Chapter 25: Behind the Radiance.

As long as a sufficient distance was maintained, killing a group of isolated Stitched Monsters was very easy.

Xiao Fen also had Sylvia’s support by his side. The two fired alternately, making the speed of killing even faster.

When the distant bell chimed twelve times in a row, Xiao Fen and Sylvia had already completed the Radiance of Lux quest ahead of schedule. They now had more than 30 keys on them, including 2 sets of Gemini Golden Keys. Such a harvest was huge, but correspondingly, Xiao Fen only had 12 Acid Poison Bullets left.

Handing in the quest was not as troublesome as Xiao Fen had thought.

In fact, Xiao Fen always subconsciously equated the Trial World with online games, so he always intentionally or unintentionally applied knowledge from online games to this world. And now, when handing in the quest, he also forgot that this Trial World was created by the World Tree Yggdrasil. As long as the specified quest was completed in this Trial World, it was the same no matter where it was handed in.

“Don’t be too self-righteous.”

Sylvia looked at Xiao Fen and said, “Don’t let your own understanding cloud your vision. Yggdrasil watches every one of us Trialists, from the beginning until now.”

Xiao Fen smiled and called out the control screen. The text on it flashed continuously.

“Radiance of Lux completed.”

“Congratulations. Under the cover of Lux, you killed 100 Stitched Monsters. A huge achievement!”

“Lux was discovered by a traitor. He could not defeat that traitor, so he transformed his body into a huge Web, covering the block, constantly killing pedestrians who returned late, ensuring that the traitor could not sneak into this block through disguise or other methods and obtain the important token in this block.”

“Radiance of Lux Influence: To obtain this important token, the traitor plagued by filth constantly sent Stitched Monsters to attack this block at night, but with little effect, until November 8, 1888.”

“Follow-up quest, Lux’s Salvation. Do you accept?”

Xiao Fen glanced at Sylvia and asked in a low voice, “What is the date today? I mean, the time in this Trial World?”

“The standard entry time for this Trial World is always November 6, 1888. We were interfered with by those people from the Li Family on November 6. I met up with you on November 7. The current time is midnight on November 8.”

Xiao Fen looked at the information on the projection screen and shook his head, saying, “This side quest is really pressed for time, issuing new tasks almost non-stop.”

Sylvia frowned and said, “The Main Quest of this world has always been very easy. Find the traitor hiding in another block and kill him. That is enough. It does not match the difficulty previously marked for this world. Now it seems that the task difficulty in this world is actually related to the Lux quest series.”

Xiao Fen nodded and said, “I have received a new task, Lux’s Salvation. It requires us to find the control hub of the Web overhead, make the Web continue to operate, not stopping even during the day, and persist until the Main Quest is completed.”

Sylvia was stunned again and said, “Let us proceed with dual quest lines at the same time? We have to control this Web while also pushing forward the Main Quest?”

Xiao Fen did not answer Sylvia’s question immediately but asked in return, “Can you tell me the general situation of this Trial World? I don’t know much about this Trial World. I only know that we need to catch that traitor, but the specific situation is very vague.”

“Have you ever heard of Jack the Ripper?”

Xiao Fen paused for a moment, frowned, and asked, “Jack the Ripper? That mysterious murderer in the UK? He seems like a fictional character from a novel. How could he be involved with the Trial World?”

Sylvia shook her head and said, “No, Jack the Ripper is a traitor among the Awakened. Some of his criminal files are still kept in Scotland Yard, including the Mortal World records of him killing five women consecutively in the Whitechapel district of the East End between August 7 and November 8, 1888. Historically, it was not until the early morning of November 9, 1888, that the Awakened found the lair of this traitor and destroyed Jack’s lair.”

“Destroyed? What about Jack?”

“That is the mystery. Palin, Yggdrasil knows everything that happened back then, but it hid this information and then created a Trial World with lower difficulty, letting us experience the situation at that time ourselves. Everything we experienced is what happened back then, including that Lux who used the Web. He was also a very famous Great Awakened in history.”

“So, the BOSS you finally killed in this task may not actually be Jack. Behind this Trial World, there is an even bigger puzzle that remains unsolved.”

Xiao Fen keenly discovered the fundamental problem in this Trial World and immediately pointed it out.

Regarding Xiao Fen’s question, Sylvia nodded and said, “That’s right. Where the real Jack is will be the future direction of this Trial World. However, new Trial Worlds will only open up after we raise the completion rate of this Trial World to one hundred percent. The overall difficulty will increase even more, but that is not what we need to consider right now.”

Xiao Fen looked back. The two of them were currently standing on the roof of an abandoned church. The ground was at least ten meters away, blocked by gray mist, making it impossible to see the situation on the ground clearly. Instead, it gave rise to a sense of emptiness and unreality.

Behind them, the huge cross tilted slightly, presenting an indescribable sense of decadence.

Those stained glass windows, once exceptionally beautiful, now only remained as pitch-black holes.

Originally, sunlight would pour into the church from there, projecting God’s miracles on the ground, but now only thick fog sank in and slowly surged out from there, looking like the breathing of a monster sleeping in the midnight.

Xiao Fen sat down on the pointed roof ridge. He did not continue talking with Sylvia but summoned the Light Screen again, selected character query, and input Jack the Ripper. The Light Screen quickly displayed the basic data of this once very powerful Awakened.

“Jack the Ripper”

“Species: Access Forbidden”

“Real Name: Access Forbidden”

“Level: Level 13 Legendary Awakened”

“Abilities: Level 5 Bone Control Master / Level 4 Gene Control Expert / Level 4 Cell Control Expert”

“Specialties: Filth Creature Creation Specialization, Bone Reinforcement Specialization”

“Summary: Jack the Ripper was once a Legend. Before the age of 50, he reached the upper limit of a single ability in continuous battles. However, a strange decision ultimately ruined this Legendary Awakened. He wanted to resurrect his lover in the Real World, not in the fantasy world created by Yggdrasil.”

The introduction ended here. It was a story with no beginning and no end, but Xiao Fen had already obtained enough information.

He turned his head and asked Sylvia, “What items are needed for Resurrection of the Dead?”