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Chapter 47 - 45 Rules_2

Chapter 47: Chapter 45 Rules_2

After speaking, the old woman took the lead, striding ahead and bringing everyone into a spacious room. Inside, there were no tables, just many chairs stacked together; it seemed that this place was meant only for sitting and discussing.

"This is the ceremony hall," the old lady said. "We will conduct discussions, interrogations, and voting here to execute the wolves hiding among us."

While she was talking, Ah Yi returned, holding a scroll in his hand.

"Thank you for your hard work." The old woman took the scroll and immediately passed it to Xiao Yi and the others, "This was left by our ancestors, prepared specifically for the unfortunate outsiders who have to participate in the Feast. It’s full of text that I can’t understand, but you should be able to, right?"

"Rule document!" Dick took the scroll, looked at it, and said, "Indeed, it’s the rule document! So it was here all along."

Dick then looked at the others, "So, let me explain the rules to everyone."

"Wait," Sheraya interrupted, "Put the scroll down. We can read it ourselves."

"Hmph... You suspect I would deliberately read out false content? Fine then, I’ll put it down. Read it yourself, it’s not like anyone here wouldn’t understand it." Having said that, Dick spread the scroll out on the ground.

Everyone looked at the document and began to read its contents... except for Xiao Yi.

"...Huh? What the hell is this written here?" Xiao Yi squinted his eyes.

Just like last time, Xiao Yi could understand part of the text, but when it was connected to the parts he could not understand, he couldn’t make sense of it at all.

"...Huh?"

The others looked at Xiao Yi with some surprise.

Yuzuki Hibiki said, "The text on the rule document is indeed not from Blue Star, but our translators should convert it into our own country’s language, right? You... surely you know how to read your own country’s writing?"

"Uh..." Xiao Yi’s gaze drifted, "Translated into my own country’s language, you say? Oh! Now that you mention it, I think I can understand it!"

Dick sighed, "Never mind, I’ll explain it myself."

After that, Dick looked at the rule document on the ground and began to describe the rules of this instance.

[Kaidan Dungeon: Feast]

[As the Fake God deliberates, the Feast draws near. Go find them, find the true enemies hiding among humans. Use all your wits to doubt everything, desperately live on until the moment you execute the enemy before an irreversible tragedy unfolds.]

[Rule One: The Feast will last for five days and five nights. After five days and five nights, if anyone is still alive, the Wolf General will be forced to die.]

[Rule Two: There are two wolves, along with one Prophet, one guard, and one Tomb Guardian. All others are ordinary people.]

[Rule Three: After nightfall, everyone will be forced to sleep and can only wake up the following morning. Do not remain outside of buildings before nightfall, or you will be forced to die.]

[Rule Four: Wolves may awaken at night, and each night they may choose at most one person to kill and sacrifice to God. They cannot kill their own wolf companion by hand.]

[Rule Five: The Prophet can check identities, the guard can protect one person from being killed by wolves but cannot protect the same person consecutively, and if they protect a wolf, it will be ineffective. The Tomb Guardian can check the identity of those who are voted to death. All powers can only be used once a night.]

[Rule Six: All people and all wolves will participate in the Feast ceremony during the day, seeking the identities of others besides themselves, and may vote to execute one person.]

[Rule Seven: The Feast will end immediately when all the wolves are dead or when all people are dead.]

[Rule Eight: Do not leave the village, or you will be forced to die. The range of the village is determined as the mountain where it is located.]

[Rule Nine: People must not kill others or wolves directly, or they will be forced to die.]

[Rule Ten: The form of voting is to write the name of the person you want to execute on a piece of paper as a vote. The person with the most votes will be executed. Please use the name on your identity proof from your own country, and any incorrectly written or differently named votes will be considered invalid.]

As Dick finished explaining Rule Ten, Xiao Yi suddenly interrupted him.

Xiao Yi spoke, "Wait a minute! I don’t have my ID card!"

"Seriously, you interrupted me just for that?" Dick sighed helplessly, "I generally don’t carry my ID card with me either. That’s true for others too, right?"

Yuzuki Hibiki and Sheraya both nodded.

Dick then looked back at Xiao Yi, "No one brought their ID cards. Besides, we all know your name, don’t we?"

"So no one brought their ID cards, huh? That’s a relief."

Xiao Yi felt a sense of calm wash over him, the kind that came with realizing "so nobody else did their homework either." He breathed a sigh of relief.

At that moment, Sheraya suddenly said, "Wait a second, since writing the wrong name is considered an invalid vote, then we can assume that writing only part of a name is also considered invalid. To ensure no one takes advantage of this rule, please state your full name. I already know it, but it seems Xiao Yi doesn’t, and neither do the other villagers; they have the right to know."

"Hmph, you’re really cautious... Dick Howard," Dick stated his full name.

Yuzuki Hibiki added, "Yuzuki Hibiki, that’s my full name."

Sheraya softly spoke to the group, "My name is Sheraya Caligula, and this here is Xiao Yi."

Sheraya then looked towards Dick, "All right, keep reading the rules."

"We’re down to the last rule, and you had to interrupt, what a waste of time."

As Dick complained, he looked toward that final rule.

"Rule Eleven... What!?"

Dick suddenly froze, his eyes widening as he stared intently at the rule document, his pupils contracted, and he remained silent for a long time, as if he had been trapped in ice.

Sheraya glanced at him with curiosity and then turned to the last rule.

In just an instant, Sheraya understood why Dick was so affected.

"Rule Eleven... Both death by vote and being killed by the Wolf are compulsory deaths, the Chosen One’s Talent and Skill, as well as any chance of immunity from death obtained as a reward, are all invalidated in the face of compulsory death."

As this rule was revealed, not only were they stunned, but the live broadcast audience was too.

Compulsory death.

That meant, no matter how powerful one’s Talent, it was useless; once marked for death by others, death was inevitable!

Great Talents and Skills, all previous efforts made, were all meaningless here!

This rule caused an uproar in the live broadcast room, and everyone couldn’t help but curse aloud.

People from Dragon Country: "Damn Analog Horror! How shameless can you get! And damn compulsory death too! I curse you! Granting Talents and immunity only to invalidate them, and then you set us up to kill each other! What are we playing at! Why not kill us all and be done with it!"

People from Dragon Country: "I see this Analog Horror is targeting my Brother Xiao Yi! Starting at the highest difficulty, and now this special difficulty pulls such a stunt! I curse you!"

People from Lighthouse Country: "This is obviously more of a target at our Professor Dick from Lighthouse Country! His Undying Talent is invalidated! Damn!"

Japanese: "No matter what, you’re going to die! This special difficulty can truly be said to be an instance where only wit can keep one alive..."

...

At this moment, Dick’s brain seemed to halt all thought.

Everything before him twisted and blurred, and all he could hear were the heavy breaths echoing in his mind and the violent beating of his heart.

Suddenly, Dick recalled that sentence.

"When will you be able to die?"

"...!"

I will not die! I absolutely will not die!

Dick forced his cognitive abilities into motion, using every possible means he must survive!

Even if he had to step over everyone’s corpses, he had to live!

Thinking this, Dick looked towards Xiao Yi...

...

[Victory Conditions: After the Feast ends, either the Wolf survives or the humans survive]

This victory condition seemed less important in light of Rule Eleven.