Chapter 270: Climbing the Pole
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A special entertainnt task?
This was Song Jian’s first ti encountering this type of task. With the flagpole reaching a height of eighteen ters, climbing it wouldn’t be easy. If he were careless and fell, the risk would not be worth the reward.
The Level 10 Monster Zone was where most players leveled up. Seeing soone entering the school and preparing to climb the flagpole, so spectators quickly gathered around.
“Bro, this task isn’t easy at all. Even though it’s classified as entertainnt, so far, nobody has accomplished it!” warned a player who was holding a submachine gun and wearing a military green combat suit.
“Yeah, eighteen ters may not seem high, but it gets harder as you go up. What’s the current record again?” another player added.
“I think it’s thirteen ters. That’s already the limit. As far as I know, no one has managed to climb above thirteen ters yet.”
“I could only climb up to eight ters, then fell and almost broke a bone…”
“That’s because you’re clumsy. Don’t you know to wrap a safety rope around yourself? If you fall, you’ll only suffer internal injuries at most.”
“Are you stupid? Which is harder to treat, a bone fracture, or internal injuries?”
Song Jian frowned slightly. An eighteen-ter height wasn’t impossible for regular people to climb. Even if players could only gain one skill point each level-up, it seed odd that among all these players, none had acquired a skill in agility. So why had no player climbed the eighteen-ter flagpole yet? Sothing was fishy here.
With that thought, Song Jian leaped and jumped over three ters high, grabbing onto the flagpole.
“There doesn’t seem to be anything unusual, ” said Song Jian, knitting his eyebrows. After a brief pause, he started climbing enthusiastically.
Qi Yun stood at the base of the flagpole. After so hesitation, he waved his magic staff toward Song Jian, casting the “Light Body Skill.” The Light Body Skill improved his movent speed by 15% for five seconds. Even though Qi Yun had only leveled up once, the skill still provided significant help to Song Jian at this mont.
Qi Yun was positioned as an aid in their hunting team, but he didn’t want to depend on his teammates for his survival. Therefore, he also mastered so other attack skills. All of these skills, however, revolved around his silver- quality sniper rifle. Now that his sniper rifle was disassembled by Song Jian, those attack skills were useless.
Localized in Qi Yun’s skill set were five types of healing skills, and three other auxiliary skills, with the “Light Body Skill” as only one of them.
With the aid of the Light Body Skill, Song Jian climbed faster. In a short while, he reached seven or eight ters high.
“There’s no difficulty at all; I should reach the top without any effort,” thought Song Jian.
Just then, Song Jian suddenly felt his body beco heavier, as though he was tied to a large piece of stone falling downward. If he hadn’t instinctively held onto the flagpole, the sudden increase in gravity might’ve caused him to fall off the flagpole.
“As expected, there’s sothing unusual!”
Song Jian quickly checked his status bar, and sure enough, there was a “Level 1 Gravity” negative effect. His talent skill “Thick Skin” could only resist ntal negative effects and was useless against physical negative effects.
“Could it be that the higher I climb, the greater the level of this negative effect and the more obvious it becos?” wondered Song Jian.
As expected, when he climbed to a height of ten ters, the Level 1 Gravity effect suddenly jumped to Level 2.
Song Jian frowned slightly. This level of gravity was as if his body weight had increased by about thirty kilograms. It didn’t impact him much, but as the negative effects continued to pile on, the difficulty of the task was undoubtedly rising.
He continued to climb. Every ter he climbed, the negative effect would increase by one level. By the ti Song Jian reached thirteen ters, the negative effect had already risen to Level 5.
By then, he was essentially carrying over one hundred kilograms while climbing.
After losing the three-point strength addition from the Guardian’s Sword, Song Jian’s strength attribute had decreased to fourteen points. The burden of one hundred kilograms was clearly taking its toll. As he climbed higher, his stamina was rapidly draining.
Song Jian’s hands were beginning to tremble lightly.
“Immortal Sword Body, activate!” thought Song Jian.
A golden light erged around Song Jian. The boost of five points to all attributes gave him the needed stamina to continue climbing.
Thirteen ters, fourteen ters, fifteen ters…
With just five ters left, Song Jian’s hands were shaking more violently, and his forehead was covered in sweat. Maintaining his current position was becoming torture, let alone climbing further.
Just then, Qi Yun cast another auxiliary spell on Song Jian to restore his stamina and another “Light Body Skill”.
Still, climbing further up had beco difficult. Song Jian shook his head slowly. He had already climbed up to fifteen ters. Even if he used up all his strength, he could only climb one additional ter before he couldn’t hold on any longer. After taking so considerations, Song Jian sighed and was ready to give up the task.
“He’s at fifteen ters! This guy is amazing, he’s breaking records!” exclaid the onlooking players.
In reality, climbing one ter and seventeen ters yielded the sa result: no reward. But that didn’t prevent the players from using the task as a benchmark for asuring strength, and they enjoyed it thoroughly.
So players even applauded for Song Jian, who had already climbed to fifteen ters.
“Just three ters short…” Song Jian sighed as he looked at the nearby school flag. However, the last three ters were tougher to climb than the previous fifteen.
Just as Song Jian was about to slide down, a light bulb went off in his head.
“Hmm, I wonder if this will work…”
Boom~
Song Jian’s body disappeared, replaced by a large dark cloud floating in mid-air;
This Dark Cloud Transformation skill allowed him to levitate and fly at heights of dozens of ters. For the eighteen-ter flagpole, reaching the top would only take a few seconds;
“Oh? My body is lighter…” noted Song Jian, who had transford into the dark cloud. He realized the “Level 7 Gravity” negative effect in his status bar had disappeared. It appeared his physical immunity in the dark cloud status could resist even this physical negative effect.
“The task hasn’t failed. It seems like I can still complete the task in this state!” Seeing that the task in the task bar didn’t display “failure,” Song Jian was relieved and started heading towards the top of the flagpole.
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