Hmm... aside from Evil's Filth...

With a single sword strike, the head fell to the ground.

Zong Shen reached out and opened the lid of the box.

He froze instantly!

Inside the box lay a small mummy.

Its body curled up, with skin and flesh shriveled and blackened, its original appearance unrecognizable.

But Zong Shen noticed that the mummy's ears were the pointed ears of an Elf.

This was a young child of the Elf Race; the scene was extremely inhumane.

Seeing this, Zong Shen couldn't help but frown.

Beside him, Tasuya also frowned slightly, not because of the cruelty, but because she sensed the aura of the Undead, as a Necromancer, she was accustomed to seeing corpses.

Wraith Kim stood by the wooden box, reaching out to touch the mummy's face.

"Yuleya, I'm taking you home..."

For the first time, Kim showed a smiling expression.

"Crack!"

As if some invisible shackle had been opened.

Wraith Little Kim transformed back into the [Cursed Doll], falling to the ground.

A gray light circled above Zong Shen's head.

[Kim's obsession dispelled, guidance from the Wandering Soul acquired]

[Task: Kim's Revenge]

[Objective: Follow the guidance, defeat Evil Suturing Mage Gulanqi, left behind by Bananazar's henchman, whose remnants are the culprit behind Kim's transformation into this form]

[Fixed Rewards: [Nightmare Doll (Purple)], Necromancy Fourth-tier Summoning Skill Book [Summon Hellfire], 500 Reputation Points]

(The sudden invasion of the Blood-Burning Demon was a nightmare for Azshara's civilians. Little Kim and Yuleya were neighbors. When the disaster struck, Little Kim witnessed firsthand how, to escape danger, Yuleya was locked by his mother in a wooden box in the basement. Until Azshara was completely overrun, Little Kim never saw Yuleya again.

Little Kim was also captured by Evil Suturing Mage and subjected to inhumane suturing experiments and a vicious curse, becoming a nightmare doll. Until the war ended, all was sealed away. The nightmare doll wandered among bones, with Little Kim's wandering soul constantly thinking of Yuleya locked in the box, his resentment allowing him to suppress the curse and manifest for an hour each night, trying to find Yuleya)

The task progress updated, Zong Shen picked up the doll.

Found that the corresponding name had been changed.

[Cursed Nightmare Doll (Purple)]

[Defeating Gulanqi's remnants will lift the curse on the Nightmare Doll]

(The powerful Nightmare Doll, a gathering of cruelty and death, is a malicious undead puppet researched by Suturing Mage Gulanqi, possessing formidable power)

Meanwhile, the mummy vanished in a flash of light, and a five or six-year-old elfin child appeared in the wooden box, as exquisitely crafted as a porcelain doll, incredibly cute.

It looked at Zong Shen and smiled innocently.

"Big Brother, have you seen my dad?"

"He promised to give me a birthday gift and take me to ride the Horned Eagle Beast once he's done."

"I want to wait for him..."

Another new task prompt appeared before Zong Shen.

It turned out to be a dual task, and he remembered who Yuleya was.

[Wraith Yuleya has issued a task invitation to you]

[Accept]

[Refuse]

Zong Shen had no reason to refuse and chose to accept directly.

[Task: Yuleya's Waiting]

[Objective: Find the birthday gift his father left him and fulfill his final wish]

[Reward: One-time special enhancement (Yuleya's Gratitude)]

(The first wave of the Blood Burning Legion's assault was a barrage of Hellfire, with countless meteors burning with green flames crashing down. Inside and outside the city, the Ancient Guardians struggled to manage, and when these meteors landed, they transformed into Hellfire Giants, carrying deadly sacrificial flames, wreaking havoc.

To escape the disaster, as the Hellfire was about to arrive, Yuleya's mother chose to lock him in the wooden box she submitted, in hopes that Yuleya would not be discovered. Soon after, Yuleya's mother perished at the hands of the Hellfire Giant, and as it turned out, Yuleya was indeed not discovered, forgotten by everyone...

Now, for others, this task is like finding a needle in a haystack, but for you, it's destiny. Please hand the Picture Book with Love to the Wraith Yuleya, fulfilling his final wish, and if you fail to eliminate the remnants of Suturing Mage Gulanqi based on the guidance by 8 AM, I'm afraid someone else will beat you to it. There, you'll find some clues about Fear Demon King Bananazar.)

For Zong Shen, this task is indeed destiny. Back in the mine, when he found that [Picture Book with Love], the strategy tips had already mentioned its connection with the [Cursed Doll].

Zong Shen held the [Cursed Nightmare Doll] in one hand and took out a picture book with the other.

This picture book is only palm-sized; its cover features a hand-drawn scene of an Elfin father and son riding the Horned Eagle Beast, soaring across the sky.

He displayed a gentle smile and leaned close to Wraith Yuleya.

"Yuleya, this is the birthday gift your father prepared for you."

"He's also waiting for you..."

Zong Shen handed the picture book to him, and Wraith Yuleya gazed at the book, a smile of happiness appearing on his face.

Reached out and accepted the [Picture Book with Love], slowly flipping through it.

With each turn of the page, a tear would fall from his eyes.

"Plop"

"Plop..."

Tears fell onto the pages, this delayed birthday gift blessing an occasion that will never come.

After over ten thousand years, even the traces of the brutal war have faded away.

Only love and waiting remain, never decaying.

Wraith Yuleya, tears mingled with smiles, pure and flawless.

In death, he was still a simple child.

Yet was locked in the box, starved and forgotten.

The lid was covered in numerous small, fingernail marks, some very deep.

One could imagine the terror, despair, and agony Yuleya must have felt before dying.

Though he didn't die at the hands of the Hellfire Giant, he faced a crueler death.

Zong Shen shook his head with regret, understanding the background of the events, he seemed to picture the cruelty of that dimensional war of ten thousand years ago.

The invading Blood-Burning Demons came to destroy this world.

An apocalypse of Hellfire decayed everything, powerful demons were almost unbeatable.

Their brutality and cruelty were evident.

Azshara was just one battlefield from back then, and there were over a hundred large battlefields like it across the continent, though the origin of the war never recorded in continental history, seemingly holding secrets about the Supreme mysteries of this world and the Lords' arrival.

At least the strategy system temporarily refused to tell Zong Shen the war's cause.

After this great war, the protagonists of the previous era mostly retired, becoming marginal alien races on the continent, allowing the Human Race to rise strongly, and after internal strife spanning ten thousand years, eventually, several vast human empires developed.

While Zong Shen was deep in contemplation, Yuleya had finished reading the [Picture Book with Love].

He closed the book, held it against his chest, and bowed to Zong Shen.

"Thank you, big brother."

"I'm going to join my mom and dad."

"I will bless you..."

Yuleya smiled with relief, his tear-stained face waving at Zong Shen.

The next moment, he transformed into a shower of silver light, drifting through the basement's opening, flying outside, straight into the sky.

At the same time, part of that silver light turned into a small phantom of Yuleya, merging into Zong Shen's body.

[Task Completed]

[Acquired Enhancement: Yuleya's Gratitude]

[Yuleya's Gratitude (Yuleya will protect you. If you suffer a lethal wound or damage, this enhancement will activate, blocking one attack with a damage cap of 2000 points. This effect can only occur once)]

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