[Dear, if you unfortunately fail, try asking the gatekeeper to advance to the trial. If they are willing to tell you, you will have an extra chance]
Recalling Professor Chris's reminder, Lu Li asked the gatekeeper who had not yet left: "Can I apply for the promotion trial after failing the trial?"
"The promotion trial is a difficult task for senior students. You are not allowed to contact anyone or ask for any help." The gatekeeper replied.
There is no penalty for failure, except failure itself.
Lu Li chose to accept the promotion trial and stayed in the corridor to wait for the gatekeeper to go to the senior mission hall to receive the mission.
It’s just that Lu Li seems to be unlucky. The high-level difficulty task randomly selected by the gatekeeper is: [Acquire treasures from a dungeon]
【Dark Interlayer】
[You don’t need to know the reason... you have to write it down? Well, it’s a trial from my family, I’m too lazy to waste time looking for dungeons. Find it, and then get my friendship, it’s that simple]
[Quest: Retrieve treasures from any dungeon]
[Advanced: Not required]
[Tip: Find the treasure and bring it back to me]
[Basic reward: 8 credits; 8 team points]
Coincidentally, Lu Li knew an underground city.
Because there is no penalty in the promotion trial, failure will not extend the cooldown period again.
Lu Li checked the current sequence of medicines in his stomach bag.
After the secret cult showdown, all the potions given to Kiruait were returned by her. These included an additional potion of serial number 19, serial number 34, serial number 39, and serial number 50 or later.
Without being able to break into the dungeon head-on, Serial Potion No. 39, Silent Forest, has proven to be a failure. Even if it could, Lu Li still had to consider whether it could hide the aura of humanity.
Serial number 19 potion and latent image potion should be able to help sneak into the dungeon.
It just lacks verification. If we only look at the value, the dungeon treasure is almost equal to Serial Number 19, but may be inferior.
So no one does this, even the descendants of the bloodline family and the divine choices of the religious orders. In other words, if even the 6th level trial requires the assistance of expensive sequence medicines, then the descendants and the divine choices have no value in cultivating them.
In any case, because of the serial number 19 potion and the protection of the gatekeeper, Lu Li chose to advance to the trial.
If it fails, Lu Li can only wait for the two-week cool-down period to end.
Arriving at the dark space through the tree cave elevator, they followed the route in memory to find the entrance to the dungeon. The cracks in the rock wall maintained their disguise when they left. Lu Li moved the rocks and peered inside through the cracks.
The fire burned dimly in the cave, reflecting the shadowy building outlines and numb figures. This closed underground city still exists.
Continue to move the gap rock until you can drill sideways.
Because Lu Li will sneak into the dungeon and the gatekeeper will stop at the entrance, this is relatively dangerous.
If Lu Li was discovered by a monster in the dungeon, they would not be able to rush to protect him in time.
Holding the serial number 19 potion, Lu Li passed through the gap sideways and entered the dungeon and drank the potion.
Like a bizarre dream, the colors fade away before the eyes, the sound is blocked out, the world becomes dim, the air stops flowing, and the shadows cover the whole body and emit a faint shimmer.
This is the in-between world, more specifically, it is the first in-world discovered by humans, a reflection of the real world, and the in-between world of ghosts.
Lu Li observed the glimmer of light emitting from his body. It was being consumed. This was the free time he had.
When you let go of the empty bottle in your hand, it loses its shimmering light, fades away in color, and merges with the bleak and gray world. In other words, it breaks away from the other world and returns to the real world.
Looking into the distance of the underground city, the mottled colors blend together. The dark cave seems to have been frozen in time.
They didn't seem to notice Lu Li.
When Lu Li stepped into the village from the entrance, the twisted and moving shadows passed by numbly as usual.
Observing the much shallower light on the surface, Lu Li accelerated his speed and approached the core of the underground city.
Lu Li was walking in an inner world belonging to ghosts. This place exactly matched the description in the book and the dead world Anna described to him.
If all life in the real world were extinguished for an instant, the scenery in a few decades might be the same as in the other world.
Black, white and gray are eternal tones, and the gray world is silent, which makes Lu Li's senses weak. When he found himself exposed, the twisted and moving shadows had gathered behind him, and villagers from afar were arriving one after another.
This is an underground city, and the owner of this place should discover the "ghost" that breaks into the territory.
They are like nightmares, twisted and pieced together into the most terrifying things. As projections of the real world, their outlines are also reflected into the interlayer of the other world.
But they just follow and do nothing else.
maybe because of misunderstanding
After all, in terms of human nature, Lu Li is not much inferior to evil spirits. The owner of this place may be afraid of Lu Li, or may want to contact him. But Lu Li, who is not a real ghost, cannot sense it.
Ignoring and taking advantage of the "show of goodwill" from the dungeon lord, Lu Li accelerated towards the core of the dungeon. The houses and villagers in the village faded away layer by layer, and there was not much left to resist the corrosion of the other world.
At the same time, the last gray buildings gave way, and in front of the suddenly clear dirt road, Lu Li saw the core of the dungeon where the treasures were placed.
There stands a bluestone platform as prominent as an altar.
There is also a silver-haired girl holding her chin on the edge of the stone platform, thinking quietly in solitude.
The intrusion of the uninvited guest made the silver-haired girl stop her thoughts, her eyes fell on Lu Li who was running towards him, and the shaky light around him.
After briefly looking at each other, the silver-haired girl grabbed the gray treasure placed beside her and threw it at Lu Li.
Lu Li reached out to take it, and the moment his fingertips touched it, the dim light covering his body disappeared, and Lu Li disappeared from the other world.
Colors and sounds return to the world, footsteps and the crackle of torches ring in our ears, and strange, ferocious and numb villagers surround the place.
Lu Li put his hand into his stomach, and two silhouettes suddenly emerged from the shadows, carrying strange and hallucinatory prayers.
Villagers wrapped in pitcher plants no longer approach.
The gatekeeper surrounded by obscure prayers looked at Lu Li: "Lu Li, your promotion mission"
"Successful."
Lu Li said calmly, a clay pot sitting quietly in his palm.
Looking up at the core of the dungeon, the stone platform was empty.
The confrontation lasted for a short while, and the commotion caused by the numb villagers gradually subsided and retreated one after another, revealing a passage to the outside world. It was as if invisible forces controlled them, allowing Lu Li, who had obtained the treasure, to leave.
Considering that the treasure was left in the dungeon by the Giant Tree Academy, is this the dungeon lord's acquiescence in taking the treasure in order to protect themselves?
However, until Lu Li left the dungeon through the gap, the imaginary lord still did not communicate with them.
Standing outside the rock formation, Lu Li stared at the cave in the narrow crack.
More doubts emerged in Lu Li's heart than the lord himself who let them go.
Recalling the experience of sneaking into the dungeon. Was what he saw Margaret's soul, or the form of the dungeon lord?