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Chapter 807: Chapter 808 Leaving_1

Song Jian looked at the mission prompt and was somewhat speechless. His epic mission had failed, yet he still gained ten thousand achievement points, giving him a feeling of not knowing where to even begin his complaints.

But on second thought, it wasn’t strange. The epic mission was actually about resurrecting the Demon Lord and eliminating the threats to their existence, namely the Sword Immortal Severed Blade.

Moreover, during the mission, the eight Demon Lords of Abyssal Hell all had their hopes of revival entirely destroyed by him, and he also successfully delayed Abyssal Hell’s invasion of the human world. Naturally, for the human world, this was an enormous merit, and receiving ten thousand achievement points became understandable.

However, when compared to the final rewards of this mission, these ten thousand achievement points seemed more like a consolation prize, given that becoming the second-in-command in the entire Abyssal Hell, with authority over thousands, was worth much more than these ten thousand points.

As for altering the game’s progression and delaying the release of the expansion, causing Abyssal Hell’s unity to fail and the Demon Lords to lose their chance at resurrection, it naturally meant the invasion of the human world was indefinitely postponed.

This was yet another event that had changed the course of the game’s history. In fact, there were many such epic missions in the game, and the history within the game was shaped by the players completing these missions, based on their different choices. In essence, the players who completed epic missions could be said to have created the game’s history.

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The fall of the Demon Lords and the postponed invasion of the human world by Abyssal Hell were positives for human players and also very good news for Abyssal players.

After all, the endgame of the Abyssal Shadow expansion was destined to be the opening of the Abyssal Passage, allowing Abyssal players to move freely in and out of the human world. The delay wasn’t the end of the event.

To continue the expansion, there would definitely be related missions, and their ranking would certainly not be low. This was equivalent to Song Jian giving away an epic mission to them for free. As to who would receive it, it was a matter of luck.

Prior to this, the push for the “Abyssal Shadow” expansion was supposed to come from in-game NPCs, the eight Great Demon Lords. But now, it seemed that this driving task would fall into the hands of the Abyssal players.

“Where did that Sword Immortal Severed Blade go?” Song Jian stood up and looked around.

The final battlefield was like a miniature plane on the verge of collapse. In reality, it was already slowly disintegrating, leaving no intact ground in sight. All around, space was fractured with cracks, suggesting that in no time at all, this miniature plane would completely disappear.

Seeing the space around him rife with rifts, Song Jian felt a sense of despondency. For all he knew, the Sword Immortal Severed Blade might have already flown through one of these rifts to who knows where.

The Book of the Abyss was also missing. Song Jian had lost the ability to freely enter Abyssal Hell. Thinking about the combat experience he had expended above, he couldn’t help but feel a twinge of regret.

Unable to open the Abyssal Gate, Song Jian had no way to leave this place. Just then, he noticed a faint blue portal shimmering with a soft glow on a floating piece of ground not far away.

Checking his skills, Song Jian noticed that his Iron Wings skill was still cooling down, with over ten minutes left to go. It seemed his period of unconsciousness hadn’t been long.

The space around was collapsing slowly, but it would take several days for this small semi-dimensional plane to fully disintegrate.

Once the cooldown of Iron Wings ended, Song Jian immediately activated it and flew toward the faint blue portal.

After all, this was just a mission space, and it wasn’t designed to trap players who entered for a mission without a means of escape.

Approaching the pale blue teleportation gate, Song Jian was about to enter when he suddenly saw, lying next to the gate on the ground, a pale golden orb, and a blade that had lost its luster and looked like nothing more than a firewood-chopping knife.

“Sword Immortal Severed Blade?” Song Jian’s eyes lit up. This weapon, looking like trash, was identical to the Sword Immortal Severed Blade that had once been wielded so mightily to slay the Eighth Demon King.

But the blade now lacked the purple-gold radiance, appearing no different from a common grey weapon;

Without hesitation, Song Jian picked up the blade and checked its attributes. Indeed, even the name of the weapon had changed to “Broken Longsword (Grey),” and its properties were utterly worthless, nothing but a piece of junk; @@novelbin@@

Yet Song Jian still carefully stowed it away in his inventory. After all, it had once been the weapon of a Sword Immortal, and its current state of disrepair couldn’t erase its storied past;

Then, Song Jian picked up the pale golden orb;

“Angel Egg? Can it hatch a battle comrade angel?” A peculiar expression crossed Song Jian’s face. This semi-dimensional plane was quite small in actual size, and after the Eighth Demon King’s self-destruction, a small part had been destroyed, leaving this semi-dimensional plane on the brink of collapse, which could be seen at a glance.

Song Jian found no trace of the angel Kekaul, nor any remains left behind, but now, an angel egg for a battle comrade had appeared, which inevitably led him to consider its connection to Kekaul;

“Perhaps after hatching, it will become the four-winged angel Kekaul again,” Song Jian thought to himself. “The question is whether it will retain Kekaul’s memories after hatching.”

As a temporary battle comrade, Song Jian had great respect for Kekaul. Whether it was covering the retreat in Demon Slayer Canyon or standing guard at the entrance to the Demon Guardian Temple, or even courageously fighting in this semi-dimensional plane without fear of sacrifice and without the slightest hint of retreat;

Even after being tortured for over a hundred years by the Abyssal Chains in the Demon God Temple, he had never succumbed, his mind resolute and unflinchingly brave. Song Jian especially hoped that Kekaul could become his everlasting Follower;

With this thought, Song Jian stored the angel egg and stepped through the pale blue teleportation gate;

After Song Jian passed through the gate, the entire semi-dimensional plane returned to a state of dead silence. In a region where the land slowly drifted, half a sheet of black paper unrolled gently, and a gleaming jade-like finger bone rolled out from within;

This finger bone was full of cracks, as if it would turn into bone powder upon the slightest touch.

Boom~

A burst of black flame suddenly ignited on the surface of the finger bone. This flame appeared fragile, as if it could be extinguished by a mere breath.

Under the searing of this black flame, the tiny cracks on the finger bone began to mend slowly, one by one;

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PS: Thanks to “Piercing Piggies” for the 500 starting coins reward~