Chapter 365 - 340: The Ruins City Lord’s Treasure Ice House
Now, Da Fei had roughly understood the situation on the field from Ma Yinglong. He might be the last person on the field. The last person, huh? He was invincible! This meant that all the monsters and treasures on this big map were his, and no one would come to the Bell Tower to snatch it? This feeling really made Da Fei inexplicably excited!
But the reality was that Da Fei had been wandering in the sewer for more than twenty minutes and still couldn’t find a way to escape from it. The more he wanted to find the BOSS, the harder it was to find it! Could it be that such a large sewer had no BOSS at all? Or were the remaining BOSSES hidden so cleverly that they were difficult to discover?
If there really was no BOSS, how could he secure the three plague achievements? Could it be as the prompt suggested, just hang on through it? Until the plague was cured and the competition server was shut down?
Da Fei checked the more than 1000 mana points recently added to Selvia’s Sea Soul Staff and suddenly felt confident to hang on. Even if his BUFF time was up and his stamina dropped to the point where he couldn’t walk, he could still rely on Selvia’s Healing Skill to endure, right? Speaking of which, having the Sea Soul Staff acquire more than 1000 mana points in such a short time was really thanks to the many Demon Child souls sent by Japan. The best retaliation against the enemy was to say, "Thank you!"
Da Fei took another round in the sewer and seemed to circle back to the previous old path. Da Fei could already conclude that he had walked through the entire sewer network. Maybe there was truly no BOSS in the sewer, so he should prepare for the painful task of enduring the plague. Actually, there’s not much to prepare, just solve personal issues by ordering takeout for food and drink.
Speaking of which, he had been busy all morning after returning from sea in the morning and hadn’t rested for a while before the competition started in the afternoon. This person was really rather tired. And he still had to help his little sister move tomorrow. Ugh, exhausting. In short, he had to quickly finish the competition and wash up to sleep.
Just as Da Fei was muddling and resting, Catherine suddenly said, "Commander, have you noticed that the water temperature here is slightly lower than in other places?"
Da Fei’s spirits suddenly lifted! Catherine was playing the system prompt role again! There’s hope! Regardless of whether he noticed or not, Da Fei busily nodded and agreed, "Oh my! Now that you mention it, I really did notice!"
Catherine immersed her hand in the water and said gravely, "There is a cold current flowing into this sewer. If we follow the direction of the cold current, we will definitely find the source of the cold current!"
So that’s how it was! Finally, no more boredom. This was definitely a hidden BOSS. But even someone like Baron Nash was taken down by him, and no hidden BOSS could possibly be his match anymore. He still wanted to enjoy the thrill of Titan’s Grasp one more time.
Now, under Catherine’s guidance, Da Fei’s team started to move upstream to find the hidden source.
But Da Fei didn’t know that he wasn’t the only person in this arena. Dozens of eyes were using a god’s-eye view (GM view) to observe his every move!
They were the developers of Heroic Creation Era Headquarters and the competition committee members from various countries! Da Fei’s astonishing performance, and Japan’s complaints, certainly drew the committee’s high attention. So the committee wanted to see just how amazing Da Fei really was.
Of course, a player’s account was the player’s top secret, and also the server’s top secret. Even committee members couldn’t directly view a player’s account. Observing meant pulling up the arena footage and analyzing it with computer assistance to see if there were any data anomalies.
And just as Ma Yinglong said, as long as Da Fei didn’t use illegal programs like plug-ins to attack the server, then complaints about account banning were hard to establish. So the committee’s main task was to assess whether the difficulty of the arena was appropriate! After all, the competition server was an independent server that didn’t interfere with the intelligent mainframe of various regions’ heroes, so the committee could manually set various data for the competition server.
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After wading for a period of time, Da Fei’s team finally found the source of the cold current, a drainage hole hidden at the corner of the water floor, with a diameter only the size of half a brick.
Da Fei was immediately excited! Under normal circumstances, it was extremely difficult for players to find a small hole underwater in such a dark environment! And where there was a small hole, it meant that the wall the hole was on definitely had more secrets, or where else would this cold water be coming from?
Da Fei started knocking and tapping on the wall, groping all around!
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At this time, there was a burst of marveling at the committee’s monitoring site!
"He must have discovered the ultimate facility of the field through a non-clearing mode, the Ruins City Lord’s underground treasure room! These facilities are positioned by the map random system randomly, he couldn’t know in advance!"
"Deserving of being a miracle-creating player, his success indeed isn’t without reason."
"In fact, it’s all thanks to his intelligent Vice Hero’s cues. The higher the intelligence of the hero, the greater the advisory role they can provide, proving that players ignoring Vice Heroes during early leveling is a shortsighted approach."
"Yeah, players leveling so fast has indeed put great strain on our work progress. We should slow down the players’ leveling speed, or else our workload will be unbearable."
"It’s hard, the players’ determination to reach level 50 is hard to shake!"
"No no no, haven’t you seen this Da Fei? They’re all female heroes, not missing a single one. This is a man’s instinctual desire, only female heroes can stop players’ leveling momentum. Shouldn’t we propose to increase the appearance rate of female heroes?"
"The load on each region server would collapse."
"Let’s focus on the proper business, he is about to enter. Can our Lich City Lord stop him since our Baron Nash totally failed?"
The venue sighed, "Unless he makes some basic mistakes, it’s clearly impossible, Baron Nash was the strongest..."
Just then, a senior committee member hurried to the podium in front of the big screen and gestured for silence: "Ladies and gentlemen, first of all, congratulations to this Chinese player’s wisdom and luck for defeating each seemingly powerful BOSS, and also defeating us arena designers for not fully considering the impact of Divine Artifacts on the competition. Since this competition’s main purpose is testing, now there is an emergency proposal from the Japanese committee to urgently upgrade the ultimate BOSS. The reason is that the competition reward of the ultimate BOSS would hugely impact the game balance at this stage! Also, overly weak arena BOSSES will make players’ participation purposes opportunistic. Now for vote approval, please raise your hand if you agree to urgently upgrade the BOSS!"
"Oppose!" A Chinese committee member stood up and said, "The Japanese committee’s proposal is entirely out of selfish interest to protect its own team."
The senior committee member shook his head, saying, "Mr. Lin, as a competition committee member, our task is to ensure the game is good, the arena is good, and to adjust game balance. Don’t you think the arena monsters are too weak in front of this Chinese player?"
The Japanese committee member also stood up and calmly said, "The arena’s BOSS monsters are too favorable to the players. Players absolutely don’t have to worry about losses and can give their all to speculate. This greatly impacts the instanced dungeons and wild BOSS across regions. When all players cherish their troops and don’t attack instance zones but speculate in competitions, the game’s fun diminishes, and it severely negatively impacts the game’s market balance! And the China Region has the most players and definitely is the most affected. I am considering for the healthy development of the game."
For a time, more than twenty committee members raised their hands in the arena.
The Chinese committee member sat down helplessly while shaking his head and lightly sighed, "Increasing the difficulty of BOSS means the BOSS drop will increase accordingly!"
All the committee members laughed, "If this Chinese player can also defeat the upgraded BOSS, we have nothing to say!"
The chairperson immediately announced, "A majority of committee members have agreed, the technical group immediately loads the upgraded difficulty for the total BOSS of the Ancient City Ruins online!"
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Da Fei’s groping on the wall soon bore results!
—System Prompt: Warning! Your Reconnaissance Skill detected an unknown mechanism facility, please remain vigilant!
Found it! Haha! With a crashing sound, a whole damp wall collapsed revealing a pitch-black iron door!
Oh yeah! It indeed had layers! In the face of Da Fei’s God-level Reconnaissance Technique coupled with Invincible Luck, the rusty lock on the iron door clearly couldn’t stop Da Fei. With a crisp sound, the iron door swung open and a bone-chilling cold swept in!
—System Prompt: You discovered the Ruins City Lord’s Underground Treasure Ice House, unknown opportunities and challenges await you! (Warning! The difficulty of this scene is extremely high, players should enter with caution!)
Treasure room? Ruins City Lord? Finally, the true antagonist appeared, corrupt officials’ treasures, stolen and dare not be reported! Extremely high difficulty? In front of Da Fei’s sky-sweeping battle enthusiasm, it was directly ignored! Enter!
—System Prompt: Scene transition in progress, please wait a moment.
Da Fei couldn’t help but be taken aback, wait a moment? Well, since it is a foreign battle server, sometimes the internet speed can be slow, so he waited. As a result, this wait took a whole half-minute! Da Fei even wondered whether he had crashed!
In short, the transition finally completed. Da Fei and his team appeared in a hall filled with swirling cold air and packed with various instruments, and in the center was a large pile of frost-covered treasure chests and a pearl-studded coffin.
—System Prompt: You have entered the Ruins City Lord’s Underground Treasure Ice House. All of your troops are affected by Ice Sealing Extreme Cold, Life Limit -30%, Stamina Limit -30%, Attack Speed -30%, Move Speed -30%, while your troops’ life and stamina decrease 2 per second, with a certain chance of permanent frostbite causing damage to your troops!
Da Fei’s eyes narrowed in shock! Damn! This surpassed the Arctic Cold, with 4 levels of debuffs hanging over him, how could he possibly survive?
And just then,
—System Prompt: Congratulations! The harsh environment dispelled the evil of the Plague, you successfully overcame the Plague, and earned the achievement "Plague Antibody"! The achievement will be sent to your account in the region server after the competition ends!
—System Prompt: Congratulations! The harsh environment dispelled the evil of the Insect Plague, you successfully overcame the Insect Plague, and earned the achievement "Insect Plague Antibody"! The achievement will be sent to your account in the region server after the competition ends!
Da Fei was taken aback again, then came back to himself with joy and excitement! Damn it! He miraculously cured both of his plagues! True enough, plagues happen in spring and summer but will definitely not last through the winter because the winter’s severe cold kills the plague bacteria. So the key to removing the plague was finding this ice house? Haha, hahahaha! After all, no matter how pitiful the game difficulty was, it would always provide a way for the player!
Curing the two plagues greatly boosted Da Fei’s confidence. Staring at the clearly BOSS coffin in the pile of treasure chests, Da Fei clutched the Titan’s Grasp in his pouch, proceed!
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The competition committee’s monitoring site erupted with astonished laughter!
Turning to look at the large screen on the wall behind them, the chairperson chuckled with tears and laughter, "Can anyone explain to me why this Ice Sealing Extreme Cold could cure his plague?"
A Chinese committee member laughed heartily, "Because our game is the greatest game in the world, the most realistic fantasy game!"
The chairperson helplessly splayed his hands, "So, we’re actually helping him?"
The Japanese committee member coldly said, "The increase in difficulty is not only to impose a more severe environment, but the BOSS’s own strength is also definitely not weaker than an MVP."
The senior committee member smiled wryly, "Alright, let’s see how long Da Fei’s wisdom and luck can last!" (To be continued. If you like this work, please visit Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation votes, monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)