Chapter 1736: Chapter 1734: The Third Puzzle Piece
For any disturbances from the outside world, or the final outcome of this speed chess game, Han Dong was completely unconcerned.
All he wanted was to finish this game well—doing his best was enough.
"Although I only touched it once, the feeling of touching chess again is so familiar, just like standing in front of the ’Door of Truth’ again... After all, the initial experience was carved into the depths of my brain, it was too profound.
Since there is such an opportunity, it must be cherished."
It was very different from the first contact with the game when opening the gate.
Back then, due to unfamiliarity with the game, Han Dong had to adapt slowly at the start of the duel.
By the time he barely got through the adaptation period, the game had become extremely disadvantageous, and the pressure brought by the master of fate kept piling up, leaving Han Dong no time to breathe.
But now it’s different.
Han Dong no longer needed to adapt, and the pressure from his opponent was much less.
Due to the warm-up completed during the ’speed party’, Han Dong gained an [Immersive Experience] at the start, fully integrating himself into the deck through the understanding of the faceless.
It’s not like playing cards.
It’s more like revisiting his own fate’s experience again,
every card played seeming to ’witness’ past experiences... More precisely, it’s the ’Faceless One’ standing in the shadows, watching the various old stories he had experienced.
Unconsciously, he had already played the cards in his hand, keeping each card play less than three seconds.
"Unexpectedly, in just ten years I’ve experienced so much... I’ve always lived under a seemingly normal, human mask that I believed belonged to me.
What exactly am I? The answer was actually given when Mr. Black White recruited me as a student.
I am who I am, that’s the real answer."
From the perspective of a faceless observer, Han Dong arrived at the prison where he was first born as a Cell Clump,
walking step by step in this familiar yet strange prison, touching the cold walls and the corpses lying in different cells.
Including the mentally retarded boxer, and the corpse of the Saint Girl.
He even peeked at the Cell Clump slowly moving, constantly crawling to each cell to screen corpses in search of the best answer.
"The cell stage of sacrificing continuously in pursuit of perfection is really nostalgic."
Han Dong did not continue to observe the slow-moving Cell Clump, but instead stepped into the center of the prison.
The warden’s office with the "Faceless Mark" engraved on the door was located here, which was also the initial starting point for Han Dong to unlock the identity of the Faceless One.
A door that should have required a key to open,
yet as Han Dong approached on foot,
Buzz!
Accompanied by a sense of resonance, the mark on the door emitted waves of gray light, and the door itself opened.
It was as if Han Dong was the person in charge here, the real warden.
The familiar interior structure was presented in front of him, just missing one thing... In the transparent containers filled with solution, the "Faceless Skull" that was supposed to exist was absent.
Staring at the scene before him, Han Dong immediately made a decision in his heart.
Swish!
He personally cut off his head and placed it in the container, waiting quietly.
It’s not clear how long had passed...
The Cell Clump finally also arrived here, abandoning the useless body, crawling onto the surface of the container, and making the final choice.
The moment the Cell Clump drilled into Han Dong’s Faceless Skull,
the final carving on the surface of the Abyss Stone Tablet was also completed—a "gray, smooth Faceless Skull, with a small point symbolizing the Cell Clump imprinted in the center, a mass of tentacles frantically squirming in the back of the head".
’The "Faceless Myth" puzzle has been formed.’
[Quality]: Legend (top-level puzzle)
[Fit degree]: 0% (needs subsequent honing to improve integration with the Mythical Puzzle, which will affect the [Traits] granted by the puzzle, full fit degree is a basic requirement for becoming a king)
[Specialty]: Destiny Exception (this Mythical Puzzle possesses Demon characteristics and will be specially registered by the Black Tower as an exception)
[Trait-Legend level]:
≮God of the Faceless (Passive)≯:
The Faceless One will perform extremely efficient self-adaptations to ’all internally and externally’, responding in the best posture to various different scenarios.
Additionally,
under the effect of the ’God of the Faceless’, the basic method of [Borrowing God - Faceless] will change—individuals can replicate the divine level through ’advanced disguise’, significantly reducing the cost of borrowing a god and increasing the total duration.
When the fit degree reaches 100%, the God of the Faceless will reveal its "true appearance".
...
When the final piece of the puzzle formed, the consciousness space also underwent a change.
Unlike when forming the first two pieces, which altered the overall environment of the consciousness space... under the Talent Tree, appeared a young man identical to the human Han Dong, with a faceless mask hanging slanted at his side.
His existence was both virtual and real,
sometimes present, stroking the trunk,
sometimes disappearing, seeming to merge into the world,
sometimes walking among the gravestones, familiarizing with, feeling the environment here.
Just like a "Guardian of Consciousness" wandering around.
At the same time, the Truth Abyss between the Talent Tree holes began to tremble and shake violently... It seemed something extremely important was happening at the deepest layer of the abyss.
Zooming into the depths.
One would find the mythological Truth Stone covered in gray mist.
The three puzzles carved on the surface were no longer separate, they were merging.
1. The exaggerated mad laugh face merges appropriately into the faceless head without features.
2. The faceless head connects with a Pharaoh skeleton standing on the left shoulder with a rotting Crow perched.
At the same moment.
Other areas of the stone began to self-carve as well,
constructing a "Grey World" filled with ancient, biotechnology, and black Death.
’The Death Pharaoh formed by the fusion of three puzzles, with skeletal hands lifting high the faceless head bearing an exaggerated smiling face, overlooking this gray world.’
A truly significant "Mythical Scroll" was formed here.
Perhaps one day,
the contents of this scroll might manifest in reality, forming a unique king domain belonging to Han Dong.
In addition.
Due to the overall drawing and carving of the stone, excess stone blocks were cut off... If observed from a specific angle, one would find the stone’s shape somewhat resembles a [throne].
Though it seems everything is complete, the myth still misses the final step.
It requires Han Dong’s true consciousness to descend here, to observe, experience, and accept this brand new scroll.
And there’s a simple reason why Han Dong’s consciousness has not come down yet.
He didn’t even know everything happening here.
He remained completely immersed in the fate card game, currently, he just wished to complete this match with all his might.
And precisely because of this complete state of oblivion, subtle changes continued at the bottom of the abyss.
The already completed stone tablet carving with the scroll was still being slowly polished...