NOVPUBIn the autumnal glow, the silhouettes of eleven people stood against the edge of the cliff. Silent and serene, they resembled eleven ancient statues.
Standing on the gravel-strewn road, the Challengers huddled in groups of two or three.
Ever since the detective unexpectedly vanished from the map, there was nobody to manage the next steps.
At present, the Young Master of the Business Association, who publicly provided the information, and Lanci the "lawyer", seemed to be the most trustworthy challengers besides the "detective".
However, because the information provided by them could be inferred or inspected through some special magic, they could not gain complete trust from everyone, just as the detective had.
The ambitious Young Master of the Business Association from Canberra was eager to take over the responsibilities from Detective Frey. Nonetheless, he was promptly silenced by a deadly stare from the siblings behind him.
Apparently, having this fool as a leader would only cause trouble and inexplicably incur hatred.
Meanwhile, Lanci only smiled and kept silent, maintaining his usual cordiality and politeness.
His thoughts remained a mystery to everyone.
It didn’t seem like he wanted to act as a temporary detective, or by the looks of it, he never wanted to become a detective at all.
The wind blew through the valley and crossed the group, bringing a subtle chill that scattered and reassembled the mist occasionally.
In this brief silence, the challengers began to calm down and reevaluate the situation.
Although the progress of the Shadow World had dramatically altered due to the extraordinary actions of the detective,
in any case, they still needed to wait for two days until the detective returned with answers.
During these two nights, it was highly likely that sacrifices would still be made.
No one knew if they were going to be the one.
Unless there were other experts who could further confront the traitors in these two days.
It was at this moment.
"I guess there are two people trying hard to act indifferent. It must be hard for them."
Lanci smiled calmly and murmured.
"...."
Listening to Lanci’s words that broke the silence,
the others were slightly taken aback.
They didn’t understand what he meant.
Hyperion was the fastest to grasp Lanci’s intention. She quickly chuckled while covering her mouth, showing a gloating face, and said:
"Yeah, so angry, why not jump down and catch the detective? There’s still time."
Under the long-term influence of Lanci, Hyperion felt that she had learned the refined taste of his tea.
However, when she tried to imitate it, it seemed to carry a bit of the flavor of an evil Duke’s daughter.
"...Someone must be really panicked."
After Hyperion helped Lanci to lead the rhythm, others seemed to gradually catch on.
"Yeah, how come their faces are not red yet?"
And so.
Starting with the first person to join the conversation,
The challengers began to mock the traitors viciously.
They felt a sense of liberation as if they were releasing all their suppressed feelings.
"Stupid-ass traitor, come out now and give us a bow, I promise we won’t kill you."
"Only two days left, and you’re still pretending."
"Keep it up and someone will start crying."
Even though these mocking words may not mean anything substantial,
anyone unwilling to join in, or anyone who ridicules these words, would arguably be very suspicious.
After enduring the psychological pressure of two hidden traitors for over three hours,
all normal challengers despised those two terrific actors with malicious intentions.
They wished they could haul them out and beat them up!
Previously, when the situation was unfavorable, it would only seem spiteful and desperate to rashly mock the traitor, and would only make the traitor even more triumphant. But now, with the divine intervention of the detective, the pressure on the Challenger and the traitor has reversed. Taking advantage of the freshly turned tide, the vicious mockery is a power punch to the traitor’s mental state!
The more critical point is ——
The traitor was already on the verge of mental explosion due to Frey’s top operations, and now he must pretend to fit in, laugh at his own predicament along with everyone else.
A pure test of resistance.
At the cliffside at this moment, the challengers were already a lot more relaxed, they were venting their emotions, and observing each other’s expressions like judges.
The mental resilience of the two traitors is evidently extremely strong.
Even with such humiliation and torture, they can maintain perfect acting.
But this seems to make the challengers even happier.
The Young Master of the Business Association is the most spirited in leading the mockery, his twins display an expression of helplessness, but they still echo his words.
And the war law pastors of the Cerryti Empire are quite ladylike and aren’t very good at cursing or sarcastic, they can only try to use some relatively polite words to mock the traitors.
As for the three clergy from the Northern Continent, the most explosively tempered is the Executioner, who started cursing directly, the Paladin and Priest are more restrained, but they have begun to pray for the traitors, it’s hard to tell whether this is a kind of advanced torture method.
Lanci, seeing everyone finally relaxing after a tense morning, crossed his arms and took a sigh of relief.
He reminds a psychologist who is concerned about everyone’s mood.
His concept is different from that of Frey’s. Frey seeks to solve problems efficiently, bustling everyone around since the morning.
Whereas, Lanci pursues a harmonious and loving atmosphere.
"..."
Hyperion turned her head to look at Lanci’s expression, she understood his thoughts completely.
This guy is definitely satisfied right now, thinking he’s successfully helped everyone ease their psychological pressure and did a good deed.
Hopeless.
If there were to be another teammate in the future, Hyperion really wished for someone who could join her in complaining about Lanci.
She had a lot to complain about but couldn’t vent it out, it was very uncomfortable.
In spite of this, Hyperion watched Lanci while also keeping a close eye on his every move.
Hyperion felt that after Frey’s operations, Lanci added more fuel to the fire, messing with the traitor’s mindset.
If willing to take a gamble, calling out the [Great Love Poet] could directly fast forward to the final battle.
But the problem with the Great Love Poet is that it doesn’t distinguish between enemies and allies, and is highly uncontrollable.
In this shadow world where the challengers gather together and mental pressure is immense, the Great Love Poet is undoubtedly the most dangerous summon.
It is completely unpredictable what will happen when this being is summoned.
If the Great Love Poet was summoned unexpectedly, it may cause different degrees of mental illness in the other normal challengers and even directly trigger total annihilation.
Previously in the hall of the sanctuary, the psychological pressure of the challengers was greater than that of the traitors, and if Lanci rashly summoned the Great Love Poet, he was more likely to be mistaken for a traitor who had taken the first action.
Even if the psychological pressure of the traitors is greater than that of the challengers now, choosing to kick off the war, regardless of the high probability of winning, there will likely be casualties among the normal challengers.
Even if they inadvertently kill a traitor, it could lead to the arrival of two Counts of the Blood Clan within a day.
The best outcome would be for everyone to band together and capture the traitors alive first.
Whether it’s the emergence of the two traitors in the Shadow World who have "intentions to harm the real world", or the hint implied by the "more likely to be attacked" due to Hyperion’s own [female actress] identity, both greats support the infiltration of the Resurrection Believers in this Shadow World.
For the graduation task, "Visiting the Original Stone Tablet- Sealed".
Hyperion knew that Lanci would definitely seize this rare opportunity to try to capture a Resurrection Believer in the Shadow World and extract intelligence!
So he probably wouldn’t rashly summon the Great Love Poet and overturn the table.
"Hyperion, why are you looking at me..."
Feeling Hyperion’s gaze, Lanci also turned his head, looking at her with confusion.
"Nothing."
Hyperion shook her head, she didn’t want to appreciate Lanci’s benevolence any longer.
Since Lanci is still naturally poised, it can only mean one thing.
From now on, he obviously has more ways to mess with the mindsets of those two traitors.
