Having lost the guard of the Xiezhi, the Awakened could not simultaneously transfer Disaster and resist the counterattack of Hell Creatures. This process lasted for a very long time, and even in the Real World, the aftereffects of this Great Explosion were still being felt.

And the World Tree previously only let Trialists experience some preliminary things in the Ming Dynasty Trial World. The specific secrets might only be known at the Awakened stage.

But now, due to the triggering of the inner mission in this Trial World before, the World Tree finally displayed a broader panorama in front of the Trialists.

Understanding more of this background could allow Xiao Fen to better grasp the process of this Trial World.

Now, he was no longer floating outside this Trial World, always feeling a layer of separation from the Trial World, but had truly become a participant in this Trial World, a promoter of the history behind that history.

Why the White Lotus Sect wanted to manufacture so many stoppers, why they wanted to manufacture the Capital City Great Explosion, these points were already unimportant. Placed in a larger historical background, the purpose and result of this approach were clear at a glance.

Now, for the Trialists in this Trial World, what truly needed to be done was to find that existence behind the White Lotus Sect, and then find a way to cut off its black hand.

“Listen, Sally, you don’t have much time. Even maintaining this Magic Array consumes quite a lot for you. Have you thought about what you will do when your Energy is completely drained? How will you deal with those Hell Creatures that continuously rush out from deep night? Or will you hide in a place you think is safe like you did this dawn, lingering on until daybreak?”

A cold smile suddenly appeared at the corner of Callisto’s mouth. She replied: “No matter how I am, I will recover more easily than you. Using the blood in this courtyard to create a moving maze, so that everyone who enters this courtyard, including me, cannot leave. You, having been busy all day for this, will only be more tired than me. How you long to enter this room, to contact the remaining Skill missions, and avoid Yggdrasil’s punishment, isn’t that right?”

“I hate your aimless suspicion. Enough, Sally. If you insist on not letting go of your Magic Array, then I will also immediately revoke my suppression of the entire courtyard. At that time, Hell Creatures will be more ferocious than you imagine. And compared to Neutralists like me, Hell Creatures are more interested in living beings like you.”

Regarding the threat from the person outside, Callisto was noncommittal. Instead, she turned her head to glance at her brother.

Lycaon stared at the space outside and said: “You have already controlled one Trialist, Pal. Why not give it a try and see whether we die first, or you are destroyed first?”

After saying that, this sturdy man suddenly let out a huge howl towards the space outside. This howl was more vigorous and intense than Callisto’s cry just now.

At the same time as hearing Lycaon’s roar, Xiao Fen felt his whole body trembling in an instant. It was not because of fear, but because of excitement.

In his heart, for some reason, a strong will to fight suddenly burst forth. It seemed that in front of him, all enemies were not to be feared. He longed to fight these enemies and kill them.

The entire room shook repeatedly in Lycaon’s roar. A large amount of dust mixed with wood continuously fell from the roof. The remaining tables and chairs in the room were making empty rattling sounds, just like the sound of thousands of horses and soldiers digging the ground when they were about to charge to the front line. Xiao Fen even faintly heard the sound of flags fluttering in the wind from Lycaon’s roar.

Rather than calling this a howl, it was more like a war drum before a war. Accompanied by these war drums, those soldiers would charge towards their enemies without hesitation, either drowning the enemy or being drowned by the enemy.

“Stop! Are you crazy? Sally’s brother, stop this War Roar! Do you want those Filth Creatures to become even more angry and rush out completely unsuppressed? This is not something a normal Trialist should do.”

Lycaon looked at the other party with a ferocious smile and said: “No, this is exactly what a Trialist should do. Facing Filth Creatures, escaping cannot solve the problem. Either be swallowed by them, or take them out. There is no other choice in between.”

After saying this, Lycaon let out a new roar again.

Different from the howl just now, Lycaon’s roar this time seemed to contain some sentences that Xiao Fen could not understand. It sounded like the long chants of an ancient Shaman by the fire.

Accompanied by this roar, long-unseen text appeared again before Xiao Fen’s eyes.

“You are encouraged by the War Roar, full of fighting spirit. Your Strength +5, Agility +5, Constitution +5.”

“You are encouraged by the Shaman’s Blessing, your combat ability has greatly improved. Defense +10, Evasion Rate +12%.”

Xiao Fen looked at these two pieces of data, and his heart trembled a little.

He thought he still had some Weapon Crafting abilities hidden away as a trump card, but he didn’t expect that in this world, he was not the only one who kept his strength hidden.

Xiao Fen was a smart person, but Xiao Fen was not the only smart person.

“Stop!!! Stop now!!! Your roar has completely provoked the anger of the Hell Creatures. I have completely lost control over them. No! No! No!!!!”

The voice outside stopped abruptly, as if its throat had been suddenly bitten through. The voice at the end was completely distorted.

After a few seconds, Xiao Fen heard a sudden indescribable roar from outside. It sounded like a dog, like a wolf, and yet like neither.