Cola Mania won and became the champion.
That night, after Caramel defeated Thorne, even though he was so weak that he couldn't move, he still partied with the other members of his team. Caramel booked an especially expensive hotel in the northern part of the city, and just the celebration party lasted the entire night.
But after the celebration, Caramel couldn't fall asleep. He returned to the club's dormitory and tossed and turned all night, unable to fall asleep.
Even though his body was exhausted, his mind was still very clear.
Thus, Caramel dragged his exhausted body to the Saint World, and arrived at the Blossom Square in the Inner World.
Now, the most popular area in the Inner World, the Blossom Square, was empty.
Because the true meaning of the Blossom Square … Thorne had disappeared. Even if the server cloned another NPC called Thorne, his existence would be meaningless.
The NPC Thorne existed as an undefeatable powerhouse. Players on the forums were enthusiastically discussing how Thorne had taught a lesson to that professional player, and how he had beaten that high leveled passerby.
This was a daily topic of discussion on the Saint World forum. But the undefeatable Thorne had already been defeated by him, and the curtains had fallen on his legend. A fallen legend had no meaning to be celebrated.
Caramel sat on the empty Blossom Square, somewhat exhausted. He had defeated Thorne … This had always been a question mark in his mind.
When his blade had taken away the last of Thorne's HP, Thorne had whispered in his ear, "Well done."
But Caramel wasn't conflicted over whether he had defeated Thorne or drawn a draw. The question that had been lingering in his mind was, "Why did Thorne help the Annihilation Legion?"
Caramel didn't hate Thorne. Instead, he felt a little guilty … He wouldn't show any mercy to the Annihilation Legion, but Thorne joining them meant that … everything he had built up in the Saint Spirit would be gone!
Thorne had gambled many things in that battle. His friendship with the Holy Spirit, the only place he could stay in the Holy Spirit, and even his life. He had gambled all of this for the position of the ruler.
Caramel didn't stop Thorne because he wanted to "save the world" like Zhao Mingwei did. He just wanted to defeat Thorne and prove himself in front of all the players on the server.
Wasn't this a very normal thing for players?
What reason did you need to kill a Boss?
It was purely for fun and experience. He just wanted to prove himself.
However, to this Boss, the outcome of this battle with the players was a gamble of his entire life.
In the past, Caramel wouldn't have thought about it this way, but the Holy Ghost game … made Caramel realize that the NPCs in the game had their own lives.
That was why Caramel wanted to know why Thorne would give up everything he had to help the Annihilation Army!
"The reward for defeating me should be pretty good, right?" Thorne's voice suddenly sounded in front of Caramel.
Caramel raised his head abruptly and saw Thorne standing in the ring, looking at him.
When did it appear?
"You … were refreshed again?" Caramel could only think of the word 'refreshed' to describe Thorne's appearance.
"Refresh?
Sort of … but I plan to leave after saying goodbye to you guys. "
"Where are you going?"
"Surrender. I'm a wanted criminal in the Creation Sanctuary. Even if I put it that way, you probably don't understand, but it's better for everyone if I leave," Thorne said.
"You … want to go back to the Creation Sanctuary to save someone?"
Just like Thorne said, Caramel didn't watch the plot of the game at all. However, he had played so many games, watched so many movies, and predicted the direction of the Holy Ghost's future updates in the Holy Ghost group chat.
He could still guess some of the entanglements between Thorne and the Creation Sanctuary. Caramel didn't believe that Thorne would turn himself in, given his personality.
He said that he was wandering all these years, but in reality, he was using all kinds of methods to do something. Whether it was working with the Annihilation Army or training the Holy Ghost by learning from each other, he had the same goal.
However, he could have used the Holy Ghost to achieve his goal, but he gave up and chose the Annihilation Army as a last resort.
This goal was related to the Creation Sanctuary. If he wanted to find someone in the Creation Sanctuary for revenge, he didn't need to go through so much trouble. There was only one possibility, and that was that this goal could only be achieved by subverting the entire Creation Sanctuary or one of the departments.
During this period of contact, Thorne realized that the Holy Ghost wasn't suitable to play the role of 'executioner' because there were too many 'innocent people' in the Creation Sanctuary.
"I should go." Thorne didn't have much to think about when Caramel guessed his thoughts.
"…"
Caramel didn't know how to answer when he heard these four words, because there were no options on the game's dialog box.
The map of the Creation Sanctuary hadn't even been updated. This was where he was helpless as a player. Even if his skills were the best among the Holy Ghosts, there was no way to defeat the Boss outside of the version.
Besides, this Boss didn't look like it could be defeated by a single person, and Thorne didn't seem to have any reason to let Caramel do everything to help him.
Thorne looked at the hesitant Caramel, and a rare smile appeared on his face. Then he turned to leave the Inner World … A bunch of reminders suddenly rang in Caramel's private chat.
These reminders were from the Holy Ghost player groups that Caramel had joined. The Holy Ghost Catfight group counted as one, and the Cola Mania group counted as another. There were people in these two groups who @ all the members.
Caramel swiped her fingertips and clicked in to take a look. Someone was posting an update announcement on the Holy Ghost official website.
This update was a big one. Not only did it increase the level cap, but it also updated some new systems.
Caramel took a quick look at the updated preview, and the last sentence in the preview caught Caramel's attention.
"Holy Ghost" version 3.72 update.
"Hello everyone, the first Holy Ghost League has come to an end. There were too many exciting moments in this competition, and there were too many outstanding players. In the end, congratulations to the Cola Mania Club for winning the first Holy Ghost League. In order to commemorate their victory, we will update the equipment and weapons named after their players in the subsequent version updates. Currently, the equipment and weapons have been added to the list of equipment drops in the Path of Ascension. After that, there will be other changes in this version update. One of these updates is to pave the way for the subsequent version of the Sanctum of Creation. The complex faction known as the Sanctum of Creation will become a friendly faction, a hostile faction, or even a subsidiary faction. All of this will depend on the actions of the Holy Spirits during this period of time."
Subsidiary faction … Subsidiary faction means submitting to the Holy Spirits?
How did they do it?
Caramel quickly read through some of the newly updated systems in this version and roughly understood what she had to do now.
"Thorne!"
Caramel instantly called out to Thorne, who was about to leave. "Can you live a little longer in the Sanctum of Creation's prison after turning yourself in?"
"Time is meaningless to Eternals, but I'm afraid the things I have to do when I go back won't let those guys let me stay in peace for too long."
Thorne showed the blade at his waist, still holding the black sword given to him by the Annihilation Army.
The black sword's destructive power was far less than the Shadowless Sword that Jiang Qiao had given him!
Any legendary weapon of the Holy Spirits above level 65 was far more destructive in terms of laws than any weapon on the star map.
However, Thorne had given the Shadowless Sword to Caramel because he did not intend to borrow the power of the God Eater, or rather … implicate the last descendants of the God Eater.
The God Eater used to be a terrifying and tyrannical Calamity Force like the Annihilation Army. At first, Thorne's contract with Jiang Qiao was no different from signing a contract with a demon, but the Holy Spirits had greatly changed Thorne's impression of them …
"As long as some time passes, perhaps we can solve your problem," Caramel said.
"Solve my problem?
Many people will die in what I'm about to do, many innocent people. It's not suitable for your hands to be stained with blood, real blood. "This was also the reason why Thorne did not want to work with the Holy Spirits.
"We players … have our own way of solving problems!
In the eyes of most players, the Sanctum of Creation is something that belongs to us, "Caramel said straightforwardly after reading the version update announcement.
Caramel directly stated his ambition after reading the version update announcement. "We've conquered the Blacktide Island, and the Sanctuary of Creators will be next!"
"Players …" Thorne held the black sword in his hand in silence for a moment. When Caramel was about to say something, he suddenly appeared in front of him and reached out to pat Caramel's shoulder.
"Then I'll look forward to it a little, unparalleled national knight."
“！”
Caramel was slightly stunned. When he turned his head again, he found that Thorne had disappeared from his side. He searched around the Blossom Square and found that Thorne was no longer there.
Inner World, Blossom Square Region Cleared by: Caramel. Reward: Player's Eye Computer Set worth 630,000.