As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 712 Kirby Eats a Turtle

Inside the castle, the entrance song caused a group of monsters to collapse.

According to the level classification, the current difficulty level of the ninth floor of the dungeon in Castlevania requires players to be level 90 or higher to reach.

But that's not enough to open up this place.

As the introductory song ended, the pixelated city, with its cramped corridors and rooms riddled with traps, saw the monsters that had been guarding it regain their strength.

The most dangerous are the player clones roaming the city.

These creatures, which constitute nine layers of danger, all turned their gaze toward the gates of Demon Castle.

The door slowly opened.

Outside.

Cha Bai pulled himself out of his hat.

She breathed a sigh of relief, thankful that this version of "The New Gian Song" was a low-quality one; otherwise, she would have been left with very low health.

"When I get back, I'll have to figure out how to counter 'The New Gian Song'..."

Cha Bai murmured to herself, stepped out of her hat, and still held Xiao Wu's head in her arms.

If Xiao Wu hadn't had the ability to remove her head, she would have died here. As the music started, she threw her head into the tea-white hat, saving herself the last chance of survival.

Xiao Wu's body lay on the pixelated floor tiles, completely mangled.

At this moment, Xiao Wu's mental state was already somewhat off.

"Cha Bai, put my head back on."

"Are you...can you do it?"

"Put it on."

After Xiao Wu's head was put back in place, she stood up and tightened the connector on her neck.

This scene was like a nightmare in the eyes of Rococo, a "low-level" player. Players at this level have only seen some script bosses with similar bizarre abilities, but they have never seen them on players.

Rococo's construction of the upper structure of the "Endless Corridor" creates a feeling that is hard to look at directly, as if it were a group of ancient gods.

In fact, they are even more incomprehensible than the ancient gods.

Xiao Wu stretched her body and looked at the open gate, where a sign read: "Welcome to Castlevania".

"Welcome, right?"

She walked toward the door.

At this moment, the scene inside the door came into view.

Inside the door was a cramped corridor filled with a large number of monsters, making it far more dangerous than the eighth floor. At the far end, there were player clones.

In theory, this area is not for ordinary adventurers to enter.

A terrifying zone where there is no chance of survival.

But when the lone wolf takes its first step, it signifies that a single superhuman being capable of destroying a nation's army is about to wreak havoc.

Xiao Wu now has only one goal: to kill Marje, to kill him, absolutely to kill him.

She still has "The New Gian Song" on her mind.

"I'll let you welcome me."

Xiao Wu ignored what was inside, drew back the bowstring, and released three [bouncing bullets].

"Welcome! Ah—!"

Xiao Wu roared furiously in front of the gate.

In confined spaces, the [Bounce] is an incredibly powerful weapon; a [Bounce] enhanced with magic can bounce hundreds of times.

Bang bang bang~!

[Bouncing Bomb] A strange sound rang out on the wall, followed by the sound of it hitting the monster. It turned into a slapping sound with a sticky, watery feel, the kind that would be banned if it were audio.

Xiao Wu's eyes turned golden, and she activated her demonic abilities. It must be mentioned here that Li Nuo also possessed demonic abilities, but the difference is that Li Nuo's were impure, while Xiao Wu's were pure. Therefore, Xiao Wu's demonic power follows the established rules, and activating it will produce a feeling of **, which is why she is currently experiencing such great pleasure.

Feeling exhilarated, the girl, her face flushed, drew her melee weapon and headed into the Demon Castle, intending to chop up everything that was breathing in the castle, just like a demon.

Demonization affected her mind; she wanted revenge, revenge for the "path to death."

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

With shouts, Xiao Wu rushed in.

Nanami and Chabai exchanged glances and then chose to ignore it.

"So why did she suddenly go crazy?"

"Nana asked."

"Need I say more..."

Tea-white knows perfectly well what's going on.

The strongest archer of the "Endless Corridor," who had lived for four thousand years and had been tormented by Li Nuo and Marge for almost a year, completely suffered a mental breakdown.

This is the terrifying power of "The New Gian Song".

"The curse of that song ruined her brain."

Cha Bai recalled what Li Nuo had once said about the entrance songs of Castlevania: they were all classics, and every single one of them was unforgettable.

Xiao Wu's current appearance proves the validity of Li Nuo's fallacies.

"Let's go... at least we have a madman to lead the charge."

As Nanami spoke, she carried her stick and walked into the Devil's Castle like the Monkey King.

Cha Bai followed, but paused and turned around.

"what happened?"

She was perceptive and noticed the unease in Olise's eyes.

"You really intend to let me... let me defeat that guy who was playing the music just now?"

"Li Nuo is the kind of person who will make you suffer a lot while giving you inexhaustible wealth for life. Although I don't know what will happen, it's always right to trust yourself."

Ollie paused for a moment.

"Wait, you said you believe in yourself?"

Cha Bai ignored her and turned to walk through the gate.

"Wait a minute! Sis! You know I have a lot of self-confidence!"

Now only Tom and Rococo remain outside the city.

The two did not intend to enter the gate.

They all knew that going any further was definitely beyond their capabilities.

Rococo, in particular, experienced the truth of "extraordinary" from another perspective.

"Mr. Tom... are the strongest people in the 'Endless Corridor' really that crazy?"

Tom smiled.

"They've already been very restrained."

"Is Mr. Adam far inferior to these people?"

At this point, Tom recalled a metaphor that perfectly described the relationship between Lino and Adam.

"Our eldest brother can pull out our captain's rectum with one hand."

Rococo felt like crying. She really didn't want to be a player anymore; she didn't want to become a lunatic.

……

Inside the city, a clone of a player was hiding in a corner.

The clones have no memories of their past and act on instinct, making them not much different from wild animals. Very few of them have awakened their own thinking abilities, and this person is one of them.

His true form is called "Odyssey," the same Odyssey from "XXX Odyssey."

Level 89, a player from the Shafa Guild, is a well-rounded character.

Two strange, wolf-like figures were lurking around him; they were monsters that had always existed in the maze. The three of them hid behind the wall because Xiao Wu outside the wall was too scary.

The narrow corridor was stained red with blood, and behind Xiao Wu were piles of corpses arranged like garbage dumps.

Odysse was somewhat afraid; the terror unleashed by this seemingly weak woman was comparable only to that of an evil god.

The ponytail-braided head slowly rolled past the base of the wall. Odyssey and the two werewolf soldiers froze in place, their expressions gradually stiffening as they looked at Xiao Wu's bowling ball-like head with the eyes of someone who had seen a monster.

Xiao Wu tilted her head and laughed.

"Gotcha!"

Then the headless Xiao Wu rushed over the wall, carrying not a greatsword or a longbow, but a chair!
She's going to smash them to death with chairs!

This woman is completely insane!
No! They're wrong! This woman is mentally ill!
"Help!"

The Odyssey clone roared with longing for life.

"Help!"

Odyssey's mind in Basel suddenly paused, as if his consciousness was being connected to some other being.

Just before being killed by the chair, the clone Odyssey awakened his own consciousness and used his final survival ability in the last moment.

"Re-employment and redistribution!"

Xiao Wu's hand, which was gripping the chair in mid-air, froze.

The sounds of Cha Bai's footsteps and Nanami dragging her stick both stopped in mid-air, as if a progress bar had been cut off.

[Reassignment]

[Assignment complete]

……

【Re-employment, Reassignment】—just from the name, you can tell it's one of the specialties of the "Endless Corridor." Similar ones include Li Nuo's 【Serious Backstep】, Xiao Wu's 【Becoming a Poop】, Soren's 【Glasses and True Form, New Badge!】, Cha Bai's 【Iron Block Man-Made Cannon】, and Marger himself.

They all belong to the kind of absurd abilities that are not clearly aggressive.

【Re-employment, Reassignment】is the ability to rearrange the locations of all creatures within a region, a survival skill, but there are exceptions, such as getting stuck in a wall.

Cha Bai struggled to emerge from the wall, and behind him, a section of the wall collapsed, only to be instantly repaired by pixels.

She saw the window and walked to it. The window was a magical barrier, and since she couldn't use her spatial abilities, she couldn't pass through it to go outside. However, she could see dozens of meters below, indicating that she was currently in a high-rise area of ​​the Dracula's Castle.

Cha Bai saw the entrance from the front, and Nanami was standing in front of the door.

Tom and Rococo's eyes both fell on Nanami.

"Why are you back?"

"do not know……"

Nanami was completely bewildered.

Only she was teleported out of the castle.

[Re-employment, Reassignment] has a special effect: the most unpopular creature in the area will definitely be "dismissed".

Marger was terrified of Nanami, so she was expelled from Dracula's Castle. Luckily, Nanami was unaware of the truth.

At this moment, Marger's projection reappeared on the already closed door.

"Hey... are we going to start the city entrance song again, are we...?"

Just as Nanami was about to unleash her fury, Marje's projection gave her the middle finger.

"Tornado has two fleshy growths on her body, disgusting. Don't come in, my castle doesn't welcome you."

At that moment, Tom saw a long-lost ferocity in Nanami.

"I have to beat you up..."

Nanami frantically attacked the castle's outer walls, while Cha Bai looked up at her with pity in her eyes.

"It seems everyone has been reassigned."

As Cha Bai murmured, the wall not far from her side trembled a few times.

boom--!
Suddenly, the wall bricks shattered, and Olsie burst out from the other side of the wall, raising her hands with a serious expression.

"What the hell is this!"

"Walk."

Cha Bai grabbed Olise's shoulder.

"Sis, where are you going?"

Cha Bai kicked the door open, revealing a bunch of monsters outside, including some notorious newbie killers from certain games, such as the tree guards roaming the corridor.

This guy comes from "Elden Ring". Soulworlds are considered by players to be a bunch of strange script worlds. The fighting style of the creatures there is not as exaggerated as in anime, but their attack power is extremely high.

The tree guard noticed Cha Bai kicking open the door and approaching step by step on his golden-armored warhorse.

Ollie deliberately shrank behind Chabai. "Sis, these monsters are stronger than before..."

Then she saw Cha Bai turn her head to the side.

“Of course, this is the upper level of Dracula’s Castle after all, so the monsters must be very strong, which means the experience points will be higher. Olise, take down all those monsters.”

"what?"

Cha Bai kicked Olise out, then closed the door behind her. Ignoring Olise's cries outside, she touched her earring and contacted Li Nuo.

……

“Good job. We have to let Ollie grind monsters like this, otherwise how will the child grow up?”

Li Nuo sat on a folding stool, drinking tea and watching Arale fight monsters.

"But I always feel that our behavior is like that of a fraud ring."

Cha Bai is still kind.

Li Nuo chuckled.

"We are a fraud ring."

"..."

"What happened over there?"

"The positions are scattered, and Xiao Wu seems to have gone mad because of the City Entry Song."

"Find those guys. I'm almost at Marger. By the way... find as many treasure chests as possible in Dracula's Castle."

At that moment, Arale rushed back from a distance, clutching a bomb in her hand. Li Nuo immediately recognized it as a bomb from "Bomberman".

"Look at this bomb, it can talk!"

Arale was quite happy; the bomb in her hand was about to explode.

Li Nuo panicked. There was swamp gas everywhere, and the walls couldn't be repaired. The power of the bombs in the Bomberman world was currently unknown, but "Teresa's Insight" told him that it was extremely dangerous!
"Stay away from me... Wait! Sis, I'm hanging up now! Don't come any closer!"

The last thing heard through the communicator was the sound of an explosion.

Tea White exhaled a breath of stale air, seemingly speechless.

Sure enough, even Li Nuo was left speechless in the face of such a purely comical creature.

There was no more noise outside.

She then opened the door.

Aulissie was riding on the horse of the tree guard, who was nailed to the wall. The girl was dressed in rough clothes and looked at Chabai with an extremely fierce yet still somewhat defiant gaze.

"Sister... even pulling up seedlings to help them grow is not done like this."

"But you enjoy it."

Cha Bai activated the [Mini Map Chip], and the map of the interior of the Demon Castle was displayed in a flat layout in front of her goggles, visible only to her.

The top floor is quite empty, which is most likely the room where Marger is located. According to the guidance of the [Danger Perception Compass], there are two life forms in that location with an extremely high level of danger.

She speculated that it was Malger and Shafa, or Malger and some other creature.

In addition, there is a high probability of finding treasure chests in the corners and outskirts of the city, as well as in areas guarded by elite monsters.

"Let's go find the treasure chest first."

"What about the rest?"

Cha Bai led the guard's horse and said to Olise on horseback, "They're very capable, there's no need to worry."

……

The words are divided into two parts.

Six floors.

A group of players and the Knights Legion were completely stuck on their adventure route.

The mountain-sized turtle with 200000000 HP that was originally targeted at Li Nuo but was teleported here is impossible to kill because it has too much health.

One player held a calculator, calculating and explaining as he went.

"A knight can lose 100 HP with one strike. We players with higher levels and better weapons can also lose about 100 HP in one hit. Using bombs or similar attacks can reduce its HP by about 500 to 1000."

At this moment, several players crawled out of the turtle's soul gate.

"It has an ecosystem inside, which is very dangerous. Although there are treasure chests, there are a lot of monsters. It's impossible to attack the inside. Even releasing bombs or similar things won't break through its defenses. This thing's internal defense is even stronger than its outer shell."

"In other words, it can only be attacked from the outside."

"How's the team that went to get the eyes done?!"

"no!"

Several players standing on the turtle's head were drenched in sweat.

"The eyes are like diamonds! They must be quite valuable! But you can't pry them off!"

A medical-themed player jogged over, holding a turtle's cell analysis report.

"This old turtle's cells fuse automatically; the more you attack it, the harder it gets!"

"I see."

The player with the calculator finally got the result.

"Based on the feedback from everyone above, this bastard... we'll probably die of old age before we can kill it."

"Don't the adventurers have any other options?!" a knight said in dissatisfaction.

"What method?" The player with the calculator tapped the knight's helmet with it and said, "You tell me, what are you knights good for? We want to curry favor with you, can't you have some self-awareness?"

"You are the experts at hunting monsters; we knights are all about killing people!"

"Pah! You look like a monster to me!"

"Damn it, Commander Robbock, I request permission to beat this kid up!"

"Stop arguing!"

Robbock looked more anxious than anyone else.

"Hurry and find a way to get to the bottom; that female drow is still in danger!"

at this time……

Peters sat on the turtle's back, chin in hand, looking at this group of unreliable guys with a helpless expression.

The girl in black stockings stepped on his shoulder from behind.

"Hey, think of something. Aren't you the will of the maze?"

Do you know what my true self is going through right now?

Peters' answer was irrelevant.

His real body is being checked by an old man to see if he has any money hidden in his belly button... while his clone is being stepped on by a woman in black stockings, having no dignity left.

"Stop talking nonsense, I know you have a way."

"I can give it a try, but you'll have to bear the consequences yourselves."

Peters saw the girl in black stockings nod and was about to use his backup plan, but in that instant, he suddenly wondered why she was being so obedient.
A: Because it's Pokémon.

“This turtle is clearly something brought from another world, possibly from somewhere in the subspace, so we’ll need to use a spatial rift to deal with it.”

"It's summoning magic?"

"No."

Peters stood up. He was a head taller than the girl in black stockings, but he subconsciously moved to a position shorter than her.

“Summoning is a contractual ability. For example, if this turtle were summoned, we could make it disappear by attacking its owner. But the spacetime rifts in the subspace pull other species into this world.”

The girl in black stockings understood; the celestial bodies converged.

"My abilities are rather extreme; I often manage to acquire even more powerful things."

Peters pointed to Hidechiyo in the distance.

At this moment, Hidechiyo was sitting blankly on the rock, helpless against the giant turtle.

“That mute woman is already the upper limit of what I can find normally, but if I add some more ingredients, the things I can capture... will definitely abide by my rules. For example, the rule I set now is to solve the trouble at the bottom of the Great Maze, but similarly, how the things I capture will be dealt with is unpredictable, and may even be dangerous to the whole world.”

Peters summoned the spacetime rift he had left on the fifth floor, reached in, and pulled out a pink sphere.

Kirby.

The girl in black stockings breathed a sigh of relief.

"Great, it's the Pink Devil..."

It's much better than capturing a high-dimensional demon.

Peters was puzzled as to how this little guy could deal with a turtle as big as a mountain, and then Kirby ate the turtle.

One of Kirby's abilities is that the things he devours become part of his own abilities, which is why he became Master Roshi.

This Master Roshi isn't the original. Although he has Rokuten-sensei's design, his skin is pink, so he should be able to use the Kamehameha.

Players are used to abstract concepts and take them for granted.

The girl in black stockings hugged Peters and laughed happily.

"We've found a treasure!"

Hey... what are you doing?!

Peters was a little flustered.

Back to the present, according to normal logic, now that the turtle has disappeared and the blocked passage is open, they should go down to the seventh floor, reach the bottom of the maze in a short time, and eliminate the BOSS (Marger).

But Kirby spat out a player.

This player has been searching for treasure inside a turtle.

He actually found a treasure; this thing had been used by a "Critical One" before, and that guy was called "Kroyd".

That item is called the "skip level button".

Press the button, and the story progress will jump directly to the end of the level.

Before the player could even figure out how the giant turtle had disappeared, he told everyone, "Remember to thank me properly when you get back."

Then he pressed the button.

Players, knights, elves, including Hideyo and Kirby, all the guys involved in conquering the dungeon have arrived at Dracula's Castle.

I don't know who shouted.

"That turtle was beaten for nothing!"

……

The tenth floor sewer system.

Li Nuo crawled out from under the rubble of the sewer destroyed by the explosion and pulled Arale out from underneath.

"Ouch! It exploded!"

"Stop messing around!" Li Nuo actually told others to stop messing around. He pointed to the soot on his face and shouted, "Luckily, it was a bomb that only released curses, otherwise I might be dead here!"

Arale laughed and called out, "I'm sorry!"

Li Nuo really didn't know how to communicate normally with this guy, and just then, the system panel popped up.

【Challenge mission completed】

[There is a chance that "malicious creatures" will appear on each level of the maze. These are monsters that came to this maze from the celestial convergence. If you can defeat them, you will get extra rewards.]

"A challenge mission?"

He glanced at Arale; this mechanical girl was the challenge mission for the eighth floor, while the one for the seventh floor was an orphan, which was the challenge mission that disappeared on the sixth floor…

"What is the challenge quest that disappeared on the sixth floor...?"

Li Nuo was unaware that the challenge was a giant turtle with 200 million HP, which had just been digested by Kirby.

Settlement in progress

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Arale tapped Li Nuo's arm.

"what?"

"There, there!"

Arale pointed to the area destroyed by the bomb, where the walls had not been repaired and there was a dog hole inside.

Li Nuo squatted down in front of the dog hole while looking at the settlement panel.

"Old horse?"

(End of this chapter)