yasinovel Chapter 43 Initial Trial - Generous Rewards! Special Building - Abyss Converter
Chapter 43 Initial Trial - Generous Rewards! Special Building - Abyss Converter
[Instance Description: East Zone 3, Abyss Rift Valley, Outer Contaminated Zone]
The wounds left by the Thousand-Faced Demon Lord twelve years ago have not yet healed, and the rifts in the abyss continue to seep outwards.
This is your first time stepping onto a real battlefield, your first time facing an enemy crawling out of the abyss.
All training and breakthroughs will be tested here.
It's not for the exam, it's not for points.
It's to confirm, to confirm that you're ready to face any storm!
[Objective of the instance: To prove the combat capabilities of the Master and their pet in a practical assessment.]
[Dungeon Tier: Dynamically Unlocked (Automatically generated based on dungeon progress)]
[Scoring Mechanism: Each level cleared will be graded based on performance (Perfect/Excellent/Pass/Fail). The cumulative score will determine the final reward.]
Current status: Not enabled
[Would you accept the challenge?]
[Note: The probability of obtaining high-level items from the prize pool is greatly increased during the first trial.]
Su Chen stood in the middle of the line, his expression calm, his steps pausing for less than half a second.
But my mind was already in an uproar.
A copy!?
He had seen this thing countless times in games in his past life. But this was the real world!
But then I thought, if there are already cheat codes, what's a dungeon?
He took a deep breath, suppressing the excitement that was about to overflow.
"I accept! Of course I accept!"
He meditated in his heart.
The dark red aura within the rebirth space flashed brightly for a moment, then stabilized.
Abyss Challenge Dungeon: First Trial
Status: Enabled.
Current rating: 0
Prize Pool: Special Building - Abyss Converter (Advanced), Skill Stone - Hundred Poisons Body (Intermediate), Skill Stone - Limitless Power Technique, Skill Stone - Vajra Body... Enlightenment Fruit (Intermediate)... Overlord Body Pill (Beginner)... Energy Points (Basic), Pet Space Area (Basic)
Current progress: None
Countdown to the instance: 12:00:00
Note: The first level will be automatically triggered when encountering the first batch of Abyss units.
Hint: Each level is scored independently; the higher the score, the richer the reward.
Divided into different levels?
Wow~ Prize pool!
Special Building - Abyss Converter!
Although we can't see the purpose of this building, it looks like a valuable artifact!
"Three skill stones, those sound pretty awesome! And the Enlightenment Fruit is classified as a mid-level reward..."
"I wonder how amazing the effects of the Enlightenment Fruit produced by the system will be! Maybe eating one, combined with the learning machine, will allow me to develop a level 3 skill within a week?"
It's clear that obtaining these high-level rewards will be no easy feat for him!
Su Chen could only suppress his excitement, his consciousness detached from the pet space, his steps returned to normal, and he caught up with the group.
Wang Yichuan, who was in front, turned his head and glanced at him.
"What's wrong?"
"It's nothing," Su Chen smiled. "It's just... I'm a little excited, thrilled, and nervous."
Wang Yichuan smiled and said, "That's normal! Brother Chen, relax."
"Um!"
Su Chen lagged half a step behind, his gaze sweeping over the surrounding woods.
Black, withered trees; grayish-white fungal patches; dark red sap...
......
In the blink of an eye, half an hour had passed, and the group had already walked seven or eight kilometers.
Strangely enough, we didn't encounter a single monster on the way!
As Su Chen walked through the middle section, his highly tense nerves began to relax somewhat.
He began to observe his surroundings.
The trees are more twisted than before.
The trunk was not a normal brown or grayish-white, but a deep black, almost like it had been soaked in ink, and its surface was covered with irregular cracks.
The air was filled with an indescribable smell, a slightly sour, sulfurous odor.
The fog grew thicker and thicker, reducing visibility from 150 meters to 70 or 80 meters.
Shadow Panther Black Spirit walked at the very front.
Those dark golden eyes warily surveyed the surroundings.
Zhou Chengjie followed three meters behind Hei Ling, holding a tactical flashlight in his left hand and his right hand on the hilt of the knife at his waist.
"Black Spirit, go find a high point ahead and scout it out," Zhou Chengjie said in a low voice.
The Shadow Leopard darted away silently, disappearing into the withered forest ahead in a few leaps.
Zhang Yan lowered her spear from her shoulder and poked at a gnawed bone on the ground: "What's going on? Wasn't it said that in the contaminated zone, there's a soldier every three steps, an elite soldier every five steps, and a general every ten steps? We've been walking for so long and haven't seen a single hair!"
"Although this assessment isn't a joint exam, as far as I know, five schools in Jiangling City have chosen the Wutoushan area as their exam location." Zhou Chengjie thought for a moment, "Perhaps the instructors cleared the area too thoroughly, scaring those monsters into hiding."
"Ahhh! I really want to have a match!" Zhang Yan pouted.
Li Yu remained silent, but his constant shaking of the shield made his meaning clear: he was itching to fight!
Zhou Chengjie glanced at Zhang Yan and smiled. "What's the rush? The assessment is twelve hours long. Are you worried about not having a fight? The only problem is that once it starts, it'll never end!"
A moment later, Hei Ling silently returned from a clump of dead trees ahead, squatted down at Zhou Chengjie's feet, and shook her head at him.
"Nothing unusual." Zhou Chengjie deciphered the Shadow Leopard's signal, patted its head, and said, "Keep going!"
The group walked through the withered bushes, the surrounding trees as black as ink, as if they were alive, watching them.
...
Su Chen and Wang Yichuan, as center-backs, were positioned in the middle of the formation, about thirty or forty meters away from the forwards.
Lin Xiyue and Yang Xin stood behind them, maintaining the same distance.
Xiao Zi walked slightly to the left of Su Chen, her steps light and quick, her ears constantly twitching, capturing all the sounds around her, and occasionally sniffing the ground.
"Is Zhou Chengjie the steady type or the impulsive type?" Su Chen suddenly asked.
He thought to himself, "It's good to be a little reckless!"
In that case, there might be a chance to obtain the [Special Building - Abyss Converter].
The only high-level reward is so tempting.
Wang Yichuan thought for a moment.
"Hmm... I'd say he's the ambitious type," he said. "He's incredibly competitive; his determination to get into one of the top nine universities is definitely stronger than mine!"
"Tsk, his score is even lower than yours, and you actually say that."
Suddenly, Xiao Zi stopped.
Its back arched.
"Awooo~!"
A deep roar, squeezed from the depths of a throat, exploded out.
The sound was so loud that everyone stopped in their tracks.
Su Chen looked down at Xiao Zi.
Its right forepaw rose half an inch, hovering in the air, then suddenly pointed to the right...
"Awoo!"
Xiao Zi roared in that direction again, then turned to look at Su Chen, her light gold eyes filled with anxiety: Over there! There's something over there!
Su Chen looked in the direction Xiao Zi pointed out.
It was a black, withered tree, its trunk thicker than the surrounding trees.
The tree crown was completely dead, with only a few bare branches stretching towards the sky.
It looks like... nothing's wrong.
But just as his gaze swept across the middle section of the tree trunk, to the darkest patch of shadow...
A semi-transparent panel appeared in view.
【The Shapeshifting Serpent (Abnormality: Mild Abyssification)】
Status: Cannot be contracted (strength level too low, growth potential too low)
Strength Rank: First Realm - High-Level Servant
Attribute: Abyss/Poison
Growth potential: 1.7
HP: 32
Skills: Omitted
Related technologies: (omitted)
Su Chen's pupils contracted slightly.
The Multi-Tails!
Before he could think much about it, his eyes instinctively swept around to the side.
The second panel!
The third one!
The fourth one!
The translucent text boxes lit up one by one, like fireflies in the dark.
Su Chen quickly counted them and, based on the differences in growth potential and HP, there were at least seven or eight panels.
It was extremely absurd that, despite having a control panel in front of him, he still couldn't pinpoint the exact location of the Hundred-Faced Serpent.
Fortunately...
With the panel in place, he roughly pinpointed the direction. Upon closer inspection, he discovered a multi-faceted snake hiding among the leaves, almost blending into the foliage!
He suddenly felt a chill down his back.
When Zhou Chengjie, his two companions, and the leopard first came from this area, no one noticed them.
If it weren't for Little Purple smelling something...
It would be quite dangerous for someone to be attacked by so many snakes!
"What's wrong?" Zhou Chengjie's voice came from ahead, alert. "What did Xiao Zi find?"
Zhou Chengjie had already turned around, his hand on the hilt of the knife.
Zhang Yan also stopped, her spear sliding off her shoulder with the tip pointing to the ground, instantly switching into combat mode.
Su Chen's mind was racing.
He had learned about the Ditto in his textbook. It wasn't very strong, but its camouflage ability was the most troublesome thing!
Unlike chameleons, the Ditto can not only change the color and texture of its body, but also simulate the temperature and psionic fluctuations of its surroundings, hiding itself in the environment and making it difficult to detect even with psionic means.
"Little Purple!" Su Chen's voice was low, but each word was enunciated clearly, "Thunderous Roar to intimidate, then Thunder Fang to bite...the one in the pile of leaves!"
"Awooo!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Xiao Zi unleashed a deafening roar.
A blinding blue-white burst of lightning erupted from deep within Xiao Zi's throat, its ripples spreading in all directions.
As the sonic boom swept across the pile of dry grass ahead...
"call out!"
A slender black shadow shot out with astonishing speed, darting into the nearby bushes.
That's a snake!
It is about one and a half meters long, grayish-black in color, with a triangular head and dark red eyes.
At this moment, it was staring intently in Xiao Zi's direction, its tongue flicking in and out with lightning speed.
"The Hundred-Transformation Snake!" Zhou Chengjie's voice rose half an octave. "Be careful! There might be quite a few more hiding! Tighten the formation!"
His reaction was extremely fast.
Before he finished speaking, he had already taken two steps toward the center of the group, and at the same time, he drew a long sword from his waist with his right hand.
Zhang Yan, Li Yu, and Wang Yichuan all moved towards the center at almost the same time.
Lin Xiyue had already drawn her bow to its fullest extent, the arrowhead shimmering with a pale blue spiritual energy, aiming at the direction the snake was fleeing!
Su Chen didn't move.
He stood still, his gaze quickly sweeping over the translucent panels around him, his mind simultaneously performing coordinate conversions.
"There's one hiding in the shadows at the base of the fallen tree on the left!"
"Forty meters to the right, in the hollow of the top branch of that forked, dead tree, there's another one!"
Just as he was announcing the location...
The fleeing serpent darted left and right through the bushes, but Little Purple's Swift Steps were running at full speed, making her a level faster than it.
Three seconds!
Little Purple caught up with it.
Raiga!
Little Purple leaped up suddenly, opened its mouth, and lightning exploded between its upper and lower jaws, precisely biting the tail of the Hundred Transformations Snake.
"Sizzle~"
Lightning strikes!
The Hundred-Faced Snake's body twisted violently, coiling into a pretzel shape, its triangular head biting at Little Purple's foreleg.
The snake's mouth opened, revealing two striking black fangs.
But Xiao Zi didn't bother with it at all.
The moment it bit the tail, it jerked its head violently, sending the meter-and-a-half-long snake flying through the air.
It hasn't landed yet...
Wind blade!
Xiao Zi's chest suddenly bulged, and a mouthful of greenish-blue energy spewed out from deep in her throat, condensing into a crescent-shaped blade.
"Pfft~"
The snake's head fell off with a thud.
The snake writhed on the ground a few more times before slowly stiffening.
In Su Chen's field of vision, the semi-transparent panel flickered once and then disappeared.
"Little Purple! There's movement in the shade of the tree on your right side!"
Su Chen practically yelled it out.
That versatile snake is moving!
It didn't flee in a straight line; instead, it tried to ambush Little Purple!
If you don't look closely, you might almost think it's just the swaying of the tree shadows in the wind.
Xiao Zi turned around.
Thunder roar!
A second roar exploded out.
Lightning ripples swept across the shade of the withered tree, blasting the surrounding dead leaves and debris into a flurry of dust.
The ever-changing snake darted out of the shadows.
It sprang up, its mouth wide open, its venomous fangs aimed straight for Little Purple's throat!
Extremely fast!
"Whoosh~"
The sound of an arrow slicing through the air came from behind Su Chen.
Lin Xiyue's arrow!
The arrow was pale blue and left a trail of light as it flew.
It precisely pierced the middle of the snake's body, pinning it to the tree trunk behind it.
The dull thud of the arrow piercing deep into the wood!
The snake's tail lashed wildly against the tree trunk a few times, then stopped moving.
"Beautiful!" Su Chen turned around and glanced at Lin Xiyue.
Lin Xiyue didn't speak, but the corners of her mouth curved slightly.
The second arrow has already been nocked.