[Following this track, the mine cart will reach Dark Mark Mine, estimated travel time: 25 hours...]
[Following this track, the mine cart will reach the Plague Swamp, estimated travel time: 32 hours...]
[Following this track, the mine cart will reach the Clockwork City, estimated travel time: 15 hours...]
After checking a few routes, Mu You’s eyes lit up. Indeed, he found the track leading straight to Clockwork City!
However, Mu You wasn’t in a hurry to go. The journey would take more than ten hours by mine cart. It would be better to deal with the matters in Dark City first before heading out.
Next, Mu You found a hidden space near the lighthouse platform, set down the Dark Teleportation Array, and immediately teleported back to Dark City.
After reaching out to Lin Xue and others, he learned that the battle at the temple had indeed ended.
Without their energy source, the goblin tribe was no match for the elves. Not long after they withdrew, the temple was broken through by the Elf Clan. The enraged elves cleared out all goblin created objects within the cave, and the entrance used by the goblins to deliver goods seemed to have been completely sealed off.
Upon returning to Dark City, Mu You once again rushed to the temple entrance and attempted to ’enter’.
A prompt popped up: He was stopped by two Dark Elves Guards. The temple was a forbidden zone, outsiders were prohibited from entering.
With no other choice, Mu You activated the horn right there.
[You channel magic power into the Elf Horn. The Dark Elf Queen, Fred the Exile, appears before you.]
[Fred looks at the temple in front of her, then turns to you, questioning whether the weakening of the goblin tribe’s combat power was related to you.]
She was verifying whether he had completed the mission.
Mu You’s task was to clear all goblins and goblin buildings in the temple, a task the elves had now eagerly taken upon themselves.
However, the elves were able to take over the temple so easily thanks to Mu You’s prior efforts of cutting off the goblins’ energy supply, which greatly reduced elf casualties.
Upon explaining this, as long as she was not too unreasonably demanding, Fred should certainly consider his mission completed.
[You nodded in agreement, explained the course of events to Fred, but concealed the fact that you had trespassed into the temple’s secret chamber.]
[From the look in Fred’s eyes, you got the feeling that she might suspect you were the one who opened the secret chamber. But since the elves had inspected the area earlier and found the statues of gods undamaged, Fred chose not to pursue the matter for now.]
[Fred acknowledges your contribution. You have obtained ’Fragment of the City of Eternal Night Map (Ninth)’]
Mu You let out a sigh of relief. Fred was indeed suspicious of him, but luckily, she still credited him for the mission.
As for the secret chamber, judging by the Dark Elf Queen’s reaction, what they cared about was the intactness of the statues of gods. They didn’t seem to care about someone making offerings to the statues.
Coming back to his senses, Mu You turned his gaze to the newly obtained fragment.
However, before he could take out the piece, a game prompt popped up.
[Detected that all nine fragments of the City of Eternal Night have fallen into the hands of the Fool. Fragment guidance activated.]
[You noticed an arrow appearing on the fragment in your hand, pointing in a certain direction and visibly changing its angle at a noticeable speed.]
Mu You was taken aback.
As he expected, this was indeed the final piece of the Eternal Night fragment. As soon as he got hold of it, the fragment guidance was activated automatically.
What surprised him was that the directional arrow started to change as soon as the guidance activated. This means that at least one of the other fragments of the eternal night was nearby.