On the hillside behind Hogwarts, quiet and peaceful, three men dressed slightly ~ were sitting together.

The one on the left is wearing a simple and loose sturdy cloth shirt. He looked like a laborer who often did manual work, or a more old-school explorer, and there was a sense of vicissitudes in both his appearance and expression.

A long tear had been torn open on the chest of his shirt, which directly exposed the wide, fresh scar inside, and the stubble of the woven material of the garment was soaked in his own blood.

The one in the middle wears a clerical robe in red and white with gold and blue accents. He himself is constantly exuding a holy atmosphere, except for the action of sitting directly on the mountain steps, which is not so serious, and the overall appearance is still very harmonious.

The one on the right is wearing a common costume called [Hunting Suit], which is the general standard of the Awakened.

It is generally a combination of close-fitting trousers and a blouse, and there are also loose cropped tops with hooded capes, and the one on the right is wearing the latter.

On the left, naturally, is the knight uncle who is resting and recovering.

In the middle, there is the Know-It-Woo Dog who has just taken over the rebirth of his body.

On the right, it was Wang Shui, who had carefully confirmed that the other two had no space-related abilities, and came over to eavesdrop.

……

"After you go back, do you want to return to [Dragon Hunting]? Big brother, they miss you very much, but you have to go and convince the little ones yourself, they don't forgive you for your defection. ”

Uncle Knight sent out an invitation and took out a high-energy snack to replenish the wear and tear of the recovery body.

The shield dog was not polite, and ate together.

Shield Dog usually doesn't deliberately pretend to be holy and serious, that is his natural temperament, but in front of old friends, his temperament will become more casual.

After listening to Uncle Knight's words, Shield Dog smiled bitterly and replied:

"Heh, it's not just the little master who has opinions, right? Thinking about it for more than a year, I also had the luxury of hoping that everyone would forget and imagine how I would go back in disgrace, but who would have thought that [Dragon Hunting] would never return to the first level......

I killed three fourth-order squad leaders, and everyone's "battlefield mission reward weight" fell directly out of the first gear, and in more than a year, how many brothers died for that little resource?

Senior brother, [Dragon Hunting] is no longer a small circle of a dozen of us, it is two or three hundred people-I don't want to face those frivolous accusations anymore......"

The knight uncle, who is known as the [senior brother], naturally accepted the shield dog's true feelings.

“…… It's okay, you've got out of the identity of the Awakened, you don't need to rush to improve yourself, there is a vast world waiting for you to meet, go farther......

But! Don't be arrogant because your strength has become stronger, leave the front line of chaotic management, leave us, you have to put away the fault of liking to preach, don't teach others knowledge casually, and 10 million! Don't just move up the ranks!

Also, don't blame Big Brother. ”

Shield Dog smiled slightly:

"I understand your concern, but I'm really not proud of it.

You know how wasteful I was back then. After going through several worlds, I didn't even learn basic combat skills, everyone was dragged down by me, and I suffered so much, how could I be proud, how could I use my life indiscriminately.

Every time I went up the ranks, I was protected by everyone, and it will be like this in the future...... So, even if I get out of the system first, I will never forget my dream of spending my old age with everyone.

As for the eldest brother's problem, helping the eldest brother solve those inner ghosts before, it was also a plan that I took the initiative to propose, but the means were too violent, so that the cronies of those inner ghosts, as well as the brothers below, could not accept it.

I haven't changed, I'm the easiest one, and now everyone still has to worry about my psychological condition?

And I don't want to go back to [Dragon Hunt], but I still want to prepare a place for everyone to stay in advance.

Although it was a parting after going out, really, everyone should not be so sad, we just can't meet often, and it's not that we can't communicate online.

It's the little masters...... I have to ask you to explain to me that they have never been truly awakened, and they see the world too purely. ”

Shield Dog's long words made Uncle Knight very comfortable, although he still refused to help explain, but now, at least his expression was much softer.

Alas, to be happy is to sigh, he is used to sighing.

In the past year or so, [Dragon Hunt] has changed too much, and Uncle Knight is also much older, in fact, he is not much older than Shield Dog.

In the fifteen years since he entered this fantasy world, he has also carefully observed the changes of the shield dog.

He was very afraid, afraid that the gentle and sunny junior brother back then would become some kind of monster, in fact, not only him, but also the brothers waiting outside.

The world really isn't just about fighting and killing.

Even if it's them, system mercenaries and war hounds, the vast majority of them don't enjoy killing, they just get used to it......

Under the control of the system, the awakened people of each combat system are under tremendous pressure - survival pressure, resource pressure, level pressure, and various deadly environmental pressures.

As long as they don't climb to a certain height, even if it's a big hunting group like them, not everyone's life is in danger? Don't you struggle to live every day?

The Awakened have lost their families in their previous lives forever and have been forcibly bound by the system.

In the face of all kinds of pressure, most people choose to empty themselves with low-level entertainment and indulgence.

A small number of people may have higher tastes and styles, but all of them will have some inexplicable sense of emptiness, an emptiness that does not know where they will die tomorrow......

They are motivated, they kill, but they are more, just want a stronger stimulus to fill the void.

And the group of [Dragon Hunting] is slightly different, under the pressure of the system, they choose to use the friendship they have come along the way to sublimate into a relationship similar to family affection.

They fill that inexplicable emptiness with higher, more extravagant emotions.

This kind of affection is not unique to them, but only a very small number of groups can have such a sincere and strong family affection.

Wang Shui, who was eavesdropping on the side, suddenly felt a little inexplicably envious.

is also a well-versed person, and he is also unable to obtain abilities in the early stage, but he has not met a group of companions who support each other.

However, as soon as this envy appeared, it was offset by the warm resonance in the [Sylvia Network], and in the internal network, there seemed to be some kind of music that hit the soul, and the comfortable soul fluctuations gently wrapped everyone.

The aqua regia, which was in an invisible state, naturally raised the corners of his mouth.

Uncle Knight and Shield Dog are still chatting, but the content behind is much less informative.

About half an hour, Uncle Knight suddenly stood up and said:

"Okay, my injuries have recovered, there will definitely be no concern from the system, and we should leave.

Big brother, they're still waiting outside, anyway, you're not in a hurry to leave, let's go out and talk to them first. ”

Shield Dog smiled and nodded, then pulled out a blank secret card from the priest's robes.

After activating the light effect, the shield dog disappears in place, but the secret card remains.

Uncle Knight gently caught the falling secret card, then turned and walked towards the castle of Hogwarts.

On that secret card, there is a lifelike portrait of a shield dog.

Wang Shui didn't follow, he just sat quietly for a while, and after hearing a loud explosion, he teleported back to his study.

At the same time, the system's prompt sounded -

[Main line warning! It has been less than 24 hours since the start of the "Proxy War", and the temporary squad of the Awakened in this world has not established more than two "War Cores", and the main mission is about to be judged a failure! 】

[Do the Awakened need to wait until the countdown is over?] 】

Wang Shui immediately chose no, and two seconds later, the sound and words of the system appeared in his field of vision again-

【Dream System Detection...... Failed the main quest "Proxy Wars...... Dynamic Penalty Calculation ......】

【Multiplayer Fantasy World Research and Judgment ......】

At this moment, the world all turned into a gentle white light, and Wang Shui subconsciously began to feel the changes in the nearby space.

For a moment, it was as if he had returned to the door of truth, to the feeling of being one with the world, only this time the world was much smaller.

At the same time, he also "sees" another wizarding world that is exactly the same, as well as a war world that is consistent with the war digital atlas.

The ability to space gave Wang Shui a new vision.

[World Tier: 3rd Tier]

[Hazard Scale: 4]

[Main Difficulty: 4]

【Side Difficulty: None】

[Completion: 0]

[Story Exploration: -191%]

【Overall Rating: F】(F-S)

[Main quest failed!] The punishment is as follows——]

[The special main story "Proxy War" fails, and the Awakened triggers the forced conscription mechanism, and within three days of returning to the Overworld, they must immediately board the designated transport ship and go to the random "Reality Frontline" to complete a certain number of backlog tasks!] 】

[Current remaining stay time: 5 minutes, is it going to return?] 】

Tsk, the miserable settlement panel made Wang Shui a little crying and laughing.

Although the main line of the war has failed and he still has to accept punishment, on the whole, Wang Shui is quite satisfied with this trip to the fantasy world.

First of all, they completed the study of mobile armor.

Secondly, Wang Shui himself has also gained a lot of additional knowledge and increased his knowledge.

After sorting out the magic book "Water Pollution", his basic spell-casting abilities of various levels were finally fused into -

【Caster Knowledge: No Genre (Mastery)】

And the problem of physical fitness being stuck by the race was also successfully ushered in a turnaround with the help of Master Xiao Chen's tailor-made cultivation method for him.

In the process of learning the cultivation system, Wang Shui also gained an understanding of space, and he even played at a super level to create a magical work such as "The Lost Key".

As a result, the [Imperial Dao Cunyi], which represents the spatial ability and cultivation system, has become Wang Shui's second master-level ability.

However, this ability has been stuck by Wang Shui himself, and he doesn't want the system to notice.

After that, Wang Shui reluctantly witnessed a simple and complex calculation.

During the whole performance, until the curtain ended, Wang Shui did not make any interference, he just calmly watched, calmly played the corpse, and calmly accepted the reality of the failure of the main mission.

After all, his teammates are either dead or don't play at all, and he really has no chance of winning by relying on his own million rebels.

Wang Shui's avoidance was not just out of cowardice, but more importantly, because it was really unnecessary - he really didn't need to fight to the death with the shield dog.

And Wang Shui didn't think about helping, after all, with the other party's carefulness, wanting to make friends in this environment would only attract suspicion and vigilance.

Wang Shui briefly combed through the experience of the past fifteen years, filtered out a large number of designs that did not work, and then chose to return.

However, the inspection of the system is not finished.

[A special mark of the fantasy world has been detected, and in this world, there are forbidden knowledge such as "mind control ability" and "special space ability", in order to prevent the spread of prohibited knowledge, the system will use "traceable memory scanning" and "ability effect scanning" on the awakened, please relax your mental cooperation. 】

came, the test that Wang Shui had expected was coming.

The system just notified and did not give Wang Shui a chance to refuse, but fortunately, Wang Shui had already prepared.

[At the end of the scan, no relevant experiences or abilities were found.] 】

As the system's final notification was issued, the light in front of Wang Shui's eyes was chaotic, and when he regained his sight, he had already returned to the main world.

Sure enough, as expected, it was safely cleared.

So, did aqua regia ever gain forbidden knowledge?

Well, of course, there is.

Wang Shui not only obtained forbidden knowledge, but even refined mind control spells such as [Soul Snatcher], and used the spatial knowledge of unregistered [Spatial Ciphertext] to develop master-level spatial abilities.

But he got away with it so easily? Didn't the system detect his small movements?

Hey, I really didn't find it.

Problems with knowledge and memory are not difficult to solve.

Wang Shui used [Brain Occlumency] and other mind control spells to edit false memories for himself, and sure enough, he succeeded in deceiving the system that did not have a lot of attention.

And he stuck the master-level spatial ability into a state to be tested, so that it was foolproof.

Returning to the Overworld, what appeared in front of Wang Shui was the appearance of a small town.

Wang Shui was standing in the interior of a square, surrounded by a sparse crowd of people and a few awakened people setting up stalls.

There is no doubt that this is a small town under the rule of the system.

When entering the wizarding world, Wang Shui entered directly through the [key], and after coming out, the system arranged for him to come to this town nearby.

After checking the map, Wang Shui found that this place was not far from the ruined city of [Rena], so after walking a certain distance outward, he took out a secret card.

Wang Shui didn't deliberately avoid the gaze around him, he activated the spatial ability with a big grin, and then the whole person began to become blurry and transparent.

After more than ten seconds of debugging, Wang Shui finally disappeared into the town completely.

And the awakened people around them all thought that Wang Shui relied on secret cards to use spatial abilities.

Their eyes made Wang Shui feel a lot more at ease.

(End of chapter)