What I did was run away from there. I tried not to think about it, tried to act normally, but the truth was that the destroyed city gave the creeps. The Black Dragon King was a necromancer dragon that cast a curse to zombify an entire kingdom. Even though I collected most of his blood when I killed it, what seeped into the Earth created an undead Dungeon, an open-air one. The crater now filled with water was an order of magnitude worse than that.
What the fuck did I do there? I knew I had blanks in my mory, I knew I screwed up over and over. It was driving crazy, so crazy that I barely interacted with the elves aside from introducing them. I might've overreacted with the priests too. I have no idea.
I used a fairy gate to the easternmost fairy ring in Fulgen and then slipped into the Ethereal. Then I flew to the plains. Ho. I landed on a hillock and decided to do sothing about my anxiety.
I checked my System notification backlog. I rolled back to the arena. The rank-up ssage to rank 2 after Pandora got the new aspect. Everything before that seed to be untouched. Then I replayed the notifications one by one. Murder, murder, murder, level up ssage, more murder.
Skipping to the day of the explosion, I found the ssages when I activated my auras all at once. There was nothing about my combat with the golden-dragon-armored [Paladin]. Or about my fight with the tentacle monster. Neither the zombies.
There was no ssage about the spell I used to destroy the city. Was that ? Enantinos said so. Nenandil hinted at it. Worse, if I killed all that people, where are the Exp ssages?
I had two answers from the System about queries I made. One returned "twelve", the other "nine days". Without the context, I had no idea what they were.
"System, can you give the command for the last query I made that returned 'twelve'?"
ACKNOWLEDGED. The query was:
COUNT(*)
FROM TABLE.recently_killed
WHERE _level = 0
AND _status = CONST.DECEASED
AND _killer_id = [REDACTED]
AND _attack_id = [REDACTED]
Level zero people killed by , probably. Basically how many children soone killed. It happened right after the massive blank after activating the auras. "Nine days" should be the age of these children. I killed them, probably. There are twelve silk-folk babies in Enantinos' keep. It matched.
From the end of the "Mad Bounty" and there, we had just little more than a week. Damn, I killed everyone in town. I felt terrible. Next, there were so trashy notifications not worthy of note, and a call. I pulled the call log.
[Administrator Hotline]
CALL START
Wyxnos: What the fuck did you just do?
Snowdrop: Good evening to you too. Why ask sothing if you know the answer?
[REDACTED]
S: Not proud of it.
W: You better. Do you have any idea how many angry deities I have yelling at ? Congratulations, you pissed the entire pantheon.
S: So, is there a point to this call, or are you just going to yell at ? I'm fine with either.
[REDACTED]
W: Are you having prophetic dreams?
[REDACTED]
W: We changed so things to the System. Attribute boosts will now only go as high as doubling your score. They'll cost more too. And scaling multipliers will now be restricted to half your Magic Attribute.
[REDACTED]
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CALL ENDED
I had no idea how many ssages were deleted from the log. But even without context, I can tell Wyxnos was mad at . And that I was mad at myself. Did we talk about a dream? Was that the reason for the gap in the notifications even though I rember the fight? Most of it. It has so blurry monts. I recognized the armor Ernest used imdiately, but what was it? I don't rember any golden dragon armor in this world.
I should move forward before I lose heart and give up trying to understand it. I don't want to live with this kind of self-doubt.
Next notifications. I was offered Pekothas. I conquered Pekothas and then a call that was entirely redacted. I had no idea of even who called whom. Then another blank and so guy nad Kortareon gave a Perk and fifteen proficiency points in [Spellcaster].
How the hell did that happen? I had no kill notification for anyone nad Kortareon, so I didn't kill him. Or his kill notification was erased. Another call entirely redacted a few hours after I got the Perk from this Kortareon guy.
Then nothing worth of note, but normal notifications I usually ignore. I killed the rchant, and everything after that is normal. The blanks in my mory end with in that strange hallway with the statues. I looted it all, didn't I? Oh, wait.
I searched my item box for "Kortareon's corpse". I got a result. Bringing it out, I examined it. He was a mage, a wealthy and powerful one. Almost everything he wore was enchanted. The body was as fresh as the mont he died, it was even still warm. No bleeding, no wounds. No burn marks or spell marks. Nothing. Not a single broken bone, no internal bleeding. This is not one of my kills. I have no idea how this man died.
I had dozens of mage bodies, not as posh as Kortareon but with the sa symbols, in the sa state. Dead but without any apparent cause of death. The Symbols match what I've seen in that underground complex. Why did I have these bodies? I didn't rember getting them.
I sifted through the stuff I got from the complex. I had several ntions of Kortareon. He was an Archmagister. Mind mage. Right. These guys were the mind-benders that kidnapped the centaurs!
Sothing happened in that complex that erased my mory. Were these mages this powerful that they managed to do such heinous damage to my mind? But it does not explain the redacted [Administrator Hotline] calls. They would never even see it because they don't have enough privilege to do so. Much less the expertise to cut off choice portions of the talk but not the others.
The mages didn't do it, neither did the Gods.
I'm missing sothing... What did Nenandil...
Smart little fairy.
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