Chapter 1068: Chapter 1038: Server Shutdown Update Turmoil

"Demon Hunting Execution Slash"

"Puchi~"

"-175411" Critical Strike~

A streak of blood splashed out, and a Mage in a black robe staggered as he looked at the person in front of him:

"You, you..."

He clutched his chest that was bleeding nonstop, and burst out laughing like a candle flaring before it goes out:

"Hahahaha~~"

Then he sharply pointed at these invaders in front of him, speaking in a crazed tone:

"What’s the point of killing me?"

"Darkness will one day shroud this continent, and all of you will die."

"Hahaha... urgh."

When the black‑robed Mage fell to the ground, a pile of colorful Equipment and items immediately scattered around.

Among them, that flash of red light instantly drew a chorus of screams:

"Legend!"

"Damn, it’s actually Legendary Equipment."

"It really dropped, huh."

A group of Players not far away immediately started chattering:

"Too bad it’s a Legendary Bow and Arrow, I can’t use it anyway."

"Even if you could, it wouldn’t be your turn."

"Let’s just see how the captain distributes it. I don’t care who gets it, I just want a cut of the Gold Coins."

"Same here. I was just here to make up the headcount this run, didn’t dare to expect anything."

As they talked, they all looked toward that figure in the distance.

Heaven-Gifted picked up the Longbow on the ground that was emitting a red glow, then walked over under everyone’s gaze to a nearby female Winged One, and handed it over:

"The Attributes are pretty good. This is for you."

Ai Wen looked at Heaven-Gifted in surprise, then immediately refused:

"I hardly helped in this dungeon run at all. I can’t take this."

"Just give me my quest item and I’m good."

Heaven-Gifted smiled, then threw the Longbow over without giving her a chance to argue:

"This isn’t me abusing my authority."

As Ai Wen subconsciously caught the luxurious Longbow, Heaven-Gifted continued:

"You were the one who brought us into this dungeon in the first place, and this piece of Equipment just happens to be a Weapon for your Profession. No one else can even use it."

"So it can only be yours."

After that, Heaven-Gifted distributed the remaining Equipment and materials according to Profession and need.

Everyone was overjoyed and thanked Heaven-Gifted profusely.

You could say they had basically been carried through this dungeon by Heaven-Gifted. They’d all just been pulled in by Ai Wen to make up the numbers so they could hit the minimum entry requirement.

Because of that, they hadn’t expected anything at all at the start.

Just being able to clear a dungeon once with a Divine Level Player like Heaven-Gifted was already more than enough for them to brag about to their friends later.

Now Heaven-Gifted had even split the BOSS drops with them, and pretty much everyone got stuff worth no less than 500 Gold Coins. How could they not be excited?

Gold Coins is 5000 Reality Coins!

For a bunch of students like them, earning that much money in under an hour—how could they not be pumped?

After everyone split the loot, they reluctantly waved goodbye to Heaven-Gifted and Ai Wen one by one.

Once everyone had left the dungeon, Heaven-Gifted finally took out a Scroll and handed it to the girl in front of him:

"Mission accomplished."

"I’ve done what you asked. Next..."

Before Heaven-Gifted could finish, Ai Wen, having taken the Scroll, directly cut him off:

"You can contact me anytime you need me. I keep my word."

As she spoke, she even left Heaven-Gifted her phone number in reality:

"If I’m not in the game, you can call this number to reach me."

After saying that, Ai Wen hurriedly chose to log off, leaving Heaven-Gifted standing there, completely baffled.

After a brief moment of daze, Heaven-Gifted couldn’t help but give a wry smile:

"Am I that scary? She didn’t even say thank you before bolting."

Then he stretched lazily and sighed:

"Anyway, at least the quest is finally done."

Seeing that there was nothing else to do, Heaven-Gifted chose Return to City as well.

When Heaven-Gifted had just returned to White Tiger City, his ears were immediately filled with all kinds of noise.

By now the game had basically become people’s second World.

Aside from work and school, more and more people were logging into the game.

You could say that everywhere in the game was packed to the brim.

Especially the population in each Main City, which was downright insane.

This time, Heaven-Gifted’s arrival didn’t cause a small stir like it usually did.

At first Heaven-Gifted didn’t think much of it.

But after overhearing a few people talking, he realized something was off:

"This should be the third shutdown update since the game’s open beta, right?"

"Yeah!"

"I remember the last shutdown update was for opening the Demon Race. Didn’t expect a new version again after just a month."

"Wonder what new stuff will show up after this update. I’m so hyped!"

Listening to the Players around him, Heaven-Gifted immediately found a quiet place and opened the official game site.

Sure enough, on the front page of the official site, a Golden headline was displayed:

New version [War of Planes] coming soon, stay tuned.

Below the title it stated that the game would undergo a shutdown update at six o’clock tonight, and the update would last a full 12 hours.

This news made Heaven-Gifted’s heart jolt.

He immediately logged into the game’s friend list, but didn’t see Handsome-As-Hell and the others online.

Then, without hesitation, he directly logged out of the game.

When Heaven-Gifted Ouyang Hao stepped onto the balcony, he happened to see Handsome-As-Hell Guo Shaojie and the others gathered in the villa’s courtyard, a bunch of them talking about something.

Ouyang Hao hurried downstairs, and before he even reached the door, he called out anxiously:

"You guys must’ve seen the announcement on the official site, right?"

"The game’s going down for an update tonight, damn."

Guo Shaojie snapped:

"You think we wouldn’t know about something this big?"

Of course Ouyang Hao didn’t think they wouldn’t know. What he wanted to say was:

"The game’s shutting down for an update, what do we do about Boss Feng still being in the game?"

Everyone here knew exactly what state Lin Yi was in now.

For them, the game shutting down for an update didn’t affect them at all—it was basically just "a day off."

But for Lin Yi, it wasn’t like that.

He was currently on the Nine Nether Continent, not on Rafam Continent.

No one had ever experienced a shutdown update while someone was on the Nine Nether Continent, so no one knew whether it would affect Lin Yi.

What if it caused Lin Yi to never wake up again?

With worry all over his face, he looked at everyone:

"Is there really no other way?"

The only way to avoid this would be to forcibly wake Lin Yi up.

But the consequence of doing that was, if Lin Yi was forcibly awakened, he would be forcefully severed from the Nine Nether Continent and returned to reality.

That would mean not only failing his quest, but also that he’d never again be able to maintain a link between the two Worlds like he did now.

But if they didn’t wake Lin Yi, no one could predict whether the shutdown update would affect him.

While everyone was struggling with the decision, Lin Yi was staring at a strange man in front of him, incredulous:

"Holy shit~" 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

"You’re saying you’re a descendant of Gonggong?"

But before Lin Yi could snap out of his shock, Elda’s Soul Body suddenly manifested and spoke:

"Gonggong?"

"Why does that name sound kind of familiar?"