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Chapter 340 - 240 The Imperial Capital Wasteland_1

Chapter 340: Chapter 240 The Imperial Capital Wasteland_1

Having settled matters with the goblin, Mu You took the list it had written down, left it sufficient food and water, and then prepared to leave.

However, the goblin hurriedly stopped Mu You before he could go. It pointed at the half of a small mountain taken out of the space, eager to know whether it could chop down trees and mine stone.

Mu You looked at the hilly area in the distance and roughly understood the goblin’s request. He nodded, indicating that the goblin could use the space within the pack as a base and tinker with it. But all this under one condition: the goblin was not to consider fleeing.

The goblin naturally kept agreeing. It simply wanted to mine some stones to build a house. It didn’t dare to entertain any more grand ideas.

After handling the goblin’s affairs, Mu You returned to the core lock space. By now, Little Ya’s Evolution Light had already run its course.

Looking around, Mu You didn’t see any new animal mutations for the day. However, he did notice something even more surprising: the Battle Eagle had evolved!

The Shadow War Eagle, which had been stuck at level ten for a while now, had finally broken through this ceiling after almost a month of persistently being exposed to the Evolution Light. Going straight from level ten to thirteen, the Shadow War Eagle has not only gained a slight increase in attack power and HP. It also gained a new ability.

[Chain Lightning: Shadow War Eagle’s thunderbolt attack will leap among nearby enemies, losing 20% of its initial power with each leap. It will not strike the same target twice, with a maximum of four leaps.]

The Thunderbolt attack turned from a single-target damage dealer into an area-of-effect strike, hitting up to five targets in one go. Its damage potential decreased with each leap, but when totalling the damage potential, it was equivalent to tripling the power of one lightning strike. Quite an upgrade indeed.

At the same time, the breakthrough meant the War Eagle could level up to fifteen without any obstacles.

Mu You glanced at his watch. It was only seven in the evening, still a long way from midnight. He could wait until late night to summon the War Eagle and check on it again.

After they finished their tasks, Little Ya and Lin Xue excused themselves to go home. Mu You watched them leave, then he went out and took care of his dinner, then returned home, closed the shop, and created a few cards to pass the time.

The ’Snowball Curse’ and ’As Good As New’ cards he had recently received at the meeting a couple of days earlier were copied into standby cards.

Having completed those tasks, it was already half-past eleven at night.

The elves’ horn’s cool-down period finished by then, so Mu You switched on his phone, reconnected to the game, and decided to check out new tasks.

[You have blown the Elves’ Horn]

[Dark Elf Queen Fred the Exile appears before you and issues you a task.]

[Dark Temple Clean-up: The Dark Temple, located on the outskirts of Dark City, was once a place where the dark elves worshiped their deities. However, recently a group of goblins broke through the hidden passage at the other end of the temple. The dirtied goblins have taken over the temple and transformed it into a mine.

Because the goblins have installed numerous sunlight alchemy devices to repel the dark elves, Fred’s people cannot approach the place. Hence, she hopes you will enter the temple and clean out the goblins, as well as destroy their alchemy devices.

The Dark Elf Queen confided to you that the Fool’s Ancestors once entrusted her with a fragment of a relic map and instructed her to hand it over to a competent Fool’s Offspring. If you manage to accomplish this task, she will hand over this map fragment to you.]

[Reward: Ninth fragment of the City of the Eternal Night Map]

"A relic fragment?"

Looking at the four texts that popped up on-screen within a second, Mu You was a bit surprised as he skimmed through the content then travelled back in time.

Dark Queen appeared for the first time when he blew the horn today. His task was clearing out the temple and confronting the goblins. The difficulty was unknown. Originally, Mu You was not overly interested in the task because it was too far away. He would have to journey to a place like Dark City. However, the final reward made him reconsider this mission.

A piece of map: The ninth piece of the map to the City of Eternal Night...

Mu You stroked his chin. What truly surprised him was that the Dark Queen also had a piece of the map. Furthermore, judging from the text, not only did she not find it herself, but the Fool’s Ancestors personally entrusted it her...

If you think about it that way, the Elf Clan and the Fool’s Ancestors were indeed involved in some secret dealings.

The Elves’ Horn he possessed was a testament. The Elves’ Horn, as a Hidden Relic, was essentially a communicator between the Fools and the Elf Clan.

The Fool’s Ancestors entrusted the map fragment to the Dark Queen, probably hoping that the owner of the horn would inherit this piece. Of course, if the horn’s owner didn’t complete tasks well and was deemed unworthy by the Elf Queen, she would target someone else...

However, this meant he didn’t have to rush to complete this task.

This task, although posted, if he didn’t accept it, it wouldn’t be removed quickly. Therefore, he didn’t have to worry about the map fragment being discovered by others.

Taking a deep breath, Mu You activated the horn once more, preparing to look at other tasks first.

He refreshed it seven to eight times consecutively, successfully taking out tasks assigned by the Forest Priest and the Sunlight Elf.

As expected, both their tasks were the same as before. One was to explore the Dreamland, and the other was to collect Abyss Dragons. Both the contents and rewards remained the same.

However, after a few tries, he didn’t see any tasks from the Fairy Lady.

At first, Mu You thought he hadn’t refreshed enough times to get a random selection, so he continued time reversing.

However, despite going back in time forty odd times subsequently, tasks were always rotating among the other three elves. The Fairy Lady didn’t appear at all from beginning to end.