Chapter 71
[You have been upgraded!] 】
[Your current level is: lv.31]
The densely packed monsters were cleared out with one strike again. Su Xingyuan retracted the [Moon-Breaking Knife] and used a part of his mind to add ten free attribute points to [Intelligence].
[Intelligence: 120 (+7)]
Moreover, with each level up, the player's basic attributes - such as vision, hearing, etc. will also be improved. At this time, he tilted his head slightly and no longer heard any extremely small sound of enemies approaching. The small map also showed that the red names in this area had been completely eliminated.
And all this was done with just...
Su Xingyuan raised his eyes and glanced at the clock on the game panel.
——Twenty-five minutes.
If it was the previous Suxingyuan, when clearing a completely unfamiliar high-level map, it would definitely not be possible to clear out all the mobs at such a fast speed.
But when facing group attacks, the usefulness of [Moon-Breaking Blade] was beyond his imagination.
The most important point is that it [has extremely high magic conductivity].
[Ding Feng Bo] can also be used by injecting magic power into it, or using skills directly, but because it does not have a very high magic power conduction, a lot of magic power will be passively consumed during the process of injection and output.
But when Su Xingyuan injected magic power into the [Broken Moon Sword], it was like water pouring into a dry sponge. There was almost no stagnation or loss. It was instantly transmitted to every part of the blade of the long sword and formed a beautiful crescent-shaped sword energy.
This results in that with the same amount of magic power input, when using [Moon-Breaking Blade], the damage he inflicts is higher.
"Mr. Su Xingyuan," the captain of the escort team said nervously from behind, "the one ahead is..."
The black-haired mermaid looked up and saw a huge door vaguely appearing in the distance, but the door could not be seen clearly from here.
"It's the boss room."
Guard Captain: “Ah?”
Ignoring the captain's confusion, Su Xingyuan looked directly at Ariel and said, "You should go back."
The secret realm cannot be entered by conventional means, and of course cannot be exited by conventional means. As long as they have the Queen's permission, humans can use the pass to leave Atlantis at any time.
If Su Xingyuan could still lead these NPCs before, they would most likely only hinder him when they enter the boss room.
Ariel lowered his head in frustration: "I'm sorry... I couldn't help at all."
The captain of the escort team was about to swim forward when he saw the black-haired boy looking over with a smile: "And you too."
“……”The captain of the guard retreated silently.
The black-haired mermaid added gently, "Don't worry, I will report back to the queen. After all, this is my mission, isn't it?"
After saying that, Su Xingyuan looked at Ariel again and said, "You should be able to help more in my territory. When I go to the dungeon, I may have to rely on you to provide logistical support."
Hearing this, the child's eyes lit up again, and he even started to pull the guards away: "Let's go, don't disturb Brother Su Xingyuan."
After watching them leave, the expression on the black-haired mermaid's face finally faded. The smile receded like the tide, revealing a bit of coldness.
This is probably the inconvenience of holographic games. The game system did not provide any options, so he had to organize his own words to go through the plot - he couldn't even find the "skip" button.
At this time in the observatory, although Victor couldn't hear what they were saying, he quickly guessed his intention: "If these mermaids stay, it will hinder it. Its strength is completely not on the same level as these guys."
The pessimist said with a strange expression: "But if this is the boss room... don't we need to organize a strategy anymore?"
Being suddenly called here, the observatory fell into silence again.
Because they found that this was indeed possible.
...So, by opening the observatory, weren't they preparing for the upcoming attack on the abyss?
How come I suddenly realized that I don’t need to prepare anymore?
To put it another way, even if the little mermaid didn't win in the end, they saw it clear out all the nearby monsters, greatly reducing the burden on Country R. Then they could proceed directly to attack the boss.
Moreover, looking at it all the way, it only made one strike each time, but it used this strike to the extreme, a complete double crushing of strength and magic. Maybe it could really kill the abyss with one fish and kill the final boss in one fell swoop.
"I am so touched. What a wonderful fish this is."
The visually impaired hunter heard something from their conversation, wiped his eyes, and sighed: "Although there are some good things in the dungeon, it is a high-risk place like this, and it costs a huge price to ask for help from hunters from other countries..."
"If it really helps us eliminate the Abyss, we can stop considering asking for external assistance."
Victor said in a muffled voice: "That's what I said, but when you say it like this, it always makes me feel like we are taking advantage of others."
“We are just taking advantage of others, Victor,” said the blind man.
“…”
No one continued the discussion. They all looked at the screen again. Not only because they couldn't stop watching it, like watching a cool TV drama, but more importantly, they wanted to try to figure out what was in the boss room.
The beautiful black-haired mermaid held the beads that dispel darkness in her hands and slowly approached the huge underwater door.
There were relief carvings on the door that they couldn't understand. Just looking at it made their brains hurt. The chaotic magic seemed to be able to pass through the screen and reach the minds and bodies of every hunter present.
Without anyone knowing, the magic power in their bodies was affected and began to slowly churn.
But at this moment, the screen suddenly flashed with waves like when it was turned on, like the flowery screen that appears when the TV signal is bad, and then it quickly disconnected.
The observation was interrupted.
The sudden change made Victor's heart jump. He asked in a deep voice: "Diana? Are you okay? Kirill, disconnect the observatory from Diana!"
The man with glasses, who looked very depressed, heard the order and carried it out reflexively without even thinking.
The next moment, all the instruments in the entire observatory went dark.
Under the spider-shaped observation instrument, the red-haired woman lying in the silver-white energy cabin frowned, and finally slowly opened her eyes. At the same time, she reached out and pressed the fingerprint button beside her, and the outer shell of the energy cabin opened instantly.
Her mouth and nose seemed to be blocked, and she began to breathe heavily the moment she came into contact with the outside world. Within a few breaths, her forehead was covered with a layer of cold sweat.
"Diana!"
Victor quickly came to her and handed her all the magic-replenishing items and potions that could eliminate negative states.
The red-haired woman took the potion, tilted her head back and poured it down her throat. She even choked a little because she poured it too quickly. After a dozen seconds, she said in a hoarse voice, "...I'm fine."
Kirill glanced at her, and judging from her somewhat confused state, he guessed, "You saw something you shouldn't have seen."
Victor turned around: "What do you know?"
Kirill pushed up his black-framed glasses, opened his notebook, and kept flipping through the pages.
"Found it. The 816 shipwreck incident."
He quickly stopped flipping through the book and began to give a simple explanation:
"This incident happened in the first year of the portal's arrival. A cruise ship from Country A, sailing in the Pacific Ocean, suddenly disappeared on August 16. The ship was found on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean two months later."
"And the limbs with patterns left on the ship at that time have been proven to have a great influence on the human spirit."
“Especially hunters,” he concluded.
Diana, who had recovered from her shock, nodded. Just thinking about what she had just seen made her mind hurt again.
She said with lingering fear: "My ability can detect the connection between these two events. The 816 shipwreck incident is most likely related to the Abyss. I'm afraid it has been trying to invade our world for a long time."
"Moreover, my magic power has been constantly agitated since just now, and some of it has even begun to transform into something bad... I suggest that you make an appointment with a healer in the next few days to check your body."
Victor understood immediately: "You mean...demonization?"
Although most ordinary people are unaware of the existence of demonization, senior hunters have a basic understanding of it.
The process by which humans are contaminated by the filthy magic power within the gate and subsequently turn into monsters is called "demonization."
This has always been a very difficult problem for all countries, and no laboratory has been able to provide a more detailed explanation for it.
And now, just by looking at the door from the perspective of an observer, their magic power has already shown signs of transformation...
Unconsciously, cold sweat began to pour out of Victor's head. He hypothesized: "If we didn't know about this, organized people to attack the abyss, and came to the door..."
Kirill said mercilessly: "The moment we see that door with our own eyes, we will all be transformed into monsters."
Ordinary people transformed into monsters are already a headache enough, but what if it is national-level hunters like them?
Add to that the abyss, and it would be a disaster.
“…”
Victor calmed himself down.
He said quickly, "Notify all departments to postpone the attack on the Abyss. Also... one day later, if the Abyss is still there, request support from the International Hunter Association and inform them of the seriousness of this incident."
Kirill looked at him in surprise. "Give it a day... Do you think the little mermaid can survive? It's not unheard of for the natives of the underground city to be contaminated. I think it has become one of the creatures of the abyss now."
"Don't be too pessimistic, Kirill," the blind man said gently, "What if it really succeeds? I think it will."
Kirill closed his notebook and sighed, "I hope so. You guys can chat while I go back to write the 368th version of my suicide note."
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[An unknown sight is watching you]
Seeing that the pop-up window finally disappeared, Su Xingyuan raised his eyebrows slightly and his eyes fell on the strange pattern on the door in front of him again.
【warn! You are suffering from spiritual pollution】
[Your occupation is detected as [Lord of Hell]]
[The current level of mental pollution has been blocked]
From the beginning of the game to now, Su Xingyuan has experienced this kind of mental pollution many times. It is the familiar smell of monsters.
There is no point in the monsters contaminating each other, so the moment they arrive at the door, the disappearance of the prompt "An unknown gaze is watching you" has already revealed the identity of the owner of the gaze.
Most likely, it is a hunter with observation ability.
It was precisely because he had discovered the existence of this pop-up window when he first attacked, and knew that someone was watching him, that every time he fought the enemy afterwards, Su Xingyuan deliberately used the same attack method -
That is, continuously inject magic power into [Moon-Breaking Blade], and then use normal attack.
After all, he didn't know the opponent's purpose, so Su Xingyuan couldn't possibly expose his other methods of attack, otherwise it would be very easy for him to be exposed.
The things that were disturbing the players were finally cleared away, and Su Xingyuan then pushed open the door of the boss room.
The door engraved with strange patterns slowly opened, allowing the players to see the scene inside.
——Inside the door was a huge enclosed space, like an enlarged deep well, making it almost impossible to see what was hidden above and below.
And in the center of the enclosed space, there is a huge tumor growing.
This tumor was beating slowly like a heart, with something like an umbilical cord extending from it, connected to the wall of the enclosed space, like tree roots penetrating into the soil, with dense roots deeply embedded in it, making people's scalp tingle involuntarily.
[Name: Abyss Mother-Incubating]
[HP: 3000/3000]
Su Xingyuan, who thought he would see a big octopus or a giant cuttlefish, said: "Wow."
It’s a new thing, I see it for the first time.
He clicked on the screenshot function of the game and took a picture of the BOSS in front of him to record the good times.
As if sensing the player's inattention, the tumor suddenly shook, and two umbilical cords grew out of it in an instant, pulling fiercely towards Su Xingyuan's location.
The player, who was nearly 100 times more agile in the water, dodged it quite easily. He couldn't help but say something in the battle, and said casually:
"In such a big space, you only use two umbilical cords to chase me. Doesn't that make you, as a boss, look like a nobody?"
The next moment.
Hundreds of deep red umbilical cords suddenly sprang out from the huge tumor, almost covering the entire space. Like snakes coming out of a hole at the same time, they all surrounded the lonely black-haired boy at a terrifying speed!
Su Xingyuan, who was surrounded in an instant: "..."
Su Xingyuan, who was instantly surrounded, said: "I was just joking."
So why be so serious?
Seeing the overwhelming force of the umbilical cord blocking all his escape space, the player sighed helplessly, raised his right hand, and grasped the sword at his waist.
In those emerald green eyes, there was a calmness that was completely different from his expression.
"Moon Shattering Slash."
[[Broken Moon Blade] Basic Skill - Broken Moon Slash]
[Description: A group attack skill. When the skill is activated, three crescent-shaped sword auras will be swung out instantly. The coverage of the sword energy is determined by the enemy range; the attack strength is determined by the injected magic power; it can attack all enemies within the locked range at the same time.
[Note: If this skill clears the health bars of more than 25 enemies at the same time, the mana consumed by this skill will be reduced to 5%]
——As soon as the words fell, a cool crescent moon suddenly swung out, splitting the dense umbilical cord tentacles and instantly dyeing the entire dim space with a bright silver glow!
Group attack skills often result in insufficient damage to a single enemy.
In the holographic game, the solution to this problem is very simple, that is -
“Swish!!”
—Inject a lethal amount of magic power.
In an instant, those umbilical cords that seemed to have life and a small blood bar on their heads, were directly turned into ashes due to the huge magic power the moment they came into contact with the sword energy!
The crescent-shaped blade light carried enormous magical power, and in just the blink of an eye it cleared a semicircular vacuum zone in front of the black-haired boy. Even the stagnant sea water here was completely stirred up, heavily hitting the wall where the umbilical cord of the tumor was embedded.
[This skill has been detected to instantly kill >25 enemies]
[Magic power consumption -95%]
Seeing the pop-up window, the black-haired boy's eyes slowly curved.
With an intelligence attribute of [120 (+7) (↑50%)], and looking at the intelligence bar that only had a blue bar missing, the black-haired mermaid took out a book with her left hand, not caring whether it would be soaked by sea water, and immediately triggered the passive skill of [Reading Lover].
The intelligence bar, which had not dropped much to begin with, suddenly began to recover slowly.
Seeing this, the player's expression became more cheerful.
"Then... let's go for burst first, then endurance?"
Before he finished speaking, the temperatureless blue flame that could not be extinguished by sea water instantly appeared in the entire enclosed space!
"Cross the fire, raise the temperature."
With a command, the blue flames spread like wildfire, forming an impenetrable fire net in the blink of an eye, and wrapped around the tumor without any hesitation!
Even the tumor, which had not yet fully regained consciousness, felt the extreme danger at this moment and urged it to respond quickly.
It hurriedly released more umbilical cords, trying to penetrate Duhuo's fire net and directly attack the black-haired mermaid who cast the spell - as long as the person who cast the ability died, then this ability would naturally no longer harm it.
However, the imagined scene of breaking through the fire line at an extremely fast speed did not exist at all.
The moment the crimson umbilical cord touched the blue flame, it was like a ghost wandering in the human world encountering the sun. It didn't even have time to react and directly became fuel for the fire.
Natural restraint even allowed such heart-wrenching pain to be transmitted directly to the nerves of the sarcoma, causing the entire tumor to curl up violently, and the meridian lines on the surface surged constantly.
At this time, the player's magic power is also burning rapidly.
But without any pause, he raised the temperature of the fire again!
[You attacked the weakness of the [Abyss Womb]! 】
[You delivered a [Critical Hit]!] ! 】
[[Abyss Womb] HP-200]
[[Abyss Womb] HP-200]
…
Unlike the monsters that were reduced to ashes when touched by [Fire Crossing] before, the mother's womb has stronger defense and is more resistant to Fire Crossing.
When Su Xingyuan's magic power was only 15, the mother's HP was still 800.
But for the players, the remaining eight hundred are just a matter of time.
At this moment, a faint voice suddenly came from the mother's womb:
"Why are you attacking me, Demon Lord...? I am obviously your most loyal servant..."
Su Xingyuan paused, blinked, and realized that he couldn't defeat this thing, so he was about to show weakness.
After all, from the very beginning, the player had an absolute advantage, and he kept throwing skills at the tumor one after another without any pause.
Sarcoma had never imagined that there would be such a crazy fighting style where he was alone against the enemy and dared to use the ultimate burst at the beginning, using almost all of his magic power. He just thought that the black-haired boy could maintain this level all the time, and that the terrifying flame could come a second and third time.
Therefore, it did not dare to fight with Su Xingyuan anymore and chose to show weakness to the enemy.
Hearing its words, the black-haired boy repeated with a half-smile: "Why would I attack you?"
"Is this the so-called fraud? Tell me more. I love to hear it."
sarcoma:"……"
The tumor's surface seemed to become hideous for a moment, but its desire to survive drove it to ignore the black-haired mermaid's words and continued weakly, "...I built a nest here and continued to grow, all so that I can one day fight for the Demon King and rebuild the glory of Hell."
"I can sense the strong aura of hell on you... The attack just now was only because I was too nervous and didn't recognize you for a moment."
"Please believe me, in just three days, I will be fully hatched. By then, I will be the most powerful demon general under your command, and I will wipe out all the enemies that get in your way."
Su Xingyuan: "That's not what the nickname above your head says."
Sarcoma felt a little uneasy: "What nickname...?"
The black-haired boy did not explain, but seemed to have thought of something and he chuckled.
"Okay, I can trust you." He said slowly, "But no matter what, you just attacked me. Wouldn't it be embarrassing for me to forgive you so easily?"
"If you want to prove your loyalty..."
The black-haired mermaid lowered his eyes nonchalantly, as if observing its performance. Then, he took off the sameko that wrapped the aqua blue dragon ball and threw the imitation towards it.
"——Then accept my gift."
The moment the blue beads were thrown at it, Sarcoma's heart tightened and it subconsciously wanted to avoid them, but after hearing the mermaid's words, it had no other choice but to stretch out its umbilical cord and attach them to the water beads without hesitation.
But the next moment, it felt that all its magic power was being frantically purified and absorbed into this bead!
The extreme horror of having its magic power extracted and purified made it unable to continue acting, so it immediately and forcibly cut the umbilical cord, turning them into living individuals. This barely blocked the unilateral transmission of magic power, and it threw the evil bead away fiercely.
[[Abyss Womb] HP-176]
"You react really quickly..."
Following a somewhat regretful young man's voice, the aqua blue bead was thrown to the side and was firmly grasped in the palm of a hand.
Then, the black-haired boy who was the first to enter the holy spring in that trial, like a magnet, instantly attracted a large amount of magic power stored in the beads!
These purified magic powers continued to fill his blue bar, which had already run out, until the cracks on the surface of the bead widened. The imitation could no longer withstand the impact of such a huge amount of magic power and completely shattered, scattering in the sea.
It was at this moment——
The dark blue flame once again reflected the smiling eyes of the black-haired mermaid.
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