Purgatory Artist-Chapter 126: The Guardianship of the Heroic Spirit

The group of youths was brought to a spacious room filled with tables and chairs.

Every table was filled with food.

The middle-aged man stood at the side and said,

"You have gone through many selections and used up too much energy. Let's eat first."

"You have five minutes to eat."

"Five minutes later, I will bring you to class."

After saying that, he left.

Liu Ping looked at the others and found a table to sit down without caring about anything else.

He was indeed hungry.

Looking at the food in front of him, it was nothing more than some fruits and vegetables, as well as meat, fish, eggs, and milk.

For example, this egg —

Liu Ping picked up an egg with a black shell inlaid with natural cloud patterns. Instantly, lines of burning words appeared in the air:

[Egg of an unknown species.]

[Edible.]

[Function: Replenish nutrition.]

Liu Ping reached out and cracked the eggshell. A white egg rolled out from within.

After taking a bite, it was a little sweet.

At this moment, more youths could not hold back their hunger and sat down to eat.

As Liu Ping ate, he asked silently in his heart:

"Sequence, can you really use it?"

Lines of burning words appeared:

[Of course.]

[As you have truly integrated into the Evernight world and become a part of it, this Sequence has been activated.]

[As your strength is extremely low and is only a gray card, this Sequence has activated a very targeted function for you.]

"What is it?" Liu Ping asked.

[Heroic Spirit Shelter] The Sequence said.

"What is this?" Liu Ping asked curiously.

Lines of burning words quickly appeared in front of his eyes.

[The first ability of the Heroic Spirit operation interface:]

[Heroic Spirit Shelter.]

[Description: Those Heroic Spirits that belong to you can release a variant of their ability on you. The prerequisite is that you fulfill the corresponding special conditions of the Heroic Spirit.]

[It can be activated once every twelve hours.]

Liu Ping pondered and said, "For example? Why don't you activate it once and let me see? "

Another line of burning words appeared:

[Randomly selecting a Heroic Spirit. Chosen: Nine Lives Cat Demon (Sleeping).]

[If the following conditions are met, you can extract a mystical variant of the Nine Lives Cat Demon's ability and use it once.]

[Extraction condition: Eat a fish.]

Fish ...

Such a simple condition.

Liu Ping looked around and saw that there was no fish on any of the tables. There was only a piping hot fried fish on the other side of the seven or eight tables.

He stood up and walked over, taking the plate of fish away from the youths.

"Wait, this is the food on our table," a young man shouted.

"You can also eat the food on my table. I don't mind at all." Liu Ping smiled and said.

Ignoring the other party's words, he walked back, placed the fish in front of him, and ate it with relish.

This fish was a species he had never seen before, but it tasted quite good.

A short while later.

The fish was eaten clean.

Liu Ping put down his cutlery.

Lines of burning words quickly appeared in front of his eyes.

[You have fulfilled the special conditions related to the Nine Lives Demon Cat.]

[This sequence is randomly extracting an ability from the Nine-lives Demon Cat—]

[Five.]

[Four.]

[Three.]

[Two.]

[One.]

[Done.]

[You've obtained a mutated ability: Exclusive Intelligence Collection]

[Usage count: 1 time.]

[By releasing this ability, you will obtain useful information from a certain person.]

Liu Ping glanced and nodded silently.

Demon cats were the best at collecting information.

On Zhao Chanyi, this trait was reflected in a very typical way.

For example, the information about finding his Master was found by Zhao Chanyi.

However, it could only be used once.

"What if it's used up this time?" Liu Ping asked.

The sequence said: [After twelve hours, you must fulfill a certain condition again to obtain another mutated ability.]

"In other words, it might not be Zhao Chanyi next time. Even if it's her, it might not be this ability?" Liu Ping asked.

[Correct]

At this time, the middle-aged man appeared in front of the youths again.

"Alright, mealtime is over. Follow me, your first class will begin soon." He said in a deep voice.

The youths stood up and followed him through the long corridor into a classroom.

This was a very spacious classroom.

Seeing that they were all seated, the middle-aged man left.

After a while.

A grey-haired old man walked into the classroom, stood on the podium and slammed a heavy and large book on the table with a 'bang'.

He took a few deep breaths and wiped the sweat off his forehead before looking at the youths below.

"Everyone."

"Today is the day that you will all join Eternal Night. I'm very happy to see all of you. This means that the Empire has obtained new and energetic blood."

"Please introduce yourselves first. After all, in the years to come, all of you will become each other's companions and comrades."

"Starting from the first row."

In the first row, a male student stood up and said: "I am Qian Wuzhou. I was originally exploring an ancient Noble Artifact Card when I entered some ruins and triggered a mechanism. In order to save my brothers, I couldn't avoid it and died."

A female student stood up and said: "I am Bai Yu. I had just killed a few soldiers when I was hit by a large-scale Demonic Light Obliterating Cannon and died on the battlefield."

The old man cut her off: "You're only 14-15 years old and you're already on the battlefield?"

"The Empire is about to be destroyed." the girl said expressionlessly.

"So that's how it is. In Purgatory, death and war are eternal themes. Hah — —" The old man shook his head and gestured for her to sit down.

Another male student stood up and said: "I am Libertas. I'm a low-ranking member of a noble family. Because I didn't stop in a duel and killed the family head's youngest son, I was hacked to death by the family head's axe.

The old man nodded and said: "The quality of your group is quite good. I will teach you well."

One by one, the youths stood up and introduced themselves.

When it was Liu Ping's turn, he stood up and said: "I am Liu Ping. I died when I was fighting over a woman."

Everyone laughed, the heavy atmosphere instantly melted away.

After everyone finished introducing themselves, the old man coughed lightly and said:

"Everyone."

"To put it simply — —"

"To be able to reach the Empire's territory at the moment of your death, this is all of your luck."

Luck?

The youths all looked confused.

Liu Ping thought for a bit and said in his mind: "Activate 'Exclusive Information Collection', target: the old man on the podium."

A short line of burning text quickly appeared:

[Activated.]

[What he's about to say will be exclusive information that meets your requirements.]

On the podium, the old man's lips twitched a bit, but he didn't say anything else.

He looked at the youths and muttered: "You youths who just died probably don't know what fear is. Very well, I'll tell you about it."

"You must have heard of the existence of Divinities in the infinite worlds of Purgatory.

"The Divinities have countless methods. The Divinities put the recently dead and the recently destroyed worlds into the Eternal Night, causing these worlds to fall into endless war. They make the recently dead believe that they're still alive and keep fighting for their lives.

"Those who perform well are then selected — —"

The old man took a deep breath and spoke with a calm tone: "The Divinities use the Life Ignition technique to control them, turning them into cards that work for the Divinities."

Inside the classroom, a commotion broke out, mixed with a few female screams.

Some of the youths were so scared that their faces went pale.

Liu Ping was confused: "The Life Ignition technique?"

The old man replied: "Yes, the Life Ignition technique — — - it burns the souls of the dead, giving them something to use. But after the war between the Divinities is over, the souls of the dead will be completely extinguished."

Liu Ping said: "In other words, they're using the dead as disposable tools of war."

The old man spoke with a cold tone: "Indeed, those souls will only wake up at the very last moment. Their souls will be irredeemably burned away, and at that moment, they'll fall into unimaginable pain and sorrow."

Liu Ping fell silent.

He suddenly recalled the statue of Lady Agony that he found in the church when he first arrived at Dark Mist Town.

At the time, the statue unleashed a spell:

"Holy Spirit Augmented Shield • Burning Life."

Not only that, when he brought the tactical squad back to Dark Mist Town, they hurriedly brought another statue here.

The truth was finally revealed.

— — -It turns out that this statue was used to pick slaves nearby and burn their lives to serve Lady Agony.

Liu Ping's eyes flashed with killing intent.

Although I've saved most of the cultivators here, some of them had already been picked out.

How pitiful their fates were.

Liu Ping stood up and spoke to the old man on the podium: "Thank you for your explanation, it helped me understand something very important."

The old man nodded and sighed: "I don't know why I suddenly have to talk about such a heavy matter today, but it's good for you to listen, only then will you understand how precious it is to be able to freely sit here and listen to the lecture."

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Another young man asked: "Are we actually free in this place? We've all been drawn into Cards — — in Purgatory, there must be a Card user controlling us."

The old man waved his hand dismissively: "No, this is Eternal Night, of course there won't be a Card user controlling you. What you need to do is to work hard to improve yourselves, to become a Combatant and fight to protect everyone here."

Another young man spoke up: "If there's a war, then there must be a Card user controlling us, otherwise, how would we be able to display our strength?"

The old man smiled: "We have an AI war system, it's responsible for assigning each of us according to a fair strategy."

"You can do that? Doesn't that mean everyone is equal? "one of the young men exclaimed in shock.

"That's right, the Sequence is absolutely fair — — this way, we've broken the slavery and enslaved concept of Purgatory" the old man nodded in satisfaction.

Liu Ping didn't continue to listen.

New lines of prompts kept appearing in front of his eyes.

[Attention]

[In 24 hours, you will face your first Divine Seat Combat]

[The current time has been determined to be 5 years ago]

[Aldrich's deck from 5 years ago has been determined to be: Slave deck]

[You have a certain chance of defeating him, saving Yana's life and allowing this Divine Combat to continue]

[Please immediately increase your Card grade!]