BXBX NOVEL Chapter 149: CHAPTER 148 - Judgment of Truth.
– Break Deceptions - Any visual illusion can be broken if supplied with enough mana.
– Lie detector - No one can lie to you with this ability, as it alerts you wherever you hear a lie.
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Alex sat inside the same cave, staring at the new ability created by the AI.
It didn\'t have any attack ability, but for Alex, who couldn\'t trust people\'s words, it was better than attacks.
\'Linked with hellfire?\'
But looking at the ability\'s description, he couldn\'t help but question that.
<The ability needed a fire as a base, a strong flame, so I linked it with hellfire, which, although isn\'t as strong as that fire, is still a toned-down version of one of the strongest flames.>
The AI\'s reply wasn\'t a second late, as it just spoke what it did, causing Alex to nod his head.
*Snap*
He snapped his finger, and the next second, a floating purple arrow appeared right in front of his head.
*Woosh**Woosh**Woosh*...
Alex, however, frowned as he saw the arrow spiraling in its spot as if it were glitched.
\'What\'s happening?\'
Shouldn\'t the arrow be pointing at evils?
\'Wait—!\'
Just then, as if he thought of something, his eyes widened. Jumping up from the place he was sitting, he gripped his dagger hard, and his eyes vigilantly stared at the surroundings.
If the arrow was doing this, then did it mean that the \'evil\' was everywhere?
<The skill is unable to determine any direction that has evil within the range; that is why it is doing that.> the-place-MVLeMpYr
The AI, on the other hand, hurriedly told Alex what was happening, causing Alex to squint his eyes.
\'There is no evil around me, then?\'
Alex questioned, his body still tense, and his senses of full alert.
<Yes, there is no evil around you; this skill would only point at the most evil of the things around you, even if you were to be surrounded by \'evil\', so you can rest assured that there is no \'evil\' around you if the arrow does that.>
The AI explained, causing Alex\'s body to relax a bit, but instead of sitting back, he started walking forward.
He had waited long enough for Karina to have gone quite far from here by now—yes, he let her get away, but it was what it was.
It was not that he had suddenly become a saint and he started valuing promises—an assassin never makes promises—it was just that, in his eyes, Karina would be more useful alive, especially for the later scenarios.
Who knows what kind of quest they will be given in the next scenarios?
What if it was something like this one? Wouldn\'t he be able to just catch Karina again and get his work done in just a while?
So, in his eyes, she was better to be left alive, even more so when Alex could tell that her god was not some normal god.
[The Dragon Warrior is looking in relieved that you didn\'t kill a certain human.]
[The Eternal Devotee of Rama is shaking his head.]
[The Remover of Obstacles is staring at the Flames of Sacrifice.]
[The Divine Healer of Mankind is looking at you.]
[The Divine Arbiter of Justice and Order is saying that she would stand by your side.]
[The Enchantress of Love wants you to make some friends.]
[The Metal Detector is betting half of his fortune that you will never get a girlfriend.]
[["You did good; the major gods are not easy to deal with, after all~."]]
Looking at the notifications he kept receiving made him more vigilant against the gods.
He had killed more than five contracted players, but all their gods did was put up a bounty on his head. From what he could tell, there was a category in gods as well; some were called lesser, and some were called major.
The ones Alex came across until now were all minor or lesser; the flame of sacrifice was the only one who was called a major god by the others.
What could a major god do, or more like, what would they do if their followers were to be killed?
Alex didn\'t know, and he didn\'t want to know anytime soon as well.
He already had 9 items, out of which, 6 were artifacts and 3 were relics, including the ones he had secured by clearing the rooms within the castles.
So, technically, he had completed the quest, but he would need to keep those items in his possession by the time the scenario was over—that was the condition for anyone to complete the scenario.
As for what he was going to do now?
He was going to gather more artifacts and relics; maybe he would find something useful.
*Pat**Pot*...
He ignored the sound of his feet stepping over some kind of liquid; his gaze kept focused ahead.
*Squelch* X2
The only thing he did was bend down a bit and pull out the arrows that were stuck in the heads of the guys who died without even knowing how.
They were the ones Karina took the artifact from, and right now, their corpses were lying over the pool of their own blood.
*Woosh* X2
He jerked his hands, whipping the blood of the arrows before he kept them back in his storage.
But there was a problem.
With his arrows and the 8 items, which, fortunately, or unfortunately, turned out to be different things, and some packed chips, his inventory didn\'t have space for anything now.
His dagger was strapped to his waist, and one of the artifacts he got was tucked in his pocket, as there was no space to keep it as well.
Everything other than chips was thrown out as all of them were fast food; for Alex, they were not as important as the artifacts or items.
[Ravi: I-I think I will die in here...]
[Srikanth: T-The monsters in this castle can come out of the rooms!]
[Rani: It\'s because we didn\'t kill the minor demon! Every zone with its demon still alive has the same penalty!]
[Kriti: The rankers in our area are all cowards! Fuck! I should\'ve moved along with my ex-boyfriend!]
Alex, still rushing toward the next castle, spared a glance at the chats, only to see the same thing going on.
There were talks about the penalty of the sub-scenario—the minor demon scenario—going on, which turned the scenario from a B+ ranked scenario to an A+.
It didn\'t look much, as one would think that the first scenario was A ranked as well, but with no barrier stopping the beasts from leaving the room once woken up, the chances of people surviving were lower than before.
If one could somehow find an item and hope to just leave the room and be safe, then they are nothing but a delulu bunch.
In zones with their minor demon alive by the time the second scenario started, then they were probably dead.
As for the minor demons, well, they were nowhere to be seen; it was as if they just vanished out of thin air.
They weren\'t anywhere on the map; no skull symbol was there on the map anymore.
Alex, however, just ignored all that after a single glance.
He had killed the minor demon, and he wasn\'t facing those problems, so he was fine.
With that, it was time to collect more artifacts and relics, and if possible, find something to store them as well.