Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

“My brother is not around.” Wine God Youngster said, “Anything I can do for you?”

Lin Jie paused for a moment. This guy was not going to mention how he pretended not knowing him in the school? Maybe he had his difficulties? Talking at a far distance did not help. Lin Jie thought about it and decided that it would be better for him to get closer. He continued, “I have a mission to discover the shrine. I can take two more people. It will boost the ability of players greatly.”

“I’m on a mission.” Wine God Youngster declined politely.

“Just help me out.”

“Okay fine…”

“South gate of City of Light, I’ll be waiting there.” After settling with him, Lin Jie wanted to invite Zheng Ziliang who decided to blow up the basement of his Dwarf mentor to discover the Moratti Shrine together.

Moratti Shrine was one of the twelve Dark Shrines. It was a place to worship the Vicious Black Dragon Moratti. It was a terrifying Death Demon Dragon. Although it had almost 0 combat power, it had insane reproduction power. After the death of this dragon, it snuck into the Holy Church and stole the Law of Life, changing into a weird combination of both death and life. It produced many dragons to fight for the Dark Shrines.

However, the power of Moratti was not infinite. Each time it reproduced, it would cost some of its Powers of Death. For the dead, this power was like the life of living. Therefore, every time Moratti reproduced, it would hibernate for a long time, leaving the Moratti Shrine unguarded most of the time.

“Moratti gradually lost its power as a dragon after staying in the Dark Shrine for so long. It formed its unique power, and thus, the dragons it reproduced were fairly inferior dragons. There were very few true dragons. According to some myth, only one Guardian Bone Dragon received extremely good care from Moratti, and it inherited most of the dragon DNA. It was one of the purest dragons among them.” Lin Jie read the information out loud.

In his previous life, he had not discovered the sub-shrines of Dark Shrine. Thus, all the information he had was very limited. He tried to tell Zheng Ziliang all the information so that with his out-of-the-box thinking, he might actually give some constructive feedback.

The more Zheng Ziliang listened, the more puzzled he was. The first question he asked was, “Where did you read all this stuff? And you memorized them all?”

“If you are willing to visit the library, or go to the forum to read up on the history and information collected by the historical researchers, you will know that too.”

“Are you kidding me, history is so insane… But the levels of these sub-shrines were very low? The extremely strong dragon you are talking about just now sounds as least a Dark Gold tier?”

Lin Jie said, “There are many maps in The New Age: Holy Church Library, Natural Shrine Cultivation Room, Bandit Guild Assassin Room… and three secret places: Castle of the Sky, Heart of the Earth and Eye of the Vortex. These levels would be different depending on the level of the players. If these maps had a fixed level, players with lower level could not go there, and players with high level would not bother to go there. What’s the point then?”

Zheng Ziliang smiled and said, “Yeah, that makes sense… Wait? What are the secret places?”

“Erm, it is just a place where a lot of treasures were hidden. I can bring you there in the future if you are interested.”

“What? Secret places? What’s so secret if you can just go as you like?”

Lin Jie said scornfully, “Isn’t there an announcement on the official website? You don’t usually pay attention to it? There will be a live contest among the Living jobs. The map of the contest will be Eye of the Vortex.”

“Lame! I thought you are able to go there freely.” Zheng Ziliang rolled his eyes. The two of them had reached the gate, but Wine God Youngster had yet to come. Ziliang lazily took out the Azure Heart and showed it to Lin Jie. He said, “I need to brag about this. Give me an envious look.”

Azure Heart: Can be used in engineering, core item. When the object acts on the engineering of creature making, the water-resistance of the finished product is increased by 60%, the skin is hardened, and the magic resistance is increased. It has additional skill: Water Roar. When items are used for energy props, add 100% water attack power to them.

“Superb!” Lin Jie said immediately. Although there were no grades in Azure Heart, the difference between individual items differed greatly. Because it could be used to supplement energy weapons such as the magic crossbow and magic guide crossbow, the players used the attack power as the indicator of quality. 100% attack power was definitely very good!

As for why this item was not used to supplement the energy weapon… one could use money as toilet paper, but would they? One Azure Heart cost about dozens of trucks of Magic Crystals.

“Wow! Look at that jewel! It is so beautiful!”

“Hey, handsome. Give me this jewel, and I can be your wife for five days. You can do anything to me.”

“LOL, my bro here is obviously into men…”

After receiving enough flattering comments, Zheng Ziliang kept the Azure Heart. Although he did not care about the people walking past, the flattering sure made him feel good.

Lin Jie said, “Do not waste this Azure Heart, it will be a waste if it is just used to create a normal creature. Bandit Lasso is about to spawn, I will see if I can help you get a Water Alloy.”

“Sure! When I make something good, I will protect you with it.” Zheng Ziliang smiled.

Screech—

The Silver-Feathered Eagle made a joyful sound as Wine God Youngster arrived.

“Sorry, I was preoccupied with something just now,” he said with a smile. Two sunken dimples appeared on the thin face. It had been a long time since they had last met, Wine God Youngster looked more haggard and thinner.

Lin Jie smiled and said, “Where is your mount? The ones for Forward Charge Paladins are great, right?”

“I don’t like mounts.” Wine God Youngster seemed disinterested in the subject. He said, “C’mon, I need to go to the school after the mission is done.”

Zheng Ziliang’s eyes lit up. He held Youngster’s hand excitedly and said, “You are a student too? I’m impressed.”

Wine God Youngster laughed. “Nah, I’m a teacher.”

“F*ck…” Zheng Ziliang quickly let go of his hand. He had been a naughty student for decades, and he was scared of teachers the most. Now he had to party with one of them? He might as well die.

Lin Jie took out the map for the shrine and said, “Let’s go. Moratti Shrine is located at the Endless Volcanoes. It is pretty far from here, it will take us some time.”

Since Wine God Youngster did not like to ride his mount, both Lin Jie and Zheng Ziliang traveled on foot. Wine God Youngster was quiet throughout the journey. Although Zheng Ziliang was uncomfortable walking with a teacher, he finally gave in and started blabbering. He scolded Zhou Xiao for blocking his way.

“How is… Old Mai?” Lin Jie asked carefully, knowing the character of Wine God Youngster.

“Of course, he is great.”

“Is there anything going on?”

“Nope.”

“You are teaching at the university Arts and Sciences, what about him?”

“Home.”

Wine God Youngster only replied when Lin Jie asked. After an hour of ‘interrogation,’ Lin Jie did not get any useful information at all! He had to admire the communication method of Special Troops.

The three of them finally arrived at the Endless Volcanoes. Lin Jie stopped asking questions temporarily and distributed the Fire Resistance Potion. He took out the map and the character card. Gilian appeared and greeted respectfully, “Master.”

Zheng Ziliang’s eyes lit up. “Jie, since when did you hook up with such a beauty?”

“This is an NPC.” Lin Jie glanced at him and asked Gilian, “Where is Moratti Shrine?”

Gilian took a look at the map and pointed west. “Walk straight, when you see a gigantic dragon egg, that’s the entrance.”

“Dragon egg? There’s no entrance there, right?” Lin Jie started to recall what he remembered. The dragon egg was at the crater of a live volcano, surrounded by deadly lava. Many players had attempted to take this egg in Lin Jie’s previous life, ranging from level 40 to 100. No one had succeeded until Ophadi Wantless had used an Arcane Griffin and taken it away.

Gilian smiled and said, “My dear master, are you doubting me? If you do not know where the entrance is, you cannot enter the shrine. Give me some potion and food to recover my status, I can bring you in right away.”

Lin Jie scoffed and said, “If you don’t bring me in, I’ll kill you!”

“You think you can threaten me?” Gilian smirked and stared at Lin Jie. “All humans are greedy, aren’t they? Can you resist the temptation of the treasure?”

Lin Jie groped up and down Gilian’s delicate chin with his right hand and grinned obscenely. “What do you think if I send a woman who uses dark magic to the Holy Church and let the seemingly just but crafty bishops give you a clean-up ceremony with feces? Then, they will send you to the Warriors Arena to serve as military prostitutes for those muscular guys. With this temperament and look, I must be able to sell you for a good price, right?”

Gilian shivered. Using feces to clear the dark magic was the harshest punishment of the Holy Church! Let alone… military prostitutes.

Gilian immediately changed into a ray of golden light and hid into the card, refusing to come out.

Lin Jie smiled. “I can always handle you.”

Just then, Wine God Youngster took out his spear and attacked Lin Jie! The tip of the spear went past Lin Jie’s neck and struck the head. It was the head of a bandit!