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Chapter 798 Familiar Mask

Only lost this little bit of blood?

Everyone was stunned.

Although Duan Feilan wasn't at his peak, he was still considered one of the best among martial artists. Coupled with the various upgrades and enhancements in the game, the power of this thrust, delivered by his powerful skills, was extraordinary. Shi Lei himself wasn't confident he could withstand it, especially since the combined efforts of the group amplified the power of the thrust. Even if it couldn't instantly kill the monster, the initial expectation was that it would at least reduce its health by a third…

But that's only one-tenth?

This is no longer just a matter of health and level advantage. Duan Feilan was among the first explorers to enter. Although her base stats are not as high as Shi Lei's, her level is higher, exceeding 80. The monster's advantage over her shouldn't be that strong...

"It's resistance!" Mu Ning suddenly shouted, "This guy has extremely high physical resistance! Use attacks of other attributes!"

Before the words were even finished, the monster had already broken free from the giant wolf and the golem's restraints and swung its sword at Duan Feilan!
Just then, Shi Lei struck his shield again to taunt the monster, which had been swinging its sword halfway through, and the monster turned and attacked him again!

With his peak physical condition and powerful equipment, Shi Lei withstood the monster's attacks while shouting, "Quick, find its weakness!"

While the taunt effect was still active, the others immediately tried other types of attacks!

Mulan Shi fired several lightsabers, piercing the monster's body. The decrease in its health bar could only be measured in millimeters. Even considering the level difference, the effect was far too weak. Clearly, the light attribute was the wrong choice!

Mu Ning took out two Molotov cocktails from her backpack and threw them at the monster. Flames blazed up, and the monster's health bar did decrease, but its speed was very slow, so the fire attribute was obviously not right!

Sakura clasped her hands together, dispelling the giant wolf. Using the recovered magic, she created a giant snake and sprayed highly corrosive venom at the monster. The venom hissed and bubbled as it hit her, but it only burned off a thin layer of skin and did not cause much damage.

Acid and poison are not correct either!

Thomas manipulated his mechanical golem, grabbed the monster with both hands, and unleashed an electric shock, but the effect was still minimal...

"What else..." The group continued to take out props and used all the available attributes, but they still couldn't find the right answer.

Seeing that the taunt had worked, the monster roared, turned around and cut the giant snake in half with a single slash, kicked the golem over, and charged towards Mu Ning with its sword!

"You little bastard, your grandpa's right here!" Shi Lei roared again, and with a slam of his shield, the monster was pulled back!

But even at his peak, this monster, as the guard of the fiftieth floor leader, couldn't withstand alone. The others were too fragile to survive even one round of attacks from this monster. He could only rely on taunts to barely hold on...

The others knew this couldn't go on, so they could only try to find the monster's weakness. Just then, Mu Lanshi suddenly said, "Wait, is Mr. Shi Lei's taunt technique really that effective?"

"What do you mean?" the others asked, puzzled.

"Every time the monster's taunt fails, he can immediately taunt again. Does he have no cooldown and can seamlessly switch between taunts?"

“Of course not!” Duan Feilan explained, “But he learned three different taunt skills, which he can use in rotation. And taunt skills have a success rate, depending on the target's mental resistance…”

"Wait a minute..." Mu Ning suddenly realized, "Mr. Shi has mocked us so many times, and he hasn't failed even once..."

Upon hearing this, everyone realized the problem: "This monster's weakness is its mental resistance!"

"So that's how it is!" Duan Feilan exclaimed excitedly, "I've got it now! It's that treasure that was looted last time!"

As she spoke, she took off the helmet she was wearing, took out a blue headband from her backpack, put it on, and activated the skill on the monster!
The Circlet of Domination has very poor defensive capabilities, but it has two important functions: one is that it can increase mana by 1,000 points, and the other is that it can cast the Domination spell to completely control a creature!
If this monster really has very low mental resistance, then this spell should be surprisingly effective!

As the skill was unleashed, the monster that had been relentlessly attacking Shi Lei suddenly froze, then lowered its sword, its eyes gleaming with a submissive silver light, and obediently knelt before Duan Feilan on one knee…

"It really worked?!" Everyone was shocked. Shi Lei shook his arms, which were a little sore from the shock: "As expected, this place was deliberately shielded from detection to cover up the monsters' weaknesses! Fei Lan, how long can your control ability last?"

"Ten minutes at most." Duan Feilan breathed a sigh of relief. "What do we do now?"

Because of the game's rules, this monster has extremely high health and resistance. Even if you just stand there and let it attack, it's difficult to kill quickly, and it will definitely consume a lot of magic. Don't forget, this is just one of twelve statues; there are eleven more to come, and finally, there's a final boss.

Shi Lei looked at the motionless dog-headed giant statue, then at the tightly closed door: "Can we control it to open the door?"

"I'll give it a try!" Duan Feilan used the control ring to guide the monster to the door, but the door did not respond at all.

“It doesn’t seem like that will work…” Sakura suggested, “How about we have him destroy the rest of the statues?”

Duan Feilan tried again, but the attacks had no effect whatsoever on the statues.

"They are currently inactive, have no health bars, and are indestructible," Mu Ning said after examining the statues' condition.

"Then what's the point? Ten minutes later, we'll continue fighting, and one statue after another will be activated until the BOSS awakens?" Thomas said with a sneer. "The Crocodile King on the previous level was already terrifying, and the BOSS on this level is definitely stronger. Let alone the few of us, even if the Ice Queen were here, I wouldn't dare say we could win, right?"

"I can't fight them, and I can't escape..." Mu Lanshi also fell into despair. When she first came in, she tried to use the escape scroll, but it showed that the current location was unavailable...

Clearly, this is the BOSS room that can only be attacked after enough people have been gathered. They arrived too early!

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“This feeling is…”

While everyone was locked in battle with the BOSS, in some unknown realm, Luo Jun, lying on the altar, looked down at the two stone statues holding daggers and axes.

At this moment, they weren't just using those two tools. Their hands moved with incredible speed, leaving afterimages as if they had three heads and six arms, as various weapons effortlessly pierced and cut into Luo Jun's body. Luo Jun's body, however, seemed like a holographic image without any physical form, completely unable to resist these tools. Correspondingly, Luo Jun didn't feel any injury, and his health bar didn't decrease at all!

Clearly, these actions were not considered harmful.

It's been a while since Luo Jun lay down on him. At first, he didn't feel anything unusual, but as their movements became faster and more complex, he could feel that his body was undergoing some kind of change. Not a fundamental change, but rather a change in response to the rules of this world.

Do you remember the changes he felt when he first entered this "game" world? You could say that at that time, his body was adapting to the rules of this world, becoming data-driven and standardized, and being transformed into a state that was more adapted to the rules of this world.

But now, Luo Jun sensed another change. In some places, it seemed to be the opposite of what he felt when he entered the world, as if it were reversing the previous changes. But in others, it wasn't entirely the same as before, and it seemed to be moving in another direction.

Finally, after a series of dazzling maneuvers, the two stone statues stopped.

They put away all their tools and stood upright on either side of Luo Jun, as if they had never moved.

"Is it over?" Luo Jun sat up from the altar, stretched his body, and did not feel any obvious changes.

When I brought up the attribute panel, my level was still 36, and my health and mana were still marked with question marks. There was nothing else unusual about the other attributes.

Luo Jun checked each panel one by one, and when he finally opened the backpack, he was stunned.

"This is……"

In the first slot of the backpack, there was a golden piece of equipment.

Since arriving in the [game] world, he has only obtained two pieces of gold equipment: a staff and a crown that he took from the resurrected Bloodfang. But these two are currently lying obediently in the second and third slots. According to the backpack sorting rules, the one in the first slot is obviously more valuable than the two behind it!
Moreover, this piece of equipment looked very familiar to Luo Jun!

This is a black half-face mask adorned with gold patterns, giving it a noble and mysterious appearance...

Clicking on the mask's description, the name section clearly displays four words:
Midnight Mask!

"It actually appeared?"

Luo Jun excitedly took out the mask. The feeling of holding it in his hand was incredibly familiar, exactly the same as in the main world.

As for the description, it only says one sentence: "A mysterious treasure that does not belong to this world, it seems to have some kind of mysterious function!"
Luo Jun took a deep breath, held the mask, and slowly brought it closer to his face.

Suddenly, the mask seemed to come alive, actively attaching itself to Luo Jun's face and becoming tightly connected to his skin and flesh, as if it had grown into him.

"What's going on?" Luo Jun tried to pull it off, but couldn't. "This is different from before..."

"What's the difference?"

Suddenly, a familiar female voice echoed in my mind.

The moment that voice appeared, Luo Jun smiled and said, "Looks like I didn't mishear, it really is you!"

"Sister Ziye!"

"You've got some nerve." Midnight's words struck Luo Jun directly: "Normally, in a dangerous place where only BOSSes appear, and upon hearing the call of an unknown being, one wouldn't dare to lie on the altar and let others slaughter them."

"It's mainly because Sister Ziye's voice is so familiar. Even if it's disguised, I can still tell!" Luo Jun said eloquently, but in reality, the reason he dared to go up to the altar was because of the dice's judgment.

"Stop being so glib." Ziye snorted coldly. "How did you end up in this world? Judging by the timeline, the portal isn't fully stable yet, and the main world should still be in the testing phase."

"That's a long story," Luo Jun sighed. "I came here chasing after a mysterious ascension."

Luo Jun recounted how he had worked hard to win a prize in a competition, only to have it stolen by a mysterious person.

"Such a thing actually happened?" Ziye was also somewhat surprised: "To be able to kill a Yuhua cultivator so quickly, this mysterious person's strength is quite remarkable."

"By the way, Sister Ziye, you helped open this door. Do you have any special privileges here that allow you to contact me?" Luo Jun asked. "Could you also help me find this mysterious person?"

“I do have a little bit of authority in this world, but not much,” Ziye said. “Don’t you think this world is somewhat similar to some of the worlds you’ve experienced?”

"What is it?" Luo Jun thought for a moment, "You don't mean [Chaos], do you?"

"Indeed clever!" Ziye laughed. "They both operate based on some kind of surreal rules, both progress by assigning and completing certain tasks, and both give you some kind of reward after completing the task... Although this game world seems to be completely different from the Chaos Quest, their core is highly similar!"

"Is there some connection between them?" Luo Jun asked.

“Of course,” Ziye laughed. “In a way, this world is the precursor to [Chaos]!”

"What?" Luo Jun asked in surprise, "There's a beta version of Chaos Mission?"

“You could say that,” Ziye said with a smile. “The creator of Chaos initially wanted to establish a system with strong positive feedback, where you could become stronger by working hard to complete tasks. After some experimentation, this world was born. But soon, the creator felt that the system was somewhat rigid and not perfect enough. So He carried out sweeping reforms, removing a lot of unnecessary world background and focusing on setting the rules for competition. The final second version is the Chaos you are experiencing now.”

"Him?" Luo Jun frowned slightly. "So, Chaos is also a divine realm? The divine realm of the thirteenth ancient god?"

“That’s right,” Ziye agreed. “But before this divine realm was fully completed, the gods fell. So Chaos didn’t have a fixed ‘gate’, and this prototype world, although it can open a gate, is not connected to the Forsaken Land along with other complete divine realms.”

"The land forsaken by the gods, the main world..." Luo Jun pondered, "Why should it be connected to the main world?"

“That’s not your concern.” Ziye sighed. “The reason I helped open this door was to prepare for ‘their’ arrival, but I never expected you to get caught up in it…”

"With my limited authority, I can't get you out of here, nor can I help you find that mysterious person... You've probably already guessed it, the key to leaving this world is to clear the Tower of Babel. But I'm telling you, you don't necessarily have to clear all one hundred floors to leave. The fiftieth floor you're on right now is the key!"

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(End of this chapter)