National Fortune Golden Shovel: I Can See Hidden Bonds!

81: Chapter 82 The First Generation Long Chen and the Fourth Generation Shen Mo...”Of course, right now. Let’s go!”

After saying this, Long Chen patted the dirt off his backside and walked into the dilapidated hut with a swagger.

Shen Mo had no choice but to follow.

As soon as he entered the room, Shen Mo was captivated by the sight before him!

In front of him, a game board the size of a mahjong table sat right in the middle of the room. If one looked closely, one would realize that this was just a miniature version of the Gods Arena!

Gods Arena (Hearthstone Edition), is it?

”Sit.”

Long Chen sat down carelessly and pointed to the chair opposite the game board.

”This... can you play chess here?”

”Of course you can!”

Long Chen muttered something gloomily, then fiddled with it for a long time. Hammers, wires—he banged on it with a series of thuds. Watching this made Shen Mo’s eyelids twitch... Why did this feel so unreliable?

[Ding! Welcome... Gods... Arena... Match starting!]

Shen Mo: ”...”

Fine, fine, fine! So that’s how we’re playing!

”Done!” Long Chen said, pleasantly surprised. ”This thing just needed a tune-up. I heard you were coming, so I spent the whole night charging it. Come, come, sit down. The recognition isn’t very sharp on this thing. Right, look at this camera... Hey, very good!”

[Ding, Contestant...%@@@# joined the match!]

”...” Shen Mo had already lost count of how many times he had been left speechless. Regardless, it was just absurd!

But regardless, the match had started normally.

However, at this moment, the character avatars on the right side only showed two men in black (referencing the villains from Detective Conan)...

Stage 1-1, shop refreshed!

Helplessly, Shen Mo casually grabbed a piece and threw it at the entrance to the neutral monsters.

Wait? Shen Mo suddenly froze.

[Jax: Actively deals 80/120/180 magic damage to adjacent enemies and gains 60/75/95 Armor and Magic Resist for 6 seconds. During this time, basic attacks deal 16/36/81 bonus magic damage.]

Skill description!!!

Since when did the Gods Arena have skill descriptions?

If he remembered correctly, even the update announcements for the Arena didn’t list specific damage values for pieces; they only mentioned reworking a certain hero, increasing damage, or decreasing damage...

Could it be...?

An incredibly absurd feeling arose in his heart.

Shen Mo immediately controlled his character to touch the blue orb!

Sure enough, the next second, a Recurve Bow with a description appeared before his eyes!

Equipment descriptions too?!

Then, the Staff...

Shen Mo’s pupils slowly dilated, and he felt his heart pounding wildly!

Stage 2-1! Staff refreshed!

[Coin Toss (Cost 0 Gold): 50% chance to gain gold, the amount is 1 * the number of times ’Coin Toss’ has been used!]

”It really exists...”

Shen Mo felt his heart racing: ”Brother Chen, this... Arena of yours, don’t you feel it’s a bit different from the Gods Arena? Haven’t you noticed... these...”

”Oh, you mean these equipment descriptions and such? That’s normal...”

Long Chen laughed nonchalantly, hummed in thought, and said: ”I remember, when I broke off that piece of Arena authority, it did correspond to this part of the functions. It seems there was some extra...”

Shen Mo’s mouth twitched: ”Ex... Extra?”

”Yes. At the time, there was a guy named ’Alodes’ who followed behind me every day, calling me ’Brother Chen, Brother Chen.’ I thought it was quite amusing, so after I won the first match, I broke off another small half of the Arena and gave it to him.”

”Come to think of it... although what you see are equipment descriptions and such, in essence, it is still a part of the ’Authority.’ It just happens to display as equipment descriptions this year. The situation is different every year; it’s dynamic and changes.”

Numb! Completely numb!

Shen Mo felt like his entire worldview had been overturned today!

So it was Alodes... No wonder he got an extra reward when he summoned the Ten Demon Gods. It turns out this guy is Long Chen’s lackey, and he was trying to curry favor with him!

And now it seemed that the part of the Gods Arena that Long Chen obtained, while having complete descriptions for pieces, equipment, and Staff, was missing Hextech and Synergy. It was very likely in the hands of that Alodes!

This made Shen Mo unable to help but think of the evaluation he got for his Prismatic reward... [Kid, they wanted to nerf this Hextech, but I solidified it! From now on, it will permanently grant three Radiant items. No need to thank me too much! — Alodes!]

...No wonder Alodes could solidify certain Hextech abilities; the Authority was in his hands all along!

So that was it! Shen Mo felt as if a bolt of lightning had struck his brain; problems he hadn’t been able to figure out were instantly understood!

So... the deities, Long Chen, and Alodes!

The three parties each held a portion of the Gods Arena’s Authority. The deities were the largest, possessing a nearly complete Arena. The portion Long Chen held was also not small, but because the Authority changed every season, this season it only amounted to some descriptions.

On the contrary, Alodes... This guy had the smallest shard of the Arena, but it was an extremely critical link! Synergy + Hextech!

Good grief! Shen Mo exclaimed, ”Good grief!” The Quartermaster was on his side, right!

In that case, the Quartermaster’s situation wasn’t great either. Giving him a reward was done secretly, clearly indicating he was in a situation where he was ’forced’ to cooperate with the deities but couldn’t help but want to pull some tricks.

”Brother Chen, that Alodes... is he a deity?”

”Why are you suddenly interested in that guy?” Long Chen was stunned, pondered for a long while, and said: ”Hmm... to be precise, not really. At most, he counts as an alien race. You know alien races, right? The kind that look strange and are not quite like us...”

Speaking of this, Long Chen chuckled again: ”It seems that in recent years, the world’s information blockade has been very effective, to the point where you youngsters have ’deities, deities’ on your lips all the time...”

”Aren’t they?” Shen Mo was stunned.

”Of course not...” Long Chen laughed slyly: ”Ahem, let’s play, let’s play. I’ll tell you while we play...”

”Oh.” Shen Mo didn’t think too much about it, casually grabbed a Katarina, threw it onto the board, and put together 3 Faerie to work.

”Brother Chen, go on.”

Long Chen calmly took Syndra and coughed twice: ”Ahem, actually, back when the Gods Arena descended, we didn’t take it seriously. Alien civilization, right? At worst, we just fight it, right?”

”Unlike you guys now, shouting ’deities’ everywhere, doing everything so cautiously.”

”...” Shen Mo’s mouth twitched. For some reason, he suddenly had the feeling of the First Hokage chatting with the Fourth Hokage.

Long Chen was the First Generation, and he was the Fourth Generation.

Then. The First Generation Long Chen looked confused: ”That Nine-Tails thing can actually kill people?”

The Fourth Generation Shen Mo: ”...”

What is this? Two super minions exposed on the front line, and the super minions ended up taking out the base in the back?