Chapter 39: Breaking Through the Fog (Part II)
"These trinkets can be sold for more than 500 gold coins in the caravan, and a beautiful statue is worth more than 1,250 gold coins. I didn't expect you, as a businessman, to be so keen, and you can find these forgotten ancient crafts in many inconspicuous places. Audrey looked at Priyanka after sorting the contents of the box and putting them into the package she was carrying, and couldn't help but admire.
"Merchants are good at discovering overlooked objects and rediscovering their original value, but without everyone as reliable teammates, I have no chance of touching these cute and beautiful little things. Or Audrey you are the best, able to bring us together effectively and organize the exploration. You see, we have almost no stress so far, and the health is also full, and these are all due to Audrey. Priyanka said politely with her big beautiful eyes.
Audrey didn't speak, she didn't expect that this time the newcomers would have such a big gain as the first time to enter the ruins. Not to mention the property, Priyanka, a merchant class, can get more money and trinkets after almost every battle, and she has a talent for opening treasure chests, and she can search for gems and statues with higher value from places and mezzanines that are unpredictable to ordinary people.
But the most valuable in the team are Eun and Shen, who are critical hits almost every time they shoot, both of them are double the constants, whether they attack or add health. Along the way, all the stress generated by walking and encountering enemies was cleanly removed in the skill critical hits. So far, almost all of the supplies have been used for interactive use of the ruins, and there is no place for their own use.
But exploring this thing has never been easy, and soon the team runs into trouble.
"Oops! It's gargoyles and ghouls!Damn, how can such a thing be in this low-level ruin?Is it because my class level is too high, and we can meet such a low chance of encountering an enemy?!" Audrey couldn't help but nervous as she looked at the monster in front of her with stone-like skin, long horns on its head, wings on its back, a sharp spike at the end, and eyes like rubies.
"Attention, everyone! These are gargoyles and ghouls, mid-level monsters in the ruins. Gargoyles have a high speed and high attack and a very high chance of being stunned. Ghouls, on the other hand, are pressured and have a very high single attack. Audrey began to warn everyone.
Gargoyles and ghouls are easy to distinguish and have different skin from gargoyle stones. The ghoul was huge, tall and strong, almost twice the size of a gargoyle, and his body was like a dried corpse, and there were more than a dozen human heads and skeletons fused with his chest, and they kept opening their mouths, as if to tell everyone something, and their claws were red, all of which explained the danger of this monster.
"Shen, you're in charge of reducing the ghouls' damage, and we'll focus on getting rid of the two gargoyles before dealing with them. The gargoyle has a high resistance to corrosion and bleeding, and the probability of dodging is also high, and the speed is fast, Priyanka, you must be careful, use the Seek Protection skill, and you must not let the gargoyle attack you!" Audrey took the lead in attacking the gargoyle, but after being dodged by it, her face turned a little pale. She regretted a little, after the success of the team in the early stage, she was really careless, in the face of such a powerful monster, she didn't prepare in advance, and she could only expect that the psychological quality of the newcomers was extremely high, and they would not collapse easily.
"Okay!Well, very good!It's another critical hit!I'll drink the medicine first, temporarily increase the hit attribute of my skill, you resist first!" After Audrey's first mistake, she could only take out her own potion and decide to temporarily increase her attributes, so as to ensure the hit rate, but saw that En, who was an ascetic over there, made a critical hit and hit a gargoyle.
It's just that because En's skill level is too low, the gargoyle is particularly damaged because of the petrification of the skin, reaching 75%, that is, three-quarters of the damage has been cut, and the damage caused by this blow is not very high, and the gargoyle was not killed at once, except for En, no one on his side can attack, so he can only wait for the next opportunity. Now it looks like even if all goes well, it will take four or five rounds to take out the two gargoyles.
But accidents always happen suddenly, and as the battle progresses, Audrey realizes that the ghoul doesn't even use a single damage attack, and all it uses is all the pressure attack skills. As the battle continues, the pressure on your own team will automatically increase every turn due to the presence of a special monster like it. Under the double superposition of auto-boost and full pressure attack, it was only after the two gargoyles were eliminated that Audrey reacted, and as the most vulnerable companion Pyaka, the pressure was almost at full value.
The pressure is full, and then the rules will make a judgment of human nature, seducing the deepest desires of human nature, and if you can't pass it justice, you will go crazy, and then the whole team will collectively start to automatically increase the pressure every turn. At this time, if there is no effective means of lowering blood pressure or killing monsters, then it is foreseeable that there will be a chain reaction, and all the people in the entire team will become full of pressure in a very short time, and then they will be judged by the rules, and if they can't pass it, they will go crazy again. In the end, the whole team went crazy, used skills indiscriminately, and finally wiped out on the spot, and many adventurous teams never returned.
"Damn, am I going to die here?!no! I have to get out!" Audrey pale, she would not allow herself and the three young professionals to be ruined in the first exploration.
"Attention, everyone, the pressure is high, give up this fight immediately. Shen, use the health skill on Pyaka, if there is a critical hit, it will reduce the pressure on you and her a little, I will try to use the professional skill to escape this battle, and then we will turn back. Two rounds, we only have two rounds left. Looking at the lone ghoul on the other side, Audrey sighed, it was time to give up, even if she successfully escaped back, everyone would have to lie in the hospital for half a month because of the high pressure.
"Don't, don't!" At this moment, Audrey suddenly saw Eun Gao raise his right hand, and his blood-stained right hand grabbed into the air fiercely, and a blood-colored light flew up from Pyaka's head, and fell on Eun's right hand, and his blood-colored right hand became even more bloody.
Audrey knew that this was an ascetic's anti-blood pressure skill, absorbing the pressure of others, turning it into half of the original one, and adding it to herself. If at other times this is a magic skill to bring the dead back to life, but according to the opening and hanging mode of En's second critical hit, then the pressure absorbed this time must be extremely large, even if it is reduced by half and added to En's own body, En will definitely exceed the full value of pressure!
Sure enough, a critical hit value burst out of Priyakka's head, and a full forty points of pressure was sucked out of her, and in an instant, Priyaka's pressure dropped back to more than forty, which was in a safe range, and half of these pressures were transferred to Eun's body. After Eun's right hand absorbed the twenty pressure value from Pyaka, it suddenly exceeded the upper limit of the pressure value of one hundred, and a blood-colored light emerged from the top of his head, instantly illuminating the battlefield.
"It's over~" A miserable smile appeared at the corner of Audrey's mouth, it is estimated that the ascetic cultivator will go crazy, fortunately, the pressure of Shen and himself is not very high now, and he can still support two rounds, and he has to successfully use his skills in the two rounds as soon as possible to make the team escape.
However, just as Audrey was discouraged and ready to flee the battlefield with this team of newcomers who were about to collapse after the first exploration, a burst of music suddenly sounded at the scene.
A singing and music of praise came from the air, and beautiful white flowers fell from the void, and a holy smell emanated from Eun's body.
"Divine grace?!" Audrey's eyeballs are about to burst out of their sockets! This is a divine grace that is far more effective than the positive judgment of human nature! The pressure value will trigger the rule to observe the heart of the professional, and if the person's justice value is far greater than his selfishness, this will lead to a justice judgment.
However, everyone is an adventurer who has come to the Raven Territory in search of wealth and delusional inheritance of the status of an earl, and who can be better in character? Audrey has only seen one person who can often inspire positive judgments, and that is the veteran Barristan, a professional who has given up all offensive skills and devoted himself to protecting his companions. It can often inspire positive effects in stressful and desperate situations, save a companion from danger, and now there is another grace.
No, En is even more terrifying than Barristan, he has not only inspired his righteous heart, but has received complete divine grace.
At this moment, Wang Chengen's whole body exuded white light, and all the blood stains on the blood cloth on his body turned golden, as if he was not wrapped in the blood of humans and monsters at this moment, but the blood of gods.
A faint chant of praise came from him, and suddenly the other three people in the entire team also lit up with a white glow. In that white brilliance, the blood on the three of them quietly faded a lot, and after the brilliance disappeared, the pressure value of the three suddenly plummeted by twenty. And the patron of the "Divine Grace" itself has been reduced even more, and the pressure value of forty has been subtracted at once, and the whole team is safe at once.
Wang Chengen saw the reminder of the rules to himself at this moment: you have obtained the status of "Divine Grace", the resistance of all negative attributes is increased by 50%, and the first 50% chance of each action during the battle will automatically heal yourself or your companions once, without consuming the number of actions. This status will continue until the end of the expedition.
This is the advantage that Lu Xihua gave to the two of them, and it is something that conforms to the rules of the Fragmented World, but is above the rules of the world. Because in this world, the heart of justice exists, and so do the gods, as the so-called rules of battle, it is a shackle imposed by the ancient gods on the professionals of this world.
On top of this rule, Lu Xihua strengthened it and added it to his two subordinates, so that every time he was judged, he automatically received the highest reward. Wang Chengen was a little vague at the moment and knew the reason why Lu Zhenren put the two of them in this world. What is needed is to be familiar with the rules here, master the rules here, and formulate the rules here.
It is the master of the world, and in a word, it is the law of the world! It is all based on the transformation of the heavens and the earth, and the fortune of prosperity and decline. All things in the universe are not transformed by rules, do not stand according to form, do not act with strength, do not wait to be born and exist, do not die with death, are stars in the sky, rivers and mountains in the earth, ghosts and gods in the dark, and revert to human beings in the light. Words come out of the mouth, that is, Tianxian, this is a golden road to cultivation!
At this moment, Wang Chengen looked solemn and bowed slightly towards the void, then turned to the ghoul in front of him and said, "Shen, our time has come. ”
He Shen saw that Wang Chengen turned into a state of divine grace because of the pressure value, but he suddenly seemed to have figured out something, and suddenly felt a sigh in his heart, this big eunuch is really clear-minded, could it be said that he has seen through something? What do you know that I don't know? Lao Wang, Lao Wang, you are also amazing, no, after I go back, I have to have a good relationship with you.
As the so-called Seven Tricks Exquisite Heart is not as good as an ordinary heart, He Shen was confused by the environment because he was too smart, and he did not comprehend the mysterious and mysterious way of cultivation in time. It's no wonder, after all, he hasn't encountered the possession of divine grace, and the so-called momentary epiphany is impossible to talk about.
The pressure growth crisis is gone, and the next thing is much easier, because of the existence of He Shen in the previous battle, the damage reduction effect was superimposed on the ghoul for several rounds in a row, and now the ghoul's damage reduction state has reached -90%, that is, the ghoul's attack damage is only one-tenth of itself, and the other nine-tenths are controlled.
And because ascetic Wang Chengen is possessed by the "Divine Grace" state, every time it is his turn to make a move, he will automatically add blood to a companion, and all team members will also automatically reduce a certain amount of pressure per turn. Audrey immediately decided not to kill the ghoul immediately, but to use the monster to delay the battle time and reduce the pressure on the team to zero.
Finally the ghoul roared, and fell to the floor of the passage in reluctance. The merchant Priyanka couldn't wait to go up to inspect the light group, ready to collect the loot, Audrey breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Fortunately, Eun obtained the 'divine grace' in time, which not only made our team not escape, but changed the tide of battle in an instant, and the threat of pressure value no longer existed, destroying this difficult monster." I didn't expect everyone to encounter ghouls when they first entered the ruins, or because our team's output attack was not enough, if En's attack was higher, Priyanka could also output attacks, and the gargoyle would be eliminated within two or three rounds, so we wouldn't be in danger just now. ”
Looking at the grace of a body of blood cloth that has all turned into white gold, from a masochist to a holy warrior, Audrey knows that this exploration has been successful, with the superposition of the "divine grace" state, everyone basically does not have to consider the problem of pressure in the follow-up battle, and there is also an extra helper for random healing, Shen can also free his hands to attack, even if he encounters the most powerful monster in the low-level ruins, he is not afraid.
"Come and see, everybody, see what I've found!" Priyanka let out a shout of delight, drawing everyone's attention to it.
Audrey immediately stepped a little, her body was like a cigarette, floating silently, and she jumped in front of Priyanka.
I saw that a square leather the size of a palm in Priyanka's hand was glowing, and all kinds of strange lines were drawn on the leather, and it was also marked with a mess of various color symbols, which looked like a map. Audrey gently took the leather, and the name of the thing came to mind: "Map of the Ancestors" +25% Trap Clearance, +25% Scout Chance, +10% Stress Damage.
This is an accessory for scouts to be worn to increase the chances of the exploration team finding treasures, traps, and chambers in the ruins. The first two are positive, and the latter is negative, i.e. the member wearing this item will increase the pressure by 10% more than normal when the pressure value increases. This is also a kind of world rule, no matter what is good or bad, the more powerful the thing, the negative effect it comes with is also powerful, so the professionals who explore the ruins will only carry the right jewelry every time, rather than blindly pursuing powerful accessories.
This reconnaissance ornament can be used by Audrey and Priyanka, and it can have a corresponding effect when placed in the package.
"Priyanka, take this ornament. You, as a treasure merchant, have the highest sense of smell for money and possessions. It's a pity that this thing adds stress damage, which is fortunately only 10%, but you can't carry other accessories that increase stress damage in the future. This time there is a grace that can decompress us, and other times, this terrible accumulation of pressure can bring down the whole team. Audrey explained as she handed the leather back to Priyanka.
"Hmm~ Thank you, Audrey, I see. Along with the "Map of the Ancestors", there were several valuable gems of various colors and three ancient statues, and the whole team received more than 10,000 gold coins worth of the proceeds of the battle alone, which was simply amazing, and Priyanka was ready to put the "Map of the Ancestors" into the package with a proud laugh.
At this moment, I heard a voice sound, "Is it a negative effect? I think I have a way." ”
Audrey and Priyanka looked up at the voice, and saw that it was the handsome middle-aged man, the occult scholar Shen, who spoke, and saw that the skull pill bottle in his hand at this moment emitted a faint blue light, and there were silver dots in the azure liquid flickering, as moving as the blue ocean in the sun.