Chapter 140: The Giant Shadow Waiting in the Corner of the Sky
January 19, morning, a hotel in Tokyo.
After brushing his teeth and washing his face, Anson Lu opened the curtains and sat on the bed.
"Very good, after today's boss battle I'll go home and have a good sleep."
He glanced at the three message bubbles in the upper right corner of his vision. They were messages from Cosimo, Julius, and Kamishiro Ruri. They all summarized their sequence skills into text and sent it to him.
"Oh my god..." Anson Lu said in surprise while looking through Yuliu's sequence skills: "This kid Yuliu has so many hidden skills. He is really amazing."
It took Anson Deer a while to memorize Yuliu's skills.
Then, he opened Kamishiro Ruri's chat panel and looked at her sequence skills.
Kamishiro Ruri doesn't have many sequence skills. Compared with other top sequences, her number of skills is the least.
You know, the sequence of medium combat power can be compared to Teacher Chu's "Sword of Dark Sky", but even the sequence of Sword of Dark Sky, when it is promoted to the second level, has at least 6 sequence skills.
Kamishiro Ruri's "Peerless Sakura Sword" has only three skills - "Sakura Death" (use flower petals to transfer position), "Returning Sakura Slash" (concentrate the flower petals on the sword and launch a powerful slash forward), and "Thousands of Falling Sakura" (transform the sword into thousands of flower petals, scatter them forward, and then launch a large-scale slash in the range of the petals).
Anson Lu couldn't help but complain: "What a good sequence. That hacker boy's 'The Matrix' has four sequence skills at the first level, right?"
As if she had already anticipated Anson Lu's complaints, Kamishiro Ruri added a message at the end: "Hehe, it's not about the number of sequence skills, but how to use them effectively."
Anson Deer stared at the line of text and said contemptuously:
"Haha, you use them well... There are only three skills, of course I use them well. If not, why play the game?"
But that's true. If we only talk about one-on-one fights, Kamishiro Ruri's sequence is still quite abnormal: strong mobility and high instantaneous explosive power. Even if there are only 3 sequence skills, she will have no problem killing a group of sequence players in seconds.
But if it is a boss battle, Kamishiro Ruri's role will not be so obvious - it is hard for Anson Lu to imagine that half a year later this green tea girl will be able to pick up a katana and chop Haku, and she will be considered a success if she is not trampled to death by Haku.
Finally, Anson Deer, with a nonchalant attitude, clicked on the sequence of skills sent by Cosimo.
If it is possible that Kamishiro Ruri could conceal the sequence skills, then Ansenglu believes that at least Cosimo would never be able to conceal the sequence skills.
After all, this kid's personality is there, and he will do everything in his power to win this boss battle and ensure that no more players die.
You know, every time a monster spawns in a dungeon, he is the one who stands at the front, in front of all the general players.
"There's something interesting about the Cyber Assault sequence." Anson put his hand on his chin. "Use Evolution Coins to exchange for Technology Points. Use the Technology Points on Heavy Prosthetics and Light Prosthetics to derive different sequence skills."
From a development perspective, as long as Cosimo can invest technological points into the panel of the heavy prosthesis and survive to the late game, he may really be able to drive a Gundam.
It didn't take long for Anson Deer to roughly scan Cosimo's sequence skills.
"Fortunately, I don't have as many skills as Yuliu." Anson Lu closed the panel. "Please, the sequence of Devouring Hand is too abnormal. By devouring a new monster, I can get new skills and copy skills from other sequences!"
Supermodel!
Supermodel too much!
The only way to describe Yuliu's "Devouring Hand" sequence is "infinite potential".
If you only choose cooperative challenge copies along the way, you can obtain different sequence skills by devouring different monsters.
Maybe by the end of the game, Yuliu will have mastered hundreds of sequence skills, and by then he alone will be able to take on the output position of a thousand transferred mages.
Even so, compared to the "Mad Bell Pope" and "Old Chess Player", two comprehensive sequences that have become so abnormal in the early and middle stages that they are beyond words and can be called the "ultimate development type", "Devouring Hand" is still slightly inferior.
However, Anson Lu believes that Julius still has the potential to be on par with Lorenzo.
After all, who knows if Julius could suddenly get lucky and obtain a perverted skill by devouring the dungeon boss, and kill Lorenzo, who is in the "the world hates me" state, with a slap.
Anson Lu is different. He is quite an internal test player. The principal specially brought him three "chess pieces that do not exist" from the future. They are the three chess pieces of the salvation team.
Currently, in the Savior Team chess group, Anson Lu only has the "Future Blue Bird" chess piece on hand, but this chess piece has also brought him a sufficiently abnormal improvement.
If he was originally a T0-level player in the evolution game who was on par with Lorenzo.
Well, after acquiring the "Future Bluebird" chess piece, Anson Deer has completely distanced himself from Lorenzo, not to mention... what kind of potential the other two world-saving chess pieces that the principal brought back have.
"Anyway, after we finish today's Boss battle, we can go home and rest..."
Anson Lu got up from the bed and walked towards the bathroom. "Come to think of it, now that the principal is gone, will the law enforcement team take advantage of us? No... Lorenzo can still be trusted, so there's no problem for now."
Speaking of which... did that uncle named Yu Mingdao survive yesterday's battle?
When Anson Lu thought of this, he was suddenly stunned and opened his friend list.
[Friend: Yu Mingdao; Status: Playing a cooperative challenge dungeon;]
At dusk that day, in the busy Ginza district of Tokyo.
The setting sun slowly sank below the horizon, absorbing the light that fell on Tokyo.
In the center of the prosperous downtown Ginza, there stands a pillar of light that covers a vast area and reaches the sky. The nearby skyscrapers, electronic signs, vehicles, and neon lights are all swallowed up by the pillar of light.
Anson Lu was wearing a black hoodie as usual. He stood outside the light column, exhaled a breath of white air, and turned to look at the players behind him: "Are you ready?"
After yesterday's battle with the giant squid, more than fifty ordinary players died, so now all the remaining players in the copy add up to more than eighty people, but the team behind them has only more than seventy people.
The reason why there are only seventy people is that there are many surviving players who are afraid of fighting due to PTSD symptoms - they simply stay in the city and do not participate in the final boss battle.
Fortunately, most of the dead players were warriors.
Most of the back-row output professions that are most needed in boss battles are still alive.
As the people behind him nodded in response, Anson Lu took the lead and stepped forward into the light column. His figure was immediately swallowed up and disappeared. Everyone gasped.
No one knows what will happen after stepping into this beam of light, but they have no choice.
Yu Mingdao was the first common player to take the first step. He had his reasons for being cowardly. If he died in the boss battle, he would not be able to go back to see the child who was still in the orphanage.
But if even he, a representative of the combat power of ordinary players, cowardly stops here, it will inevitably cause most players to make the same choice, and perhaps ultimately lead to the failure of this boss battle.
Then, this capital city would fall and thousands of lives would be lost.
Although he knew that this city, or even this country, had nothing to do with him, Yu Mingdao still had the conscience of a human being.
What's more, he still owed Anson Lu something. That insignificant travel voucher gave him hope to continue to struggle.
I have reasons for being ordinary and cowardly, but I also have reasons why I must take this step... Yu Mingdao thought.
He took a deep breath and walked towards the beam of light without saying a word. Immediately, his figure was swallowed up silently and disappeared in the busy area of Ginza.
About two or three seconds later, the people behind him also moved.
Messy and dense footsteps sounded on the winter streets.
They knew deep down that the beam of light before them would most likely lead to the underworld or take them to hell.
After all, most of them watched their compatriots being crushed into bloody foam by the squid's suckers yesterday.
Judging from the difficulty of the boss battle alone, the giant squid entrenched in Tokyo Bay may just be an appetizer. The monster above the sky city is the biggest challenge of this copy.
But they did not stop, but moved closer to the column of light step by step, like devout believers trying to retain the light of dusk, and finally stepped into it without hesitation.
“Sure enough…” Cosimo said in surprise, “There aren’t many players who can survive to the fourth round of the dungeon who are cowards.”
Kamishiro Ruri waved her fan and said jokingly, "If they don't dare to take these few steps even when standing behind the world's number one, then they won't be able to play any role in the future."
"No, compared to being the best in the world." Yuliu said calmly: "An ordinary figure who dares to step into it without hesitation is the thing that can most arouse their courage."
"Are you referring to the guy named Yu Mingdao?" Shendai Liuli seemed to be thinking about something. "Well, I've observed him for a while. His performance is indeed very different from other ordinary players... At least, he is a qualified leader."
"Let's go, you better be careful, there's a time limit, otherwise we won't be able to enter the boss battle venue!" Cosimo urged.
At the same time, he stretched out his right foot, and like a little kid testing the temperature of the bath water, he tapped the ground inside the light column with his tiptoe.
"Fuck!"
With a scream, the cyber kid disappeared on the spot.
Kamishiro Ruri and Yuliu both sighed softly. Whether they were insiders or outsiders, they all had the same concern: Will this guy fail at the critical moment in the boss battle?
"Come to think of it, only people aged 17 and above are allowed to become players, right?" Yuliu suddenly asked.
He had never paid much attention to this issue before. He heard that there were only two child players in the world, namely Cosimo and Mo Xiaoyuan, the Chinese player of the Soul-Burning Gun.
"No, Brother Blackhand." Kamishiro Ruri said dimly, "Some children who are qualified to take the 'sequence test' can also become players as long as they pass the test, and they are definitely sequence players."
"That is to say, if there is a child under the age of 17 among the players, he can only be a serial player." Yuliu understood.
After the two men finished their conversation, they stepped into the beam of light, and no one else was seen in the downtown area of Ginza.
The setting sun completely dropped below the horizon.
The sky suddenly turned gray, heavy rain fell, rumbling thunder resounded throughout the world, and flashes of lightning were like the shadow of a brilliant dragon shuttling between the clouds, appearing and disappearing under the cover of clouds and mist.
After Anson Lu stepped into the light column, his body was enveloped by a surge of warm current. He was forced to close his eyes due to the water pressure, and his limbs were unable to move in the golden liquid.
He was like a vegetative person, being slowly carried up into the sky by this heat current, as if he was swimming, or as if one little person after another made of light were taking turns carrying his body.
Finally, when he opened his eyes again, the world had changed drastically. Heavy rain fell like a roaring whale, soaking his whole body.
"Damn, this is so cold!"
Anson Deer huddled up, hugged his shoulders, and shivered. This experience was no less than a pleasant winter swim in the Arctic. "Alien Kangaroo, come out quickly!"
The alien kangaroo appeared in response, and Anson Deer lifted its light body up as if it were a dumbbell.
The rain fell on the kangaroo.
"Gaba?"
Mr. Kangaroo was keeping Anson Deer in the rain while making puzzled noises.
This is... the sky island?
Anson Deer gradually saw everything around him clearly. Looking around, he could only see withered flowers and plants, broken hot springs, and the skeletons of birds and beasts. The air was filled with the smell of rotten tobacco.
Looking up, the sky is very close, but it is extremely gloomy, as if it is using thunder and heavy rain to repel the guests coming from one end of the earth.
And before his eyes, there was a garden. Amid the roar of heavy rain and thunder, the atmosphere of desolation and horror was even more difficult to conceal.
Looking further away, there stands a magnificent palace in the center of the garden. The palace appears to be made of bronze, and the walls are carved with patterns that look like Greek gods. The dark tones show its grandeur and majesty.
The rain curtain fiercely washed the ancient palace.
"Bang!!!"
The next moment, the palace collapsed with a loud bang, and the patterns of the gods shattered like a mirror. The entire sky island was shaking violently, like a giant beast with wings on its back violently awakening.
The rumbling dust and heavy rain mixed together, destroying the ruins of the palace in an instant.
After the thick rain and fog dissipated, a terrifying giant shadow more than ten meters tall appeared. As expected, the one standing in front of Anson Lu was the final boss of this cooperative copy.
"roar!!!"
A roar from ancient times was heard, and the rain and fog within a hundred meters were completely shaken away, and even the thunder dragon flashing in the sky stopped.
The huge shadow slowly revealed its true form.
[Warning: This Boss battle has officially begun! ]
[All participating players cannot use any means to leave the Sky Island before the Boss battle is over! ! ! ]
Anson Lu stared at the huge figure in front of him and took a deep breath. "I don't plan to leave, so let's end this quickly."
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