Chapter 268: Chapter 248: “Is this the 100th floor of the Deadly Tower?
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“Let him leave,”
Qiu Hao, the person in charge of the Tianxia Pavilion on Solar Star, scanned the departing President Sun of the Sun Family Guild from Neutron Star with an emotionless gaze, “With one less person sharing the profits, we can take a bit more.”
“Just as the rewards for pioneering new lands always belong to the brave forerunners.”
“Cowards do not deserve to taste the delight of the first crab.”
Only then did he look towards Chen Yi, who was in the center of the conference room’s large screen, with a mix of expectation and scorn in his eyes, whispering softly, “Even the strongest ant cannot raise its head to see beings of a higher dinsion. I hope you can use that skill one more ti and bring us endless surprises.”
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“Is this the 100th floor of the Deadly Tower?”
Above Sky Demon Star.
Chen Yi furrowed his brows as he surveyed his surroundings. He did not act rashly but instead looked towards the map on his personal panel in the top-left corner, feeling sowhat puzzled.
Wasn’t the 100th floor of the Deadly Tower a bit too large?
At first glance, the area on the map seed to have no boundaries; he had never entered such a vast map before, one that was countless tis larger than the Wasteland map he had been to.
A mass of black clouds hung in the sky, the distance to the ground appearing to be less than a hundred ters, giving off an imnsely oppressive vibe as if the sky might collapse at any mont.
The visibility was also very low.
You could even see dense red particles of dust floating in the air, thickly scattered throughout, and just taking a single breath felt as if you had swallowed a mouthful of quickli, causing an intense burning sensation in the throat.
The ground was a blood-red color,
As if perennially drought-stricken, like a farr’s hands, riddled with unrepairable cracks.
The whole map emanated a choking sense of oppression.
And just then—
A monster suddenly burst from the ground. Its head was triangular, with an eye at each tip. The mont it saw Chen Yi, it let out a piercing scream and then almost invisibly transford into a red light, rocketing towards Chen Yi!
B-level Prop “Forever Pure” activated!
B-level Prop “Flowers of the Other Shore Bloom” activated!
B-level Prop “Snow Eagle Sniper Rifle” activated!
B-level Prop “Seven-Star Badge” activated!
C-level Skill “Annihilated Violators” activated!
C-level Prop “…”
The instant the monster charged at him, Chen Yi didn’t hesitate to activate all the props and skills on his person—whether they were useful or not, he activated them all.
He even activated skills ant for daily life.
Unlimited cooldown anyway, no worries about usage limits.
One more activation didn’t make any difference.
And that monster, which had turned into a red stream of light charging toward Chen Yi, barely started its attack when it turned to ash and dispersed in the air, dead without a place of burial!
At the sa ti, Chen Yi heard a notification by his ear.
“Ding, congratulations on killing a unique monster of Sky Demon Star—a lv.1 Cave Demon, you are hereby rewarded 10 points.”
“Hmm?”
Chen Yi’s brows furrowed slightly as he looked at the notification that popped up with a bit of confusion. Sky Demon Star? Sounds like a planet? But wasn’t he on the 100th floor of the Deadly Tower? What’s the deal with Sky Demon Star?
But soon,
He no longer had the luxury to muse on this matter, as perhaps the dying scream of the first monster attracted more. Ten monsters sprang from the ground around him, all shrieking upon their ergence and lunging forward in a sprint!
However, before their voices hit the ground,
All ten monsters were reduced to ashes.
In front of Chen Yi, with all his firepower unleashed, no matter how many of such monsters ca, it was like courting death.
The notifications of point rewards for killing monsters sounded in his ears once more, while another new notification also chid in.
“Ding, survive for 30 minutes and kill no fewer than 10 monsters to successfully clear the 100th floor of the Deadly Tower.”
This notification echoed leisurely in his ears.
But it was a bit late.
By rights, the rules for passing the level should be announced as soon as one entered the map. However, the task seed to have eased a bit—killing no fewer than 10 monsters? He had already killed 11, and now only needed to survive for 60 more minutes to pass this floor of the Deadly Tower.
It would also allow him to complete his fifth action as a specially invited Arena Master.
Still, sothing didn’t seem quite right.
He looked down at a prop emitting a white light not far from his feet and reached out to pick it up, only to discover that the prop was like an illusion, beyond his ability to pick up, nor could he scatter it into his backpack.
At the sa ti,
A notification popped up.
“Ding, it has been detected that the player is in the Newbie Protection Period. Players in the Newbie Protection Period cannot acquire props from outside their own planet by any ans.”
This notification was red, followed by several glaring exclamation points.
Props from outside their own planet?
“…”
Chen Yi’s expression remained calm as he stayed silent. He just turned his head toward the floating cara that had been following him, a dedicated cara to capture his Arena Master actions, beyond his control.
But he knew.
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Everything here is being broadcasted live to all Blue Star players.
For Blue Star players to imitate and challenge.
If this place isn’t Blue Star, then why did he appear here? The Deadly Tower is Blue Star’s August event, so why would the 100th floor of the Deadly Tower not belong to Blue Star? Why can’t Blue Star players claim the items dropped within the Deadly Tower?
The ga mode of the Deadly Tower had already been around for over a dozen days, and he had never heard that items dropped during this event couldn’t be picked up.
Unless… he was not on Blue Star.
But on Sky Demon Star.
There were two possibilities, the first one being:
The 100th floor of the Deadly Tower was actually one of the myriad Sky Demon Stars.
The second possibility was that he had been set up.
If it was the second possibility, then there was sothing fishy about the Deadly Tower’s 100th floor notification that kept popping up in front of him.
But now, there was no ti left for him to think further!
Almost at once, close to a hundred monsters appeared beside Chen Yi, screaming and launching attacks on him. These monsters moved incredibly fast, and their bodies were in a semi-ethereal state, greatly reducing the impact of any physical attacks against them!
Needless to say, they were exceedingly difficult to deal with!
Of course, this didn’t really affect Chen Yi.
Once the numbers reached a certain threshold, it was enough to change the equation. Even if most of your attacks are weakened upon hitting the target, if you attack frequently enough, no amount of defense can withstand it!
The number of monsters around him was growing.
In just about ten minutes, nearly millions of monsters surrounded Chen Yi from all angles, launching deadly attacks. Chen Yi couldn’t even stand on the ground and had to hover in the air.
The cara could no longer capture close-up images of Chen Yi.
It could only ascend and use a wide-angle to film everything below.
But… there were too many monsters.
The swarming creatures engulfed Chen Yi like an Insect Calamity, and all one could see were countless monsters turning to ash and scattering in the air every mont, to the point where even Chen Yi’s silhouette was no longer visible.
Facing a horde alone, he fought against a tribe!
As the number of monsters continued to increase, even Chen Yi, on full firepower, seed to be struggling, mainly because his C-level skill, Annihilated Violators, was ineffective against these monsters.
Though the monsters looked the sa, they had no blood ties.
In other words, these monsters were created individually, not born from a maternal creature.
For this situation, his C-level skill was utterly useless, which greatly weakened his AOE attack. Moreover, these monsters not only had immunity to most physical attacks, they were also extrely fast and highly damaging.
“Puchi!”
In a mont of distraction.
Chen Yi suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back. Looking down, he saw a blood-red bone spur had pierced through his body from behind, chilling him to the core. Subsequently, the monster that had ambushed him quickly turned to ash and died.
The bone spur also turned to ash.
But the wound remained.
“Absolute Purity.”
The wound had only just appeared when it instantly healed perfectly, as if nothing had ever happened apart from the pain.
As long as the damage wasn’t instantaneously fatal, he feared nothing.
Even decapitation didn’t matter. If a shred of consciousness lingered the instant his head was severed, which lasted only a brief period, it was enough ti to activate “Absolute Purity.”
And instantly, everything was restored.
For him, in full open-fire mode, only a direct beam of cosmic light turning his body instantly to ash could inflict a fatal injury. Any other fatal damage was ineffective against him at this mont.
But even if the wound could heal instantly and perfectly, the pain couldn’t be eliminated.
And the monsters were bringing considerable pain.
These monsters had far surpassed the capability ceiling of Blue Star players; no wonder they only required the killing of 10 monsters. For an average Blue Star player, killing even one would be challenging.
As he killed more and more monsters, even more began to appear around him.
He didn’t know how many monsters he had killed.
He only knew that his Points Balance was skyrocketing at an exaggerated pace, earning 10 Points per monster killed, and the monsters that died by his hand numbered well over a million!!!
His vision was now obscured by blood, and he could hardly see his surroundings, already accustod to the occasional stabbing pain.
Eventually…
He didn’t know how much ti had passed.
The number of monsters around him dwindled until, after slaying hundreds, no new ones erged.
Unlike at the start, where killing one monster would bring forth more.
Three minutes later.
The surroundings finally cleared up.
Wearing his tattered costu and covered in blood, Chen Yi floated in mid-air, his hair matted with dried blood, looking extrely disheveled but no one watching dared to look down on him.
Even if they were enemies.
Such power… was nothing short of terrifying.
No monster corpses could be seen around, having all been reduced to ash, while the ground was covered with slowly glowing items, almost like a blanket of snow.
This represented a fortune that would make anyone extrely envious.
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