The Devil’s Cage

Chapter 348 The Difficulty of Elevation

[Single-player copy enters! 】

[Confirmation of Difficulty: Fifth Dungeon Difficulty]

[Background: The imperial envoy with the king's secret order disappeared on the way to Fort Swart, and the owner of Fort Swart sent you a request for help...]

[Main task: Find the missing imperial envoy within 7 days, 0/7]

[Obtain a temporary language, it will disappear automatically when you leave the instance]

[The attributes of clothing, backpacks, weapons, and items remain unchanged, but the appearance is temporarily changed, and it will be automatically restored when leaving the instance]

[Detect that the age of guns and grenades does not match, and the power will drop by 90%. After entering the dungeon, you will get corresponding compensation (compensation skills cannot improve attributes, and will disappear after leaving the dungeon world)]

(Reminder: This is your fifth official copy. The main mission can fail, but you need to pay a ransom of 500 points, and the highest attribute will drop by 2 levels. When the points are insufficient, the equipment will be deducted. When the deducted equipment cannot make up for the penalty points , it is determined that the player has failed the game!)

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The text appears line by line.

Qin Ran frowned.

His eyes quickly passed over the 'due to the inconsistency of the equipment age, get corresponding compensation', and stopped on 'the highest attribute has dropped by 2 levels'.

"As the number of dungeons increases, not only will the difficulty increase, but the punishment will also increase?"

Qin Ran muttered to himself, frowning even tighter.

Because, Qin Ran is very clear that with the continuous improvement of his attributes, the difference between the highest attribute -1 and the highest attribute -2 seems to be only 1, but the consumption is very different.

That's not just the consumption of points, but involves gold skill points.

"Is it more and more impossible to fail?"

Qin Ran, who understood the stakes very well, sighed and looked at the compensation.

As lawless as it is, the compensation is fair.

【Gunpowder Weapon. Light Firearms (Extraordinary)】

[Gunpowder Weapon. Explosion (Unparalleled)]

They can be exchanged for two extraordinary-level and unparalleled-level skills that are in line with the age of the copy world.

The types of skills range from the common [Cold Weapon. Long Sword] [Cold Weapon. Long Knife] to [Cold Weapon. Special Weapon], and then [Cold Weapon. Alien Weapon] [Shield Mastery], etc., are limited to In the category beyond the basics, there are no skills beyond the basic category.

As for the mysterious side skills?

That's even thinking about it.

The system has always been fair.

"Choose [Shield Mastery (Extraordinary)] and [Culinary Arts (Unparalleled)]!"

Qin Ran looked at each skill and soon had a choice.

For weapon skills, after possessing extraordinary level [Cold Weapons. Heavy Weapons], Kieran does not plan to make more repetitive choices.

Therefore, many skills with cold weapon prefixes were abandoned first.

And after giving up these skills, the skills that can be selected are immediately reduced by more than half.

Except for one [Shield Mastery], the remaining skills are some skills like swimming and climbing.

Compared with swimming, climbing and other skills, Qin Ran is naturally inclined towards [cooking].

[Name: Shield Mastery (Extraordinary)]

[Related attributes: strength, physique]

[Skill Category: Defense]

[Effect: You know how to use all shields, increase defense by 80%]

[Special Effect: Shield Holder (When you choose to defend, strength and physique are extra +4)]

[Additional protection (your shield can not only be lower than swords and arrows, but also can face flames, poisonous gas, and ice. When you encounter corresponding attacks, you have a +1 judgment)]

【Deplete power】

[Learning conditions: strength E+, agility E+, constitution E+]

[Remarks: A good shield can make you invincible]

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[Name: Cooking (Wu Shuang)]

[Attribute related: None]

[Skill Category: Assist]

[Effect: You are familiar with most of the dishes and can make them skillfully]

[Special Effect: Taste (You are better at making food smell attractive)]

【Deplete power】

【Learning conditions: none】

[Remarks: Your cooking skills allow you to gain a foothold in any restaurant]

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The same knowledge goes with the coordination of the body.

The whole process is no different than acquiring skills in the true sense.

Except that it will disappear when leaving the dungeon world.

After Qin Ran completed his selection, the text in front of his eyes gradually disappeared.

Strong light and a sense of weightlessness began to appear.

When everything returned to normal, he was already standing outside a town surrounded by a wooden fence.

Two soldiers who looked like guards at the entrance were staring at him vigilantly.

On the sentry tower not far away, the guards had already picked up their longbows and drew out their arrows. Although they didn't really bend their bows and nock their arrows, let alone aim at him, Kieran felt that he seemed unwelcome.

"Everyone, I have no malicious intentions!"

"I'm here at the invitation of the owner of Fort Swart..."

Qin Ran, who was no longer a rookie, naturally dealt with the situation in front of him.

However, to his surprise, following his words, the guards in front of him not only did not relax, but became more vigilant on the contrary.

The guards on the sentry tower put their arrows on the bowstring.

"Go away, you fellow witch!"

"You are not welcome here!"

The two guards drew out their long swords and drove Qin Ran away.

witch?

Not the master of this territory?

The information revealed by the guard surprised Kieran.

But before Qin Ran asked more, two guards came up with swords.

That persistent attitude made Kieran believe that if he continued, the two people on the opposite side would definitely not mind stabbing him with long swords in a real sense.

Although the number of opponents was ten times larger, it would not be enough, but Kieran wisely chose to retreat.

Because, he found that he seemed to be deceived by the trap of words.

Or, to be more precise, he accidentally fell into the inertia of thinking.

In the background of this dungeon world, words such as "king's order" and "imperial envoy" were mentioned, coupled with the experience of always facing the tasker directly or entering the scope of the mission in the previous dungeon world, he subconsciously thought that he was the first The place I saw should be Fort Swart.

But in fact, the place he was in was not the so-called Fort Swart at all.

Moreover, the owner of Fort Swart is not the owner of this territory, but a witch.

"Beginning to officially leave the novice period, has the system's help in the dungeon world been further reduced?"

Qin Ran thought to himself.

He had expected this.

Judging from the increase in the number of copies and the increase in difficulty, it is impossible for the system to act like a nanny, assigning more reasonable identities to players every time, and completing tasks in an easier way.

After reaching a certain number of times, this 'protective measure' will inevitably be cancelled.

However, Qin Ran did not expect it to be so soon.

"You must be careful with your words and deeds!"

Qin Ran warned himself in his heart.

It was only the fifth difficulty of the dungeon before him, and what he encountered was just an unremarkable town with loose guards, and the attitude towards witches was just disgust.

If it is the difficulty of the sixth or seventh dungeon, if he is so reckless, he will definitely not just retreat and leave.

The word 'burning'.

Qin Ran knew it.

After quickly retreating to a place out of sight of the town guards, Kieran looked at the background introduction playfully.

"A king would actually send an imperial envoy with a secret order to a witch?"

To Qin Ran, this was really unbelievable.

However, before Kieran could think of more, he was interrupted by a rush of hooves.

A group of five, heavily armed cavalry rushed out of the town.

"Hurry up and find that witch's accomplice!"

The leading knight shouted.

That voice came into Kieran's ears clearly.

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