Magic Chronicles : Fallen Race

Chapter 141: Chapter 141: Demon King's Underground Castle part 1

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"Alright, thank you for your cooperation, Miss Lisa. Apart from this, are there no more desert people's histories?"

In the leader's hall of Ghost Town, Lisa handed over all the materials she could collect to Reji, the divine envoy.

Yes, in the eyes of the desert people, Reji, Vielsia, and the others, with their terrifying magical beasts and their ability to easily withstand hurricane sandstorms, must be the messengers of Him of the Sand Sea, the salvation He granted to these desert people.

Reji couldn't be bothered to correct their way of addressing him, and moreover, it indeed greatly helped him quickly gain the trust of the desert people.

His purpose in coming to Ghost Town was not the desert people, but the ghosts. When Reji initially heard from Shermen's intelligence that these ghost tribe people seemed to only have a name overlap and knew nothing about the "ghosts", he didn't give up and thought of many possibilities.

After all, the true "ghosts" that he wanted to find were either companions from a thousand years ago or their descendants, and similarly, they were also the remnants that the "traitor" had always wanted to find and eliminate.

So, if he really found them so easily, Reji would instead not believe it.

One of the possibilities Reji thought of was that Lisa and these desert people were just an external front, and only true companions could see through the hidden information behind it.

Therefore, Reji later asked Lisa many things in detail and also probed for something, but unfortunately, it was all to no avail, and there were no clues related to his companions from a thousand years ago.

Even when he browsed through the collected books of Ghost Town about the past of the desert people, there seemed to be no useful information.

Except...

In the end, the only thing Reji could find that had a connection to "a thousand years ago" was...

"Miss Lisa, can you show me your leader's token?"

The stone tablet.

According to the legend of the desert people, the stone tablet descended from the sky a thousand years ago and guided their ancestors to find the first oasis.

It was also something that the desert people never forgot, even after their decline, and even regarded it as a token for the succession of leaders.

Lisa did not hesitate and quickly handed the necklace with the stone tablet fragment to Reji from her chest.

However, during the process, Lisa still had a gloomy expression, not because of Reji, but because there were still some bloodstains visible on the stone tablet fragment, which came from her younger brother.

So, if Reji wanted this piece of the stone tablet fragment now, Lisa would not be reluctant to give it up completely, because for her, it was more like Reji was helping her get rid of a painful memory.

Lisa's guess was not wrong.

Reji indeed had no intention of returning the stone tablet.

It couldn't be called returning if the item originally belonged to him.

When the stone tablet fragment approached Reji, it didn't actually have a very obvious reaction like the "Home System" scroll from before.

It wasn't until Reji touched the fragment that it finally flickered with a faint glow, alternating between dim and bright.

Lisa was not surprised by this.

She had already regarded Reji as a divine envoy, and the fragment's reaction to Reji only further proved it.

But on Reji's side...

[Earth's Engraving (Fragment)]

[Collect all fragments to activate the "Map" function]

[Currently required: 5/104]

The prompt that appeared in front of him confirmed Reji's speculation.

Indeed, it was another Saving Relic.

And the category was not an item like the Holy Sword, but a "system".

Reji felt like his game character from the first round had been robbed of all his coins, with the systems scattered all over the place.

It was like this with the previous "Home System".

Now the "Map" function looked even worse, completely shattered into fragments. The piece in his hand was only five out of one hundred and four of the stone tablet...

Anyway, my arduous journey to the Syndicate was not in vain.

The map function was very common in almost all games.

In "Magic Chronicles," Reji thought about it a little more. Aside from the most basic and simple "pathfinding" ability, the map system should also bring him two major conveniences.

The first was teleportation anchors.

In the game, players could run all over the world, relying on the sub-function of the map system, teleportation anchors. With this, players could achieve instant teleportation without any aftercast or chanting.

Of course, some special scenes and areas with restrictions were exceptions, but these were basically very few. Most of the time, it was not an exaggeration to say that teleportation anchors were the system ability Reji used most frequently.

In particular, in addition to official anchors in the game, players could also consume "Starlight" to create their own teleportation anchors, but it was a bit expensive. In the case of a shortage of Starlight in the game, Reji didn't bother to do it. But now it was different.

If he could insert his own anchors all over the world, would he still need to fly on a Chimera for a day to go to the Syndicate like he did now for his transfer ability?

Apart from teleportation anchors, the second thing Reji valued was the "exploration display" ability of the map.

As the name suggests. Many games also had this, marking on the map where there might be treasure chests, ruins, dungeon caves, special areas, and so on.

Although it was the real world now, there shouldn't be treasure chests everywhere, but Reji felt that searching for ruins and caves was still worth looking forward to, and it could very likely become his best compass.

In any case, the stone tablet fragments must be collected!

After confirming the goal, the next step was how to implement it.

This was no small challenge.