Chapter 11 The Shadows by the Cliff

In the autumn twilight, the silhouettes of eleven people were outlined against the mountainside, like eleven ancient statues, silent and still.

The challengers stood in small groups of two or three on the rubble-strewn path.

Since the Detective had vanished from the map so abruptly, no one had taken the lead in directing the next steps.

Although, as it stood, the Geographer, young master of the Petra Trading Company, who had publicly offered information, and the Lawyer, Lancy, were the most trustworthy challengers aside from the Detective.

However, the information they had provided could also be discovered through special magical exploration or deduction, so even now, they could not gain everyone's complete trust like the Detective had.

The young master of the Canberra Kingdom and the Petra Trading Company, who was quite eager to show off, wanted to take over Detective Frey's important task, but he was met with the death glare of the hitman siblings behind him, and he quickly choked back his words, not daring to utter a sound.

Clearly, having this idiot young master as the leader would only cause trouble and inexplicably attract a bunch of hatred.

Lancy, on the other hand, just smiled without saying a word, still as gentle, polite, and elegant as before.

It was impossible to guess what he was thinking.

He didn't seem to have any intention of acting as a temporary detective, or perhaps, judging from his appearance, he didn't want to be a detective at all.

The wind from the depths of the valley blew past the crowd, bringing a subtle chill that scattered and gathered the clouds of mist in waves.

During this brief silence, the challengers gradually calmed down and began to analyze the current situation again.

Although the progress of the Shadow World had been changed to a mechanism level because of the famous detective's heaven-defying operation.

But regardless of what happened next, they still needed to wait two days until the detective returned with the answer.

These two nights were likely to bring more sacrifices.

No one knew if it would be them.

Unless there were other experts who could further confront the traitors in these two days.

Just then.

"I bet there are two people who are trying hard to act like nothing happened, it must be tough."

Lancy smiled calmly and sighed to himself.

"..."

Hearing Lancy's words that broke the silence, the others were slightly stunned.

They didn't understand what he meant.

Hyperion was the quickest to understand Lancy's intention, and immediately covered her mouth with a gloating expression, sneering, and said:

"Yes, so annoying, do you want to jump down and catch the detective? There's still time, you know?"

Under the long-term influence of being in close proximity to Lancy, Hyperion felt that she had learned his top-notch *tea* skills.

However, when she personally performed it, it seemed to add a bit of the flavor of a villainous duke's daughter.

"...Someone must be really anxious."

After Hyperion helped Lancy to further set the pace, the others seemed to gradually realize something.

"Yeah, why aren't their faces red yet?"

Thus.

Starting with the first person to respond.

The challengers all began to mock the traitors fiercely.

There was a sense of relief from releasing the suppressed emotions in their hearts.

"Stupid traitor, come out and kowtow to everyone, and we promise not to kill you."

"There are only two days left, and you're still stubbornly pretending."

"Someone's going to start crying soon."

Although saying more mocking words might not have any substantial meaning.

But at this time, whoever wasn't willing to say something, or whoever retorted against this behavior, would have very obvious motives.

After experiencing more than three hours of psychological pressure from two hidden traitors.

None of the normal challengers didn't hate these two traitors who were excellent actors and had malicious intentions.

They had long hoped to catch them and beat them to death!

Previously, when the situation was against them, rashly mocking the traitors would only make them seem anxious and make the traitors more proud. But now, after the detective's god-like move, the level of pressure on the challengers and traitors had been reversed. Taking advantage of the situation just turning in their favor, fiercely mocking them to their faces was to increase the intensity of the traitors' mentality!

More importantly--

The traitors' mentality was already a bit explosive because of Frey's top-notch operation, and now they had to pretend to be part of the group, laughing at their own situation along with everyone else.

It was purely a test of stress resistance.

At this moment, the challengers by the cliff felt much more relaxed, with a sense of venting their emotions, while observing each other's expressions like judges.

The two traitors' psychological stress resistance was obviously extremely strong.

Even when subjected to such humiliation and torment, they could still perfectly maintain their acting skills.

But this seemed to make the challengers feel even more satisfied.

The young master of the trading company led the way in mocking the most enthusiastically, his twin hitmen had helpless expressions, but they still echoed his words.

The warrior-priest-mage of the Creatia Empire were all very ladylike, and not very good at cursing or being sarcastic, they could only try to use some more polite words to mock the traitors.

As for the three clergymen from the Northern Continent, the most explosive temper was the Executioner, who started cursing directly. The Paladin and the Priest were a little more restrained, but they directly started praying for the traitors, it was hard to say if this was a more advanced method of torture.

Lancy looked at everyone finally relaxing the tense nerves from the whole morning, and he wrapped his arms around himself and breathed a sigh of relief.

Like a psychologist who cares about everyone's emotional state.

His and Frey's ideas were different. Frey pursued efficiently solving problems, and took everyone running around all morning.

Lancy was more concerned with a harmonious and loving healthy atmosphere.

"..."

Hyperion turned her head and looked at Lancy's expression next to her, and she could already read his mind.

This guy must be very satisfied now, thinking that he had successfully helped everyone relieve psychological stress and done a good deed.

Hopeless.

If there were still teammates to join in the future, Hyperion really wanted someone who could complain about Lancy with her.

She had so much to complain about now, but she couldn't say it, and it felt really uncomfortable.

Despite this, Hyperion's observation of Lancy was also to maintain a high degree of vigilance about his every move.

Hyperion felt that after Frey's operation, Lancy had added another big fire to mess with the traitors' mentality to death.

If she was willing to gamble, she could call out the Great Love Poet and directly fast forward to the final battle.

But the problem with the Great Love Poet was that he didn't distinguish between friend and foe, and his uncontrollability was too great.

In this Shadow World where the challengers were gathered together and under great psychological pressure, the Great Love Poet was undoubtedly the most dangerous summoning object.

It was impossible to predict what the consequences of summoning him would be.

Summoning the Great Love Poet without warning might cause varying degrees of mental illness symptoms in several other normal challengers, or even directly lead to a team wipe.

Previously, in the Saint Hall, the challengers' psychological pressure was greater than the traitors', and Lancy rashly summoning the Great Love Poet would be misunderstood as the traitor who took the lead in attacking.

Even if the traitors' psychological pressure was now greater than the challengers', choosing to blow up the arena and start a war, the probability of winning was extremely high, but it was also likely to sacrifice several normal challengers.

It might even lead to two blood clan earls within a day because of accidentally killing a traitor.

The best ending must be to first capture the traitors alive with everyone's joint efforts.

Whether it was the emergence of the two traitors in the Shadow World with the "intention to harm the real world," or the implication of Hyperion's own "more vulnerable to attack" Actress identity, it greatly confirmed that there were Revival Cultists mixed in this Shadow World.

For the graduation project "Visiting the Primordial Stone Tablet - Sealing".

Hyperion knew that Lancy would definitely take advantage of this rare opportunity to find a way to capture the Revival Cultists alive in the Shadow World and interrogate them for information!

So, he shouldn't rashly summon the Great Love Poet to overturn the table.

"Hyperion, why are you looking at me..."

Feeling Hyperion's gaze, Lancy also turned his head and stared at her with full of doubts.

"It's nothing."

Hyperion shook her head, she didn't want to appreciate Lancy's declaration of good deeds anymore.

Since Lancy was still so natural and calm, it could only mean one thing.

From now on, he obviously had more ways to mess with the mentality of those two traitors.

(End of this chapter)