Chapter 54: The Final Salvation.

Looking at that strangely shaped Monster, Xiao Fen exerted force suddenly and ran towards the hut before the Monster’s new attack could arrive.

The snake-like Jack seemed not to care about Xiao Fen escaping; it unhurriedly crawled its disgusting body, also chasing towards the direction of the small building.

As Xiao Fen ran stumblingly, he recalled what exactly he had overlooked just now that would cause such a change in this World.

Soon, he realized the key to the problem.

Jack was not one; to be precise, Jack’s main body was not one, but two.

One appeared in the form of a Bone Whip, while the other appeared in this snake-like form.

Two Jacks were not rare; many overly crazy people would develop some degree of schizophrenia.

Moreover, Xiao Fen could feel that overly keen perception abilities and overly delicate spiritual experiences could also produce signs of schizophrenia.

The Main Quest might require eliminating Jack, but it did not require eliminating all Jacks.

No, Xiao Fen suddenly remembered Sylvia’s words earlier; he should say, the Main Quest never required killing Jack.

Perhaps destroying Jack’s nest was sufficient; one could see this by looking at how previous Trialists only needed to complete about 60% of the progress to leave this Trial World.

Therefore, completing 100% of the Main Quest progress only required thoroughly killing Jack, whichever Jack it was.

As for exactly how many Jacks there were, that was not within the Main Quest, but was to be resolved by the side quest.

This was the final trap!

The difficulty of an SS-level quest, even if it was just a side quest, was not so easy to complete.

The person who initiated the Lux’s Salvation quest and pushed the difficulty to the SS level, after all Main Quests were completed, had to face the other Jack alone.

Xiao Fen turned his head to glance at the snake-like Jack following closely behind, his heart pounding wildly; the relaxation from passing the Main Quest just now was completely gone, and he was cold from head to toe.

“Think, think of what to do; since it’s a quest, there must be a solution!”

“Killing the first Jack was the World Tree’s way to prevent history from repeating itself, so why would there be a second Jack?”

“If a second Jack had never appeared in history, the World Tree couldn’t create a new problem at this moment, because history had already changed, and the World Tree had no need to create a newer history.”

“In other words, history was not completely changed; the snake-like Jack following behind had also appeared in history, and in history, this snake-like Jack might have been the final winner.”

“The World Tree needed to change not just the first history, but also the second segment of history after the battle in front of the small building.”

“If in the first segment of history, Farrah had not devoured some Trialist, he might not have been able to inflict such heavy damage on Jack, meaning that in the real historical time, the first Jack did not die at this moment; he entered the small building.”

“Then, the first Jack died inside the small building.”

“Just when the Awakened or the World Tree who killed the first Jack relaxed, the second Jack appeared and snatched the final fruits of victory.”

“In other words, inside this small building, there is something that can kill a Jack.”

“Find this thing, kill Jack, and the real quest can be considered complete.”

By the time he thought of this, Xiao Fen had already climbed to the second floor; it was definitely a climb, not a run.

The Energy in his body was exhausted, which made him dizzy and unable to control his body balance.

However, he was not as scared as he had been just now.

Since he knew that in this extended Trial World he did not need to deal with that terrifying Legendary Awakened, all he needed to do now was find the thing that could kill Jack as soon as possible.

He panted heavily, holding onto the stairs, and looked down; the snake-like Jack had already coiled into the hall on the first floor.

That disgusting body had completely detached from the original shell, and Jack was also looking up at this moment.

Upon seeing Xiao Fen, those two eyes again revealed a look of teasing and mockery, seeming to say to Xiao Fen: “Wait for me; I will kill you after torturing you thoroughly.”

Xiao Fen took a deep, deep breath, and after completely exchanging the air in his lungs that felt congealed, he finally thought of what that thing actually was.

It was Lux.

In the previous quest prompt, the World Tree had warned Xiao Fen to try to maintain contact with Lux; only then would it reduce some danger for him when completing the quest.

Thinking carefully, this reminder was not without reason; when Xiao Fen was inside the small building, always near the World Tree fragment, he did not suffer any heavy injuries; conversely, all heavy injuries stemmed from Xiao Fen leaving the protection of the small building.

But now, it shouldn’t be too late.

Xiao Fen quickly ran to the second floor, at the place where the World Tree fragment was originally placed, and summoned the Light Screen again; on the Light Screen, he switched to “Fragment Status,” and sure enough, this fragment still had a large amount of light shining through from Xiao Fen’s Light Screen, connecting with the building’s previous pipelines.

Almost the instant it was switched out, the World Tree fragment sensed something; the small building began to shake violently, and the building, which was originally a living creature, was making creaking sounds everywhere, as if the building was slowly standing up from the ground.

On the screen in front of Xiao Fen, a line of text was floating repeatedly.

“Enemy has invaded, enemy has invaded, initiating final defense measures.”

The Web in the sky began to retract continuously from the windows and holes above the building.

This was the first time Xiao Fen saw these things with his own eyes; the Web, called Lux, looked very gray and dilapidated; called a Web, it looked more like a tattered fishing net, with many large holes already appearing.

There was more Web than Xiao Fen imagined; more and more Web rolled down along the third-floor stairs.

Accompanied by the terrifying sound of wood breaking, the steps on the third floor finally could not bear the weight of the Web and broke apart; the Web extended continuously from these openings, eventually blocking the entire stairway from the first to the third floor.

The snake-like Jack was also stuck by these mucus-filled Web, slowly stopping its movement.

At this moment, Jack had just moved onto the stairs between the first and second floors; before being heavily surrounded by more Web, Jack glared fiercely at Xiao Fen again, his eyes filled with anger and unwillingness.

Subsequently, the World Tree fragment in Xiao Fen’s Light Screen emitted a dazzling light; accompanied by this light, the Web piled up more and more, crushing all the stairs, and finally wrapping around Jack and falling all the way into the basement.