How Level Zero Devil Destroys Player Experience

However, this is only common sense for ordinary traps.

These traps of Alice are not ordinary in themselves. They are all made by Yunyan, the top alchemists in the Xingyue Workshop. The materials alone cost nearly 300,000 gold coins.

And these traps, as shown before, are basically chain reaction mechanisms. Once one of them is triggered, the thieves will basically be attacked by a violent storm.

After all, among them is his good friend Blinking Star, one of the top alchemists in his previous life. Li Shi, who specializes in traps, has provided more than 30 plans, which, if broken down, can even reach hundreds of different trap matching strategies.

I also gave some suggestions based on the system's preset traps in the dungeon. Although I couldn't copy them completely, I could imitate them to a degree that was 30% to 40% similar. Even this degree of similarity was enough to give many rogue players a headache. After all, those were the plans in the dungeon in the previous life that required players to ponder for a long time before they could figure them out.

After the plan was formulated, the mechanical alchemist in the guild calculated multiple data of the traps, and reasonably took into account the detonation mechanism, detonation point, and player reaction of each trap, thus creating this feast of traps.

These traps left an indelible impression on the Blue Shadow thieves. They used to be dismissive of such gadgets as traps, but now they could not help but re-examine the true lethality of traps.

Besides the traps, there is also a lot of pressure from Alice's top thieves.

However, even though Wenren Shanshui couldn't figure out the key here, no amount of casualties could stop him from making up his mind to occupy Alice's southern stronghold and contact the team at the central stronghold.

"Qiu Lu, send all the thieves over here and use up the scrolls and items as much as possible."

"……it is good."

Qiu Lu hung up the phone, his face heavy, and ordered the people beside him to draw a circle on the ground to make a prison.

After hearing Wenren Shanshui's order, he couldn't help but ask, "Cousin, why did Brother Wenren insist on attacking the eastern stronghold? There are so many traps and ambushes. Can't he occupy Alice's southern stronghold first?"

"How do you know there are no traps or ambushes in the southern stronghold? And you can see it if you look at the map."

Qiu Lu took a look at the prison drawn on the ground.

"We now occupy the central and northern strongholds. If we can capture the eastern stronghold, we can use the central stronghold as a base to press into the western and southern strongholds. If we attack the southern stronghold as you said, we will have to deal with pressure from both the east and west at the same time."

The prison was drawn on the ground, and he suddenly realized the reason. Without saying anything, he mobilized the remaining 100 thieves in the base. The thieves were fast to begin with, and with the effect of the props, they joined up with Wenren Shanshui's team in a few minutes.

Under Wenren Shanshui's command, these thieves carried a large number of detection scrolls and went deep into the area with the vanguard team, trying their best to detect all the traps in the area and clear out passable paths.

I have to say that Wenren Shanshui is very different from Chou Lu. He is very decisive in doing things and will carry out the goals once they are determined.

Or maybe he was very clear that there was no turning back.

After all, in his opinion, the action had been detected by Alice's thieves. If they didn't act quickly, Alice would send a team to support them even if Qiu Lu was delaying. It would be better to take advantage of this time to capture the stronghold in one go.

With the efforts of these thieves and the vanguard, at the cost of certain sacrifices, they actually successfully opened up a gap inward, and although Alice's thieves occasionally launched sneak attacks, they did not cause too many casualties.

It seemed to confirm from the side that Wenren Shanshui's idea was clear.

But will reality really make them fulfill their wish?

Gray Flowing Years, standing in front of the observation tower, was observing the movements in the distance with the Eye of Ugar and a monocular. When he saw that the Blue Shadow team had approached within 300 yards of the castle, he gave orders to the person beside him.

"The mages and priests in the back row have reached the target location. Notify Nightwish, Posa and the others to activate the ultimate trap."

"Okay, big brother."

The gray floating light looked extremely excited.

After a path thirty or forty yards wide was cleared in the trap area, the Blue Shadow team, knowing that time was running out, immediately pressed forward towards the castle.

Seeing that Alice's eastern base was more than 200 yards ahead, Wenren Shanshui's eyes were burning, and he ordered the team to speed up. However, at this moment, a strong warning suddenly arose in his mind.

Without thinking, he used the teleportation technique and retreated thirty yards away. Just as he landed, sharp rock spikes suddenly rose from the ground in the area where he was previously, covering an area of ​​40×40 yards.

As the spikes rose, raging flames also rose from the ground, as if bringing up

Hundreds of magicians, shooters, and priests in this area were killed by two consecutive attacks. Even though some people reacted and used various life-saving skills to escape, more people were unfortunately hit.

It's not just this area, the other two areas nearby are experiencing similar situations. This area has spikes and flames, while the other two areas have lightning and ice, and storms and poisonous gas.

The scene was extremely tragic at first glance, with corpses lying everywhere.

"What kind of trap is this!?"

Wenren Shanshui widened his eyes.

It was even more terrifying than the lethality of dozens of first-category magics released together. In other words, if first-category magic was cast, they would have time to deal with it, because those present were basically the elites among the elites and could sense the brewing of magical aura.

But there is no way to react to this trap.

It has powerful lethality and a wide range, and more importantly, it can obviously be triggered manually. Otherwise, it would be impossible for there to be no movement after the melee team in front passed by, and then it would explode after the back row stepped in.

This is actually the ultimate trap that Hui Liunian mentioned.

I bought the blueprints from a war merchant in Roland City. The blueprints alone cost me more than 10,000 merit points and 50,000 gold coins, and the subsequent materials cost a full 200,000 gold coins.

Even so, only eight copies were produced, making it even rarer than the Vulcan Bomb.

But now it seems to be working very well.

Six ultimate traps were detonated, directly wiping out more than 300 back-row professionals of Blue Shadow, while dozens of people in the front row were also hit. The number of people in the team was directly cut in half, which was a serious problem.

Before Wenren Shanshui could react, he noticed the movement behind the team.

"Boss, Alice's bandits are attacking from behind!"

……

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Chapter 108 Northern Stronghold

Wenren Shanshui's eyes fixed, knowing that there was no turning back.

"Charge forward. No matter what, we must capture this stronghold!"

Some of the situation in the rear was passed on to the team in the front. When they heard Wenren Shanshui's orders, these players couldn't help but secretly groan, but they didn't dare to complain too much. Anyway, the consortium behind Yuwen Hao would compensate for any losses within the lost border.

They made up their minds, quickened their pace, broke through the obstacles of the traps in front of them, and quickly advanced towards the castle.

"It's exactly as Big Brother guessed. This group of people will definitely not give up this stronghold. They will be in trouble next."

The gray floating light could clearly see the movements of the blue shadow in the distance, and couldn't help but speak with admiration.

"No need to say anything extra, just focus on the battle." Gray Flowing Years put away the Eye of Ugar and asked the team behind him who were ready to go, "Are you ready?"

"Leave it to us, Brother Liunian!"

"Of course!"

"Look, let's teach them a lesson."

If you look closely, you can find that the composition of the team left behind to garrison the stronghold on Gray Liunian's side is very peculiar. It is composed entirely of mages and a small number of priests, including elite mages such as Meng Yi, Wu Li Kan Hua, Luo Qing, Shi Xuan, etc., plus Gray Liunian and Gray Fu Guang, there are only fifty people in total.

To use fifty people to deal with five hundred Blue Shadows seemed like a pipe dream.

But what Gray Liunian likes to do most is this seemingly impossible thing.

After the group of Blue Shadow players entered the defense circle near the castle, they were naturally attacked by numerous spells.

However, knowing that Alice would send people to garrison the stronghold, the Blue Shadow made preparations early and quickly approached the interior of the castle.

Only a dozen people were killed, and this was because the mages in the team were severely damaged and unable to fight back.

However, when they rushed into the castle and prepared to counterattack, they found that the other party had already used the teleportation scroll to leave. Moreover, they discovered that there were only a few dozen members of Alice stationed in the eastern stronghold.

"Only a few dozen people!?"

When Wenren Shanshui learned the news, he was suddenly shocked.

This was far from the number he had expected, and where would those people be now?

Could it be that……

"Boss, our base in the north was attacked!"

Let's go back half an hour.

In the direction of the northern stronghold, a team was marching quickly, and in front of them were dozens of thieves.

"An An, have you met the guy called Ashes?"

Ivan asked curiously.

Sister Qingyu, who was standing next to him, was a little curious when she heard this, "Have you ever fought against each other?"

I nodded, briefly recounted the fight between me and the other party, and added a sentence at the end.

"This guy is very strong. He almost got me."

This caused the surrounding thieves to be a little surprised. They knew that their president was asking for help. Even their own president said so, so they could imagine the strength of the other party.

"Even Xiaotong said so, so he must be an absolute master."

Yuanye Eleven stuck out his tongue.

"They were able to hire such a person. It seems that the Sky Group has offered a high price this time."

The people of Western Shu were amazed.

"Humph, I don't believe it. An An must be too weak."

Yuwen seemed a little unconvinced, perhaps because he felt that I thought too highly of him.

I rolled my eyes and didn't tell them about my provocation to Ashes, for fear that they would cause unnecessary trouble.

"Okay, the northern stronghold is ahead. Don't say anything unnecessary. Everyone should spread out to clean up the traps and get rid of the patrolling thieves. By the way, bury our traps."

I said it very easily and casually, after all, I was very clear about the strength of Yiwen and the others.

More than sixty thieves, including Yiwen, Qingyu, Xishu, and Yuanye Eleven, quickly dispersed into the forest in front and acted according to my instructions.

Compared to Alice's traps, the traps set by Blue Shadow were like children playing house. There was no uniform requirement for the locations of their traps. Only a few of them formed a chain effect, and at most two or three traps could be chained at the same time.

Although it is powerful, the thief's talent for detecting and judging traps is there, so it does not pose much threat.

This was the situation that Wenren Shanshui had imagined before. If he saw this scene, he would truly understand the gap between Blue Shadow and Alice, both in terms of the level of traps and the strength of the thief.

Inside the northern stronghold.

More than a hundred people from the Blue Shadow were stationed inside and outside the stronghold, patrolling the surroundings.

This includes more than 20 Black Hand members. It can be said that half of the elites in the Black Hand studio are here.

"This Wenren is really good at making arrangements. I can't do anything here. It's so boring."

"There must be a reason for this. Alice will definitely send someone to investigate this place."

"They have probably just arrived at the western stronghold. How long will it take for them to send someone over? I think we might as well go out and kill them right away."

The discussion of several members nearby was heard by Knight Zhongkai, one of the Black Gloves. He thought for a moment and asked the tall man who was resting with his eyes closed next to him.

"Brother Zun, do you think we can win the Lost Border this time?"

The man he asked was none other than the leader of the Black Gloves and the founder of the Black Hand, Respect the King and Expel the Barbarians, and he only got this one sentence in response.

"uncertain."

"uncertain?"

"I had confidence in them before I came in." Zun Wang Rangyi did not open his eyes, "But now it is uncertain. In terms of casualties alone, Canglan Dark Shadow is at a disadvantage."

"But it seems that there isn't a big gap between the two sides, right?"

Chongkai glanced at the statistics. In his opinion, the gap between these more than 100 people was not obvious, and most of them were just elites. Compared with these top players, there was still an insurmountable gap between the elites.

"Not only the casualties, I still haven't figured out Alice's true strength, but the information I got from Wildfire and Qinghan can confirm one thing, their thieves are very strong."

Zun Wang Rang Yi was silent for a moment, and then added, "And I am not optimistic about Wenren's plan. Although he is aware of the weakest link in his plan and has made arrangements, this arrangement is more like comforting himself."

"If there is an intelligence leak, this point is still extremely vulnerable."

"Which point?"

Facing Chongkai's doubts, Zunwang Rangyi said nothing but just touched the ground with his sword.

Chong Kai reacted immediately, "That's impossible. There are Blue Shadow's troops passing by on this road. It will take them a long time to realize there is a problem with the number of people. By then, the central base can transfer personnel to defend the city."

Unless the plan was exposed at the beginning, but Chong Kai had never thought of this possibility. First, the Lost Border was special, and second, only the management of Blue Shadow knew about such a decision.

However, just as he finished speaking.

Almost everyone present received the news at the same time—

"Alice's men are attacking."

Chongkai was stunned and looked to the side subconsciously. He found that Zunwang Rangyi had opened his eyes at some point and was quickly rushing out of the stronghold like an awakened beast. Only then did he react and immediately followed him.