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Chapter 799 We’re back, all back!

"The fiftieth floor is the key?" Luo Jun frowned and asked, "Then how exactly do we do it?"

“The Tower of Babel is not part of this world’s design,” Midnight said. “You could say it’s a huge bug that was inserted into this world from the outside. This world was originally a prototype and had been sealed off for a long time. It was only with the addition of the Tower of Babel that it was fully activated. In order to fix this bug, it began to summon players from other worlds. However, due to the special nature of the Forsaken Land, it has only recently been able to successfully open the gate to your main world.”

"So, if you want to leave, you have to help this world fix this bug. As the Tower of Babel progresses, the bug will be fixed. The fiftieth floor is a milestone. Theoretically, once you conquer this floor, you will have an opportunity to leave the world."

"That easy? Then what are we waiting for?" Luo Jun's eyes lit up, but he immediately realized, "That mysterious person hasn't shown up yet. Is he also trapped in this world?"

Ziye replied, “I don’t know who he is or what his purpose is, but this is the rule of this world. Even Changkong and I only have limited authority. Apart from us, unless the creator of that time is resurrected, no one can change the rules of this world. In that case, he will also be unable to leave this world. The thing you want is definitely locked in his treasure box.”

"Is it possible that this guy actually escaped from this [game] world?" Luo Jun told Zi Ye his previous deduction: "Because it's impossible for someone who has reached the Ascension Realm to appear out of thin air in the main world without attracting attention. I suspect that he used the fluctuations generated by the Gate of Worlds as cover."

"【Game】? It's a very fitting name." Ziye laughed. "Your analysis is quite possible. Just like I said, the fiftieth floor is an opportunity, and similarly, the tenth, twentieth, thirtieth, and fortieth floors are also opportunities. This guy most likely left this world while conquering the fortieth floor."

"Forty floors? That was at least a few years ago, wasn't it?" Luo Jun asked in surprise.

“This door appeared earlier than you think, but I only recently managed to stabilize it,” Ziye said. “But one thing is certain: even if he really did leave from this… [game] world before, now that he’s back, no one can leave until we conquer the fiftieth floor.”

"So that means if he conquers the fiftieth floor, he might be able to leave this world?" Luo Jun frowned. "In that case, he might escape?"

“That’s right,” Midnight replied. “But conversely, if you kill him here, that thing can’t be retrieved and will return to chaos along with his death.”

"What if I control him first, and then clear the fiftieth floor?" Luo Jun countered.

"So, you plan to find this person first?"

“That’s right,” Luo Jun said. “That guy came to this world with a clear purpose, and he probably knows that he can leave after clearing the 50th floor. But he hasn’t shown himself, which means he’s not confident in challenging the lord of the 50th floor. So he’s lying in wait for the official conquest army’s progress. If the official conquest army doesn’t make any progress for a long time, this guy will lose his patience sooner or later!”

"But you didn't come to this world on your own, did you?" Ziye countered. "Although it's just a prototype world, it's still polluted, and not by much. Those who came with you, or even before you, have already been exposed to a certain level of pollution."

“I can tell you that cultivators below the peak level can only last three or four months in this world. If I’m not mistaken, people came as soon as the door opened, and the first batch of people who came in probably only have a little over a month left.”

"Pollution..." Luo Jun narrowed his eyes. That mysterious person was almost certainly an Ascension cultivator, practically immune to pollution, but others couldn't. This was going to be a bit tricky...

Thinking of this, Luo Jun's eyes lit up: "Sister Ziye... since you have the authority, could you do me a favor?"

"Then what do you think I did to you just now was for?" Zi Ye sneered, "All that time I spent reforming you, just to make a phone call?"

"Oh?" Luo Jun asked, surprised. "Isn't that right?"

“This should have been the altar of the 50th floor lord, and the final checkpoint for conquering the 50th floor,” Midnight explained. “I was able to communicate with you by taking advantage of the powerful magic and rules contained here. But what I did was not just this.”

"Try channeling your vital energy into the mask on your face, just like you did when you used the Treasure Box before."

Luo Jun tried it out, and then his face lit up with surprise: "There's a space inside the mask, containing my treasure!"

"Creation Chess, Sage's Essence, Supreme Manual, Emergency Medicine Kit... Wait, why are there only these four?"

"Do you think you can bring in just any Noble Phantasm?" Midnight complained. "Even with extra privileges, to bypass the rules set by the gods, you need power that's at least close to their level. Aside from my Midnight Mask, the fact that you can even see these four Mythical Noble Phantasms is already..."

Halfway through his sentence, Ziye's voice was suddenly interrupted by a crackling noise.

"Oh no... Lord... activate... quick... put the treasure... in your backpack, wait..."

Ziye's voice was intermittent, but Luo Jun understood her meaning to some extent. He immediately opened his backpack and took out the four mythical treasures and put them inside.

Immediately afterwards, the surrounding environment began to change. Before Luo Jun could fully understand the situation, his vision blurred and the surroundings transformed from the altar of the goddess statue into a deep ancient corridor.

"Where am I...?" Luo Jun looked around. "Is this the entrance to the palace? Have I been teleported out?"

As he spoke, he looked back and found that the gate leading to the desert outside was closed.

Luo Jun walked over and tried to push it open, only to find that the door seemed to be locked in space.

If the system doesn't allow for regression, then the only option is to move forward?
Luo Jun looked towards the end of the deep corridor. At first glance, the murals around him seemed similar to those before, but upon closer inspection, there appeared to be differences.

Was it a different corridor than the one I went into before? Or...?

He still had many questions in his mind, but no matter how he called out, he could no longer contact Ziye. He couldn't remove the mask from his face either; it seemed to have become part of the "modeling" of his game character due to some kind of modification.

He opened his own panel, and none of the attributes had changed... or rather, they were all question marks; even if there were changes, he couldn't tell...

But one thing has changed.

The name field initially displayed his real name, "Luo Jun," but now it displays "Zi Ye" instead!
That guy Ziye actually changed my name?
Luo Jun muttered a complaint, opened his backpack, and there were four mythical treasures lying in his inventory, all of them of dark gold quality.

For the sake of these few treasures, I won't stoop to her level!

Luo Jun chuckled as he took out the Creation Chess Set, opened the box, and saw the familiar chess pieces still lying inside.

He thought for a moment, took out one, and used his energy to summon it. A moment later, a chubby middle-aged man collapsed in front of him.

“Great master? You have finally summoned me.” Elontan greeted Luo Jun with a broad smile, but quickly noticed the change in himself: “Strange, I feel different from before… no, the whole world seems a bit strange.”

"This is a game world," Luo Jun said. "Look at you, can you summon the panel? Do you know the password? I'll tell you..." "No need, Master..." Airontan waved his hand, uttered the word "Battle Body," and summoned the attribute interface.

"The moment I appeared, some strange knowledge entered my mind." As he spoke, he showed his panel to Luo Jun.

Level: 36

Health Points: 8685

Magic Points: 30656

Stamina: 3662 points

Attack power (unarmed): 933 points

Armor value (no armor): 0 points

Armor value (Qi): 1248 points

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The data presented to Luo Jun caused him to frown slightly.

His own data was full of question marks, and he hadn't looked at other people's information much, so he still couldn't quite figure out how these health points, mana points, stamina points, and the like were calculated.

The only certainty is that magic power is linked to the amount of internal energy stored. However, Elontan, who has signed a master-servant contract with him, clearly cannot only have a little over 30,000 magic power...

Luo Jun guessed that this was probably because the Eye of Domination was blocked. If he couldn't share his own energy with Elontan, then his basic energy level should be around ten thousand breaths.

Based on this, the ratio of vital energy to mana should be approximately one to three, meaning one breath of vital energy can be exchanged for three points of mana.

But this makes the concept of health points a bit confusing.

As an elementalist, Elontan's physical strength is quite weak, but his Qi (vital energy) is absolutely top-tier even among the peak. Based on this ratio, with 30,000 points of magic, it would be quite good if this guy had 1,000 health points.

In reality, this is also the case. The physical strength of most cultivators is at most ten times greater than that of ordinary people. However, the various skills they unleash with their vital energy are not only capable of destroying the world, but are at least comparable to the firepower of modern weapons. Not to mention humans, even dinosaurs cannot withstand them.

In battles between cultivators of Yuan Qi, the physical body is merely a vessel. Whether it's attack or defense, the essence still relies on Yuan Qi. Once the Qi is broken and the naked body is hit, death is practically certain; they're all like glass cannons.

However, from the perspective of the game's rules, this design seems unreasonable... Luo Jun had also observed Mu Lan Shi's combat. Although she also possessed internal energy, its operation differed from reality; it was more like a layer of damage-reducing armor. This was reflected on the character panel as her internal energy armor. For example, with 100 points of internal energy armor, an attack of 200 points would be reduced by 100, leaving only 100 points hitting her.

This direct damage reduction, while impossible to withstand all attacks, primarily relies on one's own health points to absorb damage.

So it seems that the rules of the game divide the role of Qi into two parts: one part is used as armor to reduce damage, and the other part is integrated with the body and included in the health points, so that the gap between the physical body and magic is not too large.

This also explains why Elontan, a "weak" mage, has nearly a thousand points of unarmed attack power; obviously, this is also due to the bonus from his aura.

"If we calculate it that way, I'm at a disadvantage..." Luo Jun pouted, "I don't have any internal energy, I rely purely on my physical body, so I'm missing out on a huge boost..." But when he turned around and saw his attributes full of question marks, he felt relieved.

"It's enough, it's nothing special..."

"Master, what do we need to do now? Where do we go?" Although Elontan was beginning to understand the rules of this world, he still had no clue about the details and the ins and outs of it all.

"We're trapped in a secret realm now. We can't get out from there, we can only go forward." Luo Jun shrugged.

"Even with Master's supernatural powers, it's not enough?" Elontan asked in surprise.

“Here, everything is digitized. Before you understand the principles, even the greatest power is limited by the rules,” Luo Jun explained. “In short, just think of this as a game. Even if you cheat and adjust your attack power to be able to kill the Great Demon King instantly, you still can’t open a door that’s locked from the other side.”

As they spoke, the two walked down the corridor and soon arrived at a tightly closed door.

Luo Jun tried to push the door open, but a dialog box popped up instead.

"Other players are challenging the dungeon. Do you want to join or help them?"

"Join? Rescue?" Luo Jun blinked. "What's the difference?"

Click on the option for detailed instructions.

The number of challengers in the Lord's Room has not yet reached its limit, and other people can temporarily join to challenge together.

However, since the challenge is still in its early stages, the lord and guards have not all been activated. Luo Jun can choose to open the gate to rescue them, but once the gate is opened, the lord and all the monsters will be activated instantly and enter a berserk state. It will be very difficult to escape the lord's pursuit under these circumstances.

Is this really the lord's place? But when I came in not long ago, it was Midnight's "operating room."

It seems that Ziye used special privileges to borrow data from the 50th floor BOSS room to create an independent parallel space to communicate with herself. However, now that the BOSS room has been taken over, the data is unstable, so the connection she established has been severed.

We only just cleared the 49th floor a few days ago, why are you in such a hurry to unlock the 50th floor boss? Weren't the bosses on the tenth floor supposed to be incredibly powerful?

Luo Jun looked at the tightly closed door. He certainly didn't want the lord to be conquered too quickly, but who was inside?

If you put your hand on it, you can actually see the identity, status, and battle situation of the person attacking inside!

Shi Lei, Mou Ning, Duan Feilan, Thomas, Ying, and Mu Lanshi?
How did they get inside?
(End of this chapter)