East could see that the teams that had surpassed them along the way were clearly divided into two categories. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

One is those teams who enter the Four Seasons Half-Plane and don't plan to take a step forward, but just want to collect special products here and make a small fortune.

The other category belongs to the real adventure team. They are eager to get a chance to change their fate from the White Tower Competition.

As a result, the second type of team tends to be shorter and more equipped than the first team, with at least a weight-reducing backpack and a pocket for long-term food storage.

Because compared to the four seasons half-plane with beautiful scenery and abundant products, the rest of the half-plane is not such a pleasant environment.

Comparing the number of teams between the two groups, Esther found that the first group had a larger number of teams. That is to say, every year when the White Tower Climbing Competition starts, most of the players have just entered the competition venue, and they lie on the ground, waiting for the game to end, and are carried away on a stretcher.

The stretcher here refers to the measures prepared by the Alchemist Guild to end the competition. The release period of the seal inside the White Pagoda can only last for a short time at a time. Basically, it's a day in Coronya time. Although many days may pass in the half-plane due to the speed of time, for the alchemist on the outside, the total time is only one day. When the seal lifting time is over, all the contestants who can't come out early and are still wandering around in these unbound half-planes in the White Tower will be trapped inside and will not be rescued until the next seal lifting period.

To prevent this from happening, the Alchemist's Guild has attached an emergency teleportation spell to each contestant's certification badge. Whenever it senses that the time for the seal to be lifted is about to end, it activates this spell and teleports all the contestants in the White Tower. However, this teleportation spell has limitations. It can only search for players in known half-planes. If the player runs into a half-plane that has never been marked by the Alchemists' Guild, the teleportation spell will not work.

The Four Seasons Half-Plane happens to be the clearest of all the unbound half-planes. Every year, after the White Tower Competition, Colombo even has a sales boom of four-season half-plane specialties.

Staying in the Four Seasons Half-Plane and waiting for the tournament to end is a safe and lucrative option for the first team.

It's just that such a team can be said to be useless for exploring the unknown world inside the White Tower.

From the knowledge gained from his previous life, Esther could think that since the Four Seasons Half-Plane had so many outputs, and it was marked so clearly, that it could even be reached through the teleportation circle, then why not pull it out of the White Tower and use it as a bound half-plane?

After talking to Reynoldsen about the issue for a while, Esther fully understood.

The Four Seasons Half-Plane is a delicious bait left by the Alchemist Guild to the participants of the White Pagoda Competition.

The exploration of the interior of the White Tower has been going on for thousands of years. But because of the existence of the seal, there is only this short time to explore every year.

In order to expand the scope of exploration as much as possible, the Alchemist Guild can only find ways to mobilize the enthusiasm of more people and get them to devote themselves to the process of exploring the White Tower.

But just imagine, if the first half-plane entered by the White Pagoda Contest was a terrible place where the sky was dark and the undead walked every day, then how many people would want to continue exploring here?

In order to maintain people's enthusiasm for the Ascending White Tower Competition, the Alchemist Guild has come up with a clever solution. That is to use a special half-plane as the first stop on the journey of exploration.

In order to determine this half-plane, the Alchemist Guild can be said to have put a lot of effort into it. In the end, they chose the Four Seasons Half-Plane as a sample to demonstrate the allure of the White Pagoda Competition.

For the people of Coronia, the four seasons are not only rich in bounty, but also full of strange scenery and natural beauty. Contestants who come here will naturally have a beautiful reverie about the rest of the unknown half-planes.

And the abundant output of the Four Seasons Half-Plane is also the first round of preferential treatment for the contestants. Even if you don't find anything, and you don't get an excellent ranking, as long as you harvest a batch of local products in the Four Seasons Half-Plane, then a small amount of income will fall into your pocket.

And such a generous treatment naturally attracted many contestants. Many of them, after seeing the various specialties that their neighbors and friends had taken back from the Four Seasons Half-Plane, threw themselves into the White Pagoda Contest under the dual domination of envy and jealousy.

Man's desires are endless. The souvenirs of the four seasons and a half plane can only make people make a small amount of money after all. And as more and more people enter the Four Seasons Half Plane, this small amount of money is also shared by more people. But in any case, the concept of making a fortune by participating in the White Tower Climbing Contest has been imprinted in the minds of all Coronians through countless people who have returned from the Four Seasons and a Half Plane.

With this concept, in addition to the hermit masters who really treat money as dung, many Coronians almost regard the White Tower Climb as an annual carnival of fortune.

The temptation of the dream of making a fortune has made more and more people choose to participate in the White Pagoda Competition.

As for the problem of many of these teams staying still after entering the Four Seasons and a Half Plane, the Alchemist Guild has certainly noticed it. But for the sake of a good reputation, they can't force these people to go deep into the White Tower. However, because the total base has become larger, the depth of exploration of the Baita layer has made more progress year by year.

After walking for so long, Esther realized that he had never encountered even a large beast. This indicates that the Four Seasons Half-Plane has definitely undergone a thorough cleanup. Those creatures that are threatening and unfriendly to the contestants have been completely wiped out by the Alchemists' Guild.

In order to create the tempting incense bait of the Four Seasons Half-Plane, the Alchemist Guild seems to have invested quite a lot of money!

Now that you have invested in bait, the next road will definitely not be so smooth.

The next half-plane will definitely not be as friendly as the four seasons, and it can even be said that it should be a sieve to sieve out all the teams that are incompetent.

After five hours of trekking, a large expanse of land covered in gray rocks appeared in Esther's sight.

As far as the eye can see, it is a dead land, on which no plants can grow, and naturally there is no sign of animal activity. It is as if you are in two worlds with the beautiful scenery and the vibrant land behind you.

"Eyes of Ashes!" Reynoldson took a deep breath. "Every time I come here, I feel very bad. ”

"How did this happen?" Esther looked at the scene in front of him, immediately confirming that it couldn't have been natural.

"The artifact exploded. An evil artifact has fallen here. Reynoldsen seems to know a lot about this.

"In the original four seasons and a half plane, the four seasons were in the four directions of southeast, south, northwest, and northwest, rather than being mixed together in a chaotic manner like now. However, according to the records of the guild, three thousand years ago, the first master of the Four Seasons and a half-plane and an evil god envoy fought here. The evil artifact brought by the evil god messenger was completely destroyed and fell here, causing a half-plane riot. As for the Evil God Messenger and the owner of the half-plane, it is said that they were also affected by the energy that erupted when the artifact was destroyed, and turned into gray rock. ”

"Is the artifact so powerful?" Esther looked at the gray ground as far as he could see, but his heart was suspicious. The Raven God Curse Cloak on his body doesn't seem to be that strong.

"It's an evil artifact, something made for destruction and destruction. Even the evil gods themselves could not suppress the evil artifacts they had made. That kind of thing is just a bomb. In short, if you encounter a guy with an evil artifact, be sure not to engage him. The unstable nature of the evil artifact will destroy that fool within a year. ”

A gray earth seems to affect people's mood. Alfrin, who was the most active member of the team, was in no mood to play tricks on Monica right now. Only Sonia is still unaffected and high-spirited, walking in the forefront, constantly cheering for everyone.

In the Greystone area, the density of the queue has dropped significantly. The teams that are really in a hurry should have left the four seasons through the portal at the bottom of the Eye of Ashes at this moment, and many teams will not come to this barren area at all.

Reynoldsen's acquaintances have gradually decreased. Only about two-thirds of the teams encountered now will have people take the initiative to greet the old man, and the rest of the teams, after seeing their team on the road empty-handed, all made a vigilant appearance.

Yes, the sight of the team walking empty-handed on the path to the Eye of the Ashes made them have to be alert.

Each of Easter's entire team carried only a small backpack with some water and food, plus miscellaneous small things. Whether it is the camping equipment, emergency drinking water, or the most conspicuous symbol of the competitor who stepped into the eye of the ashes, the weapon, there is no trace of it on the body of this team.

Either this team is a fool who has killed themselves, or only with a large amount of space equipment can they travel lightly.

And the team with a large amount of space equipment must surpass those ordinary teams in terms of the average combat power of the rest of the equipment and teams.

To make matters worse, because of the large amount of space equipment, the team will not have the selection problems that ordinary teams tend to have when it comes to carrying loot. This means that they can swallow the spoils of other teams without hesitation.

In the previous years, there have been several teams that are not taboo in meat and vegetables. They relied on the superhuman equipment in their hands to recklessly plunder the rest of the team's harvest. And the common feature of these teams is that the members are generally very young, most of them are the children of the nobles of the royal capital, and they are arranged by the family to enter the White Tower Trial. And in addition to these young people, there are usually a few older guys in the team, who are bodyguards sent by the elders of the family, and their strength is absolutely strong.

These young nobles, who had escaped the supervision of their elders, entered the lawless environment of the White Tower, and usually did things that they would never do outside. It's not impossible to attack strangers for no reason.

Easter's party basically fit the characteristics of that kind of team, not only did they appear well-armed, but they all looked young, except for an old man with a lewd smile on his face. And this old man with a smile on his face is more like the kind of guy who hides a knife in his smile.