The Game with Fairies

“Phew… let’s try this again.”

Li Muyang closed his eyes and re-entered the game.

He loaded the save file and found himself back outside the eerily quiet, open gates of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau.

The dark night shrouded the street.

On a night when the rest of Sanhe City was bustling and lively, the street outside the Imperial Astronomical Bureau was silent and deserted, with no one in sight and not a single light.

The night sky was covered with clouds, hiding the moonlight.

Even the lanterns hanging on the gates of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau were extinguished, leaving the entire office engulfed in darkness.

Relying on the zombie’s night vision, Li Muyang stepped into the open gates of the office.

The empty courtyard was strangely devoid of people.

Who was the person who killed him last time?

Li Muyang entered the office and called out.

“Is anyone there?”

Everything proceeded just as before.

Even the steps he took were an attempt to replicate the previous save file.

Finally, when Li Muyang reached the area where he had died last time, a flash of cold light streaked by, and Li Muyang’s head flew off.

The same way of dying as before.

But this time he was prepared. The moment the cold light appeared, Li Muyang locked onto the direction it came from.

Under the empty eaves, a silent, dark red health bar appeared.

【Demonic Sorcerer】

The moment he saw the dark red health bar, a failure message popped up in Li Muyang’s field of vision.

【You died. Game Over】

“…Demonic Sorcerer? Someone from the Imperial Astronomical Bureau?”

Li Muyang frowned slightly, sensing something was amiss.

In his last glimpse before death, he clearly saw the person wearing the sorcerer’s robe of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau, yet there was no name, and the health bar ID looked like the kind of generic soldier found in games.

Had some kind of evil god’s disaster occurred in this Imperial Astronomical Bureau office?

Had the Demon-Suppressing Masters fallen victim?

According to Fairy Liuli Chu Qingxue’s story, contamination disasters often occurred on the lands of the Heavenly Origin Dynasty, and creatures would be corrupted by evil spirits, turning into strange and wicked beings.

But the Demon-Suppressing Masters of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau were experts in dealing with such strange disasters.

Could their stronghold have been contaminated?

After pondering for a moment, Li Muyang loaded the save file again and re-entered the game.

He stepped directly into the empty office.

“Is anyone there?”

Following the same process and rhythm as before, Li Muyang perfectly replicated his previous actions.

And the Demonic Sorcerer hidden in the darkness attacked at the same time, the red health bar suddenly appearing in the darkness, followed by the cold light striking at Li Muyang.

But this time, Li Muyang was prepared. The moment the cold light appeared, he evaded it as if he had foreseen it.

At the same time, the zombie’s body leaped fiercely, roaring as it pounced toward the Demonic Sorcerer in the darkness.

In the pitch-black office, where no light penetrated, the zombie’s night vision allowed it to clearly see the warm flesh on the Demonic Sorcerer’s body and even hear the beating of the heart beneath that flesh.

Li Muyang pounced three zhang, tackling the unsuspecting Demonic Sorcerer to the ground.

A skill bar popped up in his field of vision, displaying 【Devour!】, and Li Muyang immediately activated it.

“Roar!”

A frenzied roar echoed through the empty Imperial Astronomical Bureau office as the immensely strong zombie tackled the Demonic Sorcerer, its blood-red eyes tearing into the sorcerer’s throat.

With the sound of blood splattering, the zombie frantically tore at the sorcerer’s body.

Each bite tore away a chunk of dripping flesh.

The ghastly Demon-Suppressing Master initially struggled but soon went limp and motionless.

The mad zombie roared, its sharp nails furiously digging into the sorcerer’s chest, biting off the faintly beating heart and chewing it before swallowing.

【Blood Energy +30%】

It wasn’t until the zombie had swallowed the entire heart that Li Muyang regained control of his body.

Once the 【Devour!】 skill was activated, the zombie entered a berserk mode, easily killing the Demonic Sorcerer.

Now looking down at the corpse on the ground, Li Muyang subconsciously wiped the corner of his mouth and muttered, “So this devour skill is actually awesome…”

This time, the zombie had only one skill: devour.

But this skill could only be activated when close to a living creature.

It was Li Muyang’s first time using it, and he didn’t expect it to be so powerful, instantly killing the Demonic Sorcerer.

Getting up from the sorcerer’s body, Li Muyang walked deeper into the office.

“Is anyone there?”

With the divine power of loading save files to protect him, Li Muyang was fearless, not worried about other Demonic Sorcerers jumping out at him.

However, after touring the entire Imperial Astronomical Bureau office and checking every room, he didn’t see a single Demon-Suppressing Master.

No living ones, no dead ones.

It seemed that only the first Demonic Sorcerer was left in the office; everyone else had gone.

After walking around the office, Li Muyang returned to the corpse of the first Demonic Sorcerer, slightly surprised.

“The office is empty?”

This was really strange. With the current chaos in Sanhe City, where could the Demon-Suppressing Masters from the office have gone if they were not involved in quelling the rebellion?

Li Muyang leaped forcefully, landing directly on the eaves, and from there, he hopped to the highest point of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau office, overlooking the entire place.

“Is anyone there?”

Li Muyang stood at the highest point of the office and shouted arrogantly, “Is Dan Xiaolian here? I need to speak with you!”

Li Muyang was practically courting death, not holding back at all.

However, after his brazen shout, the empty Imperial Astronomical Bureau office remained silent, with no response.

Instead, a piercing whistling sound suddenly came from the dark night sky.

The next second, a dark red health bar abruptly appeared above Li Muyang’s head.

【Demonic Sorcerer】

It’s the same health bar, but this time, the demonic sorcerer that leaped from the night sky had a pair of bat-like wings where its arms should be.

Its face was adorned with three semicircular fang-like mouthparts, and with a ghastly roar, it pounced towards Li Muyang, its eyes a cruel and eerie green.

Li Muyang was startled by the creature’s appearance.

Mainly because this kind of sudden, ghostly ambush was the kind of entrance Li Muyang hated the most.

Annoyed, he leaped up, not bothering to dodge the monster, and instead frantically activated the 【Devour!】 skill.

The moment the creature swooped over Li Muyang’s head, his 【Devour!】 skill was also triggered.

Under the night sky, the terrifying howl of a zombie echoed.

The leaping zombie bit precisely into the throat of the Demonic Sorcerer, its rigid hands with sharp nails plunging into the monster’s chest like two swords.

Blood burst above the zombie’s head.

The creature was torn into three pieces by the rampaging zombie, warm blood splattering all over it.