Beating Instances through Words Left by the Dead

Chapter 964: Chapter 406: Extraordinary Withering (Part 2)

For this reason, as the birthplace of Erin, Peaceful Town also became the core of her Divine Kingdom, transforming into the central pool of the Divine Hall.

Wu Chang’s target today was not the Peaceful Town Dungeon; his gaze merely lingered briefly on the pool before looking below the Divine Hall.

His gaze penetrated through the floor of the Divine Hall, and beneath it, he saw roots formed by faith.

Most of these roots came from the six Pillars of the Divine Kingdom that supported the Divine Hall, with only one exception.

His consciousness followed this root all the way down, soon touching a layer of soft barrier.

”The player is passing through the Divine Kingdom’s passage, entering the barren—Plane 51503.”

”Note, the current dungeon will be regarded as a Faith Dungeon. After the player enters the dungeon, the time flow between the Faith Dungeon and reality is 15:1. Each day spent in the dungeon consumes 300 Rotten Silver Coins, and if the balance is insufficient, the player will be forcibly transported out of the Dungeon Plane.”

”Does the player wish to enter the current dungeon?”

Compared to past dungeons, the Faith Dungeon offers no bang for your buck in terms of price or time flow.

But now he has no choice but to endure it.

”Enter.”

With a flash of light, Wu Chang and Erin returned to the Holy City of the Mikel Kingdom, Sirena.

They appeared inside a Divine Temple, where the statue worshipped was of a young girl holding a heavy hammer, with wings on her back.

The sculptor’s skill was hard to evaluate; the statue didn’t resemble Erin exactly but at least was quite different.

But the faith invested in the statue indeed reached Erin’s Divine Kingdom, so Wu Chang didn’t mind much.

The Divine Hall was very desolate, with no clergy in attendance, and no guards around the Divine Hall.

Perhaps it hadn’t been visited for a long time; it seemed that the Eternal Light Sect had declined here, as even in Wu Chang’s memory, Sirena’s most deserted church was never this desolate.

He and Erin walked out of the Divine Hall; it was nighttime in the Midnight Cemetery, and Wu Chang looked up to see the moon big and bright in the sky, with the only flaw being that it was not a full moon.

”What a pity, it would be better if it were a full moon.”

Accompanied by a cane tapping on the ground and the dragging footsteps of shoes scraping the ground, an old voice said:

”There will never be a full moon here again.”

Wu Chang turned his head to see an old man with a skinny body, graying hair, and sunken eyes, leaning on a wooden staff appearing behind them.

Wu Chang waved and said:

”Long time no see, Han’er. You look much more spirited than before, although your legs seem to have some issues.”

The ”old man” before him was Han’er, who had once been slated to pass the role of Gravekeeper in the Midnight Cemetery Dungeon to Wu Chang.

If you met Han’er for the first time, you would never guess that this dying old man was actually only thirty-five years old.

Besides being the former Gravekeeper, Han’er was also the issuer of a hidden side mission.

The reason he turned into this state was due to his deliberate self-destruction, making himself like those half-dead living corpses, possessing the three energies of black, white, and gray simultaneously, thereby intercepting Mikhail I’s plan during the Blood Moon Eternal Life.

He was eager to seize Mikhail I’s Power and then take revenge on the Soul Light Sect controlled by the Fire Master.

But upon seeing Wu Chang’s strength, he entrusted his hope for revenge to Wu Chang.

It was also because of Han’er’s hidden side mission that led Wu Chang to find the sleeping Mikhail I and obtain the Golden Throne, something he frequently used afterwards, also allowing Erin to complete her Ascension, becoming a True God with the Ascension Crown.

To see an old acquaintance just upon entering the Midnight Cemetery Dungeon, nothing could be better.

In the face of Wu Chang’s greetings, Han’er was momentarily taken aback, then smiled bitterly and said:

”It’s been thirty years, and you actually say I look more spirited. Was my Status really that bad back then?”

”Thirty years?” Wu Chang was startled by this number.

Although he knew the time flow differed between each Plane, he didn’t expect a thirty-year difference since his last visit.

He had once thought that ninety days here equated to five years in the Steam Phantom, which was already exaggerated, but he hadn’t expected the time disparity of the Midnight Graveyard Plane to be even greater.

Upon meeting, he saw the black, white, and gray energies still within Han’er, thinking it had only been a few months or a year since he left.

With a thirty-year gap, the Han’er in front of him was already sixty-five years old.

The average lifespan on the Midnight Graveyard Plane was low to begin with, plus Han’er had exhausted too much Life Force in his youth for revenge, now at sixty-five, he was on the brink of his end.

The initially pleasurable reunion suddenly became somewhat heavy.

Unlike Wu Chang, Han’er didn’t seem to mind these matters; he pointed at the moon in the sky and said:

”Ever since you shattered the Miraculous Moon, the avatar of the Great Sage, before you left, the moon in the sky has always had a missing corner.”

Wu Chang looked at the moon in the sky, and the missing corner seemed to be where the Tree of Miracles was originally rooted.

Han’er turned his head to look at Wu Chang and Erin and said:

”Where did you guys go during this time? Thirty years without seeing you, and you haven’t changed much.”

Wu Chang hesitated for a moment but chose to tell Han’er the truth, he said:

”During this time, we weren’t in this World, we went to another Plane, and in our world, only two months have passed.”

”Two months, is it? No wonder,” Han’er revealed a look of realization, not overly surprised by this.

”How long will you stay this time?”

Wu Chang said, ”About a month and a half.”

With a 15:1 time flow, a month and a half would be three days in the real world.