Chapter 56
“He’s a player!”
“And he speaks Chidragon. Southwestern accent, in fact. I think he’s a new guy who came back after dying.”
The other players present had already figured out who this tattooed man was by listening to his words.
“Damn. I thought he was a Jaipenese.” An Quan the programmer and game designer looked excited at first but soon grew disappointed. “Why would a Chidragon man write Jaipenese words on his skin anyway?”
“Hey, what’s wrong with my tattoo? Can you even read what these words mean? And who the fu*k are you to judge what I do with myself?” the man yelled back at An Quan with an irritated look. The way he spoke suggested that he always had such a character.
The man rolled his eyes, pointed to someone in the group, and laughed.
“Compared to me, you’re the funny one, with that kind of stuff on you! That big dude has like, peony flowers all over his back! And such simple colors. Someone from a cheap workshop sent his student to practice on you, I bet?”
“…”
The new players with Ji Ye, or the first group of new players, saw where the man was pointing with blank looks.
Apart from him, there was only one person in the shrine who also had tattoos, which was “Flowery Monk” Lu Zhishen, the strongest settler living at Twin Dragon Mount.
Ji Ye had a question in his mind after hearing the tattooed man’s speeches.
Someone from Mian City had been reassigned to the settlement of Yang City after death?
Could it be that, once settlements became available, dead players would receive more penalties upon a “game over”? Apart from a downtime ten times longer than before, they’d also be revived in settlements controlled by players from other cities in the same province?
If so, would a player end up at an even farther city in the country next time? And the fourth time, a city in a foreign country? Then leave Earth at the fifth time?
There was currently no need to think that far since the fifth “death timer” would be longer than 30 years. Though the previous four deaths were worrying nonetheless. Just think, if a handsome, white dude with beautiful skin as delicate as a woman’s who came from the west had just endured through the fourth death penalty by waiting three years. Then he entered the Land of Inheritance in great excitement, only to see a bunch of black men around him grinning by showing their white teeth brighter than his skin…
What would that feel like?
Would it be safe since nothing particular would happen between guys? Not exactly. It would be even more dangerous, because those black men could very well be from a cannibalistic tribe.
Those strange ideas crossed Ji Ye’s mind all of a sudden, probably because of the effect of the Earthen Elixir that granted him divine knowledge.
He stopped those distracting thoughts soon because the real welcoming ritual in the shrine had already started. Just like the last time when Lu Zhishen showed up, two golden dragon heads were created out of the power of fortune; they floated above the tall Shrine of Faith building, which was a rebuilding project of a monk’s temple.
Whoosh!
The heads spat out two yellow beams of fortune power at the wolf skin and the Heart of Enlightenment. The beams looked thinner compared to the previous time.
Injected with power, the black Heart of Enlightenment grew brighter quickly, as if on fire.
Crack!
The offering item, which was the wolf skin, shattered in the process, while also unleashing a gray beam of light which sank inside the Heart of Enlightenment.
The new players held their breaths as they curiously stared at the sight.
The Ordinary Rank-7 Heart of Enlightenment changed shape, until it resembled a tall, slim human with muscular arms and a pair of sharp-looking eyes.
[Pei San]
[Level: Ordinary Rank-7]
[Rarity: Elite]
[A sub chief of Twin Dragon Mount. Captain of Liang Shan Marsh infantry. Knows 72 different varieties of “Cloaking Bladework” as well as basic tactical formations.]