How Level Zero Devil Destroys Player Experience

"It's a leader-level monster, and judging from what happened just now, it seems to have very strong attack power." Lucina's face was slightly solemn. "We must get rid of it first, otherwise the army will suffer great damage."

I secretly glanced at a certain part of her body as if I had thought of something. I suppressed my laughter and offered my own suggestion, "Sister Lucina, I have a suggestion. This monster's personality seems to be a bit simple and direct. As long as her attention is attracted by you, she should not attack other people too much."

Yes, this guy Satasia seems to have a different obsession. Even if he has transformed into a monster of the Evil Corpse Queen, he still possesses some magical passive skills.

Lucina, who had no idea about this, nodded without hesitation. "That makes sense, Your Highness. Can you let Miss Kai and Miss Shim accompany me? Of course, I will arrange for others to protect your safety."

"Of course, but Sophielina will protect herself, so there's no need to trouble others."

I nodded and spoke out loud, pretending to be well-behaved.

Of course, this was not a polite remark. After all, no matter what, that guy Satasia would not attack him. He just had to be careful of the monsters around him...

However, while I was still thinking this, a huge ball of fire came flying towards me. The scorching flames ignited the surrounding air and seemed to illuminate my cute little face which froze instantly.

Fortunately, Kai next to him reacted in time, stepped forward and blocked the attack with a huge shield.

Being "slapped in the face" indirectly like this seemed to have become nonsense. After blushing, I accepted the soldiers that Lucina arranged for me to protect me. Looking at Lucina, Kai, and Shim who had summoned several elite fighters in the army to move forward together, I had already thought about how to teach that idiot Satasia a lesson after this operation.

Even if the other party may not have seen you at all and was just firing randomly.

Just like now, Satasia, who was under countless attacks, used the effects of several fire explosions to clean up a group of players below. She felt very happy to release the fighting spirit that had been suppressed for a long time, but the happy feeling soon ended with the sound of a voice.

"Stop, you damned monster. Your opponent is me."

Satasia subconsciously looked towards the source of the sound, and first saw Kai and Shim below. She was not surprised by their appearance, but after seeing the figure in the front, especially a certain part, the desire to attack instantly increased.

The two fire tornadoes seemed to transform into knights' spears and attacked each other.

"Damn class enemy, die!"

Fortunately, the battle was fierce and no one heard the voice, otherwise in the eyes of some people, Satasia might have been labeled as "a beautiful girl who is particularly obsessed with her small breasts."

Although Lucina wasn't quite sure why she suddenly attracted the opponent's hatred, this situation was always a good thing. She immediately used the shield behind her to block the attack of the fire tornado and the subsequent explosion.

-461, -313, -297

Hundreds of damage appeared above her head one after another, forcing her to take a half step back.

"No, what's wrong with this damage?" Lucina was a little surprised. She looked at herself carefully and found something wrong. "Why is my resistance reduced so much? Is it the effect of this fire poison?"

Lucina mistakenly thought that the decrease in resistance was caused by the fire poison. Seeing that her own fire resistance was decreasing, she quickly said to Shim who was blessing Kai, "Ms. Shim, please remove the bad effects on me."

The golden light fell on Lucina, making her feel very warm. She subconsciously thought that all the negative effects had been eliminated. Just in case, she used up a bottle of redstone potion and antidote, and went forward to take over her teammate's position.

However, what she had not expected was that when the effect of the fire poison had just been purified and expelled, the poisoning effect in the Shadow Swamp was transmitted to it, and then combined with the burning caused by Satasia's attack, a new fire poison was formed again.

Chapter 75: The Army's Retreat

Although Satasia was undoubtedly a staunch and great fighter for proletarianism, she was not stupid enough to forget her mission.

While attacking the elite team led by Lucina, they also took advantage of the huge advantage of fire in the swamp and gave those players several consecutive "fireworks shows".

The players were "happy" to see it, and also responded with "warm greetings", but these enthusiastic attacks more or less lost their aim due to the dim light in Undercity.

Even though the fire burning next to Satasia was a good target, she would not be stupid enough not to dodge it.

The elite team led by Lucina seemed to be struggling in the offensive against Satasia. Even with the support of surrounding players and other teams, it seemed not enough.

In the team, only the two elite priests sent by the church have the ability to damage Satasia in mid-air. Lucina and other front-row members can often only protect her and passively take hits from left and right.

Under the explosive effect of the swamp, the team can only barely hold on with the help of the priests of the team and other surrounding teams to recover blood.

But it's clear that this is not a long-term solution.

The only good news is that the surrounding boss monsters have been almost cleared out, and in a few dozen minutes, other players will be able to come and help.

But in fact, due to the fierceness of the previous battle, many players have used up all their chances of resurrection, and there seem to be only twelve to three thousand players left on the field.

"What's going on? Why is my fire resistance still decreasing?" Lucina stepped back from the front and looked at the effect on herself.

The fire poison had clearly been purified, but her fire resistance was still slowly decreasing, causing her to frown deeply.

However, time did not give her a chance to think carefully. Seeing that the attack in front of her was about to fall, she quickly blocked it again.

What Lucina couldn't have imagined was that this situation wasn't just happening to her, it was happening to everyone except Kai and Shim.

Like Lucina, they all thought that it was just a problem with themselves, so they didn't say anything. They just asked the priest to cast as much purification on them as possible and held on with gritted teeth.

In this way, they successfully held out until the remaining bosses were eliminated. All the players finally turned their firepower and concentrated on Satasia in mid-air.

Even though they were able to dodge a lot, they were still stretched to the limit when facing such a tidal attack. After all, they were besieged by tens of thousands of players, and there were also armies assisting them.

Satasia's blood volume quickly dropped like a waterfall.

Lucina and the others smiled with joy when they saw this.

But is it really that easy?

I was hiding not far away and watching all this, and I couldn't help but cover my mouth and laugh.

At this moment, Satasia in mid-air seemed to have a new move, "It's too much for so many people to bully one person, so I have no choice but to ask for help."

As her words fell, countless flames fell from the sky and smashed over the players' heads, causing massive damage. At the same time, the flames that fell into the swamp instantly grew into evil spirits covered in flaming coats, which crawled out of the muddy wetlands and launched a fierce attack on the surrounding players and armies.

The incarnation of fire, the skill of the evil spirit corpse princess, the flame spirit, can instantly summon thousands of fire evil spirits, and the attacks can cause fire damage.

Under normal circumstances, the attacks of these fire spirits would not cause much damage to the players even with the terrain of the Shadow Swamp, but that is not necessarily the case now.

Boom boom boom.

Explosions rang out one after another, and even most of the paladins and shield warriors with high defense among all professions were unable to resist.

In the short moment of contact with these fire spirits, two to three thousand players fell down one after another.

Seeing that the army was also submerged by the explosion caused by the evil spirits, Lucina widened her eyes, and suddenly thought of something, looking at a paladin beside her, "Is your fire resistance also decreasing?"

"Yes, sir, how did you know?" The paladin was a little surprised.

Some people nearby also heard this and spoke up.

"Me too."

"So you all are like this, I thought I was the only one like this."

"Purification is useless."

Lucina had already realized that her army, or rather not just them, but the group of players as well, were probably as fragile as paper in front of these guys who could use fire.

She immediately had some thoughts of backing out and was still hesitating, wanting to try and see if there was any chance of a turnaround. However, the unexpected events that happened the next moment completely dispelled her thoughts.

Dozens of huge mechanical bodies suddenly landed in this area at some point, and with the roar of steam, they launched indiscriminate attacks on the surrounding player armies.

There are all kinds of weapons, including sickles, giant blades, and heavy hammers, and even cylinders that can spray flames.

At the same time, several scattered silver sword lights appeared on the battlefield. Every time such sword lights appeared, the bodies of hundreds of players were cut into pieces.

"She has helpers! Notify all troops to retreat immediately!"

Lucina immediately gave everyone instructions using her commander's ability without any hesitation, then she turned around and retreated to my side. "Your Highness, this operation has failed. We must retreat quickly. Please follow me."

I didn't expect that Ivan and Cecilia would also come, but even if they didn't come, Satasia would be able to deal with these guys whose fire resistance was as brittle as paper.

I hid the curve of my mouth and shook my head, "Sister Lucina, how many people do you think the army can evacuate if no one is arranged to cover the retreat?"

"But I can't give up..."

"I didn't say that the military was responsible for the retreat." I interrupted him and shook my head.

Lucina was stunned when she heard this, and looked at the group of players who were scattered around her. Finally, she gritted her teeth and issued a mission to cover the retreat.

System: Do you accept the mission [Cover the army’s retreat]?

Therefore, among the players who originally had the idea of ​​quitting, after seeing this mission, some did not want to waste their experience and did not accept it, while most of them thought that death did not matter, so they turned around and fought against the attacks of the evil spirits and monsters one after another.

Under such cover, the army was able to retreat successfully, but this was also due to my instructions to Satasia and the others not to pursue them.

After all, if heavy casualties were inflicted on these troops, then Nalton would most likely pay close attention, and the difficulty of the next attack would increase dramatically.

It is better not to be too high-profile now, just deal with it slowly by the boiling frog in warm water approach.

"These people get contributions and I get points. Is this another form of win-win cooperation?" Looking at the several flames coming out from far behind me, I suddenly thought of this.

Chapter 76: Meeting Hill Again

The initial attack on the Undercity ruins failed, and the atmosphere in the army's base after returning to the front line in a panic seemed extremely depressing.

To be honest, they didn't have high expectations for this operation, but being defeated so miserably by the monsters did dampen their morale, which could be seen from Lucina's lost look.

"I'm sorry, Sister Isabella, I disappoint you." Lucina lowered her head in self-blame.

Isabella, on the other hand, didn't care. She patted him on the shoulder and consoled him, "It's okay. You've done a good job and retained the main force of the army. At least you are a qualified officer as Lord Claire said, right?"

When I heard the other party talking about Claire, I looked around the military tent, but I didn't see her and Anna. Could it be that the two of them were really discussing the establishment of a monastery to divide the forces?

I couldn't help but shudder at the thought of the possible expansion of an underground organization.

But it is unlikely that the people here are as perverted as those in the Holy Light Monastery.

Just when I was having some wild thoughts, Isabella asked others to comfort Lucina, then turned her head and looked at me, "Your Highness Sophielina, are you okay?"

"Thank you for your concern, Sister Isabella. It's nothing." I shook my head, feeling a little guilty. "It's a pity that Sophielina is not capable enough to help Sister Lucina."

"It's okay, those monsters are just too cunning!" Isabella comforted me as she patted my head and clenched her fists as if to cheer me up.

Although she didn't quite understand why Kai and Shim were looking at her strangely, Isabella continued, "We watched some of the images sent by the Shadow Stone and felt that there were some problems."

I was a little surprised, but considering the dim visibility inside the ruins and my own arrangements being relatively secretive, I shouldn't be able to see anything.

As expected, what Isabella and the others talked about were all very common things, like how the monsters in it were disgusting and the various negative effects that came with it.

Just when I wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, Isabella mentioned the key point, "No, these are not the main points. The main point is why Lucina and the others' fire resistance becomes so low later."

Facing everyone's gazes, Lucina thought for a moment and told them what happened at the time, "This is the situation. I no longer had the fire poison effect, but my fire resistance was still decreasing. I asked other people and they got the same result, but the specific situations may be different."

“Is it a special effect of the terrain?”

"Not necessarily. Maybe it was an attack from a monster. I've seen that before. Maybe it was one of the many negative effects."

"From what you said, it could be a special method used by the leader we met last time."

However, these people never thought that this was not caused by just one situation, but a combo created by a combination of skills they designed.

Just as I was secretly laughing, Lucina next to me also expressed her opinion, "I wonder if there is something wrong with the potion?"

I was immediately shocked.

Lucina, who attracted everyone's attention, continued, "I'm just guessing, because at that time, I used the antidote and redstone potion, but they didn't work at all."

I was relieved to hear that this was what you were talking about. However, I thought that the other party might very likely follow this clue. If something was discovered, all my efforts would be wasted.

My mind was racing as I quickly thought of ways to deal with the situation.

Isabella on the other side nodded after listening to Lucina and the people around her speculations. "Everyone's ideas make sense, so let's investigate these clues first and pave the way for another action in seven days. Everyone is responsible for their own side."

At this moment, a charming voice rang out from the side, "That Sophielina also wants to help. After all, I provided these redstone potions, so I have something to do with it."

"And Sister Lucina's words also reminded me that I had someone help me strengthen the effect of the potion before. Could it be related to that pharmacist?" I explained when I saw everyone's eyes on me.

Isabella was a little surprised, but seemed happy for me to offer my help. "Okay, then you will be in charge of the redstone potion, Lucina, you will be in charge of investigating the antidote, Lisa, you will go with me to summarize the soldiers' descriptions of the scene to see if there are any new discoveries, and the rest of you will continue investigating along the clues you have proposed."

When leaving the front-line base and arriving at the town of Nalton through the teleportation array, Shim also raised his doubts.

"Your Highness, why do you say that? Isn't this actively exposing that there are certain problems with the potion?"

"If we let them investigate, more problems will definitely be exposed. Your Highness is taking the initiative into your own hands." Instead, it was Kai who helped me explain first.

I nodded. "Kai is right. Although there are indeed problems with these redstone potions, they are well hidden. We just need to pretend that we didn't find anything and give them a perfect 'proof report'."

"This way, even if we are discovered, it won't arouse suspicion. After all, they were the ones who originally proposed to purchase the redstone potion."

This explanation made Shim understand.

Kai thought of something and said, "Your Highness, does that mean we have to go to the pharmacist we met before?"

Shim next to him couldn't help but look at his captain with some confusion, wondering why the other party suddenly became excited.

However, it would have been better if I didn't say it. Once I said it, I was reminded that if I let these two lolita lovers follow me, they would probably cause trouble for me even if nothing happened.

"I can go alone. You two go and help Bemira and the others with the sale and refining of redstone potions." I left the two of them behind and walked out of the teleportation point on my own.

Kai: ...

Shim: ???