[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-re-evolution-online":3,"chapter-re-evolution-online-re-evolution-online-chapter-294":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Re: Evolution Online",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1706873,2181,"Chapter 294 - Black Mist","re-evolution-online-chapter-294",294,"\u003Cp>Chapter 294 - Black Mist\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thick wafts of nether assaulted Liam's nose and he felt as if he had just drunk a cup full of good coffee. He felt invigorated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like the others, he also smelled the pungent scent in the air but the warm feeling of the nether nullified that effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are here?\" Liam grinned looking around. The presence of nether was a good sign. This means that the quest was already in his favor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were not many places in Xion with rich nether energy so he could only have this advantage in selective areas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He quickly opened his status screen to take a look at the quest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Kingdom Quest - Investigate the village Jekuja and find out why the inhabitants are falling sick.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Reward - Permission from the King to set up your estate]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So this is the village?\" Liam opened the map and saw that they were actually a few villages away from the Jekuja village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had not actually reached their exact location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, whatever sickness or spell was affecting the Jekuja village, it was clearly also affecting this village and spread until here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is this the quest spot?\" Mia asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes. It looks like it.\" Liam replied while simultaneously tapping his fingers on the air in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took out a bunch of potions and other consumables and handed them over to everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The others as well prepared themselves as Liam had already warned them about the difficulty of the quest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A kingdom quest was not to be taken lightly! This was a lesson he had learned the hard way!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking a couple of minutes, the group cautiously moved into the small village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was probably once full of life, with people living in it but now it just reeked of death and sickness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ewww! What is this?\" Mei Mei was very close to jumping on Liam's back and getting a piggyback ride.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire place was crawling with cockroaches and worms!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chicken, Rabbit, Come out. Take care of the critters.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liam let the two small undeads handle these tiny nuisances and he continued looking around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost immediately, the two spectral beasts got down to business. They were silent this time as Liam asked them not to make noise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, they were extremely energetic running around everywhere as if they were high on smack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are they stronger in the presence of nether?\" Liam observed the two, before reaching one of the small houses and checking inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others as well followed his lead and paired up with their neighbor to check the group of houses clustered on the small mud street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But surprisingly when everyone looked around, all the houses were completely empty with not even corpses of the villagers left behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What happened? Wasn't the quest talking about sickness? Why is everyone here missing?\" Mia asked Liam. Something did not feel right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The group started rummaging through the contents of the houses looking for some clue when Liam remembered something similar that he had seen in the recent past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This village looked very similar to the village where he had come across the Dark Mages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, the first part of this quest also involved the small black beads that he had found in that place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps here also some cult just like that was involved? Were they once again sacrificing humans or doing something of that sort for gaining power?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liam pondered as his eyes now specifically searched for the presence of any black bead when suddenly something crept up under his feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately moved several paces back in alarm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a second, he thought that he was mistakenly freaked out by his own shadow but he was wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the spot where he was standing just a moment ago, a circular symbol appeared. It looked like it was made in black ink and the pattern was unrecognizable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with the new languages, he had picked up in the nether realm, he still couldn't understand this one, but he could sense strange energy seeping out from within it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is this?\" While Liam was still looking, suddenly the symbol started glowing. Black wisps of nether slowly coiled around the symbol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Observing this, Liam curiously commanded them to come to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They also responded to him, quickly dispersed and flew towards him rather than the symbol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that did not stop the occurrence for long. The next second, black wisps of nether once again started coiling around the symbol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liam was about to summon them again when he realized that there were numerous houses around him and what if the same thing was happening everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He quickly rushed out and ran into the adjacent house where Shin Soo was exploring and saw that he hadn't even noticed the pattern on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was standing right on top of it without being aware of it. He couldn't see it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liam still did not know what this symbol was but he did not have a good feeling about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Get out of the houses.\" He quickly stepped out and loudly shouted in the empty street, attracting everyone's attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liam did not have to say twice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing his voice thundering outside, everyone understood that there was probably some sort of danger inside the houses and rushed out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unexpectedly, as soon as they stepped out, they noticed that the previously empty and deserted street was now covered by a thick black mist obscuring their view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had happened too fast and even Liam also noticed it only after coming out. \"This is nether..? No… this is something else.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mia and Alex as well cast a couple of dispels to see if they can remove this mist but it was spreading too fast covering everybody.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And before anyone could make sense of what was happening, suddenly a rain of arrows started pouring, coming out of nowhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the cover of this thick black mist, endless arrows aimed for the group zoomed from all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were also not weak and dealt a huge chunk of damage when they hit someone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who is attacking us? I can't see.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What the hell?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1027,"2026-06-06T14:49:04.731Z",1,"novelbin.me","e1788dad861a0c44a21be6691ec00cda74f6c9967b27ea953c496ff21a2e5eaf","re-evolution-online-chapter-295","re-evolution-online-chapter-293",1446,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fre-evolution-online-cover.jpg"]