The group proceeded down the natural underground fissure that Clotilde had pointed out.
The crack was wide, and the deeper they went, the colder the surrounding temperature became, but the sacred aura permeating the air grew increasingly intense.
Dolores finished her instructions, turned back, and followed closely behind Primrose’s team.
Augustus’s mind flashed back to that steward, Zeke, who had attempted to single-handedly challenge the Ice Snow Dragon only to be flicked away by a single claw.
Calculating the landing point, it should be in this direction.
After walking for about ten minutes, the view ahead suddenly opened up.
They arrived at an extremely spacious underground space.
The ground here was flat rock, with no ice or snow around, only some faintly glowing moss.
And in the center of the space sat an extremely conspicuous object.
It was a glowing pillar of golden light.
Its radiance wasn’t blinding; instead, it gave off an incredibly warm and sacred feeling.
Drawing closer, the shape of this glowing pillar was unmistakably a longsword.
The sword was thrust into an ancient stone groove.
The hilt was carved with intricate runes, and the blade was a luminous body of pure holy energy, with specks of starlight constantly rising around it.
Anyone could sense the terrifying power contained within.
Classic.
Too classic.
Seeing this, Primrose let out a long internal sigh.
This scene was exactly like those cliché RPG games where the hero pulls the ancestral sword from the village entrance.
‘Oh hero, now is the time to draw the sword.’
Primrose silently added a narrator’s line in her mind.
She turned to look at her mother.
Her mother looked back at her, a hint of tension on her face.
Primrose nodded.
Seeing her daughter nod, Lin Naiyue turned to look at the glowing longsword.
She swallowed, stepped forward from the group, and carefully approached the stone slab monument.
Everyone’s eyes were fixed on her.
Lin Naiyue stood before the monument, closed her eyes, and took a deep breath.
Then, she slowly extended her hands.
The moment Lin Naiyue’s hands firmly gripped the sword hilt.
Everyone held their breath.
Suddenly.
Without any warning, an extremely bizarre change occurred in the surrounding space.
The originally golden longsword’s light vanished instantly.
Then, all the light in the entire underground space was drained away like something had sucked it dry.
Everything plunged into a deathly silent blackness.
What’s going on?
Primrose quickly looked around and found that her mother was gone, and everyone else had vanished into thin air.
And it was a disappearance on the level of their aura.
There were only two possibilities for this situation.
First, she had been teleported.
But who could teleport her?
To teleport a deity, one first needs more mana than her.
Second, a new space had been used to cover the original space.
In other words, a new space had been created around her.
In the entire space, only she stood alone in the same spot.
Surrounding her was an impenetrable darkness, with no points of reference and no sound.
Only Primrose’s own body was radiating a bright golden-white divine light, standing out starkly in this darkness.
Primrose furrowed her brow slightly, immediately mobilized the divine power within her, and activated Detection Magic to figure out what kind of place this was.
However, as her mental energy and mana spread outward, she found that her mental energy quickly hit a boundary.
No mana flow, no air, no moisture.
That meant this space wasn’t large.
This meant there was nothing around her.
But she couldn’t detect anything.
The concept of space began to blur.
Just then, a very young yet deeply concerned little girl’s voice came from behind her.
“Big sister, take a rest. You haven’t slept for three days and three nights.”
The voice appeared extremely abruptly, right in Primrose’s ear.
Primrose was stunned.
She turned her head and followed the sound.
In the darkness, a little girl had appeared at some point.
The little girl had shoulder-length brownish-red hair, wore a rough cloth dress covered in patches but neatly washed, and was looking up at her with big, worried eyes.
The next second, the pitch-black scene around Primrose rapidly reconstructed.
She found herself inside a somewhat简陋 but very cluttered wooden cabin.
On the shelves and tables around her were all sorts of bubbling glass test tubes containing colorful liquids.
In the corner were stacked many transparent glass boxes holding monster materials.
Inside were things like venomous spider mucus and orc eyeballs.
Primrose looked down.
She saw herself standing in front of a wide wooden table.
On the table lay a thick, yellowed magic book.
The pages of the magic book were densely filled with records about the array patterns and theories of the Myth Grade magic “Sage’s Vision.”
Beside it were several draft papers covered in complex mana derivation formulas.
Seeing this extremely familiar scene, Primrose’s memory floodgates instantly opened.
She remembered.
This was a unique story memory from her time in the game Fantasy Divine Domain.
This story took place a long time ago.
Back then, she had just fought her way through the PVP Arena, secured the First in the Server title, and obtained the title of “Strongest Human Sage.”
Immediately after, the system assigned her an exclusive main quest.
The final reward for this main quest was the super-tier magic—Sage’s Vision.
That was the predecessor of her current Divine Magic, Divine Inspection.
And the core content of this quest, to put it simply, required the player to use extremely complex alchemical methods based on the records in the magic book to melt the magic array patterns of super-tier Inspection Magic into a special eye drop.
Then, drip this eye drop into their own eyes to permanently acquire the magic.
The quest sounded simple.
There were essentially two goals.
First, obtain the original array patterns of super-tier Inspection Magic.
Second, obtain the special eye drops.
As for the original array patterns of super-tier Inspection Magic, the first-place reward from PVP included them.
So, she just needed to get the special eye drops.
Seemed simple enough?
But reminiscing about it now, Primrose couldn’t help but show a very awkward expression on her face.
Simple, my ass!
She had spent an entire week grinding this damn quest in the game!
When she first accepted the quest, Primrose thought it would be a routine errand—run some legs, kill a few monsters.
But she completely underestimated the game designers’下限.
She was truly fed up with that development team.
They had turned a simple main quest about making eye drops into a ridiculously long and tedious questline.