Chapter 534: Yes, the [Gift of Scars] has always been in my hands

Yes, the 【Gift of Scars】 has always been in my hands.

Nangong's confusion wasn't faked.

Cheng Shi glanced at her casually, even faintly feeling that the opponent's head was smoking.

Did your CPU burn out, little girl?

He chuckled, bypassed the motionless Nangong, and picked up the 【Gift of Scars】 from afar.

The unknown is terrifying. Upon learning that the opponent was a true 【Prosperity】 hunter, Dezel had already lost all courage to resist.

As the soul of a Messenger, it shouldn't have surrendered like this, but the situation Dezel faced was too complex. Because of its own operations, it had almost lost all protection, and there was no one left behind it to endorse it.

Especially when it realized that this 【Foolish Play】, who was also a Messenger, even had the qualifications to scavenge the authority of 【Prosperity】, it resigned itself to fate—completely resigned.

Cheng Shi hadn't expected the process of subduing this dagger to be so smooth. He quickly wrapped the 【Gift of Scars】 with the Tongue of Lying and put it into his space, then turned around, preparing to deal with the mess in front of him.

But just as he wanted to "wake up" the little priest in front of him, Nangong seemed to have come to her senses. She looked at Cheng Shi with a complex expression, her mouth opening for a long time without saying a word. In the end, she just pursed her lips and said with a complex expression:

"Sorry..."

Cheng Shi blinked: "What's there to be sorry about?"

Nangong didn't answer Cheng Shi's question, but stretched out her own hand, looking at the newly cut wound on her wrist, then looking at the dagger that had long since disappeared in her hand, and the contract that no longer had any connection in the void, murmuring to herself in disbelief:

"Really... broken?"

"Yes, really broken." Cheng Shi smiled. He looked at the little priest in front of him who was both confused and lost. After thinking for a moment, he took out another bottle of cola.

Seeing this scene, Nangong shuddered all over, instinctively retreating a step.

Cheng Shi's prank ended here. He chuckled twice and took out another bottle.

"Don't be afraid, this time it's real.

Tell me, Nangong, I guess you must have experienced many stories. Today the wind is strong and the snow is heavy, just right for hiding in the house, drinking cola, and listening to stories."

As he spoke, Cheng Shi stuffed the cola into Nangong's hand, then sat cross-legged, relaxing like old friends reminiscing, and gulped down the cola in his hand.

He really wasn't lying; this time the cola was real.

But Nangong didn't dare to believe it.

She looked at the cola in her hand with a strange expression and didn't open it. Instead, she pursed her lips and knelt down, her gaze looking toward the direction of the battlefield between Cheng Shi and the 【Gift of Scars】 just now, her eyes becoming dazed.

"You're probably very confused why this dagger, which countless assassins dream of, would be in my hands, right?

Heh, actually, it's quite unbelievable to say it. I got it very early, even earlier than many assassins knew about it.

So early that my first special trial...

happened right here, in Rosna's Cannar City!"

"?"

Cheng Shi paused. He really hadn't expected the beginning of the story to be so outrageous. So, a dagger of this level was picked up by someone in the first week?

Ah?

About the story of me being a novice priest but picking up a divine artifact at the start, right?

However, why does this script feel a bit familiar?

Although he really wanted to complain, Cheng Shi didn't make a sound, still listening silently. He could see that this priest of 【Decay】 had a great desire to share right now.

"That was a trial of 【Decay】. Very normal, isn't it? Our first trials were all bestowed by the benefactor.

And our task was to find a 【Decay】 believer in this Cannar City who wasn't pious and make him pious again.

That trial was very chaotic. Because it was the first special trial, the six players didn't trust each other. There were those who wanted to lead the team, those who disdained cooperation, and those who clamored to kill. I was very afraid, so I slipped away when they weren't paying attention.

At that time, I just wanted to find a place to hide until the trial ended.

But there was a very shrewd player among us. I don't know why he was so familiar with this god's game after just one week of the game, and even had all kinds of strange ideas about the current game scene.

He was a believer of 【Foolishness】. He was very smart, and it was also he who found the 【Gift of Scars】 in my hand... in your hand..."

Cheng Shi raised an eyebrow: "You mean, the first person to discover it wasn't you?"

Nangong pursed her lips and nodded:

"Yes, it wasn't me.

He found that dagger and regarded it as a treasure, even threatening to use this dagger to restart the faith of the entire Rosna.

Of course, I only knew all this later in the recruitment square of Cannar, because he, just like the black-robed man I met today, stood in the center of the square and used a dagger to re-gather the piety of the Rosna Empire."

"!!!" Cheng Shi's pupils shrank, his brows furrowed tightly, "You mean... you witnessed this piece of history? No... history had already been tampered with?"

"Yes, history was tampered with.

There was also a singer of 【Memory】 in that trial. Just like my teammate today, after seeing the feat of that 【Foolishness】 teammate, he felt admiration and rewrote what he saw into history."

"..."

Cheng Shi was speechless. So, the history they knew, the past they understood, and even the treasure map Poison used to search for clues had long been painted over!

Everything experienced today was just a repeat of the last tampering. The truth of history had long been covered by graffiti, and the current smearing was just drawing a new layer of color-inverted graffiti on top of that graffiti.

Amidst Cheng Shi's surprise, Nangong's narration continued.

"But it wasn't over yet...

That 【Foolishness】 player was very crazy. He thought that letting Rosna return to 【Decay】 wasn't the end, and that saving Cannar City from the World-Ender before the trial ended was the true perfection.

So he mobilized all the pious people in the city to follow him and fight back, killing their way out of the city."

"..." Cheng Shi blinked and suddenly laughed out loud, "I think I know how your dagger came to be."

"..."

Nangong twitched her mouth awkwardly and didn't laugh.

"It's just as you thought. They died. Those teammates who were blinded by the passion of 【Foolishness】 all died on the high walls.

But I didn't know at that time. I didn't dare to participate in that war and hid in the city. But when I thought that my teammates led me to win the trial, and I didn't help at all, I felt very guilty.

So..."

"So you climbed onto the high wall, wanting to fulfill your duty as a priest, but found that they were all dead, and then you instantly became a corpse-collecting team.

And Dezel found you at that time, right?"

"..." Nangong nodded with a complex look in her eyes, "You are as smart as that teammate of mine."

"..." ===== CHAPTER 535 =====