Chapter 159: Dekan Is Truly Unwilling to Take Any Detours |
Dekan directly stated his leap-of-faith conclusion.
Morion was stunned.
In fact, ever since Dekan got the information from Shijiang, he had suspected that the final boss of this Shadow World was a powerful vampire.
And when he first arrived in the Shadow World, the two things that Dekan found most incongruous were—
Why did this small town have such an exquisite church.
And why did a High Priest need to be stationed in the church?
According to Dekan’s imagination, the most likely explanation was that there was an incredible monster hidden under this church.
Coupled with his experience from the last Shadow World 【Mysterious Figure in the Barren Mountain’s Blizzard】, Dekan searched very seriously in the church for a magic circle.
Even if he couldn't find it for a while, Dekan was confident that he would find it even if he had to demolish the church and dig three feet deep.
The red light on the magic circle should represent that High Priest Kevin was already dead and had become one of the sacrifices for the vampire’s revival.
But this magic circle was too complex, Dekan couldn't tell how many people had to become sacrifices for the vampire to revive.
…
“How long do you guys guess it will take for Dekan to solve the mystery of this Shadow World?”
The students at Heavenlit Academy had already started placing bets.
Generally speaking, the normal way to clear a mission was to collect information, exchange information, make deductions and verifications, confirm the mechanism, find out the true identity of the enemy, and then find a way to fight against them and defeat them.
But according to Dekan’s previous performance, he always skipped steps and sometimes inexplicably reached the end quickly.
“About three or four more days?”
“That’s too optimistic. This is a rank-six Shadow World, with extremely high complexity. With just the three of them, even if they are very powerful, it would be very difficult to solve the mystery of the Shadow World before half the time is up.”
“And look, they haven’t actually collected much information now. The first two days were spent on resource collection.”
“But you really can’t use common sense to predict Dekan’s clearing method. I wouldn’t be surprised if he finds the final boss for you in another day.”
Listening to the discussion of the spectating students, Cloix’s childhood friend Claire nudged him with her elbow.
“What do you think?”
Claire asked Cloix coldly.
She was clearly still holding a grudge about the fact that “Cloix was fascinated by the performance of the former Holy Knight Commander Judith” two days ago.
“5.”
Cloix replied.
“Five days?”
Claire was a little surprised. She didn't expect Cloix’s judgment of Dekan to be so conservative this time.
Cloix: “4.”
Claire: “……”
…
Morion quickly understood what Dekan meant.
“But how are you going to prove this conjecture? We still lack key information to supplement and confirm the details.”
“Don’t worry, just watch my performance.”
Dekan smiled proudly, then turned to look at the cross. Under the halo of the stained-glass window, he looked like a priest praying devoutly.
Even if he didn't know all the processes and details.
Dekan could now probably be sure that one of the final mechanisms of this instance would definitely be written as—
“Prevent the revival of a certain Vampire Count or Marquis, failure to do so will lead to serious consequences” or something like that.
And as for the vampire’s true name, Dekan boldly guessed that it was the name of the church, “Roderick.”
Knowing the vampire’s true name was a very important condition for sealing a vampire.
Since the Holy Rite Church had paid a great price to seal such a powerful vampire, they would definitely not hide its true name, but would let future generations know it in the most obvious way.
So if Dekan were the one who sealed the vampire, and then built a church on top of it, then Dekan would definitely name the church after the vampire’s true name.
Dekan spoke into the air:
“Our mission objective is: Prevent the revival of Marquis Roderick. If the mission fails, Marquis Roderick will be teleported to a random coordinate in the challenger's original world after the mission time limit ends.”
After saying this, Dekan paused, as if waiting for something.
However, nothing happened. Dekan sighed helplessly.
The Shadow World obviously did not approve of this act of forcibly guessing the answer by skipping all the steps.
Then Dekan changed his wording and expressed it again to the air.
“Prevent the revival of Count Roderick, if the mission fails…”
“Prevent the resurrection of Marquis Roderick, if this mission…”
Just like that, Dekan seemed to be performing a one-man show on the chancel, constantly reciting.
Each time he only slightly modified the wording and expression.
And since he was not sure what rank Roderick was, he tried both Count and Marquis.
Morion’s eye twitched. He had already guessed what Dekan wanted to do.
It was the first time he had seen someone disgust the Shadow World like this.
Finally, after Dekan finished reciting a certain sentence.
【……】
The Shadow World’s mission prompt refreshed.
【As a challenger has reached the correct conclusion, a new mission objective has been unlocked.】
【Mission Objective 3: Prevent the revival of Marquis Roderick. If this mission fails, after the mission time limit ends, Marquis Roderick will be teleported to a random coordinate in the challenger’s original world.】
“Damn! Can you really trick the Shadow World’s information like this?!”
“Does this guy only know how to go in a straight line?”
“He’s absolutely unwilling to slowly decipher according to the Shadow World’s mechanics…”
The students of Heavenlit Academy knew about Dekan’s habit of skipping steps to find answers because they had seen him clear the Demon Academy and the old mansion in the barren mountain.
But this was the first time the broadcast range had expanded to the Norton Kingdom.
Most of the citizens were seeing this kind of playstyle from Dekan for the first time.
…
Although the Shadow World might not necessarily recognize answers guessed through unconventional reasoning methods.
But the judgment mechanism of the Shadow World was extremely objective.
When Dekan had recited Mission Objective 3 word for word, the Shadow World could no longer determine that Dekan had reached the conclusion by guessing.
It had no choice but to display the hidden Mission Objective 3.
If the Shadow World had emotions and could speak, then these last two prompts would definitely have been recited through gritted teeth.
“See, my deduction method is just that good.”
Dekan said with a proud smile.
“Are you sure it’s okay to bully the honest Shadow World like this?”
Morion was a little worried that they would be targeted by the Shadow World for doing this.
“It’s fine. Apart from cursing at me a couple of times in the final evaluation, it still has to do its job.”
Dekan had been targeted before.
In the end, the Shadow World still couldn't withhold their rewards.
Dekan could already foresee that the Shadow World would curse at him again during the mission evaluation.
But now he just liked to see the Shadow World being furious but unable to do anything about him.
