[Main Quest: “Echoing Calls” has been unlocked.] [Quest Description: As the lights first turn on, the echo calls out.
Following a friendly guide, the bustling and peaceful frontier city now watches you in return.] [Rewards for completing Main Quest “Echoing Calls”: Radiant Tide × 20, Lustrous Tide × 10, Astrite × 1600, Shell Credit × 100,000] Looking at the quest description on his interface, You Luoming was once again convinced that his quest system was bugged.
A bustling and peaceful frontier city?
Did it mean the ruins beneath his feet?
Even as a professional account booster who knew every map in Wuthering Waves like the back of his hand, he couldn’t find a single trace of Jinzhou in the ruins around him.
And that main quest: first, it had no quest markers; second, there were no clear completion criteria; and third, the rewards were pathetic.
A whole main quest only gave thirty pulls?
That wasn’t even enough for half of a 50/50 pity!
How was that supposed to be enough?
He still wanted to collect a full roster of characters with max Resonance Chains!
You Luoming was too exhausted to complain further.
He turned to look at Yangyang, Chixia, and the group of Patrollers behind him.
Yes, they had all followed him!
Baizhi had wanted to come along as well, but Yangyang had persuaded her to stay behind, reasoning that someone needed to bring the intelligence back.
A few of the younger Patrollers hadn’t come either, as they were ordered to carry Jiyan back to Taoyuan Village.
“So, why did you all follow me?” You Luoming asked out of curiosity.
Chixia scratched her head, looking a bit sheepish.
“As Jinzhou’s Feathered Hero, I can’t just let you go on an adventure all by yourself.” Yangyang lowered her head, fidgeting with her fingers.
“General Jiyan needs the Sentinel’s help, and the Magistrate is currently imprisoned,” she murmured.
“Knowing all this, I couldn’t bear to run away.” The Patrollers behind them voiced their own reasons: “General Jiyan has always been my idol and the guardian deity of Jinzhou.
Now that he is in trouble, I must offer whatever meager help I can.” “Ever since Jinzhou was invaded, I’ve been furious that I couldn’t help.
I’ve been so guilt-ridden these past few days in Taoyuan Village that I couldn’t sleep.
Now that there’s a chance, I absolutely can’t miss it.” “Jinzhou is my home.
Seeing it devastated like this, I must make the perpetrators pay in blood.” “…” “I understand how you all feel, and I want everyone to return home safe and sound later.
So—” You Luoming clapped his hands, interrupting them, and spoke solemnly, “Once the fight starts, stay far away.
I might not have the spare hands to protect you.” Hearing his words, everyone nodded in agreement.
As they stepped past the shadow of a massive structural ruin, Yangyang seemed to sense something.
She tugged at You Luoming’s sleeve, signaling the group to stop.
Placing a hand against her temple, she closed her eyes to sense the surrounding airflow.
“The wind tells me that there are eight Fractsidus members guarding the area ahead,” she analyzed seriously.
“Behind them should be the entrance to the Tacet Field that Baizhi mentioned.” Once bitten, twice shy; the Fractsidus had deployed sentries to prevent another infiltration.
As Yangyang finished speaking, You Luoming drew his Commando of Conviction, ready for battle.
“They are very close to the Tacet Field’s entrance.
If any of them retreat inside and sound the alarm, it will ruin everything.
Leave this to us.” Yangyang held You Luoming back, turned to the Patrollers behind them, and made several tactical hand gestures.
Within seconds, the highly trained Patrollers found cover and aimed their firearms at the Fractsidus members guarding the entrance in the clearing.
“Fire.” *Bang!* Several gunshots rang out simultaneously.
Sensing the messages carried by the wind, Yangyang smiled and nodded.
“Alright, we can head over now.” *How convenient!* You Luoming praised internally as he took the lead, walking toward the blood-red entrance of the Tacet Field.
Inside the Tacet Field.
The Whispering Oculus’s area of influence had expanded to a hundred meters.
Opposite the Whispering Oculus, a frozen, delicate figure trembled slightly from time to time.
Looking closely, white cracks had begun to surface on Jinhsi’s body—the price of overclocking her power.
Her strength and willpower had reached their absolute limits.
No one knew how much longer she could sustain the Sentinel’s relic.
It could be an hour, ten minutes, or perhaps in the very next second—the Whispering Oculus would completely break free from the frozen time and unleash its full, devastating power.
“Hehehe, ‘Former Magistrate,’ you’re about to reach your limit, aren’t you?
Well, if you knew that Jinzhou had already been wiped out, you probably would have broken down long ago.” Scar’s lips curled upward, his face flushed with sheer delight.
The moment Jinhsi’s time-stop ended, he would immediately strike and subdue her.
This was the sole reason he had been waiting here.
“How exciting.
If a Sentinel Resonator is transformed into a Tacet Discord, will she become a Waveworn-class, or perhaps a Tempest-class?” “Your Sentinel, Jue, is synchronized with you.
It must sense your dire situation.
Why hasn’t it come to save you?” “Oh, I forgot.
It was lured into a trap and gravely wounded by our Fractsidus.
I’m afraid it can barely save itself right now!
Hahahaha…” Scar laughed wildly for a moment, then his face suddenly darkened.
The Fractsidus had two main objectives in their invasion of Jinzhou.
The first was to use the Whispering Oculus to corrupt the citizens of Jinzhou, providing massive amounts of samples and data for their live Tacet Discord transformation experiments to facilitate future improvements.
The second was to study the Sentinel to explore the possibilities of artificial Resonance, and even a Second Awakening.
They had schemed to wound the Sentinel of Jinzhou, trapping Sentinel Jue inside the Court of the Sleeping Dragon.
However, if the Sentinel insisted on hiding deep inside and refused to emerge, there was nothing they could do.
Scar had no interest in talking to a frozen “statue.” His previous words to Jinhsi were merely an attempt to draw out the Sentinel through her.
As a Sentinel Resonator, Jue would naturally feel Jinhsi’s current state.
Yet, despite Scar’s blatant mockery, the Sentinel still refused to show itself.
If so, wouldn’t setting up this Tacet Field and openly exposing its entrance be a complete waste of effort?
At this thought, Scar’s expression soured as his mind raced.
Could it be that the Sentinel of Jinzhou has already seen through this Tacet Field as a trap, which is why it dares not show itself?
“Hmph.” “I don’t believe you can truly sit by and watch your Resonator and all the citizens of Jinzhou be persecuted!” “Since you refuse to show yourself, I’ll force your hand!” Scar ordered the Fractsidus members beside him with a dark expression, “Drag the remaining Jinzhou civilians into the range of the Whispering Oculus.
After this experiment, none of them are to be kept alive, whether they successfully transform into Tacet Discords or not!” In any case, the experimental data had already been recorded onto the device’s microchips.
“Yes, sir!” The Fractsidus member received the order and turned to carry it out, only for a bullet to strike him right between the eyes, blooming into a flower of blood.
“What?!” Startled and enraged, Scar whipped his head around toward the source of the shot.
Across several floating islands, You Luoming blew away the white smoke rising from his Undying Flame, returning Scar’s gaze with utter contempt.
You Luoming mouthed a phrase silently.
Though no sound came out, anyone could easily read the familiar lip movements.
“F—u—c—k y—o—u.”