Chapter 184: Chapter184-An Unlimited Special Quest Is Triggered

John’s eyes flickered at her words.

Although her explanation had been somewhat vague, he understood the general meaning.

After three hundred years of selection and tempering, the surviving players of her generation had all reached the level cap of their world and obtained immortality.

However, advancing any further was impossible. Their levels had been completely locked, leaving them unable to break through the restriction.

They did not even have a path to becoming gods.

Curious, John asked, "Approximately how strong are people at your world’s level cap?"

Odelle answered truthfully, "Almost everyone can split mountains and carve open roads with a casual strike. Flying through the skies and burrowing through the earth are nothing extraordinary to us.

"If measured by ordinary standards of combat power, we players are practically invincible gods in the mortal realm of Hess Continent."

John’s expression shifted slightly upon hearing this.

He had not expected her to speak so boldly, claiming that they were effectively gods among mortals.

However, after giving it some thought, it did not seem that strange. After all, they were veteran players who had existed for three hundred years. It was only natural for them to possess such abilities.

Nevertheless, to test the truth of her words, John decided to conduct a small experiment.

With a thought, he directly took out his Staff of Death.

It was an SSS-grade piece of equipment. Its attribute panel could barely be considered passable in his eyes.

If Odelle considered this equipment extremely powerful, it would prove that the overall combat power of her plane was not particularly high.

Conversely, if she regarded the staff’s attributes as mediocre, that could only mean one thing: the world she came from was far superior to his own.

"What is your evaluation of this item?" John asked, pushing the staff toward her.

Odelle picked up the staff and began examining it carefully.

A moment later, shock spread across her face.

"My lord, I can sense an extraordinarily dense aura of death contained within this equipment! Even the greatest necromancers on our continent would be far beneath it!

"My lord, this equipment is unquestionably a law-infused artifact of unimaginable rarity. Even among the max-level players of our world, such an item would be exceedingly uncommon!"

By this point, the expression in Odelle’s eyes as she looked at John had completely transformed into reverence.

Never in her wildest dreams had she imagined that the god before her would casually take out a law-infused artifact.

As expected of a lord from the God Realm. His generosity was truly extraordinary.

However, after thinking about it again, Odelle wondered whether such equipment might be nothing special in the eyes of a lord from the God Realm. If so, her shocked reaction just now had probably made her look like a frog at the bottom of a well, ignorant of the vastness of the outside world.

Seeing Odelle’s reaction, John now had a rough estimate of the combat strength of those veteran players.

The level cap of Hess Continent is probably somewhere between Level 400 and Level 500 at most.

For players above Level 500, equipment of this grade can already be considered nothing out of the ordinary.

Yet Odelle became so excited after seeing it. That proves equipment of this level must be extremely rare on Hess Continent.

However, this is only the combat power of their mortal realm. I still don’t know whether the God Realm she mentioned is truly inhabited entirely by gods.

If an entire world is filled with deities, then its overall combat power would still be rather terrifying.

Thinking of this, John immediately asked, "Who imposed the level restriction on the players of your world?

"Do you have any clues?

"Was it the gods of the God Realm who sealed your ability to continue advancing?"

Hearing John’s question, Odelle froze.

From the angle of his question, she suddenly discovered something astonishing.

This lord before her did not seem to come from the God Realm at all.

Could it be that the dimension this lord comes from is even higher than the God Realm?

The instant this thought appeared, Odelle’s eyes erupted with brilliant light.

If that was truly the case, then it meant this lord might actually possess the ability to help the players of Hess Continent break through their level restriction!

"Hiss..."

At the thought that she might finally have a chance to break through the level limit after being trapped at the same level for nearly a hundred years, Odelle could not help drawing in a sharp breath.

At this moment, she no longer even dared meet John’s eyes directly. Lowering her voice, she answered, "The reason we know there is a level restriction is because we eventually discovered that no matter how many missions we completed or how many monsters we killed, we could no longer obtain any experience.

"Some players attempted to ascend into the God Realm. However, the moment they flew beyond a certain height, the God Realm sent down a layer of divine lightning that struck them dead on the spot. Once killed by that lightning, they could never be revived again.

"That is why, to this day, not a single player among us dares attempt to ascend into the God Realm, nor has anyone managed to break through the level restriction.

"Everyone simply lives their days in a daze, with no idea what they are supposed to do in the future."

Upon hearing this, John became almost completely certain that the level restriction placed upon those players had definitely been the work of the gods in the God Realm.

After all, from the perspective of those gods, they had always lived within the God Realm while mortals remained in the mortal realm. The two sides had remained clearly separated, peacefully coexisting without interfering with one another.

Then, all of a sudden, a batch of players appeared who possessed the potential to break through and reach the God Realm!

If the resources of the God Realm were limited, then having a new batch of players ascend and compete with them for those resources would naturally provide no benefit to the gods already living there.

Therefore, it was only logical that they would use every method available to seal off the players’ path of ascension. The divine lightning was clearly one such measure.

The only thing John could not understand was how those gods had managed to prevent the players from obtaining experience altogether.

Logically speaking, the status panel system carried by the players should exist on a higher level than those gods.

Just as John was deep in thought, the sound of a system notification suddenly rang beside his ears.

[You have obtained an Unlimited Special Quest. Please check the Quest Panel for details!]

"A quest was actually triggered?"

John’s eyes moved slightly. He immediately opened his quest panel to check.

[Break Through the Seal]

[Quest Requirement]: Travel to Hess Continent and attempt to break through the seal.

[Quest Reward]: Obtain the identity of a Hess Continent player.

[Quest Time Limit]: None.

After reading the quest information, John was somewhat dumbfounded.

He had not expected this quest to actually ask him to travel to Hess Continent and break through the level restriction there.

Could this be considered the game discovering that its own players were being bullied, then deciding to ask him to go over there and settle the score on its behalf?

John suddenly found the idea rather amusing.

However, he was still very interested in the reward of obtaining the identity of a Hess Continent player.

After all, those people are veteran players from three hundred years ago. If I can obtain player status over there, does that mean I may have a chance to come into contact with the worldline from three hundred years ago?

Moreover, if I gain an identity in their world, I may also have an opportunity to enter the God Realm.

John’s breathing grew slightly faster.

However, he quickly realized that there was a difficult problem standing in his way.

The question is, how am I supposed to travel to Hess Continent?

For a moment, John found himself troubled.

Yet at that exact moment, the Holy Grail hanging at his waist suddenly emitted a strange movement.

"Hmm?"

Sensing that something was unusual, John immediately took it out to examine it.

To his surprise, he discovered that, at some unknown point, a new function had appeared within the Holy Grail!

The moment he clearly saw the effect of that function, shock surged through his heart.

"It can even do something like this?"