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Chapter 348 - 242: Searching for the Lost Sky City_3

Chapter 348: Chapter 242: Searching for the Lost Sky City_3

"It seems to have suddenly become urgent..."

Mu You took a breath, he originally planned to leisurely search for information and fragments about the City of Dawn, but as soon as the task was released, the City of Dawn was at the forefront.

Pieces of other cities can still be searched slowly, but not the City of Dawn.

Mu You took out two fragments of the map and glanced at them.

At this moment, the two pieces are still wrapped in black fog, without any arrows indicating, which means that the nine pieces of the City of Dawn have not all been found yet.

But this is only temporary, as the City of Dawn, the first of all Sky Cities, is about to be contested. Even if he wants to slow down, others will definitely collect the pieces of the City of Dawn as quickly as possible. The nine pieces could be found at any moment, and the scramble for them could begin at any time.

Mu You stored the pieces back in the game, then exited the game and checked the forum.

As expected, the forum was in an uproar over the recent announcement.

"High price for all map fragments, PM if interested, you will be satisfied with the reward!"

"Alas, the tower was hard to break, I just wanted to enjoy the game for a few days, and now there is already a rush for the City Lord!"

"Damn, the final blow to break the tower actually rewarded something so important. If only I knew earlier, I would have struggled to get one!"

"Save it, what does it have to do with ordinary players to seize the City Lord? That’s a stage for the bigwigs to compete. If ordinary people get involved, they won’t even know how they died..."

"I don’t have any fragments, I just want to ask if the big guys with fragments need any legs? I’ll support with all I got. All I ask for is a Deputy City Lord position in return..."

"I have a fragment of Dusk City, acquired during an exploration of a Secret Realm a while ago. PM me if you want it, please be sincere."

After a quick browsing, Mu You quickly found a post selling fragments and hurriedly clicked in for a look.

"Really? Does the poster really have fragments? It’s not a fishing post, is it?"

"Can you post a picture, I just want to see what a map fragment looks like?"

"I sincerely ask, in which Secret Realm did the poster find the fragment?"

...

The post was indeed quite popular with the number of replies soaring to hundreds in no time.

Mu You scrolled down to the hundredth floor, where the original poster appeared and posted a blurry picture akin to ancient mosaics, which made people extremely suspicious of its authenticity.

But while others couldn’t recognize from the picture, Mu You did, it was indeed a map fragment. Just that the black fog on the surface made the photo unclear, so it wasn’t a scam post after all.

A few dozens of floors down, the original poster reappeared and revealed the source of his fragment: it was found in a Secret Realm near Dusk City!

This reply had everyone in an uproar.

This Dusk City is not the City of Dusk. The City of Dusk is the Fool’s hometown and is already lost.

But Dusk City is a coastal city on the border of Lan Ai’er Empire, the second gateway into the empire by water. Mu You had passed there during his voyage with the Ghost Ship.

"You found the City of Dusk’s fragment in Dusk City? That’s coincidental!"

"Damn, they’re both named Dusk, could there be a connection between these two cities?"

"Could it be that the City of Dusk is hidden somewhere near Dusk City? Hence the distribution of map fragments nearby?"

"That’s very likely!"

"Wait a minute, if that’s the case, there are many cities with similar names, like Sun City and City of Scorching Sun, Sunset City and Dusk City..."

"And there’s the underground Dark City, which could possibly correspond to the City of Eternal Night or the City of Nightfall..."

"So, does that mean we could possibly find fragments of the ancient cities around these cities?"

"Maybe..."

...

The post immediately sparked a debate on this issue.

"Do the existing cities in Sky City and Star Spirit World have corresponding features..."

Mu You stroked his chin. Well, it seemed very likely!

Though he wasn’t sure about other things, he was certain about Dark City, the territory of the Dark Elves. Their leader, the Dark Queen, just happened to have a fragment of the City of Eternal Night...

Looking at it this way, exploring in the vicinity of a city with a similar name indeed provided a possibility of finding the corresponding map fragment!

However, what was the counterpart of Dawn City?

Mu You recalled that among the cities in the Star Spirit World he currently knew, there seemed to be none that could be linked with the name ’Dawn’...

"It seems the question I asked last night was quite on point..."

Mu You sighed. Last night, he had asked Jing Moniang for information about Sky City. The next step was to enter the library she mentioned, and then he would have a chance to obtain information about Dawn City.

Once he found the location of Dawn City, he could explore the nearby map fragments. As long as he found another fragment, he would be able to activate the map...

There was no rush for that.

Returning to his senses, Mu You returned to the forum and flipped to the international section to take a look.

In domestic forums, as the tower had been fully conquered, everyone was able to discuss the major event of Sky City at leisure. However, in the international forums, the hot topic was still the pushing of the tower.

No wonder this new task was called ’Support Task’. The moment this task was announced, the progress of pushing the tower, which had been rather stagnant in various countries, began to accelerate rapidly!

Attracted by the reward of ’Map Fragments’, many high-ranking players who had completed their tasks were willing to help push the tower in other countries. While aiming for the reward, they were also trying to compete for the map fragments.

Under the stimulation of the task, players from all countries seem to have achieved a great global coalition for the first time.

In this global cooperation, the progress of pushing the tower everywhere advanced vigorously. Within three short hours from when the task was announced, four more towers had been toppled and the durability of the remaining seven towers had dropped below 50%.

According to this progress, all the towers except for the Arcane Towers in Australia, North America, Indonesia, and a few others that were under special care of the Wizard Association, were likely to be toppled within the day.

Now, those countries where Legendary Masters had emerged were frantically tagging the ’Ghost Captain’ and ’Red Sickle Girl’, requesting the two Legendary Masters to lend a hand.

Especially the North American players, a spokesperson of one of the major powers had posted more than a dozen posts, openly shouting out to the ’Ghost Captain’, hoping he could help push down their tower. The gate was already prepared and they even explicitly promised to leave the final blow to him as long as the tower was toppled.

Mu You turned to the backstage to take a look and indeed, his inbox was filled with 999+ private messages, all inviting him to join the effort to push the tower, from IDs all around the world.

After blocking non-friends, only a private message from Jiu You remained in the mailbox.

The message from Jiu You was pretty much the same, politely asking about his intention to take action. More than twenty foreign forces had issued an emergency request for help to the Celestial Dynasty, hoping to arrange for the two Legendary Masters to take action, with a reward to be discussed freely.

Mu You looked at Jiu You’s private message and shook his head helplessly.

He wanted to take action, and go to another Arcane Tower to get the final blow for a fragment. With the assistance of the Time Pocket Watch, there was a great chance to gather all the fragments of Dawn City directly.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t show up at all.

One reason was that he would have to go through someone else’s gate to help in another country, which would mean revealing his identity in front of everyone, something Mu You absolutely wouldn’t agree to.

What’s more, without the support of other Sorcerers, even if Vivian’s body was resurrected again, it wouldn’t be able to reach a high level, let alone beat the Legendary Elder of the Wizard Association. It would only reveal their hand and gain nothing in return.

Mu You directly sent a message back to Jiu You, tactfully declining all the invitations.

After closing the forum, Mu You looked at the time, it was half-past seven in the morning, he still had a date in the game at eight o’clock...

Switching back to the game, Mu You had breakfast at the old lady’s house.

After having a bowl of five-coloured rice porridge, his energy was fully restored. After saying goodbye to the old lady, Mu You had his character return to the Imperial Capital.

[... You swam from the bottom of the reservoir to the shore without hurrying to reveal yourself, hiding in the distance. Through the cover of the dam, you quietly stuck your head out and looked around.]

[You see a long-haired girl in Magic Academy Uniform pacing anxiously by the pebble beach of the reservoir dam.]