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Chapter 347 - 242: Searching for the Lost Sky City_2

Chapter 347: Chapter 242: Searching for the Lost Sky City_2

[Task Instruction: The map depicting the location of the Sky City has been split into nine pieces, and there are twelve cities, making a total of 108 map fragments altogether. Thirty-six fragments are hidden among the rewards for delivering the ’last hit’ to destroy the Arcane Tower, while the rest are scattered around the Star Spirit World. Once all fragments are compiled into a complete map, the location of the Sky City can be found.]

[Map Fragment Rules:

One, gathering three fragments of the same map will reveal the map content.

Two, when all nine fragments of a specific map fall into the hands of the Fool, arrows will appear on the back of the fragments, pointing towards the direction of the closest piece of the same map (within the same plane).

Three, map fragments cannot be bound. When the carriers of map fragments attack each other, rank suppression does not apply.

Four, when all nine fragments are gathered in one place (within 100 kilometers of each other), and the ’Rule Five’ conditions are met, the entrance to the Sky City will open.

Five, the Sky Cities will open in the following order: Dawn, Daybreak, Twilight, Sunrise, Dawning Sun, Blazing Sun, Sunset, Dusk, Nightfall, Starlight, Darkness, and Eternal Night. The entrance to the next city can only be opened once the previous city has a City Lord.

Six, the unowned Sky Cities can only be entered by the Fool and their demon.]

[Task Reward: The first Fool to touch the Legacy Crystal at the center of the Sky City will automatically become the city’s inaugural City Lord with a one-year tenure. The City Lord has the right to appoint the positions of Deputy City Lords and others within the city. Including the City Lord, each person can only hold one position at a time.]

"Backup mission..."

Mu You’s tooth brushing slowed down.

His guess was correct, the matter regarding the map fragments couldn’t be hidden for long.

The game officials themselves disclosed this information. Moreover, it came in the form of a server-wide mission...

This task was laden with information. After quickly finishing his morning routine, Mu You went back to read through the task multiple times and came up with some conclusions.

The first was the reward for this new task. It was a word that no player could resist: City Lord!

The first person to find the Sky City would become its first City Lord!

The text did not detail the rights of the City Lord, but it was easy to guess that given there were only twelve of such positions among billions of players, the rights and privileges that came with the position would certainly be tremendous!

The City Lord has the authority to appoint Deputy City Lords and other positions. While these positions certainly bring benefits, each person is restricted to holding only one position. This means that once a person becomes a City Lord, they can forget about being a City Lord in any other city, eliminating the possibility of one person being the City Lord of multiple cities.

After the reward, the next important part was the six fragment rules.

Rule one, the map content is revealed when three fragments are gathered. Mu You already knew this.

Rules two and three seemed to encourage the owners of the fragments to compete against one another.

According to the second rule, once all fragments of a map appear, each fragment can guide you to the other fragments’ location. This blatantly encourages fragment owners to hunt and seize others’ fragments.

However, there’s a condition in this rule -- the guiding arrow only works within the same plane...

That means fragments on Earth will only point to other fragments on Earth and likewise for fragments in the Star Spirit World.

In the Star Spirit World, with limited transportation and demons everywhere, it would be difficult to find other fragment holders, even with directional guidance. However, on Earth, due to well-developed transportation and the information abundance, holding a fragment would enable one to locate other fragment holders in a short time.

Therefore, with this rule in place, Mu You could not keep his two fragments with him. He would need to store them in the game as much as possible, otherwise, he could be found at any time.

The third rule was even more brutal: the fragments can’t be bound, and when fragment holders attack one another, there’s no rank suppression!

The inability to bind the fragments means they can be obtained through killing. The lack of rank suppression drastically reduces the combat power disparity between low-level and high-level players, giving low-rank players a chance to kill high-rank players and seize their fragments.

If rule two was hinting at players to fight over fragments, rule three straight out encouraged them to "start fighting already".

Then there were rules four, five, and six.

There’s not much to say about rule six -- only Fools can enter unactivated Sky Cities. This is to ensure that the first City Lord will definitely be a Fool, to prevent the position from falling into the wrong hands.

Rules four and five dictated the rules for opening the Sky Cities.

Entering a Sky City isn’t as simple as gathering three map fragments. You’ll need to assemble all nine fragment owners in the same location to open the gate.

Moreover, there’s a sequence to be followed for city activation. Only after the previous city’s activation is completed and has a City Lord, can the next city be opened.

The city listed first was the City of Dawn, for which he already has two fragments!

That means only after the competition for the City Lord of the City of Dawn concludes, can the fight for the next City of Daybreak begin. And then in sequence are Twilight, Sunrise ... all twelve cities would follow in succession until every city has a City Lord when the task can then be considered complete.