How Level Zero Devil Destroys Player Experience

"Enkitusa, guide us."

As a gentle voice sounded in the center of the crowd, a holy light bloomed above everyone's head, instantly illuminating the entire dark cave as bright as day. At the same time, a soft and invisible light also fell on everyone.

Qingyu, who was originally preparing to wait for the priest behind him to purify him, found that all the negative effects accumulated on his body were completely eliminated under this ray of light, and his health, which had already reached the warning line, was instantly increased by a large amount.

"This skill is quite powerful. It can clear all negative effects and restore so much blood." Qingyu couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"That's not the case, Sister Qingyu." Yun Qian, who was healing her to full health, shook her head and corrected her innocently, "That blood recovery should be another passive skill. I heard from Sister."

After Yun Qian's explanation, Qingyu finally understood that the blood recovery effect was a passive skill called "Healing Glory". This passive skill could add a weak healing effect to all skills applied to friendly units.

Because of its wide applicability, it is one of the skills that almost every priest and clergyman must learn.

However, at this stage, ordinary priests can only rely on this skill to heal double-digit health at most, and it is difficult to increase the recovery effect as much as Anna.

"If you calculate it this way, the attributes of this NPC are a bit outrageous." Qingyu was a little shocked.

……

……

do not know what to say.

Anyway, have a good journey, old man. There is no need to be nostalgic or look back. May this prosperous age be like you and like all of you wish.

Chapter 150: Another Attack

With Anna's assistance, the army and players on the fork in the road found it very easy to deal with the monsters inside. Even though they encountered disgusting monsters such as soul phantoms and bomb bugs during the advancement, they also encountered many chain traps and mechanisms that cooperated with each other's characteristics.

With Ana's ability to remove all negative states and high recovery effects, it's all obvious that it's child's play. Even the so-called "player graveyard" of an area in "Arknights" that can reduce sanity, the trouble it causes is not even as great as other areas before.

After all, this area is only a graveyard for players, but for the army, which is almost a "holy water supplier", it is naturally not a problem -

Long before entering the fork in the road, every player can receive ten bottles of holy water to restore sanity from the "base camp" in the open space. Even if it is used frequently, it is enough to cover the expenses on the second level of the ruins.

Moreover, these holy waters are also set to be bound to themselves and have a time limit. Once today has passed, they will lose their effect. This effectively prevents certain people from deliberately keeping the holy waters and selling them at a high price later or keeping them for their own use.

As the team moved forward, the surrounding obstacles were gradually reduced, and gradually the team led by Anna intersected with several teams nearby.

However, in order to avoid affecting the speed of advancement, these teams will only gather together when the area is spacious to assist in clearing monsters. If they encounter a narrow fork in the road, they will disperse again as before.

However, despite this, the team was more or less gathered together, and through communication they learned about each other's situation. Most of them were very smooth, and a few might be a little troublesome to deal with, but they were only a minority.

Therefore, most people hold a positive and optimistic attitude.

"At this speed, we should be able to pass through this area and reach the final destination soon." Through the commander's ability and the communication links established by the mages in the army, Isabella's somewhat happy tone was also transmitted to Anna.

"Isabella, please be careful and don't rush ahead," Anna reminded him, knowing his nature. She also asked, "Are there any unexpected situations with other people?"

Soon, responses came in twos and threes, including Peggy, Lucina and others, all of whom said that everything was normal on their side.

"Sister Anna, you are just too worried." Isabella teased.

However, Anna discovered a problem. "Why are there seven teams that have not reported their situation?"

As soon as she finished speaking, four team leaders responded to her call one after another.

Isabella, who was a little worried at first, breathed a sigh of relief and explained, "The communication links are too scattered, and due to the distance limit, it is still a bit difficult. I guess the remaining three teams are too far away to be contacted."

"I hope so." Anna had a bad feeling.

However, even she did not expect that this premonition would come true so quickly, or rather, it had already come true.

"Wait, the team next to us has sent a request for reinforcements. Sister Anna, you and the other team should go check out the situation."

Just when Anna came to the new fork in the road, Isabella's rare and somewhat anxious voice came from the communication.

"learn."

Anna knew that with Isabella's carefree personality, this situation must have happened because the situation described by the other side was urgent enough to infect the other party. Without any hesitation, she joined up with another team that rushed out nearby and headed in the direction of the team that had the accident.

Before they had advanced far, they heard the sound of fighting ahead.

Even in the previous battles with monsters, there had never been such intense movement. Anna realized that something was wrong and immediately led her men to speed up their pace. After passing the wall at the corner that blocked their vision, they finally saw the scene in front of them clearly.

However, this statement seems a bit inaccurate.

Because apart from being able to see the crowd surrounded in the center of the venue, there is endless black fog all around. Occasionally, monsters emerge from the black fog and attack the outermost area. The army and players can only passively defend and clear the nearby monsters.

The most they could do was to throw attacks and magic into the black fog without a target, but it was like a stone sinking into a quagmire, and there was no response at all. It was unknown whether they hit the monster or not.

In this unknown and inexplicable situation, not only did the defense seem precarious, but the morale also seemed extremely low.

"Holy Light, please guide us from the darkness!"

Seeing this, Anna chanted a spell without any hesitation, and a bright light bloomed. However, even such a bright light only dispersed the nearby black fog and could not shake the darkness farther away.

Fortunately, it also attracted the attention of the crowd over there.

"Lady Anna, this is the ability of a monster. We must repel it first."

An officer under Isabella in the middle of the crowd shouted to Anna.

After being reminded by the other party, Anna noticed that a ghostly figure occasionally appeared in the black fog, and with each appearance of this figure, the gap in the defense over there was torn more and more seriously.

"It's the evil corpse assassin we met before." Someone in the team recognized her.

Anna was naturally very familiar with the situation, and she instructed the leader of another team, "Natasha, you guys go and help, and I will deal with the assassin."

However, just as she was about to cast her magic and the army and players she led wanted to assist the other side in encircling the monsters, the figure hidden in the black fog quietly escaped as if it had sensed something, and the black fog gradually dissipated.

"So cautious." Anna breathed a sigh of relief but also felt a little heavy.

Her heaviness was justified. After rescuing the besieged army, she found that at least 20% of the men were killed. The players' side was even more miserable. It seemed that they became a little unscrupulous because they could be resurrected, resulting in only 300 to 400 people left in the team of about 800.

A loss rate of nearly half would have meant collapse in ancient times. Fortunately, this was a group of players. Among the rescued people, there was a guild leader who was familiar with Aurora and Paradise Lost. He greeted Yili Qingqiu and Qingyu, and joked that he had experienced a horror movie experience.

The players are heartless, but the military doesn't agree.

Especially when they advanced to the back and the wall of isolation became almost non-existent, and the team began to gather and concentrate, they counted and found that nearly ten teams had been attacked. Upon hearing the number of casualties, Isabella and Anna could not help but frown.

Chapter 151: Of course I’m here to fight you

Fortunately, there is good news. The army seems to have passed the narrow areas in front of the second floor and arrived at the middle section.

Although the mechanisms and monsters here are still similar to before, it is equivalent to randomly combining the five areas into a large collection. When moving forward, you don't know whether you will encounter soul phantoms, bomb bugs, or various traps next.

However, without the isolation of the stone wall, the team would not have to be dispersed and could gather together to deal with the monsters they encountered. In the face of the strength of the army, these would not cause much trouble at all.

In other words, they were able to cope with the situation before under the conditions of dispersed operations, let alone the current situation where they are gathered together.

As for why he knew the exact location of the army, it was probably from the scene he encountered before.

Demonization - Troll Warlord [Boss Level]: Level 25, HP: 80000/80000

Demonization - Hell Volcano Slug [Boss Level]: Level 27, HP: 95000/95000

……

The originally invisible appearance of the soul phantom also turned into a body like a giant jellyfish. Although its weak health and defense were not as good as those of other leaders around it, it had been greatly improved compared to before.

Demonization - Soul Shadow Lord [Boss Level]: Level 28, HP: 50000/50000

The tentacle-like limb terminals stretched out, and what seemed to be connected to the terminals were dozens of vague and equally illusory figures, which looked like the young soul shadows.

The same is true for the BOSS version of the bomb bug. Compared to most other boss-level monsters that are similar to single individual upgrades and enhancements, these two are more like mother bodies, producing a steady stream of monsters.

Considering the previous encounter on the first floor, it can be inferred that the army should have come to the area where the middle BOSS exists.

The dark caves, the huge forests of strange species, and the poisonous fog that occasionally rose from the ground made it look like a picture of a horrific disaster. The number of monsters was even greater. However, this picture looked completely different to the army led by Isabella.

Because it’s the same idea as connecting to the first level.

"As long as we break through this area, we will be able to reach the end of our journey. Do you have the confidence to bring victory back to Nalton with me?"

Isabella looked ahead, raised the knight's lance in her hand, and spoke in a high voice.

"Yes!" Just like a flag symbolizing glory was raised high, the army behind them all made a uniform voice. Not only Anna and Peggy, but also several officers under Isabella, and every soldier had burning eyes.

Even after experiencing the nightmarish experiences before, they still have extraordinary fighting spirit and faith, because the future symbolizes a stage-by-stage victory, or perhaps it is a kind of utopian self-comfort like quenching thirst by looking at a plum.

But although it seems unbreakable, it is actually the most fragile. Just like an increasingly inflated balloon, it is also most likely to explode at the moment when the gas is most full.

Isabella naturally knew this, but she felt that as long as she could keep the "balloon" expanding, all threats would be resolved. Therefore, she made the necessary arrangements before leading the army behind her to attack those bosses.

The situation on the military side is like this, and it is even simpler for the players. The idea of ​​clearing the level naturally exists, and these BOSSes are like treasure troves in their eyes. After killing them, they can obtain top-quality equipment and a large amount of contribution.

It was almost as if the situation on the first floor was repeating itself, except that this time the army had learned their lesson smarter. Although they dispersed as a whole to fight the surrounding monsters and clear a path for advancement, they did not disperse too far to prevent unexpected situations.

But they don’t know that there will always be unexpected situations. The key lies in whether some people who like to do good things really want to do it.

"Scared!"

Isabella first found the jellyfish-like soul shadow mother body, and the spear in her hand pierced through the opponent's empty body in an instant like lightning.

Along with the mother body trembling, the death of several phantom larvae at the ends of the tentacles indirectly proved the power of this attack.

"It seems that these monsters are the same as those we fought against the Evil Corpse Princess before, but they have been temporarily strengthened."

Isabella guessed something when she saw this. Thinking of this, she attacked more fiercely with the spear in her hand. The spear gradually regained its glory, and the light at the tip seemed to faintly reveal the shadow of a white tiger.

However, just when she was about to use the explosive power to eliminate a leader first to boost the morale of the team.

Perhaps it was the strange sound of wind that she caught, or perhaps it was the combat instinct that she had cultivated over the years that made her realize the danger at that moment. She quickly withdrew her strength, turned around, and raised her hand shield to block her chest.

boom.

Isabella was pushed back several steps by this sudden attack before she was able to stop the impact.

Fortunately, the opponent seemed to be planning a sneak attack and did not use too much force to avoid causing a big noise. Therefore, Isabella only felt a little numbness in her arm and there were no other adverse effects.

But even so, it did not stop her from looking at the culprit with anger and seeing the true face of the culprit.

Just as Isabella expected, a petite figure wrapped in a black cloak appeared. The black aura on the sickle in her hand was slowly fading away. It was obvious that this was the weapon used to attack her before.

"Good afternoon, sister Intruder. Maybe this is a bit violent to greet you, but I think it's suitable for your identities."

"As expected, it's you, a despicable fellow. And you are obviously the intruder!"

Isabella glared at them, but then she suddenly thought of something and raised the spear in her hand and pointed it at the other side, quite provocatively. "Humph, we won't let you escape again this time, and you can't escape anywhere, so just surrender!"

"Run away? Who said I was going to run away?"

I saw several officers under Isabella quietly surrounding me from the side, but I didn't say anything to point it out.

"Then what are you doing here?" Isabella was stunned. She originally thought that the other party was planning to launch a sneak attack, but she didn't expect that the other party had no intention of leaving at all.

"Of course -" I smiled and snapped my fingers gently, "I'm here to fight you."

As soon as I finished speaking, new changes instantly occurred on the battlefield around me.

Chapter 152: The trump card is revealed

Just as Isabella said, there was nowhere for him to hide now, and the BOSS in this area alone could not stop him much.

An ordinary boss-level BOSS, even after its demonic transformation, can only barely deal with four to five hundred players at most, not to mention a temporarily strengthened boss.

Coupled with the skills that players now have and the improvements brought by point enhancement, combat effectiveness is far from being as simple as linear superposition.

Dozens of leader-level BOSSes are simply not enough to resist the huge number of tens of thousands of players. At most, it will just be a bit troublesome. As long as time permits, theoretically it will be a crushing situation.

That is why those guilds and players seem so fearless. After all, in their eyes, these BOSSes are like fat meat in their mouths. As long as they chew more, they can always swallow the delicious taste.

What's more, there is assistance from the army.

Therefore, instead of allowing this area to be gradually eroded by the army and players, it is better to attack directly and cooperate with these BOSSes to give them unexpected raids.

Dozens of leaders might not be able to stop these people, but what about double the number?

As I finished speaking, more than forty figures suddenly descended on the battlefield.

Lucina, who was originally cooperating with others to repel the troll warlord leader in front of her, was about to take advantage of the situation to chase him, but she heard the anxious voice of her companion behind her. She looked up and saw a dark figure swooping down. She quickly leaned down to avoid the sudden attack.

Look at the attacker's appearance again.

The scarlet eyes, sharp claws, and the hard body with a special streamlined beauty all testified to the opponent's strength. It was none other than the Dark Bat King who had appeared in the forest ruins.

But now, it is no longer the same as before due to various enhancements.

Demonization - Dark Bat King [Boss Level]: Level 30, HP: 100000/100000

There are many such cases.