"Damn it! What's going on?!"
In his Divine Kingdom, Xi Wei, who was sipping his cola while compiling a new quest to solve the problem of the Western Continent's inhuman tribes in one go almost spat out his cola when he saw from the Players' perspective that Angora had been kidnapped out of nowhere.
He spun around where he was for a while before retrieving the records in his divinity to rewatch the scene of Angora and the others being ambushed, and only then did he understand a little.
"What the f * ck! The Shadow Creatures are out … "
While many scholars in the mortal realm believed that the Shadow World was a plane similar to the elemental plane, Xi Wei, who had transmigrated and was very sensitive to the composition of worlds could clearly sense that the Shadow World was not a plane, but a Mesosphere.
Unlike planes that were clearly divided, the Mesosphere was merely a layer of space attached to the Prime Material Plane. It appeared independent, but was in fact linked to the Prime Material Plane in countless ways.
To put it in simpler terms, it was the same as layers used in painting. The Shadow World was the background layer, while the Prime Material Plane was the main body of the painting. Usually, the background layer would not be affected no matter how the main body was altered.
That was also why the Players in the Unnamed Town could not see the HP bar of the invaders, allowing them to take advantage of the loophole.
Xi Wei had wanted to gift Angora a divine item or skill with his Mechanical Providence to help him escape, but he decided that it was a little thoughtless even if it wasn't a good idea to attack directly.
Moreover, he wanted to know who was targeting the Church of Games. After all, Xi Wei wasn't omniscient, and his vision was limited to the Players' surroundings. He wouldn't be able to see where there were no eyes, and Angora, who had been kidnapped, could act as an eye.
"Hmm, but I can't completely ignore Angora. He's a Player I personally appointed to manage the game …"
While Xi Wei had a way to save Angora even if he really died, and it would be more natural to act in ignorance and expose the mastermind, Xi Wei still didn't want his believer to be too worried — from a more utilitarian perspective, it was fine to deepen Angora's faith in himself.
With that in mind, Xi Wei began to move his tentacles to save the unfinished nonhuman walkthrough, create a new document, and start typing away on the Pantheon Computer.
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Angora opened his eyes to find darkness in front of him — something like a blindfold, and judging from the tremors beneath him, he must have been on a carriage or some other form of transportation.
Immediately after, the memories from before he fainted resurfaced in his mind.
Right, I seem to have been kidnapped by a group of people from the shadows. They dragged Vera and dragged me into the shadows.
His last memory seemed to have fallen into the ice-cold sea, and was swallowed by the boundless darkness …
He tried to move his body, but found that his hands and feet were tightly bound. Although his body was not tied to something like a pillar, it was useless in this situation.
It seemed like he was in a rather bad situation.
For some reason, Angora remembered the beginning of everything. Back then, he had been assigned to a barren and dangerous town by his father, and was almost killed by bandits on the way there. In the end, it was a gift from the God of Games that saved him.
It hadn't been that long, but he unexpectedly felt nostalgic.
Since then, he had always been protected by the Players as the count of the town. Even during the most desperate of events, he would only watch from the side and not participate.
And this time, he felt danger for the first time in a long time.
Be that as it may, Angora wasn't afraid.
He had gone through many storms with the Players and seen many scenes, and his temperament was completely different from how he was a year ago. Even in dangerous situations, he could still calmly analyze the situation.
If the kidnappers wanted to kill him, he would have died long ago. They wouldn't have restrained his movements so openly, and even used a vehicle to transport him somewhere else. It was clear that they wouldn't hurt him.
The other party probably wanted to obtain something more valuable from him.
Angora tried hard to think of what they wanted, and there were only two possibilities.
Either that, or they knew that he was close to a leader in the Church of Games, which was why they kidnapped him to learn the secrets of the Church of Games.
If that was the case, there was nothing to worry about. The Church of Games didn't have any special secrets, and if he had to talk about it, only the fact that there were remnants of the Tierra royal family amongst their hierarchy was interesting. Still, Angora wouldn't reveal that. As for torture … While Angora didn't have a combat system like the Players did, there were some basic settings that were the same. For example, he could feel pain, and torture wouldn't really work on him.
Aside from that, it could also be that the Silver Eagle Duchy's sole surviving son and future duke had caught their eye, and they wanted to use it to gain some sort of benefit for them.
The Silver Eagle Duchy wasn't huge, but it wasn't small either. While it didn't have an Illum crystal mine that was like a money printing machine, it did have many ordinary or even valuable minerals, and its revenue was actually one of the top in Valla.
Moreover, as a duke, many of his requests would be granted special permission from the Empire, and it wasn't unimaginable that someone would target that privilege.
Other than that, there shouldn't be a third possibility.
Just as Angora was considering whether to kill himself to see if he could be revived, a translucent screen appeared in front of his blindfolded eyes.
[Quest Name: You think I'm a hostage? I'm actually a spy!]
[Quest Details: An unknown enemy has kidnapped you when the Players weren't paying attention. But don't worry, the Players are on a journey to rescue you, and your quest is to use your identity to spy on the enemy. Don't worry, the God of Games is with you!]
[Quest Requirement: Learn the enemy's identity and objective as soon as possible.]
[Quest Reward: 1-3 special building blueprints, + 1-5 quests per day. Reward values are adjusted according to quest rating.]
[Note: Go all out. You'll be reunited at the Lifestone even if you have to sacrifice yourself.]
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