Chapter 419 - Devils Prison (1/2)

Ding~

—System Announcement: Congratulations to player “Codename Lone Wolf”. His team “Savage Blade” has obtained first clear of Hero-Level Commander Mona! He is rewarded with 2,250,000 EXP, 50 gold coins, and an additional 2 Free Stat Points!

—System Announcement: Congratulations to player “Codename Dark Blue for obtaining first clear of Hero-Level Commander Mona! She is rewarded with 2,250,000 EXP, 50 gold coins, and an additional Free Stat Point!

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Lin Jie was Savage Blade’s leader and also the number one DPS. The system AI had evaluated him as the best player, which was why he had gotten an additional stat point more than the rest. The reward for the first clear of the Boss was abundant. There were 2,000 gold coins alone for the entire team! Lin Jie did not keep any of these gold coins and exchanged them all for real-life currency!

As their levels increased, the abilities of players to collect gold coins increased. It was a very mysterious stage now. The gold production had greatly increased now that everybody could collect tons of coins on a daily basis. However, there was also a greater demand for gold coins since a large number of precious materials and equipment were needed for job advancements and missions. As such, they formed this weak supply and demand chain in the game. The exchange rate for the in-game currency had maintained at 1 gold coin to 100 dollars in real life for a long time. Merchants with foresight had all started to sell away their in-game currency.

After the frenzy of job advancement was over, the value of the in-game currency would drop drastically.

Kaboom—

After Mona was dead, the sky shattered into pieces. The surroundings were finally revealed to be a giant prison! This prison was where they kept these “Knights”, everything was an illusion!

Mona’s reign as “king” ended here in this dim prison.

“This is—” Nobody had the time to react. It was a vast wasteland just before this, how did it suddenly become like that?

None of this was a surprise for Lin Jie. The illusion of the surroundings, change in the situation, and development of the story… were all because of the progress in the plot dungeon. This prison was Holy Light Temple’s last map! Now, on the map were two skull symbols and a dragon head symbol. This was where the Boss was located.

Inksnow curled up her loose hair and stuffed them into her helmet. She looked around cautiously and asked in shock, “Three symbols? Could it be, all the Bosses are in this map?”

“That’s right, this is the last map of Holy Light Temple, Devils’ Prison,” said Lin Jie as he observed the surroundings.

Netherblue was stunned. “Devils’ Prison? I thought that was the map of the last Boss, it appeared sooner than expected! I heard that the Devils’ Prison is where the last boss resides. There are no monsters inside. Instead, there are many secret doors. In order to pass through these doors, we would have to fulfill dozens of strange requirements.”

The last map, Devils’ Prison!

This was the place where devils hunted for fun. Other than the last Boss in the heart of the map, there were two other Bosses, one in the south and the other in the north. It was not easy to reach the Boss. They would have to pass through over 50 doors and spend at least three hours doing so. If they were not careful, they might end up spending more time.

“Let’s split into two groups with at least one of each job just in case there are doors with job restrictions.” Lin Jie thought for a while and said, “The requirements to open a door are random. Most of them are rune doors that require a certain level of stat points while the other locks would mostly be opened by Star Kill. The team that runs into a special locked door will report to the other, and we’ll switch team members at any time if needed.”

There were all sorts of doors in Devils’ Prison, and the paths were all completely random as well. Even Lin Jie could not guarantee that they could reach the Boss in the shortest time possible in this place where there were full of traps in every corner.

The two teams were led by Lin Jie and Baili Changcheng, respectively, and they went their own ways.

Splash—

Devils’ Prison was dark and humid, and the sounds of footsteps and water droplets echoing sent shivers down their spines.

“Ahh!” Bu Yi’s face turned pale as she took a step back. Her fingers trembled as she pointed at the corpse in front of her.

Ziliang laughed. “Don’t be scared, Little Sis Bu Yi. It’s normal for a prison to have a few corpses… f*ck, what is that strong smell?”

In the prison, there were three dried up corpses. From the shapes of these corpses, one could tell that they belonged to an adult and two children that were not humans. The adult’s body was mangled, quite clearly that it was devoured by its own children… it was a cruel sight. No wonder Bu Yi was frightened!

“Hehe, the architect of this place must have set this to prevent players from splitting up, I guess. Hahaha…” The moment Lin Jie spoke, the members rolled their eyes. He was still making jokes in such a situation.

Lin Jie brushed everything off with a peal of laughter. He went up to the three corpses and searched their bodies. A little key dropped out.

[Devils’ Prison Key]: Can open any door in Devils’ Prison, can only be used once.

“Look, it’s a battle item. We should search the corpses often, there may be additional rewards…” Lin Jie squeezed the key in his hand as he was about to share the news happily with his team. Unexpectedly, the moment he held the key, everyone shrieked and took a step back in unison, and giving him a strange look.

“Could it be you are a surgeon in real life?”

“Can you at least look a little disturbed? Even if your mental fortitude is maxed, please have some normal human reaction!”