"Quest: [Audience with the Emperor]"
"Difficulty: Hard"
"Quest Description: Travel to the Light Dragon Empire's capital and speak with the Emperor."
"Upon accepting the Emperor's appointnt as [Northern Demon General] (Title), you will receive:
800 free attribute points 1,200 skill points 10 talent points 500,000 gold"
"Quest Failure Penalty: None."
"Refusing this quest may result in hostility from the Light Dragon Emperor."
The entire player base stared at the world announcent, utterly dumbfounded.
"500,000 gold? Is this ga bankrupt or sothing?"
"Reincarnation of Infinite Dinsions' favorite son! Uninstalling now!"
"This guy massacred Pondenorlin City's imperial guards, and the Light Dragon Emperor still wants to reward him? Is he brain-dead?"
Madman: "Damn, the emperor must've eaten Bradley's brain for breakfast. This makes no sense."
Bradley: "Stick to your lockpicking, you idiot. This quest is shady as hell. I've never seen quest details broadcast to the entire world like this."
Even Orson found the situation bizarre. He muttered, "Since when does Infinite Dinsions just hand out free rewards?"
On the surface, this quest seed ridiculously easy.
Pondenorlin City was located far from the Empire's capital, aning most players would need to travel long distances and risk encounters with powerful monsters to reach their destination. That's why the system classified it as "Hard" difficulty.
But for soone like Orson, who possessed a high-level flying mount, the difficulty was virtually non-existent.
Yet the reward was beyond excessive for just taking a trip and having a chat with an NPC emperor.
Which ant there were only two possible explanations.
It's a trap. The quest would inevitably lead to a dangerous situation. Accepting it would place severe restrictions on his future actions in the Light Dragon Empire.
Ride Donkey: "Bro, that's 500,000 gold. What's there to think about?!"
Orson didn't respond. He rely smirked coldly. "Nice try, but I see right through your little sche."
[Major Announcent: Player Orgod must decide whether to accept the quest. Countdown: 10 seconds.]
"Did he disconnect? The system is literally throwing money at him, and he's not even reacting?"
"Maybe he can't visit the Empire's capital? Triple Crown winner can't afford to be exposed, huh?"
"LMAO, imagine being too scared to take a free half-million gold. Guy must be sweating bullets."
"Nah, think about it—Infinite Dinsions doesn't just give out free stuff. There's gotta be a catch."
The world chat was in an uproar, yet a few veteran players had started to understand Infinite Dinsions' design philosophy. They realized that Orson's refusal might be the smartest choice.
Bradley: "I don't know what the catch is, but free stuff in this ga always cos with a price."
Orson nodded in agreent. Bradley was absolutely right. In all his experience, he'd never seen a hidden quest's details get broadcasted to the world.
That alone was a huge red flag.
[Major Announcent: Player Orgod has declined the quest!]
"WTF! Did this guy just turn down 500,000 gold?"
"Is he out of his damn mind?!"
"There's no way! Did the system bug out?!"
"This dude is sothing else. Either he's a genius… or an absolute idiot."
"How dare you reject the appointnt of the Supre Emperor?! Heretic, you deserve to die!"
A furious voice roared from below.
A white-robed priest—Goyordel, a Level 70 NPC High Priest, raised his staff, unleashing a torrent of holy light.
60,000 HP!
70,000 HP!
80,000 HP!
The weakened Imperial NPCs were rapidly recovering, their eyes burning with fury.
Orson t their rage with a chilling smirk.
"Why should I accept the title of an incompetent ruler?"
The Light Dragon Empire's Emperor was nothing more than a spoiled child.
In the previous tiline, he had led millions of NPC troops to their deaths, forcing dozens of Dragon Knights to defect to the Heaven Demons.
There was no way Orson would swear allegiance to such an imbecile.
"Reinforcents are on their way! We fight in the na of the Empire!"
Goyordel shouted, rallying 500 Imperial Clerics to unleash a powerful B-rank holy spell: [Heaven's Blade].
The sky flashed white, resembling the opening of Heaven's Gates, and thousands of blades of holy light rained down upon Celestial Fortress.
"Ti to go."
Madman laughed as he signaled the retreat. "No need to take unnecessary damage."
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The holy blades struck Celestial Fortress, causing:
-5,000,000 HP!
-10,000,000 HP!
-15,000,000 HP!
The attacks left massive scorch marks on the fortress's hull, but the structure remained completely intact.
Orson rely smirked.
"Fools. Do you even know what you're up against?"
Celestial Fortress was designed to withstand the combined assault of two Dragon Kings and an entire empire's elite forces during the God-Emperor's era.
Its outer walls were composed of 30 divine artifacts fused into a single entity, with a total HP pool exceeding 20 billion.
No mortal army could bring it down.
"Reinforcents? Too bad you won't live to see them."
Orson raised his staff. "DEATH WAVE—FIRE AT WILL!"
[The Divine Legion]'s thirty-two massive cannons roared to life once again.
A blinding tsunami of destruction surged toward Pondenorlin City.
"This is history in the making!"
SirLagsALot scread into his livestream mic.
"This crazy bastard is wiping an entire NPC city off the map!"
The Death Wave descended.
Beneath its ominous shadow, the Imperial NPCs trembled.
Even the high-level boss monsters roaming the distant forests stopped attacking and began fleeing in terror—as if an apocalyptic force had been unleashed.
BOOM!
A world-shattering explosion engulfed Pondenorlin City.
The once-proud Imperial stronghold was obliterated, leaving behind a massive crater spanning two kiloters.
"You have slain High Priest Borne. Infamy 10,000!"
"You have slain Grand Priest Goyordel. Infamy 40,000!"
"You have slain over 9,667 Imperial Soldiers. Infamy 2,000,000!"
[Your Infamy has exceeded 7,000,000!]
The entire player base fell silent.
They stared in awe at Orson's golden naplate, which radiated an unearthly glow.
Was he a holy figure of unparalleled virtue?
Or…
Was he the Golden Demon King—a harbinger of death that even empires feared?
Treasure chests rained from the sky.
The air shimred with golden, purple, and even divine-tier loot.
"HOLY SH*T! He actually did it! The entire city is gone!"
"This guy is untouchable! Who in the ga could possibly stop him now?!"
[WORLD ANNOUNCENT: US Player Orgod has demonstrated overwhelming power, eradicating all life in Pondenorlin City!]
"You have unlocked a hidden quest: [The Emperor's Grand Invitation]."
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