31. Ruins



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The ruins of Akudeon are located in the northwest of the world, almost half of the human realm separated from the large wetland where the secret stronghold of the Liberation Front is located, but it is quite close to the extreme arctic ice field where Cheng Peng landed at the beginning. It's an inaccessible place, with the nearest NPC city hundreds of miles to the southeast, and a majestic mountain range to climb. There are only a few humble villages in the nearby human settlements, which are the descendants of some of the once thriving ancient city dwellers, as well as the settlers.

Maybe in a few hundred years, one or two of these villages will gradually grow into cities thanks to the efforts of the settlers, but at least for now, they are still small villages.

The small size of the village means that the space inside is small, which means that there are not too many people to live in, which means that it is almost impossible to move around here...... It means all kinds of inconveniences.

One of the most troublesome things is the fact that you can't avoid people's eyes and ears! Adventure 31

When the party arrives at the nearest village called "North Wind", they find that this small village with a population of about 300 is inhabited by more than five times the number of villagers!

In the world of "Goddess Sideshow", there are about 20,000 active players at present, and 20,000 people are distributed on this not small road, distributed in dozens of cities and "labyrinths", and each location does not divide too many people.

The ruins of Akudeon are newly opened dungeons, which means greater gains and greater risks. According to the game's setting, if Renas, the goddess of war, does not take the Heroic Spirits to a devastating excavation called Exploration, which is actually a tomb robbery, the difficulty of the dungeon will increase by one and a half levels, and the reward will be increased by one and a half levels. This number seems to be very good, fully embodying the idea of "linking risk and return", but it hides a huge trap - the new dungeons are often very difficult in themselves, and after the goddess of war "touches" the gold inverted bucket organization to clear it, the difficulty will often make the players who go to the second wasteland cry bitterly, not to mention the wasteland before the goddess!

But as the so-called starving cowards to death, for the players who don't die, the danger is not worth fearing at all, as long as they can get benefits, not to mention a mere copy, even if they go up the knife mountain and go down to the sea of fire, they are not afraid of "color"!

For example, in the famous European DND series of worlds "Abyss Blood War", the army of players full of locust spirit has swept through many places by virtue of the two advantages of numbers and immortality, and even killed many powerful hell lords - whether it is demons or devils, in the face of the player's human sea attack, they can only pray that their territory is not too close to those unkillable humanoid locusts, otherwise even the abyss giants or hell lords will not be able to prevent them from being crushed by the player army. In fact, even Okas, one of the Three Sovereigns of the Endless Abyss, where the demons lived, had been defeated and fled by this terrible army of undead - it was lucky, at least much luckier than his old rival, the first lord of the Nine Hells where the demons lived, because Byr was not only defeated by the players, but also subdued, its body and spirit were sealed in a huge magic array, turning into an unimaginably large magic gem, This, in turn, provides ample mana to the army of players who invade the Underworld......

One or two players are not to be feared, and hundreds of players are nothing, but when the number of players reaches five or even six figures, the quantitative change causes a qualitative change, and it will have such terrifying consequences - by the way, the number of resident players in the Abyss Blood War is difficult to calculate, because that world overlaps with the Western part of the Blood War Battlefield. In other words, players can fight directly from the Bloody Battlefield where about a quarter of the inhabitants are made to the Abyssal Bloody World...... Even if you just consider the European region, the number of active players in the bloody battlefield is more than 100 million!

If there were so many players in the world of the goddess's sideways, then both Odin and Loki would have been eaten alive a long time ago, and there would not be even a relatively large fragment left, but fortunately, there were far fewer players here, which made "adventure" possible.

Cheng Peng and the others repaired in the "North Wind" village for a day, while inquiring about the news from the adventurer players who had already broken into the ruins of Akudain but returned with their halberds, while investigating the information from the NPCs, and at the same time preparing some things that might be used.

[Akudeon Ruins: The ruins of the legendary sealed giant magic crystals.] Although many people have entered the area to explore and gain access to the power of this magic crystal, no one has succeeded so far - the vast majority of survivors have not even been able to find the magic crystal, does it really exist? 】

This hint is easy to obtain, just go to the only tavern in the village and have a drink or two, and give the tavern owner and waiter, a middle-aged uncle, a silver coin or two, and he will mysteriously tell you the legend of the "Sealed Land".

Over the past few years, many players who have been confident in their character have visited the tavern in an attempt to get more information from the boss, but none of them have succeeded - including Shen Qi and Levi.

Levi has always felt good about himself, and the image he has built for himself in his mind is about the combat power infinitely close to Cheng Peng, the prodigal son, Wende, the prodigal son, the wisdom is so-so, the wisdom is equivalent to the poisonous army master Xu Tu, and the luck should be similar to the good luck sister Bai Yu...... And so on and so forth

Based on this apparently completely wrong understanding, it was only natural that Levi would try his luck in the tavern, where he could only seat a maximum of twenty people from morning to night, drinking almost twenty taels of bad wine and eating countless food, and finally getting nothing but the fact that the boss's uncle, who was full of favorability, enthusiastically introduced himself to the young adventurer, who was said to have gone out to be an adventurer's daughter.

As for Shen Qi, she just went over to talk to the boss for a few words, and then gave him a sum of money. No one knows why this intelligence expert spent money in vain, only that she smiled mysteriously when she left, and seemed to be in a good mood.

"Go ahead and ask!" Li Wei, who returned in vain, said to Cheng Peng.

Cheng Peng refused, he didn't like to ask about other people's affairs. Everyone is now a member of the same adventure team, and if Shen Qi thinks this matter will help this expedition, she will naturally tell everyone about it.

Driven by curiosity and unwillingness, Levi instigated him to be good at "sex" with women. Wende, who was negotiating, went to inquire, Wende looked at Shen Qi, then at Cheng Peng, shook his head, and went back to the hotel to chat with Miss NPC waiter.

The other members of the adventure team are also making their own preparations, they are all first-class masters, completely different from the "senior adventurers" who are accustomed to using death to open the way in the village at this moment, they have rich experience in battles and adventures, and their preparations for adventure are enough to make those adventurers who are called senior rookies ashamed.

In fact...... Maybe those people don't understand this, it's just that they probably think that horizontal and vertical players are immortal, so why waste resources to prepare those things? It's even quicker to die after reaping some benefits! Adventure 31

Maybe they rarely have the sense of accomplishment of getting through the dungeon after a difficult adventure, but they have a relaxed and casual atmosphere that Cheng Peng can't enjoy. Everyone has their own way to play, as long as you are happy, there is nothing bad.

"It really doesn't seem like it should come out of your mouth, don't you admire the most important thing about hard work?"

"Although I am like this myself, I also envy those who are at ease - it is natural that the birds envy the swimming fish."

“…… I didn't think that kind of emotion should be for people like you. ”

"Don't think of me as an iron-minded and cold-hearted weirdo, I'm just an ordinary young man!"

The above is a conversation between Shen Qi and Cheng Peng.

While they were chatting like this, the team had already set off and walked through the cold forest.

The history of this forest is very old, even older than the remains of the deep forest. It was originally just an ordinary cold deciduous forest, but when the ruins were formed, they were distorted by powerful magic and turned into a forest with some temperate characteristics - which is why many people speculate that the ruins still contain powerful magical treasures, because the forest still maintains a completely incongruous appearance with the surrounding climate.

The main entrance to the ruins of Akudeon has been completely destroyed, and large piles of boulders have been crumblingly stacked on top of each other, smashing players who try to climb directly into meat sauce on more than one occasion. After several failures, even casual adventurers who had taken the path of death gave up on the main entrance and honestly entered through a small door dug under a cliff on the side of the ruins.

Several magicians worked together to inject magic into the mechanism in the doorway, and after a while, the heavy iron door slowly rose with a tooth-aching sound.

A group of mermaids rushed in, and they came to a building full of oppressive atmosphere.

They should be in the sewers of this ruin now, but the original dirty sewers have changed over time, and the debris and sewage have long since disappeared, and the ground is thick with dust, and there are many scattered footprints in the dust, which were left by the previous adventurers.

Some gray shadows staggered through the sewers, monsters formed by the mutual penetration of magic and miasma, according to the information gathered from adventurers, the strength of these monsters is roughly equivalent to the appearance of a five-star mid-level, for the average player, it is not too dangerous, but it also needs to be treated with care.

As usual, casual adventurers tend to avoid unnecessary attrition by bypassing these unhurried enemies. But today they didn't need it, because Cheng Peng and the others who were traveling with them only sent two people, and they swept away the monsters along the way - almost all of them were killed in seconds.

This made the adventurers move forward much faster, and also made the adventurers outside the team look at Zhang Channian and Qiao Xi with a little more awe.

However, they didn't know that there were still many ...... in this team of such a strong person

A few minutes later, under the prompt of the system, Cheng Peng and the others passed through the glowing gate and actually entered the copy called "The Ruins of Akudeon".

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