Chapter 115: The Demon King's Prophecy
Xia Chiyu found that this tower was full of humanoid monsters from the tenth floor, and there were one or two players on the first floor, all of whom seemed to be players who had died here in the past. When Xia Chiyu hit the sixteenth floor, he found that the souls of these players seemed to only use the system's own skills for the time being.
"How many floors are there in this broken tower...... Xia Chiyu looked up and sighed to himself.
However, he had been fighting in the tower for more than an hour, and it seemed that he would not get tired of fighting in this tower.
Soon, Xia Chiyu found that there was news in his battle network, but he couldn't view the public information when he was in the battle area, so Xia Chiyu thought about it, and this tower seemed to be some distance from the top, so it was temporarily offline.
As soon as he opened his eyes, Xia Chiyu immediately sat up from the bed, came to the computer, checked the message, and found that it was indeed the three of them, obviously the three of them went offline ahead of him, and they were ready to exchange information in the game.
"Are you all trapped in a tower somewhere?" Xia Chiyu inquired about the situation.
After a little inquiry, Xia Chiyu found that the four of them were in different positions. Lacey is located in a tower, but the enemies he encounters in the tower are all monsters, and there are no players, but the level and level of the monsters are quite high, at least the boss level, and will spawn several monsters above the boss level at the same time.
And awaken in an altar,Each altar can be divided into two ways,Players and monsters will be refreshed respectively,Although only one enemy is refreshed,But the enemies are all boss-levelγ
Gu Qinyan is located in another altar, and a large number of ordinary or elite monsters will be refreshed each time, and each time it will be refreshed several times, and all of them can be used up before they can lead to the next altar. All four are currently trapped in it.
"There is no doubt that you must get through to get out of this place, although I don't know how many floors there are." Xia Chiyu said, and asked on the computer again: "So far." Is it difficult for you to fight? β
"I've hit the fourth altar, and I have to say it's starting to get hard now." Su Xing replied, "The AI of the boss is quite high, and the player also has custom skills, I think it can be comparable to the elite monster of level 70." β
"It's the same on my side, after hitting the fifth altar, the monsters that are refreshed are all elites, a huge number, and the skills and AI are becoming more and more complex, and they will be immune to one or several attacks." Gu Qinyan also echoed.
"I've reached the eighteenth floor here. So far, four boss monsters have been refreshed each time, which is very troublesome. On the other side, Lacey replied, "I've almost been killed by their combos several times. β
"Don't tell me about combos, my side is the sixteenth layer, and each time an NPC plus several monsters or several NPPCs are all dead players, you can see the demons we encountered last time." Xia Chiyu sighed and said, "In short, we can't spend it in this place." You have to find a way to get out. β
Xia Chiyu had to help Lin Qianxue give the last boss of the Valley of Fallen after that, and then he would continue to rush to the level, and although he had experience in fighting monsters in this tower, he gave very little. It's impossible to move up to the next level after a year, so he can't spend any more here.
"Do you have any good ideas?" Gu Qinyan asked on the other side of the computer.
"Anyway, I haven't found any puzzle mode so far." Xia Chiyu sighed and typed on the keyboard. "But the shadow of Agareth forced me to try to clear this endless trial."
Su Xing immediately replied over there: "Then b told me too!" Do you think it's really an endless trial? β
"Probably not. After all, the monsters we fight are different every time.,As long as the monster doesn't appear in a repeating cycle.,It's impossible to keep refreshing.γ Xia Chiyu explained, "But the current combination of monsters is very complicated, and there should be many waves." β
"Damn...... Now it's going to take a long time just to fight a wave, and there's no way to get out if you don't get through here. Gu Qinyan said angrily in the gang, "I'll go to the Internet to find out if there is any strategy here." β
So, everyone split up to search for news about the Endless Trial where they were, but although there were players on the Internet who had been to the Endless Trial, most of the players died here in the end, and the remaining small part was either "selling the Endless Trial clearance skills at a low price, Bao Hui", or "The Endless Trial bug cheater died the whole family".
"These guys...... As long as the tricks that are hooked with AO are finally used to sell for money. Xia Chiyu scolded himself secretly, although there is a huge amount of information on the Internet, there are different opinions, including many scammers and Trojan horse websites, so although a lot of them were searched, when the four of them regathered on the battle network, they did not find any useful information, only some unreliable "rumors".
"I heard that you can get out without finishing the endless trial." Gu Qinyan said in the group chat, "But no one mentioned the specific method, they are all scammers who shout that the liar will kill the whole family." β
"That's it, I just cheated someone out of twenty q coins! As a result, I didn't tell me about my quick clearance skills! Su Xing said angrily over there, and everyone in the Battle.net group chat suddenly fell silent.
"There are too many fools, not enough liars." Xia Chiyu sighed secretly, but didn't say it.
After a while, Lacey said: "Some players on our side have said some reliable news, I heard that the Endless Trial has a top layer, the name I am fighting now is called the Tower of Despair, the Tower of the Dead is the one who eats fish, the name of the Endless Altar is where Qin Yan is, and the Garden of Hell where Ah Xing is located, but there is still no detailed information." β
"It's not easy to ask that." Xia Chiyu sighed and said, "I found some uncertain but more common rumors, saying that the tower here is about thirty-five to forty-five floors, and the altar seems to be said to be ten times, and some people say at least seven waves, but most of them are people who haven't beaten it." β
"So, did anyone mention Agareth's guidance?" Su Xing asked over there.
Xia Chiyu was stunned, and typed on the keyboard: "I didn't think about this, I'll try to play the game in a while to see if there are any changes after using this thing." It's 9:50, and we haven't cleared the customs at 11 o'clock, so we'll go offline and see you in the battle net. Anyway, as long as you defeat the monsters on that layer, you can get out of the battle, and you won't get tired from fighting. β
"I think ......," Gu Qinyan suddenly said at this time, "there is no combat fatigue, is it because our soul is no longer in the body." Do you remember what that guy named Bai Impermanence did to us before? β
"Indeed...... In this case, the bodies of the three of us should still be in the capital of the dead, if someone comes to us, I don't know if we can ...... from the outside world" Xia Chiyu held his chin and muttered, then he shrugged his shoulders and tapped on the keyboard, "Even so, there is no one who can come to us, and everyone in the guild is not of high rank." β
"Yes, it's better to rely on yourself." Wake up and reply helplessly. A sweaty expression.
"Speaking of Agares, though, I've found some information." Xia Chiyu replied on the side.
Agares, the second of the Seventy-Two Pillars of Solomon's Demon God, is said to have commanded thirty-one demon legions, symbolizing "yin desire" in the Seven Deadly Sins, and has three heads in his demon form, the heads of a man, a cow, and a lamb, and rides a dragon from hell. He has webbed feet like waterfowl and a snake's tail, can spit fire, holds a highly poisonous gun, and is proficient in astronomy and mathematics. It's exactly the same as when he first saw Agareth's apparition.
The fun of Agareth lies in the ** that causes people to sin, just like the sinner knight who holds the "Fallen Star", who was lured by Agareth and opened a dimensional rift. The dark aura polluted the entire forest of ancient trees.
Due to his astronomical mastery, Agareth has the ability to predict the future and the power to destroy anyone, holy or worldly.
"Agareth drives those who stand still. It means the lazy, unmotivated person, and brings back the fugitives, who are considered by many to be the 'souls of the dead', trying to escape from the afterlife. Xia Chiyu explained, "In this way, it can explain why the souls of the four of us were caught here." β
"What's the point of knowing this?" Gu Qinyan seemed to ask impatiently.
"Of course it makes sense, the monsters in AO all have actual backgrounds." Xia Chiyu replied, "You see, the information describes Agares as a blonde old man with a crow or eagle on his shoulder, and his mount is a large crocodile. Although he has the ability to foresee the future, he speaks half-truths and half-truths, and he is credible but not fully trusted. Doesn't that mean that endless trials are not endless? And I'm sure this old guy is so good, this is definitely not his last appearance. β
"So, let's go back and see if what he said is true." Su Xing smiled and said.
So the chat came here for the time being, and the four of them returned to the game.
Xia Chiyu looked at the stairs on the seventeenth floor, then clicked on the item interface, called up Agareth's guidance and clicked to use, a ray of light flowed out along Agareth's guidance, and then walked up the stairs on the left along the ground.
"Damn, what's the point!" Xia Chiyu cursed to himself and came to the seventeenth layer, and what is particularly irritating about this copy is that the difficulty of the monster does not increase with the increase of the number of layers, but a cycle of ten layers.
The tenth floor is more difficult than the first nine, and it becomes easier from the tenth floor, but the eleventh floor, although not as difficult as the tenth layer, is much more difficult than the first layer, which means that it ......
"While the overall difficulty is rising, there is a cycle of ten layers." Xia Chiyu muttered to himself, waiting for the enemy to appear.
A low bark came from the shadows ahead, and then two hounds with dark flames swooped in from the front. Xia Chiyu had already taken precautions, and it was not surprising that the staff was raised to summon a stone wall, and the two hounds were just ordinary monster levels, and they hit the stone wall headlong, letting out a wail and being bounced away, followed by a slight explosion of "bang".
The next moment, Xia Chiyu suddenly found that his neck was cold, and then he realized that there was an enemy behind him, and he didn't even think about using a stand-in directly, and then a blade swept through the neck of his phantom.
"It's dangerous...... Xia Chiyu looked at the assassin behind his shadow and sighed secretly, "From this layer onwards, will players cooperate with the monster's attacks?" Tsk, what a hassle......"
But despite this, this is just the player's phantom, after all, it's not a real player, the AI is not so flexible, and the most advantageous point is that although the player's attack is high, but the health is very small, far less than the level of monsters, so as long as you don't get hit, you can quickly kill NPC enemies in seconds. Seventeen floors were quickly cleared. Xia Chiyu followed Agares' guidance again.
A ray of light flowed from Agareth's guidance, moving up the stairs on the right hand from the ground.
"So, what's the point of this thing......" Xia Chiyu scolded and walked upstairs.
The other place, also inside the tower, has exactly the same structure as the Tower of the Dead where Xia Chiyu is, but the enemy is a different Tower of Despair, and Reis is facing three powerful enemies.
"All of them are all bosses...... "Lacey summoned the Royal Knights to surround him and defend against the monsters, a centaur with iron ore muscles and a spear in his hand, a two-headed one-eyed ogre with a long axe more than three meters tall, and a thick-skinned treeman more than five meters tall.
"This is...... Demon Dryad? Wrong. It's the Fallen Guardian who he killed in the Demon Forest......" Lacey muttered to himself, "I see...... Is this map full of bosses that we've killed before? I said it looks familiar. β
As soon as he finished speaking, the centaur suddenly spun the spear in his hand and approached him like a meat grinder. A terrifying smile appeared on the corner of Lacey's mouth, and the two silver knights in front of him suddenly got out of the way, while Lacey himself took a step forward and raised his shield to meet him, "Ping-pong!" A crunch of perfect defense was heard.
The centaur was shocked and threw back its front hooves, and the two silver knights beside Lacey immediately took their positions. Taking advantage of the centaur's stiffness, he charged, stabbing the centaur in the chest, hitting it and flying backwards, before exploding itself. Directly blew up the centaur and let out a wail, and fell to the ground without moving.
"It's a pity, since we've killed the boss, you don't have a chance." Lacey grinned.
Garden of Hell. It is a circular flat land suspended in mid-air, about the size of half a football field, with an altar in the middle. On the altar lay a corpse that had been reduced to bones, and on one side of the altar there was a narrow passage where the teleportation array at the end of the passage could lead to the next altar, but it was now blocked by an enchantment.
Awakening turned into a black mist and circled behind the double swordsman in front, his right hand stopped at the side of the swordsman's neck, and held it weakly, and shouted in a low voice: "Wildfire......"
The black flames quickly condensed into a black long sword in his hand, pulling away from the swordsman's neck, a blood line flew out, and the double swordsman fell to the ground with an ordinary sound, and his body slowly disappeared. With the death of the swordsman, the white bones on the altar were also turned into powder and scattered by the wind, and the barrier behind the teleportation array disappeared.
"Hmph, player-type monsters, it's just too suitable for me, and PvP can also be upgraded, how good." Su Xing smiled smugly, and walked towards the exit of the altar in front of him, "I just don't know how many times this altar will end......"
The Endless Altar is similar in structure to the Garden of Hell, except that the location of the barrier is located at the edge of the platform where the altar is located, and the monsters are constantly rushing up from the other end of the teleportation array, with green skin resembling a goblin goblin with a double axe, and a large and fat ogre holding a giant soldier.
"It's really endless...... Gu Qin snorted unhappily, and the iron sword stabbed on the ground and jumped upwards suddenly: "You Dragon Sword!" The sword qi turned into a swimming dragon and attacked the large monster in front of it on the ground, and after hitting the first monster, it immediately exploded, setting off a powerful shock wave, blowing a large area of monsters in front of it backwards.
The monsters in the rear were blocked because of the road ahead, dozens of tree demons picked up the axes in their hands and threw them at Gu Qinyan, Gu Qinyan kept his sword drawing posture sideways, flashed forward for a moment, and then then flashed forward momentum and drew the knife, and suddenly a large number of monsters were knocked away, and then Gu Qinyan put the sword back into the sheath, and immediately reached out and pulled out the iron sword and turned around with a whirlwind slash.
Gu Qinyan was agile and shuttled back and forth in the monster group, and the number of monsters was also rapidly decreasing, Gu Qinyan simply and quickly kept changing weapons, and for a while, the swords and swords were dazzling, and soon a wave of monsters here was all wiped out. Gu Qinyan breathed a long sigh of relief, and then his health, body, and fighting qi all recovered a small amount.
"Hmph, it's pretty humane in terms of setting." Gu Qinyan snorted and walked towards the next altar.
Returning to the Tower of Despair, Xia Chiyu had already reached the twenty-first level at this time.
"Damn, it's dangerous now, half of the blood is down......" Xia Chiyu said as he checked his status.
Since the difficulty of the ten floors increases, the difficulty is the highest when the ten floors are the whole number, and the number of players in the hostile NPCs increases to two at the twentieth floor, and the strength also increases significantly. came up and directly put two big skills, Xia Chiyu was caught off guard and was almost lost in seconds, and now his health has dropped to fifty percent, which is quite dangerous.
"It's only twenty floors...... Can I still play if I get to the 30th floor? Xia Chiyu complained secretly, took out Agares's guidance and hesitated, this has been pointing upstairs until now, it is meaningless. Xia Chiyu pressed it one last time, and at this time...... The result still disappointed him, and the pointer pointed upstairs as always.
Xia Chiyu had no choice but to sigh and continue to fight monsters, and when he reached the twentieth floor, the difficulty was reset to the lowest stage. The monsters on this floor are not difficult, Xia Chiyu quickly killed the ordinary monsters and NPCs, and walked upstairs. Before opening the monster, he still pressed Agareth's guidance, and this time, the light points diverted from Agareth's guidance flowed down the stairs and actually flowed down!
"Holy?!" Xia Chiyu was stunned for a moment, but since the monster on the twenty-first floor had not yet been beaten, the door of the stairs back was also locked, but this was undoubtedly an improvement.
Although he didn't know that this Agareth's guideline was to wait for his health to drop to fifty percent. You still have to go back to an integer layer of ten to open it, but anyway, this thing finally serves as a guide!
Therefore, Xia Chiyu stretched out the spiritual force field to prevent the giant sword in the hand of a knight who fell from the sky, shaking it away. Then he swung his staff and summoned a vine to entangle the knight, and then snapped his fingers with his left hand, and the vine was instantly ignited, and the flames quickly climbed up the knight's body. The other party screamed in pain, and another ice arrow fell from the sky.
"Crackle!" There was a cracking sound of metal, and the knight's armor shattered. Xia Chiyu immediately raised his sword and stabbed into the crack in the armor on his chest, the knight snorted and stepped back, a line of blood spurted out of his chest, Xia Chiyu immediately aimed his staff at the knight's face, and shot a large fireball. The flames exploded, and the knight flew backwards with smoke on his face.
With the death of this knight, the doors behind him and in front of him also opened, and Xia Chiyu immediately returned to the twenty-first floor along the stairs, and just after going down the stairs, a martial artist had already rushed in front of him, his fist less than ten centimeters from the tip of his nose.
Xia Chiyu was caught off guard, so he could only turn on the reaction time and dodge backwards, but then he was rubbed on the cheek with a punch, but fortunately, his health was only deducted by three percent, and he didn't hit a hard stun, so it was no big deal.
"Refresh the monster...... Xia Chiyu recovered from the panic, and suddenly felt happy in his heart.
He had also gone back to the previous level to check the situation, but instead of regenerating the monsters like now, the destroyed floor disappeared permanently, which shows that Agareth's guidance has indeed changed the pattern of this map in some way. Xia Chiyu rolled on the spot and swept under the martial artist, and the punch hit the wall behind him.
A circle of impact spread from the wall, the martial artist immediately turned around and hit a whirlwind leg, Xia Chiyu jumped back to dodge, and the long sword accurately swept through the gap in the armor at the fighter's elbow, drawing a blood line, and the opponent's fist stopped abruptly.
"Dragon Town!" Xia Chiyu's staff struck on the head of this martial artist, and then four stone dragons drilled out from the four corners of this martial artist, biting him and pressing him to the ground fiercely, and then Xia Chiyu raised his left hand, "Dragon thorn!" β
A thick bramble pierced the martial artist's chest in an instant, taking root in him.
"Come ...... again" After eliminating the martial artist, Xia Chiyu followed Agareth's guidance again, and this time Agareth guided him to continue upstairs. Xia Chiyu did so, and sure enough, he found that the twenty-first layer he had already fought before had refreshed a new monster. Xia Chiyu grinned: "Hey...... Now there is finally some hope. β
Xia Chiyu continued to go upstairs, cleaned up the monsters on the twenty-first floor, and then continued to go up and down the stairs according to Agares's guidance, and finally came to the twenty-ninth floor, and Agares's guidance also pointed to the thirtieth floor at this time.
"Alright, now it's time to verify that this thing works." Xia Chiyu took a deep breath and said, "Although I have walked back and forth more than a dozen times, I don't know which layer is more troublesome than the number of layers when I cleared the customs, but ......"
Agareth's guidance is only within these ten layers, allowing him to keep going up and down, so when this Agareth's guidance points to the thirty layers, he knows that the end is coming. Either Agares' guidance is a compass or a joke.
"It's a joke, I'll uninstall the game." Xia Chiyu nodded and walked upstairs.
The scenery in front of me is bright. Xia Chiyu knew that he must have succeeded, because the previous floor had been very dim, but when he reached this floor, it suddenly began to brighten. Sure enough, when his eyes adjusted to the light in front of him, he had reached the top of the tower, which was now straight into the sky, and the dim sky around him had turned a clear blue.
"Damn, fifty floors ......" Xia Chiyu looked at the number on the ground and suddenly sighed, "Thinking about it this way, relying on this compass has only walked thirty-four or five floors." It's still earned. β
Just as Xia Chiyu was about to find a way out, Agareth's figure suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Congratulations, adventurer......" Xia Chiyu did not attack, because the Agares in front of him was translucent, and his body was shrouded in shadows, and it seemed that he was just a phantom of Agareth.
"You have passed the test, and with patience, wisdom, and considerable strength, you have survived the taunts of the demon king as a reward. I will give you a prophecy of my Agares, who is omniscient and omnipotent. As he spoke, Agareth grinned and said, "Of course, the prophecy is only a possibility in the future, and if you follow the trajectory I said, it will happen as it is." If you deliberately avoid this trajectory, you can avoid it. So, do you want to believe it......"
As he spoke, Agareth snorted. The hand quickly danced in a circle from mid-air, and a line of flame subtitles remained in mid-air.
Xia Chiyu looked at the line of subtitles and said: "This world is so big that people think they can avoid anything." Fate, responsibility, future, as long as you can find a place far enough away. So, you ran away. You can run far away, you can be cautious and steal your life in the corners of the world, but can you really get away with it? β
"You...... Can you escape? β
"Or is it true that you don't have the strength and intelligence to escape your fate?"
"The world is not small, but you are small. No matter where you go, fate will find you. β
Looking at these words, Xia Chiyu suddenly frowned and pondered, and those words suddenly burned violently, turning into a piece of paper and falling into him, on which was a monster and a treasure.
At the Endless Altar, the apparition of Agareth smiled at Gu Qin Yan in front of him, "You have avoided a dangerous trap with absolute force and cunning tactics, and escaped from the hands of the Demon King, and as a reward, I will give you a prophecy of my Agares's omniscience and omnipotence." If you follow what I said, it will happen, and if you deliberately avoid it, you can avoid it. So, do you want to believe it......"
"I never believed prophecy." Gu Qinyan took a sip and said with a little disdain.
Immediately, Agareth wrote a line of flame in mid-air.
Gu Qinyan looked at the flame in the air at this moment and said: "At first, I just felt that life began to be chaotic, and then inevitably, old things were ruined and passed, unfamiliar faces became familiar, new nightmares disrupted sleep, and new friends won trust. Everything began to be different, until it established order in this chaotic new life and struggled to survive.
"All the contempt and rebellion against this cruel 'reality' seems insignificant, these setbacks and difficulties are always here, and the world is shaking beneath our feet."
"This guy, what the hell is ......" Gu Qinyan frowned, and those words also turned into a list of drops.
At the top of the Tower of Despair, in front of Reis, the apparition of Agareth also began to speak: "As a reward for the difficulties you faced with pure force and escaped from the trap of the Demon King, I will give you a prophecy of my Agares's omniscience and omnipotence......"
"Huh? Prophecy? It's amazing......" Reis said with a little surprise, and then Agarez waved his hand and wrote a line of flame text in mid-air, which Reis looked up at and read: "The pursuit of victory is an imperfect and often violent process, and in a battle between survival and honor, morality loses its meaning, and this complex problem finally turns into a simple choice......"
"To live, or to perish." Lacey thought, lost in thought.
In the Garden of Hell, before awakening, the phantom of Agareth began to speak: "Behind the seemingly reckless force, there is still a trace of wisdom that has not been extinguished, although it is a little clumsy, but you still break free from the hands of the Demon King, as a reward, I will give you a ...... of mine" Hearing this, the awakening laughed angrily: "Are you calling me stupid? You're stupid, your whole family is stupid! β
But Agareth had already written a line of flame in mid-air: "The future is full of anticipation precisely because it is full of change and unknown." And when fate suddenly betrays you, it may be cruel, but nothing is more important than seeing your choice. β
"It's all about survival."
After saying this, Agareth grinned and said the same whisper to the four of them: "A life in the world hangs by a thread in balance, and a new round of history is about to begin, and this is the www.biquge.info of the Pen Fun Pavilion where the wheel of fate turns." β
As Agares's figure slowly faded away, Xia Chiyu and the four of them only felt that the sky was spinning for a while.
I don't know how long later, Xia Chiyu was woken up, opened his eyes, and found himself lying on the ground, while Lacey, Xia Chiyu and Su Xing were standing next to him and looking down on him.
"Yo, woke up?" Wake grinned, "What did Agareth tell you?" β
"So that guy told you too?" Xia Chiyu rubbed his head and complained, "What did he say?" Let's hear it. In addition, I hope I am not the only one who thinks this guy is a bit mysterious......" (To be continued......)