The next day.

Chloe called Teresa to go out.

They planned to try their way through the dozen or so Mazes.

D-level Maze Poisonous Mist Jungle? Not here.

C-level Maze Water Swamp Third District? Not here.

A-level Maze Inverted Mountain? Still not here.

...

Fortunately, the Adventurer's Guild's Maze Teleportation Gates were fixed-point transmissions.

Coming out without finding Noding's scent allowed them to directly use elimination methods.

The time spent was very short.

They quickly locked onto their target.

D-level Natural Maze [Dragon Bone Cavern].

Chloe was very surprised.

Why would it be Dragon Bone Cavern?

This Dragon Bone Cavern was just an ordinary one among countless D-level Mazes.

But he happened to have heard of this cavern.

Because after he teamed up with Xiaolu in a simulation, Xiaolu was once afraid to face him.

Lately, she even chose to go on a solo journey to conquer the Maze.

Out of concern for Rephya's safety, he had always been keeping an eye on her.

[Dragon Bone Cavern] was a place she had once visited.

Even the simulation system had text prompts saying Rephya encountered danger.

At that time, she was deep in Dragon Bone Cavern, facing a powerful Maze Loner King.

It took great effort to slay it.

She later found signs of someone living in the cavern.

Could it be...

Thinking of this.

He and Teresa quickened their pace.

There were many Maze creatures in Dragon Bone Cavern.

After all, it was a natural Maze.

But today, they faced a nightmare.

Teresa watched in fright as the thunder seemed to engulf the entire cavern.

Good grief.

Is Chloe this crazy now?

This left the demons no chance to resist.

Direct obliteration.

Teresa chose to take up the role of brick carrier.

But these bricks were not easy to carry.

Simply because Chloe exploded too many Maze Monsters.

She couldn't pick materials fast enough compared to his killing.

Somehow frightened, after half an hour of continuous thunder, no more demons emerged from the darkness in Dragon Bone Cavern.

Chloe glanced at Teresa.

He noticed Teresa seemed not to like the dark environment very much.

From just now, she had been exceptionally silent.

After clearing the demons, Chloe quietly adjusted the brightness of the Magic Energy Lamp.

Walking along.

Teresa suddenly whispered a word of thanks.

Chloe said nothing, he just moved forward.

Finally, when passing a corner, Teresa stopped.

She frowned and said, "The scent breaks off here. There should be a secret passage nearby."

Chloe looked at the wall.

If it's a secret passage made by the Void Erosion Sect, it's not easy to crack.

So...

A rumbling sound came.

The lightning from the Thunderous Battle Halberd shredded the wall.

In Teresa's hesitant expression, a secret room was opened.

"Let's go."

The two headed towards the secret room.

The secret room left nothing behind.

The Void Erosion Sect is really professional at erasing evidence for 100 years, everything was taken away.

But...

No harvest?

No.

There was a great harvest.

Because there were a total of 7 people in this secret room.

Excluding Noding, the other six could basically be confirmed as followers of the Void Erosion Sect.

And now.

Their scent had been recorded by Teresa.

"Big harvest, your talent is really outrageous."

Honestly speaking.

This kind of clue-tracing talent, as long as one thread is discovered by Teresa, has a high probability of excluding the criminals.

No wonder Teresa doesn't like talking about it.

Honestly speaking.

Once Teresa is on the opposite side of you, just this clue-tracing ability can disgust you for a whole year.

——Like Chloe, who was found fighting on the bar couch.

The two continued to trace along the way.

When passing an underground swamp, they stopped.

Normally, there shouldn't be swamps underground.

But Maze geology defies common sense.

Some geological environments impossible in the outside world were common in Mazes.

Chloe looked at Teresa, whose face was slightly pale, and said:

"Can you still hold on?"

Teresa nodded and said:

"No problem."

The diverse scents in the swamp significantly increased Teresa's burden.

Chloe picked her up.

Using Floating Magic paired with Child of the Ocean talent, he isolated all surrounding sewage.

Teresa, face pale, pointed out the direction for him.

He sped up.

Soon he found a decaying corpse in a corner of the swamp.

"Noding's scent stops here."

"The renowned dancer, fallen in the neglected corner of a D-level Maze?"

Chloe smirked to himself.

He said nothing.

Just sealed the corpse with Magic and turned to leave the place.

The six scents basically all headed in one direction.

Chloe continued searching but soon found the clues cut off.

Because those six scents left this Maze directly using the Teleportation Array.

But it was enough.

Knowing who had recently come to the Maze was enough to deduce who the followers of the Void Erosion Sect were.

After leaving the Maze, he decisively contacted Principal Alfredo, who had been waiting.

Alfredo took Noding's corpse from Chloe.

He was exceptionally silent.

But Chloe could feel the rapid expansion of this old principal's anger.

There were records of all adventurers who entered Dragon Bone Cavern at that time.

Soon, Alfredo received the list from the Adventurer's Guild.

Finally, the old principal's gaze locked onto a young man named [Chaka].

"Principal, have you seen him?"

"He was once one of the talents pierced by the players of the Alse Empire, joining the Void Erosion Sect earlier than Noding."

Chloe, in deep thought, told the principal about the situation with Noding's soul fire yet to extinguish.

However, Alfredo shook his head and said:

"It's useless, the Void Erosion Sect clearly doesn't want us to know the exact time of Noding's death, fearing traces of his logout would be uncovered.

The soul fire hasn't burned out, it's just that they used the Seed of Filth, letting Noding's soul slowly burn out in despair."

Chloe fell into silence.

Even Principal Alfredo couldn't maintain the soul insight magic for a long period.

Moreover, the process to check personnel matters would become much more complicated next.

The principal brought Noding back to the school, saying he was preparing a funeral for him.

Unexpectedly, the problem that was thought to have no chance of being solved was resolved just a few days after Chloe returned to school.

Because Eira from the Menilanka District, the Soul-Seeing Girl, finally got through the process and came to Ethereal Emblem High School.

That day, the girl reached out to Chloe through the school.

"Hey? How did you get here?"

Seeing Eira again, he was surprised.

Chloe intended for Eira to communicate directly with the principal regarding the information she knew.

But now she came directly to him.

This was a bit surprising to him.

The little girl Eira stood timidly behind Alfredo and said:

"Uh, the big brother asked me to find you."

"Big brother?"

"The big brother who gave me the emblem before."

Chloe was stunned immediately.

Isn't that Noding?

That's right.

Since Eira could see Noding, it meant that those followers of the Void Erosion Sect, who caused chaos at Ethereal Emblem, turned to the Menilanka District.

Only then could Noding's soul entrust Eira to take away the emblem.

"Is he here?"

"Yes, he's right beside me, I helped him pass the message to Grandpa Alfredo."

Chloe looked at the old principal, who said:

"I know what I need to know, but why, are you interested?"

"No, actually, I've been busy for so long, delaying for several days, just to say one thing to Noding."

Chloe's voice was very calm, turning to Eira he said:

"Eira, can you point to where the big brother is?"

"Uh-huh, he's here."

Eira pointed to his left.

Chloe turned his head, looking at the empty space in front of him, and bowed his head:

"Thank you, both of us, and Rephya."

Eira conveyed the message:

"Big brother asked me to tell you, as long as you're alive, there's a future."

The old principal shook his head and said:

"His soul has reached its limit, I need to free him."

Chloe smiled and said:

"A bit of a shame, as he probably won't be able to see what we'll do next."

Alfredo shook his head and said:

"Stay vigilant, the road is long, and fighting against the followers of the Evil God is a long-term endeavor."

Chloe nodded, after a moment, he hesitantly looked at the principal and said:

"Can I bring someone to see him?"

"Who?"

"Laura, in her fourth year, she's been waiting for news of Noding for a long time."

"Then let her come over in the afternoon, we need to conduct a funeral and a memorial ceremony for Noding internally."

"I'll trouble you for that then."

...

That afternoon.

Without knowing what's going on, Laura was pulled to the scene of the funeral by Chloe.

With a puzzled look she said:

"Why are you bringing me here?"

But soon she realized something was off.

Because those left on the scene were all tutors from Ethereal Emblem.

She lowered her voice and said:

"Junior, whose funeral is this?"

"The person whose news you've been waiting for, do you... want to talk to him again?"

"..."

"Seems like you do." Chloe turned to the Soul-Seeing Girl Eira and said, "You can see more than just souls, right?"

Eira tilted her head.

After a moment, light flickered around her.

In the void, a semi-transparent blonde young man slowly appeared.

He hovered in the air, smiling cheerfully at Laura:

"Junior, long time no see."

Laura stood where she was, instinctively wanting to smoke a cigarette.

But she realized she hadn't brought any today, feeling a little annoyed for a moment.

She sighed and said:

"So why didn't you tell me?"

Noding shook his head and said:

"I couldn't joke about the lives of the Secret Front companions, sorry, junior."

"Senior Morton is dead."

"I know, I saw the dragon tearing through the sky, he finally fulfilled his wish."

"Do you... still hate him?" Laura hesitated and said.

The blond young man chuckled lightly, his gaze turned towards the soul relief monument and said:

"No, I never hated him, I'm a dancer, even if the curtain falls, I should fall on the stage."

"That's good."

"I know him too well, he won't stop moving forward, and he knows me too well, my pride would never allow me to retreat." Noding said with a cheeky smile, "But now it seems, even the Speed Dragon couldn't catch up to me."

Laura, both sad and sarcastic, said:

"Yes, at least on the road to seeking death, you took the first step."

"Haha, just say if I won or not." He laughed somewhat unseriously, "But now, I should take a bit of a rest."

"I originally thought I'd wait until you all were well rested to go on a big adventure together."

"But I'll stay here, and then it's over."

"You always said, the journey of Ethereal Emblem in defending order wouldn't end."

"Yes, I did say that, so now it's up to those who come after to decide their next stop."

"..."

"Laura, you're not going to cry, are you? That's unlike you." Noding's teasing voice lingered, "As a friend, I hope you find your own journey, what you desire isn't my path."

His voice grew weaker and weaker.

The body also began to become more transparent.

He pointed at Laura and said: "So, Laura, go become the great archaeologist you dreamed of, then check out the different world for me and Morton."

"Uh-huh."

The watch in Laura's hand ticked again and again.

Just like a person's confusion, worry, weakness, swaying continuously.

But no matter what, the hands always point forward.

Thus the minute hand paused at this moment.

Only the second hand kept moving forward.

"Farewell, Senior Noding."

Chloe placed a bunch of white flowers in front of the soul relief monument.

Alfredo said: "We lost two stars."

In the corner, Caesar sat quietly on a bench, clutching an emblem tightly.

The emblem had the number [34112] engraved on the back, and its owner had been consumed by fire.

The cremation began.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the stone stele, reflecting the large words carved out by swords and chisels—

Ethereal Emblem University.

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