Volume 20 Chapter 100 Mortal Nightmare

There is a special area in "Zero" called the Nightmare Zone. 【】15 This place is located on the border between France and Germany, half in France and half in Germany. Originally, this area should be considered part of the national barrier between France and Germany, that is, a special area designed to block the connection between the two countries. However, this area has a special feature, that is, you can easily enter this area no matter where you come from, but once you enter, you can't even think about getting out.

If it were a general pure combat game, and everyone only liked fighting, maybe no one would pay attention to this area. After all, the fact that this place has no entrance or exit is quite scary. However, since the user base of "Zero" is relatively broad, and according to the theory that there are all kinds of birds in a large forest, when there are more people, there will naturally be everyone. As a result, a group of extremely bored advanced players lost interest in leveling up, and then they started playing adventure games.

After all, the world in "Zero" is not as dull as the real world. It is full of mysterious and unknown spaces with all kinds of treasures and monsters. This is a place tailor-made for explorers. Therefore, these adventure-loving players discover and explore everywhere. Finally, they thought about this neglected area. Because as a national barrier, its scope was too large and it was easy to enter, so it created a dark effect under the lights, causing this group of explorers to ignore it. But eventually they remembered the area and actually went inside.

Like said before. There are no external barriers to the nightmare zone, so you can easily walk in. Its edge is a virgin forest hidden in the thick fog that persists all year round. At its edges you can also see the canopy of trees, and further into the depths. Then nothing can be seen. Regardless of whether you look at it from the ground or the sky, it is just a mist of white mist.

It would be okay if it were just a forest covered in thick fog, as there is no shortage of such places in the game. However, as this group of explorers entered and eventually came back dead, various situations in this area were also brought back.

According to the descriptions of explorers. The area in the thick fog is an environment that is almost equivalent to the Forbidden Demon Realm. In their team, there is a mage of more than 1,200 levels who can use advanced fire magic that can burn a small village. In the end, he only played one match. The flame of the lighter is slightly larger than the small fire ball. Not even a leaf was lit. Another water mage who was a few levels below him used the super range spell Tianhe Landing. In the end, it only produced a glass of water, and its power was many times less than before.

In fact, except for spell skills, even warrior skills are all disabled here. Except for some physical abilities, such as bloodthirsty and madness, which can barely work, most things related to energy are here. It will all be in an extreme state of weakening. It's not that it can't be used, it's just that it has no power.

If it's just sealing skills or something. Players are not too scared when they arrive, after all, the game mainly relies on normal attacks to fight. Unlike other games, the skills in "Zero" are characterized by high mana consumption and high power. In other words, the skills are very effective, but the consumption is also very high. Most people cannot continue to use the skills. You can only use skills as a killing move. Used through chacha during normal attacks. In order to obtain maximum benefits.

Because of these characteristics of skills, players in "Zero" are not too dependent on skills, unlike other games where they are completely unable to fight without skills. However, this theory is true in other areas, but after entering this mist, the phenomenon will return to the same as other games. Without skills, it is completely impossible to fight. As for the reason...it's because of the monsters here.

According to the expedition team that all returned dead, they only encountered one kind of monster in this foggy area. At first they thought they had encountered many kinds of monsters, but they finally found out after checking the battle briefing. The creatures of different shapes that they fought were all the same thing, because the names given by the system were all "fog souls". According to the expedition team's inference, the body of this creature should be fog, or some other incorporeal thing. They encountered many attacks from such monsters in the mist, and each time their shapes were different. At the time, they thought they had killed many monsters, but the results were not known until later. I haven't killed any monsters, because those things will recover immediately after being slashed. Only one attack can destroy more than one-third of their body structures, or cause major damage such as cutting off the head or cutting in half. . Otherwise, ordinary cuts cannot affect them at all. Moreover, even after more than one-third of the damage was completed. Or cut off their heads, the result is just that they suddenly explode into a pile of mist and disappear into the surrounding thick fog, but you will not get any experience points, because the opponent is not dead at all.

A monster that cannot be killed by ordinary attacks and is located in an area close to the Forbidden Demon Realm. This is definitely everyone's nightmare. Although the expedition team advanced in the forest for a long time, they did not kill a single monster in the end. They were too tired to fight back anymore and were then surrounded and killed by the monsters. During this period, they also thought about using teleportation scrolls, but this area unfortunately restricted the flow of magic power, so the scrolls were basically scrapped. In addition, the magnetic field here is also confusing. The navigation methods currently found in the game will be ineffective here, and various communication skills such as teleportation will also be greatly weakened as the distance increases. In short, this place is a huge mi palace, no matter how prepared you are Enough, anyway, as long as you go in, you won't be able to come out again unless you die.

However, despite the harsh environment and the rather deceptive monsters in this place, this place is currently one of the areas that players most yearn for. As for the reason... it was still because of the expedition team. Although they hung up, they didn't get anything.

In games, crisis is always directly proportional to opportunity. Although this area is extremely difficult and makes many players think it is an area that is impossible to conquer, the rich resources inside it are amazing. In fact, this expedition team did not kill a single monster in the mist. There was a mage in their team who was so anxious that he self-destructed. The mage's self-destruction consumes the magic power in the body rather than the environment, so the magic power in the space has little effect on limiting self-destruction.

The mage finally succeeded in self-destructing, accidentally killing several monsters. It's not the kind of suspended animation that destroys the monster's body and turns it into mist again. But real death. This was also the only time this team of explorers actually killed a monster after entering the mist. Of course, the price is a little high, because the self-destruction of a mage is not level one, but level ten, so most mages will not self-destruct even if they die. However, when the mage went back and was resurrected, he was surprised to find out. I actually only dropped nine and a half levels. Then he checked his detailed experience and found a surprising result. The monsters he killed actually gave him half a level of experience. You can get half a level of experience by killing a few monsters. Players have never experienced this since they passed level ten. How worthy is this experience to be so powerful?

In fact, it doesn't matter if you just have high experience. After all, it is difficult to kill these monsters, so everyone will only think that this is a purely disgusting setting. After all, you can't see it. However, the expedition team did bring back the benefits that could be obtained, that is - magic crystal.

Very common, right? All over the world. In the first game, wherever there are players, there will be magic crystal mines, and big guilds like our Frost Rose Alliance mine magic crystals by the ton. So it sounds like magic crystal is not very valuable.

In fact, that kind of white magic crystal is not valuable. According to real-world resource calculations, the value of white magic crystal is probably about the same as oil, or at most a little higher. Although oil is said to be soft gold, that is relative to oil companies. You exist as an individual, even if you are given a bucket and you can put it in whatever you want. How many can you transport? If you are exhausted, you are just living a well-off life. So the white magic crystal is really good. But if you want to mine in a place like this, even if all the white magic crystals are piled on the surface for you to pick up, the input and output will be disproportionate. After all, if you die just to pick up a few pieces of white magic crystal, you will suffer a loss no matter how you calculate it.

However, although you will suffer a loss when picking up white magic crystals, what if it is a colorful magic crystal or a crystal core?

Colorful magic crystal is a high-level magic crystal that can automatically regenerate mana and can be recharged unlimited times. Of course, its greatest value is not its automatic magic regeneration, but its ultra-high mass-to-energy output ratio. Compared to white magic crystal. With the same volume, the colorful magic crystal can output tens of thousands of times more energy than the white magic crystal in the same time. According to reality, the output power is tens of thousands of times that of white magic crystal. If the white magic crystal uses the same speed to output magic energy, let alone how long its own magic power can support it. Even if its energy is infinite, the white magic crystal itself will explode due to overload. You know, our guild sometimes uses magic crystals directly as bombs. From this you can imagine how unstable this thing is. However, the colorful magic crystal does not have so many problems. This thing can not only output energy with tens of thousands times the output power of white magic crystal, but it is also very stable and will not explode. It can be said that the colorful magic crystal is the necessary core for top-level constructed creatures. Without it, it is equivalent to changing a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier into a coal-burning power system. Even if other things remain unchanged. The combat effectiveness will also be greatly reduced.

Compared to the colorful magic crystal, this crystal core is even more exaggerated. This thing is also called Crystal Mother. It is the source of growth of magic crystal. Although the mother crystal cannot be used directly as a power source, it can absorb magic power in space and precipitate magic crystal stones in nearby areas, causing them to grow and become larger. Although most of the ones that grow are white magic crystals, sometimes red magic crystals will grow, and it is not impossible that even colorful magic crystals will appear directly. Anyway, our guild basically understands the mother crystal as a solar panel. As long as it is placed there, it can generate energy by itself and will never run out.

As high-grade crystal minerals that are coveted by all powerful guilds, these two things can be said to be priceless treasures. No matter whether any of these two ores appears anywhere in the world, then It will immediately attract a bunch of guilds to grab it. However, in this nightmare zone, there is a huge storage of these priceless crystals. Although it cannot be said to be seen everywhere, it is quite common. If you have to put it into perspective, you can think of them as common mushrooms in an ordinary forest. You can barely walk very far to see a small patch. Of course, these two crystals will not appear in a large area like mushrooms. Instead, there are one or two pieces in each place.

Regarding the existence of these two crystals, the expedition team recorded the images using memory crystals, so there is no problem with the authenticity. However, their entire team only brought one piece back in the end, and the price they paid for this was that the entire team was destroyed, because all these crystals in the mist must be surrounded by the danger of mist souls appearing in piles. area. In the end, the expedition team ran out of ammunition and food and had no way out. I decided to give it a try and got the item, but the team was wiped out.

The meaning of what Ling just said to me was obvious. She just wanted me to go to this nightmare zone. As for the reason... of course it wasn't for those crystal mines. Although this thing is valuable, Ling is my magic pet, and she is not the guild leader. She didn't care about such things. Ling's real concern was my personal interests. What she wants me to do most is to use my current physical condition to quickly go there to kill some monsters and level up.

At my current level, there are not enough monsters in most of the leveling areas in each region for me to kill. It's not that their number is too low. After all, "Zero" has its own balance system. The faster you kill, the faster it replenishes, so it's impossible to kill them all. The key is that the experience value of these monsters is too low. What I want to kill are bosses, and bosses cannot appear in piles like mobs. Therefore, there is no way for me to level up by killing bosses. Because there are so few places for me to upgrade. So Ling has always been troubled by this problem. After all, my strength is directly linked to the strength of their demon pets. Although with Ling's loyalty, my level will no longer suppress the level of the demon pet, but the increase in my demon pet's combat power is still affected by the level. Influenced. Therefore, whether it is for my strength or their own strength, Ling hopes that I can raise my level as soon as possible, and the higher the better. It is rare to have such a state, which is just suitable for leveling in the nightmare zone.

It's not that ordinary people can't use skills in the nightmare zone, it's just that the power is too low. And I happen to be in a short-circuit state now. The headache is that it is too powerful, and being suppressed by the nightmare zone can just balance my magic attributes. In this way, I returned to the normal state without any influence in the nightmare zone, and the monsters there are actually not very powerful at all. The only difficulty is that they are not afraid of physical attacks, and ordinary people can't use magic there. . This resulted in the invincible fighting effect of the monsters there.

Now that I understood Ling's thoughts, I started thinking about it seriously, but I still hesitated. "Well, although what you said is good, what about our conversation with Boseidon?"

Ling looked at me with a smile and asked, "Is there any problem with delaying it for a day?"

I thought about it and shook my head and said, "There should be no problem. Although this matter needs to be done as soon as possible. But Boseidon is restrained for a day or two anyway, so it doesn't matter if it's one day late."

"That's okay. It's also very dangerous for you to meet Bo Saidon in your current state. If you accidentally use magic, even if it's passive, it will be terrible. So it's not just a matter of experience points, You are staying in the Nightmare Zone now to protect your own safety. Besides, you can also pick up gems on the way. I believe that if Rose and the others knew about this, they would definitely support you in going to the Nightmare Zone first."

I didn’t need to verify Ling’s words to know that she was definitely right. With Rose's wealth and personality, if I heard that I can now go to the nightmare zone to pick up gems like a normal person, she would definitely kick me in without hesitation.

"Okay." I finally compromised.

"Wise decision." Ling said with a smile: "Actually, this is for your own good. Your current situation will not subside automatically. You must let the magic flow through your body slowly, and then wait for the magic flow time to reach twenty After four hours, you can return to normal. However, because of your current short-circuit state, you cannot use magic in a normal environment. You must use magic in an artificially set low magic space to ensure that riots are not allowed. The magic power will make you evaporate. Instead of spending so much effort to create a low-magic space yourself, you might as well use a ready-made one. You can also upgrade it and get some money at the same time, so why not kill three birds with one stone?"

"Okay, okay, didn't I tell you that I would go?" After talking to Ling, I turned to Kameda and said, "You also heard our conversation. My current situation is more dangerous, so I have to go to the nightmare zone first. Hide for a day, and when I recover, I will come back and talk to bo Saidon as soon as possible. So help me apologize to bo Saidon."

When Kameda heard my words, he politely said that he would convey my words and let me go with peace of mind. Although I did something bad with good intentions, my situation was caused by these twelve mages after all. So Kameda will naturally not make things difficult for me because of the time issue.

After briefly explaining the current situation to them, I left the room where the assimilation ceremony was taking place and went to the teleportation array with Ling and a bunch of demon pets. The reason why I have to bring a bunch of magic pets with me is mainly because I can't use magic power now, and it's a bit dangerous to go alone, so it's safer to bring a group of subordinates. Although this is a bit ostentatious, you have to admit that when most people in their right minds see such a large group of advanced creatures coming towards them, their first reaction is to step aside obediently. Especially when there is a dragon at the front of the group.

Fortunately, the map at Poseidon Temple has just been opened. Except for the people in Prometheus and his guild, no one knows that it has been opened yet, so we didn't encounter other players except NPCs along the way. After returning to the ground, I took Lucky and the others back to the ground through the newly opened main channel, and then directly changed into the flying bird and flew back all the way. Of course, in order to ensure that the magic power does not activate, I dare not fly directly on the bird. Instead, I had Everett combine it into a set of armor like powered armor to wrap me up. There is nothing we can do about this. The armor on my body has a lot of self-activating defensive magic, some of which are self-powered, and some of which require my magic power. Once they are hit, they will activate on their own, and I have no control at all. Therefore, in order to prevent players from all over the world from discussing news like "Purple Sun was killed by a small fireball in seconds" tomorrow. I had to put a shell on myself.

It's obviously much safer with Everett blocking the outside. And as long as I don't take the initiative to cause trouble, the speed and height of the flying bird are definitely not something that ordinary people can interfere with.

Thanks to the super speed of the flying bird, I arrived at the legendary nightmare zone after more than an hour.

Just like I said before. The Nightmare Zone is currently one of the hottest topics in the game, so the peripheral areas here are also surrounded by many players. Some of them are gamblers who want to risk their lives to try their luck in picking up a piece of colorful magic crystal or crystal mother, while others are just powerful onlookers. Anyway, they just come to pay homage to this legendary land. I will follow you later. When people are bragging, they can also say arrogantly: "The land of nightmares? I've been to that place..." Anyway, you can brag as you like.

Because of the above reasons, when I arrived here. In the direction I cut into, there happened to be a group of players standing on the edge of the nightmare zone looking in. As for the reason...because a group of idiots just entered here. The onlookers, who never cared much about watching the excitement, were eagerly waiting to see if they could hear the screams of some unlucky guy before he died. Of course, it would be better if you could see someone being attacked by a monster in a place where the fog was not too thick and you could barely see people. Anyway, the monsters here don't cross the line, so they are not afraid.

However, just when these guys were looking forward to hearing the screams of the group in front, they suddenly heard something not quite right. This sound is actually often heard in reality. It is the sound of airplanes flying overhead. But the problem is that there are no airplanes in the game! There are many flying creatures. But this sound is clearly the sound of a jet engine?

The people attracted by the sound quickly shifted their attention from the mist to the top of their heads, and then everyone was stunned together. Because they saw a burning, robot-like thing roaring from above at an extremely fast speed, and when this thing passed over their heads, it was decomposed and assembled with a loud click, and then A fully armored humanoid object was released from the body of the humanoid robot. The humanoid robot was assembled again to look like another robot, and then the two humanoid objects plunged into the mist and disappeared completely.

It wasn't until the two humanoid objects disappeared for a full minute. Only one person among the crowd suddenly shouted: "Damn, those two just now weren't Transformers, were they? Are we playing a fantasy game or a science fiction game?"

While the group of people outside were busy creating tomorrow's new version of the gossip "Transformers Arrival", Everett and I ran into the mist one after another, and then we rolled into each other in an extremely embarrassed manner. A row of big trees, after being completely broken, then smashed into the soil, then bounced up and flew through a small patch of bushes, and then I seemed to see the stunned expressions of a group of people passing by. Then I plunged the onion upside down into the soil, and came to a complete stop with my head and feet holding a big tree on my back. Then, one second later, Everett flew past me, and then was successfully stopped by the next big tree and stopped completely.

Under normal circumstances, our landing should not have been so tragic. The reason why it happened was a complete accident. Who would have thought that this guy, Flying Bird, is as afraid of flying birds in the sky as jet planes. As a result, he inhaled a small flying monster in one of the jet combustion chambers when he landed. Then the corpse of the monster blocked the exhaust port, causing the combustion chamber to explode, and finally broke one of its wings.

Because Xiaochun is here, this kind of damage is nothing to Asuka. The problem is that it is at high speed at this time. Therefore, when Asuka loses its ability to fly, Everett and I feel as miserable as The bombs thrown by the plane generally crashed directly into the woods. Fortunately, it was close to the target. The speed of the flying bird has dropped a lot at this time. If it keeps maintaining a state of several times the speed of sound, it is estimated that it will knock us into pieces.

Holding the soil on both sides of my head with both hands, I pulled my head out of the ground with all my strength. Then I rolled over from the tree trunk and stood on the ground. Everett climbed up at the same time as me, but After saying hello to me, he returned to the training space. This ghost place is basically forbidden to demons. Everett is just like an ordinary magic doll here. So there's not much use in staying.

Of course it would be very embarrassing to be found out about something as embarrassing as an embarrassing crash landing, but I am not a particularly thin-skinned person, so after coughing twice, I pretended to be serious and walked towards the center of the nightmare zone.

The group of people were initially dumbfounded by me, and they didn't react until I coughed, but before they could make any move, I turned around and walked towards the area with thicker fog.

Seeing that I ignored them and left directly, the group of people first looked at each other and exchanged glances, and then suddenly chased after me.

"Hey. Wait a minute!"

I wanted to leave, but I didn't expect to hear their shouts, which forced me to stop. Somewhat depressed, I turned my head to look in the direction of the person. I could only see what they wanted to do first.

In fact, those people themselves didn't think about what they were trying to do after catching up, so after running in front of me, they stopped there collectively without moving or talking, which made me feel depressed again. Finally, after nearly thirty seconds of staring at each other. An nvxing player on the opposite side finally reacted and stood up and said: "Hello, we are an adventure team here for adventure. Do you want to team up with us? After all, you should also know the environment here. It will be better if we all act together. It’s safer, isn’t it?”

The other person was obviously very eloquent, but it was a pity that I had no interest in it. Shaking my head, I refused directly: "Sorry. I have my own things to do." After saying that, I turned to leave, but. The moment I turned around, I saw a bloody mouth biting my face. I was startled by this sudden appearance, because I had never felt anything approaching before. Based on my ability to perceive airflow, sound and some weak mental fluctuations, it is generally very difficult to approach me quietly. Unless I'm distracted by something that draws my attention to my surroundings, I usually don't get approached quietly. However, this thing that rushed towards me actually escaped my perception, and this was without me letting down my guard at all.

"Be careful."

The moment I turned around and saw the monster, a reminder sounded behind me, but my movements were faster. Almost as soon as the reminder was sent, I had already raised my sword and dropped it, and the monster blasted it directly in the air. The sound exploded into a cloud of white smoke, but as soon as the smoke appeared, it burned like natural gas. The purple flame almost flashed by, completely burning the smoke in less than a second. At the same time, a black gas separated from the smoke and flew into my body. Obviously, the thing in front of him has been killed, because the dragon soul suit has absorbed the soul power. This thing can only be absorbed by the death of the enemy, so the appearance of soul power must mean the death of the target.

The group of people who just reminded me were all staring with their eyes wide open at this time. They originally thought I was going to be unlucky. Some of the bad-hearted ones were still secretly happy, "I asked you to refuse to form a team. Wouldn't you be unlucky now?" Of course, their pride also disappeared with the disappearance of the monster, replaced by endless fear. When he was suddenly attacked, he killed the monster in the blink of an eye, and he killed it with one blow. This shows that my attack power, reaction speed and combat intuition are much higher than theirs, otherwise it would be impossible to be so fast.

"Thank you." He turned around and nodded to the group of people. Then I threw another crystal to the woman who spoke before, who reminded me just now. Although I couldn't help, at least I had this intention, which I must be grateful for.

The woman seemed quite surprised when she caught the crystal I threw, because it was not a valuable crystal, just a relatively ordinary white crystal, which is a relatively common resource in the game. Although there is demand, it is just like cement and bricks in reality. Although there is value in purchasing it, no one would give away bricks or cement, right? Is there such a cheap thing as a gift?

Seeing that the other party didn't understand, I explained: "This is a signal failure. As long as I can receive the signal, I will rush over to rescue you. But first, I must explain that I will only stay here for twenty-four hours. If I leave It will not come back. Also, the signal transmission distance of this thing outside is 300 kilometers. But it is said that it will interfere with the signal. I have not tested it, so I don’t know how far away there is no signal. This is It depends on your luck. Anyway, if I can receive the signal within 24 hours, I will definitely arrive."

After explaining, I summoned Ye Ying directly without waiting for the other party's reaction, turned over and climbed up. When Ye Ying waited for me to climb up, he stamped his steps and trotted forward slowly and left the scene. Until the figures of Ye Ying and I were seen. After disappearing into the layers of mist, the group of people here suddenly reacted.

"Damn, that guy is so arrogant, who does he like?" A young player asked unhappily.

An older player next to him slapped the guy on the back of the head and said, "Don't talk nonsense. That guy is Ziri!"

"Purple sun?" The young man who was beaten was also shocked. "Are you talking about the Purple Sun from the Frost Rose Alliance?"

"Nonsense. Besides him, who else named Ziri can be remembered by us?"

The young man was so scolded that he didn't know why he retorted, but after thinking about it, he felt something was wrong, so he asked: "But it's wrong. Doesn't Ziri's equipment look like this?"

"Idiot, Ziri's equipment is one of the only three complete growth-type artifact sets in the whole game. The shape of that thing is not fixed. As long as Ziri continues to get stronger, the thing will continue to deform. Now its appearance has only changed. It shows that Purple Sun must have been greatly strengthened again."

"But the equipment is wrong, how did you recognize it?" The young man asked stupidly.

This time, the woman holding the crystal next to her said: "The equipment will change into a magic pet but not a magic pet. It has four hooves floating in the air, its feet are on hellfire, and its whole body is dark. That mount is clearly a nightmare. But have you noticed? Then? There is a black crystal horn on the top of the head of the nightmare. I don’t know how many nightmare mounts there are in the whole game, but they are definitely not many. And if we talk about a nightmare with a horn, it is definitely the one from Purple Sun called Night Shadow. A nightmare transformed from a shadow unicorn. Even if that thing is acting as a mount now, if we were to fight together, we probably wouldn’t be able to defeat that thing.”

"Is it that powerful?"

The captain who had remained silent testified: "Nightmare's attack power is average. But its skills are too vicious. If we really want to fight, as long as the opponent is patient, I will not be my opponent."

Hearing this, the young man stuck out his tongue and said, "Fortunately, I didn't make him angry just now." At this point, he looked at the crystal held by the woman and said, "You said that if we really use this thing, he will come. Save us?"

"It should be possible." Their captain said: "Currently, the evaluation of Ziri is that he is very cunning, but has a good reputation. Before making a guarantee, he will find ways to gain benefits, but once he makes a commitment , then it will be carried out without compromise. I feel that with his reputation, he cannot harm his reputation for us kittens. Anyway, with his strength, saving us is just a piece of cake."

"But this is a nightmare zone? Will Ziri still be that strong if the demon is banned?"

If that young man was still with me now, he would definitely answer without hesitation that he was "really that strong", but unfortunately he is not with me now. Of course, in fact, he would probably have to die here, because I am currently surrounded by a large group of monsters, three levels inside and three outside. Although there were no corpses or blood left, looking at the messy battle traces around me, I knew that there were definitely a lot of dead monsters. only……

"Why can't I kill all this monster? You don't get experience like this!"

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