fantasy novels Chapter 4212 Hidden Mission
Chapter 4212 Hidden Mission
Chapter 4212 Hidden Mission
Angell left the War Gallery.
As I walked back, I turned on the guidance radar.
The three positioning markers are: the first one is very thick, pointing from the northwest to the southeast of the radar, covering a wide area; the second one is relatively thin, pointing from the northeast to the southwest.
And the last one, the one that just appeared, is extremely thin, pointing directly from due north to due south.
The area where the three positioning cursors intersect is now very small.
Angell surveyed the area from a god-like perspective and found it to involve about a dozen rooms of varying sizes, as well as two or three corridors.
The fissure is located in this area.
If you're lucky, you'll encounter it as soon as you go in.
If you're unlucky, maybe one more cursor will be enough to completely lock down the rift.
Angell carefully examined the map and decided not to take his chances. Anyway, he would encounter book spirits on the way to the Rift Zone, and he could challenge them all then to completely seal off the Rift Zone's activity area.
After turning off the radar, Angel returned to the fork in the road.
Gray Porcelain had already received the new cursor from Radar, so it wasn't surprised by Angel's return.
"Was this Book Elf's test difficult? Why did it seem slower than the previous two?" Gray Porcelain asked curiously.
Angel shook his head and briefly recounted the test.
Upon hearing that it was a combat test, and a combat test against a monster with a complex mechanic, Gray Porcelain fell silent.
"Isn't this supposed to be a battle of wits...? It feels like the book demon is going to fight, and the book spirit is going to fight too."
While complaining, Gray Porcelain followed Angell toward the right corridor.
Just as they turned a corner, Gray Porcelain saw the rabbit girl standing at the end of the corridor, seemingly leaning against the wall in deep thought.
The rabbit girl didn't come to her senses until they got closer.
"You guys are here?"
Even after she awoke from her reverie, her brows still seemed furrowed.
"Captain, what happened?" Seeing the rabbit girl's furrowed brows and Gray Porcelain's puzzled expression, he cautiously guessed, "Could something have gone wrong in this Book Demon challenge?"
After asking the question, Gray Porcelain realized something was wrong.
In the battle against the Book Demons, the entire team is banned if the loser fails.
Since they are alright now, it means the challenge wasn't a failure.
Or has some other unexpected situation occurred?
...Could something have happened to Gabriel? Perhaps he was seriously injured in battle and can no longer continue?
Gray Porcelain imagined all sorts of scenarios, but the rabbit girl gently shook her head: "Gabriel is not an exception, it is in the hidden space."
"I was just reflecting on the... proverb I received this time."
"Could it be a new proverb?" Gray Porcelain exclaimed in surprise. "This time, the hidden space isn't just filled with paper and a table?"
The rabbit girl nodded slightly. "This time it's a stone tablet, and the new proverbs you'll receive. Come and see for yourselves the details."
She didn't say much, and led everyone towards the other end of the corridor.
After walking a few steps, she pointed to a large hole that had appeared out of thin air in the wall and said, "This is the hidden space. It started as a rat hole the size of a fist. We found two unstable elemental gems nearby, threw them into the hole, and then the hidden space behind it was blasted open."
The puzzle was relatively easy to solve this time, because the two unstable elemental gems were hanging in a very obvious place, constantly emitting a faint glow.
They also found an anonymous diary nearby, which revealed that if the two elemental gems were brought close together, they would explode violently in about ten seconds.
In addition, Angell had informed the rabbit girl from the beginning through the telepathic link that there was a hidden space behind the mouse hole. Combined with the information from the explosion, they quickly solved the mystery.
"After blasting open the hidden space, we found that it was not paper or a table, but a stone tablet."
They were very excited when they saw the stone tablet.
This means there will be new proverbs!
"After that, we encountered the Book Demon, who chose Gabriel to begin the trial..."
"After that, Gabriel won, and the dying book demon came to this hidden space and left behind its final words of wisdom."
The rabbit girl briefly recounted their experience, but towards the end, her tone became somewhat subtle.
"Although the proverb is indeed a new proverb, as we expected, it is a little different from the previous ones."
Gray Porcelain asked in confusion, "Different?"
The rabbit girl nodded: "Come in and see for yourselves the details."
Upon entering the hidden space, the first thing they saw was Gabriel.
And a low stone monument in front of it.
Hearing the commotion behind him, Gabriel's fur twitched. "You've arrived? Come and take a look at this proverb, and see if you can get a quest."
Accept a mission?
Is there another mission here?
Angell and Gray Porcelain exchanged a glance, then looked at the stone tablet with puzzled expressions.
Like the previous pages and desktop, the top of the book had a line of text written in jet-black ink, which, if there were no surprises, would be the book demon's proverb.
—"I analyze the engravings in order to decipher the secret messages He has spread."
This is the new proverb.
After reading it, both Angell and Gray Porcelain were somewhat puzzled, because at first glance, it seemed no different from the previous two proverbs.
They are all written in a cryptic and ambiguous way, with the flavor of a riddle teller.
Moreover, they didn't see any so-called "mission" either.
Just as they were about to ask, Angell and Gray Porcelain's text boxes suddenly popped up.
A series of fairyland prompts appeared.
"Congratulations, you have discovered all the hidden information on this floor. (3/3)"
Current completion rate: 10%
The text information in the first paragraph serves as a completion bonus; finding all the hidden information grants 10% completion.
But it's not over yet.
"You have met the prerequisites for unlocking the hidden quest."
"Start this task?"
"whether"
Although a choice was given, Angell and Gray Porcelain didn't need to choose at all, because the options were grayed out regardless of whether it was "yes" or "no".
Seeing this, they understood why Gabriel had suggested they try "taking on a mission".
"I see the hidden quest, but I can't make a choice; the text is grayed out," Angell said.
Gray Porcelain nodded quickly, "Me too!"
Angell looked up at the rabbit girl and Gabriel, and from their expressions, he could tell that they also couldn't receive this hidden quest.
"Strange, it clearly states that we've met the prerequisites for unlocking the hidden quest, yet we can't accept it?" Gabriel asked疑惑地, "What's going on?"
No one responded.
After a moment, the rabbit girl spoke first, breaking the silence: "I've been thinking about this for a long time, and I have two guesses."
Everyone's eyes immediately turned to the rabbit girl.
She didn't keep them in suspense and said, "In my opinion, there are only two possibilities for not being able to accept the mission. One is that the mission is unique and has been accepted by someone else."
"Another possibility is that we haven't met the prerequisites for accepting the mission."
"Personally, I think the first possibility is unlikely. If it were truly an exclusive task, it would be marked, or even directly tell us that the task has been taken and we can no longer accept it."
This can be seen from the fact that the Singer's team was unable to enter the third level of the Golden City.
After the rabbit girl stepped into the third level of the Golden Land first, no one else could enter the third level until she was eliminated.
The information from Wonderland was a clear reminder to the Singer's Team.
Similarly, if it is indeed an exclusive mission and it has been accepted by other challenge teams in advance, then they should receive a notification.
Since there was no notification, it means that the task is either not exclusive, or it is exclusive but has not been accepted by anyone.
In short, none of them fit the current situation.
“So, I guess it’s the second possibility: we haven’t met the prerequisites for accepting the mission yet,” the rabbit girl said seriously.
Gray Porcelain looked puzzled: "That's not right. Doesn't the information in the text box clearly say that we've already met the prerequisites?"
The rabbit girl gently shook her head: "Not this one."
Gray Porcelain: "???"
While Gray Porcelain looked on in confusion, Angel explained, "Look closely. The information in the text box says we've met the prerequisites to 'start' the quest; but the leader said we haven't met the prerequisites to 'accept' the quest."
Opening and receiving are two different concepts.
Gray Porcelain seemed thoughtful: "But logically speaking, 'accepting' should come first, followed by 'activating.' We've met the activation conditions, so how come the acceptance conditions haven't been met?"
The gray porcelain remains a mystery.
The rabbit girl also had her own thoughts on this issue: "Do you remember when we discovered something but never got our hands on it?"
Angell: "You mean... a rubbing?"
The rabbit girl nodded: "According to the Wonderland's hints, although we found the hidden information, we cannot make a copy because copying can only be done in the perfect completion mode."
"So I have a guess that this hidden mission may only be available in the perfect completion mode."
This is what the bunny girl meant when she said: the prerequisites for acceptance were not met.
Following the rabbit girl's train of thought, everyone considered the reason, and it seemed that it actually made sense.
All "prints" related to proverbs must be done in perfect completion mode.
And this hidden quest, which is triggered by a proverb, may be for the same reason!
“This guess is reasonable and well-founded, I support it,” Angel said. “However, we’ll know for sure once we get to Perfect Mode.”
When Angell uttered those words, everyone understood their meaning.
There's no need to dwell on this now.
The answer will be revealed once everything is in perfect mode.
……
After leaving the hidden space, the group continued their journey.
This time, even if they encounter a corridor with a book demon, they will avoid it and no longer challenge it.
Since the Wonderland's hints had clearly told them that all the hidden information on the first floor of the Echo Library had been found, there was no point in going to find the Book Demon anymore.
Now they need to go to the intersection of the positioning cursors and find the gap!
Moreover, three positioning cursors guided them, preventing them from getting lost and ensuring they continued moving in the intended direction.
Twenty minutes later, two doors appeared very close to the boundary.
The door on the left leads to the intersection indicated by the cursor.
The door on the right leads to unknown territory.
Angell had Gray Porcelain use the danger sensor in front of the two doors.
The door on the left is not dangerous for the time being, but Gray Porcelain sensed a slight discomfort from the door on the right.
"Based on my understanding of my own talents, there's a high probability there's a book sprite at the right door..." Gray Porcelain paused for a moment, "We shouldn't be lacking locator cursors right now, right?"
The implication is that perhaps we can ignore this book sprite.
The rabbit girl didn't respond, but looked at Angor, who had previously said that all the book spirits were to be given to him.
Angell: "The area where the three positioning cursors intersect is still quite large, and it may not be able to completely lock the gap. I'll go and complete this Book Sprite Trial anyway... I can't possibly fail."
After thinking about it, everyone agreed that it was a good idea.
Angell passed the book spirit's test very quickly each time.
Angell gestured for everyone to wait there, then pushed open the right-hand door and walked into the depths of the corridor.
Only five minutes had passed.
Angell succeeded in his challenge.
A new positioning cursor appeared simultaneously on everyone's radar.
This cursor is so fine that it compresses the location of the crack to an area that, even when magnified ten times by radar, is still only the size of a grain of rice.
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, this time the activity area of the rift has truly been locked down.
Angell returned easily, leading everyone directly into the door on the left. Then, following the radar's guidance, they continuously opened and closed doors, branching off into different paths.
Finally, after ten minutes, they arrived at the border area.
An oval-shaped reading room, roughly the size of a lecture hall.
As soon as I stepped into the reading room, the radar started flashing wildly. The next second, all the positioning cursors disappeared, leaving only an arrow pointing forward and to the left.
The arrow is also marked with 15 meters below it.
The group followed the arrow and walked a few steps forward. When they arrived at a reading table, a notification message flashed quickly in the text bar.
"Congratulations, you have found the crack in this layer."
"Should we close the crack?"
"whether"
Without a doubt, no one chose "yes".
According to the information they initially received, they needed to find three fissures, and all three fissures had to close simultaneously.
Even if you choose "yes" now, it won't make any difference.
After confirming the location of the rift, Angell looked at everyone and said, "The three rifts need to be closed simultaneously, so one person must stay here."
Angell definitely couldn't stay, because the second and third levels still held trials from the Book Spirits, and he would need to complete the corresponding challenges then.
Gray porcelain should not be kept either.
According to Barbaregon, those who remain also need to be very strong, because a large number of Book Demons will appear later to "attack the tower".
To put it bluntly, the Book Demon will come to save the Rift.
Those who remain must defend the tower, fighting the Book Demon while completely sealing off the rift.
Gray Porcelain might be able to defeat one or two Book Demons, but if too many Book Demons come too frequently, it may be unable to handle them.
In addition, gray porcelain itself is also very resistant to combat.
Therefore, gray porcelain should not remain a resident.
The only ones who can stay behind are the rabbit girl or Gabriel.