How Level Zero Devil Destroys Player Experience

Hmm...Mist Hidden Forest...

I seemed to have thought of something and looked thoughtful.

Until Cecilia next to her reminded, "Ann, that group of people are about to go far away."

"Hey, hurry up, hurry up and catch up."

Following far behind, they took whichever route the other team took. With the other team as the vanguard, there were almost no obstacles along the way.

Even if one or two monsters escape, they will either be bombed by my magic, have their hearts taken out by Yiwen, or be punished by Cecilia's various potions or bombs.

Although there were some noises, the areas between the caves were not completely closed, and the sounds of other teams fighting monsters could be heard occasionally, but it did not arouse suspicion from the front.

However, even so, the team's advancement speed inevitably slowed down in the middle section of the road. The reason was that the difficulty of the second half was no longer comparable to the first half, and the monsters distributed around were almost all level 17 and 18 monsters.

"So weak! Can't they be faster?" Looking at the team ahead that was struggling, Yiwen, who had been watching the show for a long time with his chin in his hand, couldn't help but complain.

Can't you have some awareness of winning without doing anything?

I glared at him and said righteously, "That's it."

Cecilia seemed to be browsing the forum at some point, and asked me curiously, "An, there is a BOSS guarding the end of each floor here. Even if we can get to the entrance of the next floor, how can we get through?"

What Cecilia said was also the information made public by the Undercity ruins.

Except for the first floor, there is a leader-level BOSS guarding the entrance of each floor, which refreshes once a day. In addition, there are many monsters wandering around.

Only after killing the BOSS for the first time will the stone door leading to the next level open, otherwise it is impossible to pass through. In the previous life, some people wanted to bypass the BOSS and use brute force to push it open, but they failed.

At that time, all warriors who were already over level 100 were like this. Logically speaking, there seemed to be no other way except to kill the BOSS.

However, this is not the case for me.

"Since I brought you here, I can naturally take you down to see what this is." I took out a dark blue scroll from my backpack and showed it to Ivan and Cecilia.

What I took out was the magic scroll of the Mathematical Tunnel that I got from the wizard tower in Loblanche. It could create a two-way passage on the wall. Five of them were just enough for me to reach the sixth floor.

I had thought of using this method long before I decided to go to the Undercity ruins, otherwise I wouldn't have acted so confidently.

However, after seeing the description of this scroll, Yiwen had an unusual opinion, "If that's the case, why doesn't An An use it directly on the ground?"

"Everyone says it's a wall." I rolled my eyes and repeated the question.

"How do you know if you don't try?" Yiwen pouted.

"Tsk, watch out, it's completely useless..." I sighed and applied a little force with my hands holding both sides of the scroll.

Then the next moment, the entire scroll was torn apart by me easily.

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After dealing with all the monsters in front of them, the leading Paladin was about to take a break, but he suddenly turned his head and looked back, and asked his companions around him in confusion, "Hey, did you hear any noise?"

Chapter 36 The ability to be engraved into DNA

Each floor of the Undercity ruins is about six or seven meters high. According to the free fall formula, the landing speed in more than one second is not enough to turn a loli into a dead loli, but it can make her cry for a long time.

Fortunately, with the experience accumulated in my previous life, I reacted quickly the moment I was almost swallowed by the sudden crack in the ground, and used the flash spell on a nearby piece of ground.

Paji.

However, when he flashed to his destination, he was tripped by a stone and successfully fell flat on his face, but at least it was much better than a free fall.

I got up from the ground and brushed the dust off my wizard robe. I looked behind me and found that Ivan was not in much better condition. It seemed that he used the same displacement skill as me in mid-air, but misjudged the direction and was carefully sliding down while holding onto a stalactite on the top of the cave.

The only one who could be considered relaxed was probably Cecilia, who jumped off the arm of a mechanical puppet. Apparently, the puppet was using it to cushion her own falling speed.

"Did you make this?" I walked to Cecilia's side and blinked as I looked at the mechanical puppet in front of me, which was a little simple but had all the necessary parts.

Yiwen, who had just landed, came over curiously, "Wow, you look really impressive."

Although I already knew that Cecilia was a mechanical alchemist, I was still a little surprised when I saw this genuine mechanical summon. After all, as far as I know, most of the mechanical alchemists in my previous life could only have their own exclusive mechanical puppets after reaching level 30 or even level 40.

For a player like Cecilia who is at level 16 now, I originally guessed that the most she could do was to create some mechanical gargoyles, mechanical hounds, and other similar small mechanical creatures.

"Someone in my uncle's guild did a series of quests, and one of the rewards was a blueprint for a mechanical puppet. I happened to be an alchemist, so my uncle gave it to me as a gift." Cecilia explained, "It cost a lot of money to collect the materials."

Even though Cecilia's tone was very flat, the fact that she used this word quite a lot probably meant that her expenses were in gold coins.

"This way, we'll be more confident." I clapped my hands and looked at the cave ceiling above, at the tunnel that hadn't disappeared yet. "I didn't expect that the arcane tunnel could be used in this way."

But it seems to make sense if you think about it. After all, the ground is equivalent to a wall to some extent, and the thickness of each layer of the Undercity ruins cannot be more than three yards.

"Hmph, let An An not trust me." Just when I mentioned this, Yiwen next to me muttered in dissatisfaction, as if blaming me for my previous distrust.

"Tsk, you obviously don't think it will succeed, otherwise why wouldn't you be prepared?"

"A little bit."

I rolled my eyes and ignored the little guy who was making faces. "Let's go this way. If we can hide from the monsters, hide them. If we can't, Cecilia, use the mechanical puppet to attract their hatred. I'll pay for the repair materials later. For now, just put them away."

"Okay." Cecilia nodded, used the unique skills of a mechanical alchemist to store the puppet into a special storage ring, and followed me.

Ivan also hurriedly followed, but he seemed a little confused, "Why do we have to go forward? Can't we continue to use the arcane tunnel to go down to the sixth floor?"

"So we have to find a suitable place to go down." I looked at the two little ones who still looked a little confused, and explained helplessly, "We'd better find a place on the second floor that is as close to the task prompt on the sixth floor in horizontal direction, otherwise it will be very troublesome later."

The second floor was fine now, as there were only level 20 to 30 monsters, and you could use some clever methods to avoid them, or kill them forcefully. As you went down the floors, the levels gradually increased, especially on the sixth floor, facing those level 60 to 70 monsters, it would be a pipe dream to want to get through them.

So according to the direction and approximate coordinates in my memory, I took Ivan and Cecilia and moved carefully on the second floor.

Fortunately, the place where I fell on the first floor was coincidentally close to the coordinate point recorded in the post in my memory. The number of monsters encountered along the way was not large. I used the remaining clockwork machinery to bypass the groups of monsters, and some lone ones were killed by the three of us together.

The process gave me a more detailed understanding of their strengths. Needless to say, Ivan's consciousness technology is also extraordinary. After all, she has an unusual experience and physical foundation in reality.

Coupled with the existence of mechanical puppets, he should be considered one of the top mechanical alchemists today.

However, if she is to be ranked first, it may not be certain. After all, there are many hidden talents among the players in Era. I don’t believe that Cecilia is the only mechanical alchemist who has a mechanical puppet.

In this way, I successfully reached the second floor, which I think is the closest horizontally to the hidden space in my memory. I haven't even used Cecilia's mechanical puppet, which saves some expenses.

"Be prepared." I reminded Ivan and Cecilia beside me, then I tore the scroll in my hand towards the ground below.

This time, with advance preparation, landing was very easy, and the fourth floor was also smooth. Only the noise made when landing on the fifth floor happened to attract a few heavy-armored rockworms over level 50. I was able to barely lure them away with the help of my last two remaining clockwork machines.

pat.

There were no surprises on the sixth floor either. Just as I was about to breathe a sigh of relief, I suddenly heard the sound of flowing water.

I looked down out of curiosity and discovered that there was an underground river flowing right next to where I fell.

"An An, where is the place you mentioned?" At this time, the two people who had successfully landed behind him also came over after seeing that there were no monsters around and asked curiously.

I was silent for a moment and pointed to the other side of the dark river.

Looking in the direction of my finger, the two of them saw a thick rock wall blocking the other end of the underground river.

"Tear down the wall?" Naturally, Yiwen thought of this.

Cecilia, who was thinking the same thing, took out an object with a fuse from her skirt and said, "Let me try it?"

...So, isn't this special equipment of yours used to strengthen potions? Why can it also take out bombs?

I had given up the desire to complain about a certain hairy lolita's ability that seemed to be engraved in her DNA, and reached out to stop her. "It's useless. The sound you make might attract monsters. I think we should use a special method."

Chapter 37: Encountering the puzzle again

"Special method?" Doubt was clearly written on Ivan and Cecilia's little heads.

It's not their fault. After all, if I had no memories of my past life, even I probably wouldn't know what to do. However, after recalling some of the content that was not explicitly stated but more or less mentioned in that post, I almost knew the key.

"The answer should be in the water." Looking at the underground river below which was not turbulent, I thought about it and jumped in.

The water level in the underground river is not very deep, and it seems that I can reach the bottom of the water if I go down a little, but this does not mean that I can move freely underwater.

Holding my breath, I used the dark vision bonus provided by my equipment to quickly observe the situation under the dark river. Soon, I found some unique cuneiform characters and scratch marks on the wall on the opposite bank. Among them, there was an area that was different from the surrounding areas and had a subtle gap.

Seeing this, I immediately reached out and pressed it.

As a creaking sound was heard, a stone slab about half an arm's length away from this area slowly moved to the side, revealing a spacious passage. The water flow next to it seemed to be blocked by a mysterious force and could not flow into it.

I showed an expression of "as expected". Just when I was about to come out of the water to call Ivan and Cecilia, I suddenly heard two splashes behind me. I turned around and saw that the two little guys had already jumped into the water and swam to my side. I guess they were worried about me.

I gestured to Ivan and Cecilia and entered the passage first.

Both sides of the passage are just like what I saw on the walls of the underground river before, covered with special cuneiform characters and various strange marks. Even I have never seen these cuneiform characters before, but it makes sense when I think about it. There are more than a hundred languages ​​​​in the era, not even including the languages ​​​​unique to the region. It is obviously impossible to recognize all of them.

"Is this the hidden space that An An mentioned?" Yiwen followed Cecilia and looked curiously at the words and pictures on both sides of the wall.

"No, it should be here." Looking at the light in front of me, I quickened my pace and soon arrived at the end of the passage, standing in front of a huge open space. It would be more appropriate to call it a library rather than a space.

However, it cannot be compared with the National Library. At most, it can be regarded as the kind built by a town or a family. The overall interior space has an ancient bell-shaped streamline, with white walls extending downward from the arched dome.

The light from the suspended golden ceiling makes the whole space look magnificent. The bookshelves on the ground floor are symmetrically arranged in a hexagonal shape around the center, and there are mahogany stairs built around them, dividing the library into three hollow layers.

Yiwen walked in behind him and his eyes were immediately attracted by the surroundings.

And Cecilia noticed something with her sharp eyes, "There's a book in the middle."

In fact, long before Cecilia spoke, I had already noticed that in the central area of ​​the library's ground floor, which was surrounded by many bookshelves, there was a small column with an open book suspended on it.

I walked over, reached out and picked up the book, and the two people behind me quickly followed.

"Is this the special equipment that An An is looking for?" Yiwen leaned his head closer and looked at the book I took down from the stone pillar curiously. "Why does it look like it's nothing special?"

"This is just an ordinary book, and it's said to be a powerful piece of equipment. How can it be so easy for you to get it?"

I paused for a moment, then reached out and turned the book to the first page. "But it's not entirely ordinary. It has a lot to do with the puzzle here. You will get the equipment only after you complete it."

There was a passage written in gold-plated characters at the beginning of the scroll:

The shining sun and the moon make day and night; the God-King survives alone and the two stars appear, the world changes; the boundless glory forges immortal authority.

If there had been no response from the Long-standing Library, just by looking at the familiar puzzle format, I would have almost thought that I had found the remaining pages of the Long-standing Library.

However, there are also many puzzles in Anno that are based on allusions and historical records, so it is not surprising that there may be some similarities.

"...Ten thousand feet of glory forges immortal authority." Yiwen read the words quietly beside him, as if he had thought of something, "Three semicolons in the sentence... Could it be that this puzzle is divided into three parts?"

Cecilia, who was observant and perceptive, saw some key points from her surroundings. "This library is also divided into three floors. They should be connected to each other?"

I was a little surprised by their reactions. After all, even the erudite Hill couldn't figure out the problem for a while when faced with such a difficult question. I didn't expect that Ivan and Cecilia guessed the key so quickly.

Perhaps this has something to do with the way modern people think.

"You guessed half right. To be precise, there should be three puzzles. Each floor of the library corresponds to one of the puzzles. Only by solving the corresponding puzzle can you go to the next floor." I glanced at the transparent curtain at the entrance of the stairs.

Through the records in that post in my previous life and in connection with the contents of the book, I have already figured out how to solve this puzzle.

"Look carefully at the surrounding bookshelves and see if you find anything special." I closed the book and reminded the two of them.

Hearing this, the two little guys looked around and immediately found something special.

"The books on these bookshelves are all the same color." Yuwen walked to a bookshelf.

"It's the same on the bookshelf at the back. They're not just the same color, they're all the same books." Cecilia walked over from behind the bookshelf and casually took down the two books in front of Ivan.

However, when the two books were taken down, one of them suddenly disappeared. Not only that, the entire row of books on the bookshelf in front of him also disappeared.

The two of them couldn't help but be stunned.

"Don't worry, put the books back in and it will return to its original state." I explained from behind, "The same goes for the other bookshelves. Now I think you can guess what's going on, right?"

Hearing this, Cecilia and Ivan tried it and found that it was just as I said. After putting the books back, the whole row of bookshelves was immediately filled with books again.

Yiwen glanced at the green books in front of him, and an idea suddenly occurred to him, "Could it be that the key to the first level of the puzzle is to put these colored books on the appropriate bookshelf?"

"There are thirty-six rows of bookshelves on the first floor, symmetrical in six directions, and the colors are red, yellow, green, cyan, blue and purple." Cecilia, who is very active, walked around the area and summarized her findings.

Combining the information from each other, Ivan and Cecilia immediately came up with an idea and looked at me together, "Three primary colors?"

It was obvious that both of them thought they had guessed the correct answer. Yiwen was very proud and almost had "Praise me" written on his face. Although Cecilia couldn't see anything, her eyes were full of confidence.

"Quite smart."

I smiled and clapped.

"Unfortunately, that's the wrong answer."