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Chapter 435: The Game's Riddle
🕑 Added 2025-09-19 02:58:17 +0000 UTC"Weser, bestow your divinity upon you, and kill him." The petite girl standing on the giant pottery soldier named Strom remained silent for a moment, then expressionlessly had Weser come over.
"Yes!" Hearing this, Weser's expression changed slightly as he went over. In an instant, a powerful aura rose from the petite girl's body. In the next moment, Weser's aura also surged.
If he was only a six-digit before, now he had reached the five-digit level!
"Hehe, interesting. So that's how it is! But, Demon Lord kid is really amazing, you saw through it right from the start?" Seeing this, Izayoi Sakamaki instantly showed an interested expression and muttered to himself.
"Brat! This time, I'll thoroughly torture you!" Gaining powerful strength, Weser smiled confidently and then ferociously charged towards Izayoi Sakamaki, swinging the flute in his hand with violent force.
Izayoi Sakamaki also jumped up unyieldingly, meeting the attack with a fierce punch.
"Boom!" In an instant, a violent muffled sound erupted, and Weser and Izayoi Sakamaki simultaneously flew
downwards.
The petite girl didn't pay attention to the two who were fiercely clashing, but looked at Blake with a serious gaze.
"Ratten, continue the previous operation, control Strom to suppress them." Then, the petite girl lightly opened her small mouth and ordered.
"...Understood." Hearing this, Ratten glanced at Blake warily before controlling the giant pottery soldier Strom to fly downwards.
"You look very calm. Aren't you afraid that your companions will be killed by my subordinates?" Finally, only the two of them remained. The petite girl looked at Blake, this mysterious Demon Lord, with a cold gaze.
"I think you should be worried about your own subordinates. Besides, the game has only just begun, so why be in such a hurry?"
"Hehe. Aren't you worried? Your strongest leader on this side is trapped by me," the petite girl first sneered at Blake's 'outlandish words,' then narrowed her eyes.
"Spotted loli, you really underestimate Shiroyasha, don't you?" Blake curled his lips. "Even though the geocentric theory is gradually being denied and her divine spirit is constantly shrinking, Shiroyasha is still ranked among the top ten strongest in Little Garden. So far, countless Asuras and gods have been unable to do anything to her.
Your level is nothing to her."
Hearing this, the expression on the petite girl's face began to sink. Then, she sized up Blake, and after a while, she asked, "What is your name? Godslayer Demon Lord."
"My name is Blake. Nice to meet you, Miss Pest." Blake replied calmly.
As soon as these words fell, the petite girl's expression changed again.
Staring intently at Blake, Pest's eyes gradually narrowed, a hint of killing intent flickering within them.
"Why?"
"Why do I know your name?" Blake met Pest's gaze and said with a light smile.
"Because, the information has almost all been gathered."
Saying this, Blake took out the contract document sealed with the image of the flute-playing clown.
Holding up the pitch-black contract document, Blake slowly spoke. "The Gift Game name is 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin.' I think most people already understand when they see this name. The 'Pied Piper of Hamelin' mentioned here should be the famous fairy tale, right?"
As Blake spoke, Pest's hand clenched and unclenched, her expressionless face unchanging.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
It was one of the stories originating from Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Speaking of this fairy tale, one thing must be mentioned.
That is the prototype of this story.
In Grimm's Fairy Tales, several stories drew upon actual historical research.
Among them, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" was one.
Hamelin, mentioned in this story, was the town where the story took place.
In this town, historically, there had been cases of a large number of children suddenly disappearing.
Due to this incident, there was even an inscription in the town of Hamelin.
This inscription was the prototype of Grimm's Fairy Tale "The Pied Piper of Hamelin."
The inscription recorded the following:
In the year 1284, on the feast day of John and Paul, June 26th. 130 children born in Hamelin were lured out by a piper dressed in various colored clothes, and finally lost without a trace near the execution ground in the hills.
This inscription narrated a real event that had occurred in the town of Hamelin, and it was displayed along with a stained glass window.
It was precisely because of this inscription that "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," one of Grimm's Fairy Tales, was born.
It was after the sixteenth century that this event was adapted into a fairy tale.
In it, the piper was portrayed as a rat catcher.
In the fairy tale, the town of Hamelin was plagued by rats. The villagers of Hamelin hired a rat catcher to come and eliminate the rats that were rampant in the town.
Arriving in Hamelin, the rat catcher took out a magic flute and played it. The rats that heard the flute's sound were all controlled by the rat catcher and lured by him to the Weser River near the execution ground in the hills, where they drowned.
However, after completing the task, the villagers of Hamelin broke their promise and refused to pay the reward, causing the rat catcher to leave in anger.
And on the feast day of Saint John and Paul, June 26th, when the villagers were gathered in the church to commemorate John and Paul, the rat catcher reappeared and played his flute.
This time, the rat catcher lured away one hundred and thirty children with the sound of his flute. He took the one hundred and thirty children away.
From then on, neither the flute-playing rat catcher nor the children who were lured away were ever heard from again.
This was the story of "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," an
adaptation of a real disappearance incident that had once occurred.
Most scholars believe that the story of the piper reflects an event in Hamelin's history where a large number of
children died.
There could be two reasons for these children's deaths.
One was a natural disaster.
Due to rainstorms, there was a landslide in the hills. Or
the Weser River, located near the execution ground in the hills, flooded, leading to a mudslide that killed one hundred and thirty children.
The other was the Black Death.
One of the most severe plagues in human history, which spread throughout Europe in the 1340s, i.e., the fourteenth century.
"The Gift Game's name is 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin,' and one of the participants' victory conditions is 'Break the false tradition and establish a true tradition.' In this Little Garden where various myths and legends serve as traditions, one can't help but suspect that you are related to that fairy tale." Blake looked directly at Pest and stated his reasoning eloquently.
"Moreover, among your companions, there's one named Ratten. Directly translated from German, that's 'rats,' and in German, 'Rattenfanger' means rat catcher. Plus, the other man is named Weser, reminiscent of the Weser River. You also call that pottery soldier Strom, which in German means storm. Rat catcher, Weser River, storm these three keywords all appear in 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin.'"
"As for you, the black wind you just used should be the Black Death plague virus, right?"
"Black Death, translated as 'pestis' in Latin, means plague. So, it shouldn't be strange that I guessed your name is Pest, right?" Blake said calmly.
"Of course, in the real town of Hamelin, the inscription recording the disappearance of one hundred and thirty children clearly states the year as 1284, but the Black Death didn't begin to become widespread until after 1350. The reason it became the cause of those children's deaths is because the great plague of the fourteenth century was later embellished and woven into the fairy tale 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' by later generations."
In other words, the peak period of the Black Death and the historical background recorded in the Hamelin inscription do not match at all.
"Thinking about it this way, the Black Death, which is you, Pest, you shouldn't be a demon summoned from 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin'!"
"And in that case, I can't help but suspect that the others are also fakes, because in the original tradition and inscription, there is no mention of a 'rat-controlling piper.' It was only after the peak period of the Black
Death in the 1500s that rats and a rat-controlling piper appeared in 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin.' In other words, Ratten (rat catcher) is also a fake!"
"The subsequent Strom (storm) seems real, but storms are natural disasters that can occur anywhere and are completely unrelated to the tradition of 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin'!"
"So, among the four of you, only Weser, the Weser River, fits the original 'Pied Piper of Hamelin' demon. After all, the Hamelin inscription records 'disappeared near the hills,' and the 'hills' here refer to the hills adjacent to the Weser River!"
"Therefore, the content of your game, 'Break the false
tradition and establish a true tradition,' makes perfect sense now. As long as those stained glass windows below depict images of the three fakes rats, the Black Death, and the storm then they are all fake and should all be smashed!"
"Do you have anything to say?" Blake said calmly, looking at Pest, whose eyes were so gloomy they could drip water and who was emitting a terrifying killing intent from her entire body.
"I originally wanted to spare your life and take you as a servant, but it looks like I can only kill you. Although you solved the riddle, no one else knows except you now.
As long as I kill you, everything will be fine." After a moment of silence, the black wind around Pest suddenly became violent. That was naked killing intent towards Blake.
Blake's threat was too great!
