Chapter 910: Prayer Trial: Free Will [Corruption]

Prayer Trial: Free Will 【Corruption】

After exchanging some information with Big Cat, Cheng Shi hung up the phone and began his prayer trial in an orderly fashion.

This was his first step toward the answer; there was no need to take too large a stride, so there was no pressure.

Cheng Shi sat cross-legged on the ground, piously closed his eyes, and prayed:

"Distinguish not truth from falsehood, discuss not reality from illusion.

Your pious believer prays to you to open a trial...

A trial of 'The Kingdom of War and the Grand Court of Judgment in endless dispute'!"

As soon as the words fell, a crimson hue spread across his field of vision.

【Prayer Trial (Free Will 【Corruption】) has begun】

【Matching teammates (1/6)】

【Trial Goal: Desire is never a sin; even if it were, the judge should be oneself (Time limit: 15 days)】

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A 【Corruption】 game?

Such a coincidence?

He hadn't even thought about investigating 【Corruption】 first, yet Her trial had come knocking on his door?

Cheng Shi was slightly stunned. Reasonably speaking, although followers of 【Corruption】 were not well-regarded, Her trials were not too difficult.

The solution to Her trials was often to find the target according to the hints and ensure the target could frankly embrace their own desires.

So, in a way, there was a lot of room for maneuver in 【Corruption】 trials.

Cheng Shi still couldn't forget a trial experience shared in the chat channel during the early days of the 【Faith Game】 descent. It was about a certain Compassionate Lord who was matched into a trial bestowed by their own Patron, with the target locked onto a certain ascetic believer intending to break a prohibition. After the group spent half a day finding the target, this Compassionate Lord felt pity, undressed themselves, and bathed with the believer to sink into depravity. The 3-day trial was cleared in just half a day and 30 seconds.

This matter had once been a laughingstock among players for a long time and was revered as a survival trump card for 【Corruption】 trials.

But not all 【Corruption】 trials were related to carnal pleasure; at least the hint for this trial was not, and furthermore...

What the hell is 15 days!?

Extending a trial to 7 days was enough to make people fearful; was doubling the duration because the 【Corruption】 trial was too simple, making it hard for players to die?

Seeing that things were irreversible, Cheng Shi's face turned pitch black.

He felt that this small, exploratory step of his had been pushed by an invisible giant hand to take a massive leap.

【Matching successful (6/6), entering the trial】

Cheng Shi sighed, letting his vision gradually darken as his consciousness withdrew from reality.

The scorching sunlight was torn to shreds by dense branches, stubbornly casting mottled patches on the ground.

On a small path in the dense forest, a caravan moving forward in the high heat brought a bit of sultry wind to the silent woods.

They were moving at high speed; wooden wheels rolled over the uneven ground paved with rotten leaves, shaking the people on the carts awake one after another.

Cheng Shi's consciousness had just recovered when he heard the voice of a teammate coming from diagonally across the cart bed, not far away.

"Grand Court of Judgment, Dense Forest County. Judging by the distribution of plant species, it should be the forest area in the south of Dense Forest County, infinitely close to the Boro Highlands of Shuanghu County."

"Furthermore, our direction of travel is still heading south. The caravan's flag is the Iron Law Knights, and the visible length of the caravan is estimated to be over two li; the scale is not small."

"Judging by the tracks outside the cart, we are likely in the middle-to-rear section of the caravan."

"Although the Grand Court of Judgment often engages in external wars, moments with such large-scale march records seem rare."

"So, congratulations everyone, we are likely a temporary reinforcement legion from the Kateou Court sent to the front line, facing the 【War】 believers finally surrounded by the Grand Court of Judgment and the Tower of Reason."

"And our destination is very likely the Boro Highlands north of Shuanghu County."

"As for what happened there, with such a major event, I suppose I don't need to elaborate further, right?"

"Of course, if those of you present are unaware of these things, then the next 15-day trial might be exceptionally difficult."

After speaking, he began to wantonly size up the other five teammates on the cart.

Facing the other's nostril-gazing, Cheng Shi decisively gave up on the boring task of responding or chiming in.

Observant, clear-thinking, knowledgeable, and well-versed in the history of the Continent of Hope—based on these four points alone, this male teammate with an absurdly long face should have been a great help.

Unfortunately, he believed in 【Dementia】.

Followers of 【Dementia】, ah, their nostrils are still so eye-catching.

Cheng Shi lowered his head and smiled, also beginning to size up the others.

His position was on the right side at the very back of the cart. Sitting opposite him was a young man who looked about his own age. The other party was resting his chin on one hand as if borrowing strength, but Cheng Shi could tell that this teammate was actually covering a scar on his lower face.

Was he injured?

The crimson showing between his fingers looked like a fresh wound, but setting the wound aside, why did this person's brows and eyes give him such an inexplicable sense of familiarity?

Cheng Shi frowned slightly and discovered that the other hand this player had behind his back was constantly moving, though he didn't know what he was doing sneakily.

Sitting next to the youth was that 【Dementia】 believer who had spoken first. He twisted his "horse face plus" to look around, sizing up everyone's body without concealment, as if looking for something.

The six people on the cart were only wearing thin undergarments. Perhaps because the weather was too hot, six sets of gleaming armor were placed in the middle of the cart, like a boundary line that could not be crossed, dividing the left and right sides of the cart distinctly.

This trial had five men and one woman. The only female sat to Cheng Shi's right, with fair skin and black hair, her long hair hanging down, the swaying hair slightly covering the scar on the corner of her mouth that had festered into a scab.

Her appearance was very common, with no memorable points. If one had to say there was something impressive, it was that since waking up, this female teammate seemed to have never made any sound.

Right next to the female teammate was a terrifying-looking person with a scabby head. His head was uneven, mottled with blood, and had no hair. A pair of gloomy eyes, like those of a vulture, were staring fixedly at another teammate opposite him.

And the player sitting opposite him also had a hard-to-evaluate appearance; sparse gray-white long hair dotted his scalp, which was shaped like a gully. At a glance, it looked like his brain was turned inside out.

"..."

No, buddy, what's the situation? A "face-card" game?

I've seen games that "card" upward, but I've never seen one that "cards" downward!?

With you all looking like this, am I a bit out of place?

Cheng Shi began to doubt life, and just as he was frowning and thinking about what kind of game this was, two voices with completely different tones rang in everyone's ears simultaneously.

A vicious, ferocious laugh came from the scabby-headed man, and stunned suspicion came from the youth covering his mouth opposite Cheng Shi.

"Stinky rat, are you happy to run into me?"

"Are you... Xiao Shi?"

Hearing the first sentence, Cheng Shi raised an eyebrow, and hearing the second sentence, Cheng Shi suddenly grinned.

Because he finally remembered who the person opposite him was.

What a coincidence, it turns out to be a childhood playmate, truly...

Long time no see. ===== CHAPTER 911 =====