I Am Stuck In A Beta Test For 1000 Years

Chapter 26. Black Flame

Hilda had a dream, and it was a bizarre dream.

She dreamed that she was bewitched and persuaded by a mysterious voice, and finally sank into the power of the abyss, persecuting past armies and going against order. In the end, she was captured by the Army of the United Holy Kingdom and burned to death.

The dream ended in the fire, but it was another dream when he woke up.

She dreamed that she met Char in the middle of her dream, and he seemed to have predicted all the hardships she had experienced in her previous dream. The two of them spent a short and unforgettable time together, and then he disappeared. One day, the world suddenly fell into darkness.

When she woke up again, it was the third dream...

Then, the fourth...

Later on, she had lost count of how many dreams she had. The people and things that appeared in her dreams kept repeating, and Char appeared and disappeared from time to time.

At first, she could not understand the emotions in his eyes, but she gradually understood that he seemed to be the only one who could understand this reincarnation. She desperately opened her mouth, trying to say something, but she was imprisoned by a force. She could only watch the disappointment and loneliness in his eyes become more and more intense until they became numb, but there was also a deep, hidden sadness.

The process repeated until a certain number of times before it stopped abruptly.

After a long period of darkness, the memories merged with each other. The swelling and burning pain in her brain also eased a little, but those cold and difficult memories became warm and even familiar.

The memory was hidden in the depths of his mind, like a rabbit in the grass, disappearing in an instant.

Hilda opened her eyes.

It felt like a century had passed, and she did not even remember that she had been dreaming.

In front of him was a light blue sky, and the breeze of the Golden Butterfly Marsh was blowing.

"If you're awake, then get up quickly. Things don't seem right."

Hilda was awakened, and she looked at the back of her other self.

The crimson evening gown...

She remembered.

It was a strange sense of familiarity.

She had never seen him before, but she remembered him.

She would subconsciously recall that she had once expressed her love for this dark color, and Char had gotten this 'dark rose' from the tailor in the forest capital who was specially made for the royal family.

Shaking his head to get rid of the distracting thoughts, Hilda looked ahead and opened her mouth slightly.

"What kind of monster is this?"

It was hard to say that he was a person.

It had a human-shaped body, four limbs and a head, but no facial features. His body was an indescribable white color. The outline of his body was clear, but it was trembling all the time, like flashing snowflakes. If one looked at it for a long time, it would be dazzling. The sun above shone down, but it did not leave its shadow on the ground. It was as if the light had been absorbed by it, or it had avoided it.

There were no living things around it. They had all been deleted by it.

The Blood Dragon. The soldiers. The blood mist...

All of them were deleted, leaving large gaps and blank spaces, like the God of creation.

It only took one step and it instantly appeared in front of the three.

Hello, carrier #72, intruder, and individual who accidentally absorbed all memories.

Although the magnetic voice came out, it did not have a mouth, let alone moving.

Hilda #75, or rather, we should call her #72 after being corrected. She only hesitated for a second before she displayed the standard of a level 55 Witch.

Seven blood arrows were shot at its head.

However, it only raised its head to look at it before the blood arrow disappeared.

"Quiet, carrier #72."

The ground under Hilda's feet suddenly disappeared, as if the earth had disappeared. In the next moment, only her head was exposed, and her body was buried in the earth. A force made her unable to speak.

"The same goes for you two."

Before she could finish her small action, both she and Hilda were enveloped by the cage that appeared out of thin air.

It was like the master of this space, and it could summon incredible power with a raise of its hand.

"In here, everything you have is given to you by me. There's nothing I can't control. We need to have a peaceful discussion to decide if we should stay or leave."

As it spoke calmly, a voice suddenly came from behind.

"What about this?"

As soon as it turned around, a burning black flame hit its face, and half of its head was instantly burned off.

"Char!"

The two of them exclaimed at the same time.

It was Char.

He had appeared out of nowhere, and his body was wrapped in a layer of black flames. His entire style was out of place in this space, as if he was being rejected. Every second of his existence required a great effort to resist this repulsive force.

However, his expression was quite relaxed.

"Hey, ladies. I have to deal with this strange-looking brother before the small gathering."

As he spoke, he took out a lump of black flame and threw it at it. The latter was not as calm as before and dodged in fear.

When her attack missed, Char stuck to her like a parasite. It suddenly flickered like an old TV screen with poor signal and turned off with a beep.

When it was opened with a beep, it was already more than 100 meters away.

This time, Char could not chase after him like before. He only approached him quickly and stopped not far away from him.

The two of them were in a confrontation.

"Hey, Mr. Head Warden, what are you afraid of?" Char asked.

It tilted its broken head, and green data flowed out of the missing part with black as the background. It quickly recovered.

"Ha..."

It actually laughed and waved its hand, and the three people behind Char fell asleep.

"Is there something that's not convenient for them to hear?" Char raised an eyebrow.

"Carrier #72 can't think, but the other two individuals are complete living beings. The self-destruction of either one of them is something we don't want to see. They are non-renewable resources."

"Oh, 'they'. It sounds like you're still in the same gang,"

"Aren't you the same, intruder?"

It did not seem to recognize Char, but its gaze lingered on the black flames around Char for a long time.

"The holder of this power has indeed encountered a problem in the dark abyss."

He recognized the abyss, but he could not recognize himself.

Eliminating the possibility of fraud, Char guessed that the other party had completed 178 rounds, which meant that he had only appeared during the open beta.

Furthermore, the other party was not the 'it' that he and Zin'rokh were most afraid of.

A few minutes ago, he and Zin'rokh had deduced Zena's identity as the Head Warden. Then, Zin'rokh had told him the rules of authority.

There were two powers in this meditation space.

One was the power to build a space, relying on the system, but the contents came from 177 memory carriers. Their complete memories were divided into different sections, and their cognitive level stopped at the level of the elf Hilda, which together built the plot that was being played.

As 176 of them were destroyed, the memories were released and archived into the real Hilda's brain. The remaining one, because of Char's restoration, had restored all the memories of carrier #72 and was upgraded to the Hilda at the end of the 72nd round. With her memory, strength, and cognitive level at that time.

Therefore, the upper limit of the realm was upgraded and released. With 176 partners all dead, Hilda #72 took over the heavy responsibility of building the realm. Even if she did not have this consciousness, she had no right to change anything. However, the power cap of the realm was indeed lifted by her, which was why Zena's strength had increased so much.

The other was the power of the abyss.

It was also the power of Zin'rokh.

If the space of meditation was a factory, then Zin'rokh was the external aid that could be used in times of need. He was responsible for providing Zena with the abyssal power she needed to increase her strength. Originally, this power was only instilled when Hilda fell into the abyss, and it was also written in the blueprint.

Therefore, the realm had left an interface for him, allowing him to have some authority.

However, Char was commandeering it.

As Zena was killed by Hilda #72's full-powered strike, the actor died, and the Head Warden woke up.

He took off his skin and stood up. His authority was above all else.

Fortunately, he was not in charge of external aid like Zin'rokh, nor was the power of the abyss under his control.

He could only restrict it, but he could not erase it.

Therefore, Char, who had taken over this interface, could fight against it.

However, could he kill the other party?

It was still an unknown.