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Chapter 1425 - 621: The Bloodstained City of the End_2

Chapter 1425: Chapter 621: The Bloodstained City of the End_2

But upon closer thought, it seemed impossible. Fools had already been killed by Titans before, and these Titans should know that Fools cannot be killed. Allowing him to enter like this would not only fail to detain him but would also expose their own intelligence.

"Could it be because of the Barrier of Order just now?" Mu You wondered to himself.

He entered the Barrier of Order before encountering the Titans, and the only reasonable explanation now was that this Barrier of Order contained some unknown rule that prevented him from being discovered by the Divine Beast.

No matter what, since he had already infiltrated, he must seize the opportunity to gather as much intelligence as possible.

[You enter the city and find densely packed buildings with numerous civilian-looking Titans moving about the city. The streets within the city are crisscrossed, and you are momentarily unable to discern the directions...]

As expected, it’s not just military forces! There are civilians in the city, and not just a small number of them. Arriving for the first time, Mu You has no understanding of the city’s layout and can only follow the Titan Scout ahead, seemingly heading first to something called an ’intelligence office’ to check in.

[Without raising any suspicion, you follow the Titan Scout through the city, winding through the streets, and soon enter a hidden alley, eventually slipping into a seemingly ordinary building deep inside.]

[Upon entering the building, there are already several similarly-dressed Titan Scouts sitting silently on two rows of seats on either side of the hall. Seeing you two enter, they merely glance your way without saying a word and continue to sit in their respective spots.]

[The Titan Scout you’re following takes a seat on an empty spot on the left side, and you choose...]

[You continue to closely follow and take a seat in the empty spot next to him.]

[The hall then quiets down, and the twenty-odd people sit in silence as though they were statues.]

[...In the following hour, several more Scouts enter the room and take their seats at other spots...]

[Two hours after you enter the building, a Titan wearing a white coat pushes the door open and enters from the back.]

[This Titan is dressed in white, wearing a pair of White Gloves, both the white coat and gloves are stained with blood, seemingly having just dealt with some kind of creature’s corpse.]

[As the Titan in white enters the room, the other Titans instantly stand up, and you rise along with the others.]

[The Titan in white scans the people in the hall, counts the number of people, and his expression soon turns grim: "Twenty-seven... a total of thirty-seven Scouts were dispatched, and yet eleven are still unaccounted for..."]

Mu You frowns at what he sees.

Eleven Scouts didn’t return, and he had just happened to have killed precisely eleven Titans, but he was impersonating one of the Titans.

Does that mean there is another Titan that hasn’t returned?

Did they perish outside, or was it just some accident that delayed them?

If he was to believe that other players took down a Titan, Mu You wouldn’t buy it; if an ordinary player had managed to take down a Titan, they would have bragged about it by now.

["To realize our presence so quickly and to silently counter-kill eleven of us... It seems we’ve underestimated these descendants of the Fool. The previous scouting orders were somewhat rash..." the Titan in white sighs.]

Mu You smirks at the sight, finding something fishy. How could all the kills be directly attributed to the Fool?

["Has anyone discovered the Fool’s stronghold?" the Titan in white looks over the Scouts present one by one.]

[Everyone looks at each other, shaking their heads.]

[The Titan in white seems to have anticipated this: "Hand over the Scout’s Handbook and the map of the Fool’s routes that have been identified."]

[Along with the other Titans, you place a roll of the Scout’s Handbook and a map marked with the Soul-inducing Lamp on the table in front of the Titan in white.]

["The two God Lords are busy with work, unable to issue new orders for now. For the time being, Scout Team will cease all scouting activities and proceed to support the excavation work at the Southern Old Battlefield of the City, until new instructions are relayed," the Titan in white says.]

"Two God Lords?"

Mu You raises an eyebrow. This City of Order indeed has Gods presiding over it, and not just one but two.

At this moment, Mu You recalls when he entered the city, the guard at the city gate mentioned a ’Seam God’.

Seam God, is he one of the two gods in this city?

This is the first time I’ve heard of this deity. Later, I can ask the Lamp God about it.

["Yes." The Scouts respond one after another, filing out of the house.]

[You discreetly follow behind the other Titans, hastening through the city...]

[Soon, you arrive at the southern area of the city, which turns out to be a desolate land, separated from the residential quarters by an isolating Barrier. There are no buildings within the Barrier, only overgrown weeds and bushes, looking like an undeveloped wasteland.]

[You and the other Titans easily pass through the Barrier, and the moment you enter, you suddenly feel an overwhelming presence of resentful spirits rushing towards you, as if roars filled with hatred are echoing by your ears, sending shivers down your spine.]

[Following the Titan Scout Team, you walk along a small path within the wasteland, heading deep inside until you reach an open space.]

[What presents before you resembles an archaeological excavation site: the ground is barren, with numerous pits of varying sizes dug into it,]

[And around each pit, the massive skeletons of Titans can be vaguely seen, nearly covering the entire site. The soil inside the pits has an unusual deep red color, the stench of blood hits the senses.]

[A large number of Titans dressed in white uniforms, wearing White Gloves, are scattered across the various pits, carefully excavating the soil between the bones with tools like small hammers and shovels...]

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Mu You watches in increasing bewilderment. What kind of place is this city? Why are there so many Titan skeletons buried here?

Moreover, descriptions like ’soil dyed red with blood’ and ’howling resentful spirits’ all seem to imply that these Titans did not die of natural causes, but were murdered.

["You’re finally here!" At that moment, one of the Titans in white clothes sees the arrival of the Scout Team and hurriedly approaches, taking off his gloves and pointing towards a camp not far away: "Quick, go change into your clothes, grab your tools and come down to help... Remember, do not touch those bones or the curse of the resentful spirits will taint your entire arm..."]

[You follow the other Titans into a tent at the campsite, picking out a set of white clothes, a white hat, and gloves. After getting dressed, you re-enter the site, dispersing under the direction of the Titans in white clothes to various parts of the area...]

[While passing by one of the pits, a cheer erupts from several Titans working below.]

[You look down and see one of the Titans in the pit carefully excavating from the blood-soaked soil, holding a slightly damaged short staff: "Another find, it’s the Sea God Scepter..."]

"..."

There’s no need for these Titans to report back; the Omniscient Crystal has already relayed the information to Mu You.

The Sea God Scepter, one of the Divine Artifacts of the water deity, was actually buried beneath this land?

"Speaking of which, this really is like treasure hunting in archaeology..." Mu You grimaces as he looks at the description ’another find’.

At this moment, his Game Character cannot go elsewhere, forced to toil as a coolie for these archaeological Titans.

Mu You decides to just let his character go idle.

In reality, he takes an oil lamp on the back of his hand, summons the Lamp God, and shares the in-game experience with the Lamp God.

"The Order Barrier... an ancient battlefield?"

The Lamp God is shocked upon hearing this, looking at him strangely: "You didn’t find the City of Order, did you?"

"The City of Order?" Mu You is taken aback: "You mean..."

"Yes, it’s the city of the God of Order, and also the last sanctuary of the Divine Race before their demise..." The Lamp God sighs wistfully, explaining: "When the Divine Beast appeared, the Divine Race was thrown into chaos. Since no one understood the characteristics of the Divine Beast, it spread rapidly among the Divine Race, infecting most of the Divine Race in a short period. In addition, many of the Divine Race and gods died in the chaos, and their territories were almost completely devoured by the Divine Beast."

"We, the remaining gods and people, had nowhere to go and had no choice but to retreat to the City of Order."

"To defend this last bastion, the God of Order sacrificed the Divine Artifact, the Book of Order, and created an Order Barrier around the City of Order. Within the Barrier, all parasitic actions were forcibly interrupted, which finally carved out a safe zone for us, the surviving remnants."

The Lamp God sighs and looks at Mu You: "It’s normal that the Divine Beast didn’t recognize you. The Order Barrier you felt is actually the ’Book of Order.’ Its rules shield the sense that Divine Beasts have of one another, and under its protection, the Divine Beasts were unable to detect anything unusual about you."