Chapter 00122: The Seven Apostles
# The Seven Apostles
Chapter 122
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 122: The Seven Apostles
Demon Lord Calendar, Year 648.
The morning of May 19th.
Viola's arrival did not cause much of a stir.
After the welcoming ceremony, the residents of Sailing Harbor returned to their daily lives.
For the commoners, it was merely a new topic for idle chatter after meals.
What they did not know was that many secrets were hidden right beneath this great city.
Since Sailing Harbor was originally built as a supply station for exploring the world's borders, the place had once gone through a period of extremely chaotic management.
Some people with unique foresight realized its future potential and long ago built many secret chambers that were not on any official map.
Inside a cold, damp secret chamber, a heavy stone door was slowly pushed open by an invisible force, and a person draped in a robe, their face obscured, walked in.
As the door closed once more, the surroundings were plunged into pure darkness.
"Aiya, aiya, everyone, stop hiding. Come on out."
The person's voice was like that of an actor in a comedic play, likely drawing out his words to make the audience laugh.
At this moment, with a soft 'pop', the torches placed around the secret chamber ignited one by one, lighting up with a pale purple flame.
The flames flickered, transforming into the shapes of twisted, wrinkled human faces.
Though blurry, one could still see that the details of each face were slightly different.
"Princess Viola."
"Is in Sailing Harbor."
"This morning."
"She arrived."
Short, but continuous voices came one after another from all directions, their gender indiscernible.
"Kill her."
"Otherwise, we cannot."
"Defeat the Demon King Kingdom."
"We must."
"Of course, no problem. I have a very suitable candidate."
Hearing this person's answer, the torches once again spoke in succession.
"A problem."
"The Demon God."
"Where did he come from?"
"Unknown."
"His background."
"Is not important."
"But he will interfere."
"With us."
"Must be destroyed."
"Please, everyone, do not worry."
The person bowed slightly.
"My Lord's divine power fills this room. The Demon God will not notice."
"Be careful."
"Do not be careless."
"The Demon God."
"Is immensely powerful."
"Cannot be faced head-on."
"Confronted."
"Of course I will not be careless. In fact, my Lord has long since noticed. We can temporarily block the Demon God's interference."
"That is good."
"Absolutely must not."
"Be revived."
"Cannot let Him."
"The ancient shadow."
"The Ring of the Demon King."
"Protect it well."
"Get rid of the princess."
"Destroy the Temple."
After a slight pause, nearly all the torches spoke in unison:
"For the Seven Apostles!"
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Li Chengxi looked at the screen and couldn't help but yawn.
On the left computer screen, Yang Yiyi was still sitting cross-legged without any movement.
On Viola's side, things were only interesting when she disembarked from the ship.
Li Chengxi watched her ride in a carriage through the streets, waving to the commoners.
But soon, Viola went to a conference room for a meeting.
Although the content of the meeting seemed important, it had little to do with Li Chengxi.
He watched for a bit and found they were discussing things like adding a few regular merchant ships to the Leon Territory, how many people in the Avarus Demon Kingdom were still resisting, and where to start if they planned a counterattack in the future.
Such a tedious meeting really struggled to pique his interest.
Just as Li Chengxi was considering whether to catch up on some TV series to pass the time, he suddenly remembered that he hadn't checked on Audel recently.
After this girl returned, she had stayed in the Leon Territory for two days before using a teleportation portal to go back to the City of Academics.
Speaking of which, he kind of missed the days when Audel was living at his place.
He decided to act on the thought.
Since he didn't need to worry about Viola and Yang Yiyi for the time being, Li Chengxi opened the map, selected the icon for the City of Academics, and moved the camera view over.
To dispel the fog of war on the map, a follower needed to walk there.
Audel now had 10 Devotion and was considered a follower, which was why the City of Academics was on the map.
Generally, as long as a follower reached a location, the fog of war for that place would be cleared.
For example, Leon Fortress, or when Zola went to the underground city to get the Ring of the Demon King, the map revealed itself as soon as she entered.
But this wasn't an absolute rule.
For large cities like Sailing Harbor, the map wouldn't automatically be fully revealed.
Li Chengxi guessed it was because the area was too large, and the City of Academics was the same.
On the screen, he could see a two-story villa, which was Audel's home.
The streets around the villa and a small nearby park were also in a revealed state.
Li Chengxi had heard Audel say that she would take walks around her home when she lacked inspiration, and he guessed this habit was what caused the surrounding area to be revealed.
But other than that, only a single straight street was revealed.
The vast majority of the City of Academics was shrouded in the fog of war.
This girl really was a homebody.
Her movement path showed that she only ever moved around her house.
Following the straight street, Li Chengxi zoomed in on the view a little.
In the City of Academics, water resources seemed to be very abundant.
Every so often along the street, one could see a fountain, and every few steps there was a pool for washing.
Unlike modern cities that transport water through pipelines, most of the water in the City of Academics flowed through aqueducts.
This was something similar to the aqueduct facilities of the Roman period.
The aqueducts spanned over the houses, and the trickling water was distributed throughout the city this way.
The architectural style was also vastly different from that of Leon Territory and Sailing Harbor.
Almost everything was made of white marble.
The entire street looked clean and tidy, as if it belonged to a different art style.
Thinking about it, it wasn't strange.
After all, looking at the map, Sailing Harbor and Leon Territory were in the upper left corner, while the City of Academics was in the lower right.
With such a great distance and geographical span, it was perfectly normal for different architectural styles to emerge.
Moreover, besides the buildings, the people walking on the streets were also very different from those in Sailing Harbor.
The streets of Sailing Harbor were filled with Demon Race who looked very similar to humans.
One would hardly see any other races.
But in the City of Academics, the Demon Race seemed to be the minority.
Even without counting common fantasy races like Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes, and Halflings, there were still many different races walking on the road.
For example, there were Dragonkin with dragon heads and bodies covered in scales, looking like humanoid dragons.
There were also Serpentfolk who looked tall and slender, resembling Dragonkin from behind, but when they turned around, one would see they had the head of a snake.
Then there were the Tieflings, with two horns on their heads, tails dragging behind them, and skin colors of red, cyan, and yellow.
Some even had sclera that were black.
Honestly, they looked more like the Demon Race...
While Li Chengxi was wandering around, he saw a blue-skinned young lady with a wonderful figure.
Even in the pixel style, he could tell she was wearing an outfit similar to a swimsuit.
He thought he was about to see something nice and hurriedly clicked open the realistic artwork, only to see crimson gills writhing on the young lady's face...
Furthermore, there were also people who looked similar but were not of the same race.
The Dragonkin, Lizardfolk, and Serpentfolk looked very similar in the pixel-style view.
It was difficult to tell them apart without clicking on their artwork.
In addition, the same race could even have many different sub-races.
Li Chengxi saw a Dragonkin who had set up an easel by the street to paint.
But when he opened his character panel, it said 'Spellscale'.
He felt that without someone to explain it, distinguishing them would be very difficult.
If he had to describe it in one sentence...
It would be 'just beginning to take human form'.
(End of this chapter)