The Akudayen ruins are located in the northwest of the world, almost half of the human world away from the great wetland where the secret stronghold of the Liberation Front is located. It is quite close to the Arctic Icefield where Cheng Peng originally landed. This place is inaccessible, and the nearest NPC city is also there.
Hundreds of miles to the southeast, we still need to climb a towering mountain range. The nearby human settlements are only a few inconspicuous villages, which are the descendants of some once prosperous ancient city residents, as well as the pioneers.
Perhaps after a few hundred years, one or two of these villages will gradually grow into cities through the efforts of settlers, but at least for now, they are still small villages.[]
A small village means that the space inside is small, that it cannot accommodate too many people, and that it is almost impossible to move around here without being noticed... which means all kinds of inconveniences.
The most troublesome thing is that "you can't avoid people's eyes and ears"!
When the adventure team arrived at a small village called "North Wind" that was closest to the ruins, they found that this small village with a population of only about 300 people had five times more players than the villagers living in it!
In the world of "Goddess Profile", there are currently about 20,000 active players. 20,000 people are distributed on this not-so-small road, in dozens of cities and mazes, and each location will not be allocated
too many people.
The ruins of Akudayen are a newly opened dungeon, which means greater gains and greater risks. According to the game settings, whenever the goddess of war Lenas does not lead the heroic spirits to carry out exploration, it is actually tomb robbing.
Before the destructive excavation, the difficulty of the dungeon will increase by one level, and the reward will increase by one and a half levels. This number seems good, fully embodying the idea of "linking risk and return", but it hides a huge trap
——The newly appeared dungeons are often very difficult. After the Goddess of War and the Gold Fighting Organization get through them, the difficulty will often make players who go to open up wasteland for the second time complain endlessly, let alone rush to open up wasteland before the goddess!
But as the saying goes, the brave will die and the timid will starve to death. For immortal players, danger is not worth fearing. As long as they can get benefits, let alone a mere dungeon, they will not be afraid of going up mountains of swords and seas of fire.
No fear!
For example, in the famous European DND series world "Abyss Bloody Battle", an army of players full of locust spirit has swept many places by relying on the two advantages of numbers and immortality, and even killed many powerful hell lords - whether
Devil or devil, in the face of the human sea offensive of players, they can only pray that their territory is not too close to those unkillable humanoid locusts, otherwise even the giants of the abyss or the lords of hell will not be able to prevent them from being crushed by the players' army.
In fact, even Orcus, one of the three monarchs of the endless abyss where the demons live, was once beaten away by this terrifying undead army - he was lucky, at least better than his old rivals, the demons.
Bayer, the lord of the first level of the Nine Hells, was much luckier, because Bayer was not only defeated by the players, but also subdued. His body and spirit were sealed in a huge magic circle and turned into a huge
Unimaginable magic gems, which in turn provide sufficient magic power to the army of players invading hell...
One or two players are nothing to be afraid of, and hundreds of players are nothing to worry about, but when the number of players reaches five or even six figures, quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes, which will have such horrific consequences - by the way,
The number of resident players in Abyss Blood War is difficult to calculate, because that world partially overlaps with the western area of Blood War Battlefield. In other words, players can go directly to the Blood War Abyss world from the Blood War Battlefield, which is inhabited by about a quarter of all players...
...Even if we only consider the European region, the number of active players in Blood Battle Arena exceeds 100 million!
If there are so many players in the world of the Statue of the Goddess, then both Odin and Loki must have been torn apart and eaten alive long ago, and not even a larger fragment will be left. Fortunately, there are fewer players here.
There are so many, which makes "adventure" possible.
Cheng Peng and the others spent a day renovating in the "Beifeng" Village. While inquiring about information from adventurers who had broken into the Akudayen ruins but returned, they were also investigating information from NPCs. At the same time, they were also asking for information.
Prepare some things that may come in handy.
[Akudayen Ruins: Legend has it that a huge magic crystal is sealed in the ruins. Although many people have entered it to explore, hoping to obtain the powerful power contained in this magic crystal, no one has succeeded so far——
The vast majority of survivors have not even been able to find the magic crystal. Does it really exist? 】
This tip is easy to get. Just go to the only tavern in the village and have a drink. Then give the owner and waiter of the tavern - a middle-aged uncle - one or two silver coins, and he will give it to you mysteriously.
Talk about the legend of "Sealed Land", and then you can get this prompt.
In the past period of time, many players who were quite confident in their character went to the tavern and tried to get more information from the boss, but none of them succeeded - including Shen Qi and Li
dimension.
Li Wei has always felt good about himself. The image he has constructed for himself in his mind is that his combat power is close to that of the broken army Cheng Peng, his appearance is almost equal to that of the prodigal Wen De, his intelligence is equal to that of poisonous strategist Xu Tu, and his luck should be similar to good luck.
Sister Bai Yu...wait, wait, wait
Based on this obviously completely wrong understanding, Levi naturally went to the tavern to try his luck. He stayed in the tavern that could only seat twenty people at most from morning to evening, and drank almost the equivalent of two
Ten taels of gold worth of bad wine, and countless amounts of food. In the end, the boss, who was extremely popular, enthusiastically introduced himself to this generous young adventurer with good character. It is said that he also went out to become an adventurer's daughter.
, no other results were obtained.
As for Shen Qi, she just went over to chat with her boss for a few words, and then gave him a sum of money. No one knew why the intelligence expert spent the money, but they only knew that she smiled mysteriously when she left, and she seemed to be in a good mood.
Very good look.
"Go and ask!" Li Wei, who returned in vain, said to Cheng Peng.
Cheng Peng refused. He didn't like to inquire about other people's affairs. We are now members of the same adventure team. If Shen Qi thinks this matter is helpful to this expedition, she will naturally tell everyone the relevant situation.
Driven by curiosity and unwillingness, Li Wei encouraged Wen De, who was good at negotiating with women, to inquire. Wen De looked at Shen Qi, then at Cheng Peng, shook his head, and went back to the hotel to chat with the NPC waitress.
The other members of the adventure team are also making preparations. They are all top-notch experts. They are completely different from the "senior adventurers" gathered in the village who are accustomed to using death to open the way. They have rich experience in battles and adventures.
The experience and preparation they have made for adventure are enough to put those adventurers who are called senior but actually novices to shame.
In fact... maybe it's not that those people don't understand this, it's just that they think that all players are immortal anyway, so why waste resources to prepare those things? It's faster to die after getting some benefits!
Perhaps they rarely have the sense of accomplishment of clearing the dungeon after a difficult adventure, but they have a relaxed and leisure atmosphere that Cheng Peng and others cannot enjoy. Everyone has their own way of playing, and as long as they are happy, there is nothing wrong with it.
"This really doesn't sound like something that should come out of your mouth. Don't you believe that hard work is the most important thing?"
"Although I am like this myself, I actually envy those people who are relaxed and at ease - birds envy swimming fish, this is a natural thing."
"...I thought this kind of emotion shouldn't appear in people like you."
"Don't think of me as a weirdo with an iron will and a cold heart. I'm just an ordinary young man!"
The above is a conversation between Shen Qi and Cheng Peng.
While they were chatting like this, the team had already set off and walked through the forest in the cold zone.
This forest has a very long history, even older than the ruins deep in the forest. It was originally just an ordinary deciduous forest in the boreal zone, but when the ruins were formed, it was distorted by powerful magic and turned into a forest with some temperate characteristics.
Forest - This is why many people speculate that the ruins still contain treasures that can emit powerful magic, because the forest has still remained completely incompatible with the surrounding climate.
The main entrance to the Akudayen ruins has been completely destroyed. Piles of boulders are stacked precariously on top of each other. Players who tried to climb have been smashed into pieces more than once. After several failures, even if death is used to open the way,
The casual adventurers also gave up the plan of going through the main entrance and honestly entered through the small door dug under a cliff on the side of the ruins.
Several magicians injected magic power into the mechanism at the door. After a while, the heavy iron door slowly rose with a heart-wrenching rattling sound.
The group of people filed in and arrived at a building filled with a depressing atmosphere.
They should be in the sewers of this ruins now, but the dirty sewers have changed over time. There are no traces of debris, sewage, etc. There is thick dust on the ground, and there is something in the dust.
There are many scattered footprints left by previous adventurers.
Some gray shadows are stumbling in the sewer. They are monsters formed by the mutual penetration of magic and miasma. According to the information collected from adventurers, the power of these monsters is roughly equivalent to that of a five-star mid-level. For
For ordinary players, they are not too dangerous enemies, but they need to be treated with caution.
If it were normal, the casual adventurers would usually choose to bypass these slow-moving enemies to avoid unnecessary losses. But today they don't need to, because Cheng Peng and others who were traveling with them only sent two people
, and wipe out all the monsters along the way - almost all of them are killed instantly.
This made the adventurers move much faster, and also made the adventurers outside the team look at Zhang Channian and Qiao Xi with a little more awe.
However, they don't know that there are many such strong men in this team...
A few minutes later, following the system prompts, Cheng Peng and the others passed through the glowing door and truly entered the instance called "Akudayen Ruins".
