Chapter 683: Fire!

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation

Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

Miligas exclaimed, “Compared to other Lords of Glory I’ve encountered. Lord Ji Chen, you are truly a breath of fresh air and the most restrained Lord of Glory I’ve ever seen.”

“How can you tell?”

“Lords of Glory, when they first arrived, may have appeared somewhat strange, but overall, they were quite earnest in their efforts to progress. However, it’s only been a few months, and a significant portion of them has already fallen into corruption.”

Ji Chen paused for a moment, then realized.

Although most players still appeared to be struggling, they now possessed substantial territories, private armies, and a group of subjects for resource production, wealth creation, essentially becoming no different from feudal lords.

In terms of form, they enjoyed more freedom, not needing to pledge allegiance to a king like feudal lords did.

After the initial struggle to establish themselves, many players quickly became corrupt, no longer as dedicated to searching for resources to make themselves stronger as they were in the early days.

They imitated the luxury lifestyles of the native aristocrats, with wives, concubines, extravagant feasts, and a life of indulgence. They simply lived day by day.

Ji Chen had hoard rumors that many player lords occasionally hosted lavish parties in hidden clubs within the Black Gold District, where they exchanged slaves from their territories, sometimes living even more luxuriously than the native aristocrats.

They say there’s no harm without comparison.

Compared to all of this, Ji Chen appeared extremely restrained.

Perhaps that was why so many natives and heroes chose to stay and pledge their allegiance to Ocean Crown after coming to this world.

But if he were to think about it carefully, before coming to this world, players were all different types of people with various professions. Among them were people like Wang Shanyue with grand ambitions and unwavering determination, and naturally, there were also those who were content with a life of leisure and pleasure.

Before this, they could perhaps get by living like that, but the demon invasion had become an urgent matter. If they didn’t make themselves stronger, they would sooner or later become victims of the demons’ blades.

The most important thing was that he wanted to find out why players had been brought into this ”game” world. Was it the work of the gods? Or were there even more secretive things at play?

And then there was the military technology tree that seemed almost like a cheat.

He had a feeling that he was getting closer and closer to the ultimate answer.

Miligas saw Ji Chen seemingly lost in thought and couldn’t help but speak, “Your Excellency?”

Ji Chen snapped back to reality and shook his head, “Sir Miligas, there arc some things I want to ask you.”

“Of course, but this isn’t the place to talk. Let’s go to your room first.”

Ji Chen nodded. He had already noticed some passing elven nobles casting strange glances at him. After all, how could a human be on an elven airship?

The two of them entered Ji Chen’s room and sat on the sofa.

“Miligas, when was the last time the Elven Mother Goddess sent down an oracle?”

Although Miligas was puzzled, he still replied.

“Just over a decade ago, why arc you asking this question?”

Ji Chen hesitated for a moment and then replied, “I believe the Dark Deity has seemingly broken free from the confines of the Abyss of Chaos.”

-What!?”

Miligas exclaimed involuntarily, “That can’t be!”

“Lainckel lived in the Abyss of Chaos for hundreds of thousands of years, and he had even had close encounters with the Drcadlord Balzarna. Various clues and signs support this.

Moreover, the Dark Deity is highly likely to have entangled the Orderly Gods, preventing them from escaping. Otherwise, I can’t imagine why demons are about to invade, and the Orderly Gods haven’t shown any reaction, not even sending down an oracle to alert the races.”

Miligas wore a hesitant expression as if agreeing, but the fact that the Mother Goddess hadn’t sent down an oracle for quite some time now had already led to the conclusion that the demon invasion was imminent. In that case, it made sense to deduce this.

It sounded highly plausible.

Seeing his hesitance, Ji Chon asked again, “Is there a possibility that the demons have already contacted their natural allies from the time of the God War, informing them to cooperate in launching a war together?”

Miligas pondered for a moment and then said, “There’s a certain possibility. If it were me, I wouldn’t overlook these natural allies. They would undoubtedly be informed in advance before launching a war.

Besides demons, the evil alliance during the God War also included races like the trolls, gnomes, goblins, dungeon dwellers, evil orcs, and so on. While these races haven’t been suppressed in the Abyss of Chaos like the demons, they have been driven to remote areas by the Orderly races since the God War.

The trolls were driven by us elves to the polar regions and the Alwin Mountains to the north of the Maple Principality. The dungeon dwellers were banished underground by the gnomes, goblins were sent to the Death Marshes, and the evil orcs were trapped in the central desolate mountains between the Elven Empire and the Maple Principality…”

Ji Chen nodded and then suddenly asked, “Where arc we right now?”

“We’re roughly in the middle between the Elven Empire and the Maple Principality, in the barren mountains where the evil orcs arc located.’1

As he spoke, Miligas suddenly realized something, and his expression changed slightly.

Ji Chen sighed and said, “I think it’s best to be more vigilant…”

Before he could finish his sentence, the airship suddenly sounded a piercing alarm.

“Numerous unidentified flying objects have appeared five kilometers to the right of the airship. Preliminary assessment indicates they are the enemy. Please all passengers immediately return to your rooms for shelter..1‘