Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1088: Chapter 1000: The Increasingly Clear Main Storyline!_1 Chapter 1088: Chapter 1000: The Increasingly Clear Main Storyline!_1 Super Tomato was somewhat frantic.

The sense of accomplishment he had just obtained from defeating the BOSS was quickly dissipated by this sinister ambush.

After resurrecting, he decisively stuffed the giant axe into his wristband, changing back to his [Village Sword] and [Pot Lid Shield].

The shield is so handy!

This time, after pushing open the city gate, he immediately turned around and indeed, from his blind spot, he saw the little beast raising its club.

“Shield Counter!” Super Tomato smoothly swung his shield deflecting the attack, followed by three swipes of his sword, killing the little beast directly.

Only then did he have time to observe the appearance of the little beast:

It was wearing filthy armor, seemingly a city guard in its past life, but at this moment, it had lost all its blood due to the corrosion of the miasma, its body shrunken like a lump of charcoal, impossible to make out its original appearance.

Even the beast’s armor seemed as though it had gone through decades, or even centuries of time, covered in damage, to the point where Super Tomato’s [Village Sword] could break through its defense in one stroke.

After the little beast died, dropping items appeared on its body-

A soul dim like a spark, and a nightmarish solid substance in black and yellow.

Super Tomato picked them up instantly.

The soul was the same type of item as the Soul Core dropped by the BOSS, just of a lower level, only 5 units.

As for the nightmarish object:

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[Piece of Shit]

[Item]/[Consumable]

It can be thrown at the enemy to poison them.

Using this item will also poison yourself.

(This dry fecal matter cracks open to reveal it’s quite fresh inside.)

——

“Yikes~~~”

Super Tomato felt very sick, and immediately threw this thing away from him.

He instinctively wanted to wipe his hand on his clothes, but immediately stopped himself, standing in place looking left and right, trying to find somewhere to clean his hand.

A nauseating stench was emanating from his hand!

But after looking around, he couldn’t find anything clean, and in the end, had to bear with the nausea and wipe his hand on the dusty bricks inside the city gate tunnel.

[Does it really have to be this disgusting?!]

Super Tomato resentfully sent a private message to Lincoln before picking up his sword and moving on again.

This time, as he walked, he became very cautious, constantly observing his surroundings, even carefully avoiding any corpses on the ground, fearing they were monsters playing dead.

However, the rest of the path inside the city gate tunnel was surprisingly quiet, with no beasts appearing.

This made him wonder, was he just being overly jumpy?

The hand tightly gripping his shield relaxed a bit.

But as he walked out of the city gate tunnel and onto Sky Street——

“Whoosh!”

The sound of an arrow piercing the air suddenly sounded!

Super Tomato abruptly turned and looked up, but before he could see what was happening, he was struck in the chest by an arrow!

He stepped back twice and looked up again, finally seeing the source of the attack——

At the edge of the city tower stood two soldiers, dressed in tattered armor, dried of blood by some eerie miasma, each of them holding a large bow, their bowstrings already drawn again!

“Here we go again!!” Super Tomato’s eye twitched and, without thinking, he leapt and dove back into the gate tunnel.

“Whoosh!” “Whoosh!”

The two arrows narrowly missed him and shot into the ground, their fletching still trembling slightly.

Super Tomato climbed up from the ground, feeling a bit of pain in his head.

Why are all these beasts incapable of fighting straightforwardly?

He carefully peeked out, surveying the left and right and found the closest staircase leading up to the city wall to his right, so took a deep breath and dashed in that direction.

There’s no way to move forward with archers aiming at you from the city wall, he must deal with them!

After sprinting a short distance, his stamina bar rapidly depleted, forcing him to slow down and stay close to the wall to avoid being shot.

After catching his breath and restoring his stamina, he sprints again.

Three rounds of sprints later, Super Tomato finally stands on the steps leading up the city wall.

The city wall is extremely wide, so naturally these steps weren’t too narrow – easily accommodating four columns of soldiers to ascend to the city, Super Tomato could move unobstructedly by himself.

The only problem was – there were two archers on his head.

He had no choice but to hold the pot lid shield above his head, charging upwards with his head down – just rush up there, and these mob soldiers would be within three swords’ reach!

“Thunk!” “Thunk!” “Thunk!”…

One arrow after another shot onto the pot lid, which made Super Tomato’s heart pound with fear.

Fortunately, the shield didn’t betray his trust, it had not been pierced yet, and he had run half the way in just a few breaths, soon he would be able to ascend the city wall.

But then, he heard another sound –

It was the sound of something huge rolling on the stone ground!

He risked tilting his shield slantwise and looked up.

A gigantic stone ball, no less than 3 meters in diameter, was being rolled out, tumbling down the steps!

“Damn it!”, he instinctively swore and turned to run back!

But would there be enough time?

The massive stone ball rumbling down, unquestionably rolled over him.

Three consecutive collisions and crushing damage inevitably took him away.

[Dead]!

Looking at this blood-red word, Super Tomato, for some reason, found it somewhat unfamiliar.

The more he looked at it, the more he felt there was something wrong with it, but he couldn’t tell exactly what was wrong.

…

After he revived and started again, he chose to go left.

There was a horse path for transporting supplies over there, wider than the pedestrian path, just a bit farther away.

This time, the small mobs he was facing increased by one, but at least there were no gigantic falling rocks, and he finally successfully ascended the city wall.

The rest of it was much easier, he steadily cleared out all the small mobs one by one.

He gained 28 units of souls, a [Broken Longbow], and 16 wooden arrows.

And the [Pieces of Shit] that every small mob would drop, he didn’t pick up even one…

Super Tomato thought: the situation hadn’t gotten so bad that he needed to use these Pieces of Shit for fighting…

Unlike him, Yi was very interested in this stuff, even believing that this thing could be a highly lethal item in PVP!

If this game had a PVP mode, that is.

When Super Tomato arrived directly above the city gate, i.e., in the middle of the city tower, the first thing he saw was the demon flame burning out of nowhere on a corpse!

The flame was burning vigorously in the air, as if it didn’t need any fuel, yet it could constantly emit dark red dense smoke, adding to the miasma fog that shrouded the entire city.

Clearly, this was a key point of demon energy invasion.

The [Dragon Abyss Sword Mark] on the back of his hand emitted a dazzling silver light.

Super Tomato immediately retracted the Village Sword into the [Hercules Wristband] and then stretched out his hand to grasp the Dragon Abyss Sword in its original form.

Then, just like when he used the sword to purify the boss’s body, he plunged the sword into this bunch of inexplicably burning flames.

Silver fire erupted instantly!

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All the surrounding miasma was burnt away, the black-red flame was also dyed silver by the silver fire from the Sword Immortal.

After that, Super Tomato had a vision –

The silver-white flame began to burn down!

This flame followed the bricks of the city wall all the way down, penetrated the city wall, and then went into the ground, retracing the path where the demon energy emanated all the way back to the depths of the earth veins!

In the end, a bunch of silver light illuminated deep in the earth veins, lighting up this gloomy and miasma-infested underground world!

Super Tomato’s eyes widened in shock, as he took a step back from the vision.

At that time, the demon fire in front of him had turned into silver Sword Immortal Flames.

This flame was constantly burning the miasma in the air, slightly mitigating the surrounding dense fog.

Consequently, Super Tomato’s field of vision also broadened a bit.

He nodded thoughtfully, “So, the mainline mission of “Dark Soul” is: use the Sword Immortal’s silver fire to ignite all earth veins nodes, purify the earth veins of the Divine Capital, and then purify the entire city, cleansing it of all evil?”

Super Tomato looked at this small area illuminated by the silvery flame, and then at the city, still shrouded in dense fog in the distance, and suddenly felt a heavy responsibility –

It took him almost 4 hours to ignite the first earth vein fire and purify this small area.

How long would it take to purify the whole city?

Could he finish purifying it within the one week of closed beta??