Chapter 217:

The urn containing the ashes of “Dwarf Victim Mr. X” was placed on the wooden shelf in Murphy’s office at dawn. For some strange sense of “ceremony”, Tris even found a dwarf-style ceramic urn to hold these ashes.

Actually, according to dwarven tradition, using a metal container would obviously be more formal.

For example, Brass Dwarves would use brass or gold urns, Silver Dwarves naturally use silver urns, and Frost Dwarves generally use cold iron urns. It is precisely because of this unique tradition that there are always many valuable items in dwarven grand tombs. However, there aren’t many grave robbers on the continent who dare to go to dwarf cemeteries to steal things. The dwarves’ pettiness and maintenance of traditions are unimaginable to humans. If you offend them, it means this debt will be remembered until you die.

In extreme cases, it may even affect future generations, after all, dwarves are long-lived races, and they really hold grudges.

However, Murphy felt that even if this urn of ashes was sent back to Frosthold in the Great Wilderness according to dwarven tradition, those Frost Dwarves might not necessarily want it.

This thing has been “contaminated” after all.

Even if the Master Witch Hunters did their best to purify it, it would be difficult to bring more dignity to this unjustly dead person.

Being used by Dusk even after death, nearly causing a “scorched earth” tragedy thousands of miles away in Transia. If that dwarf Golden powerhouse knew about this in the afterlife, he might really have to thank the vampires for the “redemption” they brought him.

“I’ll trouble you to ‘stay’ here for a while, Mr. X,” Murphy said, placing the dwarf’s ash urn upright. He gently patted the urn and said in a strange tone:

“When we figure out your identity and background, we’ll send you back to your hometown for a grand funeral. Oh, by the way, I heard from Tris that your tradition is to be buried in the earth, but Crimson Citadel doesn’t have a Gaia temple, so I found this for you.”

He placed a package of soil that Maxim had dug up from underground around the urn, saying:

“Hopefully this will add a bit more dignity to your already departed life... What the hell? Is this thing trying to reanimate?”

Murphy had just piled the soil around the ash urn when he saw faint earthen-yellow light emanating from around the soil, like invisible hands embracing the urn’s surroundings. But the vampire lord strongly suspected if he was hallucinating due to lack of sleep.

Because this anomaly disappeared in the next second.

Considering that Maxim had randomly dug up the soil from a cave, and that his vampire descendant was certainly not a proper Earth Priest, Murphy’s expression quickly became strange.

He knew that he, this vampire fiend, had once again “encountered the supernatural”.

He stepped back, wiped the dirt off his fingers with a handkerchief, and then summoned the semi-transparent character interface before his eyes, opening the deep data mode to carefully check the battle records. Sure enough, he saw a very familiar record:

【07:25:39 – You placed fresh soil around the ash urn of ‘Dwarf Victim Mr. X’, attempting to give this unknown deceased some dwarven last rites.

07:25:40 – Your prayer for the mysteriously identified Victim Mr. X alerted an Astral Realm Great Spirit related to dwarven civilization through the earth’s perception.

07:25:41 – The Dwarven Deity, Master of All Mountains and Earth, Foundation of the World, The Unbreakable One, Mother Earth Gaia, cast her gaze upon you.

07:25:42 – Gaia discovered you’re a vampire, She made a disgusted expression, but She quickly realized your uniqueness, you attracted Gaia’s attention.

07:25:43 – Gaia saw your act of bestowing final dignity to Her poor offspring, She was very pleased.

07:25:44 – Mother Earth bestowed a blessing, the land of Transia became more stable and fertile, your territory will not experience any earth-related disasters for 12 months, all planting activities will yield an additional 10% harvest.

07:25:45 – Gaia shifted her gaze, She temporarily lost interest in you.

07:25:46 – The attention of the Astral Realm Great Spirit disappeared.】

“Why do I feel this isn’t surprising at all?” Murphy sat back in his chair, couldn’t help but rub his brow. If it were an ordinary vampire, or even a veteran like Tris who had experienced great storms, they would certainly panic when noticed by a deity.

But this “one-of-a-kind” treatment among vampires was not the first time Murphy had tasted it.

First it was Avalon, then the God of the North Wind, and now Mother Earth. Murphy increasingly had a strange feeling that he guessed his journey would ultimately involve contact with all the faith lords currently on this continent.

It’s hard to say if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but so far, his contact as a vampire – a piece of shit in the eyes of deities – with three Astral Realm Great Spirits has been quite “friendly”. Not only friendly, but Avalon even gave him a blessing.

This is probably something no one would believe if Murphy said it, but that’s the fact.

The deities don’t reject him, and coupled with old Finoch’s prophecy before his death, Murphy increasingly feels that his own “background” is mysterious.

“So, what exactly is ‘Alpha’?” The vampire lord couldn’t come to an effective conclusion no matter how hard he racked his brains, but he quickly realized that he shouldn’t waste time on these strange encounters. He currently has more important matters that urgently need to be dealt with.

So Murphy grasped his core bead, first checking the status of the players.

After confirming that all little players except for the unfortunate ones who died had entered sleep mode, he copied the pre-edited text to the forum, and soon an official post was refreshed on the forum:

【《Reality Realm》 Today’s Online Update Announcement:

Yo, cute babies, seems like you’ve stirred up something big in the game again! The development team’s deadly chain of phone calls woke me up from my baby-like sweet sleep to hurry and release an announcement.

Maxim, who is eager to see warriors appear, has prepared rewards and opponents for those who are about to make a name for themselves in the Fight Club. The Blood Pact Knights from the Dark Mountain range also plan to establish their undefeated reputation in Transia, and there are dangerous elite creatures from the wilderness or underground waiting to be subjugated.

What are you waiting for?

Hurry up and get a ticket through various channels to participate in this carnival of blood and gold.

Oh, by the way, for new players, if you don’t know what profession to choose, why not start your gaming career as a ‘Gladiator’.

Win with rewards, lose without punishment! Guaranteed profit, waiting for you to fight!

P.S.:

After the 3-month season event ends, players with over 100 victories will receive the limited title of ‘Duelist’ and a cool mysterious mount gifted by the Baron of Leim.

If you can achieve a series of harsh consecutive victory achievements, there are mysterious grand prizes waiting for you.

It is said that Lord Murphy once obtained quite powerful treasures in the Blood Vulture Clan’s vault, but I believe he will only bestow these truly divine weapons and equipment to the bravest of the brave!

4. A new profession system will soon be open, revealing in advance that it’s the favorite of little pervert players who like to play dark flow gameplay.

5. Optimized more realistic physics engine and added more interactive intelligent NPCs.

6. Fixed a small number of bugs.】

As usual, this post attracted many comments below, but the players who were struggling in the game at this time were not very active. Instead, the “appetite-whetting party” who couldn’t get into the game were wailing all over.

Border Town Wanderer: 【Damn! How come it’s updated again! We haven’t even gotten in yet, and we’re already behind by a version? Can we even play this?】

Master Ziwei: 【This game doesn’t even exist, right? Is it that a bunch of administrators’ alt accounts in the forum are just teasing us? Hey, don’t pull me! I’m not crazy! This must be a non-existent urban legend, right?

Unless you give me a helmet, I absolutely won’t believe it!】

Mustard Madman: 【Freeloading, right? Why don’t you divine for yourself?】

Master Ziwei: 【Divine your sister! Not in the mood to divine, okay.】

Honest Dog Egg: 【So, can someone tell me when the next invitation code will be released? My good buddy Ah Yuen plays games every day and doesn’t come out to team up with me anymore, which proves this ghost game must be more fun than the games on the market.

Ah, it’s so frustrating, give me an invitation code quickly, please, Brother Alpha! Give me a chance to be your dog, I can also suck up!】

Night Phantom Bat Puppet: 【Brother, you’re playing a bit pervertedly.】

Vomit Sauce: 【Uh, has anyone seen ‘Half Off With Full Coverage’? Wasn’t he said to be in this game too? How come I haven’t seen him post on the forum?】

Border Town Wanderer: 【??? How do you know his ID? Is this online family searching again?】

Vomit Sauce: 【Hey, don’t mention it, it’s a long story. Anyway, if you see him appear, just @ me, thanks everyone.】

Multi-Turret Chief Disciple: 【Ahhh, I just dreamed that I got the game helmet, I dreamed that I was flying in the sky with several vampires, damn, how exciting it was in the dream, how disappointed I am after waking up.

Alpha Company, you’ve done all the bad things!

@Alpha, Brother Alpha, give me a helmet, please, you’ve made middle-aged people lose sleep with your constantly released CGs.】

Alpha: 【Not that bad, brother, really not that bad.】

Master Ziwei: 【A wild administrator appeared! Great Ball! Throw!】

Terra Nova: 【Administrator little brother! Tell me honestly, is there really any inside information about the invitation code distribution? Everyone is waiting to hear.】

Corki the Pilot: 【Give me a helmet, brother, can I buy it? You give the card number, I’ll press zero with my eyes closed, it’s all fate whether I pay more or less.】

Alpha: 【I’ve said that the factory is already working overtime, everyone please don’t rush! At most one month, okay! I promise on behalf of the company, there will be a new batch of helmets distributed in at most one month.

However, this indeed has to be distributed according to the testing progress, meaning that the little players currently in the game must push the story progress to the next stage first.】

Border Town Wanderer: 【Got it! I’ll become a cyber overseer right now! If they dare not play the game properly and come to the forum to show off, we’ll severely whip them!】

Alpha: 【Uh, that’s not what I meant, but. whatever makes you happy.】