Chapter 44 (1/2)

However, as the illusion was broken, the Illusory Evil Spirit’s true form seemed rather incompetent in front of Liu Ming.

Soon, Liu Ming slashed and killed the Illusory Evil Spirit.

After the Illusory Evil Spirit was killed, Liu Ming’s surroundings changed again.

After Liu Ming’s surroundings distorted, the scene around him seemed to have changed into another street.

Seemingly deep in thought, Liu Ming looked at the street in front of him and said, “So that’s what happened. Well, I can save plenty of time.”

If Liu Ming merely suspected that Tucker City was an illusion previously, he was now fully convinced that this place was a special illusory dungeon.

Illusory dungeons were considered an extremely special type of hidden dungeon.

In the official setting of God Domain, illusory dungeons were illusions generally formed by one or more special monsters or treasures that had intercepted segments of God Domain’s history under special conditions.

After a player entered an illusory dungeon, the system would even give the player some system prompts that were partial truths so as to confuse the players about their progress in the dungeon.

In order to conquer an illusory dungeon, a player would have to find the source of the illusion and kill it or destroy it.

Generally speaking, other than strictly following the system prompts, the illusions created by monsters could be conquered by killing the monsters with skill and strength.

On the other hand, players in the illusions formed by mysterious treasures could only strictly follow the quest flow.

According to God Domain’s official statement, illusory dungeons created by treasures would affect certain laws. If one did not act according to the laws, they would likely be kicked out of the illusion.

The dungeons created by monsters did not have such a problem. The players could naturally kill the monsters too. Of course, if one chose to kill the monsters, they had to have good enough reconnaissance abilities in addition to having impeccable strength.

Otherwise, one would only be wasting their time if they were to go through plenty of trouble, only to end up with no means to find the real monsters. They might as well just follow the quest process to conquer the dungeon, which would be much more relaxing.

Now that Liu Ming had entered an illusory dungeon created by monsters, which was also one of the dungeon types of a higher difficulty level, he would have to kill multiple monsters.

The Illusory Evil Spirit that Liu Ming had just killed was one of the monsters that generated the Tucker City illusion.

The number of monsters in the current Tucker City—or rather, the Kerri Desert—as well as how much the illusion strength had reduced after the Illusory Evil Spirit had been killed was still unknown.

After all, Liu Ming was now unsure if his mission to investigate the ancient city, Tucker City, was a false prompt or not. However, Liu Ming had now almost figured out the dungeon’s pattern. Hence, he did not have to bother about the quest prompt’s authenticity.

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After adjusting his state, Liu Ming began searching the city for the monsters hidden inside illusions.

In a period of time, Liu Ming quickly killed eight monsters similar to the Illusionary Evil Spirit.

For every illusory monster that Liu Ming killed, he would be teleported to other corners of Tucker City, just like when he killed the Illusory Evil Spirit.

After Liu Ming killed the ninth monster, the scene in front of him changed once again. However, Liu Ming did not appear on an empty street this time, but a grand and ostentatious hall filled with boisterous chatter and laughter.

There were people with different sartorial styles chatting merrily in the hall.