Chapter 579 Gathering of The Strongest Line-up (1/2)

GOR Chapter 579 Gathering of The Strongest Line-up

The castle was very big; from its central area to its corners, each floor was quite sizable – however, as they now have more people in their group, their search proceeded at a faster pace.

The five of them used only roughly half an hour to search through the second floor, but they found nothing. Chen Xiaolian, Phoenix, and Sawakita Mitsuo were characters with intellect and detailed judgement. The three of them took the lead while Nagase Komi and Soo Soo followed them. After searching through the floor and making no discovery, they knew they did not miss out on anything.

However… … something appeared off with Phoenix. She appeared somewhat absent-minded. She had tried to put on the façade of normality. However, Chen Xiaolian, who had fought beside her twice, was able to detect that something was wrong.

She appeared slightly different compared to back when she was in the London instance dungeon, where she had shown extraordinary intellect.

“Let us head upstairs. We will discuss further after we reach the fourth floor.” Seeing no other way, Chen Xiaolian gave the suggestion. No one objected and all of them moved up the castle.

Sawakita Mitsuo and Nagase Komi had searched through the third floor. Naturally, they chose to skip searching the place. Then, when they were moving to the fourth floor…

“Can’t go up?”

The stairs leading to the fourth floor stood not far from them. However, when they tried to move toward it, they found themselves obstructed.

No matter how hard they tried running, they could not close the distance between them and the stairs at all.

Phoenix sighed and said, “This is the same situation I encountered outside this castle. The fourth floor is not open for us.”

“That makes sense.” Chen Xiaolian nodded his head and continued, “There are a total of six areas in this instance dungeon. After entering this instance dungeon, the areas we were assigned to can be considered the default area. One area is open by default. Now that we have collected four of the quest items, a total of four areas are opened. Add the default area into it means we can only access five areas… … in other words, we only have access to five out of the six areas. One of them remains inaccessible.”

“If so, how does the system determine which areas are inaccessible? We have three groups on our side. There should be three default areas open to us, but now all of us cannot access this one area. Could it be, all of us cannot access the fourth floor? But then what of the people on the fourth floor? They should also be unable to access one area. Could that area be one of the floors below? How does this work?”

“Hell if I know. Maybe it is random. Maybe, we all just happen to be unable to enter the fourth floor.”

Chen Xiaolian looked at the few figures who were discussing the matter and sighed. “This instance dungeon… … after entering it, we did not encounter any danger or battle. However, I keep getting the feeling that this instance dungeon’s level … … is frightening.”

Then, Chen Xiaolian’s eyes, which were looking at the stairs, suddenly grew focused.

He had seen a familiar figure slowly descending from the fourth floor through the stairs.

It was a figure that Chen Xiaolian would inevitably dream of once in a while. However… … it should be impossible for the figure to appear here.

“Lin, Lin Leyan?!”

If the first figure had aroused the feelings of oddity in Chen Xiaolian, then the second figure to descend the stairs made him shocked.

A slender and petite body, a cool face, a heroic disposition and the metal object on her arm… …

“Floater… … Nicole? Impossible!” Chen Xiaolian shouted.

Nagase Komi’s face, too, twisted.

Finally, another figure descended the stairs. It was a muscular man with a bald head; on his face was a trace of a reckless and care-free smile.

The appearance of this third figure caused Chen Xiaolian to swiftly retrieve out a weapon from his storage equipment. Killing intent had appeared on his face.

“Tian Lie!”

Chen Xiaolian bellowed.

At the same time, his entire figure vaulted through the air.

Tian Lie, who was still standing on the stairs, simply smiled. He stopped moving and just stood there on the stairs.

Chen Xiaolian had jumped through the air. However, due to the restrictions placed upon them by the system, the sword that was slashing down was unable to reach the stairs. Chen Xiaolian’s lunge had seemingly brought him far. However, when he finally landed, he was still at the same spot he was before jumping out.

“Tian Lie!” Flames seemingly flared out from Chen Xiaolian’s eyes.

Tian Lie!

That was Tian Lie.

After entering this game world, the most savage fight he had to go through was the one against Tian Lie. In the Tokyo instance dungeon, his whole team was chased to the point of no escape. In that final battle, they had all nearly suffered from total extermination. In the end, they had to sacrifice Nicole to kill off this fearsome opponent.

By the time Chen Xiaolian’s feet touched the ground, however, he had quickly calmed himself down. He retracted the swung sword and gripped it beside him while looking around. “Who is it? Who created this illusion? Everyone, be careful!”

Although Sawakita Mitsuo and the others had never encountered Tian Lie before, seeing Chen Xiaolian’s reaction, they grew vigilant. Both Phoenix and the Generalissimo got into a combat-ready state.

Soo Soo, though, stared at the figures on the stairs with widened eyes…

“Xiaolian oppa, they… … are not fake.”

…

“Well, this is a quite the surprise.”

Tian Lie sighed and turned to look at Nicole, who was standing beside him. “See? Impossibly enough, we met the one fellow we would never want to meet here. “

Nicole pursed her lips. “You want to tell him, or should I?”

“You do it. The main issue is you. He keeps thinking I owe him a life… … your life. Since you are alive, the key to clearing his resentment lies with you.”

Nicole, however, revealed a faint smile and said, “I feel that using this opportunity to join hands with him to kill you is not a bad choice.”

Tian Lie responded with a smile. “Why bother? Why must the living trouble the living? We have already fought to the death several times now.”

Nicole shook her head. She stopped the nonsensical chat with Tian Lie and stepped down the stairs, alone.

As she was moving past Lin Leyan, she saw that Lin Leyan was looking at Chen Xiaolian with a strange, confused expression.

“Hey, you really do not recognize him?”

Lin Leyan stood there, her entire body tense. She wringed her hands without realizing it.

Do I recognize him?

Clearly not.

But why… why? My heart, it aches.

It is really aching.

Lin Leyan felt her heart rate increasing, but her mind remained a blank. Her rate of breathing was such that she seemed about to faint. However, seemingly out of greed, she refused to divert her gaze away from Chen Xiaolian’s face.

This face… … I cannot remember.