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Chapter 736 - 378: The Lightless Night_2

Chapter 736: Chapter 378: The Lightless Night_2

As the ruler of Dark City, Fred was unable to tamper with the city’s principle of ’open freedom’ and expel one of the parties involved. Thus, he could only delegate the Fool to act covertly.]

[Mission: Prevent the dispute between the two parties from escalating on the upcoming Night of No Light! The next Night of No Light is in six days. You can choose to help either the vampires or the werewolves. Your task is to ensure that within a week, one party disappears from Dark City thereby permanently resolving this lurking issue.]

[Reward: Dependent on the task completion.]

The horn sounded, heralding the start of my first new task.

The mission on the side of the Dark Elves was to help settle the long-standing feud between the werewolves and the vampires.

According to the task description, the Dark Queen seemed to have tolerated these two races for a while and wanted to expel one of them. However, as the ruler of a neutral city, she couldn’t express her preferential treatment towards any race and hence assigned this task to him.

As for the method of completion, it seemed extremely troublesome at first glance, but upon careful consideration, it was not that difficult. The vampires and the werewolves were in a state of stalemate which allowed them to coexist in Dark City for such a long time. If one party was too strong, the other would have been defeated and driven away.

To complete the task, all that was required was to disrupt this balance of power. Once this balance staggered, the dominant party would naturally drive out the weaker one.

This task was rather interesting, but what intrigued Mu You more than the task itself was a term in the task brief: the Night of No Light!

"The Fool’s city will awaken at dawn and fall at the Night of No Light."

This was a prediction provided by Virgo.

The first part of the prophecy has already come true. Dawn City was established at dawn and the other ’Sky Cities’ also emerged at their respective times.

However, the term ’Night of No Light’, which was the latter part of the prediction, bewildered Mu You. Based on the same principle, he could only guess that the City of Eternal Night would be established between 2am to 4am.

This could be justified as well but seemed a bit far-fetched since ’Dawn’ points to a definitive period but ’Night of No Light’ seemed to point towards an entire night.

It was not until now, after seeing these four words in the game text, that Mu You realized: the so-called ’Night of No Light’ referred to the night of the full moon in the underground world!

It was well known that Dark City was a city that never slept. Fluorescent stones and sunflowers on the ceiling provided everlasting light to this underground city. However, whenever there was a full moon in the outside world, the sources of light in the underground world would collectively fail, plunging Dark City into complete darkness.

In other words, the establishment of the City of Eternal Night was not restricted to a specific period but to a day that coincided with the full moon each month!

Having confirmed the content of this task, Mu You did not rush to choose it but instead clicked on his pocket watch to check on other tasks.

The list was the same as usual. The Dove Fairy task remained the same, so did the tasks for the Forest Elves and the Sunlight Elves.

After comparison, it was undoubtedly the task of Dark City that seemed more suitable. Especially since the Night of No Light was soon approaching, if he missed this opportunity, he would have to wait for another month for the City of Eternal Night to be established.

Conveniently, his competitor, the ’Tyrant’, happened to be the leader of the Wolf Tribe, which was directly related to this task. In this manner, he could tackle the Scarlet Dawn Organization, gather pieces of the map whilst also completing this task by staying in Dark City for a few days.

[You have accepted the mission ’The Grudge of the Night of No Light’. Please hurry to Dark City and try to prevent the impending conflict between the werewolves and the vampires.]

After accepting the task, Mu You did not rush to Dark City but instead controlled his character to leap from Dawn City and return to the Cook Islands.

He remembered that he had an uncompleted task of ’Finding Louise’ here. He had come to know of Louise’s fate; she had turned into a Shadow Ghost during the final experiment and had probably been eliminated in one of the earlier battles against the undead.

Now, he needed to at least deliver the eight pages of Louise’s diary to her grandmother as they were the mementos the little girl had left behind.

Although there were no rewards for this task, since he had accepted it, he had to see it through.

[You have arrived at Zhenyu Village.]

[In the west of Zhenyu Village, near where Granny Tang originally resided, you have found Louise’s grandmother.]

[Seeing your arrival, the old woman shudders as though she has guessed something. After several seconds of absence, she nervously walks towards you.]

[Upon reaching you, the old woman asks you about Louise’s whereabouts. Your choices are...]

The options were ’Tell the truth’ and ’Weave a beautiful lie.’

As the Undead Association had already been destroyed, there was no need to continue concealing the truth. Mu You chose ’Tell the truth’ without any hesitation.

[You truthfully shared what you had seen and experienced at the Undead Association and handed over the eight remaining pages of Louise’s diary to the old woman.]

[The old woman held the pages of the diary in her trembling hands, her old eyes filling with tears as she recognized the familiar handwriting. Her already frail figure seemed to age by another ten years.]

[Having read the diary, the old woman understood the experiences and fate of her granddaughter over the years. Even though the loss was immense and beyond words, at least she finally had closure and no longer had to worry daily...]