The trial theme of the second stage of the Royal Capital Tournament is hide and seek. A large number of dolls are constantly patrolling in the trial venue. Their keen perception and wind-like speed make a large number of people who are still immersed in the PVP confrontation mode have no idea what to do.
The testers were eliminated one after another.
At the end of the first stage of the Royal Capital Competition, there were more than 2,000 people. By the end of the second stage, there were only more than 400 people left.
Lu Yu's promotion process was lackluster compared to others. Relying on the shelter provided by the mimicry summons, the five of them found a secret corner, dug a deep pit and squatted in, but there was no follow-up.
As time went by, there were more and more dolls in the trial site. Several times, Briquettes could hear the sound of dense footsteps above their heads, and could even feel that they had stepped on the entrance of the deep pit that had been hardened by the big bowl.
, but even as close as Chi Chi, no one saw through their disguise.
The hide-and-seek lasted for six days. A large number of testers were found out when they were out looking for food due to hunger, but Briquettes had no such trouble at all.
There are official supply points within the radius of their carefully selected activities, which are also branded baits. Anyone with a sound mind would not approach the supply point with a group of harpy dolls known for their speed.
But for a moment, she taught Selkaro's puppet masters a lesson. She suddenly appeared like a ghost. After taking the food, she ran away at a speed that the harpies could not match. Even tracking the magic fluctuations was in vain. Even squatting down
The referees who were checking the situation in front of the magic circle needed to wipe their eyes and think about how a big living person disappeared like smoke in front of everyone.
The three days of rest are fleeting, and the final trial to obtain the qualification to go to the Doll Capital is about to begin.
Before the trial started, Papa, Gale and Chongwu all expressed their gratitude to Lu Yu. Relying on the extra income from the first two rounds of the Royal Capital Competition, even if something went wrong in the last trial, they would still be able to bring rich profits with them.
The loot left - they were not very optimistic about luck still being on their side, and the last round of every trial was always extremely difficult.
"The theme of the last round of this streamer trial... [The fate of the cycle]."
"Later, you will go to the underground labyrinth with the secret puppet masters. The first thirty people to reach the end within the time limit will advance."
"This trial prohibits damaging the maze itself in any way."
"This trial does not allow the use of summons, magic messengers, dolls and other means to assist."
"You still cannot use the props you carry during this trial."
"This trial prohibits the movement of the Streamer Revelator."
"In this round of trials, every three hundred times the countdown sounds, the wheel of fate rotates once. Endless unknowns will accompany you as you move forward. Seize the opportunities that are within your reach and may not come again, experienced trialists.
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There are many elements including mazes, racing, and meat pigeons. Whoever reaches the finish line first wins. It seems that the only obstacle is the wheel of fortune that is frequently triggered.
As for the prohibited summons that appear in the rules... we should target them, right?
The puppet messenger that appeared in the regional competition was distributed again, and this time Lu Yu got a... big gray pigeon.
I understand why this pigeon is so big, and the withered owl that Herola got is actually a head shorter than it. What is the grudge of the puppeteer who made this pigeon?
All the members gathered in front of the entrance to the densely packed underground palace. During the secret meeting, Lu Yu, who was dressed in black, was still reciting the brief rules silently.
"Trialist, please prepare."
The surging magic power fluctuations made the hem of the conclave referee's clothes rustle.
"The trial...begins!"
"Countdown begins."
Hundreds of arrows are flying towards the multiple entrances that have been specially opened. The passages they enter will screen their fate for the first time.
Seeing Lu Yu slowly and leisurely rushing out, Papa and others stopped.
"Why is Mr. Bass so leisurely?"
Lu Yu explained: "Because you can't get up quickly. Since it is an underground 'maze', there are more than a dozen entrances to the maze in different areas. No matter how fast you speed up, you can only take advantage of it in the initial stage."
The fact is just as Lu Yu said, after walking along the entrance for a while, they passed through intersections. The crooked passages would only light up when they passed by. Standing at the entrance of the passage and looking into the depths, it seemed that they were straight.
Looking at the black hole of the mouth of a giant beast makes my hair stand on end for no reason.
On the way forward, they met the first batch of trialists who were performing life-and-death speed trials. Some of them were irritated, looking at the passages leading to nowhere and making complaints, while others pointed at the passages with their fingers and muttered something.
I don't know what method I'm doing.
The first wheel of fate with 300 sounds was the "Standing Body Technique". Everyone stood still for 30 sounds. Lu Yu was willing to call it a harmless incident. Maybe the next wheel will not be so heart-wrenching.
No more disturbing events.
Everyone has experienced the excitement of the wheel of fortune, so when the immobilization event comes, they rush out quickly, even if they don't know what to do.
After three consecutive incidents of three hundred sounds, Lu Yu heard a slight vibration from the wall. With good perception, they drilled left and right in the maze, getting closer to the location of the incident.
This is a relatively empty platform area. A trialist is being declared a failure by the puppet messenger. The bright red blood is still flowing on the ground. Looking at the amount of blood, Lu Yu does not think that this is something that humans can do.
Perhaps because he was out, the trialist told Lu Yu very freely that he accidentally encountered an extremely agile humanoid doll. After the fierce confrontation, the blood sword condensed by the doll was placed on him.
On his neck, facing this kindness from the Supreme Puppet Master, he readily accepted the fact that his skills were inferior to others and quit calmly.
The deeper you go, the more active and numerous the dolls in the maze become. However, before they are destroyed, they will all hand over a shining silver coin to the briquettes. This identical shape, Lu Yu guessed, is to unlock some revelations.
The key prop of the Revelation Doll is, but if you want to find the location of the Revelator in this maze that is almost like a ghost hitting the wall, it depends a bit on your luck.
The tenth wheel of fortune added a large number of sixth-level dolls to the maze.
The good news is that these level 6 dolls don't distinguish between friend and foe and will fight whenever they meet.
The bad news is, they even fight the Streamer Revelator!
The apocalypse, with a small green snake wrapped around its neck, had already had one of its legs removed. If Lu Yu had not appeared, it would most likely have been beaten to pieces by these violent sixth-level dolls.
In return for putting in twelve coins at once, the green snake on the neck of the Flowing Light Revelator raised its head and pointed in one direction.
"What kind of bad navigation? Isn't this the direction I came from? Where did I go wrong?"
Serra complained in the chat room: "My sense of direction is not as good as Jeffrey's. How could such a small distance be wrong?"
"So should I listen to you or the Revelator?"
"..."
Lu Yu finally chose to listen to the revelator. However, after such a turnaround, Sera, who was still confident at first, fell into complete confusion. After hitting the wall several times without success, she planned to return to the original route and kill the revelator.
The other leg was also removed, and along the way, he grabbed the snake's tail and turned it around in a big windmill.
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The fourteenth wheel of destiny adds the ability for each trialist's puppet messenger to resonate with other messengers within the same range for a certain period of time.
Listening to the puppet messenger prompts that echoed frequently in the quiet maze, Lu Yu always had the feeling that a Kamen Rider would walk out of the darkness with his hand on his belt and say "What happened?"
The goal of every trialist is to find the end point, so an accidental encounter in the maze will not cause a bloody storm, but will stop for a while to test whether they can exchange information.
However, most of these messages were mainly complaints, and what Lu Yu heard the most was "I think the maze here can move."
A dark elf girl of Herola's clan swore that she saw the mist surging in the darkness in the distance. She thought it was some shortcut and rushed forward, but the light originally penetrated through and the outline of the object suddenly appeared in the direction.
The wall blocks the area where the black fog originally existed into a dead end.
She also said that she had written down the locations of several streamers of light, but after returning the same way, they were not where they were.
"Do you hate snakes?"
"Snake?" Lu Yu wondered why the dark elf said this.
"Going along this road, you can see many, many snakes. They bite their tails and spin in circles on the ground. They look very weird. I suspect that a giant snake king puppet is operating them, so I plan to take a detour."
Following the route guided by the dark elf, Lu Yu saw densely packed triangular-headed black snakes in a dead end. They were biting their tails and spinning around like loading icons, but their eyes could not see them.
But it was fixed in the direction of Coal Ball and others.
"Lu Yu, these are not dolls."
"Um?"
Lu Yu, who was reminded by Sera, took a closer look and still didn't feel anything was wrong.
Serra's tentacles swept across the group of ouroboros, and the sound of light objects being hit was heard.
The huge number of black snakes disappeared into smoke, and what appeared before Lu Yu's eyes were the outlines of snakes made of thin wooden sticks. They turned out to be just irregular wooden donuts.
It is a small object made from a small scrap of magic crystal. Because of the trial, it is easy to preconceptions that it is a doll.
Lu Yu thought of something, but was not sure. He focused on the wall behind the snakes. He wiped away some dust and gravel with his tentacles. Under the dim light, a bigger snake swallowed him.
The mural of the tail comes into view.
"If I remember correctly, a streamer of light who I met before also had a snake hanging on his body?" Sera thought of this, "Is this an instruction?"
Lulu guessed: "Is it necessary to bring the Revelator here to trigger it?"
"The rules do not allow moving the Revelator."
"But there seems to be no rule against moving snakes." Sera also learned how tricky Lu Yu was.
The idea was beautiful, but reality gave Coan Qiu and others a hard blow. The return route they had originally printed in their minds became invalid. There was an inexplicable extra wall where there should have been a straight line, completely blocking their way back.
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Lu Lu and Sera, two people with good memories, swore that they could not remember wrongly, which made Lu Yu more and more convinced that the dark elf said that "the maze may be alive."
The thirty-eighth spin is [Magician Hunting], and the forbidden demon werewolf who has defeated countless heroes is activated again.
Unfortunately, the briquettes happened to be in the area where he woke up.
Herola and others were ready for a last-ditch battle, but Lu Yu bumped headlong into it. It was already the final moment of promotion. He only pursued efficiency and showed his true identity without caring about the hidden effect.
Countless tentacles in the billowing black smoke wrapped around the body of the Forbidden Demon Werewolf like vines, and the raindrop-like stabs made the Forbidden Demon Werewolf made of high-end materials difficult to withstand. Soon, it was covered with holes, and even the patients with secret fears came.
Cover your eyes.
Seeing Lu Yu easily removing the limbs of the Forbidden Demon Werewolf, Papa and the others were so stunned that they even forgot to be afraid.
"Don't you look very scared?" Lu Yu said with some joy in his tone, "Most people will tremble when they see my posture."
"Compared to that...this is a forbidden demon doll that is difficult for even seventh-level magicians to deal with. You are a summoner...and you actually used physical skills to solve it?" Chongwu swallowed.
"I'm not bragging, but with this body, even a giant dragon can use me to sharpen its claws..."
Lu Yu paused, and his tentacles pushed aside a slightly strange hair on the werewolf's forehead, revealing a strange circular mark on the seam below.
A complete circle, without any magical purpose, looking as if it had been carved on a whim by a puppeteer.
After a long silence, Lu Yu and others quickly found several dolls wandering in the maze. Some of them had the same circle pattern on them, while others had totems with snakes tattooed on them, and some without any markings.
The total number of dolls is about half.
After finding another streamer of light, Lu Yu looked at the several earthworms and small planarians in its hand, thought for a moment, and raised the corners of his mouth.
"I see, this time it's not a race at all."
"Everyone, keep up. I think we can go to the Doll Capital."
No matter how Sera and Lu Lu asked, Lu Yu did not tell his inference, but walked on his own. He used all the coins he obtained from the maze to guide him back to the entrance of the underground palace. After spending the last one
After removing the coin, Lu Yu saw the bright sky again.
He confidently walked up to the secret meeting in black, raised his head and said: "Dear secret meeting in black, you should have something to say to me."
Secret Meeting Hei Yi and Lu Yu looked at each other for a few seconds. The stiff lines on his face quickly softened. He picked up the small gavel he had prepared and tapped the bronze bell beside him.
"Geglanchang, Lu Yu, Herola, Papa, Gale, Chongwu, advance."
"Congratulations, the City of Dolls has opened its doors to you."
As the applause of the secret conference referees present stopped, the secret conference referee asked with curiosity: "Can I know your idea of solving the problem?"
"It's very simple. The starting point is also the end point." Lu Yu replied, "[Circular Destiny] seems to be the theme, but it is actually a reminder."
The secret meeting in black said: "The great supremes have said that this is the simplest and most difficult trial. Now it seems that it is worthy of the name. It is indeed very simple for you... but for those who have penetrated into the depths of the maze
People, will they pray that the end is ahead, or will they re-examine the path and persuade themselves that retreating may be the right answer?"