For unknown content, players have expectations beyond normal people. Now Pei Guang couldn't wait to go to the deepest part of Penacony.
But here came the problem: Pei Guang didn't want to die, and even more so didn't want to kill his companions.
Although it was confirmed that getting stabbed by Something Unto Death leads to a new world, he had double standards. Stabbing others was fine, but letting it stab himself or his people… no way.
Thinking of this, Pei Guang looked at Aventurine: "Alright, I've completed your task. Rewards, rewards, rewards~"
Pei Guang didn't plan to share that much with Aventurine.
He was just completing Aventurine's task to collect rewards, but he was a bit curious about what the good show he mentioned earlier was.
Aventurine heard this sentence.
At this moment, he looked at Pei Guang with a smile on his face.
"You brought me the true news regarding death, so according to the previous promise, I will also give you the reward that belongs to you. My reward is a piece of intel, intel regarding how to let you go to the deepest part of Penacony."
Pei Guang didn't reply, only looking at Aventurine, waiting for him to speak out the reward.
"There is a person in Penacony, a person you know and have contacted. She is Acheron. She is an Emanator of Nihility. If you don't want to go to the deepest part of Penacony through death, her power should also work. Of course, besides this intel, there is also..."
Aventurine combined the characteristics of various games.
While giving Pei Guang intel, he also transferred three hundred thousand Credits to Pei Guang.
Regarding Credits, Pei Guang was indifferent. Although he couldn't finish using his Credits, seeing Aventurine give clues and Credits at the same time, he was still very satisfied.
In terms of quests, Aventurine gave quite a lot of Credits compared to general quests.
But for Pei Guang, Credits weren't important: what was truly important was his intel.
"Power of Nihility? Acheron? Alright, I noted it down. I'll find Acheron to try later. By the way, what was the good show you mentioned earlier? Also, why did you insist on all of us being here?"
Looking at the thinking Pei Guang, Aventurine knew his first step had succeeded. He had the qualification to win it all.
What Aventurine wanted to do was simple: obtaining the Aventurine stone and the qualification to use the Aventurine stone from Pei Guang would count as completing the first goal.
Then use the Aventurine stone to prepare for the IPC to "reclaim" Penacony.
Although he learned the true information about death through Pei Guang, the next action was the real gamble.
As long as he got the Aventurine stone, he would either win it all or lose it all.
Thinking of this, he looked at Pei Guang and smiled: "Are you satisfied with my reward?"
Pei Guang: "Satisfied, but it would be better if there was more. By the way, do you have other quests? I feel like your quest line isn't finished yet."
Aventurine: "Of course there are~ In the Dreamscape, the Family concealed the truth of death. Death is not impossible, it's just that the Family is covering it up. And I want to uncover this truth, turning that paradise into a shattered dream."
Listening to Aventurine's plan, Pei Guang showed a serious expression: "If I remember correctly, the IPC's goal in coming to Penacony is to reclaim Penacony, right?"
Aventurine smiled: "Correct. As long as you can help me complete the following task, you can receive rewards from the IPC. Next, I need your Aventurine stone. This is a Cornerstone created by an Emanator of Preservation. I need to use its full power.
I will use this Theme Park as a stage, using this power to attract the attention of everyone in Penacony. I need the power of you Trailblazers, I need you to stand on the opposite side of me.
At that time, I will use the safety of everyone in Penacony to force that Emanator of Nihility to act, to make her kill me. You will be the witnesses of death. This is also the only method we can use right now to prove the existence of death."
Pei Guang didn't tell Aventurine that he could command Something Unto Death, nor did he say he had the ability to kill people.
He merely stated Aventurine's mission requirements.
Therefore, the way to die that Aventurine could think of at this stage was to let Acheron slash him, but this was only a possibility of success.
He was gambling, but he believed in his luck, and he believed Acheron could definitely do it.
Precisely because of this, he, Aventurine, was going to fight Acheron!
Aventurine: "I will use my death to prove that The Harmony's vows are a complete joke. At the same time, I will also use my death to attract the Family's attention for you. At that time, they will only focus on me, and you can search for the Watchmaker's Legacy to your heart's content."
Pei Guang: "From my perspective, your actions are beneficial to me, but there's a problem. You didn't come to Penacony just for fun, right? If I remember correctly, you are here to reclaim the IPC's assets, and this planet is an asset of the IPC?"
"Yes."
Aventurine didn't hide his goal. While obtaining the Aventurine stone, he also wanted to reclaim the IPC's assets.
Listening to Aventurine's thoughts, Pei Guang nodded in understanding: "One question. My task is to be a witness? To let you use death to prove that death can occur in Penacony's Dreamscape, right?"
Aventurine: "Correct! To let more people witness the truth of Penacony, to let everyone know that death exists in the Dreamscape. And the only person we can utilize is Acheron."
Seeing Aventurine's confident appearance, Pei Guang pondered the loopholes in the task for a moment and then took out the Aventurine stone: "The others won't take long to arrive here. Acheron will come. At that time, we will serve as witnesses, witnessing your death. Here, this is the Aventurine stone, for you."
Pei Guang gave the Aventurine stone to Aventurine, but for some reason, the moment he took the Aventurine stone, Aventurine suddenly had a bad feeling.
His feeling wasn't wrong, because when Aventurine said he wanted to help the IPC reclaim assets, Pei Guang had more thoughts.
He indeed wanted to go to the deeper part of Penacony to obtain the Watchmaker's Legacy, and Aventurine's intel was indeed very useful.
Besides Something Unto Death, the power of Nihility also worked? That was equivalent to an extra layer of insurance.
If nothing else, in case Something Unto Death refused to attack him because its favorability with him was too high, he would indeed need another method.
Of course, if Acheron didn't work either, Pei Guang would choose the simplest and crudest method: digging his way through.
But when Aventurine said he wanted to help the IPC reclaim its assets, Pei Guang's inner thoughts changed.
There was no problem with Aventurine's plan, but the prerequisite for executing this plan was that Pei Guang wasn't part of the Family.
Logically speaking, Pei Guang wasn't part of the Family, but the problem was that after separating from Aventurine, Pei Guang performed a series of operations that forcefully turned himself into a member of the Family.
Aventurine hadn't calculated this at all!
And now? Strictly speaking, Pei Guang wasn't a member of Harmony, but the problem was that Pei Guang already planned to establish his territory in Penacony.
Aventurine wanted to treat Penacony as an asset? Rounding up, that meant touching his assets.
He still remembered what the IPC did to Belobog.
Back then, because he helped, the IPC made concessions, plus it was Bronya's territory, so Pei Guang didn't think much of it.
But now, the IPC wanted to touch his turf? He suddenly had to consider many more things.
Of course, Aventurine didn't want to use death to cause internal strife in the Family: he prepared several possible outcomes for his actions, but the only outcome he didn't prepare for was Pei Guang possibly being a high-level member of the Family.
But the problem was, Pei Guang really counted as a high-level member of the Family now.
Precisely because of his identity as a high-level member, Pei Guang planned to use Aventurine to gain more favorability and prestige within the Family, allowing more Family members to acknowledge him while the Family Heads hadn't returned yet.
As for why give Aventurine the item and strengthen his power… wasn't it obvious? Aventurine himself said that with the Aventurine stone, he would become a boss.
Wasn't this mechanism just like using special items to summon a boss in various games?
Summon the boss, kill the boss, and get more rewards.
Moreover... he also had to complete Aventurine's task. This way, he could farm Penacony's favorability, kill Aventurine for loot, and complete his task: killing three birds with one stone!
At this moment, Pei Guang couldn't wait for Aventurine to transform quickly.
Even if Aventurine really possessed the power of an Emanator, Pei Guang wasn't afraid, because he knew that in the Dreamscape, Aventurine didn't have a special kill mechanism.
Units killed by him could return to reality.
And he, Pei Guang, had obtained a skill when he ate Something Unto Death earlier.
[Units killed by enemy units within a certain range in the Dreamscape will provide temporary stats to the player. The temporary stat value equals all stats of the killed unit. At the same time, the unit causing the kill will be marked, and damage against the marked unit increases by one-thousandth. When the marked target is defeated, they will suffer a fatal blow from Something Unto Death. When the player leaves combat or the marked unit dies, the temporary stats disappear.]
Looking at this skill, Pei Guang smiled at Aventurine. This skill gave him the confidence to deal with Aventurine, while also being able to send him to the deepest part of Penacony.
According to Aventurine's task requirement, he had to witness Aventurine's death. Regardless of how he died, even if killed by Pei Guang himself, it counted as witnessing.
Pei Guang was ready.
If Acheron really came, he would trip her up and let her be killed by Aventurine. This way, he could obtain Acheron's temporary power. If she really was an Emanator of Nihility, he could then verify if Aventurine's intel was correct.
In his view, Aventurine was truly a qualified NPC, allowing him to farm regional favorability, giving him quest rewards, and even dropping gold for him.
Good! It was truly wonderful.
Of course, if the intel reward Aventurine gave was fake, Pei Guang wouldn't mind sending Aventurine to the deepest part of Penacony first, and then killing him again…