Everyone's Class: One Effort, 10,000x Bonus Reward! - Chapter 165: The Only Hidden Quest Item, Eira’s Hesitation
Chapter 165: Chapter 165: The Only Hidden Quest Item, Eira’s Hesitation
“What can I do to help you guys?” Aiden finally spoke.
He hadn’t felt this angry in a long time.
When he saw the bodies of the kids and felt the pain they went through when they died, his anger exploded like a volcano.
It wasn’t because he was very kind. It was just a basic human instinct to feel for others.
Honestly, Aiden never thought of himself as a real good guy.
He was just doing what he wanted, trying to get stronger.
Any normal person with a human heart would have lost their calm and reason after seeing something like this.
No wonder Luke had broken down. It took him a week or two to get back to normal.
Aiden took a deep breath and looked at the child in front of him, whose face was blurry.
“Big brother, save us. Please, help us.”
“Ugh, I miss home. I miss my mom and dad.”
“This… this is for you. It can help us get rid of the pain and finally be free.”
The child, made of grayish smoke, slowly raised its hand and held out a black heart that was still beating, offering it to Aiden.
Aiden looked at the black heart and instinctively used his True Sight.
The result showed nothing. He thought for a moment and decided the heart must be a special item or quest item.
He suddenly remembered there was an unused item in his storage space called Black Cat’s Eye.
[Black Cat’s Eye: Epic Rank, Special Item. Can reveal details of enemies with a level difference of no more than 30, or enemies with Epic Rank or lower who are shielded. It can also be used to identify unknown items of no more than Epic Rank. Remaining uses: 3.]
“I don’t know if I can use the Black Cat’s Eye to find out what this black heart is,” Aiden thought. He decided to try.
He took out the Black Cat’s Eye and aimed it at the black heart.
[Grudge Heart: The Only Hidden Quest Item, Epic Rank. A special heart formed from the lingering hatred of thousands of vengeful corpses. When your soul strength is strong enough, and you meet a Reclasser who can make the Grudge Heart beat faster, you can trigger the Only Hidden Quest — The Punishment of the Vengeful.
Before the Only Hidden Quest is triggered, this item can speed up your magic recovery and increase your health recovery by 10%. Activating the Grudge Heart manually can make a target experience a painful death, and if the target breaks, their soul will become weak.]
The Only Hidden Quest Item?
Aiden was a little shocked. This was the first time he had ever seen such a special quest item.
“Reclasser who can make the Grudge Heart beat faster… does that mean those people who cruelly tortured the innocent kids?” Aiden’s eyes widened.
The moment he thought about it, he no longer hesitated and reached out to take the Grudge Heart.
As soon as the Grudge Heart touched Aiden’s skin, it turned into a ball of black light and shot straight into his body.
The child in front of Aiden slowly opened his arms and walked toward Aiden. Then, he gently hugged Aiden’s legs.
“Big brother, I hope you can let us be free… no more pain…”
His voice got quieter and quieter. The child, made from the leftover anger of thousands of vengeful corpses, slowly became transparent, then turned into gray smoke and disappeared into the surrounding bodies.
Only then did Arthur finally dare to walk over quickly.
“Aiden, you… how did you do that?”
“I’ve been guarding this place for over ten years, and I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Arthur said. Even James, who was now a level 95 Reclasser, had only lasted fifteen minutes when he first came in.
But Aiden had not only lasted an entire hour, but he had also caused something completely new.
No, it wasn’t that Aiden could only last an hour. If there had been no strange things after that, he probably could have lasted even longer.
Arthur stared wide-eyed at Aiden’s hand.
Aiden let out a heavy breath. His current state wasn’t great. His mind was full of all kinds of death scenes.
“I’m not sure,” he said. “The more I experienced death, the more pain and hopelessness I felt… in the end, I almost forgot who I was,” Aiden said, his eyes showing a hint of resistance.
It was the human brain’s way of protecting itself. Many people lost some key memories after a big trauma.
But for Aiden, all he had to do was think a little, and he remembered what had changed during his last death experience.
“I saw a bunch of kids’ hands suddenly appear around me, pulling me. Then I woke up,” Aiden said slowly.
Arthur heard this and grabbed his messy hair, pulling it hard.
“How could this happen? Did you get all the vengeful corpses to accept you?”
“No, that’s impossible. These vengeful corpses were tortured in ways that were unimaginable before they died. And because high-level Reclassers used evil rituals, they only had leftover anger. They couldn’t talk, and they couldn’t be freed…”
Arthur shook his head. He just couldn’t figure out what was going on.
At that moment, Eira, James, and Luke all came over.
“Are you okay?” Eira asked, clearly worried.
She was afraid that what had just happened would have a serious effect on Aiden’s mind.
Aiden shook his head. “I’m fine. Just… feeling heavy.”
“These kids, they were all tortured to death because some Reclassers wanted to strengthen their souls, right?”
Eira sighed, looking sad. Then she nodded and said, “Yes. Kids’ souls are pure. If you use the right ritual and make them die in pain and despair, other Reclassers can absorb their souls and increase their own soul power.”
“Only a few people know about this. If it ever gets out, it will cause panic, and more Reclassers will try to copy it,” Aiden said, looking at the thousands of children’s bodies around him. He didn’t know what to say.
Was it wrong for a soul to be pure?
So many kids, tortured and killed just to help others get stronger?
He suddenly turned to James and asked, “Is there no way to help these kids… to get revenge?”
James lowered his head, stayed silent for a moment, then answered, “It’s hard. You see, Reclassers who want to increase their soul strength are usually really strong, especially after level 90. Soul strength is more important than experience, stats, anything else.”
“And we can’t tell who used this evil method to get stronger.”
Aiden clenched his fists. He didn’t care about fame or money. He just wanted to see some people who deserved to die, to be punished.
He thought about the hidden quest, the Punishment of the Vengeful, tied to the Grudge Heart.
If there was no other way, he would have to use the Grudge Heart to find the Reclassers who did this.
But then Aiden noticed something else.
He looked directly into James’s eyes and asked, “With all these kids’ bodies here, don’t you find any useful clues?”
James shook his head, his face full of frustration.
“These vengeful corpses come from all over the country, especially from remote cities where they often appear.”
“A high-level Reclasser can do whatever they want in those places, and usually, no one notices.”
“Unless we send the strongest warriors from the Sovereign City to search every place… but we can’t ignore the Sovereign City’s safety, or the Empire’s borders. The Abyss Demons are always watching.”
“Our people just aren’t enough.”
James said that, and his tall, proud back bent slightly.
Even a level 95 Reclasser, the war hero of the Great Shaw Empire, had limits.
If everything were as simple as killing enemies on the battlefield, it would be easier.
James took a deep breath, looked up, and gave a small, bitter smile.
“Let me say something brutal. Compared to the threat from the Abyss Demons, many officials think this isn’t that important.”
Silence.
Neither the Empress of the Great Shaw Empire, Luke, nor the mysterious Arthur said a word.
Even if they wanted to change things, to stop this from happening again, they didn’t have a good way to do it.
Aiden watched the scene, his eyes narrowing slightly. He thought of a dark truth he didn’t want to believe.
The threat from the Abyss Demons was huge.
But then, there was the question: Did they just not want to stop it? Or did they think that sacrificing some kids to make stronger Reclassers, to fight the Demons better, was worth it?
If that were the case, then what’s the difference between these Reclassers who used this method to strengthen their souls and the Demons themselves?
They were just demons wearing human skin.
Aiden clenched his fists, carefully watching the expressions of Empress Eira, the War God James, Luke, and Arthur, trying to find any sign of something unusual.
Their expressions and gazes were filled with sorrow, anger, and more than anything, helplessness.
Then, Aiden suddenly spoke, breaking the silence.
“If we could identify which Reclassers were responsible for torturing these children, and stealing their souls, what would you do?”
As soon as the words left his mouth, the others turned their attention to Aiden immediately.
James didn’t hesitate at all. “We’d kill them.”
Empress Eira’s expression was thoughtful. She tightly gripped her imperial scepter, her lips slightly parted, and a flicker of hesitation flashed in her eyes.
