Coke Mania won and took the championship.
After Caramel defeated Thorne that night, even though he was so weak that he could hardly move, he still partyed with the other players on the team. Caramel booked a very expensive hotel in the north city and held the celebration party for the entire night.
But after the celebration, Caramel couldn't fall asleep. He went back to the club's dormitory and tossed and turned in bed all night. He couldn't fall asleep.
Even though his body was exhausted, his mind was extremely clear.
So Caramel dragged his exhausted body to the Holy Spirit World and came to the Flower Square in the inner world.
Today, the Flower Square, the most popular area in the world, is empty.
Because the real meaning of the existence of Flower Square...Thorne has disappeared. Even if the server clones another NPC named Thorne here, his existence has no meaning.
The purpose of the NPC Thorn's existence is to be an invincible strongest person. Players in the forum are keen on discussing how Thorn educated that professional player today and beat that high-ranking passerby.
This has become a daily topic of discussion in the Holy Spirit Forum, but the invincible Thorne has been defeated by him, the legend has ended, and there is no point in passing on a legend that has ended.
Caramel sat exhausted and dazed in the empty Flower Square. He beat Thorne... This has always been a question mark in his mind.
When his blade took away the last bit of Thorn's life, Thorn whispered the three words "well done" in his ear.
But what Caramel is struggling with now is not whether he is tied with Thorne or has won him. The thought that has been lingering in Caramel's mind is why Thorne wants to assist the Annihilation Legion
Caramel didn't hate Thorne, instead he felt a little guilty... He would show no mercy to the Annihilation Legion, but Thorne joining the Annihilation Legion meant... everything he had built in the Holy Spirit would be gone!
Thorne gambled a lot in that battle, his friendship with the Holy Spirit, the only place he had in the Holy Spirit, and even his own life. He gambled it all for the position of ruler.
Caramel's reason for stopping Thorne was not to "save the world" as high-soundingly as Zhao Mingwei's. He just wanted to defeat Thorne and prove himself in front of all the players in the server.
This is a very normal thing for players, isn't it? What reason do you need to kill a boss? Just for fun, experience, and to prove yourself.
But for this BOSS, the outcome of this battle with the player is a gamble of everything in his life.
Caramel never thought this way in the past, but the game Holy Spirit... made Caramel realize that the NPCs in it all have their own lives.
So Caramel wants to know why Thorne wants to...give up everything he has to join the Annihilation Legion!
"The reward for winning should be great?" Thorne's voice suddenly sounded in front of Caramel.
Caramel suddenly raised his head and saw Thorne standing on the ring looking at him.
When did it appear
"You... have been refreshed again?" Caramel could only think of the word "refresh" to describe Thorne's appearance.
"Refresh? Kind of...but I plan to say hello to you and then leave."
"Where are you going?"
"Turn myself in. I'm a wanted criminal by the Sanctuary of Creation. Even if I say this, you probably don't understand, but it will be better for everyone if I leave," said Thorne.
"Do you...want to go back to the Sanctuary of Creation to save someone?"
Caramel, like Thorne, didn't even read the plot of the game, but he had played so many games and watched so many movies, and based on what Mr. Yin had been saying recently in the Holy Spirit group, he was predicting the direction of subsequent updates of Holy Spirit.
He could still guess some of the entanglement between Thorne and the Sanctuary of Creation, but Caramel didn't believe that given Thorne's character, he would go back and surrender.
He said he was wandering these years, but in fact he was trying to do something using various means, whether it was cooperating with the Annihilation Legion or training the Holy Spirit through sparring, he was doing it for the same purpose.
However, he could have used the Holy Spirit to achieve his goal but gave up and chose the Annihilation Legion as a last resort.
This goal is related to the Sanctuary of Creation. If you want to seek revenge on someone in the Sanctuary of Creation, there is no need to go through so much trouble. There is only one possibility. This goal may require the subversion of the entire or one of the departments of the Sanctuary of Creation to be achieved.
During this period of contact, Thorne realized that the Holy Spirit was not suitable for the role of "executioner" because there were too many "innocent people" in the Sanctuary of Creation.
"I should go." Thorne didn't have much to say about his thoughts as Caramel guessed them.
"… "
When Caramel heard these four words, he didn't know how to answer because there were no options on the game's dialog box.
The map of the Sanctuary of Creation hadn't even been updated. This was where he was powerless as a player. Even though his skills were top-notch among the Holy Spirits, he had no way of conquering BOSSes outside of the version.
Besides, this BOSS is not someone that can be defeated by one person, and Thorne seems to have no reason to let Caramel do everything to help him
Thorne looked at the hesitant Caramel and smiled rarely. Then when he turned around and was about to leave the other world... a bunch of reminders suddenly sounded in Caramel's private messages.
These reminders all came from the Holy Spirit player groups that Caramel joined. One of them was the Holy Spirit Fighting Group, and the other was the Coke Fanatics Internal Group. Someone in these two groups was tagging all members.
Caramel slid his fingertips and clicked in to see that someone was posting the update announcement that had just been released on the Holy Spirit official website.
This update is a big update, which not only increases the level cap, but also updates some new systems.
Caramel took a quick look at the updated preview, and the last sentence in the preview caught Caramel's attention.
"Holy Spirit" version 3.72 update.
'Hello everyone, the first Holy Spirit League has come to an end. There were too many wonderful moments and too many excellent players in this game. Congratulations to the Coke Fanatic Club for winning the first Holy Spirit League championship. To commemorate their victory, we will update the suits and weapons named after their players in the subsequent version updates. Currently, the suits and weapons have been added to the equipment explosion sequence of the Ascension Road. After this, there are other changes in this version update. The update is to pave the way for the subsequent Creation Sanctuary version. Whether the complex camp of the Creation Sanctuary will become a friendly camp, a hostile camp, or a subsidiary camp, all depends on the actions of the Holy Spirits during this period. '
Affiliation... Affiliation means surrendering to the Holy Spirit? How is it done
Caramel quickly read through some of the newly updated systems in this version and roughly understood what he should do now.
"Thorne!" Caramel called out to Thorne who was about to leave. "Can you live longer in the prison of the Sanctuary of Creation after you surrender?"
"Time has no meaning to the Eternals, but what I have to do after I go back will probably not allow those guys to let me stay here in peace for too long." Thorne displayed the blade at his waist. In his hand, he still held the black sword bestowed by the Annihilation Legion.
The destructive power of the black sword is far less than the shadowless sword that Jiang Qiao gave him! Any legendary weapon above level 65 in the Holy Spirit has a destructive power far greater than any weapon on the star map at the law level.
But Thorne gave the Shadowless Sword to Caramel because he did not intend to borrow the power of the God Eater, or in other words... implicate the descendants of the God Eater.
The God Eater was a cruel and terrifying natural disaster force like the Annihilation Legion in the past. The contract that Thorn signed with Jiang Qiao was no different from the contract he signed with the devil, but the Holy Spirits made a huge change in Thorn's impression...
"Maybe we can solve your problem after some time," Caramel said.
"Solve my problem? What I am going to do will cause the deaths of many people, many innocent people. Your hands are not suitable for blood, real blood." This is also the reason why Thorne does not want to cooperate with the Holy Spirit.
"We players... have our own solutions! In the eyes of most of us players, the Sanctuary of Creation should have belonged to us." Caramel directly expressed his burning ambition after reading the announcement of this version update. "Kuroshio Island has been conquered by us, and the Sanctuary of Creation will be next!"
"Player..." Thorne was silent for a moment, holding the black sword in his hand. When Caramel wanted to say something, his figure suddenly appeared in front of Caramel, stretched out his hand and patted Caramel's shoulder.
"Then I'll look forward to it a little bit, you are the best in the country."
"!"
Caramel was startled for a moment and turned his head again, only to find that Thorne had disappeared beside him. He searched around the Flower Square again, but found that Thorne was no longer there.
Cleared the Inside World: Flower Plaza area, cleared by Caramel, reward: Player's Eye console set worth $630,000.
(End of this chapter)