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Chapter 84 Why is there still an earthquake? (5/10)

Chapter 84: Chapter 84 Why is there still an earthquake? (5/10)

Instructor Ding also instantly realized the severity of the issue. After all, the importance of Divine Fire has been made very clear in the CG.

"What would happen if the Divine Fire were extinguished?" asked Instructor Ding.

Liang Chun shook his head: "I don’t know either!"

Things were getting troublesome.

The current construction projects were all centered around the Divine Fire High Platform and Pyrothief Bell Tower, so players were free to roam in this area without being whipped by the Supervisor unless they ran to farther locations.

Instructor Ding quickly climbed up the High Platform. On top of this majestic structure, resembling a Pyramid, there was a huge Divine Fire Altar. However, the Divine Fire on the altar had become very weak.

Approaching it, an interaction prompt appeared.

[Press F to obtain a bunch of Divine Fire.]

But when Instructor Ding pressed the F key, another prompt popped up.

[The Divine Fire is very weak and cannot sustain more extraction!]

"Hey, what do we do now! As soon as the Flame Thieves come out, hurry up and tell them not to pick up stones or twigs anymore. They need to adventure into dangerous areas to find a new Divine Fire! Otherwise, it’s going to go out!"

Instructor Ding shouted to the manual laborers bustling below the High Platform—though he wasn’t sure they could hear him from this distance.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, the Divine Fire, which had been flickering weakly, suddenly went out with a "pop".

The sky above, which had barely maintained a state that was neither like day nor like night, suddenly darkened, and visibility declined sharply.

The other manual laborers also gathered around.

"Brother Ding, what’s happening?"

"Did you put it out?"

Ding Qiang’s face darkened: "What do you mean I put it out! It burned out on its own when the time came!"

Liang Chun pondered seriously: "Hmm... According to the opening CG’s story, the Divine Fire was indeed about to extinguish. Alas, we’ve been careless! In fact, from the beginning when we entered the Divine Realm, our goal should have been to find the Divine Fire. Now that it’s out, we’re in a passive position."

Chen Tingquan posed as if clapping hands: "Right, the game’s title gave it away from the start, Prometheus, Prometheus. We’ve been busy picking up trash and neglected to steal the fire! What do we do now?"

Ding Qiang performed a "thoughtful" action: "In the CG, what did it say would happen if the Divine Fire went out?"

Liang Chun recalled for a moment: "It seems to say the world would be enveloped by Dark fog and chaos, and that human constructions would be erased by time, turning into ruins?"

"This is bad!"

Instructor Ding hurriedly ran down the High Platform to check the area around the Great Canal that they had previously repaired.

Indeed, not only had the sky darkened, but they could also faintly see a blue mist. This mist wasn’t very conspicuous; it had been previously overlooked because of the darkness. However, upon reaching the ground, one could clearly see it in the light of the fire.

The square bricks on the Great Canal, which were originally in new condition, were gradually beginning to show mottled traces under the eroding effect of the mist.

"Ah, what do we do!"

"Considering the rate at which this is happening, I’m afraid if we go to sleep tonight and wake up tomorrow, it’ll all be a pile of ruins!"

"Can we pause the server time after we leave the game? Huh?"

Instructor Ding panicked as well; the buildings were built with everyone’s hard work. If they all went to waste, would that not be all for nothing?

Just then, an excited voice came from the top of a nearby tower.

"It’s finished! We’ve finally topped off the tower!"

Everyone looked up to see a player who had been diligently laying bricks and not joining in the commotion of the extinguishing Divine Fire continued his work, and at this moment, he had just completed the construction of the topmost part of the tower, successfully capping it off.

But in the next second, something unexpected happened.

A burst of light erupted from the distant Divine Realm, a blazing Holy Light shot into the sky, forming a thick beam that even lit up the night sky somewhat.

In the center of the beam of light, one could faintly see a bizarre Angel with many irregular wings. Its tightly bundled wings slowly unfolded, and then the screen began to tremble violently!

"Boom!"

Instructor Ding noticed that the characters on the screen also began to stagger, seeming unable to stand steadily.

"Hey, what’s going on! Is it an earthquake?!"

The next second brought even more terrifying noises!

Giant cracks appeared on the already constructed Great Canal; rubble, sleepers, and bricks fell into the cracks. The newly built tower collapsed like a stack of mahjong tiles piled too high; even the Great Canal burst its banks, and water gushed out, flooding an area.

Only the workshop barely escaped the disaster, possibly because it was located next to the relatively stable Divine Fire High Platform and was not very tall, so it only lost its top, and overall was not severely damaged.

After the aftershocks of the earthquake had passed, everyone looked around at the scene with blank faces.

It was a sight too pitiful for eyes!

Although the crevices in the earth had closed up, the once neat Great Canal looked as if it had been cut open and then sewn back together, completely disorganized. Several gaps had formed in the course of the Great Canal, altering its flow in other directions. As for the tower, only a few broken walls remained, nearly equivalent to a rebuild.

With the dark sky and the mist, everyone had the same feeling.

We can’t play this game anymore!

"Dang!"

The bell rang again, and the five Flame Thieves who had returned, looking at the unrecognizable world, all fell into a daze.

Only Li Wenhao instinctively threw the materials he was carrying on the ground, like someone in a movie who drops what they’re holding in shock at a stunning scene—a classic moment.

Instructor Ding, with an expressionless face, looked at Liang Chun, "Brother Liang, in this situation, do you still have any optimistic views?"

Liang Chun thought for a moment, "Optimistically speaking, at least we don’t have to worry about the Divine Fire going out and these buildings being eroded by the mist anymore."

Everyone was speechless, indeed, what he said was impeccable!

An earthquake had just flattened all these buildings, so what’s there to worry about mist corrosion?

If you’ve already been amputated below the waist, would you still care about whether you have athlete’s foot?

This is truly misfortune raining down on an already leaky house!

Instructor Ding checked the time, it was just past 12 o’clock.

The "Sky-Defying Sixteen Bronzemen" entered the game at 8 o’clock when the server opened; some played as Flame Thieves repeatedly venturing deep into the Divine Realm, some played as Manual Laborers diligently moving bricks.

Finally, after struggling for four hours, they had pushed the game progress backward by a large step!

Before they entered the game, the Divine Fire could last a while longer, and the Great Canal was mostly intact;

After their four hours of effort, the Divine Fire had gone out, the Great Canal was damaged, and where there was once open land now stood workshops and towers, which in the blink of an eye had become rubble and ruins.

It would have been better not to build them at all, because they would need to clear this pile of rubble before they could continue construction!

This heavy blow left everyone disheartened, and Instructor Ding let out a sigh, "All right, let’s call it a day, guys. Everyone to their own homes! We will gather again tomorrow at 8 o’clock in the evening."

"Good, good, I’m logging off first."

"Bye."

"Everyone worked hard, goodbye."

Soon, only Instructor Ding and Liang Chun were left in the team.

Instructor Ding suddenly thought of a new question and asked, "Hey, Brother Liang, how can this game be considered beaten? We’ve played for four hours, how much longer do we have until we clear it?"

There were no hints about this in the game, so Instructor Ding was also quite curious.

This question wasn’t too hard for Liang Chun.

"That’s easy, you just need to look at the achievement system on the game detail page.

"Most games will put the toughest goals in the achievement system."

Instructor Ding realized, "Oh, right, how could I forget that!"

He didn’t immediately log out of the game but instead checked the achievement list on the game detail page.

Prometheus’s achievements were not very numerous, and many were obviously just fillers, like entering the Divine Realm for the first time, completing the first building, etc., which were not hard to achieve.

But at the bottom, there were two achievements, one shining with a golden light and the other with a silver light, clearly on a different level from the rest.

They must correspond to the two most difficult challenges in the game.

First was the one shining with silver light.

"Top Manual Laborer: Complete all buildings!"

Then the one with the golden light.

"Ascetic of the Divine Realm: Reach 100% map exploration!"

"Oh? It seems that the game’s objective isn’t just construction, there is also an individual requirement for exploration progress?"

Instructor Ding thought it over and found it quite reasonable; after all, "Complete all buildings" was an achievement shared by sixteen players, while "100% map exploration" was for individual accomplishment.

"It looks like the golden trophy of this game is hidden within this achievement!

"Can I see my current map exploration progress?"

Instructor Ding switched back to the game screen and after a careful search, finally found an inconspicuous number in the corner of the map.

"Map Exploration: 3%"

"Pfft!"

Instructor Ding almost sprayed out a mouthful of blood and swiftly logged out!

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