"The Forbidden Land is too dangerous, and there are many rules I can't see through... Senior Sister Red Butterfly and I have strong undying abilities, so we can go play there, but you can't co." Xu Lang shook his head. "Besides, I haven't even set a clear strategy ti yet."
"Lang Ge, I think I can co too!" Tong Qi raised her hand.
"No, you can't. Although you can borrow Senior Sister Red Butterfly's skills, there's still a cooldown between casting, and your undying ability isn't as strong as hers." Seeing Tong Qi's reluctant expression, Xu Lang continued, "The Forbidden Land is very special. It's not sothing you can brute force through just by stacking combat power."
Currently, Tong Qi could only borrow one of her Ghost Pet's skills at a ti. anwhile, Senior Sister Red Butterfly's strong recovery ca from a combination of multiple skills plus her special Constitution.
Bringing Tong Qi there—if sothing unexpected happened, it wouldn't end well.
"Fine." Tong Qi didn't insist further.
She just wanted to fight alongside Xu Lang, that was all.
Senior Sister Red Butterfly couldn't stop grinning. She felt that Xu Lang had already praised her several tis now—he really had good taste.
Next, Senior Sister Red Butterfly used the Protheus serum, and everyone began testing the upper limits of the Danger Precognition ability.
Admittedly, this ability was truly powerful—traps, ambushes, unavoidable attacks—Senior Sister Red Butterfly could sense all of these in advance.
Xu Lang felt it still fell a bit short of what Luo Lin described as the original version.
All products within the Dorm Survival Ga were optimized—safer and suitable for all players, but at the sa ti, their effects were sowhat diminished.
...
Ti passed, and soon it was approaching midnight.
The girls either went to take a bath or get on the bed, except for Kui Zi, who was still grinding away.
The Nightmare Bed could only fit so many people. She couldn't squeeze in even if she wanted to, which was honestly a bit sad.
Kui Zi's long-awaited Firepower Squad had already been ford. She took the firepower team to the second-floor balcony to stand guard, but on the way, when they passed the living room and heard so noises, she couldn't help but quicken her pace.
"They're at it again!" Firepower Girl's head whipped around instantly, as if she'd spotted an enemy.
"None of our business!" Kui Zi twisted her head back.
"Fine." Firepower Girl nodded.
The twelve android firepower units followed Kui Zi up to the second floor.
"They saw us!" Zhen Lu anxiously patted Xu Lang.
"What does it matter? They're all female robots." Xu Lang replied from behind Zhen Lu.
"That's still not okay!"
"Fine, fine, I'll be more careful next ti. It's almost twelve o'clock—we should get so sleep too."
...
At midnight, Xu Lang had just settled the girls down and was about to go to sleep on ti when he suddenly felt a violent tremor.
Imdiately after, the Dorm Survival Ga's broadcast sounded.
[The Iron Blood Coliseum is undergoing ascension. It will be temporarily sealed and is expected to complete ascension in 3 hours.]
The Divine Seal on Xu Lang's brow flickered, and a bird's-eye view appeared in his mind. He saw that the source of the tremor was indeed the Coliseum.
At that mont, players were rushing out of their dorms, gazing into the distance.
The girls also wanted to join in the excitent, but Xu Lang forcefully suppressed them.
Earning Nightmare Coins as early as possible was more important than anything else.
...
Day Five of the Rest Period.
[Base Nightmare Coins: 1280, Conversion Rate: 5754%, Total Output over 8 Hours: 74,931 Nightmare Coins]
[Total Nightmare Coins: 928,886]
"Tomorrow—one million Nightmare Coins!"
Xu Lang wished he could fast-forward straight to midnight and just sleep like crazy.
Instead of getting up imdiately, Xu Lang scanned the market and found that a large chunk of the items listed in Demon King Castle had already been bought out.
Then, he opened his Private ssages.
Last night, Zhou Ye, Su Yuan, and the others had all sent him ssages—even Li Shuwen was among them.
Every single ssage pointed to one core topic—the Coliseum!
Xu Lang had also received an email from the Coliseum.
[Iron Blood Coliseum: The Coliseum Points system has been abolished. Compensation Reward X1]
Xu Lang redeed the compensation reward, and a unique-looking black-red tal Pistol instantly appeared in his hand.
[Nightmare Eye·Purgatory Pistol: A weapon compensated by the Coliseum to the player "Purgatory." Level 18, Rarity: Excellent, outstanding Lethality, with a burst-fire mode.]
Xu Lang smiled.
It had been so long since he last held a gun.
Thinking back, he had started his journey with this very weapon.
Xu Lang toyed with the Purgatory Pistol in his hand, feeling its heavy tallic texture, and let his mind settle as he learned about the latest changes in the Coliseum.
To be honest, he didn't really care much about it.
With Nightmare Coins about to break a million, everything else was just clouds—nothing could stir even the slightest ripple in his heart.
[Xu Lang: Compile the latest changes to the Iron Blood Coliseum and send them to .]
[Su Yuan: On it!]
Su Yuan quickly sent over the refined information.
There were six main changes to the Iron Blood Coliseum.
First, the Veil of Isolation was gone. Newcors could now move freely, and players from different dormitory buildings could talk to each other—they just couldn't spread dangerous information, or else the Coliseum would severely punish and ban them.
Second, an Isolation Barrier had been added. Players could only stay in the spectator stands of their own dormitory building.
Third, the Points system had been replaced by a Combat Power system. All players started with 100 Combat Power points. The more victories, the more Combat Power. There was also a complex Combat Power coefficient evaluation standard that was very hardcore. After each ga session, the Iron Blood Coliseum would settle Combat Power points based on the player's Combat Power, and these points could be used to purchase supplies in the Combat Power Shop.
Fourth, the mandatory duel rule was completely abolished.
Fifth, in addition to the original Deathmatch mode, there was now a Betting mode. The Iron Blood Coliseum would take one-third of the bet, and the stakes couldn't be too low.
Sixth, the punishnt chanism had been strengthened. Inappropriate behavior and malicious swearing would result in fines.
This series of changes made the Iron Blood Coliseum incredibly lively. From the mont the changes took effect, duels between players had been non-stop!
Before, going on stage ant risking your life. Now, it wasn't as brutal.
The market was the only truth for testing success. If fewer people played, the Iron Blood Coliseum would be forced to change.
And in Xu Lang's view, this was just fattening up the pigs.
Also, the Iron Blood Coliseum had banned players from farming Combat Power through mutual duels. The corresponding asures were very thorough, leaving almost no room for loopholes.
[Xu Lang: How's the win rate for Mad King Building players?]
[Su Yuan: Not bad. Against players from other buildings, it's 22 wins and 25 losses—basically breaking even.]
Huh?
Xu Lang was sowhat surprised.
This win rate was actually decent. He'd heard before that Mad King Building didn't do badly in duels, but he'd never asked for details.
After all, the other four buildings in the Iron Blood Coliseum were either from the thirtieth-cycle rank or strong players from the twentieth-cycle rank.
Mad King Building, when it ca down to it, was just a level nine dormitory building—and what's more, it had skipped levels.
Thinking about Mad King Building skipping levels recently, Xu Lang couldn't sleep at night.
Building, how can you be so capable?
Can't you just throw in a few more Tang-style low-level dungeons and let get so good sleep?
It felt like a worried father fretting over his child being too successful, suffering from late-night insomnia.
[Su Yuan: It's mainly because of weapons and items stacking up. Mad King Building players don't accept pure challenge duels.]
Raw power smashing through everything—oh well, forget it!
The Dorm Survival Ga didn't believe in that "it's all external stuff in the end" kind of talk. If soone really had that attitude, they could just go stand outside the dormitory building when the ga started and see if the monsters would kill them or not.
---
Reviews
All reviews (0)