Rebirth of the Noble Mage Behind the Scenes

But after some thought, Anvis did not immediately attempt to make contact with them. Instead, he silently walked to the side and quietly waited for the results of everyone's exploration to emerge.

Given the current confrontational atmosphere between the players and the natives, the timing was not right. Moreover, it was better to have the players actively seek him out to 'uncover hidden tasks' rather than him issuing tasks proactively.

At the same time, some of the first people to enter the ruins for exploration had already come out.

Because the final challenge of the ruins was not projected, the people outside could not see what was happening inside. After these people came out, many gathered around them to inquire what had happened inside.

From their accounts, it seemed that so far no one had received a special score. All those who explored the ruins received only ordinary and inferior evaluations without exception.

An inferior evaluation came with no rewards, and the rewards for an ordinary evaluation were also minimal, merely a choice among some Demonized Metal, Demon Crystals, and Potions of low rank.

Those who chose the potions were the most unfortunate, as those potions, produced tens of thousands of years ago, were long past their expiry date.

Drinking such potions, you're lucky if nothing happens.

Even though the assessment was tough, this suddenly appeared ruin still attracted many ordinary people like Landon.

For them, even magic materials worth only a few gold coins represented a huge fortune.

After passing through the initial challenges, Landon was currently fighting a strange entity.

This entity was similar to a tangible pitch-black shadow, capable of being hit by physical attacks, and its rank was not much different from Landon's.

In theory, Landon should at least be able to maintain a fifty-fifty stalemate against this entity. But the reality was that Landon was being unilaterally pummeled throughout the battle, with no chance to fight back.

Although Landon was tough enough to withstand the beating and had not yet been defeated, if this continued, even Anvis could feel that his situation was very grim.

Even if Landon slowly wore down the enemy and eventually overcame it, he wouldn't be able to secure a good score.

The rewards inside the ruins were limited, especially since the original builders no longer maintained them. It could be said that once a prize was taken, there was one less left.

As a test to screen potential seeds, only a few people were destined to achieve high scores. Many more could only secure an ordinary rating and the corresponding rewards.

This meant that the later challengers completed the ruins, the lower their overall score and the smaller the chance of obtaining rewards.

As Anvis watched, Landon struggled to dodge the shadow's attacks, his body swaying as if he might collapse at any moment, but he would stand back up at the last second.

A spirit of never giving up was emerging in the young man, which had a unique inspirational impact that touched everyone.

"I won't give up! Break! Break! Break!!!"

Enduring the barrage of hits, Landon's face was full of determination and his dark, starry eyes brimmed with an indomitable spirit.

With his immense thought and will, Landon was like an unkillable cockroach, tenaciously holding his ground against the shadow's onslaught, even showing signs of a breakthrough during the battle.

Meanwhile, under his tenacious will, the strange black pendant on his chest flickered with a faint light once more.

This time, without Anvis unexpectedly intervening, the pendant was finally activated along its intended course completely.

Thus, the small projection that was displaying Landon's process of tackling the ruins suddenly disappeared.

He finally started to cheat...

Noticing the disappearance of the projection and recalling the flash from the pendant just before the projection vanished, Anvis couldn't help shaking his head.

The next scene, he could almost guess without watching.

The young man suddenly burst forth, breaking through and slaying his opponent in the heat of battle. Then, he enters the final level, swiftly completing it by leveraging his exceptional will, invincible comprehension, and the strongest cheats, earning the top evaluation.

Afterwards, the process of his receiving the reward would likely not be peaceful either, with a great chance that he would accept the award under the watchful eyes of many.

As a result, others, envious, attempt to snatch the reward. Then they are powerfully eradicated by Landon, providing a wave of experience points as a gift, and incidentally letting their own fathers and grandfathers come to seek revenge on Landon just before they die.

Soon, the results Anvis awaited were revealed.

All projections in the sky disappeared simultaneously, and a large group of people, bewildered, emerged from the ruins, but also brought out explosive news.

Someone had obtained the highest reward from the ruins—a vast array of ancient resources and an ancient Magic Beast Egg of unknown species.

According to their description, the recipient seemed to be a teenager with brown hair and black eyes, whose more specific features were obscured due to some protective power.

At this point, nearby Professionals had already begun searching for this lucky young man.

To their surprise, however, no matter how much they searched, they could not find any trace of the youth they described, as if he had evaporated from the earth.

And compared to these Professionals, Anvis was even more surprised.

Although he hadn't seen Landon, he had previously equipped Landon's pendant with a hidden tracking array, allowing him to sense the location of the pendant at any time.

In his thought detection, the current location of that pendant was pointing to a black-haired, blue-eyed girl in the crowd.

She carried the aura of a First Rank Professional, casually trying to slip away with the dispersing crowd, appearing utterly unremarkable.

It seemed to be the random disguise effect of a light green potion.

Clearly, the help he had previously offered had changed some things.

However, despite the girl's extreme caution, she still encountered trouble eventually.

A few male mercenaries noticed she seemed to be alone, and ignoring her dark expression, approached her to strike up a conversation.

After recording this precious scene with a Demonized Crystal Ball, Anvis followed the direction towards the city taken by those 'Starlight' players, arriving at the edge of an elevated pathway ahead of them.

There, he donned a high-end appearing Alchemy Robe and held a potion bottle containing glowing green liquid, walking by the roadside with a sighing expression, seemingly troubled by something.

This peculiar scene quickly attracted the attention of several target players.

Especially after casting Detect and finding out this was a 40+ Level Mid Rank native Professional, the players became even more enthusiastic.

"Hello, my lord, is there anything you need help with?"

Looking at each other, one of the players with the highest Charm Value took the initiative to come over, trying to trigger a task.

"You?"

Anvis gave him a sidelong glance, simultaneously checking his panel.

"If you possess sufficient alchemy knowledge, I wouldn't mind sharing my troubles with you."