96. Chapter 96 – Sabellia and Eli Monte
Chapter 96: Sabelia and Eli Monte
Facing this question, Hui Hui seemed to be prepared for it.
She took out a magical newspaper.
It was like a translucent, lightly padded tabletop.
At the top in big bold letters was “Good Morning! House of Truth”, which was very eye-catching.
“That’s an ugly title ……”
Heine muttered in a small voice.
“That’s the biggest sponsor of this issue.” Megumi explained, “It’s a chain of stores that sells inscription materials, with the main business being various magical inks.
“In order to highlight the fact that their own ink has a stable color and a deep enough black on magical materials, it was specially designed like this.”
“…… I don’t understand.”
Heine was somewhat speechless.
He then looked through the paper.
The layout of the newspaper could be described as unengineered, as crowded and cramped as a 1970s silo.
This enlarged and bolded headline was obviously not an exception.
The text crammed into the tiny pages scrolls down and the pictures are all gif-like motion pictures.
Without exception, they are small, too small to read.
He resisted his instinct to “zoom in with two fingers” and clumsily poked a few times at the top with his fingertips.
Then he revealed a look of embarrassment, “Ahem …… This is not the same principle as the magic genealogy tree, right?”
“Yes.”
Megumi made a demonstration.
Sure enough, it was a two-finger zoom, and it was a two-finger zoom layout.
Heine did a double take like an unseen child.
As if it wasn’t an ordinary newspaper in front of him, but Steve Jobs back in the day releasing the Fruit 4.0.
The skeletons couldn’t look away, and rarely brought a firm stance.
Catching sheep: “The blockade of the four countries is really sinful ah, heartache me sea.”
Wei Temple Iris: “A newspaper let him be happy like this, what was he like when you guys saw the floating city?”
Mr. Xia: “How to say it, two strands of war, a few want to go first, no, he did fall backward a few steps backward.”
Huihui: “This is not the time to be sentimental, continue to tell the story ah Northeasterner!”
Wei Diankui: “Ah yes, say where ……”
…
Heine returned to normal after a cursory glance.
It was roughly divided into two parts on here.
Advertising and Personal Columns.
The former is what makes money for the newspaper, the latter is what the newspaper pays someone to write.
Only a very small percentage of the news about the Makkala Mountains.
It is crammed in with hilarious news from other areas in a section called ‘Open Laughter’.
The news alongside it were:
1. A certain gladiator in the Zanero Plateau summoned his great-grandfather across generations after his level breakthrough.
Upon investigation, he realized that his father was also his grandfather, so his great-grandfather appeared in his grandfather’s place.
2. A Dwarf archaeology team from Cangdao City dug out an 800-year-old Elf tomb in the northeast.
As a result, he was sued by the local elf that afternoon, claiming that it was his family grave.
And then there’s this one from Cuirassetia.
It’s along the lines of Cuillotine asking for help from the Brotherhood only to be betrayed.
Eric Strong claimed that it had nothing to do with their old feud and that he was just giving face to the Servants and the Shadow Temple.
This stuff wasn’t supposed to be funny.
But the creators made up the line “Eric claimed that he was in no way bringing a hundred or so people just to watch the fun”.
That’s a rich enough interpretation of the story that different people will get different kicks out of it.
Heine was relieved to read it.
The little action here hadn’t escaped the eyes of the House of Veritas, but they didn’t care much.
It was just a joy to them.
He asked, “Does every one of your reports get submitted here?”
Megumi: “No, my lord, it’s just a sideline for the observatory organizations affiliated with the Naga, who make some extra money by picking out something interesting in their reports and submitting them to the newspaper.
“Naga himself is interested in writing a book-length observation account to submit to the newspapers when he returns.”
Heine froze, “Isn’t this observation organization officially run by the Truth Academy?”
Megumi: “It nominally is, but it’s contracted out, so funding is tight from time to time and has to be subsidized in this way.”
Interesting ……
Megumi: “Also about this matter of the Cuiye Court, there have been reactions one after another over the past two days. “Godello City sent someone to pick up the triumphant hero, Ms. Ciara, and the Eternal Dawn and Whispering Forest unexpectedly remained quiet, but I heard that the side of the Mercury Forest has taken the initiative to cut off contact with Cuiye Ting, and the probability is that it’s given up. For the time being, it’s not clear what’s involved ……”
Heine: “There is a reason for this, I will tell you.”
After a pause, he asked, “Do you know Eli Monte? Has there been any news of him lately? Or, have you heard anything about any weird skeletons?”
Hui Hui: “Eli Monte is a descendant of Eli the Wind Harnesser, and about half a month ago, he wandered away from the mountain folk’s fair.
“Until this morning, there was no news of any Eliamonte.
“Frey, the chief of the Cornu, has had a headache as a result, and is under considerable pressure.”
She deliberately looked behind Heine, then asked:
“Have you lost that skeleton of yours?”
Heine sighed.
“Yes, it happened very suddenly, so I’d better start at the beginning ……”
……
Both sides were telling stories, but this side soon changed.
The reason was–
Wei Dian Kite: “I can’t, it’s better for Brother Yang to come, I’m really not good at this, quite a good story for me to tell in pieces.”
Thus, Catching Goat clearly and smoothly finished the story.
“…… That’s probably it, quickly analyze the plot for us, is there any salvation for Sa General, how to save.”
Huihui thought for a moment, “This question is exactly related to what I have been thinking about these two days …… Then let me start by saying why Mr. Sa was captured.
“First of all, I suspect that the one who captured him is Sabelia, not some son of the wind, Eli Monte.”
Mr. Xia: “Crap? Isn’t Sabelia all written into the book, he’s not dead?”
Megumi: “Yes, not dead. Remember how Eli Monte died in the plot?
“After the birth of the Scorched Mountain Region, he single-handedly facilitated the alliance between the Eagle Mountain and the Court of Emerald Leaves, and then hoofed it to kill the Trail of Blight.
“As a result, in the final copy, he died from a simple soul shock.
“This has been criticized by many as a plot kill, as almost all NPC deaths in AGE follow strict gameplay.
“In other words, if that one Soul Shock could kill a level 3 npc, Eli Monte, it should also be able to kill a level 3 player of the same profession.
“As a result, verification has learned that even for an unclothed level 3 warrior, that one Soul Shock would have left him unconscious at best.
“So there’s only one truth – he had a weak soul at that time and had easy injuries.”
Catch the Goat: “Soul susceptibility injuries are often self-inflicted …… Is it hard to believe that it’s because of taking over the body? Crap, he couldn’t have taken over Eli, right?”
Heine had told Jiang Lu once more about Barry and Saberia’s feud and the origin of the Shapeshifters.
Guardian Iris was present at the time, so that part of the information was public.
The crowd’s vestigial sense of this was the word:
Taking over.
A person takes over the body of a beast while still retaining the original body.
Out-of-body incarnation now belongs to the Yes.
Megumi: “You can’t say that, because the soul of Eli the Wind Harvester isn’t dead.
“I’m guessing that Eli Monte’s soul is only a part of Sabelia, and that another large part is in the Eagle’s Nest.
“In suppressing, or imprisoning, Eli the Wind Harnesser, in other words, he didn’t finish taking over.
“The quest line for the Bow of Sighs is divided into three parts, with the collection of relics in the front, and the final step of returning to the Eagle’s Nest.
“Nominally, it’s about being tested by Eli the Wind Harnesser, but in reality it’s about the player assisting Sabelia in completely killing Eli’s soul.”
Mr. Xia: “That’s not right, I haven’t heard Mr. Saberia mention it?”
Megumi: “Because Sabelia didn’t reveal herself.
“Although I don’t know why Eli Monte was imprisoned in the Whispering Crypt, I’m guessing that he suddenly struck out because he sensed the Whispering Whisper.
“It’s consistent with the game’s plot, and the player collects relics just by personally bringing things to the Eagle’s Nest to find him.
“By the time the player kills Eli’s spirit, he gets the genuine Bow of Sighs, and I suspect there was supposed to be a quest line behind it that was taken.”
Mr. Summer: “Crap? Taken from the player?”
Megumi: “Yes. The only reason it didn’t show up was because the House of Veritas intervened in the first place.
“After the hunter got his hands on the Bow of Sighs, the researcher from the Veritas House enthusiastically appraised and enchanted the bow …… and then there was no more.”
Wei Temple Iris: “Meaning that it was directly given to the Overwatch? Mage, mage, really is just doing magic.”
Hui Hui: “It’s possible, and it would explain why there are so many skills attached to the Bow of Sighs.”
Mr. Xia: “Didn’t the game company make it up?”
Huihui: “It’s true that there’s no need to explain it from a gameplay perspective, but from a realistic perspective, it’s absurd that a bow with no magical tech component can come with so many skills attached to it, it doesn’t have any magic circuits integrated on it, so on what basis does it automatically buff the arrows ……
“There is only one reason.
“There is a soul bound to that, and the skills are mastered by that soul.
“For the Bow of Sighs, the only thing bound to it could be the soul of Sabelia.”
Fixed a minor bug with bloodline issues that could cause some segments of reviews to get lost in the time rift ……
(End of chapter)