Lloyd was still happy about the upgrade of [Projection], and finally upgraded from a complete marionette to a creep in the game, but he was not happy in the next second.

He found that killing these seemingly ferocious monsters actually only had 1 madness point credited to his account?

Even the mental pollution they normally emit is a pitiful mosquito leg......

At the same time, I didn't get any fragments, and basically the particles were gone.

I know you're all fake, but can you allocate some of the realism to the rewards?

Lloyd was complaining in his heart, but in the next second, more than a dozen monsters appeared out of thin air from the empty street and pounced on him viciously again.

Again?

Lloyd complained in his heart, and the inspiration instantly locked on all the monsters, and then the [projection] roared out again, still solving the battle within three seconds.

One thing to say, although the rewards are few, this kind of grass-mowing combat experience is actually quite cool? There is a kind of thrill of sweeping thousands of armies, which can be very decompressive.

It's just that the blame is a little less, the sense of impact is a little weaker, and the visual effects are a little lacking......

Lloyd was thinking about it, when he suddenly remembered the precautions that Professor Armitage had mentioned earlier—the purpose of this trial was to experience the 'great fear' between life and death, so as to draw the true power from it.

But these monsters are so good that they can't hold out for three seconds in front of their own fourth-order, and they definitely don't pose much of a threat to the other trialists who came in before, right?

No one can feel the pressure and intensity on such a monster, right?

So where do you go to find the 'big fear'? Do you want to scare yourself?

Just as Lloyd was feeling embarrassed by this, a strange line of writing suddenly appeared in front of him, still written in an ancient language that he was not familiar with.

The "Book of Truth" in his mind immediately began to flip and translate a passage for Lloyd:

"Long time no see, my friend."

Well? Is there a story to this trial? These monsters in front of you are just warming people up?

What quest should be triggered next, and how many monsters should I kill in exchange for what reward?

Lloyd substituted the game experience on the other side of the earth, and then complained:

I'm not resistant to the plot.,After all, it's easy to get bored with simple monster farming.,But since there's a plot.,Why don't you set up a village chief.、Female knight、NPCs like beautiful girl adventurers come out to interact with it, right? It's too insincere to use subtitles to advance the plot directly, right?

When he was slandering, a new line of ancient words appeared in the subtitles in front of Lloyd's eyes:

"Oh~ It turns out that I recognized the wrong person, you are the one who accepted the inheritance, so please clear the obstacles and come to see me in the depths."

Oh...... It's not that there are no NPCs, but I haven't seen them yet? That's easy to say, but the beginning of this plot is a little too old-fashioned? What kind of plot of ancient times is this?

But then again, this "Book of Falsehood" seems to have been a product of ancient times?

Lloyd complained in his heart, but responded with a smile:

"It's coming, it's coming."

He took the initiative to find a sense of substitution......

Next, he wanders around the ruined ancient city, looking for the NPC who can give him a task.

In the process, no other plots were triggered, but a lot of monsters were encountered, and the aggression and danger more than doubled!

Monsters that used to take less than three seconds to deal with now take six seconds!

Slow is indeed a little slower, giving the monsters a chance to get closer to Lloyd at some distance, but even if they are not directly killed by [Projection], there is still a layer of [Distorted Realm] waiting for them behind......

The monster that finally approached with the sacrifice of his companions, as soon as he entered the range of the [Distorted Realm], he was instantly stunned in place, and then was cleaned up by the [Projection] that quickly returned to help.

But in any case, it can finally make Lloyd feel a little bit of pressure and intensity.

In addition, the mental pollution that these monsters can cause has also increased, and killing one can range from 100 points to 400 points, indicating that the danger of these monsters is also between 1-4, mixed with good and bad.

But the victory is that there are enough of them, and Lloyd just wandered around for about ten minutes, and he easily rose to 2 levels, and the efficiency was not slow.

That's right, how can there be a saying that monsters don't give experience?

Although the real goal of this trip, those precious powers between life and death have not yet been settled, since they can be upgraded, there is no need to worry, let's talk about it first.

Lloyd continued to farm monsters all the way, all the way to the heart of the abandoned city—

There stands a palace, arguably the only building in the city that is still intact, and all that remains is ruins and ruins, which can only be roughly distinguished from the architectural style of the glory era.

The road leading to the palace was a very magically straight avenue, with no bend in between, and Lloyd did not need to find his way.

And there is more than one such straight avenue, there are many in other directions, and the layout of the whole city gives Lloyd the feeling of a stick figure sun, with an unknown number of straight roads leading to the center.

I don't know what this implies, or if the municipal planning here is really so arbitrary......

Lloyd pondered, and then boldly speculated.

This is a temporary space, and the things here must be virtual like those monsters, but the virtual must also have a reference to the original plan, so he thinks that this place should be based on some real ancient city.

Could it be that this strange road plan is also real in history?

In the past, it may have been destroyed by the terrible tide of monsters in that apocalyptic catastrophe, and now the monsters it encounters may be the ripples caused by the tide of monsters?

And the plot I'm currently in may be to rescue the survivors in the city, or clean up the monsters here, right?

Whatever, it must be the kind of old-fashioned and earthy plot anyway.

Lloyd was thinking like this, while continuing to brush the monster, and he was not in a hurry, walking slowly, brushing slowly.

However, he also fully considered the plot he was in, which may be related to the tide of monsters back then, so the closer he got to the center of the city, the more dangerous the monsters he encountered, and the number was more likely to be endless.

So Lloyd, out of prudence, did not wantonly fire on his firepower and use his skills indiscriminately.

Instead, he only uses [Projection] to farm monsters all the way, maintaining the lowest spiritual power consumption, and with the passive spiritual power recovery effect of the holy relics on his body, there is basically no loss.

Coupled with the various dry food and drinks he always has in his storage bag, it will definitely be no problem to cool off for a day here.

It's a pity that those two holy relics that enhance vitality and energy were handed over to others to optimize their appearance, otherwise they wouldn't even have to sleep, and they could brush them for three days and three nights in one go.

Fight! Refreshing! Monster farming! Cooler!

Lloyd walked like this for a while, and only after he had risen to a total of six levels did he stop for a while, and evenly distributed the 30 attributes to [Rationality], [Spiritual Power], and [Cognition], and all three of them were topped to 765 points.

With the increase of a wave of attributes, the [projection] has also become stronger, and it used to take 6 seconds to clean up a wave of monsters, but it has changed back to 3 seconds......

I feel like the speed at which this monster becomes stronger, it seems that it can't keep up with the speed of its own upgrades?

Lloyd couldn't help but want to laugh.

At this moment, a line of ancient subtitles appeared in front of his eyes:

And so it was...... Unexpectedly, many attempts and explorations we made at that time, but in the end, there was hope for success, but it was a seemingly most unreasonable path. ”

Looks like I'm moving on to the next plot node?

According to Lloyd's experience in the game on the other side of the earth, subtitles like this narration may be an important plot guide or a key worldview elaboration.

In short, it is something that needs special attention, and once you miss it, you are likely to miss the key plot and setting.

But this plot is clueless, and it's too riddler, right?

Hurry up and hand over the precious strength I need!

Lloyd smitten in his heart, hoping that he would play the role of a billionaire without parents.

He can only continue to farm monsters, and then the next plot node arrives.

As Lloyd got closer and closer to the palace in the center of the city, and sure enough, as he had speculated before, the monsters began to get stronger and stronger, and the small shrimp with a danger level of 1 was gone, and the minimum was a danger level of 3, and there were already danger levels of 5 and 6.

But these monsters are not fundamentally different from the lowest-level small shrimp in front of Lloyd, as long as their [projection] shot, it is a one-hit kill, which can distinguish them, that is, the more and less crazy value.

This made Lloyd have some self-doubt.

Could it be that my current strength is really so powerful? Danger levels 5 and 6 are just ants?

No, if it's a real monster outside, although it's hard for them to hurt me, their vitality shouldn't be so fragile and killed in an instant by a casual swoop.

So my strength is certainly strong, but the monsters here are also really weak, as if they were specially designed for me to brush experience?

While pondering, Lloyd evenly distributed the 60 attributes that he had brushed over this way to [Rationality], [Spiritual Power], and [Cognition], and the total value had reached 785 points.

Then, he reached out and touched his chest again, feeling the heat coming from there.

It wasn't from him, but from the strange key that had been made into a pendant.

The farther Lloyd walked down that straight avenue, the closer he got to the palace, the hotter the strange key became.

At first, it didn't feel obvious, but it was like a stove.

But the heat didn't make him feel dangerous, and instead of beating gongs and drums, inspiration and weird instincts were a little excited and excited, as if he was about to win a victory, or uncover some treasure, guiding Lloyd on.

Based on his trust in Uncle Cheap, Lloyd had to give up part of his madness and quicken his pace.

And the road under his feet seems to be secretly cooperating with him, and he looked like he had to walk for a long time, but he didn't walk for a few minutes, and it felt like the end was actively coming towards him.

Even those monsters didn't hinder Lloyd much, and they basically reached the end of the road unimpeded.

The line of ancient subtitles that had not been seen for a while also appeared in front of Lloyd's eyes again:

"Come in, Mitzkatok students, the hope for the future of humanity."

This...... Is it a customary flattery of the NPC to the protagonist?

Let's hope the NPC here is a beautiful and cute girl, preferably a noble princess who wears white stockings but no shoes......

With anticipation, Lloyd walked up the steps in front of the palace, his eyes constantly observing the statues on the left and right sides of the steps.

The statues are all in a variety of human forms, with different expressions and movements, some of them are kneeling on one knee, as if gasping; Some are looking up at the sky, as if they are choosing to give up; Some are shaking their heads, as if they are unwilling.

Each one looks lifelike, vivid, as if it will come to life in the next second.

Among them, Lloyd also found a familiar silhouette - his lover Hiltina?

She was holding her chest with one hand and a spear in the other, as if she had just gone through a hard battle, and was already so tired that she was crumbling, and Lloyd felt distressed for a while.

And not far from the sculpture of Hiltina are two other bald heads that Lloyd recognized, namely Bartolo and Professor Armitage......

One of his expressions was frozen in confusion, as if he hadn't figured out the situation yet; The other shook his head, as if wondering what was wrong.

So the sculptures on the left and right sides are the last scenes left here by those trialists before? Similar to the 'Hall of Fame' on the other side of the globe?

But why don't you pick some other people's handsome and sassy pictures, why do you freeze on the frame where people are embarrassed?

Lloyd didn't quite understand this bad taste.

Soon, he walked the last step and saw the last sculpture.

Fortunately, I don't have my own ...... for the time being.

Maybe I don't know which frame to use to show my heroism, right?

Lloyd smiled, walked over to the thick door of the palace, several meters high, and reached out to touch it.

The door slowly opened.

What is revealed inside is a spacious, bright, luxurious study? Looks familiar?

Sitting inside was not a beautiful girl without shoes, but a young man with an ordinary appearance, looking at himself with an interested expression.

But he didn't rush to speak, as if waiting for Lloyd to say hello first.

Hum! Anyway, it's right not to be handsome!

Lloyd said something in his heart, and suddenly remembered that he seemed to have seen each other somewhere?

Then he immediately remembered Professor Armitage's previous advice, and without hesitation, he grabbed the 'cat's claw biscuit' and prepared to crush it.

"Huh!! And so on and so forth! ”

The young man on the opposite side was suddenly anxious, and quickly jumped up, and then stretched out his hand to grab Lloyd.

Lloyd immediately felt that his hands were empty, and the cat's claw biscuits used to save his life had actually disappeared?

"Since I called you over, can I still harm you?"

The young man on the opposite side said with a smile and a smile, and threw away the cat's paw biscuit that appeared out of thin air in his hand, and threw the 'life-saving straw' aside.

(End of chapter)