After hearing the system prompts, Zhou Zheng murmured to himself:
"The highest difficulty level is 60? This trial looks a bit dangerous! No wonder the paper mannequin face of the previous city lord looked so gloomy."
Before parting, the city lord once said to him.
If you choose the highest difficulty trial, you may get an orange piece of equipment.
Then...the city lord suffered.
Now it seems that the city lord has no good intentions.
I guess I was trying to trick him into choosing the hardest difficulty with the orange equipment.
so……
"I choose normal mode."
Zhou Zheng is very self-aware and focuses on stability.
After all, he is only level 21.
Although there are supporting magic and holy armor, his real combat power is far more than this.
Choosing simple mode is a waste, but it shouldn’t be too wasteful.
After all, this game is played at the risk of life, and you might die if you just mess around.
After Zhou Zheng made his choice, a phalanx of stone figurines and about 100 stone figurines took action.
The movements are neat, just like art.
But as a trialist, Zhou Zheng was even more able to feel the terror of those stone figurines.
When they move neatly, their breath is like one person.
It seemed that Zhou Zheng was competing with a hundred stone figurines.
But in fact, what he faced was a phalanx of stone figurines.
The stone figurines did not walk directly in front of Zhou Zheng.
Instead, he took out his bow and arrow from a few hundred meters away and fired a volley at Zhou Zheng.
From front to back, left and right, arrows were overwhelming.
This is definitely not because the stone figurines’ bow and arrow skills were not good.
Each stone figurine shot accurately, allowing Zhou Zheng to find no flaws.
Some of these bows and arrows were aimed at Zhou Zheng, while the rest blocked the movement around him, making it impossible for him to escape casually.
Seeing that he could no longer escape, Zhou Zheng simply rushed forward.
Relying on his high defense, he was able to withstand the rain of arrows.
The iron arrow tip hit the armor, making a pinging sound, but there was no trace of breaking the armor.
In the face of the 500-point defense of the Holy Armor, the lethality of these bows and arrows is not enough.
Seeing this scene, the phalanx of stone figurines all put away their bows and arrows.
The left hand picked up the buckler, but the right hand failed to pick up the spear.
Instead, he is holding a cone-shaped weapon.
Zhou Zheng became curious about that kind of weapon, and by the way, he cast an identification technique on those conical weapons.
【Broken God Cone】
[Quality: blue]
[Attack power 1, forcefully break defense]
At this moment, Zhou Zheng finally met the phalanx of stone figurines.
He also got a taste of what it meant to forcefully break through defenses.
At the moment of contact, a crack opened in the phalanx of stone figurines, swallowing Zhou Zheng inside.
Although the god-breaking cone in the hand of the stone figurine cannot break the sacred armor,
But when it hit it, Zhou Zheng's body inside the armor felt a sharp pain from the air.
Often one attack from the stone figurines would cause a row of small numbers to float above Zhou Zheng's head.
hp-1
hp-1
…
The damage is not high, but it is still harmful.
No wonder it is called the God-breaking Cone.
This thing is specially used to kill high-level people.
The continuous stinging pain made Zhou Zheng frown.
The long sword in his hand was chopped down and fell on the neck of the nearest stone figurine.
The body of the chopped stone figurine is slightly tilted, and the same is true for other stone figurines.
It was as if Zhou Zheng's sword struck not this one stone figurine, but the entire phalanx of stone figurines.
Zhou Zheng frowned and looked at them. Isn't this too difficult?
If the defense is high, these stone figurines will take out the God-breaking Cone.
Cut them with a knife, and the damage will be directly distributed to everyone.
At this time, the tactic adopted by the stone figurine phalanx is very simple, which is to kill the opponent with HP-1.
Zhou Zheng looked at the movements of the stone figurines and seemed to be planning to completely wrap himself in the depths of the phalanx.
Make yourself unable to rush out and can only be beaten passively.
Knowing the other party's purpose, Zhou Zheng would naturally not let the other party succeed so easily.
He forced his way into the weak spot of the phalanx, causing a small crack to come out.
Then he escaped from the square along the crack.
Zhou Zheng looked at the still neat square array of stone figurines in front of him and said loudly:
"I've seen how shameless you are, and now I'll show you what I'm capable of."
[Heroic Soul Arrival] activates!
The bodies of the stone figurines present shook slightly, resisting the summons of the heroic souls.
It doesn't matter if you don't want to help.
This is a burial city, and ghosts are everywhere.
So Zhou Zheng looked outside the trial ground.
There was a paper man tied tightly with a rope.
Lord of the Burial City!
This guy was also brought here as a specialty.
But Zhou Zheng seemed to have forgotten to gag the paper man’s mouth.
"You bastard! Silence for me!"
Amidst the mournful shouts of the city lord, a faint soul emerged from the paper man and was sucked into Zhou Zheng's body.
Zhou Zheng’s attributes have greatly increased.
He casually waved his sword and rushed forward again to fight with the phalanx of stone figurines.
This time, he used his high mobility to wander around the perimeter of the square formation.
The long sword in his hand only slashed at the neck of the stone figurine.
After dozens of sword blows, the necks of the stone figurines in the phalanx became crooked.
Just when Zhou Zheng was secretly proud, he suddenly heard the cold voice of the system.
[Intruder detected]
[Dragon Tomb Secret Realm Attack Improvement]
[Warning: The difficulty of the secret realm increases]
[Rewards and compensation are being distributed]
[Tip: Mission rewards increased]
“It’s a good thing that the rewards have been increased, but you also have to live to get them!”
Zhou Zheng made a casual remark, then spit out a mouthful of blood.
The city lord in his body suddenly became fierce and out of control, causing him to be seriously injured.
The attributes have also dropped a lot.
Moreover, the army of stone figurines in front of them also became stronger.
Fortunately, Zhou Zheng's opponents still only have the 100 stone figurines in front of him, and the other stone figurines have not moved yet.
But he had figured out how the stone figurines moved before, and he could still hold on now.
Zhou Zheng was thinking about what was going on while dealing with the opponent in front of him.
"Is there any player who got the Dragon Tomb token like me?"
"No, using the Dragon Tomb token to enter here will definitely not make the entire burial city full of aggression."
"Could it be that some players forced their way in here?"
Zhou Zheng always felt that things were not that simple.
And...the forgotten Aqua seems to be still guarding the gate.
This made him worried.
"I hope everyone is okay."
At this moment, it seemed that the intruder who broke into the Dragon Tomb did something again.
All the stone figurines in the martial arts field, including the few hundred characters resting on one side, flashed with a white light, as if they had become sacred.
As a result, the originally gloomy burial city became faintly sacred.
The ruthless system tone sounded again.
【Abnormal condition detected】
[Because the residents of Burial City were massacred on a large scale, the residents of Burial City were given sacred attributes]
[Warning: The difficulty of the secret realm has been greatly increased]
[Warning: The maximum difficulty of the secret realm has reached level 70, which has exceeded the maximum difficulty determined by the system]
[Tip: Task reward adjustment]
[Tip: Trial content changes]
[The location of the trial is no longer limited to the martial arts arena, and the goal of the trial is changed to escaping from the secret realm of the Dragon Tomb while being pursued by the army of stone figurines]
It seems that the system is also confused about the current situation.
It kept making a tinkling noise.
Zhou Zheng smashed his mouth, spit out the blood in his mouth, took out a bottle of recovery potion and drank it.
Then he sat up and looked at the sacred stone figurines in front of him.
Just now, he was shocked by the system prompts.
The stone figurine suddenly became stronger and knocked him away with a wave of his hand.
At this moment, the stone figurines in front of them silently put away the God-breaking Cone, and collectively held the spears on their backs in their hands.
Seeing the murderous look of the stone figurines, Zhou Zheng's eyelids jumped and he quickly escaped from the martial arts arena.
Moreover, he seemed to know what was going on.
Madaqua!
Just as he was escaping, a paper man filled with sacred aura stood in front of Zhou Zheng, blocking his way of escape.
Zhou Zheng looked at the blush on the paper man's body and the evil smile on his face.
He immediately recognized the other person as the city lord who had run away before.
Just bad luck!
A wry smile appeared on Zhou Zheng's face.
"Lord City Lord, please spare my life!"
"Haha, wasn't your kid very crazy before? Why..."
Just as the city lord was speaking, Zhou Zheng slashed the city lord on the neck with a knife.
"Bah, labor and capital are not only crazy before, they are also crazy now! If you can't kill those guys behind you, why can't you, you loser, be killed?"
"Isn't it just that you have divine attributes and you really think of yourself as a person?"
"If the trial target hadn't changed, I would still have killed those guys in the back!"
It was obvious that the city lord had been cut to the ground and could not block the way.
But Zhou Zheng still had no intention of escaping. He swung the knife in his hand repeatedly, slashing directly and making the city lord scream.
"Is it wrong?"
"Wrong, wrong!"
Seeing that the city lord admitted his mistake, Zhou Zheng took the jade pendant from his waist and walked away.