Chapter 88
Chapter 88
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 88
Chapter Title: Became the Gallery's Only Reptile
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"Hello, everyone! This is the live Jijiyong news source! And as always, your main MC is me, Osori!"
In a majestic backdrop that resembled a galaxy in all its splendor.
Two people, who looked utterly out of place against that background, were waving their hands energetically.
This was a live update broadcast using Newtube, which had already become hugely popular.
The Jijiyong News Source was a new channel that had only recently started, but as Jijiyong's official channel, it had already surpassed 150,000 live viewers.
Amid the nonstop flood of comments, Osori—who had been the main MC from the very first live broadcast up to this one—decided to switch things up before diving into the main topic. She turned to the man in the pigeon mask beside her, Gu-gu, and called out in a playful tone.
"Oh, come on! Gu-gu, please say something human for once! Do you have any idea how frustrated the viewers are with you right now?"
"Huh? Even if I check the comments, I don't see anything like that?"
"Gugu! Gugugu!"
"Your trademark? Gu-gu, you're not a pigeon, you're a person, aren't you?!"
"This won't do! Let's see if Gu-gu can keep guguing even after seeing this!"
Osori shared her screen, angling the camera so all viewers could see a particular image clearly.
"Alright, Gu-gu! Even with this image, will you just keep saying gugugu...?"
"Silpiiii!"
"......"
The screen Osori had shown featured a photo of Silpi staring straight ahead with an expressionless face.
But the reason everyone was losing their minds was that it wasn't the mature Spirit King form everyone knew—it was Silpi from a much younger state.
"What could this younger Silpi's appearance mean?"
"Ahem! Alright, let's watch this version's PV!"
With that, the screen went dark for a moment after passing Osori and Gu-gu.
The screen transitioned with a man's voice that no one had heard before.
A paradise land filled with mystery and secrets swept by slowly, the camera panning upward toward the sky.
Whoosh.
Thick crimson flames burned above the sky.
Sharp ice bloomed.
Fierce waves and gentle winds passed by, leaving various colors streaked across the sky.
Then various voices chimed in, adding new colors each time.
The once-blue sky became a chaotic mess of hues.
It was dizzying amid the utter disorder of the sky.
But right then.
A deep, charismatic voice unlike any before rippled from the center.
Shaaa.
The myriad colors blended until the sky held only one: a perfect black, like the night sky.
A thin line etched across that sky.
Crack.
Red eyes gleefully flashed, signaling the video's true start.
The mysterious red eyes vanished, and the baton passed to the shrunken Silpi that Osori had spoiled earlier.
Pouring raindrops from the sky.
A plaintive violin echoed alongside.
The background and music propped it up as Silpi's closed eyes trembled, her eyelids struggling to lift.
Perhaps because she was younger than her Spirit King days.
Silpi's eyes delicately captured deep worry, fear, and anguish.
"Choose."
Following her gaze led to the lower face of a girl with white hair.
"Whether you'll fight on our side. Or fight as our enemy."
The screen flickered.
There stood the owners of the voices that had painted the sky in colors at the start, turning their backs.
Dong. Dong. Dong.
Urgent music flowed.
Just their backs, but paired with the music, it hinted at a powder-keg situation.
"Stop. If you take one more step, I won't hesitate to shoot."
A high elf aiming an arrow ahead of them.
And behind her, a massive tree emitting a glow of light.
The view flipped again.
The white-haired girl's hair and tiger ears—hinting she wasn't human—twitched.
In front of the white-haired beastkin girl, Silpi asked, unable to hide her confused expression.
"Because ■ wants it."
"You know that's not possible."
Thud.
"The ones who crossed the line first weren't us—it was them."
Thud.
"That's why ■ made this choice."
Thud!
The music faded.
Rich music stimulates audience emotions and heightens focus for a scene, they say.
But here's a surprising fact.
Removing the music entirely for a moment can have a similar effect.
Swish swish swish.
Eerily clear rustling of bushes without background sound.
The screen kept showing the ground.
But nearby bushes, pebbles, and earth marks shifted.
This showed the camera wasn't static—it was moving.
Still no music.
Yet everyone was glued to the screen, fully immersed.
Gulp.
Tension peaked, everyone holding their breath.
Drip.
The screen, scanning the ground erratically, suddenly halted.
Then it panned up—not forward—now looking down from above.
Clack. Clatter clack. Clack.
Clack. Clatter. Clack.
Clatter clatter. Clatter. Clack.
Clack. Clack. Clack.
Clatter. Clatter. Clatter clatter.
In a alien black void detached from the world, grotesque skulls densely packed, chattering their teeth toward the screen to assert their presence.
Viewers realized this was the voice from the red eyes' unknown entity.
And from the flow, they suspected it was this version's main antagonist.
I mean, commanding those skulls, with a voice dripping villainous coolness, and direction screaming "I'm the villain—the big bad!"
The final line cemented it: this mystery entity was the limited content's final boss for this update.
With that, the video seemed to end...
Static.
"Ow, you're such a wimp."
"Then how about this one?"
The video's end.
A voice no "I kinda wield the holy sword" user could miss, followed by a brief shot of the black silhouette's back. And with that, the PV for this version, [The Unknown, and the Mysterious Past], concluded.
"Wow! A video so mysterious in so many ways—truly one of a kind."
"No, throwing out this much bait like crazy? Come on, Gu-gu! They're the ones who hired us—watch your tone!"
"Gugugu?!"
Opinions on the version PV flooded in, and after a short banter between Osori and Gu-gu, Osori began explaining the update details with visuals.
"Next up, the core of this version, [The Unknown, and the Mysterious Past]: the limited event [Shattered Dimensional Fragments]! There's suddenly trouble in the Library of History—one of Jijiyong's signature fun contents where you could be the protagonist, an ally, or even the villain in past stories!"
"Right, Gu-gu! To solve that problem, our heroes will head to the stage we just saw in the video!"
"You got some separate info?"
"Oh, about Silpi..."
Osori broke into a cold sweat at Gu-gu's enthusiastic demand for more info on Silpi—especially young Silpi—and flipped through her script.
"Okay, this is something our Gu-gu will love. The guide for solving this limited event's problem is none other than young Silpi!"
"C-Calm down! Ah! Feathers are flying!"
Young Silpi as the guide?!
Gu-gu, whose favorite was Silpi, rampaged for a while before staff restrained and dragged him off. Only then could Osori wipe the sweat from her brow and continue.
"Haha, minor incident there. Anyway, not as the Spirit King leading everyone, but as a mid-tier spirit dreaming of kingship—heroes must team with allied NPCs, with young Silpi as guide, to defeat the boss monster Black Despair."
The boss reveal matched what players expected.
"Its exact form is obscured by black mist, but serpentine with control over various environments—it seems like a dragon. Plus leading those countless skeleton soldiers like in the video... this version's boss will be a real trial for our heroes."
Dragons were endgame-level beasts in Jijiyong, tricky even with dragonslayers, packing outrageous power.
With boss buffs on top, as Osori said, this event wouldn't be easy.
"And the story's final cookie video teases our rugged but reliable holy sword, Lakea! It's so stuffed it might burst!"
Slightly.
Having covered all the minor details, Osori—now nearing the live's end—built up to the close.
"This story might be fiction, a forgotten past, or a parallel dimension with the same roots but different leaves—who knows!"
So, heroes. Please overcome this trial once more and uncover the truth!
"This has been Jijiyong News Source's main MC, Osori! See you next version, everyone!"