"The Starry Sky Cup auditions and mountain climbing battle have officially begun!"
In front of each major area where players gathered, portals like apertures lit up, and players with all kinds of strange shapes rushed toward the apertures, like the fourth natural disaster trying to conquer Mars.
"For the tribe!"
"Mount Olympus, your uncle, I'm here!"
Players rush into the aperture and are randomly teleported to various locations. The small three-dimensional map suddenly lights up with dense red dots corresponding to each player.
They first had to climb up to the Tharsis Plateau that was directly in front of them, and then to the top of Mount Olympus.
Olympus Mons, the highest volcano on the surface of Mars, has an extremely gentle slope and can be climbed on foot without the use of climbing tools.
The mountains in front of us are majestic and majestic, with cliffs extending to the highest crater, with a championship trophy suspended above it.
The venue card shown in the [Starry Sky Cup] audition kit, in addition to being located on Mars, is obviously based on the holy mountain of the same name, the highest peak in Greece, Olympus.
It is a mysterious mountain peak in mythology, inhabited by twelve main gods from medieval times who believed in the 'Lords of Time and Nothingness'.
"The battle on the mountain..."
Jolina chewed on the name of this year's mechanism and said: "It will be difficult for humans to climb the mountain where the gods live."
Lin Xiao nodded: "I don't believe the organizers didn't set up obstacles."
Anyway, let others test the waters first!
There were many card masters who had the same idea as Lin Xiao. They did not act rashly and watched the players rushing into the circle with cold eyes.
"Ah! Ahhh!"
The first wave of players was quickly frustrated. They were approaching the volcanic plateau with great momentum, but Mount Olympus swung out an earthy yellow halo. The violent impact suddenly caused a large number of players to wail and fall into the abyss.
"I'm so afraid of heights!"
"Help, help, The Martian!"
Host Leo smiled and said: "This year's mountain climbing battle, the first piece of information that can be disclosed has appeared."
"The field card "Mount Olympus" will periodically scatter the "Aura of Mount Olympus". The effect is as you can see. If you don't stand firm, you will be kicked out of the field!"
The players were scolding one after another, but the audience's enthusiasm for watching was rising.
It's like a challenge game, everyone wants to see the challenger fall into the water.
Passed the test? You passed the test, what else should we watch!
Lin Xiao still stood there, looking up at the chattering host on the stage. Roman Ulysses was sitting quietly in the guest seat, holding his chin with one hand, looking down at this side.
Looking into the eyes of the epee man, Roman even smiled, as if he had heard about his deeds, and then calmly looked away.
"Um, boss, I'm going to charge too." Seeing that the large troops have been dispatched, the general couldn't wait any longer. "I'll go ahead and explore the way!"
Lin Xiao nodded encouragingly: "Come on, don't die on the way!"
Jolina put her chin on her hands, her red eyes staring at the large moving red dots in her personal light screen. They were all stuck in front of the first checkpoint, unable to move forward.
"Since the 'Halo of Mount Olympus' will cause a range of impact." Jolina looked back and asked: "Is the ability to fly feasible?"
"I feel that using the flying ability in [Mountain Mountain Battle] will only lead to a dead end." Lin Xiao said.
As if to confirm his statement, among the players, a fourth-level card master named ‘Sa’ showed off his wings. It turned out to be the ability to fly obtained by being possessed by a spiritual creature.
In the admiring eyes of tens of thousands of players, he raised his head and chest, snorted coldly, and rushed to the top of the plateau arrogantly.
A harsh chirping sound pierced the sky, and a huge eagle rushed out of the gloomy sky. It flapped its wings and rushed towards the card master, pecking him into particles of light.
The audience all hissed, and the players who looked directly at the tragic situation turned pale.
"Oh my god, kill the fourth-level card master instantly. Isn't this Eagle Eagle at least fifth-level?"
"I understand the truth, but how come this eagle is so big?"
Leo said calmly: "This is the second piece of information that can be revealed. The Caucasian condor hovers between Mount Olympus. It will peck at card masters who dare to offend, forming a no-fly zone... Of course, this is not true.
The Caucasus Condor, maybe it’s not impossible to defeat it?”
After receiving the host's prompts, the players' eyes lit up, looking up at the eagle with spread wings and circling in the sky, using various fireball and ice bullet techniques to greet the giant eagle.
Tens of thousands of players worked together to defeat the giant eagle. Colorful spells flashed across the sky. Players were constantly killed by the eagle's swooping and pecking, while others took advantage of the situation to pursue them. Wails and cheers were mixed together. The scene was very spectacular.
Boom!
In the second round, the "Halo of Olympus" swung from the mountain peak, and in conjunction with the charge of the Caucasus Condor, the card masters suffered heavy casualties!
Several fifth-level masters and sixth-level masters hidden in the player group have silently manifested cards. It's time for us to take action...
"Let's go." Qiao Linna looked over with red eyes, "By the time we reach the plateau, this condor will probably have been defeated."
In Greek mythology, the Caucasian condor ate the liver of Prometheus every day.
Lin Xiao estimated that it was about to vomit after eating it, and there was no way to change the dishes all year round.
"Good luck to you!" Jolina stood at another teleportation aperture and shouted, "Teleport to a better location!"
The teleportation aperture will teleport the player to a random location on the Tharsis Plateau, usually at the foot of the mountain, or halfway up the mountain if you are lucky.
If you teleport directly to the top of the mountain, it will be equivalent to passing the first level and have an extremely wonderful start.
The heavy sword man nodded slightly, entered the teleportation aperture, looked around, and was slightly startled.
"You have been teleported to the top of the Tharsis Plateau."
Wait a minute, I was teleported directly to the top of the plateau?
Wouldn't that mean we just smuggled through the first level!
Lin Xiao stood alone at the top of the plateau. Looking back, he saw the Caucasian condor with its back to him, blocking the players who were trying to climb.
Among the players, Wen Tailai looked at Lin Xiao who suddenly appeared on the plateau, feeling a little confused:
"Let me go, Brother Wufeng, why did you suddenly appear there?"
"He, he!" Xue Yindao's eyes widened, "It seems like he didn't do anything. He was sent there directly by the system!"
The players instantly became red-eyed.
"Kill the seal in front of you!"
"Ah, don't mess around, crush the condor first!"
Screams came one after another behind him.
The epee man jumped to the front of the large army and became the red dot in the front row on the big screen, attracting the attention of the global audience.
"Damn it, why did the epee man fly directly to the front?"
"It's a 'random teleportation' mechanism!"
"Holy shit, Destiny eats chicken!"
The host Leo also noticed the small changes in the field: "It seems that our popular player 'Epee Man' was very lucky and was teleported directly to the top of the Tharsis Plateau."
"However." Leo changed the topic and said teasingly, "It's a pity that he doesn't have a large army and has to face the second test on his own."
Under the gaze of the global audience, the man was wearing pitch-black armor and carrying a sword on his back, standing at the front of the team riding a horse.
Boom!!
Mount Olympus seemed to be furious, swaying with an earth-yellow halo.
But he saw the man with the heavy sword suddenly thrust his sword into the ground, and a transparent barrier surged up on his body to resist and absorb the damage of the 'Aura of Olympus', like a mainstay, without retreating at all!
The epee man who had just aroused public outrage immediately changed the audience's senses with his amazing performance.
"I'm going to stop it now?"
"This is called immovable as a mountain!"
However, after the third wave of halo receded, the entire Tharsis Plateau rumbled and trembled, the ground shook, and a ravine opened in front of Lin Xiao.
In the ravine, stood a huge monster that covered the sky and the sun, with more than a dozen pairs of arms stretching out from its back, holding different weapons in its hands, like a giant that could rival the gods.
The barrage in the official live broadcast room filled the screen like crazy.
"This giant is too outrageous!"
"I think the organizer is deliberately making things difficult for the players!"
Commentator Leo said loudly: "This is the third piece of information that can be disclosed! Blocking in front of the plateau and Mount Olympus, in addition to the Caucasian condor, there are also hundred-armed giants!"
"Legend has it that it is so powerful that it can throw 100 boulders at a time. Even the Titans cannot stop it. Players must avoid this giant and start climbing Mount Olympus!"
Boom!
The first level's guarding boss, the Caucasian Condor, finally fell down with a cry due to the players' concerted efforts to defeat it.
The players had strange expressions on their faces, looking at the man at the front, and suddenly felt a little lucky in their hearts.
Fortunately, he was teleported to the front just now... He was the first to resist the Hundred-Armed Giant!
"roar!!"
The hundred-armed giant used its arms freely, picking up huge rocks with its free palms and throwing them into the sky like a catapult.
The boulder fell into the group of players, and several unlucky players were immediately shattered into particles of light.
This kind of scene is exactly what the audience likes to see. The number of viewers of the [Starry Sky Cup] knockout match continues to rise and has exceeded 30 million!
Roman Ulysses was sitting in the guest seat, his sky-blue eyes looking deeply.
The hundred-armed giant has the level of the sixth level peak. Stopping here will force the player to find another way.
Of course, since it is a game, there are naturally shortcuts to pass the level: such as the "golden apple" that tempted the Hundred-Armed Giant, and the "Faun's Flute" that hypnotized him. These easter egg cards are buried in the venue, waiting for players to explore.
Roman is looking forward to seeing how everyone will overcome the difficulties.
Are they going to work together? Or are they fighting each other to grab the easter egg cards?
He lowered his gaze and raised the corner of his mouth with a dark and cheerful smile.
"Did you listen to what the host said? Avoid the hundred-armed giant!" Beowulf, who was covered in metal armor, said to his companions.
Menkara wore a desert hood and looked calmly: "I understand... this is a reminder. The way to clear the level is hidden in the map!"
"Huh?" Beowulf was stunned for a moment, "What you said seems to make sense. Let's go before the heavy sword man..."
The words were not spoken yet.
The two heard the epee man directly in front of them shout: "Armed liberation!"
Buzz.
The man in black armor holds a huge black and red lightsaber, standing in front of the hundred-armed giant, ready to go.
Beowulf and Menkaure's eyes widened, and tens of thousands of spectators were also dumbfounded.
Why is this sword so big?!
Also, he doesn't want to... and the Hundred-Armed Giant Hard Steel, right?!
Lin Xiao's eyes flickered.
Detour?
The one who should take a detour is the guy in front!
There is no need to defeat it, just make it lose its ability to intercept, and then clear the level in one go!
Under the shocked gazes of the players and the audience, the black-armored man held a huge black-red lightsaber in both hands, and black flames ignited in his palms.
Black flames rose upward along the lightsaber, like a roaring black dragon. Players from almost every location saw this towering sword!
"Damn it, one pillar holds up the sky!" Xue Yin Dao said in shock.
The general swallowed his saliva: "I remember this move, it is the sword energy of the heavy sword master!"
Snow Drinking Knife:?
Sword Qi? It’s clearly the ship Qi of a Star Destroyer!
The next moment.
The epee man held a huge lightsaber and slashed it down suddenly, firing out a black-red light cannon and bombarding the hundred-armed giant with a 'dong', knocking it back from the intersection and plowing a ravine several meters deep!
The light illuminated the players behind them. Everyone opened their mouths and looked at the passage made by the hundred-armed giant.
Immediately, the players fell into a commotion and swarmed towards the epee man, passing him and rushing towards the passage!
"Thank you, boss, boss is awesome!!"
"If I can advance, I will definitely give you a banner!"
The man with the heavy sword looked around and was suddenly shocked. Before the hundred-armed giant recovered, he rushed to the third level with the group of players.
The last holy mountain, Olympus!
Roman was slightly in a trance.
this……
A style of play with no technique or aesthetics.
Don’t even consider game Easter eggs and level-clearance strategies.
Just pure power, pure...recklessness?
The official live broadcast room was full of 666.
"The plan was to let players find Easter eggs, but the boss killed the monster with a single blow 2333"
"I don't care what the plot is, I just know that I want to kill indiscriminately!"
The host Leo coughed dryly and introduced the current situation: "The epee player successfully defeated the hundred-armed giant and created a passage to the next level for the players in front..."
"However, players at the rear need to pay attention. The hundred-armed giant is now in a state of rage." Leo said quietly, "It will be even more difficult to repel it."
"Roar!!" The hundred-armed giant fell into rage and blocked the middle of the road again, causing a bloody storm.
The players kept wailing and had no choice but to bypass the hundred-armed giant and look for the easter egg cards left by the planner.
"Epee man, I hate you!"
"Boss, I haven't gotten in the car yet!"
With the epee man's eye-catching performance in the auditions, his live broadcast data has soared.
The more than 100,000 spectators sitting around the arena cheered and shouted, and more than half of them were cheering for the epee man.
In the mini-map, the red dot symbolized by the player is divided into two halves by the Hundred-Armed Giant.
Some of them, holding the heavy sword man's thighs firmly, have already passed the third level; the other part is still stuck in the second level.
The third level.
Lin Xiao looked up at the cliffs that reached into the clouds. At the highest point of Mount Olympus, the crater was filled with white snow, and the championship trophy was suspended above it.
Host Leo said: "The last information that can be revealed is that thunder and lightning will randomly fall on Mount Olympus. Try to climb to a higher position on this steep cliff!"
"Or maybe." Leo said meaningfully, "You can interfere with other players and make their positions drop to ensure that your own ranking is more stable?"
The players who had worked together to clear the level just now stood in front of the steep cliff, and their eyes suddenly changed when they looked at each other.
Lin Xiao has no plans to PVP, even if it can achieve results faster.
He lowered his head and examined the two ice axes that appeared in his palms.
"Pilgrim's Ice Pick (Purple Quality)"
"Effect: The physical consumption of climbing is reduced by 30%, the movement speed in snowy mountain terrain is increased by 30%, and the resistance to cold currents in snowy mountains is increased by 30%."
Lin Xiao looked up, gripped the ice ax tightly, and his eyes gradually became firmer.
Clang!
The ice ax was embedded in the rock wall. Lin Xiao did not choose the optimal route, but silently climbed up, his eyes fixed on the championship trophy at the top.
Don't pay attention to other people's climbing progress.