Life Game In Other World
Chapter 745: Fifth Level of the Underground Palace, Daybreak’s Deputy Leader (Big - for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 745: Chapter 745: Fifth Level of the Underground Palace, Daybreak’s Deputy Leader (Big Chapter for Monthly Tickets)

Underground Palace

Deep within the silent corridor lay a stillness that was utterly serene.

There was no noise, no clamor, no sound of any pollution corrupting the air.

The pathway was so tranquil, eerily akin to leading into an abyss of nothingness.

He Ao descended the narrow staircase step by step.

The staircase from the fourth to the fifth floor wasn’t straight but spiral, yet it didn’t seem to lead directly downwards; rather, it twisted at a gentle slope.

This ’tilted’ spiral with a modest incline was distinct, as He Ao could feel a clear ’leaning’ as he descended.

With each step trodden underfoot and after a brief descent, an open arched doorway appeared before him.

Outside the small door was a spacious space bathed in a faint light.

The entire space resembled an upright, enormous ’bowl’, with a flat ground and walls that weren’t vertical but curved upward with a certain arc.

Several damaged control panels were scattered throughout the space.

If one were to identify a ’characteristic’ of this space, it would be ’asymmetry’.

The semi-circular walls, though curving, appeared to have varying degrees of curvature at each part.

The strewn control panels seemed to cover the entire space, but each panel was different in shape and size, and no two panels were ’symmetrical’, neither mirror nor rotational.

Strictly speaking, all the items in this space were ’messily’ distributed with no discernible pattern.

He Ao stepped out of the doorway, moving past the destroyed control panels step by step.

Then, after circling around a large control panel that flickered with electricity, he finally saw the only item in the entire space that exhibited a bit of ’regularity’.

It was a half-cylinder control desk, with a diameter of roughly three meters and at least two meters tall, looking more like a ’platform’ than a control desk to humans.

A massive crack began on one side of the cylindrical control desk and diagonally cleaved through the entire desk as if a colossal hand had clutched the desk’s half, brutally tearing it apart.

The part that remained on the ground was still in its original place, while the severed half lay discarded as if it were trash.

The broken circuit boards and wires still sparkled with sporadic sparks even to the moment.

"Hm?"

In front of this damaged control panel, a hunched figure noticed He Ao’s approach. Her eyes widened in astonishment, and she began to squirm violently.

Her hands were bound behind her by some black ’vine,’ her legs were also wrapped by this vine, and the end of the vine looped around her head, sealing her mouth tightly.

"Feiya?"

He Ao also noticed the woman tied in front of the control panel. He looked at her with surprise and confusion, "How come you’re here?"

He activated his Super Memory and confirmed her identity with the markers he had placed; then he swiftly drew the black broadsword stuck on his back, rushed over, "Let me see if I can cut these ropes. Don’t move."

"Mmmph!!!"

However, Feiya lifted her head and looked past He Ao, wriggling madly as though trying to warn him,

As He Ao reached Feiya, he paused, then immediately raised his black broadsword and turned around to look behind him.

Bang—

The clear sound of metal clashing rang out in the silent space.

The bone sword that had been retrieved from the air by He Ao suddenly parried the pitch-black dagger from behind, and the immense force of impact acted on both individuals, sending them flying backward and creating distance between them.

"My acting isn’t good?"

A puzzled whisper came from behind.

"Quite good."

He Ao, holding two swords, turned to look behind him.

"Then it seems you never believed me."

The ’dagger’ in Feiya’s hand softened, merging with the structure behind it to form a ’black’ rope bunched up in her hand.

He Ao watched the woman who was once a ’companion.’ Strictly speaking, Feiya’s disguise was indeed exquisite—she didn’t just deceive He Ao, she even deceived herself.

When she had just glanced over He Ao’s shoulder, the information read from her mind by Super Memory was all ’be careful’ ’watch your back’.

"Gentleness and cooperation can lower the guard of companions, but they can’t change the fact of slacking off and not contributing the entire time, can they?"

He Ao held his swords, smiling as he observed the woman in front of him, "Should I keep calling you ’Feiya’? Or should I address you as Ms. Vice Leader of Daybreak?"

"It looks like you know more than I thought."

Feiya reached up and removed her glasses, suddenly crushing them. Then she took off the slightly loose hair clip at the back of her head, shook her head, and her waterfall of ash-gold hair cascaded down.

The entire aura of the person changed instantly from languid to sharp and haughty.

She lifted her hand, flicked out a rubber band, then casually tied her hair back, looking at He Ao, "But just because I seemed a bit weak doesn’t mean I’d be suspected of being the ’Vice Leader of Daybreak,’ right?"

There was nothing wrong with Feiya’s disguise; He Ao wouldn’t suspect her of being a ’mole’ just because a teammate was underperforming. He looked at Feiya and gently uttered a term, "Exchange."

Feiya’s expression changed.

"The ultimate ability of that ’angel’ pulling the strings behind the scenes is not meticulous spatial manipulation, but ’exchange’,"

He Ao watched her, "The ’proximity’ of Newland City-State and the Underground Palace on a spatial level isn’t about the Underground Palace descending upon Newland City-State, but about the two ’exchanging’ places,"

Newland City-State would appear within the ruins, taking the place of the Underground Palace, and the Underground Palace would appear in the real world, taking the place of Newland City-State.

This would explain why that angel behind the scenes, without the coordinates of the main world, could still initiate the connection between the ruins and the main world.

He used a ’shortcut,’ anchoring Newland City-State with Occult methods, and then directly bypassing the spacetime coordinates, making Newland City-State and the Underground Palace ’exchange’ places.

He Ao carefully observed Feiya’s movements and continued speaking, "I think such an ’exchange’ is not entirely unconditional; it also needs to meet some ’ritual conditions’ of Occultism."

"For example, both sides of the exchange need to possess some similar traits, and ’chaos’ is such a trait. The Underground Palace is inherently chaotic, so all you needed to do was to make Newland City-State ’chaotic."

"Therefore, you found a way to expose Wester to the ’Chaos Gospel,’ so he would establish the Church of Chaos, keep creating chaos, and accelerate the ’exchange’ between the two worlds. This is your ’arrangement’ in the real world,"

This method of indirectly spreading the Chaos Gospel also circumvented the God of Chaos, preventing the God of Chaos from discovering and focusing on the main world, thus influencing the ’exchange’ with more power.

He Ao paused, "Of course, you can’t fully control the Church of Chaos, leading to Wester’s radical actions drawing the attention of the Research Institute, and attracting the outside factor of ’Hao Yi’, so you had to take the opportunity to come to Newland City-State yourself to oversee subsequent matters."

"According to your theory, my being in Newland City-State seems rather pointless?"

Feiya smiled at He Ao, "As a person of Moonlight, I couldn’t possibly instigate chaos on my own, and you’ve been with me the entire time. As you can see, I did nothing."

"Actually, you’ve already accomplished what you wanted to do, right under my nose, haven’t you?"

He Ao calmly looked at her, "Our exit to the outside of the ’settlement,’ running into Kalin, none of that was a coincidence, was it?"

Feiya’s smiling face gradually became serious.

"Opposite to the Church of Chaos set up in the main world, you have also chosen a ’chaotic contingency’ in the Underground Palace,"

He Ao looked at her, slightly moving his body and slowly said, "It’s a special, deceptive parasitic monster that escaped from the fourth level and could reach B-level,

"The reason why Kalin and the others hidden in the settlement have survived for so long is not because they were lucky enough, but because they were chosen as ’livestock’ by that parasitic monster from the beginning, and were being bred by it.

"The reason there are no strong creatures or vine proliferation near the settlement is that there has always been a more powerful ’monster’ hidden there,

"And the reason Kalin was able to go down to the second-floor staircase without being attacked by the giant snake hiding in the vines is simply because that parasitic monster has always been on him."

He Ao, watching Feiya’s increasingly grave expression, paused in his tone, gripped the sword hilt a little tighter, and continued to shift his body,

"Of course, according to the rules of exchange, when the previous two worlds were not yet so ’close,’ and not many ’lives’ had passed through the gate, a powerful Transcendent being wanting to reach the other world might need the ’exchange’ of another Transcendent life of a similar caliber. So you were also going to pass through the ’gate’ at the same time,

"That is why you ostentatiously requested everyone to help you find the ’gate,’ to ensure you could pass through it smoothly.

"However, an unexpected condition appeared in the whole plan, which includes the intervention of the Research Institute and the force of ’Hao Yi.’ To prevent Hao Yi from delaying your plans, you carefully sent Hao Yi away and only after confirming Hao Yi was not in the Newland City-State, did you fully activate the massive ’exchange.’

"And to avoid complications from delay, you no longer had time to wait for me, a ’C-level,’ to leave on my own, and since my staying in Newland City-State would definitely affect your plan, you simply took me with you into the ’Underground Palace.’

He Ao lifted his twin swords slightly, carefully moving his steps, and closely observed Feiya’s expression, "And you also prepared a ’big gift’ for me, those ’Ram Demons’ stationed in front of the settlement, strictly speaking, should not have appeared near the settlement so quickly, right?"

The presence of five C-level peak power creatures is a disaster for any regular C-level.

"Not a bad analysis, but I’m still a little curious,"

Feiya raised the black ’rope’ in her hand, which quickly straightened into a ’long stick.’ She looked at He Ao, who had now turned his back to the open area and adjusted his posture, "How did you know that I am the Deputy Leader of Daybreak?"

None of He Ao’s reasoning involved Daybreak, and she found it hard to imagine how He Ao could have learned of her true identity.

In this world, only the Leader of Daybreak had ever seen her true face.

"I guessed."

He Ao shrugged his shoulders.

From what could be known from the main world, the Deputy Leader of Daybreak was obviously deeply involved in this matter, and from Robert’s memory, a mission had been recently assigned to Daybreak’s people.

Such a strong B-level, there was no reason for her not to show up when so much was happening in the main world.

Unless she wasn’t in the main world.

And at that time, with no ancient passageways and no other powerful strange events, only two people had left the main world: He Ao and Feiya.

After eliminating all other answers, the last one, no matter how improbable, is likely the truth.

Considering Feiya’s abilities, if she could ’absorb’ others’ powers into her own, she might have a way to temporarily ’remove’ her own power, disguising herself as a C-level to pass through that ’gate.’

If He Ao had not guessed that Feiya was B-level, that sneak attack just now, only defending with C-level power, would have killed him.

"You are very smart,"

Feiya held the long stick in front of her, letting out a light sigh, "Even smarter than I imagined. With just the little clues you found, you could construct the entire framework of the event and even uncover the truth behind the veil.

"In this regard, I’m far inferior to you. If you were in my position, planning things out, I’m afraid everything would have been completed by now.

"Wester did a terrible thing by luring you to Newland City-State.

"Luckily, I didn’t leave you in the real world; otherwise, there might have been serious trouble there by now,

"And now that you’re here, even if you’ve figured out everything, you can’t possibly inform them anymore—the eternal Advent is unstoppable."

She lifted her head to gaze at He Ao, her eyes flickering with intense and twisted fanaticism,

"Before the splendid grand force, before the vast and boundless presence of the Great Being, any scheme, wisdom, or power is but a speck of dust, insignificant.

"You will never be able to resist the Advent of the Great Being!"

"So,"

He Ao raised the sword in his hand, his wrist gently touching the pocket of his jacket, where a grass-woven amulet stained with a bit of fresh blood was placed. He shifted his stance, watching Feiya’s movements,

"After that Great Being arrives, what will become of Newland City-State and the entire main world? Will it end up like this ’Underground Palace’, filled with blood and madness?"

Feiya’s power was actually a bit beyond his estimation. He had fought his way here, injured and exhausted, while Feiya was still in her prime.

Just after he had separated from Feiya, his position was not good, backed against a series of connected control panels, which would restrict his mobility once the real fight began.

Therefore, while distracting Feiya with his deductions, he was adjusting his position, trying to improve his stance as much as possible.

"Flesh and soul returning to eternity is an honor for them."

Feiya grasped her staff and took a step forward; she flicked her staff slightly, creating an explosive crack of sound.

Clearly, she had discovered He Ao’s intentions and couldn’t allow him to prolong things further.

"An honor, huh,"

He Ao looked at the empty space behind Feiya and suddenly spoke softly, "That ’Angel’ who controls everything, is he ’outside’ the Underground Palace?"

This seemed to be the last layer of the Underground Palace.

Theoretically, this should be where the Angel resided, yet there was no trace of the Angel here.

Perhaps due to some range limitation of his abilities, it seemed that the ’Angel’ was not within the Underground Palace.

But he couldn’t be too far from the Underground Palace, so there should be a ’passageway’ to leave the place somewhere here.

"You won’t see him anymore,"

Feiya lifted her staff and vanished in an instant, "You are so outstanding, like the most brilliant pearl under the night sky. Actually, I didn’t want to kill you personally,"

Boom—

Accompanied by a crisp sound, she looked at He Ao, who had used his black broadsword to block her staff, "Why didn’t you die on the fourth layer?"

"Maybe it was to,"

He Ao employed his Fist Technique, raising the black broadsword in his hand to repel the staff. As Feiya retreated, he stamped his feet to the ground, lifted the heavy bone sword, and rushed out like a phantom.

Force Shatters Mountains!

The sharp sword light, like a Divine Weapon splitting mountains and parting seas, descended from Heaven,

"Come to this layer and kill you."