Chapter 206: Confusion of the Plot Party
Chapter 206 – Confusion of the Plot Party
“As Your Excellency can see, Sector 2 was engulfed by a void rift three days ago, and the disaster response department is trying to find a way to salvage it.
“As for your property damage, I’m sorry to say that there is no such item as void corrosion among all the accidental loss categories mentioned in the insurance regulations.
“Given our current knowledge of void corrosion and the means of removing it, we tentatively believe that there is still a possibility of recovery for your property.
“Therefore, we will not pay out until it is proven that they are indeed beyond recovery.
“On the other hand, if it is confirmed in the future that the void corrosion is indeed unrecoverable, we will immediately start discussing the revision of the relevant rules and wait until the rules have been perfected before granting you a corresponding payout.
“Do you have any more questions?”
The insurance counselor asked.
Snap.
Megumi stopped the timer in front of the other man.
The tiny magical device had a thumb-width curtain of water with the used time floating on it:
9 minutes and 59 seconds.
One more second was going to cost more, and it wasn’t just the timing that was a problem, the unit price was going to go up as well.
Leaving the insurance company, Megumi fell into a long thought.
Sections 0-3 are the relatively official islands of Veritas.
Among them, Sector 0 was where the Library of Truth, the Institute of Truth, and the Veritas Academy proper were located, and the threshold for stepping into it was level five.
Sector 1 is the administrative office area.
Area 3 was the Lion King Trading House’s General Services Building – she was now standing in front of the insurance company.
Only Area 2 was engulfed by the rift this time, and it was the logistics, warehousing department and staff quarters shared by Truth House and Lion King.
The point that confused her was here as well.
Was the Void Disaster really coming?
The answer was Ruarai.
Three years after the game, the rift came unannounced when it engulfed five islands in one gulp, with the exception of Sector 0.
Compared to then, this is now a minor hit.
After learning about Carl Ilan’s research, and what happened at the Blight Trace, as a plot party, Megumi already had a rough guess about the outbreak of the Void Catastrophe.
The Void Catastrophe in the game was indeed a catastrophe, but not necessarily this time.
She was more inclined to think that this was an outbreak deliberately controlled by the Truth Academy.
It couldn’t hold back any longer and had to release some pollution.
Combining the places where the two disasters had occurred, it was not difficult to determine that Sections 0-3 were the most polluted places and the starting point of the outbreak.
On this basis, controlling the scope to Zone 2 is undoubtedly the least damaging approach.
As for why not release it into the sea ……
She believes that the source of the outbreak is on the island.
The cracks are growing from the island, not being artificially moved there.
After clearing her mind and looking at the towering island that had been torn apart, Megumi wasn’t much surprised anymore.
After all, she was the one who had actually seen the “disaster”.
At that time, she was the highest level of the group of researchers, daily tasks and activities are in the 0 area, suddenly dropped out of the line, a look at the forums to realize that the original home is gone.
This disaster did not bring the huge loss to Veritas on the surface.
After all, the Law Masters had accumulated a great deal of experience in dealing with strange beasts and rifts over the years.
In the case of this archipelago, for example, the surrounding sea had long since lost its normal fish, and was littered with hidden chasms and sea creatures corrupted by the Void.
Those things were no longer disturbances to them, but inexhaustible riches to be harvested.
What really hurt them was the loss of control of the magic net and the breaking of the monopoly on void sac technology.
The real damage on the surface was centered on land.
Because the Magic Web spread contamination unseen by other communities.
Those people weren’t so experienced in fighting the Void.
And so the question arose–
How big was the impact of this small-scale disaster?
Would it spread the contamination just like in the game, and then strange beasts would be swiped everywhere, and NPCs would be parasitized from time to time?
Megumi had no way of knowing.
Naga’s level was too low to get inside information, and she couldn’t start speculating.
At that moment, Simon walked over, and he was accompanied by a guy with gray sideburns and a sharp tongue.
As an employee of the Lion King Trading House, he was left without a place to live just like Hui Hui.
“You’re not going to be living on the streets, are you?”
Simon sneered.
The place was crowded and they had to play coworkers who didn’t see eye to eye with each other.
As someone who had a place to go, he had to come over and damage whatever he said at this point.
This was Megumi’s request, and although he didn’t understand it, he still had to comply.
So the statement was actually asking – where are you planning to go.
Megumi sneered and sneered back, “Mind your own business, boy.”
–I’ll figure it out on my own.
“Don’t be so stubborn, for the sake of my coworkers, I can reluctantly take you to my friend’s house.”
He gestured for the person next to him to speak up.
“Hello, my name is Mark, nice to meet you Mr. Mage.”
Mark extended his hand, but was ignored by Megumi. Megumi mentally gave the other girl an apology for having to play the role of a mage who wasn’t nice to be around.
Mark retracted his hand unhappily and sniffled, stifling a yawn.
This was a symptom of the typical overdose of ingesting the Miwok powder.
Although this kind of thing that could increase concentration in the short term was favored by many mages, taking it for a long period of time would create a dependency to the point of destroying a spell caster.
Megumi frowned, “What did you bring this guy to me for?”
“Don’t get me wrong, my friend just ran into some minor trouble, and I brought him to you to solve the problem. In return, might as well stay at his place for now.”
Simon said politely.
After the two exchanged glances, Megumi realized that this man named Mark had information on him, and agreed with a cold face.
It wasn’t until the three stepped onto a flying boat that an invisible eyeball came off from from Megumi.
It floated into the air, avoiding the many fissures that could not be viewed with the naked eye.
Those fissures were too tiny so they couldn’t be observed and were harmless to people.
But deadly enough for a magical creation like it.
With that, it carefully drifted back to District 1 and floated into a tall white mage tower.
An old man who was ambling along looked up and reached out to take it.
“What Mage Nagar had seen in the two hours since he had landed on the island was compressed into a few minutes and flew through his mind.
Then he looked down and tugged at a piece of magical letterhead on which he wrote down his observations.
“The observer is not mentally tainted, and past reports are reliable.”
The letterhead transformed into a secret falcon, flapped its wings and flew out of the window, heading for Sector 0.
A few minutes later, it flew into a spacious but noisy circular conference hall and landed in a corner.
The dozing recorder took the paper that the secret falcon had transformed into and scanned the words on it, then quickly walked over to the person presiding over the meeting and handed the note to the other party.
The latter looked at it for a couple of moments, and then crossed out the “items to be discussed”.
On the Possible Influence of the Makara Mountains in this Contamination of the Magic Grid.
“I told you I shouldn’t have added this one in.”
He grunted.
……
Mark’s house was in the 88th Ward.
These islands in Veritas are basically a mess the further back you go.
The islands larger than 90 could simply be called extra-legal, so they were closed off and only allowed to leave for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening each day.
Visitors couldn’t see the exact appearance of these islands either, and the same magical barrier that blocked Sector 2 wrapped around these ten islands.
Looking over from Area 88, there was a blue sea and a peaceful sky.
Only by going through the barrier could one realize how chaotic it was inside.
Mark hadn’t been back for a long time either, only a week before Simon this time.
He looked unkempt and a little frail, but the house was still clean.
On the way here, Huihui already knew that the other party is a “mule”, that is, the Lion King Trading House name specializing in the use of the void capsule transportation personnel.
These people are an anomaly among mages, their spiritual attributes are up to standard, but their affinity is not enough.
Such people abounded in Veritas.
After all, mental power could be stimulated with drugs, but meta-spiritual affinity was innate.
That’s why they either work as mules or go to use magic-guided machinery and props.
They are the equivalent of “heavy laborers” among spell casters.
And the other side revealed a key piece of information.
In recent months, the burden of using the Void Sac had become so great that he had to use the powder.
He had approached Naga, a rank four mage, this time in order to ask the other party to help him blend some of the extemporized powder.
“Aren’t you going to rest for a while next, why do you still need this?” Hui Hui couldn’t help but ask.
“I was going to take a break, but there’s a shortage of people for the salvage in Area 2, and they’re giving a lot of money.” Mark grinned.
Megumi nodded and didn’t ask any more questions.
Her senses couldn’t tell if the boarding test had been canceled, and she knew that buff lasted up to 12 hours, so she couldn’t show too much just yet.
She spent some time mixing up the powder for the other party, and waited until it was almost dark when she was invited to go forward to Mr. Basker’s home for an appointment.
However, when she arrived at the door of this rich dwarven merchant’s house, she saw an unexpected person.
The other party came out from a black carriage, with a noble temperament and a cool face, followed by a man and a woman and two guards.
The other party had also spotted her and seemed to be recalling what kind of person it was.
How could the Servant of Godello City be here?
A Nyss from the Northlands and a cleric of the Shadow Temple ……
Why was she invited by the dwarves?
Do they agree on anything besides the fact that they all think necromancers are heretics?
This plot ……
Megumi couldn’t read it anymore.
I’m stuck in writing today, so two more pinches, the next chapter will be a little later |ω), I’ll write more, so look for it in the morning.
(End of chapter)