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nPlaying a Small Game

nThe journey deeper into the forest was unusually easy.

nIn Vivian’s imagination, she would encounter more and more members of the Fire God Sect, but they didn’t appear. No, to be precise, they didn’t even see a single member of the Fire God Sect.

nBig Watermelon and the Mage God of Close Combat were secretly amazed. As expected of the Witch. Once she attacked, even the Fire God Sect members were so scared that they didn’t dare to come again.

nEven Vivian herself had this illusion.

nHowever, only Liao Zixuan knew that this was probably not the case. The Fire God Sect in the Dreadclaw Lair definitely were not missing in action just because they were “scared”.

nAfter all, Liao Zixuan had learned from the Mage “Shire” that the leader of the Fire God Sect was…

nBishop…

nEugenia.

nA woman who was truly “possessed”!

nWhen Liao Zixuan first heard the name “Eugenia” from a Fire God Sect Mage, he didn’t know who it was. He only felt that it sounded vaguely familiar.

nBut when he came to his senses and carefully searched through his memories, it dawned on him. The little wolf slapped his thigh…

nHuh?

nIt looked like he couldn’t do that as a wolf.

nForget it, forget it. Liao Zixuan was obviously not slapping himself, but the little girl!

nDon’t mind these unimportant details.

nWhat really mattered was…

nOh my god!

nSo it was this dame!

nFor Liao Zixuan to call her a “dame”, she naturally wasn’t just a mere Bishop of the Fire God Sect in Fire Codex City.

nThe Bishop was only “mere” in Liao Zixuan’s eyes. In reality, anyone that had the ability to become the Bishop of a city was definitely someone important in “Fallen God”.

nHowever, if even a Bishop didn’t even deserve to be called a “dame”, then what kind of formidable background did the “dame” have?

nThe answer was…

nWitch!

nShe was completely different from Vivian, who was a Witch of inferior quality that had been “packaged” by him—no, it couldn’t even be considered inferior. At most, Vivian was a crude imitation toy, a fake Witch.

nThis person was the real deal. A fair trade; an original product in its original packaging. Oh, it seemed to be the original packaging but not the original product.

nThis was because Eugenia’s body was indeed Bishop Eugenia’s, but the soul inside had long since been replaced by a true Witch.

nThe Thousand-faced Witch—Bella

nIn his previous life, within the long storyline of the game, countless players had been tricked by this person. This dame’s favorite thing to do was to disguise herself as NPCs from various organizations, then…

nOpenly using her identity with a clear conscience… as a **-stirrer!

nThe Fire God Sect Bishop of Codex City was the first puppet that the players came into contact with!

nIn his previous life, this part of the storyline would only be triggered after the server started for a period of time. He did not expect to bump into this dame right now in his current life.

nHowever…

nThey were of the same kind, why the rush to kill each other!

nHopefully, she will not make things too difficult for our Vivian on the account that they are both Witches, even though Vivian might only be a Witch in name now.

nThis was one of the reasons why Liao Zixuan had instigated the girl to confront the Fire God Sect. After all, even the Bishop was a spy, so why would he be afraid of losing this battle?

nHowever, as the saying goes, better to be safe than sorry.

nOrdinary logic shouldn’t be used to conjecture the Witch’s moves should she act up. Liao Zixuan also had a backup plan.

nThis was the second reason for his confidence.

nIt was not a big deal, very simple in fact.

nLiao Zixuan knew Bella’s strongest technique. Coincidence or not, he, the Dark Flame Wolf, could completely suppress her in that area!

nIf Bella dared use that technique…

nHehe…

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n“We’re here!” Without any obstructions along the way, they soon arrived at a huge cave entrance that led downwards.

nThis was undoubtedly the lair of the Dreadclaw Forest’s overlord, the Tyrannosaurus Rex monster, Dreadclaw.

nThis was also the place where the Fire God Sect was holding the catalyst ritual at the moment.

nVivian looked at the deep and dark cave and gripped the sickle in her left hand. Even Liao Zixuan couldn’t understand this—the girl had been holding the sickle in her hand ever since she woke up.

nVivian clearly didn’t know any close combat skills, so the sickle was useless to her.

nIt seemed to the girl that the sickle was more of an… amulet than a weapon?

nAfter the little girl gently rubbed the handle of the sickle with her fingers, a determined look appeared on her face. She took the lead and went deeper into the cave.

nDrip drop…

nDrip drop… drip drop…

nWhen they first entered the lair, there was only the occasional sound of water dripping from the walls.

nAlthough it was underground, the passageway wasn’t dark because the Fire God Sect had already come here before them. There were torches everywhere, which made it convenient for Vivian and the others.

nHowever, it circled back to the same point.

nThey have not met a single Fire God Sect member yet.

nLogically speaking, even if there were no assassins intercepting them, there should at least be people in the headquarters, or even sentry guards, right?

nUnless the entire Fire God Sect had evacuated.

nBut was that possible?

nObviously not.

nThen all these abnormalities meant one thing.

nA trap.

nOr maybe it was… a plot.

n“Welcome, welcome.” When Vivian and the others finally reached the bottom level, the sound of clapping from high above broke the long silence.

n“You really made me wait for a long time. I almost thought you wouldn’t come.”

nVivian raised her head and looked at the source of the voice.

nIt was a woman in a splendid Bishop’s robe.

nShe was at the center of the underground lair, above the head of a gigantic Tyrannosaurus Rex that seemed to have been hypnotized.

n“Can you tell me your name, young lady?” Eugenia asked, beaming at Vivian.

nShe leaned forward and stared down at the group, crossing her legs as she sat on top of Dreadclaw’s one-story-tall head.

n“Vivian, Your Eminence.”

nThe girl looked straight at the woman on Dreadclaw’s head.

nEven though she looked very calm and composed at this moment, the hand tightening around the sickle betrayed her internal nervousness.

n“Your Eminence, can you please terminate this ritual?” Even though Vivian knew it was nonsense, she still tried to ask.

nAccording to the normal routine, if it was an irascible villain, they would scream at you to “get lost” and then directly start fighting.

nIf it was an intelligent villain, they would roll their eyes at you and start blabbering.

nIf it was a spy villain, they’ll…

n“Sure.” The woman on top of Dreadclaw nodded with a smile.

nIf it was a spy plus a crazy villain, they’ll…

n“But…”

n“You have to play a little game with me.”

nAs she spoke, Eugenia snapped her fingers. A large iron cage containing a dozen or so men was pushed out by one of the Fire God Sect’s members.

nA giant brazier situated below the cage was pushed out together with it. It was bubbling and boiling with extremely high-temperature magma and was big enough to swallow the iron cage whole.

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