Chapter 18: Ruins: The Scarlet Battlefield

When the darkness that obscured his vision cleared, Su Nian found that he was already standing in the square in the center of Purgatory City.

At the same time, a flurry of prompts came to mind.

[Faction Tip (Purgatory City): Free time is exhausted, and it takes half an hour to go to the waypoint to enter the world of decay to start the main quest. 】

[Faction Hint (Shadow City): It has entered the purgatory perception monitoring range, and the Shadow City function is enabled to sleep and shield the state.] 】

[Faction Hint (Shadow City): Godhead Sequence Talent "Butcher", automatically modified to Extraordinary Talent Ability.] 】

"Good guys, it can even hibernate automatically."

Surprised, Su Nian called out his personal panel and found that the information on it had changed.

【Su Nian (Human)】

Faction: Purgatory City

Satiety: 88 (Hungry below 50)

Ember Fire: 41 hours, 17 minutes, 47 seconds.

Physical fitness: 8 (judged by the comprehensive values of strength, physical strength, endurance, and explosiveness)

Spirit Power: 7 (affects Mental Recovery, Cast Speed, and Spell Power)

Elemental Resistance: 0 (affects the final damage determination of Elemental Damage)

Extraordinary Talent: Butcher

Skill: None.

Comprehensive strength evaluation: Blackstone (one star).

(Enter the monitored area.) )

……

The section on the profile panel about Shadowland has disappeared.

After activating the Butcher sequence, his supernatural abilities are also changed to Butcher, and the switchable Shadow God panel is hidden.

In addition, there is an extra line of "Enter the monitored area" prompt on the dashboard.

Closing the personal panel, Su Nian looked up at the top of his head.

I saw an illusory blood-colored flame hanging above my head, burning violently.

The dark green flame representing Shadow City follows the Godhead and is hidden.

With only half an hour left, he immediately opened the map of Purgatory City and ran in the direction of the Teleportation Square.

The teleportation plaza is on the south side of the outer city, near the outer city shops.

In addition to weapons and equipment from other cities, you can also buy auxiliary healing, amplification potions, and other items.

But he has no idea of buying it for the time being.

He now only has 41 embers, which is 41 hours of decay world life.

If the embers are consumed too much, they may not complete the main story after entering the decaying world, and they will fall into the dilemma of running out of life.

More than 10 minutes later, he arrived at the teleportation plaza.

The Teleportation Square is an area the size of a football field, the ground inside the field is carved with intricate spirit patterns, and the outermost ring of the field is shrouded in a golden transparent barrier.

At this time, a large number of conscripted warriors stepped into the teleportation area, and then the figures quickly dissipated in the teleportation area.

As for where it will be, it's completely random, and the difficulty of the scenario mainly increases gradually with the number of times you explore the decaying world.

At this moment, Su Nian suddenly turned his head to look behind him.

Finding that there was no one behind him, he couldn't help but shake his head, thinking that he was too sensitive.

As the figure passed through the golden transparent barrier, a faint resistance came from the front.

When his body completely passed through the resistance, and his feet landed on the teleportation plaza engraved with blood-colored spirit patterns, a faction prompt came to mind.

[Faction Hint (Infernal City): You have entered the teleportation zone and are teleporting to the world of decay. 】

The blood-colored spirit pattern burst into a brilliant light, and the light enveloped him.

The surrounding scene also became blurry and distorted at this time, and a strong sense of weightlessness hit me.

In a trance, Su Nian saw mountains and rivers quickly paddling in front of him.

When the feeling of weightlessness dissipated, Su Nian found himself standing on a barren plain, where the grass and trees withered, the land cracked, the wind swept the dust and sand all over the sky, and there was a rancid smell wafting in the air.

Looking ahead, I saw a black city standing alone on the plain, with broken flags fluttering in the wind on the cracked walls.

In front of the black city, there was a mountain of white bones, piled up, and there was a dead silence.

Broken Armor...... Broken Weapons...... Broken flag...... It can be seen that there were terrible wars in the past.

It may be a siege battle, or it may be a defense battle, where countless warriors fought bloodily until they died.

[Faction Hint (Purgatory City): Enter the ruins scene "Scarlet Battlefield", with a 2-star waning moon on the difficulty of the scene. 】

[Faction Hint (Purgatory City): Trigger the Ruins Scene Side Quest: Occupy (Destroy) the Source of Corrosion.] 】

Description: Attack the Blood City and destroy (occupy) the Corruption Source Node in the center of the Blood City.

Reward for all participants: 2,000 Blood Embers

[Faction Hint (Purgatory City): Trigger Ruins Scene Side Quest: Necros Buster]

Description: Kill 100 Undead Bone Warriors and obtain their Corrosive Power Cores.

Reward: 500 Blood Embers

[Faction Hint (Purgatory City): Trigger Ruins Scene Side Quest: Evil Buster]

Description: Kill the elite undead creature "Shield Bone" in the Blood City in the special scene, and obtain the corrosive core on the target.

Quest reward (participant allocation): 1200 blood embers + bone shield (skill).

[Faction Tip (Purgatory City): The main quest has been activated.] 】

[Main Quest: Survive for 30 hours in the ruins scene "Scarlet Battlefield" and kill 30 corrosive creatures.】 】

Reward: 72 hours of free time.

……

As can be seen from this series of tips.

The difficulty of the main quest is simply not comparable to the side quest.

While the side quests are high-risk, the rewards are much higher than the main quests.

If you want to keep up with the increased difficulty of the number of explorations, the seemingly optional side quests are actually very important, even necessary.

If you only want to get up and complete the main quest, you will gradually lose track of the Recruited Warriors who are running the same line in the future.

Just as Su Nian was preparing to act, a new prompt popped up in his mind.

[Faction Hint (Shadow City): It has left the strong surveillance area and entered the low surveillance scene. 】

[Faction Hint (Shadow City): Found the ruins scene "Scarlet Battlefield", retrieving the ...... of the scene area. 】

Ruins Scene: Scarlet Battlefield.

Corrosion node location: the central area of the Blood City, which can be occupied by the faction after destruction.

After capturing, the node produces Shadow Ember income: 105/hour.

[Faction Tips: Find a special corrosive life "shield bone (elite)" in the ruins scene, obtain its corrosive core, which can be decomposed to obtain skill marks, which can be included in the Shadow Skill Library. 】

The shadow hint that appeared then made Su Nian call him a good guy.

The comparison shows that the side quests in Purgatory City are all designed from the perspective of interests.

The side quest kills the "Shield Bone" in order to obtain the skill mark on the Shield Bone.

After this skill mark is included in the skill tower of Purgatory City, it can be resold to Recruit Warriors, and the Purgatory God only needs to pay for the embers of the replica skill mark and the transmission of the skill mark, and he can earn the difference from the Recruit Warriors under his hands.

For example, the cost of reproducing a skill after obtaining a sigil is 1, and the selling price is 2, and every time a soldier is recruited to buy this skill, the Inferno God can take a fee of 1.

Compared to skill marks, the greater benefit is the source of corrosion in the Capture Ruins scenario.

The source of corrosion is the energy source that maintains the ruin scene under your feet, and after destroying it, it can be connected to the main city of the faction, and the energy of the corrupted world can be extracted and converted into the embers of the faction.

Suppose he succeeds in destroying the source of the corrosion in the ruins at his feet, and connects the Corrosion node that produces the corrosive power to Shadowcity.

Even if he does nothing while lying down, he will gain 105 Shadow Embers per hour.

24 hours is 2520 Shadow Embers, a month is 75600 Shadow Embers, and a year is .......

Understanding the Decayed World as a massive power station, and the process of occupying the source of corruption is like pulling a line from the power station to connect the main city of the faction.

Deliver the corrosive power that should have been provided to the realm scene to the main city of the faction and obtain a steady stream of energy gains.

Thinking of completing the side quest to occupy the source before giving 2,000 embers, Su Nian sighed in his heart:

"It's so dark."

"That's it, the capitalists don't have purgatory."

At that moment, a familiar voice sounded in his head.