Chapter 159 - 127: Dice of Destiny

Chapter 159: Chapter 127: Dice of Destiny

"Sigh. Those people outside are truly disturbing my peace."

"Is someone finally here to challenge me again?"

Deep within the Royal Palace, upon the throne, the [King] Card appeared.

The next moment, the Card transformed into an incredibly majestic young man—it was Gutaf in his youth.

Gutaf sat upon the throne, staring down at Yuwen Yong with great interest.

"You’ve finally appeared, Gutaf. Or should I call you the Demon codenamed King."

The moment the King Card manifested, Yuwen Yong assumed a combat stance.

Although he had made all sorts of mental preparations, this was his first time hunting a Demon, after all. He was quite thrilled.

"Young man, don’t be so hasty!"

"Let me first calm the tremors within the game."

"Don’t worry, I’m not about to waste the power the game has painstakingly accumulated just to set the stage for someone else."

"So, I’ll save what I can. Let the players deal with the aftershocks themselves."

Gutaf waved his hand, and the tremors throughout the Royal Palace immediately lessened immensely. Some cracks even began to close.

But the aftershocks of the tremors remained, and the power of the Cards still couldn’t be used.

"You know the objective of those people outside?"

Seeing that Gutaf didn’t fly into a rage and immediately eliminate him—this insurgent—Yuwen Yong was happy to probe a little more.

For Demon Hunters like them, the more they understood a Demon, the greater their chances of victory.

After all, part of their power originated from a Demon’s Aura.

"I didn’t know at first, but after this happening every round of the game, I’ve managed to guess."

"Actually, I’m starting to have some regrets. A plan I once thought was brilliant and Extraordinary has, in the end, left me caught in my own web."

"I also never expected to alarm the major powers of the Outer Ring."

"Now, their bottom line is that the King’s Game can only exist in the Lanyu Kingdom. Expansion is absolutely impossible."

Gutaf’s face was filled with frustration, but it was only frustration—not a hint of despair.

Clearly, he had nothing to fear.

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"Caught in your own web?"

"No, no, no. Though we stand on opposing sides, I have to admire your abilities."

"I only recently learned the origin of those two forces myself. The fact that you can control them is what I find truly incredible."

"I believe the big shots outside were just as stunned by you."

"Based on my analysis of your personality, even if you had known the origin of those two forces back then, you would have still chosen this path."

Yuwen Yong was speaking the truth. When he learned the true nature of the game, the shock nearly drove him to despair.

’Could Gutaf, who was capable of such an incredible feat, really be just a Low Position Demon?’

’If I hadn’t collected his Demon Aura and used it to become a Demon Hunter, I would have doubted my own judgment.’

This was also why Yuwen Yong had delayed taking action after becoming an Apostle, and was only forced to make his move today.

"Hahaha! You little Demon Hunter, you’re quite amusing!"

"Indeed. Even with Time Reversal, I would still choose this path."

"Because back then, I was too greedy and too terrified of death. The [King’s Game] was the only hope I had of touching immortality."

Gutaf looked wistful. It had been a long time since he’d had such a pleasant chat with someone.

After becoming the King, he truly was isolated and alone.

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"Are you sure it’s fine not to quell the conflict between those two forces?"

"If even a little of the fallout from their struggle were to escape, the entire Nulis Islands would be wiped from the face of the earth."

The Royal Palace was still trembling slightly. Yuwen Yong suspected that if he killed the Demon now, he might trigger an even greater disaster.

If that happened, he would become a sinner among Demon Hunters.

"Rest assured, even if you killed me right now, not a single blade of grass in the Lanyu Kingdom would die."

"Although the nature of those two forces is very high-level, they aren’t as terrifying as you imagine."

"After all, several millennia have passed. Their conflict has long since exhausted them. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have only reawakened through the natives’ sacrifices."

"Besides, what crashed onto Lanyu Island back then was merely a fragment the size of a grain of rice!"

"Luckily, the Mountain God took the brunt of it. Otherwise, this island would have certainly been obliterated back then."

As Gutaf spoke of this, he seemed to have some lingering fear, as if he had personally witnessed the meteorite’s fall.

Yuwen Yong was lost in thought. ’Gutaf must have obtained the Mountain God’s memories.’

"Actually, there’s one thing you’ve all judged wrongly. These two forces aren’t in conflict. The moment the Black Death Prison was born, they had already achieved fusion."

"What they’re fighting for now is merely dominance over that fusion."

"So even if I do nothing, the game will be down for a month at most."

"After all, their degree of fusion is already very high, and the dominant one has been decided."

"Even I would find it very difficult to reverse the game’s model again."

"Or rather, after the [Xiaowang] Card became a combat card, it was already impossible."

Although Gutaf created the [King’s Game], back then he was just an ordinary person with a tiny bit of knowledge about the Inner World. He didn’t understand the [King’s Game] at all.

It was only after decades of fumbling around, combined with information obtained from outside players, that he finally understood just how much he’d been ’courting death’ back then.

Putting everything else aside, the very act of the Soul Sacrifice was enough to guarantee his utter damnation.