How Level Zero Devil Destroys Player Experience

However, this time it was a little different.

The warrior who just retreated seemed to have fought with many monsters and had many negative states on his body. The six negative states that disappeared were poisoning, weak poison resistance (reduced poison resistance), toxic spread (deducted health, increased damage if poisoning occurs, and periodically applied to friendly forces), flames (periodic fire damage), and fire poison (poisoning also weakens fire resistance, which can be combined with poisoning for damage).

Coupled with the primary wound diffusion brought by the terrain, it is like many kinds of medicines mixed together, which will always produce a bottle of deadly poison at a certain key point of possibility. Under some mysterious connection, they finally merge into these two new effects.

Fire and poison burst (after receiving damage exceeding a certain value, it will cause fire and poison damage to itself and all friendly forces within a certain range)

Death spread (increases damage based on the number of negative states, and after death, the effect will be passed on to all friendly forces within a certain range)

If this was all, it would still be possible to deal with it. However, after these two new negative states settled in the warrior's body for a moment, they merged together again as if attracted by something -

Deadly Lotus (increases damage based on the number of negative states. After being damaged, it will cause the same amount of fire and poison damage to itself and all friendly forces within a certain range. After death, the effect will be passed on to all friendly forces within a certain range. It cannot be dispelled by low-level purification)

If this effect can be solved under normal circumstances, because all purification techniques are ineffective at this stage, it is nothing more than letting yourself hide in an empty corner to fend for yourself and not harm others.

However, in the Plague Land, the effect on this warrior has already "infected" everyone around him without anyone noticing.

What's more, the people here were rather careless. After receiving the group purification from the priest, they thought that all the negative states on their bodies had been lifted. They did not check carefully and went up to fight off the monsters again.

Some of the people in the front row were quite "helpful" and even ran to a nearby place to help the people in the front row on the other side.

Everything seemed peaceful and beautiful until the front row encountered a new group of monsters brought in by the thieves, which naturally included another group of bomb bugs.

After the back row output in the team dealt with these bomb bugs, the bomb bugs attached themselves to several of the front row members. According to the team's previous practice, the other front row members naturally moved closer to help share the damage.

Chapter 124 Chain Reaction

Accompanied by a rumbling sound.

One of the people in the front row who was attached to the bomb bug closed his eyes, but this was just a habit like a balloon about to burst. He was not really worried because it had been verified before that when the damage was shared by multiple people, the damage caused by the bomb bug explosion would not be fatal at all.

So after counting to three in his mind, he planned to go back and draw the hatred of other monsters to ensure the output of the back row, just like he and his companions had always done before.

However, when he opened his eyes, he was shocked to find that he had suddenly arrived at Nalton's resurrection point, with a system prompt "You are dead" floating in front of him.

"What's happening here!?"

The same voice came from the side, which made the front row man stunned. He turned his head and looked, but ended up meeting the eyes of several other front row members of the elite group.

Without exception, they were all the people who had shared the damage caused by the bomb bugs with him before.

"Holy shit, what's going on!?"

The lines were similar to the previous ones, but now they carried a more surprised tone.

To them, it was inexplicable what was happening, but to the other people in the Oka Forest who were still in the second level of the ruins, the situation was much clearer.

Yuexiajiu, who was not far away but not within the range of the explosion, was one of the people who saw it more clearly.

First there was the explosion effect of a few exploding insects, but since it was shared by everyone, there shouldn't have been much damage. For those front-row tank professions, at most only one-third of their health would be lost.

However, after being hurt, for unknown reasons, a few of them began to emit a blend of red and green light, and then other injuries broke out again as if flames and poisonous gas were spreading, and then the same happened to all the people.

Continuous flames and green poisonous fog rose up, harvesting the blood of everyone in the area in a short moment, and not at the same time, but more like a chain reaction of serial explosions.

To describe it with the feeling of drinking wine under the moon, it is almost equivalent to another form of corpse explosion.

"What... is going on?" Although he could see it clearly, it didn't mean that Yuexiajiu could react to what was going on, or the same was true for other people who noticed this scene.

Just as they were stunned, rumbling sounds were heard from several other places not far away.

Yuexiajiu turned around and saw it. Almost the same scene as before appeared again, like a replica, with the same bomb bug exploding before its death, the same group of front-row people going over to share the damage, and the same continuous flames merging with the dark green poisonous mist.

All this is like a fatal lotus blooming in an instant.

However, this is not the most important thing. The important thing is that as these warriors and knights died inexplicably one after another, the team suddenly lost most of its front-line soldiers. The monsters immediately broke through the defense line, exposing their sharp claws.

Yuexiajiu reacted promptly. After seeing the monsters in front approaching rapidly, even though he was not sure what was happening, he quickly gave orders to the team, asking the few remaining front-row members to come back and the back-row members at the back to retreat immediately.

However, during the retreat, the formation was somewhat scattered, and the monsters' attack was fierce, resulting in two people in the front row and a dozen people in the back row falling directly under the monsters' attack because they did not retreat in time.

Not only that, in order to cover the retreat, the mages released group attack magic that killed several bomb bugs inside.

The bomb bugs, equipped with a dying counterattack mechanism, rushed out from the group of monsters quickly, and soon captured the few remaining front-row members, including Yuexiajiu.

"Ah." Yuexiajiu sighed, paused his retreat, slammed the shield in his hand firmly into the ground, and took a defensive posture. "Everyone else, retreat to the safe area. Those who have the bomb bug effect, stay with me and block the monster together."

The people in the front row didn't say anything when they heard this, but they turned around, stood still, and added various defensive skills to themselves, as if they were ready to fight to the death with those monsters.

After all, in this situation, being attached to a bomb bug is almost certain death, so it is better to stay and sacrifice yourself to help other back-row professions retreat.

This was what Yuexiajiu planned, but he didn't expect that the mages and archers behind him would look at each other and stop after seeing them staying in the front row.

"Why don't you hurry up and leave?" Yuexiajiu heard the noise behind him and couldn't help but frowned.

"In this situation, few can escape. Brother Jiu, wouldn't it be better for us to just kill as many as we can before we die?" Shi Guang Jingmi held the staff and raised his hand to throw a scorching fire storm towards the group of monsters.

The other mages also nodded and chanted various spells. Rich elemental fluctuations suddenly gathered in the air.

"…What a bunch of idiots."

Yuexiajiu took a steady look at these back-row professionals, then turned his gaze away, his tone filled with helplessness but with a hint of smile on his lips.

Although everyone in the Oka Forest was eventually wiped out by the monsters' attacks, they still managed to hold on for several minutes before they died and successfully killed more than a dozen monsters inside, which was a bit of persistence but better than nothing.

But the most important thing is that after this experience, there seems to be a little more cohesion within the team.

Of course, these are all things that happened later. After being resurrected at Nalton's resurrection point, Yuexiajiu and everyone else quickly found the previously dead members of the elite group who were waiting outside the resurrection hall, and reunited with them.

However, Yuexiajiu did not find Wangchuanshui inside, "Well, Ah Shui is still alive?"

The Wangchuan River was near the area of ​​the second explosion before. Before drinking the wine under the moon, I naturally thought that the other party and others were taken away by the explosion and returned to Nalton's resurrection point. Now, considering the other party's skills and life-saving methods, it seems that this is not necessarily the case.

"Wait for me, I just got to a safe place and am using the Town Portal Scroll to come back."

And just at this moment, the communication he suddenly received from Wangchuanshui also confirmed his idea.

By the time the water from the Forgotten River finally arrived at the meeting point more than ten minutes later, everyone in the Oka Forest was already discussing the inexplicable situation that had happened before.

"You really don't know anything?"

"I just remember being possessed by the bomb bug, and that's it."

"How strange. They can't die after sharing the damage."

"No, aren't you curious about what the fire and poisonous fog coming out from behind are?"

Seeing Wang Chuanshui coming over, Yuexiajiu, who was also participating in the discussion, was about to say hello, but saw that the other party directly joined the center of the topic, "I think I should know the reason."

Chapter 125 Church Pastor

From Wangchuanshui's narration, everyone in Oka Forest finally understood each other's general experiences and discoveries.

It turned out that before in the ruins, Wang Chuanshui and others also witnessed the first explosion not far away.

At the time of the second explosion, although the Wangchuan water was within the range, he realized the crisis and reacted quickly. He immediately used a skill to offset the fatal damage and escaped.

I originally wanted to reunite with the team and ask what happened.

However, they did not expect that the same series of explosions would occur later, causing the team's defense to collapse immediately, leading to a fierce attack from the monster group and a series of subsequent situations.

After all, as a thief he couldn't do much to help, so he could only use the stealth effect to hide in an area without monsters.

After being temporarily safe, Wang Chuanshui immediately tried to find the cause of the explosion. Although he did not find it in the system records, he soon discovered a negative state that had appeared on himself at some unknown time.

"I suspect that quite a few of the front rows have been passed on before. This is it. I still have it with me."

Wang Chuanshui showed his status bar to the people around him, but he didn't expect that after hearing it, everyone in the Oka Forest would immediately move away in unison, which made him frown.

Even Yuexiajiu stepped back subconsciously, and when he came to his senses, he couldn't help but laugh.

After hearing the vice president's laughter, the others finally realized that this was not a plague area and there was no transmission mechanism. Many girls laughed along.

But we can't blame them for being so nervous. After all, everyone in the Oka Forest has been devastated by the effects of the Plague Land.

When everyone looked back at Wang Chuanshui, they finally understood the reason for the explosion.

Negative Status [Fatal Lotus]

"Damn, this negative state is too horrible, right?" After reading the effects described in it, some people couldn't help but be shocked.

"And it can't be purified by purification!" others agreed and added.

"To be precise, it cannot be purified by elementary purification techniques, but the purification techniques that priests can learn at this stage seem to be only elementary ones." The companion next to him reminded him, but there didn't seem to be much difference between explaining and not explaining.

"That is to say, in the previous situation, the bomb bugs caused the explosion damage first, and the others in the front row went over to share the damage. As a result, several of them happened to have the effect of [Fatal Lotus]."

Shi Guang Jingmi analyzed in an orderly manner, "Then the multiple triggered fire and poison damages overlapped, and the damage increase effect took them away. After they died, the negative status was passed on to other people in the range."

But he soon discovered that something was wrong. "But is there something wrong with the order? How did the person behind trigger this negative state effect?"

"mechanism."

Yuexiajiu sighed. He didn't expect that one of his previous thoughts would come true. "It's a pre-calculated mechanism. If the damage is calculated to be enough to kill you, then the effect will be transmitted before the damage is triggered. It's probably the same principle as the corpse explosion technique."

"Fuck, isn't this effect too abnormal?" Shi Guang Jingmi cursed after hearing it. "What kind of designer can design a monster with such a negative state? It's too inhuman, isn't it?"

Shi Guangjing naturally believed that the effect of this [Fatal Lotus] was caused by a monster. After all, there were no soul phantoms in the area where they were.

He also didn't think it was a negative effect caused by skills or potions. If that was really the case, then both the designer and the person using it were geniuses.

"It's not a monster. Like the moss, it's caused by the terrain." Wang Chuanshui gave the answer to this question, "After I noticed this extra state on my body, I actually found other negative changes. Can you guess what it is?"

While the others were confused, Wang Chuanshui took a deep breath with a hint of gnashing of teeth in it, "They can actually fuse with each other. It could be two or more than two, fused together to add up the effects. I guess this [Fatal Lotus] should be the result of the fusion of multiple negative states."

Everyone in the Oka Forest was stunned for a moment, and then their outburst of anger caused the players passing by to stare at them in awe.

"Fuck! How could there be such a perverted effect? ​​It turns out that this is a superior species that was 'genetically cultivated'."

“No wonder there were so many new negative states before.”

"Yes, I thought it was caused by those monsters."

"This is simply breeding a virus. The previous area should be called a 'virus petri dish'."

"Add to that monsters like bomb bugs, and I think this is not much different from the Soul Shadow. They are both so disgusting..."

Finally, when the voices of complaints gradually faded away, everyone turned their attention to Yuexiajiu, who had been silent the whole time.

"Brother Jiu, what should we do now?" Shi Guang asked quietly and weakly.

Yuexiajiu suddenly felt that the game Anno was quite good. Otherwise, he had already quit smoking for more than a year and at this moment he almost wanted to take out a cigarette to relieve his tired nerves.

But even without cigarettes to refresh himself, he had now thought of the only way to solve the team's current predicament.

"Let's change the area..."

But that being said, due to continuous battles and the terrain effects of the Plague Land, the originally prepared supplies, props, and scrolls were all consumed. Yuexiajiu had no choice but to ask someone to purchase a batch on the market and get some more from the guild's warehouse himself.

Others also took out treasured scrolls from their own warehouses and exchanged them for more suitable equipment, or even used contributions to exchange for some items.

After two consecutive failures in their attacks, they, who had originally been somewhat relaxed and confident, had to become more cautious.

Of course, before setting off, a thief in the team did not forget to go to the church to ask the high-level priest to purify a certain negative state on his body that could not be removed by primary purification.

But after walking in and seeing the many figures busy coming and going in the church, as well as the hammering and banging of construction work not far away, Wang Chuanshui couldn't help but feel a little confused.

"Well, are you planning to expand or renovate the building?"

A priest girl appeared and answered his doubts. "Hello, adventurer. The church here is taken over by our Holy Light Monastery. Is there anything I can help you with?"

Chapter 126: A familiar scene

"Holy Light Monastery? It seems to belong to the neighboring empire. How come its influence has extended to Constanta?"

Wang Chuanshui had a relatively clear idea of ​​the distribution of some forces in the human empire. After all, this was the only way for him to perform well in front of his sisters. However, he did not take this doubt to heart.

"Hello, Miss Pastor, I am here to seek the help of the Holy Light and ask you to cleanse the unclean things in me."

After hearing Wang Chuanshui's words, the priest noticed the negative status on him. After a careful inspection, he showed a surprised look, "What a filthy curse this is. Adventurer, what kind of cruel treatment have you suffered?"

Wang Chuanshui was stunned. He didn't expect that this aboriginal girl could have such a realistic performance.

Out of curiosity, coupled with the fact that he did have a lot of resentment, and perhaps most importantly because the pastor girl looked quite like him, Wang Chuanshui told her about his previous experiences in an exaggerated way.

"That's right. In this inhuman environment, it's hard to imagine how cruel the thoughts and ugly the hearts of the people behind the scenes are." Wang Chuanshui couldn't help but express his blessings to the designer when he said this.

Obviously, this emotion also infected the priest girl. She gently raised her palm and gathered a reassuring force. "It is really shocking. May God be with you. If you don't mind, adventurer, I can completely purify it for you."

"Of course." Wang Chuanshui thought to himself, is this his personal charm? Even a beautiful aboriginal girl can be attracted to him.

"By the way, I wonder where exactly is the area the adventurer is talking about?"