Chapter 496: Light Labyrinth
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“None shall pa.s.s! All who dare to disturb Lord Yuge’s slumber shall die!”
The ma.s.sive rayman, Cesha descended from the sky, and like the sun, it shot out a million rays of light.
This was Cesha’s unique skill — Illuminate!
Tch-tch-tch—
The HP of Arthur’s party dropped rapidly. Illuminate was a continuous attack skill and originally had a duration of 60 seconds. Despite having been shortened to only 30 seconds after the readjustment, it was still insanely powerful.
The first phase of the battle was a test of the party’s healing abilities!
The battle had begun for real, and players constantly fell. The party’s HP level fluctuated wildly and was highly unstable.
After using Illuminate, Cesha landed on the ground. One of its arms suddenly elongated and slithered like a snake towards the party.
Shluk! Shluk! Shluk! Shluk…
The snake-like arm repeatedly penetrated the players’ bodies, and in the blink of an eye, it had already pierced through a thousand players.
“None shall pa.s.s! Only death awaits you! Hahahaha…”
Cesha laughed maniacally and suddenly lifted its snake-like arm, raising thousands of players into the air. Then, it … ruthlessly smashed them onto the ground.
Without exception, all the players who were penetrated by the snake-like arm died, along with the other players who were caught in its smash. That single strike had caused over ten thousand deaths within Arthur’s party.
“I want all of you dead!”
Cesha’s body levitated into the air, curled up, and formed a light orb.
Badup! Badup!
The light orb that used to be Cesha was beating like a heart
.
“She’s going to use Death Ray after 20 seconds! Everyone, hurry up and cancel her actions!”
A red-clothed High Curse Priest riding atop a blue proto-dragon whelp paused above a platform and shouted out instructions.
The High Curse Priest was an NPC from the Cursing Sect. She was the Messenger of the Glorious Light, Laura!
“Activate your skills and attack!”
The moment Arthur heard Laura’s warning; he immediately gave his orders.
Cesha was unable to endure being attacked by hundreds of thousands of players ultimate abilities. Little by little, its curled body opened up, and it was unable to unleash the team-wiping Death Ray.
The super boss, Cesha, was extremely powerful, and its skills were insanely strong. It would unleash team-wiping skills one after another, and a momentary lapse in concentration would easily cause the party’s annihilation.
“Die!”
Blinding rays of light shot out from Cesha’s body yet again. It was currently unleas.h.i.+ng Illuminate to its surroundings.
The skill was very powerful, and the 30-second duration where it used Illuminate was arduous for the healers. After all, the true challenge of Glory lay not in the boss’s strength, but the sheer number of players.
The so-called Million-men Dungeon was the ultimate test of cooperation.
After Cesha’s second Illuminate, Arthur’s party was reduced by half its original number.
The higher the number of partic.i.p.ants in a battle, the lower the skill requirement of the party. This fact was made painfully obvious by Cesha.
Cesha landed and extended its snake-like arm again.
This time, Arthur’s party had learned from their previous mistake. They no longer stood in a daze and dodged to the sides instead.
The snake-like arm pierced through 500 or so players, lifted them into the air, and slammed them onto the ground…
Cesha’s attack pattern was pretty simple as it only had a handful of skills. However, the difficult part was its sky-high damage. Without the advantage in numbers, the party would not be able to endure her attacks, and thus, their only option was to rely on their numbers to forcefully overcome it!
Illuminate, Death Ray, Snake-like arm attack…
Under Cesha’s machine-like heavy a.s.sault, the death toll of Arthur’s party continued to rise.
When they first arrived they had 500,000 men, now midway through the battle, only approximately 200,000 men remained.
“Dark Wing, do you think they’ll be able to make it?” Flower Underpants was starting to get nervous.
“They will,” nodded Li Yi.
“F*ck it. We should’ve gone before them.” Flower Underpants was frustrated.
Li Yi grinned, “It’s fine. The strategy to fight Cesha is pretty simple, but due to her aggressive attack style, any party who wishes to challenge her would require vast sums of manpower. It’s actually a good thing that we didn’t challenge it this time.”
Cesha’s HP continued to drop, the indicator above its head displayed that its health was below 20%.
Seeing that Arthur’s party was going to make it, the other spectating parties were astounded. One after another, they spat out curses, regretting the fact that they were not the first to attack.
Around 50,000 men remained in Arthur’s party when the powerful Cesha’s HP was reduced to zero. With a pained cry, it plummeted from the air.
Cras.h.!.+
Like gla.s.s, her body shattered into a million pieces.
[Congratulations! Arthur’s Empire’s party has achieved the first kill for Glory’s gatekeeper boss, Cesha!]
The system notification chimed out, and the members from Arthur’s party celebrated with joy. Defeating Cesha was a test of numbers, and defeating it was no simple feat.
The reward for defeating Cesha was almost the same as defeating Spider King. There was no equipment, only Light and Darkness pearls.
“Be careful! I’ve detected the presence of magic! This is… a Teleportation Circle!”
Just then, the NPC Laura suddenly cried out.
Kaboom! Kaboom!
“I have unlimited lives! None shall kill me! Yuge, I shall not allow anyone to disturb you!”
Cesha’s broken body began to coalesce as it flew into the air while chanting an ancient curse.
The entire platform began to tremble, and a thousand pillars of lights rained down from the sky, completely enveloping the platform…
All the players on the platform who were still alive were forcefully teleported away by Cesha.
Though Cesha had the ability to revive endlessly, only the first party to defeat it would receive rewards per instance of the dungeon. Any attempts to defeat it after it revived would yield no rewards. The only reason they needed to defeat it was in order to activate the Teleportation Circle.
Those who had died and were forcefully sent out of the dungeon were in dire straits, as they had to defeat Cesha in order to catch up to the main party…
The players were still in the Ancient Civilization Ruins. However, the raymen were gone. The players who had been teleported were currently located inside a ma.s.sive labyrinth.
It was a ma.s.sive labyrinth that was fully composed of light.
Red, white, blue, black, and many other colored rays of light weaved together to create the ma.s.sive labyrinth.
A countdown timer had begun, and players were required to escape the maze within 15 hours. Failure to do so would cause the labyrinth to explode, and n.o.body was able to survive the blast.
Hiss-Hiss—
Hiss-Hiss—
Hyper Beams shot forth from the walls on both sides. A lot of players were killed by the beams before they could make head or tails of their situation.
The Hyper Beams were extremely lethal, and they dealt continuous damage. Accidentally touching one would instantly reduce a player’s health by half and dodging even a second late would result in their demise.
Hiss-Hiss—
Hiss-Hiss—
Players constantly fell, and their numbers were declining at a rapid rate…
“Everyone from Arthur’s Empire, we’re going into the first pa.s.sage from the left!”
“Everyone from Reigning the World, we’re heading into the first pa.s.sageway from the right!”
“Legendary Tribe! We’re going into the third pa.s.sageway from the left!”
Before long, the major guilds were reacting to the situation. They would rather move forward than to stay where they were. After all, n.o.body wanted to die at the entrance.
“Iron Alliance, we’re going into the fifth pa.s.sageway from the right!”
Li Yi shouted out.
“Those from Century Flower Guild! We’re going to the fifth pa.s.sageway from the right!”
“Huashan Sect! We’re heading into the fifth pa.s.sageway from the right as well!”
“Windcloud Clan, let’s enter the fifth pa.s.sageway from the right!”
“a.s.sembled G.o.ds! We’re ….”
On Li Yi’s command, at least ten parties chose to follow behind him…
Seeing the immense number of people following behind him had made Li Yi drip with perspiration. After all, the light labyrinth was randomly generated, and there were hundreds of thousands of possible paths. Not even Li Yi was completely confident that he could find the exit.
Hiss…Hiss…
Not long after Li Yi and the others entered the pa.s.sageway, several walls comprised of Hyper Beams appeared before them, slowly heading their way…
“Run!”
Li Yi roared, whipping his head around and hightailing it out of there. If anyone touched the walls of light, they would definitely die…
Hundreds of thousands of players were plunged into chaos. At least a thousand of them had rushed headfirst into the walls of light and were reduced into dust.
Once the parties had made it back to the entrance, there was a moment of silence.
“Sixth pa.s.sageway from the left!”
“Hurry up! Hurry up!”
Though Li Yi had gone down the wrong pa.s.sageway in his first attempt, Li Yi’s words still held weight. Enough that several guilds were still willing to follow him.
This time, after walking forward for an hour or so, Li Yi had yet to face any danger.
‘Was his guess correct?’
While the players were rejoicing over their decision, a pitch-black wall of light surged forward from behind. This time, the wall had not come from the front, but from behind instead!
“Those in front, pick up the pace! I’m gonna die soon!” The players at the back were starting to panic.
“How the f*ck can I hurry up? The road ahead is too narrow.”
The pitch-black wall of light mercilessly advanced forward, instantly killing all who touched it.
The wall of light moved faster as time went on, and in a blink of an eye, it had crushed over ten thousand or so players.
Hiss…Hiss…
Another wall of light appeared from the front. The two-p.r.o.nged pincer attack had instantly caused shrieks of panic.
Li Yi turned his body sideways and scurried into a branching path. It was at this moment that the players understood, to avoid the walls of light, they needed to head into the divergent paths.
There were many divergent paths in the pa.s.sageway, but each path was extremely narrow. As such, having hundreds of thousands of players hiding within them was not a feasible option. By the time the two walls of light had collided, they had already caused a death toll of around 200,000 players…
Hiss…Hiss…
The hissing sound constantly echoed out from the labyrinth, and the players’ numbers drastically declined…
Ignoring the other guilds, Iron Alliance’s death toll was already over a hundred thousand.
“What the f*ck! What the f*ck! What on earth is this labyrinth?! There isn’t a single guide, so how are we supposed to know where to go?! F*cking rubbis.h.!.+”
Flower Underpants cussed angrily.
Li Yi chuckled heartily, “Well, let’s depend on our luck.”
Hundreds of thousands of players had died following Li Yi, and not many guilds were still following behind Iron Alliance.
Only those from Hua Feihua’s party were still adamant about following behind Li Yi.
Hua Feiwu had already died long ago.
Hiss…Hiss…
Another Hyper Beam wall appeared from the front. However, the wall was not completely formed. Instead, it only consisted of the upper half.
“Crouch down!”
Li Yi shouted loudly and fell to the ground. The players behind him were still confused, but when they saw their leader crouching, they followed obediently.
Hiss…Hiss…
The Hyper Beam wall flew past their heads, keeping them unscathed.
Fortunately, their party did not contain any Giants. Otherwise, they would have died even while crouched down…
Hiss…Hiss…
Another Hyper Beam wall appeared in front of them. This time, it only consisted of the lower half.
“Prepare yourselves! It’s time to jump!”
Once the Hyper Beam got near him, Li Yi leapt over the wall effortlessly.
Boom! Cras.h.!.+ Whirr! Buzzz…
The players behind him had suffered a tragic fate. Despite only being a simple jump, for those with lackl.u.s.ter reflexes, it was deadly.
Some had jumped too early and ended up landing onto the wall. Whereas, others had jumped too late, and had gotten hit by the wall. There were even some that had jumped directly into the wall…
The simple wall of light was already enough to cut the parties’ number in half…
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