Chapter 157: Surrender and Super Level

Chapter 157: Surrender and Super Level

"The process of obtaining this skill is relatively complicated." The voice replied: "But that is for players who have cleared the level normally. Since we want to obtain this skill, we can think of some workarounds."

"Great, tell me what to do?"

"First of all, I need to determine my ability. If I can dig a tunnel on the mountain wall, it will save a lot of trouble."

Hearing what the other party said, I first tried to summon the Phoenix Dragon, but found that I was still limited and had no other choice, so I shook my head and asked, "What other methods are there?"

"If you can't dig a hole directly, you have to take the normal route. But I can help solve a lot of troubles. Just follow my instructions."

"How long will it take to get the skills and leave here?" Ashford and the others are still fighting, and I can't stay here for too long.

"That's not certain. It mainly depends on your ability. If it's fast, five or six minutes might be enough, but if you can't handle certain mechanisms... you can pass it, but it won't be faster in terms of time!"

"Then you can guide me first and take a look. If I encounter obstacles that I can't pass, I'll give up. I'm in a hurry now and don't have time to delay here."

"Okay, please go back now and reach the fork in the road. Don't worry, this is all under my control. I can follow the guidance."

I nodded and quickly turned around and started running. I quickly reached the previous fork in the road and then turned to the other side. The depth of the river here is not as shallow as that side, but it is still slightly shallower than the depth where we first entered here. The resistance of the river water that was submerged up to my mid-thigh was relatively high, but fortunately my strength was super high, so it wasn’t a big problem.

The branch road here is much longer than the previous branch road. After walking almost three times as long as that branch road, I finally saw an altar submerged in the water.

Although this altar is also a building structure with a high center and low walls, the total height difference is only fifty centimeters, so even the top of the altar is still soaked in water. However, the six stone pillars surrounding this six-pointed star altar are far beyond the water surface.

These stone pillars are located exactly at the six corners of the six-pointed star-shaped altar. The stone pillars are triangular in shape, slightly thicker than a normal human arm, and about one and eight meters high. The main part looks like some kind of stone, but this The stone is rare, the surface is very smooth, almost close to the level of ceramic tiles, and it looks black and shiny. If it weren't for the accumulation of negative energy, I would almost think this is obsidian.

Although the stone pillars are made of stone, the side of the six stone pillars facing the center of the altar has dense writings. These words are not carved, but inlaid with a luminous, light blue, glass-like thing. Although the brightness of these inlaid words is very low, they still look very conspicuous because the background is black stone. However, it is useless no matter how conspicuous it is, because everything written on it is in magic script, and I only recognize a few of the words. I know Ling, but it's a pity that I can't let her out now, but it doesn't matter. Anyway, I plan to cheat. I don't need to really understand anything. If those words are really useful, then just ask the voice. He is the manager here, so he must know this.

Sure enough, when I walked up to the altar, the voice immediately said: "This is the Altar of Time. If you want to get skills, you need to open the space device on the altar."

"How to open it?"

"You need to decipher the words on the six stone pillars before solving the puzzle. But I know how to open it, so you just need to follow my instructions."

"Okay, tell me what to do."

"First of all, please pay attention to your feet. There should be a regular hexagonal area in the center of the altar and the surrounding area is not a whole. That area can actually be raised."

Although that thing and the surrounding altar are not a whole, it should be easy to see, but because this thing is soaked in water, and the water also emits light, the refraction of the light makes those gaps difficult to find. If that voice hadn't woken me up, I wouldn't have been able to find this thing for a while.

"Okay, I saw that thing. What do I do next?"

"Squat down and get close to it. You can see that there is a circular depression in the middle of each side of this hexagonal area. Although the depression is not very obvious, it should be visible."

I followed my instructions and knelt down to take a closer look, and sure enough I found those depressions. These recessed parts are actually only two to three millimeters lower than the surrounding parts, and this recess is not the kind of recess that looks like a hole dug in the wall, but an arc, with its center point being three millimeters lower than the surrounding parts. Left and right, while the outer edge gradually rises, and the edge part is completely aligned with the surrounding plane, which cannot be seen without paying attention to the roots.

"I saw those dents."

"Very good, now use your fingers to press on each depression. The starting position doesn't matter, but you have to press them in counter-clockwise order. You can't jump."

"Okay." I pressed it one by one as instructed, and just after I pressed the last dimple, which did not sink when I pressed it, the six dimples that had no button characteristics suddenly lit up at the same time.

The water surface on the top of the altar is about ten centimeters deep. The luminous water surface will block the light below, but these six depressions all emit red light, so they are unusually conspicuous under the green water surface.

When the light came on, the six stone pillars on the top corner of the altar suddenly made a rumbling sound at the same time, and then stopped responding. I looked at the surrounding stone pillars in surprise and asked, "What's going on? Did I press the wrong button?"

"No, this is normal." The voice pointed to me: "Now please go to the stone pillar on the left."

I walked over doubtfully, then looked at the stone pillar and asked, "What now?"

"Hold the stone pillar and go up. You may need to use a little more strength. This thing is quite heavy."

I followed my words and stepped forward, hugging the stone pillar with both hands, and tried it with a little force. Sure enough, there was only a slight upward trend. I added a little more force to push the stone pillar up, but it seemed that it was inserted quite deep. , I had to let go of the stone pillar and bend down to hug it near the bottom before lifting it up again.

When I pulled the entire stone pillar out of the altar, I discovered that the actual length of the stone pillar was actually about two and twenty meters, which meant that it was inserted into the altar to a depth of forty centimeters.

After I came to pull out the stone pillar, I wanted to ask what to do next. Unexpectedly, just after the stone pillar completely left the altar, another triangular stone pillar of the same thickness rose up in the triangular hole where the stone pillar was. This time the stone pillar only rose about one meter and then stopped, and there were no words on the three sides of the stone pillar. There was only a hexagonal pyramid-shaped red crystal standing on the top, which looked quite strange.

"What's this?"

"This is the reactor, but don't worry about it. Now carry the stone pillar in your hand to the center of the altar. Pay attention to the position you just pressed. There should be a slot there."

I carried the stone pillar and walked back to take a look. Sure enough, six triangular covers were opened on the top of the previous hexagonal area, and the six exposed holes were all triangular, which happened to match the size of the stone pillar in my hand. "Next, do we need to pull out all the six surrounding pillars and insert them into the six slots here?" I roughly understood what to do when I saw the hole.

The voice replied: "Yes, it is indeed necessary to move the six stone pillars, but the order is disrupted. The one in your hand needs to be inserted into the slot on the upper right side in front of you, and you need to pay attention to the side with the words facing Outside the altar."

"Okay, I understand, tell me the next sequence."

With this guard working with me to guard against theft, it becomes super easy to crack the trap. This complicated mechanism should be very complicated. Thinking about my operation steps, if the player had to solve the puzzle by himself, he might not be able to enter it even if he was busy for a whole day, but under the guidance of the voice, it only took me two minutes to complete it. All six stone pillars were placed in place.

After the six stone pillars around the altar were removed, the same new pillars all popped up, and each pillar had a red crystal on the top. There was now an additional hexagonal stone pillar in the middle of the altar that was higher than the ground. This stone pillar is actually made up of six triangular stone pillars. Moreover, all six sides of this hexagonal stone pillar have luminous writing. Moreover, this kind of writing actually changed from the previous light blue to after the stone pillar was completely inserted. The current blood red color is the same color as the crystals on the surrounding stone pillars.

"What should I do now?" I asked again after finishing assembling the stone pillar.

"Now please move one face to the right."

I looked at the stone pillar in front of me, then moved it, turning to the direction facing the right side and asked: "Is it here?"

"Yes, right here. Now, hold out your finger... no, take the glove off, you need direct contact. Okay, now hold your finger on the top word, and then without lifting your finger, go all the way down Slide your finger to the bottom text."

I followed the guidance of the voice and started sliding my fingers. The words would go out the moment I touched them. When I drew a vertical line on the stone pillar, all the words on the stone pillar would go out.

This time, without asking me to wake up, the voice said again: "Now switch to the opposite side and extinguish all the words in the same way."

I turned around and quickly extinguished the text. "alright."

"Now move one face to the left and extinguish all text as well."

"alright."

"Switch to the opposite side and do the same thing."

"Okay, should we destroy the remaining two now?"

"Yes, but the farther one must be extinguished first."

"OK."

After finishing the text on the last page in order, I asked again: "What now?"

"Now put on your gloves and hug the stone pillar, and then apply force counterclockwise. The chassis under this stone pillar can rotate."

I hugged the stone pillar again as required and tried to rotate it a little bit. I felt that this thing had a lot of resistance and needed a lot of force to turn it. Moreover, there must be a mechanism connected to the bottom of this thing, because it can be clearly seen when turning. You can feel the resistance one section at a time, just like the knob switch of an old-fashioned electric fan. There is a very obvious feeling from gear to gear, and you can feel it in and out of gears.

"Where does this go?"

"You should be able to feel the resistance of gear one. You have turned two gears now. Turning counterclockwise is called minus, and turning clockwise is called plus. Turning one gear counterclockwise is minus one, and turning one gear clockwise is plus. Add one. The correct password to open this mechanism is -6+1-17+10-4+2-26+15-9. Just turn it in this order. Note that you have already subtracted two. You can subtract four or nine. It’s flipped, don’t count it wrong!”

"knew."

Although there is a 26 in this rotation code, you will find after turning it that the distance between gears is actually very small. Even if you turn 26 gears, it is less than one turn. I estimate based on the change angle of each gear. There are about thirty-six gears for one rotation of things.

Speaking of which, this mechanism is not only a test of intelligence, but also a test of physical strength. Even with my high strength attribute, I started to feel a little breathless after turning all the codes. If it were another mage, even if he had the password, he could only stare at this thing.

"Okay, the rotation is over, what now?" After I rotated all the orders as required, the altar did not change in any way.

"Now go and take down the crystals from the tops of the six surrounding stone pillars. It doesn't matter the order, the crystals are all the same."

I quickly turned around and got a piece of crystal. The moment I picked up the crystal, the hexagonal stone pillar in the center made a rumble and sank down a bit. The voice told me: "Don't worry, this is normal, go and get the other five crystals."

I went to get other crystals as required, and every time I picked up a crystal, the transformed stone pillar would sink a little. By the time I got all six crystals back, the hexagonal stone pillar here had completely sunk. After entering the altar, only the top was left flush with the floor of the altar. Apart from the different colors of the top of the stone pillar and the floor of the altar, there was basically no difference.

"What's next?"

"Stand on the sunken stone pillar in the central yang and step on it."

I raised my leg and stepped on it. I only moved half of my weight and the stone pillar began to sink automatically. Even if I raised my leg, it continued to sink all the way down. Then after waiting for about seven or eight seconds, that Water suddenly began to surge at the large hexagonal hole in Zhong Yang, and soon a new hexagonal stone platform rose up. This stone platform is the same thickness as the previous stone pillar, but it is definitely not the hexagonal stone pillar made up of six triangular stone pillars. Because the material of this stone pillar is different, it seems to be a whole piece of crystal, which is completely transparent. The difference between the black stone pillars is very obvious.

The stone platform rose to a height of about 1.6 meters and stopped. Then six openings popped up on six sides at the same time. As soon as I looked at the shape of the opening, I knew it must be where the crystals in my hand were placed. However, I asked first if I needed to pay attention to the order, but the voice told me that I could put them in any order. There was no order.

After placing the six red crystals, the transparent crystal platform in the center immediately sank again, but this time it did not disappear completely. It only sank to a height of only about one meter and then stopped. Then the six crystals on the top corner of the altar The stone pillars suddenly rose collectively for a small amount, and then they suddenly fell outward at the same time, but they did not fall completely, they just tilted to a forty-five-degree angle and stopped. After that, the whole altar shook, and the top of the altar under my feet actually started to rise. After the top of the altar was completely raised out of the water, the ground on the top of the altar, which had no problem at all before, suddenly sank a little bit, and then moved down. It slides aside to reveal an tunnel entrance, from which you can see the steps below.

"No wonder you asked me if I know how to dig a hole. If I could dig directly in, wouldn't it be so troublesome?" I asked.

The voice replied: "Yes. If there is a way to dig a hole, you can almost enter the passage by digging down more than three meters. But it is also good to open the passage correctly now, because if you dig in, the river water above will be It will pour into the tunnel. Although you can breathe underwater, your movement will be affected after all. In this way, you don’t have to worry about water problems when you go down from the altar."

"That's right." I said as I walked to the entrance of the tunnel and asked, "Am I going to go on like this? Is there no mechanism down there?"

"There are many mechanisms down here, but don't worry about them. These mechanisms are all controlled by me. They have been turned off by me now and will not start at all."

"Haha, it's convenient to have a traitor like you."

Without the mechanism, this would be just a long tunnel. I ran all the way down and reached the end in a short while. There is a stone door at the end of the tunnel, which requires special tools to open. But it turned out to be an automatic door for me. I opened it as soon as I got close to it, and the door fell down again as soon as I entered.

Behind the gate is a stone room. The voice explained to me that there is a mechanism in this room. After entering, the player will be locked inside. Then there will be several secret doors opening on the left and right walls, and then there will be a lot of meat. Bugs spurt out. Players need to find the only key from the four exits from the carnivorous bugs, and then open the stone door on the opposite side to leave. Of course, those bugs will definitely cause you a lot of trouble along the way, so this is definitely not an easy task. There is no way to pass the trap without a certain level of strength. Even for a person with my level of strength, if I really want to push through this level, I will definitely have to consume a certain amount of blood and magic power to pass it. It is almost impossible to pass it intact.

Although this mechanism is very important to others, I don't have to work so hard here. The stone door on the opposite side did not fall down at all, and the insects on both sides were blocked in the secret door and had no chance to come out.

After passing this stone chamber, there is a larger stone chamber behind it. It feels like an indoor gymnasium, and the space is scary. The voice spoke again at this time: "This is also a mechanism, but you may have to fight."

"Don't you control the institutions here?"

"I still control the mechanisms here, but I can't control the monsters inside. This is a colosseum. There are eighteen gates in a circle. Behind each gate is a monster with a strength level ranging from two thousand five hundred. The levels range from 7500 to 7500. To leave this room, you need to use a magic key, but this key is hung around the neck of one of the monsters. What I can help you is to tell you directly which one The monsters carry keys, saving you the trouble of trying them one by one. However, I can't control the monster inside, so you still have to at least get rid of that monster before you can get through."

"The level of monsters here is so high, can ordinary people survive?"

"This mission is a mission that players can only receive after level 3,000, and the difficulty of this mission will be informed to players in advance. Therefore, if normal people are not mentally ill, they would not accept this mission before level 4,000. This is an accident. , I came in a little too early, so the difficulty of the monsters here is obviously higher.”

I shook my head and said: "It doesn't matter. As long as it doesn't exceed level 5,000, I can deal with it. I should be able to defeat the opponent below level 4,000." This is actually an understatement, because I can't summon my magic pet now, and my strength is equal to It's a big discount. Otherwise, I can definitely defeat the opponent at level 6,000. Even if I encounter someone at level 7,500 and I can't beat him, I should be able to grab the key and run through the level. But now that I don’t have a magic pet, I can’t guarantee my combat effectiveness. Level 5,000 is the current limit, and it’s dangerous to go any higher.

Fortunately, the voice said: "In this case, there is no need to worry. The key is a four thousand level monster. Although it has great potential, it is a monster in its infancy and has not yet reached adulthood, so it is currently only four thousand level. If you follow what I said, it should be easy to do."

I nodded and said: "If you want to cheat, do it thoroughly. Tell me the strength and characteristics of this monster. What kind of monster is the opponent? How big is it? What attack capabilities does it have? What are its weaknesses? You should know all of this, right?" "

"Yes, I know all this, but even if I tell them all, it won't help much."

"Huh? What?"

"Because this monster's ability is ability extraction."

"What is ability extraction?"

"Actually, it's just copying your ability. No matter what skill you use in front of him once, he can learn it immediately, and the power is based on his own level. Since the opponent is level 4,000, he has learned your skill , after using it, it may be more powerful than if you use it yourself."

"I'm so perverted? What if I don't use any skills and only use physical skills to fight hand-to-hand?"

"This is the same. This monster can completely copy your physical skills."

"So the other party is a humanoid?"

"No, this monster looks like a cartoon fish floating in the air. It has a big head, like a balloon. It has eight arms and legs below, which can carry out physical attacks. Moreover, he has eight eyes. Except for the top and bottom, almost There is no visual blind spot. In addition, his mouth is under the body, in the middle of the eight arms and legs. The attack power of this mouth is very, very high. If you are bitten by his mouth, you will definitely die immediately. This is what he has The place where the attack power is the highest. However, he usually does not fight with his own body. His main ability is to copy an energy body to fight with you. This energy body is the key to copying skills, and he seems to be able to summon energy bodies, so you have to Be prepared to face multiple enemies at the same time.”

"Why does this monster sound like a level 8,000 monster instead of a level 4,000 monster? Is this ability so incredible?"

"In fact, you guessed it right. This is really an 8,000-level monster. It's just that it's just a juvenile state here, so it currently stays at the 4,000-level level. When he becomes an adult, he will become an 8,000-level being." (To be continued.