Chapter 127: Director Silver: The Old Man Doesn’t Follow the Code of Honor! (Two-in-One)
In the present world, at the Tower of Secrets, beside the Era Tombstone.
Suddenly, an incredibly bright and dazzling light burst forth from the shimmering curtain, resembling the brilliance of the sun.
The originally quiet and dim Tower of Secrets was instantly illuminated as if it were broad daylight.
“What the heck!”
“My eyes!”
“This old man doesn’t follow the code of honor; he’s actually throwing flashbangs!”
Director Silver cried out in pain, covering his eyes with his fluffy white tail, rolling on the ground in agony.
Originally, in the live stream of the transmission curtain—
Rast had fallen into darkness on the cliff, declaring his betrayal with the classic villainous laughter of “You come with me, and there’ll be no trouble,” enthusiastically beating up the little girl named Grey.
Director Silver was also watching with great interest.
However, he didn’t expect that an old man with white hair and a scruffy appearance would suddenly appear out of nowhere.
Initially, Director Silver was curious about the background of this new character and what role he would play.
But soon, the old man rubbed a flashbang together and flashed Director Silver so hard that he became dizzy.
On the other side, Ophelia, who was also intently watching the live stream, was much calmer.
Dark liquid particles swirled around her, gathering to form a pair of sunglasses-like objects that covered her eyes, shielding her from the dazzling light emitted from the curtain.
Even so, a hint of seriousness appeared on Ophelia’s porcelain-like face.
“Strange.”
“It shouldn’t be like this.”
After rolling on the floor while covering his eyes with his tail and thereby saving Professor Barbarossa the cleaning work for today, Director Silver finally managed to regain his composure.
He peeked out from behind his tail: “With this amount of light, it actually blinds me, the head of the Magical Creatures Research Institute?”
Though Director Silver often seemed a bit reclusive, lazy, and useless.
This did not mean he was truly incompetent.
Not to mention the minuscule light from the curtain; even the life-threatening strike from an extraordinary being could not harm Director Silver in the slightest.
Yet, the radiant light that had burst forth earlier, although its intensity was mild and diminished quickly, had indeed affected Director Silver.
Ordinary level four or five extraordinary beings couldn’t achieve this.
“No, this is not just pure bright light—”
“But a kind of extraordinary characteristic.”
Ophelia’s crisp voice took on a more serious tone.
Her fingertips lightly touched the air, and one after another, illusory analytical runes and deduction symbols were drawn in mid-air, then activated.
Complex information flowed into tiny arcs of electricity, flickering in Ophelia’s wine-red eyes.
Moments later, the dark arcs of electricity flashing in her eyes, along with the analytical runes and reasoning symbols in the air… vanished without a trace.
In the center of the hall, the blinding light slowly faded, revealing the original appearance of the curtain.
Countless fine cracks were now visible on the curtain.
Then, with a crackle, crackle—
These fine cracks rapidly expanded, quickly covering the entire crystal screen.
Then, it shattered.
Countless sparkling fragments scattered across the ground.
In Ophelia’s eyes, a miniature control rune that was continuously spinning also quietly shattered.
“My previously placed transmission crystal on the cliff has lost contact and is likely affected by that light.”
“Based on the last data transmitted back by the sensing runes before the transmission crystal lost contact—”
“After analysis, it can be concluded that the power that shattered the transmission crystal is a special sequence ability of an unknown category outside all known long sequences in my database.”
“And the rank of that power exceeds the highest rank recorded in my database…”
“Preliminary estimates suggest its rank may likely be—”
“Legendary.”
Ophelia’s voice was cold, carrying a hint of shock.
All along, the night travelers of the present world have felt somewhat superior about everything in the Night World.
After all, everything in the Night World is a remnant of history that has already occurred and has perished… in a sense, they can be seen as fated failures.
Since night travelers can foresee the trajectory of echoes in the Night World and roam through different historical remnants, the technological level of the present world is far superior to most echoes still set in the medieval or steam age…
If the Night World were likened to a game, then night travelers would be the players, inherently feeling superiority over the NPCs within the game.
However—
This subtle sense of superiority shattered significantly upon witnessing a legendary figure from history.
Even Ophelia, as the second princess of the Granwill Empire, had never witnessed a legendary being in action before.
There had been legends on the Western continent, otherwise, it wouldn’t have been so easy to conquer the remnants of the first five epochs involving legendary combat power…
However, those recorded epochs of legends were far too ancient; the runes and alchemy technology were not yet developed, and there were only fragments of records with no complete data preserved.
Now, in the current era, no one is certain whether any legends still exist… even if there are, they haven’t shown themselves for a long time.
Thus, this was the first time Ophelia’s database recorded the precise parameters and data of a legendary strongman in action.
Clearly, the ranking difference was minimal, but it differed by several magnitudes from the values of level six peaks.
It was as if one could crush everything with no regard for reason, completely overturning Ophelia’s past understanding and metrics for extraordinary combat power.
However—
The civilization of the Sixth Epoch, with such legendary strongmen, ultimately met a fate of ruin, becoming only echoes of the past that can briefly resurface in the Night World.
What about the present?
What about this epoch we belong to, which is numbered as the Seventh Epoch?
Will it eventually follow in the footsteps of the six epochs that have already perished in the history of the Night World, stepping into the same fate—
The decline of eras, the annihilation of civilizations.
In hundreds of years, in the new epochs and newborn civilizations… will the next generation of night travelers point and comment on the traces we left in the Night World, just as we are doing now?
A trace of confusion flashed through Ophelia’s wine-red eyes.
“Uh?”
“You mean, that old man who looked scruffy, with white hair… turned out to be a legendary being, and he’s following an unfamiliar sequence we didn’t know about before?”
“Is this what you humans call ‘judging a book by its cover’?”
Director Silver exclaimed in surprise, wide-eyed.
His nerves were evidently more robust, and he didn’t have the same associations as Ophelia… thus he couldn’t grasp the confusion in the second princess’s mind.
Seeing this, Ophelia couldn’t help but let out a helpless sigh.
So, she had been playing the lute to a ferret earlier.
“Yes, a completely new sequence outside of our known sequences.”
She nodded. In her wine-red eyes, the dark arcs of electricity surged again, searching through the relevant data stored in her mechanic’s database.
Moments later, Ophelia spoke again: “From the characteristics presented, the new sequence long stage mastered by that legendary strongman…”
“Is likely the ‘Sun’ sequence that previously only existed in the hypothetical discussions of the Ruins Institute.”
“Based on its rarity, the ‘Sun’ sequence long stage should also have the characteristic of being ‘unique.'”
The echoes of history in the Night World span the entirety of six epochs of human civilization.
As the night travelers continued their long exploration of the Night World, Starry University and the Granwill Empire enriched their understanding of long sequence stages.
It was akin to how chemists could predict the existence of certain elements before they were actually discovered.
As an institute specializing in intelligence about the Night World and research on the extraordinary systems of various epochs, the Starry University’s Ruins Institute had made corresponding predictions, speculations, and hypotheses about those unrecorded unknown long sequences.
But speculations are just speculations; only when a true extraordinary being that has stepped into this long sequence is discovered can the hypothesis be validated, confirming the existence of this sequence.
“The dazzling light from just now that almost blinded Little Ferret should be the ability of a ‘Sun’ sequence extraordinary being, a true brilliance of the blazing sun.”
“The saying ‘Do not look directly at the sun, or it will burn your eyes,’ which should only apply to ordinary people, was elevated to the level of a tangible rule by a legendary figure of the Sun sequence.”
Ophelia explained: “Even crossing the world barrier between the Night World and the present world, despite transmitting through the transmission crystal, this legendary rule still exists and acts upon us.”
“d*mn, this old man is really sneaky!”
Director Silver cursed: “Relying on his unique sequence, thinking he’s something special, huh? Loves tossing flashbangs around, does he?”
“You better not let me catch you; if I catch you in reality, I’ll rip your white beard off.”
Ophelia: …
There are so many points to criticize, it’s hard to even start.
Is it possible that you, Director Silver, are also the unique sequence long stage ‘Moon’?
Moreover, if you ever meet that legendary being of the Sun sequence in reality and he finds out you were speaking ill of him behind his back, I think you’ll likely have to run away.
Let’s not even mention the rank difference… the Moon versus the Sun; just looking at the names of the sequences, you’re already at a disadvantage.
After spending so much time with this ferret director, Ophelia felt that her once proud intelligence was being assimilated by him.
“Oh no, this is bad!”
Director Silver suddenly stomped his foot halfway through his sentence.
“If that old man really is a legend, then Rast is done for!”
“From that earlier situation, it was clear that old man was making a move on that kid.”
From Director Silver and Ophelia’s perspective, they didn’t really care about the dispute between Grey and Rast, the ideological conflict of the Guardian.
After all, Rast’s identity is a night traveler, while the echo of the Night World is merely an already historical illusion…
As long as they can complete their mission and gain benefits from it, other night travelers have played far more ruthlessly in historical echoes than Rast… they can find all kinds of heinous war crimes.
But at this moment, as the transmission crystal shattered and the curtain dissipated,
Director Silver and Ophelia could not see what happened next… and could only speculate based on the final scene.
“It should be fine… in the energy wave data transmitted before the transmission crystal completely shattered, it seemed to carry the aura of another legendary rank, which clashes with that of the Sun sequence legendary we saw earlier.”
“However, this other legendary’s sequence does not seem so special; it appears to be of the ‘Fertility’ long stage.”
“Besides, if I’m not mistaken, this whole situation should be part of my brother-in-law Rast’s plan.”
Ophelia’s eyes cleared as the arcs of electricity dissipated, and she spoke.
“Moreover, more importantly…”
“I’m actually more concerned about the content of their earlier conversation.”
“‘Guardian,’ and… ‘Graveminder.'”
“The Graveminder, this secret organization, seems to have had an extremely terrifying influence in the Sixth Epoch, perhaps directly interfering with the final outcome of that epoch’s human civilization.”
“And they, surprisingly did not perish along with the Sixth Epoch…”
“But have persisted into the present.”
As soon as she finished her self-reflective remark,
The next moment, the previously closed door suddenly swung open.
“Little Princess.”
“Your subordinate seems to have an urgent report. I told her about your situation, but she insists on coming in.”
Professor Barbarossa’s robust voice rang out.
Then, accompanied by the sound of clashing metal, a tall woman dressed in magnificent heavy armor entered the Epoch Hall.
She did not glance at Director Silver but walked straight to Ophelia’s front, kneeling on one knee.
The sound of heavy armor striking the ground echoed with a hard thud.
“Kate, what’s the matter?”
“I previously instructed you to track the clues regarding the secret organization known as the ‘Graveminder’ through the leads of the Bronze Rose, didn’t I?”
Ophelia looked at the woman in heavy armor in front of her, her gaze suddenly pausing slightly: “You’re injured?”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
Kate maintained her position on one knee and answered respectfully: “Following Your Highness’s orders, I traced the clues left by the Bronze Rose, pursuing its connections with the ‘Graveminder.'”
“At first, everything was going smoothly.”
“But just as I was about to make progress and track down a core figure, I was obstructed by a mysterious person.”
She pointed to the deep, clear puncture wound on her chestplate, stained with deep red bl**d.
“This injury was inflicted during combat with the opponent.”
“A mysterious person? Do you have any leads?” Ophelia frowned.
“I can’t be certain, but…”
Kate hesitated for a moment but ultimately continued.
“Considering the opponent’s fighting style, Night Blade ability, and the strength to injure me in one hit… I suspect.”
“The opponent may possibly be the new Director of the Supervisory Bureau from the military—”
“Ingrid.”
(End of chapter)
