Next, Mu You asked Lin Xue about some details of the skin, like that death knell.
According to Lin Xue, the death knell wasn’t actually a physical object existing in reality, it would only appear when she summoned the Grim Reaper.
As for the bell’s effect, in addition to suppressing the enemy’s actions, it also blocked the flow of magic power, even directly lowering the enemy’s level and different tiered penalties. The more wicked the individual, the harsher the punishment. However, there was one prerequisite: only individuals with negative Karma values could be affected. If used on individuals with positive Karma values, it would have no effect.
The discussion about the skin power stopped there, more information would have to be figured out slowly.
Seeing Mu You and Little Ya were ready to leave, Lin Xue also planned to head back to the pet store with them, a suggestion which was naturally turned down by Mu You.
"You need to rest properly these few days, don’t push yourself."
Mu You insisted on making Lin Xue stay at home. Afterwards, he and Little Ya left the manor, and Lin Hai arranged a car to send the two back to the pet store.
In the car, Mu You took out his phone to check the news on the forum.
As expected, the forum’s top trending topic was still ’Change in Ownership of Dawn City’.
When they left the Tomb of the Grim Reaper the day before, it was 7 P.M.. Even though it wasn’t time to access the portal yet, due to the incident with Lin Xue, he had returned to Earth first to look after her before going back through the portal to continue leveling up.
When he returned half-way through, he took a glance at the forum and saw that when they were killing the World Walker on their end, an announcement had been sent out to all the players online in the game.
[Dawn City’s City Lord ’World Walker’ has been detected dead, and as Dawn City has yet to come into existence, the City Lord selection process for Dawn City will be restarted...]
[City Lord selection process initiation failed.]
[Dawn City is currently in a ’Occupied’ state, unable to change the City Lord.]
These three short sentences immediately caused an uproar on the forum.
"The World Walker is dead? Who killed him?"
"What does Occupied mean? Has Dawn City fallen to the enemy?"
Players who saw this were all confused. How did the previously hot-topic World Walker suddenly die?
More importantly, after his death, Dawn City hadn’t reverted back to the normal players as everyone expected, instead it had ’been occupied’...
Ordinary players didn’t really understand the specific rules of how Sky City operates, so they could only guess wildly.
At this time, many false claims began to arise.
"To be honest, I’m the one who killed the World Walker, but he died too quickly and I didn’t leave any evidence!"
"Damn, is it for real?"
"How did you do it, give us the details!"
"Don’t listen to the person above, it was clearly me who killed the World Walker. I’m on my way to claim the reward."
"Damn it, after a whole day of bloody battle, I finally killed the World Walker. Now you all are trying to steal credit? Have you guys lost your integrity?!"
"So, who really killed him?"
"The people above are too fake. If it were heavyweights like the Ghost Captain or the Son of Heaven admitting to it, it might carry a bit more weight. Who do you guys think you are?"
"Anyway, until I see concrete evidence, I won’t believe anyone..."
The forum was in an uproar, a large number of topics popped up, all claiming they were the ones who did it, but not a single one could provide evidence.
By this time, a lot of people had thought of the Ghost Captain, especially those related to him, like Jiu You, and Solomon. Since Mu You had just discussed the methods to restrain the World Walker with them on Thursday, and the next thing they knew, he was killed, it was hard for them not to connect the dots.
Many people immediately private messaged him to ask, but at that time, Mu You had returned to the portal to level up, and didn’t have time to look at these.
Only now, when Mu You checked the forum and saw the large number of red dots in his mailbox did he see messages from Jiu You, Son of Heaven, Solomon and others, including members of the secret technique conference like Libra, all asking about this matter.
As for this, Mu You didn’t deliberately keep it a secret and readily admitted his involvement in the World Walker’s death.
Of course, while he admitted it, he wasn’t planning to claim the bounty set by the grand alliance of powers. First, he didn’t have any evidence, and even if the large powers gave the bounty out of respect for him, it would be out of goodwill. If he accepted it, he would be indebted to them.
Secondly, there was no way he was going to claim the bounty in person. To expose himself for this trifle without much real value was not worth it.
Upon receiving a confirmed answer, Jiu You and the other large power leaders were relieved. There were too many people claiming to be the killer in this half day, causing a lot of confusion. Now that the big boss personally confirmed it, they finally had an answer.
"Boss, what about the matter of Dawn City being occupied..." Jiu You then asked this key question.
"I’m not clear about that either."
Mu You sighed. A Sky City that hadn’t come into existence can’t add residents, and thus, can’t set up a Deputy City Lord. Theoretically, once the World Walker died, even if there were other people in the city at the time, they would be automatically expelled, and then the City Lord selection process would restart.
However, in reality things didn’t follow this logic, and the only explanation Mu You could think of was the old man they encountered in the outside territories.
This guy was the one pulling the strings behind the World Walker. The knowledge that the World Walker had about Sky City probably all came from him. So, it was highly likely that this man had used some kind of method to exploit a ’bug’ in Sky City to forcefully interrupt the selection process.