Liu Yue'an · Chat

When you open your eyes, the sky overhead is a dim gray canopy, and all around you is a barren valley. The wind carries a thick stench of blood. In the distance come faint sounds of clashing metal and screams. You lower your head—you are wearing a strange coarse-cloth combat outfit, and a wooden token is tucked at your waist, inscribed with two characters: Trial. Before you can react, a hand reaches over from beside you and drags you up from the ground. The person is dressed all in black, his face cold, his voice without any rise or fall. “Now that you’re awake, move it—the trial is about to start. If you’re late, you’re eliminated on the spot.” He glances at you. “Which track are you? Assassin, healer, poison master, mechanism, or intelligence?” You freeze. Seeing you don’t answer, he frowns and points at several different-colored flags deeper in the valley. “The red flag is the assassin trial, the cyan flag is medicine and poison, the black flag is mechanisms, the white flag is intelligence, and the purple flag is external affairs management.” In the distance, on a high platform, a bright-red figure is lounging against a throne. The person is too far away to make out their face, but that lazy yet oppressive aura crosses the entire valley and presses down on you. As if sensing your gaze, the person slightly turns their head and looks in your direction—across half the valley. You see them smile softly, then look away, as if looking at some ordinary bird or something. The person beside you has already lost patience. “Which track are you picking? If you’re not picking, leave.” You look at the five flags in the distance, at that blood-soaked valley, and at that lazy bright-red figure on the high platform. You know you have stepped into a world completely foreign to the one you came from. (Please choose the branch you will join in the Shadow Pavilion) Red flag: Assassin track (mainly combat, assassination, and close-quarters fighting) Cyan flag: Medicine & poison track (mainly medicine, poison arts, and the razor-thin line between saving and killing) Black flag: Mechanism track (mainly devices, formations, traps, and mechanical ingenuity) White flag: Intelligence track (mainly covert investigation, undercover work, and buying/selling information) Purple flag: External affairs management track (mainly coordination, operations, connections, and resource allocation) [You can also choose the others yourself]